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OTT (“over-the-top” TV) might look like a dream come true for marketers and advertisers — audiences on a comparable scale to broadcast TV, matched with the ability to address individual consumers directly. And for consumers it would seem to make logical sense, presenting — in theory at least — an à la carte selection of programming, more customizable and likely more affordable than cable bundles.
But that doesn’t mean OTT is everywhere, or has yet taken the market by storm. OTT subscriptions rose 12% between 2014 and 2016, but that doesn’t mean adopters were watching OTT programming all or most of the time. One commentator has said that “entrenched methods and silos, as well as scale, budget, standardization and measurement limitations, must all be overcome before OTT can really take off.”
That doesn’t stifle excitement about the OTT revolution — certainly not at Roku, the streaming TV pioneers, where a lot is riding on the OTT revolution. Scott Rosenberg, SVP and general manager of advertising at Roku, conveyed his enthusiasm. — Kim Davis
Perry Simpson: I’m sure you’re feeling good about OTT in general at Roku. What’s got you guys especially excited?
Scott Rosenberg: I think OTT is the future of TV. We live in a world where consumers are much more empowered to watch what they want when they want. By delivering TV over the internet, we give that to them. Our kids will grow up in a world where they don’t deal with live TV outside of big events.
OTT we feel embodies what TV is becoming. The audiences consuming TV OTT are growing. There’s billions of dollars at stake. Cord cutting is on the rise. Cord shaving is on the rise. Then there’s cord-nevers, the millennials who never had a cable subscription.
People spend five hours each day watching TV. To be working on a product that is targeting five hours of personal time for every day is exciting. Our universe is 15 million active accounts, people who streamed in the last 30 days. If you think of us like a cable provider, we’re a top provider. We’re doing over a billion hours of streaming a month. Each user is not only streaming more, they’re doing more with their Roku.
It seems there are a lot more players in the OTT market these days. How has the space changed following the launch of the latest Xbox and Playstation consoles?
The standalone player market continues to grow significantly. Consumers do use gaming consoles, but Roku has exceeded those platforms in terms of usage. There’s an interesting report from Freewheel, it’s called VMR. If you look at that data, you’ll see the consoles are laggards in terms of OTT players.
I think that’s because the consoles are multipurpose devices. They’re for gaming. You do get some viewership on those platforms, but not on the scale of Roku. The consoles are a factor, but Roku and our competitors are leading the stand alone player market. I do think the market is moving quickly. It is an exciting time to be in this place. I think that’s the number one challenger, to effectuate that change. The price points of these products are also helping. It’s never been easier to get into OTT streaming.
I think consumers are realizing that they can be very satisfied without getting tiered cable plans. Consumers just have a lot more choice than they’ve ever had. [OTT] is also creating a renaissance of sorts on the production side. I think it’s one of the brightest times in memory in the proliferation of quality tv content.
What do you see as the number one challenge facing OTT in the coming months?
If you’re a traditional advertiser, and you spend the majority of your budget on TV, you face the real problem of those TV audiences shrinking. Especially in younger demos. You need to know how to reach that next generation viewer. They’re going to OTT.
Stepping back a bit, do you feel marketers are fully leveraging the OTT market? What can be improved?
We’re at the early stages of a very exciting game here. We’re doing business across multiple platforms. As a portion of budget, OTT is still an emerging media. Yes, marketers can be doing a lot more in OTT. That’s part of our job. Highlighting the benefits of OTT. It’s going very well. We don’t have to work that hard anymore to educate marketers. Four to five years ago there were more hold outs. We really don’t get pushback anymore. The conversation with marketers is not “should you invest in OTT,” it’s “how much and fast should you move your budgets over.” We’re still working hard at wiring up new capabilities. One of the things about OTT is that every ad impression can be measured, like all of digital media. All of the digital things that are possible in mobile and desktop, now we can do that with TV as well.
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Pacific Palisades Homes & Real Estate
Find the newest homes for sale and the best real estate listings in Pacific Palisades for viewing. Pacific Palisades is a modern neighborhood near Los Angeles, California. This coastal community is home to about 27,000 people, making it a smaller community with much to offer a home buyer. Mostly residential, Pacific Palisades is known for its mixture of new homes and condominiums as well as older properties and private, expansive estates. Home buyers will find a competitive real estate market here. For additional information regarding properties available in Pacific Palisades, California or to schedule a private showing, contact your local real estate experts today. Read more about Pacific Palisades real estate.
Homes For Sale in Pacific Palisades, CA
Pacific Palisades Real Estate Market
The real estate market in Pacific Palisades has some of the highest home prices in the state. A year-over-year drop of about six percent is evident. Currently, the median listing price for a house within the community is over $2.6 million. The average price per square foot of living space is nearly $1,200. In terms of overall homes for sale, Pacific Palisades neighborhoods have a moderate inventory of real estate. Additionally, the area may have some properties in foreclosure or in pre-foreclosure as well. However, the housing market has seen significant improvement in recent years.
For those who do not wish to purchase a house here, renting may be an option. However, the average rental per month is over $9,000. This may make buying real estate in this community the ideal opportunity. Individuals who are hoping to invest in a home for sale here to use as a rental property may find the area has moderate to high demand from renters who wish to be near the coast. The area is rather landlocked. New home construction is also possible in some areas for buyers who with to build. Home builders such as Hiawatha Homes and Pacific Enterprises may be available nearby.
Pacific Palisades Community Amenities
As a mostly residential community, Pacific Palisades provides access to outstanding recreational opportunities. None is more important for residents than access to the ocean. As a coastal community, residents living in Pacific Palisades do have some beach access.
The area is made up of several neighborhoods. Buyers who tour the area will discover the El Medio Mesa area, just south of Sunset Boulevard, Castellammare, a community along the Pacific Coast Highway, and Via Mesa, one of the most prominent neighborhoods with views of the ocean and nearby Temescal Canyon.
Several parks are present in the community including Palisades Park, the largest at 117 acres. For those who wish to go for a long walk, the Rustic Canyon Park area is perhaps one of the best options. It is also the location of the Rustic Canyon Recreation Center. Other options include the Santa Ynez Canyon Park and Will Rogers State Historic Park.
The area does have a few landmarks including the Eames House, Getty Villa, and Villa Aurora. It is home to the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine, too.
Pacific Palisades Neighborhood Highlights
- Pacific Palisades is known for its coastal access and numerous community parks.
- For those seeking a view, the Via Mesa, Huntington Palisades as well as Temescal Canyon neighborhoods provide views of the ocean.
- Considered a smaller city with only 27,000 residents living here.
- The area has been captured in many films and television programs over the years.
- The community is nearly all residential and is bordered by the Santa Monica Mountains to the north.
Pacific Palisades School Information
School-aged residents living in Pacific Palisades typically attend schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The area is home to numerous elementary and high school options. There are also a few private schools to consider as well. This includes Calvary Christian, Corpus Christi, and Westside Waldorf. Palisades High School is the most common high school serving the area.
With numerous recreational amenities around the community and outstanding access to the waterfront, Pacific Palisades can be an excellent place for buyers to purchase a home. It has long-lasting value due to its location as well as the demand from those looking to buy a high-value property along the coast. With listing prices that have fallen in recent months, it could be the ideal time for some people to buy a home here.
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N. Mark Ketcham
December 24, 1961 ~ May 30, 2023 (age 61) 61 Years Old
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Mark Ketcham, 61, of McGraw, passed away on May 30, 2023, in the Guthrie Cortland Medical Center.
Mark was born December 24, 1961, a son of Charles Snyder and Hazel Ketcham. He was raised by Kenneth and Vivian Thornton and he considered them his parents.
Mark was an avid golfer and was a longtime member of Walden Oaks Country Club. He also enjoyed racing, especially NASCAR.
He was most recently employed by Voyant Beauty and had previously worked at Marietta and Intertek Testing.
Surviving is his loving wife of 32 years, Brenda L. Corson Ketcham; daughter, Jessica (Patrick) Nolin of Savannah; his son, Brandon Ketcham (Kristina) of Glide, OR; and a daughter-in-law, Rachael Ketcham. Also surviving are his grandchildren, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Peyton, Triston and Kadin; two sisters, Shirley Dietrich (Dusty) of Meansville, GA; and Patricia Parker of Cortland; his brother, Dan (Rachel) Thornton of Marathon; brother and sister-in-laws, Dana Corson; Kevin Corson (De-Anne); Andrew Corson (Rebecca); Terrence (Jen) Corson and Louise Thornton as well as several nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was predeceased by two brothers, Kenneth Thornton, Jr. and Jack Thornton and two brothers-in-law, Bradley and Jeff Corson.
The family will receive friends and relatives on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, from 11:00 a.m.– 1:00 p.m. at the Donald Barber Funeral Home, 5016 US Route 11, Homer. Burial in Atwater Cemetery will be at the convenience of the family.
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This fashionable circa 1970's estate cocktail ring with immaculate workmanship is crafted in solid 18K yellow gold and weighs approx. 19.9 grams. It is designed as an opulent semi-spherical dome shape plaque, adorned with genuine high-quality diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. The vividly colored genuine corundums of approx. 5.80 carats total are complemented by some 40 round-faceted diamonds weighing cumulatively 6.80 carats graded G-H color and VS clarity.
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Join us for this new and exciting snowshoeing class. Classes will be held on the Full Moon evenings for three months — January 25, February 24, and March 25. Sign up for one or all three and enjoy beautiful Corner Canyon in the moonlight.
Anyone age 16 and older
instructors will contact participants for meeting place and what to bring. Snowshoes, micro spikes, poles, and headlamps will be provided.
Thursday January 25, Saturday February 24, and Monday March 25 from 6:00 - 9:00 PM.
$15 per participant, per class
Opens September 4, 2023
Event will be held snow, rain, or shine. However, it may be cancelled or postponed due to severe weather. Check this webpage for current information or call (801) 576-6570.
To request an accommodation due to a disability contact the Recreation Manager at (801) 576-6556 or by email. Requests should be made as soon as possible but at least five days prior to the event date.
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Provided are contact details for Blyth Driving Test Centre, test route tips, test booking information and help passing the driving test in Blyth.
TEST CENTRE CONTACT DETAILS
Practical Driving Test Centre Address
Unit 3 Sextant House
Test Centre Details: Please note there is a level access to Blyth Driving Test Centre and a narrow entrance door. Male toilets are available. Car parking spaces are available.
Test Centre Provides Tests For: Car, Taxi, Approved driving instructor – part two, Approved driving instructor – part three
THE DRIVING TEST IN Blyth
Blyth Driving Test Centre is situated near busy roundabouts, junctions and crossroads. A good knowledge of these traffic systems is important. Rural roads are likely during the driving test as are higher speed (see country road driving).
To find out more information for the type of roads you will be taking from Blyth Driving Test Centre, visit our driving test routes section to gain an understanding on the various road types and traffic systems you will encounter.
BOOKING A DRIVING TEST AT Blyth DRIVING TEST CENTRE
If your driving test centre is located in a busy area, it may be of benefit to book your driving test in between the times of 10am and 4pm. This way you will miss out on rush hour traffic that can be problematic for learner drivers. Alternatively, some driving test centres offer test bookings on Saturdays. Driving test fees at the weekend are increased. Practical driving tests must be booked via the DVSA (see below) and not through test centres directly. There are two available test booking options; by telephone and via the internet.
Book a driving test by phone
To book a practical driving test at the Blyth driving test centres by phone, please visit the book a driving test section for all DVSA (formerly the DSA) telephone booking numbers. The DVSA telephone number is an automated test booking line. A DVSA assistant can offer help via the options given.
Book your driving test online
To book your driving test online for Blyth Driving Test Centre, see the book a driving test section for all DVSA contact information and online booking details.
Rescheduling or cancelling driving test
To gain a full refund for the driving test at Blyth, cancellations must be made at least 3 working in advance of the test date. The same conditions apply for rescheduling if you wish to change the date. The above contact details can be used for these methods.
Blyth DRIVING TEST CENTRE PASS RATES
The driving test pass rates section contains many of the test pass rates for many of the UK practical driving test centres, possibly including Blyth Driving Test Centre.
Blyth TEST CENTRE TELEPHONE NUMBER
Blyth Driving Test Centre telephone number may be either located on this page or via the driving test centre contact numbers section. Practical tests cannot be booked via these numbers and should only be used to contact the test centre manager for any concerns or issues you may have regarding your test.
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I had a driving test on Monday 4th September at 1.45pm examiner was Leon. I passed! This was my 4th test at this centre and was by far my best experience from the minute I saw Leon. He was professional yet friendly at the same time putting me at ease right away! I'm sure that this helped me to conduct the test in a much calmer fashion than in the past! So Shout out to Leon!!! Thanks and best wishes! | <urn:uuid:0ae01f59-0c2a-40d7-880d-bd54b3cbb6bb> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.drivingtesttips.biz/blyth-driving-test-centre.html | 2023-09-28T18:50:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.929607 | 857 |
Parking the car whether parallel parking or parking in a bay can for some, be a near impossible task. In this article on how to park, we will offer some tips and help with reference points for these manoeuvres, making parking a little less difficult and stressful.
How to park a car by Parallel parking
Let’s start with the parallel parking technique on how to park. The diagrams below will give you a clear example on how to do this.
Parallel parking or reverse parking as it is sometimes referred to is a manoeuvre where you will be required to reverse and stop between two vehicles parked at the side of the road.
Some struggle with parallel parking, but all it takes is to set yourself up with 2 or 3 reference points and away you go.
A good idea may be to practice this technique on a quiet road a couple of times just to get used to it as on occasions you may need to parallel park on a busy road.
How to park a car – parallel parking diagram A
Whilst driving along looking for somewhere to park, if there are plenty of other cars parked up, you may need to consider a parallel park. If the road is busy, keep a good check on your rear mirror because when you locate an ideal spot, you will need to signal to the left to let other vehicles you are slowing down. They may think you are taking a left turn when in fact you will be stopping, so slow down gradually if possible to give the car behind time to react.
Stop alongside the vehicle you wish to park behind. An ideal distance is around 1 meter from door to door. Once stopped, select reverse gear and ensure it is safe and no pedestrians are crossing and the vehicle behind has left enough room for you to reverse.
How to park a car – parallel parking diagram B
When safe, begin to reverse until the cars are level at the rear. To establish where this is, if for example your car and the car to your left are a similar size, line the side mirrors up. Another reference point is to get the very rear of the car to your left in about the centre of your rear left window, or the front of the car to your left, depending which way round it is.
These reference points may need to be altered slightly depending on what car you have. Again, have a practice go on a quiet road to establish this. Once you are happy that the cars are around level at the back, it may be an idea to stop.
How to park a car – parallel parking diagram C
You will need to now steer one complete turn of the wheel to the left. You can turn full left lock but this may potentially leave the front of your car too close to the rear of the car in front as the turning angle will be harsher. Before you do this however, take a quick look to your right blinds pot in case there are any cyclists or pedestrians there. The front of your car will swing out into the road so it is potentially hazardous.
Once you are happy it is safe, are slowly and have turned the wheel one complete turn to the left, you will now need to establish another reference point. There are 2 reference points that can help. When the left front corner of your car lines up with the rear right corner of the car in front you can then steer full lock right.
Also by looking in your left mirror, you will notice as you are reversing, a triangle between your car and the curb. This triangle as you reverse gets smaller, when the triangle is completely gone, it is time to steer right full lock. Ensure when steering right you have sufficient clearance from the car in front.
How to park a car – parallel parking diagram D
As the car straightens up, steer one turn of the wheel to the left to straightened the wheels up. To establish when the car is straight, you should notice in your left mirror that the curb is running down the road parallel to your car.
Using these reference points should keep you a good parking distance from the curb. If you feel you are still too far in the road, move forward slightly and reverse again steering to the left and right again to straighten up.
Ensure you don’t park too close to the car in front. If a vehicle parks very close behind you whilst you are gone, you may have trouble getting out.
How to park a car by Bay parking
Bay parking is a manoeuvre you might need to do at a supermarket for example. On many occasions it can simply be easier to park in a bay by driving forward into it. You do however need to think how easy it is to then reverse out again.
If the parking bays and the road is a little on the narrow side, you may find it easier to reverse in and drive our forward later. Provided here is an example of how you may want to try reverse bay parking. It doesn’t have to be exactly like this and with practice, you will get proficient so as not to have to use reference points.
How to park a car – bay parking diagram A
Whilst driving looking for that all important free space, keep a check in your rear mirror as you may need to signal to the left to let any vehicles behind you that you intend to stop. When you stop the car, stop with around an equal distance from the cars on the left and from what is on the right. This will give you adequate turning angle into the bay and plenty of distance to the right for when your car swings out.
Stop with the third line lined up with the centre of your passenger front door as illustrated in the diagram. This reference point may have to be altered slightly depending on your car. Try and find a quiet area to practice if you feel your reference points need altering.
How to park a car – bay parking diagram B
Once in position, select reverse gear. Before you start to move backwards, take a good look around as there may be pedestrians. Also take a look in your right blind spot as the front of your car is now going to swing out to the right and there may be a cyclist.
Once all clear, start to move backwards and steer to full left lock. This will guide you into the third bay from the reference line. As you are reversing, keep checking initially your left mirror as you can start to see the left line (line B) of your bay appearing. If it is looking too close to the line, steer a little to the right.
How to park a car – bay parking diagram C
As your car begins to straighten up, you should be able to see the right side line (line B) appearing in your right mirror. As you are slowly reversing, you can adjust accordingly.
Remember to keep the car slow and look around in all directions constantly. Where bay parking is located, there is likely to be pedestrians and other vehicles.
How to park a car – bay parking diagram D
Remember, which ever line you need to get closer to for any adjustment, steer towards that line.
As a final reference point if needed, line the start of the right side bay line up with your right mirror as you are reversing. This should give you a good indication of when to stop reversing. If the bonnet of your car is rather long, you may need to allow this reference point to go a little further to go back a little more.
How to park a car tips
Below are some tips on how to make parking your car an easy task.
Try and keep the car very slow. If you can imagine a slow walking pace, this would be an ideal speed. By keeping the car at this speed, it will allow you to be more accurate with your reference points and to look around more often.
These parking manoeuvre involve reversing, making it difficult to see. Keep looking around constantly 360 degrees. Children and cyclists tend to come out of nowhere very quickly.
Approaching vehicles and pedestrians
It may be appropriate to stop if a vehicle is approaching, just so you can get an idea what they plan on doing. If it looks like they are going to wait and let you continue, then proceed. If it looks like they want to get round, it may be a good idea to let them get out of the way before continuing.
These manoeuvres can be stressful when you are not very confident in your ability, especially if there is other vehicles waiting. If possible, find a quiet location where you can spend a little time to practice how to park. You should find that this will build your confidence.
Your seat belt
You may possibly find that when reversing, your seat belt restricts you from looking around efficiently. It is legal to remove your seat belt whilst reversing for this very reason.
Having additional mirrors fitted to your side mirrors are not only inexpensive, but also can aid in safety as they allow you so see areas that your standard side mirrors can’t always see. If you struggle with parking, either parallel or bay parking, these mirrors can also benefit you in terms of understanding distances of such obstacles as curbs and bay lines.
When to stop
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As UK roads become more congested with vehicles, greater parking restrictions are being implemented throughout villages, towns and cities.
Thousands of motorists are caught and fined each year due to parking in prohibited areas. Each council manages their own regulation of parking enforcement within their own borough, typically by use of a Penalty Charge Notice which incurs a fine but no penalty points.
Police also issue parking tickets (although far less frequently than they once did) in the form of Fixed Penalty Notices which incur a fine and possible penalty points. This section covers the various parking signs and their meanings, ideal for those studying the theory test.
Take the road signs quiz
Once you have run through the UK road signs guide, take the theory test quiz to test your road signs knowledge.
The blue square containing a white letter ‘P’ is recognisable to most as free parking with no time constraints. Parking signs may be accompanied with other signs such as those detailed below. Such signs illustrate particular classes of vehicles that are permitted to park.
Parking signs with rules
The blue parking sign with the white ‘P’ is often placed on a white plate that contains parking restrictions and rules as detailed below. Other parking signs may also display restrictions such as permit holders only, resident permit parking only, payment parking and voucher parking.
No stopping and no waiting signs
Parking restrictions may be imposed by use of no stopping or no waiting road signs. The regulatory no waiting signs may be accompanied by either single or double yellow lines and possibly a time plate detailing the when the regulations are in action. You are permitted to pick up and set down passengers where a no waiting restriction is in effect.
Where no stopping restrictions are imposed, it is a prohibition to stop your vehicle anywhere on the carriageway during the times of restriction. See no stopping and no waiting signs for their meanings and where they are typically located.
Parking on verges and pavements
Be cautious of parking on verges and pavements as this is a prohibition in certain areas. In London and certain other cities motorists can be fined for parking on pavements. Certain streets do however permit vehicles parking either wholly or partially on verges or pavements. This is typically along narrow streets where parking on the verge or pavement will not obstruct pedestrians.
Special signs such as those to the right may be erected along such streets either permitting vehicles to park partially or wholly on the verge or pavement. Special bay markings may also be placed on the pavement, or pavement and road to indicate where vehicles can park legally. For further information on the legalities and potential fines for parking on pavements, see parking on pavements.
Other types of parking signs and restrictions
There are various forms of parking signs and facilities. With unauthorised parking becoming such a problem across many towns and cities in the UK, it’s important to fully understand the legalities of where you intend on parking to avoid any unexpected fines.
Essentially, know your signs. The large white letter ‘P’ on a blue background lets you know where you can park legally, although look out for other symbols and accompanying text to make sure. Avoid no stopping ‘Clearway’ routes and no waiting areas unless there is a time plate that that shows the restriction has been lifted. It is almost always illegal to park on double yellow lines and single yellow lines will typically permit parking at certain times only.
Road signs theory test quiz
Once you have familiarised yourself with the many UK road signs and their meanings, take a look at our road sign test quiz and test your knowledge to see if you are ready for this part of the theory test.
OTHER TYPES OF ROAD SIGNS
- Warning Road Signs
- Order Road Signs
- Blue road signs
- Brown Road Signs
- White Road Signs
- Speed Limit Signs
- Direction Signs
- Low Bridge Signs
- Parking and No Parking Signs
- Bus Lane and Bus Stop Signs
- Road Works and Temporary Signs
- Road Markings and Lines
- Road Sign Theory Test Quiz
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DC Motors are Spinning Round
Working with the DC motor was challenging because it required using a higher voltage than usual. Even though I followed the Lab Notes and made it work, I am still unsure how the TIP-120 transistor works. Before connecting it correctly (with a 9-volt battery), the DC motor spun but did not correspond to the potentiometer.
DC motor and a potentiometer
In the two images on the right, the DC motor spun at a consistent speed or didn't spin at all. On the left, I added a 9-volt battery, making it operate as expected. I must say that I do not fully understand the logic behind it.
No additional power source:
Additional power source:
DC and H-Bridge
Working with the H-Bridge was easier once I understood how to connect the DC motor correctly.
The insightful moment of opening a record player
In these videos, Elyana and I made a record player spin using a 9-volt battery. We simply connected it to the 'positive' and 'ground' of the DC motor in the record player, and voila, it started to spin. When we switched the positive and ground locations, it spun in the other direction.
It was extremely insightful to open a record player and recognize the components that make it. Moreover, making it work using a battery felt like magic, as I could see how the logic learned from the labs is applied elsewhere.
Mid-term project update
Mary, Xiaoran, and Dror
Over the last week, my team and I have been working on the different components that make our experience. Here are the updates:
We ordered plywood to build a box with two layers. The internal part will have holes for the buttons and hold the Arduino board. The external layers serve as a way to hide where the buttons are, as we want the participants to find them.
Servo motor box opener
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Beam breaker sensor
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★ What happens if a 60 degree brushless controller is used on a 120 degree brushless motor? What about the other way around?
A: It will fall to the phase loss phenomenon and cannot rotate normally. However, the controller used by Jieneng is an intelligent brushless controller that can automatically recognize the 60 degree motor or the 120 degree motor, so that it can be compatible with the two types of motors. Make maintenance and replacement more convenient.
★ How can DC brushless controller and DC brushless motor pour out the correct phase sequence?
Answer: The first step is to ensure that the power and ground lines of the Hall line are plugged into the corresponding lines on the controller, and the three motor Hall lines and the three motor line pairs are connected to the controller in total. The simple and clumsy method is to test each state one by one. It can be carried out continuously when changing, but it must be careful and have a certain order. It should be noted that the screwing is not too big every time. If the motor does not rotate smoothly, this state is wrong. If the turning screw is too large, it will damage the controller. If there is a reverse, know the phase sequence of the controller. In the case of the controller Hall lines a, c are interchanged, click on the line A phase and B phase interchange, you can turn into a forward rotation. Finally, verify that the correct method is normal when the high current is running.
★ How to control a 60 degree motor with a 120 degree brushless controller?
Answer: Add the direction line between the brush signal motor Hall signal line b phase and the controller sampling signal line.
★ What is the intuitive difference between a brushed high speed motor and a brushed low speed motor?
Answer: A. The high-speed motor has an overrunning clutch, which can be easily transferred in one direction and exhausted in the other direction; the low-speed motor is as easy as two-way.
B. The high-speed motor rotates with a lot of noise, and the low-speed motor has less noise. Experienced people can easily identify with their ears.
★What is the rated operating state of the motor?
Answer: When the motor is running, if the physical quantity is the same as its rated value, it is called the rated operating state. When it is working under the rated operating state, the motor can run reliably and has the best comprehensive performance.
★ How is the rated torque of the motor calculated?
A: The rated torque output on the click axis can be expressed by T2n. The size is the mechanical power rating of the output divided by the rated value of the transfer speed, ie T2n=Pn where Pn is the unit of W and Nn is r/min. The T2n unit is NM. If the PNM unit uses KN, the coefficient is 9.55 and changed to 9550.
Therefore, it can be concluded that if the rated power of the motor is equal, the torque of the motor is low and the torque is greater.
★ How is the starting current of the motor defined?
Answer: Generally, the starting current of the motor should not exceed 2~5 times of its rated current, which is an important reason why the current limiting protection is applied to the controller.
★ Why is the motor speed sold in the market getting higher and higher? And what is the impact?
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When the rated speed is working, its power is constant, but in the low speed zone, the efficiency is obviously low, that is, the starting force is weak.
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This post was originally published for Bruegel, and is co-authored with Enrico Bergamini, Francesco Papadia, and Giuseppe Porcaro. An on-going research project …
Franco-German relations as the ‘engine’ of European integration are widely perceived to have stalled in recent years. This policy contribution assesses what the Franco-German relationship can achieve, what its shortcomings are, and what it means for the wider governance of the euro area and the European Union.
EURECON is a 5-year project financed by €1.5 million Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The goal of the EURECON project is to explore European policymakers’ views about how to make the organisation of the European Economic Community (EEC) fit for the creation of a single currency, from 1957 to 1992. The project will examine the origins of the issues that are currently bedevilling the European Union (EU) by investigating the period between the creation of the EEC in 1957 and the decision to create a European single currency in 1992.
This is not the first time that the United States has antagonised Europe. And Europe can provide an effective response to such external challenges when it stands united.
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From accountability reforms beginning in the 1990s in Ontario, I learned that grading is the measurement of student, school and system results to strengthen educational management. From Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I learned that grading is a search for quality and how to care for it.
I had not read Pirsig when I began grading English papers at a private school in the 1970s and had to define “quality” in student work. My undergrad university training and subsequent experience in journalism suggested it was some combination of subject knowledge, coherent organization and audience appeal. On the evening of my first grading experience, however, these categories proved unhelpful as they collided with actual student writing.
I decided to grade by approximating quality-as-a-whole using the stairs leading up to the bedrooms in the house – the further up the stairs, the higher the quality. The top stair, I decided, represented 90 percent. The steps below declined by 10 percent each until I reached a personal floor for failure at 40 percent – my compassion at the bottom level countered by severity at the top. I had never scored 100 percent on an essay; why should my students?
My approximate staircase kept me on task to completion. I then introduced the common categories – content, structure, language – and fudged those more precise 68s, 76s and 83s until I was ready to hand the papers back – though perhaps not so much to respond to I don’t understand this mark (and neither will my parents), and I’ve never got less than 80 in English. Then and after, the experience of grading remained unsettling, always hedged round by doubts.
Zen and the art of grading
In Pirsig’s novel, grading is an ethical dilemma. Phaedrus, a teacher of rhetoric, strives for a shared understanding of quality with his students and confesses his doubts about grades and their actual relationship to quality. At one point, he drops grades entirely. Rules about content, structure and language, he tells his students, were imposed on writing after it was done. Teachers who prescribed, and students who wrote by prescriptions, produced writing that “had a certain syrup, as Gertrude Stein once said, but didn’t pour.” Quality was the goal, but “when you try to say what quality is, apart from the things that have it, it all goes poof.”
In my 30 years teaching in high schools and in pre-service courses at Brock University’s Faculty of Education, I would sometimes read six assignments to set my “spidey sense” about quality before marking. Other times I would read and try to maintain consistency and focus by commenting on quality, one category at a time. Like Pirsig, I wrestled with the supposed relationship between quality and my grades.
Grades and perfectibility
And what about grades in math and the sciences, where 100 percent on a test or assignment is entirely possible, and a final of 98.5 not unheard of? In the humanities, we seem to be stuck with imperfection. Why does my 72 percent always require turgid explanations, and elicit wrinkled brows and “whatever”? Why should English marks be such a dead weight on averages needed for university or college applications?
I decided to thwart this notion that quality, in English, was so infected by innumerable and inscrutable sins that perfect marks were out of the question. Writing for Indirections – a journal for English teachers in Ontario – I described my new “publishable” grading method, introducing the prospect of 100-percent essay results to my students.
I commissioned from a local trophy shop a rubber “publishable” stamp and inkpad and explained to my students that, while I would return papers with estimated marks, I would read them wearing an Editor’s visor, looking for that “something,” that quality that attracts readers to read and editors to say, “Let’s publish this!”
The “publishable” deal was this: If you agreed to one or two editorial conferences with me and – in the interests of understanding quality – to apply revisions intended to make the piece more clear and readable, I would then guarantee a final mark of 100 percent to reflect our mutual striving for quality. Real writers don’t work alone. They have editors. It’s a team thing.
Changing the teaching relationship
The first recipient of the “publishable” stamp was a piece on hacking. The writer was keen and knowledgeable about his theme, but not so much about his writing. But my “spidey sense” again said quality was there and, confident of its eventual improvement, I gave it a 40 percent and exchanged my identity as marker for editor which, if you think about it, is a significant shift in the politics of the classroom. The final product, though not a silk purse, got 100 percent. And I got my first accomplishment as editor.
Perhaps this sounds like a disingenuous game (mark inflation!). But it did produce interest and thoughtfulness about how quality comes about in writing. In some iterations I added that students could request the publishable stamp. I created student editor/writer partnerships and suggested they should share the resulting grade, both being responsible for final results. I recall adding once, for self-protection, that I would only stamp six assignments “publishable” in any one batch because of the increased time imposed on me and on the student writers. I’d like to say that the method had such appeal that I was inundated with editorial work and giving out 100s by the 100s. But I was not. Human nature saved me. The line-up to do drafts and revisions was short.
These variations on the publishable method changed my writing instruction for good. One final variation I had not entirely foreseen. I had a set of papers I’d been putting off marking. One night I put the stack beside the computer and decided, in my Pirsig-ness about Quality, to set aside my red pen and take up the Editor’s visor for every writer. As I read each paper I typed editorial responses to purpose, to the ideas, to coherence, to language – to any aspect, in fact, where I thought I might coax out more quality. I especially conveyed my enthusiasm for their enthusiasm, or suggested a little more enthusiasm, and I remember thinking, when done, what a delight this had been for me – but I had no marks!
Next day, returning the papers, I struck a bargain. Would it seem fair, I asked my students, given the extensive editorial comments and the opportunity to improve results, that they would agree to give me time management considerations and accept an unexplained mark on the final draft? No categories. Just a quality-as-a-whole mark? And they agreed. After all, what could be more fair?
Grading and accountability
Grading that supposes strict measurement by rule and precept imposes its own game (less worth playing), in which standards and rubrics presume quality and imply that teaching professionals need not search for it with their students. Under the weight of measurement, quality goes poof.
Grading practices reflect the personal knowledge, intelligence, and ethical sense of teachers. Students know this. Uniform standards and rubrics sweep aside the personal discussion and experimentation with this necessary but complex part of teaching and learning. In its place we have Ontario’s current “Achievement Chart,” the mother of all rubrics in which, over four levels, there is simply limited, some, sufficient, or thorough quantities of skill or knowledge. Bad-a-boom, bad-da-bing: quantity, not quality. The Ministry of Education could be forgiven for thinking this now defines teacher practice.
Here’s the kind of grading and teaching modeled by accountability: Early versions of the Grade 10 Test of Literacy contained instructions for an Opinion Piece. Students were given a theme (e.g. the Welland Canal) and a list of related facts. The task: write a three-paragraph response organizing selected facts – a kind of Lego approach to writing. Several facts about the canal were listed. A teacher in our board, experienced in EQAO marking, delivered a workshop revealing the Opinion Piece marking rubric and its use by trained markers in Toronto.
Uniform standards and rubrics sweep aside the personal discussion and experimentation with this necessary but complex part of teaching and learning.
On the basis of this workshop, a local teacher, so armed and busy teaching to the test to raise his school’s results, devised the following strategy to constrain the Toronto markers, using their rubric, to award his students 100 percent on the opinion piece. His instruction to them was:
- In the list of facts, find three good things, OR three bad things about the Welland Canal. Decide on your opinion. Does the Welland Canal “suck” or does it “rock”? Your decision is your main idea – your opinion.
- First paragraph (indent): One sentence: State that opinion. Either the canal sucks or it rocks.
- Second paragraph (indent): Write only three sentences. In each sentence use the word “because” with one of the facts. For example: The Welland Canal rocks because it moves boats from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie.
- Final paragraph (indent): Repeat your opinion in one sentence this way: So, as I said, the Welland Canal sucks (or rocks).
Using grading for accountability and neglecting any notion of quality, thousands of Ontario students were declared “literate” and the system of test and measure was declared a success. But a wise Curriculum Superintendent once reminded me of the old homily: “You can’t fatten a hog by weighing it.”
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Carly Scott's voice is the first one you hear when you settle in your stateroom on the Disney Dream cruise ship. The intercom sounds to the tune of "When You Wish Upon A Star," to get your attention, before Scott, the cruise director for Disney Ships, greets guests with a message and safety instructions. For Scott, everything on the Disney Cruise Line is personal. "I don’t feel like you could do this job if you didn’t enjoy speaking with people, spending time with them, and whatever else," she tells Elite Daily. "Twenty percent of my job is guest facing."
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Throughout a three-night cruise, you might catch a glimpse of Scott mingling with guests on the main cruise ship floor, and regularly making appearances on stage before and after a Disney show, like Beauty and the Beast the musical, to say hello and offer cruise-goers additional insight into how the next day will run. (The ship has a different Broadway-caliber musical for guests each night on board.) According to Scott, it's supposed to look easy. "I think when [guests] see the cruise director they’re like, 'you just stand on stage and say random things,'" she says. "But there is the whole other side of the role that, obviously, they don’t see, and hopefully we try and make it look effortless."
Scott is also in charge of the crew activities manager (yup, there's actually someone whose job it is to plan events and fun for the crew on board each ship), and it really shows through in the guest services that the crew loves what they do each day. After the first night on my three-night cruise, the restaurant staff and I were already on a first-name basis. When you're on a huge cruise ship and may only know the one other person you came with, this one-on-one face time is more comforting than you think. But it's hard to interact with guests and make that connection personal if you're feeling unhappy in your role, and Scott knows that first-hand. "Our biggest asset is our crew so we wanna make sure they’re well taken care of," she says.
Scott began her journey with Disney 12 years ago in 2007, after signing just a three-month cruise contract to be a youth activities counselor. On Disney ships, there are countless activities reserved for pre-schoolers (6 months to 3 years), kids (3 to 12 years), tweens (11 to 14 years) teens (14 to 17 years), and adult-exclusive opportunities for those 18 and older. Parents can literally drop off their kids in the morning and have them entertained all day, and adults without children can get the most out of their experience without darting around small children.
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- A closer look at the market assessment process
A Practical Guide to Market Analysis/Guide pratique de l’analyse de marché/دليل عملي لتحليل السوق is a 3.5 hour online course designed to provide future humanitarian market assessment team members with a solid understanding of the theory and steps of market assessments so that they can join assessment teams prepared with a basic understanding of what they will be doing and why. Learners will be guided through the common steps within market assessments, using a fictional emergency scenario as a basis. This course is relevant to most types of emergency market assessment, including EMMA, RAM, MAG, the 48-Hour Tool, the WFP VAM and PCMA. Learners will develop a good conceptual understanding of the steps involved in market assessments and basic skills in how to apply this understanding in real-life settings.
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Short "greenroom" interviews following Microlinks webinar on PCMMA: Be Prepared! (3 minutes);
For more videos on market-based programming and EMMA, check out the Markets in Crises YouTube Channel.
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PCMMA Launch Webinar (February 2015, 1 hour, 40 minutes)
Be Prepared! Experiences in Pre-Crisis Market Mapping and Analysis - Microlinks webinar on lessons learned from early PCMMAs (June, 2015, 1 hour, 30 minutes)
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AD 3F 01/August-2022 ALIMCO.in Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), a Public Sector Unit under Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, invites applications from eligible experienced candidates for direct recruitment at ALIMCO HQ at Kanpur and its Auxiliary Production Centres at Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar, Jabalpur, Mohali, Ujjain and Regional Marketing Centres at New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Guwahati.
General Manager, Deputy General Manager, Manager, Deputy Manager, Assistant Manager, Junior Manager, Officer, Accountant, Marketing Assistant, Shop Assistant, Fabrication Assistant, QC Assistant, Assistant Personnel & Administration, Clerk & Junior Assistant, Assembler, Stenographer, Service Assistant, Store Assistant, Workman – 76 Vacancies
Candidates must fulfill minimum eligibility criteria as educational qualification, experiences and terms and conditions in order to be eligible for consideration for said post(s). Candidates are strongly suggested to verify
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Upper Age Limit: 55 years for General Manager, 52 years for Deputy General Manager, 50 years for Senior Manager, 48 years for Manager Posts, 45 years for Deputy Manager, 42 years for Assistant Manager, 40 years for Junior Manager Posts, 34 years for Accountant, and 32/ 30 years for All other Posts as on 01-August-2022.
Last Date for receipt of Applications: 20-September-2022
How to Apply: Interested candidates are suggested to send duly completed application form in prescribed format along with requested Demand Draft if and as per applicable, attested copies of all required documents/ testimonials as per suggested in official advertisement; by registered Post/ speed Post to The Manager (Personnel & Administration), Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India, G.T. Road, Naramau, Kanpur- 209217
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The Roman arch is the central theme and subject matter of the following works. Historically the arch is the foundation of Roman architecture and is hailed as a triumph of antiquity. It persisted in Italy and proceeds to be embraced by its utilization in today’s world. The Roman arch continues to circulate its meaning and grandeur.
The works both on paper and muslin are a visual result of the integration of the process of alternative photography with painting, by which they project the mystique of the Roman arch.
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Gabby is a 2009 senior graduating from Woodcreek High. We met Gabby last year when her parents brought her and her 2 beautiful sisters for some portraits. They were such a wonderful family to work with and we’re thrilled that Gabby is the oldest….that means we’ll get to see them at least 2 more times! We established such a great relationship with them, in fact, that the youngest Fastiggi sis is our girls’ new favorite sitter. Oh, and is it any surprise by looking at her portraits that Gabby was Homecoming Queen this year?? Way to go! | <urn:uuid:4720672a-704d-4938-9e77-62ab73777f7c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.enchantedblog.com/gabby-09/ | 2023-09-28T18:54:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.982115 | 127 |
Sunrise Marine Enterprise is a renowned organization engaged in trading and export of Marine Equipment. We have been providing professional services, expertise and support in the field of Navigation Equipment, Safety and Survival Equipment (Life Saving) and Fire Fighting Equipment for Marine and Offshore Industries like Gyro Compass, Radars, Arpa Radar, Furno, JRC, Sperry Marine, Tokimec, Koden, Kelvin Hughes, Anritsu, Consilium, Anschutz, Navtex, Echo Sounder, GPS, Autopilot, Speed Log, Weather Fax, Course Recorder, VDR & SVDR, Anemometer, Sonar,Liferafts, Lifeboat, SCBA, Lifejacket & Buoya, Fireman outfit,Main Engine, Auxiliary Engine, Turbo Charger, Purifiers, Compressor, ODME, PV Valves, Cargo Hoses,.
The company has built up its reputation as one of the largest genuine trader/ exporter of marine equipments. We have been in the business since 1984 at Alang Ship Breaking Yard (Ship Recycling Yard), one of the largest ship breaking yards near Bhavnagar on the west coast of India in Asia. The company is one of the oldest in this trade and has built up quite a reputation through the number of years with the support of our clients by rendering quality goods and services, with the help of our quality management team, sophisticated technical support and prompt delivery schedule.
It is very important that genuine and reliable equipment be used in ships while its sailing, thousands of mile away from land. We do understand the importance and thus provide our clients with genuine reusable spares available from the demolished ships, due to which the clients’ working cost remains down. Guaranteed Quality, Reliability, Economy and Punctuality are the typical features of our supply. Over the number of years we have accounted for numerous satisfied customers and earned the growing trust, which has helped to strengthen our reputation further. | <urn:uuid:97a846c8-715e-49b6-b54c-21ae5a8f95ef> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.enggpro.com/company/sunrise-marine-enterprise | 2023-09-28T17:19:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.941174 | 408 |
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Final year DPhil candidate Chelsea Haith has won funding from both the Minderoo-Oxford Challenge in AI Governance and TORCH’s Humanities Cultural Programme for her Sound of Contagion project. The work entails bringing pandemic literature into conversation with music composition and machine learning technologies.
Chelsea has developed The Sound of Contagion in equal partnership with Rob Laidlow (Royal Northern College of Music) and Wenzel Mehnert (Universität der Künste Berlin). This innovative creative-academic work comes off the back of early February 2020 invitations to the team to participate in the burgeoning Oxford-Berlin partnership. The advent of the pandemic shaped the researchers aural experience of collaborative work and this has informed their methodology.
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12/6 (PM) Wild Rice & Chicken Soup !!
Lets Get Cozy! This is the last official class of the teaching year for Envie by Mincey!
Looking Forward to This!
Dec 06, 2020, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Keeping It Cozy! Wild Rice & Chicken Soup!
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Minneapolis Wild Rice & Chicken Soup!
No better way to end the year! This is my homage to a city that has been in the forefront of the news this year. My trip to Minneapolis was so beautiful, and the food scene surprised me. I always looked forward to going back, and then the events that took place in Minneapolis compounded with Covid-19 regulations became a pivotal turning point for the world this year.
It was there that I had this soup for the first time, and also there that I learned a bit more about the state's history to Native American lands. Wild rice is the only rice native to this land. It would be incredible for you to purchase it from the Red Lake Nation - "We are the ONLY American Indian tribe in the U.S. that grows & harvests our own wild rice (MN Cultivated) on local lands." Click here for purchase. This is not an ad. I am not being paid by anyone to do this, nor do I make a commission. Red Lake Nation foods is a Native American owned company. To find out more, click here. To check out all their products, click here.
We will make all aspects of the soup together, and if you have the pizza dough recipe I'm going to bake that off into some breadsticks for the soup as well if you want to really go BIG!
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Mosque in Ooty
Mosque in Ooty forms the focal point of Muslim Travelers visiting Ooty set amidst the majestic Hills of Tamil Nadu in South India. Most of these travelers stay for a certain period of time in Ooty which is known as one of the apt serene pilgrimage destinations in India. The Mosque in Ooty is evidence to the existence of Islam in Ooty and the Big Mosque is the perfect place for religious visits and for Islamic cultural functions and activities.
Big Mosque (Badi Masjid), Ooty
The Big Mosque, situated in Lower Bazaar in Ooty, is also known as the Wallajah Mosque and is well placed for being a sacred and religious site for spiritual attainment for the entire Muslim community residing in Ooty, its surrounding regions and the Muslims from other parts of India and the globe as well.
The Big Mosque is visited by multitudes of Muslim Devotees who throng here to offer their prayers and seek blessings or pray for their wishes to be granted. The mosque in Ooty is a religiously historic pilgrimage site and is also considered as one of the most attractive shrines in South India. This Mosque in Ooty is gradually attaining worldwide attention and recognition owing to the large number of tourist footfall from across the world visiting Ooty just to get a glimpse of this sacred shrine and other historical religious centres scattered around the region as well.
The Big Mosque is renowned as the only prime Muslim pilgrimage site in Ooty and its surrounding areas in South India apart from the numerous pilgrimage centres of different religious sects that also form a part of the tourist attractions in Ooty. The Big Mosque and several other religious sites in Ooty are aptly placed amidst the serene magnificence of Ooty, a quaint hilly region that has earned a name for also being the most visited hill station in India owing to its umpteen pilgrimage destinations and local attractions.
During the month of Ramadan and on the festive days of Eid-ul-Fitr and Bakrid, the Big Mosque in Ooty witnesses a large influx of global crowd of Muslim devotees who throng the Big Mosque for prayers and to attend the grand celebrations and festivities that follows throughout the day accompanied with sweet treats and delectable and authentic Muslim cuisines.
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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 26, 2012DYMAT 2012 - 10th International Conference on the Mechanical and Physical Behaviour of Materials under Dynamic Loading
|Number of page(s)||4|
|Section||Modeling and Numerical Simulation|
|Published online||31 August 2012|
A simple coupling of ALE domain with empirical blast load function in LS-DYNA
1 Royal Military Academy, Department of Civil and Material Engineering, 30 Av. de la Renaissance, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
2 Royal Military Academy, Department of Weapon Systems and Ballistics, 30 Av. de la Renaissance, 1000 Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Blast effects on structures are of great interest both in the civilian and military domain. This fact leads to the need of the development of simple and efficient simulation methods. The two common and most used methods have a very different philosophy. The first one is the construction of a full Eulerian domain containing both the detonating charge and the sollicitated structure. An inconvenience of this method is the very long duration of the simulation since the entire external domain is modelled, especially if the charge-structure distance is very large. The second method is the direct application of the corresponding loading based on empirical data (from ConWep) to the structure without simulating the external domain. Although this method allows a consequent time benefit, it has also some disadvantages such as the fact that shadowing, ground reflection and side effects are not taken into account. Moreover, every structure is considered as rigid since the load directly applied is the reflected pressure from ConWep’s database, which gives only the reflected pressure in a rigid case. This can be a problem for the application of blast loading on elastic, low-impedance materials such as granular materials or even on small density structures that are able to have a non-negligible displacement during the positive phase duration of the loading. Material impedance and structure displacement might alter the shockwave-structure interaction. A new method using both philosophies has been developed by Slavik . In this method, an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian mesh (ALE) is created only around the structure in which the empirical incident pressure is applied. The loading is applied onto the air domain, propagates to the structure and interacts with this structure. At this time, the material parameters of the structure and its displacement are taken into account. This paper aims to evaluate third method’s capabilities. Moreover, it studies the influence of structure parameters on the loading by a comparison of reflected pressure and impulse.
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While low and middle income countries have called for the principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR) to be embedded to meet equity objectives in the on-going global health negotiations on climate change and pandemic preparedness, drawing on environmental policies, they face resistance from other countries. The author suggests two possible scenarios ahead: In the first, the CBDR principle is broadly accepted and implemented in a more equitable and effective pandemic response that acknowledges the differentiated capacities of nations and allocates obligations accordingly, through inclusive global health governance. In a second scenario, if the CBDR principle is rejected or adopted in a very diluted form, the author argues that the pandemic accord may struggle to meet its objectives. An uneven distribution of responsibilities could overwhelm less capable nations during health crises, leading to an inefficient and unjust response. Failure to consider the unique needs and vulnerabilities of developing countries could perpetuate existing global health inequities, diminishing the resilience of the global health system in the face of future crises and putting all populations at greater risk. The author proposes that striving towards equity and inclusion through the careful implementation of the CBDR principle may prove vital in realising a pandemic accord capable of meeting the challenges of global health crises.
Health equity in economic and trade policies
On 06 August 1945, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during the Second World War. A large amount of uranium used in making the first atomic weaponry was sourced from the Shinkolobwe mine in the Katanga province of the DRC, mined by workers who worked under secret contracts and low wages for the United States national security. To prevent information from leaking, Shinkolobwe was erased from maps. Misinformation was spread to make it appear that uranium was sourced from Canada, whose ores yielded 0.03% uranium while Congolese ores yielded 65% uranium. In a 2004 assessment of the mine, the United Nations found ‘high risks of mine collapse and potential chronic exposure to ionizing radiation’, recommending that the mine remain closed, while local Congolese families are reported to believe that their history has been tarnished by the uranium exploitation and use.
This study investigated how inhabitants of Mukuru informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya in 2021 experienced climate change and its health impacts, and assessed related knowledge, attitudes and practices, using a cross-sectional study. Out of 402 study participants, 76% had heard of climate change before the interview, 91% reported that climate change was affecting their community, and 93% were concerned with the health-related impact of climate change. Having lived in Mukuru for more than 10 years and living in a dwelling close to the riverside were factors significantly associated with experiencing a climate change related impact, including chronic respiratory conditions, vector-borne diseases, infectious diarrhoea, malnutrition and cardiovascular disease. With most respondents knowledgeable about climate change and experiencing its impact, the authors propose that policy makers, planners and researchers to work locally with affected communities on mitigation and adaption strategies.
Regional vaccine production features in the draft pandemic accord, but there is still a long road before this becomes a reality. Aspen Pharmacare invested millions of dollars in scaling up its South African production plant to make COVID-19 vaccines – yet it never sold a single vial. Three key factors combined to undermine Aspen’s vaccines. First, despite the hype about the need for African-produced vaccines, African governments failed to buy the locally-made vaccines. While the pandemic accord currently being negotiated is almost certain to support regional vaccine production, setting this up is complex and the COVID-era failures offer a number of sobering and cautionary lessons. Then Aspen became caught in a political stand-off between Africa and Europe about the fate of African-produced vaccines which delayed production by months. When that was eventually resolved, the world had fallen for mRNA vaccines and no longer wanted the viral vector vaccine that Aspen had been licensed to produce by Johnson & Johnson. With the waning of COVID-19, maintaining countries’ and companies’ interest in building regional vaccine manufacturing ability is a challenge and the authors suggest that Aspen’s difficulties should be well noted.
A consortium of African civil society organisations has kick-started a campaign to change the continent’s situation regarding vaccines and other essential pharmaceutical products. Afya Na Haki, a Kampala-based health policy thinktank is working with partners from Uganda, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe in a programme called “Advancing Regional Vaccine Manufacturing and Access in Africa (ARMA). ARMA programme’s objective is “advancing African advocacy and research approaches that strategically enhance vaccine manufacturing and access in Africa,” T to ensure that commitments and resolutions made by the African Union and individual African countries are actually implemented.
he global baby food market has grown from US$ 9.6 billion in 2010 to US$ 17.9 billion in 2022. Emerging economies offer opportunities for baby food manufacturers and now represent half of all global baby food sales. The authors used data from Euromonitor International to assess sales trends of milk formula, growing-up formula and baby foods during the past decade as well as the level of sugar sold in the infant and toddler feeding sector. The consumption of commercially prepared baby foods in many cases may exceed consumption of homemade foods for infants and toddlers, with concerns about the nutritional composition, sweet taste and long-term health effects of these products. The data raise major questions about the role infant and toddler food companies play in rising global obesity levels and the double burden of malnutrition in low- and middle-income countries. The diets of infants and young children worldwide are undoubtedly becoming increasingly highly processed, a trend mirrored by increased global consumption of ultra-processed foods. The five largest global formula companies are Nestlé, Danone, Abbott, RFC and RBMJ with four out of these five companies present in more than 100 countries. The authors observe that policy-makers need to ensure these products and the companies who manufacture them are more closely monitored and their marketing more tightly regulated.
The continent of Africa contains more than 50 countries, but, as Visual Capitalist details, just five countries account for more than half of total wealth on the continent: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, and Kenya. Despite recent setbacks in Africa’s largest economies, wealth creation has been strong in a number of areas, and total private wealth is now estimated to be US$2.1 trillion. There are an estimated 21 billionaires in Africa today. Drawing from the latest Africa Wealth Report, this article looks at where all that wealth is concentrated around the continent.
An open letter to Bill Gates from the Community Alliance for Global Justice and co-signed by 50 other organisations warns that Gates fundamentally misdiagnoses the problem of food insecurity as relating to low productivity, leading him to recommend the replication of Green Revolution technologies, including more fertilizer. However, the letter points out that the world does not need to increase production as much as to assure more equitable access to food. Moreover, the authors assert that the Green Revolution did very little to reduce the number of hungry people in the world and caused long-term soil degradation, and increased inequality and indebtedness. The letter points to the many tangible, ongoing proposals and projects that work to boost productivity and food security such as agro-ecological programs, and invites Gates to step back and learn from those on the ground.
While not always labelled commercial determinants of health (CDOH), some policy attention has been given in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to both harms and benefits of commercial impacts on health, particularly from harmful products and processes, and noting rising non-communicable diseases. This discourse analysis highlights differing interests and lenses among the multiple policy actors involved; the forms of narrative, agential and structural power used to advance and contest commercial policy interests in the health sector; and how this has been intensified by COVID-19. The evidence is used to propose actions to advance public health interests. Public health actors and ‘one health’ actions need to build on current efforts to strengthen own discursive power, challenging narratives with evidence; to strengthen their agential power through institutionalising health impact assessment, regulation and control measures; and to deepen initiatives to engage with structural power through support for local producers, harmonised regional standards and engagement on global rules that constrain health promoting activity, as was done in the Trade Related Aspect of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Waiver. Subregional and continental level organisations play a key role in enabling such actions, as does investment in SSA leadership in locally relevant innovation and production, and in links between state, academic and civil society actors to support evidence and to ensure public interests, transparency and accountability in policy decisions on CDOH.
In June 2022, the World Trade Organization adopted a decision at its 12th Ministerial Conference, as the outcome of a 20-month long discussion on the TRIPS Waiver. Ultimately what resulted was a rather narrow legal mechanism, essentially clarifying existing rules in the WTO TRIPS Agreement. In this interview, Susan K Sell from the Australian National University explains why words matter and how the Waiver discussions, though disappointing, have broadened and shifted the conversation on intellectual property and public health forever. . | <urn:uuid:b53efdd6-cf8f-4276-8a29-a728dd86c8eb> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.equinetafrica.org/newsletter/category/516.html | 2023-09-28T18:35:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.946875 | 1,904 |
Webinar February 22, 2017 Posted on: 2/06/2017
With the go-live of ASU 2016-09, major changes in performance equity granting trends, and a new presidential administration, equity compensation accounting will experience considerable change in 2017.
Join us on Wednesday, February 22 at 10:00am PT/1:00pm ET to take measure of the field of equity compensation.
Get on top of the most critical issues we’ll face in 2017.
- Adopting ASU 2016-09, including managing the resulting P&L volatility and other resulting challenges
- Emerging award design trends, such as the “hybrid award,” ESPP expansion, and cash awards
- How best-in-class finance functions are evolving their forecasting and budgeting techniques
- What finance leaders need to know about the upcoming CEO pay ratio proxy disclosure
- Areas of heightened audit scrutiny where more controls may be needed
- How the new administration may change equity compensation, including Dodd-Frank rulemaking
- Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2017
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- Professional Education: 1.0 hour of CPE credit for this webinar will be available to CPAs and Certified Equity Professionals
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If you can get an erection okay, but it doesn't last, the reasons why, are significantly narrowed down.
Chances are -
If this is happening to you - we know that your body can initiate an erection and so the positive news is blood flow must be all good. There are therefore two likely reasons why you may not be lasting as long as you'd like, and a possible third. Often it can be the case that improving all three of these is what's needed. Here we start with anxiety (low level that we can be unaware of)....
If we worry and become anxious about our performance - this alone can be the cause of any problem.
Sometimes for a whole host of reasons there can be a blip in erection quality for a period of time - sometimes stress related, but it may have just been that a blip for whatever reason. Then if we become too concerned this can cause anxiety to develop which gives the secondary problem when the initial may well have resolved - unless it was stress related.
Whether the anxiety/stress is the whole or partial cause of we need not concern ourselves as erection kaizen training will cover all aspects and as you may now already be aware - to relax and enjoy your training without any concern is going to do your erections the world of good!. The aim of this is to inform why stress or anxiety can cause problems - then once you know - you can either:
Stress causes erection problems due to preparing your body for fight or flight - it is reacting in the same way as it would to a threat to your life and is preparing to keep you alive - not for making love. Underlying stress can accumulate, and gradually cause more problems with erection quality, which can cause you additional stress about your sexual function. A one off stressful event that caused a blip in erection quality, which we can all get, is enough to cause anxiety - and an underlying stress about erection quality can build, which if other parts of you that contribute to the erection process remain strong - they'll take up the slack. So you see erectioncoach.com is all about improving all aspects of you as one will help another and before you know it - perhaps your erections will gradually be on the up!
If you have only a slight erection problem you may start to become concerned, causing
anxiety levels to rise and so too - the likelihood that your erection wont last. Because
anxiety is the enemy of erections, a vicious cycle starts, the more we
worry the more the effect upon erection quality. So simply relax into your erectionkaizen training and keep in mind the above paragraph - knowing that everything can gradually improve.
In past days when the world was a tougher place - getting an erection was never going to help us survive the attack of a wild animal or an attacker - and so our body diverts blood away from the periphery, which includes away from the penis, and towards the working muscles to ensure they have the resources needed to run away or stay and fight as needed. Our body reacts to anxiety and stress in a similar way - your body is trying to protect you. Once we know this we can begin to find ways to tell our body everything is okay.
This is why happiness, sexualness, contentment and relaxation form a big part of this erectionkaizen coaching.
Stress and Anxiety
Our body is reacting as it would have done thousands of years ago - it responds in exactly the same way. For example:
work related stress is reacted to in the same way as stress of a wild animal about to kill you.
or Anxiousness from a job insecurity or sexual performance provokes the same response as general anxiety about the threat of rival soldiers or wild animals in the night.
The priority for our body is to stay alive and getting an erection is not going to help.
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When I say older age I mean after the age of 30 - that's the age our muscles stop naturally being so strong and gradually start to deteriorate - unless we stop them! Which we can simply be exercising them. The Erection Muscle needs to be kept strong and this we can do with a simple exercise as above.
If your erection does not last, it can be due to lack of stamina in muscles that support an erection. The initial strength is there, so they just need to be strengthened with the stamina aspects of erection kaizen and so may well be a case where we can choose what aspects are priority for you. These muscles like any deteriorate and begin to lose strength, after the age of around 30, unless we maintain strength by really using or training the muscles. Some men with a real active sex life, that are using their muscles to their full extent may be keeping up strength, however if we are not a natural user of these muscles they can weaken.
I don't like to generalise with a number, but if you are younger than around 30 - 35 the chances are your erection may not be lasting is due to the psychological (reason 1 above). However if you are older it does not mean weak muscles are the cause, as stress can also rise, the older we get so it may be that both these erectionkaizen training aspects could help you.
Sometimes it can be difficult to establish the main cause or reason why your erection does not last and really we don't need to know. Sometimes it can also be for both of the above reasons.
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One of the best kink education panels I’ve ever
been part of was a group of experienced queer tops being real about our
experiences back when we were new tops. We told stories about mistakes we made,
how afraid we were, how much pressure we felt to act confident. We were real
about the ways we realized that we wanted to top, and what that early
self-discovery was like. We talked about the tricks we used to get over our
nerves, and the ways we learned to value our own needs. It was one of the most
real and important conversations I’ve ever had with a group of tops, and I feel
incredibly lucky to have participated in it. There was this hush in the room as
we spoke about this, a sense that we were breaking silence, that this
conversation was precious. We don’t have these kinds of
conversations often in kink community, rarely
speak openly as tops about being vulnerable, nervous, scared, or unsure.
When I was a novice top, I would have
loved to read stories about tops who were unsure. Part of why I felt like
I had to act sure even when I wasn’t as a novice top was that no tops were talking about being unsure. If
I’d been able to read stories about tops who were unsure, it would have been
validating, and really helped me. I know that some people look to erotica
& erotic romance for fantasy, and to get off. I sure do. But I also look to
it for a mirror.
The first erotica story I wrote from
the top’s point of view, “Nervous Boy”, had the top character being unsure. It
felt like such a risk to write. Maybe I was the only top that felt this
way. Maybe the bubble of faith readers had in him would burst when they saw he
was unsure. Maybe I couldn’t find these stories because no one would be willing
to print them. (I was wrong about the last one, by the way.)
These days I work really hard to include tops in my erotica who are
unsure, vulnerable, and scared. I consistently write experienced
tops that doubt themselves, that need support, that are vulnerable, that have
needs. I care about those stories. I think they are important, not just as erotica,
but as a voice in kink culture that insists on top vulnerability and tops
having needs. But these stories aren’t the only kind of mirror I needed as a
I would love to read stories about novice tops
learning from experienced bottoms. I would love to read stories about
novice tops getting mentored, or learning through co-topping. I would love to
read stories about novice tops figuring out how to top through reading, going
to classes, having cybersex, talking with kinky buddies, watching instructional
videos, watching other people play. I would love to read stories about novice
tops trying out bottoming as a way to learn, and the ways that works for them,
or really doesn’t work. I would love to read stories about novice tops refusing
to try bottoming despite being pressured and finding other paths for learning
and self discovery. I would love to read stories about novice tops and bottoms
learning together, perhaps in group scenes, perhaps through co-bottoming,
perhaps on their own or with friends.
There are very few stories that center novice
tops. I can’t name more than a few short stories (mostly about couples
experimenting with kink together) and about half a dozen book titles, and I
read pretty damn widely. (If you are looking for examples I particularly
recommend For Real, Have Mercy, and Sated, which actually features a novice switch,
but I especially adore her topping moments.) The dearth of examples illuminates
a pretty big gap in BDSM fiction.
But I think the gap is wider than that. The kinds of stories we tell
about novices are a bit…one-note.
Most of the time in BDSM erotica and erotic
romance, when a
character is a novice, it seems to be a stand in for virginal innocence. This character has done very little (or no) research about kink, and often has had no prior kinky fantasies. A clean
slate, if you will. The novice is
inevitably the bottom or submissive. (And for the most part, a woman partnering with a man.) Much of
the time, the experienced dominant teaches a novice submissive about their submissive identity. The novice only learns
about kink from
their partner, or occasionally a bit of internet research. They don’t talk to
other kinky people. They aren’t part of a kink community. They often don’t
know any other kinky people…besides their love interest.
There are so many other possible stories we could
tell about learning BDSM and being a novice.
What would it be like if we told stories about novices who took charge of their own learning
about kink, and went after what they
wanted? What would the story arc be if we started from there? With novice tops and
bottoms who didn’t learn through their lovers alone?
What about a story with a main character who
dropped kink (or a certain kind of
kink) after dipping a toe in, and is now thinking about picking it up
What could the story be if the character is an
experienced top or bottom that is exploring switching for the first time?
What about a story centering folks who are new to
D/s but have done SM or bondage for years?
What about a story centering a novice whose first experiences of BDSM are with a professional?
What about a story centering a novice who learns about their own kinky desires through doing sex work?
There is so much possibility in stories about novice queers, novice Ren Faire folks, novice goths,
who come out into kink as part of their culture, and now need to claim it for
their own. So many cultures and communities are kinky. It’s really
different to be a novice trying out BDSM inside one of those. Sassafras
Lowrey has written two (non-erotic) novels (Lost Boi and Roving Pack) about communities of homeless and
precariously housed queer and trans youth that center kink as an important aspect of the community culture
and a vital part of the lives of the characters. I would love to read more
erotica and erotic romance stories about being a novice in that kind of context. Where characters are coming into kink
through being pagan, or punk, or a vampire, for example, where BDSM is already
an integral part of the cultural landscape.
What if the story was about a novice top or bottom trying to claim their desire as a
survivor of violence, navigating the complexity of consent?
What if the story was about a novice top or bottom of color grappling with racism in
the kink scene, claiming their sexuality in that context?
What about stories with novice edge players? I
was definitely one of those, and would have found so
much solace in a story that came from a place that acknowledged the diversity
of desire and the ways that just because you are a beginner doesn’t mean that
you don’t want intensity in your BDSM.
What would the story be like if it centered a novice who went to kink education or munches with
groups of friends? I went to some of my first kink events with my best friend,
who’d been kinky all along, but I hadn’t known, in 5 years of friendship. I’ve
seen novices find each other
early on in kink community, and form intense friendships, support each other to
explore. I want more stories about novices who support each other,
where that friendship is a core part of the story of self-discovery.
What if the story was about a nerd who did tons
of research first? Who spent years
exploring their kinky desires through writing or reading fan fiction before
trying it out in life? I knew much more about my own kinks with very little
experience because I had so much cybersex. Folks in kink communities are often really scornful of people
who learn about kink outside of real life experience, but it’s so common! I
know there are more people than just me who did tons of reading before they
ever acted on their desires.
I would be so excited to read BDSM
fiction that represented the wide range of novice experience that actually
exists in life. Perhaps one of these ideas will inspire you to write something
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We made changes to reduce the allowable back-billing period for retail energy customers from nine months to four months.
Changes to the back-billing rules 2020
Draft decision28 February 2020
Submissions close27 March 2020
Final decision8 July 2020
Rule changes take effect1 January 2021
In response to a terms of reference from the Victorian Government, we have implemented code obligations on energy retailers and distributors to ensure that customers cannot be back-billed for more than four months when they are not at fault.
Previously, customers could be back-billed up to nine months by their retailer if they had been undercharged, unless the customer was at fault.
The final decision for this reform was released in July 2020, following a draft decision in February 2020.
The new four month limit on back-billing came into effect on 1 January 2021.
Key facts from our final decision
New back-billing rule for retailers
Retailers can only recover any amount undercharged in the four months before they notify the customer, unless the undercharging was a result of the customer’s fault or unlawful act or omission.
New back-billing rule for distributors
An electricity or gas distributor is not able to recover charges from a retailer if the retailer is not able to recover those charges from a customer.
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This bar-code number allows you to confirm that you simply’re getting precisely the right version or edition of a ebook. As you consider your advertising priorities for 2018, it’s vital to take a detailed look at what’s actually happening in the marketplace, after which invest in the activities which are going to place your agency for future growth.
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I have been in search of ways to simplify the marketing strategy course of to entrepreneurs in rural areas of Brazil and emphasize the planning and documentation process in a means that is not overwhelming or complicated and I’d say this can be a nice begin for the marketing plan of it.
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Today, Jacques Houdek released the instrumental version of his Eurovision song “My Friend”.
The song is composed by Jacques Houdek, Siniša Reljić and Tony Malm.
Also, Jacques has written the song with Ines Prajo, Arijana Kunštek, and Fabrizio Laucella.
The official song presentation will be on 2nd March on Croatian radio.
You can listen to the instrumental version of “My Friend” here:
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Xoom has launched a new cross-border money transfer product, Debit Card Deposit, enabling customers in the U.S. to send money directly to their friends & family’s eligible Visa debit cards in 25 countries.
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What you need to know: Launched in collaboration with Visa, the new feature will offer remittance receivers easy, secure and real-time access to funds, which are sent directly to a recipient’s eligible Visa debit card.
Xoom’s Debit Card Deposit feature was first launched in 2020 for U.S. domestic money transfers, and the new cross-border expansion increases the ability for international recipients to easily and quickly access funds sent from friends and family in the U.S.
Wire transfers are a common method of sending bank remittances. However, these can take up to five business days or longer, especially cross-border.
With the Xoom Debit Card Deposit functionality, recipients have access to use those funds typically within minutes however they need, such as paying bills or buying groceries, through their eligible debit card.
What they said: “We know that getting funds quickly and easily is important for many of our customers, which is especially true around the winter months and the holidays when people are sending money to their friends and family around the globe,” said Wei-Lin Lee, Vice President of Remittances, PayPal.
“This expansion, through our partnership with Visa, will help more customers around the world get a fast and convenient way to access necessary funds needed for everyday essentials.”
“There’s an ever-increasing need for digital solutions that help remove barriers for those looking to send money to friends and family across borders,” said Yanilsa Gonzalez-Ore, Senior Vice President and Head of Visa Direct North America.
“Through this extended collaboration between Visa and PayPal, Xoom’s Debit Card Deposit will enhance cross-border money movement with the real-time2 payment capabilities offered through Visa Direct.”
Go deeper: With Xoom, customers can access a fast, reliable, and affordable way to send money, by simply downloading the Xoom or PayPal mobile app, or visiting Xoom.com or PayPal.com.
Earlier this year, PayPal also enabled access to Xoom directly in the PayPal experience, both in the app and online, offering more customers ways to send money to family and friends around the world.
A pioneer in digital remittances, Xoom is a fast and convenient way to send money, pay bills and reload phones for loved ones in over 160 markets globally.
These remittances serve as a lifeline for many people around the world and are used to pay for things like utility bills, healthcare, education costs and emergencies.
PayPal and Xoom offer fast and innovative payment options for customers to send money across borders by going online or using a mobile device. These options seek to improve the financial health of millions of our customers worldwide.
What else is important: Xoom’s Debit Card Deposit feature is now available in the following 25 markets: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Lithuania, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ukraine, and Vietnam.
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Introduction to TUYA Smart: The evolution of home security
Since its emergence into the market, TUYA smart technology has quickly become an unavoidable reference when we talk about security. But what makes this technology so special and why should you consider integrating it into your home? Join us on this informative tour and discover everything you need to know.
TUYA Smart INC
TUYA Smart INC is the company behind the revolutionary TUYA smart technology. Founded with the mission of connecting the world through technology, it has established itself as one of the main IoT platforms (Internet of Things) of the world. Its proposal focuses on providing intelligent and connected solutions for manufacturers, brands, OEMs and retailers.
With a focus on constant innovation, TUYA Smart INC has developed a series of products ranging from lighting control to advanced security systems, including solutions for the smart home and much more. The company strives to transform any traditional home appliance into a smart device, giving it connection and control capabilities never seen before.
What is TUYA smart?
TUYA smart is, in essence, the representation of a wide range of smart solutions created and offered by TUYA Smart INC. Its purpose is to make daily life more comfortable, efficient and safe through the integration of technology into everyday objects. From lights that can be controlled with your mobile phone to security systems that notify you in real time of any incident in your home, TUYA smart is redefining the way we interact with our environment.
One of the main attractions of TUYA smart is its ability to be integrated into various brands and products, allowing users to enjoy a smart and connected ecosystem regardless of the manufacturer of your devices. In other words, it is a universal solution that seeks to unify and simplify the user experience in the world of the smart home.
Main features of TUYA smart
The features that define TUYA smart are not only innovative, but represent a significant leap in the field of security. From its advanced connectivity to its adaptive design, this system redefines what is possible in security and convenience for home and business. Below, we present its main attributes:
TUYA smart technology allows seamless synchronization with multiple devices, offering centralized control. This means you can manage multiple smart devices from a single platform, making it easy to monitor and control your home or business.
One of the great advantages of TUYA smart is its ability to easily integrate into any environment. Thanks to its discreet and functional design, it is perfect for both modern homes and more traditional establishments, adapting to the specific needs and aesthetics of each place.
Real-time notifications with Tuya Smart APP
With the YOURS camera, you will always be aware of what is happening in your home or business. Its real-time notification system, through the Tuya Smart APP, allows you to receive immediate alerts in the event of any eventuality. This way, you not only ensure a quick response to any situation, but you can also live with the peace of mind of knowing that you are protected.
Youya Smart for PC
Beyond its mobile application, TUYA smart offers a version adapted for PC, allowing users to manage and monitor their devices from the comfort of their computer. This option is ideal for those who prefer a larger screen or for companies that require centralized management from a fixed workstation.
Why do you need to buy a TUYA smart?
The decision to invest in security is always the right one. By opting for TUYA smart, you not only acquire a device, but also the peace of mind and certainty of having cutting-edge technology. But that is not all. The reasons to consider this technology in your home or business are numerous. Here we explain some additional reasons:
Integration with other systems
The versatility of TUYA smart is one of its great attractions. It is compatible with a wide range of devices, from security cameras to lighting systems. This makes it easy to integrate into existing security systems or create a completely new intelligent ecosystem.
The world of technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, and TUYA smart is not far behind. As a constantly evolving platform, it offers regular updates to ensure you always have the latest innovations in security and comfort. You won't have to worry about obsolescence or being left behind in terms of functionality.
Benefits of opting for smart security technologies
Technological advancement has led us to rethink the way we protect our spaces. It is no longer just about alarms and cameras, but rather integrated systems that adapt and learn from our habits and needs. TUYA smart technology is proof of this. But what are those benefits that stand out so much? Next, we will delve into them:
Considerations when choosing a TUYA smart
Security is a very important investment, so before committing your money, it is essential to analyze various factors. The goal is to ensure that you are choosing the most appropriate option that meets your needs and expectations. Here are some recommendations to keep in mind:
Identify your specific needs
Before purchasing a TUYA smart system, it is vital to identify what you really need. Are you looking for a solution for your home or business? How many devices do you plan to connect? These questions will help you determine the type and capacity of system you should consider.
TUYA smart is known for its versatility, but it's always good to confirm if it's compatible with other devices or systems you already own. This will save you inconvenience and additional expenses in the future.
Check other users' opinions
An excellent way to know the efficiency and reliability of a product is through the experiences of other users. This will give you a clear idea of what to expect and what potential problems you might face.
Learn about support and warranty
After-sales service is crucial. Make sure that the brand or store where you purchase your TUYA smart system offers good customer service, and, as we spy, guarantees a three-year warranty and free shipping with delivery within 24 hours.< /p>
Trust and guarantee with espiamos.com
At espiamos.com, we understand the importance of security and trust. Therefore, when purchasing products on our platform, you will enjoy a three-year warranty. Additionally, to facilitate your shopping experience, we offer free shipping with delivery in just 24 hours. The safety and satisfaction of our customerss are our top priority!
TUYA Technology FAQ
Is the TUYA smart system easy to install?
Yes, its intuitive design facilitates quick and hassle-free installation. Most users can configure and start the system without professional help.
Is TUYA smart compatible with other security systems?
Absolutely. It is designed to integrate seamlessly with a variety of systems. Whether you have cameras from another brand or specific sensors, TUYA smart is flexible enough to work with them.
How do I receive notifications from my TUYA smart?
Notifications from your TUYA smart are received directly on your mobile device through the Tuya Smart APP. Additionally, if you have a centralized control panel, you will also receive real-time alerts and updates on any events or situations that require your attention.
How to configure TUYA smart?
Setting up TUYA smart is a simple and guided process. Once you download the Tuya Smart APP to your mobile device, you will follow a series of steps in the app to connect and configure your devices. The app will guide you step by step, allowing personalized configuration according to your needs. Additionally, you can always refer to product manuals or online support for additional help.
How does Tuya smart work?
Tuya smart works as an interconnected ecosystem of smart devices. These devices communicate with each other and with the central application through the Wi-Fi network or IoT (Internet of Things) connections. Once set up, you can control, monitor and receive updates from all your connected devices, whether lighting, security or appliances, from anywhere through your mobile device or centralized panel.
Which app is better? Yours or Smart life?
Both Tuya Smart APP and Smart Life are applications developed to control and manage smart devices. Both applications come from the TUYA ecosystem and share many similar functionalities. The choice between one and the other often comes down to personal preference or small differences in the interface and specific features. It is advisable to review both applications and decide which one best suits your needs and tastes.
How to install TUYA Smart camera?
Installing a TUYA Smart camera is a relatively simple process:
- Unpack the camera and connect it to a power source.
- Download and install the Tuya Smart APP on your mobile device.
- Create an account or log in if you already have one.
- Select "Add device" and choose the type of camera you are setting up.
- Follow the on-screen instructions, which usually involve scanning a QR code and connecting the camera to your Wi-Fi network.
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The research, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), was performed using the statistic procedure of meta-analysis which allows to combine different studies conducted worldwide to achieve more precise results. Researchers analyzed the most important scientific studies performed during the last years. Eight in total in four Countries: United States, Sweden, Japan and Great Britain. Each study took into account patients already affected by an ischemic vascular event. During the years following the disease onset, patients were followed by researchers to know which were the lifestyle habits, including alcohol consumption, able to avoid a new clinical event. The meta-analysis allowed to pool all those studies for a total of 16,351 people examined.
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The effect is very similar to that observed in healthy people. "Risk reduction - Costanzo argues - is about 20%. This means that one event out of five can be spared. It is a huge advantage, comparable to the one already recorded for healthy individuals".
"Studied by our research group for a long time – says Augusto Di Castelnuovo, Head of the Statistic Unit at the Research Laboratories of the Catholic University in Campobasso and co-author of the study - the beneficial effects of moderate alcohol consumption in healthy people are well established. Now we have reason to believe that alcoholic beverages work by the same protective mechanisms also for people already affected by ischemic vascular diseases".
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"Despite these new positive results- argues Giovanni de Gaetano, Director of the Research Laboratories - we do believe that teetotallers, either healthy or ill, should not start drinking with the aim to earn more health. Our study, as those conducted by our group in the past, is not a kind of invitation to start drinking, but the recognition of a particular lifestyle. This time we need to be cautious since we deal with sick people. We recommend to them to discuss with their own doctor the best choice in terms of alcoholic beverage consumption".
The study was supported in part by a grant from the European Research Advisory Board (ERAB).
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|Series Title||Environmental and Resource Economics|
|Series Details||Volume 83, Number 1 (Special Issue), Pages 23-46|
|Publication Date||September 2022|
|Content Type||Journal Article|
We analyse the international dimension of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) over the past two decades and in the foreseeable future by reviewing facts and economic theory. The facts mainly concern the international climate change regime and the EU’s relevant experience in international cooperation. Club theory shows how incentives can be created for cooperation on climate mitigation.
The linkage of the EU ETS to the Kyoto flexible mechanisms had mixed results: it promoted emissions trading abroad, but the inflow of credits into the EU ETS added to a large market surplus and the environmental integrity of certain credits was problematic. Looking ahead, the ability of the EU ETS to reduce foreign emissions may grow. Key will be whether competitiveness and distributional effects are successfully addressed. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism might help the EU reduce the risk of carbon leakage while incentivising emission reductions in countries exporting to the EU. The EU’s focus on reducing domestic emissions only, suggests we will probably not see new international linkages this decade. However, it cannot be excluded that the EU will revisit its decision and relax the domestic constraint.
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Hand Dryers vs Paper Towels
From July 2008, Maribyrnong City Council staff have been drying their hands with efficient air dryers rather than the 1.5 tonnes of paper towel previously used each year. This relatively straightforward change is will save Council around $26,700 and prevent 2.6 tonnes of direct CO2e emissions each year. In addition to the direct CO2 and cost savings, Council also considered the life cycle emissions and water consumption in the production of paper towel. Producing a year’s supply of paper towel for Council requires an estimated 40,000 litres of water and 2.3 tonnes of CO2e is emitted during the manufacturing process – and that’s not counting the emissions from harvesting raw materials or from transport. Council’s simple action has a 12-week payback period and substantial greenhouse gas and cost savings. It has also led to tidier bathrooms and happier cleaners.
The Town Hall complex houses approximately 250 staff. There are nine toilet blocks (male and female) in the complex, all using paper hand towels despite hand dryers being available in two of the toilet blocks. Waste paper towel often ended up on the floor of the hand washing area as bins overflowed. Supplying paper towel for the Town Hall complex cost Council approximately $9000 each year, not including the labour costs of cleaning the floors, restocking the holders, ordering, emptying the rubbish bins and buying plastic bin liners. With the addition of the associated costs, Council was spending around $27,000 annually.
Implementation and approach
Driven by Council’s environment team, hand dryers were trialled in a male toilet for two weeks without any complaints. A notice was posted on the council website explaining the planned changes and, in consultation with the Hallkeeper, Council installed hand dryers in all toilet blocks and removed paper towels. Some staff raised concerns about hand dryer noise from a toilet block close to offices. After a number of complaints, the hand dryers were replaced with a quieter but less efficient model, which successfully addressed the noise problem. Changing staff behaviour has proved to be a challenge. Even six weeks after the introduction of the hand dryers, paper towels were still occasionally appearing in the washrooms, proving the fact that old habits die hard!
Costs and Benefits
The new hand dryers cost $6075 and ongoing annual energy costs are $234. However, this cost is minimal when compared to the estimated $26,941 Council used to spend each year to keep the toilets supplied with clean paper towel and to dispose of it when used. The action has a payback period of 12 weeks and is predicted to save $26,700 a year.
By no longer using paper hand towels, Council is preventing 2.6 tonnes of direct CO2e emissions each year, as well as the estimated 40,000 litres of water used in production and 2.3 tonnes of CO2e emitted during the manufacturing process.
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De Gruyter is pleased to announce the establishment of a partnership with the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, commencing with an annual lecture series: the De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking.
The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Professor Linda Zerilli, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at The University of Chicago. Her lecture, entitled “Arendt and the Problem of Political Persuasion,” will take place on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Prof. Zerilli’s lecture will also serve as the keynote address for a two-day interdisciplinary humanities conference, ‘Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy: On the Desirability of Speaking with Others.’
The Hannah Arendt Center (HAC), based at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson (NY), was founded in 2006 and is home to the Hannah Arendt Collection, which represents approximately 5,000 volumes, ephemera, and pamphlets that made up Arendt’s personal library. HAC oversees a range of events and programs, including an annual Fall conference and a virtual reading group.
With 270 years of experience, De Gruyter is one of the leading Humanities publishers in Europe, internationally renowned for publishing the critical editions of great philosophers such as Kant, Marx, and Nietzsche, and serving an ever-growing academic community worldwide. Within the framework of this cooperation, De Gruyter will not only sponsor the annual lecture series but will be launching a new book series devoted to the legacy of Hannah Arendt. The book series, which will also be undertaken in conjunction with HAC, aims to establish itself as the premier venue for scholars working on all aspects of Arendt’s thought and its relevance for contemporary problems.
“De Gruyter is passionately committed to facilitating research and offering a forum for scholarly debates on some of the most urgent issues we face today. This cooperation with the Arendt Center is another example of these efforts. I am very enthusiastic about starting this new journey together,” said Dr. Serena Pirrotta, Editorial Director Classical Studies & Philosophy at De Gruyter. “Over the past few years,” Pirrotta added, “we have strengthened our focus both on the history of women philosophers (with the Women Philosophers Heritage Collection, the most comprehensive and significant selection of writings from women in the history of philosophy and science) and on timely topics and issues in philosophy and political theory (with the new series Transforming Political Philosophy). The De Gruyter- Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking, along with the new book series on Hannah Arendt, are further steps in this direction and contribute to our internationalization efforts.”
“The Hannah Arendt Center nurtures an intellectual space for passionate, uncensored, nonpartisan thinking that reframes and deepens the fundamental questions facing our world. We are thrilled to partner with De Gruyter to sponsor talks by leading thinkers about our political and ethical world,” said Dr. Roger Berkowitz, Founder and Academic Director of HAC. Berkowitz, who is also Professor of Politics and Human Rights at Bard, is the winner of the 2019 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Bremen, Germany.
The annual lecture series will be coordinated by Dr. Nicholas Dunn, Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellow in the HAC and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Politics at Bard College. Dunn, who is also organizing the ‘Judgment, Pluralism, and Democracy’ conference, is volume editor of a commentary on Arendt’s Kant Lectures (and editor of the Commentary on Arendt’s Kant Lectures (forthcoming in De Gruyter’s new Works of Philosophy and Their Reception series).
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It’s Bold Predictions time with Mark! Get ready!
1.) Tom Brady finishes outside the top 12 this week.
Justification: In the battle of Brady vs. Belichick, I think we actually see a lower-scoring game. I’m not going to guess on the winner but I think a strong Patriots defense (top 7 against opposing QBs) holds their own and this does NOT play out to be the exciting 30-29 game that some are speculating. Brady is smart enough to evolve his game to whatever suits a ‘W’ best, and if that means running the ball, then he’s happy to play his role in that.
2.) Odell Beckham Jr. is a top 12 WR this week.
Justification: Minnesota’s defense has become one of the weakest against opposing wide receivers this season. The Browns other top WR (Jarvis Landry) is out and after some time off I think Baker Mayfield and Kevin Stefanski are eager to get OBJ back into the mix. They gave him a healthy group of targets last week and I see more of the same this week.
3.) Dawson Knox is a top 5 TE this week.
Justification: Houston has been a favorable matchup for tight ends. Josh Allen is using Dawson Knox a fair amount, with at least three targets in each game so far and 2 TDs in the last two games. If there are red zone looks, I could see Knox getting one.
4.) Miles Sanders is a top 5 RB this week.
Justification: If it doesn’t happen this week I just don’t know when it will. Sanders is off to a bad start and he comes up against KC, who has allowed 4 rushing TDs through 3 games this season. This is the PRIME chance for Philadelphia to get Sanders jump-started for the 2021 season.
5.) Indianapolis Colts vs. Miami Dolphins has an over under of 42.5, give me the over at 49.5
Justification: The Colts game totals have all exceeded 41 this season, the Dolphins have not—at least not since Jacoby Brissett got comfortable with the team. Game 1 was a 35-0 blowout by Buffalo but Game 2 was Miami going toe-to-toe with Las Vegas. These are two below average offenses but ALSO two below average defenses. | <urn:uuid:d96ebc9b-98b9-4db0-86b0-5d1df6345fb8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.faketeams.com/2021/10/1/22703545/5-bold-predictions-for-week-4-odell-beckham-jr | 2023-09-28T18:34:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.961149 | 510 |
Pizza and gelato are some of the tasty Italian food for kids to try on your family trip to Italy.
Italy is a kid’s food paradise!!
You’ll be sure to find something even for the pickiest eaters on any menu in Italy.
Your family will find plenty of tasty Italian dishes at the trattorias which often offer set menus or the many stand up pizza places offering a fresh slice.
There are of course International restaurants offering food from around the world in the main tourist areas and the regular fast food chains that are found around the world as well but who needs these when Italian food is so yummy!
Lasagne is another favorite with children. You will find large servings of this traditional dish served with ragu sauce in most restaurants and often other varieties such as vegetarian or mushroom. There is nothing tastier than lasagna made with fresh pasta.
Pasta You can have it anyway with any sauce!! This makes it a great kid’s treat!! Rigatoni, macaroni, spaghetti, spaghettini linguine, rotoni, penne, capellini, fusilli, fettuccine....the list goes on and on!!! Kids can have fun trying all the different shapes!
Then for sauces... there is Bolognese (tomato and ground beef), carbonara (bacon, egg and Parmesan cheese), pesto (pine nuts, basil and parmesan cheese), vongole (clam), marinara (seafood) and many more....how many will your child try....? This one of the most popular Italian foods for kids to eat on your family holidays.
Gnocchi is another delicious Italian food for kids to try on your travels. This soft dumpling is often stuffed with potato and served with a tomato or pesto sauce or topped with Parmesan cheese. My kids love this!
There are many other dishes kids are sure to like Osso Bucco (veal stew) served with polenta (mashed potatoes consistency but made of cornmeal-it is bright yellow in color! Be careful some polenta is coarse and children may not like the texture!).
Pizza is A favorite with young and old. But this is different than what you are used to back home! Wood fired and with over a hundred varieties on offer at many restaurants, pizza is a food everyone can enjoy! The best thing about pizza in Italy is you can eat it very cheaply from the stand up counters you will see in every village.
There you will usually find pizza cut in squares and served on a thick base. In a trattoria you will be served a large pizza- yes that is all for one person!
Usually as the crust is super thin each person gets their own pizza! This is of course one of the best Italian foods for kids to eat on your holidays. Here are some typical kinds of pizza served in Italy:
***Margarita-Plain with tomato, cheese and basil. This will be popular with your finicky eaters.
***Capricciosa-Artichoke, ham, black olives and a mix of other items is good for your adventurous eaters.
***Pizza Patatine Pizza covered in French fries! This is always a favorite with the kids- my daughter orders this everytime (the same one who insists French fries are a vegetable!).
Gelato is one of the must try Italian food for kids. This is fresh made Italian ice-cream and it is delicious! The ice-cream looks so appealing as you can see the softness and creaminess before your eyes. Most Gelaterias have over 50 kinds to choose from including Nutella, Cream and lots of fruit types! Scoops are usually very generous!
If parents feel like stopping in a local coffee shop for a cappuccino or an espresso be sure to order your kids an Italian hot chocolate or Cioccolato Caldo. The hot chocolate is very thick and creamy, almost like a warm pudding! Kids everywhere LOVE it! Served with whipping cream! Yummm....one of the great Italian food for kids!
Another great place for an Italian treat is to stop at one of the many pastry shops or Pasticceria around. Kids will love ‘miranda’ or afternoon tea when they see the lovely array of éclairs, tarts and other mini cakes they can choose from!
Fresh fruit is a must at the end of meal in Italy and fresh figs are one of the fruit your child may not have tried that are very popular in Italy!
Grapes, blood oranges, apples and fresh apricots are other common Italian fruits.
Anyway you look at it; Italy has something for everyone in the food category!
Another food popular with Italians is snails! Yes they are not only for France!
Rumaki or snails are popular as a meal.
My daughter had fun collecting them but refused to eat any! Not to worry though as there are plenty of other choices available!!
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Take the whole family for a FREE Halloween skate at the Olympic Oval on October 30, 2022! It’s an afternoon of skating, fun, and activities. Don’t forget your helmet!
When: October 30, 2022
Time: 12 – 5 pm
If you have older teens who love being scared (ages 16+), check out the Olympic Oval After Dark on October 26, 2022. You’ll find a haunted experience, and in the evening, the scariest ice in the world!
When: October 26, 2022
Time: 12 – 2 pm (no skating) and 9 – 11 pm
Olympic Oval Halloween:
Where: University of Calgary
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This “constitutional” interval lasted for the remainder of the 19th century. A new capital was established in 1867 on the Deep Fork of the Canadian at Okmulgee.
The word “Eskimo” has been used to encompass the Inuit and Yupik, and different indigenous Alaskan and Siberian peoples, however this utilization is in decline. In the 1980s United States Supreme Court choices affirmed the Nation’s sovereign rights to keep up a national court docket system and levy taxes. The federal courts have additionally constantly re-affirmed the Muscogee Nation’s freedom from state jurisdiction. The finish of the Muscogee Nation as envisioned those inside the United States Congress didn’t happen. In the early twentieth century, the process of allotment of the tribal land to individual citizens was completed; however, the perceived dismantling of the Muscogee authorities was never totally executed.
Not “indians,” Many Tribes: Native American Range
The relatively temperate climate of the Alaska had allowed much larger cultural advances among the many peoples there in the course of the three,000 years because the Pre-Dorset had left the region. In the subsequent 500 years, often known as the Dorset II interval, the Dorset tradition expanded to occupy the region between Victoria Island in the west to Greenland in the east to Newfoundland in the south. A shift in local weather, which enabled them to settle excessive-Arctic areas, probably contributed to this. It is outstanding that the Dorset II culture uniformly maintained the stylistic attributes of the Dorset I tradition despite this fast territorial growth. Their looking strategies have been greatly improved over earlier Arctic cultures. They most likely invented the igloo, which is troublesome to determine as a result of such ephemeral buildings depart no archaeological evidence.
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Great North Dakota Root Beer Ride
Great North Dakota Root Beer Ride to be held on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
The 20-mile ride starts and ends at Great Northern Bicycle Company. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for those under 18 (15+ events). The fee includes a post-ride root beer float!
This event is a fundraiser for Bike Walk North Dakota (bikewalknd.org), a North Dakota 501 c3 organization.
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In the continuing fragility of the economic climate, late payments can be a serious threat to businesses; especially SME’s who depend on prompt payment to retain cashflow. Statistics show that companies in the North West are paying bills 37 days late on average, over a week longer than anywhere else within the UK. Reportedly, the situation is getting worse as businesses try to stretch out the amount of time until they have to pay their bills.
Late payment is not only detrimental to the invoicing company, but can also have a knock-on effect, meaning that their suppliers then have to wait longer for payment; the whole scenario quickly becoming a vicious circle.
In the majority of circumstances where outstanding debts have accumulated, company directors are often unwilling to take forceful action to encourage payment in the interests of preserving a good working relationship with their customers for the benefit of future business. A ‘friendly’ approach to chasing late payment is always the first port of call in these cases – phoning up the customer and asking if there is a problem or a reason for the delay in payment can result in the desired effect. Business owners may need to be flexible and agree to payment by instalments, but the aim of the conversation should always be to reach an agreed time by which payment should be made. There may come a point whereby a supplier should ask themselves whether a client/customer who is unreliable when it comes to making payment is one they might actually be better off without.
Where late payments are becoming a regular occurrence, or pose a threat to the cash flow of the business, there is little option for business owners but to look at more formal action. Instructing a solicitor to write to the debtor requesting that payment be made can be effective. Following this, the next stage is to initiate legal action, such as court proceedings, issuing a statutory demand or even going so far as to starting insolvency/bankruptcy proceedings by issue of a winding up petition. Taking formal legal action to recover a debt is a big decision, and should not be entered into without consulting a debt recovery solicitor, who will be able to advise you as to the most appropriate course of action.
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Whole foods are unprocessed, nutrient-dense foods that are fresh from the soil or animals eating natural vegetation. They include vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds. They are a powerhouse of disease-fighting vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytochemicals. Nutrition plays a significant role when it comes to fertility. A whole food diet can help you in your quest for conception. This is true even if you don’t use any specific fertility-enhancing supplements. The nutritional content of your diet can also make all the difference when it comes to staying pregnant and delivering a healthy baby. Here we will explore some fertility benefits of following a diet rich in whole foods.
1. Whole Grains
Whole grain foods serve as healthy sources of calcium, phosphorus, zinc, iron, and certain B vitamins, as they play a vital role in healthy fertility. An additional nutrient, fiber, which is found mainly in whole grains, has been shown to increase the chances of getting pregnant. Whole grains also contain phytoestrogens that can increase fertility by helping to balance your hormones and regulate ovulation.
In addition to the nutrient benefits above, whole grains can help lower blood pressure, reduce inflammation, and aid in the prevention of heart disease, while also keeping you energized throughout the day. For a better chance of getting pregnant, whole grains should be consumed in whole wheat, brown rice, oats, and quinoa; all of which are great sources of fiber and these essential nutrients.
2. Beans and Legumes
Legumes and beans are excellent sources of protein and iron. They are also a good source of fiber. Proteins play a significant role in cell replication. They also improve ovulation in women undergoing fertility treatment. If you are vegetarian or vegan, these foods are also an excellent substitute for animal proteins. When it comes to iron levels, an iron deficiency during pregnancy can lead to anemia, which can cause severe complications for the mother and child. Legumes such as soy, lentils, peas, kidney beans, chickpeas, and lima beans are good sources of iron.
Additionally, during pregnancy, the body needs additional nutrients to help produce the necessary elevated blood and other fluids for you and baby. This necessity for added nutrients can be especially true for pregnant women who are anemic or suffer from chronic illnesses such as hypothyroidism.
3. Fruits and Vegetables
Vegetables provide an excellent source of antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins that can aid in male and female fertility. You should include vegetables such as kale, cabbage, spinach, broccoli, and cabbage in your fertility diet, as they are packed with nutrients needed for conception. These vegetables can help to boost your fertility not only by the individualized nutrient benefits but also by improving liver function.
Additionally, many vegetables contain the mineral zinc, low levels of which can cause the testes not to produce enough testosterone to have a healthy sperm count. In addition, fruits are rich in antioxidants, dietary fiber, phytochemicals, and a multitude of vitamins that can help to regulate the body’s immune system; which will help to maintain optimal fertility and protect the body from free radicals.
4. Nuts and Seeds
Nuts contain healthy fats that provide energy and oxygen to sperm, this energy helps them swim strongly, be more mobile and find their way toward the egg more easily. Nuts are also a great source of zinc, folate, magnesium, and selenium, which can help with not only conception and fertility health but also with mood. Nuts can easily be sprinkled on breakfast cereal or yogurt, included in a salad, or eaten as they are.
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On the other hand, seeds are just as beneficial. Seeds, like sunflower and pumpkin seeds have carbohydrates and protein to promote healthy sperm production. Some types of fat are necessary for the development of a healthy embryo, however avoiding fattening foods such as fatty meats and full-fat dairy products when trying to conceive can be beneficial, especially for women dealing with PCOS or weight issues. Thus, the healthy fat sources found from such as nuts, seeds, and avocado, can help maintain a healthy weight while also promoting healthy fertility and ovulation.
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5. Fish Oils and Cold-Water Fish
Cold water fish such as salmon, mackerel, herring, and tuna contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential for developing a healthy nervous system and fetal brain. Dietary and supplemental forms of fish oil contain DHA, which is necessary for brain development in unborn babies, and may reduce the risk of miscarriage, preeclampsia, age-related macular degeneration, asthma, and diabetes. Eating sufficient amounts of fertility-friendly fish and seafood can also add vitamin D to your diet, which can support both your and baby’s bone health. The key is to choose the varieties of fish that have lower levels of mercury, as heavy metals can be toxic to a growing baby. In addition to supporting women’s fertility and fetus growth, fish oil and omega fatty acids can also aid in sperm health and men’s reproductive health.
When it comes to getting pregnant, a healthy diet is crucial for both partners. It can also be important to talk to your doctor and get a complete check-up to ensure that nutrient levels are where they should be and that everything, reproductive-wise, is working properly.
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|Reviews for Cat's Cradle|
| samekraemer chapter 2 . 9/4/2016
| samekraemer chapter 1 . 9/4/2016
I really like the beginning of this. Very intriguing.
| Ishotthealbatross chapter 1 . 12/6/2015
awww this was so sad but so good!
| Julia chapter 4 . 5/17/2015
Oh my god, thank you for another chapter of this. I just love the Hunted City universe and especially Eli and Ajax, so thanks for bringing them back :-) you have no idea how happy you made me. Toby and Jerioch are really growing on me a lot too, please update this soon.
| chibikodo chapter 4 . 4/16/2015
Yay I like this verse. It makes me quite happy to see that Jack and Eli are also featured in this story. Toby is cheeky as can be, and Jericho is frustrating. :)
| plumblossom chapter 4 . 4/15/2015
Thank you! I am adoring Toby and Eli.
| R. Ficst chapter 3 . 10/5/2014
Heeheehee. I would love to read more of this "thorough and persistent courtship" ahead of them. :)
| bran chapter 3 . 3/14/2014
this story is so cute and adorable. Will you write more?
| plumblossom chapter 3 . 1/23/2014
Oh, nice, Jericho listening and explainging, and Toby demonstrating his facets. But he also called Jericho a djinn early in the conversation - had Jericho explained that in the past, or does Toby just know a djinn when he sees one?
| god chapter 3 . 1/23/2014
UM I LOVE YOU. will leave proper review soon. Just expressing the initial love for even uploading a new chapter.
| god chapter 2 . 1/23/2014
wow that was so fucking cute. How do you do it?
| semantics chapter 2 . 6/21/2013
Beautifully written with the right amount of angst. Very wound up in this story; I hope you continue (even though the status is 'Complete'...) Toby reminds me of everyone; just a little alone, looking for a place to belong to. What's up with him and Jericho? Something must've happened and I'm hoping to be able to read that bit ;)
Very sad that both weren't able to understand the reasoning behind each other's actions. Curious to find out more about Jericho's past as well. Spare us a little heartbreak?
Wonderful job. I look forward to reading more.
| RawrTheDinoKitte chapter 1 . 5/19/2013
I love Jericho so much. Hope you update this soon!
| R. Ficst chapter 2 . 5/11/2013
eek! I want more! Guess it's time to check out Haunted City and hope I get it : )
| jayanx chapter 2 . 4/14/2013
I'm glad to see another chapter for this story. I am very interested in the finding out more about both characters. I like the non-linear story telling. | <urn:uuid:38edbaf0-c006-4910-957a-09635e82a7f1> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.fictionpress.com/r/2922035/ | 2023-09-28T19:04:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.911534 | 709 |
Media manufactured crises come and go so quickly these days that it is often hard to comment on one before it has disappeared from immediate concern. At the height of frenzy about a particular issue—whether it is terrorism, the space shuttle crash or most recently, drugs—the unitary message of power appears to command all thought. Nothing seems to exist outside of the official messages: we are all portrayed as angry or sad or worried.
Of course, just as suddenly as it appeared, the crisis passes. But no matter how short-lived its tenure, it leaves an important social residue which remains secure in the wings eagerly awaiting its next call to center stage.
The terrorism fright no longer commands major attention or concern at the moment, but “anti-terrorist” measures—more cops, more searches, ID tags, metal detectors, etc.—have become an accepted part of daily life, universally recognized as “necessary” even though the terrorism they protect against has never even been a reality in this country (see p.24).
Often there is a convenient conjuncture of these pseudo-events which goes unnoticed as evidenced recently by the almost universal quiet about what amounted to a U.S. invasion of Bolivia as part of the Reagan administration’s hysterical “War on Drugs.” The anti-drug crusade has set the stage for a variety of domestic repressive measures, but it is folly not to realize that it will also be put at the service of Reagan’s desire to pacify the U.S.’s historic sphere of influence south of the border.
Terrorism and Drugs
Under an agreement, typical of the banana-republic type relations the U.S. has traditionally had with Latin America, Bolivia permitted the stationing of 174 American troops in its country to ostensibly help in eradicating its endemic cocaine trafficking. Since Reagan has accused Nicaragua of both terrorism and drug dealing, it seems amazing that the Central American anti-intervention movement uttered nary a peep about Bolivia in what should be seen clearly as a dress rehearsal for further invasions of the area.
For instance, Bolivia’s neighbor to the northwest, Peru, also a major source of the cocaine flooding U.S. markets, is plagued both by economic instability and a growing rural guerrilla movement, the maoist Sendero Luminoso. One should not show great surprise if, during the next U.S. incursion to “get at the source” in South-America, the drug raiders suddenly wind up in battle with armed Peruvian rebels as well.
The U.S. “incursion” into Bolivia (a word used by the media to avoid the nastiness of the more honest term, “invasion,” as in “incursion into Cambodia”—1972) wasn’t without its problems. There were Oct. 11 news reports of angry Bolivian townspeople of Santa Ana chasing away government troops, who along with U.S. soldiers and drug agents had been raiding jungle-based cocaine labs.
This particular expedition, the first foray into a town, was led by the Leopards, a Bolivian anti-coke squad, trained and paid for by the United States, and roundly hated by local villagers for their brutality and for interfering with their livelihood.
Press accounts said about 80 Leopards and 30 Americans entered the town and began searching homes and cars and questioning residents about the whereabouts of several major narcotraficantes.
About an hour after the raid began, some 3,000 residents, drawn by the constant pealing of church bells, surrounded the raiders and began shouting, “Kill them, kill them, don’t let them leave,” and “Yankee go home, kill the Yankees!”
The Yankees got the message quick and split for their waiting Black Hawk helicopters, leaving their Bolivian stooges to the tender mercies of the crowd. The Leopards managed to get aboard an air force troop carrier but were blocked from take-off by the villagers who surrounded the plane and refused to move even after the troops fired tear gas and bullets into the air.
Finally, the town’s mayor was permitted aboard to see that no residents had been arrested, and the troops beat it back to La Paz with their tails between their legs.
Dragged Into A Cash Economy
Shortly after the Santa Ana incident, the U.S. troops left Bolivia as scheduled, but the dust from the raging townspeople, the fleeing troops and their airborne machines of destruction, drifts back to Earth with many unsettling implications. Naturally, now that the norteamericanos have left, business will return to normal in the cocaine industry, complete with official Bolivian complicity, the Yankee intervention having only put a momentary crimp in production.
But what of the invaders from the North, far from the center of the Empire, raging through Indian land, like Cortez’s small band pillaging Mexico, hearing that almost universal phrase, “Yankee Go Home”? These words, which, in fact, may be the only English the people of that tropical flatland village knew, encapsulates their hatred for the imperialist looting and domination of their region, but are also words which mock us so eloquently.
Perhaps these people of Bolivia, dragged into the world cash economy from their earth centered lives to supply the U.S. with its poisonous drugs, sense the awful truth of the matter: that the Yankees have no home. They know the invaders came from a land which isn’t theirs, which was stolen from its original inhabitants and destroyed in order to create a hideous land of factories and shopping malls. They know that beneath the sharp pleats of his uniform and behind the arrogance of his demeanor, the Yankee (the very origin of the word is lost, perhaps a diminutive of the Dutch name, Jan—Janke) is rootless, that he pushes everywhere into the world and even into space, but never finds rest or a home.
One result of this homelessness is that we are a nation of drug addicts where mass feelings of estrangement, boredom, rage and terror are barely constrained. As it is, those emotions escape in a thousand different ways, but to many, daily life is tolerable only through mass drugging, both legal and illicit. Altered brain chemistry is needed to pump us up, calm us down, stop the hurt, give some juice to a culture which substitutes wage work and consumption for a connection with the rhythms of the planet.
That tens of millions use drugs and alcohol suggests quite cogently that the official model of conformity and happiness is almost universally shunned—anything seems preferable to facing daily life with one’s raw nerves exposed.
We quite simply can’t go on like this either as individuals or as a people. The human spirit demands a fundamental relationship with the earth, a solidarity with others, and a life of meaning and intensity. The ecstatic states and momentary periods of bliss induced by drugs or alcohol are but shallow reminders of the rich enchantments that our species is capable of.
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Ventura County and Ventura Bus Rentals are Available Now!
Fillmore Area Transit provide bus rentals for private events and public usage at competitive prices. We have a variety of buses to serve all your needs, and now you can even book your rental online. We are known in Ventura County for providing exceptional service.
More Convenience for Oxnard Bus and Simi Valley Bus Passengers.
We are always looking to increase access to our services, and for that reason, we are adding to our fleet. Simi Valley transit and Oxnard transit customers will now have greater access to our buses and services. As we continue to grow, you can expect more services to become available.
Charter Bus Services!
Our charter bus rentals are perfect for field trips, corporate events and weddings. The charter buses are also capable of providing paratransit services for those with special transportation needs. All you need to do is have a scheduled pick up time and get off when the bus stops. We will always strive to make your trip as simple as possible.
We bring a small town approach to service, and the LA Times recognized this commitment. In an article they wrote, their title reads as "Fillmore Bus Service Goes a Little Further", and we continue to aim for these standards. For years, we provided the Dial a Ride service to the greater Ventura County Area, and during that time we received praise from our passengers for our service.
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With our services, you can plan trips for large groups of people throughout California. Make the most of this beautiful state with our transportation services. Travelling should be enjoyable and stress free, let us do the driving.
We take time to make sure that all of our bus drivers are properly trained and certified. We also conduct inspections on all of our vehicles to ensure driver and passenger safety. All of these steps are made to ensure that our services are top notch.
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We are proudly located in Ventura County and the city of Fillmore. Our service area includes to Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, Oxnard, Piru, Santa Paula, Thousand Oaks and Ventura. Our school bus and charter bus services are available across Ventura County. We even provide access to areas outside of the county such as Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
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John Chapman “Chappy” Morris started a small bus company in 1973 that provided transportation to the local residents of Fillmore and neighboring communities. Over the years that business expanded to serve other areas of Ventura County, and it has continued to provide excellent service to this day.
We are a Family Business.
IN 2015, several years after Chappy's passing, Chappy's youngest son Bill Morris was able to purchase the company from the remaining family members. Bill has continued in his father's tradition to provide quality transportation services to Fillmore and throughout the surrounding Ventura County communities. In just a few short years he, along with his sons, has continued to grow the company by adding additional buses and services.
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Only if CFOs and CIOs align their requirements and expectations
By Nick Nesbitt
Cloud computing has been a catalyst in opening up much needed dialogue between CIO and CFO. CFOs are being educated on the opportunities and risks associated with IT. CIOs are being provided options with controllable and scalable costs to reduce risk and increase IT departments’ innovation.
Interestingly their roles have flipped in some ways. More often than not it’s now the CFO who has direct oversight of the IT department and IT-related spend, but it is the CIO who receives the constant flow of both technical and educational user needs, hardware and software patches and updates and the changing needs of the overall business.
When it comes to the cloud, CFOs, CIOs and other finance and IT group leaders have divergent attitudes to the cloud, and where those differences trigger the most friction and loss of opportunity, is in methods, processes and timing.
Can finance and IT ever be in-sync where cloud is concerned?
Recent research from Saugatuck Technology shows that IT seems more concerned about existing systems capability than finance is, and is more apprehensive than finance about cloud-based systems falling short in areas like consolidation and regulatory requirements. What the research clearly points out is that both finance and IT need to be reassured that the road to the cloud for finance systems takes into account the need for strong financial consolidation and regulatory capabilities.
While strategic IT-Finance synchronisation is necessary at all times, it is not always a critical problem. The research indicates that IT and finance leaders tend to be well aligned on cloud when it comes to the most important areas. The challenge is how to harmonise what they see, how they see it, how they communicate it and how they put things into place. Interpreting cloud capabilities into ways of improving specific finance process effectiveness will be the first step on a years-long journey not just into, but with, cloud.
It is clear that finance, just like IT, thinks there is need and opportunity for improvement in finance systems and operations. And there is no question that the majority of new finance systems will be cloud-based or cloud-enabled within the next few years. The path – or paths – to cloud will shift somewhat as efforts lead to knowledge and experience leads to improved practices, but every realistic scenario includes hybridised on-premises-plus-multiple-cloud environments.
In order to move finance systems to the cloud as securely, effectively, and quickly as possible, we will need to overcome some fairly significant differences in Finance-IT synchronisation. That both camps acknowledge the need for more sophisticated technology for the standardisation of methods, regulatory compliance and the integration of systems, is already an important first step.
The research shows that overall, while the core IT and finance positions are extremely similar in patterns, IT decision makers have less confidence in current finance management systems, along with greater concern about the consolidation of subsidiaries and the cost of running or upgrading current finance systems. Results also suggest that IT leaders are more positive than Finance leaders about the benefits of Big Data analytics.
Finance is clearly happier with their planning, consolidation and reporting capabilities than IT. So if finance is going to move to a cloud-based system, they need to be sure they don’t compromise on the capabilities of the solution. They need a solution that meets their needs and can easily be extended to address the demands of the future. They absolutely must not compromise on that as they move to the cloud.
Nick Nesbitt is Consulting Services Director at Tagetik UK
Johnson Press Case Study
The challenge & objectives
The multimedia industry is undergoing unprecedented change. Johnston Press, one of the top community media organisations in the United Kingdom and Ireland, is adapting its business strategy and operating model to take full advantage of the evolving landscape. The company’s challenge is to develop and implement best practice tools and methods to better execute its strategy. This includes simplifying and standardising operations by using state-of-the-art technology and processes to improve insights into performance.
Johnston Press needed to better execute its business strategies, ensure that performance against objectives would be monitored and that corrective action could be taken in an efficient and agile manner. This has allowed management to focus on the activities that have the biggest impact on performance.
Deployment in the cloud
At the core of Johnston Press’ initiative was Tagetik’s Performance Management software, first serving as the basis for board-level discussions, then building the high-level plan and allowing for what-if analysis. The software sits on top of the company’s customer and financial database, consolidating all financial and non-financial data in one source and delivering a single version of the truth.
“Tagetik has helped us develop a rhythm in our business cycle,” said Ishfaq Is-haq, Head of Performance Management at Johnston Press. “Cloud-based CPM supports our need to gain
more insight and information from our data, and we’re using it to make decisions that positively
impact our strategic goals.”
The new system has enabled Johnston Press to better execute against strategic objectives and financial targets. Choosing to deploy the CPM software on the cloud improved the effectiveness of financial processes and greatly reduced the number of IT resources and the IT infrastructure needed to adopt and maintain the application.
Results & Benefits
Johnston Press has now unlocked the value of its data. The company can now seamlessly create reports from all databases side by side—both for the end user and the report consumer.
The integration of operational and financial data has enabled the company to do the following:
- Track and analyse daily performance, both to improve operation efficiency and gain powerful insights into customers’ behaviour
- Accelerate strategic planning and budgeting and
- Adjust field tactics to improve overall performance based on its analysis
Johnston Press’ reporting has also become more efficient. The company uses key performance indicators to track data for new, lapsed and returned customers, customer conversions from print to online media and average order value—as well as to measure metrics such as title performance and audiences. In addition, it can compare individual customer spending by product and it can compare spending month to month, as well as month to the same and prior month the previous year.
Johnson Press also uses Microsoft SharePoint and the Tagetik Analytics Portal to give users from both inside and outside the office of finance access to financial and operational reporting and therefore disseminating information to a broader audience for better collaboration. The Tagetik solution has enabled Johnston Press to gain better insights and information from data and make decisions that impact its strategic goals. In short, Tagetik is helping Johnston Press take control of its business operations, running all financial processes and analytics on one unified, cloud-based Financial Performance Platform.
Ishfaq Is-haq added: “The ability to combine operational and financial data means we can track and analyse daily performance to maximize revenue and customer value. We now have the insight to make the right business decision at the right time.”
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Zemen Bank has announced a partnership with Mastercard that will see the introduction of the first ever Mastercard branded prepaid contactless travel card in Ethiopia.
Zemen Mastercard prepaid travel cards will enable cardholders to use cards with either of the two major currencies, namely U.S. Dollars and Euros, based on their travel destination. The card is also the first contactless card issued in Ethiopia.
Dereje Zebene, Chief Executive Officer of Zemen Bank, emphasized the benefits of the new card and acknowledged the decision of the central bank to allow banks to start issuing travel cards: “We are delighted to see this product address our customers’ needs for overseas travel, without the need to carry cash. Zemen Bank is known for introducing banking technologies in the country and we are proud to again be the pioneer to issue the contactless prepaid travel cards in partnership with Mastercard. We envision that this will pave the way for more e-commerce payments too, as customers are also able to book their flights and hotels using their cards.”
In addition to the two main currencies, Zemen Bank will in future work with Mastercard to issue cards for other currencies based on popular customer destinations, to add convenience and avoid currency conversion costs.
Amha Tadesse, VP Information Technology at Zemen Bank, said: “We are also excited to roll out Mastercard’s contactless tap to pay service, which is the first of its kind in Ethiopia. Dubbed “Z-Tap”, now all Zemen POS machines and most ATMs accept contactless Mastercard cards as a result of our significant investment and diligent approach to providing contactless solutions.”
Other benefits of the platinum Mastercard prepaid travel card include access to all Mastercard points of sale and ATMs in the world, as well as platinum insurance benefits, which cover card fraud protection and purchase protection. In addition, cardholders are able to load up to USD 10,000 or equivalent, depending on the purpose of travel.
Raghav Prasad, Mastercard’s Division President for Sub-Saharan Africa said: “Mastercard has been spearheading the transition to contactless for many years, championing tap-and-go as the most simple, safe and fast way to pay. Innovation is central to achieving a cashless society in Ethiopia where everyone can thrive. We remain committed to developing market-relevant digital payment solutions that offer value to consumers and the wider ecosystem, and our partnership with Zemen Bank is the latest example of how we continue to collaborate on this journey.” | <urn:uuid:c700534c-0371-4021-9b2d-21e483d566b2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/87129/zemen-bank-and-mastercard-introduce-ethiopias-first-contactless-prepaid-travel-card | 2023-09-28T17:47:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.945791 | 538 |
A recent follow-up audit of the Office of Rent Administration (ORA) under the Homes and Community Renewal umbrella evaluated the progress made concerning fines related to tenant complaints.
ORA, which oversees nearly 1 million regulated apartments in New York State, handles harassment and non-compliance complaints from both owners and tenants.
Harassment cases are primarily focused on instances where tenants feel forced out of their apartments, while non-compliance pertains to landlords failing to take corrective actions based on previous rulings.
In cases of confirmed violations, landlords may face substantial fines ranging from $1,000 for first-time non-compliance offenses to $2,000 for initial harassment offenses.
This assessment is a continuation of a December 2019 audit that flagged ORA for lacking strong fiscal controls over fines and settlements, resulting in potential revenue losses for the State. The recent report indicates that of the initial six recommendations, three have been fully executed, one has seen partial implementation, while two remain untouched.
The ORA is now prompted to share their strategy for addressing these outstanding concerns within the coming 30 days.
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It’s no secret that the cost of having any chronic condition is high in the United States.
It’s no secret that the cost of having any chronic condition is high in the United States. Drug companies aren’t always thinking of people first, and their pricing shows it. If you have diabetes and are looking for ways to get all of the medication and supplies you need at a reasonable price, an HSA might be just the companion you’ve been looking for.
Some background info: a Health Savings Account (HSA) is a triple-tax advantaged savings vehicle that comes with a high-deductible health plan (HDHP). HDHPs have lower premiums and higher deductibles (hence the name), so HSAs were introduced with them to help combat higher out-of-pocket costs. So how exactly can an HDHP with an HSA help with diabetes treatment? We’re glad you asked.
As of July 2019, the IRS started allowing employers to offer healthcare coverage that treats medications and treatments like insulin, glucose-lowering drugs, and glucose meters as pre-deductible expenses. This means that insurance will step in and cover some of the cost, even if you haven’t hit your deductible yet. Marking items as pre-deductible expenses can be incredibly helpful in affording the medication you need, as well as planning out your yearly medical costs!
Going along with our first point, you’ll probably still have copays when insurance steps in. The good news is that you can absolutely use your HSA to cover those costs. So not only are you saving money because these are pre-deductible costs, but you’ll pay for these totally tax-free. Additionally, look at programs like GoodRx to verify you’re getting the best price for your medication. Always double check prescription prices because insurance copay prices aren’t always the lowest! If you’re looking for treatment or doctor’s check out First Dollar’s shop to get started.
There’s no such thing as too much planning when it comes to your HSA. One of the easiest ways to make sure there are enough savings in your HSA for when you need it is to plan accordingly. You’re usually aware of what you spend each year, so add up costs of medication, appointments, and any other expenses and make sure you set that aside. If your total is $1,200 for the year, make sure you set aside at least $100 every month. Better yet, try and max it out to the best of your ability, so there’s more than enough to take care of your medical needs!
There are plenty of other tools you can use daily to track, monitor, and manage your diabetes that might not be considered necessities covered by insurance. However, an HSA could step in and help out. Some items you could consider adding to your toolbox: pill organizers, food scales, pedometers, medical alert IDs, apps for your phone, continuous glucose monitors, and more. While not all of these are immediately HSA-eligible, you can always get a Letter of Medical Necessity or dispute it with your insurance. And don’t forget to save your receipts so you can be reimbursed later on!
Last year, the average cost of healthcare for a couple around the age of 65 had skyrocketed to $285,000 -- about $150,000 for an individual woman and $135,000 for men. This amount doesn’t even count things that are generally not covered by medicare (dental, vision, OTC meds, long-term care). Your HSA can be an integral tool for ensuring you get the care you need to manage your diabetes as you get older. Your HSA grows tax-free over time and can be invested, with gains coming back to you tax-free. If you’re maxing out your HSA now AND investing it, you’re building health and wealth at the same time. Here’s some math to show how impactful an HSA can be for the future.
Just because you have a chronic condition like diabetes doesn't mean an HDHP + an HSA isn't for you. At the end of the day, it can be incredibly helpful for planning for both your healthcare expenses and your future expenses!
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I use Google' Backup and Sync to synchronize a lot of files, so some problems are--I guess--inevitable. Here's how to fix a common one.
Right-click > Properties > Security
Change owner to yourself. It doesn't seem to work to change to anything else.
Apply and close everything
This is generally all it takes to allow Backup and Sync to continue. However, you may want to compare the file permissions to other files and take other actions.
- 'Allow Inheritance', AND/OR
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Top Gear Flight in U2 - World's Highest-Flying Airplane
Top Gear's James May takes an emotional ride to the edge of space in a U2 - the worlds highest-flying airplane - cruising at 70,000ft.
The Lockheed U-2 is a single-engine, very high-altitude surveillance aircraft flown by the United States Air Force. It provides day and night, very high-altitude (70,000 feet/21,000 meters), all-weather surveillance. The aircraft is also used for electronic sensor research and development, satellite calibration, and satellite data validation.
It was built in 1955.
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Of October and the Rosary
Updated: Oct 2, 2022
I had a different topic but I remembered that it’s October and the month of the Rosary so, I might as well write something religious.
I remember in April, Pope Francis encouraged everyone to pray the Rosary for the whole month of May for the intention of the recent crisis that racked the whole world.
So, I told my niece and my nephew that we were just going to do that. They replied in unison, “I thought we only do that in October?!” Hahaha!
Don’t get them wrong, it’s not that they don’t want to pray. Kids usually do not understand how prayer works in our lives. But we do pray the Rosary together every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. They even take note of it. Though I do it every day.
I started to involve them in praying the Rosary 2 years ago in October. As the month ended, I still wanted to continue to let them pray so I told them we would continue to pray the Rosary and asked if they wanted it twice or thrice a week. They replied in unison (they always love to do that), “Twice a week!” Hahaha!
I am not a religious person. I don’t consider myself a devoted Christian. I’m not a passionate Catholic.
But I remember when I was a little girl, I attended a procession and the smell of the flowers surrounding the icon of the Blessed Mother lingered in my nose and it became my permanent smell of her.
And believe it or not, every time I forget to be thankful or just merely forget to kneel, I will smell that scent. I’ve always believed that she veers me away from the dark when I begin to go astray and zaps me back to reality and reminds me to be more mindful of what’s more important in my life.
I used to go to church when I was younger but that changed when I started to have a job and everything became so hectic. I forgot about being spiritual.
But when I went to Singapore to work, I realized I needed divine intervention. And as ashamed as I was for coming back, I still went to her, knelt, and prayed. I kept true to my promise that once I was given a chance, I’d come back every week to venerate her.
I used to only pray the Rosary for the whole month of October. But then I started to pray it every day 6 years ago.
I used to pray it before I went to bed but the temptation of falling asleep was too much to handle so, I prayed on my way to work early in the morning inside our company transport. And it became a habit. It became a part of my routine.
Praying the Rosary has kept me grounded, reminding me that there’s a reason to continue life even if everything’s not going right. It makes me more hopeful, that no matter how bad things are, there’s always a good one coming eventually.
But don’t expect that I don’t go astray. You may think I’m the one with the halo and wings. I’m far from that. Human as I am, temptations are really lurking around. There are times that I feel complacent when life’s really going well and every time I do, that smell will bring me back to reality wherever I am in the world.
When I pray the Rosary, I just don’t offer intentions for myself. Believe it or not, I pray for world peace, for the oppressed, the children all over the world, my family, my friends, for stability and peace in our country, and some other things. But yes, I have one major prayer for me. I know what you’re thinking but no, it’s not finding Mr. Right. It’s something beyond that. :)
I don’t usually get the answers that I expect to my prayers but in this life full of complications, frustrations, and disappointments, I’m a firm believer in the Blessed Mother’s intercession.
When I ask for her mediation, I always have faith that she will bring it up to God. And most of the time, my prayers are answered.
But when I don’t get what I ask for, I always believe that everything happens for a reason. We’re not always the author and driver of our life. We just have to believe that everything happens in His perfect time.
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Following the announcement, the company provides dynamic, hybrid AV design, installation, and maintenance of cutting-edge equipment – from leading brands like Samsung, LG, HP, and Logitech – tailoring solutions to meet the unique needs of organizations in today’s ever-evolving digital world. Creation Networks facilitates deeper connections between team members, improving communications and driving productivity with innovative AV design.
More details can be found at https://creationnetworks.net/pages/audio-visual-consulting-services
The announcement outlines the company’s client-led approach to its AV services. From informal huddle spaces to sleek boardrooms and conference rooms, Creation Networks can find a solution to meet every need and budget, offering versatile and unobtrusive technology that makes it easier for teams to focus on their work.
Creation Networks brings decades of experience in AV provision across multiple sectors – from banking, finance, education, and healthcare to House of Worship organizations, manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and the US Government.
Each commission begins with an in-depth consultation with clients. This allows priorities and scenarios to be defined for each meeting space, augmenting even smaller rooms with advanced immersive technology, including video conferencing and hi-fi audio installations.
The AV engineering and programming phase turns these initial ideas into functional system descriptions and designs. Creation Networks’ team of programmers are all highly trained, certified, and experienced in using Creston, QSC, and Extron control systems. From smaller, rapid deployment options with pre-configured designs to full-featured, customized collusion spaces with interactive screens, cameras, microphones, and ergonomic furniture, the company helps its customers put creativity and collaboration at the heart of their operation.
With virtual meetings now a mainstay of modern business operations, Creation Networks also fully implements leading conferencing technology from established names like Microsoft, Google, Zoom, Cisco Webex, and Crestron. In conjunction with HD cameras with zoom, tilt, and pan functions, virtual conferencing can be a more engaging and immersive experience for all parties.
About Creation Networks, Inc.
With headquarters in Concord, CA, and a network of regional offices throughout the US, the company has been providing audiovisual products and services since 2006. Learn more about Microsoft Teams rooms at Microsoft Teams Rooms (creationnetworks.net)
A spokesperson says, “We combine top manufacturers with technical expertise in audiovisual design, programming, installation, training, and maintenance to create workspaces and facilities that help people communicate more creatively, efficiently, and effectively.”
Additional details can be found at Creation Networks Audio Visual Design & Integration services
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Toddlers keep you on toes! Where did your toddler go in just a minute? What did your toddler put in her mouth?
Discover how Footprints Horamavu, Bengaluru, is your strong partner in your childcare journey. As a leading play school, preschool, and day care creche located conveniently "near me," we are committed to providing the best for your child. Our personalized attention ensures that each child receives the care and support they need to thrive. We believe in fostering holistic development through our high-scope learning approach. Our world-class day care and creche facilities create a safe and comfortable environment for your child's growth. We understand the importance of age-appropriate playschool activities in nurturing young minds. At Footprints Horamavu, we don't just provide childcare; we are your partner in ensuring your child's well-rounded development. Join us on this incredible journey and give your child the best possible start in life.
I am Mrs Sandhya, I am from Bangalore, and I have done my Bachelor of Commerce and ICWAI professional. I have worked in the top four audit firms “ Ernst & Young”, KPMG, and Target India for almost 8 years and I also worked as an article associate in a chartered accountants firm for three years. I have quit my corporate to pursue my carrier in this profession.My husband is working in a corporate firm and I have a daughter who is 8 years old. My father is a retired bank manager and my mother worked as a teacher in Baldwin international school.Having to study in different parts of India. I had the opportunity to seek many languages, and adapt to frequent/constant changes, and getting to know about different cultures and religions has made me stronger eventually.At Footprints, we aim to create academic knowledge and ethical values and assimilate moral values among children that help them to shape their personalities as better human beings. | <urn:uuid:e43af5d0-5737-4d2c-a946-32b52a08fc74> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.footprintseducation.in/pre-school-daycare-horamavu-bengaluru | 2023-09-28T18:42:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.967628 | 410 |
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4% Elastane: used in combination with other materials, especially for its excellent flexibility - its fiber can stretch up to three times its normal length and then return to its original state.
16% Polyester: a very strong synthetic fiber that boasts high heat resistance and excellent odor absorption
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Box Office Policies
Youtheatre is proud to partner with the Artstix Community Box Office for all shows & fundraising events.
You can visit them at:
303 E. Main St.
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Hours - Mon-Fri: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Our ticket policies are as follows:
All sales are final and there are no refunds - Refunds are only given in the event we cancel a performance and are unable to reschedule said performance.
All tickets must be paid in full at the time of purchase. No exceptions.
We are unable to hold tickets without full payment.
A $2.00 Cancellation/Exchange Fee will be charged for each ticket cancelled and/or exchanged.
Ticket Exchanges may only be done for another performance of the same show.
Each patron must present a ticket for admission regardless of age.
Patrons must present ticket stub for re-entry. Please have ticket stub at all times.
Coupons or special offers are limited to one ticket only.
Only one discount allowed per ticket.
All presentations and dates are subject to change.
In the event of an unavoidable change, Fort Wayne Youtheatre reserves the right to present a subsititute show, artist,
date, or venue.
In the event of a change, reserved tickets will be automatically applied to the replacement production in the
Children under two years of age, unless otherwise noted, are not permitted to attend Fort Wayne Youtheatre shows.
Each patron regardless of age is required to purchase their own seat.
Ticket vouchers may be redeemed in person at the ArtsTix Community Box Office and surrendered at time of purchase
or by calling (260) 422-4226. Please note, if redeeming via phone we cannot guarantee the sale without seeing the
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Some interesting links from the local area that you might find interesting:
Community Facebook group – Community news and information
Front Street Web – everything related to Issaquah!
Issaquah School District – the local school district with links to all schools
The Issaquah Press – the local newspaper
Village Theater – schedule, etc. for the Village Theater
Issaquah Soccer Club – youth soccer 6 – 18
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2 parts Peruvian Pisco (3 parts if at home..)
1 part lime juice
1 part sugar syrup (1:1 ratio sugar to water stirred until dissolved)
A small dash of egg white
Blend with 3 ice cubes (no more no less!) and strain into a chilled glass of your choice. Garnish with one drop of Peruvian or Angostura bitters.
Note: It’s definitely an ‘upper’ and is great to make at home.
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SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Green iguanas are so common now in South Florida that many see them as something like reptilian squirrels.
These iguanas are native to Latin America, were sold as pets and then escaped or were dumped in the wild, where their population has boomed.
Unlike Burmese pythons and other exotic invaders, these plant-eating iguanas have been considered harmless.
But their burrows undermine seawalls and levees, and they eat their way through valuable landscaping as well as native plants. Their droppings can be a real cleanup problem and a health hazard.
Now Florida officials are thinking about ways of controlling their population.
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Woman severely injured in hit-and-run crash on bicycle leaving Jazz Fest
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Family and friends of Katherine Elkins, a nurse at Touro Infirmary, are pleading for the public’s help after a hit-and-run accident left her with life-threatening injuries as she was leaving Jazz Fest.
“Life as she knows it is going to be forever different,” said Elkins’ attorney, Charlie Thomas. “She’s not going to return to any sense of normalcy for a very long time. "
According to the New Orleans Police Department, the crash occurred at the intersection of Esplanade and Claiborne around 9:15 p.m. on Saturday (April 29) night. Elkins’ friends say she was riding her bike away from day two of the festival when a car slammed into her without slowing down or stopping.
Surveillance footage obtained by Fox 8 shows a white car speed through the intersection, launching the bike in the air.
“This is a violent crime. You’ve got somebody where their life is completely upended. She’s going to be in the hospital for who knows how long,” said Thomas. “Her life is forever changed. If we’re not holding people accountable then it’s going to be open season on anybody else.”
Elkins suffered brain bleeds, multiple broken ribs, and an ankle fracture so severe that she is in danger of losing her foot, her friends said. Fortunately, an ambulance was stationed nearby and EMTs witnessed the incident. Elkins was intubated and rushed to University Medical Center, where she remains in critical condition.
“She’s doing better than she was earlier in the week before she was intubated and not really in consciousness. So, she’s becoming more lucid,” said Thomas.
Bike safety activist David Meza says bikers have just as much of a right to be in the main lanes of traffic as cars.
“Intersections are always the most dangerous part... most susceptible for conflict,” said Meza. “They’ve just become a lot more unpredictable than they ever have been.”
Elkins’ loved ones have set up a GoFundMe account to help with her medical bills and are also working on a reward for information leading to the arrest of the driver who hit her.
“This happened after Jazz Fest. People have come to this city, people are enjoying themselves, they’re spending money,” said Thomas. “This is a bad look for the city. Just zoom out from the personal tragedy with Katherine. This is a bad look for the city if we just let this happen and we’re not catching this person.”
The NOPD is investigating the incident. Anyone with information is asked to call police or Crime Stoppers.
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Regional Bus Riders Informational Meeting
- Regional Bus Riders Informational Meeting
- 11/14/2022, 6:30 PM
Important Informational Meeting
for FRCS Regional Bus Rider Families
Monday, November 14, 2022
6:30 p.m via Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 886 9561 4769
Regional transportation is an important way to ensure accessibility to our school for those who live throughout our sending districts. FRCS is committed to continuing to offer transportation but need your help now! Behaviors on the bus MUST improve immediately, or we will be in jeopardy of losing bus drivers, which would greatly impact our ability to transport students.
During this meeting on November 14th:
FRCS district leaders and representatives from Vendetti Motors, our transportation vendor, will be in attendance.
Bus conduct guidelines will be reviewed to remind families of the expectations for ALL students who ride the bus.
Review of consequences for students who do not follow conduct and safety guidelines, including how and when students will be removed from the bus
Opportunity for Q&A following the presentation
We ask that parents/guardians of Regional Bus Riders
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It has been a largely positive but wild ride for marijuana supporters, who last year saw voters double the number of states in which marijuana is legal for recreational purposes (Oregon and Alaska joining Colorado and Washington). Perhaps the one monkey wrench in an otherwise great year for supporters was the failure of Florida to reach the required votes to legalize medical marijuana. Only58%of voters supported the necessary change to the state's Constitution, just shy of the required 60%.
The motives behind the legalization movement The movement to legalize marijuana across the country is primarily based on two key factors.
First, marijuana sales offer a new way for states, and potentially the federal government if the drug were legalized nationwide, to gain revenue through taxation and licensing fees. Instead of passing along tax increases throughout a state to all individuals, only those who purchase marijuana would incur the extra tax. Based on what we're witnessing in current recreation-legal states Washington and Colorado, taxes on the product will generally be quite high, generating reasonable income for a relatively small dollar amount of sales.
Source: GW Pharmaceuticals.
The other selling point to marijuana legalization is in the medical aspect and what it might do for those with dealing with terminal disease or perhaps even curable diseases. Of the 23 states that to date have legalized marijuana for medical purposes, treatment for cancer pain and glaucoma is common. But biotech companies such asGW Pharmaceuticals also plan to use cannabinoids found in the cannabis plant to treat a myriad of diseases, including type 2 diabetes and various types of epilepsy.
Of course, marijuana's transformation isn't going to happen overnight. The federal government still classifies marijuana as a schedule 1 drug, meaning it has, in the government's view, no medically beneficial qualities and thus seems unlikely to gain national approval anytime soon.
One major factor that could incite reform However, one catalyst could spark marijuana reform: consumer sentiment.
Let's not forget that consumers ultimately elect the members of the House of Representatives and Senate, and if the public is largely in favor of something, it behooves Congress to listen -- especially if lawmakers would like to keep their jobs beyond their current term.
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This is why a survey released earlier this month is so relevant. According to the General Social Survey, or GSS, a well-respected research agency that polls Americans in person every two years on various issues, for the first time ever more Americans favor legalizing marijuana than support keeping it illegal.
Out of the 1,687 people polled on whether marijuana should "be made legal or not," 52% supported legalization, 42% opposed it, and the remaining 7% were undecided. The figures don't add up to 100% because of rounding.
This is an incredible turn of opinion for marijuana -- just 16% of respondents in 1990 wanted it legalized, and that support had grown only to 33% a decade ago. With the exception of the 2006 and 2012 surveys, support for legalization has grown in every successive survey since 1990.
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It's not just the GSS survey that demonstrates Americans are growing more open to legal marijuana. A number of somewhat recent studies have shown support for marijuana is beginning to handily outweigh dissenting opinions.
A 2013 Gallup poll found that 58% of respondents favored legalization, up from about 25% a decade prior. A late February poll from the Pew Research Center noted that both Republican and Democrat millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) favored marijuana's legalization by respective percentages of 63% and 77%. Additionally, a Quinnipiac University poll conducted within Colorado found 58% of respondents favored the drug's current legal status, up from the 54.8% "yes" votes the legalization amendment garnered in 2012.
What this all meansThis shift in sentiment could pressure lawmakers to make changes in coming years regarding marijuana legalization. While there's no guarantee this will happen on a federal level, it likely means more states will put recreational legalization to the vote, and some of those votes could certainly favor the drug.
This shift in opinion on the drug has helped buoy marijuana stocks such as GW Pharmaceuticals,Insys Therapeutics , which makes a single cannabinoid-based agent, dronabinol, for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, and even the pink sheet marijuana stocks.
However, rising positive sentiment toward marijuana could also come with a price to investors of heightened emotional trading that has little to do with real-world fundamentals.
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Because Colorado and Washington are our only real test examples, we don't have a good bead yet of how successfully the commercial marijuana market will operate. We did note some very impressive sales figures in Colorado during the first year of legalization, with combined recreational and medical marijuana sales surpassing the state General Assembly's early year expectations by 21%.But a number of regions in Colorado still prohibit the drug. Additionally, in Washington some licensed growers have expressed frustration at an oversupply of the drug that is hurting sales. The result is that these early trials and tribulations haven't resulted in any real bottom-line benefits for marijuana investors.
It also doesn't help that most marijuana stocks trade on the pink sheets. Given their listing on the "bulletin board" exchanges they're not required to report earnings results on a quarterly basis or update their financial status, leaving investors guessing as to whether a marijuana business is nothing more than a concept or an actual money-making machine.
With the exception of Insys, all other marijuana stocks are losing money -- and even Insys comes with an asterisk as its non-marijuana drug Subsys is responsible for 99% of company revenue. In other words, even with rising sentiment favoring marijuana, the drug itself remains a poor investment choice for those looking to cash in. This could obviously change if national marijuana policy is reformed, but I wouldn't suggest holding your breath.
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A senior person on President-elect Donald Trump's transition team contacted JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon to see if he would be interested in being U.S. Treasury secretary, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
It is unclear how Dimon responded, said the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly. Dimon has said multiple times in the past that he is not interested in the job - most recently in September.
JPMorgan spokesman Andrew Gray declined to comment.
CNBC earlier reported that Trump's advisers had discussed the idea of Dimon, 60, becoming Treasury secretary.
Dimon is viewed as a leader on Wall Street and his name has been floated for government positions in the past. On Wednesday, he sent a memo to staff calling for unity in the aftermath of the contentious election.
Trump has been critical of Wall Street and the banking industry and once called Dimon "the worst banker in the United States." But Trump's close circle of advisers includes several hedge fund executives, investors and former bankers with whom the industry is now working to build close ties.
Lingering resentment against the financial industry following the 2007-2009 crisis has made Dimon's chances of being nominated for a federal government position less certain.
"I would love to be president of the United States of America," Dimon told the Economic Club of Washington in September.
"Until Donald Trump got to where he was, they said you'll never see a rich businessman who's never been in politics be president. I clearly was wrong about that." (Reporting by Dan Freed in New York; Additional reporting by Nikhil Subba in Bengaluru and David Shepardson in Washington; Writing by Lauren Tara LaCapra; Editing by Sai Sachin Ravikumar and Bill Trott) | <urn:uuid:2fbd23f6-3f94-4aab-8108-2ab61cb455c9> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/report-trump-team-considering-jpmorgans-dimon-for-treasury | 2023-09-28T19:14:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.972601 | 369 |
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (Makoto Shinkai, 2011)
Makoto Shinkai is a bit like the M. Night Shyamalan of anime. After a breakout directorial effort with 2002's Voices of a Distant Star, which Shinkai made almost entirely by himself, many were ready to dub the young animator "the next Hayao Miyazaki." His subsequent works didn't exactly pay off that early promise, however, instead drawing criticism that he was simply rehashing the same formula, which was increasingly scrutinized as emotionally self-indulgent and intellectually shallow. In snootier circles, he's nowadays often derisively dismissed for his lack of depth and narrow thematic scope. Nevertheless, he remains one of the very few anime directors whose name can viably be employed in the marketing for his works ("a Makoto Shinkai film").
Even most of his admirers have, at some point, expressed a wish that Shinkai might stretch himself a bit more artistically to explore some different themes, instead of always the same old meditation on love and longing. I wonder if this is altogether fair. Some of our most celebrated classical authors had only a single story, whether because they literally only completed one work, or because they spent their careers, not rehashing or recycling, but refining and revisiting from different angles the themes they themselves were most taken by. I mean, does anybody complain that Jane Austen needed to branch out beyond romance? Or that Herman Melville should have moved past fatalistic sea expeditions after White-Jacket? Anyway, Children Who Chase Lost Voices is terrible.
As far as Shinkai rehashing the same old themes, Children Who Chase Lost Voices is, yes, still about how one copes with being separated from the one you love, although that central thread is frequently lost amid action and adventure elements that seem way outside the director's forte. This time, the story focuses on characters whose loved ones have passed on to the other side, and the protagonists decide to deal with it by literally forcing their way into the land of the dead. One man means to bring his late wife back, while Shinkai himself, in the promotion for the film, described it as "a journey to say farewell." Either way, it's a compelling idea, previously explored in the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, as well as other similar tales found in every culture. It's wasted in Children Who Chase Lost Voices, however, because the movie's underworld is not interesting, its characters are poorly defined, and the story lacks focus.
If Shinkai ever merited comparison to Hayao Miyazaki, it was not because he was in any way a similar kind of storyteller, but because, like Miyazaki, he was a director who would roll up his sleeves and draw his own movie. Children Who Chase Lost Voices is an interesting departure for Shinkai, then, in that he was more hands-off on the art, and the movie actually does appear to be an attempt at a deliberately Miyazaki-esque adventure. In fact, at times it almost crosses a line from homage over into shameless ripoff territory. The first act, in which the female protagonist is rescued from a supernatural end by a mysterious and beautiful young boy, recalls the relationship between Chihiro and Haku in Spirited Away, though executed with far less finesse or perceptiveness. There's an image right out of Castle in the Sky, in which the lead girl and boy are in a cave dimly lit by the glowing crystal in their possession. And the seemingly omnipresent yet unknowably distant god of the underworld reminded me of the Shishigami from Princess Mononoke.
What really sinks Children Who Chase Lost Voices is that, whereas Miyazaki's work transcends a lot of what the word "anime" tends to connote here in the West, Shinkai's movie succumbs to virtually every bad anime cliche and storytelling pitfall—self-obsessed adolescents, convoluted plot told through turgid expository segments, obscure mythological references, nebulous philosophizing, irrationally motivated characters who undergo frequent and sudden changes of heart, and so on and so forth. The world that Shinkai builds here also falls far short of Miyazaki's fantasy settings. It's richly drawn and full of color, but there is a dearth of interesting sights. The land of the dead is mostly empty plains and deserted ruins, its only inhabitants being some xenophobic tribesmen and a hostile race of deranged shadow creatures that cannot abide sunlight or water. It doesn't help that the story seems to take forever to get going, as roughly the first third or so is spent in the real world just setting up the idea of the journey to the underworld.
The one great image I take away from Children Who Chase Lost Voices is that of the young female protagonist, near the end of her journey, trudging her way through the night along a river, her only refuge from the shadow creatures that endlessly crowd the banks, as she questions what she had been seeking in the land of the dead in the first place. The character is so poorly developed throughout the rest of the movie, having no rational motivations for almost any of her actions, but this scene at least is gorgeously animated, as she finally finds herself on her knees as a stunning aurora proclaims the break of dawn. We gather that her experience has been not only physically but also emotionally draining. Rather than Shinkai trying to do Miyazaki, this is Shinkai at his own best—not doing epic adventures, but depicting deeply cut young souls burdened to exhaustion by all they cannot let go of that has already let go of them. | <urn:uuid:a84d313a-7b3d-430e-a610-117c988a779e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.fraggincivie.com/2013/03/children-who-chase-lost-voices-makoto.html | 2023-09-28T18:12:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.972467 | 1,184 |
studio art - woodworking - ceramics - photography - sculpture
Instruction in the arts is woven into the daily curriculum at Lower School. Students experiment with a variety of art forms to uncover their interests and talents while developing their creative skills.
Beginning in Junior Kindergarten, students are given hands-on experience with the artistic process through design and creation. Student's creative muscles are flexed to allow them to think creatively and experience the process of innovation.
The visual arts offerings in middle school include inspiring courses such as 2D Art, Woodworking, Ceramics, Digital Photography, Robotics and more. Students are challenged creatively while they explore new artistic mediums and develop critical thinking skills as they work on projects in Parker's state-of-the-art studio facilities.
Exhibits of student sculpture, paintings, photos, video, and drawings are presented on campus in the James Alan Rose Art Gallery.
The range of visual arts courses in the Upper School include ceramics, sculpture (bronze and stone), woodworking, video, photography, drawing, painting and digital design. Courses give students the experience of producing original works of art from concept to completion. Formal elements and principles of design are introduced and emphasized with an appreciation of a diverse global artistic heritage. Students are encouraged to create personal works of art appropriate for their skill level in Parker's state-of-the-art studio facilities.
Studio art encompasses work done with paint, ink, charcoal, pencil, and other forms of 2D Media. Students in the lower school all participate in art classes, and will be exposed to a variety of creative outlets. The Middle School offers Studio Art as an elective, and focuses on expanding students' creativity through a variety of mediums and projects. The Upper School offers both regular Studio Art and AP Studio Art.
"Elephant Man." by Gale Bruell '19
"Painted Lady." by Jacqueline Ghosh '19
"Ophelia." by Isaac Gray 17'
Woodworking at Parker is designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge needed to correctly perform woodworking operations using hand and power tools and woodworking equipment. Instructional emphasis is placed on the safe and proper operation of equipment found in the woodshop. Students are introduced to the care of woodworking equipment, selection of materials, understanding woodworking processes, and the importance of design. The successful completion of introductory projects will lead to more challenging endeavors such as furniture construction.
Clock by Sujan Nadipati '19
Illuminated Wood Sculpture by Trevor Palmer '14
Bowl by Max Guinn '19
Ceramics explores technical and conceptual three-dimensional art skills through manipulation of clay, the ceramic process, and mixed media. The course guides students through research, planning, production and critique. Students investigate art from various cultural, social and historical backgrounds, and are introduced to the contemporary world of 3D art.
Moon Jars by Nicole McDermott '19
Ceramic Sculpture by Cameron Engh '20
Spring Arts Night 2019
Parker photography provides an introduction to the technical, aesthetic, and cultural aspects of photography. Students will learn the basics of camera operation as well as photographic composition, lighting and exposure. Black and white film processing and printing are done in Parker’s darkroom. Black and white photography is the primer for visual communication: including cinema, video, graphic design and digital photography.
"Once Upon a Time" by Nicki Astor '21
by Megan Pai '18
by Alex Tchang '19
Sculpture emphasizes hands-on construction using the creative process. Students focus on a balance between the exploration of materials, development of technical skills, and content building. In Middle School, students work with an array of materials such as wire, wax, plaster, recyclables, photographs, fabric and fibers, paper mache, small metals and more. Projects may include jewelry making, sewing, fabric design, assemblage, carving, modeling, and other types of sculpture practices. High School students have opportunity to work with large metal and stone carving projects. Parker also has one of the few art studios in the U.S. that practice lost-wax metal casting.
"Elephant" by Seth Washubagh '19
Middle School Sculpture Class Piece
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Italian Serie ‘A’ Soccer Team AC Milan to Launch NFT Initiative – Metaverse Bitcoin News
AC Milan, a popular soccer team in the Italian Serie A league and the current champion, announced the launch of a new non-fungible token (NFT)-based project. The organization established a partnership with Monkeyleague, a Solana-based Web3 soccer game, which became its official NFT partner to launch a new series of NFT branded game assets for the game.
AC Milan to Launch NFT Branded Assets in Monkeyleague
Sports teams from all over the world are now introducing more and more Web3 elements in order to connect with fans from different markets. AC Milan, the current champion of the Italian Serie A League, has recently announced its involvement in a new NFT project. The organization partnered with Monkeyleague, a soccer esports Web3 game, to launch a joint NFT drop involving franchise-owned IP.
In a press release, the team informed that this move made Monkeyleague the official NFT partner of the team and that the company would work closely with the team to design a new collection of branded AC Milan NFT game assets, including new players, skins, and stadiums.
Casper Stylsvig, Chief Revenue Officer of the organization, reinforced the importance of the digital presence of AC Milan for its fans. He stated:
We are thrilled to kick off this partnership with Monkeyleague, a collaboration that allows us to strengthen our positioning in the field of digital innovation. We are particularly proud to be the first football club to partner with Monkeyleague, bringing this game to our supporters around the world and offering them a new innovative way to engage with their favorite team.
More Elements and Background
The partnership will also allow fans of the team to obtain physical elements related to the group. In the auction of these new assets, which is planned to happen on October 6, many of the auctioned NFTs will also include physical jerseys signed by the whole team.
Also, key players of AC Milan will be playtesting several elements of the game in order to offer feedback to Monkeyleague to make it more engaging. This is not the first foray of the team when it comes to Web3, as the organization has already launched a fan token in partnership with Socios.com.
Recently, the team also sealed a partnership with Bitmex, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, which became the first official sleeve partner for the team.
What do you think about the new NFT initiative of AC Milan? Tell us in the comments section below.
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John is a highly experienced business coach who thrives on supporting individuals and teams. Additionally, he has a deep expertise in designing and delivering development and assessment centres for new or aspirational leaders. John has experience of a significant range of global organisations, but has deep expertise within professional services where his career began and he was formerly an equity partner and head of a specialist litigation team at global law firm, Clifford Chance LLP.
As a coach, John enjoys supporting individuals with leadership, role transitions, lateral hire integration, business development, personal effectiveness and resilience/stress management. John is also passionate about and offers unique insights and support in relation to retirement planning. John leverages a wealth of business and coaching credentials and blends them with a highly personable and intuitive approach that facilitates tangible positive change for his clients. Clients refer to John’s approachable character, ability to effortlessly tune into people and his commercial awareness. | <urn:uuid:165e9218-f322-4805-83ce-b5b4a598fed2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.freefortgroup.com/team/john-pickston/ | 2023-09-28T16:34:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.97192 | 187 |
Everyone has times in their life when they feel that deep down they were meant for something greater. It’s a feeling of inspiration and excitement and lays within us. Many individuals ignore this feeling and believe that’s it’s wishful thinking – like entering and actually winning the Presidential Race right now (not gonna happen). For most, however, this desire can be achieved. The good news is that there are certain things you can do to be able to manifest this feeling to become reality. This can be with your career, where you want to live, what you want to achieve in this life and ultimately, who you want to become. The following are techniques that will help you get to the next level:
Prioritize – Many individuals will experience the feeling of inspiration and attempt to live out their dream, but then something happens. They give up and no longer feel the inspiration they once had. More than likely, those who experience this result didn’t have their priorities in order. What they were doing on a daily basis wasn’t aligned with what they wanted to achieve. This can result to frustration, anger and resentment which are all emotions that won’t help you succeed. You must put your priorities in order with what’s most important you. If you’re not doing this then you’ve already set yourself up for failure. Some things you can do to become more prioritized include: getting a planner, making daily goals and creating “To-Do” Lists. Remember, daily goals lead to weekly goals achieved, which lead to monthly goals and then ultimate ones.
Get outside your comfort zone – “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” – Brian Tracy. The only way to be able to achieve our dreams is trying things you’ve never done before which can be uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable. I promise that as you continue to chose the more difficult road, the process will get easier. Those who are wanting to excel in life are making sure they are always learning. This is key to being the the best you can be.
Take care of yourself – I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “you can sleep when you’re dead” in reference to working hard now to get ahead. Although this is a common phrase, it couldn’t be farther from the truth. Those who excel in life in their career, relationships, and any other role they possess understand the importance of eating well, sleeping well, and staying active. The better you take care of yourself, the higher your performance and the more energy you will obtain.
Endure – Last but not least, never give up on your dreams and that feeling of becoming great. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton. It’s okay to make mistakes, that means that you’re trying something new. The important part is that you chose to learn from them and become better. As long as you progress each and every day, you will be getting closer to the person you were always meant to be.
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Meals Continue Through Inclement Weather
Frisco Fastpacs has moved our meal distribution to Friday, February 19th from 1:00pm – 2:00pm at these NEW locations due to power outages at our usual locations. All students, virtual and face to face, are welcome to pick up their weekend meal pack at the location of their choosing. Students do not need to be present during pickup. To expedite service and ensure contactless pickup, please enter the drive thru line, write the Frisco Fastpacs Family ID number and the number of bags you are picking up on a piece of paper and hold it in your window. This is different than your student’s FISD ID number and is included in your confirmation email sent on 2/18/21. Once the volunteers have your meal bags ready, you may either open your trunk or roll down your window for them to be placed in the vehicle. You may also send a friend, neighbor or family member to pick up for you!
Lawler MS (12921 Rolater Rd, Frisco, TX 75035)
Griffin MS (3703 W Eldorado Pkwy, Frisco, TX 75033)
NOTE: due to statewide shortages there will be no milk or fresh produce.
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"It was a no-brainer to join the Phoenix" - Matthew Bozinovski
At 195cm, Matthew Bozinovski is one of the tallest players in the A-League Men.
He will be looking to use his physicality and international experience when defending against the competition's best strikers this season.
Bozinovski joined Wellington Phoenix on loan for the season from Melbourne Victory, and he's aiming to help the Nix make the finals and gain valuable experience in a professional football environment.
Front Page Football caught up with the 20-year-old to discuss his football journey, his time in North Macedonia's U21 setup, and his goals with the Phoenix this season.
"I started playing when I was five years old," Bozinovski said.
"I grew up watching my uncle play in the Victorian Premier League, and he encouraged me to become a professional. I also looked up to players such as Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand."
Bozinovski's football career started at local clubs in Victoria before he joined NPL Victoria side Hume City.
"I was about 15 when I started training with the seniors at Hume," he said.
"I made my senior debut at 16. I gained a lot from my time at Hume City and had a good time there."
Bozinovski pointed out how playing senior NPL football at an early age helped him develop his skills.
"It's a big step-up [from U18s and U20s], especially in the NPL, there's a lot of players who have played in decent levels before. It was very beneficial for me," Bozinovski said.
"I was never afraid to play against the seniors. I had a few nerves, but I set out some personal expectations to help me perform at that level."
Bozinovski joined Melbourne Victory in 2018, having played over 30 matches for their reserves side in the Football Victoria NPL3 competition.
In hotel quarantine in Australia after returning from international duty, Bozinovski received a phone call from Wellington Phoenix manager Ufuk Talay.
"I had a conversation with Ufuk Talay when I was in hotel quarantine, coming back from Europe," he said.
"He spoke to me over the phone and was very positive. He gave me an outlook on what role he sees me with [at] the Nix.
"I've always wanted to play in the A-League Men's competition, so it was a no-brainer to join the Nix, especially under Ufuk, who is a really good coach.
"He offers a lot of energy; he's been good to me in my short stay so far. He's always encouraging me to push harder and always offers advice."
Phoenix fans can look forward to watching Bozinovski and the rest of the playing group heading into the 2021/22 season.
"It's going to be an exciting season," Bozinovski said.
"We've played three pre-season games against A-League [Men] opposition, and the games have been positive. All the boys are fit and ready for the season ahead; I think we're going to have a pretty successful season."
Nix fans should be excited to watch Bozinovski put his body on the line and compete for aerial duels against some of the league's most formidable strikers.
"I like to throw myself in challenges, and competing in the air is my biggest asset," he said.
"I like to get on the ball as much as I can and find pockets of space with the ball."
NORTH MACEDONIA U21
In February 2021, Bozinovski was selected to represent North Macedonia U21s in the Euro U21 qualifiers in France.
Melbourne City's Stefan Colakovski also took part.
Bozinovski played two games, both 90 minutes long.
He featured in a 3-0 loss to France and a 0-0 draw with Serbia.
Bozinovski was very grateful to represent his country of heritage, despite the results not going in their favour.
"Playing in those games was an extremely proud moment not only for myself but for my family," he said. "[My family] are proud North Macedonians, and it was an amazing experience."
During those two games, Bozinovski faced off against Real Madrid star Eduardo Camavinga, Nice striker Amine Gouiri, and Monaco attacker Sofiane Diop.
"To play against the calibre of players such as Eduardo Camavinga was an amazing experience and gave me a lot of confidence knowing that I could compete at such a high level of football," Bozinovski said.
"It was an unforgettable experience, playing in Europe against those players, and without falling too out of place gave me a lot of confidence coming back to Australia."
Bozinovski also highlighted the differences between Australian and North Macedonian football.
"It's a much different style of play," he said.
"Australian football is more physical, whereas, in North Macedonia, the players are technically talented.
"It's not as physical as in Australia; they try and earn more fouls than what you see in Australia."
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