If your business has continued operating during the coronavirus pandemic, you need to be clear with visitors, customers and employees about your social distancing requirements. Visual cues such as health and safety floor tape, signs, and posters are effective tools for reminding people about the 6-foot (or 2-meter) distance they need to keep between themselves, no-handshake greetings, standard handwashing rules, and more. The best place to deploy these reminders is on your industry and shop floors, where they will be seen by most people.

Beyond the Tape: Innovative Floor Markings for Effective Distancing

floor markings for social distancing are available in a range of sizes and designs, allowing you to clearly communicate the 2m distance that you advise staff, visitors or customers to keep from each other. They can be placed at entrances to the facility, at checkout lines and in queues and are easy to see on a variety of indoor floor surfaces such as vinyl, parquet, linoleum and concrete. They are low-profile to prevent tripping and come in various colours that contrast against your existing flooring surface. For example, supermarkets traditionally use light-coloured flooring to make customers feel comfortable and our 2m social distance marks will stand out clearly against these surfaces.

Social distancing marks can be combined with other markings that help to organise the flow of traffic around your workplace or store, such as one-way aisle systems, directional arrows and more. They can also be paired with signage that describes your current CDC-recommended practices, such as “Thank you for practicing 6 feet of social distancing”. All of these products are designed for heavy traffic areas and are made to withstand regular cleaning and to be easily moved should legislation change.

VPN identification use encryption to scramble personal information into a complex code that can only be read by possessors of a secret key. Those keys are provided by your device and the VPN server, making it extremely difficult for anyone else to spy on your internet activity. Detecting VPN use is possible, however, and can give useful data in the fight against fraud.

VPN identification can be done with tools like Glasswire and Wireshark, which are available for free from a variety of sources. These free tools will look for traffic with an encrypted tunnel, indicating the use of a VPN. These can be used by individuals, corporate networks and even government agencies to test any network for the presence of a VPN.

Cracking the Code: Methods for VPN Identification and Tracking

Another method for detecting VPN use is to look at a person’s IP address. This can be done by searching “what is my IP” on Google or using an online tool. If the person’s virtual IP address matches the VPN provider they are connected to, it can be determined that they are using a VPN.

Lastly, some networks block VPNs by scanning for specific ports that are usually associated with file-sharing programs, such as torrenting software or Usenet programs. This type of port blocking can be a good way to prevent VPN use in countries with strict censorship rules. To avoid this, a person can switch to a different protocol or use obfuscation, which conceals the VPN connection within other protocols and scrambles metadata to make it harder to identify as VPN.

Birds are one of the most important natural resources for the planet and South American Bird Research is home to incredible diversity that captures our interest. This fascination fuels bird tourism, contributes to local economies and raises awareness of the need to protect avian habitats. The continent’s avian treasures also serve as the perfect subjects for scientific research and study. Birds can reveal key insights into migration patterns, evolutionary processes and the impact of environmental changes on avian populations.

All You Need to Know: Ghost Bird Information and Insights

To ensure that the birds of South America continue to inspire us, it is crucial that we learn all that we can about these fascinating creatures. The goal of this new series, to be published in four volumes, is to provide a definitive reference for the entire region’s birdlife. It draws on museum specimens, a fresh look at systematics and extensive field observations to give the reader a vivid and accurate portrait of the birdlife of this region.

SMBC ornithologists are tracking the migratory behavior of bellbirds and kites in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul State. By attaching satellite transmitters to these animals, they are able to identify the migratory timing of each species and the locations and routes that the birds take during their journeys.

Migratory birds are particularly vulnerable to the effects of rapid environmental changes, but little is known about their annual cycles because of a lack of research in their neotropical breeding and overwintering areas. In a preprint, authors from the neotropics call attention to several factors—including a shortage of funding, few Latin American ornithologists in leadership roles and a tendency to favor papers written in English over those in Spanish and Portuguese—that they say have marginalized the work of researchers from their region.