14 Beach Safety Tips For A Safe And Enjoyable Vacation 

 

As winter is drawing to a close in the northern hemisphere, many of us may be drawn back to the beach and the swimming pool, and why not? The sun is out, the water’s cool, and I for one could use the workout.

But as we’re having fun in the water, there are several things we should pay careful attention to. According to the World Health Organization, drowning was the cause of 350,000 deaths in 2015, making it the 3rd leading reason for unintentional injury death worldwide.

The United States Lifesaving Association got their most experienced lifeguards to compile a list of pointers to keep you safe while you’re splashing around, so make sure to go over them and take them to heart.

1. Stay within the lifeguard’s line of sight

When swimming, and even when approaching the water, make sure the lifeguard can see you. If you aren’t in his field of sight, he won’t be able to notice anything wrong with you and give aid as required.

2. Do not bathe if there is no lifeguard present

If there is no lifeguard present in the shed, or the beach is unsupervised and has no assigned lifeguard, do not go into the water. Lifeguards are aptly named: they save lives. The likelihood of drowning in a residential pool or an unsupervised beach spikes up drastically due to lack of professional supervision.

3. Do not distract the lifeguard

You may think the lifeguard is bored or lonely, but their job requires constant attention to their surroundings, something that’s hard to maintain when somebody’s trying to chat you up. Do not approach the lifeguard unless you need his help. That being said, don’t be afraid to approach him for advice about swimming safety.

4. Don’t run around the pool

The area surrounding the pool is often slick with water, posing a very real threat of slipping. Falling could cause any number of severe injuries, including spinal and cranial damage. Falling into the pool could be even more dangerous. Walk carefully when going around the swimming pool, and unless you’re planning on going into the water, don’t go barefoot.

5. Watch out for warning flags

Lifeguards put up warning flags at the beach to let you know of possible hazards. Most flags will give warning regarding the strength of the current, but some might warn about the presence of dangerous marine wildlife. Familiarize yourself with the meaning of the different flags and be aware that different countries and regions might have different color conventions.

6. Stay out of the water during stormy weather

This is always good advice. The water tends to be choppy and unpredictable and generally unsafe, but one overlooked hazard is lightning (you wouldn’t drop a running electrical appliance into your bathtub, would you? Now, take the voltage up all the way to 300 kilovolts, and you’ve got a lightning strike). Wait at least 30 minutes after the last thunder sounds before going near the water. I’d advise to stay clear of the beach altogether during bad weather.

 

7. Inflatable toys do not replace arm floats/a life vest

Pool noodles, inflatable rafts, and swim rings can slip away or capsize, and so, are unreliable at best as a way to keep a child afloat. The proper way to ensure a child’s safety while swimming is a life vest or arm floats which fit on the child’s body.

8. Waves can be dangerous

Waves pose many dangers, but many disregard the sheer force of a wave striking against the body. Getting hit by a wave could cause sprains, bone fractures, blunt organ trauma, and spinal damage.

9. Caught in a rip current? Keep your cool

Rip currents are one of the deadliest beach hazards. Rip currents are created when waves find resistance in the form of sandbars. When the wave recedes, it seeks a different, easier path, focusing all of its force into that particular path. People caught inside are flung powerfully far from shore. If that happens to you, do not swim to shore. The current is far stronger than you are, and you will tire and drown. Instead, drift along with the current and try to swim parallel to the shore. Only when you are safely out of the current can you try to make your way to shore.

10. Do not drink and swim

As we all know, drinking alcohol impairs judgment, a crucial faculty when one is swimming and needs to pay attention to possible hazards. As an aside, it also serves to accelerate dehydration.

11. Protect your skin

Use sunscreen. Apply the sunscreen roughly 30 minutes before going out, use generous amounts of cream and reapply it after strenuous exercise (such as swimming). While resting, choose a shady place.

12. Stay hydrated

Drink plenty of water when you’re at the beach or poolside. As above, keep to shady areas while resting. Dehydration and heat stroke are no jokes and cause dizziness, confusion, swelling, increased heart rate and more. In case of dehydration, move to shade immediately, remove unnecessary clothing and drink a lot of water.

13. Keep away from underwater animal life

The water is home to an immense variety of fauna, many of which could pose danger or discomfort for humans. When wading to a rocky area, do with closed shoes, those will both protect you from slipping, and keep your soles safe from corals, crabs, and other creatures. Do not attempt to touch any animal you find at the beach, they could be poisonous or have a nasty sting. This holds true to washed up jellyfish. Even a dead jellyfish can sting.

14. If stung, do not try to treat yourself

First off, except for vinegar, any folk remedy you might have heard of is probably hogwash. Secondly, if you don’t know what you’ve been stung by (and chances are, you don’t), you don’t know what the correct treatment for it is. Pouring random stuff on a sting could seriously aggravate the sting, cause an allergic reaction, or speed up the working of the venom (in the case the creature in question is poisonous). Instead, call a lifeguard and seek medical attention.

 

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PC Performance Increase – 5 Basic Ways to Give Your PC a Tune-Up

our computer is a lot like an automobile. Both of these require frequent routine preventative maintenance. Both of these will need to remain optimally tuned so that they can be able to deliver optimal performance and to extend their useful lives. Automobiles go through oil changes and tune ups. Thus, PCs also need to get tune-ups of their own.

Spelled out below are a few essential tune-up actions you ought to perform against your machine on a routine basis:

1. Virus scan – Scan your OS for viruses regularly. Even if your antivirus app is configured to identify viruses in real-time, it is still a prudent idea to schedule it to conduct a full scan once per week.

2. Antispyware scans – Spyware has become an increasingly greater menace daily, as it spreads quietly through the Internet to unknowing users who are not aware that not all clicks are created equal. Virus is different than spyware and thus each must be dealt with differently.

3. Hard drive defragmenting – You can accelerate read operations and write operations to and from your computer’s hard drive by defragmenting it on a regular basis.

4. Run firewall software – If you spend a great deal of time online, then it is very urgent that you protect your OS around the clock with personal firewall software. This blocks malicious hackers from trying to infiltrate your system.

5. Registry repair and optimization – The system registry is the main database that the operating system uses to maintain sensitive data on all software and hardwaer programs connected to your OS. Gradually over the course of time, it can become corrupted and unoptimized, causing the computer system to slow down or even crash. An optimized registry database is vital to optimal system performance.

Mobile Phone Security

Advancement in technology where make you mobile there rises some serious mobile phone security issues as well. While you are mobile phone with some positive purpose like on a business trip there might be someone else mobile phone with negative intention to harm you. You don’t know where and how you get loss to your data within your mobile phone, but you can take precautionary measurements to secure your mobile phone important data or personal possessions.

When you are away from your home with mobile device like mobile, laptop or iPod you are exposed to the danger. It is your duty to take some precautionary measurements for securing mobile phone data if you are mobile. There are some different aspects you have to consider as to what and how should be secure.  

It is your first and foremost duty to think what are the important information and data you don’t want to leak out. This information could be;

Customer’s contact information.

Client detail.

Personal data like personal number, birth date, CNIC No., and home address etc. It is advised that delete personal data while you are mobile or write partial information.

You must be aware of your need as which information you need while you are mobile.

While mobile, taking your all data with you could be harmful as you could lose your mobile phone device. Therefore it is necessary to place important data on a server machine instead of saving the information in laptop or mobile phone. In case of keeping data locally it is necessary to install software for the mobile phone security.

It is better to copy all the important information on CD and write short description about the data and arrange them date wise. This will help you to organize the data and also secure it in case of device failure.

Anti-Virus software or security updates are recommended to upgrade so that it regularly checks the files to avoid the data loss threat to mobile phone.

Hackers are clever enough to hack your passwords and logins information. Your password must be strong enough to be secure in any worst circumstance. For the strong password read the guide for strong passwords. Do not check the password remembrance prompt. Do not write password anywhere to be easily find out by someone. Do not allow cookies to save password on your mobile phone device.

Now-a-days wireless devices have in-built internet connection button. Switch-off this button not to establish connection automatically with an unsecured wireless internet. Do not remain on the sharing property of printer and file.

Always use secure wireless connection for the file and photo sharing and transferring.

While you are on move it is necessary to be very careful about your belonging. In public places you should be extra conscious about your surroundings. Keep an eye over your luggage and do not show off others that you have something precious something important. Do not let others to see your laptop or mobile, they can run away with it.

Do not let the Bluetooth on so that other can transfer important information without your permission. In case you forget to switch off the Bluetooth, you can be easily traced and trapped.

Let suppose you have lost your mobile or laptop. Do you have back up for the important information save in that particular mobile phone or laptop. It is better to secure information somewhere else away from your mobile device so that in case of robbery or loss you should not suffer the loss.

It is true that mobility helps you to be more productive and confident and surely has many advantages there is only need to be more aware to the threats and danger offers by outer environment away from your access.

5G Technology, Fifth Generation Technology,

5G Technology stands for 5th Generation Mobile technology. 5G mobile technology has changed the means to use cell phones within very high bandwidth. User never experienced ever before such a high value technology. Nowadays mobile users have much awareness of the cell phone (mobile) technology. The 5G technologies include all type of advanced features which makes 5G mobile technology most powerful and in huge demand in near future.

The gigantic array of innovative technology being built into new cell phones is stunning. 5G technology which is on hand held phone offering more power and features than at least 1000 lunar modules. A user can also hook their 5G technology cell phone with their Laptop to get broadband internet access. 5G technology including camera, MP3 recording, video player, large phone memory, dialing speed, audio player and much more you never imagine. For children rocking fun Bluetooth technology and Piconets has become in market.  


What 5G Technology offers
5G technology going to be a new mobile revolution in mobile market. Through 5G technology now you can use worldwide cellular phones and this technology also strike the china mobile market and a user being proficient to get access to Germany phone as a local phone. With the coming out of cell phone alike to PDA now your whole office in your finger tips or in your phone. 5G technology has extraordinary data capabilities and has ability to tie together unrestricted call volumes and infinite data broadcast within latest mobile operating system. 5G technology has a bright future because it can handle best technologies and offer priceless handset to their customers. May be in coming days 5G technology takes over the world market. 5G Technologies have an extraordinary capability to support Software and Consultancy. The Router and switch technology used in 5G network providing high connectivity. The 5G technology distributes internet access to nodes within the building and can be deployed with union of wired or wireless network connections. The current trend of 5G technology has a glowing future.


Features of 5G Technology
5G technology offer high resolution for crazy cell phone user and bi-directional large bandwidth shaping.

The advanced billing interfaces of 5G technology makes it more attractive and effective.
5G technology also providing subscriber supervision tools for fast action.
The high quality services of 5G technology based on Policy to avoid error.
5G technology is providing large broadcasting of data in Gigabit which supporting almost 65,000 connections.
5G technology offer transporter class gateway with unparalleled consistency.
The traffic statistics by 5G technology makes it more accurate.
Through remote management offered by 5G technology a user can get better and fast solution.
The remote diagnostics also a great feature of 5G technology.
The 5G technology is providing up to 25 Mbps connectivity speed.
The 5G technology also support virtual private network.
The new 5G technology will take all delivery service out of business prospect
The uploading and downloading speed of 5G technology touching the peak.
The 5G technology network offering enhanced and available connectivity just about the world
A new revolution of 5G technology is about to begin because 5G technology going to give tough completion to normal computer and laptops whose marketplace value will be effected. There are lots of improvements from 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G to 5G in the world of telecommunications. The new coming 5G technology is available in the market in affordable rates, high peak future and much reliability than its preceding technologies

Screen Technology. (Monitors of TV, computer etc..)

What is Screen Technology

Take a look around your world, how many things you find with the screen? There are TV, computers, laptops, mobiles, electronic appliances with touch screen display. All are made up of different types of screen technology. Day by day advancement in technology is providing us with the most modified and easy to use appliances which lend a hand in our daily routine to make our work finish in time. Not only these technologies are time-saver but also very innovative.

There are different types of screen technologies which are now-a-days at its peak as compared to the past screen. These are

CRT-       Cathode Rays Tube (Very first version of screen
OLED-    Organic Light Emitting Diode
DLPT-    Digital Light Processing Technology
LCD-       Liquid Crystal Display (Rapidly replacing CRT)
Plasma Display- Latest version 


Screen technology is becoming a part of our lives now. It helps us in a variety of ways. It is a useful medium for displaying and sharing information. People were not familiar with this technology till the first TV screen introduced. For a long time cathode rays tube screens were the only choice without any competition. With the advancement in screen technology, now we have choices rather always looking for the latest version whether it is the matter of purchasing new TV, latest mobile phone or laptop. Now CRTs is the thing of past. Many features like display quality, sizes of screens, resolution, and battery are considered much better in modern screens as compared to CRTs. This battle of screen technology has reached the peak of plasma screen which started from CRT. Among all the types of screen technologies LCD is becoming more popular because of its versatility, various sizes, and portability. LCD is light in weight, low power consumption, and is available in compatibility modes.

A limited range of LCD’s were introduced initially but by the time now it is creating a niche market of its own almost in every field such as watches, laptops, mobile, calculator, monitors, charge detector, and screens of digital toys etc.

Others screen technologies are also worth noting; OLED as name describes that it is made up of polymers which has the quality of emitting light itself so are thin and energy saver screen.

Digital light processor screens are capable of producing bigger image with the greater and better range of colour.


Screens with Plasma display have the quality picture with bigger display whereas field emission screen’s resolution is higher. Because of their high resolution they are like CRT screen but better in a sense that their image does not blur. This field emission at one side is its plus point with high resolution but on the other side due to this field emission life of the specific appliance become short. Electronic paper is also in its developing process to replace the previous screen in the field of information.

The process of evolution is continued and there is still hope for the new screen technology. Presently we have many choices of screen in front of us. The journey of the screen technology which began from CRT’s display in the heavy industry travelled through, LED, FED, and DLP and now has been reached to the LCD’s prevailing as niche is still continued.

New innovative ideas are also in progress to introduce new screen technology in the market like Electronic Paper for the common use to compete the LCD in respect of weight, available sizes and presentation versatility. The most common use of a screen technology is to impart knowledge effectively, communicate in a better way, to comprehend the things in better way and struggle is continued to develop the best screen ever.  

Chapter 10 : Some good reading for the Assessing Officer

1. Concentration

As physical exercises strengthen the body, concentration increases the strength of mind. Strong mind is not easily affected or disturbed by trials and tribulations of life. For improving concentration whatever activity we may be engaged in, we should try to be totally absorbed in it, however trivial it may be. At that time, except this activity (and associated things) the whole world should be dead for us. For example, even if we are eating a fruit at a moment, we should completely relish each morsel of fruit with our attention totally dedicated to it. If we are bathing, we should relish this activity fully, deriving maximum benefit from it by keeping our attention totally anchored to it. If you are reading a book, be totally absorbed in it for that time oblivious of any other thing. You should also learn to concentrate on uninteresting things also to develop real control of mind.

Concentration, in other words, means to learn to remain in the present moment which is the most desirable feature for success and happiness in life.

2. Welcome difficulties and problems of life, they are for our good :

Regarding various problems, pains and discomforts which we face in life, we should try to develop the philosophy that these have not come to us for frightening. In fact these pains and discomforts are the very things we need at this moment to strengthen and grow wherever we are lacking. They are the trials and tests for us. Instead of opposing them, we should, at such occasions stop for a while, do some self-evaluation and in'trospection and learn the needed lesson from them. We can derive some benefit and learning from every problem or difficulty of life and exploit it to our advantage. This is a wonderful law of life. In every adversity and difficulty, ask yourself what message this problem has brought for me and what benefit I can derive from it. You must come out wiser and more mature after going through a problem.

If we fight with these discomforts and accuse ourselves and others, we are simply invoking a new chain of ,-'Jse and effect and making matters worse. Remember that everything which happens to us in life is for our good only.

In the apparently looking cruel and adverse circumstances is hidden the infinite mercy of God which we can realise if we properly contemplate upon it. That is why enlightened persons always thank God in problems and consider them as 'Prasad' of God. They never question God, but, simply flow with His decisions accepting everything and avoiding nothing.

You have been placed by God exactly where you deserve. This placing is actually needed by you for your growth or for working out or balancing some karmas. Once you play your present role successfully, you will be automatically shifted to the next higher place.

Perpetual resolution

> Vow not to make a promise you don’t think you can keep. Pay a debt. Give a soft answer.

> Free yourself of envy and malice. Make a genuine effort to stay in closer touch with family and good friends.

> Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. A good laugh can be very good medicine.

> Resolve to stop magnifying small problems and shooting from the lip. Words that you have to eat can be hard to digest.

> Find the time to be kind and thoughtful. All of us have the same allotment: 24 hours a day.

> Apologize when you realize you are wrong. An apology never diminishes a person; it always elevates him/her.

> Don’t blow your horn. If you’ve done something praiseworthy, some one will notice it eventually.

> Try to understand a point of view that is different from your own. Few things are 100 per cent one way or another.

> Examine the demands you make on others. Lighten up. When you feel like blowing your top, ask yourself, “will it matter in a week from today?” Laugh the loudest when the joke is on you.

> The sure way to have a friend is to be one. We are all connected by our humanity, and we need each other.

> Avoid backbiters and pessimists. They drag you down and contribute nothing.

> Don’t discourage a beginner from trying something risky. Nothing-ventured means nothing gained.

> Be optimistic. The can-do spirit is the fuel that makes things go.

> Read something uplifting. Deep-six the trash. You won’t eat garbage – why put it in your head?

> Don’t abandon your old fashioned principles. They never go out of style.

> When courage is needed, ask yourself, “if not me, who? If not now, when?”

> Walk tall, and smile more, you’ll look ten years younger.

> Don’t forget to say, “thank you,” say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.

Let this year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time..