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Whether you are a homeowner or a landlord, you must dedicate time and money to properly maintain your property. Keeping it in good condition not only ensures that you sustain its value but also avoids future expenses for repairs. A business loan Philippines can be put to better use on expanding your business rather than on making costly repairs on your properties. Although proper maintenance will do entail some cost, it saves you a huge amount of money in the long run. Here are some property maintenance tips that can save you money:
Paint the Walls
Every couple of years or so, check both your interior and exterior walls. If paint starts peeling off, do not put off the task of repainting. A good coating of paint protects your home from moisture and rot. Different types of walls require specific kinds of paint so do make sure you know what type of surface you'll be painting before buying your supplies. For exterior walls, use paint that can withstand wear and exposure to severe weather conditions.
Trim Foliage
Plants and trees add charm to any home or dwelling place. Left unkept though, they can cause moisture damage and attract insects or pests into the property. If you cannot do it yourself, best hire a gardener to be responsible for the general garden upkeep.
Keep Pests Away
Regularly check your property for any signs of damage from pests such as rodents, ants, or termites. At the first sight of any such damage, apply pest control measures to keep them away. Addressing the problem at the onset would prevent prolonged infestation which would be very difficult and expensive to deal with.
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The worse thing that could probably happen to any property is to be reduced to ashes. One of the most common reasons for accidental fires is faulty wiring. This is why it is important to have a qualified technician run electrical testing at least once every ten years. Aside from this, check if your smoke detectors are working once a year at the least.
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Work-Group Size Considerations
It is recommended to let the OpenCL™ implementation automatically determine the optimal work-group size for a kernel: pass
NULLfor a pointer to the work-group size when calling
If you want to experiment with work-group size, you need to consider the following:
- To get best performance from using the vectorization module (see the "Benefitting from Implicit Vectorization" section), the work-group size must be larger or a multiple of 8.
- To reduce the overhead of maintaining a workgroup, you should create work-groups that are as large as possible, which means 64 and more work-items. One upper bound is the size of the accessed data set as it is better not to exceed the size of the L1 cache in a single work group. Also there should be sufficient number of work-groups, see the "Work-Group Level Parallelism" section for more information.
- To accommodate multiple architectures, query the device for theCL_KERNEL_PREFERRED_WORK_GROUP_SIZE_MULTIPLEparameter by calling toclGetKernelWorkGroupInfo, and set the work-group size accordingly.
- If your kernel code contains the barrier instruction, the issue of work-group size becomes a tradeoff. The more local and private memory each work-item in the work-group requires, the smaller the optimal work-group size is. The reason is that a barrier also issues copy instructions for the total amount of private and local memory used by all work-items in the work-group in the work-group since the state of each work-item that arrived at the barrier is saved before proceeding with another work-item.
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Maury Volunteer Fire and Rescue, located in Maury NC, is now accepting applications for part-time EMT-Intermediate positions. Eight positions are available. The job description includes the following:
- Work alongside certified and experienced firefighters and pre-hospital medical providers as part of the only certified medium rescue unit in Greene County NC.
- Enjoy the benefits of working with "state of the art equipment" in Maury Volunteer Fire and Rescue's new 2015 ambulance.
- Advantage of a "No Night Shift, Day Shift Only" schedule.
- Shifts run from 7am-7pm, Monday-Friday.
- Pay rate is $13/hour.
Any applicant must have an active State of North Carolina EMT-Intermediate or Paramedic Certification, and a valid North Carolina driver's license.
Applications can be found at the Maury Volunteer Fire and Rescue website, www.mauryvfr.com. Applications may be submitted via email or by USPS mail to the following address:
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Location: Jaen
Author: José Seguí Pérez. Architect
Date: 2006
Commission: Jaen Council Hall, by national Competition
Population: 110.000 habitants
The Contest of the new Plan of Jaén, was convened by the City of Jaén. The Plan is designed as a set of strategic projects capable of boosting the new economic model of territorial transformation generated by these new infrastructures in order to find new opportunities for the city.
To rediscover the urban and territorial structure of Jaén, based mainly on its radioconcentric model of axes and rounds, recognizing its urban compactness to avoid its residential dispersion, and to select the strategic projects capable of dynamizing economically and qualifying its urbanity, would be its main urbanistic objectives and Where it would be located its strategic projects: the Intermodal Station (of Railway and bus), the Technological Park and its City of Transport, the Fair and Major Events, the Sanitary City, the Extension of the University, the Central Park, The Arts and rehabilitation of the old FFCC Station, the Linear Parks …, as well as the residential extensions of the North and the West, limiting and sealing the growth of the South (the Sierra) and the East (Vega de los Ríos) . Particular attention is paid to the disseminated sectors of the Vega de los Ríos that are given back and controlled through specific regulations.


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CAROLINE COUNTY, VA — The Rappahannock Area Health District is planning a "public health emergency" exercise on Wednesday when it will be offering free flu shots from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Wright's Chapel UMC in Ruther Glen. All safety precautions will be observed during the drive-thru event, the health district said.
At the event, the health district will offer free quadrivalent flu vaccines, which cover four types of flu, to residents ages 9 and up. Vaccine supplies are limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis until the end time of the event, or until the supply of flu vaccine runs out. The public should wear a mask and a short-sleeved shirt or sleeves that roll up for easy access to the upper arm.
The purpose of event is to simulate mass vaccination events in which the health department and local agencies would work together so community members could be vaccinated efficiently during a time of emergency, the health district said.
Rappahannock Medical Reserve Corps volunteers will assist health department staff with this exercise. The vaccine is provided by the Virginia Department of Health.
Only 50.6 percent of Virginia residents got a flu shot during the 2018-19 flu season, according to the last Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the coronavirus continues to infect residents in large numbers, public health officials are urging residents to get a flu shot this year due to the coronavirus overlapping with the flu season.
Wright's Chapel UMC is located at 8063 Ladysmith Road in Caroline County.
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Adolescent Counseling Theory In Relation To Erikson's Stages Of Development
There are inadequate therapeutic approaches in the process of working with adolescents. Although there is a narrow framework of experiential evidence, the setting up of a robust therapeutic relationship with adolescent individuals is imperative to nurturing a transformation in their lives. A teenage prerequisites the prospect and innocuous space to express the feelings about being an adolescent. It is always advisable for the therapist to expend a considerable expanse of time building the adolescent's self-esteem. An adolescent's counseling relates to Erik Erikson's stages of psychological development. According to Erikson, an adolescent individual, (13-19 years), faces a developmental conflict referred to as identity versus role confusion.
The onset of puberty during adolescence tips to pristine physical and cognitive capabilities. As a result, added impartiality and self-sufficiency pointers to grander interactions with neighborhoods, schools, communities and the society. During this period, the adolescent is usually concerned with their appearance to other people. They develop accrued confidence in the nature of superego confidence whereby the future sameness and continuity are matched by the uniformity and continuity meaning of oneself. Career promises are adequate evidences to this claim. The capability to settle on an occupational or school identity is an affirmative indicator. As the adolescence develops further on to later stages, the adolescent develops a sense of sexuality identity. In the process of this transition from childhood to adulthood, the adolescents ponder on their purpose and impacts they will have as adults. Primarily, they are pertinent to experience a certain level of role confusion in terms of mixed feelings and ideas concerning particular ways in which they adapt to the society. Consequently, they result to experimenting with diverse behaviors and activities. In this regard, Erickson presumes that most adolescents accomplish a sense of identity of who they are and at the same time determine the bearing of their future life's destination.
A therapist should, therefore, understand that this stage of identity crisis and role confusion in an adolescent is a crucial developmental stage marking changeover from childhood to adulthood. The passage is of apt necessity because the need for identity in youth has to be met. Therefore, Erikson implies that at this turning point, human development is perceived to have struck a reconciliatory position between the view of what one has come to be and the individual that the society expects them to become.
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It is our responsibility to express through our work and actions an unwavering commitment to doing business with honesty and integrity – everywhere and every day. By doing so we inspire innovation and focus our expertise as we build and sustain the trust and confidence of our customers, shareholders, and employees.
Similarly, we expect our code to be applied by our business partners, suppliers, and subcontractors throughout the value chain.
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As an organization, we are highly committed to our corporate social responsibility ("CSR") and sustainability, with a high focus on the safety and wellbeing of our employees, reduced energy and water consumption, greenhouse gas emission improvements, responsible sourcing, and much more. This focus is of high value to our employees, in protecting the environment and meeting the expectations of our many stakeholders.
Markem-Imaje is a global company operating in several countries and is committed to respecting and promoting internationally recognized human rights in our operations and value chain, striving to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law. Markem-Imaje is committed to ensuring that our organization and those of our suppliers operate in accordance with Markem-Imaje Policy, as well as national laws and in recognition of regional and cultural differences.
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November 05, 2019
Robotic process automation (RPA) offers huge potential for controllers as they pursue their mandate of financial integrity and continuous improvement, but it's not without risk.
"Our research finds that controllers are rapidly digitalizing their functions, and this will dramatically impact how the controllership operates," says Dennis P. Gannon, VP, Advisory, Gartner. "Controllers will need to broaden the scope of internal controls, find new sources of process efficiency and develop technology-savvy skill sets in their teams."
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Gartner predicts that nearly 90% of corporate controllers will soon be using RPA in financial and management reports, accounting closes, technical accounting and cost-related activities. What's required for successful adoption is a candid assessment of RPA's pros and cons, and an action plan for change.
RPA, cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI) are still emerging, so proven use cases are limited to date. But automation tools can eliminate the time employees spend performing mundane clerical and data manipulation; reduce manual labor and the risk of data-entry errors; and increase efficiency and free up employee time to pursue more valuable work. Automation tools may also enable controllers to reduce head count and costs.
But as with any new technology, risks exist. Automation raises the possibility of programming errors, and makes end-to-end processes (e.g., report-to-record, order-to-cash) instantaneous — forcing the controllership to look elsewhere to drive continuous improvement.
And as RPA becomes more commonplace, internal controls teams may enter production with unknown financial reporting risk. It's especially critical to delineate clearly the responsibilities of bot development, bot operations and bot outputs — and associated human credentials. A lack of proper controls and practices can create fraud and other risks.
Read more: Digital Demands CFOs Rethink How to Deliver Value
To capture the benefits and minimize the risks of RPA, rethink the design of internal controls, look to develop competencies and find new ways to reduce inefficiencies.
New automation risks require controllerships to design new governance measures for automation tool programming. Well-designed automated solutions prevent processing errors, allowing you to maintain the integrity of your financial statements and regulatory reports.
They also embed governance measures into the automation tool's programming, enabling you to cross-reference multiple sources of information and notify users of potential inconsistencies.
Establish governance measures for automation tool design and implementation, including checkpoints for reviews of the information generated and periodic audits to check for both human and automated sources of error.
Establish clear and efficient methods for responding to data entry and other forms of errors detected by automated tools. Prevent automated process stalls by creating efficient methods to address bottlenecks.
Stop thinking of robots as simply tools to reduce manual labor. Instead, view them as strategic partners that merit collaboration and support. Encourage staff to see themselves as both accountants and tool administrators.
Read more: Why Not Work With a Bot?
Automation will spur a complete redesign of accountant roles and responsibilities, starting with entry-level positions responsible for manual accounting activities. As those positions disappear, look for other ways for junior talent to learn on the job.
You also can't afford to lose more experienced talent. "In-depth employee knowledge of the accounting function and the ability to interpret new regulations is increasingly important as technology develops," says Gannon.
Adhere to good change management principles to ensure buy-in from skilled technical accounting team members and support the development of their digital competencies. Give technology-savvy team members new roles and responsibilities to transform the ways in which the function operates.
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When local community leaders choose to make improving connectivity a priority, they first need to reach out to residents and businesses to discover the extent of the problem. In Fredericksburg, Virginia, the City Council has launched a survey and asks that businesses and residents take a few minutes to complete it.
The city is about 45 miles south of Washington, D.C., and known for its historic quality, which extends to architecture in the downtown area. Large employers in the area include GEICO, the University of Mary Washington, and Mary Washington Healthcare — all industries that need access to fast, affordable, reliable connectivity. About 28,000 people living in Fredericksburg, and unemployment is less than 4 percent. The Rappahannock River runs along the city's northern border.
In their announcement about the survey, the City Council wrote:
City Council has established a priority to create more focus on broadband and to strive to be the fastest City in Virginia for broadband. To further that goal, we'd like to find out more about your broadband access and needs. Our focus is on residents and businesses within the City limits.
There are two separate surveys for residents and businesses; the survey will remain open until May 18th, 2018.
It Starts By Asking Questions
A survey may or may not lead to public investment in Internet infrastructure, but it helps community leaders move past anecdotal information about local connectivity. By asking people in the community to share their experiences and opinions, city leaders are better able to determine if there is a problem, discover options that may help solve the problem, and get a sense for how the citizenry feel about potential investment.
Sometimes a survey leads a community to consider taking up a feasibility study for deeper examination of the potential solutions. Other times, news of a survey inspires local private sector ISPs to improve services. In places like western North Carolina, regional officials launched a survey hoping to correct inaccurate FCC data. West Virginia has ...Read more


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An infrared burner works by focusing the flame of a standard gas burner onto a ceramic tile that has thousands of microscopic holes in it. This converts the heat of the flame into infrared energy.
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Justin Zhang is currently a student at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences studying economics and computer science. Outside the classroom, he is a student assistant at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, which exposed him to and fostered his interest in international affairs and business. He is also a business analyst at Cornell Consulting, a student-run management consulting firm that offers clients, from Fortune 500 companies to national nonprofits, a wide variety of consulting services. Personally, Justin is passionate about various environmental causes and giving opportunities for young students to speak up. He is the co-founder of 2am, a nonprofit that brings awareness to various humanitarian issues with a focus on promoting young and student writers. In his free time, he enjoys drawing comic books, taking frequent neighborhood walks, and catching up on his favorite TV shows.
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Looking for a chance to accomplish your educational career in Law? Here is an opportunity for you to apply for the Howard Nathan Law School Bursary program offered by the La Trobe University.
The educational award is accessible for both domestic and international students who have a plan to enrol or be enrolled in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree at the university in Australia.
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Established in 1964, La Trobe University is a public research university in Australia. It offers bachelor and master degree courses across its two colleges of Arts, Social Science Commerce, Science, Health and Engineering. It also creates lifetime goals for success through responsive education.
Why study at La Trobe University? To shape the future of its students and communities, the university promotes awareness and learning. Their passionate teachers deliver the diverse student body with internationally recognised learning.
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- The award can be taken in Australia
- Eligible Countries: Applications are accepted from around the world.
- Eligible Course or Subjects: The sponsorship will be awarded in Undergraduate or Postgraduate degree coursework. You must be planning to enrol or be enrolled in the discipline of Law in 2021. The following courses are eligible:
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SAMMAMISH, Wash. – Lydia Ko said at the start of the week that Sahalee Country Club demanded creativity. On Saturday, Ko dazzled spectators at the KPMG Women's PGA when she hit a wedge off the 17th green. (Might not want to try this one at home, folks.)
"I was saying, man, the spectators must think I'm nuts, having a wedge in my hand," said Ko. "But you've just got to trust it."
Ko went on to make par and take a one-shot lead into the final round. Playing partner Brittany Lincicome later told Ko on Twitter that she needed to teach her that shot.
Ko and Lincicome are paired together again on Sunday, along with Gerina Piller. As usual, the incredible Ko will be chasing history.
The 19-year-old Kiwi looks to become the youngest player in LPGA history (and only fifth all-time) to win three consecutive majors: Inbee Park (24), Mickey Wright (27), Pat Bradley (34) and Babe Zaharias (39).
Ko would be only the second teenager to win three majors. Young Tom Morris won three consecutive British Open titles from 1868-70, the first coming at age 17.
.@LydiaKo made an up and down from the green. Yes, you read that right. P.S. She made the putt for par. Watch ==> pic.twitter.com/qolpGdI3mp
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text: The Irish Times reports that actor Robert Redford hopes that Barack Obama wins the presidency. He said that Barack is "not tall on experience" but is "a good person." On the other hand, John McCain "represents yesterday" at his advanced age of 71, despite all of his experience. The great irony, of course, is that by those standards, Robert Redford's opinions represent yesterday as well. Redford's age: 71.


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Much of today's attention fell on non-market moving events. A terrible fire broke out at Notre Dame Cathedral and a redacted version of the Mueller report is expected to be presented by Attorney General William Barr to Congress on Thursday. Markets had a negative start to the trading day following poor earnings results from the banks, while the dollar posted a mix reaction to the New York Fed Empire index.
USD- Empire Index shows future business falls to lowest level in 3 years
S&P 500 – Financials pump the breaks on this rally
CAD- Conservatives to return to power in Alberta
Oil – Slow growth and nearing end of production cuts sink oil
Gold – Weak earnings already priced in softer on trade outlook
The US dollar provided lackluster moves to start the week against most of its trading partners except for the loonie. Early in New York, the dollar posted a mix reaction to the Empire State manufacturing survey. The headline posted a strong beat with a 10.1 reading, higher than the prior print of 3.1 and a beat of the 8.0 consensus. The index for future business conditions however fell to the 17.2 points to 12.4, the worst reading in over three years. The dollar finished the session little changed against the euro and yen.
The greenback posted its best gains against the loonie, as oil prices pulled back. The Australian dollar posted limited moves ahead of the release of the RBA's policy minutes. The market has fully priced in a rate cut by the RBA by the end of the fourth quarter, tonight's Minutes may provide a little more clarity on the RBA's concerns to housing and global growth risks.
US stocks are unable to shake off a dismal earnings day from the banks. Both Goldman Sachs and Citigroup headlined today's earnings disappointments, a sign that we could see the markets have correctly price in a weak first quarter. Financials could see some good results from the last couple rounds of rate hikes, but the outlook is like to be dampened by the Fed's dovish stance.
Despite the recent rally with stocks, many investors are still on the sidelines and assessing the outlook for the US economy. So far, the consumer seems healthy and credit markets are fine, but that could change when hear more results from the rest of the financials and we get our first taste of technology earnings, with IBM, Taiwan Semiconductor, and Netflix results.
Conservatives are expected take back power in Alberta's provincial election on Tuesday, April 16th. The United Conservatives are expected to beat the NDP (center-left) party and if turnout is strong, it could spell trouble for PM Trudeau for his election later in the Fall. Current polling shows Albertans are both frustrated they do not see their share of federal spending and are unhappy with Trudeau's policies effect on Alberta's oil.
If the United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney wins, markets will closely watch if he quickly delivers on his promise to turn off gasoline taps, a move that would signal a spike with gas prices. The battle for the Trans Mountain pipeline will heighten between Alberta and British Colombia if Kenney wins. If Kenney also shuts down the government's plan to deliver crude by rail, we could see a Western Canadian Select crude fall.
Crude prices are off to a soft start on global growth concerns and uncertainty on how much longer OPEC + will deliver their production cuts. Over the weekend, Russian Finance Minister Siluanov told TASS news agency, "There is a dilemma. What should we do with OPEC: should we lose the market, which is being occupied by the Americans, or quit the deal?"
This is a growing concern that Russia will not agree on extending production cuts and we could see them officially abandon it in the coming months. The Russians would be happy to return production back to normal even if it meant we saw Brent trade back closer to the mid-50s area.
A soft start to earnings season is also painting a weaker economy picture that is raising demand concerns for oil. First quarter results are expected to be soft and weaker outlooks are not likely to spark any demand-side arguments for higher oil.
The supply-side remains the key for higher oil in the short-term and any escalation in Libya could prove to be key. Much of the fighting is far from key oilfields and export terminals, but we still could see that affect production levels. If production stalls in Libya, we could see that provide a key catalyst to keep the rally going for oil prices.
The precious metal remains vulnerable on trade optimism and on the nearing of major technical levels. The base case scenario on trade talks between China and the US is for an agreement to be reached in the next couple of months. Dismal earnings results appear to already be priced in, so we may need to see some disastrous outlooks for gold to catch a bid.
After failing to break out above $1,350, gold has made consistent lower highs and is now both testing the 50-day SMA and monthly lows. Selling pressures could accelerate on the break of $1,280, with the next major support level coming from the 200-day SMA, which is just above the $1,250 level.
This article is for general information purposes only. It is not investment advice or a solution to buy or sell securities. Opinions are the authors; not necessarily that of OANDA Corporation or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers or directors. Leveraged trading is high risk and not suitable for all. You could lose all of your deposited funds.


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Firefighters investigate deadly north Visalia blaze
The body of a man found dead in his north Visalia trailer was covered with a tarp while Visalia firefighters and police investigated the deadly fire, according to neighbors.
"We didn't even hear the fire department," said Johnathan Castillo, who lives behind the property. "We were out like a light."
Firefighters responded early Tuesday morning to the man's home at 347 W. Sweet Ave. after someone reported smoke coming from the area. Light gray and white smoke filled the dark skies in the area.
Firefighters began to douse the flames coming from the 18-foot travel trailer and searched for the resident.
During the search, they found the man lying motionless inside, said Battalion Chief Danny Wristen.
Fire department paramedics started pulled the man out of the burning home and began "advanced life support care." The man was later pronounced dead at the scene.
By the time nearby residents woke up, the man's body was covered on a small patch of grass near the fence of his home.
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"I tried to tell myself it wasn't a body, but it was," Castillo said.
His body was picked up by Tulare County Coroners Office around 6:30 a.m., according to neighbors.
The man had been living alone in his trailer for several months after buying a home in front of the trailer, according to those living on the street.
"I'd see him every once in a while," Castillo said. "He'd peek over the fence and offer us lemons."
It's unknown if the man was dead before firefighters arrived or if he died because of smoke inhalation or injuries suffered in the fire.
The extent of his injuries are unknown.
The man's name and age haven't been released by firefighters. An autopsy will be performed to determine an exact cause of death, Wristen said.
"Until that gets done, we're limited on what we can release," he said. "We are waiting on the coroner."
The fire was contained in approximately 10 minutes, Wristen said. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation by Visalia and Tulare County fire inspectors and Visalia police.
The fire caused an estimated $10,000 in damages. No one else was injured.
Anyone with information can call Visalia Fire Department at 713-4266.
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Sheyanne Romero covers Tulare County public safety, local government and business for the Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register newspapers. Follow her on Twitter @sheyanne_VTD. Get alerts and keep up on all things Tulare County for as little as $1 a month. Subscribe today.


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MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Former Commission on Audit (COA) commissioner Heidi Mendoza called out President Rodrigo Duterte for belittling the government body and even threatening to throw one of its auditors down the stairs.
In a Facebook post on Monday, September 17, Mendoza said employees and officials of COA work hard every day to fulfill the essential role of holding public officials accountable for how they spend taxpayers' money.
"We are a long-standing, dignified institution whose men and women spent long hours working for its flag and our people. Some of our own even laid their lives defending and protecting public coffers," she said.
"Give us respect for we deserve it," she added.
Duterte, in Laoag City on Sunday, September 16, said the city's COA auditor should be thrown down the stairs so he or she wouldn't be able to report on the city's spending. The President also claimed that COA "has not contributed to national development."
He appeared to take the side of Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos who, in the briefing with Duterte, complained about a COA order that supposedly made it "difficult" for the local government to get cash advances for items needed during calamities, save for food.
Mendoza, who had served COA for two decades, said Duterte is the only Philippine president to tell government officials to ignore or defy COA circulars.
"We are a constitutional commission and not one of the past honorable presidents of our land has called on another institution subject under our authority to defy our rules," she said.
Last Sunday, Duterte had said: "Maniwala ka diyan [sa] COA na 'yan. You know, they just do it by circular and they expect everybody to obey. Circular, ano'ng pakialam ko? Inyo 'yan!"
(Don't believe in COA's circulars. You know, they just do it by circular and they expect everybody to obey. Why would I care about your circular? That's yours!)
Balance of flexibility, accountability
Mendoza acknowledged that some COA guidelines may be seen as "impractical" or "outdated," but she pointed out that such rules were put in place for a reason.
"Yes, some might be outdated, others might be impractical to some, but it is actually in balancing flexibility and accountability where the real challenge lies!" she said.
Mendoza also explained the auditing requirements during times of calamity and how they have been adjusted in consideration of the urgency to purchase items.
She advised the public to read the Disaster Audit Guide. A COA circular dated April 15, 2014 also spells out guidelines in how to account for and use the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund as well as cash and in-kind donations from both local and foreign sources.
To show that COA adjusts when the situation calls for it, she said that during times of calamities, the commission has agreed to increase the ceiling of the value of goods that could be purchased without public bidding to P500,000.
"During the time of Ondoy, the different agencies including GPPB (Government Procurement Policy Board), COA, and DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development) decided to increase the limit of spending without public bidding to P500,000," she said in Filipino.
Mendoza later corrected her statement and told Rappler she was referring to adjustments made during Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), not Tropical Storm Ondoy (Ketsana).
In the aftermath of Yolanda, a rule had also been introduced that requires such transactions need to be audited immediately to avoid a situation where years would pass before an auditor would find the relevant document.
The DSWD and COA had also agreed on some "revisions" to ensure speedier purchasing of much-needed items.
During the Duterte administration, COA has been instrumental in informing the public about controversies such as the Department of Tourism's millions of pesos worth of advertisements that aired during the PTV show of then-tourism secretary Wanda Teo's brother. A COA report also revealed the extravagant travel expenses of former Philippine Health Insurance Corporation interim president Celestina de la Serna.
COA also flagged anomalous contracts entered into by the Presidential Communications Operations Office for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit hosting. – Rappler.com
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On December 29, at the press conference for a Chinese entertainment show, "Kuainian Shengdian" held in Shanghai, actor Lee Min Ho was revealed to sing a duet track with famous Taiwanese actress Kuo Caijie.
Lee Min Ho and Kuo Caijie will sing "Marry Me Today" on the New Year's special show on Dongfang Weixing TV, scheduled to be broadcast on December 31.
Lee Min Ho said, "I think the rehearsal is going to be very fun and exciting", showing his expectation for the performance.
This is the second time the actor and actress will appear on the same show, following their appearance a year ago on the New Year special "Chunjie Wanhui" on CCTV.
Kuo Caijie, or Amber Kuo, is a Taiwanese singer and actress who gained popularity with "Tiny Times", and Lee Min Ho gained a lot of Chinese fans through hit dramas "Boys over flowers" and "The heirs".
Meanwhile, former EXO member Luhan and former Super Junior member Hankyung will also appear on "Kuainian Shengdian."


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Friday 26 January 2018 18:07, UK
Mauricio Pochettino is Florentino Perez's first, second, third and fourth choice to replace Zinedine Zidane at Real Madrid, according to Guillem Balague.
Zidane's trophy-laden spell at the Bernabeu is on the brink of collapse, with Madrid 19 points adrift of La Liga leaders Barcelona and having been dumped out of the Copa del Rey by lowly Leganes.
The Frenchman admits his job now hinges on a positive Champions League campaign, but with in-form Paris Saint-Germain lying in wait in the last 16, his days in Madrid look numbered.
According to Sky Sports' Spanish football expert Balague, Real president Perez has identified Tottenham boss Pochettino as the primary candidate to replace Zidane, but doubts whether Madrid will be able to lure him away from Spurs.
"Pochettino is top of Real Madrid's wanted list; he is number one, number two, number three and number four for Florentino Perez," Balague told Sky Sports News.
"He definitely wants Pochettino, there's no doubt about that. I'm pretty sure Mauricio and Spurs know that themselves, but it doesn't mean anything.
"Pochettino has often said his future does not depend on him and there's truth in that.
"Before he signed a contract extension in May 2016 he had a buy-out clause that Real Madrid could have activated.
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has refused to rule out managing Real Madrid
"Now there is no buy-out clause, so for Pochettino to move to Real Madrid they would have to convince Daniel Levy, something Real won't be able to do."
Whether Levy could be convinced to part with Pochettino or not is irrelevant as far as Balague is concerned.
He feels the club's ability to tie down their best players, coupled with the prospect of taking Spurs into their new stadium at White Hart Lane, offers plenty of reasons for the Argentine to stay.
"There are a lot of reasons for Pochettino to stay at Spurs," Balague added.
"You only have to look at the way he speaks inside the club with Daniel Levy, convincing players to sign new contracts and, of course, there is the new stadium next season.
"But that doesn't stop Perez having him as first, second, third or fourth choice for the future."


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On the cellular level, glucose becomes systematically broken down into ATP. Then the ATP gets used as when the phosphate group is removed and potential energy becomes kinetic energy. As to say, our bodies work because of a physical process that's determined by natural laws. Psychology is the study of the mind, of trying to figure out the processes and patterns of human cognition. However, as much as we know and as much as we are learning, humans are incredibly complex for a number of incredibly complex reasons. Pyschology doesn't have laws like physics or chemistry because there are so many factors that go into making someone who they are.
We can't accurately state that "they're a jerk!" It's more statistically correct to say, "They Exhibit Unappealing Temporal Traits Frequently When In My Presence According to My Subjective View". However no one is going to say something like that. We operate with general rules of thumb and assumptions because every situation involves so much stimuli and we are limited creatures. We can only understand so much.
How about instead we try to take people as they are: as people who've been through things we might not understand. You don't have to be best friends with everyone. You don't have to agree with people or even like them. Sometimes someone is a jerk and there isn't a process or natural law dictating what the 'correct' response is. We just have to operate the best way we can, trying to keep everything in perspective. Let's try to be a little more respectful of what we don't know.


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Today's B2B revenue teams — encompassing everyone from customer success to sales and marketing — are not in control of approximately 90 percent of the buying journey. Unfortunately, B2B buyers are increasingly anonymous, fragmented and resistant. With instant access to third-party resources, savvy buyers no longer feel the need to be led through their purchasing decision, leaving revenue teams disconnected from the buying process. This behavior means we must make a dramatic shift in the way we market and sell to modern buyers.
When an organization feels the pain of a deteriorating pipeline, it's likely a sign the front-line revenue team does not fully understand or isn't embracing the modern B2B buying journey. Here are some surefire signs your revenue team is disconnected from today's B2B customer journey, as well as some tips on how to reconnect with modern buyers:
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Are You Still Relying on Forms and the 'Contact Us' Button for Leads?
Marketing teams still rely on forms as the "conversion" point when, in reality, 90 percent of buyers don't fill out forms. In fact, according to Forrester, roughly 70 percent of the B2B buyer journey happens before a prospect ever identifies themselves to a company, providing little opportunity for teams to influence the deal, address the competition or, in some cases, correct the buyer's misconceptions. All of this anonymous activity is essentially a "dark funnel." It represents tons of potential opportunities, yet marketing and sales teams have no insight into how to capture and act on that activity. It is crucial your revenue teams have the ability to uncover your dark funnel — allowing you to get into deals sooner, hyper-personalize campaigns, and close deals faster.
Are You Still Going After Leads Instead of Targeting Accounts?
Let's examine how your marketing and sales efforts are prioritized. Marketing teams tend to measure leads, which is an individual, not a buying team. Getting more leads and more names has always been the focus. But in order to compete, you need to adjust who and how you target today's modern buyers.
- Account fit: Is this even a good account for you to sell to? Are they in-market and looking to buy? More leads may feel better (who doesn't like seeing a big number) but it doesn't mean conversion to opportunities if you have not prioritized based on actual need and fit. This is all about quality over quantity.
- Activity of the buying team: Today's buyers buy in teams. In fact, the average buying team is 6 people according to Gartner. So, you can't just look at an individual's activity to determine if it's a possible opportunity — you need to look holistically at the action of a buying team. Are the right people engaging? How much are they engaging? Based on these behavior patterns, it's possible to predict when an account is "in-market" with AI. Picking up buying behavior signals with a higher degree of sophistication and applying AI-based predictive analytics ensures your sales team is focusing their time on opportunities that will close.
Is Email Your Main ABM Strategy?
Engaging and, ultimately, connecting with accounts is the goal of B2B revenue teams, but it is also a point where we can alienate our buyers and prospects. Typical digital marketing has relied on email. As inboxes continue to overflow, our well-designed nurture tracks go unread and generate unsubscribes, not opportunities. Buyers want to engage with us, but at their pace and medium. This challenge requires an entirely new level of personalization and orchestration.
Knowing a prospect's industry and persona, while a huge step in the right direction, is not the full consumer-like experience today's B2B buyers are coming to expect. The key to creating a truly personalized experience for your buyer is timing. We spend so much time creating content by buying stage but, with our current siloed technology, we have had no way to deliver that content at the right time, through the best medium. Now, with AI, Big Data and Machine Learning, we can get a full picture of the buying journey by stage. So, if an account is in the awareness stage, now is a great time to surround them with digital advertising vs. at a later stage when an outbound phone call to discuss solution comparisons or an invite to a private event are more appropriate. Intent data is a key piece to consumerizing your personalization technique. Based on what buyers are researching — their real-time behavior — you can adjust your message accordingly.
Email is still relevant in some occasions, however, it can't be your only engagement strategy. Multi-channel experiences drive 2x better engagement, so look for ways to incorporate additional activation channels. Marketers are seeing increased success around display, so look to incorporate this, especially in early stages. Remember, these buyers have not raised their hand, so being able to reach them sooner, in a targeted, personalized way is essential. Direct mail is also becoming cool again — this is a good way to engage new personas who are key to the buying team or break through to high value but difficult accounts.
Unfortunately, with our siloed tech and sometimes disconnected teams, orchestrating multi-channel touchpoints is nearly impossible at scale. Linking to a single platform that provides both insights and orchestration is critical and will continue to improve as AI becomes more prevalent. Marketers defining the business results and letting AI tell them what actions work best is the future of connecting to the B2B buying journey.
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- Do you know how much of your web traffic is anonymous?
- Are you able to deanonymize website activity?
- Are you able to "ungate" the majority of your content?
- Are you using intent data to determine what buyers care about?
- Do you have a strong ICP (ideal customer profile) to qualify account fit?
- Can you prioritize a target account list for outreach based on buying team activity?
- Are you delivering accounts that are "in-market" to sales?
- Are you using insights to understand where accounts are in the buying stage?
- Is your content hitting buyers at the appropriate time with the right message?
- Do your AEs know what competitors they're up against in a deal?
- Are you over-relying on email as an engagement channel?
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If the answers to these questions are "no," you aren't alone. Most organizations want to take back control of the buying journey by throwing more and more of the sales and marketing budget into technology to solve the problem. But, spending on differing, siloed technology is creating mountains of isolated data that is impossible to analyze and orchestrate.
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This siloed approach to the buyer journey is no longer sustainable, which is why many marketers have turned to Account-Based Marketing. Companies that deploy ABM strategies see a 171 percent increase in annual contract value. Yet, most organizations that have implemented an ABM strategy struggle to expand their approach beyond a handful of target accounts. While ABM is a winning strategy, the number one challenge for marketers is scaling account based initiatives. But don't stress, there are solutions designed to help revenue teams both scale their ABM efforts and deliver targeted messaging through the power of automation.
To truly take back the buying journey, revenue teams must unite on a single platform that can leverage Big Data, and utilize AI and Machine Learning to uncover, prioritize and engage with demand. Teams equipped with the ability to know everything they need to know about their buyers can easily do anything they need to do to generate more opportunities, increase deal size, compete, and win in the age of Account-Based Buying.
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The record breaking jockey announced his retirement at Newbury on Saturday…
Tony McCoy has revealed that he didn't tell his wife that he intended to retire before he announced it at Newbury on Saturday.
AP McCoy back to winning ways in Hennessey Cup day after announcing retirement
Champion jockey AP McCoy to retire at the end of the season
Long ball team! West Ham boss mocks Manchester United under Louis van Gaal
A legend amongst horse racing fans, the 40-year-old announced that he would be ending his career after his 200th win of the season at Newbury on Saturday. Apparently his wife Chanelle was very surprised when she learned the news.
"Chanelle had no idea I was thinking about retiring. I wanted to make the announcement on my own terms and she was gobsmacked when I told her," McCoy was quoted by the Sun.
The jockey then went on to celebrate his announcement by winning at Leopardstown, and said afterwards, "I have to be careful I don't get too emotional, it's not good for the image!"
"My family are here. It's brilliant. You can't fight fate and it was obviously meant to be. It's amazing the people here at Leopardstown today."


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Regulatory and Standardization Process for Unconventional Aircraft in Light UAV Segment
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ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Published September 17, 2013 by SAE International in United States
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In this paper the regulatory and standardization aspects regarding the light UAV segment are described reporting main steps and activities carried out during the FP7 European SkyMedia funded project.
With respect to the Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle regulation achievements, a detailed process conducted beside the Italian Flight Regulation Authority (ENAC) is reported emphasizing the key points that led to receive multiple Permit to Fly for Nimbus novel hybrid UAV platform, the first case in Italy in the category of "light UAV".
With specific reference to the UAV segment, after showing the complex procedure defined with such Authority to receive authorization to fly for project final demo, some light on the future perspectives for light UAV regulation will be provided underlining efforts and contributions to define a clear track on the UAV development in civil applications.
In this context, further experimental procedures can be implemented in the next future to extend such procedures to other motivated cases likes, for example, national security or similar civil protection operations. Since nowadays a special regulation is missing in this field, this activity can provide a reference and some useful information on the key elements that will be evaluated by national flight authority in the process of issuing the permit to fly to light UAS in other countries.
CitationGrimaccia, F., "Regulatory and Standardization Process for Unconventional Aircraft in Light UAV Segment," SAE Technical Paper 2013-01-2103, 2013, https://doi.org/10.4271/2013-01-2103.
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- www.easa.europa.eu/rulemaking/docs/…/NPA_16_2005_Appendix
- Neri M. , CAmpi A. , Suffritti R. , Grimaccia F. , Sinogas P. , Guye O. , Papin C. , Michalareas T. , Gazdag L. , Rakkolainen L. SkyMedia - UAV-based capturing of HD/3D content with WSN augmentation for immersive media experiences IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2011
- Dalamagkidis K. , Valavanis Kimon P. , Piegl Les A. On Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National Airspace System Springer 2011
- www.uavm.com/uavregulatory.html
- http://www.smatf1.polito.it/
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-XYEu-j2oE
- http://ict-skymedia.eu/skymedia/
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Thank you Dookes for nominating me – everyone should immediately go read your blog and follow you and buy a Harley Davidson and visit England and eat chips!!
Now to answer your questions in a sensible fashion…
1. How do you feel about getting nominated for the Liebster Award?
Like I've won the Oscars… I'd like to thank my puppy, my manager, my fellow ninjas and cups of tea for helping me achieve this fame and fortune (there IS fortune with this award – right???)
2. What made you start blogging?
Being totally 100% honest here…. boredom!
3. Where is your favourite place in the world?
I probably haven't been to it yet – there's so many places I still want to visit. But the Scottish Highlands is up there on my favourite places I've been. They also have a wee tearoom that sells magic Millionaires Shortbread!
4. Bungee jump or surfing?
Surfing anyday. What if the bungee cord broke? What if the cord was too long and you bounced right off the ground? What if you bungeed right back up and fell back down where you started from? Splattered like a blob of jam!!!
5. If you could go back in time and do something different in your life, what would that be?
Follow my original career plan, which was to be a dolphin trainer in the Bahamas.
6. Where will your next holiday/vacation destination be?
Scotland – back home to visit friends and relatives in the summer.
7. Dogs or Cats?
Cats. No… dogs. No… cats. No… squirrels. No… anything furry actually. I have a dog at the moment though, no cat. Nor squirrels – they don't like the dog. See previous post to meet my puppy dawg.
8. Tell us about your favourite food!
Bread. Cakes. Chinese chicken curry. Fish and chips. British chocolate. Good fish (Unfortuantely I'm 1,000,000 miles away from the sea here in the MidWest USA)
9. What is your perfect day?
Beach. Hammock. Book. Camera. Cocky-tail.
10. Who would be your dream dinner companion?
Anyone who can make me laugh and talk about music, books, ninjas, elves, wizards, cakes and aliens.
11. Do these questions all seem very random to you too?
Not at all… most sensible Dookes!
Now to nominate 11 others and ask them equally sensible questions! I'll get back to that part…..


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Walking Stick Bug
By an edhat reader
A stick bug was on the trim of our back door this morning, and it was still there when I got home this evening. This is only the second time I have seen one. It appears to be lying low until dark when it can slink away.
It's about 4" (100mm) long based on my finger. Are these common here?
By Rebecca Rae
Here are photos of my walking stick terrarium colony. They are all female and are from a single specimen I was gifted about 15 years ago!
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I have never seen one here. Would love to. What is the flora like in your area?
I have seen one or two in my time here, which has been 42yrs
lucky you, cause they got good camoflage
Do you mean a walking stick?
Found this info. Interesting, would love to see a native one. Hope link works
If it does not work, it's the University of California agriculture and natural resources, statewide integrated pest management program.
Hope this helps
Original poster here. I sent in a photo which did not get included. This is in the upper East near Roosevelt school. Lots of citrus, Eugenia hedges, and etc. the bug was brown like a stick, the diameter of a pencil, and it had sets of legs resembling the rear ones like a grasshopper. It was trying to hide in plain sight, and doing a very good job of it.
@Shasta, we didn't receive a photo. Can you resend it to firstname.lastname@example.com?
Thank you,
ed staff
Thanks for letting me know, the images should arrive soon.
I can attach a picture of one that lives in my Gynura procumbens plants — a most welcome denizen!
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Snoodely - odd... I have not myself been able to post pics, hey but you gave it a shot... (& how many folders/pics are in the "Bugs" folder?) as we're all waiting with bated breath for the "promised" pictures! (from ShastaGuy?) "By an edhat reader"....
Yeah … I could not post my picture of the bug, and now I cannot delete my post!
Snood, you posted where this picture is stored on your computer. No one can see it but you. The image would need to be posted on a public website and their server (like edhat) for it to be seen by everyone.
I have a colony in my bedroom in a terrarium and I release the little ones on occasion. Mine are all female and are from a single specimen I was gifted about 15 years ago! It's great to read everybody's interest in Edhat.
I LOVE this! I have only seen them twice in this area in the last 40 plus years. Thanks for the post!
They are nocturnal and move like crazy at night. If you need some as pets just let me know. Very low maintenance and wonderful to watch.
Rebecca, you are Groots!
The first mature Stick Bug to visit my yard was a little battle weary because it was missing a couple legs. The specimen this was was fully intact. Neither my small dog or birds spotted it while it was on the door trim all day.


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7 26For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. 27Unlike the other high priests, he has no need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people; this he did once for all when he offered himself. 28For the law appoints as high priests those who are subject to weakness, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect for ever.
8 Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent that the Lord, and not any mortal, has set up. 3For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5They offer worship in a sanctuary that is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly one; for Moses, when he was about to erect the tent, was warned, 'See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.' 6But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted through better promises. 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.
8 God finds fault with them when he says:
'The days are surely coming, says the Lord,
when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah;
9 not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors,
on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
for they did not continue in my covenant,
and so I had no concern for them, says the Lord.
10 This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds,
and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach one another
or say to each other, "Know the Lord",
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from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful towards their iniquities,
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Autonomic Disorders in Children
After trying to find out what was suddenly wrong with my once well-adjusted healthy 10 year old for SIX months, we finally got a lead on what might be wrong: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Mayo failed to re-do an incomplete test to verify to diagnosis; but all the horrible symptoms seem to finally have an explanation. Every day he has varying degrees of migraine and spends about 12-18 hours nauseated often accompanied by acid reflux, unable to do anything but moan. On bad days he has chest pains, like a heart attack, and random intense joint pains along with hypersensitivity to sound, smell, taste, & sight. The really strange thing is when the daily episode passes (usually around noon), he seems perfectly fine. But the emotional toll of knowing the pain coming soon makes him irritable, difficult, edgy. He is on Miralax to keep his digestion going, Topamax to help the migraines, iron supplements for extremely low ferritin levels, high salt/high liquid diet to help him boost volume in his circulatory system. But the daily nightmare continues. Here's the question: My doctor said BETA Blockers sometimes help this condition, but when I took the prescription to the pharmacy, they told me my son would not be able to take his life-saving Epi-Pen because of drug interactions if I put him on the Beta Blocker. (DOCTORS!!! At least the pharmacist cares.) Does anyone know of alternatives? Is it true of all Beta Blockers? Has anyone had any success with other meds? Another question: how do you parent a child that has no hope of his pain being controlled? How do you help him cope?


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hi i am tring to wire my nema 17 steppers i purchased from matter hackers to a duet maestro i have the red and green wires as a pair and the yellow blue wires as a pair but i dont know what is a and b. how do i wire them to the maestro i followed the picture but i get the error stepper wire grounding error. i have the red and greeen on outside and blue and yellow on inside.
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red, green, yellow and blue. pairs side by side
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Colors vary. Red/Green+Yellow/Blue is one pseudo standard. So is Black/Green + Blue/Red. It can get very confusing.
To find the coil pairs on (almost) any bipolar (four wire) stepper motor:
Spin the motor with your fingers. Get a good 'feel' for how it spins. A pulley on the motor shaft will help.
Short any two wires. Pinch the bare ends together with your fingers. Spin the motor again. If you have found a pair, the motor will feel much 'stiffer'. It is not subtle; you will know it when you find a coil pair.
Keep working the variations of two wires, and you will rapidly discover the pairs.
Once you have the pairs, they can go in the connector with either pair as A vs. B. It will work either way. Reversing A vs. B will reverse the motor... and on duet reversing can also be accomplished in the config.g... so it really doesn't matter.
The above will work with any color wires.
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@Danal thanks for the help that worked now i need to change the limit switches from constatnt on to on when the switch is triped


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The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2013)
Stockholm, Sweden
[DiSS-2013] The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2013) , KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, August 21-23, 2013, ed. by Robert Eklund, ISCA Archive, http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/diss_2013
Batista Beliao Belz Bosker Candeias (13) Candeias (63) Celorico (13) Celorico (63) CLARK CORLEY Deme Den (25) Den (37) Fernández Ginzburg de Jong Klapi Koiso Lacheret Lasarcyk Maekawa Markó Maruyama (45) Maruyama (67) Mata Moniz Nakagawa Nemoto Nooteboom Pallaud Perdigão (13) Perdigao (63) Peshkov Prévot Proença (13) Proença (63) Quené Rauzy de Ruiter Schade Schlangen Schröder Silber-Varod Trancoso Veiga (13) Veiga (63) Watanabe Wollermann
Names written in boldface refer to first authors, in CAPITAL letters to keynote and invited papers. Full papers can be accessed from the abstracts. Please note that each abstract opens in a separate window.
Clark, Herbert H.: "Conceptions of disfluencies" (abstract)
Corley, Martin: "Disfluency in speech: the listeners perspective" (abstract)
Beliao, Julie / Lacheret, Anne: "Disfluency and discursive markers: when prosody and syntax plan discourse", 5-8.
Belz, Malte / Klapi, Myriam: "Pauses following fillers in L1 and L2 German map task dialogues", 9-12.
Candeias, Sara / Celorico, Dirce / Proença, Jorge / Veiga, Arlindo / Perdigão, Fernando: "HESITA(tions) in Portuguese: a database", 13-16.
Jong, Nivja H. De / Bosker, Hans Rutger: "Choosing a threshold for silent pauses to measure second language fluency", 17-20.
Deme, Andrea / Markó, Alexandra: "Lengthenings aand filled pauses in Hungarian adults and childrens speech", 21-24.
Den, Yasuharu / Nakagawa, Natsuko: "Anti-zero pronominalization: when Japanese speakers overtly express omissible topic phrases", 25-28.
Ruiter, Laura E. de: "Self-repairs in German childrens peer interaction initial explorations", 29-32.
Ginzburg, Jonathan / Fernández, Raquel / Schlangen, David: "Self-addressed questions in disfluencies", 33-36.
Koiso, Hanae / Den, Yasuharu: "Acoustic and linguistics features related to speech planning appearing at weak clause boundaries in Japanese monologs", 37-40.
Maekawa, Kikuo: "Prediction of F0 height of filled pauses in spontaneous Japanese: a preliminary report", 41-44.
Maruyama, Takehiko: "Analysis of parenthetical clauses in spontaneous Japanese", 45-48.
Moniz, Helena / Batista, Fernando / Trancoso, Isabel / Mata, Ana Isabel: "Automatic structural metadata identification based on multilayer prosodic information", 49-52.
Nemoto, Rena: "Which kind of hesitations can be found in Estonian spontaneous speech?", 53-54.
Nooteboom, Sieb / Quené, Hugo: "Self-monitoring as reflected in identification of misspoken segments", 55-57.
Peshkov, Klim / Prévot, Laurent / Rauzy, Stéphane / Pallaud, Berthille: "Catogorizing syntactic chunks for marking disfluent speech in French language", 59-62.
Proença, Jorge / Celorico, Dirce / Veiga, Arlindo / Candeias, Sara / Perdigao, Fernando: "Acoustical characterization of vocalic fillers in European Portuguese", 63-66.
Silber-Varod, Vered / Maruyama, Takehiko: "The linguistic role of hesitation disfluencies: evidence from Hebrew and Japanese", 67-70.
Watanabe, Michiko: "Phrasal complexity and the occurrence of filled pauses in presentation speeches in Japanese", 71-72.
Wollermann, Charlotte / Lasarcyk, Eva / Schade, Ulrich / Schröder, Bernhard: "Disfluencies and uncertainty perception evidence from a humanmachine scenario", 73-76.


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Update 8:22 p.m. ET: The crew successfully reached orbit, and the Falcon 9 first stage landed upright on the droneship. Original article appears below.
History could be made on Wednesday, September 15, as four civilians prepare to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a three-day mission to low Earth orbit. You can watch the action live right here.
Earlier this year, both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin sent all-civilian crews to the edge of space. It's now time for the next giant leap, with SpaceX preparing to send an all-civilian crew to Earth orbit. That's never happened before, as every previous crewed trek to orbit has included at least one government-employed professional astronaut.
The five-hour launch window opens today at 8:02 p.m. EDT (Thursday, September 16 at 00:02 UTC). The all-civilian crew of four—Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor, and Chris Sembroski—will sit inside a specially modified SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. A reusable Falcon 9 rocket will blast off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, taking the crew to low Earth orbit.
You can watch the launch at SpaceX, but you're welcome to hang out here and watch the livestream provided below. The webcast is scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT (7:45 p.m. UTC), which is 4 hours and 15 minutes before liftoff.
There's a 70% chance that weather conditions will be favorable for today's launch. Should it be scrubbed for whatever reason, SpaceX will try again tomorrow (Thursday, September 16) at the same time.
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A Netflix-produced warm-up show will begin at 7:00 p.m. EDT (11:00 p.m. UTC). The live YouTube special is being hosted by Queer Eye's Karamo Brown and journalist Soledad O'Brien, and it'll feature a host of celebrity appearances. The ongoing Netflix series Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space has been following the training of the crew, with episodes one through four already streaming. The fifth and final installment will premiere in late September.
Isaacman, the billionaire founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, will command the mission, while Proctor, a geoscience teacher, will serve as pilot. Arceneaux, a pediatric cancer survivor, will be the first person to go to space with a prosthetic body part and the youngest American to orbit Earth. Sembroski is an Air Force veteran and aerospace engineer. Operation of the Crew Dragon is autonomous, so the crew won't be expected to do any actual piloting.
SpaceX is aiming to deliver the Crew Dragon to an altitude of 357 miles (575 km), which is higher than both the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. The crew will view Earth from the Dragon Cupola—the "largest contiguous space window ever flown," according to SpaceX. The Elon Musk-led company says the three-layer observation dome was "extensively tested and qualified for flight" and it replaces the mechanism used by Crew Dragon for docking to the ISS.
In addition to looking out the window and experiencing weightlessness, the crew will perform a number of health-related scientific experiments. Once the three-day trip to space is over, the Crew Dragon will perform a re-entry through Earth's atmosphere and make a parachute-assisted splashdown at one of several possible locations along Florida's east coast.
A major goal of the Inspiration4 mission is to raise $200 million for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, and that's undeniably a great cause. For SpaceX, however, the mission represents its first foray into space tourism, in which some seriously big money is up for grabs. Isaacman paid an undisclosed amount for all four seats (Arceneaux was handpicked by Isaacman, and both Proctor and Sembroski won contests to take part). SpaceX will reportedly charge $50 million per seat for future private missions.
I'm very much looking forward to following today's scheduled launch and the events of the coming three days, but at no point will I kid myself into believing the naive narrative that's floating around this mission—that trips to space will soon be available to the rest of us.