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Estate planning is an important part of any financial strategy. It’s a broad term that covers a lot of issues, but estate planning generally refers to the distribution of one’s assets after death. An estate plan may include a will, trust and other documents that state how your property and other assets should be distributed to your heirs.
In today’s digital age, though, estate planning isn’t just for financial assets. You may have virtual accounts and assets that also need planning and protection. For instance, your email may hold important or sensitive information. Your social media accounts may hold photos, videos or other assets with sentimental value. Perhaps you even have online investment accounts or income streams that will need management after your death.
Unfortunately, there’s no standard legal process for managing these assets. While a will, trust and other tools are accepted as legal documents to manage financial assets, it’s unclear how these documents can be used with regard to digital accounts. This is a relatively new area of estate planning, so your strategy could evolve over time. However, there are a few basic steps you can take today to protect yourself and your digital footprint.
Decide on your wishes for your digital assets.
Before you take any action, it’s helpful to sit down and think about your wishes and objectives. Make a list of your important accounts, such as email, social media, photo and file storage, and more. Then consider what you would like to happen to those accounts after you pass away.
Are there any compelling reasons why someone would need access to an account? For instance, do you do business through an email or online payment account? Would your family need access to that information?
Also consider the sentimental value of your various accounts. Do you have pictures or other memories that you would like to share with your family after you’re gone?
Finally, privacy is also a concern. If you give your family access to your email or social media after you pass away, consider that they may be able to see everything you have ever done in those accounts. There may be certain information or communications that you don’t want to share with your children or other loved ones.
Learn about your digital vendors’ rules.
Since there are no standard rules about posthumous digital management, each company has created its own rules and guidelines. Some email providers are strict and don’t allow any access after an account owner’s death. Others allow access if the account hasn’t been used in several months. Some social media companies will keep your page up as a “remembrance page” with limited access to others.
Do some research to see how your primary account platforms operate after a user’s death. They may allow you to designate a backup person to take over your account or access certain information. If they don’t allow that option, you may need to consider alternative strategies.
Create written instructions.
Theoretically, you could include account management instructions, usernames and passwords in your will or other documents. That may not be a great idea, however, as those documents are often filed as public record. That means anyone could gain access to your accounts.
Instead, consider using a password management tool to store login info, and then simply have your estate executor provide that info to the appropriate person. You could also store a document with digital asset instructions along with your other important documents, such as your insurance policy, will and others.
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Today, Variety announced that Oscar-nominated actor Timothee Chalamet has been cast by Warner Brothers in a Willy Wonka prequel. The actor has made some serious buzz since starring in 2017’s Call Me By My Name and 2019’s Little Women. He will star later this year in the massive space adaption of Dune. The film is expected to be a prequel to the original Willy Wonka film of the 1970’s played by Gene Wilder. The studio almost considered Donald Glover and a gender-swapped Kate Mckinnon for the role of Wonka. Paddington director Paul King will helm the project; with a script by Simon Rich.
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Plan Forward Founder & Co-CEO, Megan Lohman joined Novonee Founder, Dayna Johnson for a deep dive on annual planning. Listen in to Novonne on the Go or read a snippet from the transcription below.
As you know, we are talking about annual planning and for so this whole third quarter, we are diving into annual planning. And if you’ve been listening to our last couple of podcasts, you know that we’re in the middle of summer, right? We’re in the middle of summer, and you might not be thinking about next year. But this time of year, is extremely important for you to start thinking about goal setting and the possibility of what your practice is going to look like next year.
Megan Lohman 5:36
So, a lot of practices, or a lot of front office team members, specifically helping patients who are so frustrated with maybe the lack of value that they’re getting from their dental insurance plan. So even though employers may offer dental, they may still be paying a decent amount of money every month in in the premium for that plan option. And then when they go to use the benefits, you know, things are down coded or excluded, or they’re still paying a lot out of pocket. Almost everyone we talked to throughout the day, you know, is helping patients through this conversation of okay, well, you do have dental benefits, but blah, blah, blah, and they go through on why they have a balance. And so, these are underinsured patients. So, this is the opportunity that your front office team members have. And your practice has to communicate with patients, Hey, make sure you’re running numbers, because sometimes it’s cheaper for you just to pay our office directly, than pay for this dental insurance plan and pay for the out of pocket portion.
Dayna Johnson 6:50
I remember when I was in a practice, and our patients would come and ask us, you know, I need to renew my dental benefits. And they were self-employed, or they it was a Medicare supplement or something like that. And they would come to us and say, you know, should I opt in for this for my dental? And my first question to them always was, what are the what’s the premium? What’s the monthly premium? Because they would come to me and say, Well, I’d get $1,000 benefit for this dental plan? Should I buy it? And my first question was always, what’s the premium? Because if the premium is like 50 bucks a month, you know, their pain? What is that, you know, $50 a month 12, they’re paying $600 a year just in premiums, and then and then deduct that from the from the maximum, they’re only really getting $400 a month and benefits, or a year and a year in benefits? And so then I would tell them, No, it’s not, it’s not worth you getting that. And you know, that was way back in the day before membership plans were even available, or even even talked about. So I think that’s a really good conversation for our dental teams to be having with our with our patients.
Megan Lohman 8:18
And regardless of what you have in your practice today, in terms of options for these patients, it’s still helpful to send out a communication to say, hey, we know open enrollment is around the corner, make sure you’re you know, running numbers to make sure you’re getting the most value out of the insurance plan. Because obviously some patients are you know, the employer is paying 100% of that premium or close to it, then absolutely, that’s a great value. But others may not. And so if you can help give them tips, like, you know, add up how much you are paying a premium, add up how much you’ve paid off pocket and our practice and just compare, that’s just guidance and keeping it top of mind for your patients.
Dayna Johnson 9:03
I think that’s such a great point and what a value added service that our teams can do to provide our patients with such a great topic, you know, to even think about because I bet a lot of patients don’t even think about that they have other they have other options available.
Megan Lohman 9:24
Yeah. And paying directly just hanging out of pocket full fees. Sometimes it’s cheaper, which seems crazy for him.
Dayna Johnson 9:33
Well, I agree. And, and you know, we have to think about how many of our patients are self-employed now, you know, or they’re a gig employer. They’re a 1099 employee now or, and, you know, so they’re now self-employed. I’m self-employed and I have to really think about my insurance benefits and sometimes it has been cheaper for me to pay out of pocket. So, I really think that’s such a great topic of conversation for our patients. Okay, I’m so glad that you brought up that October open enrollment, because I had no idea that even could play a big role in the dental practice. So thank you for that. The next thing I want to dive into is, let’s say that the doctor is ready to really explore this membership thing. I know that they’ve been around for a while. And, you know, now I think that my practice might be ready to onboard a membership plan. And I’m going to add this topic into my annual planning session for this year, what are your top three things that doctors should be looking at, or evaluating when they are looking at adding a membership plan? Or I like sometimes I like to call them a loyalty plan?
Megan Lohman 11:25
I think that the biggest reason people implement a membership plan is to your point loyalty. In it, it’s the easiest way to help patients who are either confused or asking for benefit recommendations, it’s the easiest answer that, you know, is a great value. So as a front office person, it’s really hard to answer the question when a patient calls and says, Hey, would you recommend me re upping my dental insurance or my employer switching my dental insurance? Which plan do you recommend, it’s almost impossible to know whether or not you’re advising them to buy something that’s a good value until they actually use it in your practice. So I think when you think about how you want to grow, the profitability model and implementing a membership plan is definitely one to serve your patients and help keep them loyal to your practice. And the second piece is, it’s a way to improve your profitability through these uninsured patients. In a third piece, if this is really a doctor focused initiative, the other piece is talk to your your front office team. And ask them, What are you typically recommending, when patients ask you, Amanda? Reference, you know, what’s your answer? And see what they say? |
Dynasty Season 4 Episode 13 wrapped with the demise of an original star, and it changed the fabric of the show forever.
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## Linear Functions
Definition: A l i n e a r equation can be written in the form Ax + By = C.
Note: These equations are called linear because their graphs are always lines.
Question: Which linear equations are functions?
Answer: All lines except vertical lines are functions.
## Slope-Intercept Form
Definition: A l i n e a r function can be written in the form f(x) = mx + b. This is also referred to as the slope-intercept form of a line, where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept.
Note: The slope is the ratio (or comparison) of the change in y divided by the change in x. A good way to remember slope is to
use .
## Graphing Linear Functions
To graph a linear function we need to recall a fact from geometry. We will use the fact that any two points define a line. Thus to graph a linear function we need only find two solution points to the linear equation. There are many ways to accomplish this.
Method 1: Use any Two Points
Example1: f(x) = 2 x - 3
Solution: We need to find two solution points.
Example 2:
Solution:
Method 2: Use the Intercepts
The intercepts are the points where the graph crosses each axis. There are x-intercepts and y-intercepts. We find the x-intercepts by letting y = 0 and the y-intercepts by letting x = 0.
Example 1: h(x) = -3 x - 6
Solution: The y-intercept is (0, -6).
To get the x-intercept let y = 0.
0 = -3 x - 6
6 = -3 x
x = -2
The x-intercept is(-2, 0).
Example 2:
Solution: The y-intercept is (0, 4).
To get the x-intercept.
So the x-intercept is (-6, 0).
Method 3: Use the Slope and y-intercept
We can use the slope and intercept of the line to sketch it. Start by plotting the y-intercept and then use the slope as a map to find a second point.
Example 1: s(x) =-4 x + 1
Solution: Start with the y-intercept (0, 1), them from move down 4 and right 1. This gives the point (1,-3).
Example 2:
Solution:
## Writing Linear Functions
To write the linear function that passes through two points, we'll use the slope-intercept form f(x) = m x + b. This means we must first find the slope of the line and then find the y-intercept.
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using function notation.
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So this tells us that the function is of the form y = -x + b.
To get b, we'll note that the point (0, 3) is the y-intercept and so b = 3.
So our linear function is f(x) = -x + 3
Example 2: Find the equation of the linear function passing through the two points (3,6) and (-3,2). Then write the equation
using function notation.
Solution:
So this tells us that the function is of the form .
To find b, take one of the points and substitute and then solve.
So the linear function is
Note: There is an alternate way to find the equation of a line. We can use point-slope form of a line. y - y1 = m(x - x1)
Example 3: Find the equation of the linear function passing through the two points (5, -3) and (-10, 3). Then write the
equation using function notation.
Solution: .
So the equation is given by .
Now to get this into function form we need to solve for y and simplify.
## Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
Theorem:
Two lines are parallel if they have equal slopes.
Two lines are perpendicular if they have opposite reciprocal slopes.
i.e. If the first line has slope , then the second has slope - .
Example 1: Find the equation of the line passing through the point (1,5) and parallel to the line 4 x + 2 y = 1.
Solution: First we need to find the slope. Since the new is parallel to 4 x + 2 y = 1, we need to find the slope of this line. We can do this by solving for y and getting slope-intercept form.
So m = -2.
So our new line is of the form y = -2 x + b.
5 = -2(1) + b
b = 7
So the new linear function is f(x) = -2 x + 7.
Example 2: Find the equation of the line passing through the point (2,1) and perpendicular to the line 2 x + 3 y = 15.
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One of my feline compadres or I have had a particularly awesome start to the day as she has needed to go to the vets because she isn’t eating solid food and I have the workings of a bad throat, which is worrying as I am singing at a wedding this evening and have a heavy day of practise ahead of me. We are both sulking but she is now eating some prescription food with relish and I have decided to eat noodles.
I don’t think I’ve ever reviewed some Vietnamese noodles before as far as I can remember and, strangely, these were bought from a Filipino shop. Hot and Sour Shrimp sounds like the workings of Thai Tom Yum so hopefully these will be right up my street!!
The noodles come with a plastic fork, some seasoned oil which is peppery and tastes of shallots and some soup base which looks like it’s mainly comprised of salt, sugar and MSG. I expect to be rather thirsty this afternoon after eating this cup of noodles!! The smell of the finished noodles as every so slightly sour with lime but otherwise rather bland. There is a lot of herbs in the broth and one is listed as saw-leaf herb which I’ve never heard of. Wikipedia calls it Culantro, Mexican coriander or long coriander. My interest is piqued, let’s give them a shot!
First off, the noodles are pretty good and, with a slight chew and crumbly texture, remind me of Japanese and Singaporean Cup Noodles. I do tend to really like thin, wheat noodles in cups and these don’t disappoint.
There’s some garnish hidden in the noodles and I spotted a piece of sweetcorn, a couple of cubes of carrot and some bits of cabbage but none of this is listed on either the original or import ingredients. I would have like more as the texture of the different components is not bad at all.
For me the star of the show is the broth. It is exactly what I hoped for and taste very similar to Vietnamese noodle soups that I’ve had out and prepared at home. It’s a little sweeter than Tom Yum but still has the sour lime zing. The different herbs add a nice complexity to the broth which I haven’t usually found in South Asian cup noodles.
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super interesting overview of a very different new frontend framework, "qwik" https://youtu.be/rS8hXFHWKJQ
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neat "collections" feature now in open library: https://openlibrary.org/collections/LGBTQ
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Such an uplifting article:
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Anyone who bought or leased a Tesla and was disappointed with the car’s driving range.
What’s Going On?
A July 2023 investigation found that Tesla may have grossly overstated the range of its electric vehicles. While at least one proposed class action lawsuit has been filed over the issue, attorneys are looking into another type of legal action known as mass arbitration.
What Is Mass Arbitration?
Mass arbitration, which is different from a class action lawsuit, is a relatively new legal technique that involves many consumers filing individual arbitration claims against the same company, at the same time and over the same issue.
What You Can Do
If you’ve noticed that your Tesla fails to achieve its advertised range, fill out the form linked below and join others taking action.
Disappointed in your Tesla's driving range?
If so, join others taking action. It costs nothing to sign up, and all you have to do is fill out a quick form using the link below.
Attorneys working with ClassAction.org are gathering Tesla drivers to take action against the automaker amid concerns the cars are not meeting their advertised range estimates.
On July 27, 2023, Reuters reported that Tesla has consistently overstated the driving ranges of its electric vehicles – not only in advertisements but even through the range estimates on the cars’ dashboards. When customers began complaining about reduced range, Tesla went so far as to form a special “Diversion Team” tasked with canceling any range-related service appointments, Reuters reported.
Attorneys believe Tesla could be held accountable for possible false advertising, and those who sign up may be owed money back. If you were disappointed in your Tesla’s driving range, join others taking action by filling out this quick, secure form.
Report: Tesla Consistently Exaggerated Cars’ Range, Ignored Complaints
The July 27 Reuters article states that around a decade ago, Tesla began exaggerating how far its vehicles could travel on a full battery by manipulating the cars’ range-estimating software. According to the article, the algorithms used for Teslas’ in-dash range meters were purposely written to display “rosy” projections of the mileage left before the battery needed to be charged, with the ranges becoming more accurate after the battery fell below 50 percent.
Though Reuters could not confirm whether Tesla still uses these range-boosting algorithms, its investigation found that the company has faced pushback from regulators and automotive testers for exaggerating how far its vehicles can travel on a full battery.
As recently as this year, South Korean regulators reportedly fined Tesla about $2.1 million for falsely advertising its cars’ driving ranges on its local website between August 2019 and December 2022, with the Korea Fair Trade Commission finding that Tesla failed to disclose to customers that the vehicles’ range could be cut by over 50 percent in cold weather. Tesla was required to publicly admit that it had misled consumers, and CEO Elon Musk and two local executives acknowledged “false/exaggerated advertising” in a June 19 statement, the article says.
Reuters also reported that Tesla was required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce the driving range estimates it was planning to advertise by an average of 3 percent since the 2020 model year.
Auto experts have also reported that Tesla vehicles consistently underperform the ranges advertised by the automaker, with one study finding that three Tesla models fell short of their advertised ranges by an average of 26 percent, according to the Reuters article. One analytics company noted that the Tesla dashboard range meters were not accurate and “ignored” many conditions that could affect range. For instance, the projections would not adjust based on hot or cold temperatures, which can drastically change the mileage a car can travel on a full battery, the report stated.
Even further, Reuters reported that Tesla has attempted to cool customers who complain about range loss by simply canceling their service appointments and providing battery-saving tips. Per the article, in response to a deluge of service appointment requests, the automaker formed a special “Diversion Team” last year to handle only range-related complaints. Employees were instructed to cancel as many service appointments as possible and often did so without running any diagnostics on customers’ cars, the article states.
Is This a Lawsuit? What Am I Signing Up For, Exactly?
You are not signing up for a lawsuit, but rather a process known as mass arbitration. This is a relatively new legal technique that, like a class action lawsuit, allows a large group of people to take action and seek compensation from a company over an alleged wrongdoing. Here is a quick explanation of mass arbitration from our blog:
“[M]ass arbitration occurs when hundreds or thousands of consumers file individual arbitration claims against the same company over the same issue at the same time. The aim of a mass arbitration proceeding is to grant relief on a large scale (similar to a class action lawsuit) for those who sign up.”
Tesla has previously argued that its customers are contractually required to resolve their disputes through arbitration, a form of alternative dispute resolution that takes place outside of court before a neutral arbitrator, as opposed to a judge or jury.
It’s for this reason that attorneys working with ClassAction.org have decided to handle this matter as a mass arbitration rather than a class action lawsuit.
How Much Does This Cost?
It costs nothing to sign up, and you’ll only need to pay if the attorneys win money on your behalf. Their payment will come as a percentage of your award. |
In the ever-evolving world of sports entertainment, football stands out as a global phenomenon, captivating the hearts of millions around the world. Beyond the thrill of the game itself, the rise of football betting has added a new dimension to the fan experience. taruhan bola online betting sites have become virtual arenas where enthusiasts can test their predictions, sharpen their analytical skills, and, if luck is on their side, turn their passion for the game into financial gains.
In this blog, we will delve into the secrets of football betting sites, exploring the key aspects that make them popular, the types of bets available, and some valuable tips to enhance your betting experience.
- The Rise of Online Football Betting:
With the advent of the internet, football betting has transitioned from traditional brick-and-mortar bookmakers to online platforms. This shift has not only made betting more accessible but has also opened up a myriad of options for enthusiasts to explore. Online football betting sites offer a user-friendly interface, real-time updates, and a plethora of betting markets, making it an immersive experience for users.
- Diverse Betting Markets:
Football betting is not limited to predicting the winner of a match. Modern betting sites provide an extensive range of markets, allowing punters to bet on various aspects of the game. From predicting the number of goals, the first goal-scorer, or even the number of corners in a match, the possibilities are endless. Understanding these diverse markets can significantly enhance your betting strategy.
- In-Play Betting:
One of the innovations that have transformed football betting is the introduction of in-play or live betting. Punters can now place bets while the game is in progress, reacting to the unfolding events on the field. This dynamic form of betting adds an extra layer of excitement and requires quick decision-making skills. It’s crucial to stay updated on match statistics and be strategic when engaging in in-play betting.
- Bonuses and Promotions:
Football betting sites often entice users with various bonuses and promotions. These can include welcome bonuses, free bets, and loyalty rewards. Understanding how to leverage these bonuses effectively can significantly boost your bankroll. However, it’s essential to read the terms and conditions to ensure you meet the requirements for withdrawal.
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Football betting sites have transformed the way fans engage with the beautiful game, offering a unique blend of entertainment and potential financial gains. By understanding the diverse betting markets, leveraging bonuses wisely, and adopting effective bankroll management and research strategies, you can unlock the secrets to a successful football betting experience. |
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The Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Arizona (LETR/SOAZ) is raffling three collectable pieces of memorabilia that would enhance anyone’s collection.
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“If you are the 4th-poorest country in the world, you have a long way to go. When you try to train an army, they have an 80% illiteracy rate… It’s gonna take a long time.”
Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, on Afghanistan.
We’ve been fighting in Afghanistan for seven years, five months, and six days, as of this writing. A child born the day the bombs first dropped is now reading books in school and playing basketball – or cricket. Seven is the Age of Reason, as my father told me at that age. It is the age at which a child can grasp the difference between wrong and right, and accept resposibility. When he can be accountable for his mistakes.
President Obama is making a mistake sending additional troops to this conflict.
Obama made a bold and honest declaration by stating the fact that America is not winning the war in Afghanistan, but the error in his pronouncement was its tone of hubris. The natural assumption for an American audience, as for any betting man throughout the world, is that America ought to be winning this war – and how! If spending more than the rest of the world combined on guns, planes, bombs and tankers can’t guarantee victory against a ragtag bunch of horse-riding mujahideen, then what can?
My first answer would be old-fashioned gumshoe spy shit, covert operations by men in trenchcoats and seductive women who elicit secrets out of foreign agents. Americans who can blend into other worlds, command languages, customs and connections, and have the full backing and support of Uncle Sam. We should be spending our money on training people to spend their whole lives overseas, protecting their country by feeding it information from the street corners of the world – but please, leave the F-15s parked out at sea.
Consider this: maybe we haven’t won in Afghanistan because it’s not winnable. Or perhaps it could be won after all, but the sheer massive destruction it would require is beyond the pale, even for men who understand that respect must be earned through the barrel of a gun.
It looks like we are trying to find out how long an operation as complicated and difficult as taming Afghanistan will take. Are we really prepared to take this ride?
It’s time to re-evaluate our goals there. Everybody was on board after the attacks of 9/11. Everybody wanted blood. But reason should have governed our actions, not emotion. Now we owe it to ourselves to consider what we really need to accomplish in Afghanistan, and leave out the pipe dreams.
Talking to the Taliban is a must, and a no-brainer. We are at a standstill, and the only options are negotiation or escalation. Obama is choosing escalation, but on a small scale. 17,000 more troops isn’t going to solve this thing. To pacify the country would require something an order of magnitude larger – hundreds of thousands of troops. Not to mention another decade of our time, trillions of dollars, and untold thousands of dead.
We went there to clear out the terrorists. Now that they’ve scattered, we should focus on getting out. Rounding up the rest of them is an international police and intelligence operation – not a military operation. We are spending billions of dollars trying to kill gnats with sledgehammers. This is a burden we simply must relieve ourselves of, for the sake of our children. |
Saint Germain is commonly associated with the violet flame often invoked by spiritual healers. The conciuosness sparked by this ray includes distribution of the earth’s resources including minerals, opening up new lands, activation of the crystal grid (template of light and the circulation of light upon the planet). Initiating new energies into the populace from the central intelligence. Emphasizes importance of the Individual God Essence and freedom.
Saint Germain has spearheaded the bringing of the new in many of his adventures, including an incarnation as Christopher Columbus. He (along with Koothumi) overshadowed the line of Merlins (head Druid Priests) and incarnated as the Merlin of Camelot. In this capacity, he brought forth the Arcturian Gateway and the invisible form of a transmutational dragon, which invisibly guards and moves forces of destiny in higher alchemy. He was Joseph, the father of Jesus. Saint Germain has had incarnations in China practicing Taoist alchemical energy arts and in New Zealand as an early influential Maori Prophet. As Comte Saint Germain, he was an advisor to the royal court during the time of the French revolution, where he attempted to prevent the impending bloodshed by advising the rulers to change their ways and loosen their stranglehold on the populace. While doing this he had to hold at bay the corrupting influence of the church, which wanted to keep things the way they were.
Saint Germain has a keen interest in the west and has worked for many centuries in Europe and America. He has brought the highest Ati Dzogchen teachings of non-dual reality into western language and cultural identity, while never compromising the truth of universal law in which these teachings originate. He is the perfect embodiment of eloquence and refinement, a visionary who brings in the new with unparalleled diplomacy. In these qualities he truly epitomizes the violet ray.
As the figurehead of a ray emphasizing personal freedom he is intimately involved with the destiny of America, whose providence from ancient times places it as spearheading the freedom of the individual into a new octave of spiritual advancement for the planet.
I had a brief dream in which Saint Germain was being called the Maha Chohan, as if he was taking over the responsibilities of being known by that title, in particular overseer-ship of the silver ray. Saint Germain is blessedly one of our nearest and dearest elder guides. His assistance to my Beloved and I in our journey is frequently invaluable. We are always answerable to him through the Divine plan.
The very elegant and soft healing energy of Nada has long been an undying and underlying strength for many. Her incarnations include Mary, the mother of Jesus. She carries a soft pink feminine energy and, while very strong in her essence, she often prefers to remain anonymous or in the background. Having proceeded saint Germain in certain advancements, she helped him in aspects of his ascension immensely. Within the softness she has an electrical intensity of pure awareness that can penetrate into the essence of any situation. |
November 2, 2012
Air Date: November 2, 2012
Superstorms and Climate Change
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Sandy hit the Eastern U.S. with a powerful punch. The superstorm lashed the coast, flooded whole towns, left millions without power, and dropped snow on towns from Ohio to Tennessee. Host Steve Curwood discusses how climate change contributed to the storm's power with Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. (06:20)
Insuring for Climate Change
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Scientists expect more severe storms like Sandy as a result of climate change and insurance companies are paying attention. Steve Dishart, former communications manager for reinsurer Swiss Re, tells host Steve Curwood that rates wil rise and some properties will be uninsurable as climate change brings about more fierce weather. (05:40)
Effects of Climate Change on New York City
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We revisit a Living on Earth documentary reported by John Rudolph in 2003 that examined storm surges and other potential effects of climate change on New York City. Then Klaus Jacob, senior research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, featured in the original story, talks to host Steve Curwood from his flooded home on the Hudson River. (09:40)
Protecting Coastal Areas With….Oysters
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Oysters are a delicacy to some, but writer Paul Greenberg says they could have a more practical function. Greenberg tells host Steve Curwood that oysters once helped protect New York city from fierce storms. (07:40)
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We dip into the Living on Earth mailbag to hear from our listeners. (01:45)
Delta Risk/ Lauren Sommer
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Evaluating disaster risk is a major industry and researchers in California are working to reinvent how it’s done. Lauren Sommer has the story from IEEE Spectrum Magazine National Science Foundation special "Responding to Disasters, from Prediction to Recovery." (09:10)
Authorities Tolerate Environmental Protest in China
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Ningbo, China recently in opposition to a petrochemical plant they feel is a danger to public health, and forced the government to back down. Ben Carlson, a journalist for the Global Post, told host Steve Curwood about the growing environmental movement in China. (05:05)
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The ocean battered the East Coast this past week, but for the Black Oystercatcher the seashore is a protective habitat. BirdNote’s Michael Stein reports. (02:10)
HOST: Steve Curwood
GUESTS: Kevin E. Trenberth, Steve Dishart, Klaus Jacob, Paul Greenberg, Ben Carlson
REPORTERS: John Rudolph, Lauren Sommer, Michael Stein
CURWOOD: From Public Radio International - this is Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood. Rethinking storms, climate and risk - in the wake of the Sandy - the deadly super-storm that lashed half the country and devastated much of the New Jersey coast and Lower Manhattan.
TRENBERTH: The way I think about it overall is that the environment in which these storms are operating has changed, that's the new normal, and the odds are that these storms are more intense, and maybe a little bigger.
CURWOOD: And we will have to adapt with barricades, seawalls, gates… or oysters?
GREENBERG: Unlike a stopper or some sort of floodgate that we'd have to build, oyster-reefs build themselves. If we get them going, they will maintain themselves, and build themselves higher and higher until they're really at the height they should be to ease the storm surge.
CURWOOD: We'll have that and more this week, on Living on Earth. Stick Around!
ANNOUNCER: Support for Living on Earth comes from Stonyfield Farm.
CURWOOD: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Boston, this is Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. Gradually, in the wake of the hurricane that grew into a monster super-storm, people are shoveling out, cleaning up and counting the cost.
In all more than a hundred died. Thousands lost their homes. Some businesses are wrecked and may never recover. Millions suffered without power - and many still do. A storm so deadly, powerful and huge seems like an unprecedented event -- but then we've seen Katrina - and Andrew - and Irene - and Ike.
Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth is a climate analyst and senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder and joins us now - welcome to the show!
TRENBERTH: Yes, g'day Steve!
CURWOOD: In the scheme of things, how unusual was hurricane Sandy?
TRENBERTH: Well, hurricane Sandy became very unusual because it was no longer a hurricane when it made landfall, but a hybrid storm, where it had merged with another storm that actually dropped snow here in Colorado late last week, and it became this astro-tropical hybrid storm that had mixed characteristics and more than double the size of a normal hurricane.
There were hurricane force winds over a very large area, much more extensive than it would have been had it just been a hurricane.
CURWOOD: Does the experience of Sandy mean that science needs to redefine what a hurricane is?
TRENBERTH: Well, these hybrid storms certainly occur. The elements were sort of aligned here to make this a major storm and I think most of them were very much related to weather. There probably is a small human influence on this that is important, but most of what went on, perhaps there’s more of a crap-shoot aspect to it.
CURWOOD: Talk to me about this near barometric low pressure that was part of Sandy. What does it mean and why was it so low?
TRENBERTH: Well that certainly relates to the size of the storm. It’s just a huge storm, and it does relate to the hybrid character of the storm. The low pressure means that there’s less weight on the ocean, so the ocean wells up a bit more there - there’s the astronomical factors relating to the full moon and also sea level being a little higher than it used to be because of climate change. And so all of these factors came together to produce record breaking storm surges, especially in the southern part of Manhattan.
CURWOOD: So, at the end of the day, in your analysis, how much did climate change have to do with hurricane Sandy?
TRENBERTH: Well firstly on the sea-level side, you know, sea level is going up at just over an inch every decade, a little over a foot per century is the current rate. And so it’s only a few inches, perhaps you can think of it that way, but it also means that sea level is higher than it has ever been. So that’s one factor that adds to some of the coastal damage in particular.
The other factors are that the ocean is warmer. It’s warmer by about one degree Fahrenheit, relative to before the 1970s. That provides more fuel for the storm, it means the air above the storm is a little warmer and also moister, and so this invigorates the storm, so the number I usually quote is about a five to ten percent increase in precipitation. And so this relates even to storms like hurricane Irene last year, or even Isaac, this year where there was extensive flooding in many areas in association with these tropical storms.
CURWOOD: You’ve been studying these for a long time, but science is always full of surprises. What were your surprises that you encountered with the super-storm Sandy?
TRENBERTH: Well, you know, this was certainly being predicted to be a very strong super-storm, but even so the damage was pretty appalling for me to see. And the fact that a number of the subways in southern Manhattan actually did fill with water is very dismaying. In many respects, I’m not surprised, but then when you do see what’s actually happening, it’s always a bit shocking.
CURWOOD: So, hurricane Sandy, or super-storm Sandy, or hybrid Sandy, or whatever you want to call it… this is the new normal and in our warming world, what we can expect for our future hurricane seasons?
TRENBERTH: That’s right, it is a new normal. The way that I think about it overall is that the environment in which these storms are operating has changed. That’s the new normal, and the odds are that these storms are more intense and maybe a little bigger, with the possibility of heavier rains and flooding, that risk exists.
But at the same time, these storms churn up the ocean, they take energy out of the ocean - that’s the evaporation of moisture, that’s evaporative cooling of the ocean, and as a result these storms leave a cold wake behind them. And that’s one of the reasons why hurricanes don’t track along the same path – they’re always choosing a new path across the ocean.
And so one of the effects is that the environment behind a storm is less favorable for a storm, and so we do expect that although there are bigger, more intense storms, there may be fewer storms as a whole. So, one really big storm can take the place of what might have been, say, four or five smaller storms in the past.
CURWOOD: Now, since the world as a whole isn’t making major efforts, really, to address the human part of global climate change, how then should people prepare for a climate that is shifting?
TRENBERTH: Well, firstly, yes; we ought to be working to slow down these effects, and so that relates to the burning of fossil fuels in particular, the increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and we really ought to be trying to reduce those emissions. So the second part of this then is to recognize this is happening and to plan for it.
Planning for these kinds of things is something that we’re also not doing adequately at the current time. And, of course, if you don’t plan, the result is that you suffer the consequences, and that’s been the main strategy that we’ve had so far – we just take it as it comes and then suffer the consequences.
CURWOOD: Kevin Trenberth is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, thank you so much, sir.
TRENBERTH: You're most welcome.
- Past interview with Kevin Trenberth on LOE – “Hurricanes and Global Warming.”
- Mark Fischetti – “Did Climate Change Cause Hurricane Sandy?” Scientific American Blog
- Article by Kevin Trenberth – “Hurricane Sandy mixes super-storm conditions with climate change.” The Conversation
- Dr. Kevin Trenberth’s profile. Climate and Global Dynamic
CURWOOD: It'll be months before the costs of super-storm Sandy are tallied but estimates currently range to 50 or 60 billion dollars or even more. Insurance companies will pick up the tab for part of that - and they're paying attention when scientists say climate change will increase the severity of storms.
Steve Dishart used to manage Communications for Zürich-based Swiss Re, a company that's part of the large reinsurance industry. Insurance companies manage their risks by buying policies against catastrophic loss from reinsurers. We reached Dishart at his home in Westchester County, just north of New York City where, after the storm, he's got no electricity or heat.
DISHART: Well, I’m missing the heat but fortunately I have a wood burning stove so I’m sitting in front of my wood burner talking to you on my cell phone. This is the second time in exactly 12 months I’ve had to do exactly the same thing. Last year with the heavy snow that brought the trees down that brought the power down, and now we’re dealing with it again.
CURWOOD: Now, Steve, of course it’s too early to really know, but how big a deal is super-storm Sandy?
DISHART: The two largest losses in terms of weather have been hurricane Andrew and hurricane Katrina. I think this is going to be somewhere in between. I think that it’s hard to tell right now what the loss will be but you have to think about all the losses related to flooding in particular with homes all up and down the East Coast.
There’s also a business loss interruptions, which of course will be significant because we have one of the largest commercial regions in the country, so we’re talking very large impact and one of the most significant in our country’s history. But in the long run, I think the more important impact is on our thought process with regards to climate change.
CURWOOD: What’s the consensus in the insurance industry about climate change?
DISHART: I don’t want to speak for the entire industry, but I think there is a view within the reinsurance industry that climate change will continue to have an impact and continue to increase. And it’s not just about global warming, the issue is volatility and severity with regards to climate, and that is what’s changing. And that’s what we need to prepare for.
CURWOOD: Volatility - you mean that things just change rapidly?
DISHART: I mean that we have more events more often, they’re more severe, the floods are increased and the droughts are increased as well. This is a matter of climate change. This is happening and it is a reality. The fact that some people don’t want to buy into human contribution to climate change, to me, is unfortunate but irrelevant.
The climate is changing – there is a tremendous agreement among scientists that it is changing – and we’re beyond the point now where we can adjust and try to dampen the impact. In fact, sadly, we need to face the concept of adaption.
CURWOOD: Does this increase in the frequency and severity of these storms affect the ability of your industry to write policies?
DISHART: It certainly affects the pricing of policies. When you look at a situation and people want to get insurance, you have to say, well, what does that cost? Should we be subsidizing – through the government or through other means – people who desire to live out on an island or out somewhere that’s more vulnerable, or should they be paying a higher rate? Or not be insured and be able to self-insure.
CURWOOD: So, Munich Re recently put out a report just before this storm that was entitled: ‘Severe Weather in North America’, writing, and let me quote them here: “nowhere was the rising number of natural catastrophes more evident than in North America. The study shows a nearly quintupled loss events in North America, for the past three decades, compared to an increase factor of four in Asia and two in Europe.” Why do you think we’re seeing more climate-related natural catastrophes in North America than in other parts of the world?
DISHART: Well, keep in mind, particularly when it comes to hurricanes, that one of the generators of hurricanes is warm water. And we look at the Gulf of Mexico, we look at the hurricane generator, the warm water there. We also have extreme penetration of insurance in North America, which also increases the loss rates. If you took a map of North America, and you looked at migration over the last 30 to 40 years, and then you took a map and looked at the most severe events, it appears that North Americans like to move where disasters happen.
So, we’ve had all of these events, in Florida, along the Gulf, in California, and we have the most dense populations that we can moving to those areas. The unfortunate thing is, Steve, that we don’t see the tremendous losses when we look at third world countries, because tragically, the poorest areas in Nicaragua, in Dominican Republic, in Haiti, don’t have the housing, don’t have the protection that we have here. So they don’t have the insurance that we have here in the United States and in other parts of North America.
CURWOOD: You know there’s this saying that: “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” What do you think the crisis that’s been brought on by super-storm Sandy - what’s the benefit that could come out of this?
DISHART: Well, the benefit is that I’ve heard Mayor Bloomberg in New York City, I’ve heard Governor Cuomo, talk about climate change in an atmosphere where people are listening. Perhaps there is a learning moment here for us here to realize that climate change is happening that we cannot protect everybody from every potential risk and that we need to prepare for what may happen in the future.
CURWOOD: Steve Dishart is a former managing director of communications for Zürich-based Swiss Re, and now teaches at Baruch College (CUNY) in New York, thank you so much, sir.
DISHART: My pleasure, Steve. Good to be with you.
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CURWOOD: It’s Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. Sandy the super-storm has dominated the news, but there is an election on and the disaster helped engineer some unusual political fall-out. New Jersey's Republican governor, Chris Christie heaped praise on President Obama for his speedy responsiveness to the catastrophe.
And Michael Bloomberg made a last minute endorsement of Obama for re-election. The independent New York Mayor cited climate change as he praised the democratic president’s actions to cut emissions, and lamented Republican Mitt Romney’s opposition to capping global warming gases.
“One sees climate change as an urgent problem that threatens our planet; one does not,” Bloomberg wrote in an opinion piece. “I want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above electoral politics.” Risk management was a key part of a documentary, "Degrees of Concern: Climate Change and New York City's Future," that we broadcast back in 2003.
It examined the vulnerability of the Big Apple to flooding from a major ocean storm - such as Sandy. We visited Ground Zero - where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once stood - with Klaus Jacob, senior research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who described how Lower Manhattan could be inundated in a storm surge. Here's part of that story from reporter John Rudolph.
RUDOLPH: Professor Klaus Jacob looks out over the World Trade Center site and sees a potential disaster in the making. It’s not the threat of more terrorism. Jacob worries that in the coming decades whatever is built on the site will be vulnerable to the combination of rising seas and more intense storms aggravated by climate change.
JACOB: The frequency of such flooding events could increase on an average three times, but in the worst case as much as 10 times. So, what is right now a 50 year storm – which is roughly an eight-foot coastal storm surge here at this place where we stand – it could happen, instead of every 50 years, it could happen every five years. And that’s not good for a city that claims to be the world financial capital to see its financial infrastructure flooded every five years, and business interrupted, and all the things that go with it.
RUDOLPH: Now, as you said, there is a range of possibilities. There’s the best-case scenario. There’s the worst-case scenario. Does it really matter in terms of which of these scenarios you choose, in terms of the increased vulnerability of Ground Zero, of the subway entrances downtown, of the tunnel entrances downtown, and so forth?
JACOB: We have already a storm-surge problem. The Holland Tunnel is always on the verge of flooding during Nor’easters, and the PATH tunnel already has flooded, so we know what the current risk is. What’s so bad is that it will become more frequent, and so it’s actually more cost beneficial to do it now. Because the longer we wait, the less benefit we get because we may incur some losses before we do the measures, so why not do them now when we are all building this infrastructure anyhow, you know.
RUDOLPH: What kinds of specific measures are you suggesting should be taken now to protect this infrastructure from the kinds of storm surges that you’ve been talking about?
JACOB: Well, one good thing is that we already have created, again, some buffer zones on the waterfront towards the Hudson. Much of what was formerly industrial or harbor facilities have been turned into parkland, so that’s great. That’s a good measure. That’s a step in the right direction.
What has to be done for protecting both the infrastructure, but also buildings that are going up here is, we simply have to be aware that all critical entrances have to be at a certain level that exceeds the projected flooding levels. And we can discuss the details how to achieve it, and engineers will do a, probably, a very good job in doing this but it has to be brought into the planning.
RUDOLPH: When you look at the situation out in Jamaica Bay and then you stand here in front of Ground Zero, what’s the connection between the disappearing marshes in Jamaica Bay and the threat that Ground Zero and the Holland and midtown tunnels face?
JACOB: Well, I wish we would lose a piece of Manhattan just like we do out in Jamaica Bay every year, and then we would see it better. Okay? So far, we have engineered over it cosmetically but we really haven’t addressed the fundamental issues.
CURWOOD: Professor Klaus Jacob of Columbia University with reporter John Rudolph at Ground Zero in 2003. Well, Professor Jacob would presumably be justified in looking at the extraordinary destruction of super-storm Sandy - and saying 'I told you so'. So we called him up - and reached him on his cell phone….
JACOB: Klaus Jacob
CURWOOD: Hi Klaus Jacob, Steve Curwood here at Living on Earth, how are you?
CURWOOD: You’re on your cellphone because you’ve lost power?
JACOB: That’s right, I’m a victim like many, many others here in New York and the New York area.
CURWOOD: How have you and your family fared in this storm?
JACOB: Well, we got hit. We had two feet of water in the house, and two cars flooded out, and no power, no gas, no electricity, no communication, except these cellphones.
CURWOOD: And what neighborhood are you in?
JACOB: We are in a small village called Piermont, New York, which is on the Hudson about five miles up from the Tappan Zee Bridge.
CURWOOD: And what’s the damage like in your neighborhood?
JACOB: A lot of boats got washed into the backyards of people - there is a marina. Many of the waterfront gardens were heavily damaged from the wave action, and the worst, I would say, about a third of the village was inundated with two feet or more of water - some up to five feet.
CURWOOD: Now, back in 2003, you said that Manhattan would need to get hit by serious flooding before officials would start to think seriously about the risks of climate change, particularly the storm surges, so do you think this year’s hurricane was enough of a wake-up call?
JACOB: Well, last year’s Irene should have been the wake-up call. And then we should have gotten into action. So this is the second wake-up call… how many wake-up calls do we need?
CURWOOD: Are you surprised by any of what you’ve seen about this? I mean, you saw this coming, but did you think it would be this bad for the city?
JACOB: Well, I mean, we had a scenario in which we went through the exercise about what a 100-year storm would do, and Sandy turned out to be pretty much that scenario that we investigated, and all of the consequences seemed to come true.
CURWOOD: We’re looking at the new reality here, Klaus Jacob?
JACOB: Well, yes, I have heard Governor Cuomo say that there’s a new reality, but that reality has been around for about ten years. What has changed is that we have incurred the losses.
CURWOOD: Now, back in 2003, you were encouraged about the development of buffer zones along the waterfront. What else should New York City do now to better prepare itself for these new realities?
JACOB: Well, first it needs to protect its infrastructure – the subways, the sewer water treatment plants, and the electric power plants and communication and many other things. Secondly, each owner near or on the waterfront or in a flood zone has to take some responsibility for his or her safety, and investment and businesses need to think about business continuity, so you can’t just leave it to the city or the state or the federal government, everybody has their task.
CURWOOD: If you had the ear of the mayor of New York right now, what would you say?
JACOB: I would say – enough of this talk, let’s get to action. First of all, you have to have good engineering plans, which hasn’t happened, we have general ideas of how we might go about. But, for instance, there are engineers within the MTA, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, that have been thinking about how to approach this issue, but they haven’t been allowed by the management, and, if you like, by the legislature and the government because no money is available for really action. And that’s what we need. So, the engineers are in the starting bolts, but there is no gun for the race to begin.
CURWOOD: Now, some will say that this is a fluke - there was a big flood back in 1821, it will be another 100, 200 years before this happens again…
JACOB: Well, it’s amazing that with these political bodies, we are still talking whether that is a new reality. When you come from a science or technical plan, or even from a common sense, sea level rise… [phone cutting out…]
CURWOOD: We’re losing you, I think I’ll have to say goodbye and let you save your battery here… Klaus Jacob, thank you so much for taking this time with us today.
JACOB: You’re welcome, bye.
CURWOOD: Klaus Jacob is senior research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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CURWOOD: So there are several ideas and suggestions for protecting New York from devastating storm surges in the future – barriers and gates, for example – but writer Paul Greenberg has one of his own… oysters.
That’s right, Greenberg wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that explained how centuries ago, oysters were a fundamental defense for the city. Paul Greenberg joins us by Skype now - and I gather you're at a friend's house because your home has lost power - is that right?
GREENBERG: Yeah - we're blacked out, as is all of lower Manhattan right now. We live on Broadway, right by Ground Zero at Zuccotti Park. So, we’re in an area that has power, but below 30th street it’s all blacked out.
CURWOOD: So what did it look like on your block this morning when you left?
GREENBERG: Well, the block itself was OK, I mean you see debris everywhere, but when you walk down the hill, it turns out that Broadway is a ridgeline. And when you walk downhill, past a certain point you start to see this waterline on buildings, and if you peer into the windows of bars and restaurants, it just looks like there was a huge bar fight with a lot of mud, so you see chairs and tables thrown all over the place. One place, a famous fish market restaurant called the Paris, had literally a stream of beer bottles coming out the door, and yes, people were picking them up and drinking them.
CURWOOD: Hah! What does it smell like, Paul?
GREENBERG: It smells a lot like gasoline or diesel. And, in fact, the sidewalks around the seaport area are sort of stippled with that rainbow hue of gas. It’s the sticky, gross, oily smell, with a little tinge of raw sewage along the edge.
CURWOOD: Oh my god! So how long do you think it’s going to take to clean something like this up? I mean, I don’t think New York is talking about days or even weeks to get back to normal…
GREENBERG: No… I mean, I used to work in places like Bosnia, and Georgia and other sort of war-torn places, and that’s really what it reminded me of. Yeah, we’ll probably get our subways up somewhat soon, yeah, maybe we’ll get our electricity going. But the café where I normally write, I saw them literally just like sweeping gallons of water out the door - and all these private businesses down there - I mean, this is a devastating lifetime event.
CURWOOD: Boy, that sounds pretty rough. Well, lets get back to your op-ed Paul, oysters?
GREENBERG: Yeah, so it turns out, once upon a time, New York and a lot of the east coast was literally covered in oysters. Oysters, what they do is when they are born they are little free-swimming larvae, and they set upon other oyster shells and they build shells of their own.
And if you do this enough times, time and time again over seven thousand years, which is what the time period is that we’re talking about - you end up with reefs. And so it turns out that New York City was girded by this temperate reef of oysters, just like tropical islands are girded by coral reefs.
What those do, is that they not only protect the near shore, because they stabilize it, a little bit further offshore, the reefs create undulation and contour to the harbor and actually break up the wave action before they actually hit the shore.
CURWOOD: Ah, so it minimizes erosion!
GREENBERG: It does. Unfortunately, for the last 400 years, we’ve pretty much hounded the oyster out of existence. For the first 300 years we just ate them mercilessly, and when we were done eating them, instead of tossing the shells back into the water, which would have been good because it would have been a home for more oysters, instead we burned a lot of the shell down for lime, which is used for plaster and other industrial uses. We crushed up the shell and used them for roadbeds. And, literally, just tore mile after cubic mile of these things out of the harbor and it’s almost like opening up a bleeding wound for the sea to come rushing back in.
CURWOOD: What kind of future is there in oysters as a barrier?
GREENBERG: You know, it’s going to have to be a collaboration between humans and oysters if we’d like oysters back in the harbor to help us. Oysters right now can’t form their own reefs in New York harbor. The currents are too swift, the water quality, while it’s better than it was, still, it requires some help from us.
What’s happened is though, a consortium of different organizations including Bay Keeper, Hudson River Foundation and a few others have built these test reefs – where the Army Corps of Engineers have laid down some rock – and on top of that you do what’s called spat-on shell, which is the little baby oysters that have already bonded to a little chunk of shell that is in turn connected to the reef.
The idea is that to get enough of these reefs planted throughout the harbor, they would produce a lot of larvae, they would produce a lot of shell and you could maybe get the momentum going so that you could start to reclaim some of this reef structure that we’ve lost.
CURWOOD: For a storm surge how many feet of protection do you think an oyster reef would provide?
GREENBERG: Well, I mean, you know that’s the devilish question. I mean, once upon a time these reefs were yards high – I mean, 10, 20, 30 feet high. It takes a long time to get to that point, but the thing about an oyster reef unlike a stop or flood gate that we’d have to build, oyster reefs build themselves.
If we get them going, they will build themselves higher and higher until they’re really at the height that they should be to ease the storm surge. And if you really want to kind of duck into the Gaia hypothesis that the earth protects itself, it’s kind of true of the oyster, because the oyster doesn’t like situation where it’s exposed to pounding sea. So when it creates reefs, it creates calmer water, which allows for more oysters to grow. So, in a way, if we could work out a relationship with the oyster where it’s helping itself, it’s also going to help us.
CURWOOD: OK, Paul, so imagine an oyster reef now 10, 20 feet high, how do you get a ship through there, how are you going to navigate through all of those oyster reefs?
GREENBERG: Well, you’re definitely going to have to have shipping channels. And it may be that some sort of solution to helping New York survive is going to be part oysters, part hardware that we’re going to have to plant in the harbor. There’s a very interesting landscape architect named Kate Orff, and her studio Scape Studio, she had an exhibit. She has this nice idea called “oyster-tecture.” Where you would basically build a series of structures… false floors, fuzzy rope, different things that oysters could attach to, that would create the reef structure throughout the different parts of the harbor.
And if you guided these in such a way, if you envision where you wanted to have your shipping channels, then conceivably you could start to build your reefs in such a way that they wouldn’t interfere with shipping.
CURWOOD: So, let’s just go to the bottom line here, Paul. If we had the level of oysters that were in New York harbor originally some 300 years ago, would Sandy have had the punch that she had?
GREENBERG: I think her punch would have been a blocked by a left hook, or some sort of blocking maneuver, I’m not a boxer (laughs), but it would have been softened. And keep in mind when I say an oyster reef being 10, 20 feet high, that’s sub-tidal. So, we’re not talking about a sea wall that would actually be higher than the storm surge, we’re talking about something below water that would block the energy of the incoming waves and I think would probably have done quite a bit to soften the blow.
Again, I’m not an engineer, I’m a writer, but the engineers and the scientists I’ve talked to like this idea and I don’t think that the Army Corps of Engineers would have invested their time and money into this project if they didn’t think that there was some sort of potential.
CURWOOD: A left hook, or I think in New York it’s Red Hook, isn’t it?
GREENBERG:Well, Red Hook got the left hook, unfortunately.
CURWOOD: Paul Greenberg is author of “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.” Thank you, Paul.
GREENBERG: Thank you, Steve!
An Oyster in the Storm - New York Times
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CURWOOD: Time now - for your emails, comments - and complaints. We reported recently on state level efforts to control carbon emissions through the policy known as REDD - Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. REDD hopes to use cash that polluters must pay under carbon trading schemes to keep tropical forests standing.
We said that California would include REDD projects in its emissions reduction program which begins auctions of carbon allowances this month. Stanley Young of the California Air Resources board hauled us over the coals, writing that REDD is not included in the forestry protocols that could generate credits in the golden state.
In fact, in 2010 California signed an agreement with states in Mexico and Brazil that committed California to bringing REDD into the state’s carbon offset system, but Mr. Young is correct to point out California has yet to implement that agreement.
Then we had this comment from Charles Ashurst who hears us on KUSU in Logan Utah.
ASHURST: We’ve had three presidential debates, a Utah gubernatorial debate and numerous other political debates without a single mention of climate change. Are you people Living on Earth or not? If so, let’s see this issue get onto the political radar screen!
CURWOOD: Well, Sandy may have had something to say about that! We always welcome anything you have to say - email comments at loe dot org – that's comments at loe dot org – or post them on our Facebook page - it's PRI's Living on Earth.
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CURWOOD: Well, whether it’s a hurricane or oilrig explosion, disasters take a huge toll. So it makes sense that evaluating disaster risk is a major industry. But as much as it might help, risk assessment can also get in the way, especially when it gives a false sense of security. Researchers at the University of California-Berkeley are working to reinvent risk assessment.
From IEEE Spectrum Magazine, National Science Foundation special "Responding to Disasters, from Prediction to Recovery" Lauren Sommer has our story. She travelled to a fragile part of California where risk is a way of life.
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SOMMER: I’m driving down a bumpy road on top of a levee near the Sacramento River, about 50 miles east of San Francisco.
STORESUND: So we are at Sherman Island, which is the gateway to the Delta from the San Francisco Bay.
SOMMER: My guide is Rune Storesund, a researcher at UC Berkeley. He’s part of a team developing a new engineering concept called Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures, or RESIN.
STORESUND: And I’ll pull over near the – right before the bridge, kind of right next to Three Mile Slough.
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SOMMER: This is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. And if you’ve heard anything about water battles in California, chances are they were happening here. The Delta is where two major rivers meet and flow out to San Francisco Bay. At least, they used to. Today, a lot of that water is pumped elsewhere.
STORESUND: A lot of Southern California’s water comes through the Delta through the State Water Project.
SOMMER: We’re driving next to the river on one side and fields of corn on the other. Well, not exactly next to us. The corn on Sherman Island is about twenty feet below the road.
STORESUND: These channels are all tidally influenced, so you could call that sea level. So these are all below sea level, yeah.
SOMMER: Most of the islands in the Delta aren’t natural. Beginning in the late 1800s, people built levees to hold back the rivers and marshes so they could farm. But the peat soil they exposed has decayed over time, which means these islands are sinking.
STORESUND: Something that’s, you know, maybe a tenth of an inch per year over a hundred years is a lot of inches.
SOMMER: And Storesund says the levees aren’t in great condition.
STORESUND: You’ll see that there are cracks and bulges in the road. Those are signs that the levee sides are shifting and moving and slumping.
SOMMER: Water seeps underneath the levees, so these islands have pumps running night and day to keep the land dry. But seepage can also weaken levees. And you don’t have to go far to see the devastating results.
STORESUND: So we are now on top of the breach here at Upper Jones Tract in 2004. And then if you look to your right and the cornfields out there, all of that was pretty much wiped out when the breach occurred.
SOMMER: The levee failure flooded 12,000 acres, damaging railroad tracks, a power substation and an aqueduct that runs to the Bay Area. And it wasn’t the first time. Jones Tract also flooded in 1980.
STORESUND: This breach repair actually leaks significantly.
SOMMER: The Delta is home to a lot of major infrastructure - gas lines, transmission lines, railroad, highways – and it all depends on the levees. These levees also feed freshwater to pumps that carry it to Southern California. So, Storesund says a major disaster in the Delta would be felt across the state.
STOREUSND: It’s very significant. You know, we’re talking billions of dollars. I think if a major earthquake occurred that failed a number of levees, it would be months to years before the State Water Project were up and running again.
SOMMER: It’s mind-boggling to add up all these interconnected risks: sinking islands, weak levees, sea level rise, earthquakes… it’s difficult for any government agency to address them all.
STORESUND: And you have a lot of different organizations who have a stake in the Delta and who have an impact and an influence, with really nobody in charge.
SOMMER: But all those factors make it a very good place to study risk -- and to try to change the way it’s done.
STORESUND: A lot of the risk analyses are very difficult, complex, not transparent, and when decision-makers look at them, it doesn’t really tell them a whole lot. And so we’re trying very hard to come up with new ways of communicating not just the results of the risk analysis, but the composition of it is as well.
BEA: It took a long time to get what we call this entangled mess. That’s how I describe the California Delta.
SOMMER: Robert Bea heads up the RESIN project at UC Berkeley.
BEA: The likelihoods of failure and consequences of failure can bring to its knees, I think it’s now the eighth largest economy in the world, that economy for a period in excess of five years.
SOMMER: Bea has spent his career studying disasters. In fact, his students have a nickname for him.
BEA: Dr. Disaster. I joke with people--in many ways, my career has been one disaster after another.
SOMMER: Bea has studied oilrig explosions, hurricanes, refinery fires… But there’s one disaster that has shaped his career and his life.
BEA: Hurricane Betsy is 1965, September the 9th. We'd just bought our new home. Just had our first son.
SOMMER: Bea and his wife were living in New Orleans when the hurricane hit.
BEA: At midnight, we evacuated our home in 100 mile per hour winds. The next day, I go back into the home, and I swam back, because the water was to our roof. We lost everything.
SOMMER: A nearby levee had failed. Bea and his wife sold the property and started over. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit, Bea went back to New Orleans and visited his former neighborhood.
BEA: And in fact, the levy that failed in 1965 failed again in 2005, in the same place. So I go back, drove up to the home and the neighbors were dragging wet, oily mattresses out of the front door, just as I had done 40 years earlier. I broke down and cried. And it wasn't so much I was sad. I was just madder than hell.
SOMMER: The more Bea studied disasters, the more he realized what was missing from his risk assessment.
BEA: I’ve been working 10 percent of the problem. I’ve been working these traditional engineering things that I love so much, and ignoring the 90% called people.
SOMMER: Bea says people, or human and organizational factors as he calls them, have had a major role in all of the disasters he’s studied. But it’s not easy for engineers to take them in account.
BEA: I joke and say engineers hate uncertainties because our world is most comfortable when it's deterministic.
SOMMER: Bea and this team are trying to define these uncertainties in the Delta. Normally, risk analysis is expressed in one number – that there’s a 75% chance of failure, for example. Instead, the RESIN team is defining a best-case scenario, worst-case scenario and what is likely to happen. Bea says that provides decision makers with more information to work with. And they’re doing their analysis over a longer period.
BEA: You put yourself out in 2100, and you look back, and say, I can't use a patch and pray approach, because if I do, I’m going to fail. It's going to be horribly expensive, so you start to develop what I call the 'let's get the hell out of Dodge City,' approach, which means a strategic withdrawal over a long period of time involving an infrastructure system that we can turn over to future generations that is sustainable.
SOMMER: Bea says the big challenge in the Delta is the number of decision makers, each with their own risk analysis. Bea and his team are working with them to develop a more integrated risk assessment that includes human uncertainties.
BEA: The acceptance has been varied. It is still amazing to me to watch the push back from engineering itself. Change is hell.
SOMMER: For his part, Bea is injecting social science into the engineering curriculum at UC Berkeley. He says while it may not be easy to fit human behavior into mathematical equations, it’s crucial to more accurately portray risk -- and to prevent future disasters.
BEA: If we make big mistakes, that's not a good thing, but if we can reflect deeply on how we made them, then we have a chance in not doing it again.
SOMMER: In Berkeley, California, I’m Lauren Sommer.
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CURWOOD: Lauren's story comes to us from IEEE Spectrum Magazine, National Science Foundation special "Responding to Disasters, from Prediction to Recovery”.
CURWOOD: Chinese cities are among the most polluted on the planet, but citizens in the coastal city of Ningbo are fighting back. Thousands recently took to the streets to protest the expansion of a petrochemical plant they feel is a danger to public health. After three days of demonstrations, and clashes between protesters and the police, the government has called the project off—at least for now.
Joining us now to discuss the protests from Hong Kong is Ben Carlson, a journalist with the Global Post. Welcome to Living on Earth.
CARLSON: Thanks for having me!
CURWOOD: Ben, first describe for us these protests… how many people are we talking about here?
CARLSON: It began smaller as all protests do in China, and by the time the weekend rolled around there were several thousand people in the streets.
CURWOOD: And things got violent, I gather.
CARLSON: Yeah, there were reports of the protesters overturning cars, and the police arrested several of the demonstrators that actually became one of the causes that people were demonstrating against later on. And actually there was some spillover into this week - there were several hundred people out on Monday, and that’s the last we’ve heard of the protest, but there may still be some activity.
CURWOOD: What has got these people so fired up?
CARLSON: Well, the city of Ningbo is prosperous and ancient – it has one of the oldest histories in China – and all of that is to say that they’ve been trying to develop industries in the city, and that has led to great GDP growth, but people have actually noticed that their health is getting worse and worse. So the announcement of this plant and the plans that they were trying to push through caused people to get very upset.
CURWOOD: What’s the substance they’re concerned about for their health?
CARLSON: Perazylene is the specific chemical that many of them are worried about. And it’s actually a chemical that has been the cause of protests in other parts of China. And it’s definitely something to be worried about – it causes central nervous system damage, liver damage, and it has proven cognitive effects.
CURWOOD: So, what does this mean – the protesters… that they’ve won or is the government just trying to slow their momentum?
CARLSON: The protesters definitely won. On October 28th, the local government announced that they were no longer following through with plans to make this expansion. The problem is nobody’s sure whether it’s actually going to be carried out. About a year ago there was a similar protest with the exact same chemical and the government promised to stop production, but it’s still going on now.
CURWOOD: Now, China historically has been very tough on demonstrations, intolerant -- of course the killings related to the Tiananmen Square, the killings in 1989 come to mind – why such a measured response this time?
CARLSON: A strange thing about protests in China is that environmental protests are actually treated more lightly. It’s not as political, so there’s less sensitivity around it. Although now, since there have been a large number of environmental protests over the last year, and they have been growing year by year, we may see that change.
CURWOOD: Of course the Chinese government is preparing for its 18th National Congress, how much do you think that the government’s decision to meet these protester’s demands has to do with the upcoming transfer of power there in China?
CARLSON: It has a lot to do with it. You can only connect the dots from a distance, but it’s coming up right after the US election, and all across China there are reports that the internet is slowing down, people have to go through much greater security, and there’s a lot of pressure on local governments to make the problems disappear. They don’t want any bad news when they’re going to be transferring the power.
CURWOOD: Now, how is the country as a whole responding to this protest? How much do people hear? Is this a subject of national news?
CARLSON: Well, the news is state-run in China, so you’re not seeing broadcasts on CCTV about it, but on social media, on the equivalent of Twitter in China, it’s huge. There were thousands of people following it, re-tweeting photos, even though they were trying to crack down on it and censoring certain words related to the protests and even blocking certain people who were trying to upload photos, it became a very big cause celebre on their equivalent of Twitter.
CURWOOD: At the end of the day, where is this headed? The success of these demonstrations is inspiring, you think, an environmental movement in China?
CARLSON: Well, just this year there have been protests in Sichuan province over a massive copper plant, there was a protest last year in a northern city called Dalian over the same chemical. There have been protests over coal plants, there’s definitely going to be more of these.
There is going to be no shortage of local governments in China that are going to try to build factories just as big and just as polluting as the one in Ningbo, and I definitely think that you are seeing a disconnected local sense of environmental awareness growing, and we could be on a tipping point of a national movement, but it’s hard to say where this is going to go.
People that I’ve talked to say this is the natural consequence of a larger middle class in China - people who have education, who have property, who have higher expectations of health and of their lives and of their children’s lives. And so the way that China has been growing and growing and has been building factories that are too dangerous for other countries, is no longer acceptable to a lot of these people.
CURWOOD: Ben Carlson is a journalist for the Global Post based in Hong Kong. Thanks so much, Ben.
CARLSON: Thank you.
[MUSIC: BIRDNOTE® THEME]
CURWOOD: We've recently had a lesson in the sea's power, but as BirdNote®'s Michael Stein explains - for some birds, despite the ocean's occasional destruction, the seashore is a protective habitat.
[PIPING CALL OF THE BLACK OYSTERCATCHER, HEARD OVER WAVES ON ROCKY SHORELINE]
STEIN: We’re crouching on a rocky shoreline on the Pacific Coast – hearing the piping call of the Black Oystercatcher, a stocky black bird with bright red eyes and a stout, orange-red bill perfectly suited for jabbing limpets and mussels. Let’s listen again.
[CALL OF THE BLACK OYSTERCATCHER]
STEIN: A strong ebb tide is flowing, creating whirlpools and tugging at the kelp. On nearby rocks, harbor seals, looking like huge, taut sausages, have hauled out to rest. If we’re lucky today, we’ll hear some snorting!
[HARBOR SEAL SNORTING]
STEIN: The oystercatcher is completely dependent on this marine shoreline for nesting and food, even in winter, when waves hit these rocks with awesome force. Yet what seems like an inhospitable environment to us must offer some advantages to the oystercatcher.
For one, wave-splashed mussels, the bird’s chief food, open more often, making them easier to attack and eat. For another, when the monogamous Black Oystercatcher nests on ledges just off shore, its eggs and young suffer far less predation by mammals. Now that’s something to celebrate!
[CALL OF THE BLACK OYSTERCATCHER ]
SETIN: P.S. Contrary to their name, oystercatchers rarely eat oysters. I’m Michael Stein.
CURWOOD: There are pictures of Black Oystercatchers over at our web-site, loe dot org.
(Call of the Black Oystercatcher provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Recorded by A.A. Allen. Waves recorded by J.R. Storm
Producer: John Kessler. Executive Producer: Chris Peterson.All rights reserved)
More about the oystercatchers from, Bird Note®
[MUSIC: Tosca “Oysters In May” from No Hassle (IK7 Records 2009).]
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Naomi Osaka became the first Japanese player to win a grand slam title as Serena Williams suffered an extraordinary meltdown in the US Open final on this day in 2018.
Williams had been bidding for a record-equalling 24th slam title but the occasion was overshadowed by her argument with umpire Carlos Ramos which dominated the match.
The 36-year-old American was furious when she was given a coaching violation early in the second set after a hand gesture from her coach Patrick Mouratoglou.
She was then docked a point for a second violation when she smashed her racket after dropping serve at 3-3, which saw her accuse Ramos of being a thief.
Ramos gave her a third violation, which resulted in a game penalty, putting Osaka 5-3 ahead.
Neither Williams nor her vocal fans at Flushing Meadows initially realised she had been given either the point or game penalty, and the boos and jeers on the second occasion were deafening.
It was always my dream to play Serena in the US Open finals. I’m really glad I was able to do that.
A tearful Williams argued her case with tournament officials but, although she held serve in the next game, Osaka served out the victory 6-2 6-4.
The presentation ceremony began with more booing from the crowd before an upset Williams said, to wild cheers: “I don’t want to be rude. I don’t want to do questions.
“I just want to tell you guys she played well. Let’s make this the best moment we can and get through it and give credit where credit is due. No more booing. Let’s be positive.”
Osaka, 20, was also in tears, and said: “I know everyone was cheering for her and I’m sorry it had to end like this. I just want to say thank you for watching the match.
“It was always my dream to play Serena in the US Open finals. I’m really glad I was able to do that.”
Osaka has gone on to add three more grand slam singles titles to her collection, winning the US Open again in 2020 and claiming Australian Open crowns in 2019 and 2021, whilst rising to the top of the world rankings.
Now 25, Osaka has not played a competitive match since last September, having announced her pregnancy in January and giving birth to baby Shai in July.
Even before her maternity leave, Osaka had played an increasingly sparse schedule, stepping away from the court several times to prioritise her mental health.
The Japanese says she is now intending to play “way more tournaments” on her return to tennis and confirmed she is planning to compete at the 2024 Australian Open in January.
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Prior to choosing to play online gambling establishment games, you must understand the validity of on-line gaming in the regulated states You should additionally recognize the tax obligation implications of on-line gaming There are several websites on the Web that provide betting games. These websites will commonly have a little selection of online casino games. There are also several kinds of on the internet sports wagering. There are numerous different kinds of on-line gambling, but they all have the very same basic property. As an example, you can play live roulette or slots.
Validity of on the internet betting in controlled states.
While legalization of on the internet gambling in controlled states is still in its early stage, it is swiftly getting momentum. The world’s on-line betting market is expanding, with revenue getting to unheard of degrees. With the introduction of innovation in every edge of the world, online betting activities will just increase. But what does it mean for on-line drivers? Noted below are a few of the advantages of lawful online betting
Some states have established legislation regulating sports betting, online casino site video gaming, and also dream sports betting. While a lot of these laws focus on banning the operation of an on-line gambling establishment or sports wagering web site, there are some exceptions to this policy, particularly relative to skill gaming and also fantasy sporting activities wagering. Those states are controlled in different ways. If you’re taking into consideration on-line gambling as an option, you need to discover regarding the various kinds of laws in your state.
Law of online gaming.
Despite the worldwide nature of the Web, lots of nations limit on the internet gaming activities. The USA, some provinces in Canada, a lot of the European Union, as well as some nations in the Caribbean enable on-line gambling. In these lawful markets, online gaming provider require to have licenses from authorities such as the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Panel and the United Kingdom Gaming Commission. In some nations, such as Canada and the UK, on the internet gambling is allowed just by a licensee’s regional territory.
Numerous regulative bodies have actually attempted to deal with the problem by adopting a more durable method to policy. These countries identify that on-line gambling is a global phenomenon that calls for a much more comprehensive technique to tackle its challenges. Some nations, such as the United Kingdom, have actually established particular bodies for social, academic, and research facets of betting. While this is a beginning, additional regulatory reactions are needed in order to attend to the particular issues of youngsters, youngsters, as well as problem gamblers.
Taxes of on the internet betting.
In a lot of jurisdictions, taxation of on-line gambling is required just if the task is carried out as a career or a key income source. However, it differs from nation to nation as well as is dependent on the state. For instance, in Denmark, 75% of web betting earnings undergo tax. In the USA, a rate of 2% to 5% is charged on taxable activities. In Australia, taxes varies from one state to another. In Macau and also Austria, taxes of online betting is limited to less than 40%. Some countries also excluded gamers from paying tax obligation.
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Most Common Types of Car Accidents You’ll See as an Auto Appraiser
Assessing damage from car accidents on a daily basis, an auto appraiser who’s new to the field will quickly see that some types of crashes and collisions happen more than others. They often involve damage done to similar areas of the vehicle and at similar speeds.
Interested in what types of car accidents appraisers deal with the most? Check out ATC’s post below!
A good portion of the damage that auto appraisers review is the result of a low-speed contact accident that occurred under 10 mph. Typically taking place in a parking lot where one of the cars is stationary, these accidents produce little damage and usually come down to scratches or dents with low repair costs attached.
Collision estimators will also see plenty of rear-end collisions. This type of accident often takes place when a car is tailgating another vehicle and doesn’t react quickly enough to brake when they do.
Rear-end collisions also occur when two cars are in line to yield into traffic. The accident occurs when the car behind the lead car incorrectly anticipates that the vehicle ahead has gone and hits the gas.
Interestingly enough, most high-speed impact collisions seen by auto body appraisers are the result of one car and not necessarily two. From taking a turn too fast and colliding with a guard rail to hydroplaning on the highway and running off the road, often the higher the speed, the more serious the damage.
Depending on the situation and the speed, this type of car accident can result in a disastrous outcome amounting to a car that looks more like a crumpled up piece of metal than a functional vehicle. When cars that have endured single-vehicle crashes are damaged beyond repair, buying a new vehicle is often the better, more cost-effective option.
As an auto body appraiser, you’re also bound to see your fair share of side collisions, or T-bone accidents, that involve the front of one car impacting the side of another.
These collisions tend to take place at four-way intersections where traffic crosses from both sides. T-bone crashes can be very dangerous and can lead to big medical conditions and amount to costly damage depending on where both vehicles hit and the speeds at which they did.
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If you’re interested in how cars are built, from their underlying structural components to their smooth, paint-matched surfaces, a future in collision repair may be right for you.
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This special table for two is a cozy alternative to classic outdoor dining. Stylish, sleek and strong, this table is a perfect addition to any patio or sidewalk cafe. If you are only looking to furnish a small courtyard area or balcony, this is the table for you. Even if you've got a larger area where you'd like to add tables around the pool or across the patio, this is a great piece of furniture. The Dartmoor Bar Table is made of Premium Plantation Teak which is grown in sustainable production throughout the seasonally dry tropics in forestry plantations. Plantation grown teak is slightly different than old-growth teak, which has a reputation for durability, structural strength, attractive appearance, and smooth surface. Kiln drying allows for sustainable, plantation-grown teak to perform nearly on par with old-growth teak. Plantation-grown teak has a rich golden color throughout its grain, and provides an elegant look for any outdoor wood products. It also has many natural oils that make it water repellent, insect resistant, and suitable for use in exposed locations. The wood also has the unique qualities of not rotting or accumulating rust even when joined with metal. Dimensions: * Bar Table: 28 L x 28 W x 43 H x 26 lbs. |
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Frequently Asked Questions
We can imagine you will still have some questions before booking, so take a look at our answers to some of the most frequently asked questions. If this does not answer your question, feel free to contact us. Our team will be happy to help you!
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What are the reception's opening hours?
2. What should I do if I arrive when the reception is closed?
If you come with a tent, you can only check in within reception hours. Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to get a tent pitch outside reception hours.
If you come with a camper or caravan (no double axles), you can register yourself outside reception hours via our self-service 'check-in / check-out kiosk' until 22:30. Guests with tents cannot register here. The payment goes through a payment terminal (only pin or credit card payments).
3. When can I check in and when do I have to check out?
During the low season you can check in from 11:00 am, in the high season periods from 12:00 pm. Check-out is at 12:00 throughout the season. Of course, it is also possible to stay a little longer, but after 12:00 pm € 3,00 will be charged per team for each hour.
4. Are there any reservation costs?
Booking through our website is free of charge.
5. Is it necessary to book in advance?
In the early and late season, it is not necessary to make a reservation, but especially during National Holidays and in high season our camper and caravan spots are very popular. Reserve your spot in time!
You can always cancel your booking free of charge. Of course, we would really appreciate it if you inform us about your cancellation as soon as possible. Also please note that booked pitches may be released after 6.00 pm on the day of arrival.
7. Does the campsite offer free Wi-Fi?
8. Is there any cost involved for using the showers?
Yes, a shower token costs € 0.80 for 5 minutes of showering.
9. Is it possible to book a single night?
No, you can't, but of course you are very welcome.
10. Is there any public transport available at night?
Yes, the campsite is accessible by public transport 24 hours a day. Night bus N85 runs to and from Central Station and Gaasper Camping Amsterdam.
11. Can I pitch a party tent?
12. Does the campsite offer a central TV antenna?
13. What is the maximum size for tents?
The maximum size of a tent is 4 * 4 meters and a maximum of 4 persons per tent
14. Do the tent pitches offer an electricity connection?
No, there is no electricity available for tent pitches. For a small fee, you can charge your phones and batteries at the reception.
15. Can I park my car right next to my tent?
No, you can park your car along the edge of the tent field.
16. Can I reserve and pitch my tent on a motorhome or caravan site?
No, that is not possible.
17. Are we allowed to BBQ?
Yes, BBQ's are allowed as long as the BBQ has support legs and is at a minimum height of 25 cm above the ground.
18. Are we allowed to bring our dog?
Dogs are welcome at Gaasper Camping Amsterdam if you are staying in a camper/caravan. Not if you are staying in a tent. For dogs we charge a small surcharge. Dogs must be kept on a leash at all times during their stay and walked outside the campsite grounds.
19. How many amperes can I use?
10 Amperes (CCE connection).
20. Does the campsite offer a locker and/or baggage room?
There is no locker or baggage room at the campsite. Would you like to keep your belongings in a safe place on your day of departure so that you can visit the city one more time before leaving? Just rent a luggage safe at one of the major train stations, such as Amsterdam Central Station.
21. Can I rent tents and camping gear at the campsite?
We offer camping gear, such as mats, air mattresses and sleeping bags in our camping store. We do not offer these for rent.
22. Am I allowed to sleep in a hammock or under a tarp?
No, this is not allowed.
23. What is the maximum period of stay at the campsite?
The maximum allowed period of stay is 21 days per year.
24. What information do I need to book a camper van or caravan pitch?
Please indicate the dimensions of your camper van or caravan and whether you will require electricity. The campsite offers camper van spaces with and without electricity.
25. Can I rent a bike at the campsite?
Yes, you can rent a bike at the campsite. We also offer great cycling routes.
26. Does the campsite offer a kitchen?
No, we do not have a central kitchen. However, you are more than welcome to try one of the many dishes in our restaurant or to buy your food in the supermarket. |
Workers’ Comp Docket
Court Says i-LIMB is Reasonable Accommodation
Hanson-Bayerl v. Menominee Acquisition Corp., 27 MIWCLR 124 (Mich. C.A.C. 2013)
Ruling: The Michigan Compensation Appellate Commission affirmed the workers’ compensation magistrate’s order that the i-LIMB was reasonable and necessary to replace the prosthesis provided by the employer after traumatic partial amputation of the worker’s left arm two years earlier.
What it means: In Michigan, an employer must supply an injured worker with artificial limbs and other appliances necessary to cure so far as reasonably possible and relieve the worker from the effects of the injury.
Summary: The commission affirmed the magistrate’s order that the i-LIMB was reasonable and necessary to replace the prosthesis provided by the employer two years earlier. The commission noted the magistrate found the i-LIMB was more functional than the worker’s current prosthesis. The magistrate found the i-LIMB provided a replacement limb that allowed functions more closely replicating those lost through amputation in a less intrusive manner. The magistrate also found the i-LIMB would assist the worker in her goal of returning to work.
The commission found it was premature to determine the amount of attorney’s fees for the worker’s attorney because it was not known how much the i-LIMB would cost. Also, the commission did not know what the contingent rate was in the agreement between the worker and her attorney. The commission said that the attorney’s fees would have to be calculated by the parties once the cost of the i-LIMB was actually established.
Close Call Not Enough to Prove Mental Disability
Boyd v. Chicago Transit Authority, 21 ILWCLB 191 (Ill. W.C. Comm. 2013)
Ruling: The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission held that an operator failed to prove a psychiatric disability under the mental-mental theory of compensability.
What it means: In Illinois, a worker can be entitled to benefits if he suffered a sudden, severe emotional shock resulting in immediate apparent psychological injury that was caused by an uncommon non-physical traumatic work-related event.
Summary: A train operator’s train was exiting a tunnel when he saw two young men attempting to run across the tracks. He was unable to stop the train and heard a thump. He believed he had run over the man and killed him. The operator saw the injured man lying on the tracks. He exited the train and saw the two men running from the scene. He subsequently sought counseling with a psychologist for anxiety, sleep disturbance, fatigue, flashbacks, and headaches. He was diagnosed with adjustment disorder, anxiety, and depressed mood. He sought benefits for a psychiatric disability arising out of the work incident. In denying benefits, the arbitrator reasoned that the operator was not exposed to a sudden, severe emotional shock. The commission affirmed the arbitrator’s decision.
Although the operator credibly testified as to the circumstances surrounding the incident, the injured man stood up, jumped a fence, and ran away under his own power. As a result, the operator was not forced to confront the extraordinary, horrific, or gruesome aftermath.
Also, the arbitrator was not convinced that the operator’s alleged mental disorder arose out of a situation of greater dimensions than the day-to-day emotional strain and tension which all workers must experience, particularly those who operate a motorized vehicle as part of their job.
Retroactive Report Doesn’t Support Award of TTD Benefits
State ex rel. Roxbury v. Industrial Commission of Ohio et al., No. 2012-0815 (Ohio 01/15/14)
Ruling: The Ohio Supreme Court held that a worker was not entitled to temporary total disability benefits.
What it means: In Ohio, before a doctor issues a report that is not based on an examination performed contemporaneously with the claimed period of disability, the doctor must review all of the relevant medical evidence generated prior to the examination.
Summary: A worker injured her back. Her claim was allowed for lumbar sprain and related injuries. One year later, she sought to add a psychological condition to her claim. A hearing officer approved the additional condition of late onset dysthymic disorder (depression). The worker sought temporary total disability benefits based on her allowed physical and psychological conditions. She had not worked since her injury. The Ohio Supreme Court held that she was not entitled to TTD benefits.
The worker asserted that she did not voluntarily abandon the workforce but that she was physically unable to return to work due to her work-related injury. Evidence showed that the worker was physically capable of performing sedentary work and that her psychological condition was not disabling. There was no evidence that she sought other work or attempted vocational rehabilitation. The court found that the worker was no longer a part of the labor market and her lack of earnings was not the result of her psychological condition.
The worker challenged the Industrial Commission’s rejection of her doctor’s retroactive opinion on disability. Before a doctor issues a report that is not based on an examination performed contemporaneously with the claimed period of disability, the doctor must review all of the relevant medical evidence generated prior to the examination. If the doctor failed to do so, the doctor’s opinion is not evidence upon which the commission can rely. The court explained that the worker’s doctor reviewed the worker’s treatment by others within her practice group but failed to mention reviewing reports of other examining physicians. Therefore, the commission properly concluded that the doctor’s opinion was not sufficient evidence to support the worker’s request for TTD benefits.
Final Reports Knock Down Pre-MMI Work Restrictions
Kempnich v. Mr. Bults, Inc., No. A-13-305 (Neb. Ct. App. 01/21/14, unpublished)
Ruling: In an unpublished decision, the Nebraska Court of Appeals held that a driver who sustained a traumatic head injury was employable for eight hours per day.
What it means: In Nebraska, the fact that an injured worker had work restrictions before reaching MMI will not bar a finding that he can work eight hours per day after reaching MMI.
Summary: A truck driver was on top of a semi-trailer attempting to secure a tarp over a load of garbage when he fell 15 feet and struck his head on the pavement. He was diagnosed with multiple skull fracture, a subdural hematoma, and an intracranial hemorrhage. His brain injuries resulted in cognitive and behavioral defects and partial vision loss. He also developed carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of the fall. A neuropsychologist stated that the driver should be limited to working six hours per day. In a subsequent report, the neuropsychologist found the driver could work eight hours per day. The driver sought permanent total disability benefits. The Nebraska Court of Appeals held that he could work eight hours per day.
The driver argued that his doctor’s six-hour workday restriction precluded all competitive employment and rendered him totally disabled. Although the neuropsychologist recommended a six-hour workday restriction in his initial report, he stated that the driver had not reached MMI and permanent restrictions would need to be addressed at that time. In a second report, the neuropsychologist determined that the driver had reached MMI and did not recommend any restrictions on the driver’s working hours in his second report. The court explained that the neuropsychologist abandoned his initial six-hour workday restriction.
Because the court concluded that the driver was employable for eight hours per day, it did not address the impact that a shortened workday might have had on the driver’s employability.
The court agreed with the compensation court’s finding that he sustained a substantial loss of earning capacity and was entitled to benefits.
Increase in Headaches Establishes Change of Condition
Bethea v. US Airways, Inc., No. COA13-740 (N.C. Ct. App. 01/07/14, unpublished)
Ruling: In an unpublished decision, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held that a flight attendant established a change of condition and was entitled to temporary total disability benefits for a two-day period.
What it means: In North Carolina, the primary factor in determining whether a change of condition occurred is whether the alleged change of condition affects the worker’s physical capacity to earn wages.
Summary: A flight attendant sustained a neck injury during the course of her employment. She underwent cervical fusion surgery. She was out of work for three years and received permanent partial disability benefits. She returned to work earning her preinjury average weekly wage. Symptoms related to her neck injury intensified and included daily headaches with nausea and blurred vision. As a result, she worked fewer hours. She was unable to work for two days due to her headaches. She did not receive workers’ compensation for those days. The attendant alleged a change of condition. The North Carolina Court of Appeals held that she established a change of condition and was entitled to temporary total disability benefits for the two days she missed work.
The court explained that a worker can show increased disability by producing medical evidence that she is physically or mentally, as a consequence of the work-related injury, incapable of work in any employment. In this case, the court found that the attendant established a change in disability and therefore a change of condition. Her headaches increased in intensity and frequency. She did not attend work for two days. Her doctor indicated that her condition would result in “intermittent flare ups” that would require time off from work.
The court found that the attendant was unable to earn wages and work due to her compensable injury-related headaches on the two-day period. She was temporarily and totally disabled from her cervical injury and its consequences on those days. The award of temporary total disability was a change from the previous permanent partial disability award. The court said that such a change was sufficient to support a change of condition.
Accommodations Don’t Cut Off Worker’s Benefits
Wal-Mart Stores v. Henle, No. 3-913/13-0366 (Iowa Ct. App. 01/09/14, unpublished)
Ruling: In an unpublished decision, the Iowa Court of Appeals held that a worker was entitled to permanent total disability benefits.
What it means: In Iowa, an employer’s accommodation of an injured worker can be factored into an industrial disability award if a position equivalent to the newly created job was available in the competitive labor market.
Summary: A worker in the inventory department of a retailer was injured when a 60-pound stack of plastic totes fell on her head and shoulder, knocking her to the floor. The injury caused her headaches and dizziness. Her doctor restricted her to lifting 20 pounds, working four hours per day, and no climbing. She returned to work after the injury but was restricted to four-hour days. The worker often missed work because of her headaches. She received partial disability benefits. The Iowa Court of Appeals held that the worker was entitled to permanent total disability benefits.
The retailer asserted that the worker was not totally disabled because she was employed and earning wages. The court explained that an employer’s accommodation of an injured worker can be factored into an industrial disability award if a position equivalent to the newly created job was available in the competitive labor market. The court rejected the retailer’s assertion that a worker must suffer from 100 percent impairment to qualify for total disability.
The accommodations needed for the worker to work for the retailer were not available in the general labor market. The worker required a significant reduction in hours and regularly missed shifts due to the severity of her headaches. Also, most of her work history was in manual labor. Her restrictions would prevent her from working in an inventory department.
The court also rejected the retailer’s argument that it was not required to pay back benefits for the weeks it accommodated the worker. The court found that any temporary total disability or temporary partial benefits should be deducted from the PTD benefits.
Foreman’s Acute Knee Injury Isn’t Compensable Occupational Disease
Valladares v. Tech Electric Corp., No. COA13-705 (N.C. Ct. App. 01/07/14, unpublished)
Ruling: In an unpublished decision, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held that a foreman’s knee injury did not constitute a compensable occupational disease.
What it means: In North Carolina, a worker’s acute injury is not a compensable occupational disease.
Summary: An electrical foreman’s position required him to perform a significant amount of squatting, kneeling, and ladder climbing. He was working within the scope of his employment when he sustained an injury to his knee. He had been squatting, and his knee popped when he stood up. An MRI revealed a complex medial meniscus tear, which required him to undergo surgery. The employer denied the foreman’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits. The foreman stipulated that his injury was not the result of an injury “by accident” and that he was pursuing his claim solely as an occupational disease claim. The North Carolina Court of Appeals held that the foreman’s knee injury was not a compensable occupational disease.
The parties agreed that the foreman’s injury was acute rather than degenerative in nature. The Industrial Commission relied on this in denying his claim, concluding that there was no expert medical evidence to support the claim that his meniscus tear was the result of a chronic degenerative process or disease that was caused by his employment.
To establish a compensable occupational disease, a worker must show the disease is characteristic of individuals engaged in the particular occupation, the disease is not an ordinary disease to which the public is equally exposed, and there is a causal relationship between the disease and the worker’s employment. The foreman asserted that relative to the general public, the significant amount of kneeling, squatting, and crouching movements he was required to perform placed him at an increased risk of suffering a meniscus tear. The commission rejected this assertion and found that to award the foreman benefits would turn the law regarding occupational diseases “on its head.” The court agreed and found the foreman’s claim did not present unique circumstances to make his claim compensable.
Lack of On-Site Supervision Renders Gym Membership Noncompensable
Chapman v. Alvin H. Butz, Inc., 28 PAWCLR 225 (Pa. W.C.A.B. 2013)
Ruling: The Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board reversed the workers’ compensation judge’s decision grating the worker’s penalty petition and awarding unreasonable contest attorney’s fees to the worker.
What it means: In Pennsylvania, where the record reflects that a licensed medical provider is providing some on-site personal supervision and instruction concerning the exercises to be performed, a gym membership is properly compensable. On the other hand, where there is no indication in the record of any on-site personal supervision or instruction by a licensed medical provider, a gym membership is not compensable.
Summary: The board reversed the WCJ’s decision granting the worker’s penalty petition and awarding unreasonable contest attorney’s fees to the worker. Where the record reflects that a licensed medical provider is providing some on-site personal supervision and instruction concerning the exercises to be performed, a gym membership is properly compensable. On the other hand, where there is no indication in the record of any on-site personal supervision or instruction by a licensed medical provider, a gym membership is not compensable. In this case, the record reflects that the gym membership was to last for an entire year, but the physical therapist released the worker from his care during that time period with no indication of any planned on-site supervision.
The board therefore reversed the WCJ’s determination granting the penalty petition and awarding unreasonable contest attorney’s fees. |
Albeit the entirety of your body organs are fundamental to your body’s presentation, you brain really is the office of your body. It oversees certainly whatever! Also, there is been a ton of accentuation on Alzheimer’s sickness as of late. In this way, mind wellbeing is positively on the psyches of each individual! Luckily for us, scientists have made a lot of incredible steps when it concerns mind wellbeing and health. Specialists just as analysts fathom which supplements you should take, just as what these supplements may accomplish for you. In this short article, we will end up itemizing the potential supplements you may wish to take. Before we do, regardless, permit is visit a tad about what researchers believe is the large photograph when it relates to mind health. As of late, analysts have indicated that expanding is one of the stunts, hidden reasons for some maladies and furthermore issues in our bodies. Irritation is currently seen as a root of malignancy cells, joint aggravation, heart issue and furthermore stroke, just as also of sicknesses like Alzheimer’s.
A great deal of the supplements you may think about taking in certainty address this hidden issue we have with aggravation. Well right here are a couple of the most significant. In the event that you are not by and by taking any supplements or nutrients whatsoever, you have to begin at least with a multi-nutrient. On the off chance that you don’t know which you have to take, counsel your PCP. Multi-nutrients are commonly figured in various manners for guys, ladies, just as for older folks. Verify you purchase the perfect nutrient for you and furthermore your requests. DHA, or docosahexaenoic corrosive, is only one of the omega-3 fats. DHA is accepted to play a considerable move at the top of the priority list wellbeing. The explanation is DHA is the unsaturated fat generally basic in the human personality. Coenzyme Q10, or CoQ10 for brief, is another supplement you ought to presumably consider taking. There is been a great deal of research study that supports a connection in the middle of CoQ10 just as mind wellbeing.
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Steve Jobs once said that the biggest innovations in the 21st century would be at the intersection of biology and technology. It’s no coincidence that as we go into 2022, biotechnology is the focus of many of Jobs’ fellow 20th-century tech visionaries, including Bill Gates and Paul Allen. As with all areas of technology, the global pandemic has accelerated both the development and adoption of biotech, with the hope that it will lead to new solutions for major global challenges, including illness, food shortages, and damage to the environment.
Even though, as we approach the end of 2021, biotech may be making headlines for the wrong reasons, genetic engineering, genome sequencing, and DNA modification have been shown to have tremendous potential in many areas, and the value of the global biotech market is forecast to pass $100 billion in 2022. So here’s a look at some of the key trends that will be driving breakthroughs and innovation in this exciting field over the next 12 months:
Traditionally drugs and medicine have been created on a “one-size-fits-all” basis, and trials are used to establish which formulations are most beneficial to the widest segment of society. Today, modern genomics means it’s possible to tailor the formulation of medicines for individuals, depending on the makeup of their DNA. Partly this is due to the fact that while sequencing the first human genome cost around $3 billion back in 2003, it can now be done for around $600. Understanding the role DNA plays in our health and our body’s ability to fight disease makes it simpler to predict segments of the population where illness is likely to occur, make better diagnoses, and create targeted treatments dependent on individual genetic factors.
Currently, personalized medicine can be used for understanding factors such as how a person’s genetic makeup affects the way that cancerous cells are likely to grow and spread in their body, meaning better decisions can be made about what treatment should be given. Another common use is in preventative medicine, whereby patients with a particular genetic makeup that’s shown to leave them susceptible to a particular illness can be given pre-emptive treatment. Personalized medicine will be a strong focus throughout 2022, and researchers are confident it will lead to more effective and efficient treatments for many diseases.
In farming, biotechnology is used to develop crops that provide better yields and are more resistant to pests and diseases. This has the potential to be hugely valuable in a world facing a global food crisis where millions of people are at risk of starvation. It means food can be grown that is richer in nutrients and lower in toxic content that can be damaging to our health. Biotech will also lead to agricultural practices that are less damaging to environments, as resilient crops as well as more efficient, and targeted pesticides will be used in lower volumes meaning less pollution of the earth and waterways from runoff. It’s also being used to create crops that can be used to remove pollution caused by industrial activity from land, enabling that land to be revegetated – a process known as phytoremediation.
New types of crops can also be created – one example being the caffeine-free coffee beans created by UK start-up Tropic Biosciences, which removes the need for an expensive, polluting, and waste-creating decaffeination process. 2022 will undoubtedly also see further debate around the ethics of biotechnology, with society facing up to questions around the importance of providing enough food while maintaining standards of food safety and the potential for ecological damage that genetically modified crops themselves might cause to natural environments.
Faster pharmaceutical testing and approval of medicines
Following the emergency development and approval of Covid-19 vaccinations, huge efforts have been made to speed up the process of testing and approving new drugs. Much of this is reliant on research and data originating in the field of biotechnology. Traditionally, new drugs have taken up to 10 years to make it through the lengthy process of approval and certification. Biotech data is being used to speed up this process by allowing simulations of interactions between medicines and the human body, rather than having to rely on costly and time-consuming human trials for every stage of the process. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Real-Time Oncology Review program is an example of a drug testing and review process that has been greatly accelerated by the inclusion of biotech data, specifically due to its potential to accurately predict testing outcomes of trials of novel cancer treatments. Another example is pharmaceutical developer Biogen, whose first-of-its-kind treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, aducanumab, was rapidly accelerated thanks to advances made in biotech this year. In 2022 we can expect to see more research in this field, hopefully leading to quicker development of more effective drugs and treatments.
We already mentioned how biotechnology in agriculture means more efficient crop production, and therefore less energy use and ecological damage caused by pesticides. However, there are a number of other ways in which biotechnology is being harnessed in order to improve sustainability and reduce environmental impact. This includes the creation of biological organisms specifically designed to break down plastics, enabling them to be more efficiently recycled. This year French company Carbois opened its first plant dedicated to breaking down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, commonly used in plastic bottles, using genetically modified enzymes. Other biotech-derived enzymes are being used to create new types of detergent that are powerful enough to be used in industrial cleaning processes while also being completely biodegradable, rather than generating toxic waste as with other industrial detergents.
Another hugely important field where we can expect to see ongoing innovation during 2022 is in biofuels. New processes involving creating clean energy from agricultural and industrial waste - and even algae – are appearing thanks to advanced in biotechnology.
A great deal of research is ongoing into reducing the impact that our love of meat eating is having on the planet. This has led to artificial and lab-grown meat increasingly being touted as a potential solution – at least for those of us who aren’t ready or willing to switch to a vegan diet!
Lab-grown meat involves cultivating tissue artificially from muscle and fat cells and has the potential to hugely reduce the amount of energy, land, and water utilized by the livestock industry – as well as the methane emissions, which are recognized as a leading cause of climate change!
The biotech processes for growing meat evolved from techniques originally designed to help repair injuries by regrowing damaged cells in humans or animals – for example growing skin cells to be grafted onto burn victims. A number of companies, including delivery giant Just Eat, are now planning on launching their own artificial meat onto the market, and 2022 could be the year that it starts to become widely available. |
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The WebMoney Keeper sending audio messages function for iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac and for devices using Android OS has become even easier and more convenient to use by simply applying click and hold to the microphone icon at the bottom of the chat.
You can pay for utilities, pre-school bills and many other services without even entering payment details and avoid queueing in bank branches. To make a payment with the new version you just need to scan a QR-code on an invoice.
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In recent years, the concept of a house has undergone a remarkable transformation, thanks to rapid advancements in technology and innovative architectural designs. The traditional notion of a static, brick-and-mortar structure has given way to the emergence of smart House that are not only energy-efficient but also equipped with cutting-edge technologies to enhance the overall living experience. This article explores the evolution of modern houses and provides a glimpse into the future of residential spaces.
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Security is a top priority for homeowners, and technological advancements have revolutionized home protection. Modern houses are often equipped with sophisticated security systems, including smart cameras, motion sensors, and facial recognition technology. These systems provide real-time monitoring and alerts, offering homeowners peace of mind and an increased sense of security.
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Integration of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR):
The integration of virtual and augmented reality technologies is poise to revolutionize how homeowners interact with their living spaces. Virtual reality can be use in the design and planning phase, allowing homeowners to visualize and customize their homes before construction begins. Augmented reality, on the other hand, can enhance everyday experiences by overlaying digital information onto the physical environment.
As technology continues to advance, the concept of a house will undoubtedly evolve further. The integration of smart technologies, emphasis on sustainability, enhanced security features. Flexible living spaces, and the incorporation of virtual. And augmented reality are just a few of the trends shaping the future of residential spaces. The modern house is no longer a static structure but a dynamic. Adaptive environment that caters to the changing needs and preferences of its inhabitants. As we look ahead, the fusion of innovation and architecture promises a future. Where homes are not just shelters but intelligent, responsive companions in the journey of life. |
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With the fear of potential outbreak of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) looming large even in Nepal, the government has stepped up measures to prevent the transmission of the epidemic. The government has already formed three high-level committees, including the one headed by Minister for Health and Population Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal, to stop the virus from entering the country. Minister for Finance, and Communication and Information Technology Dr. Yuba Raj Khatiwada, while addressing a weekly press meet organised to make the cabinet’s decisions public at his office on Thursday, said that the government has ensured smooth supply of essential items such as medicines, surgical masks and sanitisers. Mobilising all of its mechanisms, the government has intensified preparedness against the virus after the outbreak of the viral disease in neighbouring countries. It has strengthened its coordination with the state and local governments, and neighbouring nations in this connection.
Ever since the detection of cases of the deadly virus in China in December last year, Nepal has begun conducting health check-up of all inbound tourists at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) and border points. The health screening services have also been extended to six major border points taking the possible outbreak of the virus into consideration. Besides, necessary arrangements have also been made for quarantine check-up. Amidst public fears that the country could face a shortage of essential medicines like paracetamol and antibiotics when India resorts to putting a ban on the export of such drugs, the Government of Nepal has asked the Indian government to make special consideration for Nepal. It may be recalled here that India had sought a list of essential medicines that Nepal needs. Thanks to preparedness and precaution measures taken by the government and people, no Nepali citizen has so far been infected with COVID-19. However, more than two dozen people have been admitted to the isolation ward of Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital.
It is high time we focussed on avoiding the possible transmission of the virus from the outer sources. Instead of getting panicked, everyone should also take up preventative measures to remain safe from the virus. As Kathmandu, Pokhara and some other cities began witnessing an artificial shortage of essential goods, including drugs and surgical masks, the Department of Supply Management and Protection of Consumers Interest has intensified market monitoring. The department has mobilised a joint market monitoring team inside the Kathmandu Valley to control artificial price rise of surgical masks. Those who are found guilty must be brought to justice. Some private companies, however, have pledged to increase production of surgical masks to meet the growing demand. The Holi festival (Fagu Purnima), which is being marked on upcoming Monday in the hills and Tuesday in the Terai, is also going to be affected due to the virus. Issuing a public notice, the District Administration Offices across the country have appealed the public to remain alert against the COVID-19 and adopt necessary precautionary measures. In line with that notice, people should avoid gathering and mingling during the Holi to avoid possible transmission risks. |
UNICEF’s new report, Building Bridges for Every Child: Reception, Care and Services to Support Unaccompanied Children in the United States, considers global discussions on adequate reception and care for unaccompanied migrant and asylum-seeking children. With a focus on practical solutions and promising practices in the U.S. and from around the globe, the report seeks to bridge the worlds of international child rights and protection, immigration and domestic child welfare. It illustrates how reception, care and services for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. can be built around the best interests of each child.
Following the journey of children traveling alone from northern Central America to the U.S. – entering, navigating and leaving the U.S. reception and care system and transitioning to community life – this report presents eight overarching recommendations for the realization of a better and more equitable system of care and support for every child, no matter their story, where they were born, or why they arrived unaccompanied. These recommendations provide a roadmap to develop a long-term vision for a system that protects and supports unaccompanied children along every step of their journey so that every child can reach his or her full potential. |
Mageresho YA TASCO. Population and Housing Census 2022 will be held under the Statistics Law Chapter And. 351. Due to this law, all personal information of people collected during of the Census are confidential and will be used for statistical purposes only. In that sense,
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and having to return the money given to him.
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When it comes to keeping a healthy smile, it’s critical to distinguish reality from fiction because oral health is a significant component of overall well-being. Numerous dental misconceptions have been spread over time, which has left the general public perplexed and misinformed.
This blog is an attempt to empower you to make educated decisions by dispelling some of the most pervasive misconceptions about dental restoration in this blog.
Myth 1: You should avoid visiting the dentist in South Kolkata unless you have a problem.
FACT: Maintaining good oral health requires regular dental exams. Dentists are educated to recognize early warning symptoms of oral cancer, gum disease, and other dental problems that may not be immediately obvious to the untrained eye. Seeing the dentist every six months enables preventative care and early intervention, which may prevent you from requiring later, more involved, and more expensive procedures.
Myth 2: Sugar-free treats and beverages are safe for your teeth.
FACT: Unnatural sugars may not be present in sugar-free goods, but they frequently have acidic chemicals that can damage tooth enamel. Acidic chemicals can erode enamel, increasing the risk of cavities and sensitivity in teeth. The key is moderation, and it’s crucial to keep proper dental hygiene practices even when eating sugar-free items.
Myth 3: Brushing harder makes your teeth cleaner.
FACT: Your teeth and gums might be harmed by using a hard-bristled toothbrush or violently brushing your teeth. Brushing too vigorously can erode enamel, induce gum recession, and increase sensitivity in the teeth. To properly remove plaque and debris without harming your teeth, choose a toothbrush with soft bristles and brush in gentle, circular strokes. Also, brushing harshly can make you get root canal treatment in Kolkata.
Myth 4: Avoid brushing and flossing your teeth if your gums are bleeding.
FACT: The accumulation of plaque along the gumline is the primary cause of bleeding gums, which frequently signals early gum disease. The issue will get worse if you don’t brush and floss. To eliminate plaque and encourage healthy gums, brush your teeth gently twice daily and floss once. For a full check, visit your dentist if the bleeding continues.
Myth 5: Teeth whitening weakens your teeth.
FACT: When properly applied, professional teeth whitening procedures do not weaken the teeth. In order to remove stains, the active chemicals in whitening treatments, such as hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide, enter the enamel. However, overusing or using unrecommended items might cause dental sensitivity and enamel erosion. Before undergoing any teeth-whitening procedures, it is advisable to speak with your dentist.
Myth 6: Chewing sugarless gum is equally as beneficial to your teeth as cleaning them.
FACT: While sugarless gum might encourage saliva production, which helps wash away food particles and neutralize acids, it cannot replace thorough brushing and flossing. Gum should supplement oral hygiene routines rather than take their place. Search for “dental clinic near me” to properly deep clean your teeth.
Myth 7: Baby teeth do not require much care since they fall out anyway.
FACT: The growth of permanent teeth depends heavily on baby teeth. Baby teeth cavities that are left untreated can cause discomfort, and infection, and even delay the emergence of adult teeth. A lifetime of good oral health is built on the foundation of early dental care.
Maintaining good dental health is crucial for having a stunning smile and being healthy in general. You may choose your dental treatment with confidence if you bust these myths about dentistry and are aware of the reality. Keep in mind to follow a consistent oral hygiene regimen, see your dentist frequently, and get expert guidance for any dental issues. Knowing the facts about dental care and making it a priority in your everyday life are the first steps to having a healthy smile. |
Knife of Dreams: Chapter 3
Chapter Icon: A serpent twisted through a square
Point of View: Aran'gar
The Forsaken meet in Tel'aran'rhiod and discuss how to proceed regarding Rand, Mat and Perrin.
The Forsaken gather in Tel'aran'rhiod after Moridin summons them. Aran'gar finds Demandred, Mesaana and Semirhage deep in a conversation, while Graendal is sitting apart from them, watching. Aran'gar notices that Mesaana looks ill and joins Graendal. The meeting is set in the Ansaline Gardens, probably a place known in the Age of Legends. It was chosen by Graendal, who was the first to appear. The Forsaken are served by undead creatures capable of reading one's mind, called zomara, created by Aginor, who, now going by the name of Osan'gar, had missed every meeting since Shadar Logoth. Aran'gar mentions that Moridin had once been called Ishamael. She suggests an alliance to Graendal by trying to seduce her. Even though she hardly remembers having been a man she is still very attracted to Graendal.
Demandred confronts Aran'gar with having lost the grip on Egwene. Apparently the Forsaken side with the rebel Aes Sedai in order to keep the White Tower from being reunited. Aran'gar states that Egwene is not the figurehead they think she is. She had been listening in to the Sitting of the rebel's Hall in Tel'aran'rhiod. Apparently Egwene has the other sisters convinced that the Tower is about to fall apart. Mesaana said that she feared to arrange Egwene's flight to encourage the rebels not to end the conflict. She is determined to keep the sisters at each other's throats for as long as possible. Aran'gar starts toying with Graendal's hair, thinking that one's quarry needs to be accustomed to one's touch. She appears to want to manipulate Graendal the way she manipulated Egwene. Moridin enters and breaks up the argument between Aran'gar and Mesaana over who decides when or if Egwene is to be set free.
Moridin announces that Sammael seems to have resurfaced. He or someone disguised as him sent Trollocs and Myrddraal into the Ways and since they obeyed, it had to have been one of the Chosen. Moridin orders the Forsaken to report any movement of Trollocs outside the Blight and no one is to act on their own until the Time of Return. Demandred notes that the seals to the Dark One's prison need to be found. Moridin agrees and orders everyone to look for them in places where Rand has been. Cyndane suggests kidnapping Lews Therin but Moridin fears she might kill him accidentally. He makes it clear that he will be the one to decide when and how Rand dies. Aran'gar thinks that Cyndane sounds just like Lanfear, but Graendal had said that Cyndane was weaker in the Power than Lanfear. |
In one of the most positive congressional hearings the F-35 fighter program has seen since it was awarded to an industry team led by Lockheed Martin in 2001, Senate defense appropriations subcommittee chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) yesterday endorsed the military need for the plane and signaled satisfaction with the program’s progress. Durbin’s verdict is significant because he only recently took over the chairmanship of the subcommittee and was viewed as having an open mind on the F-35’s future. After hearing from the most senior officials responsible for the program in the hearing, though, Durbin seemed to be persuaded that past problems with the Pentagon’s biggest weapons program have either been resolved or soon will be.
The F-35 actually has encountered fewer developmental issues than some other well-known military aircraft such as the B-2 bomber. What made it a lightning rod for criticism was its huge cost — nearly $400 billion to buy and hundreds of billions more to sustain across its operational lifetime. The unprecedented price-tag results from the cutting-edge nature of the technology being used and the fact that three different variants are being developed to replace the Cold War fighter fleets of the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. At its inception the concept of a common airframe for three military services looked like the most cost-effective approach to fighter modernization, but execution of the program has been among the most complex technological undertakings in history.
Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall and F-35 program executive officer Christopher Bogdan acknowledged in the hearing that mistakes had been made, such as permitting excessive concurrency in the development and initial production of the three variants. However, they indicated that most of the issues have been worked through, with Bogdan stating the F-35 is a much different program today than it was three years ago. Not only was the ramp-up of production slowed to assure design features had stabilized, but the contractor team was asked to share more risk. But having now accomplished 5,000 flights of the aircraft, Pentagon leaders are increasingly confident the program will produce an affordable, survivable, versatile fighter.
Secretary Kendall opined that F-35 increasingly looks like the future of tactical air power, not just here but overseas. That has important trade consequences for the U.S., since dozens of countries may eventually choose to buy one or another variant of F-35 as their air fleets age. If F-35 simply matches the export performance of the venerable F-16 it is replacing, it will become the most common fighter in the world, generating hundreds of thousands of jobs at home and abroad. The performance that matters most, though, is in the air, and it now looks increasingly clear that the key features of the fifth-generation fighter — stealth, sensor fusion, high-capacity datalinks, etc. — will assure the U.S. continues to enjoy global air dominance through mid-century.
Senator Durbin indicated at several points during the hearing that he understands how crucial air dominance is to every other facet of modern warfare. He wants U.S. warfighters to have the best technology available, but he also wants to make sure money isn’t wasted acquiring it. So while Durbin has now added his voice to the positive assessments of F-35 being rendered by everyone from the Government Accountability Office to Senator McCain, no one should assume that the challenges F-35 faces are over. Integration of on-board software still must be completed, production costs must be reduced, and sustainment practices must be clarified. The good news coming out of yesterday’s hearing, though, is that more and more bright, open-minded people like Senator Durbin think the F-35 effort is on a path to doing those things successfully.
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Given the wide range of options that are available on the market, choosing an appropriate type of designer handbag for your needs can often be challenging. However, this particular process can often be exciting, because you will be able to find a fantastic new handbag to suit your needs. In addition, if you are looking to make a fantastic fashion statement, then a designer bag could be just what you are looking for. In addition, if you want to create a personal style and enhance your overall appearance, then you must make sure you choose the right type of designer handbag. By reading this article, you can learn about the top tips you can use to help you find the rest of the best type of designer bag for your situation as well as create a look that you want to achieve.
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Event-Driven Data for your Application
The modern enterprise is event-driven and real-time enabled. The foundation for this is the ability to connect to any data source and capture and act on changes. New data, updated data or deleted data. We have you covered for all of it.
- IoT / Machine Data. Process streams of IoT data and take actions based on smart conditions.
- Report-by-Exception. Only trigger actions on streaming data if the data value changes.
- Webhooks gives you the ability to connect to SaaS services that push events such as payments, orders or updated records.
- Pub/Sub like WebSockets and MQTT let you subscribe to topics important to you.
- Change Data Capture (CDC) support in databases lets you keep your data in sync.
- File Watcher detects changes to files that can trigger events.
- Anomaly Detection. Apply fixed rules, custom algorithms or ML/AI models on streaming data to detect anomalies on IoT data, Video/Audio, user behaviour or transactions.
Users expect real-time. Crosser makes it happen.
As consumers we expect our text messages to be delivered instantly. We want the order confirmation or the online purchase to come immediately. We take for granted that the social media posts are uploaded straight away. If it doesn't happen, we start to wonder if anything has gone wrong.
This real-time expectation has now reached the business world as well and it creates new challenges for data integration. Scheduled batch integrations are too slow and just moving data from one place to another is not enough.
Crosser is a stream analytics and event-processing solution that uses in-memory processing to deliver data in milliseconds. All you need to be able to upgrade your application and give your users a modern experience.
Crosser vs Kafka
Simple vs Complex
It is common for developers and data teams to default to Kafka for event-processing which sometimes makes a lot of sense. Crosser can either complement Kafka or replace Kafka, depending on the specific requirements. Typically Kafka is overkill for 99% of businesses and although Kafka is open source it comes with a lot of complexity and cost.
Small vs Huge
First the complexity is very high in designing and implementing use cases from a data engineering perspective requires a significant amount of time/cost. Second, the technical set-up is complicated and requires significant DevOps resources/cost. Lastly, the minimum requirements for running Kafka includes 130 CPU cores and 158 GB RAM Memory. That is a huge amount of infrastructure cost. Crosser requires a small fraction of that. |
The fifth day of parliamentary hearings into the appointment of former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro to a $500,000-a-year trade post in the United States is about to begin.
As regular readers of this blog will know, former NSW trade minister Stuart Ayres resigned from cabinet this week while his role in the saga is being investigated.
The NSW parliamentary inquiry will hear from three witnesses today. Among them is Barilaro’s former chief of staff Siobhan Hamblin.
My colleague Natassia Chrysanthos is running our dedicated live coverage. |
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This course will adopt a scholarly approach to understand the roles and responsibilities of internal and external consultants. By examining approaches, conceptual frameworks, analytical models, engagement structuring, scope of work, deliverables, qualifications, professional standards and best practices of consulting professionals, internal specialists and project managers, students will understand the process for conducting a consulting or consulting-like project. Topics to be covered include: diagnosing the issues, developing a scope of work, preparing a proposal, contracting with a client, managing client relationships and communications, understanding client personnel reactions to consultants, identifying sources of direct and proxy data, including sources of external data used by leading consultants and conducting literature reviews, understanding data reliability and validity, assessing and accessing resources, changes in scope, preparing deliverables, monitoring progress, reporting results, achieving engagement closure and extensions of services. The specialized nature of consulting research will be addressed including competitive research, benchmarking, sector analysis, correlations such as with economic and demographic trends, success attributes, operating and financial leverage and regulation and licensing. Additional topics will include professional organizations, consulting ethics and professional terms. Students will work in teams to conduct significant consulting projects, from contracting to presentation of results, with appropriate clients under the guidance of a faculty member and advisor. |
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Pizzas are a comfort food for many. So it makes sense to have the pizza sauce ready in your refrigerator to make a quick pizza when you really can’t think of anything else to make…:) And you can use it to make a bread pizza or a regular pizza. The easiest would be to put this sauce on a piece of bread, top it with some cheese and bake it for a couple of minutes – and there you have a snack done in under 10 minutes!! Why buy a bottle of pizza sauce when it is actually so easy to make at home…
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Few things to keep in mind
- Tomato Puree: You can make use of the store bought tomato puree if you don’t have time to make it at home. If you are making it at home, blanch a couple of tomatoes in hot water for a couple of minutes and then put them in ice cold water. This will help in easily removing the skin of the tomatoes. Then puree them in a blender and pass them through a sieve to make your homemade tomato puree.
- Fresh Basil Leaves: It is best to use fresh basil leaves in the pizza sauce, however if you don’t have that, you can increase the quantity of Italian seasoning in the recipe and adjust that as per taste.
- Onion – 1, chopped fine
- Garlic – 5-6 cloves, chopped fine
- Tomatoes – 2 medium size, chopped fine
- Tomato Puree – 200 gms
- Chilli flakes – 1 tsp
- Pepper Powder – ½ tsp
- Italian Seasoning – 1 tsp
- Basil Leaves – a handful, chopped
- Olive Oil
Step by Step Process
- In a pan, add the olive oil and the garlic and let the garlic fry till fragrant
- Add the chopped onions and fry till golden brown
- Next, add the tomatoes and cook till the tomatoes are half cooked
- Add in the tomato puree along with some salt and cook till the raw smell of the tomatoes and tomato puree is no longer there and everything is cooked and blended fully
- Add the Italian seasoning, pepper and any more salt, as needed, along with the basil leaves and let it cook for 2 min
- Turn off the heat and let it cool completely. The pizza sauce has a thick consistency. |
The Western Australian Government has approved an extra four hours of trading for general retail stores in the Perth metropolitan area for the next two public holidays on Monday 1 June 2020 (Western Australia Day) and Monday 28 September 2020 (Queen’s Birthday).
These stores will be allowed to open from 8am to 6pm. Normal trading hours for these public holidays are 11am to 5pm.
Retailers holding small shop certificates can open 24 hours.
To see a summary of all Australian public holidays and important retail dates, click here.
To review all trading hour regulations per state and territory, click here.
The National Retail Association Trading Hours Committee is a group of regulatory compliance specialists from many of Australia’s major retailers who come together to discuss policy regarding trading hours and public holidays. The Committee communicates regularly with government, conveying the issues and concerns of the retail sector.
If you are interested in becoming a Committee Member, meetings are held twice a year in Sydney or Melbourne. Please contact David Stout, Director Policy, at [email protected] for more details. |
Ignik, an emerging maker of high quality, environmentally thoughtful heating products for the outdoors, announces a partnership that gives back to the very place that inspired its creation. The Seattle-based brand is a proud sponsor of the Ice in Motion media team as they document a scientific research expedition focused on the impact of climate change on Arctic coastlines. John and Becca Guillote with Ice in Motion will join researchers aboard the R/V Sikuliaq to amplify their stories and findings to a broad audience.
Launched this month, the University of Washington’s CODA (Coastal Ocean Dynamics in the Arctic) science project aims to study the interaction between storm-induced waves and the newly formed autumn sea ice above the Arctic Circle. As climate change transforms the arctic faster than models forecast, scientists are working hard to understand the impacts of this rapid change, but there is often a gap between their research and what the general public knows about it. That’s where Ice in Motion intends to make a difference.
“More people need to know about the changes taking place in the arctic and the research being conducted because they are the ones who have the power to move the needle,” says Becca Guillote with Ice in Motion. “Using approachable language, we generate a variety of media aimed at a diverse audience to convey the story behind the science and demonstrate the impacts of climate change in the arctic. Our communication focuses on positive aspects, inspiring stories, and actionable items.”
“My family spent a season in the Arctic, and the interaction between storms and ice is something with obvious and immediate impact on life in the region,” says Ignik founder and CEO, Graeme Esarey. “Witnessing the effects of climate change during our travels was the catalyst for creating Ignik. John and Becca were aboard on our expedition, and we are stoked to be able to support them again by providing products that will keep them and their equipment warm so they can complete this important project.” |
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The idea of custom packaging is not something that has arrived in the industry very recently. Instead, it’s been quite a long time since both small and big business organisations are favouring custom packing facilities for running their business. Be it for storing, shipping or for retail packaging – the custom packaging boxes leave with extensive benefits that the business owners cannot ignore.
And, those are the reasons for which the custom-made boxes in Sydney are surging in popularity with time. Are you still unaware of such benefits? Are you thinking of introducing the idea of custom packaging in your business as well? Here are some of those reasons or advantages you must consider before proceeding. Read on.
- Affordable Solution
Although the common perception may lead you to believe in the fact that the customised packaging is super expensive, the reality is far beyond it. When you are choosing the raw material by yourself, there is no need for filler material anymore. So, you are going to save on that first. Secondly, you get the choice of low-cost ink for print along with the material. Saving is undoubtedly on your cards with die-cut cardboard boxes.
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Almost 90% of the small and medium business owners across Sydney, who have used the customised packaging solution, have acknowledged the fact of how custom packaging has helped them to secure better customer satisfaction.
The right packaging can create a separate brand identity for your business. You are undoubtedly aware of the fact that what looks good, also sells in the right quantity. So, basically, the small and medium business organisations can influence their customers in a better way with custom made boxes in Sydney. Indeed, you can expect to delight the customers with a box of chocolate where the box itself resembles a chocolate bar.
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As mentioned earlier, the idea of customised packaging has also helped the business organisations to earn the brand loyalty of their customers. The idea is to create a unique design in packaging that customers can easily recognise and recall. Infusing eye-catching detail and of course, the brand name in the die-cut cardboard boxes is something mandatory that helps in binding the customers with your brand for a long time.
- Use of Environment-Friendly Material
Well, with the use of customised packaging solutions, you can not only save money but also emerge as an environment-conscious business owner too. Use bio-degradable or recycled material as the raw packaging material for your products. It will leave a great impression on the customers. Especially when the world is on the verge of climate disasters, your small step can create a great deal of difference indeed.
Hope you have already understood the importance of opting for custom made boxes in Sydney for your business by now. All you must do now is to find a reliable manufacturer and supplier of these boxes in your local region. Don’t forget to check their experience in the industry along with their reputation. These two criteria will help you to settle down for none but the best. |
It's Market Time! Spring 2021
June 5-9 2021
IT’S MARKET TIME AND WE’RE OPEN!
Stop by our showroom at Market Square Towers, suite 405 to view our entire Culp line.
The Big event
We are co-hosting an industry happy hour event and you don’t want to miss it 😊
Who: Open to all Market attendees
When: Saturday, June 5, 3pm-6pm
Where: Intersection of Commerce Street + Main Street
Come have a drink, relax on our comfy LiveSmart Outdoor sectionals and discover how Culp teams up with Unifi to transform recycled bottles into our incredible LiveSmart Evolve powered by REPREVE performance fabric.
We can't wait to see everyone!
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A Future Equity Agreement (SAFE) gives you the right to future shares in the company. If you invest, you're betting the company will be worth more than $150M eventually.
"Stark Drones is an emerging company that participates in sensory networks, UART communications, and aviation design concepts. We are planning to build one of the most efficient aeronautical vehicles ever created to bring a new age to space exploration and transportation."We have a CAES battery system (Compressed Air Energy Storage) that is almost 1/7th of the price of comparable Lithium Ion batteries and can be charged in nearly 15 seconds time. Other technologies we utilize is a distributed P2P (Point 2 Point connectivity module), and a $1400 alternative to Google's $50,000+ Project Loon that cost only $140 to build. These systems are being utilized as an updated solution to current grid, wireless transmission, and energy systems that we use today. Currently, this will allow for a more distributed and open internet as well as more importantly, being able to upgrade grid power and transmission infrastructure. We also utilize novel uses of the same technology for highly advanced research topics and projects on the side, as Stark Drones is heavily engaged in sustainability research especially in relation to scarcity of resources or finding alternatives to outdated technologies.
Stark Drones aims to change a variety of industries, mostly centered towards telecommunications and infrastructure. As a startup, we believe that collectively we can build technology that can push forward human progress. We are building things from air powered batteries, to cost efficient internet balloons, to distributed and decentralized grids and powerwalls. Not only that, but we are utilizing various of our technical expertise to make strides in the aerospace industry and human exploration. We want to take a multifaceted approach to create moonshots that take our research into new heights. Stark Drones wants to be more than just another startup, but an inspiration for generations to come.
On October 14th, 2022, we have reached over 100k subscribers on our YouTube channel through our various efforts. However, it doesn't just stop there. The Stark Drones channel is utilized for posting various updates, launch videos, and trailers in relation to some of the things Stark Drones does, and is part of the establishing of its brand. We believe videography and launch updates are an important part of keeping the community involved with some of the R&D or projects that Stark Drones done.
Outside of this, the Internet Ballon Telemetry test we done was mentioned early on by the Huron Daily Tribune. On June 18th, 2022, the launch proceeded and much of the city watched as bystanders.
The founder of Stark Drones did want to break into the VC world and was a proponent of the "Dream to Innovate" movement. Dream to Innovate is based off of the concept of pursuing the development of disruptive and innovative technologies, that fulfill a beneficial purpose over trying to develop something unoriginal or unavailing. Many of the technologies that Stark Drones builds are based off of these principals.
Utilizing a Spark.io Photon Board and a custom microsatellite for a range transmission and extension network, was the deployment of a test internet balloon system for a tethered telemetry test. We had to utilize multiple party tanks of helium (about 11), given there was a nationwide helium shortage at the time. Once the balloon was deployed, we were able to land it back safely and release the helium out of the balloon for any potential relaunch. It was a pricey launch at $1352.03 (excluding the videography) but was quite cost efficient for the time being. Costs like these are far below standard for this industry.
Stark Drones tested aquatic wireless networks and various modules. The best signal strength result in relation to the LoRaWAN transmission was -75 dBm. There are various other networking protocols and range extenders in play here as well. The full hardware setup does include ESP8266 WiFi modules, Lightweight BLE, a module for UART, and a 4G PHAT as well as the involvement of a relay switch. This was tested on July 16th, 2022, at Port Huron, Michigan at the Lakeside Beach and Park.
Outside of this, Stark Drones have done and presented various work w/ Wireless networking protocols, such as what was presented in the presentation seen here.
Stark Drones has been working on a variety of projects including Internet Balloons, Aquatic and Underwater Wireless Networks, water harvesting solutions, the development of a Space Plane, and experimental research towards the development of an actual hoverboard as well as the development of a compute module. For the 2023 development timeline, Stark Drones is hoping to make continued progress within these areas as well as the development of UAVs that meet a specialized purpose.
In 2023, we want to work on firefighting UAVs and hope to come up with a streamlined route for development and partnering with potential fire departments who may be interested. We hope to have some of our more commercially viable and applicable research implemented within local cities and municipalities.
2023, will also be the year that we enter into projects that have more of a global impact. We want to build a virtualized incubation hub and distributed network within the countries of Egypt, Syria and Israel to build technology that impact surrounding regions through various citizen science, sustainability and social good initiatives. We are also working on developing and stress testing some machine learning algorithms, including a transcription and translation project that focuses on mass translation of ancient books such as the Qumran Caves Scrolls and τὰ βιβλία into some of the world's lesser known/unknown languages. Projects like these can be a testimony into some of our algorithmic capabilities.
Our focus on sustainability will target a variety of sectors including alternative energy, water resources, and even projects centered around limiting food waste. Stark Drones is very mission driven.
From all honesty, while our original Water from Air attempt wasn't the best, 2023 offers the flexibility of us seeking out further R&D funding and learning from past mistakes. The combination of water monitoring and cleanup solutions (our Aquatic Networks), water harvesting solutions (Water from Air), and our resource limiting solutions (Firefighting UAVs for droughts), create a full pipeline for maximizing people's access to clean and abundant water on a global scale.
The compute module utilizes a variety of different parts and is the successor to ChainBoard with added signal logic. This module will power data transmission as well as be the full-on data logger and controller for lots of Stark Drones launches. It utilizes a signal computing method which is patent-pending under 17/882587 as of August 7th, 2022. The founder of Stark Drones also created various other related IP in (direct and indirect) relation to the software and hardware configurations of this compute module.
We have a large intellectual property portfolio.
The founder of Stark Drones has a largely prolific research history.
StartHub messenger used to be an old concept for an alternative social network.
However, that concept is being brought back and will be utilized as a hub for the "investor perks" rewards.
We have various different levels:
These membership levels will also be labeled with Silver, Bronze, Gold and Palladium membership types.
Stark Drones oversees the distribution and development of various open-source licenses and software. They also utilize the power of open source to introduce to the world concepts behind some of its more advanced proprietary technology. Stark Drones utilizes and distributes both proprietary tech and open source for a variety of things and aims to get the best of both worlds.As of November 27th, 2022, the Decentralized-Internet SDK repository has reached over 133k downloads just from NPM alone. On the GitHub Marketplace, it has reached 819 people subscribed to the open-source application (for repo tracking purposes), of which it has an 82% active retention rate based off installed vs. not installed.
That SDK is an open-source dev kit and library for building an offline-centric network centered around distributed data sharding. It includes clusterpost and the gridbee-framework, amongst other repos. It also implements BOINC. It is mostly hosted through a single monorepo and is the largest dev kit for distributed and grid computing projects, as well as a decentralized web.
According to BOINC's website, a small team wanting to process 100 TeraFLOPS for 1 year, would only pay on average $125k using BOINC and the power of volunteer/grid computing as opposed to $175 Million hosting on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud. Since BOINC is open-source, the decentralized-internet SDK aims to take that same philosophy and integrate it into the world of decentralized applications. Stark Drones oversees the distribution of that SDK. |
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In 2004 when my oldest was 4 and my youngest 2, I begrudgingly went to work on MLK Day. For me it was just wrong on every level. I came to love King Day as a student at Spelman College with the Annual March in downtown Atlanta. This was reinforced during grad school at the University of Michigan which had a plethora of options to celebrate and educate on King Day. January 19, 2004 was the LAST day I worked on MLK Day and I've been committed since then to creating the celebration that I wanted for my family, our neighbors and friends.
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The latest market commentary from Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) released today (9 Nov 2018) shows that although cattle prices have cooled recently over the past month, they are expected to rise as demand for beef increases in the run up to Christmas.
Stuart Ashworth, QMS Director of Economic Services commented: “Although we have seen cattle prices dipping 6-7 p/kg dwt over the last month, they also dipped sharply through October last year so despite recent falls, current prices have once again moved ahead of year earlier levels to start November 2p/kg dwt higher than last year.”
The number of cattle reaching abattoirs usually climbs slowly at this time of year with the weekly kill reaching a seasonal peak in November. Figures show that his year is following this trend and growth in supplies will have contributed to this seasonal decline in price.
“The weekly kill of prime cattle through August and September 2018 was lower than last year and despite some increase in the kill through October, supply levels are similar to last year,” said Mr Ashworth.
He added: “However, the availability of primestock in the run up to Christmas may prove to be better than last year as some of these slower finishing cattle come onto the market.”
Christmas buying will be under way shortly and premium beef, often with a 21 or 28-day maturation period, will need to be purchased over the next couple of weeks to meet consumer demand.
Mr Ashworth said: “Demand for beef will be expected to grow in the run up to Christmas, particularly for the more expensive roasting joints.
“Data on retail sales from Kantar Worldpanel typically show that beef sales over the Christmas and new year period can be 2-3% higher than in the month previous while demand for roasting joints can double.”
As a consequence, it is not unusual to see prime cattle prices begin to firm in mid-November before dipping away again from mid-December. A typical rise over this period during the past five years is around 2-3p/kg dwt. Last year the price climb was striking, lifting 7p/kg dwt over November as cattle numbers tightened.
In contrast to prime cattle, the weekly slaughterings of cull cows over July, August and September have been running higher than year earlier levels said Mr Ashworth, although they have been producing lighter weight carcases possibly of poorer conformation.
“Price-reporting abattoirs indicate that the weekly kill of cull cows has continued to run ahead of year earlier levels through October.
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Cricut is committed to making amazing products that expand the creative possibilities for all of our members. As we continue to come out with new products, sometimes we have to make hard decisions about existing product lines that we can no longer support. This year we’ve decided to discontinue Cuttlebug and Cuttlebug accessories. You can continue to find Cuttlebug products on Cricut.com, while they last, and at your favorite craft retail stores. We love your passion for our products and we appreciate your commitment to the Cricut brand.
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Overview of Last Year’s Auctions
2023 was nothing short of remarkable in the realm of supermarket auctions. We analyzed 25 of last year’s supermarket auctions, which showcased a vast array of equipment and items essential to the supermarket industry. From refrigeration units to shelving systems, each auction brought together a diverse set of buyers and sellers, contributing to a vibrant marketplace. The volume of sales and the enthusiastic participation of bidders underscored the auctions’ success, indicating a robust interest in acquiring quality equipment at competitive prices.
Several items consistently topped the sales charts in our auctions:
- Shelving units: Brands like Lozier and Madix were particularly popular, indicating a strong demand for robust and versatile storage solutions.
- Checkout counters: These items were in high demand, emphasizing their importance in efficient customer service.
- Refrigeration units: Both upright and industrial-sized models were frequently sold, underlining their essential role in product preservation.
- Sheet Pans: ‘New 26” x 18” sheet pans’ were notably popular, frequently used in bakery and deli sections, reflecting a demand for essential baking tools.
- Gondola Shelving Variants: Specifically, ’60’ Kent black/gray gondola shelving with 21″/21″ decks, 6½’H – 4′ Kent wood/laminate wall shelving with 16″ deck, 6½’H’ were among the top sellers, emphasizing the need for diverse shelving solutions in supermarkets.
Surprising Sales and Popular Finds
While shelving units were a mainstay in our auctions, other items also attracted significant interest. For instance, freezer shelves were sought after for their efficiency in frozen goods storage. Alongside the expected, several items emerged as surprisingly popular:
- Comfortable Seating: Various types of chairs, including metal frame chairs and cushioned seating options, attracted significant interest. This trend reflects an increasing focus on customer comfort and staff welfare in store layouts.
- Lighting Solutions: Efficient and modern lighting solutions, such as LED track lights, were sought after, indicating a growing emphasis on energy efficiency and enhancing store ambiance.
- Essential Sanitary Fixtures: Stainless steel hand sinks were another common item. This reflects an ongoing emphasis on hygiene and sanitation in supermarkets, an aspect that has become increasingly important.
- Checkout Lane Equipment: The frequent sale of check lane equipment underscores the importance of efficient checkout processes in supermarkets. This trend highlights the need for modern, functional checkout equipment to facilitate smooth customer transactions.
- Butchery Equipment Demand: The sale of specialized equipment such as meat saws points to a resurgence or continued strength in in-store butchery services. This suggests a trend towards supermarkets enhancing their fresh food offerings, particularly in the meat department.
The Role of Technology
Technology played a pivotal role in enhancing the auction experience. Online bidding platforms, like what Grafe Auction uses, continued to expand access, allowing participants from various locations to engage in real-time. Digital catalogs and tools improved the efficiency and transparency of the auctions, making them more accessible and user-friendly. This integration of technology is a clear indication of how digital advancements are shaping the future of supermarket auctions.
Predictions for the Upcoming Year
Based on last year’s trends, the upcoming year is likely to see continued demand for versatile shelving solutions and sustainable equipment. Advanced auction technology is also expected to play a significant role, further streamlining the auction process. These trends will likely shape the supermarket auction landscape, offering new opportunities and challenges.
Additionally, as we look ahead, the supermarket auction landscape in 2024 is likely to be influenced by the significant shifts in consumer food spending and habits observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting on findings from the USDA Economic Research Service, consumers are returning to pre-pandemic food consumption habits. We expect that, due to increased consumer spending at restaurants and other food service establishments, grocery stores will likely resume more typical closure patterns. This will lead to increased opportunities to acquire quality supermarket equipment at auction.
Last year’s supermarket auctions provided a wealth of insights into the industry’s current state and future trajectory. By staying informed about these trends, businesses in the supermarket sector can make strategic decisions, ensuring their operations remain competitive and responsive to market demands. |
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"High-tech and internet companies are notorious for a “NIH” attitude (Not Invented Here). The underlying belief is that we can only sell products to our customers that we personally create. But why? Once you have an established, trusted relationship with a customer, you can sell all kinds of third-party products and services to them. There’s no need to be restricted to only those products and services your engineering team can produce."
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A recent initiative I'm excited about is narrowing our e-commerce stack to a short list of preferred partners and solutions (think: Klaviyo for email or Recharge for subscription). We're keen on the opportunity to go deeper with our partners, strengthen relationships, and improve client outcomes.
Our aim with this initiative is not to force all of our clients to use our preferred partners.
Looking back, our approach to selecting partners often involved vetting several options based on the client's needs and requirements. We'd let factors like a client stakeholder's experience with a partner at their last company or what's trending on Twitter dictate our decision-making. We told ourselves we were doing what was best for the client, but ultimately, this approach required a lot of unnecessary time for everyone involved. It also gave some clients the impression that we didn't have the know-how to make thoughtful recommendations.
Additionally, the Barrel Partners and Team Leads have had a recurring conversation about improving knowledge-share of all the different apps and solutions we use. With so many options, keeping up-to-date and educating the team has been difficult. Narrowing our focus will make this easier and open the doors for other process improvements.
We see several positive outcomes of narrowing our e-commerce stack.
Deep expertise: Rather than getting familiar with several partners and solutions, we'll go deeper on a select few, getting comfortable with the ins and outs. Going deeper might look like prototyping with beta features, attending partner events, or working with partner teams to create custom solutions.
Strengthened collaboration: The mindset shift here is thinking about our partners as an extension of our team rather than a third party. I recently started managing many of our partner relationships. In doing so, I'm helping facilitate conversations between our internal and partner teams. In recent weeks, this has resulted in dialogues between folks like our Director of Client Services, Kate, and a client's Merchant Success Manager. We're learning about upcoming feature releases and discussing opportunities to workshop unique client requirements together. Also, let's be real — it's more fun to work with the folks we get to know personally!
Marketing Opportunities: We've done some co-marketing with partners in the past. However, by narrowing our e-commerce stack, we'll have more in-depth case studies to share. We also see future opportunities for collaboration blog posts, social, podcasts, and events.
Feedback loop: Treating our partners like an extension of our team means being dedicated to giving and receiving feedback. A couple of weeks ago, we learned that a prospective client was having issues with a preferred partner and looking at alternatives. We got them in touch with the right folks. Now, they're working on solutions together. On the flip side, I recently reached out to a partner rep for feedback and received helpful notes I wouldn't have otherwise been able to address.
Tighter scoping: By getting in more reps with the same partners, we can better gauge the effort needed to meet a client's requirements when scoping new work.
Client success: In the end, we share the same mission with our partners: to drive results for merchants. With the above outcomes in mind, we're excited about the opportunity to level up what we deliver for our clients and how our partners support them in achieving their goals.
New Business Synergy: Narrowing our e-commerce stack means sending more leads to fewer partners. As we grow our expertise, strengthen our collaboration, and help clients succeed with our preferred partners, we'll be well-positioned as an expert for partner account executives selling in new opportunities.
Looking ahead, simplicity is key. Barrel CEO Peter and I are working to refine the Barrel E-commerce Stack before we roll it out to the team. While we'll continue to keep our eye out and learn about new partners and solutions, we won't be eager to swap out a preferred partner. However, here are some of the reasons we might:
In what aspects of my company might my team, clients, and business benefit from narrowing focus?
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Now here’s another problem with even the highest-yielding Dividend Aristocrats. Stick with me as we solve it and tap into $4,424 in dividend cash each and every month.
Here’s a look at the income schedule for an investor who sinks $100,000 evenly into the five highest-yielding Dividend Aristocrats. That’s AbbVie (ABBV), AT&T (T), Exxon Mobil (XOM), People’s United Financial (PBCT) and Chevron (CVX):
Something’s missing. Where is our January dividend income?!
The Dividend Aristocrats—and most blue-chip dividend stocks, for that matter—are quarterly payers. The problem? I don’t know about you, but I pay my mortgage monthly. The same goes for my electric bill, natural gas, phone, internet, you name it.
You could try to cobble together a portfolio of dividend stocks that will provide you roughly the same amount of income every month. Or you could try to partition every second-month’s oversized payout so that some income goes toward the first month of the second quarter, and… well, let’s just stop the nonsense there.
It’d be much easier and profitable to simply rely on monthly dividend stocks. These are firms and funds that pay us every 30 days like clockwork.
Let’s discuss three income plays that mail out their checks every month. They’re a rare breed! Many monthly dividend stocks are in “special categories” such as real estate investment trusts (REITs), closed-end funds (CEFs) and the like.
We can set regular monthly income by taking a detour from Wall Street’s self-serving recommendations (buy the stocks of the companies that hire us, they say.) And just look at the high-horsepower dividends they can deliver each and every month:
Here are three every-30-day payers that yield between 5.8% and 13.4%:
Vermilion Energy (VET)
Dividend Yield: 13.4%
Canadian energy producer Vermilion Energy (VET) isn’t going to show up on many investors’ radar. Unless they’re searching for yield, that is.
It’s an interesting company, especially geographically. While many smaller U.S.-traded E&P companies tend to focus on one or two areas of North America, Vermillion’s operations include:
- Natural gas conventional resource plays in the U.S. and Canada,
- Natural gas opportunities in the Netherlands and Germany,
- Oil drilling and workover programs in France and Australia, and
- A 20% interest in an Ireland gas field.
The diversification is nice. But like many E&P companies, at the end of the day, there’s but one thing that matters:
Commodity Prices Control It All
That price plunge has had the benefit of driving Vermilion’s yield up to a gaudy 13.4%. And the company has more than kept its monthly dole intact despite its difficulties–it actually raised it by 7% in 2018.
But Vermilion is playing with fire. The company spent more on capital projects and dividends last year than funds from operations (FFO), a key metric that VET uses to monitor its sustainability. It’s set to be around 100% of that mark again this year. And all of this assumes Brent oil prices of $63.54 per barrel, and West Texas Intermediate oil prices of $56.58 per barrel. However, both oil prices have spent considerable chunks of the year underwater.
Also troubling is C$1.9 billion in long-term debt. This is worrisome compared to its C$35 million in cash.
Plus, this small company’s fate is tied to the ebb and flow of oil prices. The black goo is a bit too volatile for me to bet on.
Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN)
Dividend Yield: 5.8%
Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) is the cream of a weak crop. I’m talking about business development companies (BDCs), which provide funding to small and midsize companies. We recently discussed why they are “paper payout tigers”:
“Sure, they pay their dividends–but they take the distributions out of their own net asset values (NAVs), which means their stock prices give back most (or all) of the payout. Which is pointless.”
As a result, the field is filled with disappointing returns and unreliable payouts.
But not Main Street.
Main Street, founded in the mid-1990s, has delivered financing to more than 200 private companies during its lifetime. It provides “one-stop” debt and equity capital–common equity, preferreds and various debt structures–for companies looking to either grow or transition. It typically invests $5 million to $75 million in companies with $10 million to $150 million in annual revenues, and $3 million to $20 million in EBITDA.
Its 70 portfolio companies include fruit processor California Splendor, trade journal specialist Gulf Publishing Company and prepaid debit card solutions provider UniRush.
Discriminating management and conservative management have resulted in a track record that few other BDCs can boast. MAIN’s net asset value (NAV) and distributable net investment income (DNII) are in a long-term uptrend, and the company has never cut its monthly dividend.
Why MAIN is the Best BDC
Source: Main Street Capital Corporation Q2 Investor Presentation
Problem is, many income investors know that MAIN is the best. It’s the most expensive BDC on the market, at 1.79 times NAV. The next closest BDCs are Newtek Business Services Corporation (NEWT, 1.43x) and Hercules Technology Growth Capital (HTGC, 1.30x).
Depending on the circumstance, that could be excusable. Main Street typically trades at a high price-to-NAV. But it has only traded at this plump a valuation a couple times in the past dozen years or so. Better to wait for the inevitable pullback.
Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund (GOF)
Dividend Yield: 11.5%
The Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund (GOF) is a closed-end fund (CEF) with a strong claim at the moment: It has gone toe-to-toe with the S&P 500, on a total-return basis, over the past decade—and it’s a fixed-income fund.
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A quick look at the innards: GOF’s managers use a mix of quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify undervalued debt securities. While it can hold alternatives and even equities, it’s predominantly a fixed-income fund. Right now, 39% of the portfolio is invested in bank loans, followed by asset-backed securities (18%) and foreign government and agency debt (11%), and pepperings of numerous other debt types.
The result is an excellent track record: an 11.5% average annual return since inception in July 2007 that’s the envy of its competition.
Near-term is another story. Its returns over the trailing three- and five-year periods aren’t nearly as strong, and its NAV has been on the decline for about two years now.
Despite that, GOF remains a terribly pricey fund. It trades at a 10%-plus premium to its net asset value, which is bloated even when compared to its five-year average premium of about 6%.
It’s a quality fund, but at a 10% premium investors are shelling over $1.10 for just $1 in assets. This is a violation of CEF investing rule number 7: always demand a discount.
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This mini-portfolio dishes a 10.2% yield, which is so generous that you could probably retire comfortably on whatever’s sitting around your couch cushions.
However, Vermilion’s dependence on oil prices and MAIN and GOF’s sky-high valuations are a recipe for languishing prices that even gobs of cash dividends won’t fix.
I have even better ideas, timelier buys in the monthly income space today. I’m talking about a mix of high yields with price upside (and safety) to boot. It’s a tall order, but one you can fill with “Monthly Dividend Superstars,” which tick all the retirement boxes:
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# SN74AVC2T244: VOH and VOL
Part Number: SN74AVC2T244
Hello Experts,
I would like to understand VOH and VOL at VCCA=1.8V/VCCB=3.3V condition. According to datasheet, VOH and VOL vary by output current and power supply voltage. How can I understand VOH/VOL? VOH(min)=VCCB-2V, VOL(max)=0.2V even if output current is not 500uA?
Best Regards,
Fujiwara
• The test conditions show the maximum current at which the behaviour is guaranteed. At a fixed supply voltage, the output resistance is constant, so for currents that are smaller than the test condition, the voltage drop also is smaller by the same factor. See [FAQ] What is the output voltage (VOH or VOL) when the output current is X or the supply voltage is Y?
• The FAQ is one power supply voltage but SN74AVC2T244 has two power supply voltage, VCCA and VCCB. To calculate VOH and VOL, VCCA voltage need to be considered? Or it considers VCCB voltage only?
If it need to consider VCCB only, below calculation is reasonable?
[conditions]
VCCA=1.8V, VCCB=3.3V, Iout=20mA
[VOH]
used condition: IOH = –24 mA; VI=VH.
Output resistance: (3.0V-2.2V)/24mA=33.3ohm.
Voltage drop: 33.3ohm x 20mA=0.67V
VOH: 3.3V-0.67V=2.63V
[VOL]
used condition: IOH = 24 mA; VI=VH.
Output resistance: 0.55V/24mA=22.9ohm.
VOL: 22.9ohm x 20mA=0.46V
Best Regards,
Fujiwara
• The voltages at the outputs are independent from the input supply voltage.
Your calculations are correct. (The specified values are for the worst case; the typical output resistance might be roughly half that.) |
Move for Melanoma is back!
This year, we’ll be joined by Vancouver Canucks’ JT Miller and his wife Natalie to raise funds for melanoma skin cancer.
Move for Melanoma is an activity challenge that takes place across Canada. The goal of the event is to bring awareness to melanoma, non-melanoma skin cancer and ocular melanoma, while raising funds to support patients affected with these illnesses when they need it most.
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Save Your Skin Foundation is the only organization in Canada that supports skin cancer patients financially when they need it most. All the money raised through your donations goes directly to patients in the form of cab fares, treatment costs, flights, accommodation and other necessary but costly expenses incurred while receiving treatment.
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Newspaper Boy Halloween Night
The popular Newspaper Boy game is back! And this time with a Halloween theme! Ride along the neighborhood with a terrifying mask and throw pumpkins in Newspaper Boy Halloween Night!
Throw pumpkins and break windows, pedal quickly to go faster, wreck havoc in the neighborhood and collect as many candies as you can in the special holiday of Halloween. Newspaper Boy Halloween Night is a fun and hilarious game with a twist of violence and mayhem that is highly inspired and is based on the popular classic game Paperboy.
AD – pedals
Mouse – Navigate
Left Mouse Button – Throw Pumpkins
For collecting candies
A – Move Left
D – Move Right
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Michael Steranka, the Brand Activations Manager at Sony Computer Entertainment America, said that PlayStation fans will be able to see the E3 live in more than 85 cinemas from the United States, Canada and this year, Latin America.
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“In 2014, we had this crazy idea to partner with Fathom Events and broadcast our E3 Press Conference LIVE to some theaters North America, not knowing if this was something people would even be interested in attending. Two years later, and we’ve had to more than double our seating capacity to accommodate everybody!” Said Michael Steranka on Sony’s official blog.
A night on the movies or a nerd fest?
PlayStation Network is the service where every proud owner of a PlayStation converge to play on-line, purchase things and debate important things, such as mods, tactics and complaints which are harmless but plentiful. The last survey, carried out in April 2016, counted more than 100 million registered users with at least 65 million of them active every single month. That is a lot of people wanting to enter Los Angeles convention center at the same time, but even if it was possible, things are just not that simple. A big portion of these fans live overseas, and even if they live abroad, paying for an airplane ticket and a hotel is not an option for many. They could go to the movies, though.
The E3 experience allows people to see the event live in the movie theater with a huge screen and excellent audio. But when hundreds of fans get into a cinema, things get loud. They are very different from a normal movie fan crowd that politely applauds when the movie ends, these people develop sincere love for their favorite games and are expecting any kind of news about them.
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— E3 (@E3) May 25, 2016
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We are proud to serve as a Sacramento nursing home abuse law firm, helping victims and families bring claims in civil court. As we have noted many times, the civil and criminal systems are separate and the viability of a civil claims does not depend on the success of a criminal case. However, while the systems are separate, the courts serve victims best when both parts work together to achieve justice that punishes wrongdoers and compensates victims.
A recent report in the Sacramento Bee examined the issue of criminal prosecution in nursing home abuse cases. The article cited the case of Don Esco, a California man who spent over four years seeking to hold nursing home personnel criminally liable for his wife’s death. Although he had settled a prior civil case, Esso continued to believe the incident merited criminal accountability. The state reopened a criminal case earlier this year bringing charges that substandard care and the failure to supervise staff contributed to Johnnie Esco’s death following a thirteen day stay at the care center. Don Esco passed away last month, just weeks before the case moved forward with one nurse pleading no contest and another agreeing to cooperate in the case against a supervisor.
While Don Esco did not live to see the nurses and facility held criminally accountable for Johnnie’s death, his persistence is making a difference in the state’s stance on criminal nursing home abuse cases. State Attorney General Kamala D. Harris recently committed to prosecuting more criminal cases relating to nursing home abuse. The AG’s office is setting up three specialized teams aimed at pursuing charges against administrators and employees where the team believes systemic problems led to resident mistreatment. Each team will include an attorney, a nurse, and an auditor and will have support from medical personnel specializing in geriatrics. The teams will build criminal cases involving charges of systemic abuse against facilities that oversee daily activities for older patients, focusing on people and groups that put profit ahead of care rather than isolated incidents of employee error.
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With negotiations stalled between the provincial government and Ontario Association of Optometrists, city officials are asking Premier Doug Ford, Sault MPP Ross Romano and provincial health minister Christine Elliott to return to the bargaining table.
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"Optometrists, when they do OHIP [Ontario Health Insurance Plan] coverage services, get about $45 for an appointment that costs them about $80," Scott told Monday's council meeting.
"I myself have been impacted by this work action as I've been trying to get my son in for his follow-up appointment and they will not take him," Scott said.
"The provincial government’s refusal to formally negotiate with optometrists for more than 30 years has forced optometrists to absorb approximately $173 million annually in the cost to deliver eye care to Ontarians," says the council-approved resolution.
The city wants the province to cover at least the cost of delivery of eye-care services.
Some other items of interest from this week's City Council meeting:
- Mayor Christian Provenzano has been authorized by City Council to write to Premier Doug Ford, encouraging him to enter good-faith negotiations to resolve the ongoing annuities litigation with the Robinson-Huron leadership
- the new access road to the P-Patch will be named Passchendaele Way
- Nicholas Rosset from Savoy's Jewellers has been appointed to the Downtown Association's board of management from Sept, 27, 2021 to Nov. 14, 2022
- final approval was given to the downtown plaza project, with completion of the $8.4 million project set for late fall of 2022 or spring of 2023 |
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12-Week TV Series Features Interviews with the Top Dance Professionals, Discusses Trends and Health and Wellness Tips
NEW YORK, September 28, 2012 – Radio personality Ashani Mfuko, host of “The Kiner Hour – Let’s Talk Dance with Ashani Mfuko,” the #1 NYC Internet radio show specializing in all things dance, launches a new television series, “Inside NYC Dance.” The weekly show will premiere tonight at 10:30 p.m. on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) Culture Channel (Time Warner Cable 67 | RCN 85 | FiOS 36) and continue each Friday for twelve episodes. Inside NYC Dance will feature key interviews with the top dance professionals, upcoming dance events, health and wellness tips, as well as information on dance classes, performances, Broadway shows, and the latest dance industry news and trends.
In the first season, the series will feature the 2012 Bessie Awards, Joffrey Ballet School, Ailey II, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Full Circle Soul Productions at Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center Out Of Doors), Dance Magazine columnist Dr. Linda Hamilton, The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory, The Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival, Exit 12 Dance Company, The Young Choreographer’s Festival, and more.
Since the launch of “Let’s Talk Dance” in 2010, Mfuko has gained a following of more than 20,000 listeners and launched more than 60 episodes and YouTube features. Active in the online community, Mfuko’s weekly #LetsTalkDance tweetchats are often among the top trending topics on Twitter, weighing in with questions and commentary around current trends and artist needs. Listeners and followers tune in from around the world. Mfuko provides tips and tricks as well as educates the dance community in regards to marketing, branding, utilizing social media and developing media to increase exposure and online presence. The addition of “Inside NYC Dance” will further increase community engagement to dance news and reach a new audience through MNN’s subscriber base of 620,000 in the Manhattan area.
“This past year we’ve really seen the popularity of dance TV shows take off, but there’s no real representation of what’s happening in the center of the dance world, in New York City,” says Ashani Mfuko. “This TV series is a much-needed boost to the Dance Community. Not only does it provide larger community exposure to dance visionaries but will also highlight upcoming dance events to drive community interaction.”
TV and Radio Host Ashani Mfuko is the CEO of Kiner Enterprises Inc., a dance marketing, branding, and media company which produces “The Kiner Hour – Let’s Talk Dance with Ashani Mfuko” and “Inside New York City Dance.” She has made appearances on Good Morning America, The Tyra Banks Show, The Nate Berkus Show, Showtime at the Apollo, NY1 News, The Bill Cunningham Show, in films, music videos, and live performances at venues including; Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, and Joyce SoHo. Ashani has taught at The Ailey Extension, The Joffrey Ballet School, Steps on Broadway, Ballet Hispanico, and many other prominent dance schools. Ashani’s dance blog won the “Top Dance Business Blog” of the year award, two years in a row (2010, 2011). Her dance articles and tips have been featured on dancebloggers.com, danceadvantage.net, 4dancers.org blog and more. She is a leader in the field of social media marketing, branding, and media within the dance community and is respected as an innovator and go-to for tips and tools for dancers and dance businesses.
Residents within the five boroughs of New York City can watch the show through their local cable network (Time Warner Cable 67 | RCN 85 | FiOS 36). Viewers outside of NYC can watch the show’s live stream at http://mnn.org. The show will air every Friday night at 10:30pm.
For additional information and details on each upcoming episode follow the show on Facebook.com/InsideNYCDance and Twitter.com/InsideNYCDance, or visit http://insidenycdance.com.
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“Inside NYC Dance” covers hot topics in the dance world, with special guest interviews from dance-industry leaders. The 12-episode TV series airs Friday from 10:30 to 11:30 p.m. EST on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) Culture Channel. Live streaming and a video archive are available at mmn.org. |
The Nectar Mattress has undoubtedly made a name for itself because of positive reviews and the unbelievable year-long free trial. But, how does this compare to other choices out there on the market? If the Nectar Mattress has attracted your attention, but you are still not sure, then this guide should aid you with your decision.
Before we proceed, in case you’d prefer a visual review, you can check out what YouTuber “Gloss & Sparkle” said about the mattress. This is taken from the Nectar Sleep YouTube channel.
Nectar VS Casper Molecule Vs Nectar Mattress
The Casper and Nectar mattresses are alike in several respects, such as building, firmness, and support. Both of them have products that are entirely made of gel foam, and thus do not use coils from the construction. Both Casper and Nectar also have layers made with memory foam in the design. Given that none of them have coils, both brands’ mattresses are supported by a base foam that has high density. The thickness and height of their product is another similarity they both resemble.
Although they have a considerable number of similarities, Casper and Nectar Mattresses are also different in key aspects. These should already give clients an idea of what fits their needs more. First, a Casper mattress includes a zoned construction.This means that the firmness of each Casper mattress is not the exact same all throughout its region.
On the other hand, Nectar has a uniform mattress, as it doesn’t have a zoned structure. As a result of this, Casper provides a more foamy feel, while customers can expect a more subtle memory foam feel. People who have used both products also state that Nectar feels a little bit softer than Casper mattresses.
The great balance between comfort and support that Casper offers will definitely be loved by people who enjoy sleeping on their backs. This is more noticeable in the hips, as the item gives a nice amount of support over that part of the body. The zoned structure also provides impressive lumbar support. Casper is one of the best products out in the market if you are a back sleeper.
The back sleeping experience on Nectar Mattress is also an outstanding balance between support and comfort. As the memory foam material is better at providing contour, the experience can be a little different. This is the subtle feeling of the mattress adapting to your body’s shape, which feels good to the back.It all boils down to your taste. When it comes to side sleeping, the difference between the two products can be more apparent.
Due to the zoned structure of Casper, it feels much more comfortable in the shoulder area. You’ll notice that there’s less pressure there than in other parts of the body. However, for Nectar, you will probably feel that the mattress distributes pressure all throughout its structure. This translates to better support on the shoulder and hip areas.
When it comes to stomach sleeping, the experience is more or less the same for both products. The only difference is that a bit more support around the hips appears to be provided by the zoned construction of a Casper mattress.
Nectar VS Tuft & Needle Hybrid
The cover of each Nectar product is constructed of a synthetic material named Tencel, which is created from plant-based materials. Although quite expensive, Tencel is famous for being very breathable and soft. The effect is a surface that is conducive to heat dissipation. This cover can also be easily unzipped and washed in any standard washing machine.
The Tuft & Needle Hybrid, on the other hand, has an outer cover made from open-cell polyfoam that is infused with graphite and a gel which provides a cooling effect. Although both brands are similar in their intended effect on temperature, Tuft & Needle stays ahead with a secondary comfort layer that features mini coils. These mini coils provide contour whilst keeping your body on an even axis. Together with a transitional layer made from polyfoam, the Tuft & Needle mattress is significantly more responsive.
Tuft & Needle mattress covers cannot be taken off. But it’s extremely durable because it’s made of polyamide material. The polyamide includes fabrics such as nylon, Kevlar, and polyester.
While both brands are great, the one thing that separates them is the available trial While Tuft & Needle can be tried for a respectable 100 nights, it’s dwarfed by Nectar’s trial which can be up to 365 days. It should also be noted that the trial period for the Nectar Mattress does not occur on the day of the delivery but 30 days after it. After which, clients have a choice between returning the product immediately or trying it for 365 days more.
For Tuft & Needle, the trial period starts on the day of the delivery. Since there’s no essential break-in period, as in the case of Nectar, clients can return the product any day within the 100 days free trial. Thankfully, a 100% refund, and even a courier service to pick up the goods, are provided by both companies. Molecule Vs Nectar Mattress
Nectar Mattress VS Purple Mattress
First off, Purple offers more options of mattresses. Purple has a lineup of three products: their original 100% polyurethane mattress and two hybrid beds. All three of these have the Purple Grid, a patented technology specializing in keeping the mattress cool and responsive. Because of this, the Purple Hybrid line receives excellent sleeper ratings across a broad assortment of weight groups and sleeping positions.
On the other hand, Nectar only has two foam beds and no hybrid mattresses. The key difference is that the Nectar Lush has a 5 out of 10 firmness score. At exactly the same time, the first Nectar Mattress averages 6.5 out of 10.
Just looking at them from the outside will not give away any difference between Purple and Nectar mattresses. This is reflective of these two brands’ nature, as they are less of competing products. In fact, it seems that the brands cater to a market distinctive from each other. While Nectar uses the classic memory foam and polyfoam for its comfort layers, Purple products have their patented hyper-elastic polymer foam. These materials differ in a number of ways. Nonetheless, it depends largely on the user’s body weight and sleep position taste.
Nectar VS Loom & Leaf
To begin with, Nectar mattresses are usually the more affordable choice between the two. The queen size version of the Nectar Mattress retails for about $800, and it even comes with two cushions for free for every single mattress bought. On the other hand, a queen size Loom & Leaf will set you back $1600 — and reductions are not even likely. So if the budget is a significant consideration for you, then Nectar would probably take the cake. Molecule Vs Nectar Mattress
But if you have the money to spare, then feel free to explore the two different stability choices that Loom & Leaf by Saatva offers. Called Relaxed Firm and Business, these firmness options hover round the medium-firm range on the firmness scale. They have a dense memory foam coating similar to Nectar, but Loom & Leaf mattresses are slightly more responsive. This feeling of “sinking” in the mattress is less apparent in Loom & Leaf as compared to Nectar
Because of both firmness levels that I said, clients will likely have the ability to find the ideal mattress in Loom & Leaf’s lineup. The Relaxed Firm version is better for side sleepers, as it will give them more pressure relief. The Firm model is a good recommendation for back and stomach sleepers due to the better lower torso support.
The similarities arrive in the construction. There are layers created only of memory foam and gel foam in both brands. But the most critical difference between these two somewhat similar materials is that Loom & Leaf has a special cooling gel center panel laminated to its first layer. The special gel works so well that hospitals use it to provide relief for burn victims.
It is pretty obvious at this point that premium luxury array mattresses are produced by Loom & Leaf. In actuality, the mattress even comes with a luxurious organic cotton outer cover. This outer cover is super soft and smells really good. That is why, if you think how much other luxury brands will cost you, then Loom & Leaf isn’t actually that expensive. This is the reason Loom & Leaf can still be considered a value product, even if it costs two times more expensive than Nectar Mattresses.
Nectar VS Puffy
Nectar and Puffy offer an almost similar mattress lineup if we don’t consider Puffy Royal, which is a competitor to luxury mattresses. Both brands have offerings that range from twin-size to California King. Nectar Mattress, Puffy, and Puffy Lux weigh close to one another. Of the mentioned types, the original Puffy is the lightest at 69 lbs.
The designs of Nectar and Puffy in the structure of their mattresses are nearly identical, leaving little room for comparison. Both are composed of foam layers, which makes mattresses from both brands relatively easy to move around. Both of them don’t require turning due to the exact same multilayered foam structure. This means that customers won’t have to worry about transferring a large mattress after it is laid on top of a bed. It is safe to say that weight and size won’t be a consideration when it comes to choosing between these two brands.
However, customers should think about that Puffy has three mattress offerings. The standard Puffy mattress has a thickness of 10 inches. It is composed of two comfort layers: 2 inches of gel memory foam and another 2 inches of their transitional ClimateComfort polyfoam. The third layer is 6 inches of supportive polyfoam. Same with Nectar, Puffy mattress covers are also removable with the added benefit of being more resistant to stain.
The Puffy Lux is just like the first Puffy mattress but has a Body Adapting Cloud layer that separates the memory foam and transitional foam layers. This exceptional cloud foam is 1.5 inches thick and is intended to provide more pressure relief. Along with the ClimateComfort foam layer, Puffy Lux provides more cooling to sleepers.
Conclusion Molecule Vs Nectar Mattress
Just like any other product, the right choice will ultimately boil down to your budget, needs, and preference. Fortunately, these mattress options have liberal trial periods, so you may have all the time before finalizing your purchase. Nectar holds its ground well with its competition and even shines a bit more due to that insane 365-day trial period. Really, there’s no need to rush in the event you still can’t decide what to select. I hope this review has narrowed down your choices so you can proceed with the free trial period. |
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Investigators later identified 33-year-old Yaralitza Dee Shaw, of Lewisville, as a person of interest.
Ellis County deputies interviewed Shaw on Wednesday at the Coppell Police Department, where she told detectives she killed Dotson, according to the sheriff’s office. Investigators obtained a warrant for her arrest and she was taken into custody.
Shaw remained jailed in Ellis County as of Thursday on a $500,000 bond, records show. It was unclear if she had an attorney.
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(Pepper Pepper (recipient of Oregon Arts Commission Artist Fellowship), Night Sky 3, 2019, digital image | Photo courtesy of Oregon Arts Commission)
The Oregon Arts Commission is now accepting applications from visual artists for the Artist Fellowship program.
About the Fellowship Program
The Individual Artist Fellowship Program honors Oregon’s professional artists and their achievements while supporting efforts to advance their careers. Arts Commission review panels look for outstanding talent, demonstrated ability and a commitment to the creation of new work.
The Arts Commission offers Fellowships in multiple artistic disciplines in alternating years. The upcoming deadline for the 2022 Fellowship is for visual artists.
Awards are up to $5,000. The Arts Commission determines awards based on the number of applications and available grant funds. There are limited resources and not all applicants receive funding.
Open to visual artists (including crafts, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, new media, fashion, graphic design and industrial design) who have permanently lived in Oregon for at least one year. To view additional eligibility requirements, see the Grant Guidelines.
Artists from traditionally or currently underserved communities including (but not limited to) rural communities and communities of color are especially encouraged to apply.
Deadline and How to Apply
Applications must be submitted through the Arts Commission grants portal by 5pm on Wednesday, October 13. Prior to completing the application, you are strongly encouraged to read through the Grant Guidelines.
Eligible applications will be reviewed by a panel of professionals with experience in the arts and other fields relevant to the grant program.
The following review criteria will be used to evaluate applications:
- Aesthetic quality of the applicant’s submitted artwork;
- Artists’ sustained professional achievement; and
- Potential for the artist’s future contribution to the field.
Fellowships are awarded primarily based on the creative excellence presented in the applicant’s work samples. Documentation of the artist’s work is the most important component of the application and artists are strongly advised to submit well-documented and clearly identified work samples.
For more information, including the application questions and review process, read through the Grant Guidelines for the program, or contact the grants coordinator, Eleanor Sandys, at [email protected] or 971-707-3004. |
We previously reported a reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) panel of eight miRNAs that could classify blood, menstrual secretions, feces, urine, saliva, semen, and vaginal secretions through analysis of differential gene expression, and the purpose of the current project was to evaluate this panel in a larger population size, develop a more statistically robust analysis method and perform a series of developmental validation studies.
Body fluid identification is an important step in the forensic DNA workflow, and more advanced methods, such as microRNA (miRNA) analysis, have been research topics within the community over the last few decades. In the current project, each of the eight miRNA markers was analyzed in > 40 donors each of blood, menstrual secretions, feces, urine, saliva, semen, and vaginal secretions. A 10-fold cross-validated quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) model yielded the highest classification accuracy of 93% after eliminating miR-26b and miR-1246 from the panel. Accuracy of body fluid predictions was between 84% and 100% when various population demographics and samples from the same donor over multiple time periods were evaluated, but the assay demonstrated limited scope and reduced accuracy when mixed body fluid samples were tested. Limit of detection was found to be less than 104 copies/µL across multiple commercially available RT-qPCR analysis methods. These data suggest that miR-200b, miR-320c, miR-10b, and miR-891a, when normalized to let-7 g and let-7i, can consistently and robustly classify blood, feces and urine, but additional work is important to improve classification of saliva, semen, and female intimate secretions before implementation in forensic casework. (Publisher Abstract Provided)
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Once your Send Payment service request has been verified you may select Emails from the left-hand menu, and then Send Payment.
On the Send Payment page, you will see that you can enter and manage Payee information in a convenient single location. You must fill out all the information below. After the first payment has been made, their information will be stored for you to be able to quickly send payments to that Payee in the future. To do so you will select the blue button labeled Use Existing Payee. If you choose to use an existing payee, their information will be displayed accordingly in the Send Payment Settings fields for easy editing. Detailed instructions have been listed below.
1. To add a payee, fill in the following fields:
- Company Name (Optional)
- First Name
- Last Name
- CC (Optional)
- BCC (Optional)
- Invoices (Optional)
2. If you would like to connect your payment data to be downloaded into your Quickbooks accounting software as an IIF file, you may click on the Include GL Account checkbox to bring up the Quickbooks General Ledger account fields. These fields will allow you to specify the Quickbooks GL bank account, GL expense account, and a Description that will be imported into Quickbooks. (see note located at the bottom of this article)
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All Georgia Motorists are required to have a copy of their vehicle registration and insurance anytime they drive. After a car is purchased, you will need to acquire a new car registration from your local Department of Revenue (DOR), Motor Vehicle Department (MVD), County Tax Office or other agency responsible for driving-related issues and documentation.
Vehicles are registered for taxation and crime prevention and detection purposes, so it is against the law to drive a car or a vehicle that is unregistered or has an expired registration. Drivers in Georgia who have registered their vehicle but do not have the documents to prove it because they were lost, stolen or destroyed will need to replace their car registration. To learn about the best ways to replace a registration, continue reading the sections below.
When do you need to get a copy of your vehicle registration in Georgia?
Georgians who have a stolen, damaged, illegible or lost car registration will need to apply for a replacement as soon as possible. Since these vehicle registrations establish a connection between a vehicle and its owner, all drivers are required to have a vehicles registration available at all times. For this reason, you should replace your car registration when:
- The registration documents have excessive markings or wear-and-tear that make the documents unreadable.
- A registration has been lost.
- A registration has been stolen.
Anyone who has lost a car registration or had their registration stolen should call and report the lost registration to the appropriate agency.
How to Obtain a Replacement Vehicle Registration in Georgia
Any dealer or vehicle owner in Georgia can apply to a local County Tag Office to request a replacement vehicle registration. There are more County Tag Offices than MVD offices, so this makes it easy to obtain a replacement car registration. In order to complete the process, an original completed and signed MV-5 application must be submitted to any County Tag Office in the state.
The request must be submitted in the same registered owner’s (or owners’) name(s) that the current Georgia registration certificate was issued under. Applications can be submitted in person or by mail, but the state of Georgia does not offer drivers the chance to get a copy of their vehicle registration online.
How to Replace a Vehicle Registration by Mail
To replace a Georgia vehicle registration by mail, you must first complete an MV-5 form. This form must either be typed electronically and printed out or printed out and completed by hand. Once the application has been filled out, you can enclose it in an envelope along with a check or money order for the replacement fees. Stamp and mail the envelope to any tag agency in the state and they will mail you back an MVD duplicate vehicle registration.
Note: Only check or money orders will be accepted. Do not submit cash payments through the mail.
How to Replace a Vehicle Registration in Person
The process to request a copy of a car registration follows the same procedures as submitting an application by mail. You must fill out the MV-5 electronically and print it out, or print the form out and complete it by hand. Once your application is finished, you can visit your nearest Georgia tag agency and submit your application in person. Payment for the replacement vehicle registration fees can be paid in cash when you visit in person.
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Photocopies or any applications with alterations or corrections will be denied. These forms must be filled out completely with all the necessary information. Some of the information that will be required for a duplicate vehicle registration application include:
- Full name of the vehicle owner (or all owners if the vehicle is registered under joint ownership).
- A valid Georgia driver’s license or Georgia identification card.
- The vehicle’s tag number.
- The vehicle’s renewal decal number.
- The vehicle owners’ signatures.
- Information about the vehicle such as:
- Vehicle make.
- Year model.
- Body style.
- Gross weight of the vehicle.
Company-owned vehicles – If the vehicle is registered under a company’s name, an authorized agent from that company must sign the completed form and fill in the company’s name above his orher signature and job title.
Dealers – Dealers who are requesting a replacement for damaged or lost car registration papers must also provide their current master dealer tag number and their 12-digit MVD-issued identification number.
Current owners, when the vehicle is still registered in the previous owner’s name – In this case, the current owner must complete the MV-5 form in the previous owner or owners’ name(s). He or she must also provide the current title or bill of sale showing that they are the current owner. When the current owner signs the application, he or she must also label their signature as the current owner of the vehicle.
Georgia Stolen Car Registration Requirements
If you have a stolen car registration in Georgia, you will have to complete the same MV-5 form to request a replacement. This includes situations where you have lost your vehicle registration card and are unsure of who might have found it. You will not be required to file a police report, but it is still recommended to do so to avoid any form of fraud.
Georgia Sticker Replacement
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Georgia Vehicle Registration Replacement Fees
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As a project partner, you must submit reports during your innovation project. These serve to check the course of the project. You must also request any important changes to the project.
NOTE: Please send all your reports and adjustment requests by e-mail to [email protected].
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The letter of approval of your application and the subsidy contract will specify the number of reports and their deadlines for
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- If the project approval includes a Go/No-Go decision, you must submit a milestone report to Innosuisse 10 days after reaching the milestone.
- Extensions: If you do not complete your innovation project within the anticipated time frame according to the project plan, you can apply for an extension without increasing the budget by submitting a fully completed milestone report.
- An interim financial report need only be submitted at the express request of Innosuisse.
Requesting changes to your innovation project
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MacOS has a reputation for being safe, but a current vulnerability that was supposed to have been fixed states otherwise. According to the security researcher who worked this out, in the person of Filippo Cavallarin, the update messes with the Gatekeeper feature on the MacOS.
This is the feature that prevents you from loading apps from external sources (other than the Mac App store), requiring you to grant special access in the case you really want to go ahead with such installations. If this vulnerability is left unchecked, it would see malicious codes in some zip file packages as safe instead of dangerous to the system,
Of course, a user would still have to open the files and trust them in the first place, but what happens when that does happen?
Surprisingly, the security researcher claimed to have informed Apple of the problem 90 days ago after which they promised him that they were going to fix it. Now that Apple has rolled out a new macOS update, it is interesting to note that the vulnerability remains.
Till Apple gets a fix around this issue, it is better you stay off installing apps from external sources altogether. Remember, you are the very first line of your own defence. |
In two ways a rotten apple may cast a little light in the darkness of today’s eclipsed Church. Firstly, we do not wait for every part of an apple to be rotten before we call it rotten as a whole, yet parts of it are still not rotten. In answer then to the question whether the apple is rotten, we must make a double distinction: as a whole, yes; in these parts, yes; in those parts, no. And secondly, while apple is not rot and rot is not apple, yet the rot is inseparable from its apple and cannot exist without it. Let us apply the first part of this common sense to the Novus Ordo Mass and the “Conciliar church,” the second part to the “Conciliar church” and the Papacy.
As for the New Mass, it is rotten as a whole by its Conciliar man-centredness, but while some parts are clearly not Catholic (e.g. the Offertory), other parts are Catholic (e.g. the
Kyrie eleison.). Because it is rotten as a whole and slowly makes Catholics into Protestants, it is not fit to be attended, but that part which is the Consecration may be Catholic and valid. So one can say of the Novus Ordo Mass neither that it is valid so it can be attended, nor that it cannot be attended so it is invalid. In truth it may be valid in its essential part, but that is not a sufficient reason to expose one’s faith to the danger of attending it as a whole.
Similarly, today’s Church is rotten as a whole insofar as Conciliarism is widespread throughout it, but that does not mean that every single part of the Church is rotten with Conciliarism. So it is as wrong to condemn any part still Catholic because of the Conciliar whole, as it is wrong to excuse the Conciliar whole because of those parts still Catholic. To fit one’s mind to the reality, one must distinguish both between the different parts, and between the whole and the parts.
And if we apply to today’s Church also the second part of the comparison with a rotten apple, we can say that it is genuinely useful to speak of two churches, the “Conciliar church” and the Catholic Church, because Conciliarism is to be found in real life all through the Church, although in their pure state Conciliarism and Catholicism exclude one another like apple and rot. But they are not in real life separable any more than are the rot from its apple or any parasite from its host. In real life there is only one Church, the Catholic Church, suffering today all over from the Conciliar rot.
Therefore as to a Conciliar Pope, it is a genuinely useful way of speaking to say that he is one head of two churches, because by his words and actions, sometimes Catholic, sometimes Conciliar, he places himself all the time at the head of both the Catholic Church and its Conciliar rot. But that is not to say that he is the head of two churches separate in reality. It is to say that he is head of both the Catholicism and the Conciliarism in the one real Catholic Church presently disfigured all over by the Conciliar rot.
And why in Heaven’s name are our Church leaders so enamoured of the Conciliar rot? Because of the modern longing for liberty. That is another story. But meanwhile we must pray with might and main for Benedict XVI that he may see once more the difference between apple and rot! |
Preserving venison as summer sausage
Summer sausage is another way to preserve venison.
Fall is in full swing, with beautiful colors on trees and the start of deer hunting season. Deer hunting season presents another opportunity to use food preservation skills. The safe recommended methods of preserving venison are freezing, canning and dehydrating. Freezing and canning are the most common ways of preserving venison, but making venison into sausage and jerky are becoming very popular.
Before starting the process of making summer sausage, Michigan State University Extension recommends washing your hands with warm running water and soap, before, during and after each task. It is also important to wash, rinse and sanitize all of the equipment needed, such as bowls, grinder, sausage stuffer and mixing utensils. First, wash all equipment with soap and water. Then prepare a sanitizing solution by mixing one teaspoon of chlorine bleach to one gallon of water. To properly sanitize, allow the equipment to remain in the solution for seven seconds or longer, then rinse with clean potable water and then allow to air dry. It is a good practice to take the grinder and sausage stuffer apart to deep clean and sanitize all parts of the equipment.
It is important to select high-quality products when preserving foods at home. In this case, it will be venison and pork that are paired together with spices, mixes and curing ingredients. The meats you choose can be fresh or taken from the freezer and thawed in the refrigerator.
It is important to follow tested recipes using correct measurements and proper procedures. Read through the recipe and refer to it often to avoid mistakes. When looking for a recipe, be aware of the flavors you and your family enjoy, whether they are spicy, hot or mild flavors.
Mix the exact amount of meat together, with the correct lean-to-fat ratio, as directed in the tested recipe. In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients, then add water to dissolve and distribute the spices throughout the meat evenly during mixing and grinding. Keep the meat at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or below during both grinding processes. The texture of the first grind will be coarse. The second time through, the grinder will help distribute the added ingredients and spices more evenly throughout the meat. Once again, refer to the recipe directions for next steps.
Purchase high-quality casings for stuffing your summer sausage. It is important to follow the directions on the casing packaging to make sure the casing is ready for use. Next, assemble the sausage stuffer and prepare to stuff the casing. Stuffing the casing takes some technique and practice. After stuffing the sausage, it will be smoked or cooked following the recipe directions. Make sure the product is cooked by using a food thermometer and checking that the internal temperature has reached 160 degrees and holds that temperature for ten minutes.
Making venison summer sausage provides an excellent alternative to freezing, canning or dehydrating when preserving venison. For further information, contact your county MSU Extension office or call the MSU Extension Food Safety Hotline at 877-643-9882. |
A survey of 1,000 users of ecommerce websites in the retail, travel, finance & insurance and hospitality markets by Redshift Research and onsite marketing specialist Maxymiser has found that 82% of shoppers have abandoned a shopping basket in the past year and 69% would not go back to a website that had given them an unsatisfactory purchasing process.
When asked why they had decided to abandon their shopping baskets, one in three respondents cited one of the following reasons: The website was too slow; they wanted to find the products cheaper elsewhere, or they had changed their mind.
63% of respondents also said that they now know the web address of their favourite websites, rather than having to use a search engine which, say the researchers, means that online businesses are likely to see diminishing returns from their search engine marketing spend this year.
In the retail sector, 57% of respondents said they now regularly purchase products on entertainment websites (music, DVDs etc). 41% of respondents regularly purchase products on electrical goods websites, 33% regularly purchase on clothing websites, and 19% of respondents regularly purchase on grocery websites.
The research also found that 56% of respondents felt security was the most important factor when shopping online, whilst 31% believed cost to be the most important criteria. Other responses included ease of use (9%), stock availability (3%) and speed of processing (2%).
“Any business that is running an ecommerce website needs to wake up to the appalling leakage that is taking place as visitors move through their web pages,” says Mark Simpson, managing director at Maxymiser. “The research has demonstrated that consumers will abandon their shopping baskets for a variety of reasons. However, in our experience it is often the smallest and least obvious details that make the difference between conversion and abandonment, such as copy, images, calls to action and product offers presented online.”
“Online businesses continue to focus heavily on customer acquisition marketing, but by redirecting the same level of investment into improving your conversion performance, organisations stand to see far greater returns,” Simpson added. “The average uplift in conversion following regular testing and small iterative improvements has shown itself to be in the region of 34-35%, which could have a huge impact on the bottom line.” |
Here is something we’ve found frequently with our larger enterprise customers. They choose our software with a certain dashboarding project in mind driven by business need. They install our business intelligence platform on premise and create their pilot dashboard in a matter of hours.
As they prepare to roll it out and ask us about best practices, we find that their data environment and usage profile could lead to challenges. They have a data management problem that they hadn’t realized until they embarked on this project.
Fortunately our platform is perfectly suited to offer data management solutions. Not only does it include easy-to-use tools for designing interactive visualization dashboards and pixel-perfect reports, it has a very strong and flexible data access engine that can create an intermediate data layer that overcomes the performance challenges that these large enterprise customers inevitably will run into.
The types of scenarios that potentially call for using our intermediate data layer, which we call a data grid cache are when:
- The dashboard is mashing up data from multiple data stores.
- One or more of the data stores is an operational system that should not be made available for frequent ad hoc querying.
- The users are distributed globally and distant from the source systems.
- They are working with Big Data.
Scenarios 1 and 3 don’t necessarily require turning on our data grid cache option. Plenty of customers run their dashboards in the default live data access mode. But scenarios 2 and 4 will almost always will benefit from this caching option. And when their scenario also includes 1 or 3, then there’s all the more reason to use it.
The way the caching works is as follows. After you have designed your dashboard, you go into the admin utility and turn on the “materialized view” option for that specific dashboard. Our software intelligently analyzes the queries involved with that dashboard and creates a cache of all the data needed to support all of the interactive drill-down data needs. The technology design of the cache is based on MapReduce principles utilizing column-based indexing of the data.
The cache can reside in memory if enough is present, or it sits on disk, which still yields very high performance. It can be scheduled to be updated as frequently as desired, with just incremental updates, again, to optimize performance while being as close to real-time as needed. |
Picking where you carry on with your life during the day and resting your head consistently can be an overwhelming undertaking. A choice of this greatness requires clear thought and succinct assessment. To assist with this choice, we have recorded 10 advantages of loft living.
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The main advantage of living in a condo is the monetary part of leasing. Lease is by and large less expensive than a home loan. Notwithstanding a general lower regularly scheduled installment, other monetary parts, for example, upkeep and utilities are normally lower. This is because of the more modest space and the general liability of a landowner/proprietor versus an occupant.
As examined in the monetary advantages, upkeep costs are by and large lower because of the obligation falling on the property manager/proprietor. Not exclusively is the absence of support stresses a monetary gift, but on the other hand it’s a check or two off the Plan for the day. At the point when it snows, there is compelling reason need to scoop. At the point when the yard looks a little tough, it’s not your anxiety. Applause Las Vegas Lofts will deal with everything. The genuine serenity related with the psychological opportunity of leasing is beyond value. rent in lake forest
loft swimming poolUnlike houses, high rises are worked with explicit conveniences, for example, pools, rec centers, general stores, and clothing offices straightforwardly in the vicinity or close by. Despite the fact that you can have a portion of these components incorporated into your home, the monetary commitment isn’t as fulfilling. Loft living can end up being an exceptionally helpful game plan.
In spite of the fact that mortgage holders frequently put resources into some type of home security framework, high rises additionally put resources into the general wellbeing of their occupants. The closeness of neighbors – rather than being the only one in a house out of nowhere – and run of the mill apartment building wellbeing measures give a feeling of safety. Multi-unit abodes are the most secure areas for single ladies, kids, families, and the older.
Condo extents are, basically, advantageous. A recently graduated undergrad is searching for a spot to call home: a lounge room, room, washroom, and kitchen. This space doesn’t need to be huge and sumptuous. It just has to have a real sense of reassurance and welcoming. This equivalent essential need applies to the vast majority: school kids, single ladies, lone wolves, and even companions living as flat mates. Whether you want something little or incline toward something roomier, we have the right space for you.
Other extraordinary advantages of loft living are the social ramifications of the closeness and associations one creates during residency. Albeit a feeling of local area exists in country and rural regions, condo life improves the chance of making long lasting bonds.
Lined up with purchasing a home, loft rentals make extraordinary momentary choices. Choosing to purchase a house is a fantasy for some, however you need to reside some place while you get ready to make that blessing from heaven. Whether you are dealing with building your credit, setting aside cash, or intellectually planning for the obligation of claiming a home, a condo is the best interval choice.
The monetary advantages examined here are entryways to your future. While we persevere through less weight and obligation while leasing, this is the ideal opportunity to put resources into your future. Putting the cash saved into a “blustery day” record can be the start of a more brilliant monetary standpoint.
the forest apartmentsWe examined the financial investment funds from the absence of need to keep up with the property. Not having the obligation to keep up with the property is a monetary bonus and a pressure reliever. Homeownership accompanies a great deal of cerebral pains and issues. Choosing to lease will assist you with staying away from these sorts of mishaps. Rather than involving your investment funds for huge fixes or upkeep, you can design a genuinely necessary get-away to a tropical island.
Quite possibly of the best thing about an apartment building is having anything you really want right within reach. Retail outlet areas are commonly picked by the general segment of a local area. The more noteworthy the opportunity for potential supporters, the bigger the requirement for the mall. Regardless of what you really want, there is a retail plaza close by to suit you. |
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So many people head to the gym with no idea of where to go or how to reach their fitness goals. They aimlessly wander around the weight machines for a bit before parking themselves on an elliptical for 30 minutes and calling it a day. There’s nothing wrong with the elliptical, but it’s not going to drastically change your fitness level if you don’t incorporate other elements into your workout regimen. Here are some tips for creating the best workout plan for your fitness goals.
Make a Goal
Before you head blindly into the gym, you should decide what your individual fitness goals are. Do you simply want to get in better shape? Maintain your current level of fitness? Lose weight? Run a half marathon? Your end goal will shape your plan, determining how often you work out and the types of exercises you do. Don’t go overboard at first, though. If you’ve never run a day in your life, maybe try reaching for a 5K race before jumping right into marathon training.
Create a Timeline
Once you’ve decided on a goal, set a date by which you want to have achieved it. You’ll want it to be close enough that you don’t lose your motivation, but not so close that it’s impossible. You can also set mini-goals for yourself along the way. If you want to lose ten pounds in three months, try setting a six-week goal to lose five pounds. That way you’ll be even more motivated when you see the smaller results, too. When you’re making and finalizing your workout plan, be honest about how many days a week you can reasonably commit to exercising. You don’t want to run a 5K race in three weeks if you only have two days a week to run.
Choose A Workout
After you’ve set a goal and created a timeline, you’ll need to determine the best workouts and exercises that will help you achieve your goal. If you want to complete a triathlon, you know you’ll need to incorporate running, cycling and swimming into your regular routine. If you want to build muscle, you’ll need to lift weights a few times per week. Make sure you’re not solely focused on one particular exercise. You’ll benefit even more if you cross train than if you stick to the same thing day in and day out.
Enlist Some Help
Many gyms offer a complimentary fitness assessment and personal training session when you join, so you should definitely take advantage of that. They’ll be able to show you some of the machines around the gym and come up with a reasonable plan for you to follow. You can even sign up for a few paid sessions with a personal trainer for a more in-depth and personalized plan. Try setting goals with a fitness-savvy friend who can help keep you on track.
Pencil It In
The best workout plan in the world is ineffective if you don’t follow through. Whatever you’ve decided on, stick to the plan. If you’ve committed to four days a week at the gym, find a way to make it there. Put it in your calendar, phone, planner or wherever else to make sure that you make it there. |
The prospect of entering into a new business venture, financing a new property, or covering short-term expenses may require additional funding. Whether you need a simple credit solution or a more complex one, we offer solutions tailored to different customer needs. We can offer flexible financing options thanks to the support of our dedicated loan team. We have a wide range of specialized solutions and products: Loans (Lån), Consumer Loan (Forbrukslån), Mortgage Loan (Boliglån), Car Loan (Billån) Loan or Refinancing (Refinansiering), Credit Cards (Kredittkort), Bridging Loans (Mellomfiniering), Business Financing(Bedriftslån). If you want to apply, you must have a personal number, be at least 18 years old and be a resident of the Kingdom of Norway not less than 1 Tax Year. Each application is assessed individually. We are aware that each customer's borrowing needs are different. That's why our dedicated loan team will devote time to understanding these circumstances and choosing the optimal solution. |
Grow your customer base and improve sales by receiving payments through local and international payment channels
Operate in a paperless environment and reduce loss through instances such as theft, fire, and flooding
Receive payments 24/7 from your customers all around the world
Receive instant notification when a payment is made
Have real time access to your transaction history and track and reconcile all payments
Customize your Emergent Payments dashboard with features such as the ability to broadcast notices of discounts and sales, new products, and new services
Pay your fees, bills, and invoices instantly and securely anytime and anywhere
Reduce the risk of using cash and of exposing your bank account when it comes to making payments
Have real time access to a transaction history to help you track all your payments
Top up your Emergent Payments wallet from anytime and from anywhere
Bank accounts not exposed
Be the first to know when your merchant makes an announcement such as a massive sale or discount
We provide platforms which help in payment collection, disbursement, and also allows easy authentication and reconciliation of outstanding and received payments.
Emergent Payments provides a robust transactional reporting and reconciliation system suitable for all categories of businesses. We deliver accountability and analytics from source (transaction) through destination (cash out), promoting transparency and risk minimization for stakeholders.
Emergent Payments Integration with PiP iT: FAQ’s for Emergent Payments Merchants
What is the new service Emergent Payments is offering?
Ghanaians in the UK and Canada can now make direct cash payments to Emergent Payments merchants.
This payment service is possible through our integration with PiP iT, a UK based payment solution
company that makes online payments easier and more secure by enabling online payments to be made via
We’re excited about this payment model as it disrupts the remittance market by making it cheaper for
Ghanaian expats in the UK and Canada to pay bills for themselves or for their friends or relatives in
Ghana (as they don’t have to send the money to Ghana for the bills to be paid).
Why should my company sign on to receive payments from Canada and the UK?
There are over 120,000 Ghanaians living in the UK (over 94,000) and in Canada (over 30,000). Although
they are abroad, these expatriates maintain connections with Ghana through regular remittances (for their
friends or relatives in Ghana to pay bills). Some of them may also own property, have investment
portfolios, or pay insurance premiums in Ghana.
Thus, they are interested in making direct payments to companies such as yourselves either for
themselves or on behalf of someone in Ghana; they therefore present a large audience through which you
can receive payments for your goods and services.
Are there any charges for signing on and receiving payments from Canada and the UK?
No, there are no additional charges for receiving payments from Ghanaians in Canada and the UK. The
customer in the UK bears the cost for converting your bill or invoice from Ghana Cedis to British Pounds
or Canadian Dollars.
How does payment work?
The user in the UK or Canada visits your company’s Emergent Payments webPOS or Open Merchant page
The user selects “Pay with PiP iT” from the drop down menu of local and international payment options
The user generates a barcode bill by completing a form with information such as his or her
country, mobile number, and the amount to be paid, and, if applicable, the details of the individual
in Ghana that the user is making payment on behalf of. The barcode can be printed or sent to an
e-mail address or mobile phone.
The barcode is taken to any UK or Canadian Post Office, presented over-the-counter and paid
using cash or a debit card. It is also possible for bills to be paid at Post Office self-service kiosks
in Post Offices where this facility is available.
The user is issued with a receipt, followed by an email confirmation of their payment (this is
issued on the following day) and you, the merchant, are notified of the payment (up to one
working day after payment is made)
There any system requirements I must complete once I sign on?
No, there aren’t any requirements on your end. We will handle the creation of the “Pay through PiP iT”
option on your Emergent Payments webPOS and/or Open Merchant platform. PiP iT will handle the barcode
generation and payment notification.
How long will it take for payment to reflect?
It will take up to 9 working days for payments from the UK to reflect on your Emergent Payments dashboard.
How will I receive payments in my bank account?
You will receive payments on the next practicable Friday after the payment has reflected on your Emergent Payments
dashboard. We will transfer payments from Canada and the UK to your bank account along with your
other payments from Ghana.
I’m interested in signing on, what’s next?
Let us know you’re interested, send us a high resolution PNG or JPEG version of your logo (for online
marketing on social media and on our website) and tell all your customers about the new service!
How will my customers in Ghana and Ghanaians abroad know about this new payment service?
Together with PiP iT, we will embark on a 360 digital marketing campaign that include landing pages on
our website, Facebook ads, and ads on websites that our target demographic most frequents.
you have any more online and offline marketing ideas specific to your company, please share, we’ll be
happy to consider them. |
Mega Wheel is an exciting game of chance. This live game is produced by Pragmatic Play, a seasoned casino game supplier with numerous titles online. Mega Wheel is hosted by a team of energetic live dealers. To win in this game, you need to correctly pick the number on which the Mega Wheel will come to a halt.
This guide will help you understand how this exciting live casino game is played.
How Mega Wheel Works?
Players are presented with a massive wheel displaying 54 multi-colored segments. Inside these segments are numbers, corresponding to the expected payout.
Mega Wheel has nine sets of numbers. These are 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 15, 20, 30, and 40. This means if you land on 2, you will double your wager, on 8 your wager is multiplied eight times, and so on. You can walk away with as much as 40 times your bet in this game.
But that’s not all. In each round, a random number generator selects a special number. If you land on this number, you will earn 500 times your wager.
How to Play Pragmatic Play's Mega Wheel
To get started, you need to place a bet within the betting period. You can wager from as little as $0.10.
A random number generator then selects a special number on which it applies a multiplier. Not all numbers can receive the maximum 500 times multiplier. Players can only get this one when the random number generator picks numbers from 15 to 40.
After betting is closed, the dealer then spins the Mega Wheel.
There are a few cool features in this game. You need to understand them if you are to get the best playing experience.
Mega Wheel is one of those games which you can play and do something else at the same time. There aren’t many decision points, so you need not be glued to the screen in order to enjoy this game.
The autoplay feature allows you to set your wager and the number of spins you want to take. You can just input these values into the game and go about your daily chores.
Bet on All
This option allows you to place bets on all nine bet types. It is useful when you cannot settle on a number to bet on.
When using the bet on all features, the hope is that you will land on a number which provides you with a better return than the sum of your wagers. You need to exercise caution when using this one, as major losses can be incurred if you go on a bad run.
Chat with Dealers
Mega Wheel has a unique chat feature. You can use it to communicate with the live dealers and even with fellow players.
The chat feature is also useful when you want to communicate with support service agents. |
Iranian plainclothes forces have abducted Dariush Farhoud, an 85-year-old professor of medical and clinical genetics known as the father of Iran’s genetics.
According to reports, Farhoud was arrested by the security forces at his home Sunday morning, and there has been no information about where and why he was taken.
The renowned scientist had earlier criticized the Islamic Republic for its violation of women's rights.
Earlier this year, Farhoud criticized the regime’s plans to ban pre-natal screening and legal abortions, describing them as violations of human rights. He called them a backward move to 200 years ago.
The government's population and family planning policies include a ban on contraceptives, vasectomy and tubectomy, and prenatal screening for genetic abnormalities and congenital diseases.
Moreover, the parliament has passed legislation to outlaw tubectomy, vasectomy, and the free dispensation of contraceptives other than where pregnancy would threaten a woman's health. The health ministry has advised women over 35 to wait only a year before becoming pregnant again and under-35s to wait six months.
Medical experts have warned that the new legislation would also increase sexually transmitted diseases by restricting access to condoms.
Earlier in the year, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said efforts to increase the country's population are among the most urgent duties and essential policies of the Islamic Republic. |
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