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This is an updated version of the 2003 presentation. We so much respect the thinking in this Neumeier document, that we felt it has stood the test of time, but could be brought up to date with contemporary details, like the Features / Benefits Timeline, Interbrand™ Brand Valuation and more. Used with permission.
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As things sit right now, the Brooklyn Nets would take on the Toronto Raptors (in Toronto) in the first game of the Play-in Tournament, as the 7th and 8th seeds, respectively. So, what's the glitch? Toronto is the only NBA city where the still-unvaccinated Kyrie Irving can't play.
Irving has been on a tear since the All-Star Break, and his absence could lower the Net's chances at making the final eight teams in the East - although a loss to the Raptors would still give Brooklyn a second game in which to remain the the playoff picture. Here are Kyrie's post-All-Star stats:
Post All-Star break stats: 38.7 ppg | 4.0 rpg | 5.7 apg | 2.0 spg
It is obvious that Irving would be sorely missed if this scenario comes to fruition. A loss in Toronto would mean a second game versus the winner of the Atlanta-Charlotte Play-In contest and a win would move Brooklyn to the 8th seed against the Miami Heat. A loss to Charlotte or Atlanta would remove them from the post-season. Well, I guess that's one of "the real life things that happen to people", as stated above by Irving.

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What does it mean to be "independent"? It's one of two areas of focus for our current strategic plan. Merriam-Webster defines independence in a few ways:
- not subject to control by others
- not requiring or relying on something else
- showing a desire for freedom
This begs a follow up question: How does one achieve independence? I encountered this inquiry recently at a tai chi class.
Near the end of a recent session, our teacher asked us to select one move from our long form and practice five times. For several seconds I was stuck. My mind went blank. I couldn't remember any of the moves by name and I was not sure how to start. Thankfully, one eventually came to mind and I started practicing, although I was convinced I was doing it wrong. Our group later followed up and reflected on this experience.
What I learned through our reflection was that I was not yet independent. To be honest, I don't attend practices enough and when I do, I am possibly too reliant on the teacher as he goes through the form with us.
I bring this topic of independence up as it is relevant to our Wednesdays for this school year. Because teachers are now instructing in two different modalities – in person and online – we felt it important to provide more time for faculty to prepare and to collaborate. Subsequently, independent learning time is in place for students on these days.
Both personally and professionally, I am excited about this opportunity. For too long, formal education has been viewed as the primary way a person can learn. Maybe this was true a hundred years ago, but with the proliferation of information today via the Internet, anyone can learn just about anything as long as they have a decent online connection, a functional computer, and a network of people and resources who can support a person's goal and plan.
So what does this mean for schools? How can we support our kids to become more independent? Teachers have been preparing students to learn how to learn, to become more self-directed in their what they want to learn and how they can employ specific strategies and processes to be successful. We are still teaching. Yet just like my tai chi instructor, we are asking kids to try and apply their new skills more on their own.
Next are just a few ways that faculty have engaged students in becoming more independent.
- At one primary grade level, the teachers have posted on their website "Wednesday Wonderings": a curation of student-centered videos for independent learning projects along parent resources for additional home activities. The videos walk students through an experiment. Once complete, they post their outcome and explain their process via video or image in Seesaw, their learning management system. Teachers can then offer affirmation and feedback in the comments.
- In an upper grade level, the teachers attended an online project-based learning conference this summer. Using the resources and ideas from this professional development experience, they are starting to immerse students in how to design their own projects based on personal interests. The teachers are also embedding the science and social studies standards into these projects, especially when they model the inquiry process. This new approach frees up more time for the teachers to engage in learning experiences best served during in-person instruction, including feedback on their projects they were engaged with at home.
What these experiences strive to accomplish is to build the dispositions and capacities of students to learn for a lifetime. Formal education eventually ends for us all. How can we best support our youth to be successful for "a bright future in a big world" (part of our mission statement), especially in a world that is constantly evolving? Our kids, and really all of us, need to be adaptive and flexible in these changing times.
We accomplish this by working together. Independence is sort of a misnomer; knowledge doesn't come out of nothing. We develop understanding within the environments we both live in and create for ourselves. Just as our teachers are more effective together, just as I can achieve success in tai chi with the help of a patient instructor, students will only achieve independence if they are taught how to ask questions, to make decisions, and to develop plans for learning. Your partnership with us for these new endeavors, with the goal of developing thoughtful and active citizens for today and tomorrow, is essential to our success.
Is your child engaged in virtual-only instruction? On Wednesdays, Ms. Uppena and I will be hosting a book club/inquiry circle for these students in grades 1-2 and 3-5, respectively. Sign up at the link below and you will receive an invitation which includes dates, times, and links to the digital tools we will be using to connect. (Again, for virtual-only students.)
Book Club and Inquiry Circle Sign Up
Matt has served for 20 years in public education. He started as a 5th and 6th grade teacher in a country school outside of Wisconsin Rapids, WI. After seven years of teaching, Matt served as an assistant principal, athletic director, and building principal all in Wisconsin Rapids. As an elementary principal with the Mineral Point Unified School District, he enjoys working with students, staff, and families in a collective pursuit of continuous learning.


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During the Helenistic period Greek culture and trade blossomed, allowing the advancement of jewel making technology to a high level. Use of molds and thin leaves of gold enabled Greeks to manufacture beautiful pieces of antique jewellery that were worn by all with degrees of wealth and which are preserved today. The most popular gemstones were amethysts, pearls, chalcedony, cornelian, garnet and emeralds.
To discover more about gemstones in Antiquity, please visit our relevant blog post: The History and Mythology of Jewellery in Antiquity.


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How to Safely Clean Cemetery Monuments | |
Information Submitted by & Copyright 2012, Karen Johnson-Heber | |
Ohio laws pertaining to cemeteries under the jurisdiction of townships can be found in Ohio Revised Code (ORC) Chapter 517;
ORC Chapter 759 pertains to cemeteries under the jurisdiction of municipalities (cities, villages and joint municipal/township
cemeteries); ORC Chapter 1721 pertains to cemeteries under the jurisdiction of (private) cemetery associations. The ORC is
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According to ORC Chapter 2909.05, vandalism and other offenses against burial places is a fourth degree felony. Defacing a military monument is a 3rd degree felony. |
(1) My instructions to clean a bronze monument. I provided this to the cemetery townships caretakers for bronze monuments which are normally military monuments.
(2) First thing before doing any cemetery monument cleaning is first get written permission to do any cemetery monument cleaning or preservation in a cemetery. The 2nd rule of thumb is to make sure you have access to water. The 3rd rule of thumb is to DO NO HARM. (3) Remember above all else desecrating a military monument is a 3rd degree felony. (4) Non-military monuments belong to the families of the interred ones, not the cemetery. These are private property even though they are located in a public cemetery. Both can press charges for desecrating any monument for any reason. (5) I went to a Memorial Monument company here in Georgia and asked how I should go about cleaning monuments to clean them and what should I use. I am sure you can contact any memorial monument company and see what they say. |
#1: | Manufacturers seal the bronze during the construction process with a protective coating that often deteriorates after years of exposure to wind, rain and natural elements. Once the sealant wears off, monuments begin to develop a natural grayish-green patina which makes them to look dull and the gold tint begins to flake off. |
#2: | Things I take with me to clean a bronze monument:
#3: | Steps to Clean A Bronze Monument:
#1: | I use a 1 part shock (can be purchased at a pool supply store) to 4 parts water. I use a 2 gallon sprayer like you find in the garden center. I also have one with clear water, Most cemeteries have a water faucet. Do not use shock on the white limestone monuments, it will disinigrate them. |
#2: | I spray it on the monument and let it set on the monument for a minute, then use a soft bristle brush to scrub away the moss and lichens. Then I rinse and let dry. |
#3: | For copper military monuments I use mineral oil. This does not change the color of the monument. I have a small spray bottle. I spray a little on the monument and use a cloth to wipe the monument off. I do not rinse this off. Mineral oil keeps the monument protected. |
#4: | The white limestone monuments are more difficult. They are poreous and need to breath so putting anything on them and leaving it will cause the stone to deteriorate faster. So I usually on spray only on the area I need to read. |
EXAMPLES: | Snapp, William - Before | Snapp, William - After |
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There are also highly regarded primary and secondary schools including Colaiste Chilliain, Scoil Naomh Áine & Moyle Park College. Bordering Clondalkin to the west you will find the picturesque Corkagh Park which is one of Dublin's largest parks covering over 290 acres where local residents enjoy many amenities such as a large playground, fishing lakes, pet farm, a dog park, cycling, running and a host of other sports.
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Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we've published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.


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Now more than ever, being a principal product manager is a job title that most product professionals aspire to attain.
Product management has established itself as one of the leading fields for career development today. According to Zippia, the average salary for a product manager is $118,441 as of February 2022. The same source goes on to mention that the top 10% of these professionals earn more than $159,000 a year.
Principal product managers are among the most senior roles in the product development process. Therefore, the expected salary increase inspires many product managers to climb up the corporate ladder and land this position.
For those hoping to land a role as a principal product manager, the following guide will help you along your journey in this fruitful career.
Step 1. Obtain Certification in Technical Product Management
While the path to principal product manager doesn't have to include technical product management, getting certified in technical product management is a wise step.
The demand for technical product management is high.
Deloitte has shared that more and more businesses are embracing technology in their business processes and solutions. Gartner has also foreseen this transformative digitization, forecasting continued growth in the coming years for both software and devices.
Having technical skills and abilities is an asset to anyone seeking a principal product manager position.
For those who have a background in the computer sciences, you already have one of the most important skills. Additional areas include:
- Background or knowledge in Agile methodology
- Business skills
- Data analysis
- Market research skills
- Problem-solving
- Product roadmap development
- Solid communication skills
- Strategic thinking
To get you started, check out our PMHQ Technical Product Manager Course. It will help you round out your knowledge of the technical side of product management.
Step 2. Learn the Fundamentals of Product Management
While technical product management is a specialized niche, being a product manager involves much more.
Becoming a principal product manager may require you to have technical knowledge, but having the skill set of a product manager is a must. Granted, there is some crossover in skill sets.
The product manager role meets at the intersection of three disciplines:
- Business
- Technology
- User experience (UX)
With those skills, you contribute to everything from product vision to product development. You will then have the ability to define the needs of the customer and at the same time communicate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. You will also leverage your strategic thinking skills to create a product vision and its corresponding roadmap.
A survey done for the Product Management Insights Report states that 84% of the product managers polled say their key activity is setting product strategy.
Because product management entails all of these activities, the skills we've mentioned are fundamental in helping you land a role as a principal product manager.
Step 3. Study Industries Associated With Product Management
While product management is a field that impacts all industries, there are those that stand out more than others.
Paying attention to those key industries will go a long way in helping you to become a principal product manager.
If that's you, here are three industries you should consider:
- Internet of Things
Today, the Internet of Things industry is booming. Now, there are refrigerators that order your groceries and inform you when items have reached their expiry date. There are also cooktops that allow you to connect using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
These are just a few examples of recent smart homes or IoT devices. But the sky is the limit, with more and more household items becoming connected.
Considering that this industry will continue to experience a significant boom, anyone hoping to pursue a career as a principal product manager should keep an eye on trends and tendencies in the IoT sector.
- Healthcare
While healthcare has had its challenges in the last two years, it's still an industry that continues to innovate. They're currently spending billions of dollars on nanotechnology research.
Wearable health care devices are also on the rise. And thanks to the pandemic, the industry has identified other problems that need to be solved. Companies hire product managers like you to find an adequate solution for them.
- FinTech
Payment solutions continue to evolve as consumer readiness pushes businesses to adopt new financial service options. The banking industry is looking at an unprecedented time of innovation.
Some of the current top trends in FinTech are:
- digital-only banking
- payment innovations
- the use of artificial intelligence
New products and innovations require product managers who can then transition into a position as a principal product manager.
Step 4. Gain Relevant Experience
There are multiple ways to gain relative work experience, and they all don't need to happen on the job. This can be challenging for new graduates.
The following includes both formal and informal ways of gaining work experience.
- Internships
- Job shadowing
- Volunteering
- Freelancing
Internships will provide you with a professional learning experience. It's a great opportunity for exploration and job development while offering practical work in your area of interest.
Student interns should expect to gain real work experience from mentors who will provide them with guidance and feedback. It also provides them with the chance to develop professional contacts that may be useful in the future.
Job shadowing means you follow a professional in your field of interest as they work. This can provide you with a better hands-on understanding of a particular career.
While each job shadowing experience will be different, you can expect to observe and perhaps even take part in some of the employees' daily tasks. This is a great opportunity to learn critical skills while on the job.
Volunteer work is often available through many nonprofit organizations or even in your community. Many of the soft skills a principal product manager needs can be attained through this type of work. For example,
- Leadership skills
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Problem-solving
While many of these skills can be learned in day-to-day life, obtaining them in a volunteer position would count towards work experience.
However, you're still looking for the work experience that will land you a job as a PPM. Consider doing freelance work around some of the core skills necessary for a product manager job.
Become a Principal Product Manager With no Experience
Getting hired as a principal product manager without any experience may seem impossible.
That said, if you don't have any experience, chances are you will be hired as a product manager. From there, you can then transition to a position as a principal product manager. Getting hired still won't be easy, but it isn't impossible.
By now, you understand that the role of PM requires many different skills. You may not be an experienced product manager, but being able to prove that you have the right skill set may be sufficient.
For example, you may have managed a project instead of a product.
If you're preparing a resume or portfolio and you don't have experience, be sure to highlight the relevant skills and background knowledge you do have.
Prepare for a job as a Principal Product Manager
You've got the skills, now you need to do the job.
Depending on industries and specific organizations, the duties of a PPM will vary. However, here are their basic day-to-day responsibilities.
1. Develop and Communicate Product Strategies
It's the PPM who strategizes the roadmap from the original product vision to launch. This will include determining whether a product is even viable for development and production.
The McKinsey Strategic 3 Horizon Model is an example of a framework that some product managers use to develop a product strategy.
Regardless of the framework you choose, your process will involve the following:
- Setting goals. These are goals, or goal posts, that the team needs to accomplish along the way.
- Defining product vision. The product vision or product vision statement is a guide and reminder of the end goal the development and product teams are working towards.
2. Collaborate and Communicate With Stakeholders
it's the principal product manager's responsibility to ensure stakeholders are aligned with the product strategy.
This requires them to work with product leaders, product development managers, and product marketing managers. Together, this group devises a plan of action that aligns with the product roadmap.
This calls for close collaboration and strong communication skills.
Many product managers use the communication framework featured above to determine a communication strategy to target their customers. You can take advantage of the framework to develop your own strategy to communicate not only with your product users but also within your team.
3. Analyze Data
The PPM must ensure the product lifecycle aligns with company goals.
Four analytic skills they'll often use are:
- Creating customer metrics to help make decisions about the product they're developing.
- Asking investigative questions so they can gain better insight into their product.
- Making data-informed decisions. These are decisions that are based on more than hard data. Final decisions will be based on data, plus personal experience, intuition, and context.
- Explaining or communicating their analysis to team members, management, and stakeholders.
4. Prioritization and ROI
Along with the product team, it's up to the PPM to make decisions regarding funding based on the product's quality rating.
The PPM also needs to stay aware of product opportunities that could lead to increased revenue. Or it may be necessary to prioritize or abandon product features based on their potential ROI.
The principal product manager doesn't exist in a vacuum—nor does their product. They understand the need to keep a finger on the pulse of current industry trends. This puts them in a position to keep stakeholders informed if necessary.
To a large extent, the success of an organization will be based on the quality of its products. It's essential that PPMs understand their role in producing successful products.
5. Develop Marketing Strategies
Part of the job description of a principal product manager will be to develop marketing strategies. This will involve understanding who your target audience is and how you plan to market to them.
Become a Principal Product Manager: Key Takeaways
Those who've already become principal product managers agree that the hard work done to land the job is worth it.
The job calls for someone with exceptional leadership skills, above-average communication skills, and some degree of experience working on business projects.
Be sure to gain experience as a product manager before transitioning into this type of role.
Compliment your experience by taking a course in product management to ensure that you have the skills and knowledge to succeed in this position.


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Weather Tracking
Track weather to understand how it impacts your performance
As every endurance athlete knows - weather conditions are an important factor in your workout performance. Extreme cold or heat and humidity can impact your body's cardio and muscle systems. A strong headwind can crush your pace. Poor conditions can kill your motivation.
Being unfamiliar with your performance in different conditions can result in an unwanted race-day surprise when the weather changes.
That's why it's important to track weather conditions during your workouts. But remembering to enter conditions is a lot of work, and simply recording notes doesn't allow you to quantify the effects of weather.
Starting today we've enabled weather tracking in SportTracks, including the automated download of worldwide historical weather conditions and ability to edit all your workout weather data. This feature is immediately available for your entire workout history. Read on for details on this new feature and how to get the most of it.
Workout detail weather info
The first place you'll see weather is a small indicator in the workout details map section. At the top right of the map we now show temperature, conditions, wind speed and direction:
Clicking the weather opens a detail page:
Here you'll see additional details such as the humidity and "feels like" temperature that incorporates wind speed, sun exposure and humidity. If your workout happens during extremely rare conditions, you may also see a special message. We're not going to tell you all the messages you might see; you get to discover them on your own.
Weather data quality is highly dependent on your location, specifically, your proximity to weather stations included in the global weather database we use. For this reason, you may need to occasionally correct data that is off. Click the Edit button to edit your data. You have full access to all the weather data we track.
Tabular weather data
Looking at a single workout is a great way to understand how your performance may have been impacted by weather on that day. You can also tease out trends in your data by looking at the workouts view. Add the temperature column to show workout temperature and how it might relate to your pace on certain courses. You can use the same filtering options that you're familiar with to find specific sport types, distances, or a speed range, then sort by the hottest or coldest temperature.
One of the best things about the new weather tracking feature is that it's fully automated. There's nothing you need to do to get weather data on your workouts. It just works; giving you more time to focus on the important things in your training plan.
And as with everything SportTracks does, this just works!! Nice one team!! Love it!! I've been using SportTracks way back to the ST2 days, and a weather plugin for the desktop app was one of the first add-ons I got. For mobi that data only translates to a note and wasn't visible in the summary or log views - this new feature has closed that gap. Thank you!!
This is great - thanks! Any chance that you can add Dew Point? This is typically a little more concrete measurement than "feels like." Thanks again!
Interesting. From this NWS definition of Heat Index, which I understand is the "feels like" temperature when it's warm, (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/wfo/definitions/defineHeatIndex.html), it looks pretty cryptic, and I don't see anything about cloud cover and wind speed. If I'm looking at the wrong definition, please point me to the correct one. Based on some articles I've read, I have my own scale of how Dew Point affects my running, but I'm open to change. If the Dew Point calculation is pretty simple and considering it wouldn't take up much space on the UI, please consider adding it for those of us that like to use that measurement. Thanks for the information!
That's interesting, because I've seen a number of references saying that "heat index" and "feels like" are the same. That's all a little bit too much "black box" for me - I like a measurement that is easy to understand, like Dew Point. The wind and sun is already in your weather reporting, so adding Dew Point would allow me to still use that simple measurement, as well as factor in sun/shade and wind to give me a subjective heat index of my own :>) While cold conditions are certainly important to factor in, I would say that there are larger numbers of people that exercise in the extreme heat versus cold, at least so far as "extreme" defines the degree to which the weather actually affects performance.
Brilliant. I love this feature. Out of interest, is the temperature the average for the duration of the session or is it measured at the start? Min / Max would be perfect!
Thanks. It would certainly be good for long sessions / races to get more readings. I just looked at a marthon of a year or two back that had horrendous conditions - about 16°C at the beginning but about 32°C by the end with humidity as close to 100% as we get in Germany. The readings show 20°C and 67%, which would be about right for the middle of the race but don't really explain why I cramped up so badly afterwards that I needed a saline drip!
Aaron, this is great! Thanks for getting this up and running so smoothly
Couple of questions. First, can the "feels like" number be shown in the Workouts page? As you know, here in NC two 75F days can be hugely different for running when you add in the humidity and sun. Second, is any of this new data available for download through the API?
Good job! Would be even better, if it syncs with the desktop software. As there is a special weather section in the summary frame of every activity this should be an easy task, I assume. Could you implement that, Aaron? Thanks a lot, Marc
I would also like that. Since I started to use the Online I have lost track of the weather information the desktop version used to pick up. Anoying. Hopefully a couple of years later we can get this back agin.
Any plans to expand this to more replicate the desktop capabilities? Having a graph that includes headwind/tailwind would be so much more useful than just a summary. There are so many data sources out there for weather - why are you restricting yourselves to just summaries? Couldn't you use some like WUnderground to crowd source a fuller data set? Is it an issue with data volumes?
This is great. However, I joined Sept. 1 and brought over 60 exercises from Suunto Movescount. The temperature shows for exercise going back to August 2nd but not before.
Hi Aaron, that's great to have weather info connected to each workout.
But would be possible to add " wind speed" and "wind direction" columns to workout summary table?
All my temperature readings have vanished from my activities sometime in the last week or so. It was always the only accurate site for temperature on my runs as it wasn't relying on dodgy Garmin data. The "Temp" column on Workouts is now blank, and on opening and editing an activity there is no temperature entry.
Would be really helpful to get these back as I have used them to compare runs of similar distance and intensity in context.....
*Actually I got it wrong. Its there but there is an issue with the layout so its scrolled off the side of the screen but the heading shows.
Is there a way to select a different weather station, like in the old stand alone version. I have a weather station 1/2 mile away from my home and it reports temperatures, and especially wind speed, much differently than the default weather station used by Sporttacks.
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- STYLE /Synthpop, Outrun
- RELEASE DATE /May 14, 2021
- LABEL /NRW Records
- GUESTSOllie Wride, Dana Jean Phoenix, Jon Campbell
- DESIGNERS /Arkuma Hiyomoto, Jon Simo
- FORMAT /Digital, Vinyl, CD, Cassette
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The Scottish synth master Michael Oakley is about to drop his long awaited new album Odyssey.
This comes two years after his last album Introspect which we applauded for being one of the best synthwave releases in 2019. Oakley returns with his songwriting partner in crime, the very talented Ollie Wride, to deliver another one two punch knockout of a record ready to be slotted into our collections. We have access to Odyssey to see if it does live up to the high expectations we all have for it.
Odyssey starts off with the title track introducing you this synthetic ambience with a slight Oxygene meets soft rock vibe. Wake Up springs into life and if synthwave had it's very own gospel then this would be the anthem to that make the place go crazy. Is There Anybody Of There, previously released as a single, is a mighty track that belongs on the airwaves and blasted through the speakers. Babylon has a more progressive approach with flutes and saxophones having their moments during the song.
Glasgow Song is a nice ballad homage to the Scottish city itself with Dana Jean Phoenix providing her vocal talents on the chorus. Real Life brings a more progressive element like Babylon; again with more saxophone (which is a win in our books) blaring through. Queen of Hearts, another previous single release, is ridiculously catchy and has Ollie Wride and Dana Jean Phoenix on backing vocals; If you haven't listened to it already then we would suggest you should! When Stars Collide has a similar lovable drum beat like the intro to Africa by Toto, but it is a charmful ending to Odyssey.
Odyssey is experimental with the synthwave sounds especially with the drum beats and backing vocals. It's a good change for Michael Oakley as Odyssey shows that once again he can pull out a top notch record from thin air. Some artists have a comfort zone of releasing songs in the same style, but it's great that Oakley doesn't do that. Whilst the synthwave sound is there it feels completely fresh and the genre keeps evolving with innovative records like Odyssey. The songwriting, production and musicianship is fantastic with this release and it is possibly our favourite Michael Oakley album so far.
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If the life of the land teaches anything, it is the need to look at the long-term; at the deep and enduring strengths and qualities that continue through the slow rhythm of the seasons, through nature's ever-rejuvenating generation of new life.
We must respect the temporary fury of the waves, but we can trust the steady character of the tides. We must judge by the season, not the storm.
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This is a tale of a rock superstar who, like his neighbors, has had enough of the poorly-run government roads, and, like his ancestors in Scotland, has taken the rebellious, self-motivated initiative to fix them himself.
He's Rod Stewart, who was knighted in 2016, and who appears to be doing heroic deeds for his neighbors, spending EXTRA cash and putting his 77-year-old back into handling something that the tax-thieving government says IT, alone, must maintain.
On March 11, Stewart posted an Instagram clip of himself and friends shoveling gravel and clay into enormous potholes along a dirt road in his hometown of Harlow, Essex.
Singing, and looking like he's having a good ol' time of it, "Rod-the-Bod," as he has been called, mentioned that no one in the government could "be bothered to do it," so he and his "mates" were, as Bachman Turner Overdrive might have said, "Takin' Care of Business."
He wrote on Instagram:
Working for a living, filling holes is good for the soul!
To which The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood (a former bandmate of Stewart in both the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces – a project that Wood and Stewart re-ignited last year to create new music) replied:
Bravo, Rod!
But some local officials weren't quite as enthusiastic as Rod's friends and neighbors.
In the tradition of the old feudal occupiers, Essex County Council Cabinet member Lee Scott shot a few words across Stewart's proverbial bow, warning others who might also try to do what locals used to do in England, way, way, back in time.
You can't take matters into your own hands. People must always report potholes to the council and we will fix anything that's dangerous.
But Stewart's sentiment has spread over the past week, and likely typifies that of many, not only in Essex County, but around the world, as they see the government force them to pay, see the agents of government claim said money-extraction is for the citizens' own good, and then realize the whole set-up is a giant sham.
Said Rod, as quoted by the BBC:
People are bashing their cars up. The other day, there was an ambulance with a burst tyre. My Ferrari can't go through here at all.
Among their many covetous traits, the British governing classes seem to have a "thing" about roads.
Satirical author Douglas Adams spoofed the self-congratulatory stuffed-shirts in the opening of his classic, "Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy," as the bureaucrats haughtily celebrated their eminent-domain seizure of the protagonist's home to make way for a motorway bypass.
Local British farmers and peasants -- who had established privately-run, centuries-old access paths and roads permitting neighborly travel for sale of livestock and goods -- engaged in some of the first tax protests in that nation's history as the Norman-sparked "enclosure movement" saw royal peers take over the lanes and mandate "maintenance fees" on the roads. That criminal takeover, by the way, was committed even as the royals grabbed private crop-acreage and shifted it to pastureland – a multi-generational offense that led to The Peasant's Revolt of 1381, Jake Cade's Rebellion of 1450, and even saw Thomas More criticize it in "Utopia," published in 1516.
So, the obnoxious retort from government-boosters who bleat, "Who will build the roads?" when confronted with arguments against government-run byways is not only ahistorical, it's downright ignorant of history even as it dismisses the multitudes who fought for their local traditions.
So, the question is not, "Who will build the roads?"
That's a consequentialist question that assumes for others how their earnings should be spent, and to what amount. It assumes, first, that everyone desires or benefits from the roads that the winning political faction wants built (at high cost, and then, likely, poorly maintained), and assumes, second, that people can't handle their own needs via voluntary association and commercial incentives.
If one reflexively holds onto the unicorn of "only government can build and maintain roads, because private industry just won't do it" then how do shopping mall parking lots and entryways get built and why are they maintained better than public roads? What about private driveways? If people are just too daft and incapable of creating and handling the streets leading to their driveways, how about the government also build their drives and the steps leading to their front doors?
As Thomas Di Lorenzo has noted in his excellent book, "How Capitalism Saved America," private industry and commercial incentives prompted vast networks of privately-made and maintained roads for decades in early America. That's how Toll House Cookies started, when a couple created them along an old 18th Century toll road in Massachusetts.
Indeed, even as recently as 2014, a Bath-area Brit named Mike Watts made waves as he opened the first private UK toll road in a century, and in 2014 Matthew McCaffrey noted for the Mises Institute:
The basic story is as follows: after a local motorway was destroyed last February by a landslide, Watts and his wife put their life savings into building a small access road that allowed drivers to avoid a costly detour. The toll road was an instant success, and Watts started to recoup his money by charging £2 per vehicle. (Out of goodwill he also allowed many free riders to use the road, including to emergency vehicles.) However, his success quickly attracted the attention of local government, which immediately set about trying to undermine the venture.
They did. They shut him down. And all those who enjoyed what he provided were deprived of something they voluntarily showed they liked, even as the government deprived them of their money… in order to pay for shutting it all down.
It's not about "Who will build the roads."
It's about ethics. It's about mafia-like claims of power.
Practically, we can see that local people will handle the roads for the sake of local neighborliness and commerce. Ancient history, the Mike Watts story, and Rod Stewart show us that.
The real question of which this news about Sir Rod Stewart reminds us is:
"Who has the right to his own earnings and to decide for himself what he wants to do with them?"
If we hold onto that moral principle of leaving our neighbors to live and keep their earnings unmolested, the positive practical outcomes follow.
Peace begets prosperity.
But government -- even that which claims control over the simple matter of road-building -- is not peaceful. And Rod Stewart reminds us of the difference.
Related: Gov't Gravy Train: Biden Reverses Trump, Readies $929M More For CA 'High-Speed Rail' | MRCTV
Earlier this month Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told American families to buy electric vehicles if they desire gas savings, now he's telling them to take the bus.https://t.co/r5Iw6UA9cB pic.twitter.com/CKqrviNwDA
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Northrop Grumman Microsystems Seminar: Sarah Bergbreiter, "Mixing Microsystems and Robotics"
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
4:00 p.m.
1146 AV Williams Building
Ian White
Mixing Microsystems and Robotics
Sarah Bergbreiter
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
Director, Maryland Robotics Center
Research on mobile microrobots has been ongoing for the last 20 years, but the few robots that have walked have done so at slow speeds on smooth silicon wafers. However, ants can move at speeds over 40 body lengths/second on surfaces from picnic tables to front lawns. What challenges do we still need to tackle for microrobots to achieve this incredible mobility? This talk will discuss some of the mechanisms and motors we have designed and fabricated to enable robot mobility at the insect size scale as well as the use of microfabrication to improve larger robots. Mechanisms and sensors utilize new microfabrication processes to incorporate materials with widely varying moduli and functionality for more complexity in smaller packages. Actuators are designed to provide significant improvements in force density, efficiency and robustness over previous microactuators. Results include a 25 mg 4mm x 4mm x 5mm walking microrobot that can move at speeds > 5 body lengths/sec and 'skins' of soft sensors for improved performance in robot grasping and UAVs.
Sarah Bergbreiter joined the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008 and is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Systems Research. She received her B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1999, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and 2007 with a focus on microrobotics. She received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2008, the NSF CAREER Award in 2011, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2013 for her research on engineering robotic systems down to sub-millimeter size scales. She also received the Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE ICRA 2010 on her work incorporating new materials into microrobotics and the NTF Award at IEEE IROS 2011 for early demonstrations of jumping microrobots.


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"They told us from the start that they weren't going to dispute the reality of the crisis," says Caspar, a 25-year-old student, recalling his participation in Oxford's Citizens' Assembly on Climate Change. "It was very much, 'this is happening. We're in it. But we want to know what you think we should do in response'."
When the UK Government passed legislation to reach 'net zero' carbon by 2050, the members of Oxford City Council wondered whether their city might not do even more — and faster. "We wanted to ask citizens directly if they thought we should be reaching that goal sooner than 2050, and what trade-offs they'd be willing to make if so," says Mish Tuller, Head of Communications, Partnerships & Policy at Oxford City Council. "It was the first full Citizens' Assembly in the UK on this issue."
Citizens' Assemblies — in which a representative group of citizens are invited to learn about, deliberate upon, and make recommendations in relation to a particular issue — are gaining traction in the UK and globally. Citizens' Assemblies give citizens the time and opportunity to learn about an issue, discuss it in detail, before reaching conclusions and arriving at workable recommendations of what should be done. This can help overcome divisive problems, and make seemingly impossible change possible. The approach can improve civic participation and increase the likelihood that marginalised voices are heard. At their best, they can shift power from politicians and lobbyists on issues of vital importance, putting it back in the hands of the people.
The Citizens' Assembly that Caspar took part in over two weekends in September 2019 was, according to Caspar, sobering but practical on the dangers of the climate crisis. Each day was full of talks from experts, some of them Oxford professors, others involved in local business, on how city issues like transport, housing, and biodiversity might be affected. After each panel, Caspar recalls, participants broke into groups to discuss and do voting exercises that cast their views on which areas should be prioritised. "I think the focus wasn't so much on how we voted, at this stage, as to get us thinking about what was important to us," he says. "If, for example, more efficient housing was a greater priority than carbon emissions — what do we change first?"
The participants, chosen to reflect the Oxford population, were all broadly in support of ambitious action. "There was only one other student and one teacher," recalls Caspar. "There was someone there who had a corner shop, some others were self-employed, or retired at home. There were definitely people there I might not otherwise have met." The concerns most people had centred around two issues. One was personal cost: "If they had to refit their homes to new standards, or if transport became much more expensive, how would that affect them?" The second was the broader human cost. "Oxford has a big homelessness problem, and inequality is increasing. They wanted the Council to be really ambitious, but not to forget these issues are also important."
Caspar, who had strong views about the climate crisis before the Assembly, admits that there wasn't much in the talks and panels that was wholly new to him, "but what I did learn about is what people are currently doing." He believes this aspect of the experience may have the most untapped potential. "I knew that Oxford City Council were doing a lot on the issue," he says, citing the visibility of the Council's electric buses and recycling campaigns. "But there were lots of community schemes I didn't know were going on that I'm now aware of. It's really good to know in detail what the local government's doing."
That civic awareness extended beyond the Assembly members, something Caspar feels the Council could take advantage of in the future: "I talked to [friends and family] about the Assembly, they talked to others too. The other Assembly members did the same, so the awareness sort of spread throughout Oxford." That interest could be harnessed, he suggests, to get people involved in community and civic initiatives. "We were meant to represent ourselves, and our own opinions. But as a group, we're also meant to represent the city of Oxford. So I think in that sense it's important for them to realise that we're talking with other people. It would be interesting if, in addition to our views, they'd asked us what we think the people around us believe, and maybe given people who weren't directly in the Assembly a way to participate."
The most surprising aspect of his experience, Caspar says, is how much more optimistic he feels about how much impact humans can still have on the climate crisis.
"I had a real view of doom and gloom [about the climate crisis] going in. But the speakers were optimistic, telling us how many programmes were already in place, or just waiting to start. That made me feel that it was possible to change."
After seeing the whole process through, he's convinced that such assemblies add value to the democratic process, especially on an issue as complex as the climate crisis. "It's less partisan. It's not just a Labour Government in a city council listening only to Labour voters," he says. "I'm not sure it would be as successful on a party-specific issue. But when it's a complex issue that affects all of us, then yes, I think it's a really good idea."
For the Council's part, as a response to the Assembly, it has committed over £19 million in funding for interventions to tackle the climate crisis, while keeping regard to the members' concerns that the programme doesn't disadvantage low-income households or sacrifice current standards of living. The Council keeps the Assembly participants updated on plans and new developments, going so far as to organise a trip to the city recycling plant some months after the Assembly, alongside plans of becoming 'net-zero' by the end of 2030. "It really does feel that they've listened to us," says Caspar.


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Site of Smithy in Chapel End
Description of this historic site
The site of a blacksmiths workshop dating from the Imperial period. It was situated in Chapel End.
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1 Site of smithy marked on OS map of 1887.
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How to Become Debt Free With a Debt Management Plan in Wisconsin
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A Wisconsin debt management plan should be crafted only after you and your credit counselor have completed a thoughtful review of your personal finances. Keep reading to learn how you can complete this review, consider all debt relief options available to you, and pursue a DMP if this option is the right one for you and your family.
Written by Upsolve Team.
Updated February 25, 2020
If debt has you running in circles and collection agencies are catching up with you, a Wisconsin debt management plan might serve as an effective solution to your financial woes. A Wisconsin debt management plan allows you to consolidate some of your monthly bills into a lump sum monthly payment to be distributed to your creditors by a credit counseling agency. Using a DMP, you'll make a lump sum monthly payment to a DMP administrator based on agreed terms. You won't have to pay multiple creditors directly anymore. First, you'll talk to a credit counselor at a credit counseling agency about your personal finances so you can develop an action plan. Streamlining your debt in this way may allow you to pay off your unsecured debt quickly and at better rates than you're paying now.
If you have a steady income and can make your payments consistently, a Wisconsin debt management plan can help you pay off unsecured debts using a monthly repayment plan. It may be possible to arrange lower interest rates and lower minimum payment with each creditor in your Wisconsin DMP.
A debt management plan is often a reasonable debt solution when you have unsecured debts like credit card debt, personal loans, and medical bills. Student loans may not be covered under a debt management program, and you will need to talk to your credit agency counselor about the specifics of your student loan and any Wisconsin payday loans you need to settle. Once you've made all the payments on your Wisconsin debt management plan, you can work on continuing to improve your credit score so you can qualify for new credit.
Is a DMP the Same as a Debt Consolidation?
A Wisconsin DMP lets you consolidate your monthly payments from your unsecured debt—so it is a form of debt consolidation. A debt consolidation loan program is also a form of debt consolidation. What's different? In the DMP form, you don't take out a new loan to pay off your existing debt. If you use a debt consolidation loan to pay off your existing debt, you do take out a new line of credit before consolidating your existing debt. For instance, if you take out a home equity loan to pay off your credit card debt, you're using a debt consolidation loan form of debt consolidation. If you make a monthly payment through a debt management program to pay off your credit card debt, you're using a DMP form.
You'll need a decent credit score to take out a loan for debt consolidation. If you use your house as collateral on a new loan, you could risk losing your house if you suddenly can't make payments. You will not incur new debt using the DMP form of consolidation, and there's no risk of losing collateral.
How to Become Debt Free With a Debt Management Plan in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin debt management plan should be crafted only after you and your credit counselor have completed a thoughtful review of your personal finances. Keep reading to learn how you can complete this review, consider all debt relief options available to you, and pursue a DMP if this option is the right one for you and your family.
Find a Credit Counseling Agency
Credit consumer agencies aren't all the same. Some agencies operate out of a traditional office building, some work only online, and others specialize in telephone counseling. Regardless, your first visit with an accredited nonprofit credit counselor will be free. To find a nonprofit credit counseling agency that can help with your Wisconsin debt management plan, you can start with the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC). The NFCC enforced high member standards developed by the Council on Accreditation (COA). These high standards aren't always used by for-profit counseling companies. Only accredited credit counseling agencies can serve as NFCC members.
There are credit counseling agencies that don't follow the strict standards of the NFCC and COA, and it's wise to ask questions before committing to working with any particular agency. You can ask a credit counseling agent if they work on commission. If they do, this is a warning sign. Ask the agency if they have free information on debt relief options. If they don't, this is another warning sign.
You can search for company reviews, complaints, and scams before committing to a particular agency. Government agencies keep track of complaints from consumer credit agencies and credit counseling agencies. You can review the Better Business Bureau website for complaints, and check out the latest scams the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is tracking. The Wisconsin Department of Justice keeps track of lawsuits against unethical credit service organizations.
What to Expect at Credit Counseling
When you first meet your certified credit counselor, you'll participate in a free, one-time credit counseling session. Plan to be at the meeting for an hour unless you have very few bills and one source of income. No creditors will be contacted at the first meeting, you're simply sharing financial information with the certified counselor to see if a Wisconsin DMP is the best debt relief option for you.
Before you have your credit counseling session, collect your bills from your credit card accounts and other debt sources. Gather your income records for the past eight weeks. Review your credit card payments and interest rates. It will help the meeting go faster if you can bring a list of your total debt that includes the name of the company, the total owed, the amount you pay each month, the interest rate, and the collateral, if any. It would also help if you could show the counselor a list of your monthly expenses.
The goal of your credit counseling session is to create a personalized action plan designed to help you reach your financial goals. The more information the counselor has regarding your personal finances and unique circumstances, the easier it will be to create an effective action plan. You and the counselor will talk about your income, debt, credit history, and your personal challenges. Your input is important so the counselor can get a clear vision of the best debt relief option for you. Don't be afraid to ask questions. At the end of the meeting, you'll have a clear action plan to help you reach your financial goals. This action plan may or may not include a recommendation to start a DMP.
Making the Decision & Getting Started
Take some time to think about your Wisconsin debt management plan before you hunker down into making a big commitment. There are several different ways to manage your debt. If you don't think you can make the monthly payments you and your counselor discussed, and/or you're also concerned about your mortgage or car payment, give some thought to discussing your finances with a bankruptcy lawyer. Be sure to consider all debt relief options before you decide to stick with your Wisconsin DMP.
If you're feeling good about the debt management plan, ask yourself if you've reviewed all the fees the counseling organization charges. Make sure you've discussed Wisconsin state law limitations on fees, set up fees, late fees, and monthly fees that are on top of your monthly debt payment. Make sure you add those fees to the amount you're paying monthly to manage your debt. Make sure you can afford the monthly payments and stick to the budget. Don't be afraid to ask for a lower monthly payment. A lot can happen in a few years. Are you prepared?
Put Together Your Wisconsin Debt Management Plan
To put together your Wisconsin debt management plan, you will provide your credit counselor with more documents concerning your debt and expenses. This will help plan for due dates, lump sum monthly payments, and timelines. There may be legal obligations that have to be dealt with carefully. You and your credit counselor will figure out a lump sum monthly payment you can afford, the best due dates for the monthly payments, and a timeline to pay off your debt that is included in your Wisconsin debt management plan. By reviewing your income, expenses, and bank account statements, you'll also find the best time to make your first payment on your DMP.
Begin Payments
Your Wisconsin debt management plan payments will begin (usually) after you sign an agreement for the payment schedule. The credit counseling service will confirm the terms of the agreement with your creditors. To be safe, give the counselor a call and double-check the date for your first payment and verify with the counselor that creditors have accepted your plan.
Your credit report will reflect your participation in a debt management program, so you can expect a temporary negative impact on your credit score while on the DMP. At the end of your debt management plan, your DMP will have a positive impact on your credit because it will show you have paid your debts in full.
How to Stay Current with Your Wisconsin Debt Management Plan
Craft a personal plan for payment success before you sign off on your Wisconsin DMP payment schedule. What life circumstances could impact your ability to stick to your DMP? Your Wisconsin DMP can age well if you plan for emergencies before you confirm your payment schedule with your credit counselor. Review your life from last year. What kind of emergencies did you face? How about over the last five years? Talk to your counselor about setting aside money for emergencies, so you don't have to make the choice between rent or paying on your DMP.
Also, look at the happy events that happened over the last year. Did you have a birthday celebration for a friend or loved one? Set aside money for your entertainment expenses. It's easier to stick with payments when your life has joy. You should also have a system in place to track your DMP payment due dates and payment history. It's easy to forget a payment when life gets busy. Set up your DMP reminders in advance, before the first payment is due.
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Choosing a Wisconsin debt consolidation loan alternative may be a better debt relief option for you if your credit score has aged well despite your struggles. With a debt consolidation loan, you'll streamline your debt by using a new line of credit as a balance transfer to pay existing debt. This option will allow you to avoid working with a credit counseling agency in an ongoing capacity, which may be attractive to you if you prefer to handle your finances in a particularly private way.
Wisconsin Debt Settlement
Wisconsin debt settlement is a debt relief program that lets you pay less than what you owe before closing your account with a creditor. A debt settlement agency will negotiate with creditors to determine what percent of your debt you'll have to pay. In a debt settlement plan, you'll pay a fraction in a lump sum payment, and the creditor will give you a pass on the remainder of the debt. Your account will then be closed. If the amount you didn't pay is over $600, you'll be stuck paying taxes on the money you didn't have to pay to the creditors. Note that your credit report will show that you didn't pay all of your original debt.
Wisconsin Bankruptcy
If you're stuck in a blizzard of debt and your income can't pull you out, look into filing a Chapter 7 Wisconsin bankruptcy or discussing a Chapter 13 bankruptcy with an attorney. Bankruptcy is a reasonable debt relief option when medical bills are past the overwhelming stage, collection calls fill up your voicemail, or when you're plagued with judgments and wage garnishments. A Wisconsin bankruptcy attorney with experience in Chapter 7 bankruptcies can give insight into your personal bankruptcy options. If you're interested in learning how to file bankruptcy on your own to save a few bucks on attorney fees, Upsolve can walk you through the bankruptcy process.


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The spare tyre covers on the market are very consistent, but there are some manufacturers which are a lot better than others. Tyre covers are very important components of your bicycle, both the rider's safety and for the performances, they achieve when pedalling.
First of all, let's have a general approach to covers. In order to emphasize the importance of tyres, here is a question for you. How important is a cover for you? There is absolutely no problem as long as everything is theoretically all right, but if you get a flat tyre, things change and the covers are essential. These are the components which decide whether you can continue pedalling or not. Covers are consumable components of your bike, which makes it essential for the rider to change them from time to time. Whether you change them more often or more rarely depends on how much you ride your bike throughout the year.
Kinds of tyres and its covers:
You always have to pay attention to the compounds the rubber of the tyre cover is made of and to the construction of the lateral walls of the rubber in question. There are manufacturers which offer a genius system for the tyre covers on the market, which is the "anti-snake bite". Snakebite is one of the most popular kinds of rubber. When you climb a kerb in the street, the rubber is not very hard, the hit causing the tyre to be marked in two symmetrical spots.
This is because the tyre is caught between the kerb and the cover when you hit the kerb and the two walls react to this. This system is not available for any kind of rubber because the rubber having thicker walls means that the cover is heavier. The snake bite can also be avoided if you buy a thicker tyre made of a more resistant material.
Now that you are informed on tyres, here are a few pieces of information on a certain type of tyre covers. If you think of mountain bikes, the standard size of the wheel is twenty-six inches, which is also the size of the tyre cover. There are mountain bikes with wheels of twenty-four inches, these being a bit smaller than the standard ones. You can have cross country covers, downhill ones, Enduro ones, dirt jump ones, racing ones and city bike ones, as well as tyre covers for BMX bikes, all these weighing on kilogram at the most.
Buying tips for the winter bike covers:
At the point when we allude to winter bicycle covers, we allude to the altered ones, however, which consistently have metal crampons. Dissimilar to what occurs with vehicles, bicycles need an advantageous grasp, which can't be guaranteed uniquely by the profile of your tire spread. This is the reason the incorporated metal spikes exist with the goal that your grasp on a day off so on is vastly improved. You can settle on covers with littler or greater spikes. Contingent upon your requirements and on your limits, each model being routed to a specific surface.
In the event that you would prefer not to go through a lot of cash, you should utilize the mid-year covers, yet on the off chance that you do that, you additionally need to drop your weight down to two bars. Along these lines, you show signs of improvement on a day off. Be that as it may, this is only a trade-off, not a sheltered answer for the solidified courses you should ride your bicycle on.
On the off chance that you are keen on putting cash in a lot of spare tyre covers, you should realize that there are not all that numerous offers. In light of the fact that there aren't an excess of bicycle riders who like riding their bicycles throughout the winter. In any case, a portion of the notable makers has a couple of suitable items.


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Well what a 9 months this has been, I don't think any of us really knew back in March how long this was going to go on for, but I am guessing not quite this long.
With a substantial increase in webinars and online seminars and even conferences, I thought I would share just 3 simple tips to make them go more smoothly!
Webinars as we know were around pre-Covid, however, there has been such an influx of them, whether that be Chambers, Law Firms, Academics, speaking to other lawyers or their clients. Discussing the impact of Covid, or avoiding Covid completely and just delivering sessions on important topics.
So how can you make your webinar, whether as the host or a panel member, guest speaker, go as smoothly as possible.
Tip 1 – Camera
Now no one is expecting you to have a Legally Blonde film or BBC News studio set up in your home (other films and news channels are available!) but a clean/clear camera view is expected. Even if it is the one on your laptop or Mac, set yourself up so it is at a good angle and that you have a semi-respectable background. Again, we aren't expecting studio levels of backgrounds and backdrops but something appropriate. We all can remember the furore over what books people had on their bookshelves, don't we?
This also links to lighting, make sure you have some light on you/near you – it really helps!
Also we don't want to see up your nose, your ceiling light fixtures as you have positioned the camera wrong, or potentially that slightly inappropriate piece of art work behind you etc.
Check all of this before you go live preferably as a group, failing that do a mock call with another panel member or alternatively call a colleague or family friend. Ideally no ipad/iphone cameras!
Tip 2 – No reading off script (or even worse off slides!)
If I had a £1 for everytime I sat in a webinar or lecture and thought… just give me the slides I can read them myself! It is incredibly boring and gives the impression you as the presenter aren't overly interested or educated on the subject. By all means have notes and things like that – key points on slides, whatever you need to prepare and have that substance to hand, BUT… do not read off the slides that everyone is being presented with.
Tip 3 – Audio
It has been nearly a year now, and as these platforms were used long before March 2020 – there really is no excuse to not have your headphones connected or be ready to unmute etc. I am so over hearing 'Martin, you're on mute'… (insert other name where applicable!). Have a practice run if you feel nervous/uncomfortable etc. Also make sure people can hear you, minimise other potential distractions online – closing unnecessary internet browsers/tabs etc. Anything that can slow your system down and impact wifi and the general output of your presentation – no one wants the audio or video crashing or you sounding like a robot.
One thing I would say is that everyone is far more tolerant of background noise, interferences, the dog barking when the door goes, children popping in – and I love that – it makes you human! However, if you need to (and are able to) put a sign on the door or whatever it is to help you get in the zone and make for a smoother (more seamless) presentation.
Good luck!


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The BJP on Tuesday continued to attack the protests in New Delhi's Shaheen Bagh and this time it was straight up hate speech. BJP MP Parvesh Verma said that if Shaheen Bagh continued, it will become a Kashmir-like situation in Delhi and "they'll" enter homes and rape "sisters and daughters" unless BJP was voted to power.
BJP MP from West Delhi, Verma, was campaigning for the upcoming elections when he also made communal remarks saying all mosques on government land will be razed and Shaheen Bagh will be cleared within an hour if the BJP was voted to power.
Speak to ANI Verma said, "Lakhs of people gather there (Shaheen Bagh). People of Delhi will have to think and take a decision. They'll enter your houses, rape your sisters and daughters, kill them. There's time today, Modi ji and Amit Shah won't come to save you tomorrow..."
As the Delhi Assembly Elections get closer, BJP leaders have continued to attack Shaheen Bagh protesters, trying to demonise and discredit them, calling them everything from "anti-national" to "tukde tukde gang".
Verma upped the ante against the protesters, giving the protests a communal colour, saying voting for the BJP would mean a Shaheen Bagh free Delhi, something even other party leaders have said. He also said all mosques on government land in the city will be removed.
NDTV quoted Verma as saying, "This is not just another election. It is an election to decide the unity of a nation. If the BJP comes to power on February 11, you will not find a single protester within an hour. And within a month, we will not spare a single mosque built on government land."
Massive protests were seen across the country in the light of the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act. Shaheen Bagh has become the epicentre of these protests with hundreds of women sitting in a dharna all say since December 15.
BJP's attacks on anti-CAA protesters has gone from bad to worse with elected representatives attacking them as if they were not citizens of this country.
While the Home Minister Amit Shah said BJP "won't budge an inch" on CAA, he also asked Delhi voters to press the EVM button with such anger that Shaheen Bagh protesters "felt the current".
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The attacks ranged from just straight up threats of violence to sexist digs.
NDTV quoted him as saying, "These people (referring to male anti-citizenship law protesters) do not have the courage to participate in the protests themselves... what have they done? They started making the women of their houses sit at roads. The children have been made to sit too."


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Last week I sent out several emails to local attractions and locations with the aim to source some new recording locations. One of them was the Maleny Botanic Gardens & Bird World, situated on the Sunshine Coast here in Australia. I was pleasantly surprised when I received a phone call back, almost straight away offering me the chance to go along and record early in the morning, before visitors arrived and even the chance to have an expert there to identify the birds and show me around. I eagerly booked in a session the following week, which was today.
I decided the best option was to take with me my Sound Devices MixPre 6 recorder, an AT815ST stereo shotgun microphone and also a Sony PCM D100 portable recorder. The idea being that I could use the MixPre 6 and shotgun to capture isolated bird sound effects and use the Sony for general ambiences.
Arriving at 9.30am, I was taken down to the aviary and introduced to a very welcoming team who were busy cleaning the aviary ready for the day's visitors. I waited for them to finish up and for a kind lady to arrive who would be feeding the birds as I recorded. Unfortunately, there was a ride-on mower active in the park, close by which I wasn't able to stop, so I quickly realised this noise would be a potential problem. Nevertheless, we got started.
The aviary is divided into 3 sections, one for doves and some smaller birds I imagine are more at risk from some of the larger parrots, an area for native Australian birds and then a larger section full of parrots and other birds from all around the world. I started off by recording with the shotgun microphone in the quieter section. Here I recorded doves and smaller birds feeding. Next we moved through to the larger area with the parrots. Some of the birds here were full of character, including the 90 year old cockatoo called Harry, who followed me around for most of the day, asking me in his Australian squawk (yes, he had an Australian accent), 'Harry wants water'. There were several other hilarious birds here too, including a small bird (I am not sure of the breed) that had some kind of foot fetish and managed to jump on my shoes every time I stood still and several Ringneck parrots. These were extremely friendly and tame and took any opportunity to land on me and the microphone while recording. Mid recording, while the parrots were investigating my ears, head and neck I suddenly lost signal in my left earphone. One of them managed to completely bite through the headphone cable, rendering the headphones unusable. I had no backup pair, so the rest of the recording session would be performed without monitoring.
Using the shotgun was preferable because of the mower noise, some planes that were flying overhead and also people, who by now had arrived and started a tour. I opted to continue to use this microphone instead of the Sony for this reason.
Next we moved through to the native bird section where I was greeted by several curious black cockatoos, more parrots and some very cute galahs, who seemed to want nothing more than for me to rub their necks the entire time. After succumbing to their demands for about 5 minutes, it was time to get back on with recording. I managed to get quite close up to some cockatoos and record their squawks, so much so that I was able to isolate any background noise and provide these as such. Living in Australia, we see and hear these magnificent birds all around us, normally late afternoon so it was good to be able to be up-close and personal with them. They have a very distinctive sound.
While in the aviary, several eagles and other birds of prey flew over, causing quite a stir. At this point all the birds made a sudden move to the other side of the aviary, allowing me to record the flock flying past, which was not only quite scary, but made for a great sound.
Unfortunately, most of the recordings did feature the mower, some people and other clunks and bangs from staff performing their morning cleaning duties, which means rather than getting some clean bird recordings, these have been left as aviary ambiences. But having said that, they are still extremely useful (if you're looking for aviary ambiences) or with some simple filtering, can be used as tropical bird backgrounds, when mixed with other sounds to mask the mower and other background sounds in the mix.
The manager very kindly said I could return anytime, which I plan to do. Next time there will be a few things I will do differently. Firstly I'll check if the mower will be present, and schedule around it. Secondly I'll make sure to record only when other people are not on tours. This will be tricky, but will be worth the extra effort and thirdly, I'll tape any thin loose wires away so that the birds can't eat them.
I haven't finished editing the files yet so they're not ready for download, but as soon as they are, you'll find them in our free Birds sound effects library.


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Ladan Boroumand
The Unraveling of Iran's Islamic Republic (Visiting Fellow: October 2021 – September 2022)
Dr. Ladan Boroumand is the co-founder of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran, a nongovernmental organization that promotes human rights awareness through education and information dissemination, including by way of the online human rights library Omid memorial, a website that documents human rights abuses committed by the Islamic Republic and memorializes its victims. In addition, she formerly served on the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy. A historian by training, she is the author of the book La Guerre des Principes (1999), which examines the tensions between human rights and national sovereignty during the French Revolution, and has also published articles on the French Revolution, the Islamic revolution in Iran, and the nature of Islamist terrorism. During her visiting fellowship, Dr. Boroumand worked on a book manuscript "The Unraveling of Iran's Islamic Republic," which analyzes the roots of the current crisis of legitimacy in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the concomitant emergence of a pluralistic dissident and popular protest movement. Dr. Boroumand's work analyzed the growing support for secular liberal values in Iran, in spite of the regime's harsh repression.
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Located on a former landfill, South Coast Botanic Garden employed a regenerative and systematic paradigm and approach for the design of the Creek Garden and Lake in order to holistically manage large amounts of off-site stormwater, conserve water through rainwater harvesting, restore habitat, and create a fantastic place while showcasing these values through garden design and education. The presentation will illustrate a method for utilizing the Seven Principles of Regeneration such as seeing wholes rather than parts or potentials instead of problems, to help holistically plan and design a garden.
P. Mills and C. Russell, Russell + Mills Studios, Fort Collins, Colorado; A. Nakashima, South Coast Botanic Garden, Palos Verdes Peninsula, California


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Announcement from Music at St. Alban's
Because of the pandemic still raging in our area, Music at St. Alban's has postponed all in-person concerts for the upcoming season (2020-21) until 2021-22. It will, however, host four virtual concerts during 2020-21, each on a Sunday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.: September 27, November 22, February 21, and April 18.
Each of these concerts will be aired via Facebook Premiere on both the M@SA and WDAV pages. Each will feature a 30-minute performance and short interview with performers. Details about these events will soon be available at our website.
The board of M@SA and Artistic Director Barbara Krumdieck recognize that Covid-19 has brought unexpected challenges for all of us and hope that its patrons, attendees, and families are holding it at bay. We thank you for your past support and hope that you will consider helping defray the cost of producing next season's virtual concerts. Although they will be freely available to all, M@SA is committed to paying performers for their time and talent; freelance musicians have suffered huge losses in income during this crisis. Again, please consider supporting M@SA in this endeavor.
To do so, go to the website or send a check payable to Music at St. Alban's, P. O. Box 731, Davidson, NC 28036. Thank you for all you do to help bring excellent chamber music to our community and beyond!


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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:14:13 +0400 From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: Problem with rules and Charset for french language On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:19:25PM -0000, madfran wrote: > - It is a LM hash > - It begin with the letter "S" > - The last character is "г" (french character) When trying to pass that information into John, you must not forget that John splits LM hashes of passwords longer than 7 characters into their halves. If John appears to load "2 hashes" for your LM hash, then this applies to you. If so, you should not restrict John to trying only passwords starting with an "S" since the character in position 8 of your password might not be an "S". Similarly, you should not restrict John to trying only passwords ending with your "French character" since the character in position 7 of your password might be different. It may make sense for you to apply such restrictions separately from each other. That is, you let John try candidate passwords (to be tried against the LM hash halves) that either start with an "S" (likely matches against the first half) or end with your "French character" (likely matches against the second half). > - I don't know the other characters bat I am sure it contents some of the > following french characters, > "баюгийхктношэ" Well, it means that you can't just use the provided .chr files. > I want to do: > - Perform an attack fixing first and last character Please see above. You can implement that with an external filter(), in two ways: either by filtering out candidate passwords that don't meet the criteria (too slow to be used with the fast LM hashes) or by prefixing or suffixing other candidate passwords with your known characters. If your LM hash is in fact being split into two (that is, if your target password is more than 7 characters long), you'd need to define two such external modes - and use them on separate invocations of John. You can find an example here: http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2006/04/08/2 > - Use in the others positions the french characters (others than standard) You may start by running a French or a multi-lingual wordlist. You may combine that with an external filter() as suggested above, although wordlist runs against LM hashes are usually quick enough anyway (just a few minutes even when you're letting John apply word mangling rules). If that doesn't (fully) crack your password, you may proceed to define and run a full-blown external mode. You can start with the "8bit" external mode example given in the following older john-users posting: http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2006/02/16/1 This "8bit" mode may be good enough as-is to crack the second half of your password if it is short. Say, if the password is 10 characters long, its second half is just 3 characters - so it'd get cracked quickly. For longer password halves, you'd need a smarter external mode (that would use a smaller character set, possibly different for each character position) - or you could adjust the CHARSET_* settings in params.h, re-compile, and generate a custom .chr file. For the latter, you'd need to have some passwords (or password-alikes) containing all of your character set in your john.pot: http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2006/01/29/1 You'd need to use --external=filter_lanman when generating your new .chr file to let John take advantage of the fact that passwords input to LM hashes are case-insensitive (for 7-bit characters). Then base your new "incremental" mode definition on [Incremental:LanMan] (the important setting is "MaxLen = 7"). -- Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com> GPG key ID: B35D3598 fp: 6429 0D7E F130 C13E C929 6447 73C3 A290 B35D 3598 http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments Was I helpful? Please give your feedback here: http://rate.affero.net/solar -- To unsubscribe, e-mail john-users-unsubscribe@...ts.openwall.com and reply to the automated confirmation request that will be sent to you.
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Donington Park and the Roman rebel.
Thu, 31 Mar 2011We know the sun always shines on the righteous and that's exactly what happened last weekend at Donington Park. Yes its good honest people back in charge of the Derbyshire circuit so we saw summer sunshine for Friday's free practice and also for WSB race two on Sunday. The circuit is better than ever with a new Esses section in place, and while the paddock remains unchanged, work has already started that will see gradual revamp over the year ahead. Outside the paddock, George White has opened a smart new store adjacent to the museum and with an excellent cafe next door it makes a top venue for a ride out.
The racing was brilliant but it was reigning WSB champion Max Biaggi's antics and lack of results that was the major talking point of the weekend. It kicked off on Friday when he clashed with Michel Fabrizio at Coppice, punting the Suzuki rider into the gravel and out of free practice. The next day little Massimiliano managed two near identical off track excursions at Redgate then an on track/off track handbag scrap with Marco Melandri before handing over a 3000 euro fine for slapping the man from Ravenna.
It would seem all of this left him frustrated on race day as an average start from the second row in race one saw him move up and down the leader board as he continually missed apexes and braking markers before bagging a 7th position at the chequered flag. Race two was worse as he jumped the start while trying to anticipate the lights but then refused to take his ride through penalty so was subsequently black flagged and disqualified.
I've always admired his riding but never really respected him as a human being. I've watched him trying to intimidate riders since his GP debut in 1992 and I even had a little taste myself during my last GP season in 1995. As a has been on a very average 250cc Aprilia, at the opening races Max liked to fly past on his full factory version then brake check me mid corner. At first I thought it was my imagination but I soon realised he just wanted to let me know who was boss. He stopped this trick when he realised I was no threat which was good timing as I was looking forward to taking him out had it continued. I thought Melandri dealt with the Donington practice incident perfectly. Biaggi was the one in the wrong but Marco still remained calm and dignified throughout. The Yamaha rider's attitude towards the Biaggi reminded me of an interview I did with him three years ago at the NEC when I asked how the Roman would fair in WSB. His reply was 'I don't know and I don't care'. Love him or hate him racing would be a lot less interesting without Max Biaggi.
Read Whitham's take on Biaggi's latest tantrum here
By Niall Mackenzie
See also: Max Biaggi loses the plot . . and very nearly his teeth !, Max Biaggi loses the plot . . and very nearly his teeth !, New ÖHLINS products for GSX-R600 & GSX-R750.