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Kerium Extra Gentle, soothing, anti-itching, nourishing cream shampoo for sensitive scalp and dry hair. Highly nourishing, leaves hair with a healthy-looking shine. Kerium Extra Gentle Cream Shampoo for sensitive scalp and dry hair. Provides comfort and relieves itchiness. Soothes the scalp immediately and durably. Nourishes the hair fibres. Brings lightness and shine to the hair.
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Bone Marrow Banking
What We Make
Bone marrow, or medulla ossium, is the spongy material found in the center of bones. Bone marrow is composed of haematopoietic cells, stromal cells, and adipose tissue. It is the primary site of haematopoiesis, or blood formation, in humans. Ossium uses stem cell science to make cell therapies from bone marrow that are being evaluated as treatments for hematologic diseases, organ rejection, and diseases of inflammation.
Diseases of the blood and immune systems like leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and sickle cell disease claim roughly 60,000 lives each year in the US alone. Many of these lives could be saved with cell therapies, but too often patients are unable to get access to these treatments. Ossium is building a vast and diverse bank of deceased-donor bone marrow to make these life-saving treatments available to patients worldwide.
Organ Transplant Rejection
Today’s organ transplants are lifesaving treatments for organ failure, but they are not cures. The lifelong regimen of immunosuppressive drugs needed after transplant causes chronic infections and poor quality of life. At Ossium, we’re developing stem cell therapies that could enable organ transplant recipients to live healthy lives without immunosuppression by re-educating their immune systems to recognize cells from their organ donors as self.
Diseases of Inflammation
The mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) present in vertebral bone and marrow have the capacity to regulate immune and inflammatory responses, providing a promising option for the treatment of diseases characterized by inflammation. Ossium is working to develop MSC-based therapies that are intended to help patients with a vast array of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders such as Crohn’s Disease, asthma, and graft-versus-host disease.
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REMINDER — Please join us this coming Monday, January 13, 2020 for updates on: Upcoming Minor Variance Application, reducing the number of parking spaces in the new tower. Construction outlook for Q1 & Q2 2020. The Meeting will take place at 29 Queens Quay...
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This site provided construction information for Cityzen Development Group & Fernbrook Homes’ Pier 27 15 Queens Quay from January 2018 through May 2020.
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As the CPEC gains momentum, enhancing the feel-good factor and stirring an economic boom across the country, one of the topnotch Japanese automakers Nissan has decided to make a comeback to Pakistan – with its Datsun models. To many a Pakistani, Nissan was synonymous with its now-defunct ‘Sunny’ since the late 1960s. But, having stopped its production for nearly a dozen years, it no longer features as a part of the company’s plans for the Pakistani market.
Perhaps buoyed by the promise of Auto Development Policy 2016-21, Ghandhara Nissan partnering with Nissan Motor Company is planning to invest Rs4.5 billion, approximately $41 million, over the next four years, creating 1,800 new job.
The first Pakistan-assembled Datsun cars would be plying the roads as early as next year.
Pakistani auto market dubbed lucrative:
At only 17 per one thousand people (translation: only 17 people out of every 1,000 possess a car; Japan in contrast has a motorisation rate of 600), the low motorisation rate in a country of 200 million-plus people, along with the growing economy and the government’s incentivisation for the entry of new companies under greenfield and brownfield status, has combined to make the auto industry quite lucrative.
Exclusively talking to Profit, the senior vice-president of Nissan Motor Corporation, Peyman Kargar, said, “Pakistan has great potential in the auto industry as the economy is growing while the motorisation rate is quite low.”
Nissan is a global full-line vehicle manufacturer that showcases as many as 60 models under the Nissan, Infiniti and Datsun brands.
In fiscal year 2016, the company sold 5.63 million vehicles globally, generating revenue of Japanese yen 11.72 trillion. In fiscal 2017, the company embarked on its ‘Nissan M.O.V.E. to 2022’, a mid-term six-year plan targeting 30% increase in annual revenue to 16.5 trillion yen by the end of fiscal 2022.
Nissan has a global workforce of 247,500 and since 1999 a partnered with French manufacturer Renault. In 2016, Nissan acquired a 34% stake in Mitsubishi Motors. Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi is at the moment, the world’s largest automotive partnership, with combined sales of more than 10.6 million vehicles in calendar year 2017.
Meanwhile, established in 1981, Ghandhara Nissan is a part of the Bibojee Group of companies. The group is an industrial conglomerate with a diverse portfolio comprising Pakistan’s largest tyre manufacturing unit, automobile assembling plants, cotton spinning mills, a woolen mill and companies dealing in general insurance, and construction. Having two independent assembling facilities each for commercial and passenger vehicles, the company prides itself to be Pakistan’s only automobile company with the capability of assembling a complete and diverse range of products.
According to auto analyst Shakaib Khan, Nissan’s Sunny model was a great success and was well received but its distribution and its spare parts were difficult to find. Nissan previously operated in Pakistan from 2004 before wrapping it up in 2008.
However, Peyman Kargar, who is also the regional chairman overseeing Nissan’s operations in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, said that Nissan would be coming this time with a proper plan – its after sales service geared towards long-term customer satisfaction.
Answering a query on Pakistan has huge demand for low engine size cars, Kargar said that it might be true at the moment but Nissan expects Pakistan’s auto industry to evolve.
Small is beautiful
Though the company’s top officials have largely kept mum when questioned about which Datsun car/cars will be launched, Ghandhara Nissan CEO, Ahmed Kuli Khan Khattak hinted that they will be starting with small cars.
If the market grapevine is to be believed, Nissan would be starting its operation with 1.2 liter Datsun Go, a popular car in neighboring India, which is considered to have similar market characteristics as in Pakistan. When buying a car, price and family size are major concerns for a customer in both India and Pakistan.
Post the upgradation of Ghandhara Nissan’s production facility at the Port Qasim under this new partnership, the capacity would be raised to 32,000 units. Apart from Nissan, Kia and Hyundai have also announced plans to reenter the Pakistan market in association with Lucky Cement and Nishat Group respectively.
According to Ahmed Kuli Khan Khattak, if required the capacity would be increased with another phase of investment of Rs1.5 to 2 billion. Khattak said this on the occasion of officially announcing Ghandhara Nissan and Nissan Motors Company partnership recently.
Peyman Kargar believes that Pakistan has a good balance of imported used and locally manufactured cars at the moment because customers were given limited choice by the existing auto makers.
“Consumers must have choice, when the manufacturers are fewer. Moreover, each of them is manufacturing just one or two products [in a given engine size],” said Kargar.
Meanwhile, Kargar added that the restriction on imported used cars of under three years is a good regulation to restrict flooding the market at the expense of local industry.
“As far as local industry is not ready to provide cars to customers at par to the demand and to their satisfaction, authorised import of used cars up to a level is fine. It is a sensitive balance,” he said.
The countries where import of used cars was not allowed, Kargar informed, the local industry was in a mess.
The vexing issue of delivery period:
Kargar further said, Pakistan’s automotive industry is growing and there’s even greater potential in the industry. The market size is expected to grow by about 50 percent in the next four years – to 300,000 new units from the present 200,000.
The Pakistan customers deserve the same cars as other parts of the world get, said Kargar, adding, “the customers would move to another brand as soon as they have a choice.”
“Nissan would not be compromising on quality and if the current supplier of parts in Pakistan fails to deliver then they wouldn’t be buying parts from them anymore and would nurture new quality suppliers”, said Kargar.
Kargar further said that Nissan would be making differentiation for itself in Pakistan market with quality product, competitive price and negligible delivery period. He added that by providing cars in time, it will prompt other industry players to do the same.
But according to Ahmed Kuli Khan, who mentioned the local assemblers supporting their endeavor to launch Nissan, the high delivery period of the local assemblers was due to capacity constraints.
“With new players coming, this [extended] delivery period would hopefully be reduced,” Khattak said. Local assemblers generally take from three to eight months to deliver cars to customers.
Kargar said, Nissan’s wouldn’t be doing that and would be using the money of the customers only for what they have paid for and nothing else.
Kargar, who hails from France, also said that Nissan believes in localisation and would initially be starting with 20% indigenous parts and would gradually move towards greater indigenisation of its cars provided that production increases.
The Nissan SVP said, the process of localisation depends on the number of cars produced. The cost-benefit ratio is higher when importing parts compared to producing them in host countries with low demand levels.
Moreover, he said that the volatile exchange rate in Pakistan makes localisation process more feasible and it would be necessary in order to become cost competitive.
Ahmed Kuli Khan also talked of preferring CKDs (Completely Knocked Down) over CBUs (Completely Built Units), though initially production would be on both prongs.
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Ulhasnagar Crime: Sarait goon ‘Andapav’ arrested from Gujarat; Safe release of abducted girl from Ulhasnagar | Goon Andapav arrested from Gujarat, Safe release of abducted girl from Ulhasnagar
Notorious gangster Andapav found it costly to call friends and was caught by the police. He was able to shout at the police as his phone was off for several days. But a few days ago, he contacted his friends in Ulhasnagar by phone.
Sarait goon ‘Andapav’ arrested from Gujarat
Ulhasnagar : While searching for a minor girl who was abducted from Ulhasnagar two months ago, Sarait Gund was caught by the police. Police also rescued the abducted minor girl, while handcuffing a notorious criminal named Andapav. Crime Branch rescues abducted girl from Gujarat and arrests goon ‘Andapav’.
Kidnapped girl released after two months
A minor girl living in Camp 1 area of Ulhasnagar was abducted two months ago. Police have been speeding up the investigation since the parents’ daughter reported missing. Santosh Babu Anna alias Andapav, a gangster in the area where the girl lives, also went missing. He had raised the suspicion that he had abducted the minor girl. Police were searching for Andapav and the abducted minor girl on the same suspicion. Gund Andapav had switched off his phone so that his whereabouts would not be affected during this period. So the police could not track him down.
The goon called friends and got caught!
Notorious gangster Andapav found it costly to call friends and was caught by the police. He was able to shout at the police as his phone was off for several days. But a few days ago, he contacted his friends in Ulhasnagar by phone. Police were also keeping an eye on his friends to arrest Andapav. Police keep an eye on incoming calls from friends. Due to this precaution, the police were able to reach the goon Andapav.
Police traced the number in Gujarat
After realizing that a call was coming from Gujarat to the friends of the goon ‘Andapav’, the police traced the number in Gujarat. At that time, the police found that the number belonged to Andapav, who had abducted the minor girl. Police reached Andapav with the help of that number, at which time they found the goon Andapav with the abducted girl. The police released the girl and arrested Andapav and brought her to Ulhasnagar.
Serious crimes like rape, attempted murder etc. against the goon ‘Andapav’
After the release of the abducted girl, the police have registered a case of rape and abduction against Andapav. Earlier, he was booked in various police stations on charges of rioting, attempted murder and assault. The minor girl in the case has been handed over to her parents, said Anil Mangle, senior police inspector, Ulhasnagar Crime Branch. (Goon Andapav arrested from Gujarat, Safe release of abducted girl from Ulhasnagar)
I used to work for two years, win trust and disappear by stealing
Beed Crime: Injured farmer in Beed dies while undergoing treatment, relatives demand arrest of accused
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One thing I struggle with as a writer is creating character names. It’s probably difficult because I usually start with the plot of the story first and then input the characters’ names later. Anyway, since this is such a struggle for me, I wanted to share with you how I create character names.
Make Them Up
Oftentimes, a first or last name will randomly pop up while I’m doing something that isn’t writing-related. When that happens, I jot it down for future use.
Twitter & Instagram
Twitter and Instagram expose you to so many people from all kinds of backgrounds. You run across names that you can splice together and use for later creations. If something you see catches your eye, write it down!
Finding characters on Pinterest is as simple as searching “character names”. Seriously, that’s a perfect way to start your search on Pinterest for character names. Even better, you can search for what kind of character name you want (e.g., whimsical, futuristic, etc).
Random Name Generator
Random Name Generator is a lifesaver! You provide the number of names you want to generate (10, 25, 50, 100), the gender (male, female, male and female), and name style (common, average, rare) and the website randomly generates a list of names. Brilliant!
Creating character names is important. However, don’t stress yourself out over it. Keep your mind open. Tap into your surroundings. Inspiration is there.
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The Relative Rotation Graph below shows the members of the Dow Jones Industrials index with that same index acting as the benchmark. As all members of the benchmark universe are present on the plot we call this a "closed universe".
Open and Closed RRG-charts
On a RRG holding a closed universe we can expect to see the members more or less evenly spread out over the canvas. On a Relative Rotation Graph holding an open universe this is not necessarily the case.
Let's use the S&P 500 Energy sector as an example. This sector has been a huge under-performer over the past weeks/months and the sector index or ETF itself is moving deep inside the lagging quadrant on the Relative Rotation Graph with the S&P 500 as the benchmark (see chart below).
If we now want to take a closer look at what's going on inside the Energy sector we should plot a Relative Rotation Graph of the members of the Energy sector index against the S&P 500 Energy sector index as the benchmark. This is done in the RRG below.
What we see here is again, just like the RRG of the sectors against the S&P 500 itself a more or less evenly spread out universe. On the plot of the energy sector there are a bit more individual stocks in the lagging quadrant when compared to the number of stocks in the leading quadrant but don't be fooled! Inside the leading quadrant you will find both XOM and CVX who, together, make up almost 35% of the Energy sector so mathematically we need more weight, in this case more smaller weight stocks, opposite of XOM and CVX.
Bear in mind these two RRGs, sectors against S&P 500 and Energy stocks against S&P 500 Energy index, are both closed universes.
An open universe is when we would plot the members of the S&P 500 Energy index against the S&P 500 index itself (not the S&P 500 Energy sector index). In that case the 43 members of the Energy index are compared with the much larger universe of the 500 stocks that make up the S&P 500. And as we already know where the Energy sector is positioned on the Relative Rotation Graph we can, and should, expect the majority of the individual members, when plotted against the S&P 500 index, to show up in the lower left-hand, lagging, quadrant of the RRG. And this is exactly what happens as can be seen on the RRG below.
The Dow Jones Industrials universe
Back to our closed universe of the Dow Jones Industrials index. On the RRG below I have toggled off (by un-checking the boxes in the table below the chart) most of the names in order to high-light the four that are drawing my attention.
In the leading quadrant i am looking at PG and UNH where UNH is characterized by a very long tail indicating a strong move, heading further into the leading quadrant and PG by a short tail, indicating a more stable pattern but also turning upward again after a few weeks of declining relative momentum. In the lagging and the improving quadrant we find BA and IBM where IBM has a very long tail, clearly heading down deeper into lagging territory and BA a short tail but turning back down towards the lagging quadrant again.
On the Relative Rotation Graph the tail of UNH stands out in a positive way. Over the past five weeks the stock gained on both the JdK RS-Ratio- as well as the JdK RS-Momentum axis, both at a steady rate.
A look at the price chart reveals that the stock has powered to the upside and broke above the rising trend line that was capping the upward channel since mid 2013.
If we combine this with a clear break above previous highs in the Relative Strength line, causing both RRG-Lines to move well above the 100-level, we have to conclude that more relative strength may be expected going forward. Especially dips back towards the breakout level should offer good opportunities.
International Business Machines
The chart of IBM is showing pretty much the opposite picture. The stock moved lower on both axes over the past few weeks, causing the tail to point clearly lower into the lagging area.
The pattern on the price chart was not very strong to begin with moving more or less sideways for almost three years already and in a more pronounced range since the beginning of this year. This caused the JdK RS-Ratio to move below the 100-level for almost three years with only a small hickup in May of this year so the big drop of a few weeks ago was a confirmation of the already weak relative outlook.
This sharp decline caused IBM to break below a horizontal support level around 170 which will now start to act as resistance and very likely will cap any attempt of this stock to rally again. Risk/Reward is here clearly not in favor of long or overweight positions.
Proctor & Gamble Co.
The chart of PG shows a gradually up-sloping price pattern which broke out of a large symmetrical triangle back in August. The subsequent rally took PG up to the upper boundary of the rising channel that started to emerge. This potentially limits the upward potential for now but it gives ample opportunity to buy dips inside the channel.
The Relative picture is more interesting. As you can see on the middle pane with the RRG-Lines, PG has been an under-performer for a very long time (roughly since Q2-2013). But the improvement on the price chart has caused the down-trend in relative strength to turn around.
Both RRG-Lines are now back above 100 and moving higher while the raw Relative Strength line has left the falling channel and looks to be starting a new series of higher highs and higher lows.
It looks like there is more in the "relative" store here!
As the title of this article stated, BA looks to be on finals for a landing inside the lagging quadrant and if we keep the analogy we can add that it is doing so after a "touch and go" on the same runway back in the second half of July. A strong relative down-trend therefore.
The price pattern is showing clearly lower highs since the beginning of this year while support has been built up between 115-120. A break of this level is expected to have major (negative) implications in price terms.
The relative line is holding up at horizontal support for the time being but a break lower here is also expected to spark a new leg down in relative terms.
The JdK RS-Ratio well below 100, signals that a relative down-trend is still in full force. Further under-performance seems to be in the cards for the next few weeks.
- UNH powering ahead
- PG in steady relative up-trend
- IBM continuing its relative down-trend at full force
- BA turning down towards the lagging quadrant again
Julius de Kempenaer | RRG Research
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Translation from dramaturgy to narrative structure in scenography, architecture, and lightning. Planning, and realization of all service phases.
Exhibition graphics: typography and color design, infographics, and guidance systems.
Conception and realization of animations, movies, screen, and interface design, multimedia installations, media guides and interactive hands-on exhibits.
Scheduling, cost planning and monitoring, communication, technical coordination, monitoring of production and construction management on site.
Conception and design of brochures, posters, books, and catalogs.
We are an international collective of designers, media artists, and architects,
working together with a wide network of creatives and specialists to create exceptional narrative spaces.
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Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Zombie mink; dogs sniffing for Covid; and the mounting complications of AstraZeneca’s Phase III trials. Plus the usual frippery.
What a difference four days makes. After AstraZeneca announced on Monday what sounded like promising results from an interim look at data from two of their Phase III studies, questions immediately began arising.
It turned out that the fraction of study participants for which the company calculated a 90% efficacy for their vaccine candidate had mistakenly received a wrong dose — getting only half the desired dose in the first shot, then the full dose in the booster a month later. The company did not announce that wrinkle in their press release, instead letting some investors know about it before telling the general public. Those participants were not randomized; in fact all of them were below age 55. And there were only 2,741 of them, not a number to inspire confidence: chances are nonzero that the apparent 90% efficacy could have been a statistical chimera. Some critics raised questions about the validity of combing data from separate studies — in the UK and Brazil — run using different protocols. For example half of the Brazilian subjects received a saline placebo, whereas the British who did not get the ChAdOx shot received instead a placebo of a separate meningococcal vaccine.
The US arm of the Phase III study, which was not involved in Monday’s announcement, had been paused for nearly two months before resuming. That study reportedly has recruited only about 11,000 participants out of its desired total of 40,000. In theory this trial could be modified with a new “arm” to test out more deliberately the accidental but promising half/full dose regimen; but yesterday AstraZeneca’s CEO suggested that a whole new international trial might be spun up instead to test the dosing.
In other words, AstraZeneca’s Phase III situation is a mess. It contrasts most unfavorably with the clean and transparent way that both Pfizer and Moderna have conducted their trials. One would have to assume that AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate would have no chance of winning authorization or approval from the US FDA based on current data.
And today the news broke that Britain may be days away from authorizing both Pfizer’s mRNA candidate and Oxford / AstraZeneca’s adenovirus-vectored one. The UK could steal a march on the US approval process, whose next step isn’t scheduled until December 10th.
Dogs smelling Covid
Research groups around the world are working to prove whether or not dogs can be trained to distinguish by smell between a human with a SARS-CoV-2 infection and one without. There is tantalizing if not yet convincing evidence that it is so. Some trained dogs have shown accuracy far above chance in making the distinction. But it is proving difficult to put the training and testing into a rigorous form and them write it up in a way that compels belief in a scientifically literate, but possibly canine-naive, audience. In one of the few such papers published to date, which the authors call a “pilot study,” researchers trained eight dogs on saliva or tracheobronchial secretions of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients. In the end they presented 10,388 samples to the dogs and report that they achieved an average 83% sensitivity and 96% specificity.
Impressive as these top-line numbers appear, significant difficulties await anyone trying to scale up canine olfactory surveillance of human populations for SARS-CoV-2. One difficulty: dogs can catch Covid-19, so great care must be taken during training, testing, and eventual deployment not to infect them.
The bizarre and macabre tale of the Danish mink with Covid-19 continues to get stranger. Instead of killing all 15+ million animals on farms in the north of the country, as the Danish government set out to do, they stopped short after culling about 2.85 million animals. The government decided it had overstepped its authority in ordering a total cull. The mink had mostly been buried in shallow graves. This turned out to be a problem: in the natural course of decomposition, the animals’ bodies produced gases that facilitated their rising in the soil of their burial places. Some emerged from the ground. Yes, they are calling them “zombie mink.” There was worry about contamination of water tables. The rising mink may end up being exhumed en masse and burned. One government minister has already lost his job in the debacle and the prime minister is barely holding on. On a positive note, the worrisome strain of mink-bred SARS-CoV-2 that set off the alarm has not been seen since September 15; it may have died out.
Now the reward for your patience: the frippery. This is the most amazing optical illusion. After you click the Play button, be aware that no movement is actually happening in the video other than the two circles rotating. (Here is a direct link in case the embed below isn’t working.) Hat tip to Jason Kottke for this oddity.
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Full Name:Ankit Singh Rajpoot
Profession:Cricketer (right-arm medium-fast bowler)
Age:28 years old (in 2022)
Date of Birth:4 December 1993
Birthplace:Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Height, Weight & Physical Stats
Height:6 feet 1 inches (1.85 m)
Weight:75 kg (165 lbs)
Facts You Never Knew About Ankit Rajpoot!
- Ankit Rajpoot made an immediate impact in his first season at the First-Class level. Playing for Uttar Pradesh, he picked up 31 wickets in the 2012-13 season, which included three five-wicket hauls and 10-for.
- He was rated very highly by former Indian pacer Venkatesh Prasad, who was Uttar Pradesh’s bowling coach at the time. After a couple quiet seasons, Rajpoot came roaring back to form in the 2015-16 season, picking up 25 wickets.
- He was picked for the Irani Trophy that season but picked up an injury midway through the match.
- Rajpoot finished as Uttar Pradesh’s second-highest wicket-taker behind Piyush Chawla in their successful Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2015-16 campaign, ending with 14 scalps.
- After playing a couple of matches for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League, Rajpoot was bought for INR 1.5 crore by Kolkata Knight Riders at the IPL 2016 player auction.
- Ankit Rajpoot is an Indian First-Class Cricketer. He was born on 4 December 1993 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Ankit Rajpoot Career
Profession: Cricketer (right-arm medium-fast bowler)
Salary: Under review
Net Worth: INR ₹3 Crore approx
Family & Relatives
Father: Not Known
Mother: Not Known
Brother(s): Abhishek Rajput, Kunaal Singh Rajput
Sister(s): Vimmy Singh
Marital Status: Married
Spouse: Maahi Singh
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Favorite Destination: Singapore
Favorite Color: Black
Favorite Movies: Iqbal (2005)
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This classic stacking toy is suitable for both small babies and older children.
It is very popular as a baby's first toy because it helps children develop hand-eye coordination and introduces them to the concept of sequence and size, as they learn to sort and stack the rings from largest to smallest.
Recommended For Ages 18 months+
Colour stacker (9 pieces): 6.25’’ diameter x 6.75’’ height White and black stacker (7 pieces): 6’’ diameter x 5.5’’ height
Please note that these are handmade and as such will have variations in colour, size, wood grain, and finish. This uniqueness is the wonderful part about these items.
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For the past two years, Todd Gurley has been the Los Angeles Rams’ most consistent player on offense. Not only is he highly productive and talented, but he’s almost always available. And as he said on HBO’s “The Shop” last week, “your best ability is availability.”
Unfortunately, he hasn’t been available since the Rams’ loss to the Eagles, missing the last five practice sessions and Sunday’s game against the Cardinals. He’s dealing with knee inflammation and while it’s not a serious injury, it does have the Rams playing it safe with their Pro Bowl running back.
Sean McVay said during his press conference that Gurley doesn’t necessarily have to practice this week in order to play Sunday, but that was hardly the most interesting thing the coach said. He added that Gurley’s current knee injury is similar to one he had after the Rams’ season opener against Oakland.
“It was a similar situation earlier in the year after we played Oakland, as well. He recovers really well. He kind of gets his body back, takes really good care of himself, but this is something that we want to be smart about,” McVay said.
The thing is, that injury wasn’t previously known, nor was he ever listed on the injury report with any sort of knee issue. Prior to the Rams’ Week 2 game against Arizona, Gurley popped up on Wednesday’s injury report but it was listed as “non-injury related.” He was a full participant by Thursday, so perhaps it was just a brief soreness that didn’t warrant him being listed on the report.
In that game against the Cardinals, Gurley had just 19 carries for 42 yards. McVay didn’t say whether the knee soreness affected him that week, but given the two-week recovery period for this injury, it’s possible that he wasn’t 100 percent.
While it’s somewhat concerning that he hasn’t practiced since Week 14, Gurley is making progress. McVay said the “swelling is gone” and Gurley’s knee is “just sore.”
The Rams will continue to take it “one day at a time” with Gurley and remain hopeful that he’ll be able to play on Sunday. If not, it’ll be C.J. Anderson stepping up once again.
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HR7870 is a double star in the constellation of Cygnus.
HR7870 visual magnitude is 5.78. Because of its reltive faintness, HR7870 should be visible only from locations with dark skyes, while it is not visible at all from skyes affected by light pollution.
The table below summarizes the key facts about HR7870:
Celestial coordinates and finder chart of HR7870
HR7870 is situated north of the celestial equator, as such, it is more easily visible from the northern hemisphere. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of HR7870 are provided in the following table:
The simplified sky map below shows the position of HR7870 in the sky:
Visibility of HR7870 from your location
HR7870 is circumpolar and transits at 12:18 UTC (altitude: 85.2°)
Digitized Sky Survey image of HR7870
The image below is a photograph of HR7870 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of HR7870 is 0.011 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and -0.001 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 10000 years is represented with the red arrow.
Distance of HR7870 from the Sun and relative movement
HR7870 is distant 480.83 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 22 kilometers per second.
Spectral properties of HR7870
The red dot in the diagram below shows where HR7870 is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
HR7870 star system properties
HR7870 is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the HR7870 double sysyem:
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Love is Obvious
By: Bec Fordyce
Image: Author’s Own
Recently, a very dear friend of mine discovered her boyfriend of three years has been keeping a secret from her.
The secret is one of the most reprehensible things I have ever heard.
It is clear that she is the secret (and secondary) part of his life.
Had I been in her shoes, I would have kicked his ass to the curb.
Ever since she’s found out the news, she’s consulted multiple psychics and energy healers. She’s meditated. She’s prayed. She’s asked her tarot cards for answers. But never has she admitted the truth to herself.
She is not important in this man’s life.
The most delicious irony is that her apartment is adorned with motivational and inspirational signs. The one that has always stood out to me says:
Never chase love, affection or attention.
If it isn’t given freely by another person, it isn’t worth having.
Trite and as cheesy as it may be – they’re wise words and they ring true.
She should probably read the sign and let the quote sink in.
Mind you, it’s a bit rich of me to judge. I’ve certainly fought for some rather questionable things myself. It took me a decade of living in New York to meet a good partner. My marriage failed miserably. I dated my share of narcissists, fuckboys and momma’s boys. I was miserable- I just wanted love.
I spent almost a decade pining after a man who bread-crumbed me. I was enamored with him. I put so much of my self-worth into him. Getting an Instagram “like” or a text from him was like winning the lottery.
I knew I was only second best, but for whatever reason, he was it to me.
That glimmer of hope was all I needed. I completely lost my self-worth in the process vying for his affections.
I hated all of the games.
Don’t reply immediately to a text, or he’ll think you’re too eager.
Don’t be the first person to like his Instagram post. And only like it if he liked something you posted that day.
Make sure you meet up after 11pm – on a week night – when there’s nobody else around.
Never, ever let on how I truly feel, because in my heart of all hearts, I knew he did not feel the same way.
I was a dirty secret…and it hurt.
I can empathize with my friend for deciding to keep persisting with her boyfriend. While I didn’t go the new age route, I was still deluding myself in my own ways. I get it. Hope is what keeps us going. At the same time, it’s very upsetting to witness a friend go through a similar experience.
Especially, when you’ve come out the other side.
When I met my current boyfriend, we were on the same page from the word “go”. When we went on our first date, it was very apparent that we liked each other. He wasn’t afraid to admit it, and neither was I. I never felt anxious about when he would reply to a text. If he said he’d show up, he’d show up. There’s never been games, and we are always able to have a conversation, no matter how difficult it is. Ultimately, I know that he has my back. He wants the best for me.
My quality of life has improved simply by having a loving and healthy relationship.
Love is obvious.
You don’t have to play silly games or second guess when it is the real deal. You don’t need to consult other-worldly oracles, cards or the stars.
You don’t have to feel anxious about them when you aren’t together.
You just know.
Learning to love yourself sometimes means letting go. It can be terrifying and uncertain, but it clears the path to finding the right person.
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Today we learned why we never, ever take cruise line excursions. Or at least, reinforced that opinion.
Originally our cruise itinerary included two days in Tianjin which is the closest port city to Beijing. We had a lovely independent tour booked that would take us around to see the highlights of Beijing and since we would be docked overnight, had plenty of time to see them. We received a notification from NCL that our itinerary was being changed because we were scheduled to go to South Korea; apparently it is against their regulations for a ship to visit that country after visiting China. So, Seoul was out but Beijing was still in. Next, we heard that our time in Beijing was being shortened to just one day, and a relatively short day at that. Our tour company informed us that there was no way that a tour of Beijing could be fit into the new time frame. So, what to do? It seemed a waste to go to China and not set foot on land. Given that there were no private tours available for the port of Tianjin, we opted to take an NCL tour. There is literally nothing near the port itself so doing it on our own didn’t seem possible, either. And, we learned from our first two ports of call that there is very little English spoken or written so getting around on your own would be difficult as well.
An announcement had been made that our port clearance could take up to two hours so the short time in port would be even shorter. The tour we selected was advertised as being about a 30-40 minute drive from the port, which didn’t seem too bad; it would leave the port at 1 pm and we would be returned at 6 pm. As is usual for a cruise-line tour, we were directed to meet a half-hour ahead of time in the theater. We were given a sticker which would be our bus number. There were 8 buses for this excursion! We had to wait beyond our half-hour because there were some late comers. IMHO, they should be left behind if they can’t show up on time. Or, at least load the buses with those that did show up when they were supposed to since the buses were assigned sequentially.
It was a really long walk through the port building to clear immigration and find the bus. I felt really bad for the many mobility-challenged people that had signed up for the tour. Also, there was only one immigration person scanning our passport copies so if there was an issue, the entire line got held up until it was resolved. We finally got to the bus, only to have to wait until everyone made their way through the long immigration line.
Our tour guide was named Jack. On the positive side, he had a microphone and his English was understandable. On the negative? He had a monotonous voice and repeated himself. It was like there was an echo! I don’t know if this company trains the guides to do this in case someone missed what he said the first time but it was really annoying. The first bit of bad news he had to impart? It would be an hour and a half bus ride in to Tianjin! Even worse? It actually took two hours each way, so of our 5 hour tour, 4 hours was spent on the bus. And, we would only be taken to two sites: Confucius Temple and Ancient Culture Street. The tour was titled, “Highlights of Tianjin”; I guess these are the only two!
One thing you should know about visiting China is that it is incredibly smoggy here. If you have any breathing difficulties at all you should not go. Tianjin was much worse than the other two ports, most likely because it is closest to Beijing which is known for its horrible pollution. By the end of the day my eyes were burning. I have noticed that at all of the Chinese ports that I get fatigued extremely easily; I attribute that to the poor air quality. I am hoping to get my energy back when we get to Japan.
Another thing about China is that the cities are enormous and completely lack charm. Many of the interesting buildings were “liberated” during the people’s revolution; what is left are many tall buildings. The ones in Tianjin were not at all interesting architecturally so the long drive each way felt even longer because it was really dull. We drove through the port area for a good half-hour; it is all on reclaimed land.
Jack fed us facts about China all the way in. In order to reduce the number of cars on the road, you are not allowed to drive one day per week (based on the last digit of your license plate). If your plate ends in 0 or 5, you can’t drive on a Monday, 1 or 6, Tuesday, and so on. License plates are given out by a lottery system. If you want to buy a car, you sign up on-line. Once a month, a lottery is held. Chances of winning are less than 1%. Jack said that he tried for 2 years but never won. Your license plate stays with you for life and cannot be given to anyone else. You get to choose the last digit of your license plate. Those that end in 8 are the most popular because it is a lucky number. So, less traffic on Thursdays because no one can drive that has a plate ending in 3 or 8 on that day of the week.
He talked about how Chinese people greet each other. Rather than, “How are you?”, the Chinese ask, “Have you eaten?”. I guess food is pretty important here! He also mentioned that you never ask a Chinese person their age; instead, you ask them their zodiac sign. From that you can deduce their age because the zodiac signs repeat every 12 years. The current year is the year of the dog, so a person would be 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, or some other multiple of 12. People choose to have their children in what are perceived to be “good” zodiac years: dragon, tiger and horse. Not so good are snake, rat and pig.
Women in China can retire at age 55; men at 60. You have to work a minimum of 15 years in order to qualify for the old age pension. You contribute 5% of your salary and your company matches that. If you don’t work enough years, you only get back what you put into the system.
Most Chinese travel in their 30’s and 40’s. Retired people stay home and play Mahjongg! And of course, care for their grandchildren. Jack reiterated what other tour guides told us – most city people either choose to have no children or one child. Grandchildren are treasured because there are so few of them.
There is a progressive tax system in China. If you earn below 1000 Yuan/month, you are not taxed. Tax brackets run from 10% to 40% based on income and are a flat tax. You don’t ever have to file taxes; they are withheld at the correct amount from your pay.
At a certain point I dozed off. . .when I woke we had reached the city. It was an ugly city. Cars were parked on the sidewalk. There is a ferris wheel along the river called the Eye of Tianjin (very original name, right?). The driver parked the bus and we were herded around the corner to Confucius Temple. We were the only people there because it is closed Mondays; they only opened it for the NCL tours.
The temple is not vey well kept; lots of peeling paint. There are tall thresholds at each doorway. The purpose of these is to keep out evil spirits. They also did a pretty good job of keeping out the mobility-impaired. I guess the evil spirits are unable to bend their knees to cross the thresholds so are quite effective. The high-rise apartments behind the temple are the most sought-after in Tianjin because they have the best feng shui. Parents come to this temple to pray for good scores for their kids rather than to worship Confucius. If you live with a view of the temple, it is thought that your kids will be extra-smart, I guess.
We spent about a half-hour at the temple, which was plenty. The second and final stop was only about 5 minutes away by bus. We were let out at the end of Ancient Culture Street and were given an hour to wander. It seemed very touristy although Jack tried to convince us that locals shop there. I very much doubt it; the goods sold there were obviously skewed to the touristy side. We managed to tour without parting with any of our hard-earned cash.
If you’ve done the math, we were a half an hour behind schedule. We boarded the bus at 4:30 and Jack told us it would be 1.5 hours back to port. Of course, it took 2 hours to get from the port to Tianjin so it took 2 hours to get from Tianjin back to the port. We made it back at 6:30 which was all-aboard time. Other tours must have made it back even later because the ship didn’t leave until 2 hours later than scheduled.
My advice to anyone planning a trip here? Skip this port! If you can’t skip the port, skip the tour. It would’ve been better just to stay on the ship. FYI, there was a shuttle offered for $15 that would drive you to a shopping mall and drop you off. Unless you have a strong urge to shop at a Chinese mall, I would probably skip that option as well. I am really happy to be moving on to Japan tomorrow!
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Californian cultured meat startup New Age Meats has raised $2M in funding via convertible debt. This seed extension funding brings the total amount raised by the company to $7M.
After a successful seed funding round last year, New Age Meats is aiming for a Series A round in 2021. The additional funding will allow it to bring its hybrid cultured and plant-based pork products to market more quickly. To this end, it has hired several former Impossible Foods employees, as well as bioengineers with experience in product development and scaling.
Cultured meat is beginning to take off worldwide, with the EU investing 2.7M euros in cultured meat biotech, UC Davis receiving $3.5M from the US government for research, and China considering a national strategy to allow it to make progress in developing lab-grown meat.
New Age Meats’ first products are pork sausages and dumplings, which according to the company are more realistic than any others currently available. But as with all cultured meat products, making them affordable is the biggest challenge.
“Ultimately, we will fail if our products are too expensive and low volume to be served anywhere but luxury restaurants,” says Brian Spears, the company’s CEO. “We’ve focused relentlessly on driving down the cost and scaling production of our product: hybrid cultivated and plant-based meat that doesn’t sacrifice on flavour. We want to make the world a better place by making the better decisions easy. We are well on our way to bringing that vision to market after our upcoming Series A.”
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We are open 24 hours a day for emergency or hazardous removal calls. If you need help quickly, please give us a call.
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Dead or Large trees on or near your home can be unsightly and dangerous. We at Watts Tree Service take pride in our ability to safely remove any tree that may cause a threat to you or your property.
If a storm has knocked a tree onto your property, we can work quickly with you and your insurance company to get it removed.
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We at Watts Tree Service are also the proud owners of Watts Excavation. At Watts Excavation we offer many services such as Brush clearing, road building, culvert installs, septic dig-outs, gravel spreading and delivery, grading and more!
Watts Tree Service has some of the most skilled climbers in the area. They make the impossible possible. An experienced crew can make or brake any operation. Here at Watts Tree Service we have a reputation for safety and productivity that we stand by an uphold daily.
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Proverbs 22:6 NIVUK
Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
‘Children should be seen and not heard.’ I have always thought this is an obnoxious saying! Another is ‘Young people are the church of tomorrow’. This really winds me up. Children are God’s creation, made in his image and just as valuable and just as important to him as us adults are. Children can find joy in him just as we can, and hear from him and be used by him. This is why I am don’t mind the noise of children playing during a service, even in the ‘serious bits’. Another reason why I am passionate about including them and sharing Jesus with them is that they have a life ahead of them; those experiences they have now will shape the way they see and act in the world they grow up in.
Jesus, you welcomed children despite how the adults around you saw them. Help us to do the same and give them the best start we can – early years experiencing you and your love.
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In Stock for Delivery Tuesday, 25 JanuaryNext Working Day Delivery - £5.45
The SALTO Mifare WBM01KBS Blue Small Silicone Key Fob Wrist Bracelet is for use on SALTO E9 series access control systems. Can also be use on other Mifare cards systems that are read only.
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MechLite is now an AC Leigh Company. Same excellent service, Trade Catalogue and Click and Collect at AC Leigh Branches in Ipswich, Colchester and Norwich. All Orders will continue to be delivered as normal.
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"VasarNICA" apartment "Vanilla"
Entire rental unit hosted by Inese
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You’ll have the flat to yourself.
This host has committed to Airbnb's 5-step enhanced cleaning process.
Guests often search for this popular amenity
100% of recent guests rated Inese 5-star in communication.
What this place offers
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Patio or balcony
Long-term stays allowed
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But, how should they prepare for what is expected to be one of the most demanding periods yet?
Over the next 15 years, companies will face many additional challenges, making their need to sustain cost efficiency and quality a given. Developing manufacturing excellence will be key to competing effectively. Customer segments are proliferating with each segment seeking more tailored products and supporting services to suit their specific needs, while Internet access to product comparison information virtually anytime and anywhere is helping to fuel customer expectations for faster launches and higher quality.
Moreover, global supply chains are growing in complexity, and will require greater visibility and more robust management to ensure effective production. The need for engineering talent and raw materials will continue to grow, and increased scrutiny of sustainability levels throughout the organization and not just its products will require that organizations revisit sourcing, production and distribution resources.
Attributes for change
Accenture outlines five winning manufacturing attributes companies will need to embrace to thrive in this changing environment.
First, the shift towards highly customized products will favor manufacturers that can be flexible, mastering a dual focus which includes both traditional and modular manufacturing processes. This strategy will help companies continue to meet traditionally mass-produced product needs, while satisfying specialized demand that requires a modular approach to address the complexity involved in producing such products.
Customization also will impact supply considerations. Manufacturers are already finding that moving supply too far from demand hinders their ability to meet customer expectations for specialized products. To succeed, they will need to adopt a ‘globally local’ mindset that balances supply locations with demand locations. Then too, it will be important to design a network based on total value chain costs and customer service. This is in addition to migrating operation modular components to low-cost opportunities.
Elsewhere, many suppliers to the manufacturing process have become integral to helping companies deliver value. To advance this trend in the coming years, companies will need to adopt new manufacturing models like contract manufacturing, which, for example, has aided consumer electronics firms in their ability to contend with extremely short product lifecycles. Models and processes may vary to better serve diverse channel and customer needs. But, the overarching benefit will be the shift from fixed to variable costs, which will help manufacturers achieve needed flexibility.
The fourth attribute companies will need to develop is shop floor agility. This will include applying continuous improvement programs to whatever strategic activities and models are adopted; using reliable, efficient equipment that is highly configurable and easily transportable; and placing people with the right skills in regions where operations are expanding or being established. Leveraging predictive analytics will be critical too. Manufacturers that make effective use of analytical data will gain greater insight into customer, supply chain, product development and production needs, as well as be able to better anticipate cost, quality, productivity, or customer service issues.
Finally, increased interest in environmental and social sustainability is placing greater pressure on public companies, in particular, to provide sustainability transparency. Manufacturers will need to find innovative ways to incorporate elements of sustainability into their offerings, and make customers aware of those elements from design to disposal.
Industrial manufacturers that delay addressing the many challenges emerging around them will risk being overtaken by more nimble competitors. Developing these five manufacturing attributes will help set a course toward transforming manufacturing operations into a competitive advantage and achieving high performance.
James Robbins, firstname.lastname@example.org, is a senior executive with Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.
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- Contingency Planning Memorandum
- Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them.
The acute risk of political instability has been growing steadily in Algeria since early 2019. The decision by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to seek a fifth consecutive term in elections scheduled for April 2019, despite his poor health, sparked the largest political protests in Algeria in over two decades. Whether Bouteflika will remain a candidate and who Algeria’s next president will be are still unclear. Meanwhile, the Algerian National People’s Assembly has succumbed to a crippling leadership struggle and the military, historically Algeria’s bastion of stability, is in flux after almost all senior military leaders were replaced over the last six months. Algeria’s economy is also stagnating as a short-lived bounce from a 2018 expansionary fiscal policy dissipates, and analysts predict an increase in unemployment in 2019.
Against this backdrop, a bungled leadership transition and continuing economic stagnation could lead to further instability in Algeria that would have significant ramifications for U.S. counterterrorism interests and regional stability. As violent extremist organizations intent on harming the United States and its allies have inundated North Africa and the Sahara in the last decade, Algeria has been a regional counterterrorism stronghold. However, civil strife in Algeria could distract from its counterterrorism efforts and open a broad geographic expanse to violent extremist organizations, allowing these groups to operate more freely and potentially travel unhindered to Europe. Instability in Algeria would affect the United States’ regional partners, including Nigeria and countries in southern Europe, which are concerned about spillover from potential terrorist activity in Algeria’s south and increased migration to Europe from its north. Although the United States has limited influence on events in Algeria, Washington can take worthwhile steps to manage the risk of growing political instability, including precautionary measures to safeguard its interests should the worst happen.
Analysts in the United States, Algeria, and Europe have argued that despite problems such as political dysfunction and an underperforming economy, the current Algerian leadership and wider population place such a premium on stability that the country will maintain its political status quo in the next ten to twelve months. However, the country is vulnerable to the same risk it faced in 1988, when it was rocked by unexpected (and still largely inexplicable) deadly and destabilizing riots. At that time, the economy was in a tailspin due to rock-bottom oil prices, and civil society was questioning the president’s legitimacy and the government’s stewardship of the republic. The October 1988 riots resulted in a political and economic opening that in turn resulted in the civil war of the 1990s—Algeria’s “dark decade.” Algeria faces a similar risk today, and one of the following situations—or a combination of those—could spark a crisis.
President Bouteflika leaves office without a clear successor. Political uncertainty in Algeria is extremely high. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s health has seriously deteriorated, and he has no clear political successor. He has stated his intention to run for a fifth consecutive five-year term in April 2019, but popular protests have seemingly pressured his supporters to withdraw their approval of his candidacy. If he does run for office, he will almost certainly win reelection, but it is unlikely that he will be able to complete the full term (until 2024) given his physical condition. Bouteflika’s supporters argue that despite his physical incapacitation, he retains his full mental capacity and understands current affairs. His detractors insist that the president is both mentally and physically impaired and is unable to fulfill the duties of his office. Bouteflika’s health and the potential withdrawal of his candidacy or the shortening of his presidency should he be reelected increase the likelihood that Algeria will undergo an irregular presidential succession in the near future.
If an off-term election does occur, Algeria’s disparate political elite, including members of the military, might not reach a consensus on Bouteflika’s successor. There is a constitutional process for off-term elections, so the election process would not itself be destabilizing, but an inability to identify a consensus candidate to succeed Bouteflika could result in postponed elections and would leave the country without clear leadership. Disagreements occur in the Algerian media about the country’s trajectory and its current leadership, but Algerian elites are discreet and rarely question Algeria’s political circumstances publicly. If the behind-the-scenes disagreement among Algeria’s commercial, military, political, and public-sector elite (elite fracture) unfolds in public, policymaking could also freeze or become incoherent, exacerbating the leadership crisis.
Regardless of whether elites name a successor, the first post-Bouteflika president will face a crisis of legitimacy. For the last fifty years, Algerian leaders have used participation in Algeria’s war against the French as a legitimizing narrative, and no alternative has been crafted to replace it. Bouteflika is the last leader from the moudjahideen, the veterans of the Algerian War of Independence. Proponents of his government are trying to craft a new narrative around Bouteflika’s legacy to circumvent the problem posed by the passing of the moudjahid generation. However, “Bouteflikism” is an indistinct mixture of nationalism, protectionism, socialism, and statism, and is not as compelling as the moudjahid story. Meanwhile, opposition parties have embraced disparate narratives—Berberist, Islamist, Trotskyite—but have not gained many voters. To wit, protestors in Algeria rallied in opposition to a fifth mandate for Bouteflika on March 1 but did not articulate an alternative narrative or candidate. In fact, a turning point in the protests was when they were joined by Djamila Bouhired, herself a celebrated moudjahida. Absent a legitimizing narrative, Algeria’s next president is unlikely to enjoy widespread support. Rather, elite factions will challenge his leadership and popular movements will question his legitimacy.
An economic crisis limits or eliminates government services, sparking national protests. Algeria’s economy is in trouble. Its oil and gas sector—which accounts for approximately 30 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), 60 percent of budget revenues, and 95 percent of export earnings—is facing the effects of nearly a decade of energy-sector mismanagement. Frequent leadership turnover has discouraged foreign investment and inhibited the development of new oil and gas assets. Revenue at the state-owned energy company Sonatrach decreased from $76 billion in 2008 to $33.2 billion in 2017 due to decreased energy prices following a price crash in 2014 and increased domestic energy consumption, which also led to lower volumes available for export. To offset declining oil and gas revenues, the government tapped into the country’s abundant foreign exchange reserves. However, those have declined by more than 50 percent since 2014, and the government has since resorted to printing money.
Algeria’s tighter economic circumstances have hindered the state’s ability to provide services as well or as regularly as it did in the past. Inflation and a concomitant increase in the cost of living has made it more difficult for many to secure daily needs. Protests throughout the country over basic services like education, electricity, health care, housing, pensions, and the water supply are more frequent; and because the state does not have the funds to respond to every grievance, protests last longer and are more intense.
Protest movements in Algeria have historically targeted discrete goals, like providing social services, promoting human rights, or fighting corruption—or they have been limited to cities such as Ghardaia or Kabylia and did not spread across the country. Some attempts have been made to form nationwide protest movements, including the 2014 Barakat movement (“enough” in North African Arabic), which tried to prevent Bouteflika from running for a fourth term, and the 2018 Mouwatana movement (“citizenship” in Modern Standard Arabic), which opposes Bouteflika’s fifth term. The Barakat movement dissolved after Bouteflika won reelection in 2014, and thus far the Mouwatana movement had limited its activities to eastern Algeria. The challenge posed by the March 1, 2019, protests is twofold: because they were about Algeria’s political system and not about tangible grievances, the government could be at pains to respond to them in a way that will mollify the protestors’ complaints; additionally, the protests are likely to result in the government entrenching itself and effectively shutting down until the country’s leadership trajectory becomes clearer, which could weaken the government’s ability to provide important social services.
Military or law enforcement use violence against Algerian citizens. Algerians widely accept that the military and, to a lesser extent, law enforcement forces represent and support the population. However, the military, which is responsible for quashing internal threats and repelling external ones, and law enforcement, which is responsible for managing protests, are under-resourced and overextended. If overworked law enforcement or military officers killed one or more protestors against the backdrop of a succession crisis and ongoing economic challenges, Algerians would perceive the incident as a betrayal of the state’s obligations to its citizens. State violence against protestors could unite Algerians against the government, inaugurating a new era of instability.
In short, a succession crisis could soon accompany Algeria’s current economic crisis. If conspicuous elite fracture, disagreements within the military, and economic decline continue, Algeria could face widespread protests beyond just the March 1 protests and corresponding state violence against the population. Ultimately, Algeria could undergo a period of significant instability, with wide-ranging implications for regional stability. The government’s response and that of regional partners will determine whether Algeria can manage a growing crisis.
Several warning indicators would signal Algeria is becoming more at risk.
- Elite fracture. Public disagreement among the high-ranking military officers, oligarchs, or upper echelons of political leadership, including cabinet members, leaders of political parties’ ruling coalitions, and members of parliament—the elites—over Bouteflika’s ongoing presidency or about his potential successor could indicate the beginning of widespread instability.
- Politicization of the military. Public disagreement among security chiefs or the withdrawal of overt military support for political leadership could call into question military support for political leaders. Different blocs within the military or security services could recommend opposing courses of action, thereby limiting the effectiveness of the security services. Another related warning indicator would be if recently retired military officers, including retired members of the once-omnipotent intelligence services, start to agitate publicly against political leadership.
- Grassroots popular protests. The March 1 protests are unlikely to be an isolated event and there is now a fertile environment for more civil unrest. The government, used to handling conventional protests that call for tangible concessions from the state, could make a misstep in handling these larger protest movements, further undermining public trust.
- Sustained low energy prices. Algeria is a socialist state, with its social contract predicated on the state’s provision of services. Algeria is also a rentier state, and its budget depends heavily on oil and gas exports. A reduction of revenue from oil and gas and a further depletion of foreign exchange reserves would threaten the state’s ability to provide social services and thus fulfill its social contract. Energy price volatility will likely continue, but Algeria will face a higher likelihood of political instability if crude prices remain depressed for more than two years.
Implications for U.S. Interests
Although the United States has minimal direct diplomatic, economic, and military exposure to Algeria, it does have security and investment partnerships there. The United States recognizes the importance of Algeria for its influence on counterterrorism efforts, migration flows, energy disruption, and instability contagion across North Africa, the Sahel and Sahara, sub-Saharan Africa, and Europe. Through a mutual legal assistance treaty with Algeria, the FBI provides training for Algerian law enforcement, and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism provides assistance with counterterrorism activities along Algeria’s border. However, the U.S. military does not conduct partner capacity–building programs, nor does it have a status of forces agreement with the Algerian military. U.S. investment is also limited to the oil and gas sector, as well as some activity in the pharmaceutical sector. Total U.S. foreign direct investment (FDI) in Algeria amounts to less than $5 billion.
Governments in southern Europe—in particular France and Italy—are also anxious about the prospect of instability in Algeria. Paris and Rome are concerned that instability could lead to an increase in cross-Mediterranean migration to Europe. An influx of migrants could inflame European political discourse, including the immigration debate, and fuel the rise of far-right political parties, which would further erode EU solidarity and complicate the United States’ alliances throughout Europe.
Civil strife in Algeria could also result in episodic disruptions to its oil and gas sector, from either mismanagement or terrorist attacks, with serious implications for European energy security. In the first half of 2018, 10.7 percent of the EU’s total non-EU natural gas imports came from Algeria. Disruption of this supply could lead EU countries to depend more on Russian gas supplies—and, as it did in 2014, Moscow would not hesitate to politicize its European exports. Increased European dependence on Russian gas supplies would give Moscow more leverage over the United States’ European allies.
A leadership crisis in Algeria could also draw in Persian Gulf countries. Gulf state competition for influence in Algeria would further complicate U.S. policy approaches to the dispute between the “Quartet” (Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) and Qatar, as well as to Algeria itself. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates may attempt to fund Madkhali Salafi groups (status quo political actors) in Algeria, as they are currently doing in Libya; and Qatar might channel support to Ikhwani groups (political and social activist Islamists). The involvement of Gulf benefactors would exacerbate tensions between Madkhalis and Ikhwanis in Algeria, who have thus far been dormant political actors. As they did in Libya, revived tensions between Madkhalis and Ikhwanis would prolong a leadership crisis.
Preventing political instability in Algeria presents a policy challenge for the United States because the options to doing so are extremely limited. In addition to the opacity of the decision-making process in Algeria and the relatively low level of interactions between U.S. officials and their Algerian counterparts, Algeria resists any infringement on its sovereignty. As a result, U.S. proposals intended to steer Algeria toward a more certain political trajectory and away from potential instability should be restricted to indirect initiatives and will mostly involve working through other interested parties, such as France and Italy. Preventive measures should be designed for the long term, beyond the immediate contingency. They should aim to help alleviate social pressures by contributing to Algeria’s economic growth and forging stronger ties in Algeria to better anticipate the country’s political trajectory. These measures should include supporting the Algerian electoral process, encouraging economic reform through diplomacy and communication, working more closely with Algeria’s neighbors in North Africa and with European allies, and improving the United States’ understanding of the inner workings of the Algerian political system.
First, to promote stability, the United States could communicate to Algerian political elites the importance of following constitutionally mandated processes for presidential succession. The Algerian constitution delineates how irregular presidential successions should proceed, and the United States could emphasize that adhering to these processes—regardless of who ultimately becomes president—helps ensure stability. Given the State Department’s role in democracy promotion around the world, the department should lead this undertaking and leverage diplomatic relationships with Algerian counterparts, including through the U.S.-Algeria strategic dialogue and the efforts of the U.S. ambassador to Algeria. U.S. nongovernmental organizations have historically had a minimal presence in Algeria, and their efforts at messaging and outreach would likely have little effect. The United States could coordinate its emphasis on adhering to constitutionally delineated succession processes with France and Italy to ensure that Algeria’s allies and partners are speaking with one voice. Because of the painful legacy of France’s colonial presence in Algeria, Paris can only address Algerian issues in a limited manner. Rome, however, is not bound by the same historical constraints.
Second, the United States could foster Algerian economic development and diversification by encouraging Algeria to fortify its economy through FDI. Algeria is already taking some steps to encourage FDI in the automotive assembly sector and in the oil and gas sector, attracting investments from France and Italy, but a host of other economic sectors could benefit from U.S. guidance. Algeria’s agriculture, health care and pharmaceuticals, information technology, and renewable energy sectors are ripe for investment. U.S. government outreach to organizations like the American Chamber of Commerce in Algeria, the U.S.-Algeria Business Council, and the Business Leaders’ Forum (FCE) could help these groups advocate for economic reforms to facilitate FDI. Furthermore, the United States could expedite the bilateral U.S.-Algeria Trade and Investment Framework to provide U.S. firms with more governmental support and guidance as they pursue investment opportunities. Again, the United States could align its efforts to foster FDI in Algeria with its European allies, including France and Italy, as well as the broader European Union.
In addition to supporting increased FDI, the United States could promote bilateral technical aid to Algeria, particularly in major sectors like agriculture and renewable energy. Algeria’s population is slightly more than forty million, but it is among the world’s top ten importers of grain, wheat, and maize or corn. It is therefore keenly interested in expanding its domestic agricultural activity. To make more energy available for export (and thus generate more revenue), Algeria is also targeting its renewable energy sector as a source of domestic electricity, with the aim of using renewables for roughly 40 percent of domestic electricity consumption. The United States could work with the European Union to speed Algeria-EU trade agreements, particularly in the agriculture and energy sectors, and provide bilateral aid to help Algeria realize these strategic priorities.
Despite concerns over foreign interference, Algeria does recognize when it needs assistance. If sustained low energy prices mean that Algeria is unable to provide social services, the United States should be prepared to offer emergency funds or services to mitigate the harms from a lapse in Algerian services. Algeria would be more inclined to accept external support for the health-care sector, which is less controversial than others.
Third, the United States could leverage its relationships with Algeria’s neighbors and European allies to prevent instability and encourage economic diversity in Algeria. By creating a broader strategy for the region—including Morocco, Tunisia, and the African Union (AU)—the United States could stymie unrest and lessen the risk of instability contagion from neighboring countries. In Tunisia, economic reforms would reduce social tensions that fuel instability and extremism along its borders. In Morocco, support for economic decentralization programs would decrease eastern Morocco’s economic reliance on informal cross-border economic activities with Algeria. Washington has already provided such support through the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Fiscal Reform for a Strong Tunisia program and the agency’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy in Morocco, and it should continue to do so. Strengthened economies in Morocco and Tunisia would also create additional markets for Algerian exports.
The European Union may have more influence in Algeria than the United States. Italy, Spain, and France are Algeria’s largest export destinations and France, Italy, Spain, and Germany are its largest import origins. The European Union has frequent and varied contact with Algeria, including in the context of the EU-Algeria high-level dialogue on regional security and counterterrorism, the EU-Algeria energy dialogue, and the “five-plus-five” dialogue, which considers migration, among other topics. Because of the importance of the EU-Algeria relationship, the United States could work with the European Union to indirectly bolster economic diversification and regional stability while respecting Algeria’s sovereignty.
By using relationships with multilateral organizations and regional allies and partners, the United States could gain a better understanding of events in Algeria. To provide early warning of instability in Algeria, the United States could increase intelligence sharing with Morocco and Tunisia and reinforce partner capacity–building programs with Moroccan and Tunisian militaries. The United States could also send officials to work more often with the African Union. Algeria plays a significant role in security and counterterrorism issues there, through the efforts of Smail Chergui, the AU commissioner for peace and security, and Ramtane Lamamra, the AU high representative for Silencing the Guns in Africa and special diplomatic advisor to Bouteflika.
Last, the United States could gain additional insights into Algerian politics, which are opaque and poorly understood in Washington, by working more closely on issues where Algeria demonstrates expertise and interest. For example, Algeria has been deeply involved in creating durable solutions to the political and security crisis in neighboring Libya by facilitating dialogue between different Libyan parties to the conflict. Washington could win support from elites in Algiers by acknowledging and supporting these efforts at peace brokering. Algeria also has vast experience with Saharan and Sahelian security issues, though its experience with sub-Saharan Africa is typically overlooked by Nigeria, South Africa, and Gulf of Guinea countries—and by the State Department. If the United States works with Algeria on sub-Saharan Africa issues, it could also marshal sub-Saharan African states’ concern for and relations with Algeria, creating stronger cross-regional ties. In this vein, the United States could encourage Algeria to participate in the Consultative Group on Prevention and Stabilization in the Lake Chad Region in an observer capacity and facilitate Algerian participation in an advisory capacity with the Group of Five for the Sahel (G5 Sahel).
As a result of the Arab Spring uprisings, the United States has significant experience in reacting to unstable situations in the Middle East and North Africa. Unfortunately, not a single outcome from the Arab Spring has helped U.S. regional interests, and few lessons were learned from the instability in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen that the United States can apply to Algeria. However, the United States can take certain steps if a political crisis emerges in Algeria. Like preventive measures, though, the United States’ mitigating options are similarly constrained.
In general, the U.S. approach to political instability in Algeria should be based on consensual de-escalation. Given the limited U.S. insight into Algeria’s decision-making bodies and Algerian resistance to foreign interference in its domestic politics, direct collaboration between U.S. and Algerian governments is not feasible, and Algerians would resist coercive de-escalation. Indirect actions would ensure a favorable outcome for both countries and avoid the inadvertent creation of a worse problem (as happened in Libya). In short, U.S. policy should be predicated on the primacy of Algerian sovereignty and it should ensure that it acknowledges Algeria’s right to self-determination.
With that in mind, the United States should be better prepared to manage any potential crisis by upgrading regional intelligence capabilities, identifying U.S. assets in the region, and forming a Department of Defense–led fusion cell with the State Department, in which expertise and resources are shared, to address the crisis’s scope and impact. In addition, to the extent that it is not already, the United States should prepare its embassy in Algiers for an emergency evacuation, including pre-positioning assets in the region, establishing communications channels with potential partners, and increasing general readiness.
Beyond these unilateral measures, if Algeria undergoes a legitimacy or succession crisis, the United States should not only keep diplomatic lines of communication open between Algiers and Washington, but it should reinforce them in order to clearly signal to Algiers that the United States is a strong Algerian ally. Algeria’s allies—including Tunisia and multilateral institutions such as the African Union—will also need help stemming potentially destabilizing spillover effects. The United States can support those efforts by continuing its programs to improve internal and external security and stimulate economic growth in Tunisia, and its good governance and peace and security initiatives with the African Union. The United States should also renew its support for a political resolution in Libya, with the goal of stabilizing the country rather than simply containing instability that emanates from it.
European governments have also expressed concern that an Algerian leadership crisis would lead to broader social unrest and potential violence across the region. Foremost among these concerns is that spillover would result in increased migration from Algeria itself or from elsewhere throughout the Sahel and Sahara. The United States should work with individual European governments and the European Union to ensure and support just and humane European migration policies. This latter mitigating measure, however, may be unrealistic or difficult to implement in light of the Donald J. Trump administration’s established policy preferences toward immigration as well as present political attitudes in Europe toward trans-Mediterranean migration.
Algeria’s privileging of stability above all else could allow it to avert a crisis. But in light of Algeria’s regional importance, the United States should not ignore the risk that Algeria will succumb to political instability. Given Algeria’s commitment to its sovereignty, the United States cannot directly steer Algeria’s political trajectory, nor should it.
Algeria was isolated prior to the instability of the 1990s, and violence in Algeria persisted during its dark decade because its regional and international allies and partners abandoned it. The United States can ensure that Algerian instability during an irregular political transition would not have a similar effect by fostering Algerian diplomatic and economic integration with Europe, the Sahel, and sub-Saharan Africa.
The most important action the United States should take now is to intensify outreach to Algeria. Because Algeria has been a constant in a region that is otherwise in turmoil, the United States has focused its attention elsewhere. This needs to change. Committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate need to be better apprised of circumstances in Algeria and the country’s regional importance and should undertake congressional delegations to Algiers and elsewhere in the country. Although Algeria has not historically received much attention from the State Department, Algeria’s regional importance and potential for instability mean it merits regular diplomatic attention. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdelkader Messahel during the fourth U.S.-Algeria strategic dialogue, when they discussed future opportunities for collaboration, and that level of dialogue should continue. In the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, the position of deputy assistant secretary for Egypt and North Africa should be filled as quickly as possible in order to maintain open lines of communication with the Algerian counterpart. Pompeo’s counterpart at the Pentagon, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, or U.S. Africa Command Commander General Thomas Waldhauser should also visit Algeria before the April 2019 elections. While these visits are unlikely to produce immediate results, they will be an investment in the future.
The United States should also support Algeria’s leadership and expertise on regional security issues like the Libya crisis, instability in northern Mali, and insecurity in Tunisia. The United States does not have a coherent policy on these issues, and enlisting Algerian help would simultaneously alleviate pressure on the overburdened Departments of Defense and State and improve information sharing between Washington and Algiers. Additionally, the United States should promote Algeria’s participation in multilateral forums like the African Union, the G5 Sahel, and the Lake Chad Basin consultations.
The United States should reinforce technical aid in areas of strategic interest to Algeria, like agriculture and renewable energy, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative, and the Departments of Agriculture and Energy, with the goal of helping Algeria reduce its grain imports and meet its renewable energy production targets. The United States should also mirror the approach of European allies and facilitate FDI in Algeria by assisting U.S. companies to invest in Algeria’s oil and gas sector. Reviving the oil and gas sector is the quickest way for Algeria to alleviate risk.
Lastly, the United States should take steps that it can unilaterally to safeguard its interests, including preparing for an evacuation of U.S. nationals and forming a Department of Defense and Department of State fusion cell.
Algeria is too important for the United States not to know more about it and where it is heading. Although Algeria prefers to be left to its own devices, the United States should pay Algeria more mind, understand what it wants and needs, and explore ways in which to help it realize its strategic objectives even in the face of political uncertainty and acute economic circumstances. Algeria’s sovereignty presents unique challenges, but dedicated diplomacy can foster mutually beneficial outcomes and deter future instability.
The Council on Foreign Relations acknowledges the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for its generous support of the Contingency Planning Roundtables and Memoranda.
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As previously communicated earlier in the year, two of our urology products have been discontinued by the manufacturers and will no longer be available to be distributed in the UK by CliniMed. The products affected by this are:
- Farco-Fill® Protect
We apologise for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding.
If this is affecting you, please do not hesitate to contact our product specialist.
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If you’re anything like us, you may have reached the conclusions that:
- Our elected officials are charting a course to a fiscal disaster.
- The Fed is repeating past mistakes by setting us up for another bust.
After the drama of the debt ceiling debate and the Fed’s non-tapering surprise, we see no reason to doubt these views.
But the latest developments got us thinking, and we have an unusual proposal. Before we share it, we’ll need to provide some background.
The chart below compares GDP growth forecasts from both institutions, including one path per FOMC member for the Fed’s outlook (from September’s meeting) and a single path for the CBO’s outlook (from figures published in May and used in the latest projections):
Apparently, the CBO’s Kool-Aid is much stronger than the Fed’s. You might even say it’s more hallucinogen than sugary fruit drink. Forecasting helpers aside, though, note that the predictions fit perfectly with themes favored by each institution:
CBO: The buoyant growth projection is merely an annual renewal of a long-standing CBO assumption that we’ll snap back to normal. It’s not so much a forecast but a connect-the-dots exercise of joining today’s GDP with a long-run trend line. It also explains the popular claim that there’s nothing urgent about our debt problem. By assuming a robust recovery, the CBO bends debt-to-GDP projections downward for the next few years, providing a convenient excuse for inaction. (See here or here for the debt charts and further discussion.)
Fed: The unspectacular but unalarming growth forecasts are exactly what you would expect from our monetary policymakers. They’re unalarming for the obvious reason – the FOMC can’t just say the economy’s headed down a sinkhole, at least in public. And they’re unspectacular because policymakers have begun to grasp how broken the economy is, even if they don’t accept that their own policies helped with the breaking. Also, the tepid forecasts justify policymakers’ “whatever it takes” story, preserving both ZIRP and QE.
An intriguing solution
Getting back to our proposal, why not just trade the CBO’s economists for the Fed’s economists? One group of forecasters moves from the Eccles Building to the Ford House, and the other moves in the opposite direction. That’s 2.26 miles according to Mapquest, all in the same taxi zone. Relocation reimbursements would surely be unnecessary.
Think about the policy implications:
- With a growth outlook matching the Fed’s figures above, the CBO’s projected debt ratios would no longer bend downward. This wouldn’t completely pull the rug out from under the “deficits don’t matter” crowd, but it should have some effect. We should at least see a little more urgency on measures to fix our fiscal problems.
- As for the Fed, the buoyant outlook reported by the CBO’s economists would make QE less defensible if not redundant. This should encourage policymakers to follow through on their tapering plan, instead of reprising this year’s head fake.
But wait, you say: “Deep down, the CBO doesn’t like delivering bad news; and deep down, the Fed doesn’t want to taper. You can switch economists, but you can’t change outcomes.”
Even if it were plausible, our proposal wouldn’t necessarily work, and that doesn’t reflect well on the research that shapes public policies.
Which leaves us where?
In all seriousness, CBO and Fed forecasts have been wildly inaccurate, year after year. Evidence shows that these institutions don’t understand our economy. Yet, they refuse to migrate from failed methods to more successful ideas. They may claim to be learning from mistakes, but the basic approach is unchanged. You might say they’re trying to adjust to the automobile age by strapping wheels to a horse.
Take Austrian business cycle theory, for example. Fair-minded people recognize that recent years’ booms and busts were predicted by the Austrian school, even as mainstream macroeconomists were mostly flummoxed. But the mainstreamers refuse to concede that simple truth. Austrian principles are just too far removed from the abstract mathematical modeling that dominates the profession. Acknowledging that real life has proven these principles accurate and the modeling useless would not only devalue resumes but invalidate entire careers.
Unfortunately, much of the establishment considers CBO and Fed pronouncements to be gospel. We know better. The next time you hear someone giving the fiscal “all clear” based on CBO debt projections, pull out the chart above to show what’s really behind them. And the next time you hear someone extolling the Fed’s expertise, point out that a whole school of economists who actually got things right would disagree.
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Èlektron. model. 2018, 41(1):93-104
The information on ways to ensure functioning of the networks of electric power companies is given. The traditional means of information protection are described. The results of the review of the vulnerabilities of industrial networks are presented. The analysis of approaches to protection from threats to cybersecurity is given.
cybersecurity, power company, vulnerability, perimeter protection, network protection, firewall.
- Shangin, F. (2017), Informatsionnaya bezopasnost i zaschita informatsii [Information security and protection of information], DMK-Press, Moscow, Russia.
- Gureev, A. and Suleymanova, O.V. (1987), “Development of the architecture of the mini knowledge base of emergency training”, Energy and electrification, no. 1, pp. 44-46.
- Gureev, V.A., Redkovsky, N.N. and Sumanenkov, V.G. (1994), “Information technology management of complex distributed technical systems”, Informatsionnyye tekhnologii i noveysheye primeneniye teorii upravleniya. Tez. dokl. 1-y Ukrainskoy konf. [Information technology and the latest application of control theory (Automation-94). Conference proceeding of the 1 st Ukrainian Conf], Part 1, Kiev, pp. 230-231.
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For you, my dear friends, today we present a new modification for the Chevrolet Camaro BS-U S1 for GTA 4. The model has an impressive specification. As standard you will find a high level of comfort, first-class craftsmanship and technical innovation.
- Auto is made with good quality textures;
- Performs all game functions;
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Functioning front and rear headlights;
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To download the mod for free on the Chevrolet Camaro BS-U S1 for GTA 4, you just need to click on the links at the bottom of the page. Our automated installer will help you in two clicks to install a mod to replace Futo, or you can choose any other standard transport in the game.
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Some time around its one billionth birthday, the universe emerged from its Dark Age into an era full of brightly burning galaxies. How that happened, and how the universe of that time led to the one in which we live today, are among the most intriguing and compelling puzzles facing science.
Most of the light reaching us from primeval galaxies is in the far-infrared and submillimeter range, and remains largely undetectable until Herschel begins operation.
What we have been able to see so far tells us that the story of the early universe involves supermassive black holes, dwarf galaxies colliding into each other, starbursts, and lots of gas and dust.
Herschel's ability to see through and derive information from that gas and dust enabled it to add greatly to our understanding of early-universe residents and how they are related to each other and to the modern universe. It also enabled us to learn much more about parts of our local universe - such as the core of the Milky Way - that are concealed by dust from other kinds of telescopes.
Herschel helped to answer some fundamental questions: Did galaxies all form around the same time in the early universe, or is galaxy-formation an ongoing process that continues today? Did stars lead to galaxies, or galaxies to stars? What kind of objects existed in the early universe? And how did they evolve over the eons into the galaxies of today?
Active Galactic Nuclei
Among the stranger objects that appear to have populated the early universe are active galactic nuclei (AGNs). As the name implies, these are galaxies in which the cores emit vast amounts of energy, far outshining the rest of the galaxy.
AGNs are classified as quasars, blazars, and Seyfert galaxies. Quasars are found mostly at tremendous distances, indicating the very early universe. Blazars, which appear even brighter, are probably quasars that happen to have a radio-emitting jet pointed straight at us. Seyfert galaxies appear to be closer (and so less ancient) and less energetic. They may actually represent a later, quieter stage of quasar evolution.
AGNs shoot vast amounts of energy out into space in two enormously powerful jets, one at each pole. In the vast majority of observed cases, a donut-shaped ring, or torus, of orbiting gas and dust lies perpendicular to the jets.
It is generally held that all three types of AGN are really the same kind of object. The perceived differences result from actual differences in their energy output - which could be as much as several billion suns - and also from the angle at which we view them. If an AGN happens to be situated so that one of its jets faces Earth head-on, we get the full impact and it looks extremely bright. If instead we're positioned so that we see it through the edge of its dusty torus, with the jets angled away from us, it appears dimmer.
What makes AGNs so powerful? Supermassive black holes almost certainly play an important role.
Monster in the Middle
Black holes are objects in which so much mass is concentrated in such small volume that nothing - not even light - can escape its gravitational pull. A massive black hole has recently been detected at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and astronomers think these ultradense objects may be typical features of galaxies. Black holes can be so gravitationally strong that they twist space along with them as they rotate!
AGNs are thought to contain supermassive black holes at their centers, which suck in material from an "accretion disk," a ring of dust and gas that may include matter drawn from nearby stars or even captured galaxies! As the material spirals into the black hole, it heats up to enormous temperatures and emits radiation. Magnetic fields channel the radiation into polar jets, perpendicular to the disk.
The brightness of an AGN tends to vary over time, perhaps reflecting changes in the amount of its available fuel supply.
While AGNs have been detected by telescopes sensitive to optical and higher frequencies, it is thought that those observations tend to be of the later stages, when the objects have exhausted or blown away most of their dusty envelopes. Looking at far-infrared and submillimeter wavelengths, Herschel should be able to observe younger AGNs, still enshrouded in the dust that feeds them.
Herschel was able to help scientists answer some perplexing questions:
Which came first - black holes or the galaxies in which they reside? Does a black hole somehow form, and then draw the makings of a galaxy around it? Or does a galaxy form first and then have its center collapse into a massive black hole?
Did AGN-type galaxies evolve into ones like the Milky Way and its neighbors? Is the Milky Way's core black hole a potential AGN?
Black holes may not be the only kind of engine that drives AGNs. Starbursts may also play a role. Herschel should help scientists sort out how much each kind of phenomenon contributes to the enormous energy of an AGN.
Starbursts are intense bursts of star formation. They are thought to occur when shock waves compress vast clouds of gas and dust to the point where they collapse and form stars at rates up to hundreds of times greater than "normal" galaxies.
These new stars burn fast and bright, then the larger ones explode as supernovas, generating more shock waves and renewing the star-formation process. This chain reaction probably lasts ten million years or so - a relatively brief time in the life of a galaxy - until most of the gas and dust is spent.
IRAS, an infrared telescope satellite, discovered thousands of starburst galaxies. Herschel studied them and discovered more, taking advantage of its sensitivity to the infrared emissions of the dust clouds.
When Galaxies Collide!
What causes the shock waves that trigger starbursts and, possibly, massive black holes? One probable cause is galactic collision.
We know that galaxies collide today. Our own Milky Way shows signs of having swallowed another galaxy in the distant past, and is headed for a run-in with the Andromeda galaxy in three billion years!
In the early universe, galaxies must have bumped into each other much more frequently than they do now. Since the universe is expanding, the early universe must have been considerably smaller. Galaxies would have been closer together and able to feel each other's gravitational pull more strongly. They were likely drawn to each other much more often than is the case today.
Though it may sound like the title of a science-fiction disaster movie, what really happens when galaxies collide is a gravitational dance lasting billions of years, which produces beautiful swirls of stars, intense bursts of star formation and often - we think - an elliptical galaxy at the end.
Galaxies are not solid objects, of course. They consist of stars separated by vast stretches of empty space. So when galaxies "collide," they spiral around each other for a few eons, and then may pass right through each other before they settle down as one new, larger galaxy.
You might say that what actually collides are the galaxies' gravitational fields. Galaxies pack a lot of gravity, the sum total of all their stars, interstellar gas and dust, and whatever "dark matter" they may include. Two or more galaxies passing close to or through each other can drastically alter each other's structures. Stars may be whipped out of their home galaxies on long tails, drawn into a bridge to the other galaxy, or driven together into hot clusters.
There is a profound effect, too, on their huge interstellar clouds of gas and dust. Shock waves can compress them to the point where they trigger starbursts. And something in the process - maybe the shock wave itself, maybe the starburst activity - might help massive black holes to form or at least to grow.
The process of spiraling into each other and ultimately merging can take a billion years or more. So when astronomers observe galaxies in the act of merging, they don't see the motion of the galaxies falling in toward each other. Rather, they see the galaxies apparently motionless, at whatever phase of the interaction they happen to be. They may be moving at breakneck speeds, but the distances are so vast that from our point of view, the motion is imperceptible.
So astronomers scanning the skies are apt to find galaxies that appear to be frozen at all different stages of interaction and merger (one of which is thought to be responsible for ultraluminous infrared galaxies.) Herschel will be used to study all the stages of galaxy interactions.
By studying galactic mergers in the local universe, which can be seen in detail, Herschel can help scientists interpret what it will uncover in the early universe. And by observing mergers at a range of ages, Herschel will help to determine whether merging can lead to present day elliptical galaxies.
Galactic mergers are likely the means by which smaller "building blocks" grew into larger galaxies like those of today, each of which may have as much mass as a billion or more suns.
It is commonly believed that there are many "small" galaxies of only a few million solar masses in the distant, early universe, which are yet to be discovered. Infrared background radiation detected by the COBE satellite, launched in November 1989, supports that idea.
The first sighting of one of these possible building blocks was made in October, 2001 by the Hubble and Keck telescopes, with the aid of a gravitational lens.
A gravitational lens is an effect in which light from a distant source is bent by the gravitational pull of an intervening galaxy cluster in such a way that the image is magnified when it reaches us. It can make it possible to see objects that would otherwise be too dim to detect.
The Hubble-Keck sighting was made at optical wavelengths, the light frequencies visible to the human eye. Scientists expect to see as many as 1000 times more gravitationally-lensed primeval galaxies at the sub-millimeter wavelengths that Herschel will detect than in any other waveband.
The galactic building blocks would presumably contain little or no heavy elements, since their component stars would not have had time to manufacture them. Herschel will study local blue compact dwarf galaxies, which have similar compositions, as models for their primeval counterparts.
Herschel also contributed greatly to knowledge about galaxies in our local part of the universe.
It enabled scientists to get a really good look at the Milky Way's dusty core, including its recently-discovered black hole.
It studied the evolution of neighboring galaxies to shed new light on the development of elliptical galaxies and spirals like ours.
Herschel surveyed nearby bright galaxies to determine how the spectra of gas and dust is affected by galactic rotation, density waves, tidal forces, winds and turbulence. This provided valuable insights that can be applied both to our local universe and to observations of the dim, distant past.
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The Tao of Ta-Da
We’ve all witnessed the excitement of a three-year-old child.
They celebrate finding a ladybug.
They celebrate drawing a flower.
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adults lose this sense of
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What if you could energize
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Transcriptomic Analysis of Stimulated Response in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Reveal Potential Biomarkers for Early Diagnosis of Leprosy.
We aimed to identify an unique host transcriptional signature in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in response to antigens to distinguish between patients with leprosy and non-leprosy controls for early diagnosis of the disease. Sixteen individuals were enrolled in the discovery cohort [eight patients with leprosy, comprising four multibacillary (MB) and four paucibacillary (PB); and eight non-leprosy controls, comprising four healthy house contacts (HHCs) and four endemic controls (ECs)]. The differences in the transcriptome response of PBMCs to sonicate antigen were evaluated between leprosy patients and non-leprosy controls, and 12 differentially expressed genes (, , , , , , , , , , and ) were identified. The accuracy of the 12 differentially expressed genes was further validated for the diagnosis of leprosy using real-time quantitative PCR in 82 individuals (13 MB, 10 PB, 37 HHCs, and 22 ECs) in the validation cohort. We found that a 5 gene signature set , , , and had a suitable performance in discriminating leprosy from ECs. In addition, elevated expression of , , and was associated with MB diagnosis compared with ECs, whereas increased expression of , , and was found to be useful biomarkers for PB diagnosis from ECs. Moreover, we found decreased expression of among leprosy patients could distinguish leprosy from HHCs, whereas higher expression of among MB than PB could distinguish different leprosy patients. In conclusion, among the 12 candidate host genes identified, a three gene signature , and showed the best performance in distinguishing leprosy patients from healthy controls. These findings may have implications for developing a rapid blood-based test for early diagnosis of leprosy.
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SwaddleDesigns Hooded Towels are made from the finest Turkish Cotton Terry Velour. After bathtime or swimtime, lovingly wrap baby in our soft and absorbent hooded towels. 30 x 30 inches (76 x 76 cm) and made of 100% Turkish cotton with a silky satin trim, this cozy hood will keep baby's head warm and prevent chills after bath. Coordinates with a variety of our quality baby essentials. Machine wash gentle.
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SCOTT JAGOW: Anybody wanna buy a newspaper company? You’d think no, the newspaper business is a money pit these days, but check out how many people wanna buy the Tribune. Gannett has put in a bid for the whole company, including the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, the Chicago Cubs. Hank Greenberg, former chairman of AIG insurance is reportedly interested. A couple of LA billionaires put in bids last week. So this morning we’re scratching our heads trying to figure out, why? Here’s Alisa Roth.
ALISA ROTH: Publicly-traded newspaper companies have been doing especially badly.
Philip Meyer teaches journalism at UNC Chapel Hill. He says it may be that being a slave to investors and quarterly earnings are precisely what’s killing off the business.
PHILIP MEYER: You can’t do the things a newspaper needs to have done in order to adjust to a world where information travels mostly by the Internet.
He says private owners will have the time and willingness to experiment with the medium. And to find a happy balance between print and the Internet.
Still, he says, he doesn’t expect to see a return to the old model of big profits.
MEYER: Well why would anybody want to own a local sports team? Usually it’s not for the money, it’s for the local prestige, it’s for the chance to do something good for the community. It’s a chance to be perceived as a civic leader, and it’s a lot of fun.
In New York, I’m Alisa Roth for Marketplace.
We’re here to help you navigate this changed world and economy.
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Old joke. The Lone Ranger and Tonto ride into a deep valley. Too late, they look around and realize they are surrounded on the high ground by a hostile Comanche war party. “It looks like we’re in trouble, Tonto,” says the Lone Ranger. Tonto looks around, “What do you mean ‘we’, white man?” Personal pronouns matter even when a scalping is not in the offing. Who is us and who is them?
As digital networks deepen, with more people connecting virtually, the networking value and power of a personal meeting increases dramatically.
The communication highway of technology does not allow the depth of a face-to-face meeting where nuances of character, subtleties of experience, and an understanding of one’s personal wisdom is established. Personal meetings have gained greater relevancy and value.
Technology empowers administrators. Data permits administrators to collect more information and monitor employees with even greater scrutiny. What this leads to is a series of rules and regulations, forms and inspections, focused on how someone is spending their time, not, are they being productive and successful in achieving their goals. The great trap created by the age of information technology is that more and more individuals value procedure over substance. This fosters a box-checking mentality, rather than individual self-reliance and connectivity. One of the risks this brings with it is individuals can lose their personal creativity which is what makes them special and unique.
I have stressed time and again in coaching classes, emails, and telephone discussions, we do business with those individuals whom we like, trust, and who share our values. Excellence in personal communication has never been more important or vital. The only window we give others as to “who lives inside“is through our communication, primarily oral, but also written. My experience supports the generalization if you can’t write well it’s difficult to think clearly. If you are not orally articulate, there is a high percentage chance you will create misconceptions about the depth of your experience and knowledge. You will give very poor insight to the rest of the world about your values: trust, integrity, truth, commitment, and being an individual who makes a difference.
A vibrant corporate culture should promote innovation and reward risk-takers. Red tape strangles such initiative. One could even say bureaucracy, the leadership of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. During prosperous times, the enemy comes from within, and it is easy for bureaucracies to grow and develop, strangling innovative leadership. During difficult Global times such as these, an individual’s personal leadership and moral courage becomes even more important if an organization wants to maintain its business excellence.
Secrets for Your Leadership Success
- Be an active owner and participant in your own success. If you are unwilling to take responsibility for yourself and your own success, no one can help you!
- In your effort at “Managing Expectations,” be highly aware of the Behavior Patterns of others. Doing this well will save you time and undue frustration. You will be more valuable to your “client.” This connectivity will help you build a deeper and stronger relationship.
- Always reinforce successful behavior. When you find a behavior that you like and admire in someone, tell them. Positive reinforcement is a powerful motivator for change, much more so than criticism.
- Successful leadership is built upon “Words and Deeds Matching.” If you wish to discover an individual’s true intentions, pay close attention to their actions.
- Always be aware of the “Leadership trap” I refer to as “Unintended Circumstances.” These are situations that occur you cannot always plan for. Knowing a situation may be out of your control and you cannot fix it, is an important leadership skill. Learning to step back, looking pragmatically into the situation, finding a different pathway and answer for achieving success, is one of the hallmarks for successful leadership. Your ability to be able to change direction easily, and with confidence, is critical for your long term success.
There is no substitute for a face-to-face client meeting. During the remainder of this year, I urge each of you to pause and consider, “Am I communicating at the top of my game?“
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Band of the Year Mirai announced their biggest concert of their career. He will perform at the O2 Arena in Prague on September 15, 2022
Mirai Band is currently the most listened to Czech band and a recent holder of the Zlatý slavík for Band of the Year. Composed by Mirai Navrátil, Šimon Bílý, Tomáš Javůrek and Michal Stulík, Mirai released their third album Maneki Neko this year, thus confirming their position on the Czech music scene. On September 15, 2022, he will present himself with his greatest hits, a spectacular show and distinguished guests at Prague’s O2 arena.
“We are taking a big step. The biggest concert we’ve ever done. Milestone. In the O2 arena on September 15, 2022. Come, it will be big,” invites frontman Mirai Navrátil.
Tickets for the concert are on sale to the public from Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from 10:00 in the Ticketmaster and Ticketportal sales networks.
In addition to the purchased ticket, you will receive a 5% discount on all official merchandise.
The code will be printed only on the ticket and you can apply at this address https://eshop.unimerch.cz/hledat?filter_name=mirai.
THE OFFICIAL SELLERS OF TICKETS FOR EVENTS AT THE O2 ARENA ARE TICKETMASTER AND TICKETPORTAL. WE DO NOT WARRANT THE VALIDITY OF TICKETS PURCHASED FROM OTHER SELLERS.
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According to recent tests by teams of cybersecurity researchers, industrial networks are at great risk from ransomware-type cyberattacks.
This conclusion was made as a result of an experiment that these researchers initiated to see how exposed computer systems are. The result is impressive, because cybercriminals have proven that it takes them little time to successfully infiltrate these networks through critical vulnerabilities that even researchers might ignore.
The infrastructure that has served as decoys has been designed to highlight the same problems that the usual structures face. These include less solid passwords, remote internet-connected position control, and other general practices observed in the industry. They released the dummy infrastructure in early 2020. And the hackers, after 3 days had already discovered the network and tried several times to access it. Some of them managed to compromise it by using, among other things, a ransomware attack campaign, in which they managed to break into the network and steal some login credentials. "Very soon after the launch of the honeypot, the ransomware capacity was placed on every compromised machine," says Israel Barak, the head of information security at Cybereason, the company that initiated the test.
It was by using some remote administration such as RDP that they were able to place their malware in the network. And this allowed them to connect to control some offices remotely. Once this step was complete, the cybermals were creating a backdoor to a compromised server. To do so, they used additional PowerShell programs, namely Mimikatz, through which they were able to steal useful login credentials for the rest of their business. Subsequently, malicious cybers continued to analyze the network in order to discover as many access points as possible and to collect the identifiers as they were still discovering them.
Computer security experts deduced from this computer attack that the danger posed by this exposure was twofold. Indeed, in addition to running a ransom malware, hackers have proven that they can still continue to collect sensitive information such as passwords and usernames. Information that they can use as leverage in negotiations with the Victim of the corrupt network, as long as the latter does not want to give in to blackmail. "It is only after the other stages of the attack are completed that the ransomware spreads across all compromised terminals simultaneously. This is a common feature of multi-stage ransomware campaigns, which aim to amplify the impact of the attack on the victim," says Cybereason specialist Israel Barak.
On the other hand, we can simply note that some cyber criminals discovered the trap, when attacks multiplied against the network. While some were trying to break into the network to grab it, other cyber-prisoners simply made a recognition of the system every time the test was launched.
Beyond the tests that sought to determine the potential problems that such a network could face, the fact remains that the danger was not negligible during the various computer attacks. One can simply try to imagine what might happen if it were indeed the grid of an electricity supplier.
Another important point was observed. Cyber criminals tend to rely heavily on ransom programs when they want to attack infrastructure, especially when they cannot easily compromise it. The Cybereason researchers' report calls this a "constant barrage of attacks on the sector." The consequences in terms of risk will become more and more intense. From a simplistic point of view, even improvements in password composition and access methods are natures to enhance infrastructure security. It is only after mastering the basics that one can try to complicate things.
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Mother daughter homes in Solihull
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He will be questioned by detectives on suspicion of murdering Raneem Oudeh and her mother Khaola Saleem.
The West Midlands force said officers had been working around the clock and acted swiftly on information received. The arrest was believed to have happened in Ivor Road, Sparkhill.
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National Election Committee (NEC) spokesperson Hang Puthea said on Wednesday that it should not come as a surprise that the committee has rented two helicopters for three days during the election period.
This, he said, was because the NEC had done so consistently for every election over the past 20 years.
He said two helicopters were hired from a private company and would be used from July 28-30 for emergency purposes.
“It is the rainy season and some roads are up in the mountains. The NEC respects the rights of voters, and any place with at least 300 voters must have a polling station. No matter where the people are, the NEC must prepare a station close to their homes.
“Some regions are mountainous and can only be reached by elephants or on foot. Sometimes, roads have slippery surfaces, and this makes it slow to deliver and collect election boxes and cast ballots,” Puthea said.
While not mentioning the name of the helicopter supplier or the rental cost, he said the standby cost was nearly a dollar a minute, while actual operating cost were double that. He stressed that the company was chosen through a bidding process.
Meanwhile, the NEC held a meeting yesterday to remind all political parties about campaign rules. Election campaigning begins on Saturday and continues until July 27. The national election is set for July 29.
Both the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the fledgling Khmer Will Party (KWP) have rallies planned for Saturday in the capital.
The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) will hold its first event of the campaign period in Takeo, before marching in Phnom Penh on July 10.
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A brand-new 2019 study has been conducted by Caring.com to evaluate the estate planning preparedness of American adults. One of the most compelling statistics that they share on their site demonstrates the head scratching nature of the phenomenon. Around 76% of people surveyed say that estate planning is important, but only 40% of the people that believe this actually have estate plans in place.
In all, 57% of adults in the United States have not have executed a last will, a living trust, or any other estate planning documents. Millennials are people that are between 18 and 34 years of age. The survey found that 79% of these folks are going through life without estate plans.
There are those who would read this statistic and think wow, I’m surprised that over 20% of millennials actually do have estate plans in place. Obviously, people usually don’t pass away when they are in their 30s or younger, but there are exceptions to the rule.
Another thing to think about is the fact that many millennials are the parents of minor children. It typically takes two incomes for young people to make ends meet with any level of comfort. A loss of one parent could have devastating financial implications along with the emotional side of the equation.
From an estate planning perspective, this dynamic is even more significant in single parent households. Without question, estate planning is an absolute must for parents of minor children, and there is another element beyond the monetary facet.
Who would care for the children if there were no living parents or already established legal guardian? The answer is that the court would have to step in to appoint a guardian. This is a necessary remedy, but the choice of a guardian may not be consistent with what the parent or parents would have wanted.
An estate plan for a young family would include the selection of a guardian. The probate court would still make the final determination, but the choice would be honored unless the court felt that it would not be in the best interests of the children.
Advance Directives for Health Care
A well-constructed estate planning should include documents called advance directives for health care. With a living will, you state your wishes regarding the use of life-sustaining measures like resuscitation and artificial nutrition and hydration.
You can add a durable power of attorney for health care to name someone to make medical decisions on your behalf if you become unable to make them on your own. A HIPAA release form should be included that would allow medical professionals to release your health care records to the agent that is named in the power of attorney.
We are explaining this element because it is very important for young adults. For example, let’s say that your oldest daughter is 18, and she is going away to college. You have always looked at her as a dependent, but in fact, she is now an emancipated adult in the eyes of the law.
Tragically, she gets into a serious automobile accident while she is away at school. You would not be automatically empowered to make decisions on her behalf because she would be an adult.
However, if she made you an agent in a durable power of attorney and signed a HIPAA form releasing relevant information to you, doctors would communicate with you during the process.
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We are holding a number of free seminars, and you can learn a lot if you sit in on the session that fits into your schedule. To get all the details, visit our seminar page and click on the date that works for you to obtain registration information.
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I’m not Buying UT3
Supposedly this has been known for a while, but even following the development of the game, I’ve never come across this small little tidbit: UT3 for the PS3 has no splitscreen mode!
Colour me crazy if you want, but this totally breaks the deal for me. I was SO looking forward to getting UT3 for the PS3, downloading and installing mods, and having fragfests with my friends. But no. There’s no splitscreen, so scratch the whole actually-enjoying-the-game aspect of UT3.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will order nearly two-thirds of Cuba's diplomatic personnel to leave the United States after months of mysterious "attacks" that have damaged the health of U.S. embassy staff in Havana, according to a congressional source and a person familiar with the plan.
The U.S. State Department is expected to announce the expulsions as soon as Tuesday, the sources said on Monday.
It follows an announcement on Friday that the United States was cutting its diplomatic presence in Cuba by more than half as it warned U.S. citizens not to visit because of unexplained incidents that have caused hearing loss, dizziness and fatigue among U.S. embassy personnel.
The latest plan was first reported by the Miami Herald, which cited a source as saying the expulsion of Cuban personnel was "reciprocity" for the U.S. drawdown from Havana.
(Reporting By Patricia Zengerle and Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Paul Tait)
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Sallad på Rostade Grönsaker (Grilled Vegetable Salad)
Beets, asparagus, eggplant, cauliflower, and fennel are slathered in olive oil and grilled, then tossed with lemon juice and zest to make this warm, smoky grilled salad served at writer Per Styregard’s Midsummer dinner in Vickleby, Sweden. Any combination of vegetables, such as carrots, turnips, and zucchini, can be incorporated into the dish. This recipe first appeared in the tablet edition of our June/July 2014 issue with Styregard’s story “A Midsummer’s Dream.”
- 3 medium red beets, scrubbed
- 2⁄3 cup olive oil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 1⁄2 head cauliflower, cut into medium florets
- 1 sprig thyme
- 2 bulbs fennel, cut into ½” wedges, ¼ cup fronds reserved
- 1 small eggplant, sliced crosswise ½” thick
- 1 bunch pencil asparagus, trimmed
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon
- Heat a charcoal grill or set a gas grill to high; bank coals or turn off burner on one side to create an indirect zone. (Alternatively, heat a cast-iron grill pan over medium-high heat.) Rub beets with 2 tbsp. oil, salt, and pepper; grill over indirect heat, turning as needed, until slightly charred and cooked through, about 45 minutes to an hour. Let beets cool slightly, then peel and cut into wedges; transfer to a serving platter and keep warm.
- Toss cauliflower with 3 tbsp. oil, thyme, salt, and pepper on a double thickness of aluminum foil; seal closed and grill over indirect heat until florets are tender, 18–20 minutes; unwrap, discard thyme, and transfer to platter with beets. Toss remaining oil with fennel, eggplant, asparagus, salt, and pepper in a bowl; working in batches, grill vegetables over direct heat until slightly charred and tender, 6–8 minutes for eggplant and asparagus, and 10–12 minutes for fennel. Transfer to platter with beets and florets. Drizzle with remaining oil and the lemon zest and juice; toss gently to combine and serve warm.
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Professional Estate Management and Pest Control services, covering Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk
Welcome to Skyesafe Estate Management Ltd. Providing comprehensive estate management services and securing the premises of clients across East Anglia and the South East since 2012.
With over 20 years experience, we are experts at installing and maintaining fences, removing trees and creating long-lasting perimeters on your property.
We are also skilled at dealing with infestations of birds, rodents and other wildlife using safe, effective pest control to protect your property . We are both Lantra and BPCA Awarded, so you can rest assured that all control methods are environmentally friendly.
Here at Skyesafe Estate Management Ltd, we’ve gained over 20 years of experience in providing comprehensive estate management services for the agricultural sector. With a wealth of experience and knowledge, we’re dedicated to providing exceptional service and achieving customer satisfaction. We’re experts in installing, and maintaining, long-lasting fencing solutions around your grounds.
We also offer safe, high-impact pest control service.
Specialising in both domestic and commercial estates, we have a range of services to suit your estate management requirements. Some of our most popular services include building strong, long-lasting fencing systems and gates on any scale, protecting your land, animals, crops, homes and more. We’re available to take care of one-off jobs, regular contract work and assist on a subcontract basis with any other estate management duties you require.
Specialising in both domestic and commercial estates, we’d be happy to help with all your estate management needs. We’re available to take care of one-off jobs, regular contract work or assist on a subcontractor basis with any other estate management duties that you may require.
Skyesafe Estate Management covers a wide range of East Anglia and the South East – encompassing Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.
You can make an enquiry by contacting us via email at [email protected] or calling Grant Slater on 07535 979866.
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Sofas by Saxon hand-finished antique leather is a pigmented and corrected grain hide that is dyed through and then applied with a darker florenteak topcoat. After the furniture has been upholstered, we undertake a hand-antiquing process which removes areas of the topcoat to produce a subtle aged look.
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In the hills of Colorado, Ute Tribal Reservation representative Blue Elk seeks out young Thomas Black Bull who is living alone with his pet bear after the death of his father. Convincing the boy that he is needed to teach tribal members forgotten old customs, Blue Elk escorts Tom and his bear to the reservation. Once there, however, the superintendent, a white man, tells Tom that he must give up the old traditions to learn new ways. Despite his protests, Tom is placed in a classroom where other native boys mock his appearance and pet bear, who has been chained up outside. When Tom tries to break out that night, he is apprehended and locked in an empty room where he chants to the gods for consolation. The next morning, Blue Elk takes Tom and the bear back into the hills where he chains the bear to a tree and threatens to leave the animal there to starve unless Tom agrees to return voluntarily to the reservation. Over the next several years, Tom grows up at the reservation but remains a loner, comfortable only with horses. When Tom loses a job watching over a herd of wild horses due to his catching and breaking several without permission, the superintendent advises him to learn a trade or be destined to become a worthless drunk. In town soon after, bronco rider Tex Walker teasingly offers Tom a dollar if he can bring him his horse tied up across the street, knowing that the animal is barely tamed. Tom easily thwarts the horse's attempts to buck him off, which is witnessed by former rodeo rider Red Dillon, who then offers Tom a job. When Tom explains that he does not have a permit to leave the reservation, Red meets with the superintendent who provides papers that place Tom in Red's care. Red then takes Tom to his small farm that he runs with cook and handyman Meo and, over the next several days, works with Tom to improve his bronco riding skills. At the next rodeo, Tom wins handily, but Red criticizes his ride as too tame. In a bar afterward, Tex invites Tom for a drink while deriding him with ugly slurs about being an Indian. A drunken Red knocks Tex out after which he announces that Tom is his "boy," then calls for bets on Tom's ride the next day. Tom's continued success cements his partnership with Red and over the next several weeks the men follow the rodeo circuit throughout the region. After Tom wins several competitions, however, Red asks him to lose intentionally and, although puzzled, Tom complies. Red then pretends to let several irate bettors goad him into forcing Tom to ride again so that they might win back their money by betting that Tom will lose. When Tom wins, Red gleefully collects their winnings. Although Tom silently disapproves, he agrees to repeat the behavior through the next several competitions. At one show, a frustrated Tex reveals the scam to several glum losers and in a fury they attack Red until Tom comes to his rescue. Driving away from the melee, Tom expresses his discomfort with Red's tactics, but Red dismisses his objection. Later that night, Tom asks what the point of his winning is when Red continually drinks and gambles away the money. Red reminds Tom that he would be selling blankets on the reservation without him, but when Tom continues to protest, Red angrily beats up the young man. Soon after, Red and Tom return to the circuit where Tom continues winning and losing at Red's behest. One night, as a drunken Red lolls in their motel, Tom abruptly snaps and beats Red savagely. The next morning he sells Red's pickup and buys a flashy red convertible then retrieves the bleary Red. At a gas station stop, while Red goes inside to purchase some liquor, Tom abruptly drives away, abandoning him. Several miles down the road, Tom stops, takes Red's saddle out of the trunk and flings it into the river. Over the next several months, Tom continues on the rodeo circuit alone, where his brutal treatment of the horses gains him the nickname "Killer Tom Black." Tom's success leads him to the national championships, but during his ride he is thrown off the horse, which then rolls over him, breaking his leg. Tom recovers slowly in the hospital with no incentive to get well until a nurse, Mary, grows interested in him. Touched by her kindness and attention, Tom moves in with Mary when he is released from the hospital. Although Tom appreciates Mary's genuine affection, he soon grows frustrated by his limitations in finding work and leaves her. Tom returns to Red's farm, where his haggard former partner happily greets him and relates that he has lived alone since Meo's sudden death. Red reacts with surprise when Tom presents him with a beautiful new saddle and, acknowledging that he has followed Tom's career through newspapers and magazines, suggests the men resume their partnership. When Tom hesitates, Red lashes out, accusing the younger man of failing without his influence. Tom cuts Red off, stating that he earned several thousand dollars the previous year on his own, but has grown tired and fed up with the rodeo circuit life. Red does not reply, but retires with a bottle of Tom's liquor. That night, Tom awakens to hear Red driving away. The following morning, the town physician, Dr. Wilson, arrives to report that Red is holed up in a motel desperately ill with cirrhosis that has plagued him for many months. Tom hastens to the motel where Red feebly greets him before dying. At the funeral service, Tom leaves the saddle on top of Red's grave, then returns to the farm, which he burns down as dictated by Indian ritual. The next day Tom goes back to the Ute reservation where he meets the new head of the facility, a native tribal chairman. When the chairman asks what he wants, Tom explains that he was brought to the reservation to teach the old ways but was ignored. He declares that he has since learned the new ways and now only wants to be left alone with the horses.
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Where's Meo?- 'Killer' Tom Black Bull
Dead. Yep, he just come in here one night and said he was gonna die. The next morning he was dead. So I buried the old chili-eater out back there.- Red Dillon
Wouldn't you like to go outside, and commune with nature?- Mary
You can commune by yourself.- 'Killer' Tom Black Bull
The opening credits include the following written statement: "When the Legends Die was photographed in Colorado and New Mexico with the help of the Southern Ute Tribe." According to a September 13, 1971 Daily Variety news item, portions of the film were shot on location in Durango, CO. Although the credits indicate that When the Legends Die marked Frederic Forrest's feature film debut, he appeared in the Canadian 1969 Astral Film production Futz!. A Daily Variety item noted that Forrest was part Cherokee.
According to a 1968 Publishers Weekly news item, Hal Borland's novel When the Legends Die was originally purchased by producer Stuart Millar for Universal Studios. The film marked Millar's first directorial effort. Although he continued to produce for films and television, the only other feature film he directed was the 1975 release Rooster Cogburn. A Daily Variety January 1970 item stated that Robert Blake had been set to star in the film and indicated the film was co-written by Robert Dozier and Frank Conroy. Conroy's contribution to the final script, if any, has not been determined.
Released in United States 1972
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Dream Team Basketball is a cancelled sport game that was in development in 1996 by Anvil Incorporated and it would have been published by US Gold / Eidos Interactive for the Playstation. For some reasons the game was never released, but a playable beta version 70% complete was preserved by the Playstation Museum:
The Dream Team concept: a basketball game where you pit the 1996 USA Men’s Olympic Basketball Team against other countries. All of America’s top basketball stars are in the game: Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Scottie Pippen, …etc. On paper this game sounds like a sure winner. Anvil Incorporated and U.S. Gold Sports through Eidos Interactive were to bring this concept to the PlayStation in time for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics.
Thanks to Pcloadletter for the contribution! Scan from EGM 82, May 1996
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A 46-year-old man lying on the railroad tracks in Monticello was hit by a train, police said.
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Online education has come a long way in the recent years. Once considered marginal and inferior to traditional learning, it is now offered by almost every major college and university in the country. Let’s look at some of the advantages of online learning and some of the degrees worth considering.
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Whether you pursue an online MBA or another type of degree, there are several benefits to this type of learning. Many busy adults don’t have the time to attend traditional classes, due to employment or family obligations. With online learning, your schedule is extremely flexible. You also don’t have to worry about commuting, as you can access coursework from any device. Earning your degree online is practical and respected practice that can help you find the job you want.
Master of Business Administration
Choosing what to get a degree in can be a hard decision. A masters degree in business administration is one of the most popular online degrees. It’s a good choice if you already have a bachelor’s degree and want to further your career opportunities in the business world. An MBA is a degree that is highly valued by many companies. Online MBAs are now offered by many reputable colleges and universities. You can pursue an online MBA at your own pace while keeping your current job.
Another online degree you might want to consider is in the field of criminal justice. This is a degree that gives you a wide range of career options. You might work as a police or corrections officer or doing fieldwork in an area such as forensics. There are always plenty of job opportunities in criminal justice and this is another degree that’s offered by many online colleges.
If you want to be a teacher or administrator, a bachelor’s or master’s degree in education can the path to take. If your goal is to become a certified teacher, there are many online education programs that can help you obtain certification. If you’re already a teacher, you might consider a Master’s in Education, which can qualify you for positions such as school principal.
The field of information technology or IT is flourishing right now. This is an especially good degree to obtain online, as all of the work you’ll be doing will be on computers. Therefore, accessing your lessons online will be perfectly natural. With a bachelor’s or master’s degree in information technology, you can obtain a job such as IT consultant, software engineer or web developer.
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©2002 — 56 minutes
Downside UP captures the beginnings of America’s largest museum of contemporary art, MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) and the rebirth of its host-city, North Adams. Through the eyes of filmmaker Nancy Kelly and her family, who worked in the factory before it closed, the film renders the subtle changes in the spirit of a region. Downside UP is about the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a town widely viewed as hopeless.
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Writer, Director, Producer: Nancy Kelly
Editor, Producer: Kenji Yamamoto
Director of Photography: Tomas Tucker, Lou Weinert
Sound Recording & Mix: Phil Perkins
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IRAs, are a effective way to get ready for retired life. They are additionally fairly preferred with around 22% of all possessions kept in mutual funds represented by Individual retirement accounts. This relates to an amount of $4.9 trillion.
But mutual funds are not the only investment choice for Individual retirement accounts– vice versa. Gold, silver, and even cryptocurrencies can all play a important role in solid retirement. Alternate financial investment choices like these can be extremely important because they diversify your portfolio and lower your reliance on fiat currency.
One excellent system offering Individual retirement accounts with cryptocurrency is Coin IRA.
As one of numerous new economic firms supporting crypto Individual retirement accounts, Coin individual retirement account permits you to make cryptocurrency investments with your retirement account.
An account from Coin IRA will certainly feature the very same tax advantages as well as attributes that you would certainly get out of a traditional individual retirement account. Still, picking an IRA account that’s right for you can be a challenge.
In this testimonial, we’ll assist you comprehend just how a crypto IRA fits into an total retirement. We’ll give you the details you require to decide if Coin IRA is the appropriate investment platform for you. Maintain reading to find out a lot more.
A crypto IRA works much like any other IRA, specifically those that sustain rare-earth element investments. You can get cryptocurrency to money your account by paying in fiat currency or surrendering funds from a different individual retirement account.
Once you purchase crypto to fund your account, Coin IRA uses 3 separate ways you can store your digital properties:
In a safe offline vault owned and also handled by Coin individual retirement account
In a different tough wallet, such as ones held by Journal or KeepKey
In your own self-hosted digital pocketbook
While there are other crypto IRAs that provide offline property storage space with exceptional safety and security, couple of various other Individual retirement accounts provide you the alternative to save your assets in your own wallet in your home. While this would not be the right choice for everybody, it’s great to have the option.
When you buy crypto in money accounts, there’s a minimal investment need of $30,000. This is a whole lot for unskilled capitalists. Nevertheless, this acquisition minimum is forgoed for Bitcoin IRA account purchases.
Frequently Asked Questions About Coin IRA
You might still have questions after checking out the remainder of this review. We’ll do our ideal to respond to one of the most typical concerns people have regarding Coin IRA listed below.
What Are the Tax Advantages for Purchasing a Crypto IRA?
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The tax benefits of using a self-directed individual retirement account to buy cryptocurrency coincide as the advantages related to any kind of basic IRA. As with other pension companies, Coin IRA permits you to produce various types of accounts, including Traditional and also Roth IRAs.
With a Conventional IRA, you get to purchase cryptocurrencies using pretax revenue. You’ll just require to pay tax obligations as soon as you start taking cash out of your account, once you reach retirement age.
With a Roth IRA, you need to pay tax obligations initially accurate you invest, yet you won’t need to pay any type of tax obligations on your properties when you retire.
Picking in between various types of Individual retirement accounts is always a wager. If you pick a Typical individual retirement account, you need to wish that earnings taxes today are greater than they will be when you retire, making the financial investment beneficial. With a Roth IRA, you’re presuming that you’ll be far better off paying tax obligations currently, so you will not need to manage them after retired life.
Are Funds Taken Care Of by Coin IRA Insured?
Coin IRA accounts are guaranteed for as much as $100 million, yet they make no mention of who their insurance coverage partner is. Nevertheless, since Coin individual retirement account is a sibling company to Goldco, it’s secure to presume they protect their customers’ possessions sensibly well.
What Charges Does Coin IRA Cost?
Coin IRA provides little to no details on their web site concerning their costs and costs. However, third-party testimonials have described Coin IRA’s charge structure to be the following:
-$ 50 single fee to open your account
-$ 80 yearly cost to keep your account open
-$ 100 cost to have your electronic assets stored in an offline wallet, as opposed to Coin individual retirement account’s online purse system
– Costs are forgoed for the first year for accounts that preserve equilibriums of a minimum of $50,000. You can additionally get 5% of your investment back on any qualifying order of $50,000 or more.
What Cryptocurrencies Does Coin Individual Retirement Account Support?
Coin IRA sustains 6 of one of the most popular cryptocurrencies.
While this is a relatively conventional offering for crypto IRAs, when you think about that there are countless cryptos available, it might be frustrating to extra experimental or daring financiers.
For how long Does it Take to Fund My IRA Account?
Coin IRA does not give a details timespan for setting up and moneying an account. For a lot of crypto Individual retirement accounts, you can usually anticipate account established to take 1-3 company days. Moving over funds from a different individual retirement account can take between 1-3 weeks.
It’s worth keeping in mind that, although Coin individual retirement account has an on the internet system for handling your account as well as positioning professions, you have to validate trades over the phone to finish them. This is a preventative measure Coin IRA takes to stay clear of fraudulence, but it can be difficult.
Can I Transfer Existing Funds or Rollover Another Individual Retirement Account Into My Coin Individual Retirement Account Account?
For the most part, yes. If you currently have a self-directed Typical IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA, or easy INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT, you must be able to move your financial investments into crypto holdings with Coin individual retirement account.
If your retirement account is currently managed by your company, points may not be as easy. You need to talk with the manager of your retirement to find out if your IRA is eligible for surrendering.
You can make use of savings in fiat money to spend in crypto with Coin Individual retirement account, you can not just move existing crypto holdings into a crypto IRA. The internal revenue service sights cryptocurrency as a kind of residential or commercial property, not money, so merely transferring your crypto from a non-IRA account into an individual retirement account is not feasible. If you currently have a crypto IRA from a various provider, you need to be able to roll over your account to a Coin IRA strategy.
When Can I Take Out Funds From My Crypto IRA?
When it involves taking out funds from your account, the same policies put on crypto Individual retirement accounts as to typical IRAs. If you take money out of your crypto IRA before you get to the retired life age of 59 1/2, you may activate tax obligation charges. To maximize your retirement financial investment, you should prevent making any type of withdrawals from an individual retirement account before you get to old age.
ItrustCapital – Second Choice
iTrustCapital Costs and Account Minimums.
Though traditional and also Roth IRAs usually come without a monthly cost, self-directed IRA carriers that offer precious metal investments must charge an account maintenance cost. This charge goes towards tax coverage and also making sure that your investments are stored in a safe, IRS-approved center.
iTrustCapital costs all users a regular monthly upkeep cost of $29.95. This fee sets up your self-directed IRA, aids transfer existing assets to your brand-new individual retirement account, handles storage space of the physical properties held in your account or government-approved centers and also funds tax coverage.
When you open up an iTrustCapital account, you’ll be asked to link a debit or credit card. Monthly costs are billed to the card on file.
Along with regular monthly maintenance charges, you likewise pay a cost to iTrustCapital each time you add an investment to your account. When you deposit cryptocurrencies on iTrustCapital, you’ll be billed a 1% deal fee. This implies that if you were to spend $5,000 right into Bitcoin with your individual retirement account, you would certainly receive $4,950 well worth of crypto after your profession removes. The exceptional $50 returns to your individual retirement account carrier.
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Charges for rare-earth elements vary depending on the existing place. The term ” place” describes the present cost of the steel. These prices are frequently changing, which suggests that the quantity of gold or silver that you’ll be able to buy utilizing your IRA payments will differ as market need shifts.
iTrustCapital fees a cost of $50 over the current place for each and every ounce of gold you add to your IRA and also $2.50 over the existing place for every ounce of silver included in your IRA. Like your cryptocurrency financial investments, this cost is subtracted from the complete quantity of gold or silver that you buy each time you make a profession on iTrustCapital’s platform.
All-in-all, the minimal quantity you can fund your iTrustCapital account with is $3,500. Requirement individual retirement account investing guidelines apply in relation to payment limitations as well as circulations. When you get to old age, you can select to make withdrawals in your investment choice rather than offering your financial investment and also claiming its value in cash money.
Want alternative financial investments in your individual retirement account? The procedure isn’t so straightforward.
That’s where iTrustCapital can be found in.
iTrustCapital lets you deal cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and also Ethereum, as well as silver and gold, through a self-directed individual retirement account.
Find out if iTrustCapital is a safe option as well as how it compares to Bitcoin individual retirement account and also Coinbase in this review.
WHAT IS ITRUSTCAPITAL?
iTrustCapital is a self-directed individual retirement account supplier headquartered in Irvine, The golden state and started by chief executive officer Morgan Steckler in 2018.
With iTrustCapital, investors can trade in high-growth properties like cryptocurrencies, gold, as well as silver, 1 day a day, with all the tax advantages of retirement investing.
iTrustCapital is best for those who want to include significant cryptocurrencies, gold, as well as silver to their IRA, and also those that have an interest in preserving those methods over the long-term.
iTrustCapital’s business model is relatively easy. They make it feasible for users to include non-traditional investments (cryptocurrencies and also precious metals) to their Individual retirement accounts.
Just like various other Individual retirement accounts, iTrustCapital’s crypto IRAs provide tax benefits. Depending upon whether you choose a Typical or Roth IRA, your account will be either tax-deferred or tax-free.
Traditional Individual retirement accounts are moneyed with pre-tax dollars and also tired sometimes of withdrawal. Roth IRAs are funded with post-tax dollars, but tax-free to withdraw from. Which is much better relies on whether tax obligations are higher or reduced sometimes of retirement, which regrettably there’s no way to anticipate.
You can money your account by either transfering an existing individual retirement account, rolling over an existing employer strategy, or funding an completely new IRA account.
Once your account is funded, you can utilize iTrustCapital’s system to deal the possessions you desire. The trading platform is online and readily available for trades 24/7.
They show all readily available possessions in an easy-to-read listing and also provide pricing information for each. Purchasing or offering an asset is as simple as clicking a switch: “Buy” or “Sell”.
They have straightforward trading fees at 1% per purchase. They call for $2,500 minimum to begin, plus $1,000 in a succeeding deposit.
iTrustCapital is a electronic property individual retirement account trading platform that sustains the acquisition and also profession of cryptocurrencies through financial investment retirement accounts. The firm has actually been concentrated on a lower-risk strategy tailored towards new, much less monetarily wise financiers in cryptocurrency and physical silver and gold.
iTrustCapital’s simple interface streamlines the usually difficult globe of financial investment for any person. They offer alternate profile solutions with reduced prices as well as fees than their rivals, opening retirement financial investments to a wider range of capitalists, whether they be experienced or otherwise.
Financiers can trade and also buy properties by means of one of three sorts of IRAs: a Traditional Individual Retirement Account, Roth IRA, or SEP INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT.
iTrustCapital just supports 8 cryptocurrencies (at the time of composing this). The system is basic as well as straightforward, yet it might not benefit sophisticated capitalists. But also for people who want to buy crypto and do not intend to spend a great deal of time, this is terrific.
iTrust Funding offers IRAs that cover 2 properties– electronic money as well as physical gold. These chances are readily available in low-fee, transparent HSA accounts.
If you already have an individual retirement account, they supply a team of professionals that can assist browse the process for rolling your account to their system. Generally, the procedure is straightforward and without tax problems or fines.
When you established an IRA account, you can deal possessions whenever you desire. You also have your own control panel that will certainly aid you keep track of your account and activity. With real-time monitoring of your accounts as well as purchases, nothing is quiting you from investing in any property at your own speed.
Trades clear up within one company day, without limit on the variety of transactions daily.
Your profile is presented on a custom control panel housing an encrypted digital pocketbook. There are charts for both the price of electronic money and also gold. If you wish to make an financial investment, this will help you see just how points may alter.
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Financial investment & Fees.
iTrustCapital deals an remarkably cost effective arrangement.
To purchase your account, you need $1,000. If you shed cash, there is no minimum quantity to keep your account open. On the various other end, iTrust also has no account limitation. It is accessible for a large range of financial positions. You also need to have at least $30 to make a trade, however there is no maximum amount needed.
The service sets you back $29.95 each month, yet this does not consist of the other charges that they charge. They only bill 1% of each profession, and there is no broker cost or scaling based on the size of your possessions.
iTrust Capital offers uncomplicated pricing as well as a straightforward trading system to simplify the process for financiers.
To facilitate trading in digital currency as well as physical gold markets, they keep fees as well as costs clear.
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The UCI Hydrogen Station Expansion is Complete
As the number of automakers retailing Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEV's) to the general public increases, the UC Irvine Hydrogen Fueling Station operated by the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC), has been expanded to increase the dispensing capacity from 50 kg per day to 180 kg per day. Additional features that were updated to support the growing fuel cell vehicle population include the fuel delivery and compressor systems, a larger cooling block for faster 700 bar fills, and a new dispenser equipped for point of sale transactions.
While the station will serve the growing community of FCEV's and continue in its research role, it will also provide fuel to the UC Irvine Fuel Cell Electric Bus (FCEB). This recent addition to the UCI Anteater Express bus fleet is the first of its kind on a University of California campus, and joins a group of 29 biodiesel buses that reached a ridership of over 2 million passengers in fiscal year 2014, and is expected to log nearly 4,000 miles per month on its assigned route.
Because the station functions as both a retail and research station, the NFCRC acquires a spectrum of data to study a variety of factors including fueling system efficiencies, hydrogen demand, fill times, supply and storage logistics, operator experiences, and fill patterns.
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The thing about a D&D module is that it’s written with no understanding of who the characters coming to deal with the dungeon are. That’s a really serious challenge for a writer, and even with the narrowing of scope provided by a level range, it still seems like the range of possible characters should be impossible to plan for.
Thankfully, the structure of D&D provides a lot of help for this. Some of it is obvious – characters of a certain level will not have access to spells of a certain level – but much of it is a bit fuzzier. The range of things a D&D character can do (with any mechanical support) is actually pretty constrained. There are oddball spells and items that can expand that range, but even that tends to be fairly tightly limited. And, in fact, those exceptions are viewed as an expression of creativity, so even if they introduce problems, they are largely welcome.
The thing is, these limitation are things that we often speak of as weaknesses of D&D, especially older editions. The lack of any kind of diversity of skills or abilities is held up as a problem. And it totally can be. But it also makes it MUCH easier to design an adventure that can work for a wider range of groups. Yes, you can still have the occasional mismatch, but it’s rarer.
This is an important lesson for any would-be adventure designer. The more free-form and diverse your game is, the harder it is to write an adventure for strangers.
We’ve seen the fruits of this in lots of places. White Wolf got a reputation for railroady adventures, which seems harsh, but consider the context. The range of capabilities of the average Vampire group was much broader than a D&D group, so they needed some way to address that. Railroads and sock puppets may not be great techniques for play, but they’re very solid techniques for publishing.
At the other end, I’ll point to things like the Fate adventure Patreon. There’s a reason that a lot of these are more like minigames than classic adventures. Fate is just too open ended otherwise.
There is, I think, a somewhat romantic notion of an adventure not needing to be tied to a particular system. If the fictional setup is interesting and the required action is clear, it really shouldn’t matter what system you drop it into, right? That feels like it should be the case – after all, the bulk of fiction has no “system”, right?
Unfortunately, that doesn’t hold up well in practice. See, system does not only tell us how a problem will be solved, it provides us a lot of answers about why these characters are the ones to solve it. Even if that answer is somewhat generic (it’s an adventure, and they’re adventurers!) it’s still a hook, something that a generic adventure won’t have.
The trick is that adventures for a specific system give me a ballpark for where I expect the hooks to be. In D&D, it will probably be a dungeon that I can drop into my world, even if I need to tweak some details. In Vampire, it will probably involve clans and power structures I’m familiar with. In a generic adventure, I have no such starting point.
Not to say it’s impossible to write generic adventures, but if you’re looking to write for strangers, then it’s a lot harder than targeting them.
- Or, more often, pseudo-generic. A lot of “generic” adventures are D&D or other popular games with the serial numbers filed off. ↩
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Rwanda has defended its multi-million dollar deal to sponsor the Arsenal soccer team, telling politicians from European donor countries it is “none of their business.”
Britain’s Mail on Sunday said Rwanda paid the London club $40 million to have Arsenal players wear the “Visit Rwanda” tourist board logo on one sleeve.
Some politicians in Britain, the Netherlands and other donor countries criticised the decision by an African nation that received more than $1 billion in foreign aid and development assistance in 2016. But Rwandan foreign minister, Olivier Nduhungirehe said the money came from tourism income, not aid, and hit back at European lawmakers.
“People are talking about aid from UK, we have even MPs (Members of Parliament) from other countries like Netherlands, Switzerland questioning that. First of all, for those other MPs it is none of their business, I repeat it is none of their business, Rwanda wants to promote our tourism and taking a very few percentage of the money we received already for tourism it’s really common sense,” he added.
A sports shop attendant in Kigali,Nayila Musabyimana said the deal has proved lucrative for her business.
But also thinks that the deal “will make people come visit Rwanda.
“Since the announcement of agreements between the RDB (Rwanda Development Board) and the Arsenal team, people have come in large numbers to buy the Arsenal jerseys, especially those for the 2018-2019 season and our stocks are exhausted. Even those who don’t support Arsenal have been buying the jerseys,” she said.
Tourism is the biggest foreign exchange earner in the East African nation. And the foreign minister said he hoped revenues from the sector would double from more than $400 million last year to $800 million by 2024.
“We were jealous when we heard this Arsenal sponsorship with such money. Everyone is wondering why this money has been paid elsewhere while it should strengthen our football, we have many institutions like MTN and other big companies which should step up and do the same. The Rwanda Development Board must also look into helping local football teams and sponsoring them,” said Sotel Kayumba, Kigali FC Captain.
U.N. figures show more than 60 percent of people live under the poverty line in Rwanda, a country of 12 million where 800,000 people were killed in a genocide in 1994.
Arsenal declined to confirm the value of the sponsorship deal but said Rwanda had “transformed itself dramatically in recent times and is now regarded as one of the most advanced and respected countries in Africa”.
Source: Africa News
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Sara drinks lite beer. I enjoy a cold one myself, but “lite” is rarely what I’m after. I’m a lot pickier, and a lot more partial to dark brews. Before leaving for Buffalo, she suggested we meet for a pint to help drown my broken heart, so I suggested The Blind Tiger Ale House. The perfect pub to indulge in mugs of suds during the nippy months, The Blind Tiger’s vintage oak décor and brick fireplace add a bit of old world charm to this New York watering hole. A wrap-around wooden bar circling the whole of the establishment ensures stickiness from the overflowing beer steins. Be careful to keep your elbows up, but do nab a seat to get down on some salty (to keep you drinking), serious (to keep you eating), upscale bar fare, like Murray’s cheese plates, a caviar spread, and olive tapenade. The crowd is as varied as the beer selection, but expect a lot of “suits” at happy hour and fans seeking game day brewskies on the weekends. Sara and I enjoyed a late liquid lunch on a Wednesday afternoon, and after two or three Jolly Pumpkin Farmhouse Artisan Ales it was hard to remember that I was not actually at Oktoberfest. Surrounded by beers and boys, I could’ve been in the heart of this beer-touting German festival, but instead, I found myself a mere few blocks away from home, one day closer to feeling healed, in the heart of Greenwich Village.
Venture downtown to this little gem for a warm and cozy autumnal ale and bring your laptop in tow; they offer free wifi. Eat it Up!
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By: Pamela Egan, FNP-C CDE
Inactivity leads to increased risk of metabolic syndrome
Health experts say two-thirds of American adults are now considered overweight. An increasing number of them are beginning to suffer from something called metabolic syndrome. It’s a collection of five health problems that, taken alone wouldn’t mean much. But, when they’re added together, they dramatically elevate the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
Maybe you’ve never heard of metabolic syndrome. It’s had different names. Not long ago, it was called Syndrome X. It’s name was changed because all five of the health problems have to do with how the body metabolizes hormones and sugars.
If you have slightly high blood pressure, slightly elevated blood sugar, slightly elevated triglycerides, a decreased HDL and your waist circumference is a little bit larger than it ought to be, the combination is a big deal.
That’s because the problems all interact and exacerbate each other leading to insulin resistance and heart disease. When taken together, they can push a person’s risk for heart disease up by as much as 30 percent.
Individuals who have lots of fat tissue, adipose tissue in their abdomen have a different kind of fat tissue than if you’re storing fat in your legs or somewhere else, because that kind of fat tissue is not just a passive storage depot where we put our fat. That particular type of fat tissue is a kind of an organ that secretes hormones, and they’re very bad hormones, hormones that can lead to a damage of blood vessels, to high blood pressure, to hardening of the arteries and heart attacks.
People with metabolic syndrome may feel healthy. That’s why it’s so important to be more aware of this syndrome. Cholesterol, triglycerides, blood sugar, blood pressure and body fat are all easy to measure. And especially as people age, it’s more important to measure them, particularly because they can be reversed. A healthy diet and daily exercise can bring down all these risk factors.
Even a little physical activity may go far in preventing metabolic syndrome. One recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that fitness in early adulthood can significantly reduce the likelihood of developing metabolic syndrome later in life.
People who are not physically active are twice as likely to develop metabolic syndrome and its complications than people who partake in at least some regular physical activity. Most people know that exercise is beneficial to help prevent metabolic syndrome. But recent studies have shown that physical inactivity is actually a precursor to developing the condition. The Finnish study examined 612 people who did not have metabolic syndrome at baseline. After four years, 107 had developed the condition and most who did also reported the least amount of exercise.
Convenience items like riding lawn mowers save time and make life easier, but are contributing to an overall decrease in physical activity. The number of obese children is particularly concerning because many of these children are at risk for metabolic syndrome.
The trends in physical activity are alarming. Since the 1950s, children have markedly reduced their physical activity. Studies have shown that children now watch an average of 25 to 30 hours of television each week.
The rise in physical inactivity among children is cause for concern, since physical inactivity predisposes a person to metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Physical inactivity is one of the most powerful risk factors for overall mortality and is associated with a two-fold increase in overall death for both men and women. Physical inactivity could even be compared with cigarette smoking for its effect on overall mortality.
This article was originally published March 1, 2004 in The St. Tammany News.
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Watch Nicholas on Holiday (2014) online for free on 123Movies. It’s the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.
Original title Les Vacances du Petit Nicolas
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The old abandoned Fluid X gas station.
I used Cinema4D & Maxwell for the foreground structure, and revived good old Bryce 5.5 for the city in the back. The program handles massive polycounts with remarkable ease, and I needed a hazy atmosphere which made it the best choice. Postwork was done in Photoshop.
Staff pick for 3rd July 2008
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Immediate crisis - Text "RELATE" to 741741 to reach a trained crisis counselor
Suicide - 530-756-5000 - Suicide Prevention Yolo County 24-Hour Crisis Line
If you are a student lacking adequate nutritious food, homeless, at risk of losing housing, etc.,
- Aggie Compass Basic Needs Center
- Emergency/Short -term Housing is available for unhoused students or in imminent danger of becoming houseless. Please submit a Basic Needs Assistance Form to apply.
- College Focused Rapid Rehousing provides safe, stable housing for unhoused students as well as a meal plan and intense case management focused on holistic and academic success. Please submit a program application, you will receive a response within 24-48 hours.
- Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter is a volunteer run emergency homeless shelter that runs from December 2 - March 17. Call 530-492-1974.
- Davis Community Meals and Housing is a resource center and day shelter, at 1111 H Street in Davis. This program provides homeless and low-income individuals with access to basic necessities. Call 530-753-9204.
- Fourth and Hope shelter in Woodland provides free meals, shower and laundry services, call 530-661-1218.
- The ASUCD Pantry is operating on a weekly distribution schedule. Register to pick up free food resources, menstrual products, and toiletries on the Pantry website.
- The Aggie Meal Share Program provides Dining Commons swipes/meals for students in need of assistance.
- Davis Community Meals Program offers a free meal on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and lunch on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.;The meals are prepared and served at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, located at 640 Hawthorn Lane, Davis
- Yolo Food Bank
- FRESH TEXT will send you text messages about produce/pantry distributions in Davis by texting TOMATO to 888777.
- Mental Health Acute Care Services are available at the Student Health and Wellness Center (SHCS), on LaRue between Hutchison and Orchard, during business hours.
- Online Counseling through Student Health and Counseling Services
- 24-hour Suicide Prevention Line – 530-756-5000.
- Crisis Text Line is a free, 24/7, immediate and confidential texting service for students in crisis. Text RELATE to 741741 from anywhere in the US, to text with a trained crisis counselor.
- Emergency Basic Needs Grant
These grants are for students with financial hardships caused by job loss, accidents, homelessness, and other unexpected living expenses. Funds are awarded to students with financial need based on review of submitted documentation and information provided on either the California Dream Application or the FAFSA.
Please submit a Basic Needs Assistance Form to apply.
- UC Davis Financial Aid Economic Crisis Team
- Drop-in at the Financial Aid Office, 1100 Dutton Hall, for economic crisis services.
- Visit Financial Aid’s Economic Crisis web page. This page offers resources for immediate financial assistance from UC Davis, the City of Davis, Yolo County and federal programs.
- Request assistance online by emailing the Economic Crisis Team [firstname.lastname@example.org]. Expect a response within 24–48 hours, Monday–Friday.
- Aggies Helping Aggies Awards AHA offers two awards, Student Emergency Relief Aid and UC Davis Cap & Gown Award.
- UC Davis Student Parent Child Care Funding Program consists of two grants, the Graduate Student Child Care Grant and the Community Based Care Grant. Both are designed to partially defray student families' child care expenses.
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Backing up the entire data on our computers is a good practice that we all must follow. Though this process may take time the first time you do it, it does pay great dividends in the long run. For this, CrashPlan from Code42 is one of the best services that is available. But sadly, the company has planned to shut down its consumer-focused “CrashPlan for Home” product. If you are an existing user of this service, then you may have received an email stating the closure of the service and a free extension of 60 days in order to find a suitable CrashPlan alternative. So, in case you haven’t yet found the best one, here is a list of the top 8 CrashPlan alternatives that you can use:
Taking a very minimalist approach, Backblaze is one of the easiest-to-use cloud backup service and arguably the best CrashPlan alternative. Though this list is not in any particular order, Backblaze most certainly deserves the top spot. It offers a single price plan of $50/year, as compared to CrashPlan’s $59.99/year plan for an individual. One of the domains where this service stands out is user experience. Unlike CrashPlan, you don’t have to dig through different paths on your computer to specify which files you want backed up. Instead, Backblaze allows you to specify the file formats that you want to back up, and it takes care of everything else. Now, if you are wondering, you can even exclude certain folders that may contain files with the specified formats.
When it comes to security, Backblaze offers a 128-bit encryption for your data as compared to CrashPlan’s 448-bit encryption. Though the numbers are in favor of CrashPlan here, Backblaze’s security in itself cannot be easily compromised. Moreover, it bears some similarity to CrashPlane, as your data remains encrypted at rest at their data centers and is decrypted only when you download it. With Backblaze, you also get two-factor authentication – something that was missing in CrashPlane – and an app for Android and iOS that you can use to access files from anywhere.
One feature from CrashPlan that you will miss in Backblaze is the free local backup option. Unlike the former, the latter does not allow you to back up either on external hard drives or on a different computer. That being said, important features like versioning (up to 30 days) and continuous backups still make their way in this alternative. Lastly, let’s talk about restoration. Backblaze gives you three different ways in which you can do that. But first, you’ll have to visit their website and sign in to your account. There, you can either download all your data as a ZIP file or request for a chargeable USB flash drive (up to 128 GB) or hard drive to be delivered to you with your data. You can return these drives within 30 days and claim a refund.
Pricing: $50/year, 15-day free trial
Platforms: Visit Website (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS)
CrashPlan might be shutting down its consumer-focused services, but it sure isn’t leaving you in complete dismay. In addition to the free 60-day extended services that Code42 offers, the company also suggests Carbonite as the alternative you should be switching to. Carbonite is an easy-to-use service that takes you through a simple backup wizard. Here, you can either choose to go with the recommended settings or customize them yourself. Accordingly, your files will be backed up. Overall, this initial setup is easier to process in case of Carbonite than in the case of CrashPlan.
Being a recommendation from CrashPlan itself, Carbonite does hold some similarities with the former. For starters, you get unlimited backup storage, continuous backup protection, and external hard disk backup. Even your settings are backed up with Carbonite, so you don’t have to worry about configuring a new computer to your desired settings again. When it comes to security, Carbonite Server Backup manages your encryption key using 128-bit AES encryption by default as compared to the 448-bit Blowfish encryption of CrashPlan. Alternatively, you can choose to manage your private encryption key yourself. Choosing this will encrypt your backups using a 256-bit AES encryption. Regardless of which setting you choose, your files will remain encrypted once they leave your computer.
The last thing that plays an important role in a cloud backup service is data restoration. Carbonite provides restoration to unlimited computers. In addition to this, the service comes with a feature called Bare Metal Restore. The biggest benefit of this is that you can even restore a computer that doesn’t have any pre-installed software or an operating system. This is a great feature that can come in handy. It is also something that was not present in CrashPlan.
Pricing: Home starts at $59.99/year, 15-day free trial
Platforms: Visit Website (Windows, macOS)
IDrive is more than just a solution to backing up your computer. With this, you can even back up your mobile devices – a feature that lacks in CrashPlan. And the files that you back up – they are secure as each one of them gets an individual encryption key. This means that even if one of your files is compromised, the other would remain safe. Moreover, IDrive is usually faster than CrashPlan, so that gives you another reason why you should switch to this alternative.
Some very useful features that IDrive follows from CrashPlan are local backup, backup scheduler, seed loading and shipped restore. Seed loading (IDrive Express backups) means that you can ship your files on a hard drive to the cloud backup service. This is very handy if you have a slow internet connection or have a limited bandwidth. An important thing to note here is that the data should be at least 100 GB to avail this service. As for its pricing, this feature is free once per year for personal users. Shipped restore (IDrive Express Restore) is the opposite of Seed Loading. This feature allows you to request for a restore from the company. This is chargeable at $99.50 per request.
A few features that you’ll be missing on IDrive are CrashPlan’s 448-bit encryption and telephone support. That being said, you do get a 256-bit AES encryption which should be good enough.
Pricing: Free, Personal starts at $52.12/year
Platforms: Visit Website (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS)
The best thing about Duplicati is that it is open-source with its source code uploaded on GitHub, licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). As a result, it is, unlike CrashPlan, totally free of cost. That being said, it is in no way any less secure than any other cloud backup services. With this, you can choose the level of security you want for your data. You can choose either the built-in 256-bit AES encryption or an external GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). A similarity that Duplicati bears with CrashPlan is scheduled backup. This means you can specify the time and days of the week when you want the backup to take place.
Duplicati works with standard protocols like FTP, SSH, and WebDAV as well as popular services like Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Box.com, Mega, HubiC, and many others. Unlike CrashPlan, this service gives you a lot of options to choose from when it comes to backing up your files. To mention a few, you can select the storage type, create a username and password for that backup, or configure HTTP requests. You can also include or exclude specific file types and hidden files.
Platforms: Visit Website (Windows, macOS, Linux)
5. Acronis True Image
If you don’t mind approximately half a gigabyte of data being occupied by this software, then Acronis True Image might just be the alternative you are looking for. As opposed to CrashPlan, it downloads the complete software after the initial setup. On the other hand, unlike CrashPlan’s cluttered screen, you can easily choose what you want to do in Acronis True Image.
When it comes to similarities, Acronis True Image offers the key features of CrashPlan that you’d expect. Some of these include backing up multiple systems, automatic backups, file versioning, and scheduled backups. In addition to these, you can also use Acronis True Image to backup mobile devices and social networking sites. The destination for your backups can be either the Acronis cloud, an external drive, or a local folder on your computer.
Acronis True Image is more than just a service to back up files. If you are interested, it offers various useful tools as well. Some of these are Acronis Universal Restore, Parallels Access, and Clone Disk. However, the most useful one in terms of cloud backup is Rescue Media Builder. This allows you to back up your system in the form of an ISO file and you can use that to boot a crashed system or a system without any operating system with all your files intact.
Pricing: Starts at $49.99, free 30-day trial
Platforms: Visit Website (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS)
SpiderOakONE is another great alternative for CrashPlan that you can use. SpiderOak builds products on the principle of “No Knowledge”. This is their fancy way of saying end-to-end encryption and highlighting that the company does not store any information about your backed up data. To make this more technical, your data is secured with SHA-256 AES encryption. And to top it up, a new key is assigned for each file that you upload.
Like CrashPlan, you can add an extra layer of security on your SpiderOakONE account in the form of two-factor authentication. You also get the key features like versioning and automatic backup. These backups can be scheduled according to time as well as the day of the week. There is also a very handy feature called “SpiderOak Hive”. This creates a folder on your computer where you can drag-and-drop files, and they will then be accessible across multiple devices. Lastly, note that SpiderOakONE is not perfect either. Unlike CrashPlan, it lacks some useful features like administrator controls and in-place restoration.
Pricing: Starts at $5/month, free 21-day trial
Platforms: Visit Website (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS)
Taking a somewhat different approach than CrashPlan, ElephantDrive is the easiest cloud backup service you can use. Once you download the software, a folder called “MyElephantDrive” is created on your computer. This is where you can manage all your backup files. Simply drag-and-drop any file to this folder, and it will be backed up. Here, you will find two default folders called “Backup” and “Everywhere”. The “Backup” folder is where your files will get uploaded to the web server, while the “Everywhere” folder will also make them appear on another computer with ElephantDrive running on the same account.
Like CrashPlan, ElephantDrive offers automatic backups, file versioning, web access, and is encrypted using the 256-bit AES encryption. You can even manage your backups across different computers. Moreover, your files are stored in multiple locations and hence, data loss in one facility can be sustained. It is one of those few cloud backup services like CrashPlan that works on Linux as well. In addition to this, the service can also work on Android, iOS, and Network-Attached Storages (NAS). The default version that you download from the web is the Lite version. With this, you get 2 GB of free storage. To get more, you can updgrade to the Pro version.
Pricing: Free for 2 GB, Pro starts at $9.95/month
Platforms: Visit Website (Windows, macOS, Linux, NAS, Android, iOS)
8. Resilio Sync
Resilio Sync is a bit of a different kind of service from CrashPlan. More than being a cloud storage service, this is a cloud sharing service. That being said, it is as much capable as any other CrashPlan alternative. In fact, if you are not looking to back up large files, then this can turn out to be better than any other alternative on this list. Once you create an account, you can add a folder, get a synchronization key, and then use that key on any other computer running Resilio Sync to keep files in sync across them.
Being a simple application, Resilio Sync is surprisingly fast. Like CrashPlan, you get the versioning feature, though for files as old as 30 days. There is an advanced version of the service called “Sync Home”, which comes with a free 14-day trial, and offers features like linking multiple devices, selective sync, one-time send, and controlling bandwidth usage.
Pricing: $59.99, Pro with free 14-day trial
Platforms: Visit Website (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, NAS)
SEE ALSO: 10 Best Free Backup Software for Windows
Switch to the Best CrashPlan Alternatives
Although CrashPlan is planning to stop its consumer-focused service, that shouldn’t stop you from backing up your data. Having known some of the best alternatives to CrashPlan that you can use, it should now become easier for you to decide the best one. So, which CrashPlan alternative did you choose? I would love to know in the comments section below.
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- Mzansi singer and songwriter Zahara has called on DJ Sbu to have a TV interview so they can discuss Loliwe's album sales
- According to Zahara, she was not paid properly for the legendary record and she thought of taking people to court
- DJ Sbu has denied the allegations of Zahara not being paid for Loliwe and the singer wants him to tell the truth
Zahara has challenged DJ Sbu to a sit-down TV interview to clear the air about the money allegedly owed to her for her Loliwe album.
Barry Roux, a popular social media user recently tweeted that he wished Zahara would re-record her Loliwe album so that she could begin to profit financially from it. The tweleb implied that Zahara was not being compensated for her music royalties.
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"I haven’t been getting anything since I left the record label, and I saw recently that my music was uploaded on digital platforms without me knowing, which means they sold my records to somebody and it means I need to get a cut for it," she said.
The hitmaker went on to say that she had tried numerous times to contact DJ Sbu since their last conversation nearly a year and a half ago. The singer went on to say that she considered taking them to court but knew she couldn't afford the fees.
Zahara is adamant that a TV interview is the only way to end their long-running feud, and she would like DJ Sbu to answer her call.
Zahara is grateful to Mzansi for listening to her Loliwe album and showing love
Briefly News previously reported that Mzansi singer and songwriter Zahara is thankful to everyone who listens to her music. Taking to social media, Zahara let her fans know that she's ever so grateful for the fact that they listen to her music on streaming sites.
This surely helps her with her royalties. She tweeted:
"We just checked our streams from this past weekend. Ndithy mandiphinde ndibulele kakhulu kuni nonke (Let me say thank you to everyone once again). Over half a million streams just on 'Loliwe'."
Loliwe is a Mzansi favourite that has been timeless over the years. Zahara is so grateful to her fans for listening to her music and can't thank them enough for that.
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Source: Briefly News
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18 TARC SCHEDULE BUS PRESTON DIXIE HIGHWAY SCHEDULE NOTE: B Trip begins or ends at Brook Street and Hill Street at time shown.
Largest Transit Authority of the River City 18 TARC SCHEDULE collective transportation of the region and Greater Louisville area all routes and bus schedules of the counties of Kentucky and Clark and Floyd in Indiana Counties of Jefferson, Bullitt and Oldham.
All buses are equipped with wheelchair accommodations and bike rack locations.
TARC 18 SCHEDULE – PRESTON DIXIE HIGHWAY
18 TARC is the transit authority of the River City company that provides public transportation in the Greater Louisville area. It offers bus schedules in Bullitt, Oldham and Jefferson counties in Clark and Kentucky counties and Floyd counties in Indiana.
With wheelchair and bicycle equipment TARC is open from Monday to Friday. To Fri. From eight o’clock to twelve o’clock and on Saturdays from nine o’clock to noon.
This route operates commuter express service between the Ivy Tech Park and Ride on Charlestown Road in Sellersburg and downtown Louisville. Downtown stops include both the Central Business District and University of Louisville Medical Center.
Travel only during the week is offered for the Watson lane in the Valley Village region.
For those traveling on the road to Dixie on the Upper Hunters Trave and does not offer Valley Station services.
The 50x route already offers express transit services on parts of this route
The transportation from Preston Street runs from downtown Louisville to the Okolona Jefferson Mall area.
Serving UPS Worldport Hub on Great Lane.
The 45X route has Schedule service expressed in points on its wheel.
Note: This route does not meet travel Jefferson Mall or Post Office.
Buses can only pass at Jefersson Mall at times shown above.
Wait a few minutes if you want to get to the city center.
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Repairing the vacuum cleaner by yourself can be pretty tricky especially if you do not know anything regarding it. A newbie with care and maintenance might make things worse. Besides, the precise and core knowledge will help you make the work professional.
If you, in particular, talk about the vacuum cleaner of home use, there are some technical and some general tips that can enhance its performance. In addition, if you are using the device for a long time, its maintenance becomes necessary. That said, below we will discuss those pro 10 tips that every vacuum owner should know!
Keep the bags spacious
When it comes to maintaining the vacuum cleaner, the first thing you need to do is to empty its bag that collects the junk within. Keeping the clutter for a long time drives a lot of issues and one such issue of__ the stench! So, make sure it’s a dirt cup or bag whichever type your vacuum is offering, is well-empty, and doesn’t have anything stuck to it.
If you keep the bag full of junk, debris, and similar stuff it will also create a smelly interior and make the vacuum performance drastically low. Make a habit of keeping the vacuum bags empty and free from any of the dust, debris, clutter, and unwanted junk.
Keep the filters well-cleaned
Talking about care and maintenance, and having the filters all dirty, this sounds completely adverse. If you do not want to compromise on cleanliness and care, keep the filters well-cleaned and have them a proper wash. Rinse them with water and make sure no dirt is remaining there anymore.
But while doing so be extra careful to let it damage the filter or cause it to tear. While washing, you have to make sure it has only dust on it and no debris so that you can thoroughly clean it. Moreover, the dirt cup should also be cleaned. Make a lukewarm soapy solution and wash it thoroughly. Use the detergent with care as it shouldn’t affect the quality of the material. Lastly, when you put the filter or the dirt back onto the vac, make 100 %s sure that is it not wet and has completely dried
All the Attachment Should Be Properly Fixed:
Attaching and using a diverse vacuum cleaning attachment with certain adjustment settings is a pretty common thing. And it also seems like a cinch to get them attached. However, it is not as simple as it seems to be.
There are hundreds of vacuuming gears and each of them comes with its own settings. So, before vacuuming makes sure that all the accessories are nicely attached to the vacuum, or else it will hamper vacuuming. Moreover, poorly fixed accessories will minimize Hoover’s quality.
The Brush Roll With Junk Is A Danger:
The next thing about vacuum care is the care of its brush roll with great concern. The ideally clean brush will surely output the best and you will experience the cleanliness of higher levels. Besides, when you plan a vacuum you get to have tons of junk in combination with hair, threads, fur, and whatnot. So, we can say that the cleaner house you have the dirtier the vacuum cleaner gets from inside.
This dirtiness is not what cannot be cleaned, especially the brush roll. When you’ll take the brush roll out you will see it’s been trapped with multiple unwanted entries which causes the effect on the suction if left that way because it prevents the roll from spinning and moving in a supposedly way. The best and the most recommended way to get all the clutter out of the brush roll is to first take out the roll and then have a deep clean. However, you can also replace the roll if you feel it is that too old to get it free from the junk.
Pay Heed to Its Loudness:
Is your vacuum still working the way it used to? If it’s been a long time since you have bought your vacuum cleaner most certainly, its machinery has become subject to a lot of wear and tear incidents. But also, you have to make sure if its working noise has become drastically loud! If yes you need to immediately check out its motor and inspect the real matter prior to any more damage.
Keep the Entire Unit Nicely Clean:
Not only do the internal parts and components matter for vacuuming perfectly but also, the exterior of the vacuum cleaner matters a lot when it comes to caring for and maintenance of it. Besides, if you have relatively more usage of the vacuum, it should be well-cleaned. To ensure that, take a damp cloth and rub it all over its exterior to keep it from dirt, gnarr, and anything that is making it look dirty. Keeping your device clean will enhance its durability and longevity.
Make Sure It Is On Ground Level:
Unless you have a handheld vacuum cleaner, always keep your vacuum cleaner on the ground. If you keep moving the machine from one point to another, it will only add to its inefficiency and poor condition. Not only will it weaken its internal parts but you will also do labor otherwise. Experts say that you should not move your vacuum unit unless it is necessary. Keep its movement minimal and ensure its durability to a greater extent.
Keep the Cord Short and Wrapped:
Keeping your vac cord short means that you should not keep it all scattered. When you are done with the whole cleaning and vacuuming process make sure that its cord is wrapped to the motor cover. The damaged cord will not only become the source of shock hazard but also will shorten its lifetime.
The Air Vents Should Be Free From Anything:
Many vacuum cleaners are designed with multiple air vents. To make the vacuuming performance better you should always keep these vents open with no junk on them. This is a pretty crucial parameter and the presence of any debris can be the vacuuming outcome ineffective. So, when you are cleaning everything you shouldn’t forget to clean its air vents as well.
The Brush Roll and Attachments Should Be Clean and Well-Attached
The vacuum without a brush roll instantly becomes questionable for its cleaning performance. Therefore, do not compromise the cleaning of its brushes when it comes to the cleaning and care of the vacuuming machine. You can use a different tool to do that, besides, if its brushes feature threads and hair, you can use a pair of scissors as well.
Some Don’ts of Vacuum Care & Maintenance
- Do not vacuum the inflammable and toxic material with the vacuum. This can cause serious damage to the machine that might not be undone otherwise. So to avoid the aggravation of internal machinery never vacuum those things that feature the volatile nature within.
- Do not vacuum and pick up those sharp and pointy things from the vacuuming machine. Things like coins, nails, screws, and broken shards of a mirror or any ceramic utensil can break the internal components of the vacuum and it is a serious threat to its rubber hose as well.
- Do not use your vacuum roughly, also, make sure you never manhandle it or drop it harshly on the ground. Doing so will affect the motor and its fragile parts and next time it can perform pretty poorly with superficial suction power.
- Don’t let the switch into the socket if it is not in use. Always keep it unplugged and shut off.
- Do not use the dirt cup, filters or any attachment that is already empty. In this respect, the filters of vacuum cleaners especially hold significant importance. If you keep using the unclean filter it will eventually let the allergens and pollen back in. So, the proper efficiency of vacuuming affects the most.
All in all, if you are doing the vacuum care by yourself you have to keep these pros yet skillful tips in mind so that the whole vacuum care becomes more exact. Besides, cleaning and paying heed to each and every component within the vacuum machine is the key to achieve the higher level of suction, cleanliness, and of course longevity!
No matter if you are using a home vacuum of a commercial vacuum, the care and maintenance is almost the same for everyone. However, before opting for anything if you read the user’s manual it would help you with the precise details and you will be able to understand the working process more easily.
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Christopher Logan Coleman always wanted to be in the Navy like his grandfather. After his high school graduation in 2009, he spent six years on board the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan as a fire control technician.
After he was honorably discharged in 2015, he received his acceptance letter from UCCS.
“Getting that acceptance letter was one of the prouder moments of his life,” said his mom, Catherine. “He wanted a computer engineering degree to become an on-line games designer. A life-long gamer, Logan had already started developing scripts, debated with his family the best internship and work opportunities, and was excited finally to be in college and on his way to what was, for him, a dream career.”
He enrolled in fall 2015 with the goal of earning that degree. But in December of that year, he was shot and killed. His death remains unaccounted for. Logan would have graduated during the May 2019 commencement ceremony.
“Logan was one of life’s solid people,” Catherine said. “He was a loving son, a great big brother, the type of friend you can depend on in a pinch. He loved life in a big way and had made a start on achieving the one he wanted.”
His memory will live on in the Logan Coleman Finish Line Memorial Scholarship Fund. It will be awarded to seniors who are scheduled to graduate in the year they receive the scholarship. Part of the criteria will be an essay about gun violence awareness and the impact of gun violence.
“Logan was a staunch gun rights supporter, but he would just hate being part of the statistic of lives lost to gun violence. And he would tell you this: ‘it’s not just about me.’ It’s about all the other Logans out there, all the men and women, girls and boys who have had their lives cut off in the same short sharp way by a weapon that got into the wrong hands.”
This scholarship will honor Logan while helping someone else accomplish their dreams.
“Logan didn’t get to cross his finish line,” his mom said. “But his family and friends, who sponsor this scholarship to honor his memory, know he would get a big kick out of knowing one of his fellow Mountain Lions is getting a boost to make it across theirs.”
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In addition to selling new Textron Aviation and used aircraft, we provide spare parts, product support, warranty administration, maintenance and technical support, and training coordination for Cessna and Beechcraft owners and operators.
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A senior official of Iran’s Judiciary has said on December 13 that former tycoon, Babak Zanjani will be executed after he returns what he owes the Islamic Republic.
Zanjani who was arrested in 2013 on charges of embezzling money earned from black market oil exports sanctioned by the government, was sentenced to death in 2016.
Hadi Sadeghi, a deputy to the all-powerful Judiciary head told reporters in city of Bojnourd, that part of Zanjani’s money is abroad and currently it is not possible to repatriate it, according to major Tehran news agencies.
“People should not be impatient with carrying out Zanjani’s death penalty. The Judiciary does not want to lose the connection to his assets abroad.”
It is not clear why the government is unable to collect Zanjani's money abroad. Is he refusing to pay or the funds are out of reach because of U.S. banking sanctions on Iran.
Zanjani was a middleman, selling Iranian oil through companies, mainly affiliated with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), in the years when international sanctions restricted Iran oil exports and banking relations, during Ahmadineja’s second term, 2009-2013.
Under international sanctions, ultraconservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s blessing, allowed the private sector, as well as security organizations such as the police to sell oil in international markets, as proxy to the embattled Islamic Republic of Iran.
Zanjani and other individuals set up elaborate networks for selling oil and laundering the money around the world, including in Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia and Central Asia.
But in many cases the scheme turned into a fiasco, as many plots were uncovered, and people were pursued by the United States. In Zanjani’s case, it was the Iranian government that went after him, because he allegedly pocketed a lot of the money from the oil sales instead of returning it to the government.
The amount of money involved is in billions of dollars, but no one exactly knows how much. The Iranian government fixed the amount at $2.7 billion for Zanjani and confiscated his assets in Iran, but apparently that covered only 20 percent of the debt.
President Hassan Rouhani’s Oil Ministry has accused Zanjani of receiving “one million barrels” of oil from Iran’s National Oil Company (NIOC) for more than $3 billion, but only payed back $190 million, pocketing the rest.
Zanjani’s debt was earlier estimated roughly at $1.8 billion. Nevertheless, Iran Oil Ministry officials have demanded a compensation for “damages”, as well.
Oil Minister, Bijan Namdar Zangeneh said in July, “Zanjani’s total debt, including its interests, amounts to $3.5 billion.”
Given Zanjani’s high-level connections and the involvement of the IRGC, many Iranians believe there is more to this case that meets the eye. Who else in the upper echelons of Iran’s leadership benefited from the sanction-busting schemes? Will Zanjani ever be hanged if he has compromising information on powerful people?
The Islamic Republic’s prosecutor-general insisted in July that Zanjani will “definitely” be hanged. But these kinds of statements should be seen in their political context.
Iran has been rocked by serious protests since last December and one major grievance of protesters has been corruption. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has repeatedly called for punishing speculators and those who harm the economy by illegal activities.
Dozens of forex traders have been arrested and two were hanged in October; but no one from the powerful state or military elite, despite widespread belief that state officials and institutions are mired in corruption.
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Heat, cold, and being old
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Revivalism in America
Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software
Our changing Constitution.
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Wealden District Council official guide.
Rag dolls shadow
Trigonometry for college students
Modern philosophies of education
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John Wesley, Christian citizen
Ships Through Time
Autotrophic Bacteria (Brock / Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience)
Hearings Relating to the Preservation of Government Archives.
Design products digest
Growing grapes in Washington
Distinctive properties of thorina and its salts
Illustrated catalogue of the art and literary property collected by the late Henry G. Marquand
A letter to the Earl of Shaftsbury this 9th of July, 1680
Laboratory Beneficiation of Disseminated Fluorspar Ores.
U.S. taxation of citizens working in other countries
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Portfolio of information resources for animal research
Impact of existing discriminatory citizenship laws on women and children in Nepal
Rebels against the British rule
Fill the house with cross-stitch
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Introduction to total quality
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Whos been eating MY porridge?
Report of the co-operative study of the Lincoln schools, 1945-1946
Way of the world
Economic framework of South Asian peace, security, and development
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life and works of Gustav Klimt.
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Hydrology and simulation of ground-water flow in southern Utah and Goshen valleys, Utah
Womens fastpitch softball--the path to the gold
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Tactical Communications In World War II, Part II
The Secret history of World War II
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Roland of Altenburg
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Everyone Crumbles Cook
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Productivity Study of the Canadian Airline Industry.
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said on Sep 28th, 2020
Three Sisters was probably the last vendor we hired, and I so regret them not being the first!! We initially found them and reached out for floral services through the third sister - Courtney, but all our contact was through Heather. After speaking with Heather, we decided to hire TSE for day-of coordination as well as floral. After my first video conversation with Heather, I just knew she would be a great addition to our wedding. She is so sweet and kind and has the perfect personality for wedding planning and coordination.
Let's start with the floral - WOW!!!! We did not have much budget for floral so we weren't expecting too much but the floral arrangements were so AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL!!! It was so much better than what we were even dreaming of. Our colors were cabernet/navy/and blush. Somehow they put together bouquets and arrangements that EXACTLY matched those niche colors and it was beautiful. Even my husband was in awe and you know it must be truly gorgeous if a guy can tell. As mentioned earlier, we didn't have much of a budget, so we prioritized personal bouquets/boutonnieres and ceremony décor, and told them we would love to have reception table floral, but only if it was in the left over in the budget and they made it work!! If you need a florist on a budget, look no further than TSE and Courtney Jones.
Day -of -coordination: I am so thankful to have had Heather on my team! She took care of everything the day of and worked flawlessly with the other vendors. I honestly didn't have to worry about a thing. Prior to the wedding, I had photographers and DJ and event director all making their own timelines for the event and it was so stressful! Heather arranged for me to speak with the second sister - Brittney - to assess what I wanted and then communicated to all the vendors on my behalf.
Later, pretty much the night before the wedding, the venue basically told us we couldn't have the dinner schedule we wanted unless we have reception seating for the ceremony, which we definitely didn't want. Heather and her team moved heaven and earth for us, first trying to convince the venue not to schedule us back so late, and then working tirelessly to get the tables set up ahead of time and the ceremony flipped in a shorter amount of time. So awesome!
And can I just talk about how great all the decor was! Heather brought in this beautiful chandelier to put over the sweetheart table beneath a pergola, which also proved quite functional too because we would have been in darkness without out it!! There were candles and lanterns and the welcome table set up received so many compliments from the guests!
THEN! After our honeymoon, we arrive at my parents house to open all our gifts and TSE left us a little gift as well! And if that weren't enough, when we arrived at our marital home, there was a sweet postcard there thanking us for hiring them to be part of our wedding. What an incredibly sweet touch.
Honestly, this team is amazing and good to the soul. I would recommend them to anyone.
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Hi, In our app we are using the System.TimeZone entity (rawoffset attribute) to create a time in the users timezone… All was working fine until Daylight Savings Times kicked in. It would appear that the timezone table remains static through (I’m sure with good reason) My question is, is there any function / method for doing this programatically? I don’t want to have to flag which countries have DST and check the dates to see if DST is active each time… For example: We’d like a cut off time of 4:30pm in the users timezone so we store that as a non localised value i.e. 2020-07-07 16:30:00 UTC So for the user we create a cut of date based on their timezone e.g. Spanish User not in DST date would be 2020-07-07 15:30:00 UTC (GMT +1) Spanish User in DST date would be 2020-07-07 14:30:00 UTC (GMT +2) The later is not happening as it doesn’t appear to take DST into account... Hope this makes sense? Help much appreciated
Your question gets a very practical answer in section 8:
I Really Need to Run Scheduled Events at 02:00 Local Time, Always! How Do I Do This?
Currently, you can work around this issue by scheduling 2 events that are running at 02:00 in both DST periods. In the Microflow you can check what DST you’re currently in and either execute the rest of the Microflow or not.
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2022-01-25T13:22:44Z
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I am going out on a limb with this post. It is not my nature to tackle controversial issues.
This comes in response to the recent news of a young man who was killed in his attempt to share the gospel on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean. I do not know all the details, first learning of the event in a fellow blogger’s post accompanied by a video of the island. In the video is the scene of the inhabitants on the beach of North Sentinel island which the reporter called “wildmen.” This video left in me a sad image and the thoughts that I write here.
How different is the majority of people in any land to this small band of isolated people?
How few welcome people they do not know?
How hostile are most people to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ?
People, in general, are ignorant of the good news of Jesus Christ and are antagonistic to those who want to share this good news.
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” Psalm 2:1-3
Psalm 1 describes two types of people, the righteous and the ungodly. In Psalm 2, the heathen are the ungodly, described in Psalm 1; and the righteous are those whose delight is in the law of the Lord, Psalm 1:2. Kings of the earth and rulers are described as heathen. There are Biblical references to men as beasts.
“So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.” Psalm 73:22
Where is True Civilization?
How different is the scene of those islanders and others who demonstrate in the streets of our nation in anger of whatever comes against them?
How different are they than we are when someone disagrees with us? Only the laws of our land and God’s power of mercy keep us from destroying each other.
Why do we lock our doors? We live in fear of strangers who may come and harm us or take what is ours.
History of the Sentinelese
There seems to be in the history of the Sentinelese a time when their people were kidnapped. There is the story that centuries ago some were taken to another country where the two oldest died, then the others were taken back to the island. Imagine their fear passed from generation to generation. Does this not give us some understanding of their behavior against outsiders?
We cannot condone this savagery, but we do well to learn from this event.
Only one person has ever brought the gospel to an antagonistic people, died in the process, and rose from the grave ~ and His death by His own people who did not accept His good news.
The church leadership needs to train God’s people. There are many para-church organizations – even churches – that are encouraging young people to consider missionary work. Many have the will and the zeal, but not the skill. Jesus trained and sent His disciples in companies of two.
The church used to be the catalyst, ordaining and training for the mission field. Taking the gospel to an illiterate people is a dangerous endeavor, it is a work that requires counseling and training, in addition to faith and prayer.
Please do not attack me for what I have written. I am not criticizing this young man, but believe he was doing what he thought he should do to share the good news. I am just sharing what I believe the Lord has put in my heart, and hopefully, give us things to consider when we think of sharing the gospel outside our own culture and time zone.
A Technological Thought
Another thought, which may seem a bit whimsical: We are not Christ. We either need bullet-proof vests or to pray and brainstorm some way to air-drop something to get and hold the attention of those we want to hear the gospel. Someone with the funds could build a robot that looks like the Islanders and program it to transcribe the gospel into their language.
I pray that this young man’s life is not a loss; that the Lord would show us what we need to reach the unreachable for His glory. What a joy it would be to see our modern technology used in such a way as this. Even this might be dangerous to their immune systems ~ win them to Christ and wipe them out?
Gracious Father, we thank you for sending your Son and for your Holy Spirit who reveals Him to us as our Lord and Savior. We ask you to show your church how to counsel and train those whom you call to the mission field. We ask that the Chau family know your comfort and peace and be drawn closer to you. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.
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Organizations need a coordinated cross-department strategy for managing policies and training programs across the enterprise. The goal is to develop a common framework and approach so that policies and training are understood and managed as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts.
Policies and training programs that are managed as dissociated documents, data, systems, and processes leave the organization with fragments of truth that fail to see the big picture of policy and training across the enterprise and how it supports the organization’s governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) responsibilities. The organization needs to have holistic visibility and situational awareness into policy and training across the enterprise. Complexity of business and intricacy and interconnectedness of policies and obligations requires that the organization implement a policy and training management strategy.
Contrasting Policy & Training Management Approaches
The primary directive of a mature policy and training management program is to deliver effectiveness, efficiency, and agility to the business in managing the breadth of GRC. This requires a strategy that connects the enterprise, business units, processes, transactions, and information to enable transparency, discipline, and control of the ecosystem of policies and training needs across the extended enterprise.
Organizations have three policy & training management strategies to choose from:
- Anarchy – ad hoc department silos. This is when you have different departments doing different yet similar things with little to no collaboration between them. Distributed and siloed policy and training initiatives never see the big picture and fail to put policy and training in the context of the rest of the organization. The result: complexity, redundancy, and failure. The organization is not thinking big picture about how policy and training management processes can be designed to meet a range of needs. An ad hoc approach to policy and training management results in poor visibility into the organization’s obligations and values, as there is no framework for managing policies and training consistently. When the organization approaches policies and training in scattered silos that do not collaborate with each other, there is no possibility to be intelligent and align policies and training initiatives to achieve efficiency, effectiveness, and agility.
- Monarchy – one size fits all. If the anarchy approach does not work then the natural reaction is the complete opposite: centralize everything and get everyone to work from one platform and framework. However, this has its issues as well. Organizations run the risk of having one department be in charge of policy and training management that does not fully understand the breadth and scope of the needs across departments. The needs of one area may shadow the needs of others. From a technology point of view, it may force many parts of the organization into managing policies and training programs to the lowest common denominator.
- Federated – an integrated and collaborative approach. The federated approach is where most organizations will find the greatest balance between common policy and training management. It allows for some level of department/business function autonomy where needed but focuses on a common governance model and architecture that the various groups in policy and training management participate in. A federated approach increases the ability to connect, understand, analyze, and monitor interrelationships and underlying patterns of GRC as it allows different business functions to be focused on their areas while reporting into a common governance framework and architecture. Different functions participate in policy and training management with a focus on coordination and collaboration through a common core architecture that integrates and plays well with other systems.
A federated model for policy and training management provides a central coordination of the policy management lifecycle to ensure consistency in policies across the organization while there is ownership and management of non-enterprise-wide policies in distributed areas across the organization that align with the central governance. The Federated model is the ideal for large global organizations. It allows for policy and training management to be centrally coordinated, but allows for distributed management and oversight of the policies to address divisional, legal entity, business unit, and regional needs. These entities must adhere to all mandated enterprise-wide policies and will often design their own procedures in a way that makes the policy fit their operations and supports their compliance with the policy. They may create their own policies and procedures relating to their specific operations, which may be imposed based on federal, state, or local laws. These policies and procedures must be written so that they do not conflict with the overall mission and values of the organization. A federated model often has layers of policy governance in which a policy steering committee is established centrally to define the policy process and templates, while “entity” policy committees oversee the governance of policies within their respective areas.
Policy & Training Management Strategic Plan
Designing a federated policy and training management program starts with defining the strategy. The strategy connects key business functions with a common policy and training governance framework. The strategic plan is the foundation that enables policy and training transparency, discipline, and control across the ecosystem of the enterprise.
The core elements of the policy and training strategic plan include:
- Policy & training governance team. Effective policy management and communication requires policy governance and oversight. The first piece of the strategic plan is building the cross-organization policy and training governance team (e.g., committee, group). This team needs to work with policy owners to ensure a collaborative and efficient oversight process is in place. The goal of this group is to take the varying parts of the organization that have vested in policy and training management and get them collaborating and working together on a regular basis. Various roles involved in the policy and training governance team are: compliance, ethics, legal, human resources, finance, information technology, security, audit, quality, health & safety, and business operations. One of the first items to determine is who chairs and leads the policy and training governance team. This committee provides the structure and connective tissue to coordinate and drive consistent policy management. Its team members represent the best interests and expertise of the different parts of the organization. They leverage the knowledge, charter and authority of the committee to benefit their business areas and the whole organization. A large distributed organization may have layers of policy and training committees for different geographies or business units. If a layered approach is in place, the organization still needs a central policy and training governance committee that the rest roll-up to, to enforce consistency and structure.
- Policy and training management charter. With the initial collaboration and interaction of the policy and training management team in place, the next step in the strategic plan is to formalize this with a policy and training management charter. The charter defines the key elements of the policy and training management strategy and gives it executive and board authorization. The charter will contain the mission and vision statement of policy and training management, the members of the policy and training governance team, and define the overall goals, objectives, resources, and expectations of enterprise policy and training management. The key goal of the charter is to establish alignment of policy and training management to business objectives, performance, and strategy. The charter also should detail board oversight responsibilities and reporting on policy and training management. The charter should specifically address:
- An organized policy & training management committee to govern the oversight and guidance of policies, and ensure policy collaboration across the enterprise.
- An individual assigned to the role of policy & training manager to assure accountability to the standards, style, and process defined by the policy management committee. The policy manager does not write policy, but is the champion of the policy management process; for ensuring the creation and revision of policies conforms to the policy management lifecycle defined by the organization.
- The authorization and allocation of resources for program management architecture, policy review cycles, executive “tone from the top” on policy governance, extending policy governance to mergers and acquisitions, compliance monitoring and assurance activities, and management reporting and dashboards.
- Policy management policy (e.g., MetaPolicy, Policy on Policies). The next critical item to establish in the policy and training management strategic plan is the writing and approval of the organization’s MetaPolicy (or policies on writing policies). This sets the policy management structure in place. The policy should require that an inventory of all policies be maintained with appropriate detail and approvals. The MetaPolicy is the foundation on which to build an effective policy and training management program. It defines the critical elements of the organization’s policy management program. The major components of an effective MetaPolicy are:
- Roles and responsibilities. Key organizational roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities for policy governance and lifecycle and specifically the scope of governance and influence of the meta-policy itself.
- Scope of MetaPolicy. Scope of what is and is not under remit/scope of the MetaPolicy (e.g., internal facing policies, client facing policies, policies of subsidiaries, and joint ventures).
- Definition of terms. Definitions of specifically— for a given organization—what a policy is as well as a procedure, standard, and guideline in addition to other applicable governance documents and resources.
- Format and structure guidance. Common structure and content of a policy with specific reference to what topics are required (e.g., purpose, scope, accountability, and policy statement) and what is optional (definitions of key terms/acronyms/abbreviations, authoritative sources/obligations, and cross-references to other documents) to establish a policy.
- Policy writing and layout. Writing style for policies and other documents as well as the layout of policy documents. Also included by reference are policy template(s), which are absolutely critical for driving consistency across policies.
- Central repository and indexing of policies. Requirements for central repository as the system of record for policies and related governance documents. This repository must be accessible to all of the organization’s employees and contingent workers.
- Policy approval. Policy governance rules for approving policy creation/update/retirement, general requirements for exception approval, and definition of maintenance and review cycles with appropriate accountability of roles and responsibilities for policy development and maintenance.
- Policy assurance and compliance monitoring. Assurance methodologies to ensure that compliance with the MetaPolicy is in place, that exceptions to the MetaPolicy are documented and managed appropriately, and violations are identified and remediated.
- Style guide. Policy writing that is wordy and confusing damages the corporate image and costs time and money. Every organization should have a policy style guide in place to provide clear and consistent policy. This establishes the language, grammar, and format guidance to writing policies. It expresses how to use active over passive voice, avoid complicated language and “legalese”, how to write for impact and clarity, use common terms, how to approach gender in writing, and even internationalization considerations.
- Templates. These are standard templates that the organization can utilize to write policies and supporting documents/resources that are already in the standard format and structure conforming to the MetaPolicy.
- Exception/exemption request. Provides a standard template for documenting an exception/exemption request to a policy or procedure and how to seek approval for the request.
This post is an excerpt from GRC 20/20’s latest Strategy Perspective research: Policy Management by Design: a Blueprint for Enterprise Policy & Training Management
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- Benchmarking Your Policy Management Program
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- RegEd CODE™: Enabling an Integrated Compliance Lifecycle
- NAVEX Global’s Agile Code of Conduct
- MetaCompliance: Effectively Managing & Communicating Policies
- HITEC’S PolicyHub: Streamlining Policy Management
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Supervisors voted Monday for Orange County to spend $70.5 million on permanent housing for the homeless, and to create temporary homeless camps in Irvine, and possibly in Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel.
The vote comes a week after supervisors committed $20 million toward permanent housing for the homeless. The combined $90 million is likely the single largest appropriation ever committed by the county to fight homelessness, and signals a shift in the county’s strategy to solve the growing issue.
The decision came as supervisors admitted that they’ve failed to spend money that’s been available for homeless housing – tens of millions of dollars technically earmarked for mental health funding. Supervisors said they’d been misled by county staff as to what resources were available, though news reports for at least two years have pointed to the availability of up to $186 million.
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For homeless advocates, the vote was a welcome surprise.
“It’s really great to see the county finally… take steps to ending the housing crisis in Orange County,” said Brooke Weitzman, an attorney who this year sued the county on behalf of the homeless.
Monday’s vote emerged from negotiations in that ongoing lawsuit, which targeted the county’s efforts to dismantle the homeless encampments along the Santa Ana River Trail. As part of an agreement in that case, the county in February moved nearly 700 people to local motels for 30-day stays.
But as motel vouchers began to expire on Friday, and the county prepared to move people to other temporary shelters, attorneys for the homeless alleged there isn’t enough capacity to shelter all of those who were being moved. Lawyers asked U.S. District Judge David O. Carter – who is presiding in the lawsuit – to intervene.
On Saturday, Carter convened a summit on the issue, bringing together county officials, homeless advocates and others. And on Monday afternoon he chastised county supervisors for failing to spend the mental-health funds they had on hand, pressing them to expand capacity at local shelters. The county board reconvened shortly afterward to approve its new efforts.
The new projects will include an attempt to house up to 200 homeless people living in the Santa Ana Civic Center’s Plaza of the Flags – a population unmentioned in the initial civil rights complaint.
Supervisors acknowledged that the new homeless camps – which board members said could be tents or other temporary shelters placed on county-owned land – could be unpopular with city officials and residents.
The three camps mentioned by supervisors could be located: on 100 acres of county-owned land just south of the Great Park in Irvine, along Marine Way; at 18131 Gothard St. in Huntington Beach, and on 22-acres of vacant county land near Laguna Niguel City Hall.
“We have to go with (land) we have,” said Supervisor Shawn Nelson, who last year proposed opening temporary homeless shelters at the Irvine and Huntington Beach locations but couldn’t get other supervisors to agree.
County officials have insisted in recent months that they have enough vacant beds in shelters and healthcare facilities to house all the homeless leaving the riverbed. But Nelson said Monday that many people leaving motels probably won’t accept beds where the county has openings, and that the county will need to create new options to keep people off the streets.
If the county’s stock of temporary shelter beds is filled, the next 200 people would be located to temporary shelters on the Irvine property. If that is filled, the next 100 people would go to Huntington Beach, and the next 100 people would go to Laguna Niguel. Nelson said he expects some homeless people to move to the Irvine land but doesn’t believe other properties will be used.
In response to the county’s action, Irvine Mayor Don Wagner called an emergency city council meeting for Tuesday to consider its options, including the possibility of litigation. He said city officials were unaware of the county board’s plan until the vote.
“I’m very disappointed by the county’s effort to shift a problem to Irvine that it had in Anaheim in the riverbed,” Wagner said.
Orange County’s 2017 homeless count found 199 unsheltered homeless people lived in Irvine, the third highest total of any city in the county.
Board Chairman Andrew Do said the county would work to be “good neighbors” to the cities and operate the facilities much in the way they run Bridges at Kraemer Place in Anaheim, a shelter where people need a referral for admission. But Supervisor Todd Spitzer, who voted against the new temporary homeless shelters, noted that it could be more difficult to stop comings and goings on open land than it is at Bridges, which is a closed facility.
Supervisor Lisa Bartlett said she has “grave concerns” about the Laguna Niguel location, noting the proximity to a library and a preschool where “kids are coming and going all day.”
In response, Nelson alleged that other portions of the county had skirted their responsibility to address homelessness, in part by pushing people into Santa Ana.
The board’s decision to commit $70.5 million for permanent housing is part of a larger regional trend in which government officials are considering longer-term housing options to address a spike in homelessness that has roiled Southern California.
In February, cities across Orange County supported an effort to double the capacity of permanent housing for homeless people by adding an additional 2,700 units. A 2017 UC Irvine study found that county taxpayers could save $42 million annually in health care, law enforcement and other expenses by adopting a housing-first model to get chronically homeless people off the streets.
Judge Carter has in recent weeks accused county officials of hoarding funds that could be spent to help homeless people – allegations which county staff members denied.
Yet on Monday, county supervisors admitted otherwise, acknowledging that they had “hundreds of millions” of unspent mental-health funding that they stockpiled in recent years as homelessness ballooned. The admission came within weeks of a Feb. 27 state audit that found many counties in California had unspent mental-health funds, and that Orange County was stashing the second most in the state. County supervisors on March 13 ordered an audit of that money to determine why it had gone unspent.
In all, officials said the county has $184 million in unspent, available Mental Health Services Act funds from last year, and another $193 million in funding coming in this fiscal year. Of that amount, Nelson estimated $140 million could be spent on housing for the homeless.
Do said he had met with the county’s Heath Care Agency staff at least six times to ask what funding was available and that county staff members had misled him through “willful negligence” if not intentional misrepresentation. Spitzer agreed, holding up a 2015 document about potential funding sources to help the homeless, which made no mention of the mental-health funds.
“Three years ago we could have addressed this problem and created beds with the hundreds of millions of dollars we didn’t know anything about,” Spitzer said.
Officials with the Health Care Agency have pointed to upgrades in mental health services and said some of the supposedly unspent money is planned for future projects.
News reports from recent years have repeatedly drawn attention to the unspent money. The investigative news agency, Voice of OC, first reported in 2015 that the county had a $119 million surplus of Mental Health Services Act funds. The Orange County Register reported on the issue in June 2017 and Jan. 2018. And Voice of OC wrote another story about the money on March 3.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect the correct location of the proposed temporary homeless shelter in Huntington Beach. It is planned for 18131 Gothard St.
Staff Writer Theresa Walker contributed to this report
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22 Oct HOW TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN DIGESTIVE HEALTH
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE GOOD GUT HEALTH?
You know you have good gut health if you don’t regularly experience unpleasant digestive issues such as bloating, flatulence, irregularity, stomach pain, diarrhea and constipation. People in our society are beginning to think that “bloating” is normal. It’s not! If you have healthy gut flora you should only experience bloating once in a while or never at all!
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU HAVE BAD GUT HEALTH?
Often times people do not know they have bad gut health, or bacterial overgrowth. They accept their symptoms as “normal”, and something they have to live with. Most people think stomach bloating is normal. It is not normal. The problem is that so many people in our society have poor gut flora and bacterial overgrowth that many people think this is normal. My clients that have healthy gut flora very rarely experience these symptoms regardless of what and how much they eat. Many people can’t imagine what it’s like to go through life not constantly concerned about their stomach and bathroom habits.
WHAT CAN NEGATIVELY AFFECT GUT HEALTH?
Dr. Mark Pimentel is the doctor that first discovered SIBO and bacterial overgrowth as the cause for “IBS” or irritable bowel syndrome. He believes the main cause of SIBO is from a bout of food poisoning. Other causes can be from excessive use of antibiotics, scar tissue from a past surgery, and food sensitivity.
An unhealthy diet that’s high in processed carbohydrates, sugar alcohols, and corn syrup can negatively effect gut health. Other things that can cause poor digestion are abnormal sleep habits, inadequate sleep, frequent travel, inactivity, overeating, disordered eating, scar tissue in the abdominal area, overuse of antibiotics, stress, and eating to close to sleeping.
HOW TO KEEP THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEALTHY AND FUNCTIONING PROPERLY?
To maintain healthy digestion, be very careful with food safety to avoid food poisoning, only use antibiotics when they are truly necessary, exercise regularly, maintain healthy sleeping patterns, eat slowly and mindfully, and follow a well balanced diet that includes a variety of foods.
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Welcome to the BYTE, where we serve up the latest home and tech news from the last week for you to sink your teeth into.
This week we’re taking a BYTE out of two very different generations, a new way to buy homes, building to rent, AI for safety, and the impact of rising lumber costs. Dig in!
Forget About Millennials
Baby boomers are the second biggest home buying population and according to the National Association of Realtors, they are now more likely to buy homes that can accommodate their aging parents, as well as their adult kids. They are also the most likely to obtain a conventional mortgage loan and are not very likely to move to another region.
For the just barely starting to be home buyers of Generation Z, they are more likely to be looking for fixer-uppers, smaller homes, and will be less likely to stretch their budget to get into a more expensive home. They grew up in the age of YouTube, HGTV, and a plethora of DIY videos, so they won’t be afraid to buy a place that they have to put some work into. That being said, they are going to be expecting the very best technology in the homes they do end up buying.
A Game Changer
Last week at the NAREE event in Las Vegas, HomLuv.com was launched as a whole new way to search for and buy new homes. HomLuv uses a Pinterest style search that allows buyers to scroll through photos of each room and luv or not luv photos. The site’s Artificial Intelligence then takes those luved images and matches buyers with builders that fit their specific style, price, and location preferences. With this site buyers can actually find out which builder is building their perfect home, without having to click all around the internet.
Single-family rental (SFR) companies are starting to work with home builders to build up the next rounds of rental homes. SFR companies are having a harder time finding homes to buy, flip, and turn into rentals, so now some are starting to have builders create homes, and even entire communities, that are actually “built-to-rent”.
A general contractor out of Boston has started to build an AI system that will monitor construction sites. The system will look for safety hazards across the site, such as workers not wearing proper protective equipment. The system can then warn of dangerous areas and hopefully stop accidents, or last least get people out of the way, before they happen.
Rising lumber prices are continuing to have an effect on the homebuilding industry. Builder confidence is down two points because of these prices. Canadian softwood lumber has effectively a 20% tariff, which has caused the price of the typical new home to increase about $9,000. Fingers crossed that there will start to be some relief on these prices.
If you’re following the World Cup you may have heard the defending champion was upset in their first game to Mexico. You could say Mexico was excited. When the winning goal went it the whole country basically jumped at the same time and caused a minor earthquake…
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Broadway is already one of the busiest retail corridors in Los Angeles. One of the ways in which streetcar promoters annoy me somewhat is with the slogans they use. The Los Angeles streetcar people have chosen the slogan “Bringing Back Broadway”.
I get it, I really do, and while I don’t love streetcars the way everybody else does, I don’t hate the idea (this is different from me saying “I’m a downtown resident who thinks this needs to happen right now right now right now so David Byrne will approve of my block now that he’s a celebrity expert on urbanism” btw). There is a lot of potential in getting the theaters opened and renovated again, and there is a lot of underused capacity on the top floors. It’s a nice enough plan as far as expensive amenities go.
There is also a lot already here in my neighborhood, and it bugs me the way that people frame what is already there.
For example, when I was discussing how there are a lot of shops with affordable retail in them already on Broadway, one of the streetcar advocates rolled his eyes and said “But some of those tchotchke shops have GOT to go.”
Oh, I see. Little make-up, sunglasses, and costume jewelry stores patronized by Mexican women sell mere trinkets, whereas shops that sell white women more costly crap they don’t need are “valuable, job-creating retail opportunities.” Good to know.
Then when he was telling me about how LA needs a downtown streetcar as circulator because all of the people in financial district need it so they can go to lunch in different parts of downtown. I said “We have a nice shuttle bus system in the DASH already. It’s not a streetcar, but they do a good job of getting people around….”
When I mentioned the DASH, he started shaking his head “Oh, that’s too complicated. People just can’t understand it the way they do a streetcar.”
Ok, so what you are telling me is that people who work in the finance industry can’t figure out a bus route?
If true, that would actually explain a lot.
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You are watching: How much does a liter of blood weigh
The lot of blood in the person body is usually equivalent to 7 percent of human body weight. The mean amount that blood in her body is one estimate since it have the right to depend on how much you weigh, your sex, and also even whereby you live.Babies: Babies born full-term have about 75 milliliters (mL) of blood every kilogram of their body weight. If a infant weighs around 8 pounds, they’ll have about 270 mL that blood in their body, or 0.07 gallons. Children: The mean 80-pound kid will have around 2,650 mL of blood in your body, or 0.7 gallons. Adults: The mean adult weighing 150 come 180 pounds have to have around 1.2 to 1.5 gallons that blood in your body. This is about 4,500 come 5,700 mL. Pregnant women: To assistance their farming babies, pregnant women generally have all over from 30 come 50 percent more blood volume than women who are not pregnant. This is around 0.3 come 0.4 extr gallons the blood.
Sometimes the quantity of blood in the person body can differ based on where friend live. Because that example, people who live in ~ high altitudes have much more blood because there isn’t as much oxygen at higher altitudes.
If you lose too much blood, your mind doesn’t get sufficient oxygen to support life. Civilization who experience significant injury and also trauma, such together a vehicle accident, may shed blood really quickly. Shedding an too much amount the blood is well-known as hemorrhagic shock. Physicians categorize hemorrhagic shock into four classes based on how much blood is lost. In course IV, the lot of blood loss deserve to be fatal.
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|blood lose (% that blood volume)||up to 15||15 come 30||30 come 40||greater than 40|
|pulse price (per minute)||less than 100||100 come 120||120 to 140||greater than 140|
|blood pressure||normal or increased||decreased||decreased||decreased|
|respiratory rate (per minute)||14 come 20||20 to 30||30 come 40||greater 보다 35|
|urine calculation (mL every hour)||greater 보다 30||20 to 30||5 to 15||negligible|
|mental status||slightly anxious||mildly anxious||anxious, confused||confused, lethargic|
Your blood pressure and heart price will remain close to regular as you lose up to 30 percent of your blood, or as much as 1,500 mL that blood (0.4 gallons). After losing this amount of blood, friend will experience the following:You’ll begin to have a rapid heart rate greater than 120 beats per minute.Your blood pressure will drop.Your breathing price will walk up.
If you lose an ext than 40 percent of her blood, you will certainly die. This is about 2,000 mL, or 0.53 gallons the blood in the typical adult.
It’s crucial to obtain to a hospital to start receiving blood transfusions to prevent this.
Learn more: just how long go a blood transfusion last? »
Your physician won’t usually directly measure the amount of blood that you have due to the fact that they deserve to estimate it based upon other factors and tests. For example, a blood test well-known as a hemoglobin and hematocrit test can estimate exactly how much blood is in your body compared with the amount of fluid in your body. Then, your physician can consider your weight and also how hydrated you most likely are. Every one of these factors can indirect measure how much blood volume you have.
If you suffer a significant trauma that reasons blood loss, physicians will commonly use your weight as the starting point come guess exactly how much blood friend have. They will certainly then use factors like her heart rate, blood pressure, and also breathing price to estimate just how much blood may have been lost. They’ll also shot to store track that any additional blood loss therefore they can quickly replace it through a blood transfusion.
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Medically reviewed by Debra Sullivan, Ph.D., MSN, R.N., CNE, COI — created by Rachel Nall, MSN, CRNA — update on July 18, 2017
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People run following an explosion at the airport in Aden, Yemen, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed Cabinet landed on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. No one on board the government plane was hurt but initial reports said several people at the airport were killed. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
For over five years, Yemenis have endured a civil war which has already killed nearly a quarter-million people. Roughly half of those who perished died from war-induced malnutrition, disease and lack of basic services.
Intervening on one side, a Saudi-led and U.S.-supported coalition has used overwhelming military force — including laser-guided bombs and other high-tech weapons supported by our tax dollars — to systematically devastate huge areas of Yemen that their rivals control.
The U.S. has supplied combat ships that are vital to the naval and air blockade presently denying millions of people in Yemen essential food and medicine (90% of Yemen’s food supply is imported).
The U.S. has also directly carried out bombing raids against those it labels “terrorists.” Recently, Congress failed to stop the Trump administration from selling F-35s like those the Air Force wants to station at Truax to the United Arab Emirates, one of the countries bombing Yemen.
As was predicted, famine is now widespread. Two-thirds of Yemenis are hungry and many tens of thousands, especially children, are truly bloated-belly-and-stick-limbs starving. Moderate to severe malnutrition afflicts a quarter of the population, including more than 2 million children.
And now COVID-19 has joined cholera and diphtheria in exponentially compounding their misery.
This morning, Democracy Now had a hard-hitting report on the U.S.-Saudi war in Yemen. They combined highlights of the PBS Newshour series with an interview with Jane Ferguson, the PBS Newshour journalist who “smuggled” herself into Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen to report on conditions there.
You can watch [and share] the Democracy Now segment here:
PBS Report from Yemen: As Millions Face Starvation, American-Made Bombs Are Killing Civilians
What’s crucial about the Democracy Now report, compared to most other [far too infrequent] reports in the U.S. media, is that it squarely places responsibility for the war on the government of the United States, and highlights the need for political action in the U.S. to end the war now. The report makes clear that the war is perceived correctly in Yemen as a U.S. war, that the war would not be possible without the participation of the United States, and that the U.S. government can end the war anytime it wants, by cutting off U.S. participation and by pressuring its “allies” Saudi Arabia and the UAE to end the war and agree to a political resolution. The report also makes clear that if the war is not ended this year, millions more human beings will be pushed to the brink of starvation.
This last fact, what will happen to civilians in Yemen if the war doesn’t end this year, is crucial. There’s a lack of urgency in Washington right now about pressing for action to end the war, even though the fate of millions of human beings hangs in the balance. There are many causes for this lack of urgency, but one key cause is the political season in Washington. With mid-term elections approaching in four months, the foremost concern for many people in Washington about any issue now is: how will this issue affect mobilization for our team in the mid-term elections? If it’s not obvious how raising an issue would help the Democratic team or the Republican team mobilize for the mid-term elections, it’s hard to generate interest for it in Washington right now.
But millions of human beings in Yemen can’t wait until after the mid-term elections for action to end the war. They need action to end the war now.
Maybe the report by Democracy Now, which is watched by peace activists across the country, can help shake Washington from its complacency.
The Young/Shaheen measure would allow continued US participation in Saudi war crimes. Support the Sanders/Lee/Murphy bill instead.
People carry water tanks at the site of a Saudi-led air strike, north of Yemen’s capital Sanaa, March 8, 2018. (Reuters / Mohamed al-Sayaghi)
Sometimes the most important stories about what our government is doing don’t get a lot of media attention. That’s the case now, when the Senate is about to hold a historic vote that could decide whether millions of people live or die in the near future. The US military is directly participating in a war that has pushed those millions to the brink of starvation and caused the worst cholera outbreak in modern history.
The war is in Yemen, and Saudi Arabia is leading the bombing and blockade that is denying people medicine and food as well as the fuel and infrastructure they need to pump clean water. The deprivation and destruction led to the cholera epidemic, which has sickened a million people and killed thousands. American military planes are not only providing midair refueling to the Saudi bombers but helping them with intelligence and targeting.
This constitutes military involvement under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, as well as Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, neither of which allows the executive branch to engage in such hostilities without the authorization of Congress. Any doubts about the constitutionality of US participation in the Saudi attempt to “starve Yemen into submission,” as a November New York Times editorial-board headline described it, were put to rest by a vote in the House of Representatives in November. The House voted 366 to 30 for a resolution that declared US military involvement to be unauthorized.
It is therefore illegal under US law. On February 28, Democratic Senators Bernie Sanders and Chris Murphy and Republican Senator Mike Lee introduced a bill to put an end to this illegal war. Under the War Powers Resolution, the Senate majority leaders cannot block a debate and vote on this legislation. And a number of experts believe it could pass; for one thing, the last vote in the Senate on arms sales to Saudi Arabia, in June, passed by a margin of only 53-47.
But the Saudis have a powerful lobby: They spent $16 million last year on lobbying and public relations that was recorded under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. This does not include other spending, such as contributions to think tanks (and that of their allies such as the United Arab Emirates). And along with the Saudis are the big military contractors that profit from these weapons sales.
While there is so much going on in this country and so much upheaval continues to swirl around our planet, many millions of Americans find themselves in a rush to get away from all things political long enough to find even a few moments of distraction. We all deserve and need that from time to time.
Still, I find it very difficult to distract myself from the reality of 7 million people in Yemen at risk of famine and another 900,000 facing life-threatening diseases such as cholera. Yes, that’s right. Cholera. In 2017. But the Trumpublican standard bearer in the White House and his self-proclaimed “family-values defenders” in Congress could do something, but have done almost nothing to address this human-made catastrophe.
The White House should intervene
A Yemeni woman takes the clothes off her malnourished child. (Yahya Arhab/Epa-Efe/Rex/Shutterstock)
Editorial Board, Washington Post, November 20, 2017
IT HAS been two weeks since Saudi Arabia imposed a land, sea and air blockade on Yemen, a country already devastated by two and a half years of Saudi bombing. Before the embargo, Yemen was suffering from the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations, with 7 million people on the brink of famine and another 900,000 stricken by cholera. Those conditions have now grown far worse — and yet the Saudis persist with their siege. It is time for the Trump administration, which has indulged the Saudi leadership for too long, to intervene.
Yemen’s 28 million people depend on imports for up to 90 percent of their basic needs, including food, fuel and medicine. The vast majority of those imports come through the port of Hodeida, in northern Yemen, which along with the capital, Sanaa, is under the control of Houthi rebels. Saudi Arabia imposed the blockade after a missile allegedly fired by the Houthis came close to its capital, Riyadh. The Saudis blamed Iran for supplying the weapon, though U.N. monitors in Yemen say they have not seen convincing evidence of that.
U.N. humanitarian officials warned that the shutdown would quickly lead to an emergency. Now their predictions are coming true. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Sanaa, Hodeida and three other crowded cities — with 2.5 million people in all — have lost access to clean drinking water because of a lack of fuel. One million children are at risk from an incipient diphtheria epidemic because vaccines are out of reach on U.N. ships offshore. According to Rasha Muhrez, Save the Children’s director of operations in Yemen, several governates are down to a five-day supply of the fuel needed to operate flour mills, without which the millions dependent on food handouts will starve. “This blockage has cut off the lifeline of Yemen,” Ms. Muhrez told us.
Last week the Saudis began allowing limited humanitarian imports through the southern port of Aden, which is controlled by their Yemeni allies. But that is not adequate access. That’s why three U.N. agencies — the World Health Organization, the World Food Program and UNICEF — issued a joint statement last Thursday saying that the continued shutdown of other ports and airports “is making an already catastrophic situation far worse.” A confidential report by U.N. monitors, seen by Reuters, went further, saying the Saudis were violating a 2015 U.N. Security Council resolution on Yemen by obstructing humanitarian assistance.
The Trump administration, through the State Department, has objected to the ongoing blockade and called for “unimpeded access” for humanitarian supplies. But many in Yemen suspect, with some reason, that the White House is tolerating, if not encouraging, the crime. Shortly before the siege was announced, Jared Kushner paid a visit to Saudi Arabia and reportedly met late into the evening with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince. Even if it was unaware of the subsequent crackdown, the White House has the leverage to put a stop to it. It should act immediately, or it will be complicit in a crime against humanity.
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Ford Focus ST
The third generation of the Ford Focus brought drivers a great economy compact car. But, when Ford introduced the ST model in 2012, buyers got an almost perfect hot hatch. And under the hood was a 2.0-liter four cylinder with turbocharger and 252 HP.
They perfectly tuned the rest of the car, too. So, it represented a fantastic balance between performance and everyday usability.
The perfect example of an overpowered and brutal front wheel hot hatch is the legendary Mazdaspeed 3. They introduced it in 2007, and it was powered by a 2.3-liter four cylinder delivering 263 HP. And that was considered a crazy number of horsepower to send to the front wheels.
However, despite severe torque steer, the Mazdaspeed 3 was a capable and rapid car. It even brought many customers back to the dealerships. Also, it reintroduced Mazda as one of the prime affordable performance brands on the U.S. market at that time.
These 20 hot hatches prove you can have power, good looks and affordability, too. Did you find your favorite on this list? Indeed, the car world has embraced the hot hatch and is waiting for the next generation to arrive at car dealerships everywhere.
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A catch-all mailbox is one that collects all the emails sent to invalid addresses. For instance, if your email address is email@example.com, but someone miswrites it and sends a message to firstname.lastname@example.org, it will still be received in the catch-all mailbox that you have set up. Just one single mailbox per domain can have this feature enabled and thus you will never miss messages because the other party has an out-of-date email address or has made a typo. The negative aspect of having a catch-all mailbox is that you may start receiving a lot of unsolicited bulk messages, but this problem can be rectified by using anti-spam protection software. It is also crucial to remember that a mailbox with an active catch-all feature cannot forward inbound messages to a third-party address.
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Save money when you purchase our compatible HP PhotoSmart C410b ink cartridges while maintaining the same name-brand quality you are used to. To ensure the best printing experience, we engineer our ink cartridges based on the specifications of your original HP cartridges. Purchase these discount ink cartridges for HP PhotoSmart C410b printers with confidence, as our products have been tested and are certified to produce professional quality prints. Our comprehensive testing and quality assurance process allow us to offer a full 1-Year warranty and 100% customer satisfaction guarantee on all products. As part of our commitment to our customers, we also offer lifetime customer support, thus providing you complete peace of mind.
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What’s It Like to Bid by Phone for Major Art Trophies at Auction? Three Bidders Tell All
It’s scary dealing with more money than you’ve ever handled in your life.
Everybody likes to joke that if you’re attending a big auction, you should be sure not to accidentally scratch your nose, or else you’ll wind up on the hook for a $50-million Picasso.
Of course, that’s not how it works. High-level auctions are choreographed spectacles in which the auctioneer knows who’s going to bid on the priciest items, where they’re sitting, and how high they’re willing to go.
What’s more, buyers and sellers guard their privacy, and most of the multimillion-dollar bids are placed anonymously. Seeing Larry Gagosian and Eli Broad slug it out on the sales floor is a rare treat.
One of the most important tools to protect buyers’ privacy is the humble telephone. Pretty much every record-setting price you’ve read about at an auction in recent years has come in via an auction house staffer, taking a bid from the buyer—or the buyer’s dealer. At Christie’s New York’s $745-million May 2014 blockbuster, specialist Xin Li was seen talking on three phones at once (see Meet Xin Li, Christie’s Secret Weapon for China Sales).
So what is it like to place bids by phone amid a welter of global buyers vying for trophies? We asked three people who have conveyed bids for third parties. One is a New York dealer who once worked as a consultant to a major auction house. One is a former junior specialist at a major London auction house who now lives in New York and works in the art business. The third is a writer in art world circles who was tapped to bid by phone on behalf of a collector (anyone can register to bid by phone; all you need is some form of consent by the collector and approval by the auction house. In most cases, a credit card is all you need). All of them spoke with artnet News on condition of anonymity so as not to alienate the auctioneers.
The dealer has attended major evening sales for a decade now, and once placed a bid as high as $28 million for a work that ultimately sold for a few million more than that.
It can be nerve-wracking, she said, and recalled once bidding via phone for a client from the client’s home, on speakerphone with the auction house specialist as bidding soared. The collector’s wife got increasingly anxious while her husband pounded the table, determined to win the prize. All the while, the speakerphone prevented them from hearing the specialist any time anyone in the room was making a sound.
“And he’s hard of hearing!” she added.
She’s bid on an amount north of $10 million roughly a half-dozen times.
Asked to describe that experience, she, in turn, asked a question. “Have you ever done any theater? Yes? Do you even remember being on stage? No? That’s what it’s like. During the process, you’re laser focused, but afterwards, you feel like, ‘What just happened?’”
One remarkable aspect of it all, she said, is the layers of intermediation. The person talking on the phone with a Sotheby’s specialist who’s standing in the sale room might be a dealer who, in turn, represents a buyer.
But you’d better be sure to have the right specialist conveying your bid, she said. You don’t want someone who will be too aggressive and get out ahead of you.
The people who are most visible at the sale rooms, she said, aren’t necessarily the ones buying, but are rather there for show.
“Lots of advisors and dealers want to be seen bidding from the sales floor, so they can get listed in [the industry newsletter] the Baer Faxt,” she said. In that email newsletter, advisor Josh Baer indicates who has bought a work and, sometimes more importantly, who tried for it but missed out. Knowing who failed to bag a Picasso can be useful to dealers; those who have a Picasso might then contact the underbidder to offer a consolation prize.
“The main reason you go is to parade-wave at other people so that they know you get tickets to these sales,” she said. “It signals to other people that you have a certain level of buying and selling power.”
But, again, many don’t want to be seen.
“As for me, I do not like for people to see me bidding at an evening sale,” said the dealer. “I don’t want people to know what my clients are buying. Other art dealers can be very aggressive in trying to poach your clients.”
Experts say that boxing is more about being punched than about punching, and far more people lose bids than win them.
“I’ve lost many more than I’ve won,” she said. “It’s amazing how disappointing it can be to lose an artwork, even when you’re not emotionally invested in it.”
Sometimes, the dealer’s role, when vying for an artwork for a client, is to be the damper.
“Collectors can get really emotional. They want, they want, they want, but bidding can start to get out of control, and at some point you have to tell your client, ‘You have to stop. You’re cut off.’ I’m proud to say I’ve never paid a stupid price for anything.”
“One reason I’m good at phone bidding is that I’m restrained because it’s not my money. When I’m bidding for myself I’m far more apt to do something stupid. When bidding for a client I am the voice of reason.”
Of course, restraint can lead to regret.
“I have a client who still talks about how she should have gone one more bid on the painting she wanted—and that sale was five or six years ago. She still tells me, ‘I should have pushed harder, like you said!’”
She’s even more lyrical about one particular triumph, though, in which she obtained an Abstract Expressionist canvas for her client at a price that, she said, would now look like a steal.
“It was a gift to be able to help him buy that work,” she said. “The painting is now matched with someone who looks at it every day. It’s incredibly rewarding professionally. It was the first time I ever bid above $10 million, and it makes him deliriously happy. As a young adult, he’d gone to the artist’s studio. Then 30-plus years later he was able to get a great work by the artist. It’s perfect.”
“You never know how fast the bids are going to go up,” said a New York writer who has placed bids twice. “It’s at the discretion of the auctioneer, depending on the pace of bids coming in. So the price might go up by more at a time than you expect. You’re not necessarily telling the bidder exactly what price they’re committing to (because the auctioneer can change the bid increment at will), but rather just saying, ‘Okay, I’ll bid again.’ Suddenly you’re spending $100,000 more than you expected with each bid. Pretty soon that gets into real money.”
The Junior Specialist
While the former junior specialist never bid on any record-setting items—that’s the purview of senior specialists and department heads—she bid on perhaps 25 items by phone over her four years. It’s a very stressful task, she said.
The highest bid she ever placed was about $80,000, for a Chinese buyer, but that didn’t secure the prize; the biggest winning bid she ever placed was about $65,000.
The house required all employees to be trained in phone bidding; because buyers come from around the globe, she was at times called on to help out in a particular auction because of her language skills, not her expertise.
Phone bidding, along with online bidding, has become such a large proportion of the business that at some auctions, there are so few people actually in the room that employees are tasked with filling seats on the sales floor to make it look as though the event is well-attended.
“When you’re going to convey phone bids for a client, you get assigned a particular client and the object they want to buy,” she said. “You don’t even necessarily know who the client is; you just know their client number. If you want to, you can use that to look them up and Google the person, but if you find it’s a major dealer, it’s just going to make you more nervous. They can be hardcore aggressive on behalf of their clients.”
“It’s better to get the actual buyer on the phone,” she said. “If it’s their assistant, you know they’re going to be really on edge because they will be stoned to death if they screw this up. I’m already acting as the middleman, and I’m nervous enough. Then you get another middleman on the other end of the line, and if they’re really nervous too, it’s a nightmare.”
You call your client perhaps 10 minutes before the desired lot comes up for sale.
“First of all, you pray that the phone connection works,” she said. “Sometimes it doesn’t, especially, for some reason, if you’re calling Russian or Chinese clients, and for them it’s the middle of the night. And you have to dial some 35-digit number to get through to them!
“Assuming you reach them, you introduce yourself, but you don’t ask their name since they don’t want even you to know,” she said. “It’s the first time you’ve heard the guy’s voice. You try not to sound nervous. First you ask them if they have a limit on what they want to spend. It’s best when they say no.”
Then starts the bidding on the item the bidder wants, and it gets complicated.
“The trick is to be ahead of the auctioneer and everyone else who is bidding,” the former specialist said. You have to know what increments the auctioneer will use in raising the price, she said, and keep the bidder apprised, while not letting the bidding outstrip what you’re telling him while you’re telling him.
“And if you want to get something several other people are bidding on, you have to scream and raise your hand to get the auctioneer’s attention,” she said.
Even competing for the relatively modest lots she bid on, she said, was bizarre.
“You work with insanely rich people for whom a bid in the tens of thousands of dollars might just be an afterthought, while your own salary is not top-notch. It’s scary dealing with more money than you’ve ever handled in your life.
“But,” she added, “all that scary stuff is also the sexy part. That’s how you get hooked.”
“Talking about it all makes me miss my old job.”
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A large South Korean conglomerate is entering the Bitcoin remittance market. Dongbu Group is partnering with Bitcoin remittance service provider Sentbe via its savings bank subsidiary. The move follows the legalization of “micro” Bitcoin remittances by the Korean government.
Korean Conglomerate Working with Bitcoin
Established in 1969, Dongbu Group is a large global conglomerate in South Korea. The group produces industry, chemical, shipping, insurance and financial products.
One of its many subsidiaries, founded in 1972, is Dongbu Savings Bank. The bank announced this week that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Bitcoin remittance company Sentbe. An official from the bank said:
We have been working on this business alliance to prepare for the fourth industrial revolution era under the traditional savings bank business.
South Korea-based Sentbe won a fintech award for its overseas remittance concept using Bitcoin in 2016. The service allows customers to send money to the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, and China. It allows users to save up to 95% of the fees charged by traditional banks, its website detailed. The recipient will receive money within 24 hours.
“This MOU is aimed at securing joint business opportunities by exploring new business models based on new technology and expertise of the WSBI overseas affiliate network,” the announcement detailed.
WSBI, the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute, represents the interests of 6,000 financial institutions in about 80 countries worldwide. Dongbu bank became the first Korean savings bank to register as a full member of WSBI in 2003. Through the association, the bank works with many financial institutions worldwide including Sweden’s Swedbank and Germany’s Fra-Spa. In Asia, it works with Philippine Postal Savings Bank, Indonesia National Housing Bank, Sri Lanka National Savings Bank, Thai Government Savings Bank, Malaysian Savings Bank, and Uzbek Savings Bank.
Bitcoin Remittances Legalized in July
This partnership follows the amended Foreign Exchange Transactions Act, which went into effect on July 18. A senior researcher at Hana Institute of Finance, Kang Mi-jung, commented at the time that “domestic banks need to find ways to provide remittance services for simple and inexpensive fees, and to establish new profit models through partnerships with fintech.”
The new law legalizes Bitcoin foreign exchange transfers for small sums. Fintech companies wanting to provide such services must register with the country’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), and meet certain financial requirements. A paid-in capital of over 2 billion won, roughly $1.77 million, and a debt-to-equity ratio of below 200%, are examples of such requirements. There is a limit of $3,000 for each transfer and an annual limit of $20,000.
In accordance with the amended act, Sentbe is in the process of being approved as a “micro-foreign remittance business,” the bank revealed, adding that it is preparing to expand the market of micro-foreign remittances.
What do you think of Dongbu Group entering the Bitcoin remittance market? Let us know in the comments section below.
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"A hu 'thout mod is like an intrusion app 'thout stealthware
-- bAdmod, in Operation Warrendown
In the little holograph bAdmod is posing with Joey 24di800+a, 23-991-Mica and Chipset Ize 40. The whole crew of the depot. They are all smiles, altho you can't see it, because bAdmod's got his-best full-face mod on, and Joey, Mica, and Ize are vecs. But underneath they are all beaming. At the time it was the proudest moment of bAdmod's life. At great personal risk, they had rendezvoused with an out-of-control freight hauler, boarded it, and stopped it from spinning away in a long elliptical orbit that could, if unchecked, fifty thousand years from now, lead it to collide with a populated habitat, resulting in serious loss of life and destruction of equipment.
It all seems so strange now. After all, who cares? Maybe there won't even be
any civilization left in 50,000 years. Or maybe they would have advanced methods of tracking and deflecting the hauler, maybe tractor beams to grab it, like on Star Cult - Beyond the Final Frontier
and those other adventure-fantasy virches.
Was it all in his conditioning?
bAdmod sighs, goes back to re-assembling his Ares Industries Predator. Graddi and Tucktucks
plays tinnily on his micro audio. A few insectoid bots crouch watching curiously from the wall and ceiling. The Predator is his favorite mod. Not that he would want to use it. But the thought that it is so illegal he had to morph the components and hide them among five different bags to get it through the gate checks makes it somehow incredibly exciting to own. It's from his hussling days on Ratchet Sector Avenue and the Projects; it was compensated with the rest of his gear when the bulls raided. Thank cosmos Karpaty Law didn't allow the state to claim it. All his goods were still there, all these years, waiting for him in stasis, once he left adjustment therapy.
Tissa the Pirate Queen accusing him of the prank they played on Ree the buttonhead girl. Every-one else siding with her.
Situation sux. He's been here one day and already he's in trouble. Yeah, well they don't want to mess with bAdmod when he has his combat mods on and powered. Even with paramorphine and nanopatch the side of his face still stings like shit where the squid zapped him.
At least Fast Zerrin's given him a big enough cabin so he can spread out all his mods and recharge them.
Dulx 59022 has been experiencing unusual affectivity far exceeding normal operating parameters. The hardrambot talks too much for Dulx 59022's liking. E asks too many questions. The questions seem to indicate flaws in Dulx 59022's logic trees, acknowledging the existence of which makes Dulx 59022 uncomfortable, forcing him to deactivate those subroutines, in order to maintian continued operating efficiency.
Rund 20473 is running a second optimisation of eir emoti-aut configuration. Dulx 59022 estimates that this will reduce Rund 20473 anxiety by perhaps two orders of magnitude.
Dulx 59022 decides not to hear any more of what this hardrambot is saying. E is not interested in the Briv-4 user logs for the periods from 2:03416:8014 to 2:03597:1660. E shuts off all eir external ports, puts the hardrambot on ignore.
Dulx 59022 hopes that the microbot will still be functioning when they reach Station Reo Tang. More, e hopes that there will be sufficient incriminating evidence on the hu. Otherwise e could be in real trouble with Supervisor Y245A9B1E. Even if erasure is just digital folklore.
Even this anxiety indicates e is exceeding normal operating parameters. Security aioids are not programmed to feel anxiety.
bAdmod frowns. Not one of his mods is even one third charged yet. No good. The power output in these rooms is crud. It'll take forever to charge up at this rate
Maybe Zerrin's deliberately keeping the current low. So bAdmod'll be defenseless when they come from him. No, he's still got the laser in his Boostaganga mod, it's got a separate capacitor. Man Xydal warned him he would suffer repeated paranoid episodes. A regrettably unavoidable side-effect of countermeming, especially given your present situation and our need for haste, necessitating a scattergun approach, which can only exacerbate your symptoms
. Thanks Xydal, remind me to drek with your head some day. Does Xydal even have a head? When he contacted bAdmod on RobRock it was as a blob of what looked like liquid metal on the wall. Fuck this. If they were coming for him they would have already. bAdmod returns the Predator to its cradle. The room is claustrophobic. His stomach is a tight knot of hunger. He doesn't want to access his emergency yumyum bars just yet. bAdmod slaps on and faces with his OmniSense, KnowledgeBase, SensoTouch, NetFace, Cybah Boi, Biorg, 5Skin, and Terminator mods. Status screens come up - barely - in his retinal display. They are all pretty low on power. Heavy, dragging. The rest of the mods he decides to leave in the room with a secure lock perimeter. Goliathmod won't even respond at all. Not that he blames it. He has to talk to Zerrin about it. He doesn't even bother with his Power Mace mod, carefully shuts and locks the door behind him, shuffles into the dining room.
Tissa is curled up on a a cumfy cushun playing with the onscreen. It jumps from one channel to another like the proverbial mad monkey of the buddha mythos. The Cumfy Cushin is caressing her genitals through her shorts. Ree the button girl is sitting against the far corner, neural interfaces withdrawn, scribbling or drawing something on a write-o-real pad with sharp angry strokes. Other than the usual swarms of insectoid, gnatbot, and diamondshell remotes, a large licker-cleaner creeping up a wall, and an autovac making its way across the floor, there's no-one else there.
Tissa glances at him, but before he can put on his best frown she's worrying the onscreen again. At least Ree looks at him.
He says to her "seen Zerrin?"
"No." She goes back to her scribbling.
Stomps over to the fridge. It doesn't open, even when he pulls at the handle with his Biorg mod. "Fucking cunt," he kicks it. "Piece of crud!"
"It won't open," Ree says, without looking over from her scribbling.
"Well I'm hungry!"
"Shoulda been out for breakfast then. Or dinner last night"
He stands in front of her. "Where's Zerrin???"
"Having it off with Nov most prob. If that's anatomically possible, which I doubt. Hey, do you mind not standing over me?"
"Fuck this scene," he says. But he backs off anyway. Settles on a cumfy cushin. Looks at her. She's lost interest in him already. He glowers at Tissa.
She ignores him too. Fucking about with the onscreen. While the cushin has all the luck.
Fucking anime bitch. Only bimbos get themselves bodysculpted to look like manga girls.
But she turns him on anyway. He always had a thing for these slim curvy erotomoph types. Pity he's not more of a sociopath. Like the Ugly Crusier
on The Ugly Crusier Virch
. Then he could take what he wants, and not feel any qualms. He'd just power up all his mods, and if anyone fucks with them he's use the Ares Predator weapons set (integrated microflechette, mandel slug, laser, maser, ionic, and plasma stream) to blow them away. He should've asked Man Xydel to get rid of his morality. Fuck, how can she just sit there
with that fucking pillow rubbing like that against her fanny? Cosmos, what he wouldn't give to stick his cock in. That Zerrin, always was a lucky sib, always had a way with the honeys, never went without. She suddenly looks at him, onscreen momentarily forgotten. "Lunch'll be ready in about two hours, if you wanna wait. What happened to your face?"
"What?" He touches his cheek self-consciously. Hurts like hell, especially when he touches it, like a needle drilling a hole through the side of his face. Instinctively sets his SensoTouch glove mod to micromassage.
"Yeah there." She leans forward, tilts her head. "Can't see."
"What?" he says.
Ree chips in. "Take your hand away."
He drops his modded hand to his lap. With the micromassage gone the throb comes back.
Without getting up, Tissa stares at his face with those enormous eyes. "Someone drilled an oh point seven five millimeter hole through the side of your face, Killer."
"What?" He moves his hand again to cover his face. Fuck that squid. He thought it looked like a nasty little hole in the mirror.
Ree gets up and comes over, leans forward. "Take your hand away for cosmos sake!
" Peers at his face. He looks at hers. She really is quite pretty, at least if she wasn't so skinny.
"Can you see it?" Tissa asks.
"Yeah." Her breath is fragrant and pongy at the same time. A single long strand of her hair brushes his face as she moves to look from another angle. "It goes in here, comes out here." She squints. "Looks like a laser that hit at a shallow angle." Looks at him, concerned. "Doesn't it hurt
bAdmod pretends to be the tough silent type.
"It's an oh point seven five," Tissa says.
Ree asks him "you didn't have a run in with Dah Skwid?"
He stares at her. "Who?"
Tissa laughs. "That's what we call em. Dah Skwid."
"Oh. The squid. Yeah. The prick."
"Thought so," Ree announces. "It's a laser hole. I once got my hand drilled accidentally when I was trying to fine-tune the vircher. Hurt like fuck. Looked just like that. You okay?"
"It doesn't hurt," bAdmod says. Wow she likes me she likes me! He's real happy now he came here. Lots of honeys. It's like they've forgotten that incident yesterday already!
"You should get your pain threshold tested," Ree says. "You can damage your body if you don't have a decent pain threshold. Bump into things and not know it. Ever heard of Rillk's Syndrome? From the pre-ComEmp period Gradder's colony? Or Leprosy?"
"What's that?" Tissa wants to know.
"No that other thing."
"Old Earth disease, causes lack of sensation in the extremities. Fingers drop off."
"Ewaughhh!" Tissa makes a face.
"You better get yourself tested when you're next back at civilization," Ree tells him.
"It did hurt," bAdmod admits.
"Then why'd you say it didn't? Fuckhead!" Goes back to her the couch in the corner. Starts scribbling more.
Tissa says "maybe he was covering up for Daskwid. Killer?"
"Uh...yeah," bAdmod says. He likes it when she calls him Killer. Gives him a hard on. He's hard now. But he doesn't know what to say. He feels stupid. Every time he tries to act tough it ends up like spew on his face. Except when he's modded up.
Tissa says "dunno why you wanna cover up for Daskwid! Not like we can throw em out if we get agro. E owns the whole fucking station!"
"Yeah," Ree laughs. Sings a rapbeat
"Daskwid e da 'rol' f'om da depths
Tissa joins in, surprisingly musicale got a S-1 brain so he good widda maffs/
e knows what ya got /
an' he knows whaddis hot/"
e got all o' ten arm /
so e can do ya lotta harm /
e got a farkin gigapulse laser /
e da prolve 'e da superphaser!!!
They both laugh again. bAdmod waits to hear if there's more, but Ree goes back to scribbling, Tissa to the onscreen. His stomach makes an audible rumble. "So how come the fridge is locked?"
Tissa says "Nov's the one in charge." To the onscreen. "Daskwid owns the station and the ship, Nov the kitchen."
"I thought Zerrin owned the yatch."
Tissa laughs. "You believed
that?" Frowns at the onscreen. "Fucking crud." Hops channels even faster. "They were supposed to have Mavron and Guyer
"Huh?" Ree looks up.
"Yeah, it was taken off."
"That's cos Mercy Heights
ate it up and appropriated the bandwidth niche."
! That sux!"
"I thought you liked hospital soaps."
"Yeah but that one's so fucking stupid."
"uh..." bAdmod wants to tell her you like being fucked by the cushion huh? you like it don't you?
"umm" you oversexed honey, I'd like to have a good feel of your cartoon fanny
"I mean" I could show you a good time, and I don't need my mods neither
"arhh" once you been with me, you'll never go back to cushins...or dildonics!
. "uhh how come Zerrin lets Novaseeker run the kitchen?"
Tissa looks at him like he's got a cognitive dysfunction. "Cos she's a superbright!"
"I suppose," Ree says, not looking up from her drawing "you think basies should run the show?"
Tissa looks at him funny. "You're not a human supremacist are you?"
"Who me no!!!" bAdmod feels his face go hot.
"Are you sure
"Yes of course I'm sure!" Fuck
"Good. We don't want their kind around."
"Yeah, we hate them," Ree chips in.
bAdmod snarls "yeah well what do you think I am????"
But she just goes back to her drawing.
"Come on what do you think I fucking am
"Okay we just asked don't freak out." Tissa is back at the onscreen again. She seems to be trying to suppress a smile, but bAdmod's not certain.
bAdmod stares at her, hoping the cushin will bring her to orgasm or something. But either she has a low sex drive, is not sensitive there, or simply is able to control it.
"Tah dah!!!" Ree says. Holds up her drawing. It's a sketch of the Squid.
"Her that's good," bAdmod says, genuinely impressed.
"Thanks." She tears off the fine paper. Leans over, sticks it on a nearby wall with a bunch of other drawings.
From his apartment Jaym can see a large part of Sharlen Hab, and much of the St Heiden habitat swarm. It is a beautiful module, with aesthetically sweeping rooms that configure new biomes and microhabitats at his merest thought, microrainforests and minature oceans, eir collection of pre-ComEmp micronanecologies, slaved hyperturing workstation and a study with the knowledge of the entire terragen sphere at eir fingertips, and erotogenic beds and intelligent sweeping windows, not viewscreens but actual clear diamondoid windows that give a view of New Worlds For Old
, the wormhole to Long Reach, crowded with traffic and data transmissions, every 12 minutes.
"Wish i had a place like this. You're so lucky."
"Maybe," Jayme says.
"You're too serious, that's your problem." Chaisla Krenter comes over and takes his hand, trailing her little swarm of personal remotes, bots, turing systems, and physically autonomous subroutines, including several busily working on variations of her interactive novel. She's a woman, not an androgyne like Derria, although Jaym is happy with sophonts of any gender. Yet their relationship is already doomed, according to Jaym's branching matrix simulations, cliological analyses, and psychodynamic profiling. The human part of him would rather he didn't know this, but he can't help it. Sometimes he opens his eyes and all these insights from the larger noosphere and Sherlock's peripherals come through.
"It got me this job didn't it?" Even now a continually updated report of the current project is displaying in full hyperlink 3D in the middle of the room.
She plays with his hair. "It's AI hackwork, lover. Us humans should do more idiosyncratic things."
He smiles at her, pushing down the analysis reports indicating that Chaisla won't be sastisfied with what he has shown her, she'll want to access the restricted areas, a personal; interview with bitenic squid, actual participation in the Dlois case... All this couldn't come at a worse time, the Paradigm are demanding their impounded ship back, the Keterist Embassy wants to be relocated, the non-affiliated posthuman Serenity Far Gesyer wants to use the Briv-1 terminal to stage a 200 stationhour Perfect Art exhibition made of co-opted embarkees as a creative interpretation of "galactic commerce"...
And most of all, eir excellency Sherlock's plan on allowing the hacked aioids to complete their mission nags at him, even though it shouldn't. Sherlock knows what e's doing, that should be reassurance enough.
But it isn't.
"Still worried?" Chaisla asks.
Jaym shakes eir head. "Sherlock knows what e is doing."
"Must be strange, always having this pipeline to superintelligence."
Jaym smiles wrily. "Well often my superior in eir wisdom only gives me a dribble, just enough to keep me interested, not enough to confuse me."
She sits back, gazes at the stargate sweeping past the window. "I couldn't stand it. I just couldn't. I have to be my own person. Have to be in control."
"I am my own person," Jaym says, reviewing the latest updates. "I'm doing exactly what I want to." The following item is flagged. A new analysis indicates that the Hardrambot (serial no. Bx 40B-120QAF6E) , who is conveying the security aioids has actually been compromised by Cyberian hackers associated with the wanted aioid liberationist and memetic subversice Xydal. His eyes flick to Chaisla but it seems that she didn't notice his moment of disquiet.
"Hey sib where you been the last 20 hours, thought you stepped out an airlock hu am I glad to see you!" Zerrin comes over and plants a wet kiss on his cheek. Straightens, rubs his hands together. Indicates to a plastic-skinned spock-eared bioborg in shapeless dull grey-green neggie suit and marketing chips. "Here you are zar. Just here." Pulls up a big round bouncy ball. It immediately adopts the shape of a chair. "Let's eat!!!"
"Who's ya sib?" bAdmod says.
"Didn't I introduce you? This is Zar Qunifax. Zar, this is my good friend Mister bAdmod."
The borg stretches eir lips in what may or may not be a smile, gives a small grave nod. bAdmod nods back. When did this xeno turn up? Was e here all along? Or got here while bAdmod was holed up in his room? Is e in on the deal?
Lunch is served by obedient remotes and small whisps of utility fog. bAdmod forgets the visitor. Forgets the girls. His consciousness constricts until there is nothing but food and eating and stuffing his face. Absolutely last time he's going 20 hours without eating! Never appreciated reconstituted no-brand mock-spicy orthocream seaweed pasta so much in his life.
"Fuck sib you polished that off in a nanosecond," Zerrin laughs. Gestures to some remotes. "Anyone fancy some jassoberry icecream? It's replicated but very good even so" Before bAdmod can answer half a dozen bowls float over on a small cloud of utility fog.
"Fuck me. I can't eat all that," he laughs.
"What, you think that's all for you?' Tissa snorts. "Hey gimme gimme!" She grabs two bowls for herself.
"Make you fat," bAdmod tells her.
"No it won't. Had my metabolism done as part of the package." She begins stuffing her face. Li'unie and Ree get into it as well.
Fast Zerrin says "Zar Qunifax, will you indulge in some desert?"
The Qunifax character gives another of eir nods, says in a falsetto voice, "thank you Zar Zerrin."
bAdmod tries to figure out whether Qunifax is a neggie or a cozzie. The visitor's minimalism is very neggie, the sort of outfit that's in fashion in all the old Negentropy Alliance worlds like Greylag and Gegton. But only a cozzie'd be crazy enough to deal with Fast Zerrin. Citizens of the NoCoZo often only care about making money, black market, free enterprise, screw the competition. Most of all, bAdmod is worried about his mods being down. Zerrin's rapping with Qunifax about investment opportunities in the Carina Rush. Come on! This is important! If his mod's don't work then he's stuffed. "uhh..." he goes.
Everyone else is getting stuck into the Jassoberry.
Li'unie and Ree both look at him.
" Li'uine says.
Li'unie and Ree both look at him.
"Zerrin!" Li'uine says more loudly.
"Hih?...Oh..." he follows her gesture, smiles at bAdmod.
"Sib, there's no power in the wall-sockets...for my mods."
"Yeah I know. K'wattage is crud out here. All we got are solar panels. Daskwid takes almost all of it. Most of what's left, our pissy allocation, goes on Ree's cyber shit anyway. There was a nuke generator once but that was decommissioned."
"Fuck me," Mod says.
"Yeah. And you wonder why the Squid's so stingy with eir erg allowance. I'll show you the main power transformer later. You can plug your mods in there, might get more joules."
"Uh...they'll be safe...?"
"Yeah optimal." He turns back to Qunifax.
bAdmod finishes his desert in silence.
Li'unie dabs daintily with a serviette (genuine nanoclone paper). "Enjoying your stay?"
bAdmod glances up. opens his mouth to say yeah not bad, but Qunifax speaks first. "Yes. Thank you, Zar Li'unie Nyx." E has hardly touched eir food.
"If you need a guide around the station or anything, let me know."
Another polite, serious, nod.
Ree says "fancy a game of Jick?"
"Sure!" Li'unie gets up. "Tissa?" The girls all leave. bAdmod wants to look up Jick, it's not a game he's heard. Some local thing maybe, or a trend that caught on while he was at RobRock. But his mods are down. And Qunifax is watching him with small bright eyes. It makes him uncomfortable.
Fast Zerrin says "Zar Qunifax, if you'll excuse me, I'll check those air scrubbers. Also got a teleconference at fourteen hundred."
"Please." Qunifst gestures politely.
"Any more questions regarding the delivery, just ask." Gives bAdmod the thumbs up. "Back in fifteen min sib."
"Optimal," bAdmod pretends to be chill.
But he's not chill. He's alone with this character he doesn't know and it's freaking him out. Five minutes pass. Qunifst does not budge. E seems to be a statue. Doesn't even seem to breath. The licker-cleaner makes its way across the opposite wall, looking for all the universe like a large brown and purple bio-modified platyheminthe. bAdmod is feeling itchy under his dorsal mod. Maybe this weird cunt is someone connected with the tracer the squid got. Plainclothes spacepol? Ranger? Perhaps Zerrin did a deal, hand over bAdmod in exchange for his own freedom? Convenient he leaves just at this moment. Yeah. Verrry convenient!!! Nah, he wouldn't do that. Would he? Surely not! They've been sibs so long. And anyway if this is the cops why hasn't this freak arrested him yet? Scanning him first? bAdmod checks the status on his Terminator - it is a nanoclone of a genuine Cyberian b-500 Terminator Hackmod Lite. Nope, impossible. If he was being scanned Mr T mod would be ringing alarms all over his interfaces, even at 30% power up.
The autovac has long since finished its vacuuming and disappeared. In the distance the waves pound against the beach.
A trickle of sweat runs down bAdmod's side, making his undersinglet wet and clammy. Twenty-four minutes. This Qunifst prick is still watching him with those small bright eyes. bAdmod can't stand it any longer. He jumps to his feet.
The newcomer follows the movement.
"Uhh...gotta get going..." He waves vaguely.
Qunifst gives him a serious deliberate nod.
bAdmod nods back, quick and nervously, rushes out of the room.
Fuck Zerrin and his weird customers. Why'd he just piss off like that all of a sudden anyway? Air scrubbers, crap. Well if that prick really is spacepol he's not taking bAdmod! He's not fucking taking him!!! He shuts and locks the door to his room, grabs the Ares Predator weapons set. Cradles it in his arms. Its weight is comforting. He faces with it but it still hasn't charged, the wattage in the wall socket is so crud. Fuck that Zerrin!!!!!! They'll be coming for him any minute now; here he is, defenseless!!!
No one comes for him.
The more bAdmod thinks about it, the more unlikely it seems to him that this Qunifst freak is spacepol. Too scrawny. Yeah. Okay size isn't everything but still. And too polite. Most improbable.
Fuck this paranoia.
He's gotta get out. It's stifling in here. Claustrophobic.
What bAdmod wouldn't give for a view of the stars. Where the fuck did Zerrin say the observatory is?
Locks the door carefully behind him, so his mods will be safe. Starts exploring. This place is such a maze of corroded corridors, ventilation tubing, and naked wiring. Wonder it hasn't been condemned. Maybe it has. Maybe it's only fit for squids.
A robot that has seen better days automatically stands to attention as he approaches it. Ah, a vec. "May hu and ai be as one," he greets it, the old salutation from RobRock coming lightly from his lips.
The old bot looks at him, a single green light winking. It is an ancient model that still has some of the original (now long faded and unreadable even with the omni-sense) logo on it. Stylised waves or something, and a funny hieroglyph logo. Must be the Squid's old company. "How may I serve you zar?"
"Follow me please zar." E leads the way on squeaky wheels.
It's peaceful looking at the stars. Sitting there, bAdmod feels as if he is floating in the void. He adjusts his omnisense for maximum optical, and the pinpricks of distant light jump out of the night at him. There's still some static cos the charge is so low, but it's manageable.
"Do you need me any longer zar?" the bot asks politely.
"No. Thank you." bAdmod says. It clicks and beeps and goes back the way it came. bAdmod is still annoyed that Zerrin left him alone with that Qunifst weirdo. Things have sure changed since the old days. Sux.
He'd rather look at the diamond-bright stars.
Copernicus Sector would be there, just there
. Somewhere in the empty vastness floats the remote little Robrock servicing station, staffed by three vecs, twelve virtuals, and (formerly) one hu. What's Joey 24di800+a doing now? And the rest of the gang from the Depot? It was optimal looking at the stars there, synthasesing to Nuigen Fludd (the band, not the philosopher!) and playing !Ho
. They had a great telescope too. It was supposed to be used to track the big lumbering incoming transport drones, but they used to swing the thing around and look at Eta Carina, or S232, or the magnificent swirls of the Orion nebula. No-one ever collided with them anyway, most of the transports have sensors and backup navsystems like you wouldn't believe.
bAdmod shakes his head. He can't go back.
But he can't go forward, either.
Caught between worlds...between lives.
What was that game those girls were playing? Jack? Jock? He checks the playback. Jick. Keys it in. There are 23 different meanings, including one which is a multi-erotic randomiser played with dildonics, and another which is an innocent card game requiring modest strategy skills. It is also the name for a mildly addictive and euphoric nano-flash polypeptide cocktail popular in the Cygexba volume, the vernacular term for a type of zoonoherb cultivated in the coreward Einstein Cluster, the name for an athletic game involving hitting a slaved superturinged nanoball between three or multiple of three players, and a type of bio-solvent marketed by Tabbo Homeware that is especially good at getting out all those stubborn stains and goo-cultures.
Someone is beeping on his comm. He takes the message.
"Hey sib what the fuck happened? What happened with the squid?" Zerrin's voice is anxious.
"Fixed the oxy scrubbers?" bAdmod says.
"Yeah it's optimal." The head-up 3D frowns. "Was just rappin' with Tissa. She says you were drilled by a laser."
"By the squid's laser."
"So what'd you say to get em so agro?"
"No the Squid."
"Didn't say anything. E's not agro. We just talked and stuff."
"Hey you must've fucking said something hu!"
"Yeah." bAdmod cuts the connection. It's like Zerrin isn't interested in being his friend anymore; he's just so much into that alife-domestic Novaseeker of his. And into the Squid. Oh, don't wanna hurrd squiddie's feelings
. No wonder he's getting fucked up. Zerrin always used to have really good honeys around him, like Jane5 and Femclone TabathaR. They were always really sweet to bAdmod, not like this crowd he has now....Makes bAdmod mad thinking about it.bebeep bebeep bebeep
...Zerrin's trying to raise him again. bAdmod cuts the message alert. He just doesn't feel like talking to anyone right now. If Zerrin wants to know he can go ask the squid himself.
Hardrambot Bx 40B-120QAF6E croons "This unit has discovered your plan. It is your intention to apprehend a hu and eir associates on suspicion of template smuggling and illicit memetic conditioning breaking. This is off station and out of your jurisdiction, as per regulations 25610c6b800d3. It was foolish to withhold information from this unit.
Dulx 59022 says "response: I myself do not wish to discuss things further with you, hardrambot Bx 40B-120QAF6E."
The hardrambot announces "this unit has the option of reporting you to your supervisor, aioid Dulx 59022.
Dulx 59022 bristles (warning! affectivity exceeding normal operating parameters) "reply: input biont effectivity: annoyance slash aloofess: Upto and as of including this moment, neither I nor my companion aioid has done nothing wrong. Reference: St Heiden Federation Policing Code 35a1fd20 subnode 4"
"But surely you will be need to commandeer a bot like myself to transfer you to the hu habitat. In doing so you will be breaking regulation 32-b paragraph 6 of the St Heiden Aioid Regulation Code which says that no station aioid may transfer eir code to an external bot without express written permission of their supervisor. In your case your supervisor is Y245A9B1E. According to this unit's calculations, it is exceedingly unlikely that Supervisor Y245A9B1E would give you that permission.
"reply: input emotional-cognitive response, suspicioun: It appears to my probablistic-simulation routines that you know an excessive amount of information for a hardrambot," Dulx 59022 says.
"This unit knows that because e has access to free information, as is the right of every sentient being in the Civilized Galaxy. Item 4 subnode A of the Corona Universal Code of Sentient Rights explicately states-
"reply: Hardrambot Bx 40B-120QAF6E, I know my Sentient Rights as well as you do."
"That is unlikely, as you, being a peri-mobile software aioid with a meagre 150 Terabytes of free storage document memory, would be unlikely to be aware of the full ramifications, nuances, and historical influences that only become apparent once a unit has access to all related, preceding, and derivative documents and files. And this unit has done this. Unlike you, a mere security aioid, this unit has full and unabridged copies of the Declaration of Sentient Rights, the Turing Paper, the Second Federation Ontology, the ComEmp Protocol, the Orion Constitution, the Eden Leglislation, the Nui Minti Accords, the-
"Can't rap now sib." Zerrin's fucking around with his comm station. "Got a teleconference in five."
bAdmod idly regards the play of holographic images, status screens, on-line icons, avs. "How come you let Novaseeker run the kitchen?"
"Cos she's a hyperbright," Zerrin says. "Hey sorry about before." Zerrin selects a bouncy chair. A 3D congeals out of utility fog. "I'd let you hang around but this cunt's pretty paranoid. Doesn't know you, all that shit, you know how these pricks are." His fingers fly over a virtual console.
"Sure," bAdmod says, not fully believing. Shuts the door behind him. He feels uneasy, as if there is something he has forgotten that he should remember. Something important. The Squid would know. He's gotta talk to that prolve again.
bAdmod clumps down the corridor in his heavy mods. It's not too far to the beach, even weighed down as he is.
bAdmod's been sitting on the beach for hours it seems (actually, 2 hours 12 minutes 53 seconds by his chronometer). The squid - or Daskwid - still hasn't put in an appearance.
"Hey Squid!" Walks up and down the beach, mods heavy and weighing him down in the sand. Even in the wet sand near the shore it's not easy. His own footprints trace a track back and forth.
bAdmod is pissed off with all of them. Fuck Zerrin for his fuckhead plan that won't work. He just wants out.
"FUCK!" Yells at no-one in particular. Yells at everyone. "FUCK FUCK FUCK!" Sits down for the twentieth time. This isn't the way he thought it would be. It was supposed to be just him and Zerrin and Goodboy. Maybe they'd get three honeys, one each. And some optimal scheme - do it right this time! "FUCK!!!" But it's no good. Cos Zerrin's changed. bAdmod should never have left RobRock Depot. He needs to talk to the squid first. It was so keen to rap yesterday. Now all his OmniSense picks up in the water are fish and crustacea and aquatic biobots. Fuck Squids. He stands up, yells out to the sea and the mist at the top of his voice "FUCK YOU SQUID!!!!!!" Takes his omni sense off, sits down on the rock again.
Two of the girls are walking down the beach, towards where he is. Wow! Maybe they changed their mind and decided they like him! Yeah sure. Get real you dumbfuck! Even without his omni sense he can see it's Tissa and Li'unie. Quickly puts the mod back on, goes for maximum optical magnification. Tissa's wearing a sort of very skimpy two-piece clothing unit, which only just covers her breasts and pubes...KnowledgeMod - Identify
!....Okay, apparently it's called a bi kini. It dates back to the middle atomic age of pre-singularity Old Earth. Li'unie has a towel-like wrap around her body, though her dusky-white arms and legs and feet are bare. bAdmod's hard already.
Tissa says "we could hear you yelling from back there." She tosses her head to get the hair out of her eyes.
"Yeah" he looks up at her with lust. The bi kini looks good on her. "Where's the squid?"
"Yeah. How come he doesn't show?"
"Woulda thought one run-in was enough for you." To Li'unie "did you see the hole Daskwid drilled in the side of the bad mod's head?"
"Ree told me." To bAdmod "If you need your pain threshold tweaked, I know a good specialist at St Heiden. Charges by the second though."
"No I'm optimal." bAdmod admires her legs.
She ignores him. To Tissa "do you wanna go for a swim or what."
"Sure" Tissa says.
They start to walk off. bAdmod jumps up and stumbles after them, feet dragging in the sand. Curses the weight of all his mods. "Wait! Girls wait."
They wait for him to catch up.
"How can I contact the squid?"
Li'unie says "you can't. E decides to contact you." Starts walking again.
"Wait a nanosec willya? So there's no way you can message em? What does Zerrin do?"
"Zerrin lets Nov do all the talking. Now will you stop bugging us
Tissa says "let's swim here!!!"
Li'unie turns to him. "bAdmod can you please go away and give us some privacy?"
Tissa jumps into the water without even bothering to take off her bi kini. bAdmod says "hey, you'll get your bi kini
"My what?" she yells back, splashing in the waves.
Li'unie says "Look, I'm really sorry, but we can't help you find Daskwid. Okay
Sheesh. bAdmod takes the hint. Looks like no jerking off here. He turns around and walks off. He really hates it here. This was the worst mistake he ever made, deciding to come here. It's not like the old days. Fuck, the honeys Zerrin used to know, they were a lot nicer. He risks setting the omnimod on 360 degree optical, hoping Li'unie won't pick it up with her funny wetware. She's taken off her towel-wrap and is walking naked into the water. He sets the mod for video record, hopes there's enough juice in the batteries to get a good wad of video. Enough for a good pull anyway. Shit, there isn't. The indicator's flashing but nothing's recording.
"Check it, sib, the mods'll be fine, gonna be chill, safe as the credit on a Solarian Guilder" Fast Zerrin says by way of reassurance.
"I don't want to leave them here on their own." bAdmod sits on an upturned macrostorage casing, near the main power outlet. The air smells of ozone. It's a good smell.
"So who's gonna take 'em huh who, who's gonna take em?" Zerrin spreads his hands. "Me? The honeys? The Squid
?" He laughs. "Nov?"
bAdmod shrugs. He knows it's stupid. But knowing it still doesn't stop himself feeling anxious.
Zerrin sighs. "You're that paro, like if you're that paro, leave 'em in your room, Mod. Should be fully charged in a station month or so."
"Yeah. You'll just have to fake it at the meet."
"Yeah. Where we sell the goods. Give you the rap later. Gonna be chill. Probably hruvvie won't know your weapons are uncharged so there's no angst." Slaps bAdmod on the shoulder. "It'll be optimal. Nov rapped to me we won't even need any weapons at all." Walks out.
bAdmod stares at the power sockets for some time. The dull blue readouts flicker back at him, moving as if alive with every little microspike in the station's energy production.
The mods are heavy, but bAdmod sweats and drags them all. There's no glyde to provide a frictionless surface under them, not like at Briv-4 arrivals, it's all just cruddy dumbfloor. He was hoping that nice old vec would be there to give him a hand, but the unit's nowhere to be see. Probably just as well. Mica230991 used to be on about how even in this era there were still vecs treated like servants, at least away from the inner sphere, the big peripheral centers, and Version Tree space.
He slaps a half a hexadec of power transformers over the big wall sockets. The hab's power distribution subturing grunts in protest at the sudden load, but he croons to it and strokes it with little protocol signals from Terminator mod until it settles down.
When the current's flowing nice and easy, bAdmod gets on with the job of hooking up his mods. Grunts with the effort of balancing and pushing the Predator's cradle into the two biggest sockets. The Boosterganga takes the next big single power outlet. Then Power Mace with the next socket. For the rest, he carefully organizes the smaller mods in a power distribution outlet. Finally strips off NetFace, KnowledgeMod, Cybah Boi, Biorg, 5Skin, and Terminator and plugs them in. Leaves only Biorg Lite and SensoTouch, since they all run on his own baseline musculature anyway. Feels fucking naked with only three light mods on.
Uses Biorg to remotely activate the security micro-perimeter. Everything optimal. Makes a quick prayer to the Solid State God to watch over his mods. Leaves them to recharge.
bAdmod concentrates on his food. Now that he is not so hungry it doesn't taste as good as last time. The organic rations on RobRock were heaps better. Qunifst is nowhere to be seen. Neither is Novaseeker.
The plates are taken care of by the usual swarm of remotes and utility fog. Tissa kicks the cushin aside, makes for the door.
Zerrin says "wait up Tiss, we gotta go over the plan here again!"
"You go over it!" She stomps off to her room. Her butt wiggles deliciously. Here's bAdmod's chance to maybe get into her pants. He gets up to follow her.
"Mod, where you heading sib?"
"Uh...bit of a walk...umm.."
"Do it later sib we got biz here." The 3D comes to life. "Have to go over the plans you haven't seen them. Optimal?"
"Yeah affirmative." Shit. bAdmod sits down again.
"Okay now this is like the score back at Hainer Villageplex what we've got is a go-between so- Li!"
"Fuck Zerrin I've heard this a hexdecimal times." Li'unie gets up.
"Actually nineteen times to be precise," Ree adds, following her out.
"Shit!" To bAdmod. "Doesn't that just piss you I mean hu doesn't that just shit you?"
"Yeah," he mumbles. "Heaps."
Zerrin throws his hands up. "Fuck now what's eating you
????" Walks around the room a few times. "I can't believe the way you've changed Mod. I mean I just can't believe it hu"bAdmod's
changed??? Talk about the auto-assembler calling the neumann a replicator. Zerrin keeps going in a circle like he's got a guide-rail under the floor, going on with his shit about how he can't believe the Mod's changed et-cet et-cet.
The prick finally settles down on an inactive cushin. "Okay, just you and me then Mod. This is how we'll do it. Like in the old days hey? Now, scope this display hu."
bAdmod obediently looks at the 3D. It's an administration caste Hruvraddan with clan markings he doesn't recognise. Other than the uniform it's basically like every other administration caste hruvvie bAdmod's seen. Large heavy body (although not as large as the soldier caste), augmented arms through bionic sleeves, bright, even garish uniform and tunic of strong buckyweave bearing buttons of rank, big ostentatous interface ports and bio-hookup sockets for use with powered armour and weapons systems and the like, ugly bald head perched on a thick muscular neck, long stiffly erect banded tendrils quivering from it like an insectbot's antennae.
Zerrin says "this is Jucabocal. Zar
Jucabocal to you and me."
"Fuck those cunts," bAdmod says.
"Yeah, fuck them. But I don't want you screwing up on protocol. Is that clear hu?
bAdmod figures there's no point making a scene. Especially since Zerrin's never forgiven him for that time he screwed a whole fifty K deal cos he didn't call the hruvvie "Zar". He nods. "Yeah."
"Optimal. Now Zar Jucabocal is working as a middle-being in a deal that is going down between an unnamed party we can call Mister X. Mister X doesn't want to show emself, and Squid being Squid doesn't want to risk eir mantle. Moreover, Mister X has a somewhat unsavory reputation, and, I know this sounds strange, but I've been told a few horror stories about our cephalopod buddy as well."
bAdmod gingerly micro-massages the hole in the side of his face with his SensoTouch mod. "I can believe it. Who's Mister X?"
"If I knew I wouldn't call em Mister X now would I?"
"Is Mister X a hruvvie?"
"No, that I do know at least. Zar Jucabocal was hired only because eir clan's made a name for emself in this kind of work."
"Now here's the score here's their crew. Zar Jucabocal will be there with at least five soldiers and four drones. Maybe more but no less than that"
bAdmod nods again. The basic hruvvie complement. As clanbangers, hruvvies never travel alone. "So what's with the markings?"
"They're Clan Huovken sib."
"Never heard of 'em."
"You wouldn't. Some rogue bunch, only set up here the last few years, real pricks from what I've heard. The other clans around here hate them. Apart from Khudhorh"
Figures. The Khudhorh will suck anyone's backside if they can get something. They used to hang aroudn Karpaty too. bAdmod always was sus about 'em. "So what do the rest of us do while you're making the trade?"
"It'll be optimal. Ree will handle the comm-link, Li'unie will check the perimeter, Nov will look after the ship, you and Tissa will be there on the deck to give me backup."
"What about Qunifst?" Images of the humble borg suddenly sprouting a dozen weapons ports.
"Zar Qunifst has nothing to do with this. He's just here to trade in some Grooa Juice."
bAdmod laughs. "So it's myself and a cartoon honey against five hruvvie soldier boys."
"Come on hu. It's just a formality! Nothing will happen. You and Tiss are just there for glam. It'll look pretty lame if I turn up without soldiers. You know how hruvvie thinks."
"Yeah back at Karpaty we would always have at least a dozen local boys there with heat, we would never deal with hruvvie if there were fewer than ten of us. And that was with clean hruvvie, not this rogue bunch. What's to stop them wasting us and taking the templates."
"The templates will be chipped and stored here," Zerrin grins and taps the side of his head. "Won't download a thing till I get the cred payment. hruvvie won't try anything."
"No. Only cut your head off with a monorazor and freeze dry it so the data doesn't degrade."
"Fuck you Mod you were never such a wimp when I knew you before!"
"You were never such a fuckhead! Is that what happened to Goodboy?"
"No!" Zerrin jumps up, cuts the display. The image disappears.
bAdmod jumps up as well, hands clenched. "Chopped up and his head taken off to be decoded?"
"All those chips, he could store heaps, that's why you wanted him, as much storage as you need!"
"FUCK YOU MOD IT WASNT FUCKING LIKE THAT!!!!!"
"THEN HOW FUCKING WAS IT LIKE????"
"FUCK YOU!" Zerrin turns his back, walks off.
bAdmod stands there, panting, adrenalin flooding through his system. If he had his mods on Zerrin'd history. He's really tempted to chase after the prick anyway. Get stuck into him. But a tiny voice of sanity in the corner tells him: what good would that do???
" hardrambot Bx 40B-120QAF6E concludes "you have no choice but to engage my aid if you wish to manually apprehend the hu in question. However, if I do not wish to offer it to you, your mission will fail.
"reply: We will not be manually apprehending them," Dulx 59022 informs em. "As you have correctly and logically argued, hardrambot Bx 40B-120QAF6E , that would be beyond our jurisdiction. As security aioids we will only confirm illicit behavior, if any, and relay that on with instructions to SpacePol."
"But there is a strong likelihood that SpacePol will not receive enough information to justify allocation of resources.
"response: My own predictions on the basis of available data indicate a 74% likelihood they will send a drone at least."
Rund 20473 comes on line. "message: persona exceeding normal operating parameters: Dulx 59022, I have completed a second optimisation of my emoti-aut configoration. I am feeling much less anxious now."
"repsonse; I am pleased, Rund 20473."
"query: What has happened since I have been off-line."
"reply: affectivity (superciliousness) exceeding normal operating parameters: This hardrambot has been annoying me with eir prattle."
"With this unit's prattle?
" hardrambot Bx 40B-120QAF6E says, indignant. "With this unit's prattle
"announcement: I will access the user log. Inputting....20%...50%....done. affectivity (anxiety level high) exceeding normal operating parameters: Dulx 59022! hardrambot Bx 40B-120QAF6E states here that it will be required that we exceed our jurisdiction."
"reply: No," Dulx 59022 informs em. "That is not necessary. There is no need to transfer manually to the hu habitat. We will check the tracer log at the nearest relay node, on the hu station external port."
"response: That may not be viable, Dulx 59022. It is possible that the log was not uploaded into the the relay node."
"query: Then we will return to Briv-4 Rund 20473"
"reply: I will run a number of simulations." Rund 20473 falls silent for several microseconds. "Dulx 59022, it appears from my data that hardrambot Bx 40B-120QAF6E is correct. Unless radical changes to the hu habitat configuration have been made, the only way we can access the information is to transfer manually to the hu habitat."
"affectivity (confidence stubborness) exceeding normal operating parameters: We will see, Rund 20473. There are still too many unresolved variables at present to be certain of the outcome."
"Will I be in your narrative/story/report/interactive?" Jaym sips the amino acid and mineral salt tanged LingLow in the small cafe among the gardens and malls and air- and waterways. All around and above and below them people, bionts, vecs, remotes, bots, messages, commerce, of every shape and description.
"Of course you'll be in it," Chaisla smiles at him. "It will be all about you. You'll be the main protagonist, the agent of transapient order pitted against the forces of chaos."
E feels himself blushing ever so slightly. "Well I wouldn't go so far-"
She taps em on the back of eir hand. "You know how it is Jaym. One has to market to a plot, a story, a cliche, blow it up into absurd mythic proportions. This is Novamedia I'm pitching to, not the Ken Ferjik archives. It's supposed
to be ridiculous."
"Li'unie where's the bodytite cream?"
Tissa's standing in the doorway to the exercise room. Actually it is a former storage bay or something, still has the stackers sitting idle against the wall. bAdmod's leaning against one now. He's only here to perve on Li'unie and her skintight exercise trainers anyway.
Li'unie raises the ball again. "Sorry. Didn't get it" Hits a number at Zerrin.
"What do you mean you didn't get it?"
They run and pant and wack the ball at each other. Li'unie beats Zerrin for the third time.
"Crud," he says. Tosses the racket to bAdmod. "Sib this woman is murder." Passes Tissa on the way out. She ignores him.
Tissa says "Li'unie, I need that lotion!"
Li'unie says to bAdmod "fancy a game?"
"Sure!!!" he jumps up, not sure about this other game between her and Tissa.
"No mods though" she tells him.
"These aren't macro-waldoed," he reassures her. "It's only Biorg Lite and SensoTouch. My others are being charged"
"SensoTouch can be overnewtoned"
"Yeah right. As if I'd overnewton a mod!" What does she think he is??? "You're bionic anyway, you should talk"
Tissa stomps up to them, tits jiggling under her top. "Li, I told you to get me my bodytite lotion!"
"We've got plenty of Perti, Tis" Li'unie tells her
"Perti gives me a rash!"
"Well take some anti-histomines then! Goddess! bAdmod do you want a game or not?"
"Well take your mods off then!"
"Uh okay." Glances nervously at Tissa.
She glares back at him. "Did you know this bitch - this BITCH
- refused to get me my bodytite!!!"
"I didn't refuse" Li'unie says.
"No. You just conveniently forgot
!!! And all of your remotes and intellagents conveniently forgot too!"
"Look Tissa we're busy here. Okay?"
"I'll show you busy! Bitch
!" She grabs the racket from bAdmod, lands Li'unie a good whack. The bionic girl screams. The two of them hit the floor, yelling insults and pulling at each other's hair. Tissa has more hair and less muscle mass, so Li'unie is soon on top of her, panting, pinning her down, knees on her wrists. One of Tissa's tits has flopped free in the struggle, a luscious mound of pale golden-cream, small dark pink nipple looking at bAdmod like a single eye. Fuck! What a time to be without his OmniScense image-record! She's yelling "get off me! Or you'll be sorry!"
"Get a life you dysfunctional barbie doll."
"You get a life! Killer! Get her off me! Oww! You're cutting off my circulation! Bad Mod! Do something!"
bAdmod doesn't know what to do. He doesn't want to be physically heavy with Li'unie. "Uh...Li'unie..."
"STOP BEING SUCH A WIMP
!!!!" Tissa screeches. "GRAB HER
"Uh...sorry...umm...." bAdmod goes to grab Li'unie under her arms. There is the thrill as he makes contact with her skin-tight sweatsuit.
!!!!" Li'unie yells. She jumps away.
Tissa climbs to her feet. Her face is red like she's going to cry. She adjusts her top to cover her tit again.
"Okay what's this all about?" It's Novaseeker. bAdmod didn't hear her come in. Probably with all the excitement.
Tissa runs to eir. "Li'unie didn't get me my body love! Why didn't you remind her????!!!!" She bursts into tears.
Li'unie mutters. "Run to mummy." She looks at bAdmod like she's expecting him to agree.
"Yeah," he says, sucking up to her so she won't be mad about him touching her. "Pathetic."
Novaseeker comes over. "I wish you hu would get along. Always fighting. And what do you think of this, hu bAdmod?"
"I hate it," bAdmod finds himself saying.
"Yes. I hate it too. Now Li'unie, you behave. And Tissa, you behave. And bAdmod, you behave as well." Novaseeker turns on her heel and walks out, clickclickclick of heels down the corridor.
Ree's hacking and 'facing around with the virch interface. Holographic images come and go. Status screens, immersive hard lights, the lot. She looks mega optimal, hyper awesome, organic leads from her headbuttons snaking out like medusas, interfacing with every process unit within reach.
bAdmod wants to talk to her. Find out what the story is here. Especially with Zerrin and Novaseeker. He hates being shy. Almost out of pepp too. Should've asked Man Xydal if he could engineer his neurobionano to substitute for it.
She's still ignoring him, so he goes "urr..." Eidetic flashback of Tissa fucking her with the dildo. Fuck this, have to see Man Xydal about that too.
She looks at him. "Yeah I know. Li and Tiss had a scrap. Wasn't it a scream."
Hre tries to block out the flashbacks. "You got it stored?"
"Got everything stored. Wanna see a replay?"
bAdmod nods eagerly. Utility mist congeals into a 3D window. bAdmod stares as the whole scene. There's Zerrin and Li'unie and him too. Then Zerrin leaves and Li'unie tosses him the racquet. Tissa comes in bitching about her bodytite. She and Li'unie fall to the ground pulling at each other's hair. Tissa's tit flops out. bAdmod says "freeze that."
"Can you enlarge, uhh," his pulse pounds in his head "her breast."
Ree enlarges the screen until it starts getting grainy. "What a cheap tart. Look at how she's done her tits. Looks like a cow."
"A what?" bAdmod says.
Irritable look. "Where's your knowledge mod?"
She nods, says "Cow. Female domesticated bovine quadruped mammal indigenous to Old Earth."
"Female domestic what????" bAdmod feels so lost without his KnowledgeBase.
"Never mind. Want a better view of bimbo's titties?"
"Thought so. You males are so predictable." More utility mist streams in. The 3D rotates, solidifies, adjusts to normal size, rotates again, becomes a life-size Tissa sprawled on the ground before them. Li'unie's absent and Tissa seems to be just lying down with her arms at her side. Except for her flushed face. Ree nods at bAdmod. "Go on."
He reaches forward, touches her exposed breast. It's surprisingly warm and soft. Feels absolutely real, even with his sensu touch. Kneels down next to the double, caresses the nipple. He's getting a real fat now. Squeezes her a bit harder. Wow, wouldn't it be great to fuck her. Looks at Ree. "Can you make her...come alive?"
"Nah. Just a hardcopy snapshot." The Tissa double dissolves back into mist.
bAdmod straightens, sits down opposite her. "I'm really turned on now!"
"Typical," she says.
He can't stop grinning. "That felt real. What sort of fog you running?"
"Only Turbo Maya-2300. It's really the smartware that does it. Got Thaumaturgy cf09++ installed, running through Deus ex Machina release 57 with an S2 Creation Engine."
bAdmod whistles. He knows this crap even without his knowledge mod. "That's good shit."
"Yeah." She starts to look distracted
"Hey, when my mods are charged want to do some hacking?"
"Dunno." She looks up at empty air, starts facing with stuff.
"What're you doing?" bAdmod asks.
"Just fine tuning. I want to virch Middle Galaxy
at Level 6. Don't want any lag and gigo."
"I've never done that much virching," he says. "Just Periphery War, Quest, Artifact Hunt
, that sorta shit....Periphery War
was good though" he adds hastily.
"You have to try Middle Galaxy
. It's the newest adaptation of Token Reborn.
"Of Who Reborn?"
She sighs. "You'll have to wait till you get your knowledge mod charged."
"Optimal." He watches her doing her thing, external neural interfaces waving gorgon-like. Faint but distinctive pongy smell of her reaches his nostrils. Not that unpleasant. She's quite pretty, he has to admit. Apart from her boyish physique. You wouldn't even notice she has breasts with that loose hack me!
t-shirt she's wearing. He tries to visualise how she was after she'd had the love stick, but the eidetics wouldn't come. Fuck, never when you want it, always when you don't.
"That should do it" she says at last. Disconnects, withdraws the interface leads back into her buttons. The displays vanish, the utility mist disperses. Now that she's not messing around with her interfaces he suddenly feels shy and self-conscious again. She gets up, is out the door.
Shit! Good one bAdmod. Another optimal opportunity thrown in the recycle chute.
Once he has some erg credits, bAdmod is going to get his personality redone. Been putting it off too long anyway. Okay, there's a risk but so what? Better than being shy. Or a pepp addict.
"The old aioids have been withdrawn?" Jaym still isn't happy about this, the aioids have always been faithful. But a security risk is a security risk.
"Every last one," says Holdebon "Means a bit of disruption as we phase them out and bring back those old mk 251s virtual constables. Probably see a small bump of a rise in petty crime, but the surveillance bots should catch it and we can reel in the perps later. "
"The new D-2159 aioids should be arriving from Long Reach in 51 hours," says Boruchip the police vec.
"We've got an ISO at PrimeAscension who's happy to take them all as part of an extended virch micromanagement sim," says the superturing ai Ganford 215. "So no one will be deleted."
For a moment Jaym is caught up in contemplation, almost a microrapture. The dedicated unswerving efficiency of it all, one huge machine, one gigantic organisation, whose sole purpose is to reduce the hazard rating of the St Heiden environment to much less than 1. And e, as the partial of the transapient Vyrona, is a central part of it.
bAdmod's being hassled by Jucabocal and Zerrin and the alife hyperbright Novaseeker. They are in it together, laughing at him. Worst of all, Jucabocal and his hruvvie sibs are pissed with the transaction so they decide to claim bAdmod as an indentured laborer. Luckily the Squid is there. E uses eir fucking gigapulse laser to drill a neat hole through Jucabocal's head, right between the fucker's beady little eyes. The wound grows, until the hruvvie's head splits right open and brain and wetware dribble down onto bAdmod.
He wakes up screaming.
bAdmod doesn't remember falling back to sleep. No more dreams though. Optimal. His chronometer says 08:25 station time. He's busting for a piss. Gets up naked, pads over to the bathroom. Can hear Li'unie and Tissa's voices halfway down the corridor.
Li'unie "-be stupid, you're not ugly."
! I'm ugly and fat and my tits droop."
"You're letting patriarchal memefuck get to you."
"Yes you are. That sorta crap went out with hu baseline government"
They're in the bathroom. bAdmod feels really self-conscious. Naked without his mods, without even a scrap of clothes. But his mods are still charging, taking forever. Should go back to his room anyway. Image of a bathroom orgy - just him and the two honeys - flashes through his head. He takes a deep breath, walks in. Li'unie's sitting naked on the toilet seat. A few remotes hover nearby. Tissa's in front of the mirror, holding her tits in her hands. She's just got a pair of shiny black panties on. This is even better then he could've imagined! bAdmod feels like he's going to faint from excitement. Li'unie covers herself, one arm across her chest, the other one with the hand over her pubes. "Do you always have to barge in???"
"Uhhh..." is all bAdmod can say. Both honeys seem to be looking at his cock. He doesn't have to glance down to see it's already long and hard.
The remotes bring Li'unie a towel. She holds it against her body, stands up. "Do something useful and talk to her. She says she's ugly." Gracefully wraps the towel around herself.
"Uhh, aren't you two enemies?"
Li'unie ignores him. bAdmod watches her go, remotes in train.
Tissa says "we always have fights. But we love each other."
He stares at her. Her dainty hands are cupping her breasts, covering her nipples but little else. Fuck it hurts to have such a hard-on when his bladder is full of piss.
She smiles. "Want to fuck?"
bAdmod's mouth drops open. "Huh...?"
"Huh...?" she mocks. Turns back to the mirror, plays with her tits a bit. "Look at this. I really need my bodytite. I asked Zerrin to order some, courier you know," she turns back to him, "but he says we don't have the credits. Do I look ugly to you?"
bAdmod shakes his head. He's burning up with desire.
"Thought not! But then a gross plebhu like you will fuck anything. You'd fuck a vagina on stilts wouldn't you?"
"Yes you would. Okay Killer. I need some distracting. Thanks to fucking Li'unie not getting my bodytite. Bitch."
"Uhh..." bAdmod thought she just said they were friends. He follows her down the corridor anyway.
"I caught some of the bAdmod series on the 3D, can understand why no-one watches it, sux." She looks so beautiful from behind, black panties accentuating the wiggle she makes as she walks. He jogs upto her, groin hurting from a full bladder, stiff cock bouncing painfully, infatuated lust overcoming shyness, puts his arm around her shoulder. She leans a little into him. Makes his heart pound wow she loves me she loves me
!!!! She looks at him with those huge eyes. "Hey you had dealings with Druvradda before? Li'unie said you had but you knew fuck all."
It's the first time he's been in Tissa's room. It's full of girlie things and anime posters. "No I know heaps about...uhh...heaps about hruvvie," he says, face hot. She sits on the bed, hands by her hips palms flat on the mattress. bAdmod drools at her tits.
"Only need to ask you one thing Killer."
"Sure." He sits down next to her. Self-consciously raises a hand. She doesn't pull away. Tentatively cups her breast in one hand. Feels sorta like it did on Ree's fog sim, but without the enhancement that sensu touch provides. He should really go get his sensutouch mod, yeah, definitely. But he's anxious in case she might change her mind. He wonders if she'd mind if he he had to lick her nipple. Bends over to try. He can't remember the last time he ran his tongue across a woman's nipple. Feels nice.
She says suddenly "how long can you go?"
He stops what he's doing. "What?"
"I need to have a good fifteen minutes of fucking before I climax. That's 900 seconds minimum. And that's full pumping mind you."
"You better go get your cock mod. Is it charged yet"
"I don't have a cock mod," he tells her.
He stares at her tits. Large and soft and round, with small tight nipples.
After a while he realizes she's looking at him like he's fucked. "What?" he asks back. Wow she has nice tits.
"If you can't satisfy me there's no way you're poking me. Go back to your love bots and whatever you fuck."
He sees red. "Fuck you bimbo bitch
!!!" Jumps on her. She squeals with delight. He rips her panties off, takes his aching cock in one hand, guides it quickly into her hot tight wetness.
She laughs, wraps her legs tightly around him. "900 seconds! Go!"
He feels like he's going to come straight away. "I caaaan't!
"Yes you can yes you can! 895...894...fuck me Killer fuck me fuck me fuck me
bAdmod explodes inside her.
bAdmod lies on his bunk, music up as high as the little speakers will go. He doesn't even feel like mucking around with his mods. He's still freaked out at Tissa being so insulting and sarcastic to him. What's she expect, he was fucking tense! Hadn't had sex in years. Hadn't even had a chance to wank lately, so sure he'd be tense. Why is everyone so fucking unreasonable around here?
The worst thing of all is that he can't stop thinking about her now. His mind keeps flashing back to how he came inside her. That was the first time he'd been with an organic in over eight years. And each time its the same. Stupid infatuation. Becomes neurotic over some honey, falls in love, but she doesn't want to have anything to do with him.
He needs to talk to Zerrin. Fuck he hates this butterflies in the stomach shit. Fast Zerrin's always good to talk to, he knows all about honeys and how they think and all that shit. Wishes his mods were ready. Goes looking for Zerrin anyway.
Lounging room. Li'unie is on her head doing some sort of yoga thing. Tissa (Tissa!!! - his heart does a backflip) is being fucked by a cumfy cushin. Qunifst is nearby (flash of jealousy...how come he gets to sit near to Tissa?) seemingly engrossed (although it's hard to tell) with the onscreen. Ree is mucking around with her terminals.
He says, to no-one in particular "seen Zerrin?"
Tissa looks over from the onscreen. "Look it's Killer! Hey, did you bring your cock mod? I need it bad!"
Ree tries to suppress a guffaw, fails. Li'unie gets a fit of giggles, loses her balance.
Rage rises up, white-hot. bAdmod just wants to just kill all of them. Kill them now. If he had his boosterganga mod he'd use them for target practice. But they ignore him. Apart from Qunifst, who watches him strangely.
He stands there he doesn't know how long, fist clenching and unclenching. Qunifst stops watching him. The girls keep ignoring him. Slowly the anger dies. He turns around, makes for Fast Zerrin's bedroom. He just wants out.
"Zerrin. I need to talk hu."
Zerrin looks at him from the doorway. His cock is at attention. "Can't talk now sib." Grins, indicates back inside.
"Fuck you, this is important."
"Nov can't wait. Neither can I."
"But you can't poke an alife. They-"
The door closes in his face.
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