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Embedded Systems Programming is an exclusive industry and only a few programming languages are allowed entry because there are specific requirements such as low usage of resources as well as low-level system access. Some languages are created specifically for this purpose and yet fail while some are great successes. So without further ado, Let's talk about Embedded Systems first.
Embedded systems are controllers that are handled using real-time operating systems. They are embedded in different devices such as smartphones, watches, cars, etc. They are programmed using embedded systems programming that is quite different than traditional programming as it requires low-level system access and as low usage of resources as possible. After discussing the basics of Embedded systems, Let's now discuss 10 Best Embedded Systems Programming Languages.
C is like Anil Kapoor because despite being older, it is quite relevant and also very popular in embedded systems programming. Just like Anil Kapoor has a dashing profile and good acting skills, C has multiple features like low-level access to memory, a loose data typing policy, ease of porting embedded programs, etc. It is also very fast as compared to other similar programming languages which only helps its case!!!
- The loose data typing policy of C makes it quite suitable.
- It is simple to port the embedded programs from one device to the next as compared to other languages.
- The widespread community in C provides vast support for Embedded Systems Programming.
C++ is Boney Kapoor in Embedded Systems Programming. Like Boney Kapoor is not as famous as Anil Kapoor, C++ is less popular than C in regards to embedded systems but the addition of object-oriented programming makes it a great choice for veteran developers. It also has low-level access to memory like C that makes it quite suitable.


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This is chapter 3 of Destroying Angel. You can find chapter 2 here.
We pulled up to the house and came through the back like last time. Wullf was wearing an apron and pouring coffee all around and looked not unlike a Parisian café owner. I pulled out a chair for Rosalita and made sure it was next to Andy. Wulff and I made eye contact and I headed outside to get the food. I heard some raised voices inside and then Wulff came out. You could see his dander was up.
He jerked a thumb over his shoulder. "Ollie seems to think that because we are here, we are also under his authority."
"Damn sloppy to have us here at all."
He smiled. "I didn't point that out. He's concerned we may be colluding."
"Justifiably concerned, it turns out."
"Once I told him you brought food, and he better be nice if he wanted any, he put his own interests first and decided to let me out of his sight, but we better make it quick."
I thought about where to start in case we got interrupted. "Okay, Herschel got her out, but she dropped a bombshell on me while we were waiting on food. She did it."
He looked directly at me, the mercury lamp on a pole in the center of the drive came on and threw a greenish light over everything, making his swarthy skin look darker. "She did what?"
"She put poison in his food, in the mushroom risotto." He looked down a moment, thinking, then his eyes flicked back to mine, "Okay, what else?"
I ran it down. I told him about the child, the blackmail scheme, the marriage, and the things I had found at the hospital.
He took the food from me, including the leftovers. Then he asked about the flies and I handed them over. He looked up at the hat, and took that one too. I was reaching into my pocket to pull out the rest of the evidence when he put his hand on my hand through my coat. "You might want to take the night off and head home, just in case I need you later."
I looked at him for a moment and withdrew my hand. "Got it." I had just opened the door to the Hudson and started to get in when Braster showed up, followed by his second deputy, Bertand, parking me in.
"You're not going anywhere Abel. Get your ass into the house with the rest of them." I shot Wulff a look, but his expression gave nothing away.
"Actually, I was just coming to see you." I pulled out my wallet and fumbled around, "Here is the dinner receipt for your hostages. Um, I mean captives. Er, suspects! That's the word I was looking for."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
Wulff interjected. "Certainly you didn't expect to keep people for hours without feeding them? The blood sugar issues during an interrogation alone would be devastating."
Braster looked back and forth between us and then snatched the receipt from my hand, stuffing it in his pocket. I didn't ever expect to see a penny of it, but needling Braster was always worth the price of admission. Bertrand looked amused.
They bustled us into the house officiously like it was their idea to do it and not ours, but we ignored them as I got out plates and Wulff dished up the grub. I only bought food for six, and only got out six plates, including Ollie, and excluding Wulff who had leftovers, so Braster and Bertrand had to cool their heels while the rest of us ate, Wulff only waving them towards the coffee for self-service. He then got up and started warming up his left overs. I hadn't paid them much mind, but was a little surprised to find it was the mushroom risotto.
"I could never eat that," and he waved his hands at the take-out, "when I have Rosalita's excellent leftovers of venison in sherry cream, with roasted fennel sides, and this excellent mushroom risotto."
"Where did you get that?" asked Braster. "The fridge was off limits." He shot Ollie a dirty look.
"Oh, relax, I got it from Abel who was here at dinner days ago." I marveled at how those two truths combined to create a bold-faced misconception in the ear of the listener.
"That food could be poisoned. That's why we sequestered it."
"Oh, pshaw. If it was poisoned, you would have six victims and not one." I shot a look to Rosalita. Certainly she knew I didn't take home left overs, and would figure out these came from Andy's cabin. I just wanted absolute certainty that they were safe. Wulff, on the other hand, needed no such reassurance. He tucked into the food like he hadn't eaten in two days.
Just then, Andy heaved across the table for the water pitcher like he had palsy, knocking Wulff's plate clear off the edge of the table. Wulff calmly caught it on the way down and did it so adroitly he managed to keep the food on the plate and bring the whole thing back to the table with one sweeping motion. The whole thing happened so quickly, those who weren't watching heard a clatter and maybe saw the plate come back to the table, but would've missed everything in between. The cops were gathered around the coffee with their backs to the group, talking amongst themselves and barely shot glances over their shoulders before returning to strategizing.
Andy put both hands flat on the table and was rigid. His mouth opened and closed like a beached salmon. He was clearly very upset. He looked back and forth from Wulff, to Rosalita, to me, to the cops. It was clear that he wanted to say something but was torn. He was shaking his head back and forth unconsciously. The man was in torment. Finally, he mouthed to Wulff "Don't eat that." At this point, Rosalita's eyes went wide and she put her hand to her mouth. But Wulff just winked and put the food in his mouth, rolling it around and clearly savoring it. Tibaud was grinning and eating with gusto. Jerry was staring a hole into his plate and hadn't touched his food.
"I hate to interrupt your repast, folks – " Wulff stopped Braster with a lifted hand, palm out.
"Please, sir, no business during dinner."
"Wulff, I already told you once today to stay out of this. When you are done, I want you to leave. This is my show." He pulled out a packed of light blue papers. I looked at Wulff and he shrugged. He wasn't going anywhere if I wasn't free to drive him.
"Okay, it's official now. We have permission to search the house, the cabins, and the grounds." He looked at Crowley, "If that's okay with you, of course." Crowley looked at him as if he had a retort, but then just waved a fork at him for assent.
"Don't forget the boat," said Wulff who clearly had formulated some theories I wasn't up on.
Braster looked at him and the techs in the door. "Okay, let's get started." He reached down, took the remains of Wulff's meal and handed them to a Tyvek-suited techie. "Start with this, bag it. Go through the refrigerator." He looked at Wulff. "And don't forget the boat."
We sat there and looked at each other. Braster let us stack the dishes but wouldn't let us wash them. Then Wulff and I got the cribbage board down and started to play. Andy and Rosalita held hands but didn't talk. Tibaud stretched his legs out under the table, folded his arms across his chest, and was out in minutes, with a smug little smile still on his face. Jerry watched the game. The cops drank coffee and chatted. Eventually one of the boys in spacesuits came back and had a quick conversation with Braster.
Braster took his coffee into the office which was off the hall connecting the kitchen with the rest of the house, facing on the driveway, and called Jerry in. Jerry hesitated like he might not want to talk and Braster said, "It goes like this folks, either talk to me here, or I arrest the lot of you, take you to the station and keep you there while you lawyer up. Since Wulff already used the only good lawyer in town, it might take a while for you to get out."
Jerry blew out a big breath, patted Rosalita's hand, got up and followed Braster into Jerry's office. Rosalita hung her head and began to cry. Wulff immediately put down his cards and put his hand out for my phone.
"What do you think you are doing Wulff?" Asked Bertrand.
"I'm calling an attorney."
"I didn't hear anybody ask you to call an attorney."
"Standing arrangement," said Wulff. Right about then Herschel picked up and Wulff turned his attention to the phone like the deputy wasn't even there.
After Jerry came Tibaud, then they asked for Rosalita. When Rosalita stood up, Wulff put down his cards, but before he could say anything, Herschel came through the door, letting in a burst of unseasonable chill as the sun went behind the ridge. He took in the room at a glance, and then came over to Rosalita.
Braster's eyes shown like raisins in the doughy folds of his flesh, but he brusquely ushered them both into the office. When Rosalita and Herschel came out, Hershel's mouth was a grim line. He took one look at Wulff, shook his head negatively, then immediately got on the phone. I exchanged a look with Wulff, but he was back looking at his cards like nothing had happened.
I'd forgotten Braster said he wanted to talk to me until Bertrand came out to get me. I looked at my cards and the board, said "Dammit!" as I tossed them down. We were neck-and-neck on the last hand and it was my first count. The right turn card would've put me out.
The office was wood paneled, fir, I think, and dark with age. The old oak desk was square on the door, a window behind it, and a filing cabinet on either side of that. Surprising how much paper fishing can generate, I thought. Only men could take another man's pure, simple freedoms and figure out how to charge him for it, track it, make him accountable for sharing it. There were bookshelves on the right and left walls, making the passage around to the desk a narrow fit. Bertrand sat in one chair facing the desk and I took the other.
Braster tapped a tape recorder with a pen, and Bertrand held a yellow legal pad and pen at the ready. Something about that bushy mustache of his had always offended me, and it was definitely getting to me now. "You are on the record Abel." I just looked at him. "That requires a response," prompted caterpillar face.
I looked over at him. "Oh, sure. Gotcha."
"Anything you want to tell me, Abel?"
I leaned forward, elbows on my knees, hands clasped. "Well it's kind of a secret," I looked from one to another and saw I had also drawn them forward, "but apparently Wulff's new fly is candy to steelhead." I smiled and leaned back like I had just relieved myself of a huge burden.
Braster shot Bertrand a look. "Time was you, me, and the phone book would be having a long overdue chat about now." He smiled. I smiled. Bertrand smiled. All for different reasons, I'm sure. "But, let's cut to the chase, Abel. We know you had drinks with Negro the night he got here. We know you got a thing for Rosalita, on account of the gun. That's motive, means, and opportunity right there."
I leaned back in the chair. Looked back and forth between them again. "That's it? That's all you got? You got nothing. You don't even know that's my gun."
"Oh, I know it. At the moment I might not be able to prove it, but I know it."
"Well so what? I was consulting with her. No law against that."
"Consulting, or consorting?" shot Braster.
"That's a big word, Braster, you been sneaking your wife's romance novels on those long, boring speed traps again?"
Bertrand looked away and put the back of his hand to his mustache like he might lose it.
Braster's fat roll tinged pink but he refused the bait like a selective brown will inspect and reject a fly. "What did you have to discuss with the victim, and what is his connection to the suspect?"
"Well we talked about all kinds of stuff. Mostly fishing related, so you wouldn't get it."
"You weren't warning him off?"
"Warning him?"
"Don't play dumb. There had to be a reason she killed him, we are going to find out what it was. I think she 'consulted' with you, you told her you would take care of it, then took him somewhere and told him to stay away from her."
"Unless you have evidence of which I'm unaware, you are certainly jumping to conclusions here. What if she didn't kill him and never met him before? The killer could be right in front of you and you would miss him."
"That's a good point. You are sitting right in front of me and we do have a motive for you, plus opportunity."
"Pfft! That's no motive, and again it presupposes a connection between Rosalita and Negro. You can go jump in the lake."
He switched tactics on me. "Why was she running?"
"Who said she was running?"
"She was packed, with a gun."
"Maybe she had a romantic getaway planned. How would I know?"
He smiled and looked at Bertrand, "Because you were consulting with her."
"Which of course means I cannot tell you what we discussed."
"There is no client privilege with a PI," said Braster.
"One thing I know for certain is that cops often lack a grasp of constitutional law. If you want to know what we talked about, I think I'd better consult a lawyer." I held out my hands, palms up. "We've come full circle. We done?"
Pink was turning to red, and I really worry about his blood pressure sometimes.
"Well, Abel, here's the problem I got. Rosalita, she spilled the whole thing, lawyer sitting right here and all."
One thing I learned is to never over-react. Assuming that she told us both the same story could be one of those fallacies Wulff was going on about. "Did she now?"
"Yup. We know all about the coyote and the poison. She says she told you about it and you promised to take care of it. You talked her out of killing him and took the poison from her. She had no idea you were going to use it poison him."
Still no reaction from me, which is surprising because things were beginning to drop into place in my head with resounding thuds. I had already heard two versions of this story myself. I was wondering if she had played me the whole way, or if she just stumbled onto it last-minute like.
"That's motive, means, and opportunity, which gives us cause to search you now."
Bertrand was already behind me, hand on his gun. I put my hands above my head thumbs together like I was going into an airport X-ray machine.
"Stand up. Slowly." Braster had his gun out, resting the butt on the blotter.
Betrand searched me quickly but efficiently, finding the license, the vial, and the mushroom caps. I could've smacked myself for having all of the evidence on me. Which fallacy did that fall under? Is there a fallacy of hubris?
Betrand put the evidence on the blotter one item at a time. Braster opened up the license and looked at it, then looked up at me. "Even a dumb local cop like me would find it hard to miss the connections here," and he gave me a huge smile.
Some angel, I thought. But I got it, you spend your formative years in a brothel scratching a mark on the wall for every man who took you, and you have a beautiful little girl waiting for you who may suffer the same fate – you do what you have to do to survive and keep your family together. I thought briefly of some of the things I've done, and that the people we get to pay back are rarely the people whom we originally wronged. Altogether, I've been in worse positions, and I was willing to take a little heat for my friend. Or, maybe I really wasn't the noble knight I wanted to be when I grew up, but she'd played me for the same fool I'd been all along. Looked like I was going to have some time to ponder it all.
Then they read me my rights and all of the other boring stuff. Braster was pretty smug about it and I was glad I was cuffed or they might've added a few more charges to the list. They perp walked me through the kitchen and I shrugged to Wulff as I went by. At least I wouldn't have to call my own lawyer. Tibaud was wide awake now and smirking at the whole scene like he had paid for this entertainment. Which, in a way I guess, he had.
Braster came out of the office. "We're done for now. But keep yourselves available."
"What's your take, constable?" asked Wulff in a completely conversational, friendly tone, like he would say if I was a salmon Braster had just caught and Wulff was inquiring what fly he'd used.
"We have Rosalita's word that puts Abel for it. Plus we found mushrooms on him, the vial she described that contained the poison, and the victim's ID, like a trophy."
"So you took the word of your prime suspect against a man you've known for years?"
Braster looked around. "Unless you can explain this all away."
"And the vial." Wulff looked at Rosalita. "Really? Shame on you." He looked back at Braster. "Your prime witness describes the exact piece of evidence you find in your search. That doesn't make you suspicious?"
"Well, the mushrooms and the license tie it all together. He was cleaning up the evidence when we nabbed him outside."
"Why would Abel have toxic mushrooms on him if Tibaud supplied the poison?"
"We're working on that. We're not so sure that Tibaud supplied the poison at all. It makes more sense that when Negro showed up, Rosalita told Andy who he was. Andy made the poison in his little lab, and Rosalita was going to administer it. But Abel talked her out of it and she gave him the poison when he said he would take care of Negro. It was a perfect little lovers' triangle. Abel didn't even know Andy had already married his little angel."
Apparently Jerry didn't know it either, because at this he jumped to his feet and everybody in the room turned towards him, cops' hands going to their guns.
"Married?" was all he got out.
Andy's eyes went wide as a tarpon. "I've never even used my lab! We bought that for the cultivation business, but so far the only person to use it is Wulff for his beer making. All you are going to find in there is yeast."
Wulff waved the commotion away and held out his hand. "May I see the mushrooms, please?"
"I thought you were not an expert on poisonous mushrooms?"
"Humor me."
Braster shrugged and had Betrand pass the baggie over. Wulff looked at them in passing and said, "You are going to find that the vial only contained ethyl alcohol, and that the mushrooms, are Tricholoma matsutake, or Pine Mushrooms." He looked at Braster, "As I said, I differentiate the poisonous from the delectable. Matsutake, although resembling the poisonous Amanitas enough to cause a few deaths each year, are actually one of the most delectable and expensive mushrooms in the world. I believe it is one of the strains Andy was considering for cultivation." Andy nodded. "I'm sure there are a dozen reasons Abel could have them in his pocket."
This drew blank stares from all of the cops.
"In other words, your evidence in no way ties either Andy or Abel to this crime. It's complete folderol."
"Why would we take your word for that? Abel is your man." I rather wanted to say I was my own man, but decided to keep the spotlight on Wulff. He seems to do better in it.
"Because I have never steered you wrong. In fact, I have spent quite a bit of time correcting your course, for which I think you should be more thankful and less spiteful. But, I'm sure we could find a mushroom book around here somewhere to clear this up."
"So," he continued, "of the four people who have motive – Rosalita who was betrayed and sold into slavery; her husband Andy who loves and wants to protect her; Abel who jousts at any windmill in a skirt; and Tibaud who stands to inherit an empire – we have proven that the first three could not have committed the murder."
I noticed he left Crowley out. I guess he figured if the cops hadn't made that connection, he wouldn't muddy the waters by doing it for them. He was like a magician sometimes, pointing you at the one thing while making sure you weren't paying attention to the other, more important, thing.
"Thus," continued Wulff, "the only remaining suspect is the murderer. The person who clearly did this is Tibaud." Tibaud's head snapped up. The cops swung their gaze to him, obviously confused.
Wulff sighed as if he were trying to teach calculus to second-graders. "Tibaud needed two things: his boss dead, and a suspect who believed she did it. But these two things are not mutually inclusive. He confronted Rosalita and gave her the vial you found, blackmailing her into poisoning Negro. But he couldn't take any chances. He gave her a vial of placebo, most likely the same ethyl alcohol as the actual tincture, but without the toxin. If she used it, then she really would believe she had murdered Negro. If she didn't, he would blackmail her into confessing anyway. Since she had nothing to lose, it was practically guaranteed she would do it and believe she was the murderer."
"How do you know it was a placebo?" asked Braster.
"Because, he needed her to believe she did it, but he also had to be absolutely sure it got done. Tibaud was doing the most dangerous thing you can do, overthrowing a cartel leader. If he screwed that up, there would be parts of every living member in his family tree spread over two continents. There is no way he would outsource that to anyone for any reason. But either way, it was him who administered the poison, in the rum on the beach. Abel has video of him opening the bottle and passing it to Negro. Did you find the bottle in the boat?"
Bertrand nodded affirmatively before Braster shut him up with a withering look. "When you test it, you will find the toxin in it."
A huge look of relief passed over Andy's face. "I thought…" he began.
"You thought Rosalita had poisoned Negro's food at dinner and you switched his plate for yours, which you took in your room on some pretext and then put into your fridge."
"How did you know?"
"I didn't until I started eating it. But the fact that you thought I was eating poisoned food cleared you of the amatoxin poisoning, because in fact you acted to remove the poison both from me and Negro."
"You lied about the food, and you took evidence from Andy's cabin," said Braster. "I should take both you and Abel in just for interfering with an investigation."
Wulff shrugged. "I can afford certain expediencies which you cannot. The only evidence I took was evidence of innocence. It would've meant nothing to you and we would've missed the chance to rule Rosalita and Andy out."
"That was a huge risk," said Jerry.
Wulff looked right at Tibaud who was rocked back in his chair, smirking. "Not at all. Tibaud certainly couldn't risk her using the poison on him. That would just be sloppy, and Tibaud is anything but sloppy."
"And where is his expertise to concoct a poison?" asked Braster.
Wulff looked at him. "I'm sure that you will find that Tibaud came up through the ranks as a chemist, isn't that so?" He swung his head back to look at Tibaud.
Tibaud smiled like a snake. "I know chocolate. That is what I do."
"No matter, making a tincture is not that complicated. A chocolatier could do it." Wulff waved him off.
At that point Tibaud's smile got a little bigger. As the front legs of his chair dropped to the floor, his head swiveled from Wulff at the head of the table on his left towards us bunched up at the door on his right. He reached towards his lower back with his right hand as he put his left flat on the table for leverage. I did not for one minute think that Braster or either of his deputies had the training or skills to move before Tibaud dropped all four of us. If they had, we wouldn't be sitting here like a school of hatchery fish at feeding in the first place. Even though I saw it coming, I was held by the bicep on either side with my hands cuffed behind me. I lurched towards the table with all of my strength, catching the deputies by surprise and breaking free, but without much force. I realized that at best all I was going to achieve was to sacrifice my life for a few seconds of theirs, which I doubted they would either appreciate or invest wisely. However, in such situations our logic abandons us and our hardwiring is revealed.
It would've all gone so wrong, except that at that moment, Wulff took his fork and drove it into Tibaud's left hand, impaling it on the table. Tibaud spun on this attack, although I noted that he did not utter a sound, and that's when I hit him with my right shoulder with all of my weight behind it. We went down, the gun went off with a terrible sound, and the cops finally fumbled into action. It took all three of them to separate us and subdue Tibaud, me waiting the whole time for the sickening and final kick of a 9 mm shell in the belly, as sure and lingering death as any mushroom. When it was over, Andy was on the floor with blood everywhere, Rosalita over him screaming and trying to stop the bleeding. Turns out the bullet went through the table and clipped him on the little roll of fat above his belt. No real damage but a ghastly good wound with that large-caliber bullet. That hole is still in the table and makes for lots of good after-dinner conversation.
That pretty much broke up the party. They called the meat wagon for Andy, arrested Tibaud, and eventually got around to uncuffing me. Ollie and Bertrand even thanked me. I nursed my sore shoulder and grabbed a beer out of the fridge with nobody thinking to stop me for consuming evidence. I was shaking bad enough to make it hard to drink, but I don't think anybody noticed.
I rubbed the cuff marks on my wrist and looked at Wulff, "You did take a big risk on that plate of risotto," I said.
Wulff smiled, and held up an empty bottle of charcoal pills and another of milk thistle, "Let us just say that I figured it at 98:2 and I took precautions against the two."
Continue to the fourth and final chapter of Destroying Angel.

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text: Mallari McClaran is a busy senior at Texas High School. She went from the girl who hated yearbook the most to the senior Advertising Editor. She is a fourth-year member of the varsity tennis team, as well as the Student Council Senior Class Parliamentarian. She is hardworking and stays on the grind 24/7. She loves to hangout with friends, watch Netflix and sleep. She is looking forward to a great senior year with the great people in publications.


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Press releases are often thought of as a single tool for generating publicity. But there are actually many different kinds of press releases, and each one has a variety of unique formats and rules.
Here's a brief rundown of six common types of press releases:
1. General News
This is the most common type of press release. The idea behind a general news release is to generate traditional coverage in online and offline media. While ideally the topic in the release should be newsworthy, sometimes the definition of "newsworthy" can be stretched a bit. For example, a press release can be sent out when your company wins an award or contest.
2. Launch Release
A launch press release relates to the release of a new company, product, website, initiative or something similar. The format of this press release is similar to a general news release, but with more of an emphasis on timeliness. A launch release should help create a sense of urgency about the upcoming news.
A launch press release doesn't even have to be about something tangible. Instead, you can launch an idea. Recently, the Democratic party launched a new economic platform called a "Better Deal." While this isn't a physical object you can hold in your hand, many media outlets still devoted a lot of (virtual) ink to discussing the concept.
3. Event Press Release
Most press releases are written with members of the media as the initial audience. An event press release is a little different. This type of press release needs to clearly explain the details of an event. The goal is to have the event specifics printed in the media so the general public can learn about them.
You don't want the specific "what, where and when" information about an event to be buried within the story. Usually, the best format for an event press release is either a list, outline or bullet points to make the details easily digestible.
4. Product Press Release
Releasing a new product? Let the world know with a product press release. This has a similar format to a launch press release. The main difference is that a product press release contains product specs.
Here's a press release for the iPhone 7 Plus (PRODUCT)RED Special Edition. The top of the press release focuses on the AIDS charity associated with the phone. But the press release ends with a fairly detailed description of the phone's size, features and color options.
5. Executive, Staff And Employee Press Release
Large companies typically announce new hires, especially those in high levels of management, in a press release. A press release of this genre often includes fairly extensive biographical information about the new hire. At least one photo of the person should be included, too.
6. Expert Position Press Release
This is a type of press release used to establish an individual's or brand's credibility in a particular field. The idea is to position the person or company as a go-to source of information to be contacted by the media at some point in the future. An expert position press release provides a general introduction as well as some type of third-party verification of expertise.
Using Press Releases Effectively
No matter which type of press release is sent to the media, certain rules will always apply. You want to create an engaging headline and provide plenty of accurate, well-written information. Members of the media always prefer professional press releases that can be easily pasted into a news story. Remember: The less rewriting required, the better.


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Employee Style
To the energetic us!
Our company was founded in 2007. In the past ten years since its establishment, the company has been adhering to the company management system of warm + self-discipline mode. The company is results-oriented and does not form formalism. We insist on optimism, initiative and mutual love. We are a group. A young and energetic partner, here is your little brother and sister, we are born in the sun! Unite against the wind!
There is a saying in China that "laughing, laughing for ten years", working with a smile, treating others and yourself, is the basis for a happy work and life; while smiling, we respect each other, observe time, ensure quality, and keep clean, Have the courage to take responsibility, be loyal to people, continuously improve the efficiency, and inspire to "do a line, love a line, drill a line", full of fun and anger for the job is a guarantee to complete the task.
We hold regular group building every year, and the group building once and for all makes our whole team more trusting and deepens the team's honor. Every time we build a group, we will carry out a team, starting with the team name, team call, singing team songs, and team flags. The activities are interlocking and progressive, and the "quick 60 seconds" brings the distance between the employees' hearts and minds. It is important to realize the coordination, unified command and effective implementation of the team's continuous growth process. Sex, "Do not fall forest" two teams compete, the strength is comparable, not the heights, but what you have gained from this process, what you have learned, thinking about the previous work style and behavioral mode brought to your work What kind of obstacles, uploading the distortion and the impact of execution. Feel the special value of each member of the team. "Trust of trust" promotes unity and trust among employees, increases employee responsibility and care for comrades; "Crossing the graduation wall" makes each employee challenge himself to a certain extent, and realizes that personal success must be established. The joint efforts and support of other members of the team.
Every time the expansion training is over in the laughter and laughter, our little friends not only exercise their physical fitness in each training, but also gain more spiritual strength and fully understand that being in a group team is a team. The soul has a new understanding of its own blind spots, effectively tapping the potential of itself and the team, strengthening the sense of teamwork, enhancing the cohesiveness and combat effectiveness, and further thinking about the way of cooperating with people, the friends are Learning in practice, changing in experience learning, we are proud of being a part of the pride of the Eastern glare!


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I'm redesigning the site. I am using a template that I am customizing to my needs, and I plan on integrating this into my personal site so that they are one. That way they will always look the same and I can just update one thing to update everything.
That photo in the center was taken June 27th, 2008 in St. Paul Minnesota on a boat ride up the Mississippi River. I was so happy to see an eagle. I hope you like it!


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THYRA Sheep Milk Soap - Handmade All Natural 4 oz - Handmade Soap Bar with Thyme, Lavender and Lemongrass - Viking Spa Collection
Copia Cove Icelandic Sheep & Wool
Frequently Asked Questions
Orders, Shipping & Returns
How can I pay?
- We have a quick and easy checkout process at Copia Cove. We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, as well as all other types of credit and debit cards.
- Additionally, you can use PayPal, Venmo (via PayPal), Shop Pay (a service of Shopify), Apple Pay, Facebook/Meta Pay and Google Pay for an express checkout experience.
- If you have applied and been approved by Afterpay, we gladly accept four monthly interest-free payments via Afterpay, Learn more about Afterpay HERE.
- We will also accept USA postal money orders by mail on a case by case basis. If you would like to pay by money order, please send Amika an email FIRST to make sure you qualify and that you have the correct address to mail your money order: email@example.com
Is my product in stock?
Absolutely! All products that are available for immediate purchase on our site are in-stock and available. We do not allow purchase when out of stock unless expressly indicated as a "Pre-Order".
What's shipping gonna cost? Will I pay for it?
- Great news! Shipping is FREE to you on your USA order of $100 or more! 🎉
- If you don't hit the $100 mark this time, you pay actual shipping cost. Shipping cost depends on your location, weight and size of your package, which is calculated at checkout. You can choose the shipping method you desire (in most cases, UPS or USPS).
Can I track my order?
Heck yes! You'll receive a tracking code for your package with your shipping confirmation email from Copia Cove Icelandic Sheep & Wool.
If you can't find your order confirmation or shipping confirmation email, please check your promotions and other folders in your email associated with your order.
If you still cannot find an email from Copia Cove Icelandic Sheep & Wool, send Amika an email and she'll be happy to get you the info you need. email@example.com
When will my order ship and arrive?
You order will ship the same or next business day!
Time in transit depends on the shipping carrier and shipping method. However, most packages in the USA arrive in 2 to 10 days.
You'll have 24/7 access to detailed tracking info with your tracking number found in your shipment confirmation email from Copia Cove Icelandic Sheep & Wool.
Can I change my address on the order I just placed?
Yes. As long as your order has not been accepted by the shipping carrier yet.
If you need to change your shipping address after you placed your order, please send Amika an email as soon as possible: email@example.com
Before completing your online order, you can easily change your shipping address during checkout.
How can I cancel my order?
If you need to cancel your order, please email Amika as soon as possible: firstname.lastname@example.com
Orders cannot be cancelled once shipped.
Please note that cancelled orders will be refunded minus at 10% restocking fee.
What if I need to return or exchange a product?
You can exchange most unused products in their original condition within 30 days of purchase date.
Our sheep milk bath and beauty products are not returnable for hygienic reasons.
To start a return or exchange, please email Amika to be sure your product qualifies and so she can email you the return shipping label, free of charge. email@example.com
Please return the product with its packaging, and with the packing slip.
You can view our entire Refund Policy in detail HERE.
More FAQs
How can I create an account?
Click the little account icon in the top menu and then Create Account. Or, click HERE to create your new account.
Fill out all necessary information and submit the form. When your account is confirmed, you will receive an email from Copia Cove Icelandic Sheep & Wool.
I forgot my account password. What should I do?
No problem! You can reset your password by clicking Forgot your password? link on the account login page. Instructions will be sent to your email. 👍
THYRA Viking Spa Collection
Handmade All Natural Sheep Milk Soap
Grounded - Calming - With the Lingering of Sweet Memories
Meet Thyra... ⏳🕯⚔ the "Pride of Denmark", Gorm's Queen, from the Jelling runes stone in Sweden. Mother of King Harald who won for himself all of Denmark and Norway.
THYRA is our nurturing line of sheep milk soap and bath products, scented with all-natural essential oils of thyme, lemongrass and lavender. 🌿
Elevate your daily bath ritual and connect with your inner Queen with the scent of THYRA that embodies an embrace from the nurturing Mother Earth.
Grounded. Calming. With the lingering of sweet memories.
All-Natural Scent Profile
💚 Thyme EO
💜 Lavender EO
💛 Lemongrass EO
How to Use
Moisten soap and lather in hands prior to applying bar to skin and body as needed. Use loofa or washcloth if desired.
Soap Properties
Cold processed
Handmade, small-batch soap
With fresh sheep milk from USA sheep
Natural Color from spirulina, dead sea mud and activated charcoal powders.
Scented with all-natural essential oils
Natural color from spirulina, dead sea mud and activated charcoal powders
Palm oil free
Phthalate free
4 oz bar
All Natural Ingredients
Saponified Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Shea Butter, Sheep's Milk, Spirulina, Dead Sea Mud Powder, Activated Charcoal, Woad Powder, Blend of Essential Oils and Icelandic Thyme Sea Salt.
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Why Sheep Milk?
Sheep milk is superior to other types of milk, such as cow and goat milks, because it has more vitamins, minerals, protein, and butterfat.
You won't see a whole lot of sheep milk for sale at markets in the United States in part because fresh sheep milk is only available seasonally. You may have already heard all about the nutritional benefits of consuming sheep milk...
But, does sheep milk also provide benefits for your skin?
The answer…YES! The extra fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals in sheep milk all help to maintain and improve your skin.
Milk has been used as a beauty aid for thousands of years, improving a variety of skin problems including redness, acne, wrinkles, and enlarged pores. Milk is a gentle cleanser, moisturizer, exfoliator, pore minimizer, and even awesome at soothing sunburn.
Benefits of Sheep Milk for Skin
- Moisturizes skin because of the fats in sheep milk, reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
- Brightens skin for a youthful glow. Sheep milk has lactic acid, an alpha-hydroxy acid, which is a gentle and natural skin exfoliant.
- Reduces redness and breakouts because of the anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties found in sheep milk protein.
- Protects & Repairs skin to preserve and improve the youthful appearance of skin. The high concentration of vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin E, are awesome antioxidants.
Return Policy
You can return or exchange most unused products in their original condition within 30 days of purchase date.
You can view our entire Refund Policy in detail HERE.
Shipping & Processing
Processing time: Orders are processed in 1-2 days.
Shipping time: USA orders are typically received within 3-8 days from purchase.
Shipping fees: Shipping fees calculated at checkout. Free shipping on all USA orders $100+ (no code needed).
Eco-conscious packaging: Your Copia Cove order is shipped in recycled, reused and/or recyclable packaging. ♻
Read more about our shipping policy HERE.


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76th Annual Bemidji Jaycees Water Carnival – Event Has Been Updated
- This event has passed.
July 1, 2020 - July 5, 2020
Entertainment Tent
The Bemidji Jaycees Water Carnival Entertainment Tent is back at the water front of Lake Bemidji! Stop on down to see what we have in store for you this year!
Water Carnival Grand Parade
Be a part of a long standing Bemidji tradition! The 76th Annual Bemidji Jaycees Water Carnival Grand Parade will be held on Sunday, July 5, at 1:00 PM.
Warrior March
The Warrior March is back this year in our calendar of events! It is a 5K march, along the south shore of Lake Bemidji, to bring awareness to the everyday struggles that our military veterans face.
Registration for this event starts at [TBD], in the Bemidji Jaycees Entertainment Tent. The March itself will begin at [TBD], leaving from the Paul Bunyan Park parking lot going south, looping back at the Nymore boat access, and ending at the start point.
Proceeds from this event will go to support local veterans and their families during the 2020 holiday season.
What time is "dusk", you ask?
We say that it is anytime from 9:45-10:15 PM,
depending on many factors.
Show Some #BemidjiLove
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In this week's episode of IVM Likes, we're joined by the hosts of Miss Conduct on the IVM Podcasts Network! We discuss our top 5 podcasts and podcast episodes that released in 2021. Well, that was what we originally planned to make the entire episode about but ended up talking more about what podcasts drew us into the blackhole of podcasts and how we became podcasters. The stories are endless. Pretty sure there's a scope for a part 2 here, so if you want to listen to more stories about what podcasts changed our lives, you can reach out to us on the links below.
Recommendations of the week - Ragavi recommends the sub-reddit 'InstaCelebGossip', Nisha recommends the game Rainy Attic Room, Antariksh recommends Masters of the Universe on Netflix and Zalak recommends the movie Mother!
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LAS VEGAS — At the Brera Ballroom inside the Cosmopolitan hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip on Saturday night, two former NFL players sit about 30 feet away from each other.
One is Bo Jackson, the marquee attraction at FanDuel's World Fantasy Baseball Championship. Jackson, who hosted a home-run derby for the best of the daily fantasy sports world at a nearby baseball facility on Friday evening, holds court at the open-bar party on Saturday, greeting fans with stories of his days as a baseball and football megastar.
The other ex-football star, Wayne Chrebet, sits quietly nursing a beer near the bar. Chrebet, who played wide receiver for parts of 11 seasons with the New York Jets, wears a loose-fitting throwback White Sox jersey that reads "JORDAN 45" on the back. The only obvious indications of his past as a professional athlete are the large ring he earned at his 2014 induction to the Jets' Ring of Honor and the strong, broad neck that seems inseparable from NFL experience.
Unlike Jackson, Chrebet is not here on account of his heroics in professional sports — though, as a dogged fan favorite with an undersized frame and incredible hands, he had plenty of them. Now a financial advisor for Barclays, Chrebet made the trip to Vegas to compete with the rest of the world's best daily fantasy baseball players for the $1 million grand prize that will go to the night's winner.
"I picked it up last football season, continued on during basketball, and now to baseball," Chrebet tells USA TODAY Sports when asked of his history with FanDuel.
Chrebet, now 42 years old and a father of three, suffered multiple concussions during his NFL tenure, including the devastating one that left him unconscious on the field in a game against the Chargers on November 6, 2005 and ended his career prematurely. In the early days of his retirement, he needed help with everyday tasks and sometimes struggled to get out of bed. And given the ominous threat of the brain disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which plagues so many of his former colleagues, Chrebet credits daily fantasy sports for helping him keep his mind active.
"From what I've heard from former players that had issues with concussions, it's important to stay sharp," he says. "Reading, puzzles — just using your brain. This allows me to do that, keep me focusing on stuff. It's when you sit back and do nothing that you grow old too fast."
FanDuel's rules are reasonably straightforward: Contestants can enter any of thousands of daily leagues, which vary by entry fee, the number of entries, and the payout structure. Sometime before the daily slate of pro games starts, the fantasy GMs select a lineup that fits under FanDuel's preset salary cap, with player prices varying by day depending on matchups, trends, and park factors.
Players earned their way to Saturday's event by winning qualifying leagues throughout the season. The World Fantasy Baseball Championship consisted of 90 entries, though some players earned up to four seats in the contest. FanDuel provided airfare and hotel rooms in Vegas for all the competitors and awarded $4 million in prizes on Saturday night alone, with even the last-place finisher winning $10,000.
Tommy Gelati, a 36-year-old New Jersey native, stock trader, and fantasy expert for Scout.com and Sirius XM who entered Saturday's contest with over $700,000 worth of winnings on FanDuel, compares daily fantasy sports to day trading on the stock market.
"It's the same thing," says Gelati, who finished in sixth place on Saturday to take home $100,000. "Season-long fantasy is basically investing in players. Daily fantasy is day-trading players…. Our job is to find the value, and find those guys that are a little underpriced."
Chrebet plays daily fantasy sports "pretty much every day," by his own account, and believes his background as a pro athlete does give him some aspect of an advantage against most of his competition.
"I look at all the statistics like everyone else does, but mine's more about knowing the history of what players have done against everyone else — the recent history," he says. "And the mental aspect of it — I know that in football, certain guys had other guys' numbers, like some defensive backs I would rather go against, some not. It's the same thing for batters and pitchers. Some guys hit other pitchers better; those are the matchups I look for."
Chrebet's success on FanDuel appears even more impressive after a quick survey of his competition: Many of the contestants in Saturday night's event are full-time professional fantasy players. The night's $1 million winners, 29-year-old Ray Coburn and 31-year-old Cory Albertson, both spend upwards of 30 hours a week playing daily fantasy sports. The pair, who met during their days playing online poker, also won $1 million at an event sponsored by DraftKings.com, another daily fantasy sports site.
"The nice thing about playing fantasy sports and having enough success that you don't need to worry about earning money, is you do have enough time to focus on other hobbies and projects," says Albertson, before crediting the seven-figure winnings to the heroics of Tampa Bay Rays catcher John Jaso.
"It's all research," says Coburn. "It's 99% research, 1% subjectivity."
Andres Alvarez, a 32-year-old former software developer, left the comforts of a full-time job in the booming Boulder, Colo. tech sector to focus on playing daily fantasy sports. Alvarez admitted he was actually down $200 when he decided to make the leap and declined to say exactly how much he has earned since. But he left Vegas with $250,000 for finishing in third place on Saturday.
"I'd had a little bad luck, but I said, 'If I want to be serious about this, I can't half-ass it,'" Alvarez says. "Some people in the DFS sphere that told me about the money to be made there, and it was very easy to look at that and say there is a huge potential here. So I wasn't about to be swayed by one bad week. For DFS pros, you have to have that mentality."
Professional fantasy players like Albertson, Coburn and Alvarez are hardly uncommon here: Winning a qualifying event takes some luck, but plenty of skill. And given the amount of money there is to be won and the apparent value of both research and so-called "volume playing" — setting multiple teams per day to hedge bets and maximize the chances of winning, it makes sense for some to leave mundane day jobs behind to focus on fantasy.
And all that emphasizes how incredible, and how unlikely, it seems for a guy who was once in the business of playing actual sports to be here competing with guys who spend the bulk of their waking hours playing fantasy ones. Chrebet, who finished 29th out of 90 entries and earned $25,000 on Saturday, stresses that daily fantasy sports is "not a job," as he has been working in the financial sector for seven years now.
"I just enjoy the rush of it," he says. "It keeps me sharp: The studying, the analysis. I try not to put too much time into it; I've got three kids and a job."
Looking around the room at his competition, Chrebet says, "It's funny because I know some of these guys: I listen to them on the podcasts, and learn their information. They know me, but I'm fans of theirs as well. It goes both ways."


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More often, those bays are mostly holding areas before the 'Mechs are transferred to DropShips wave-by-wave, allowing a constant stream of reinforcements from space with a pretty ludicrous transport capacity. Actual orbital insertions from transport WarShips was pretty rare.You also have to remember your maintenance and repair checks. Being able to make those inside the correct unit transport bay is a fair sight more forgiving than if you were to do them in a cargo bay. Nobody wants to arrive to a planetary invasion with their 'Mech already beat to hell.
So looking at intro dates, I think for the Robinson this actually makes a lot of sense. There's a brief period of time where Robinsons were active, but the only `Mech transport DropShip was the Manatee, and even longer before you had something that could transport more than a lance in the hands of the Great Houses. I think it's a harder argument to make for the Kyushu.
Again, though, remember that with a transport WarShip, it can still carry military droppers with their own bays full of 'Mechs. Don't just think of them as the transport component for the fleet's 'Mechs, they exist to give one or two full reloads to the droppers they carry after the first wave touches down. Outside of dire circumstances, the 'Mechs on board the transport WarShips won't be the first wave, they'll be the constant stream of reinforcements that allows the force to capitalize on the momentum gained by the initial drop force.
Ah yeah, now I get it. I still think that leaves you a bit vulnerable in the case of a strategic retreat. You might have more units waiting for lift than you have transport capacity for, but that can be mitigated.
Or you're leaving some behind as guerilla forces, or hidden supply caches for when you come back in a decade or two...
Load up a Robinson with LAM's, maneuver close to an enemy carrier or battleship and then have the LAM's land on the enemy hull and 'walk' inside.Not gonna lie: that was one of the coolest ideas from First Succession Wars.


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Changes in 2020 are forcing us to do more with less in many ways.
There's a growing consensus in the IT industry that backup and archival are the low hanging fruit of the data center to benefit from cloud transformation. IT leaders prefer to consume them as a service instead of continuing with the high-cost and heavy-lifting approach of managing the software and infrastructure themselves.
Self-hosting versus vendor-hosted data protection solutions
As you move towards using HubStor for backup and archival modernization, you will have the decision to host your tenant in your cloud tenancy. Following is an exploration of the good and bad of self-hosting, and a look into the specifics of HubStor's unique approach to SaaS.
What is your preferred cloud experience?
Not all cloud solutions are equal.
Many vendors' cloud offerings work on the assumption that you will be the one installing, monitoring, and managing the deployment. For example, you need to spin up a virtual machine, install, secure, monitor, and manage the software deployment and cloud infrastructure yourself (far from a SaaS experience).
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is where the ideal experience lives.
However, most SaaS solutions have a multi-tenant design that would have your tenant running within shared infrastructure, commingled with other clients in predetermined cloud regions, without the option to self-host your tenant.
Therefore, the term self-hosting is typically misunderstood to imply you are taking the do-it-yourself approach to the cloud.
HubStor is turning this on its head. HubStor uniquely delivers the ability to self-host AND enjoy the solution as a pure SaaS experience. Yes, you read that correctly. The HubStor unified backup and archive platform is always a genuine SaaS experience regardless of who hosts your tenant (you, HubStor, or an MSP).
When self-hosting HubStor, you experience the platform as a pure SaaS solution – there is never any need for you to provision, monitor, upgrade, or manage the cloud deployment of HubStor software or its underlying cloud infrastructure. The only exception is if you elect to apply HubStor's hybrid cloud capabilities (e.g., file tiering from on-premises storage or backup of on-premises virtual machines and file servers) that involve you running installable HubStor services in your data center.
Self-hosting a SaaS solution is a rare option
You won't encounter the option to self-host a SaaS solution very often.
Today, precisely 42% of HubStor customers self host their HubStor tenant. The others host under HubStor predominantly, with a growing number hosting under an MSP since we launched the HubStor MSP Program earlier this year.
The reason that self-hosted SaaS is rare is that most SaaS offerings are multi-tenant architectures, and the support of self-hosted SaaS requires a significant engineering investment by the software vendor.
A self-hosted SaaS option such as HubStor requires the vendor to support and have developed the following:
- A single-tenant architecture model for its SaaS solution, and;
- A SaaS operations and security framework that automates the provisioning, upgrades, monitoring, maintenance, and billing of single-tenant deployments running in customer-owned accounts.
Why doesn't everyone self-host if they have the option?
On the surface, self-hosting seems like a slam dunk approach to single-tenant SaaS. In theory, if you host the solution in a cloud account that is yours, then it looks as though you have de-risked the vendor relationship and given yourself full control.
However, there rarely is a material benefit to self-hosting. Vendor terms and conditions are equivalent either way, so there is no material gain in de-risking the vendor relationship or increasing your control.
There are nuances to self-hosting that will usually deter some companies from this approach.
The common deterrents to self-hosting are as follows:
- Too much red tape from internal security – Large enterprise customers can find that their internal security requirements are so arduous that self-hosting is nearly (or completely) impossible because of the SaaS nature of the solution. In other words, SaaS requires that the vendor has some level of access to provision and manage the deployment in your account. If your security regime is too strict to allow the vendor to access a dedicated subscription or resource groups, then self-hosting is not an option.
- Making compliance audits more of a thing – For organizations that want a precise compliance posture for audits and investigations, self-hosting may not be right for you. For example, if compliance requires tamper-proof records retention, self-hosting can make audits slightly more arduous because a good auditor will see that you have access to the underlying cloud resources. Therefore, in addition to vetting the controls of the SaaS solution, the auditor will want to examine your internal controls and activity logs about direct access to the cloud resources (since you have that level of access when self-hosting). If strict immutable storage requirements (SEA 17a-4) are in scope for you, self-hosting is achievable, but it adds a layer of complexity that people typically like to avoid.
- Your time is too essential for minutiae – If your goal is maximum efficiency with your HubStor backup and archive infrastructure (so that you can focus on more pressing IT challenges), then self-hosting may be contrary to your ideal SaaS experience. When you self host, you need to be somewhat involved in the initial deployment. You'll need to create a dedicated subscription or set of resource groups. And you'll need to create a user account and provide directory permissions. None of this is rocket science—we provide step-by-step instructions and can even walk you through it. There is the ongoing task of billing also. Either you will need to fetch and share the relevant billing data each month, or you will need to refresh and share the billing API key each quarter. If you must self-host and are unwilling to share the billing API key, then we provide you with a billing utility that facilitates you manually capturing and sending along the billing data each month. These things requiring your involvement are not huge tasks, but they are things that need your time and attention, which do not exist in the HubStor or MSP-hosted approaches.
- Insider threats are a concern – You must minimize and govern access to the subscription or resource groups that contain your HubStor compute and storage when self-hosting. If accidental or malicious data deletion was to occur, it could mean downtime for your HubStor tenant. In the worst cases, we can recover from a backup. However, a malicious insider may go after the backups too. For this reason, we recommend that self-hosting customers include HubStor's cloud backup option for Azure Blob Storage—it maintains an air-gapped copy of your data and metadata.
- Slightly higher cost – HubStor offers better pricing when we host the tenant. It's a simpler model operationally for us. And we see it as a safer model since there is no way for anyone on your team to accidentally or maliciously tamper with the tenant. Deployment and monthly billing are streamlined when HubStor hosts. Therefore, self-hosting your HubStor tenant comes at a premium.
When does it make sense to self-host your SaaS?
So when does it make sense to self-host HubStor?
- Compliance requirements – Legal or compliance requirements can necessitate self-hosting. For example, all of HubStor's customers in the EU self-host as a result of interpretations of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR).
- You want or need the Azure consumption in your account – In rare cases, we see a preference to self-host based purely off the desire for the HubStor-related Azure usage to occur in your account. Any of the following reasons can drive this:
- Your Azure pricing is special – Perhaps you have received discounted Azure pricing unique to your organization. By self-hosting your HubStor tenant, not only will you enjoy your special Azure pricing, but your HubStor pricing will be sharper also (because it is a markup-based pricing model).
- You've made a substantial commitment and need to use it – If you signed on to a considerable Enterprise Agreement, or perhaps allocated capital to Azure Storage Reserved Capacity or Azure Reserved Instance pricing, and need to use it or lose it, then by self-hosting HubStor you can incur more Azure usage in your account.
- You can pass on the costs – If your HubStor tenant is a component of your organization's fulfillment of a large contract, for example, then self-hosting may be desirable because you can pass on the Azure costs.
- The warm and fuzzies matter – There can be a perceived risk and/or security benefit to self-hosting. If key people at your organization feel that self-hosting provides better security and reduces risk, then it should be the path you take provided that the pros outweigh the cons.
Backup and archive are not the aspects of IT that carry the most glory. However, they can be significant cost areas in the IT budget, and they can cripple a business if not executed right.
For most people, cost savings are a side benefit of shifting workloads and infrastructure to the cloud. The real motivator is the promise of simplicity and convenience, driven by the need to "do more with less" while focusing on the significant IT priorities that align with the future success of the business.
However, if you need to self-host, the excellent news with HubStor is that you absolutely can, and it does not mean you have to provision, monitor, and manage the deployment. HubStor uniquely offers self-hosting while keeping it an authentic SaaS experience.
Finally, we see that self-hosting is not as popular as one might expect. The majority of IT teams prefer to have HubStor host because it offers simplicity, reduces risk, generally costs less, keeps compliance audits straightforward, and is (in our opinion) more secure since fewer people have access.


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Gears of War 3 Review
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On 11/12/2011 at 03:00 PM by Jon Lewis
The Gears Trilogy ends on a strong note.
If you weren't a fan of Gears of War before, this game probably won't change your mind. However this game offers one of the most polished shooting experiences this year, along with a ton of value.
Whether it's due to the fresh take it had on the 3rd person shooter, its high-stakes action, or gameplay innovations, gamers latched on to the Gears series and came to discover that this franchise was one to look out for. Millions of copies sold and many Game of the Year accolades later, Gears of War 3 is the final installment in the trilogy and it shows exactly why the series has stayed relevant and popular over the years.
The story continues with Marcus Fenix and the rest of the COG gears as they put up their last stand against the Locust and Lambent creatures. Having lost mostly everything from materials to their stronghold in the previous games, it's an extremely delicate time for the cast and it shows through their character designs. Their once bulky armor sets are considerably stripped down due to their lack of resources, and other things like weapons, ammo, and shelter are also just as scarce. While the majority of the Locust horde are gone from the first two games, the infected Lambent take the leading role as far as villains are concerned and they are just as dangerous as the Locusts, if not more. The campaign isn't necessarily lengthy but outlasts the previous two, clocking in around seven hours. The whole campaign can be played with up to four players, which I might add is incredibly fun.
The gameplay in Gears of War 3 hasn't changed much. Players have access to two primary weapons: one pistol, and grenades, which are all accessible on the d-pad. Players still roadie-run and take cover as in past games, and the quicktime reload mini game is still intact. The great thing about all of this besides the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach, Epic did a fantastic job in polishing up the little things. Snapping to cover always feels responsive and guns that were previously useless have been improved. For example, the hammer burst which was good in Gears of War 2 is now given an iron sight to make its long range aiming better. The lancer, which wasn't as reliable in previous iterations, got a much needed boost with far better accuracy and less kickback, making it one of my favorite weapons in modes like Horde. Gears 3 may not take many risks, but there are still some fantastic new weapons like the One-Shot, a huge sniper rifle that literally kills enemies in one shot, and the Digger Launcher which shoots a missile that burrows under ground and pops up to surprise enemies, even those hidden by cover.
Multiplayer is one of its best assets, as expected. Players can go head to head in gametypes like the newly added Team Deathmatch. What makes this TDM special is that each team now has a stock of 15 lives. Once the stock is up, there are no more respawns, and it becomes up to the remaining players to finish the job. Of course, game types like the series trademark Execution, Wingman, and King of the Hill all remain intact and are just as fun as ever.
Players in multiplayer have the options to choose characters from the campaign as well as special guests from the series as their avatars. They can also choose their preferred weapon load out and weapon skin, which gives Gears 3 a lot more customization than past iterations. Players earn medals and level up for their progress which, especially for the hardcore, gives a lot to do and look forward to.
Along with that is the return of the Horde survival mode, where you can team up with up to four friends to take on waves of enemies. The neat twist on this horde mode is that players now have a small window of time to find a stronghold on the map. This stronghold can be upgraded with traps and weapon defenses that greatly help the resistance. Players earn these additions by spending money, which is earned by getting kills and assisting allies. Another new addition to Horde is the boss wave. Essentially, every tenth wave, players are tasked with fighting a boss-like enemy, which can range from the giant Brumach to the challenging Lambent Berserkers. In short, Horde mode has never been more tactical or as fun as it is now.
Gears of War 3 has arguably the best campaign in the series. The story has been hit or miss from the start, but this game does well to tie up loose ends and gives you its fair share of jaw-dropping moments. A few of the scenes are particularly emotional which I won't spoil for those who haven't played it, but the ending was satisfying and didn't leave the empty feeling that comes with some major campaigns in shooters. A majority of the new characters became some of my favorites and while a few of them were kind of pointless, they fit in with the already established cast. Everything clicked, and overall the campaign did justice to the series as a whole. Missions certainly didn't push the envelope, but set piece moments in the campaign help the already speedy pacing. The campaign is roughly six hours long, making it just right for this type of game and one of the longest in the series.
Gears of War 3 isn't exactly a giant step forward but it definitely did a few things exceptionally well: refined and polished gameplay, a well done plot which provides a solid ending for the trilogy, and addictive multiplayer options that will keep players coming back. This title does everything in its power to make sure that it is a fine gameplay experience. Every aspect feels right. There are barely any technical problems or balance issues (sans the debated Sawed-off shotgun) to hinder the experience and if anything, the game provides the epitome of the Gears of War experience: fun, cooperative and addictive third person shooting action.


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Hugh McElhenny, a Hall of Fame halfback who was known as the King for his thrilling, high-stepping prowess in the football world of the 1950s, first with the University of Washington and then with the San Francisco 49ers, died on June 17 at his home in Henderson, Nev. He was 93.
His daughter Karen Lynn McElhenny confirmed the death on Thursday but did not specify a cause. The Pro Football Hall of Fame also announced the death on Thursday.
McElhenny was a dazzling figure on the field, twisting and turning as he eluded frustrated defenders on his circuitous romps to the end zone.
"Hugh McElhenny was as good an open-field runner as you'll ever see," his teammate Joe Perry, the 49ers' Hall of Fame fullback, once said.
"I was best running up the middle, and Hugh was a great outside runner who would zig and zig all over the place," Perry, one of pro football's first Black stars, was quoted as saying by Andy Piascik in "Gridiron Gauntlet" (2009), an oral history of the game's racial pioneers. "Sometimes he zigged and zagged so much that the same guy would miss him twice on the same run."
McElhenny was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1970 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981. He was also named to the N.F.L.'s all-decade team for the 1950s.
At 6-foot-1 and about 200 pounds, he set a host of rushing records for the Washington Huskies, of the Pacific Coast Conference. As a junior he ran for 296 yards and scored five touchdowns in a victory over Washington State. As a senior, in 1951, he ran back a punt 100 yards against Southern California. He was an All-American for a team that won only three games that season.
By his telling, he was well paid for his collegiate exploits. In an interview with The Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2004, he said that while playing for Washington he had regularly received cash payments and other improper benefits from alumni and team boosters totaling close to $10,000 a year (about $115,000 in today's money).
"I know it was illegal for me to receive cash, and every month I received cash," he said. "I know it was illegal to receive clothing, and I got clothing all the time from stores. I got a check every month, and it was never signed by the same person, so we never really knew who it was coming from. They invested in me every year. I was a movie star up there."
The 49ers selected McElhenny as a first-round draft pick and signed him to a $7,000 contract, which meant that he was getting a pay cut to play pro football.
McElhenny said he got his nickname, the King, from the 49er quarterback Frankie Albert after running back a punt for a 94-yard touchdown against the Chicago Bears in his fourth pro game.
"Albert gave me the game ball and said, 'You're now the King,'" he recalled in Joseph Hession's book "Forty Niners: Looking Back" (1985). (The College Football Hall of Fame compared him to another celebrity known as the King, saying McElhenny was "to pro football in the 1950s and early 1960s what Elvis Presley was to rock and roll.")
McElhenny was the N.F.L.'s rookie of the year in 1952, averaging seven yards a carry. Two years later, when he averaged eight yards per run, Albert's successor at quarterback, Y.A. Tittle, and three others — McElhenny and John Henry Johnson at halfback and Perry at fullback — were collectively nicknamed the Million Dollar Backfield for their offensive power. All four were ultimately elected to the Hall of Fame.
McElhenny played in six Pro Bowls, was twice a first-team All-Pro and amassed 11,375 total yards — running, catching passes and returning punts, kickoffs and fumbles — in his 13 years in the N.F.L.: nine with the 49ers, two with the Minnesota Vikings, the 1963 season with the Giants and a final year with the Detroit Lions.
Hugh Edward McElhenny Jr. was born on July 31, 1928, in Los Angeles to Hugh and Pearl McElhenny. He was a football and hurdling star in high school, then played one season at Compton Junior College in the Los Angeles area.
He became a football celebrity at Washington, though the Huskies never made it to a bowl game in his three years there. The payments he acknowledged receiving were part of a wide scandal that led the Pacific Coast Conference to penalize Washington in 1956, along with the University of Southern California, U.C.L.A. and the University of California, Berkeley, over past illegal payments to athletes by supporters.
Following his time with the 49ers and his stint with the Vikings, McElhenny was reunited with Tittle, who had been traded to the Giants by the 49ers in 1961. Tittle took the Giants to an N.F.L. championship game for the third consecutive time in 1963 — a loss to the Chicago Bears — but McElhenny, coming off knee surgery, gained only 175 yards that year and was then released.
He was later part of an investment group that made an unsuccessful bid to obtain an N.F.L. expansion franchise for Seattle, the team that began play as the Seahawks in 1976.
In addition to his daughter Karen, McElhenny is survived by another daughter, Susan Ann Hemenway; a sister, Beverly Palmer; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. His wife, Peggy McElhenny, died in 2019.
In the spring of 1965, Frank Gifford, McElhenny's collegiate rival when he played for U.S.C. and later his Giants teammate, threw a retirement party for him and narrated film clips of McElhenny's spectacular jaunts, including perhaps his most famous one: the 100-yard punt return for Washington against U.S.C.
McElhenny had ignored his coach's pleas that he let the football go into the end zone for a touchback, giving Washington the ball on the 20-yard line.
"Our coach, Howie Odell, was running down the sideline yelling, 'Let it go, let it go!,'" he told The Seattle Times. "All of a sudden he stopped yelling. It was a stupid play on my part, but it worked out."
McElhenny once said that his running style was not something he was taught. "It's just God's gift," he said. "I did things by instinct."
Maia Coleman contributed reporting.


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Hitting our limits?
What happens next comes down to faith in the power of innovation
By R.A. | WASHINGTON
ROGER PIELKE, JR. posts a chart from The Economist's recent world economy survey:
For 150 years, commodity prices have trended ever downward. As Mr Pielke notes, a spike in prices in the 1970s prompted the famous Ehrlich-Simon bet, between an ecologist and an economist, over whether resource prices would rise or fall between 1980 and 1990. The economist, Julian Simon, argued that they would fall, as rising prices in the short-term would prompt markets to find new supplies and efficiencies that placed downward pressue on prices over the longer-term. As it turned out, he won the bet. Had it been a 30-year bet, however, he would have lost.
Mr Pielke then asks the inevitable question: are the commodity price increases of the past decade likely to trigger a similar market response, such that a decade from now we're once again enjoying a time of plenty? Or is dramatic emerging-market growth combining with dwindling supplies of critical resources to push the world against fundamental limits, the end result of which will be sustained increases in commodity prices?
To answer the question, one has to state one's beliefs in the likely path of elasticities of demand with respect to price. To put it another way: over the next decade, how successful will humanity be in substituting away from scarce resources?
Substitution will be easier for some commodities than others, and for some applications relative to others. I think I'm actually mildly optimistic. I don't anticipate falling prices. I do think that as prices bump up against painful levels, innovation and adaptation will occur more swiftly than many expect. Another decade of volatile and upward-trending oil prices, for instance, will be incredibly good for electric-car technology. I'd say there's about a 70% chance that 15-20 years from now commodity prices won't be any higher than they are right now. I'd say there's a 20% chance they're dramatically lower because of stunning, expected innovation. And I'd say there's a 10% chance they're dramatically lower because humanity was not able to substitute away from scarce resources effectively, leading to a catastrophic economic collapse.
But prediction is hard, especially about the future.
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Song, dance and tears for Mandela in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG - Themba Radebe spun slowly in a circle.
First he pointed his cell phone camera at a group of children chanting Nelson Mandela's name as they waved posters of the anti-apartheid champion. Then pivoting to his right, Radebe aimed his camera at a swaying group of adults who sang in Zulu while rocking and clapping.
A day after Mandela's death at 95, South Africans of all colors erupted in song, dance and tears Friday in emotional celebrations of the life of the man who bridged this country's black-white divide and helped avert a race war.
"I don't think Mr. Mandela belonged to black people," said Alex Freilingsdorf, a Toyota executive at a Soweto dealership. "He belonged to South Africa."
Freilingsdorf and other white South Africans mingled among the hundreds of blacks gathered outside a home where Mandela lived as a young lawyer in the rough and tumble Soweto township.
The mood was simultaneously celebratory and somber at the impromptu street festival where Radebe filmed scenes to share with his family.
"I'm sorry, I'm too emotional. The tears flow too easily," said the balding 60-year-old, his eyes sparkling with tears as he reflected on how South Africa's race relations have improved -- "not perfect, but much better" -- compared with his childhood in the black township.
"This is a celebration of the death, because we knew he was an old man," Radebe said. "He brought a lot of changes to our community, because I grew up in apartheid. It was a very bad situation."
At a service in Cape Town, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate like Mandela and himself a monumental figure in the struggle against apartheid, called on South Africa's 51 million people to embrace the values of unity and democracy that Mandela embodied.
"God, thank you for the gift of Madiba," Tutu said, using Mandela's clan name.
"All of us here in many ways amazed the world, a world that was expecting us to be devastated by a racial conflagration," Tutu said as he recalled how Mandela helped unite South Africa as it dismantled the cruel system of white minority rule, and prepared for all-race elections in 1994.
In those elections, Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison, became South Africa's first black president.
At Mandela's home in the leafy Johannesburg neighborhood of Houghton, where he spent his last sickly months, a multi-racial crowd paid tribute.
"What I liked most about Mandela was his forgiveness, his passion, his diversity, the impact of what he did," said Ariel Sobel, a white man who was born in 1993, a year before Mandela was elected president. "I am not worried about what will happen next. We will continue as a nation. We knew this was coming. We are prepared."
As a dozen doves were released into the sky, people sang tribal songs, the national anthem, God Bless Africa -- the anthem of the anti-apartheid struggle -- and Christian hymns.
Many wore the traditional garb of the nation's Zulu, Xhosa and other ethnic groups.
"He will rule the universe with God," proclaimed a poster raised aloft by a mourner.
President Jacob Zuma announced a schedule of ceremonies expected to draw huge numbers of world dignitaries and ordinary mourners.
Mandela's body is to lie in state from Wednesday through Friday after a memorial service at the same Johannesburg stadium where he made his last public appearance in 2010 at the closing ceremony of the soccer World Cup. He is to be buried in his rural childhood village of Qunu on Dec. 15, after a state funeral.
The White House said President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama would visit South Africa next week to participate in memorial events, though no precise dates were given.
Mandela was a "very human person" with a sense of humor who took interest in people around him, said F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid-era president. The two men negotiated the end of apartheid, finding common cause in often tense circumstances, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
Summarizing Mandela's legacy, de Klerk paraphrased Mandela's own words: "Never and never again should there be in South Africa the suppression of anyone by another."
The late leader's grandson, Mandla Mandela, said he was strengthened by the knowledge that his grandfather is finally at rest.


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Various Considerations To Have In Mind When Selecting The Right Painting Company
When carrying out various tasks like construction and remodeling, it is crucial for individuals to know that painting will be required. Apart from making a home look decorative, there will be value-added to a home if it is painted. Your home will always appear attractive whenever it is painted. Painting a home will make it appear new again. It is crucial to let individuals know that for the house to be painted as required, it is necessary to look for a painting company. If you check around today, you will realize that there are a couple of painting companies that are available. It is a hectic task when it comes to choosing a good painting company. There are various tips that will enable an individual to select the right painting company. Continue reading on this page as you will get to understand these factors.
Always check if a painting company that you are choosing has experience. It is good for people to know that experience is required when the task of painting is being performed. You need to know that the painting company will be in a position of delivering the best services if it has offered similar tasks in the past. You need to check on the duration that the company has provided the painting services so that you can understand their experience. Being in the industry for many years means that the painting company has gained enough experience.
Always know that choosing a licensed painting company is necessary. You are notified that there is a need for skills and knowledge whenever the painting job is being done. To show that the company is skilled and knowledgeable, it is always good for individuals to know that they need to get a license from the painting company. The only time that a painting company will be issued with the license is when it has met the standards, regulations, and rules.
Always make a step of consulting with other people who might be around you before picking a painting company. It is true that people may need the painting services at a time whenever they have a new home, or when they want to renew their houses. At one time, the painting companies might have delivered the services to these individuals. They are the best people who can give the best recommendations of various painting companies. With them having been provided with the services, it is good for people to know that they will have an idea of the best company. It is good that you give them an year as they give you their experiences. It is critical for individuals to know that they need to settle with that painting company that has offered the best experiences to the past clients.
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Ted Nugent Appointed as Ambassador by Exodus Place
Exodus Place, a nonprofit that cares for homeless military veterans, has announced that NRA board member and avid Second Amendment supporter Ted Nugent is joining them as an Ambassador. Nugent hopes to make his home state of Michigan the leading state in achieving zero military veteran homelessness.
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Nikola Releases Pricing for NZT
Nikola Motor Company has released pricing for the NZT. The NZT is an all-electric, off-highway vehicle. The vehicle has 590 hp, 775 lb-ft of torque, and a 0-to-60 time of 4 seconds. Battery range is up to 150 miles on a single charge. The price tag on one of these will set you back about $80,000.
The price on the NZT is definitely steep, considering the average price of a fully loaded UTV is in the $30,000 range. The Nikola NZT is the first and only all-electric UTV currently coming to market. The company says its battery pack is more powerful than a Tesla Model X. There isn't a gas-powered UTV that can even touch 590 hp on the market right now.
Updated information and pricing was released during a recent Nikola event in Arizona. Customers can go to Nikola's website to reserve their NZT. Deliveries are expected in 2021. The company originally started building a large all-electric semitruck. Nikola announced Anheuser-Busch has placed an order for 800 of the trucks. In addition to the NZT, Nikola also debuted a remote-controlled autonomous military vehicle that emits no heat signature. Nikola is expected to add 2,000 jobs to its Arizona headquarters building these vehicles.
We had a chance to get an up-close look at a prototype version of the Nikola NZT during the 2018 Sand Sports Super Show. Read our story here.


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Happy Labor Day! Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend! I know we are!
KJ had a scrimmage on Friday at home. She's playing SO good! Her serves are solid and she's been setting. She's still fighting the setter position but Cosmo and I keep telling her it's the perfect position for her -- she knows what she's doing on the court, she controls the action and she sets very, very well. I don't know what her problem is. She is loving high school life and it was so weird to see her doing some Damascus chants and cheers during the Varsity game. Anyway, she played awesome and a couple of her friends came to see her play and then they went to the football scrimmage while Cosmo and I went out to dinner at Laurienzo's. I luv, luv, luv their lobster ravioli! http://www.laurienzobrickovencafe.com/
KJ's friend slept over Friday night and my parents arrived Saturday afternoon in plenty of time to watch the Alabama game. Cosmo's niece and her husband came over (FSU fans/alumni) and my cousin and her husband joined us as well (Penn State fans/alumni). I was hoping we could set up the TV poolside but it was quite humid and it looked like it might rain. I swear, I love having people over. The more the merrier. Sunday's weather cooperated and we spent the entire day in the pool. The. Entire. Day. We only got out of the pool to eat (and bathroom breaks!!).
Today Cosmo, KJ and my parents are at the Spy Musuem in DC. http://www.spymuseum.org/
I decided to stay home and get some stuff done to get ready for the week ahead. I have a bunch of pool towels to throw in the wash and just need to chill for a bit. The sun is shining today so I'll probably lay at the pool and catch up on my magazines.
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The Parkway Lady Panthers handed the Caddo Magnet Lady Mustangs their first district loss 2-1 in overtime Monday night at Cargill Park.
Mackenzie Kleinpeter scored both goals for the Lady Panthers (9-5-2, 7-2 District 1-I). Elizabeth Knight had an assist. Caddo Magnet dropped to 5-5 and 5-1.
Also at Cargill, Benton swept Northwood in boys and girls District 1-II games. The boys swept a doubleheader, 3-1 and 3-0, and the girls won 10-0.
Dillon Rogers scored two goals for the Tigers (13-2, 3-0) in the 3-1 win. Edwin Lopez scored a goal, and Tyler McComon had an assist. Rogers had a hat trick in the 3-0 win. Ethan Parks assisted on all three goals.
Hannah Easter, Abby Lauterbach and Shelby Plunkett scored two goals apiece for the Lady Tigers (8-5, 3-1). Kirsten Basco, Jenny Cox, Piper Flood and Savanna Sedberry all scored one.
In District 1-I boys action at Tinsley Park, Benny Broadway had a hat trick as Haughton (6-7, 3-4) knocked off Southwood 4-1. Benny's brother, Nico, also scored.
The Bossier boys picked up their second win over the season, 5-2, over North Caddo at Vivian. Baha Abdelrahim scored two goals for the Bearkats (2-8, 1-1 District 1-III). Hunter Courtney and Uriel Salazar had one goal each. Alexis Galvan scored one goal and had three assists.
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One of the cardinal rules of investing is 'Buy the Rumor, Sell the News'. As such, conventional wisdom might have led us to believe that – after a runup in its share price leading to the announcement yesterday of its first half 2014 results – there might be a post-announcement letdown in the share price of SafeCharge (LON:SCH), even if the results were good.
But there was no disappointment, and no letdown.
After reporting results which clearly impressed the market, and announcing the initiation of dividend payments, SafeCharge saw its share price rise (another) 4% on Tuesday, closing at yet another all-time high of £2.25.
SafeCharge share price, IPO to present. Source: Google Finance.
Other highlights of 1H-2014 at SafeCharge included:
- Launch of new customers including Ladbrokes, FXDD and Gaijin
- Attained Principal Membership of VISA Europe
- First dividend of US cents 2.88 per share introduced
- And of course, the company's successful IPO
Perhaps most importantly, SafeCharge reiterated that so far in Q3 business activity has continued to be strong, and as a result the company expects that both revenues and EBITDA for the full year (to December 31) are expected to be materially ahead of current market expectations.


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Prof, now author, has critiqued rock's greats
The Daily Pennsylvanian
October 10, 2005
English professor Anthony DeCurtis has ridden in former Beatle George Harrison's car, taken home a Grammy Award and shared childhood memories with Martin Scorsese.
He also teaches creative writing at the Kelly Writers House.
DeCurtis has compiled his interviews with musicians, actors and directors -- published by Rolling Stone and The New York Times -- from the last 23 years into a new book, In Other Words.
"There's a ragged quality to some of these interviews," DeCurtis says. "I wanted it to have a conversational feel."
DeCurtis' career began in the early 1980s with his interviews for Record and Rolling Stone magazines. After joining the staff of Rolling Stone in 1986, DeCurtis wrote music reviews and ultimately became senior editor of the review section.
He soon gained prominence as a rock critic and even won a Grammy in 1988 for his album notes for Eric Clapton's compilation album Crossroads.
In 1998, he authored Rocking My Life Away and always hoped to release a follow-up compilation.
The new collection contains the full transcripts of his interviews, from Van Morrison's belligerent responses -- which "made it difficult to listen to [his music] for a while," DeCurtis said -- to Rufus Wainwright's discussion of drug addiction.
DeCurtis, who has been commuting from New York City every Thursday since 2002, teaches a class on writing about the arts.
"I want to help people get an accurate view of things ... a sort of three-dimensional view of the world," DeCurtis said.
Last Thursday, he was at the Kelly Writers House to promote his book.
Accompanying DeCurtis at the Writers House were his journalist friends, including Paul Raushenbush and Steve Volk, who read from their own work in addition to lauding DeCurtis.
"He's a brain on legs," Volk exclaimed.
Jennifer Snead, director of the Writers House, said that DeCurtis' years of experience give him a unique teaching perspective. They also make it possible for him to bring guest speakers each week to supplement the lecture.
"He really is like a dream instructor," Snead said. "He's contributed so much to the Writers House community."
2004 College alumnus Daniel McQuade agreed.
"My writing definitely improved from the start [of DeCurtis' class] to the finish," he said.
McQuade is now working for Philadelphia Weekly.
After DeCurtis and others read, he signed copies of his book for audience members.
"The reaction [to In Other Words] has been very warm," DeCurtis said.
Once finished promoting his book, DeCurtis plans to continue writing about rock for as long as possible.
"It's very gratifying to do work you like to do," DeCurtis said. "It's fun, and the older I get, the more that becomes the criteria for what I choose to do."


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