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Brangelina: Still going strong after 10 years together
For the first time in a long time, everyone's favorite Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie sat down for a joint interview to talk about health, marriage, and their first film project together in a decade.
The pair last shared the screen together in 2005's 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith'; it was during the filming of this action flick where their love story began.
Though theirs was a whirlwind romance at first, time and trials proved that what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had was a rock solid relationship for keeps.
In their upcoming film 'By the Sea', they portray a couple whose marriage is disintegrating. The opposite can be said of the two stars, though. They remain solid and steady throughout everything.
In 2013, Angelina got a double mastectomy as a preventive measure against breast cancer. She lost her mother eight years ago to the disease.
And just this year, after the doctor told her she was showing signs of increased risk for ovarian cancer, she had both her ovaries removed as well.
Brad standing by her through these surgeries deepened their bond.
Many fans expressed their admiration for Angelina who took such brave steps to ensure that she will still be around to see their six kids: Maddox, 14, Pax, 11, Zahara, 10, Shiloh, nine, and seven-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, grow up.
Aside from the rare Today interview, Brangelina also shared intimate black-and-white photos with W Magazine.
You can watch their Today show interview below:
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The Final Impact
November 20, 2014
By: Josh Boutwell of Wrestleview.com
Wouldn't you know it that the final Impact on Spike TV and we have a storm that knocks out the power last night so I miss it. Thankfully, well maybe some of you say not thankfully, I was able to catch it on online this morning. I have been covering Impact here on Wrestleview since 2008. I believe my first week was the week the Main Event Mafia was born. I've had the pleasure of recapping and reviewing some incredible moments and matches over that time, and I've been tortured at times with some of the most awful Russo-rrific moments. If you had to get me to boil it down to just a couple of matches that were my favorite in that time I would have to say it would be between a few matches. The first would be Beer Money and the Motor City Machine Guns in a 2/3 Falls Match back at the "Whole F'N Show" in 2010, AJ Styles vs. Kurt Angle from January 2010, AJ vs. Roode from 2012, and the recent series between The Wolves, Hardyz, & Team 3D (can't pick just one of those matches). I would say the greatest moment for me was the formation of the Main Event Mafia, that was just such a cool moment and also AJ Styles' return as the "lone wolf" character in 2013 was pretty awesome while not long lasting.
The Spike TV era is now over for TNA. What does the Destination America era have in store? Well, we will have to wait and find out and the big problem here is I do not get Destination America currently on my satellite provider. The hope is that regardless of what happens is that I will still be able to cover Impact in the new year regardless of the situation and hopefully TNA will have a solution for this dilemma for those of that do not get that network. Stay tuned on Twitter, if you care, because we will definitely have it figured out before Impact debuts in 2015. Now, let's get to the finale.
The opening sequence was just simply to continue the Roode and Lashley feud with Lashley continuing to look like an animal.
I absolutely loved the Knockouts Match, it was by far the best match Havok has had so far in TNA and easily the best Knockouts match since the Terrell-Gail series last year. I think it was a cool moment to see Terrell finally get the title but honestly I think if they had her chase for it continue and then pull it off at a PPV down the line it would have meant more. I really want Gail-Havok to continue as a feud but this could actually end up as a neat 3-Way feud. Havok losing her title so soon isn't something I was very fond of but she has an out because she didn't get pinned and still looked very strong against two of the top Knockouts in TNA.
This Chris Melendez/Anderson/MVP/King angle does nothing for me, and as good as a story Melendez signing with TNA is it just feels like he was signed for the publicity and nothing more. Maybe he will blossom when given an opportunity to do something other than just be a war vet on TV (no disrespect intended).
Bram and Dreamer had a fun garbage style match but I have grown beyond tired of all of these hardcore matches with him. He is a great character and his intensity is awesome. I just wish they would focus on he and Magnus as a team and let them grow there than do this tired King of Hardcore stuff.
It frustrates me to no end that a random hardcore match can get damn near 15 minutes but a 4-Way for the vacant X-Division Title gets barely five. They had an exciting match while it lasted but those four could put on such an awesome match given more time. I don't think anyone ever thought any of the other guys in the match had a chance other than Low-Ki, it was pretty obvious. Hopefully the X-Division will get SUSTAINED focus in the new year on a new network. The X-Division is what made TNA stand out to begin with when the rest of the roster was pretty much nothing but WWE and WCW cast offs the X-Division put TNA on the map. It's time to put more sustained focus back on what brought TNA to the dance.
The angle between Kurt and MVP was cool and I have to admit that a feud between a healthy MVP and a healthy Kurt Angle sounds like a pretty fun feud for next year to start out with and I'm looking forward to along with Lashley and Roode continuing their fantastic run together.
The final Impact on Spike was a pretty solid show but it wasn't the slam dunk awesome finale that I hoped it would be. Granted TNA wasn't sure this was going to be the last show on Spike when they taped but it was still a mild disappointment, but the biggest disappointment was that there was zero mention whatsoever of the new TV deal. I understand that it is probably because Spike didn't want them to mention another network but at least directing fans to the TNA website for "huge news on the future of Impact on TV" could have been done you would think. Also, Spike may allow them to advertise the move on the "best of" shows that start in December but there will only be a fraction of the audience that watched last night watching those shows.
Anyway, that's it for 2014 and the Spike TV era, see everyone in 2015!
– Segment/Promo of the Night: Angle/MVP
– Match of the Night: Havok vs. Terrell vs. Gail (****)
– Overall Grade: B
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Today on 420 Cloud our host Alex Mardikian is joined by Jesce Horton, the Co-founder & Board Chairman of the Minority Cannabis Business Association. The MCBA has members in over 35 states, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada. Before entering the industry, Jesce worked nearly seven years at Siemens USA holding positions in various roles including sales, finance, field service engineering and global strategy.
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UPDATE 11 Aug. MARSOC IDENTIFIES MARINE KILLED IN COMBAT ACTIONS IN IRAQ
Gunnery Sergeant Scott A. Koppenhafer, 35, of Mancos, Colorado, died August 10, 2019, after being engaged by enemy small arms fire while conducting combat operations.
This incident is under investigation.
Koppenhafer was assigned to the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, Marine Forces Special Operations Command, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
It is with heavy hearts that Marine Forces Special Operations Command announces the death of a Marine Raider following injuries sustained during combat action in Iraq, August 10, 2019.
Gunnery Sergeant Scott A. Koppenhafer, 35, a critical skills operator with 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, suffered fatal wounds during combat operations while supporting Iraqi Security Forces. He was originally from Mancos, Colorado.
Koppenhafer, who joined the Marine Corps in 2005, spent the last 10 years as a highly revered MARSOC Critical Skills Operator (CSO). Before joining MARSOC, he served as a machine gunner with 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, and later as a scout sniper, completing deployments with both the 31st and 11th Marine Expeditionary Units.
Koppenhafer completed MARSOCs arduous training pipeline as a critical skills operator in 2009, graduating as the Individual Training Course honor graduate. During his first MARSOC deployment to Afghanistan, he was meritoriously promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant. He completed three additional deployments as a member of 2nd Marine Raider Battalion and was selected as MARSOCs 2018 Critical Skills Operator of the Year. His personal decorations include: two Bronze Star Medals with Combat Distinguishing Device, two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals with Combat Distinguishing Device, one Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, one Humanitarian Service Medal, two Combat Action Ribbons, four Good Conduct Medals, the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and six Sea Service Deployment Ribbons.
Gunnery Sergeant Koppenhafer was a graduate of the School of Infantry, Mountain Survival Course, Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE), Scout Sniper Course, MARSOCs Individual Training Course, MARSOF Advanced Sniper Course, Basic Airborne Course, Military Freefall, MARSOF Heliborne Insertion/Extraction Techniques Master, and Military Combatant Diver Course.
He graduated from Adams State College in 2005 with a B.S. in Business Marketing.
He is survived by his wife and two children.
Our most sincere thoughts are with the family and teammates of Gunnery Sergeant Koppenhafer during this difficult time. MARSOC is providing care and support to Gunnery Sergeant Koppenhafers family; we urge respect for their privacy as they grieve this incredible loss.
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When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion. When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing. When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors. When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you. When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.
With that being said… Bling Bling
in D.C. Washington D.C.'s workers enjoy the highest salaries of any U.S. city, with a median household income of $85,198 according to CNNMoney. It is even higher for the federal worker segment. The number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has rocketed upward ten-fold in the past five years and has doubled since President Obama took office.
Welfare Nation Americans depended more on government assistance in 2010 than at any other time in the nation's history. A record 18.3% of the nation's total personal income was a payment from the government. Wages accounted for the lowest share of income, 51%, since the government began keeping track in 1929. More than 44 million people are on food stamps, which is a 39% increase since President Obama took office. The number limousines owned by the government over the same period has increased by 73%. U.S. households are now getting more in cash handouts from the government than they are paying in taxes for the first time since the Great Depression; an astounding $2.3 trillion.
Wild Pigs
The Congressional Pig Book compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste has identified 9,129 pork-barrel projects at a cost of $16.5 billion. Obamacare Charlie Foxtrot The Obama administration has issued over 1300 waivers to special businesses, several cities, four states and many unions from his health care legislation. Medicare and Medicaid made at least $70.5 billion in "improper payments" last year, which was 9% of their entire budget. These improper federal payments amounted to more than the combined total of $68.3 billion spent by the entire Homeland Security and State Departments. In fiscal 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services will spend $909.7 billion.
In fiscal 1965 the entire federal government spent $118 billion. Even taking inflation in to account, $118 billion is the equivalent to about $822.6 billion today. So the Department of Health and Human Services spends more money than the entire Lyndon B. Johnson budget. Investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee have discovered that a little-known provision in the national-health care law has allowed the federal government to pay nearly $2 billion to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations to subsidize health coverage costs for early retirees.
The caveat called the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program legislation called for the government to spend $5 billion to subsidize unions, states, and companies that had made commitments to provide health insurance for workers who retired early between the ages of 55 and 64 before they were eligible for Medicare. Retire at 55, fellow citizens pay for health care; we are becoming more and more like Europe everyday.
Obamacare will establish insurance exchanges, which are heavily regulated with mandates and minimum requirements galore. The policies offered will be so costly that families will receive subsidies to offset the costs. Starting in 2014, subsidies will become available to families with incomes between 134% and 400% of the federal poverty line. The Wall Street Journal breaks down some scenarios, a family of four headed by a 55-year-old earning $31,389 in 2014 dollars (134% of poverty line) will get a subsidy of $22,740. A similar family of four earning $93,699 (400%) gets a subsidy of $14,799.
A family that makes one dollar more gets nothing. My family of five pays less for health insurance than "rich" family's subsidy. They are predicting that health insurance in 2014 for a family of four will run $23,700. President Obama's solicitor general, while defending Obamacare in front of a federal appeals court stated that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.
This is not a parody. This is not a Saturday Night Live skit. This happened.
Back in the USSR The Obama administrations National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Boeing to block production of the company's 787 Dreamliner at a new assembly in South Carolina. The Obama administration wants to force a private company to move its facilities from a "right to work" non-union compulsion state back to Washington where all workers will be forced to join a union and therefore have dues taken from their wages and given to the Democratic Party. This is the first time a federal agency has intervened and decided to dictate to a private business where it can and cannot operate in the United States. The reality is that there has been quite a migration from the union states to the "right to work" states, which is bad for business for the Democrats.
Businesses don't want to operate in union-shop high tax states like New York, Washington, Michigan, California and Illinois. A 2010 study in the Cato Journal by economist Richard Vedder of Ohio University found that between 2000 and 2008 4.8 million Americans moved from forced-union states to right to work states. The Obama administration with this suit wants for all intents and purposes forced unionism across the land. This story is one of the most frightening, I have covered in a long time.
The idea that the United States (land of the free, home of the brave) is ordering a company to do business where they tell it to is something out of the Soviet Union. Al Qaeda and all the other Islamic wackos do not scare me one-tenth as much as these statist bureaucrats do. Boeing spent $2 billion building a plant and creating jobs in South Carolina. Not a single job was lost in Washington; in fact they added two thousand.
If you were the CEO of XYZ company and were thinking about opening a new manufacturing facility and had to choose between country A where they might sue you and force you to shut down because they don't like your locale, or country B where they stay the hell out of your way, where would you go?
Kiss Up To Your Banker
General Motors agreed to sponsor a propaganda film celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. How about that! Obama just announced that we will lose $14 billion on the auto bailouts, which will translate into $30 billion when all is said and done, but they have enough money to sponsor a communist propaganda film. Remember that next time you see some stupid GM commercial with their American flags flying and patriotic music playing in the background.
Stimulus Bonanza
A construction company that received multiple stimulus grants from President Obama's stimulus package was quite tardy on its federal tax bill to the tune of $700,000. While at the same time the company was blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars at casinos. This was not an isolated incident. Investigators discovered that just during the period that they examined, one out of every six stimulus contract or grant dollars went to a known tax cheat. 3,700 stimulus recipients that received over $24 billion in our money owe a total of $757 million in taxes.
The Debt Threat From Admiral Mike Mullen, chair of the Joint Chiefs, "I was shown the figures the other day by the comptroller of the Pentagon that said that the interest on our debt is $571 billion in 2012. That is, noticeably, about the size of the defense budget. It is not sustainable."
Our military feels are fiscal situation is our greatest national security threat.
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Kaymer finding his major form again
Martin Kaymer doesn't begrudge those who had written him off as a one-major wonder. Even if the German who won the 2010 PGA Championship hasn't yet reached his 30s.
"Those things are not nice to read, but I can understand why people think like this," Kaymer said. "It's quite normal. Which was just very nice for me that I knew deep inside that I never really doubted anything I was doing."
From a deep slump, Kaymer is making his way back. He captured the Players Championship earlier this season, and on Thursday the former world No. 1 shot the lowest score in three U.S. Opens staged at Pinehurst, carding a 5-under-par 65 that gave him a three-shot lead after the first round.
Kaymer, 29, made six birdies in his afternoon round, including three over his last five holes. No one could touch that, with four players at 2-under and another 10 at 1-under.
"I would have never expected myself to shoot such a low round in Pinehurst because of the conditions, but it's a good round of golf," Kaymer said. "I'm not freaking out about it. It's the first round of a very, very important tournament."
From 2008-11, Kaymer notched 10 victories, including the PGA at Whistling Straits. He rose to No. 1 in the world for eight weeks. But then he began to struggle, and through this year's Masters he doesn't have a top-10 finish in 13 major starts since taking the PGA.
"Slowly, I gained some confidence, and then all of a sudden you win the Players," Kaymer said. "It's a big, big relief that now I can start playing golf again and don't need to think too much."
Fowler's tribute
When Rickie Fowler paid tribute to Payne Stewart on Thursday by wearing white knickers and argyle socks, it wasn't just a fashion statement.
"One of my all-time favorite players," said Fowler, the Murrieta native who was 10 when Stewart died in a plane crash months after winning the '99 U.S. Open at Pinehurst.
"I started crying in the car," Fowler said when he learned the news of Stewart's death. "I think it was tragic to the whole golf world."
Fowler, who shot 70, said he heard plenty of comments on the course. His favorite? Somebody called him "Rickie Stewart."
In Fowler's group of young stars, Jordan Spieth and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama each shot 69.
Fitzpatrick holds his own
Matthew Fitzpatrick, the 19-year-old Englishman who is the reigning U.S. Amateur champ, shot an impressive 71 while playing alongside Justin Rose and Phil Mickelson. His round included having to call a one-stroke penalty on himself when his ball moved as he addressed it for a chip shot on his 17th hole.
Fitzpatrick, who spent only one semester at Northwestern, will turn pro after the Open. Freckle-faced and playing with no hat, he looks not much older than 14.
"I've gotten used to showing my ID at tournaments," he said.
Bubba feeling beaten
Masters champion Bubba Watson sounded very much like a guy who didn't like the course before play began, and that didn't change after he shot a 76.
"I don't have the visual that I'm looking for," Watson said. "Last year I didn't play very well at Merion, but I like that golf course. … Around here it's hard to visualize some of the shots that I want to hit, and so for me it's difficult."
Pre-tournament favorite Rory McIlroy scored 1-over 71 to be tied for 36th … Former San Diegan Kevin Stadler shot 77 … The highest scores of 82 were recorded by 20-year-old amateur Brandon McIver and 25-year-old pro Donald Constable.
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Realize your Route
It's dumbed down for my english teacher, but I did get an A so I thought I's share.
Andy Tembrock
February 28, 2002
Realize your Route
For those of you who have ever tried the sport of rock climbing, I am sure that you found it to be a most humbling experience, which requires not only skill and strength but mental resolve as well. I end up spending a good chunk of summer and all of fall doing just that, climbing rocks. I travel all over Minnesota, climbing indoors and out, and by the end of each day I realize how much I love the danger and mental strength involved in climbing.
But as the days go on, I want to keep testing and pushing my skills as a climber. This is how I discover the St. Johns Climbing Wall. By this time I will top rope anything, this is when climbers are attached to a rope hanging from the top of a wall, not caring about the consequences of falling because you can only fall a foot or two any way. I also began bouldering, climbing without ropes. There can be a lot of adrenaline pumping moments when you boulder but I want to be able to climb high. Since there are no ropes in bouldering, climbing high is not an option and when you top rope there is always something there to help pull you up. I want the ascent to be all me. There at the St. Johns Climbing Wall, I discover sport climbing.
Sport climbing is when a climber carries the rope up with him, clipping into a quickdraw, an anchor on the wall, every five feet or so. This type of climbing will always fascinate me. More mental resolve and commitment go into each move because when you fall, you fall hard. A sport climber will keep falling until he is past the last quickdraw he's clipped into and all the slack in the rope is taught. These falls usually average around 5-6 feet of free fall. So I start to climb on the set sport routes at St. Johns. I start easy on a nice climb with plenty of holds and a great crack in the wall to climb on. I move up quickly, reaching for each hold and clipping into the quickdraws on my way up. I make it easily. Now it's time to try another route. Aside from one small fall, I complete this as well. I'm starting to feel pretty good about my sport climbing abilities, maybe a little to good.
The next time I am out climbing at St. Johns, I decide on trying the same sport route which I climbed my first time. Except this time I will make it harder for myself and use as little handholds as possible. After a few warm-up climbs on the top ropes, I set out on my mission. I know the route, I know where to clip in, and I'm pumped and ready to ascend. The climb starts out great. I make it halfway through with no problems, except some fatigue from all the force on my arms. Got to keep moving. Most of the time the only way I'm attached to the wall is by my hands jammed into the crack, my feet are only smearing the rubber textured wall. I'm three fourths the way up, I can see my goal, see where this climb will turn into an accomplishment. One hand is jammed in the crack the other trying to clip my rope to a quickdraw: "Slack," I yell, "I need more slack." The belayer gives me the slack I need to clip in. Suddenly my feet slip, my hands let go. I'm free falling. I fall past my last quickdraw, hoping for the rope to catch. It does not. Still I fall. Twenty feet latter, I'm hanging at the end of my rope, shaking.
That is the biggest fall of my life, twenty feet of free fall. My mind is numb, my arms, legs, and body shaking. The belayer calls out: "Do you want to come down?" "No, I'll finish my climb," I answer back. I'm still shaking, but I must finish. The rest of my climb is agonizing. With each move I risk another fall, but I still must finish. I slowly make my way back up the wall again, reaching the point where I fell. This time I get my rope clipped in and move on, slowly. Finally I reach the top. I clip into the lowering bolt and sit back. I had done it. I finished the hardest sport climb with the longest fall of my climbing career. Thanks to my mental resolve to finish the climb, I did not have to retreat and sit there wondering if I actually could have made it. I realize my route and relax.


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Dala – With a capacity to generate 12.42 MW of electricity and ensure the sustainability of the economic and social development of the provinces of Lunda Sul and Moxico, Chiumbue hydroelectric power plant in Dala municipality was inaugurated on Wednesday By the minister of National Defense, JoAPound o Lourenco.
The project is aimed at supplying electricity to the city of Luena (Moxico province) and to the Dala region (Lunda Sul). It has a hydroelectric plant with four generators, with Horizontal Francis turbines, two of them being 4,14 Megawatts and two of 2.07 Megawatts, totaling 12.42 MW.
For the drainage of all energy produced, it has a high voltage transmission line of 110 kilovolts, with 298 towers, to the city of Luena, in an extension of 99 kilometers.
In parallel, the project has a substation of 110/15 KV, next to the thermal power station of the city of Luena, Moxico province, with two transformers of 10 MVA each.
In the municipality of Dala, there is a substation with two transformers, with a power of 10 MVA, with voltage of 6.3 / 110 KV.
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Insights into the growth of Vietnam eCommerce with payment methods, target audiences, marketing, social media, economy and logistics all profiled
Vietnam is home to 92 million people with a total GDP of 194 billion USD. GDP per capita is currently 2,327 USD and expected to reach 3,105 USD by 2021. Vietnam is ranked 164th by the World Bank GDP per capita rankings.
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There are currently 35.4 million eCommerce users in Vietnam, with an additional 6.6 million users to be shopping online by 2021. These 42 million eCommerce users will represent 58% of the total population. The average user spends 62 USD online, which will grow to 96 USD by 2021.
Dividing internet usage into age groups, gives a better picture of the Vietnam eCommerce market. 96% of 16-24 year olds use the internet, and 91% of 25-34 year olds, with 80% of 35-44 year olds logging on. The older generations log on regularly with 45-54 year olds showing 85% internet penetration, and 62% of those over 55 logging on.
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Total eCommerce revenue across all product categories is 2.2 billion USD, expected to reach 4 billion USD by 2021. Electronics is currently the leading product category, accounting for 842 million USD market share. Toys, Hobby & DIY is second, accounting for 387 million USD.
By 2021, Electronics will still lead the charge, valued at 1.3 billion USD. Fashion will move into second place, reaching 900 million USD.
In 2016, Vietnam was ranked 64th in the World Bank Logistics ranking. 34% of Vietnam's population reside in urban areas.
Preferred Online Payments
A significant number of payments for online purchases are made offline via Cash on Delivery (91% of Vietnamese chose this method). Alternate payment methods include: bank transfers, payment cards, eWallets or scratched cards.
Where does Vietnam buy from?
China supplies Vietnam with 49.8 billion USD in imports. Other key import partners are South Korea (26.6 billion USD), Japan (13.1 billion USD), Other Asia (9.9 billion USD) and Thailand (8.5 billion USD).
Internet and Device Usage
Internet penetration in Vietnam is currently at 56%, and should reach 69% by 2021. Smartphone penetration is 31% and is projected to grow to 42% by 2021.
Vietnamese online shoppers mainly divide their purchasing between smartphones and desktops. 18% made their most recent online purchase via smartphone, while 71% made their most recent purchase via desktop.
Marketing spend in Vietnam is spread across a range of platforms, with TV leading the charge. TV advertising is expected to continue to grow reaching 1.3 billion USD in 2018. Digital advertising also sees continual growth reaching 35 million USD by 2018. Newspapers have the second highest marketing spend (52 million USD) followed by outdoor advertising (38.5 million USD).
Social Media
Vietnam's Social Media Penetration is just 44% of the total population, this is expected to reach 53% by 2021. Facebook, ZING Me, Blogger, WordPress, and DIENDANBACLIEU.NET are the leading social networks.
For more market insights, check out the eShopWorld series of blogs covering a range of emerging eCommerce markets.
*Insights derived from eShopWorld data, Statista, WorldBank, OECD and other industry sources.


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The exhilarating performance of this car is demonstrated with an acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 6.5 seconds (covering 0 to 1000 m in 26.5 seconds). This is matched by an equally impressive braking system: the brake discs are 323 mm in diameter and 28 mm thick and come fitted with Brembo fixed four-piston calipers, a Peugeot Sport signature feature, all with a view to ensuring optimum braking stability.
David Peel, Managing Director at Peugeot UK, commented: "Given the loyal following the 208 supermini has in standard form, it is little surprise that the GTi form makes a very beguiling option. Peugeot's motorsport heritage lives in every inch of the car's DNA, from the finely tuned 1.6 THP 208 PS engine to the exterior detailing and design by Peugeot Sport. What makes it a winner is the fact it is an uncompromising car, engineered to be lived with and enjoyed every day."
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Released in February, the Peugeot 208 GTi is available in limited units for the domestic market at a reasonable starting price of RM 143,888, with a choice of DIgital White or Rogue Red hue.
With its bold lines, dynamic interior and powerful performance, the 2017 208 GTi will continue to dazzle and demonstrate its character and ambition targeted for discerning individuals with high expectations.
The 2017 Peugeot 208 GTi is powered by 208hp 1.6-liter THP (Turbo High Pressure) engine, 8hp more than before and the engine produces 300 Nm of torque. The new 208hp turbo petrol engine block is a sensational machine. Combined with the 6-speed mechanical gearbox, it exploits the chassis' capacities and makes the new 208 GTi a worthy representative of the Lion Brand's sporting expertise. This sensational machine has the capability to accelerate from 0-100km/h in 6.5 seconds, 3 seconds quicker and a top speed of 230 km/h.
The 2017 208 GTi boasts efficient, dynamic and precise road behavior, preventing unwanted understeer and oversteer. From the first turns of the wheel, emotion is substantial. With its finely adjusted undercarriage (Pseudo McPherson at the front, torsion beam at the back), the 208 GTi is agile and precise following the profile of the road and poised to satisfy your emotions.
In looks, the 2017 Peugeot 208 GTi is an icon in its own right. The new bumper has sharper, along with wider front grille and thicker surrounds, which are fully integrated into the bumper. The front face still impresses with Peugeot's exclusive light signature that consist of LED daytime running lights for indicators and DRLs and the rear LED claw effect rear light.
Moving to the inside, the Peugeot i-Cockpit is the major highlight. From first contact, you are at one with the car. A totally new experience, the 2017 Peugeot 208 GTi has been designed around you, the head-up instrument cluster and the compact steering ensure precise steering and an exciting, instinctive and safe drive, without taking your eyes off the road. Ideally positioned, the 7-inch color touchscreen, which comes as standard and has a red and black redline sport theme. The screen also houses a USB port and Bluetooth connectivity. On upholstery, the seats are decked in Club Nappa leather with Caro Weave fabric finish, while the steering comprises full-grain leather material.
The performance of the 208 GTi calls for an appropriate braking system. With perforated discs, 302mm diameter at the front and 249mm at the back.
In terms of safety, the 2017 Peugeot 208 GTi is equipped with a comprehensive list of safety features including Stability Control, Traction Control, ABS, EBA and EBFD, as well as lectronic Stability Program (ESP). On the passive side, the list consists of 6 airbags, front pre-tensioning seatbelts, seatbelt fastening warning system and a collapsible steering column.


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Washington, DC. June 6, 2017 – Partners of the Americas is pleased to announce the appointment of John McPhail as our new president and chief executive officer (CEO). Mr. McPhail assumed the position as of June 1, 2017, succeeding former president and CEO Steve Vetter. Mr. McPhail brings over 20 years of leadership experience at nonprofit organizations across the U.S. and Latin America and the Caribbean.
"I am excited and honored to lead Partners of the Americas and build on the organization's strong legacy," said Mr. McPhail. "I am inspired by Partners' 50+ year commitment to building partnerships for economic development, health, global citizenship, and education throughout the United States and Latin America; a region I consider home."
With over two decades of experience in organizational leadership, Mr. McPhail is a seasoned expert in partnership building, strategic planning, and stakeholder engagement. He is passionate about community development in Latin America and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador. After his service, he remained in country for a total of over fifteen years, marrying a Salvadoran doctor and raising their three daughters.
"On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am pleased to welcome John as the next president and CEO of Partners of the Americas. His leadership, strategic thinking, and experience living in Latin America, make him the right person to drive the mission and vision of the organization forward," said Chairwoman Karen Graham.
Mr. McPhail brings significant experience as a country and regional director for international nonprofits including Save the Children, World Vision, and Project Concern International. He has held leadership positions on the Boards of numerous local nonprofits and associations in El Salvador, providing operational and strategic direction. He coordinated or co-coordinated multiple national and regional networks in Central America in health, water & sanitation and agriculture/food security. Mr. McPhail received a BSc in Civil Engineering from MIT and a Master's in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois / Urbana-Champaign.
The mission of Partners of the Americas is to connect people and organizations across borders to serve and to change lives through lasting partnerships. These partnerships create opportunity, foster understanding, and solve real-life problems. Inspired by President Kennedy and founded in 1964 under the Alliance for Progress, Partners is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization with international offices in Washington, D.C. Learn more at www.partners.net or via Twitter @partnersamerica.


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Artificial intelligence platforms would save companies time and money when trying to find suppliers, a technology expert told attendees of the Business Opportunity Conference in Virginia Beach on Aug. 6.
Instead of scouring databases trying to compare vendors, an AI platform could allow procurement professionals to search for more specific, deeper capabilities of suppliers who would be an optimal match for a larger company, said Clifton Clark III, chief technology officer for Houston-based Computer Decisions.
It could not only improve efficiency, but more precise searching could also help smaller businesses get noticed by large corporations, he said. That could help companies not only keep track of supplier performance, but technology-enriched vendor management systems could help businesses meet their supplier diversity goals, Clark told attendees of a workshop.
More than 300 people attended the 42nd annual conference hosted by the Carolinas-Virginia Minority Supplier Development Council at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.
Not only would AI platforms more easily assess data, they could also "learn" what the buyers repeatedly look for and can make recommendations on potential vendors, Clark said. A data-rich, integrated system could mean buyers spending less time calling or emailing various vendors for more information to determine if they have needed requirements, like a particular certification, he said.
"In layman's terms, the machine is doing the thinking for you," he said.
An all-in-one system could also mean the boss making approvals and the system alerting staff without someone needing to remember to email them, Clark said.
Buyers can spend their time meeting suppliers and making the final decisions instead of figuring out where to start or losing time waiting on responses. And time is money when waiting on approvals through a process like construction.
While the technology can do it, the challenges will include businesses not wanting to integrate systems, not wanting to share real-time data or not wanting technology to replace jobs, he said.
"If it's well managed and maintained, let technology do what it's supposed to do," Clark said.
Attendee Bryan Umstead, a supplier relationship manager with Duke Energy, said it would be helpful to have systems in place where companies don't have to spend a lot of time going through profiles to find suppliers. He attends the conference to meet others in his field and to bring information about supplier capabilities back to his company.
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The nonprofit development council's mission is to connect minority suppliers with supply chain opportunities and ultimately build wealth for those businesses and their communities, said Dominique Milton, regional president and chief engagement officer.
Education like Clark's workshop is a key, she said.
"I think for businesses to be successful, large and small, they need to understand the disruptive technologies on the horizon," Milton said.
For more information about the council, visit cvmsdc.org.
Tara Bozick, 757-247-4741, email@example.com


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Surprise, surprise, oversupply reduces prices in the NEM. Grey heads like me who were around when the NEM was established and understand how it's supposed to work are pleased to see it actually doing what it was designed to do.
The electricity chatter in Australia this week centres on a moment early on Sunday afternoon when the spot price in every NEM region sat at or below $0/MWh.
Some are high fiving at this outcome, as if this is the moment when wind and solar vanquished coal. But the reality is that many utility solar project developers will have their heads in their hands, wondering how they're going to ever be able to convince anyone to finance their projects.
Lyon's hands are steady on the wheel. We've never seen traditional standalone solar or wind that provides intermittent and unstable energy to the electricity network as a sustainable business model. Yes, we must decarbonise our electricity system, and we need to and can speed this up. But successful energy transition requires {innovative and commercially sustainable solutions}.
Lyon's project design philosophy, which we began implementing over six years ago now, including developing the world-first Lakeland Solar and Storage Project and more recently the Cape York, Riverland and Nowingi Battery Power Plants, is that new generation should meet the power system requirements of a modern and stable grid, as well as provide commercial returns to investors.
It must now be becoming increasingly evident to even the most ardent supporters of renewable generation that the days of traditional standalone wind and solar are numbered.
Sagging solar peak pool prices (best illustrated by the classic duck curve below, or kangaroo curve, as our friends at Fluence like to say) are just one of the revenue challenges harming traditional standalone solar. Constraints and changes to MLFs are also having adverse revenue impacts, in some instances very large adverse revenue impacts.
Truly integrated solar battery stations address those revenue risks, as well as the threshold risk of getting connected to the network in the first place. The operational flexibility of integrated solar and battery storage creates revenue flexibility, as well as an ability to optimise across revenue streams, and between contracted versus uncontracted revenues, as market conditions change.
The future is bright for projects that are commercial in the current market, will get a major boost from both 5 minute settlement and the shifting FCAS supply/demand balance, and will benefit further as new markets and/or compliance obligations ensure that revenues reflect the real value of services to the market and to system stability.
It's well past time that generation plant that strengthens the grid should be advantaged over generation plant that weakens the grid. The sun is fast setting on the period of traditional standalone wind and solar being able to push the cost of countervailing their grid impacts onto others.
Thankfully, not all renewables projects were created equal.
Only Lyon's truly integrated battery power stations meet the power system requirements for a stable grid, shift low value daytime solar into high value peaking generation at or below the cost of gas peakers, and address the connection and revenue risks harming traditional standalone solar.
Smart integration of the most advanced technology creates power stations that deliver value greater than the sum of its parts. At the risk of labouring the point, I'd say that a pair of pictures is worth more than two million words to anyone pondering the relative rewards and risks of the different kinds of projects on offer to investors looking to back the new power generation that is both clean and smart.


text: Global Art and Bumba Meu Boi Festival in Brazil March 7, 2019February 22, 2019 by Gary Carter Journey Coordinator Invitation Global Art and Bumba Meu Boi Festival in Brazil June 6 to 20, 2019 My name is Mary Jane DeVault, a member of FF Greater Orlando, Florida, and I am the Journey Coordinator for the upcoming Global Journey to the North of Brazil. Brazil is very special to me, I lived in the south for several years and return as often as possible. The adventure will consist of two seven-night homestays with FF Fortaleza and FF São Luís. I visited the Fortaleza club in 2015, and I know first hand how gracious and fun-loving these people can be. Your hosts in Fortaleza will keep you busy showing your their beaches, art, markets, and much more. They will take us on an overnight stay at a hotel in a quaint fishing village. There we can watch the sunset from atop of the sand dunes. Those who wish to can take dune buggy rides along the beaches which is fun. Learning a Brazilian dance with my new friends left me with a special memory. We will fly to our next club – FF São Luís. Here we will have a very special cultural experience attending the Bumba Meu Boi, a folklore story presented with song and dance. Best of all, we will get to enjoy it with our hosts! This is an event I am certainly looking forward to seeing for the first time. The most difficult part of the Journey will be saying goodbye to our new Brazilian friends. The people and beauty of this place will capture your heart! There are not many spaces left on this Journey, so please contact me if you are interested! In friendship, Mary Jane DeVault, Journey Coordinator FF Greater Orlando, Florida, USA email@example.com View this Journey on the Catalog and Apply Today! Journey dates: June 6 to 20, 2019. The cost of this Journey is $1300 USD and includes: FFI and host fees, domestic flight from Fortaleza to São Luís.


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Xbox One Controller Detailed, Battlefront 3 Rumors
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The buttons to replace the select and start buttons have been named. A Microsoft representative stated the buttons will be called "Menu†and "View†buttons. Along with the names, the functions of these buttons were given too. The Microsoft representative talked to IGN, explaining both functions for the Menu and View buttons.
"The Menu button will bring up context-specific menus which game and app developers can design to enhance the user experience. The Menu button could be used in scenarios such as bringing up in-game menus, showing video playback options, accessing commands on the consoles user interfaceâ€.
Meanwhile, the view button "will change views or provide more information in games and apps. The function of the View button will be driven by developers. Possible uses of the View button include viewing a map during a role playing game, displaying a leaderboard in a first person shooter, and enhancing the navigation of the console's user interfaceâ€. Some didn't realize that the Xbox symbol at the top of the controller was the new home button, but it's been confirmed as the same button as seen previously on the Xbox 360.
Microsoft also confirmed that the Xbox One is designed to sit horizontally as part of an entertainment center, rather than standing alone upright. A spokesman said the Xbox One is "designed as a premium entertainment system that is aesthetically at home in the living room, the console is intended to sit horizontally. Additionally, the airflow and venting system was optimized for this horizontal orientationâ€. Whether this means the console will not function properly if upright is unclear, all we know for now is that Microsoft's intends on the console sitting horizontally.
EA will be releasing games on the current gen consoles until 2017 and possibly even longer than that. CFO Blake Jorgensen made the announcement earlier in the week at the Stifel 2013 Technology Conference in New York. Although Jorgensen didn't go into details, he did talk a little about the company's Star Wars deal. When doing so he teased the possibility of revisiting already established franchises of Star Wars: Battlefront. Jorgensen said "These aren't movie games, per se; these are stand-alone games. But obviously they would come out near the movies and be able to tailgate off of some of the buzz that will be created around the new Star Wars moviesâ€."The opportunity to do a new Battlefront, for example, which is one of the very popular Star Wars games, or some of the other traditional games that were made, is very excitingâ€. Hopefully this small statement is a tease for a new Battlefront game, which fans have been appealing for ever since the 2005 title, Star Wars: Battlefront 2.


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Partnering for Profit: Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures Are Advancing Revenue Growth of Small Enterprises
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If the 1980s was the decade of mergers and acquisitions, then the 1990s is sure to be known as the decade of strategic alliances. From licensing agreements to joint ventures, these deals involve two or more companies or business partners actively sharing the risks and rewards in a business enterprise or a project that is owned or operated for their mutual benefit.
Companies that use strategic alliances are growing much more rapidly than those that do not, according to a recent survey conducted by Coopers & Lybrand, a New York-based international professional services firm.
"Joint ventures are hot," says Sam Starr, a partner with the firm's national tax office, who works with companies seeking joint ventures and strategic alliances. -We are seeing joint ventures in every industry. America's growth companies are wise to capitalize on this trend."
The survey was based on interviews with CEOs of 428 product and services companies identified as the fastest growing U.S. businesses of the past five years. The companies ranged in size from $1 million to $50 million in revenues.
Firms currently participating in joint ventures are growing 37% faster than their nonparticipating peers Those involved in international joint ventures expect the greatest revenue growth over the next 12 months, 63% more than nonparticipants. In addition to faster growth and shared economic risk, other benefits are new product development and acquisition of marketing or distribution expertise. CEOs consider joint ventures important to profits. In fact, they estimate that an average of 13.9% of their company's current revenue growth is attributable to such efforts.
In the last two years, there have been significant joint ventures involving African American entrepreneurs, further indicating that this trend is here to stay. Take, for example, David Ellington, president of Oakland-based NetNoir, who struck a deal with America Online, the fastest-growing commercial online service provider with over 2 million subscribers. …


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"Just like a newly blossomed flower, may this New Year brings freshness & fragrance to your life. Here's wishing you very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2020!"
"Christmas is about spreading and sharing love. May your heart be filled with love enough to spread to every mile. Merry Christmas!"
"New dreams, new hopes, new experiences and new joys: wishing my love a very Merry Christmas and New Year 2020."
"It's Christmas. May Christmas season usher in the New Year on a fabulous. May all your desires be fulfilled. Have a wonderful Christmas."
"On this joyous day, and throughout the new year, may your life be filled with an abundance of love."
"Sending you love, our warmest Christmas wishes and glad tiding from our family to yours. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!"
"Thank you so much for all that you've done this year. Enjoy your well deserved rest and time with family." Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Wish you all the best this holiday season
and throughout the year,
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Let us forget the past and start anew,
wishing to see you this Christmas!
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The Christmas cards we receive each year remind us of the importance of friends and family not only at this special time of year but for the whole year."
"When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special."
"The best gift at christmas is easy to see. its not wrapped in paper or under the tree cos' the best gift at christmas and all the year through is having someone as special as you!"
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"May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love.
A new year means new hope, new light, new thoughts and new paths to the goal … I wish you a good start to the year .. happy New Year 2020


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The Turkey-Russia Gas Saga Continues
Another week, another big announcement on the Russia-Turkey energy front. On Sunday, President Tayyip Erdoğan broke the news that Gazprom has agreed to grant Turkey's national oil and gas pipeline company BOTAŞ a discount of 10.25% on deliveries through the so-called Transbalkan Pipeline.
In return, Ankara gave green light for the construction of the land section of TurkStream 2, which is projected to run under the Black Sea. Unlike TurkStream's first string bound for Turkey (which has now reached the Turkish shore), the second leg is intended for the EU market. If completed in time, it might start supplying European consumers as early as 2020. Thanks to Turkey, Russia will have an alternative route replacing transit through Ukraine, similar to Nord Stream 2 currently implemented with Germany.
The deal ends a key episode in a long-lasting saga. Ankara has been trying to wrestle a price reduction ever since President Vladimir Putin unveiled, to the surprise of many including in Gazprom itself, the plan to build TurkStream during a visit to Turkey in December 2014.
BOTAŞ requested a 15% markdown, settled for 10.25% but then, in the autumn of 2015, plunged into a dispute with Gazprom. The Russians insisted the discount would be activated only if TurkStream got a go-ahead by Turkish authorities. BOTAŞ argued that these were two separate issues and launched arbitration proceedings against Gazprom in October 2015.
Still, the Russians granted the discount to several Turkish private companies importing gas (Enerco Enerji, Bosphorus Gaz, Avrasya Gaz, Shell, Batı Hattı, and Kibar Enerji). But then, after relations between Moscow and Ankara soured over Syria, this decision was rescinded. The intergovernmental agreement on TurkStream, signed in Putin's presence at the World Energy Congress in Istanbul a year later (the Russian president's first Turkey trip following the rapprochement with Erdoğan), broke the stalemate. But negotiations dragged on for a year-and-a-half more.
Though it looks like a win-win, the agreement actually benefits Turkey more that it does Russia. Erdoğan is already making mileage out of it. At an election rally in Erzurum, he told supporters that a payment of $1 billion would be made to Turkey as a rebate for surcharges in 2015 and 2016. That is more than welcome given that the country's energy bill is rising.
Oil prices have recovered after hitting historic lows in 2015-7 and gas is indexed to the price of oil. In the meantime, the Turkish lira has been depreciating rapidly against the U.S. dollar used for paying for hydrocarbon imports. More expensive energy then drives up inflation. On top of it, demand in Turkey for Russian gas has soared, on the back of solid growth. It reached nearly 29 billion cubic metres, an all-time record, in 2017.
In other words, the Turkish government needs to act on energy prices as part of an overall strategy to curb inflation and restore stability. Russia has offered Erdoğan a helping hand.
Moscow's payback from the deal is more long-term. The prospects for extending TurkStream into the EU are far from clear. The regulatory dispute with the EU with over the application of the so-called Third Energy Package remains unresolved.
Gazprom would need to work out a compromise with the European Commission over anti-monopoly rules that prescribe that its competitors should be given access to transit infrastructure. The Russian gas company is in conciliatory mode. Last week it reached a settlement with Brussels over a long-standing legal case over unfair commercial practices.
To be sure, EU governments are courting the Russians too. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is defending Nord Stream 2. French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to St Petersburg yielded a 2-billion euro gas deal for France's Total. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is heading to Moscow on June 30 for talks with Putin to advocate connecting TurkStream 2 to a "Balkan Gas Hub" he has been championing. But it is too early to speculate whether a transit route through Southeast Europe is viable. Gazprom vows it will complete the undersea portion of TurkStream 2 by the end of this year. That, too, might prove a tall order.
The agreement with Russia does not cancel Turkey's ambitions to diversify its gas imports. In June, the Transanatolian Pipeline (TANAP) will come onstream bringing additional volumes from Azerbaijan. Once linked to the future Transadriatic Pipeline (TAP), this new piece of infrastructure will inaugurate the much-debated Southern Gas Corridor connecting the hydrocarbon-rich Caspian to the European markets.
Turkey is investing heavily in storage capacity and liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities. A floating regasification unit was commissioned recently off the shores of Hatay. Such infrastructure enables imports from traditional suppliers such as Algeria and Nigeria as well as new ones like Qatar, a Turkish ally in the Middle East.
Despite the growth of Gazprom deliveries in absolute terms in 2017, Russia's share of the Turkish market shrank by 1.1 percent over the same period. Experts and business agrees that Turkey has huge potential in the area renewable energy that, in time, might reduce the role gas. The same is true of nuclear energy, with the Akkuyu power plant's first unit scheduled to come online in 2023.
Energy provides a strong bond between Russia and Turkey, but the relationship is not problem-free. Ankara will continue to pursue a two-pronged strategy: cooperating with Moscow while looking for long-term alternatives.


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|Inside the mansion
Seneca Falls Historical Society
Hours: 9am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday
Pulling into the driveway of a mansion on Cayuga Street, the main thoroughfare in Seneca Falls, one might imagine that they have arrived for a visit at a millionaire's mansion. In a sense, you have. Wilhelmus Mynderse, the founder of Seneca Falls, first built the 23 room historic mansion. He was in his time the equivalent of a millionaire today. A visit to see the home or a tea party or other activity is still a possibility as this is now the home of the Seneca Falls Historical Society.
A subsequent owner had it for sale for $40,000 in the 1960s when she found out the historic society was interested in owning it and moving their offices there. Seneca Falls Historical Society was offered it and bought it for half price- $20,000 since they would be preserving the home as a museum.
The building is a museum, but also has a research room open to the public that has books and other resources about the local area. There is parking in the gravel driveway behind the mansion and an entrance off of the driveway takes you into the back of the house where the gift shop and office for the society is. The research room is located on the second floor and contains a wide assortment of materials on the history of the village and the people that inhabited it over the years.
For the research room you need to pay $10 or if you don't want to visit and instead would like to contact them to do research for you, they charge $25. Once you find something you are looking for, it costs 50 cents if you want to make a photocopy of that page.
|The British Red Coat
The first room on our tour of the mansion itself had a display of Revolutionary War era clothing including a red coat. A red coat? It was one of the infamous red coats worn by the British during the war! Thus we began. Room after room of not only the furnishings of a typical Victorian mansion, but also many oddities that had been collected as well as items that are unique to the area can be found within the mansion. One room contained various items once (and sometimes still) manufactured in the area. There were pumps galore. Something you might not often think about unless yours isn't working, but once there were multiple manufacturers in Seneca Falls, most well-known being Gould's Pumps. One thing that Seneca Falls is famous for which there was little of in the museum was information and items about women's suffrage. Of course, just a little way down the street is a whole national park site dedicated to that subject!
|Just a few pumps
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Veeam SureBackup: Virtualization Backup, Restore, and Verify Podcast – Episode 115
In episode 115, Douglas Brown interviews Doug Hazelman, Director, Global Systems Engineer Group at Veeam Software. Doug discusses Veeam's recent SureBackup announcement. Doug walks us through what SureBackup is, how it works, why it is important, how it compares and contracts to other virtualization backup and restore technologies and so much more. All in all, if you want to learn about what SureBackup is, then this is the podcast for you!
To learn more about Veeam SureBackup please visit: http://www.surebackup.com
To learn more about Veeam Software please refer to our previous podcast here:
About Doug Hazelman
Doug Hazelman manages the worldwide pre-sales technical team for Veeam Software. He frequently presents on behalf of Veeam at industry conferences, and shares his expertise via his blog, "VeeamMeUp" and other social media outlets. Doug advises Veeam customers and partners on best practices and key considerations as they implement and better manage their virtual server infrastructures.
Doug has spoken on virtualization management topics at VMworld 2008, the Nordic Virtualization Conference, Interop, and other events including regional VMware User Group meetings. He has also appeared on VMworld.com's "Ask the Experts" area. With 15 years' experience in the IT industry, his experience spans areas such as IT infrastructure, Active Directory design, Microsoft Exchange management, Active Directory and Exchange migrations, identity management and help desk management.
Prior to joining Veeam, Doug was an IT infrastructure consultant with Bennett Adelson. Earlier in his career he was the director of Product Management for Migration Solutions at Quest Software. Doug was with Aelita Software in various technical and product management roles for more than five years before it was acquired by Quest Software in 2004.


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UAH helps Army see through the rain
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (March 8, 2016) — Nathan Lawrence knew the experiment he was helping with involved monitoring artificial rain in an Army lab at Redstone Arsenal, so he wore a rain jacket.
That, he reasoned, should keep him dry as he ran the computers collecting data from instruments set up inside the rain chamber.
What he hadn't calculated into his plan was going into the artificial rain every five minutes to verify how much water was being collected in the somewhat low-tech rain gauges. Every five minutes.
"It was not exactly what I expected," he said later. "I expected more sitting behind the computer, but I got wet. Once they started there was a lot of in and out of the chamber, which is basically like a thunderstorm. I got soaked, but it was a lot of fun."
Lawrence, a UAH aerospace engineering major from Florence, was helping Michael Newchurch, a UAH professor of atmospheric science, whose Regional Atmospheric Profiling Center for Discovery was supporting a U.S. Army project developing a laser-based system for tracking incoming targets, such as mortar shells and rockets.
"They are testing prototype trackers in a variety of atmospheric conditions, including fog, rain, dust and smoke, in other words the variety of conditions you might run into on the battlefield," Newchurch said. "Because we know about these things they asked us to characterize the rain and fog droplet distributions to verify conditions inside the test chamber were accurate reproductions of conditions you might have to deal with in nature.
"We measured rain droplet distributions while the laser was operating, taking measurements with our rain gear and goggles and soaking wet shoes," he said. "Our job was to characterize what kind of rain storm it was. I thought this project was about radar propagation, not getting soaking wet."
At one point there were four inches an hour of artificial rain falling inside the chamber.
"That's a lot of rain," Newchurch said. "We characterized that as a heavy thunderstorm."
After rain came fog. ("The fog chamber is about 60 feet long and you could barely see from one end to the other," Newchurch said.) Project scientists and engineers with the Army's Advanced Weather Tracker program are working through which laser frequency is most efficient in rain and fog, so the smoke and dust portions of the testing are scheduled for later.
To do UAH's portion of the testing, Newchurch, Lawrence and Ross Sargent, also an undergraduate working in Newchurch's lab, set up disdrometers and other instruments inside the rain and fog chambers at the Redstone Test Center. David Bowdle, an aerosol research consultant, Kevin Knupp, a professor of atmospheric science at UAH, and the Marshall Space Flight Center's Patrick Gatlin also provided expertise with instrumentation and measurements.
UAH's participation was funded through the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command.
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Rihanna says fame has made her paranoid.
The Bajan pop princess thinks she's being constantly watched by paparazzi and has even started feeling uncomfortable in her own home because she imagines the photographers are peeking through her curtains.
She told the January issue of Britain's GLAMOUR magazine: "There's stuff like not being able to walk around as I please. I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that.
"Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom and the curtains are pulled, I feel like the paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere or somebody's peeping."
The 25-year-old singer admits she suffered an identity crisis a couple of years ago when the constant media attention started to make her lose her fearless attitude.
Rihanna said: "I had to regain my fearlessness because it did go away for a bit. My mother said something to me a few years ago, 'I've seen something in your eyes I've never seen before: fear.' She was like, 'No, this is not you'. I just got back to being OK with myself.
"[I got back to how I was by] remembering what's important in life and understanding that we are all individuals with our own relationships to God. When that's clear, it's difficult to be bothered by what people think."


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The BBC published an article in October titled, "How chemical weapons have helped bring Assad close to victory" in which it claims chemical weapons have been "crucial" to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad's "war-winning strategy."
Superficially – the article appears impressive – loaded from top to bottom with colorful charts, graphs, and photographs of supposed victims in gas masks, expended munitions, and craters.
However, never once does the BBC provide an actual explanation as to how chemical weapons brought Damascus closer to victory. Even at face value, the article's entire premise is challenged in each paragraph by the statistics and events the article itself presents.
Alleged Chemical Weapon Casualties are a Drop in the Ocean
The article begins by claiming (emphasis added):
After seven devastating years of civil war in Syria, which have left more than 350,000 people dead, President Bashar al-Assad appears close to victory against the forces trying to overthrow him.
Yet further down in the article under a graph titled, "Estimated number of casualties in the 106 attacks by location 2014-18," the BBC admits that only 55 of the supposed 106 attacks the BBC accuses Syria's government of carrying out even resulted in any casualties at all, and admits that "it was not possible to verify that the casualties reported were the result of exposure to chemicals."
The BBC would also admit that:
Although chemical weapons are deadly, UN human rights experts have noted that most incidents in which civilians are killed and maimed have involved the unlawful use of conventional weapons, such as cluster munitions and explosive weapons in civilian populated areas.
Thus, the BBC itself is undermining the entire premise of its own article – admitting that conventional weapons – not chemical weapons – are by far more effective and that its investigation makes it impossible to even determine if chemical weapons claimed any casualties at all.
But does the BBC try to convince readers chemical weapons still somehow played a role in Damascus' victory?
"Cheap and Convenient" Chemical Weapons?
The BBC cites Dr.


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The Bitmain Antminer Z11 is a 12nm ASIC Equihash algorithm miner from Bitmain with a maximum hashrate of 135ksol/s and power consumption of 1418W. It has a hashing efficiency of 0.09520 ksol/s/W.
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|Bitmain 'Antminer'
Antminer is a brand and product line from Bitmain offering the same name for Bitcoin mining machines. Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan founded it in 2013.
The first product of Bitmain was the Antminer S1, an ASIC Bitcoin miner that produces 180 GH / s while using 360 Watts of power was introduced on November 2013. During these early days, the company experienced explosive growth. The market was not congested and ASICMiner and Butterfly Labs were the only real competitors. Both of these firms had beaten Bitmain to the punch; since 2012 they had been producing successfully ASIC chips.
It was the epic hack of Mt. Gox that began the sequence of events that would eventually lead to the dominance of Bitmain in the market. In 2014, Mt. Gox was the biggest BTC exchange in the world. The same year, a devastating hack would lead to this crypto-goliath's demise. The hack also led to a market crash that, in less than 24 hours, saw BTC lose half its value. For years, the crash destroyed interest in the mining industry. It also left the competition of Bitmain in search of other business ventures. This made it possible for Bitmain to capture more market share.
In 2015, the release of the Antminer S5 catapulted Bitmain back into the spotlight and the profits back. The Antminer S5 became so popular that it ultimately gave Bitmain control over 70% of the total hash power of the network at that time. Today, due to the success of their ASIC mining rigs, the company still retains a large percentage of the market. The company also operates BTC.com and Antpool, historically two of the largest bitcoin mining pools.
By 2018 it had become the world's largest designer of application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips for bitcoin mining.
Bitmain participated in the 2018 Bitcoin Cash split, side by side with Roger Ver on Bitcoin Cash ABC.
|Mineable Coins Equihash
|The Equihash algorithm is based on a Birthday problem generalization that finds hash values colliding. Alex Biryukov and Dmitry Khovratovich proposed Equihash as part of the CryptoLUX research group at the University of Luxembourg. It was introduced at the 2016 San Diego Network and Distributed Symposium on System Security. For reasons such as security, privacy, and ASIC miner resistance, notable blockchain-based projects like ZCash and Aion have integrated Equihash.
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Michell Excavating Ltd.
Phone 250-652-1640
Offering a wide range of excavating and trucking services for landscaping and construction industries as well as residential homeowners, we are one of Victoria's top producers of topsoil and landscape products.
Gravel Mart Hours
Open Mon to Fri 7am-4:30 pm
Open Saturdays 8am-3pm
Closed Sundays and Statuary Holidays
Hours of Operation: Changes of Operation to protect the public regarding Covid 19
We are Open , Access to Office is Limited.
We have a Pay Window set up now on the side of Office . Credit or Debit Please.
The Bag Your Own is always available with an honor box as well as at the Compost drop.
We have two trucks available for small deliveries
Contractors with accounts can load quickly by calling into the Office.
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We have a large fleet of equipment including dump truck and trailers, slinger truck, mini to large excavators, backhoes and a track skid steer. We are equipped to take on any job, large or small.
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Technology & Business Summit Set for California in May
The sixth annual Technology & Business Summit is scheduled to take place in Southern California next month. The organizers describe the event as "education-oriented event highlighted with exhibits from some of the top manufacturers in the industry, featuring their newest & most exciting products."
The event will take place at the Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills on May 13, and at the Irvine Marriott in Irvine on May 15.
The summit will feature 80 exhibitors, seminars on tech trends, recurring revenue, networking and sales, followed by raffles and prizes.
The event is free to attend. See TechSummitWest.com for more information.
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Lay-ups in Basketball.
Painting in Ceramics.
Learning about law enforcement careers in Crime Science.
Capturing the scenery in Digital Photography.
Building catapults in Engineer This.
Working together on team challenges in Low Ropes.
Demonstrating camp spirit for Red, White, and Blue Day.
Practicing poses in Yoga.
Preparing for yummy treats in Campfire Cooking.
Practicing paddling on land first in Canoeing.
Catching fish in Fishing.
Preparing for a hike in Outdoor Living Skills.