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What they write about in fashion magazines these days, what kind of conversations they have, and sometimes girls still can’t muster up the courage to ask their friends about the most important thing, not to mention running into a salon for this procedure without embarrassment. But in fact, the topic is quite common and important for every girl and woman who takes time to care for herself. You have to be beautiful always and everywhere, and therefore we will talk about such a delicate subject as intimate depilation.
It is worth noting that this question, in fact, was raised in ancient times in Ancient Greece– it’s no joke, who knows, one thing is certain – there were definitely no cosmetic waxes and epilators at that time. Today, the problem of options is not a problem in principle, because there are a lot of ways, but difficulties with choosing still arise, because to understand which one modern methods better, quite difficult.
Depilation and epilation: what are the differences?
Of course, the difference is quite obvious and everyone knows it, but what’s better is something every woman can choose for herself exclusively. Depilation is the removal of visible hair, but it does not affect the follicles. The most traditional methods of depilation are regular shaving with a machine, as well as hair removal using special creams, wax, and so on. The main disadvantage of such a procedure is that it must be repeated regularly, but today there are so many methods of depilation that under any circumstances you can choose the most comfortable one for yourself.
Waxing (waxing)
Everything here is simple and clear, such hair removal from the intimate area occurs with the help of wax, which is heated to a certain temperature in a water bath and applied with a special spatula to the desired location. This procedure should not be carried out at home, because you can get burned and simply get injured when peeling off the wax strips, since intimate area very sensitive.
In the salon, after waxing, the skin will be wiped with a special soothing solution. It is not recommended to wear synthetic and openwork underwear after this procedure for at least a week; any fabric other than cotton can cause irritation.
Electric hair removal
For this you only need an epilator, but in this case there are a number of nuances that need to be taken into account. The epilator must be designed for removing hair in intimate places, and before using it, you should steam well, and then dry and treat the skin with something disinfectant in the area for epilation, and also cut the hair no longer than one centimeter. However, it is better not to use an epilator near the most sensitive areas; a regular razor will do no worse and is much more harmless.
Electrolysis
This procedure not only has a very intimidating name, but its description is no more harmless. Electrolysis involves inserting a needle into the hair follicle, through which a current discharge is applied, which destroys the hair root. This method is the most effective in terms of getting rid of vegetation, however, most girls leave scars after this procedure. And the procedure itself is quite painful, and therefore not all girls decide to undergo it.
Enzyme hair removal
This method, like those described above, needs to be used repeatedly. This type of hair removal is carried out using special preparations containing enzymes – active substances. If you regularly resort to this procedure, you will gradually be able to completely get rid of hair - under the influence of enzymes, the hair follicles will be destroyed. Agree, not a bad gift.
Laser and photoepilation (video)
These methods are very similar to each other, since in both cases the impact is used luminous flux on the skin. The photoepilation method uses a special flash lamp, and in laser hair removal, in fact, resort to laser.
By the way, we must admit that this method is more suitable for brunettes, since blond hair contains less melanin. But let’s give a nod to blondes too - fair-haired girls resort to such hair removal methods much less, since their hair is thinner and grows much slower, so even regular waxing can help for a longer period than for owners of dark hair.
It is worth remembering that whatever your choice, you should not overuse it, as too frequent hair removal can also cause harm. And take the choice of a specialist and salon seriously - this is a very delicate matter, you shouldn’t make a mistake here.
This money cannot be touched. But everyone wants to have them. The Bitcoin exchange rate is now growing at a rate that even the dollar against the ruble could not have dreamed of in its darkest days. Russian economy. Many people probably know about cryptocurrency. But not everyone still understands how it functions. If you increasingly hear about bitcoins, mining, blockchain, tokens, etc., but are embarrassed to ask what they are, so as not to be branded as a person behind the times, then this publication is for you.
1. How does cryptocurrency function?
Today there are more and more people for whom mining is not just a game, but almost the main source of income. Mining is the process of earning cryptocurrency. For example, we are talking about electrician Andrei Turetsky, who, without leaving his home, earns more than a thousand dollars a month.
“I took out a loan of 100 thousand rubles to buy a so-called farm - this is a computer and 5 video cards of 8 gigs each,” says 31-year-old Andrey. - Nowadays you can buy a ready-made farm, but I assembled mine myself. The equipment cost me 127 thousand.
To understand how mining occurs, you need to understand the principles of cryptocurrency operation. The concept of cryptocurrency itself appeared in 2008. Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakatomo (by the way, this is a pseudonym, no one knows the real name of this person) conceived cryptocurrency as a counterweight banking system, which proved its instability and unreliability during the global financial crisis. Cryptocurrency is based on blockchain technology.
To put it simply, this is the principle thanks to which all Bitcoin owners are connected to each other by a virtual network that allows them to transfer cryptocurrency directly to each other, without intermediaries such as banks. Such money has advantages: it cannot be stolen, you can pay with it anonymously, and transfers occur in a matter of seconds.
2. How to earn bitcoins?
In some ways, cryptocurrency is reminiscent of a torrent. In fact, this is also a program that is located not on a single computer or server, but on millions of user computers connected to the system. Anyone who has downloaded pirated movies knows that the movie is stored on the machines of hundreds of users who transmit information to each other directly and without control.
The Bitcoin program works in the same way, which has united millions of users. Only they do not exchange files, but ensure transactions. It is clear that no one will store an incomprehensible program on their computer so that someone can transfer money wherever they want. Therefore, for being in the system, participants are given virtual points - bitcoins. The larger volumes of information your computer (farm) can transmit, the more units of cryptocurrency you can mine.
The power of the farm is provided by video cards. Due to the fashion for mining, video cards have now become a big shortage in computer hardware stores, and their cost has increased by one and a half times over the year.
“One video card worth 20 - 25 thousand rubles brings in 3 thousand rubles a month,” says Pavel Perelygin, an IT specialist from Voronezh. - True, now there is no point in mining bitcoins on video cards. Since special equipment has already been invented for mining Bitcoins - “ASICs” (from the English ASIC. - “Yo!”). You can mine other types of cryptocurrencies using video cards.
Pavel Perelygin mines perhaps the second most popular cryptocurrency after Bitcoin - Ethereum. Ethereum rate is about $750.
3. What cryptocurrencies, besides Bitcoins, still exist?
Today there are several thousand types of cryptocurrencies. And this number is constantly growing. Each cryptocurrency has its own rate. You can track it on a special website coinmarketcap.com.
In fact, anyone can create their own cryptocurrency. Recently, a group of enterprising Voronezh residents created a new cryptocurrency - Milkcoins. To do this, they came up with a business plan for the construction of a dairy complex for 2,400 dairy cows and put this project on the ICO public Internet platform.
ICO technology (Initial coin offering, from English - “initial coin offering, initial placement of coins”) allows you to attract investments in cryptocurrency for a specific project. You need to establish the amount that is required and the period within which it needs to be collected. When the required amount is collected on time, those who invested in the project will receive tokens (a kind of shares), and will actually be co-investors in the enterprise. To issue milkcoins, it was necessary to collect 3.3 thousand ethereum (at the current exchange rate - more than 140 million rubles). True, they managed to collect no more than 2% of the required amount (66 ethers).
4. Why is the Bitcoin exchange rate growing?
Even before the New Year, the Bitcoin exchange rate hit a record high of 20 thousand dollars (however, it later fell to 14 thousand). Although at the beginning of 2017 they gave 1.3 thousand dollars for it. The reason for the jump is that the demand for fashionable currency is much higher than the supply. The program is designed to issue a specific number of bitcoins - 21 million. And the more users, the less everyone earns. Then new types of cryptocurrencies began to appear, as we wrote about above. They are cheaper because they are not as fashionable and hyped.
5. Is it possible to buy something with bitcoins?
Bitcoins have already been recognized as a unit of account in Germany and Japan. In Russia, the circulation of cryptocurrency is not officially regulated in any way. That is, it is officially impossible to buy anything for bitcoins in our country. However, this does not prevent you from converting bitcoins into rubles or dollars.
“To turn cryptocurrency into real money, you need to register on a special online exchange,” says Pavel Perelygin. - There you sell bitcoins, ethereums or other cryptocurrencies at the existing rate, and withdraw the money to your card.
Russian authorities are increasingly recognizing that cryptocurrency is a phenomenon in the global economy that must be taken into account. Back in the summer, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on Internet issues, German Klimenko, compared cryptocurrency to the shells with which the Mumba-Yumba tribe pays.
“You came there, rested, took the shells, brought them to Moscow - you can exchange them with the same owners of shells, but no more,” Klimenko explained.
However, already in October, Vladimir Putin ordered the creation Russian law about cryptocurrencies. And recently, the head of the Duma interdepartmental group for assessing the risks of cryptocurrency turnover, Elina Sidorenko, publicly confirmed that direct transactions for the exchange and purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies are not prohibited in Russia. At the same time, the official added that negotiations are currently underway with the Federal Tax Service on the issue of taxation of such transactions.
The dynamic development of information and communication technologies, penetrating into all spheres of life in modern society, has so changed the attitude towards the methods and volumes of data of interest, the possibility of instant audio or visual communication with almost any point on Earth and near space, that we can already talk about the evolution of information consciousness person.
Altered reality
Moreover, this change in consciousness occurred rapidly, literally within a decade, which does not mean that the causes that gave rise to such a reaction were spontaneous.
In turn, personal transformation forces a global restructuring and modernization of hitherto rather inert state institutions that determine the future development of countries in legal, social, economic and other directions.
Informatics and communications: from different definitions to a single whole
More recently, the phrase “development of information and communication technologies” was used only with the conjunction “and”, and not with a hyphen between the words, since in this case we were talking about the development of different industries.
Communication technologies are defined by the methods, tools and techniques used to facilitate communication. Information ones are used to create, record, change and display transmitted content. Each of them was developed as a separate technological direction and independent industry until the 1970s, when computer science began to be used in telecommunication networks. The term was adopted to denote the convergence (from the Latin convergo - “to bring together”) of these technologies and industries. Today, this term defines electronic computer communication methods used as part of or in conjunction with modern telecommunications networks.
Brief history of ICT
With the launch of the first commercial electric telegraph in 1837 and the telephone in 1876, it became possible to communicate by wire. long distances almost instantly, which was significantly more progressive than earlier methods of communication - knocking on the rail, signal fires and carrier pigeons.
Communications by wireless telegraphy (1895), shortwave radio (1926), and then the more reliable high-frequency radio waves (1946) overcame the physical limitations of having to connect the signal source and receiver by wire or cable. Ultrashort waves(1957) provided greater power for transmitting television signals and created the basis for the development of satellite and space communications. The first telephones were developed in the 1970s mobile communications, and the basic technologies for the emergence of the World Wide Web emerged. Both mobile and Internet communications have developed rapidly since their inception in the 1980s, to the point that mobile Internet access (such as smartphones) has become the dominant and fastest-growing mode of communication.
Information + Communication = Future
The prospects for the development of information and communication technologies in the 21st century are aimed precisely at expanding the parameters and capabilities of equipment and communications. In the 1990s and 2000s, the term “technological convergence” became the leitmotif of the principle of using this symbiosis of technologies to combine previously independent means of communication, such as telephone, radio, television, newspapers and computer data, into a single World Wide Web, operating on the basis of broadband telecommunications networks large capacity.
Application areas of ICT
ICT technologies continue to improve, and with them the Internet is developing, covering ever larger territories. The scope of application of modern software products has gone far beyond the information and communication industries, and it is already difficult to name a field of activity that has been deprived of their attention. Expanding the ability to collect huge volumes detailed information(metadata) and the creation of networks of communication devices allows the use of many useful applications in areas such as training, healthcare, monitoring environment etc., but at the same time, alas, it provides additional loopholes for remote tracking of users by interested individuals or organizations.
Information as a global monetary unit
It has long been recognized that advanced communications technologies can provide enormous economic, political and military benefits. Information is power. The use of information and communication technologies is capable of directing the vector of political and social sentiments within society in the direction required by those in power, and this concerns not only the internal aspects of the state, but also foreign policy. Therefore, it is no big secret that the bulk of research and development in this area was and continues to be financed from the military budgets of the most influential powers.
Today, for any state, the use of ICT is the cornerstone of industrial and political strategies aimed at developing the national economy and unifying the country, as well as gaining advantages in the competitive global political economy.
Beware, Internet!
ICT technologies are often touted as a panacea for solving economic and social problems, guaranteeing new benefits and freedoms both in the workplace and in social life. However, not all effects of new technologies can be foreseen. In the competition to promote the benefits of new technologies, potential disadvantages and adaptation problems are too often ignored and sometimes simply hidden. Let's consider small example. On the one hand, for Russia, as the largest state in terms of area in the world with a relatively low population density, the issue of creating a global information network as a means of unifying the country is more relevant than anyone else. This work has been and is now being actively carried out by both government and commercial organizations. Every year, thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic cable are laid, suspended and stretched, giving the population of the most remote corners of the country the opportunity to communicate and access the media benefits of civilization. However, this bottomless source of information is not always filled with adequate content. and this is the most active segment of Internet users, attracting dynamic, vibrant and professional content, which is not so much from national media resources.
That is, the promotion of information and communication technologies should be in solidarity with the creation of our own and, most importantly, high-quality media product promoted in the network space.
The challenges of growing ICT
Uncritical acceptance of technological change does not take into account its problems and pitfalls. For example, the excessive commercialization of the Internet, when the dominance of the private desire for profit is the main trend determining the development of information and communication technologies, while the creation of promising social areas (new opportunities for education, more democratic participation in political processes, remote medicine) is relegated to the background plan for the sake of immediate gain.
The pitfalls of ICT include a significant decrease in the level of confidentiality and, as a result, an increase in crimes using personal information obtained from users. The way technology is helping to change employment and income patterns remains a pressing issue. While creating new jobs, the Internet has “buried” more than one hundred professions, and as analysts predict, this is only the beginning of large-scale changes in the labor market. For a variety of reasons, not all people left without work are able to quickly find an equivalent replacement for their life’s work, and this is already a problem on a national scale.
What is good and what is bad - the choice is ours
While these concerns are real, they are by no means unique to a particular state. And the solution to the question of where the path of development of the revolution in the field of application of information and communication technologies leads (in the interests of its citizens or large businesses) depends only on the priorities of the state policy of each country. Achieving maximum opportunities, minimizing undesirable consequences and searching the right balance between private and social activities is a serious problem, especially in an economic environment dominated by powerful private corporations.
New learning technologies
Let us take a closer look at the segment as one of the most significant areas determining the development of ICT, as well as its very existence in the future. The prospects of technology are inextricably linked with changes within a particular person, the ability to accept new things, fully use and develop them, ultimately becoming a cell of the information society, where the level of well-being will be determined by information and the ability to use it competently. In this context, today the education system is faced with the task of developing methods and creating conditions for maximum adaptation of students to the requirements modern life, determination and development of personal abilities, subject to obtaining high basic knowledge. Achieving these goals involves the use of a whole range of measures: technical support, development didactic materials, creation of advanced teaching technologies, vocational training teaching staff and much more.
Harvard at home
The received in recent years the widespread use of distance learning, which has reached a completely different level thanks to ICT. During the lessons, pupils and students get a unique opportunity to study the subject they are interested in from the best teachers, receiving the most complete information, which for the majority of those who wish, due to various reasons, was virtually unattainable.
This form of training, together with traditional methods, technologies and methods of education actively uses educational knowledge bases on the Internet, therefore the equipment educational institutions information and communication technologies are one of the important elements of modernization of secondary and higher schools. The education system is becoming part of the information space, meeting the growing requirements of a developing society. Trends towards the creation of common economic zones and international organizations with similar goals will inevitably intensify the processes of globalization and improvement of the education system of any state participating in such an association.
Global implications
ICT resembles a fantastic teleport, capable of connecting access points remote in time and space with the ability to transmit and collect information of a large volume and variety.
However, the full functioning and maintenance of such a miracle of technology requires enormous costs, special equipment and qualified specialists. And, as they say, he who pays is the conductor, because the main beneficiaries of this activity are often transnational corporations that use ICT to expand their sphere of influence, increase sales markets and instantly transfer financial resources around the world.
Pressing ICT Issues
For many, especially developing countries Internet expansion may pose a threat to domestic production and employment, national sovereignty and local culture. Although the rapid spread mobile phones worldwide allowed millions of people in poor countries to gain access to basic communication services for the first time, there are still many places on Earth where the population is deprived of this opportunity. Closing this “information gap” is the goal of initiatives by international, government and some non-governmental organizations. The only question is how selfless this desire is.
Procrastination has gotten a bad rap—and for good reason. In time management, it is considered the biggest and most serious mistake associated with laziness, weakness, disorganization and lack of self-discipline.
So why do we do all this? Well, it turns out there may actually be some benefit to be gained from postponing the inevitable. In some cases, procrastination can do more good than bad.
The benefits of procrastination
1. Energy
This is the most valuable benefit of procrastination, allowing you to do something you didn’t want to do. You clearly did not dream of this task, otherwise you would not have put off completing it for so long. If you wait until fear of consequences pushes you to work, the adrenaline rush will force you to get down to business immediately. And everyone knows that starting a project that you don’t want to do is the most difficult thing. If you need a feeling of fear to motivate you to action, then you will get it through procrastination. And - bam! You have started a business, which means you are already on the way to its completion.
2. Focus
This is the second valuable benefit of procrastination, and why some people thrive under pressure. Fear gives additional strength, clear vision and concentration on the current task. Adrenaline starts pumping as you approach a deadline. Unexpectedly, you don't allow breaks or get distracted by other things - your phone, email or colleagues - until you finish your work. Fear can wake you up and give you the kind of mental clarity that comes from a good night's sleep or a dose of caffeine.
3. Speed
If a task takes at least an hour and you have exactly that hour before the deadline, there is no chance that you will spend more time. You do not allow yourself such indulgences as rest, do not let your thoughts wander, and do not devote more time to this activity than necessary. In an hour, you will definitely be able to cross it off your to-do list.
4. Less effort
You don't need discipline to get started and stay focused on the task; the deadline and fear of consequences will do it for you. It would have taken a lot of self-discipline to finish that four-hour report if you'd started it a few days ago, or to wake up and start packing up that attic, but now there's no need for discipline: instead, there's fear as the motivation. And this is a really big deal, because discipline is not at all interesting, and even so difficult! :-)
Conclusion
You probably ask yourself every time: “Why am I doing this to myself?” Now there is a clear answer: to get energy and do what you don’t want to do. Your energy levels are higher and you are more difficult to distract. Your speed increases; you are gaining momentum to make it on time. And it takes less effort; it's just easier!
These are the benefits of procrastination. This is why many people say, “I’m best at doing things at the last minute.”
Fear is an effective motivator.
Waiting until the last minute creates an atmosphere of urgency that can be confused with productivity. You're doing a ton of work in a short period of time, and is that a bad thing? But you don't really consider quality: you evaluate quantity. In this sense, at least some of the work has actually been done. But are you giving away best result when are you in a hurry? You produce the same quality work when you work at the last minute as when you give yourself sufficient quantity time?
The Harm of Procrastination
1. Stress
When you procrastinate, you feel a lot of pressure. While short bursts of energy are helpful for survival purposes, they are not meant to last for long periods of time. Making procrastination your lifestyle is not very healthy. Stress originally emerged as a way of survival, but if you stay in this mode for too long, you will inevitably have to face the consequences in the form of burnout.
How do you feel when you've been in a procrastination cycle for a while and constantly trying to get the next task done? If you are exhausted, nervous, tired, depressed, then this is not best way work and manage life.
2. Low quality
Pressure and quality have a tense relationship. They don't get along. As pressure increases, quality often decreases. Have you ever seen someone crack under pressure - like athletes losing a big game; employees responsible for documents in which simple errors are detected; candidates who begin to stutter during interviews? What about products that are rushed out, only to be immediately returned for rework?
Fear of a deadline prevents you from thinking creatively and narrows your horizons.
When you wait until the last minute, you usually don't perform as well as you would if you'd spent enough time on the job. It just means choosing in advance what level of quality you want - and not letting the deadline choose for you.
3. Less control and comfort
Procrastination makes deadlines the most important thing in your life. Even though you have a choice of when a task starts, once you reach the deadline, there is no longer a choice. At this moment, every minute is valuable. You don't have the ability to pay attention to anything else. Doing everything at the last minute is usually uncomfortable. We counted speed among the benefits of procrastination because the energy and adrenaline that appears at this time can make you rush and work faster.
But what if you can't influence the speed? The task may take longer than you originally expected.
Imagine being close to finishing a work project at the last minute and suddenly discovering that you desperately need information from someone who is currently on vacation. Now there is no way to hide the fact that you put off work until the last minute and have absolutely no respect for a project if you didn’t bother to devote enough time, attention and intelligence to it.
If you wait until the last minute, you deprive yourself of the opportunity to choose the most convenient and fastest period of time that the task may take. You deny yourself control over the situation and, in fact, rely entirely on luck and coincidence.
Conclusion
Now that we've weighed the pros and cons of procrastination, it's time for a final opinion.
When quality doesn't matter, procrastination is normal.
Many solutions to problems, such as checking voicemail, organizing paperwork, grocery shopping, doing laundry, taking out the trash, will not suffer in any way if you do them at the last minute. They do not require thinking, analysis, research, feedback, brainstorming, deduction or deep immersion in work. So take advantage of this burst of energy and focus from procrastination to end all problem-solving and third-urgency tasks.
No one is judging how well you disposed of your trash; what matters is that you did it. And as long as the bills are paid on time, you're safe.