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The City of Sonoma would like to extend our congratulations to the Kaniv, Ukraine Committee of the Sonoma Sister Cities Association for their remarkable achievement in winning the 2023 Sister Cities International Innovation in Humanitarian Assistance award for communities with populations under 25,000. Bestowed by the Sister Cities International organization, this prestigious recognition underscores the outstanding endeavors undertaken by the Sonoma Sister Cities in advancing the core objectives and ethos of Sister Cities International, all while placing a focal point on the preservation of human rights.
The Sonoma City Council formally recognized the Sonoma Sister Cities Association’s Kaniv, Ukraine Committee for this momentous distinction and introduced distinguished Ukrainian guests, Anatolyi and Lubya Leontyev, during their regular meeting on the evening of Wednesday, August 16th. View a recording of the presentation on the City’s YouTube channel or CivicWeb Portal.
Find a list of all award recipients on the Sister Cities International website.
About the Sonoma/Kanive Committee
At present, the Sonoma/Kaniv Committee is ardently dedicated to delivering humanitarian aid to our Sister City, Kaniv, Ukraine. Situated alongside the Dnieper River approximately 90 miles south of Kyiv, Kaniv, with a population of around 29,000 residents, is extending a helping hand to an average of 4,000 war refugees. These individuals, displaced from their homes or journeying to safer destinations, are offered sustenance, clothing, and shelter. Notably, Kaniv itself remains resilient and unyielding against invasion. In this context, the Sonoma/Kaniv Committee has already contributed upwards of $147,000 to support these compassionate and vital humanitarian efforts. Learn more on the Sister Cities website. | <urn:uuid:1186993a-6333-4f17-bad4-84eac6a743f5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sonomacity.org/36763-2/ | 2023-09-28T17:43:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.906173 | 353 |
The “gazpacho police” moron is at it again. This time she says Bill Gates is growing fake meat in “peach tree dishes” and he will “zap” you with electric shocks if you try to eat a good old American hamburger.
Not making this up. It’s in the news this morning.
MTG needs mental help. She’s paranoid and epically stupid. I never knew we had people this stupid. She’s like an SNL satire. The woman is a moron. | <urn:uuid:1ec43c7a-ee5d-4151-988a-991b8b626d30> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/forum/general-discussion/marjorie-taylor-green-warns-of-fake-meat-and-peach-tree-dishes | 2023-09-28T17:18:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.956793 | 120 |
The MARKSMITH can be refilled in 3 different ways. The easiest and recommended method to refill is to purchase the refill cartridges from us.
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A Man Without Breath: The Award-Winning Historical Thriller by Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr: A Man Without Breath
Philip Kerr was a Scottish author who wrote several bestselling novels in various genres, such as historical fiction, thriller, crime, and spy. He is best known for his series of books featuring Bernie Gunther, a former police detective who becomes a private investigator in Nazi Germany and post-war Europe. One of these books is A Man Without Breath, which was published in 2013 and is the ninth installment in the series.
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A Man Without Breath is a gripping historical mystery that takes place in 1943, at the height of World War II. It follows Bernie Gunther as he investigates a mass grave of Polish officers near Smolensk, Russia, which could be used by Nazi propaganda to discredit their Soviet allies. However, he soon discovers that there is more to this case than meets the eye, and that he is in a dangerous position between rival factions within the German army and government.
The plot of the book
The book begins with Bernie Gunther working in Berlin for the War Crimes Bureau, a department that deals with atrocities committed by both sides during the war. He is weary, cynical, and disillusioned with his job and his country, but he still has a sense of justice and morality. He is assigned to accompany a team of forensic experts to Smolensk, where a local farmer has reported finding a large pit filled with corpses wearing Polish uniforms.
The corpses are believed to be those of Polish officers who were captured by the Soviets in 1939, after they invaded Poland along with Germany. The Nazis suspect that they were executed by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, in what became known as the Katyn massacre. They hope to use this evidence to expose their enemies' brutality and to drive a wedge between them and their Western allies.
Bernie Gunther arrives in Smolensk with his colleagues and meets with Colonel von Moltke, a Prussian aristocrat who is in charge of the operation. He also encounters several other characters who have their own agendas and interests in this case, such as General von Brauchitsch, who wants to negotiate a separate peace with Russia; Major Hartmann, who is secretly working for Reinhard Heydrich's successor; Captain Gregor Neumann, who is Bernie's friend and ally; Lieutenant Pfarrer, who is Bernie's rival and enemy; and Noreen Charalambides, who is an American journalist posing as a Greek nurse.
As Bernie Gunther investigates the mass grave, he faces many obstacles and dangers. He has to deal with the harsh weather, the hostile locals, the corrupt officials, and the ruthless killers. He also has to cope with his own conscience, as he witnesses the horrors of war and the crimes of his own countrymen. He soon realizes that he is not only looking for the truth, but also for a way to survive.
The historical context of the book
A Man Without Breath is based on real historical events and characters, and it provides a vivid and accurate portrayal of the Eastern Front during World War II. The Eastern Front was the largest and bloodiest theater of war, where millions of soldiers and civilians died or suffered from starvation, disease, and violence. It was also the scene of some of the most notorious atrocities and war crimes committed by both sides, such as the Holocaust, the Siege of Leningrad, and the Battle of Stalingrad.
The book focuses on one of these atrocities, the Katyn massacre, which was one of the most controversial and disputed incidents of the war. The Katyn massacre was the mass execution of about 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviet NKVD in 1940. The victims were buried in several mass graves in Katyn Forest and other locations near Smolensk. The Soviets denied any responsibility for the massacre and blamed it on the Nazis, who discovered the graves in 1943 and used them for propaganda purposes. The truth about the massacre was suppressed for decades by both sides, until it was finally acknowledged by the Soviet Union in 1990.
The book also depicts the Nazi propaganda machine, which was led by Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda. Goebbels was a master of manipulation and deception, who used various media forms, such as newspapers, radio, film, and posters, to spread Nazi ideology and to influence public opinion. He also used propaganda to justify Nazi aggression and to demonize their enemies. He was particularly interested in exploiting the Katyn massacre to undermine the Soviet credibility and to weaken their alliance with Britain and America.
The themes and messages of the book
A Man Without Breath is not only a thrilling and entertaining read, but also a thought-provoking and insightful one. It explores several themes and messages that are relevant for today's readers and society, such as:
War crimes and justice: The book raises questions about who is responsible for war crimes and how they should be punished. It also shows how war crimes are often covered up or distorted by propaganda and politics. It challenges the readers to think about how they would react if they were in Bernie Gunther's shoes, and how they would balance their duty with their conscience.
Loyalty and survival: The book examines how loyalty is tested and compromised in times of war and crisis. It shows how loyalty can be divided between different groups, such as country, family, friends, or ideology. It also shows how loyalty can be betrayed or manipulated for personal gain or survival. It makes the readers wonder who they would trust and who they would betray in such situations.
Humor and cynicism: The book demonstrates how humor and cynicism can be used as coping mechanisms or defense mechanisms in face of adversity and horror. It shows how humor can lighten up the mood, relieve tension, or express irony. It also shows how cynicism can protect oneself from disappointment, disillusionment, or guilt. It invites the readers to appreciate Bernie Gunther's witty remarks and sarcastic comments, but also to understand his bitter attitude and pessimistic outlook.
The style and tone of the book
A Man Without Breath is written in a style and tone that reflect both the genre and the character of Bernie Gunther. The style is fast-paced, engaging, and descriptive. The author uses short sentences, vivid details, and realistic dialogue to create a sense of urgency, suspense, and immersion. The author also uses various literary devices, such as foreshadowing, flashbacks, metaphors, and similes, to enhance the plot, the setting, and the mood.
The tone is dark, gritty, and humorous. The author does not shy away from depicting the brutality and cruelty of war and its effects on people. The author also does not sugarcoat or glorify any side or perspective of the conflict. The author portrays both sides as flawed, corrupt, and violent. However, the author also injects humor into the story through Bernie Gunther's voice and personality. Bernie Gunther is a sarcastic, witty, and irreverent narrator who often makes jokes or remarks that lighten up the atmosphere or mock his enemies.
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The ultimate Mercedes theft protection.
Posted by Sounds Alarming Welling on Friday, January 12, 2018
Vehicle theft is on the increase again sadly. New keyless technology has opened up a new strand of car theft such as key cloning.
Manufacturers for sometime ignored this as a problem. Many forums offered ‘helpful’ suggestions on how to combat key cloning and the subsequent theft from putting your key in a tin to putting it in a fridge. Please don’t try that at home folks moisture in a key does not do it any good!
A solution is now on the market available to the aftermarket experts which combats the problem. As demonstrated in our video we can add a new type of immobiliser which requires a unique sequence, chosen by you, to be performed before the vehicle can start and be driven away.
This therefore renders the cloning of a key useless as even if a thief managed to successfully gain access to your car they will be unable to actually drive it away unless they know your sequence.
This product is offered for fitting to any vehicle by a professional approved installer, please speak to the team with your vehicle details for pricing and assistance. | <urn:uuid:6a2357fa-caf1-4219-bd94-8e4cf815478f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.soundsalarming.com/blog/stop-them-in-their-tracks/ | 2023-09-28T17:45:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.960054 | 241 |
Orlando’s The First Academy held an end-of-the-season shootout this past Saturday featuring one JV and four Varsity games. We were only able to see the final two games due to various time conflicts but it was well worth the time to get there.
The Villages Charter vs. Melbourne Holy Trinity Episcopal
It took a little over three minutes for either team to score, but The Villages got on the board first and led 4-0 after four minutes. From there, Holy Trinity owned the quarter, going on an 11-4 run to close it out. They maintained that lead in the second period until The Villages made a lot run of their own to tied the score at 22-22 at the break.
Holy Trinity regained control in the third quarter, leading by as many as twelve and with 3:30 left in the period, The Villages called a timeout down eight, 33-25. It was a seven-point game, 38-31, entering the final quartet. The Villages closed the gap quickly, getting within three, 40-37, in the first two minutes of the period. Holy Trinity composed itself and pushed its lead to five, 46-41, with four minutes remaining. The Villages weren’t done and began to press on the defensive end. This yielded results and with 1:30 remining, Holy Trinity’s lead was down to three, 51-48. Not long after, The Villages 6’9 senior and Alabama signee Sam Walters got a steal and score to cut the margin to one. After a Holy Trinity miss, Ben Koubek, a 6’3 junior for The Villages, was fouled and went to the line for two shots. He made both with fifty-three second left to play. Holy Trinity held the ball for a final shot, but 6’7 freshman Kymani Weathers blocked the shot for The Villages and Walters grabbed the loose ball. Holy Trinity had no choice but to foul. Walters nailed both shots. Holy Trinity’s buzzer beater was well off and The Villages eked out a 55-51 win.
Walters led The Villages with 17 points while Koubek finished with 12 points and 5’7 junior Jack Flanagan added 11 points.
For Holy Trinity, 6’7 freshman Caleb Gaskins led all scorers with 21 points while 5’10 eighth grader Martay Barnes finished with 12 points.
The First Academy vs. Lakeland Victory Christian
Victory Christian got out of the gate a bit quicker and led by five, 13-8, midway thru the first period. Little did we know at the time that that would be one of the larger leads of the game. After one quarter of play, Victory led by three, 18-15. The score continued to be close and TFA grabbed a 25-23 lead with 5:20 left in the second quarter, forcing a Victory timeout. It worked as Victory went on a 7-2 run to re-take the lead and force a TFA timeout with just under four minutes left in the half. At the break, Victory’s three-point lead after one quarter carried over to the second quarter with the score at 39-36. The game within the game was turning out to be Victory Christian’s scoring sensation Lorenzo Cason, a 6’2 junior and TFA’s 6’3 freshman phenom Donovan Williams. At the break, Cason had 21 points while Williams had 18 points for the Royals.
TFA grabbed momentum coming out of the break, grabbing the lead back at 42-41 at the six minute mark and led by three, 49-46, midway through the quarter. However, the teams entered the final period tied at 54-54. Like the rest of the contest, the lead swung back and forth between the two teams. The First Academy led by three, 68-65, with 1:30 to play until Victory’s 5’11 junior Michael Andino converted a three-point play to tie the game. On TFA’s next possession, Williams drew a foul with a minute to go and connected on both free throws. TFA forced a turnover but Victory was able to force one of their own to get the ball back. Andino scored on a mid-range jumper with twenty seconds left to tie the game at 70-70. TFA was unable to get another look and we headed into overtime.
Victory got on the board first in the overtime with a transition basket from Andino. TFA answered with a putback on its next possession. Victory scored on the break quickly afterwards. The teams missed on their next respective possessions and after another TFA miss, Andino was fouled and made both shots to make it a two-possession game, 76-72. TFA responded with a bucket and when Victory turned the ball over on its next possession with forty-five seconds left, TFA had life. Williams connected on two free throws after being fouled on the drive, knotting the game again at 76-76 with twenty seconds left. After a timeout from both teams, Victory Christian pushed the ball up the floor. Andino found a seam to the basket and scored with five seconds left. Out of timeouts, TFA could only fire off a prayer that went unanswered. Victory Christian wins a close one, 78-76.
Cason finished with 33 points for Victory Christian. Andino added 19 points and 6’2 junior Jordan Lanier finished with 11 points.
Williams of TFA finished the contest with 33 points. Ryalon John Baptiste, a 6’0 senior, added 22 points to the First Academy cause. | <urn:uuid:10d6d01f-8a64-4d3a-b145-998fbbf9d3a5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sourcehoops.com/two-from-the-tfa-shootout/ | 2023-09-28T18:15:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.965309 | 1,190 |
Contact Kimberly LaMendola, Food System Projects Manager, for more information.
716-945-5301 Ext. 2211
716-945-5301 Ext. 2211
Southern Tier West received a grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to enhance local food efforts across the southern tier region. The program demonstrates the nutritional, economical, and environmental benefits of consuming locally grown produce and locally made goods. Program activities include maintaining the 'Local Foods: From the Ground Up' website that list the producers and farmers markets with their product and contact information; providing education and outreach to consumers and producers to expand and develop the local food system in our region; and providing support for creation of community gardens in the region.
Local Food Brand
STW was awarded a $18,550 "Buy Local" grant from NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets to support the development of a regional local food brand, a strategic marketing plan, and assistance for media marketing placements. STW is working with local food stakeholders not only in the Chautauqua-Allegheny agricultural region, but also with representatives from adjacent agricultural regions to develop complementary brand and marketing campaigns that will have maximum returns on increased consumer awareness of local foods and create increased demand for sales of local food products.
Food Producer Survey
STW developed a Food Producer Survey and distributed it to a target audience of over 150 farmers, growers, food producers, and other local food participants. The comprehensive survey was designed to capture several areas of vital information including food producer profiles, production methods and capacities, processing and sales/distribution methods, business growth needs, and level of interest in participating in a local food branding program.
Rural Business Opportunity Grant (RBOG)
STW received a USDA Rural Business Opportunity Grant (RBOG) in the amount of $45,910 to do a consultant-driven study to look into the feasibility of creating a food hub for the three-county area and developing a potential business plan and business model along with possible locations. The proposed facility will be a food hub (aggregation, processing, and distribution) for the three-county service area, containing food aggregation and processing operations, dry and frozen storage, and warehousing and distribution operations. The project involved a feasibility study and business plan, used to provide documentation of viability of the concept and strategy, so as to secure grant and other funding for the creation and initial operation of the facility.
WNY Regional Food System Initiative
Understanding that food security has long been a major need in our community that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis, a community-focused, regionally-coordinated planning initiative was launched in Western New York. The WNY Regional Food System initiative, to be known now as Food Future WNY, includes over one hundred partners representing the entire spectrum of the food system in our region including nine counties (Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Monroe, Orleans and Wyoming). | <urn:uuid:4368acf4-28b3-4737-8579-26ff828a1c8c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.southerntierwest.org/local-foods.html | 2023-09-28T18:27:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.938122 | 621 |
The free program gets under way at 3 p.m. at the 5th Quarter Lounge, 306 E. Prospect St. in Fountain Square, and will include solo sets by Ralph Jeffers and Craig “Slim” Small, who played with Pumpkin Holler Boys, Randy Joe Duke (Direwolf), Rick Freeman, James Booth (Spirtles), Pete Justice, Jeff Beyer, Dan Bent, Mark Proctor and Ed Rose. A jam session is expected to start around 8 p.m
Welling played folk music as a youngster and moved with the groove as folk morphed into Americana.
A stage hand by profession, he organized open stages in Kokomo and Indianapolis and ran the Acoustic Roadblock at Chubby’s Club LaSalle for many years. He is known for hollering at musicians to “play something you wrote!”
Hundreds of people have played with him over the years, and they, fans and friends are invited to reunite, raise a toast and cheer on Wheeling, who is battling cancer.
He won a radio station contest in the 1970s for his song “Marble Hill Talking Nuclear Blues,” which was written in protest of the soon-to-be defunct nuclear plant. His song “I Am a Caver” was used in the 2010 documentary film “Texas Cavers.”
His lyrics are known for their sly humor, as depicted in “Acme Chocolate Covered Carbide,” and he has a reputation among his peers for “having forgotten more songs than they know.”
He and Jerry Baker produced a public access TV show, “Music Indianapolis,” which featured local musicians. Welling played often for “Jabberwocky Junction,” a live radio program that originated from the University of Indianapolis. | <urn:uuid:e20add24-c120-4f52-af5e-e80c9df5f7e2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.southsidervoice.com/top-stories/longtime-musician-will-be-honored | 2023-09-28T18:59:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.978256 | 386 |
SKATE History After Hours
June 10, 2023, 7:00-10:00 PM
$20 for members, $25 pre-registration, $30 at the door
Adults 21+ only, ID required
Enjoy an evening of fun at SKATE History After Hours!
Join us to celebrate SKATE: Rinks, Derbies & Discos in Washington Skate History. Guests will have the chance to explore the exhibition and learn how present-day roller derby and new innovations are enlivening skate culture.
Enjoy engaging Q&A sessions with members of Roll Around Seatown and the Dockyard Derby Dames, music, refreshments, art-making opportunities, and more. Dress to impress in your most festive skating attire! This is a 21+ event and IDs are required. Guests will receive two drink tickets. | <urn:uuid:12878c59-d191-447f-ad8b-056cf5c52672> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.southsoundtalk.com/event/skate-history-after-hours-2/?instance_id=28558 | 2023-09-28T18:13:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.906009 | 177 |
Starbucks There are 32,000 and they are located in 80 different countries. Only in the U.S. In the U.S., more than 75 million people visit a Starbucks every month, where they enjoy coffee drinks, pastries and small, customizable meals. Starbucks obtains coffee from the main producing regions of Latin America, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
The latest from Restaurant Business, delivered straight to your inbox. Winsight is a leading B2B information services company focused on the food and beverage industry, providing information and market intelligence to business leaders on every channel that consumers purchase food and beverages (convenience stores, grocery retailers, restaurants and non-commercial food services) through media, events, data products, advisory services and trade shows. Starbucks is the largest coffee chain, with more than 15,000 stores in the U.S. alone.
UU. In 1992, brothers Dane and Travis Boersma moved from dairy production to selling coffee and their first coffee shop was opened in their barn in Oregon. Blue Bottle Coffee Company is a specialty coffee roaster that began in Oakland, California in the early 2000s. Because of the organization's links with the coffee industry and its increasingly popular K-Cup products, which are sold in grocery stores, it is still considered one of the most important coffee brands in the world.
The chain began as a simple potting shed that was used to roast coffee beans and a single coffee cart that was used to sell the product. The expansion was successful, as Dunkin' Donuts remains one of the best-selling coffee brands in the United States and offers its customers nearly twenty varieties of ground coffee in bags to buy. Last year, Costa Coffee generated $1.54 billion, making it one of the most popular coffee brands in the world. Folgers was at the forefront of developments in the grocery store coffee market throughout history, such as the rise of instant coffee in the form of “Folgers crystals”.
Last year, Gloria Jean's Coffees generated $540 million in revenues, making it one of the world's top coffee brands by revenue. JDE Peet's is a popular coffee company in Europe and has a huge selection of whole coffee that includes French roast, espresso and Italian roast. Gloria Jean's Coffees is an American and Australian coffee shop retail chain that operates more than 1000 coffee shops in 39 countries, including more than 460 in Australia. The following year, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters shipped internationally and dedicated all its energy to ground coffee products.
After backpacking through Alaska, Kimberly and John Puckett founded Caribou Coffee in 1992 with the goal of capturing the essence of their adventure over a cup of coffee. In addition, coffee is one of the most traded agricultural products in the world. 70 percent of total coffee production, worth 19 billion dollars, was exported. Although they are not as influential in today's market, their approach to the coffee business has consolidated Maxwell House as one of the most important coffee brands in the United States more than a century later.
Driven by consumption, the coffee market is here to stay and is led by the top 10 current coffee brands in the world and their innovative products. | <urn:uuid:7519ab07-2068-450a-8617-72c6714169e7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.specialtycoffeeonline.com/what-is-the-biggest-coffee-company-in-us | 2023-09-28T18:43:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.965813 | 651 |
It is very common to see golfers gripping the club too tightly, along with too much tension and tightness throughout the forearms and biceps in the swing. This results in using too much of your upper body strength as your dominant power source. This FEELS powerful but isn’t nearly as effective as what can be accomplished by using ground force pressure and a proper sequence of events. Allow your lower body enough time to use the ground to generate speed, as your core/hips soon after will also generate clubhead speed and proper path/positions of the club will be more achievable.
Swing Drill: Making the change starts with working on lighter grip pressure so that you can feel the core and lower body working in sync with the weight of the clubhead. To lighten grip pressure, imagine you are holding a full tube of toothpaste in your hands as if it were the golf club grip, with the cap off the tube and pointing down. Feel that you’re holding the toothpaste throughout the swing with a light enough pressure that no paste will squeeze out. Hitting practice balls with light grip pressure and without tension throughout your arms will allow you to sense the weight of the clubhead. Once you develop a correct feel for the core/hips working in unison with the clubhead, you will achieve better results. | <urn:uuid:4841c45f-4047-4f15-87aa-f40ed728306c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.spencergolf.com/news-and-events/proper-grip-pressure/ | 2023-09-28T18:01:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.95547 | 270 |
Houston — This is part of a series about the impact of the US elections on key energy commodities. Similar deep dives into natural gas, energy transition and Mexican energy sectors will follow over the next several weeks.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden could end the tit-for-tat tariffs between Washington and Beijing that have restrained US LNG exports to China and made new commercial development more challenging. Alternatively, President Donald Trump could make it easier to drill for the shale gas that feeds terminals and further speed up project permitting.
Whichever candidate wins the Nov. 3 election, the impact on the LNG industry will be felt heading into 2021, a pivotal year in which new capacity may be sanctioned or fall off the board altogether. Countries' differing climate goals also will be a factor.
"I'd say as we look at regulation, we're clearly watching what's going to happen here in this next election cycle," said Faisel Khan, chief financial officer of the LNG unit of San Diego-based Sempra Energy, in response to a question at a Gastech conference in September. "How will carbon play a part in the regulatory bodies across the US? We clearly see it here on the West Coast, and the question is will that play a part across the entire country? How will that interact with the rest of the world?"
As president, Trump took a special interest in the exports of LNG, which were described by his administration as "molecules of US freedom" critical to the agenda of American energy dominance.
The Trump administration eased bottlenecks in the federal permitting process for the multibillion-dollar export facilities, promoted the fuel to foreign heads of state and approved more than a dozen proposed LNG projects. Most of the permitted projects have yet to make final investment decisions (FID) amid uncertainty about future prices and demand, however. The projects face additional uncertainty around the US-China tariff disputes that started in 2018 and escalated in 2019, before easing slightly in January after an initial pact was signed between the two countries.
Going into the election, none of that will be as consequential for the US LNG industry as what the outcome of the race will mean for trade policy.
"We have had significantly less FID activity than you would have expected coming from the US," Erin Blanton, a senior research scholar focused on natural gas at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, said.
By the end of the decade, China is expected to become the world's biggest importer of LNG, making it a critical market for liquefaction terminals in the US, which prior to the coronavirus pandemic was on its way to potentially becoming the world's biggest LNG exporter within the same time frame.
The tariffs, even with exemptions that the Chinese government offered some of its importers on a limited basis, have disrupted those dynamics.
Biden said as recently as August that he would remove the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese goods if he is elected. That, in turn, would incentivize China to lifts its tariffs on imports of US goods, including LNG. Biden criticized the White House for going after the economic rival "in the wrong way" and said the US "poked our finger in the eye of all of our allies out there" by hitting trade partners with tariffs.
Trade policy took a severe toll on negotiations over long-term supply deals even before the coronavirus pummeled demand and forced most developers of US projects to delay FID targets. In nearly four years of the Trump presidency, only one of the new LNG projects authorized by his administration has advanced to construction – Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass facility in Louisiana.
To date, only Cheniere Energy, the biggest US LNG exporter, holds a long-term supply deal with a Chinese counterparty.
The trade tensions also prompted a 13-month halt in US LNG deliveries to China, both spot and under contract. Deliveries resumed in April, after the exemptions China granted some of its importers. But purchases have fallen short of targets under the so-called Phase 1 trade deal between the two counties.
Analysts generally do not expect any major warming of trade ties with China under a Biden administration, but a Biden victory could lessen the risk of worsening relations and deliveries to China becoming uneconomic again.
Biden's $2 trillion climate and energy plan does not mention LNG exports and focuses largely on investments in clean energy and infrastructure. Still, he has not taken as hard a stance on oil and gas as many of his Democratic primary opponents who had pushed for a total fracking ban.
US LNG projects may also benefit from stronger federal methane-reduction standards under a Biden administration because that could help exports meet carbon intensity standards that are coming into effect in Europe.
On the flip side, Trump has promised to maintain his deregulation push, which could benefit gas drilling interests and boost cheap supplies that feed liquefaction facilities.
The industry is taking a wait-and-see approach.
"Despite the elevated levels of uncertainty regarding natural gas investment, and the commissioning delays that the pandemic has caused, gas market fundamentals remain strong," Joseph McMonigle, secretary general of the International Energy Forum, which facilitates dialogue between energy market participants, said at Gastech.
Federal permitting of gas infrastructure, including LNG facilities, could place greater scrutiny on the significance of greenhouse gas emissions in making public interest determinations. But that would not affect the roughly 25 Bcf/d worth of LNG facilities that already have the necessary federal permits but have yet to advance to construction, according to Columbia's Blanton.
Analysts consider it unlikely that a Biden administration would seek to alter existing LNG export licenses or otherwise move to throttle back shipments of the fuel.
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Raining on the open-top bus parade
Roy Keane went up another couple of notches in my estimation when he snubbed the offer of driving and waving through Sunderland.
As a player, Roy Keane was despised by rival football fans. He was a hard bastard who left his studmarks on many an opponent’s shin and he played for Manchester United, so I guess he was never going to endear himself to many people.
But I’ve always admired him. I like Keane’s ‘take that you cunt’ attitude; the way he speaks his mind rather than recites the usual vacuous, media-coached platitudes trotted out by today’s footballers. I like the fact that he walked away from the Republic of Ireland’s World Cup training camp, telling manager Mick McCarthy to ‘stick it up yer bollocks’, because he felt the set-up was too amateurish.
But, most of all, I like Keane because he is an obsessive winner who refuses to tolerate mediocrity. Even after winning a trophy he wasn’t satisfied. Rather than rest on his laurels, he just wanted to focus on winning the next piece of silverware. Keane has repeatedly complained that his United team-mates had lost some of their hunger after winning the treble in 1999. ‘I have seen United players getting complacent, thinking they’ve done it all and getting carried away by a bit of success’, he said.
This week Keane went up another couple of notches in my estimation after snubbing the chance of an open-top bus parade to celebrate Sunderland’s promotion to the Premiership. ‘We discussed going round on an open-top bus but to me that’s a bit much’, he said. ‘The club’s done it a few times over the last few years and ended up with egg on their face.’ Club chairman Niall Quinn echoed Keane’s sentiments: ‘Everyone is rightly proud of our team but we feel we have simply got the club back to where we should be – among football’s elite. We’re not content with what has been achieved so far and this is when the hard work really starts.’
Keane’s attitude towards victory parades makes a refreshing change. It used to be the case that open-top bus parades were reserved for exceptional sporting achievements like winning the FA Cup or a European trophy. Nowadays it seems as though winning any old Mickey Mouse trinket is sufficient cause for an open-top bus parade and civic reception. West Ham, for example, celebrated their First Division play-off final victory in 2005 with a bus parade through Newham. Even FC United, the breakaway club formed by disaffected Manchester United fans, paraded on a bus through the streets of Bury this week to celebrate winning the Moore and Co Construction Solicitors North West Counties League Division Two.
A tinpot trophy it might have been, but FC United can at least say they were champions of their league. However, even runners-up have taken to staging victory parades these days. Newcastle United have not won a trophy since lifting the Fairs Cup in 1968 but this hasn’t stopped them helping themselves to a piece of the bus parade action. Newcastle lost in consecutive FA Cup Finals in 1998 and 1999 yet on both occasions they flaunted their failure in an open-top bus. Millwall, likewise, paraded down the Old Kent Road despite their abject surrender in the 2004 FA Cup Final. Sunderland even held a parade in 1998 after losing a First Division play off final against Charlton.
It’s not that I don’t like the idea of public celebrations. I’m not a bah-humbug merchant who hates to see other people enjoying themselves. It’s just that I think that excessive victory parading is counterproductive. Firstly, if all including the losers are parading their runner-up medals, it rather devalues the currency. Secondly, over-celebration encourages complacency. We saw the corrosive effects of this all too clearly with the English cricket team. When England regained the Ashes in 2005 there was a massive victory parade in London and a reception in Downing Street. The problem was that, as The Times columnist Martin Samuel put it, the England players ‘went on a year-long lap of honour’ afterwards culminating in the ignominious 5-0 Ashes whitewash in Australia this winter.
Paradoxically, it seems that victory parades have grown in inverse proportion to Britain’s declining sporting prowess. The proliferation of such parades has become emblematic of our culture of sporting mediocrity. If we were more accustomed to success perhaps we’d be less inclined to celebrate so ostentatiously. Indeed, so starved are we of real sporting success that we have started to redefine the meaning of achievement. It’s a sad indictment of our ‘bronze medal mentality’ that we’re even prepared to stage victory parades when we’ve finished runners-up. England, for example, were losing semi-finalists in the 1990 World Cup and even lost the third place play-off, yet 75,000 fans still gathered at Luton airport to welcome home the team.
Victory parades are not just symptomatic of the changing meaning of sport and sporting achievement; they are also part of a broader trend in British culture. Open-top bus parades are amongst a new breed of public rituals which include the ubiquitous minute’s silence or minute’s applause, books of condolence and impromptu shrines. These nouveau rituals have filled a ceremonial void in public life; they have replaced more traditional ceremonies such as church services or May Day marches, which have increasingly lost their purchase.
So, I reckon it’s time we declared a moratorium on victory parades. Unless you’re a proper champion, open-top buses should be strictly for tourists only.
Duleep Allirajah is spiked’s sports columnist.
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Kicking off earlier this month, the 2022 WNBA season is in full effect. Following the dramatic conclusion of the 2021 season, which saw the Chicago Sky notch their first ever WNBA championship, there are a slew of contenders vying for the 2022 title. For instance, the Las Vegas Aces are one of the hottest teams in the league, but have yet to win a WNBA title. Moreover, an Eastern Conference power, the Connecticut Sun are also in the mix for taking home a title.
Below, SBS goes over what each team brings to the table and who will ultimately be victorious in the 2022 WNBA Finals.
Considered one of the hottest teams in the league, the Aces have a lot of star power on their roster. Led by the forward A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas finished the 2021 season with a record of 24-8, good for first place in the Western Conference. Wilson was dominant last year, leading her squad in both points (18.3 per game) and rebounds (9.3). In addition to their star small forward, the Aces also feature two other WNBA All-Star selections from last season on their current squad. This includes Chelsea Gray and Dearica Hamby. Though they did lose Liz Cambage to the conference rival L.A. Sparks, the Aces still have a ton of firepower. Finally, Las Vegas has the luxury of having the reigning WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year, Kelsey Plum, who could step into an even bigger role this season.
Finishing as the No.1 team in the Eastern Conference last season, the Sun had a great campaign in 2021. After finishing the regular season with a final tally of 26-6, the team earned the top seed in the 2021 WNBA Playoffs. Also with their win total of 26, Connecticut tied their franchise record for most regular season wins in team history (this mark also occurred in 2005 and 2006). While the Sun did have a ton of regular season success, they unfortunately came up short in the postseason. After splitting the first two games of the series, Connecticut was unable to outlast the Chicago Sky in the Windy City and ended up losing the series, 3-1. They will be looking for more this season though and will feature the amazing duo of Jonquel Jones (2021 WNBA MVP) and Jasmine Thomas (WNBA All-Defensive Team selection).
The 2021 WNBA champions, the Sky started making all the right moves last season at the right time. Following an okay regular season (they went 16-16, good for second in the Eastern Conference), Chicago went on a tear in the postseason. Entering the WNBA Playoffs as the sixth seed, the Sky demolished the Dallas Wings in the first round, 81-64. The Sky then went on to knock off the Minnesota Lynx in the Second Round of the tournament, 89-76. As mentioned above, Chicago was then able to take down the Connecticut Sun in the semifinals, 3-1.
Buoyed by some spectacular performances from their three stars – Kahleah Copper, Candace Parker and Courtney Vandersloot – the Sky defeated the Phoenix Mercury 3-1 to win the 2021 WNBA Finals. With all three players returning in 2022, Chicago is looking to make even more history. After being only the third team in league history to reach the championship round with a regular season record of .500, Chicago showed that anything is possible. Could they win again in 2022? History has shown that they can never be counted out.
Prediction: Wth 2021 being one of the most unpredictable years in WNBA history, could this year be similar? In the case of a new champion being crowned, the answer is yes as the Las Vegas Aces will take home their first-ever WNBA title in 2022.
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Public transport journeys can be a pain for customers when they forget to bring a book or some music to pass the time. We’ve already seen Spain’s National Reading Plan enable train users to get the first chapter of books on their smartphones through QR code posters, and now First Aberdeen in Scotland is getting passengers to scan the backs of its seats to receive information and entertainment on their mobile devices.
The service has been launched on the operator’s premium services, which include free wifi, and enables anyone with a smartphone or tablet to scan the vinyl stickers on the back of the seats. After downloading the free app — available on App Store and Google Play — customers can watch high-definition trailers of new theater shows coming to Aberdeen, as well as view information about bus routes and book a trip for the future. Passengers can also watch videos featuring First staff to learn more about the company.
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Helvi Hilda (Rinta) Nelson
February 12, 1929 ~ July 10, 2021 (age 92) 92 Years Old
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Helvi Nelson, 92 of Tamarack, MN passed away Saturday, July 10, 2021 at Riverwood Healthcare Center in Aitkin, MN. Helvi Hilda was born the second of 6 children to Oscar and Hilda (Oja) Rinta on February 12, 1929. After graduating from McGregor High School in 1948, Helvi worked at a record shop and later at the turkey processing plant in Aitkin, MN. On May 14, 1949 Helvi married Clyde Nelson, a union that would last 72 years, ending with Clyde’s passing just 5 weeks prior to her own.
Helvi worked tirelessly behind the scenes tending to her family as a homemaker. After raising their 3 children, Helvi worked as a home health aide serving residents in Aitkin County, as well as, Buffalo, MN where they also maintained a residence for a time. Helvi loved to dance with Clyde and they loved music. They danced throughout their life together with the last one around their kitchen island. Helvi had a green thumb and tended to flowers (inside and out) as well as a produce garden. She focused her love and attention on her children, grand children and great-grandchildren, with caring dedication and purposeful intention she shared her skills and talents throughout the years. Helvi was a faithful member of Round Lake Presbyterian Church for over 60 years where she sang in the choir, volunteered in innumerous ways and was an active member of the Women’s Guild. In her retirement years she and Clyde enjoyed winters in Arizona where she soaked up sunshine and extended time with grandchildren.
Helvi was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Clyde Nelson, sisters Violet Redetzke and Ella Nordmeier and a great-grandson; August. She is survived by sons Gary (Cindy) Nelson of Tamarack, MN, Ronald (Lynette) Nelson of Phoenix, AZ and Bruce (Heidi) Nelson of Tamarack, MN, her sister Irene Johnson of Bemidji, MN; brothers Alvin (Carmen) Rinta of Tamarack, MN and Dean (Ginny) Rinta of Darby, MT. Grandchildren; Susan (Luke) Schoenfeldt of Zimmerman, MN, Pamela (JD) Anderson of Ham Lake, MN, Kara (Evan) Giovanni of Mayer, AZ, Korry (Lupita) Nelson of Peoria, AZ, Nathan (Wulan) Nelson of Tucson, AZ, Andy (Janell) Nelson of Shakopee, MN, Lisa (Matt) Roberts of Bemidji, MN and 13 great-grandchildren.
Funeral Service will be 12 PM – Saturday, August 14, 2021 at Round Lake Presbyterian Church, McGregor. Pastor John Yingling will officiate. Visitation will be 1 hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be in the Round Lake Cemetery, followed by lunch and fellowship at the church. Arrangements are with McGregor Funeral Home & Cremation Services in McGregor. To leave a message of condolence please go to www.srtfuneral.com | <urn:uuid:8e0a2576-58f6-4fae-b6bc-975f8afe9430> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.srtfuneral.com/obituary/Helvi-Nelson | 2023-09-28T18:14:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.954722 | 810 |
Back in high school, you always wondered why the school gate was always left open from 5:00 am, suppose that weekend you were hosting school football games.
The previous day, your boarding master had already worked you tirelessly while marking the pitches, on top of the training you had to endure preparing for the said games.
It was at this time that an old fit man, face covered in white powder, holding a small pouch would run through the gate, cross the football pitch barefoot and make three deliberate stops. One at the centre of the pitch, and two at each goalpost. On all three stops, the man would perform a 5-second prayer in jargon, while pinching a bit of white powder from his pouch and smearing it on the grass.
This ritual lasted less than 5 minutes and as the man ran outside the gate, a senior player in your team would convince of how your home record has been kept intact for the past 4 years due to his 'Juju'. You would grow to believe it since most teams hardly beat you on your home ground.
The use of spiritual beliefs or systems by incorporating spells and peculiar items is deeply rooted in African culture. On a basic level, witchcraft is believed to be the use of supernatural powers to control people or events.
African football has deep roots based on beliefs, superstition and rituals. It is no surprise that even in the modern game, stakeholders sometimes turn to the metaphysical with the hope of influencing the consequence of a match.
Ever since Gor Mahia Chairman Ambrose Rachier revealed he is a Freemason, the debate about the use of witchcraft, voodoo, juju or supernatural powers has never been rifer.
Even though Secretary-General Sam Ochola distanced the club from any association with freemasonry, K'Ogalo have not fallen short of voodoo drama in the past.
In July 2018, the team refused to use the official dressing room allocated to them at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania during the CECAFA Kagame Cup semi-final clash against hosts Azam FC, claiming the room had been 'tampered with' to influence the outcome of the game. Pre-match officials had no choice but to inspect the players at the dugout. Azam beat Gor 2-0 courtesy of two dramatic extra-time goals, with Team Manager Jolawi Abondo later detailing the unbearable stench the Kenyan team had to put up with in the dressing room.
"Whatever was smelling there was not normal. It was not human. It was not a case of juju but the stench coming from there. It happened in 2015 again and even before the final, Simba experienced the same thing and twice refused to use the dressing room," Abondo is quoted in an African publication.
During an interview with The Nairobian in 2014, former Kenya Premier League Player of the Year George Odhiambo 'Blackberry' revealed he witnessed strange practices while plying his trade at Azam. Blackberry, who had been released for 'demonstrating a great deal of unprofessionalism', said the glaring use of 'African magic' was unbearable.
"I signed a one-year deal with Azam but the blatant use of African magic was too much for me to handle. I could train well but on the match day, at times I could experience strange physical complications like body pains and swollen feet. They have the money but playing conditions are unbearable. It is almost impossible to play in the league because I wasn't used to such things," Odhiambo said.
Another Kenyan who has had brushes with pre-match rituals is former Harambee Stars goalkeeper Willis Ochieng, who ripped up his three-year contract at Simba Sports Club citing unfavourable playing conditions.
Willis, who also donned the colours of Finish Premier Division club IFK Mariehamn, narrated a bizarre occurrence while playing for the Tanzanian giants in 2011.
"When we got to the dressing room, there was thick smoke and when it subsided, we saw two people seated on our playing kits," Willis told The Standard.
Former Sofapaka and Wazito FC head coach Melis Medo in February 2020 resigned as head coach of Tanzanian Premier League side Coastal Union FC citing witchcraft. Medo's letter was short, thanking all the 'ghosts' for 'fighting success'.
In June of the same year, Former Gor Mahia coach Dylan Kerr revealed some teams used black magic against his side but always lost.
In February 2021, Gor and Bandari fans were soiled in witchcraft allegations at the Mbaraki Stadium in Mombasa ahead of an (FKF) Premier League encounter.
Instances around Africa
Cases of pre-match rituals have been prevalent in Tanzania. In October 2003, the interim committee of the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) penalised Simba and Yanga, for allegedly using witchcraft ahead of a league match staged in Dar-es-Salaam.
A story that ran on the BBC revealed the two clubs were fined 500 dollars (Sh60000), after performing rituals that included two Yanga players urinating on the pitch to nullify a strange powder and broken eggs placed on the field by Simba at halftime. It is claimed that most of the footballers then came into the stadium with their backs facing the pitch.
The game which ended in a 2-2 draw, saw Yanga captain Paul John Masanja refuse to shake hands with his Simba equal Seleman Matola, as reports claim he had been instructed not to do so.
"These are our biggest clubs and their strong beliefs in witchcraft can set a bad example for the upcoming teams. We have fined both teams $500 and we are also going to start a campaign to educate all the teams in the league that juju has no place in football," said former TFF secretary-general, Secretary-general Mwina Kaduguda.
The BBC also revealed witchdoctors receive ample payments for their services. In 2004, Simba player Somali Issa Abshir Aden told of instances where he had been barred from entering the dressing room due to some ritual being performed.
Kaduguda caused a stir in September 2004 by claiming the federation had paid a witch doctor to come to Nairobi for Taifa Stars' World Cup preliminary qualifier against Kenya, which they lost 3-0.
In November 2006, the TFF determined that newly-crowned winners Yanga and Simba had performed witchcraft rituals before their derby on 29 October. A fine of $500 (Sh60,000) was imposed on both clubs. Rituals revealed by investigative sources showed fans of each team burying unknown substances on the pitch before the game, and players using spectator instead of the stadium's main gate.
Ghana international Andrew Ayew caused a stir in February 2015 when he was caught on camera sprinkling a substance on the pitch ahead of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) final against Ivory Coast.
Another bizarre incident was spotted during the 2015/16 Rwandan Premier League season when Rayon FC striker Moussa Camara sprinted and detached an object previously placed on Mukura Victory FC's goalpost, which fans believed was witchcraft-laden. The goalkeeper's efforts to chase Camara were in vain, as he scored the equaliser soon after. He, however, was fined 100,000 Rwandan Francs (Sh11,000) by the Rwandan FA, which threatened to enforce harder punishments on players caught executing witchcraft activities.
In 2002, Cameroon coach Winfried Schafer and his goalkeeping coach Thomas Nkono were arrested by police for allegedly placing a 'charm' on the pitch moments before kick-off.
Former Everton star Peter Odemwingie revealed to a Nigerian publication that most African players believe more in 'juju treatment' than going to professional doctors when injured. "At least 70% of players believe in it. They think that some kind of salve will save them. This is more suggestion. Brainwashing goes," Odemwingie is quoted on Nigeria's The Nation.
In February this year, Simba SC players were seen burning a substance at the centre of the pitch ahead of their CAF Champions League quarter-final second-leg tie against Orlando Pirates at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, which slightly damaged the pitch.
The most recent mention of witchcraft in Europe happened in September when Mathias Pogba doubled down on witchcraft allegations on his brother Paul, the France and Juventus star. According to news in Europe, Mathias alleges Pogba paid a witch doctor to 'neutralise' his French teammate Kylian Mbappe in the 2019 Champions League round of 16 tie between beat Paris Saint-Germain and Man United.
Mathias also claimed his brother sought the services of a witchdoctor ahead of the 2016 European Championship final which France lost to Portugal. "Like in the Euro 2016 final, where strange things happened such as the swarm of butterflies before the match," Mathias is quoted in one of his videos. He is currently in police custody after being charged over alleged extortion against his brother.
In the 2002 World Cup, Senegal hired Ngoy Lingueul Mbaye as team witch doctor for the tournament. Even though France coach Bruno Metsu did not give much importance to the witchdoctor, Senegal shockingly beat France 1-0 in the Group stage, Sweden 2-1 in the Round of 16 and became the second African nation to reach a World Cup quarter-final, a feat that had only been accomplished by Cameroon in 1994.
Later, French midfielder told RMC Sport a year before the tournament, he met a Senegalese vendor at a beach in France, who told him strong witchdoctors would ensure the Europeans lose to the African team in the upcoming tournament.
"One year before the 2002 World Cup, I was at a beach in France and met a Senegalese. He walked up to me and said 'Look, the World Cup that will be played in 12 months, France will meet Senegal and Senegal will win by 1-0, because our witch doctors are very strong in Senegal. You will see, " said Petit.
Another big superstition story came from the former agent of ex-Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure claimed an "African curse" was haunting Pep Guardiola, preventing him from ever winning a Champions League trophy again. These comments came after the midfielder's interview with France Football, where he accused the Spaniard of "often having problems with Africans". Due to the frosty relationship between the three, Toure's final years in England saw him make few appearances under Guardiola, eventually leaving the club in May 2018.
"The way he acted towards Yaya, a club legend, coming up with various pretexts not to let him play...He has set all of Africa against him, many African fans have turned away from Man City...and I am sure that many African shamans will not let Guardiola win the Champions League in future. It will be like an African curse on Guardiola. Time will tell if I am right or not," Seluk told Sport24.
In January 2018, Everton's chief shareholder, Farhad Moshiri claimed Romelu Lukaku refused to extend his contract after a "voodoo message told him to join Chelsea". Speaking at a General Meeting, Moshiri said Lukaku would have renewed at Everton if it wasn't for a message he got after a trip. "I can assure you we tried everything to keep Rom. Everything was in place, there were a few reporters outside, then in the meeting Rom called his mother. He said he was on a pilgrimage in Africa or somewhere and he had a voodoo and he got the message that he needs to go to Chelsea.
Another common superstition is the Chelsea number 9 curse. In August this year, former head coach Thomas Tuchel admitted no player wanted the Chelsea No 9 shirt left by Romelu Lukaku, due to a 'curse'. The shirt has been worn by several top-class strikers at Stamford Bridge, who have failed to live up to expectations. These include Fernando Torres, Alvaro Morata, Radamel Falcao and Gonzalo Higuain.
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Star Fish Company was started in the early 20's by Judge Millis. Gaylord Garner purchased the business in the 1950's and his son Allen took it over when his father died in the late 80's.
Star Fish Company had primarily been a wholesale company prior to the addition of the retail market in the 60's. Mr. Garner had thought that many people wanted a place where they could purchase locally caught seafood. He was right! The retail market built up a solid clientele of both locals and visitors.
In 1996 Allen Garner sold the company to its current owner, Karen Bell. Karen felt that in addition to offering the public fresh seafood in the retail market, it made sense to start offering cooked seafood also. A small kitchen was upgraded and eight picnic tables were placed on the back dock. A restaurant was born!
Cortez Village, where Star Fish Company is located, is found on the northern edge of Sarasota Bay. It is one of the few remaining working waterfronts left in Florida. The view from Star's dock is incredible. It includes mangrove islands, Jewfish Key, Longboat Key and Bradenton Beach. Add to that the local commercial fishing fleet and you've got one of the most scenic places found on Florida's Gulf coast.
Star Fish Company strives to serve simple Florida seafood prepared in the simplest of ways. Most items are either fried, grilled, blackened or sauteed. Sides are kept simple, too. There's cole slaw, cheese grits and french fries. Of course, don't forget the hush puppies! We haven't found any better!
There are two ways to get to Star Fish Company. By car take Bradenton's State Road 684 (aka Cortez Road or 44th Avenue) west until you come to 123rd Street West, then turn south (left). Go two blocks to the end and you run right into Star. If you're coming by water, you'll want to head east along the shoreline south of the Cortez Bridge. You'll pass the U.S. Coast Guard Station and A.P. Bell Fish Company before coming to Star's back dock. Just idle on in and tie up to whatever's free.
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The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company has agreed to pay £540,000 for essential works to be carried out at the Liverpool landing stage to safeguard services to the city for three more seasons.
The major investment is necessary to ensure that fast craft services can continue to operate between Douglas and the heart of Liverpool until the end of 2019, when a new berth will be required.
The contract to use the landing stage at Princes Parade was originally due to expire on 31st December 2016 and owner Peel Ports had indicated Steam Packet Company operations would need to relocate elsewhere. The landing stage was described as ‘time expired’ and too old to maintain but, following a request from the Steam Packet Company, Peel Ports reviewed the condition of the landing stage and identified its lifespan could be extended by three years if extensive essential works are carried out later this year.
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Steam Packet Company Chief Executive Mark Woodward said: ‘The future of the existing landing stage has been in doubt for some time, so we are pleased to be able to give our passengers certainty, at least in the short term.
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The president’s academic honor roll recognized undergraduate students who must attain 4.0 grade point averages for the semester and must complete at least 12 credit hours.
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First Collection GA £455.00 NGA £930.07 Monthly Standing Orders: £3,818.00
Building Fund GA £22.00 St Anthony £85.00
Sick & Retired Priests GA £29.00 Communications: £15.00
Special Collection - Peter’s Pence - 25 June : This is the practice of the laity to provide financial support to the Holy See to allow the Holy Father the means to respond to those suffering as a result of war, oppression, natural disaster, and disease.
SSVP Youth to Lourdes Collection: This raised £617.74. Thank you to all who contributed and so generously.
Solemnity of St Peter & St Paul: Vigil Mass on Wednesday 28th at 7pm and on Thursday 29th at 8am & 10am.
Gift Aid 22-23 Claim: We received back from the Inland Revenue £21, 157.71 and £1,190.71 for Second Collections which goes to Diocese. Thank you to all those who Gift Aid. You can still sign up for 23-24
Fair Pay for Social Care Campaign The declaration is open for signing until the end of June after which we will present it (hopefully with a good number of signatories) at a meeting with the Scottish Government. For more information go to justiceandpeacescotland.org.uk..
Young Adults (18-35) To mark the end of another series of talks, the Diocesan Young Adults’ group is having a BBQ on Wed 12th July in the grounds outside the Diocesan Office. We’ll begin with Mass in the Cathedral with Bishop Keenan at 6pm. Old and new faces are welcome. If you intend to come, please contact email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.org before Sun 9th July.
Synod of Bishops 23: Please see below the link to the latest Synod document called the Instrumentum Laboris, which will be discussed at the synod. Comments on this document to email@example.com by Friday 21st July 2023, so that they can be presented to Bishop Brian McGee who will represent Scotland at the Synod.
Diocesan Safeguarding Action Plan 23: This has now been approved for use by the Diocesan Safeguarding Advisory Group (DSAG) and Bishop John. The plan was formed from the analysis of the latest Scottish Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency audit and is intended to drive, monitor and improve safeguarding activity across the Diocese in line with the quality & evidence indicators contained within ‘In God’s Image’; the churches instruction on safeguarding in the Catholic Church in Scotland. A copy of the plan will be made available on the Diocesan website.
Monthly Divine Mercy Devotion: There will be a Divine Mercy Mass and Adoration on Wednesday 28 June at 7pm at St Mary’s Church, 163 George Street, Paisley.
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration – Summer Hours: The Oratory will close for the summer this Friday 30 June, re-opening again on Monday 14 August. Over the summer from Monday 3 July – Friday 11 August there will be Adoration in the Church from 10.30 am – 1.00 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Adorers are asked to complete a sign-up for these hours using the forms in the porch at the back of the Church. There will be no First Friday Vigils over the summer. The Vigils will resume on Friday, 2nd September at 7.00 pm.
Wednesday Workers Mass at 7am: These will cease after this Wednesday until the schools return.
Bulletins: These will cease after this weekend until the schools return.
We pray for those who have died recently: Andy Lochhead, Catriona Mc Donald, Maureen Mc Guire, Elizabeth O’Rourke, Christopher Watson, and for the Anniversaries of William Bell, Margaret Bisland, Leanne Gallacher, Baby Patricia Reynolds, Fr. Edward G. Costello, (1992) Canon Bernard Canning (2020) and Canon James Troy (1956). | <urn:uuid:6e3a8cce-77d9-4bb0-becf-72c251d26a3a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.stjohns-barrhead.org/blog/twelth-sunday-year-a | 2023-09-28T18:23:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.92649 | 956 |
On the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which fell on 8th September, 2014, almost 300 of our parishioners gathered together at the grotto of St Joseph’s Church to celebrate Our Lady’s birthday. This year marks the 60th year since the Grotto was first erected. The grotto is built in 1954 is the result of the untiring efforts of a former sacristan called Ponniah together with the help of the Legion of Mary. It was built during the time of Rev Frs Ernest Belet, Pierre Decroocq and Anthony Michael, who were the parish priests during that time.
Our celebration this year started at 7.30 pm with the recital of the rosary in both Tamil and English, which was followed by the Eucharistic Celebration at 8.00 pm. The grotto was blessed with incense and holy water just before the Eucharistic celebration took place. Also taking place that evening was the blessing of the newly erected statue of our Lady of Lourdes (OLL) which replaced the old statue. The paint on the old statue of OLL had already faded and the pupils on the eyes of the statue had totally disappeared. The old statue of OLL is currently placed at the Church’s parish house.
The Eucharistic Celebration ended with a special blessing for the children, and the cutting of the “Birthday Cake”, whilst everyone sang, “Happy Birthday” to Our Lady. Immediately thereafter, a simple fellowship was held in the church courtyard
I wish to thank each one of you for joining us in this celebration and for making Mother Mary’s birthday a special one.
For those who have yet to visit the grotto, I would like to inform you that the area surrounding the grotto has been cleaned up and railway sleepers (pieces of wood) placed along the walk path to the grotto. Since Sentul is historically known as a railway town complete with railway tracks and numerous railway workers working and living here in the early 1900s, I thought it would be appropriate to have some of the town’s history linked to our Church and that is why the railway sleepers have been placed along the path to the grotto. We will continue to beautify Our Lady’s grotto with further landscape works and also enhance the sanctuary thereat. | <urn:uuid:9e8c1696-dde6-4e64-a029-55be2e00491c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.stjosephsentul.org/sjcs-grotto-turns-60/ | 2023-09-28T18:06:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.980638 | 493 |
Is Outgrow Co the Best Chatbot Software?
Outgrow is a powerful chatbot software that allows you to connect with your customers via a variety of methods. You can build your own chatbot that provides answers to frequently asked questions and you can even build one to search for comprehensive help articles. Based on your preferences you can set your chatbot to be GDPR compliant. Outgrow can be used to ensure that your content is GDPR compliant.
Outgrow is among the best chatbot software alternatives. It can help you increase your conversions and bounce rates. Outgrow’s analytics and tools help you analyze your results and increase your newsletter subscriptions. Outgrow can also be used to create PDF downloads of your results. However it has its drawbacks, and some can turn you off. Learn more about how to make the most out of Outgrow. It could also be helpful in case you require follow-up messages to existing customers.
The conversational AI of AlphaChat is an effective tool for businesses. Its AI technology enables companies to automatize their messaging and speech-enabled apps. With AlphaChat’s Natural Language Understanding, businesses can route support inquiries and streamline communications between their CS team and their clients. It also lets administrators examine key metrics such as accuracy, solve rates, average response time, and messages received.
The platform offers a comprehensive support and video tutorials that help you create chatbots for customer service. It offers more than an automated bot builder. There are a variety of templates available that can be used for various purposes. They can also be customized to reflect your brand’s tone of voice. The platform is fully responsive and is able to be used on mobile, tablet, and desktop devices. Outgrow is the best choice for medium-sized to large-sized companies.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Outgrow Co is a cloud-based solution for marketing automation, which integrates marketing campaigns and customer data and their behavior. As an Outgrow client, you can build interactive quizzes, suggestions and more without the need for a developer. Outgrow and Salesforce Marketing Cloud are both marketing automation tools. Outgrow is the best option when you’re looking for chatbots to assist your business.
For a company that needs to reduce costs and boost revenue chatbots are the way to go. Inbound conversations with customers have been proved to save 360,000 hours per year in the financial sector. According to one study, 34% of consumers are prone to ignore chatbots. However, one in five people will buy expensive products through a chatbot, saving the company 360,000 hours of labor.
The COIN chatbot is an excellent illustration of the advantages of chatbots in business. In the past few years, the chatbot has saved J.P. Morgan 360,000 hours of human labor, and has also increased their revenues. Chatbots are becoming more popular among businesses. Chatbots are being utilized by 34 percent of businesses to cut down on customer service time. Furthermore, 39% of businesses are using chatbots to make their websites more interactive. | <urn:uuid:39fbc21f-649f-4cd0-b3ec-eef56763bc2b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.stlukesjolon.org/chatbots-food/ | 2023-09-28T18:06:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.951806 | 647 |
St. Mel School has taught me everything I need to know to be successful in life. I have learned how to serve, behave and believe. It is a great privilege to attend a Catholic school, one I will not soon take advantage of. During my five years here, I have become a well-rounded individual. It’s an amazing gift to come here every day and I am so extremely thankful for everything I have been taught. My education is the foundation of a fruitful future. | <urn:uuid:ece6da16-1d3b-4188-8649-ea8bce7bb5ac> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.stmelschool.org/testimonial/student-testimonial/ | 2023-09-28T17:04:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.977881 | 99 |
The refurbishment of one such service reservoir dating back over a century has given it an additional 30-year lease of life at a fraction of the cost of building a new one. Undertaking this project did not come without its technical challenges.
In common with a large number of service reservoirs, Malpas Service Reservoir, owned and operated by United Utilities, dates back many years. The 20.5ML balancing reservoir was built in 1913 close to the village which gave it its name and lies close to the southern border of Cheshire, a few miles from the border with Wales.
Then, as now, it formed an important ‘staging post’ for water flowing from Lake Vyrnwy in North Wales into the North West. Lake Vyrnwy was constructed in the 1880s with a capacity of 59.7GL, originally to supply water to Liverpool via a 68-mile aqueduct constructed by Liverpool Corporation. Other pipelines were subsequently added, and the water from Lake Vyrnwy now forms part of a network of sources supplying a much wider area.
Today, the Malpas Reservoir helps service a population across a wide area of Cheshire. And while originally it was built as an open tank for clean water storage, after regulations changed, the circular tank was enclosed with a steel-clad roof.
Having served its purpose well for over a hundred years, time has now taken its toll on Malpas. Recent investigations discovered water ingress to the tank and the existing brickwork walls were found to be in a poor state. Stonbury, specialist contractors to the water industry, were commissioned to undertake a comprehensive internal refurbishment together with some external repairs.
The roof vents to the service reservoir were found to be allowing in rainwater, and so works to the roof were to be carried out internally and externally. This required erecting scaffolding and an extensive area of safety netting. External access to the roof also posed safety risks as the roof had a low load bearing capacity.
In addition, the contract came with a tight deadline of just 12 weeks because of the need to get the reservoir back into use to meet the higher customer demand of water in late spring. A very high quality surface internal finish was required, to ensure that the reservoir will provide the maximum service length after completion.
Stonbury assigned a team of 15 full time personnel to the project, including specialist contractors for the steel fabrication and construction of new stainless steel stairs within the reservoir. Work commenced in November 2016 and was completed in early April 2017.
Scope of works - Internal & External
The project commenced with overbanding to the floor joints, applying the longer lengths first while keeping the joints clean ready for the welding. Ultimately, some 3804 metres of overbanding were required to cover the 3849m2 of flooring creating a spider web effect in the circular-shaped reservoir.
Priority was given to completing the joints near the flume first, so it could be fixed back into position. At the same time, another team commenced grit blasting the walls to prepare them for resurfacing, as well as cleaning the other surfaces; including the steelwork within the reservoir. Work started first on the walls at the lower section, allowing regular checks on the profile to ascertain if the amount being removed was adequate and even.
Specialist engineers then undertook a detailed survey of the roof vents (which had been allowing in rain water) and the grating to the floor channel to determine the scope of work required, while the blasting grit was removed from the reservoir floor by another team.
By week 6 of the project, the overbanding to the floor of the reservoir had been successfully completed, and the internal surface of the reservoir walls, comprising Staffordshire blue engineering bricks, had been sufficiently prepared for mesh to be fixed to the walls across 24 bays and a total area of 1200m2. Fixing the mesh, which ultimately took a total of 15 days, created a suitable surface for the concrete spray to be applied. In total, 55,000 litres of concrete spray were applied to the perimeter walls. Timber screed rails were then fixed into place and spraying of the reservoir walls began in week 5, once the mesh had been applied in the first few bays.
To stay in line with the contract schedule, a target of completing the spraying of one bay a day was set, while mesh fixing continued on the remaining bays. Progress was slowed somewhat with numerous spray pump breakdowns, putting the concrete spraying two days behind schedule at one point, requiring weekend working to regain time. Work on the grating was completed in week 7 to cover the outlet channel.
During week 9 of the contract, a separate team erected scaffolding and fixed safety netting to the internal roof, providing safe internal access to the vents. During this week, steel fabrication contractors also came on site to install a series of channel covers inside the reservoir. Because the metal roof would not safely withstand the weight of people working on it, scaffolding was erected in several places over the top, together with a series of safety lines to provide safe external access to the vents. With the roof vents fixed in place, a Davit Arm and an SS ladder were introduced; and these, together with the scaffolding, provided safe access for the internal steel surfaces in the roof to be coated.
With the concrete spraying nearing completion, work then commenced on the perimeter walls overbanding, applying some 120m of overbanding to seal the joints between the 24 bays.
In the final week, all plant and equipment were removed, final tests conducted to ensure the water tightness of the overbanding and the site cleared and cleaned ready for inspection. A new handrail was installed on the top landing area and bracing applied to the newly installed access ladder. The final inspection was conducted by the client and the project was deemed completed and handed over.
Stonbury, one of the largest contractors in this sector of the water industry, typically undertakes around 450 refurbishment projects of this nature every year, making the process fairly standard for Stonbury and their supply partners. The ageing nature of our water supply infrastructure, and the cost of replacing it, means that retaining the structures that can be refurbished should represent a very worthwhile investment where it is technically feasible and financially viable. Moreover, there is a wealth of knowledge within the sector on the best techniques and materials to use, and considerable experience gained over the years on tackling projects of this nature to anticipate likely problems after work commences and factor these into contract tenders. | <urn:uuid:88d9fa9f-9096-4c23-a651-131799047e11> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.stonbury.com/news/adding-years-to-the-life-of-a-century-old-asset/ | 2023-09-28T18:07:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.971882 | 1,345 |
LDC is part of Lloyds banking group and specialises in supporting medium-sized businesses’ growth plans. It has a diverse portfolio across many sectors including industrials, technology, healthcare and financial services and has worked with familiar household brands such as USwitch, the NEC Group, Fever Tree and environmental specialist Adler & Allan.
This is a positive move that offers exciting prospects for the future of the business in terms growth and opportunity. Day-to-day activities will continue as usual as Stonbury continue to expand and build on its market-leading position.
Trevor Hoyle will continue to lead the business as CEO with full support from the current management teams which will remain unchanged. Two members from LDC, David Bains and Nicole Wong, will sit on a main board to provide strategic support together with Ian Burnett who will join as a Non-Executive Chairman. All three have extensive relevant experience and will bring with them new and fresh ideas to support Stonbury’s strategic goals and provide more diverse opportunities for employees.
Trevor Hoyle, CEO of Stonbury, said:
“We knew from the moment we met David and the LDC team that they were the right investment partner for us. Their relationship-first approach and extensive network of connections were important factors in our decision. With LDC’s support, we are actively exploring organic and acquisitive opportunities to expand our range of services. Sustainability sits at the heart of the challenge water companies and environmental organisations are facing. Creating a more resilient and efficient water network and a healthier, safer environment will be vital to reduce the impact of significant weather events. Stonbury is well-equipped to support our clients with low-carbon and nature-based solutions”.
David Bains, Partner and Head of East Midlands and East of England at LDC, added:
“LDC is committed to helping companies that contribute to a more sustainable future. Stonbury’s clear purpose focuses on sustainability and its experience and expertise over many years make it well-placed to support the water and environment industries in mitigating the impacts of climate change”.
Stonbury look forward to LDC joining the business and continuing to build the brand into one of the UK’s leading critical infrastructure services businesses.
Click here for LDC press release.
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LONDON (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II will attend her first public engagement for more than a week on Wednesday when she joins Prince William's wife Catherine on a visit to London's Tube network.
The 86-year-old had to cancel a number of events last week as she was still recovering from a bout of gastroenteritis which saw her admitted to hospital on March 3 for the first time in ten years.
Aides said she was continuing her "usual rhythm of business" at Buckingham Palace but the monarch has not attended a public engagement since signing a new Commonwealth charter on March 11.
On Wednesday, the queen will be joined by her husband Prince Philip and Kate, the pregnant wife of her grandson William, on a visit to Baker Street Underground station.
They will mark the 150th anniversary of the Tube by meeting station staff in the ticket hall and then maintenance and train workers down on the platform. | <urn:uuid:babdeb7c-6f3d-4506-bde7-a4aad4721b1d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.straitstimes.com/world/recovered-queen-to-join-kate-on-visit-to-the-london-tube | 2023-09-28T17:26:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.975384 | 184 |
SET PRICES MORE EFFECTIVELY
Use components of price to innovate pricing:
Alternative pricing levels: Can you get better control of price discounts?
Five Most important components of price: Can you use more components for better pricing?
Steps 22 and 23 in the Basic Strategy Guide
Improve/Pricing on the Navigation Bar
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Error Instruments a hardware boutique manufacture releases a new eurorack module Sputnik Radio. The module is available in white or black.
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Sales and Finance teams are two sides of the same coin — a profitability coin, that is. Both are critical to a company’s ability to succeed, and both need accurate data to work effectively. Yet the standard practice, when a company reaches a certain level of growth, is to have both teams working in their own silos — Sales in a CRM, like Salesforce, and Finance in an ERP like NetSuite.
Having two stand-alone systems obviously makes it difficult for teams to align, and increases the risk of bad or inaccurate data in either platform. But, at the same time, a separation between Sales and Finance is useful for a number of reasons — both teams have their own concerns and priorities, and having them work in the same platform presents its own set of challenges.
The solution? Integrate NetSuite and Salesforce. The AppExchange contains many tools that will help you do this — but you need to do it smartly, and selectively. We've partnered with Breadwinner, a Salesforce integration expert, to put together a guide to the key objects in NetSuite that should be integrated into your CRM.
What to Share and Why
The key to making a NetSuite and Salesforce integration work for your team is to be strategic about what you share. NetSuite has a lot of data in it that isn’t useful for Sales teams; likewise, much of what’s in Salesforce isn’t relevant to Finance.
Sometimes, the challenge in identifying relevant data is one of terminology. As Breadwinner’s Senior Engineer, Brian Newbold, puts it, “How many times have you had inquisitive looks in a cross-department meeting when discussing Accounts and Companies? (hint.. they’re the same thing)”
Other times, the issues are more challenging, and can require manual syncing, or translating between different data models — both things that take time and effort that can easily offset the convenience of integration.
But if you are selective in what you integrate — if you focus exclusively on the NetSuite objects that will be most useful for Sales teams — you can reduce both work and risk associated with integration.
Get the Guide
With the help of the experts at Breadwinner, we’ve created a short guide to integrating NetSuite data into your CRM. It starts with the bigger picture — the pros and cons of maintaining separate systems and the major pain points businesses have when moving data between them. Then, we look at the five NetSuite objects that offer the most benefit to Sales teams.
Download our Five NetSuite Objects That Should Be In Your Salesforce Org PDF and have the confidence of knowing you’re making the right moves when integrating NetSuite and Salesforce.
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NetSuite Reporting and Reconciliation
Review, reconcile, report — automatically
When it comes to passing an audit — or building a better governance framework in general — making a list of changes in your account is only half the battle. Companies tend to encounter the most difficulty when they’re asked to prove they understand why those changes were made.
Whether you track approvals via email, spreadsheet or an external ticketing system like Jira or ServiceNow, tying those approvals back to the changes that actually took place in the system — and demonstrating that the appropriate policy was followed — is an incredibly time-consuming process.
How Strongpoint Helps
Strongpoint automatically reconciles changes to approvals and automatically tracks the changes and updates that are the most difficult to capture manually. This functionality can be easily integrated into JIRA and ServiceNow using pre-configured plugins, so that your teams can continue using those platforms while taking advantage of Strongpoint’s industry-leading impact analysis and change policies.
Once installed, Strongpoint continuously audits your changes and alerts Administrators and managers when a high-risk change occurs without the proper approvals. At the same time, non-critical changes are automatically cleared.
The result is up to a 90% reduction in audit preparation time, and significant reductions in audit costs for many customers.
Change Log Reconciliation
If you have a review and approval process for changes in NetSuite — whatever it looks like — it isn't useful unless you have a way to tie those approvals back to the changes themselves. In other words, it's no good to have an Excel doc or email chain approving a change if you can't reconcile it with development activity in your account.
Demonstrating that change requests and approvals are tied to a verifiable log is a key part of passing an audit and maintaining the overall integrity of your account. Normally, this requires hours, if not days, of manual reconciliation. Strongpoint solves this problem — by doing the work for you!
Strongpoint's change management system logs all development activity and connects it to requests and approvals. Changes that don't follow the proper approval process are marked as noncompliant and collected for review — so you can stay on top of everything that slips through the cracks, and prove it to your auditors.
Capture all changes in an audit-ready log
Connect tickets to deployed changes
See compliance status at a glance
Prove compliance to auditors in minutes
Great change control aren't worth much if they can't be reported on. Fortunately, Strongpoint comes with out-of-the-box reporting detailing, in an immutable record, everything that happened in your account.
That's not only the changes that followed policy, but also the ones that didn't. As one auditor put it to us, "We're not concerned with what you know. We're concerned with what you don't."
Strongpoint is the only change management system that captures everything that went wrong, in addition to the changes that followed policy. It also treats changes to those policies with the same scrutiny — so if someone were to attempt to cover their tracks by altering the policy after that fact, that would be documented, too.
See all noncompliant changes — before your audit
Show comprehensive change controls with just three reports
Eliminate up to 90% of the work of compliance prep
Three Reports That Prove Compliance
At the end of the day, what does all this mean? It means you can walk into any audit with confidence, knowing you're doing what your auditors want, and that you can prove it to them with just three reports:
Everything that didn't follow policy and requires review. Ideally, when you go into audit, this report will be empty — most NetSuite teams have a standing meeting to go over it and clear it out on a regular basis:
Everything that didn't follow policy — hotfixes, emergency approvals, etc — and was reviewed after the fact and cleared by your team, along with the reasons why. This is the report your auditors will be most concerned with, as it shows everything that fell through the cracks — and proves you have a system for dealing with it:
Everything that followed the proper approval and testing policy, or that was determined to be safe by Strongpoint and automatically approved:
Watch a Demo
In this clip, Paul Staz explains how three Strongpoint reports can tell your auditors everything they need to know.
Case Study: Smartsheet
Thanks to Strongpoint's reporting and reconciliation capablities, Smartsheet is now saving 15-20 hours a month on audit prep — and staying compliant without expanding their team. Register to download the case study and learn how they did it. | <urn:uuid:f264c897-b355-4092-a704-69ed40acb43a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.strongpoint.io/netsuite-reporting-reconciliation | 2023-09-28T17:26:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.953527 | 973 |
Choose an organization with which you are familiar. - Netflix
Write a 500 word paper in which you review the impact of consumer behavior on this organization's
Review and evaluate a specific example of how this organization utilized its knowledge of consumer
behavior to adjust its marketing strategy.
How did this organization figure out what its target market wanted?
How was the organization's marketing strategy (product, price, distribution, promotion, service)
impacted by consumer behavior?
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To show the importance of flavor from the pet perspective, we created a series of posters and print ads directed to dog owners that showed the result of having a flavorful homemade alternative that expressed the choices of their pets.
PACO Collective, CEO
PACO Collective, CCO
PACO Collective, VP, Executive Creative Director
PACO Collective, Associate Creative Director
PACO Collective, VP Director of Strategy
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Do you feel your bathroom is too small? Do you want to make it look bigger question mark or are the bathroom faucets become too old and you need an upgrade? Or do you need help with the flooring? Over the period of time, due to constant exposure to water, or even regular wear and tear, you might notice certain signs of damage in your bathroom. Moreover, with time, you might want to give your bathrooms and your look and feel to further improve the value of the overall property. That is why you need to carry out a bathroom remodeling service. We, at Summit Custom Builders, can be the right choice for you. We are an established and reliable company which has been in this field for a long time. We can provide you with a wide range of services, right from home renovations, general contracting, to even ADA remodeling, kitchen, and bathroom remodeling. We are known for our high-quality products and innovative ideas. So, if you belong to areas such as Arvada, Denver, Lakewood, CO, Golden, GO, Morrison, CO, or Wheat Ridge, then you can opt for us.
Here, we have put together a few things to check about your bathroom remodeling service before hiring. Take a look.
There are certain aspects of the remodeling process which require a certain level of innovation and creativity. For instance, if you want to make your small bathroom look bigger, you will need to make use of certain innovative designs and elements. You need to make sure that the company you are hiring for this remodeling has such creative and innovative professionals.
But it plays a key role whenever you’re trying to remodel any part of the house. If you want to stick to your budget and do not want to exceed it, then you have to check their charges in advance. If required, you can always compare these rates with others and then make a decision.
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Angelo’s European Specialty, the one located on Keystone Court in Redding (right off Aspin Ave. – which is at the Victor and Highway 44 overpass), is well-known for their superior automotive service and repair work on European automobiles. They have developed lasting relationships with their customers because of their excellent standard of repair service, honesty, and their dedication to outstanding customer service.
Angelo’s European Specialty contacted us to make a new website for their business. We used WordPress for the platform and included services pages for most of the types of European cars that Angelo’s repairs, as well as galleries on each of those pages. We used icons throughout the new website and bright red colors from their new logo. | <urn:uuid:9ef4107b-24df-4e11-b547-c72487086dba> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sundialdesign.com/portfolio/angelos-european-specialty/ | 2023-09-28T16:55:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.97475 | 149 |
Once a contract has been signed, we work with your chosen supplier/ suppliers to deliver the goods or services, on time at the right quality and at the right price to you.
While it sounds easy, we often find that businesses are not getting what they originally agreed to buy.
This is sometimes due not only to issues with the supplier but also within the internal business structure, processes or communication etc.
Whatever the reason, we can assist to turn the situation around, applying appropriate templates and processes to ensure that you have the data that confirms when you are receiving good service from your suppliers and when there are issues to be addressed.
Our experienced consultants will work with your team to establish strong partnerships with your strategic suppliers or assist to seek alternatives when the incumbent companies cannot ultimately deliver to your expectations. | <urn:uuid:4eab4d8e-f04e-4c2c-902b-ce518cbd7bc3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sunfish.online/service/supplier-management | 2023-09-28T18:14:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.958786 | 161 |
Sunol Group Media wants to help you capture your remote content. Using remote recording capabilities We will help you get the best image and sound out of your productions.
NETFLIX - MANK
During the pandemic Sunol Group Media worked with a production company to consult and develop remote recording capabilities for press events, movie releases, behind the scenes interviews and Netflix online shows. Sunol Group Media set up both online recording infrastructure for 12 isolated feeds as well as a mirrored backup system.
The pandemic disrupted Visa’s Everywhere Initiative live event. Sunol Group Media developed a plan for VISA to transform their event into a virtual event. This was a massive undertaking.
There were 45+ global remote recordings of pitch presentations and live Q&A’s. The semi-finals and final event were live and had feeds from all around the globe. The event was streamed on Youtube, TechCrunch and Internally on VISA TV.
VISA asked Sunol Group Media to create a virtual event with a live feeling while everyone at the time was 100% working remote. Sunol Group Media accomplished this on all levels and VISA and stakeholders were ecstatic with end product.
For ElastiCON 2021 Sunol Group Media was asked to produce 13 live panel remote record discussions (ranging from 2-5 speakers) as well as producing breakout presentations and edits for 70 videos.
Sunol Group Media was on a tight deadline of 4 weeks. We quickly put together a plan to implement and record the panel discussions which included Megan Rapinoe and Trevor Noah as guest. The event was a huge success for Elastic.
Included in the examples to the right is the final highlight video which was a big hit to wrap up the virtual event.
NETFIX - BIG MOUTH
Sunol Group Media remotely recorded the talent from the hit Netflix show, Big Mouth. This project consisted of recording 3 isolated feeds of the talent plus 1 video that was played during the record so the actors could comment on the video content. Also included was a feed from a live musical performer.
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The Branson area is one of the very best vacation destinations in the country. Whether you want to take in the famous entertainment venues, enjoy some live musical entertainment, or just sit back and enjoy the views, it’s all here.
At Sunset Nightly Rentals, we offer rentals throughout the area, including:
We also have vacation homes in Branson MO’s many resorts:
Whether you are looking for a spacious home for a large group gathering or a cozy cabin for a romantic getaway, we have the vacation rentals in Branson, Missouri to suit your needs. At, Sunset Nightly Rentals we are Branson vacation rental experts, and our experienced, friendly staff will ensure that your stay is carefree and comfortable. Each of our vacation rental homes in Branson, MO are well maintained and fully equipped with everything you’ll need to totally enjoy your stay!
Don’t hesitate to ask any questions you may have. We want everyone who stays in one of our vacation rentals to enjoy their stay. Our goal is to extend the best in customer and guest services!
Looking for the perfect vacation spot for the entire family? Chateau Mountain is the newest resort with amazing Table Rock Lake Views.
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Peterson Manufacturing is a leading supplier of vehicle lighting products based in Kansas City. The company was founded in 1945 and has been at the forefront of innovation in the transportation lighting industry by expanding its product range to include LED lights, reflectors, and wiring harnesses. Over the years, the company has achieved many milestones, such as developing the first LED multi-function strobe and turn light and guaranteeing the first moisture corrosion-proof harness for trailer lights. Peterson is a trusted supplier for companies like John Deere, General Motors, and Caterpillar Inc. Super Bright LEDs is proud to be a Peterson lights dealer. Shop their wide range of trailer lights, tail lights, marker lights, and more. | <urn:uuid:25c69d93-3eb1-42af-8c18-69afcb251ca5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.superbrightleds.com/brand-partner-page-peterson | 2023-09-28T18:28:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.958942 | 143 |
This is either going to be a really good fight or the most one sided thing in the history of stupid Twitter and internet fights. Here is the run down so far.
- King writes in this week’s Entertainment Weekly blah blah something about radio and then: “How culturally important are the gabbling “personalities” who make prank calls and own morning drive-time? Let’s put it this way: As far as I’m concerned, you can take Opie and Anthony and shove ’em where the sun doesn’t shine.”
- Opie (or Anthony) gets pissed. I can’t tell which is which. But I am pretty sure it is the one who doesn’t have Edward James Olmos Face and riles up his troops on his Twitter page
- I got an email from a game I signed up for like YEARS ago that said:
Round 9 Mafialife Players,
Opie gave the word tonight on his twitter @opieradio that Stephen King shit on The Opie and Anthony Show pretty bad in an interview.
He asked all of us to do him a favor and flood the Stephen King forum www.stephenking.com/forum asking him if he even listens to Opie and Anthony. He claimed they were 2 morning drive dj’s that do crank calls, and they havent done crank calls in over 2 full years. Opie and Anthony are more like Reality Radio.
I am handing out 250.00 bucks to anyone’s paypal who floods that forum so hard they get thier mafialife.com username mentioned on the radio. Opie and Anthony will be watching that forum all weekend.
Keep me posted on twitter @mafialifechris, and I will be handing out tons of tshirts and shit to those who help out.
Create as many usernames on that forum as you have emails….and let them know Mafialife.com sent you!!
- The Stephen King forum is shut down.
I don’t really have dog in this fight. I am from Maine as is Stephen King, but that is not enough to make me root for him. Opie and Anthony made me laugh once when I lived in NJ, so I am not sure if I am rooting for them. But I want to know what YOU people think. If I had to bet, I would bet that like, next Thursday or so, someone will tell Stephen King about it and he will say: “I have a website?”
The thing that Opie is missing is that yes, SK probably DID generalize about the show. Just like I bet that he didn’t see Transformers 2. But I don’t see anything on Michael Bay’s Twitter page. Cause he can’t get to it cause it is covered with money. And honestly, when millionaires bicker, it sort of makes me want to set them all on fire. So why don’t you all go to your special millionaires club and lol about the workin’ man! Jerks! | <urn:uuid:35c7305e-1bbd-415c-ae66-34fdc36fe5b8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.superficialgallery.com/stephen-king-vs-opie-and-anthony-who-ya-got/7341/ | 2023-09-28T18:02:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.953111 | 659 |
The Weave Back Brace - 27 SeriesManufacturer: Advanced Orthopaedics - Model: 733
- Single pull strap design
- Rigid panels provide superior posterior and anterior support
- Quick pull 6.1 mechanical advantage compression system
- Light Weight
- Back panel is sculpted to hug the contours of the back
- Low profile sides conform naturally to different patients anatomies
- 10" High back panel
SIZING: Measure around waist at widest point.
HOW TO APPLY: Apply in a standing position. Open the strap and center the posterior panel of the brace in the middle of the back so the bottom is resting on the top of the buttocks. Wrap around the front closure and secure the velcro on the anterior panel. Pull the overlapping webbing strap out and up until snug, secure the velcro closure over the top of the front. Support should fit snug but not too tight. Adjust if necessary.
CARE INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the rigid panels and fasten closures. Hand wash in cold water with mild soap. Wrap in a towel to remove excess water (do not twist or wring). Air dry away from heat. Do not tumble dry. Do not bleach.
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does this help posture also
Yes, it does because it is a ragid on long (meaning up and down your back) brace. This brace isn't specifically designed to help someone's posture (it is for compression to ease back pain) but because of the way the brace is designed, it keeps your back straight. | <urn:uuid:a453e014-f35c-4cc2-bafe-d8e0da49145f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.superiorbraces.com/products/weave-medicare-back-brace-10-in-back-panel | 2023-09-28T17:47:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.854093 | 331 |
Introducing the Bitcoin Lottery Bonanza is where the realm of luck and cryptocurrency converge to offer you the chance of a lifetime. Imagine winning huge jackpots in the form of Bitcoin, the world’s leading digital currency, simply by relying on your lucky stars. This thrilling opportunity allows participants to engage in the exhilarating world of online lotteries while also embracing the decentralized and innovative nature of cryptocurrencies. The Bitcoin Lottery Bonanza presents a unique and exciting twist on traditional lotteries. Instead of traditional fiat currencies, the prizes are awarded in Bitcoin, which has gained immense popularity and value over the years. With its decentralized nature and robust security features, Bitcoin offers a reliable and transparent platform for this grand event. Participants have the opportunity to win substantial amounts of Bitcoin, providing them with a gateway to the vast and ever-expanding world of digital wealth.
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The garage doors at your commercial property contribute a lot towards the business operations that you are running on a daily basis. For example, assume what would happen when your front garage door stops working in a morning and you cannot open your parking lot to the customers. This will make you lose numerous business opportunities. In such a situation, you are expecting to get the broken commercial garage door repaired as soon as possible as well. This is where you must contact Supreme Garage Door.
We offer expert commercial garage door repair services
Your commercial garage doors are subjected to heavy wear and tear on a daily basis. Therefore, it is important to get the commercial garage doors repaired by an expert. Then you can get the most durable fix to the garage door and you will never run into any major troubles in the future. This is where our team of experts will be able to assist you with. We know how to diagnose the issue with your commercial garage door and fix it. Our repairs are durable and we will only stick to high quality replacement parts. Hence, you will be able to get an expert fix from us at any given time of the day.
Once you get your commercial garage door repaired by us, you will never run into any major troubles with it in the future. For example, you will be getting all the support needed to keep your business up and running.
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When the commercial garage door is not functioning properly, you expect to get that repaired immediately. That’s because living with the problem can make your business lose numerous business opportunities. You don’t want that to happen. This is why you must always go ahead with the emergency commercial garage door repair services that we offer.
Our service teams are always in standby mode to attend to client requests. You can call us at any given time of the day and ask for support to overcome the emergency. Even if an entire panel in a commercial garage door is damaged by a careless driver, we will be able to repair it and support your business. In other words, our experts will help you to get the garage door up and running in no time.
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Any business that wants to get commercial garage door repair services will be able to contact us. That’s because we can deliver the best solutions to you with overcoming the troubles you have, along with a perfect service. Here are the main reasons on why you must pick us.
- We offer 24 hour emergency services
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- We offer the most durable garage door repairing solutions
- We only use high quality replacement parts to help you with replacements
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This is an ancient Yorkshire locational surname, which derives from the village of Beckwith, in the Nidd Valley, near Harrogate. There is a house in Sussex called Beckworth Hall, but here again the original owners were of Yorkshire origin. Beckwith village is one of the earliest on record, appearing in the Anglo Saxon Chronicles as early as 972 a.d. in its correct spelling of 'Bec wudu' translating as the beech wood. In the Domesday Book the recording is as Beckvi, a sort of latinised style. The surname is 14th century (shown below) and thereafter it is well registered as both Beckwith and Beckworth.A curiosity is that the suffix changed from the Olde English 'wudu' to the Viking 'vior', but clearly not until many years, centuries even, after the Vikings themselves had been conquered, and the Normans ruled supreme. Examples of the surname recordings include Johannes de Bekwyth in the Poll Tax Rolls of York for 1379, and William Beckewithe who married Margrett Daye by civil licence at London in April 1562, whilst on January 30th 1625, Fabian Beckworth was a witness at St Vedasts Church, Foster Lane, London. One of the earliest American Colonists was Robert Beckwith, who went to Virginia in 1635, and his descendants probably fought against Sir George Beckwith, a prominent British officer in the War of American Independance (1772-1781). The Coat of Arms is a black field, on a chevron between three griffins heads, two red pheons. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Willelmus de Bekwyth, which was dated 1379, The Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls, during the reign of King Richard 11, known as 'Richard of Bordeaux', 1377 - 1399. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Serie LUMINA ACCURA SPRINT AURIGA STREAMER UNO
HOLZ-HER set itself the challenge to supply every type of edgebanding machine needed by companies of all sizes. The company’s range is thus very wide and incorporates entry-level machines, mid-sized all-rounders, and large-scale industrial machinery for serial production:
LUMINA and ACCURA
Serie LUMINA ACCURA Types
1375 1558 1380 1556 1584 1554 1586 1588
The models of the LUMINA and ACCURA Series offer everything that could be needed for manufacturing large series of furniture panels and applying edging. Features such as very high levels of productivity and precision, consistent quality, and rapid production speed come as standard in these series. HOLZ-HER produces a total of eight models within these series.
AURIGA and SPRINT
Serie SPRINT AURIGA Types
1329 1308XL 1327 1308
The AURIGA and SPRINT Series combine the features needed by modern carpentry workshops and manufacturing companies involved in serial production. With five models in the AURIGA Series and a further two models in the SPRINT Series, HOLZ-HER has a comprehensive portfolio of high-performance edgebanders within its mid-range offering.
UNO und STREAMER Serie
Serie STREAMER UNO Types
1057XL 1302 1057 1054 1053
The UNO and STREAMER Series are HOLZ-HER’s entry-level machines for edgebanding. The extremely compact UNO 1302 is designed for manual operation and can work on items up to 45-millimetres thick with an edge thickness of 3 millimetres. The STREAMER Series offers a range of four models, each more powerful than the last.
HOLZ-HER supplies solutions for vertical and horizontal panel-cutting:
The SECTOR Series is the ideal solution for hardware stores and carpentry workshops which are short on space. The vertical positioning of the panel makes handling easy and clear to follow. The three SECTOR models are also very narrow in design. The SECTOR 1260 AUTOMATIC is especially innovative and features programmes to support the operator during vertical panel-cutting.
The following types are available:
- SECTOR 1254
- SECTOR 1255
- SECTOR 1260 automatic
TECTRA and ZENTREX
Serie TECTRA ZENTREX Types
6120 classic 6220 classic 6120 power 6220 power 6120 lift 6220 lift 6120 dynamic 6220 dynamic
Those wishing to perform horizontal panel-cutting can choose between the TECTRA and ZENTREX Series. The TECTRA models are the entry-level machines but even they feature a wide range of innovations to improve productivity and precision. The ZENTREX models are capable of producing even larger volumes, which makes them ideal for large-scale serial production. The TECTRA and ZENTREX Series include a total of eight different models.
HOLZ-HER is one of the few manufacturers to supply vertical CNC machining centres for solid materials and layered panels. Their machines are especially suited to continuous material throughput where the amount of material to be machined is not too extensive.
The three models from the EVOLUTION series
- EVOLUTION 7405 4mat
- EVOLUTION 7402
- EVOLUTION 7401
The three models of the EVOLUTION Series are also highly regarded for their compact floor dimensions and ease of use.
The selection of up to 5 interpolating axes in the PRO-MASTER models, on the other hand, make them ideal for horizontal panel-cutting. These CNC-supported machines enable comprehensive machining while other production processes are running simultaneously. Machining lengths of up to seven metres are possible depending on the model.
Serie PRO-MASTER 70er PRO-MASTER 71er PRO-MASTER 72er Types
7018 premium 7125 7225 Black Matrix 7017 performance 7122 7225 7017 classic 7222
HOLZ-HER also supplies four series of machines for every conceivable nesting requirement. The most special feature of their DYNESTIC nesting equipment is their vacuum table, which reliably holds the workpiece in place until all the holes, slots and pockets have been created.
The following types are available:
- DYNEYSTIC 7532
- DYNEYSTIC 7507
- DYNEYSTIC 7505
HOLZ-HER’s innovative and fully-automated panel storage systems are the ideal addition to any fleet of machinery for serial production. Vacuum arms, automated conveying systems, turning stations and highly-efficient software controls ensure HOLZ-HER’s storage systems are the perfect solution for companies wishing to perform continual production.
Many are disappointed that HOLZ-HER decided to cease development of further electrical tools, however, with the wide range of competitors in mind, their plan to focus on their core skills is fully understandable.
Nevertheless, HOLZ-HER belt sanders, hand-held circular saws and jigsaws will be sorely missed within professional circles. HOLZ-HER chain mortisers were particularly popular in carpentry workshops, but these, too, are now only available second-hand. Fortunately, the manufacturer still provides comprehensive services and HOLZ-HER parts are easy to source. | <urn:uuid:d54297a9-ac7e-4d5f-8e2f-122b31f4e890> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.surplex.com/en/products/holz-her.html | 2023-09-28T17:53:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.903179 | 1,148 |
It’s time for another television technology arms race again! First we had flat-screen plasmas to replace our space consuming tube TVs, followed by the LCD HD ready revolution, then full HD, uninspiring 3D televisions which failed to light up the publics imagination or meet the manufacturers sales targets! Smart TV’s quickly appear over the horizon – giving us the Internet experience on a larger scale, and LEDs came to rescue us from the expensive energy bills plasma TVs generated. So what’s next? 4k ultra HD TVs of course! All cranking up that home tech arms race and potentially our energy bills again.
So do we need 4k ultra HD TVs?
Close-up 4k screens look fantastic, however, do you need that kind of resolution in your front room – I think not. 4k images are for cinemas, where you’ve big screen projection and an audience to please. Okay if you lucky enough to own a 6m wide private cinema with a 4k projector it may be a good thing.
Then there’s the issue of what are you going to play on it, at the moment there isn’t a playback format like DVD or Blue-ray for ultra HD films. Downloading 4k content isn’t really an option at the moment as the files will be huge. Even the animation studios are complaining that 4k content is going to drive-up production costs, as animation films are rendered in 2k – have you ever spotted this when you’ve been to the cinema? Don’t get me wrong I like technology and love films; my tech life stretches back to days Spectrum computers, Amstrads and DOS, that’s until I discovered Apple Macs in the late 80’s. I even used to work with good old 35mm projected film before it was called 4k! I just think that there has to be a tangible benefit for consumers to technological improvements and a consideration for the energy consumption and data storage implications.
There is also the energy usage issue of ever expanding screen sizes and resolutions. Take a look on Sust-it and you will see that 4k-screens use far more power than HD ones. Even the European Environmental Bureau‘s (EEB) are making noises to ban super sized, energy hungry TV’s as happened with vacuum cleaners. The EU funded Cool Products campaign says European TVs use the same electricity as Sweden and Portugal’s residential energy consumption combined!
Downloading content from the cloud has an energy usage overhead that’s unseen, easily forgotten and rarely mentioned. Somewhere there’s going to be server ‘farms’ crammed with hard drives and computers streaming this content, all being cooled by massive air conditioning units pumping out yet more Co2. I’d rather go to the cinema any-day!
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The people of the town of Emmen, canton Lucerne, who faced international criticism last year after turning down the citizenship applications of 48 foreigners, voted on Sunday to accept the naturalisation of 22 new applicants.
The people of Emmen decided to approve 13 applications, covering 22 long-term foreign residents from Croatia, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Britain and Germany.
"I am very proud about this election result," said the mayor, Peter Schnellmann. "I hope this means the end to negative headlines on Emmen's naturalisation process."
The issue of nationality is decided at community level in Switzerland, but Emmen is one of the few towns to put it to a ballot.
Analysts say that after the unfavourable publicity that Emmen received last year, the town council was careful to process the 22 most "acceptable" applicants this time - all of whom had been thoroughly scrutinised by Emmen's nationality committee - from a list of about 300 who are waiting to be approved.
When Emmen held a nationality vote last year, only eight out of 56 applications were approved, and no one from the Balkans was accepted. The 56 applicants had, however, satisfied all of Switzerland's legal requirements for nationality, including length of residence in the country, and competence in the local language.
The case placed Emmen in the headlines both inside and outside Switzerland, with its voters being accused of racism.
Among the features criticised last year was a brochure listing applicants' particulars, including their pictures, ages, jobs, hobbies, and their reasons for wanting to become Swiss. The brochure was used again used for the latest applicants.
They were also invited to attend open meetings organised by local political parties, where they faced questioning about their reasons for wanting to become Swiss.
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Family Week: Mon-Sun, February 16 - 22
Singles are also welcome. Get to know some of the SSC's future full-fledged members. Families don't arrive till Monday evening, after the previous Weekenders have departed. Oh the fun they'll miss!
Reservations February 1st to February 13th
Family Week - Singles Welcome
Contact Rob: firstname.lastname@example.org
Please contact reservationist prior to registering as a Registration code is needed to register.
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We can change selected tab item(ToolStripTabItem) of RibbonControlAdv using “SelectedTab” property of RibbonControlAdv. We have prepared sample which tries to meet your requirement. In this sample, Button click event we have select “Insert” tab using “SelectedTab” property.
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Neil focuses on investments in financial services and financial technology companies in North America.
Prior to TA
- Bain & Company – Associate Consultant
- Johns Hopkins University – MS, Robotics
- Johns Hopkins University – BS, Mechanical Engineering
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Organic Noni Juice (500mL/1L)
NONI JUICE: Bottle 500ml and 1L
From Organic Farming
A traditional remedy used since the dawn of time by Polynesians, the juice of Noni is today known for its anti-inflammatory properties and natural painkillers.
It is also an excellent detoxifier< /span> liver. Athletes praise it for its toning and energizing properties.
- Certified Organic Product
- No preservatives
- No added sugar
- Suitable for vegetarians as it does not contain any product animal or animal derivatives
"PRODUCT FROM ORGANIC FARMING - CERTIFIED BY ECOCERT FR-BIO-01"
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We are pleased to welcome Faydra Koenig to present: “Grow Your Business: How and Why to Start a Podcast Now.”
As a low-cost, high outcome marketing tactic, podcasting is one of the fastest ways to grow your business. It allows you to show your ideal customers that you are an expert and valued resource, while launching your business into an entirely new realm with minimal effort.
Nothing comes close to the impact and advantage that podcasting has for reaching a niche market, setting up your business as an authority and providing value to your customers.
Faydra Koenig, a podcaster and Amazon best-selling author who has worked in mental health, social work, and family court services, will share both why and how business owners can use the worldwide and affordable technology of podcasting to grow.
You can learn more about Koenig here: www.americascrisiscoach.com
The meeting will be on Monday, March 14th, 6-8 pm at Pizza on the Hill, in Tahoe Donner at 11509 Northwoods Blvd., Truckee. A $5 fee includes pizza and salad. Before and after the presentation, there will be time for networking with other technology professionals who live and work in the Tahoe-Truckee region.
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A seven-foot-tall basketball player may be in excellent bodily situation however may or may not be in good health—depending, for example, on whether or not the individual has fallen sufferer to an attack of influenza. Allergen again, even 20 or 30 years later, he or she might endure something from a light allergic reaction—a easy rash—to severe anaphylactic shock, coma, and even dying, relying upon the circumstances. Thus it can be seen that, unlike disease, which is frequently recognizable, tangible, and somewhat simply defined, health is a somewhat nebulous situation and somewhat tough to define.
The sensors in your Apple Watch and iPhone capture information that reveals mobility metrics like strolling asymmetry to give you a greater overall view of your health. The Health app can give you app recommendations for health categories that curiosity you. Data collected from apps is stored alongside information out of your Apple Watch and information you’ve logged directly in your iPhone. Everything is constructed to keep your data secure and protect your privacy.
The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention has more info at a federal stage about COVID-19 and our current pandemic. Click the link below to access the federal government’s info and resources. For athletes selecting to play sports activities throughout this time, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has info that can assist Health you mitigate danger and stop the unfold of COVID-19 in your neighborhood. In Latin America, complete sales of sugar-sweetened drinks continue to rise at an alarming price. Consumption of added sugar is a leading reason for diet-related non-communicable diseases.
If you’re 18 or older you presumably can register for a booster shot. You can get a vaccine at a walk-in clinic or you might make an appointment. Be positive you may be getting thePfizer vaccinesince that’s the only vaccine that’s authorized for individuals age 12 to 17. A baby will have to have reached their 12th birthday to be eligible.
Good physical health can work in tandem with psychological health to improve a person’s general quality of life. However, regardless of this expenditure, individuals in the united states have a lower life expectancy than people in other developed nations. This is because of quite a lot of elements, together with access to healthcare and lifestyle selections. In addition to safety risks, many jobs additionally present dangers of illness, illness and different long-term health problems. Among the commonest occupational illnesses are various types of pneumoconiosis, including silicosis and coal worker’s pneumoconiosis .
The traditions and customs of a society and a family’s response to them can have an excellent or bad impact on health. Social components may also impact on the danger of poor health for individuals with lower SES, similar to marginalization and discrimination. They also maintain that people with low socioeconomic status usually have a tendency to experience stress as a result of day by day living, similar to monetary difficulties, marital disruption, and unemployment. It is important to approach “health” as a whole, rather than as a collection of separate factors. All forms of health are linked, and people ought to goal for total well-being and stability as the keys to good health. This implies that health is a resource to assist an individual’s perform in wider society, somewhat than an end in itself.
Our know-how goes a step further, curating knowledge for seamless integration immediately into your workflows—so it’s within reach whenever you need it. Open information trade is simply step one in healthcare interoperability. We anticipate healthcare business change on the horizon and propose the most effective measures for you. And as a result of updates may be pushed out throughout the network in a single day, you’ll all the time be prepared. AthenaTelehealth A handy and safe way to ship virtual care to your patients.
Provision of medical care is classed into major, secondary, and tertiary care classes. Another health problem that causes demise or contributes to different health issues is malnutrition, especially amongst kids. One of the groups malnutrition affects most is young youngsters. Approximately 7.5 million children underneath the age of 5 die from malnutrition, normally brought on by not having the money to find or make food. “WHO Yellow Card” refers again to the original World Health Organization International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis issued to the individual following administration of the COVID-19 vaccine in a international country. II. All services identified in this Order must confirm vaccine standing of all staff. | <urn:uuid:71c88edf-97c8-4623-9e4c-d7d2843befc1> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.tailpipeswv.com/arkansas-division-of-health.html | 2023-09-28T18:10:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.94354 | 1,101 |
Talend Receives Recognition from G2 and Leading Technology Journal
Praised by Users for Product Excellence
Redwood City, CA – May 19, 2020 – Talend, a global leader in data integration and data integrity, announced today it has been recognized by a leading technology publication and peer review site for its product excellence. Both Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) readers and G2 users identified Talend as a top choice.
Talend was selected as a finalist in DBTA’s Readers’ Choice Awards Program in which information management solutions, products, and services are chosen by the people who actually use them. The publication’s readers nominated Talend in two categories: Best Data Integration Solution and Best Data Governance Solution.
Talend was also named to several of G2’s software lists, including a top software product for enterprise, for midmarket, and for highest satisfaction, based on data from over one million authentic and verified customer reviews. Written and published between January 1, 2019 to March 3, 2020, each review was vetted by a real person to ensure legitimacy.
“This isn’t a subjective list based on a few peoples’ opinions,” explains G2 CEO, Godard Abel. “With the highest traffic and engagement, the largest selection of product and services, and highest quality data, G2 analyzes more than 4 million data points to determine which products and companies make the list.”
Talend Data Fabric is the only data integration and integrity platform that simplifies all aspects of working with data for analysis and use, driving critical business outcomes. Talend Data Fabric includes a suite of apps to ensure enterprise data is complete, clean, compliant, and readily available to everyone who needs it throughout the organization.
“We’re thrilled to have our product offerings recognized by people who are on the front lines of addressing data challenges,” said Julien Sauvage, vice president product marketing at Talend. “By providing access to complete and clean data, our customers have an accurate view of their business, can make faster decisions, and mitigate their risk.”
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Context / meaning
Proverbs 26 [15.] The sluggard buries his hand in the dish.
He is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes
than seven men who answer with discretion.
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears
is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”
Proverbs 26 [20.] For lack of wood a fire goes out.
Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
As coals are to hot embers,
and wood to fire,
so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels,
they go down into the innermost parts.
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel
are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips,
but he harbors evil in his heart.
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If you’re thinking about buying Singorama to elevate your vocals to the highest level there are a few essential things to keep in mind before making your purchase. First, you must be aware that Singorama is sold only on its official website, so be sure to buy from there to avoid any possible scams.
One of the standout aspects of Singorama is the fact that it’s basing its program on real-world experiences of students who have used the program with amazing satisfaction. The program was created by singer and vocal coach Melanie Alexander, who struggled in singing when she was a kid. Despite being teased and bullied at school for her singing skills, Melanie didn’t give up on her goal of becoming a singer.
With the help of a friend who was a vocal coach Melanie was able to master advanced exercises for singing that helped her enhance her singing abilities and pitch in a matter of minutes. Then, she went on to be hired by a recording company and realized that with hard work and the right training, anyone could master your singing voice.
The Singorama method was designed to give you simple and effective vocal exercises that take only 10 minutes each day to increase your singing ability and achieve new levels. It also teaches you the best practices and habits to maintain a strong and durable voice for long periods of time. Furthermore, you’ll get bonuses that can aid you in developing your singing capabilities.
A key thing to keep in mind is that Singorama offers a 60-day money-back assurance. If you don’t get results or aren’t satisfied with the product for any reason, you are able to request the refund.
To allow Singorama to work, you must commit. Singorama method to work it is essential to take the initiative and be committed to it. If you purchase Singorama, you will have access to 28 vocal training audio modules eBooks, worksheets, and tools that will aid you in reaching your goals in singing.
In summary, if you’re considering investing in Singorama, be sure to purchase it from the official website. Once you’ve purchased it, commit yourself to it and treat it seriously by following the instructions precisely. With the proper effort, exercises and the right mindset, you can achieve the gorgeous singing voice that you’ve imagined. With the 60-day money-back guarantee and bonus materials, you can trust the product to help you achieve your singing goals. There are also additional materials that are included, such as some behindstage access to live performance sessions and shows that give you the chance to gain knowledge from other professional singers and how they handle the stage. | <urn:uuid:44e73ace-ef8a-4a74-a2f3-6d689a68d4c2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.tapethemovie.com/dan-huckabee-learn-how-to-sing-bluegrass-harmony/ | 2023-09-28T18:35:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.969874 | 542 |
If you’re considering investing in Singorama to elevate your singing to the next level There are some key things to keep in mind before making your purchase. First, you must be aware that Singorama is only sold on its official website therefore, you must purchase on the official website to avoid potential scams.
One of the best aspects of Singorama is that it is basing its program on real-world experiences of students who have used the technique with great satisfaction. It was designed by singer and vocal coach Melanie Alexander, who struggled in singing when she was a kid. Despite being teased and bullied from her peers for singing abilities, Melanie didn’t give up on her goal of becoming a professional singer.
With the help of a close friend who was a vocal coach Melanie learned advanced vocal exercises that helped her improve her singing ability and pitch in a matter of minutes. She then went on to be hired by a recording label and realized that with effort and the right exercises any person can master their singing voice.
The Singorama method is designed to provide easy-to-use vocal exercises that take only 10 minutes each day to improve your singing ability and achieve new levels. It also shows you the best ways and techniques to maintain a strong and long-lasting voice over long periods of time. In addition, you’ll receive bonuses that can aid you in developing your singing abilities.
One thing to bear in mind is that Singorama provides a 60-day money-back guarantee. If you don’t see results or aren’t satisfied with the product, for whatever reason, you can ask for a refund.
However, for to make the Singorama method to be effective it is essential to be committed to the program and commit to it with a serious attitude. When you purchase Singorama you’ll have access to 28 highly dynamic vocal training audio programs, ebooks, worksheets and other tools to aid you in reaching your goals in singing.
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An exceptional second day of Track Cycling saw Team Scotland win two gold and a silver in a day of racing that had spectators on the edge of their seats.
Calum Moir was guaranteed a medal, having qualified for the gold medal race in the Individual Pursuit and he rode brilliantly, coming from behind to close in and go ahead in the finals laps to win Team Scotland’s first cycling gold of the Games. Elliot Rowe finished fourth, the bronze medal going to Noah Blannin of Australia.
Millie Thomson, bronze medallist in yesterday’s Points Race, went one better in the Scratch Race, getting between Australian pair Lauren Bates and Keira Will, with Evie White taking 6th place.
Sarah Johnson was in action in the Sprint, the semi-final against Liliya Tatarinoff of Australia going to a deciding ride after the Aussie took the first race and Sarah the second. Going early, Sarah powered across the line in the lead and into the gold medal race.
The final, against Malaysian opposition, saw her win comfortably 2-0 to take the top step of the podium and take Team Scotland’s medal tally for the session to three.
All five track cyclists are back in action tomorrow with Sarah first up at 11am (4pm UK time) in the Keirin. | <urn:uuid:9c3f3f04-6124-48a4-aad7-655ae61e07ae> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.teamscotland.scot/triple-medal-delight-in-the-velodrome/ | 2023-09-28T17:28:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.960156 | 274 |
In a world where the value of everything is determined by monetary worth, you cannot have real freedom if you don’t have financial freedom. You should therefore do all you can to defend your financial freedom throughout your life. But if you depend on salary income, your financial freedom is only guaranteed until your retirement or dismissal. Since there is a need for freedom even after you have stopped working, it is prudent to ensure that you are resistant to any form of financial insecurity. This can only be done by securing your financial future.
What is Superannuation?
There are various channels you can use to secure your financial future like insurance, investing, and savings. For an employee who is used to a salary-dependent life, superannuation is the perfect scheme for you as you can opt to receive the benefits as an income stream rather than a lump sum. This gives a sense of continued salary income. If you decide that going super is your way, it is wise to get advice from professionals before signing an agreement with any superannuation scheme. This will help you know what will work for you best. Otherwise, you may miss some incentives from the government and your employer. Superannuation has many benefits besides offering continued cash inflow. Here are some of the gains you get when you choose superannuation.
Salary Sacrifice Means Reduced Income Tax
Superannuation is a pre-tax contribution, meaning your contribution will go to the scheme first before the government deducts income tax.
In Case of Bankruptcy, Superannuation Assets Are Safe
In an event that something beyond your control disrupts your cash flow and disenables you to pay your credits, your superannuation assets are protected. Superannuation is your security, meant to sustain you when you are no longer earning a salary. Taking it away means leaving you helpless. But it is important to know that it is illegal to transfer your financial assets to a superannuation account after sensing that there is an impending disruption to your cashflows, and your creditors may come for your assets.
Superannuation is a Tax Effective Way to Save
The government knows that those who retire without savings will be a burden to the state. To avoid this, some incentives are often put in place to encourage people to save for their future. These incentives include tax breaks on superannuation and zero income tax when receiving your benefits after retirement. In Australia, the government sometimes gives extra money to those who voluntarily opt to pay for their retirement. It is therefore advisable to get professional help as you compare and review your Australian super before taking a step.
No Fee for Additional Consultation
You may be in a dilemma on which financial institution to save your super with and for how long you should do it. When you only put the basics into account, the super valuation may seem straightforward. But you give it a deeper look, pension valuation is too complex that trying to understand everything is like a waste of time. This is a field of study for some people. But the good news is that there are people out there who will do all this work for you and help you know what suits you the best. When you are an existing member, most schemes offer consultations at no additional fee.
Additional Contribution from Employer
Employers are only required to divert 10% of the employee’s salary towards superannuation contributions. But some employers entice their employees to embrace salary sacrifice by offering additional bonuses towards the employee’s super. It is however important to know that not all employers do this.
Some financial institutions offer disability and death benefits for their super clients. This is like killing two birds with a single stone. You are securing your financial future and at the same time, you are getting insurance cover.
Bottom Line: Don’t Take the Risk
Do not take the risk of putting all your trust in your savings or investment. If you have a personal investment plan there is a high likelihood that it might fail. A lot of new businesses fail within a year or years later after they are formed. If you invest in the stock market, on the other hand, there might be no ready buyer just when you want to sell them. Note that this is not meant to discourage you from investing, as investing is an incredible idea. But even when you have an investment plan, it is always advisable to save with a pension scheme towards your retirement. | <urn:uuid:c22324f0-670b-4a70-af2a-f3cb025d87b2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.techinfogalaxy.com/5-benefits-of-superannuation/ | 2023-09-28T17:04:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.963216 | 900 |
How To Listen to Apple Music with Amazon Echo or Echo Dot
Apple launched Apple Music back in 2015. Amazon Alexa didn’t support the platform initially, but it was added to the list of Alexa’s potential skills in the subsequent years.
At the time of writing, Apple Music is compatible with Alexa and supports Android devices starting from the OS version 4.3. Let’s take a look at how to connect Apple Music with Alexa, how to make it the default music service, and then how to disconnect it from Alexa.
There are several requirements you’ll have to fulfill before you’re able to play your favorite songs from Apple Music through your Amazon Echo. They are:
- You have set up Amazon Alexa on your smartphone or tablet. Both iOS and Android systems are supported.
- You’re subscribed to Apple Music. It is compatible with both Android and iOS devices.
- You’re in the United States. Apple Music is not available in other countries.
Connect Apple Music and Alexa
First, you’ll have to connect the Alexa app on your Amazon Echo with Apple Music. Follow these steps to connect Apple Music with Alexa.
- Launch the Amazon Alexa app on your smartphone or tablet.
- On the app’s main screen, tap the Menu icon in the upper left corner (the sandwich icon with three horizontal lines).
- Navigate to the “Alexa Preferences” and tap on the tab.
- Next, tap the “Music” tab.
- In the Music section, find and tap the “Link New Service” button.
- After that, choose Apple Music by tapping on it.
- Tap the “Enable To Use” button.
- Follow the app’s instructions and sign in with your Apple ID. If you’re signing in from a new device, you’ll have to verify your identity with two-step verification – your Apple ID password plus a six-digit code.
Alternatively, you can add the Apple Music skill to your device’s Alexa on alexa.amazon.com.
Make Apple Music Your Default Music Service
Users who love Apple Music can make this the default music service on their Amazon Echo speakers. Follow these easy steps if you want to skip saying “on Apple Music” every time you want to hear a song or play your favorite podcast.
- Launch the Amazon Alexa app by tapping its icon on the Home screen or in the app folder.
- Tap the Menu icon on the app’s main screen. It’s located in the upper-right corner.
- Next, tap the “Settings” tab.
- After that, tap the “Music” tab to open it.
- Once it opens, go to Account Settings.
- Tap the “Default Services” tab.
- Pick Apple Music from the list of available music services.
Have in mind that all music will now be played through Apple Music when you don’t specify the service. You can still use YouTube, Spotify, or other services, but you’ll have to specify which one you want every time.
Disconnect Apple Music from Alexa
Let’s say that you want to unsubscribe from Apple Music for some reason, or you’d like to remove Apple Music as your default music service on Amazon Alexa. Here’s how it’s done.
- Launch the Alexa app.
- On the main screen, tap the Menu icon in the upper-right corner (the one with three horizontal lines).
- Once the Main Menu opens, tap the “Settings” tab to select it.
- Next, go to the Alexa Preferences section of the “Settings” menu.
- After that, tap the “Apple Music” tab.
- Finally, tap the “Disable Skill” button.
You can now set any other music or streaming service as your default music service. Have in mind that you can always make Apple Music your default music player on Alexa again, if that is what you prefer. But first, you will have to remove the current music service if you set one after you removed Apple Music.
How to Tell Alexa to Play a Song through Apple Music
Apple Music allows its users to play music in several different ways. You can play individual songs and your own playlists. Also, you can play the playlists made by Apple Music’s editorial team or listen to the Beats 1 online radio. Finally, you can play the playlists stored in your iCloud Music Library.
To get Alexa to play your favorite songs, radio stations or playlists, you can use phrases such as these:
“Alexa, play 80s MTV hits on Apple Music.” You won’t have to add the “on Apple Music” part if Apple Music is your default music service.
“Alexa, play Ariana Grande on Apple Music.”
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Technology is improving with the speed of light. However, the wise person is the one who knows how to match this pace. If you don’t align your skills with updated technology, you will stay behind. But in this field, there are many niches, and you need to understand revolutionary projects and innovations that happen every year. Every minute, scientists and sharp minds are creating something that can change our lives.
“63% of decision-makers agreed that machine learning, IT and AI solutions will transform the workplace future.”Survey conducted by PWC in 2018
We have the privilege of having the assistance of science and technology in our lives. However, it helps us make life easier and change the way we think about our lives. Mainly there are key fields that are emerging as the future of technology:
|Digital||Biotechnologies||Advanced materials||Energy + environment|
|Cloud computing||Stem cells||Functional materials||Smart grids|
|Robotics||Health monitoring technologies||Additive manufacturing||Fuel cells|
|Quantum computing||Biocatalysts||Carbon nanotubes||Hydrogen energy|
|Artificial intelligence||Personalized medicine||Graphene||Biofuels|
We can see that each niche is going through experiments and innovations. However, here we have picked some niches that we consider the future of technology:
I don’t think this is a proud invention. We all are aware that climate change and extreme weather are killing bees. So, we need an alternative of bees that can save our fields in this situation. However, till now, we have tiny details about this invention. But these robotic bees will have horsehair coated with ionic gel. Later, the bees will use that hair to pick pollen from one flower and move to the other one. It’s the future of technology that can help many farmers in the coming years. We will also start seeing robots in restaurants, workplaces, and spaces. So, this is the future of technology, and be ready for this change.
Blockchain – future of technology
Nowadays, blockchain is a new hype, and everyone has heard about cryptocurrency and bitcoin. So, the blockchain left its mark on the business and digital world. Here are the following highlighted features of this future of technology:
- It’s decentralized
- The permanent record doesn’t store in one location
- Due to its unique design, you can’t lose documents easily
- In the future, we can easily use this technology in hospitals and stores to track logistic supply chains.
Moreover, the blockchain doesn’t let governments come and take your assets as you have 100% ownership. So, in recent times blockchain has caught the attention of potential users.
Have you ever heard of design thinking? It is crucial in measuring a perfect brand identity. Designs primarily focus on improving the engagements of the customers. So, companies and businesses will hire more designers that are experienced and professional.
Artificial Intelligence: Future of technology
This has gradually become one of the commonest niche skills that people are currently acquiring. And businesses and companies sought more for their expertise and will still seek more for them. Technology is evolving, and there will be more need for Artificial intelligence architects and Artificial intelligence engineers in the future.
This is an exciting niche as it helps to protect the business and companies from hackers and another individual that wants to exploit them. After many companies encountered cyber-attacks, every company has upped its tech security by investing more in cybersecurity. The niche is a growing and promising niche as it has always been in demand because the number of hackers also increases.
Cloud computing: Future of technology
Cloud computing generally refers to everything related to the provision of internet hosting services. These services fall into three main categories: software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS). With more companies utilizing cloud storage and working to have more cloud customers. Companies are actively recruiting experts that can develop and design an interface for their operations.
Internet of things
This deals with the connections of devices with sensors, software, and other electronic items embedded in them to be responsive while also exchanging data and communicating on the internet.
Machine learning : Future of technology
An offshoot of artificial intelligence (AI), it is aimed at making computer programs use data to improve themselves without specific programming. The data here includes numbers, words, images, click, and many more. Machine learning is the process that powers streaming platforms like YouTube, Spotify, and Netflix. Search engines like Google and Baidu, social media platforms, and various assistants are not left out of the list.
It is another niche that you can’t ignore in the future. Many top companies like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have recently entered the game. However, soon, it will spread like wildfire because virtual reality apps are easily accessible on smartphones. Above all, many top-tier companies are using this technology to create a visual space where they can hold meetings and work on projects. For instance, in VR, customers can try clothes on a virtual avatar before making a final purchase.
We all know the sea is one of the most significant natural and untouched energy sources, and the water is growing every year. So, now the researchers will use the following method to turn seawater into fuel:
“Extract carbon dioxide from seawater > turn it into carbon monoxide > convert into hydrocarbon through Fischer-tropsch synthesis.”
Currently, we need fuel for thousands of ships that are floating at sea level. But if we convert CO2 into chemicals and energy, we can reduce greenhouse gasses to some extent.
It’s like a dream that comes true where we can fly into space. So, many companies like Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, and Amazon Blue Origin are making it a reality. Currently, it’s costly but gives us a seat that takes us into orbit. In addition to this, the colonization of other planets is also included in the plan. One day we will outgrow this space; we need new planets like mars to start a life.
Tech Moths Verdict:
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The Triapex VXND linear weigher is designed to dose loose products such as nuts, cereals, and other small volume products by weight. Available in single or multilane configurations, the VXND can be integrated into single or multilane baggers, dose other containers, or be used for precise real-time mixing of multiple ingredients into a single package. The VXND is available in micro and mini sizes to accommodate a variety of dose weight requirements.
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Join the hilariously sardonic Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd) as he travels the globe in search of modest entertainment at a reasonable price. Each episode, Richard is joined by a celebrity guest, including the likes of Paul Rudd, Chris O'Dowd, Noel Fielding and Lena Dunham.
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So does the Sigma SD1 Merrill's fabled Foveon X3 sensor make a difference? At low ISO sensitivities, absolutely. With careful raw processing there's lots of fine detail to bring out, colours are rich and images have an overall smooth and silky, film-like quality that's impressive.
However, edge towards ISO 1600 - a mid-range setting in the post-Nikon D3 world - and the Sigma SD1 Merrill's firm grip on image quality loosens. Noise is a significant problem, creeping in at even lower sensitivities with JPEGs.
The Sigma SD1 Merrill's .X3F raw files do fare a little better, but currently you can't process these in mainstream software such as Adobe Camera Raw. Instead, they need to be converted in Sigma Photo Pro - a painfully underpowered and slow-performing slab of software.
This is a shame, because to get the best from the Sigma SD1 Merrill, raw files are in order. JPEGs straight out of the camera just look flat and unremarkable.
Carefully processed raw files do have the potential to look excellent, though. The 23.5 x 15.7mm 46MP (or rather, 15.4MP x3) sensor is no match for the larger 44mm x 33mm 40MP sensor in the Pentax 645D but, thankfully, the much cheaper price reflects this.
The Sigma SD1 Merrill can certainly deliver pictures with excellent dynamic range that give more expensive full-frame cameras a run for their money, at lower sensitivities at least.
Other areas of performance are a mixed bag. Auto White Balance errs towards the cool side, but focusing is quick and (most of the time) accurate. Exposure is also an area that requires regular manual intervention.
Like Canon's iFCL metering system, the Sigma SD1 Merrill's evaluative metering pattern seems to weight the exposure reading to the active focus point. This can lead to exposures that are too dark or too light, depending on which AF point is highlighted. Admittedly, if you use the camera for significant periods you grow accustomed to the metering system's nuances, and can compensate as a result.
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Battery life was great – for a modern smartphone. During a review weekend of utterly hammering the poor Xperia X10 Mini with app installs, GPS tests, music playback, photo and video recording and more, we managed to get two days of rather full-on use out of one charge.
If you're careful with it, you'll even be able to risk leaving the house without a charger or first checking your battery status. Something of a rarity with today's power-hungry smartphones.
There's one nod to battery life provided by Sony Ericsson, in the shape of a widget that enables users to switch data traffic on and off.
This is actually pitched as a way to reduce accidental roaming fees when away from your usual network, but it'll also help stop the X10 Mini hoovering up battery to confirm that you haven't got any new emails.
Rather smartly, Sony Ericsson's installed its PC Companion desktop software on the phone itself, so the first time you hook it up to your computer you'll be prompted to install the tools.
Once installed, you're able to then install yet more SE software, like its Media Go tool, a Support Zone helper and Sony Ericsson Sync – the company's own way of ensuring your phone numbers are all backed up in case you drop your phone down a drain while out on a drunken escapade. Or, in the case of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini, swallow it.
Media Go is refreshingly simple for a supplied app – it's little more than a fancy Windows Explorer screen, letting you select PC folders of your music and dump them onto phone, or organise your mobile playlists and subscribe to podcast feeds.
Fortunately, you don't have to use it at all – the X10 Mini will pop up as an external drive when connected to a PC, for your easy dumping of media. We haven't returned to the year 1998 after all.
Of course, Google still pervades the experience beneath the X10 Mini's heavily skinned exterior, so if you're not bothered about using Sony Ericsson's Sync features you can stick in your Gmail details and let Google's servers back up and organise your phone data.
Obviously the phone comes with 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi which connects quickly and painlessly, plus A-GPS for all your location-aware entertainment.
Android 2.1 also brings a big increase in Bluetooth functionality to the X10 Mini, with photo, video and contacts now transferable via Bluetooth. The Android sharing menu now includes a Bluetooth option, giving us yet another way to share data from our phones with PCs or other people's mobiles.
You're also able to send and receive web links and MP3s from the updated X10 Mini via Bluetooth. Big improvement.
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There is no need to stress the importance of protecting the reputation of a brand. On it will depend whether the customer decides to purchase our service or to discard it. What is not so common in the agendas of marketing teams is the role of the experience that consumers have with the contact center in the reputation of the brands they manage.
The contact center has a key role in customer loyalty. At the same time, loyalty helps improve the image of a brand. The opinion of loyal users or customers will be positive. However, it is not strange to find dissatisfied customers who, because of a bad experience, give their opinion about the brand. The problem today is what means or channel will they use to unload their dissatisfaction?
Very rarely customers claim directly to the company, most of the time they prefer to give their opinion about their experience with a particular product or brand through the Internet. Companies once knew how satisfied their customers were by asking and listening to what they had to say. Something that of course changed radically. With Internet it is very easy for people to convey their own opinions.
Online reputation by definition is not under the absolute control of organizations. It is generated by this uncontrollable conversation. And if some businesses adapted well to the new rules of the game, and even learned from this great feedback machine that is Internet, others did not.
The contact center is increasingly a key element in this delicate balance between companies and consumers.
People have learned about their rights to claim. This scenario leads companies to look at contact centers in a different way. They see them as an opportunity to be able to evacuate any kind of dissatisfaction in the demand and turn it into an opportunity for the brand. A company’s reputation is not built solely with its history and products. Those who give it shape are the professionals behind the contact center.
How far can a customer’s claim get? Only 1% of consumers generate content on blogs. 9% interact through comments and other tools. The remaining 90% are passive spectators. That is why a timely call to active users can make a difference. Every call is an opportunity for improvement and that’s why operators must have the necessary tools to respond to people and foster a real link between the business and the call center, so that precisely those who respond can provide the necessary solutions and provide satisfaction.
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Rickerby, J, and J Woodward. “Patients’ experiences and opinions of home blood pressure measurement.” J Hum Hypertens 17, no. 7 (0): 495-503.
Pare, Guy, Mirou Jaana, and Claude Sicotte. “Systematic Review of Home Telemonitoring for Chronic Diseases: The Evidence Base.” J Am Med Inform Assoc 14, no. 3 (May 1, 2007): 269-277
Little, Paul, Jane Barnett, Lucy Barnsley, Jean Marjoram, Alex Fitzgerald-Barron, and David Mant. “Comparison of acceptability of and preferences for different methods of measuring blood pressure in primary care.” BMJ 325, no. 7358 (August 3, 2002): 258-259.
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There’s a potentially serious gap in the Connectivity for Californians initiative that we are addressing. Here’s a quote that illustrates it:
It is very clear from the interview data that patients have their own ideas, and spend a lot more time thinking about their BP than is apparent in the average 10-min consultation in general practice.
The gap is patient involvement in the design and planning of this initiative, or any healthcare initiative for that matter. Patients have many more ideas about what the problems are to be solved than can be gleaned even from articles like this – the articles simply show that the ideas are out there. Fortunately, we are committing ourselves to have a patient representative involved from the beginning, and that is coming together before any work is started.
The quote above is from the first paper by Rickerby, et. al (click on the images to the right to review any of the papers yourself), which described a qualitative study to look at a small number of patients’ attitudes toward monitoring their own blood pressure, in a practice that routinely recommends this.
The question (#1)
The reason I have reviewed these particular papers is because of the commonly posed question to me over the past several months, in the form of, “Ted, will/are patients really motivated to check their own blood pressure?” with the implication that they are not and they won’t. It’s a fair question that deserves an informed response. Several of the readers on this blog have given me some information from their own lives. These papers add to that knowledge.
The answer (#1)
They are and they will.
The question (#2)
This came up during reading of the papers. Does patient engagement come from having knowledge? Or does knowledge come from being engaged? This came up because patients in the first study who did not have knowledge about why they should monitor their blood pressure or how to do it seemed less engaged.
The answer (#2)
Unclear, with the implication being about whether to work to engage patients with more knowledge or use knowledge as a means test for engagement. I think regardless of the answer, there’s no reason not to provide information to patients. That answer is good enough in this case.
Read on for more conclusions….
In the qualitative piece (structured interviews of 17 patients), patients were generally satisfied that home monitoring is “acceptable and convenient.” There was a wish among patients to minimize medication use, and an information gap presented throughout about how to monitor, and whether or not home measurements were as good as the doctor’s. There is also a hint in this paper, echoed in one of the others, and in my own experience in Informatics, that patients understand the value of their doctor’s time (in addition to their own, of course):
Even though it’s the doctors job because of course, and different things in the medical centres I would have thought maybe just saving time for more serious things and other people.
It’s important to note here that the recommendation for monitoring is not every day; it’s twice a day for 7 days, once a quarter. Patients should not monitor more than twice a day, and they should not monitor throughout the day. The goal is for an average in the morning, and in the evening. The monitor should stay at home.
The second article (Pare, et. al) is a more systematic review of all forms of telemonitoring, and again, self-monitoring for hypertension is favorable in 14 studies revewed:
In general, patients were very receptive of telemonitoring as a patient management approach and showed a very positive attitude toward it.
The third and fourth articles are even more definitive on this topic. In quantitative measurement, patients prefer home monitoring over any other way to measure blood pressure, including self-measurement in the doctor’s office, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (where you wear an automated cuff for 24 hours, even while sleeping), having a nurse do it, having the doctor do it.
One dimension that was interesting was the question about whether the patient “felt unsure of what to do” for the various methods. Uncertainty actually was increased around the doctor doing it rather than the patient.
Few patients regarded measurement by a doctor as the most acceptable method.
Conclusions, and challenges to assumptions
The Pare paper raises a very interesting question in the comments I have received – what is the acceptability of home monitoring to health care providers, and by extension health care leaders? Could it be that they/we are projecting some of our own beliefs and values onto our patients in thinking that they are uninterested in being engaged in the management of their chronic conditions? Could it also be related to the idea that we’ve grown up in a system that stresses physician acquisition of clinical data? We seem to have let that go with blood sugar measurement – but only partially. The physician still orders the hemoglobin A1c.
I think work in hypertension is a great place to involve patients from the beginning, and to establish where the locus of control should be in health care. Right now in hypertension, the locus of control is external to the patient, in the hands of the health system. From the patient perspective, though, how can this make sense, if the potential damage caused by hypertension is happening outside of the doctor’s office, the best place to measure it is outside the doctor’s office, and the most simple and effective interventions happen outside the doctor’s office.
Just something to think about. For my part, I don’t have to bring this message forward, I will involve patients who will bring this message forward. Our goal is to move the locus of control to one that is internal to the patient. How does that sound?
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Autumn leaves stand out beautifully, but eventually, they can become a mess on your lawn once they fall. Fall clean-up of leaves is not an activity most homeowners look forward to. Some homeowners wonder if it is even necessary to rake leaves. Raking leaves in the fall is important, here are 4 big reasons why you need to rake leaves in the fall:
Raking Leaves in the Fall: Why Should I Rake My Leaves?
Most lawns in the Northern U.S. include one or more cool-season grasses. “Cool-season” lawn grasses are most active during moderately cool weather. Fall is one of those times. The amount of sufficient sunlight, nutrients, water, and cool temperatures make cool-season grasses revitalize themselves in fall. Raking your leaves in the fall can help maintain your lawn’s health. Here are the reasons why I should rake my leaves in the fall:
1. Turf Protection
Your lawn needs a constant supply of sunlight, water, air, and nutrients. Raking leaves off of your yard allows it to breathe and absorb moisture for the grassroots. Unraked leaves slowly form a wet barrier, which causes widespread damage to the grass. Removing the leaves allows your grass to grow lush before winter arrives.
2. Keep Pests Away
Unraked leaves can harbor and hide insects and rodents – including ones that are a significant threat during the winter.
3. Lawn Disease Prevention
Fallen leaves often harbor lawn diseases, including snow mold disease. If you receive a heavy snowfall before the ground has completely frozen, snow mold is likely to occur. All that moisture, fallen leaves, long grass, and lawn debris can promote snow mold growth and spread throughout your lawn. Raking leaves in the fall, though, can reduce the diseases you encounter the following spring and summer.
4. Allow Your Lawn to Breathe
Your lawn needs to “breathe.” Lawns can develop a layer of thatch, an accumulation of decaying stems and leaves. If the thatch grows thicker than 1 inch, it forms a barrier that prevents sunlight, water, oxygen, and nutrients from reaching the grassroots, causing suffocate grassroots, preventing new grass growth, and stress the entire turf area.
Tee Time Tips: Continue to mow your lawn until the first frost. This will keep the grass strong and healthy. Also, if your yard is near a drain, check for leaves. Clumps of wet leaves after heavy rain can prevent drainage, which can flood your yard.
Raking Leaves in the Fall: Do Not Wait to Rake Your Leaves
It is important to rake the fallen leaves off the ground immediately. By raking your leaves, you are preventing fungus, potential disease, and grass dying from suffocation.
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The Western Australian Government has issued a travel warning to all French backpackers following the national team’s win over England in the early hours of the morning. It’s not coming home, and neither should they, got a few days.
French backpackers may be tempted to return from up North via Indian Ocean Drive however their safety cannot be guaranteed due to the extreme levels of salt being cultivated on the shores of Perth’s northern suburbs. A WA spokesperson told The Times,
“Yeah, I wouldn’t. A lot of English residents will no doubt feel robbed and if they see a smelly van full of French backpacking faux-hippies they are likely to react poorly. No one wants a chip butty thrown at their windscreen causing an accident. Please return via Brand Highway if you must”
We spoke to Butler resident Barry who has been drunk since around midday yesterday. He was barely able to finish his 2nd fry-up for the morning when he told The Times,
“It was foookn coming’ommmmeeee lad. You just wouldn’t understand. Losing to the French as an Englishman is as bad as it gets. Pass me a can of laaaaaaaagah would ay, I’m going frog stomping”
Barry’s friends & family are concerned for him especially after how he handled the last time it didn’t come home at the Euro Cup. To say he handled it poorly is an understatement (Read more HERE).
A defiant Pierre & Claudia say they have heard the Government’s warning but have no intentions of heeding it. Even “Frenching” up their van with an extra flag and an intention to return via Indian Ocean Drive with the anthem blaring from their #vanlife rig. Pierre told The Times,
“It’s how you say, delicious English tears! Larmes anglaises! And it will be manifique! We won’t be told to use Brand Highway in this time of fête”
Needless to say, the couple’s safety cannot be guaranteed if they go through this shit-stirring return from their trip.
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On September 7, 2022, Apple announced its iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus during the Apple event, “Far Out.” The new phones are quite similar in design to their predecessors, and one can easily mistake one for the other apart from the 6.7-inch larger model.
Although there are minor external changes between iPhone 13 and iPhone 14, there are several quality-of-life improvements and user-facing updates.
Even in this device class, Apple has followed its approach of identical feature sets across models, so there is no significant difference in the features of the base and pro models apart from the display size and battery life. Apple’s iPhone 14 generation is missing the mini model owing to the lack of demand for smaller-sized phones.
Apart from the slight changes in color, the iPhone 14 looks almost identical to iPhone 13. The diagonal rear camera, notch, and aluminum chassis remain the same. It has a 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR display at 460ppi.
The iPhone 14 Plus, although a newer model but has all the aspects of the smaller version. The only difference is the 6.7-inch Super Retina XDR display at 458ppi. The only thing lacking is the ProMotion that the pro model has.
The display of the iPhone 14 supports HDR, True Tone and has a P3 color gamut same as in iPhone 13. The OLED display provides 800 nits of brightness in normal use and a 2 million to 1 contrast ratio.
The US version of the iPhone 14 sees a noticeable change in the design by going all-in on e-SIM support and lacks a SIM card tray. Users don't have to worry about physical cards anymore.
In the iPhone 14, Apple has made updates to the newly dubbed Main Camera. It now has a larger 12MP sensor with a wider f/1.5 aperture which enables faster low-light performance and higher quality photos. Apple claims to have a 49% improvement in picture quality in low light.
Apple has improved the front camera with an f/1.9 aperture and autofocus. Combined with the depth sensors used for Face ID, users can now take better selfies faster than before.
The new iPhone features satellite connectivity for emergency purposes. Apple created special antennas and equipment for the iPhones to connect satellites miles above the ground without an antenna module.
Another great feature of the Apple iPhone 14 generation is Crash Detection. It can detect severe car crashes, then call emergency services and notify your emergency contacts.
Apple claims an improved battery life in iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. During normal use, the iPhone 14 can last up to 20 hours, and iPhone 14 Plus can last up to 26 hours.
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March 8th 2008, San Francisco, CA- The Hip-Hop Chess Federation (HHCF) is proud to announce that Adisa Banjoko, Chief Executive Officer, will host a panel discussion on “Chess and Life Strategies”. The panel featuring rappers Immortal Technique, San Quinn and Hip-Hop Congress Director DLabrie will be held at O’Connell High School in San Francisco on March 11th.
The HHCF fuses music, chess and martial arts to promote unity, strategy and non-violence. They believe that by giving young people direct access to professional athletes, artists and chess players the youth will be inspired to enhance their academic and social life. In the past the HHCF has hosted panels with various icons of chess and Hip-Hop including RZA, Lamont Thompson of the Carolina Panthers, Josh Waitzkin, DJ QBert, DJ Kevvy Kev, Balance, Rakaa Iriscience of Dilated Peoples, Dr. Daaim Shabazz, and others.
“Immortal Technique and San Quinn are living legends to so many young people who love Hip-Hop” said Adisa Banjoko. “Immortal Technique is from Harlem. San Quinn is from the Fillmore District in SF, which was known as the Harlem of the west. Issues of poverty, ignorance, gentrification and violence have ravaged both of their respective cities.
The HHCF wants to teach young people of all races, cultures, classes and faiths they they have more options in life that it appears. We are honored that Immortal Technique and San Quinn are donating their time and minds to the kids at O’Connell. No one has been able to reach the hearts of today’s youth like rappers.”
The students will also receive a limited number of copies of Ubisoft’s Chessmaster 11 game and the book The Art of Learning: A Journey In The Pursuit of Excellence by IM Josh Waitzkin.
“I feel privileged to be a part of this chess workshop at O’Connell, where inner city youth can use the experiences learned from strategy and apply it to real life situations when patience, planning and temperament is concerned” said Immortal Technique.
For San Quinn the ability to speak to these kids is mutually beneficial. “It’s important to take time with the youth because we had leader to inspire us [too],” he says. “They need to see that we look up to them for being in school. They are the future.”
Librarian and Chess Club Sponsor Elaine Moskowitz said,
“John O’Connell High School is honored to welcome Immortal Technique and Sann Quinn. Very few acclaimed artists will take the time to reach out to young people, many of whom cannot afford to attend concerts or buy cds. By visiting our high school, they will expose our students to artistry they can rarely witness in person. The HHCF’s messages of self-empowerment, education, and social justice encourage our students to pursue their goals and their diplomas. Beyond that, many of our students deeply enjoy rap music and spoken word poetry; the HHCF event with Immortal Technique and San Quinn will provide them with an assembly they will always remember.”
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I just finished a book titled, “Three Moves Ahead: What Chess Can Teach You About Business.” The book was written by Bob Rice, an entrepreneur and partner in financial management group. He makes an attempt to use chess analogies to teach business strategies, but I found his analysis of business cases to be a bit awkward at times. Rice discussed practically every contemporary business case imaginable in 10 chapters, less than 200 pages and somehow related it to a variety of chess themes. I found some of the analogies to be interesting such as time control, strong squares, sac the exchange but some of his analogies appeared to be strained.
I must admit that he reminded me of some interesting cases in history including the automobile wars, browser wars, dot-com era and failed mergers like AOL Time-Warner and IBM/Microsoft/Apple wars. He discussed how ESPN had battled with Sports Illustrated because they established a “strong square” and began to expand in the market. He cited Aron Nimzovitch’s theory of dominating a game through a strong square and expanding an advantage… it was an interesting connection.
There are other books on this marriage including one written by Garry Kasparov titled, “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom.” There is a book written by Mark McNeilly titled, “Sun Tzu and the Art of Business.” I believe this is one better suited for understanding business from a strategic view.
I believe if Rice had not covered so many cases and dealt with concepts in greater detail, then the book would have been more effective. He stated that the book could be understood by non-chessplayers, but I found that some parts would be gibberish to someone who doesn’t know a rook from a knight. His list of references is also very skimpy.
Of course many businesses use chess themes as I learned in graduate school. Marketing strategists Al Ries and Jack Trout wrote on Karl von Clausewitz’ idea that you have to have a 3:1 advantage to direct a front assault against an enemy position. Certainly when we play chess we understand the meaning of a pawn storm and such principles may apply. There are others such as diversionary tactics used a lot in business war such as Hewlett-Packard’s demolition of its competition. There is enough proof to show a connection between chess/warfare/business and there is no doubt that more books will follow. | <urn:uuid:278bca78-7ff8-4359-8100-c003abb13897> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2008/06/15/book-review-three-moves-ahead/ | 2023-09-28T17:17:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.974564 | 517 |
Try to follow this logic: Students vandalize a pro-life display at a university, and the student who exposes those behind the crime gets in trouble.
That’s what happened at DePaul University in Chicago – the nation’s largest Catholic university, no less.
The student in question, Kristopher Del Campo, has been placed on probation after being found responsible for multiple conduct violations, including one that absurdly brands the publication of the names as “disorderly, violent, intimidating or dangerous,” the Foundation for Individual Rights In Education reports.
Del Campo must also complete an “educational project” in the form of a reflection letter.
“Kristopher Del Campo’s group was the victim of a politically motivated crime—and yet DePaul University is punishing Del Campo for naming the people who committed the crime,” said FIRE Senior Vice President Robert Shibley.
…On January 22, the DePaul chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, having attained the required permits, erected a pro-life display consisting of roughly 500 pink and blue flags planted in the ground of the campus quad to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. That afternoon, numerous DePaul students vandalized the display by tearing the flags from the ground and throwing them in trash cans around campus. Del Campo, YAF’s chairman, reported the vandalism to DePaul’s Department of Public Safety, which investigated.
With the investigation completed, DePaul Assistant Dean of Students Domonic Rollins provided Del Campo with a report from the Department of Public Safety, containing the names of 13 DePaul students who had admitted to vandalizing YAF’s display. On February 5, the national YAF organization posted this document on its website. On February 8, DePaul notified Del Campo that he was suspected of violating DePaul’s Code of Student Responsibility—including a charge of “Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating or Dangerous Behavior,” which encompasses “creat[ing] a substantial risk of physical harm,” “causing significant emotional harm,” and “bullying.”
… FIRE wrote to DePaul’s president, Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, on February 21, making clear that Del Campo had the right to publicly identify the students who had admitted to vandalizing his group’s display, and that labeling him as a potentially dangerous threat for doing so made a mockery of DePaul’s free speech promises.
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The quality of store-bought tomato juice that has not been opened and is kept at room temperature may be expected to be preserved for about three to six months after the expiration date printed on the bottle. After you have opened it and placed it in the refrigerator, it will taste the best during the first two to three days, but it should be safe to consume for up to a week after that.
How Long Will homemade tomato juice last in the fridge?
While tomato juice purchased from the refrigerated department of the grocery store has a shelf life of around three to five days, tomato juice produced at home is only good for approximately two to three days. The shelf life of tomato juice that has been frozen can range anywhere from eight to twelve months.
How long is homemade canned tomato juice good?
Tomato juice has a shelf life of around three to four days if it is made from fresh tomatoes, placed in an airtight container, and stored in the refrigerator. If you want to can your tomato juice, when it has been canned it will have a shelf life of somewhere between 12 and 18 months.
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How long may an already opened bottle of vegetable juice cocktail be stored in the refrigerator? After being opened, a vegetable juice cocktail that has been kept in the refrigerator at all times will stay fresh for around 10 to 14 days.
How do you freeze tomato juice from fresh tomatoes?
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When the 2022 GMC Sierra pickup comes to market in the months ahead, it not only will get some minor updates to its exterior and interior design but also add tech features such as a significantly updated version of General Motors’ hands-free Super Cruise system.
Super Cruise, originally launched on the old Cadillac CT6 sedan, was one of the first semi-autonomous driving systems available, initially able to operate hands-free on about 120,000 miles of limited-access roadways. GM has since expanded that to 200,000 miles. The automaker also is rolling Super Cruise out on other product lines — and adding new functions.
The most notable new feature is the system’s ability to automatically pass a slower vehicle without the driver’s intervention. The GMC version of Super Cruise also will allow the Sierra pickup to operate in hands-free mode, even while pulling a trailer.
Since GM first introduced Super Cruise in late 2017, it has been an a series of relatively low-volume products, starting with the Cadillac CT6. It is now offered on several other Caddy models, as well as the new Chevrolet Bolt EUV battery-electric SUV.
Super Cruise moving to a new level
Introducing it on the Sierra “will truly bring (the technology) to a mass market,” said Chas Russell, the pickup’s marketing manager.
Demand for the truck has gone up steadily in recent years, jumping from 217,943 in 2017 to a record 253,014 last year — an increase all the more notable considering the overall decline of the U.S. market in 2021 due to the pandemic.
GM’s expansion of Super Cruise-approved roads to 200,000 miles, includes some roads with occasional grade crossings.
While there are other “autonomous” systems that permit a driver to briefly go hands-free, most require a motorist to maintain at least a light grip on the steering wheel. In spite of its hype, that includes Tesla’s Autopilot. With Super Cruise, drivers can take hands off the wheel as long as they’re on a “mapped” section of road. These have been mapped to a much higher level of precision than what a conventional in-car navigation system is capable of — typically down to a few inches.
Drivers still need to stay attentive and ready to retake control in an emergency — or when reaching the end of a mapped road. A special camera system monitors the driver and the vehicle will slow down if they grow inattentive or, say, distracted while using a smartphone.
GM’s goal is to steadily add more features to Super Cruise. Last year, it added “Lane Change on Demand.” That let a driver tap the turn signal to change lanes, as long as the system thought it safe.
The update on Sierra won’t even require driver input, as I discovered during a series of laps of the high-speed test track at the General Motors Proving Grounds in Milford, Michigan. When another vehicle cut in front and then slowed down, the pickup I was driving automatically moved to the left lane, executed a pass and then moved back over again.
The updated Super Cruise system continues to allow a driver to manually call for it to make a lane change by tapping the turn signal. I could also cancel an auto-pass by tightly gripping the steering wheel or tapping the turn signal in the other direction.
The 2022 GMC Sierra will also be able to use Super Cruise while towing — a common situation with the popular truck. However, the pickup won’t be able to executive auto lane changes or lane changes on demand while towing.
That’s because Super Cruise relies on a “sensor fusion” using cameras as well as an assortment of forward, side and rear-facing radar units. A trailer blocks out those looking rearward.
Additional advantages while towing
But another new Sierra feature is a welcome consolation prize. The current version of the truck can provide a driver 15 different camera views. These include side views, a look at the cargo bed and even a “transparent trailer” mode that uses a remote camera mounted on the back of the trailer to make it look like you can see through it.
For 2022, the video display on the center console will appear to project a red box on the roadway that shows where another vehicle might be hidden in the trailer’s blind spot. That should make it easier and safer to change lanes while towing.
GMC is keeping mum about other changes to the 2022 model and made a point of noting the prototypes we drove were not accurate representations of the updated vehicle — just the new technology.
The 2022 GMC Sierra will go on sale some time late this year or early next year as a late ’22 entry. The ongoing shortage of semiconductor chips appears to be partly responsible for the slow rollout.
GMC officials also aren’t discussing pricing for the Super Cruise option. It is offered on different product lines for $2,500 and up. Meanwhile, GM plans to go to a subscription model that will offer buyers three years of free usage and then charge a $25 monthly fee after that. | <urn:uuid:92ac7031-8459-4144-9989-7a497f6237cd> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2021/07/updated-2022-gmc-sierra-to-add-newly-updated-hands-free-super-cruise/ | 2023-09-28T17:25:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.940464 | 1,087 |
This article profiles eight of the most famous Aboriginal artists in history.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye
In 1990, the elderly artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye held her first solo exhibition. Within a decade, art critics started noticing her work and her reputation grew. Over the next decade, Emily produced more than 3,000 pieces of artwork. Her career was a success, and she paved the way for future generations of strong Aboriginal artists. In the process, she also changed the way the Western world views Indigenous art.
Born in 1910, Kngwarreye grew up in a remote Anmatyerr community in Central Australia. Before her art career started, she supported herself by working on pastoral property. She eventually was able to live independently when her land rights were granted in 1976. As a result, her work began to receive worldwide recognition. The Tate Gallery in London acquired three seminal works from her collection, and the artists at the Papunya Tula art centre praised her work.
She had a rich iconography that was translated from her language and culture to Western art. She was also a respected ceremonial leader and cultural ambassador. As one of the most famous artists of the Aboriginal continent, Kngwarreye had a unique ability to translate her culture and traditional art into contemporary works. In fact, she was the first woman to achieve this level of public popularity.
Before becoming one of Australia's most famous Aboriginal artists, Albert Namatjira lived in the outback. His family was Christian, and he did not return to them. He developed a deep love for the land. He married Rubina when he was 18 – but she was of the wrong skin group. In 1928, he was banished from his tribe for marrying a woman of the wrong skin color. He ended up delivering goods throughout Australia on camelback.
Albert Namatjira's paintings of the landscape, people, and animals are considered to be the first modern Aboriginal art. Known for his bold color palettes, Namatjira is also considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of Aboriginal art.
Born in Utopia in the Northern Territory, Minnie Pwerle was an Australian Aboriginal artist. Known for her bold brushstrokes and vivid colours, Pwerle's works captured the attention of major art galleries and were quickly snapped up. Her art subsequently found its way into mainstream Aboriginal art, with her paintings held in museums and galleries across the world. However, despite her early death, her legacy continues to live on in the form of her work.
A prominent example of her work is a series called Bush Melon Seed. The paintings are often large or small patches of colour, and depict a bush melon's seed. The bush melon was once abundant, but now is scarcely found in the region. As one of Australia's most popular artists, Minnie Pwerle's work has attracted many followers and has been compared to the work of Emily Kngwarreye and other famous Australian artists.
In the United States, Pwerle's work has won several awards and has been exhibited in New York and Sydney. The artist has been featured in many group exhibitions, including “Out of Utopia” and “Mother and Daughter” at the Redrock Gallery in Melbourne. Her work has also been shown in New Zealand and at the Raintree Aboriginal Art Gallery in Darwin. It was also featured in a group exhibition in New Mexico at the Dreamtime Gallery, and in the Australian capital, Sydney's Hillside Gallery.
A member of the Wurundjeri community, Napangardi's work depicts the topography of her homeland, ancestral tracks, and salt incrustations around claypans. Her paintings depict the culture's women, who are devoted to dancing, and often represent the landscape in intricate detail. The artist is a mother of five daughters and teaches her stories as she was taught. She currently divides her time between Alice Springs and Yuendumu.
Her work has been exhibited widely in Australia and overseas. In 2001, her work was included in the collection of the Sammlung Essl Museum in Vienna. In 2004, Crown Point Press published a series of Napangardi prints and an exhibition at the Hosfelt Gallery in Sydney.
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
The artist has travelled extensively throughout the world and is considered to be one of the most influential artists of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement. In 1990, Rebecca Hossack secured two appointment with Her Majesty the Queen. Her Majesty's collection included a work by Possum. She was the first Aboriginal woman to meet a Royal and was also the first to collect his work.
While in the late 70s, Tjapaltjarri's monumental canvases began to draw attention, and were seen as encyclopedias of the nation. His brother, Arnaud Serval, a French art enthusiast, purchased one of these works. It has since become one of Australia's most sought-after pieces. But Tjapaltjarri's work has not only garnered international attention, it is also in the possession of a Royal collection.
Before turning to painting, Possum was a stockman on cattle stations in the Northern Territory. During this time, he also began a career as an artist, becoming one of the area's most accomplished wood carvers. Today, he is most recognized for his paintings. Listed below are some of the works by Possum that have achieved international recognition.
Among the most famous Aboriginal artists, the late Rover Thomas was responsible for a large movement in the art of Australia. He was born at Kunawarritji, Well 33, on the Canning Stock Route, which crosses the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts in Western Australia. When he was a boy, his family moved to the Billiluna station, where he worked as a stockman. Later, he settled permanently in the north-east Kimberley region.
The life of Thomas began in the desert, where he became a stockman. His family was moved in different directions, and he adopted his mother's bloodline. His paintings and other artworks capture the varying themes of his life, from the rapid changes to the traumatic events of the time. The violence and subjugation of Aboriginal people and the conflict between white settlers have also been reflected in his work.
He continued to paint until the late 1990s, and by then, he had received considerable critical recognition. In fact, he was the first Indigenous Australian to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1990. His work was included in most major Australian public and private collections. In 1994, his paintings were featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. In 2000, he was one of eight artists from Australia to exhibit at the Nicholas Hall of the Hermitage Museum in Russia.
Queenie McKenzie is one of Australia's most famous Aboriginal artists. She was born in 1915 and spent her early years working on a cattle station in East Kimberley. She became a close friend of the famous artist Rover Thomas, who later made her one of the most famous Aboriginal artists. She was known for her paintings of the Australian outback, but it wasn't until the early 1950s that she achieved national acclaim.
While she was born and raised in the outback, she was educated in the colonial era. Her style was heavily influenced by the landscapes of Australia, and her paintings are rich with symbolism and anthropomorphism. She also used ochers and dots to create the impression of a region. She is perhaps best known for her paintings of the Kimberley region and the massacre of the Turkana people at Mistake Creek.
As a dedicated member of her community, McKenzie also worked to protect the sacred sites of her people in the Argyle diamond mine. This was to ensure the continuation of the business of women. She was also a strong advocate for the future generations to engage with their culture. While her art is rarely exhibited in museums or auction houses, she remains one of the most important Aboriginal artists in Australia.
Born in Western Australia, Lin Onus is one of the most popular and influential Aboriginal artists. He was the son of a prominent Koori activist who worked in the Country Fire Authority. His father rejected Lin's application to become an artist when he was just nine years old, and the Chairman of the Country Fire Authority later denied him permission to paint. When Lin returned to his father's workshop, he found a set of student paints that he was interested in.
As a Victorian representative on the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council, Onus visited Maningrida in Arnhem Land, where he became friends with traditional elders. Jack Wunuwun, who became Onus' mentor and adoptive father, shared stories and designs with him. Through these encounters, Onus expanded his visual vocabulary and began to experiment with photorealism. His work now spans the world of contemporary and traditional Aboriginal imagery. | <urn:uuid:06e818d5-bb93-4439-8bf9-87174d194497> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.thedolphingallery.com/8-most-famous-aboriginal-artists/ | 2023-09-28T18:02:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.986801 | 1,871 |
Nobody likes to deal with the insurance company. After all, they never want the best for you, only look out for their client, and want to keep the money in their pockets. However, if you have experienced a car accident, you might need to file insurance claims to collect the damages for the injuries and property damages incurred.
By definition, an insurance adjuster is someone who adjusts or settles an insurance claim. The process of negotiating and settling an insurance claim is not easy, especially since the insurance company plays dirty tactics to trick you. To avoid agreeing to something that is not in your best interests, speak to a Wytheville Personal Injury Lawyer today.
Tips for dealing with the insurance adjuster
- When dealing with the insurance adjuster, do not think they are on your side.
Insurance adjusters in Wytheville can be extremely sweet to your face and equally evil behind your back. They might call you after the accident and ask you how you are, which might seem like a nice thing to do. However, they do not do this to check up on you but to make you fall into their trap.
Remember that insurance adjusters are never on your side. They look out for themselves and their client/policyholder only. Therefore, they will try to minimize the compensation amount as much as possible, even if it is not enough to cover all your damages.
- If the insurance adjuster asks for a recorded statement, always say no.
When the insurance adjuster calls or meets you, they might ask you to give a recorded statement. This may seem like a good chance to convey your truth and get it on record. However, it is easy to say the wrong thing when you are still stressed about the accident.
It is strongly advised not to give a recorded statement without legal assistance. These recorded statements can later be used against you in court. Even the simplest answer can be turned into something they are not. For example, answering “I am fine” to the question “How are you doing?” can have more negative consequences than you can imagine.
- Do not accept early settlement offers.
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Great for any season! The Ornate Wood and Metal Lantern is a stylish lantern that works in many different home décor styles. Each size is sold separately and can be enhanced with a timer candle and seasonal silks. Great for any season! Recommended for indoor use only. Silks and candle are not included in the price.
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The Bihar government on Tuesday defended its public health system in the Supreme Court, days after mass child deaths due to acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), saying steps taken by the State’s public health authorities had in fact lowered the AES fatality rate to 19%, far lower than the global fatality rate pegged at 30%.
A 23-page affidavit filed by the State said as of June 30, the total number of reported AES cases in the State are 824 and there have been 157 deaths recorded.
The affidavit said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is “personally involved and actively engaged in finding ways and means to control and treat the dreaed AES disease in Bihar”.
The State said it is “waging a battle against the dreaded AES in order to protect and save precious human lives”.
The affidavit claims a “substantial reduction” in reported AES cases. The credit for this goes to the “constant and consistent efforts” taken by the government and, a “change in weather” it said.
On one hand while the State said the “sustained efforts in the recent past to control the incidence of AES has shown some positive results with reduction of numbers of patients and casualties”, it adds the rider that “the problem of AES cases still persist”.
The affidavit is in response to the Supreme Court’s June 24 order to the State to provide details of of public medical care facilities, nutrition and sanitation/hygiene followed in the State. The order was passed on a PIL filed by Manohar Pratap, who has sought various directions from the apex court in the light of the child deaths, including constitution of a medical board, advertisement of preventive steps, improvement of infrastructure, etc, in the State.
The affidavit said the State’s percentage of “stunted, wasted and anemic children” is 48.3%, 20.8% and 63.5%, respectively. But the government attempts to strike a optimistic tone over its work, saying “Bihar is continuously working on eradication of malnutrition and to provide sanitation in the State, particularly in rural areas”.
The State said it has already taken preventive steps by providing additional medical facilities at AES affected regions, including public awareness campaigns at the village levels involving various agencies.
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The Window of Heaven of Purification and Grace
I saw a vision of a green pasture and suddenly lots of wild mushrooms started sprouting out. l asked the Lord, “what are these?” And He said, “these are ‘food' from the earth, not from heaven. They are words, teachings, prophesies, rumours, slayers that comes out from the bottomless pit, with the intent to disguise like manna from heaven. Many will think that they are ‘food’ provided by God, and believe them as revelations and ‘truth’. But His judgement will come as a purifying fire to burn them away and thereafter, a stream will flow from the throne of God, to cleanse and to cover over with His grace.
Artist: Lin Xiuzhen
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Welcome to The Jewelry Gallery in Stony Point, where we take great pride in creating a unique and memorable “experience” for each client with each visit. Fine art graduates of Rhode Island School of Design, Tammy Rosen and Ron Rosen along with their long standing staff bring a little exotic slice of the globe to “hometown convenience. ”
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Kinky is my middle name. I am into all things freaky and wild. Of course, I am guessing you are too. That is why we are a great match. You are craving kinky fun, such as sexy hunt animal play.
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I am at your mercy. When you come to the trap and see I am caught, your cock is immediately hard and ready. All that is running through your mind is dominating and claiming your prey.
My sexy hunt animal play is hot and intense!
You drag me out of the trap without any worry about my well being. I am nothing but a filthy animal to be used and abused. Your dick is throbbing as you see how incredibly gorgeous this animal is.
I am absolutely stunning. My body is firm and strong from living in the wild. When you look into my eyes, you see the fire of wild chaos and want to tame me. Of course, that is impossible.
He can have me but will never tame this beast. No one can own me. It doesn’t stop his desire to take me during the sexy hunt animal play. He may be able to trap and touch me, but not deep down; somehow, he knows I am untamable.
Of course, there are so many different types of animal play.
One of my friends can’t resist the doggies she is sitting for when they have huge cocks. Her horny teen Animal Play is super-naughty too! I totally look forward to hearing about her wild nights with the pooches.
I am definitely open to that type of animal play too. All of it gets my tight young pussy wet. With kinky in my blood, my little kitty stays wet and ready most days. It is finding the right guys that get me. That is why I love sexy hunt animal play so much.
Now, back to the hunt! He is unable to resist this beautiful beast. Dragging me into a clearing, he knows he must have me in every way possible. To do that, he has to get me under some control.
I am fighting him with every drop of energy in my body.
He remembers the tranquilizers in his bag. If he uses a smaller one, it will slow me down and make me pliable. Oh, he should have thought of this ahead of trapping me. Of course, he wasn’t expecting this gorgeous creature.
Dragging me with him, he pulls out a dart and jabs me with it. Within minutes I am calming down. That is his cue; now, he can have his way with me. This game of sexy hunt animal play is more real than you have ever experienced.
Once he is back in the clearing with me, he turns my body over so he can take me from behind. Looking down at that sweet butt, he knows he must penetrate that tight asshole. I am completely compliant and unable to fight him now.
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When it comes to getting a tight and trim abdomen, surgery is the most effective solution available. Among the different surgery options, a Liposuction and tummy tuck can both achieve these results, but you may not be able to choose the appropriate procedure for you. Before you come to a decision, it’s important to know the difference between these two procedures.
What Is Liposuction?
Liposuction is a cosmetic procedure that helps reshape and slim down targeted regions of the patient’s body by getting rid of excess deposits of fat, and as a result, improve the body’s proportion and contours.
The procedure of liposuction can be used to reduce fatty deposits in the thighs, hips, buttocks, back, upper arms, calves and ankles, chest area, chin, neck, and even cheeks. Liposuction can be performed alone or in conjunction with other procedures such as an abdominoplasty, breast reduction, or facelift.
The Cons of Liposuction
Although liposuction helps in reducing body fat from specific areas of the body, it cannot be called a treatment for obesity. Liposuction is also not a quick fix and cannot substitute for regular exercise and a nutritious diet; it is also not regarded as a treatment for cellulite.
Who should opt for Liposuction?
Adults within 30 percent of their ideal body weight, with good muscle tone and elastic, firm skin, are eligible for liposuction. The following conditions should also be kept in mind if they want to go for weight loss surgery.
- Healthy persons who have no medical conditions that can disrupt your healing.
- Individuals without life-threatening diseases or illnesses.
- Individuals who do not smoke.
- People who have specific goals and a realistic outlook with respect to body contouring.
- Individuals who have excess body fat not responding to exercise and diet.
What Is A Tummy Tuck?
A tummy tuck is a surgery procedure that helps remove excess fatty deposits and skin from the body. The tummy tuck surgery will fix separated or weakened muscles to tighten and tone your abdomen. It will also appear firm and smooth after the completion of the procedure. The clinical term for a tummy tuck is an abdominoplasty.
When do you need a Tummy Tuck?
Even people with otherwise perfect bodies can have a protruding belly. There are several reasons behind a bulging belly, some of them include:
- Previous surgery
- Continuous weight fluctuation
Liposuction vs. Tummy Tuck
When trying to determine whether you should go for a liposuction or a tummy tuck, you should understand why you need the surgeries in the first place. For example, if your goal is to get a flatter stomach, then a tummy tuck might be the most practical choice.
While liposuction is really effective in removing excess fatty deposits from various body parts with flexible skin, the skin of the stomach may lose its elasticity as a result of various factors like pregnancy, weight gain, and/or age.
Because of the fact that elasticity gets lost, fat removal with liposuction means that the skin may tend to sag afterward. On the other hand, a tummy tuck is successful in removing excess body fat and extra skin while also tightening up the muscles of the body.
An abdominoplasty surgery is only reserved for the abdomen, whereas a liposuction surgery can remove fat from various parts of the body.
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MIAMI—In an effort to get the word out that these were huggable guys in need of love and a good home, an adorable little Super Bowl was put on Sunday, encouraging fans to adopt previously abandoned and stray football players. “We just hope that by seeing all of our players out there, romping around and having fun, some kind souls will open their hearts and decide to bring Sherman or Kittle into their family,” said local football shelter volunteer Sheri Adams, who revealed she had adopted two of her own wide receivers after last year’s Super Bowl. “They are all so worthy of love. Obviously, Garoppolo is adorable, but Bosa is tons of fun and has a great personality, and Mahomes has lots of energy and will run all over the place with you. They are all so special, and we hope that by the end of the day every one of them will be on their way to their forever home.” Adams did caution that Tyreek would be better suited for an older household as he’s not good with kids.
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Living in Canada, one of the essential renovations you can make to your home that will not only benefit your property value, but also make your monthly bills easier on your wallet is windows replacement.
To many just the thought of a window replacement project can be a daunting task, but, if you keep some general guidelines in mind, you’ll be able to find yourself enjoying the new warmth and value of your replacement windows before the first snow flies.
One of the first things you will need to look at is what type of windows you are wanting to replace your old windows with. There are many different window materials on the market, each with its own pro’s and con’s.
Vinyl windows for example require less maintenance and upkeep than traditional wooden windows. They also are more energy efficient than other types of windows, which will help keep your home that much warmer during the cold winter months.
If environmental impact plays a part in your decisions, you can rest easy knowing that vinyl windows are recyclable! Affordability is another big plus to vinyl windows. Not only can you update your windows adding value and warmth to your home, you can also keep more cash in your pocket.
Wood is a material that has been used for many years in window design but carries some obvious drawbacks, such that it requires much more regular maintenance to prevent rot and other issues from quickly destroying the trim around your new windows.
Canadian winters can be harsh and cause issues with wooden windows like cracking, swelling, and splitting if they are not properly maintained. It can also be much more expensive to purchase right from the start. That said, for the environmentally conscious consumer, it may be the better choice as the production and creation side of wooden windows does carry with it less environmental impact and a lower carbon footprint that vinyl windows do.
There are of course other materials you can investigate such as aluminum, and fiberglass, both of which carry drawbacks and pro’s as well.
Material isn’t the only consideration though. You also need to keep in mind your budget. As mentioned, when talking about materials, you need to address what your comfortable budget is for your project. Windows can be a hefty investment into the future of your home but one that pays off as well. It is not just winters that your choice of windows will be affected by. Summer heat can also play a big role. Replacement windows will keep your air conditioning in, and the heat of the day out.
The contractor you choose to do your home project will also be another consideration. Is the windows company you are looking into doing the work the best one for you, have your read their reviews and done your background research? Not all companies are the same and what you’ll get from someone who specializes in windows, versus a general contractor may be far from the same.
The list of considerations goes on. How energy efficient do you need your windows to be, what style best suits your home, how do you want to be able to open and close them, are you seeking to put in a picture window or do you want ones that can be opened to allow for air circulation in your home.
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Among the challenges for developers of machine vision is the inability of deep neural networks to continue learning or to work without a network connection. Neurala Inc. recently announced that its Brain Builder SDK has been optimized for edge learning, which could be useful in manufacturing and visual inspection.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often unable to recognize new or varied items coming out of a production line, especially as product cycles accelerate, according to Neurala. The Boston-based company said the Brain Builder software development kit (SDK) allows DNNs to be quickly modified to recognize a new product at the compute edge without having to go back to a server.
“Traditional approaches to training DNNs often fall short in deployment when the network encounters a new situation at the edge that it was not trained to classify,” stated Massimiliano Versace, co-founder and CEO of Neurala. “That’s why Neurala has been developing our Brain Builder SDK, which enables users to continue training and tweaking a DNN even after initial training.”
The latest Brain Builder SDK debuted as a partner of Bosch ConnectedExperience (BCX), Europe’s largest Internet of Things (IoT) hackathon in Berlin. More than 700 developers used Bosh IoT Suite services and tools including the Brain Builder SDK to create prototypes of IoT systems. They worked with devices including cameras and sensors in cars, robots, and more.
Lifelong learning for deep neural networks
“Neurala was funded in 2006, and some of its earliest work was on edge projects for various government research institutes,” said Daniel Glasser, vice president of customer success at Neurala. “In the three years I’ve been here, the most frequent request is, ‘Where’s my data? How do I make sure it stays private and safe?'”
“There’s a great need for edge computing on smart devices, phones, or in manufacturing and automation. Data processing needs to happen locally,” he told The Robot Report. “That’s why we’re focusing on edge AI. A lot of people are looking only at the analysis, but Neurala can do training at the edge as well.”
“With Lifelong-Deep Neural Network, or LDNN, you can train AI systems with less data. Instead of training on 50,000 images, you could use a few hundred, depending on the system,” Glasser said. “Then processing requirements drop, and you may not need a server farm. AI can be trained in a fraction of the time on a smartphone or a GPU on the manufacturing floor.”
How does Neurala’s Brain Builder compare with server-based AI? “We’ve taken similar small data sets, and we typically outperform them,” replied Glasser. “With big data sets, performance will be close. We’re ultimately very competitive with DNNs.”
Brain Builder SDK works at the edge
“The initial release of the Brain Builder platform was in March of last year,” Glasser said. “Non-experts can train end-to-end vision systems through a Web portal, and everything happened in the cloud. With the upgraded SDK, everything that was done in the cloud can now be done at the edge.”
“Neurala partnered with Bosch to integrate into an affiliate’s safety ecosystem,” he said. “It used Brain Builder to build a brain and deploy at the edge on security cameras.”
“Beyond that, we’ve built systems for drone operations company AviSight to run our AI during electrical infrastructure inspections,” added Glasser. “The drone can point out defects or broken components in real time, without an Internet connection. The processor isn’t on the drone, but it is in a field unit.”
Industrial IoT still needs edge processing
While 5G networks promise greater bandwidth and lower latency, the usefulness of edge processing for industrial IoT will not diminish anytime soon, Glasser said.
“There are questions abut how reliable it will be, and even the best bandwidth in the world doesn’t answer questions about privacy and the cloud,” he said. “Autonomous vehicles, drones, and delivery robots have high safety requirements. They don’t want to worry about connectivity, so they’ll need edge AI.”
Brain Builder improves AMR flexibility
Neurala has focused on autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) rather than self-driving vehicles because it wanted use cases that can be deployed quickly, explained Glasser. However, the company has “had some conversations” around vehicles, he said.
“Brain Builder is applicable to mobile robots in warehouses,” he said. “Not just for edge computing, but they can also learn incrementally. This is different from DNNs, which are limited to what you first trained them on. Now, a camera for quality inspection or on an AMR can learn something new about a product or a piece of equipment. It doesn’t have to start from scratch.”
“With Neurala’s technology, you can show it a new thing, give it a name, and then teach that robot how it should respond,” Glasser said. “This saves time and cost and adds flexibility.”
“For object recognition, we did a project with a major warehouse logistics provider that had 2 million SKUs to pick and place,” he said. “You can train most AI to recognize tens of thousands of things, but then it tries to fit everything into those boxes. With Neurala’s system, if you show it a new thing, it says it doesn’t know the SKU. Our system can provide that feedback when it doesn’t recognize, say, a new cereal box, on an as-needed basis.” | <urn:uuid:f175db49-d94e-416b-84ae-80bb5fe17253> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.therobotreport.com/brain-builder-sdk-enables-deep-neural-networks-keep-learning/ | 2023-09-28T17:40:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.945544 | 1,267 |
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