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When you must have more space, but you love your home and its location, look above the garage. This can often be the one spot where you can add a room without increasing square footage, and keeping your addition within the home’s existing footprint will reduce costs. Since garages are normally at least 20 x 24 feet, you’ll find a lot of room to expand your living space.
What to do with the space over your garage
An above-garage addition can give you a large space that can be put to many different uses. It is perfect for a master suite with a big walk-in closet, a few kids bedrooms, or as an extra family room for the teenagers. If someone works at home, it can be a home office, studio, or media room. You could do a combination of bedrooms and an upstairs laundry room, or a bedroom and workout room. What you choose will depend on your specific needs, but you will probably have over 500 square feet to work with.
Challenges of over-garage additions
The main challenge of creating an addition over the garage is the changes that it makes to the exterior of the house. Our designers will work with you on a design that maintains the curb appeal of your home, or one improves it. It is important that features, like windows, gables, and trim, are harmonious with the existing house. You also need to choose stone, brick, or shingles that match what is already on your home. Better yet, choose to re-shingle or paint the entire exterior of the home to match the new addition.
Another challenge includes choosing where to put plumbing. Since most garages are unheated, it is important that the pipes stay in heated areas. Our designers and architects work closely with top plumbing subcontractors to ensure everything is done correctly the first time.
Create a smooth transition
The other main thing to consider when putting an addition over the garage is how it is going to be accessed from the second floor. You will need to reconfigure your upstairs space. This can be something simple, like removing a closet from the end of a hallway and adding a doorway, or may involve something more drastic, like taking space from an existing bedroom.
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The Short Version: Couples are always looking for fun dates, whether it’s their first time out together or they’ve been married for years. That often means driving — or ridesharing — between restaurants, bars, and nightlife options. But that’s not the case in downtown Tampa, Florida. The thriving area offers couples walkable neighborhoods, arts and culture, nightlife, and plenty of parks to explore together. Best of all, downtown Tampa has many places to shop, dine, and grab a drink.
Tampa, Florida, has blossomed in recent years thanks to its location on the picturesque Gulf Coast of the Sunshine State. It has a dedicated community that supports its downtown, and the waterfront spot features museums, restaurants, shops, and entertainment venues.
Date nights can often be challenging to plan, especially with so many options requiring a drive from one place to the next. But that’s not the case in Tampa, thanks to the Tampa Downtown Partnership.
Ashly Anderson, Director of Marketing for Tampa’s Downtown Partnership, said the area is easy to enjoy for couples of all ages — and their families, too.
“Tampa’s downtown is a thriving 24-hour urban district with waterfront and Tampa Riverwalk at its heart,” she said. “The Tampa Riverwalk affords visitors 2.5 miles of waterfront walkway, connecting unique cultural assets, public parks, a hip food scene, and championship-winning sports team venues.”
Tampa is about an hour and a half southwest of Orlando and just a bridge over the Tampa Bay away from St. Petersburg, Florida. Yet the area has an entirely different feel, thanks in part to the unique mix of Cuban, Italian, and Spanish origins. The town is friendly and fun, with spectacular views seemingly made for hand-in-hand strolls on date night.
Investors have recently poured billions of dollars into the Tampa scene, meaning it has a bright future. And couples can expect to find new opportunities to make memories around every corner, Ashly said.
“The vibe is uniquely Tampa,” Ashly told us.
According to Ashly, there are many iconic restaurants in downtown Tampa where everyone should eat at least once. The Tampa Riverwalk offers two excellent date-night spots.
First, Ashly recommends Ulele, a native Florida-inspired restaurant where it’s a good idea to make reservations. Pronounced you-lay-lee, the restaurant is named after a Native American princess who once lived in the state. It prides itself on offering a fusion of ingredients prepared on a barbacoa grill 10 feet in diameter.
The Columbia Café is another popular date spot located on the waterfront. It is the sister location to the oldest restaurant in Florida, located in Tampa’s historic Ybor City area. This romantic location offers outdoor seating and a friendly staff ready to help couples choose from items on its extensive Spanish-inspired menu. Couples can even sail up to the location and tie their boat at one of the restaurant’s eight docking slips.
And those aren’t the only waterfront options Ashly recommends for dinner.
“Two unique food hall experiences are at either end of the Riverwalk, Armature Works and Sparkman Wharf. Both offer a variety of local foodie spots, craft beer and cocktails, and large outdoor dining areas,” she said.
The original Mise en Place, located inside downtown, is another popular option. It offers complimentary parking inside the Altis Parking Garage. Nearby, Cena, located in the Grand Central building in the Channel District, features modern, award-winning Italian fare. It’s famous for, among other things, Executive Chef Michael Buttacavoli’s winning meatballs that were even better than those made by the Food Network’s Chef Bobby Flay in a recent competition.
Once dinner reservations are taken care of, the next step to planning a romantic date in downtown Tampa is to get out on the water. Ashly said it’s a perfect place for enjoying the company of that special someone — or even popping the big question.
“There are several for charter boats, dinner cruises, or the Pirate Water Taxi,” she said. “Visitors can captain their own romantic date by renting a boat for a sunset cruise up the Hillsborough River.”
Those who rent a boat for the evening can create the intimacy and ambiance they want on a date. Couples can bring their own food, drinks, and music. Of course, there’s no reason to limit it to two people, as double dates and family outings are fun, too.
Couples can plan to meet up with friends during downtown Tampa’s Fourth Friday events. This monthly arts and culture crawl has plenty of live music and programs throughout the area from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The events are free and open to the public. They include admission to the Henry Plant Museum, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Sparkman Wharf, The Straz Center, and the Sail Pavilion, among others.
Visitors can also buy a vendor-approved cup to Sip and Stroll, a legal way to enjoy alcoholic beverages along the Riverwalk.
Tampa’s downtown also has other fun events planned throughout the year. Another great date idea is the Mayor’s Food Truck Fiesta, which takes place on the first Wednesday of every month from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Square at Lykes Gaslight Park.
Ashly said one of the most exciting things about downtown Tampa is that it’s always changing. That means couples can expect to find surprises whenever they stroll the area.
“Tampa’s future is bright, and the downtown is on a meteoric rise with billions of dollars of investment and development,” she said.
Much of that change is happening along Water Street Tampa, located at the south end of downtown near the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Amalie Arena. The latest project is a $3 billion wellness district featuring new luxury residences, commercial spaces, restaurants, and retail shops. The area also includes a five-star Edition hotel.
Couples who want to see it all can check out City Bike Tampa, which offers bicycle rentals to explore the area without having to worry about where to park the car. The shop offers many different bike models, so visitors can be comfortable while riding in style.
Shopping enthusiasts should also bring an extra bag when they visit all of the retailers downtown. The Tampa Downtown Partnership has a list of the shops and locations on its website to make it easier for couples to find what they’re looking for. The area even has a few flower stores that are worth visiting to make any date extra romantic.
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The small TV in the kitchen is on. From my seat in the living room, I can't hear what show is keeping him company, just the background sound. I bet it's an HGTV rerun.
I hear him drying the dishes. It bothers him to have pots and pans and my plastic drinking cup, with its hard plastic straw, drying on the counter. Even when he was working, drying the dishes was a priority. He'd get up from his desk in DC and walk to the subway, hop on, transfer trains, all the while carrying his heavy black backpack full of office work that he'd look at after dinner. Then, once in Virginia, he'd walk to the shuttle bus, wait, and board the bus for the 10 minute ride home. He'd hop off, walk home, and climb the stairs to the kitchen. After kissing me hello, he'd park the backpack by the stairs, and still in his suit, pick up a dishcloth and dry the dishes I had placed there to air dry while I was cooking.
It is important to him to have clean counters, to have everything in its place, to have our lists of things to be done checked off one by one. Once -- once!! -- he left his shoes in the living room and I immediately knew something was wrong. I wondered if he had died. (He just forgot them.) The world, he, must be fine, as the counter is empty, the bills paid, the credit reports reviewed, the trash taken out, the furnace filter changed -- all on schedule. It's taken me awhile, but I'm on board. Routine is our joy. Sometimes I dry the dishes too.
Someone once called us The Blandos. It wasn't meant as a joke; rather as an insult. But I knew, even at the time that the words were spit out, that they came from jealousy. The person dismissing our life had a life in chaos. I understood.
But it got to me. Bland. Tasteless. Boring.
I used to worry that we were missing out on life. We haven't been on a safari or a cruise to Alaska. We don't eat out much and we stick close to home. Staying up past 9 is a distant memory. But I don't worry about that anymore. Sometimes nothing is more sweet than listening to the same sounds every day, eating the same meals, watching the same TV shows, all with someone you love.
Perhaps that's why the past few years have pushed us off kilter. Living in Belgium for a few months, hospital stuff, surgeries, the move to Dallas -- this isn't the life of The Blandos. But here we are, back to a routine. It's a new routine. We miss our old one. We miss our friends and our neighborhood and the DC skyline. There's a lot to miss. But, one year later, and there is a lot to embrace, particularly our son. It was the right move.
Now I hear him turn off the kitchen lights and turn on the back porch light and the alarm system. He's walking to the living room, carrying his tiny white bowl of wavy potato chips, a beer, and two (not one, not three) Hershey nuggets. I'm in my seat on the sofa near the lamp and in a few seconds he'll join me on the sofa in his seat, on the opposite corner. We turn on Lester Holt and the NBC Nightly News.
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Trinity Street in Mojave, California is short. It runs three blocks from Highway 14 (Sierra Highway) to the Mojave High School football field. The football field has grass, unlike most of the yards on Trinity Street. Dirt yards are good for saving water, bad for a sense of suburban decorum and manicured gentility.
Trinity Street has bland architecture trending towards cream-colored stucco and unadorned fences. It is nearly eight o’clock in the morning and no one in the three blocks has apparently left for work. The residents appear generally unemployed. There is no headlong rush out the doors to be on time for work. Fifteen minutes later two mothers, one in pajama pants, both in slippers, are herding children to the family cars to drive them to the elementary school three blocks away. The parents are unwilling to let the children walk to school. A few people stride by from other streets, neither rushing nor dawdling. They appear to be on errands or on their way to work, but they have allowed enough time.
Trinity St & L St Sign – Mojave, CA – 2016
Photo top: Stop-Liquor Jr Market – Mojave, CA – 2016
Otherwise, Trinity Street is empty, although most houses show signs of habitation. There feels like something is wrong on Trinity Street. Is it the unemployment rate over ten percent when the rest of the country is approaching five percent? Looking down the street, large green energy projects, both windmills marching into the wind and large tessellations of solar panels announce that once there were jobs here. They required trained technicians and construction workers not just uneducated day laborers. Now, minimal teams are left to maintain, monitor and inspect these cutting-edge industrial projects.
Our original goal had been to capture the sign in front of the Liquor Jr. Store that advertised “Ice Ammo” the evening before at the “golden hour.” Photographers love the light of the hour just at dawn and then again at dusk. The CalTrans sign hovers next to the highway, bracing as the periodic pulses of traffic signal the after-work stampede to somewhere else. The sign says “No Parking Any Time” but somebody, presumably the store owner, has posted larger, distracting Rockstar billboards there. Our debate is always how much to alter the composition to perfect the image.
ICE/AMMO – Mojave, CA – 2016
Customers are constantly coming and going. Each time there is a shrill, annoying din as if some warning was needed to announce each person’s presence. They are happy, at times almost joyful, as if they are picking up party refreshments. They are generally people of color. There is a strong, if superficial, sense of sociability. Is that an indication of a more durable community or just an ingrained protocol of strangers crossing paths and asking “How’s it going?” For some imperceptible reason, they don’t manifest as embedded in the local economy. Nothing and no one is really connecting here on the street corner. Other customers are morose, sullen with eyes downcast. America has an alcoholic culture where booze is necessary for relaxing and having a good time. Alternatively, people use liquor for self-medication or to kill the pain of depression, a sense of uselessness, and isolation.
A woman comes by as the photographer continues to work and asks, “Are you taking it for the Mojave page?” She wants to be in the picture.
Charred House on Trinity Street – Color Infrared Exposure – 2016
“My lonely desert” the photographer whispers as he waits for the vehicle traffic to subside before shooting.
A rumbling train starts to move past Mojave in tedious, onerous passage. It is determined by sheer force of weight and locomotive power to deliver its freight to market. A potpourri of exhaust fumes, effluvia, and industrial flatulence mix and ooze up Trinity Street to where the shell of a burned-out house remains. A whiff of BBQ drifts down from somewhere on the next block. But a feeling of waiting for some unnamed, absent person permeates the stillness. In fact, he never comes.
The torched house has the anthropomorphic dark grin of a toothless meth addict, the empty windows are lifeless eyes, the burned door a deadpan nose, and the mouth formed from stairs blackened with debris and decaying fire ash. A black man comes out of a similar house and, when asked, says the structure burned about a month ago. The curious passerby might wonder who once lived here.
Address Marker – 2223 Trinity Street – Mojave, CA – 2016
The sooty roof beams enclose the skeleton with a rib cage. Inside the charcoal smell is persistent. Piles of blackened ash and cinder litter the floors and pile up as the setting sun shines bravely through the window facing west. A sullen sadness of the ruin of one of the many banal buildings that line the street marks the vapid life of the low-income family in our rich country. As darkness falls, a fuller understanding of this neighborhood requires a return in the morning.
The golden hour in the morning necessitates an early rise. Somehow this day it is not nearly as persuasive with the beauty illuminated by lemon light that one might expect. In the daylight, there are intimations of humble lives poorly kept. One yard is a diminutive junkyard full of objects saved in the name of recycling that unlikely will get used again. There is the junk car cliché, hard to imagine it will ever move again. It is stored for the future nonetheless. Plastic toys have weathered in the scorching desert sun of summers past: a pink scooter, a multi-colored play set, a red trike with a yellow basket behind. The gate chain is secured with three padlocks.
Charred House at 2223 Trinity Street – Interior – Mojave, CA – 2016
A car pulls up and parks on a worn-out lawn. In an area swept perennially by desert winds, the trees have been bent permanently towards the east. While most of the houses have recent roofs, they still have the look of rentals and impermanence. With each block – the closer to the Mojave High School, home of the Mustangs – the houses and yards are better maintained. In three short blocks, we pass from one economic class up the ladder to the next.
Back by the Economy Hotel, providing a place to crash for twenty-five dollars a night, a man comes out of the liquor store carrying the familiar paper bag, a reward for making it through another day. Then he pauses at the green dumpster of the motel, sets down the square bag and hitches himself up on the edge, sliding gently in for a “dumpster dive.” In America, with one of the richest standards of living, people still go hungry. Living off the cast-off food, articles, and rejected or unneeded items of the rest of population is a skill honed by the poor. The money saved is something they become adept at finding, giving the term “the art of the deal” a very different, ironic meaning to living a subsistence life among the relatively wealthy.
ICE/AMMO – Night No.1 – Mojave, CA – 2016
After many years in this spot, the iconic ICE/AMMO sign was destroyed in a windstorm.
Kris Kristofferson sang, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” His pessimistic view is only half the story. We are enslaved as much by the things we don’t have but crave to own, as by the objects we possess. The poor keep on living side by side with us but they are no freer than those deeply embedded in an American culture subjugated by materialism.
Now a large beer truck pulls up and parks. A rangy man with a wife-beater t-shirt and complex shoulder tattoos sidles up and nonchalantly asks about us. His skin is brown, either from the desert sun or his Aztec ancestors. We do not suspect that we are in the presence of the street’s royalty. Soon he has agreed to pose for photographs but asks for a dollar so he can buy a beer to recover from last night’s drunk. He is “King Joey B” he says, and he has come here from the Los Angeles neighborhood of Atwater Village to be nearer to his two daughters and wife in California City. He disparages his parenting as an “f’d-up dad.” He loves his daughters though. “I’m a good dude, not crazy,” he assures. He has an aura of someone lost that no one much notices.
Budweiser Truck & Stop Sign – Mojave, CA – 2016
King Joey is 41 and says his end is near. He is dying, that’s what it comes down to. “I’ve lost everything and everybody from alcoholism. My uncle is an alcoholic too. I’m a stone cold drunk. Nobody took me down but myself. From 1996 to 2006, I was in prison. I was in Tehachapi for 8-years solitary and was on meds. I was the phantom. I stay out of the way and nobody sees me.” He speaks with street-honed words yet clear enough articulation.
Gradually, his self-diagnosis of desert dementia begins to manifest. He pauses and wonders to himself if these men (us) are just hallucinations. He shakes his head. “My father was Thomas Hewitt, the father in the real-life Texas Chainsaw Massacre. You know the movie. I never got my dad. I have a tattoo of him.” He pulls back his wife-beater and a gruesome face reminiscent of Frankenstein becomes visible. That is his father he says. “I was abused as a child and my mother was a heroin addict. I’m just 41 and a drunk. Not that much time left. My trailer has black mold. It is a 25-footer. The mold caused a two-headed child. I’m not delusional. At night, I dream and zombies and monsters walk Trinity Street. They are real.”
King Joey of Trinity Street – Mojave, CA – 2016
A man saunters up. King Joey turns over the dollar he is holding to the guy to buy them both beers. Neither the man nor the beer ever shows up again. King Joey poses to look tough, but his alcohol-racked body is emaciated and he reiterates he’ll soon die. No one in the world, not even on Trinity Street, will notice his passing nor acknowledge he was ever there.
The high school, the scattered churches, and the shopping areas at both ends of town present that people can find, construct, and live happy American lives. Many complex social, economic, and psychological issues play into the success of living here, just as they do in the desperation and misery we also see. Mojave is a major transportation hub and many people are merely passing through. With those who settle, individual hard work, persistence, learning, luck, and spirit leads many to find their way. Sadly, still others falter and ultimately are lost.
Charred House on Trinity Street No.1 – Mojave, CA – 2016
Trinity Street makes me want to better understand the people of poverty living in the context of a country of wealth. I am white, raised upper middle class. I have never been poor, never even known others caught in poverty until I joined the Peace Corps in Iran.
King Joey appears mentally unstable and delusional. His self-diagnosis could be right on target. He has no hope now. Others here may have made poor personal and economic decisions that led them down dead-end streets. The new economy may not offer enough jobs, or jobs for which these workers are qualified. They live a day-to-day life and suffer from the inability to make plans and implement them. Life then is wherever the day takes them.
King Joey & Liquor Sign – Trinity Street – Mojave, CA – 2016
Must I be satisfied with the idea that the poor are always with us? If they can’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps, will they have no profitable future? My moral compass dictates I should address the poverty around me. Yet, I don’t know what to do that would have a marked positive effect. Today after Trinity Street I ache for a better promise, a better way, a better community.
As the sun sets, it envelops this world in golden light. The hustling crowd fresh from work abates. A kind of provisional peace from the long day’s journey into a partial acquiescence of one’s fate settles on Trinity Street. All too soon the cycle will begin again with the promises of a new day. Then passing time and human ennui will again erode the hope for something better.
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One of the reasons Brooklyn's Think Tank earn their audience's attention and justify their exploratory nature as a band is that they don't indulge in repeating things. It's been obvious that the experimental indie rock trio does not enjoy sounding the same twice, and that is exactly what their latest release certifies.
Their previous outing, Lid, was a 21-minute audio and visual project, with an avant garde pose and more heavily inclined on the band's improvisational skills. Now, their new piece, Krautrock is a refined and sharper focused song, tighter structured, encompassing the band's instinctive tendencies towards the extreme, through Josie Sedgwick's rabid vocal deliverance and backed by a deranged but more straightforward rock foundation, the combination of which could easily draw comparisons to a wide range of punk rocking edge, from X-Ray Spex to Battle Of Mice.
Krautrock is the first of many releases that Think Tank has planned for the year, with the promise for each one to deliver more surprises than the last. The song will be filling side-A of an upcoming 7-inch split release with Boston's Idle Pilot, scheduled to drop on June 23rd via Head Vs. Heart Records.
Think Tank will be heading out on the road at the end of June. They will be workshopping their newest record which will be recorded in August in New Lebanon, NY at The Mall Of Found. Check out the dates below...
June 21st - Downsquaes - Baltimore, MD
June 23rd - Mahalls - Cleveland, OH
June 24th - Trumbulll Plex - Detriot, MI
June 25th - Spark Art Center - Syracuse, NY
June 29th - Brooklyn, NY
June 30th - Philidelphia, PA
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Auckland, New Zealand’s The Beths wrapped up their 3 night residency at Berkeley’s Greek Theater thanks in no small part to a Death Cab For Cutie/The Postal Service co-headlining run that absolutely backed the amphitheater on each night. Any jitters that The Beths may have had leading up to these series of shows were long past as they slide onto the stage and launched right into “Future Me Hates Me,” off of their 2018 debut.
The band’s harmonies soared through the Berkeley Hills as they moved right into “Head in the Clouds” from their critically acclaimed 2022 release, Expert in a Dying Field, as a giant inflatable trout popped up behind the band … peak absurdity that had the crowd in stitches but the band paid no notice. In fact it wasn’t until the band got around to introducing each other late in the set that the fish was even acknowledged, getting the honor of been introduced first. Keeping with the joke, drummer Tristan Deck then introduced Elizabeth Stokes as the “catch of the day.”
“Silence Is Golden” woke anyone up that may not have been paying attention — an up-tempoed grungy ripper of a tune juxtaposed against a plea for silence — “I’d burn the city to the ground to turn it down” — that perfectly teed up “Expert in a Dying Field” as the set closer.
Hugely popular in New Zealand, The Beths are clearly making their mark on the US with these Postal Service shows, unfortunately saying farewell to the tour on Friday at the Hollywood Bowl. As a parting gift, however, the band announced the January 12 release of a split 7″ with Car Seat Headrest on which they cover The Postal Service’s “Brand New Colon.”
- Future Me Hates Me
- Head in the Clouds
- Out of Sight
- Happy Unhappy
- Jump Rope Gazers
- Silence Is Golden
- Expert in a Dying Field
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If you look at the Apple Watch Ultra and Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro and think, “They aren’t quite up to the job,” then Garmin’s new Instinct 2X Solar may be the smartwatch that will keep up with your lifestyle.
The Instinct 2X Solar is a rugged mix of Ultra-style outdoor features and Casio G-Shock toughness, complete with Garmin’s excellent health and activity tracking features.
The massive 50mm polymer case meets the tough MIL-STD-810 standards for water resistance, shock resistance, and thermal protection. It can survive in water down to a depth of 100 meters, and the strengthened glass over the screen will resist scratches, which is important as underneath it is the solar charging array. In smartwatch mode, provided you keep it fed with sunlight, there shouldn’t be any need to charge it externally at all. Garmin says it produces 50% more energy than the Instinct 2’s solar array.
Garmin has improved the GPS connectivity for the new model, providing multi-band GNSS support for increased accuracy, plus a new barometric altimeter sensor and a 3-axis compass. This means you don’t have to hold the watch horizontally to always get the correct reading. Garmin’s Tracback routing feature is onboard to lead you back to your starting point … should you get lost.
The Instinct 2X Solar contains all the usual fitness and activity tracking, including sleep tracking, respiration, and blood oxygen monitoring too — just like what you get on the Garmin Forerunner 265. It’ll track running, cycling, swimming, and plenty of other activities, plus a new Obstacle Course feature has been added. Obstacles are manually added to the workout for the first lap, then automatically recognized for each subsequent lap, and details are included in the data at the end of the course.
Finally, the Instinct 2X Solar has a built-in LED flashlight with different intensity settings and the option to select a red or white light. Interestingly, it has a strobe mode that matches your running cadence and alternates between red and white lights, making you far more visible when running at night. The smartwatch connects to the usual Garmin app and supports Garmin Pay payments too.
In addition to the standard Instinct 2X Solar model, Garmin has also introduced the Instinct 2X Solar Tactical Edition. This version, as the name suggests, includes tactical-style features — such as Garmin’s Jumpmaster, which tracks Static, HALO, and HAHO skydiving and parachute jumps. There’s also Stealth Mode, which disables connectivity and only shows GPS data on the watch, and doesn’t save it. The LED flashlight uses white or green light to help aid natural vision in darkness.
Both the Instinct 2X Solar and the Instinct 2X Solar Tactical Edition are available now. The standard model costs $450, and the Tactical Edition is yours for $500.
- The new Garmin Lily 2 isn’t like other smartwatches
- Garmin swoops in with the pilot-focused D2 Mach 1 smartwatch
- Garmin Instinct 2 series tipped to launch next month
- You’ll have to imagine how fun the new OnePlus Nord 2 x Pac-Man phone looks
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The path to converting prospects into potential customers is long. It involves a lot of marketing tactics, strategies, and planning to finally have people who purchase. But this tedious journey can be simplified by being aware of ‘customer journey mapping’. Talk to the best SEO services in Dubai and their very first take towards better marketing strategies will be to look into the customer journey stages.
Before any prospect turns into your profitable buyer, they go through a set of stages to make their ultimate purchase. These stages, when understood properly, can provide opportunities to formulate a convincing marketing campaign giving the people what they exactly need at that stage.
There are three customer journey stages before the final conversion:
Once you ‘map’ which stage your prospect is in, you can throw the appropriate marketing tactics and solve their pain points at that particular stage. This step-by-step procedure helps you identify the customer’s path to conversion and most SEO services in Dubai swear by this to bring you promising marketing campaigns that lead to conversion.
Let’s get a little deeper into each of those customer journey stages.
The awareness stage is when people realize that they have a problem and want to find a solution for it. During this phase, prospects fall into a rut to research more about their issues and lookup for possible solutions.
What can you, as a business, do in the ‘Awareness Phase’?
Since people at this point of the journey are curious to extract details; you can offer them informative content that addresses their queries and guides them to what they can do. This can be done in the form of blogs, audio, or videos that are loaded with the right information. Here, SEO is the game-changer.
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After understanding the root cause of their problems, prospects are now into finding the most appropriate solution to fix them. This is the consideration phase, where they research or evaluate different options available before finalizing a deal.
What can you do in the ‘Consideration Phase’?
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Reaching out to the best SEO company Dubai can assist you in creating effective marketing campaigns that shall talk the prospects through their pain points, some impactful solutions, and how your product/service could benefit them.
In the final phase, the prospects are committed to one of the options and look out for compelling businesses that offer their desired solution.
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It is now time to play the final card and be that desired business for your customer. Show them how your brand stands out from the crowd. Design compelling content, eye-catching images, promising web copies, and emails. SEO agency Dubai can do the best job here, as they are well-equipped to portray your business in the most appealing and strategically-built manner.
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Ten tips for bloggers taking part in forums
These ten top tips for bloggers who want to participate more in web forums might help to make life easier for all involved. Originally written in response to a question from Danielle, actually there are thirteen tips but who’s counting..
Choosing a forum to participate in
1) Search for forums that match your interests using criteria such as “your topic niche” +forum (phpBB or vB)
2) Browse threads with the most replies to see if they are lively, current and interesting. Look at one or two of the low response threads as well.
3) Notice if people are using signatures with links to their websites or blogs. If anybody is, that’s good because it’s what you want to do as well. Read the terms and conditions, but don’t be too put off if they sound a bit strict. Your intention is to become a valued contributor.
Registering with the forum
4) I think it’s best to use the same username identity for each forum you take part in. The password should be unique though. I’d suggest using a gmail.com email address so that you can properly filter any notifications and subscriptions coming from the forum. Receiving email “push” is key to continuing participation so tick any options to be automatically subscribed to threads you contribute to.
5) Edit your profile page to include your interests and website/blog. Don’t give an exact date of birth, that’s too much information except to show that you are over 13 years old or something like that. Edit your signature to include links to your blogs after your name and separator or “witty” quotation. If you can add your own RSS feed into your profile page (as with Ning groups) then do so.
6) Once registered and confirmed by email, make an initial, short introduction post. There may well be a designated thread for doing that. Now log out and make sure you can still read your own writing, with sig or link. The public view may look different to the logged in view. If the forum is going to insist that you contribute without being allowed to bring attention to your own blog in any way then move on to another before you get involved.
7) Bookmark or store the URL to your newly adopted forum with all the others so that you won’t miss it when you do the rounds from time to time.
Reading the forum.
8) The key to being able to keep up with multiple forums lies in being able to quickly find only those posts which are new and unread. If you have to scroll way down past all the old posts to find any new ones then this is wasting your time and effort. Some forums have a “Quick” menu, some have sort by date, some have “take me to my unread threads”. You want to spend your valuable time reading new conversations, not ploughing through old ones again.
9) If you see something which provokes or inspires a response from you, write your reply and post it immediately. There’s no need to read everything else first, this is an asynchronous discussion mode.
10) If somebody has replied to your post, and you should get notified if at all possible, then go back and respond immediately. Don’t go through the rest of your notifications first.
Writing to the forum
Three more tips for bloggers taking part in forums, no less important than the previous ten
11) Intersperse longer considered posts with short one liners. Start a new thread from time to time. Get to know which of the regular posters you can expect to have a good conversation with and engage with them more.
12) There’s a certain knack to getting your imagination into gear for communicating across distance and timezones. Responding to a person in a forum is then more naturally conversational than formal writing. Hear the silent voices in your head! Yes, including your own! Laugh out loud and splutter in appreciation or indignation when appropriate.
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Himachal Pradesh Voter List PDF Download
As the election date gets closer, the CEO department is updating its database of voters regularly, and the final voter list is now available. Now, people can look up their name and picture on the voter list by district. Even people who have already filled out a voter card application can now check their application status online.
People can also download the entire Electoral Roll (Voter List) as a PDF file and do manual searches in the Voter List 2024 for Himachal Pradesh. People can also check their names online in an easy way that doesn't take much time.
Himachal Pradesh CEO Voter List 2024 (PDF Electoral Roll) Download
On the CEO Himachal Pradesh website, people can now download the complete assembly voters list by constituency (PDF) to see if their name is on the voter's list with a picture. Here is the complete process for downloading the final electoral roll/district-by-district Himachal Pradesh CEO Voter List 2024: -
1) Visit the CEO Himachal Pradesh Official Website: https://ceohimachal.nic.in/
2) click the "For Voters" tab on the homepage Menu. Under it, you will find "Voters List - Electoral Rolls [PDF Files]". Just click on it.
3) It will open another page where you must select District, Assembly Segment, Polling Stations, and Enter the code below. Click on the "Show PDF" button.
4) After clicking on "show PDF", the pdf file opens in another new tab.
How to Find Your Name Online in Himachal Pradesh Voters List
Below are the instructions to download a voter ID card or Find a Voter Card With a name in the CEO Voter List Himachal Pradesh online:-
1) First, visit the official CEO website at https://electoralsearch.in/.
2) You can search your name by (Search By Details (or) Search By Epic No).
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We celebrated World Oceans Day over the weekend of the 11th and 12th June as part of a global movement to give something back to the environment that is so often abused.
Focusing on our main areas of concern in the area – Crown of Thorn control and Dive Against Debris activities, we hit the water with our enthusiastic volunteers.
We’d had reports from our Dive Masters that the staghorn coral beds at Chebeh South were being over run by COTs – the coral destroying starfish.We moored up, kitted up and hit the water in search of the pests.
We were amazed to find so many COTs in such a small area. In a 50 minute dive, our 7 volunteers injected a whopping 66 starfish. The area was no more than 100m2!
Happy with our efforts we headed over to our Adopted Dive Site Mangrove Bay. As part of our Adopt A Dive Site pledge, we visit this site every month to conduct a Dive Against Debris survey. We’re happy to report that due to our regular activities, the amount of rubbish on the reef has drastically dropped. Our volunteers removed only 4kg of rubbish – perhaps a bit boring for them, but fantastic news for our reefs! We ventured to the mouth of the bay in search of more trash on this dive – further than we’ve explored before. We found formations of beautiful, healthy coral and saw at least half a dozen turtles along the way!
On Sunday we decided to head back to Chebeh to check on the COTs injected the day before. To our surprise… most had disappeared! There were a few still around with the tell tale post injection orange bumps, but we think that the majority of others had retreated to hide deep beneath the coral. And they must have told their friends – we only injected 3 starfish on this dive!
We also visited One Tree Bay to check out the situation there, we’re happy to report that this dive site has no issues.
Once again we’d like to thank all our volunteers for their hard work an dedication to this cause. It’s only with your help that we can see positive results after years of hard work! | <urn:uuid:61410e04-d9a6-444d-9ba4-da40837ffe6a> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.divetioman.com/blog/world-oceans-day/ | 2024-04-22T22:55:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.971009 | 459 |
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Railway Empire PS4 simulation adventure game is available in ISO and PKG formats. The PS4 game developed by the Gaming Minds Studios and released by Kalypso Media. This game is a very adventure game and it published in January 2018. The Railway Empire PS4 game received a positive response from all gaming critics. The game has a score of seventy-four in Metacritic and has eighty-one point sixty-seven percent on Game-rankings. I have already try this game on the PlayStation 4 and I really love this game. Now you should also play it and feel the new simulation adventure gaming.
- Game name – Railway Empire
- Series – Railway Empire
- Developer – Gaming Minds Studios
- Publisher – Kalypso Media
- Size – 6.2GB
- Mode- Single and Multiplayer mode
- Genre – Sports video-game
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Roll Off Dumpster Rentals in Longview, TX
From the winding paths of the Paul Boorman Trail to the World of Wonders, Longview is full of new adventures. Whatever new and exciting project you're tackling in this corner of East Texas, rent a dumpster to knock out the cleanup with ease. Whether you're updating a business on South Mobberly Avenue or downsizing your Columbia Drive home, we make it easy to schedule a dumpster delivery in no time.
Check out our temporary dumpster sizes below to get started.
- Home cleanouts
- Small home remodels
- Roofing projects
- Mid-sized remodels
- House cleanups
- Construction projects
- Large construction
- Demolition projects
- House cleanouts
What Is a Roll Off Dumpster?
Learn more about roll off dumpsters and how to use them for a smooth cleanup.
How Much Does it Cost to Rent a Dumpster in Longview?
Prices in Longview can range from $600 - $814. To get a more exact rate we recommend talking to a member of our team. They'll get you an upfront price based on your location, the container size and the type of waste you toss. We'll also talk through any fees that come with exceeding the covered weight limit or keeping the dumpster past your rental date.
Your bundled dumpster rental rate includes:
- Local hauling fees.
- A generous tonnage.
- Landfill and facility charges.
What Do Our Customers Think?
Bruce was very understanding and was being fair with the service. I intend on using them again.
Very good experience
Delivered on time, picked up in a timely matter, and no damage done to property. The whole experience was very good, and I every one I dealt with was very helpful
Super easy service and quick drop off…
Super easy service and quick drop off and pickup! Highly recommend. Very competitive pricing.
Minimize project delays and get your cleanup completed quickly with our streamlined process.
Receive an upfront rate that bundles delivery, disposal and local taxes for easy budgeting.
Choose from our range of roll off dumpster sizes to handle cleanups big and small.
Trust our professional team to ensure your debris is managed promptly and responsibly.
Stress less about waste removal with our top-rated customer support team.
How do I rent a dumpster?
We make renting a dumpster simple. Start by telling us what you're throwing away. Then, select the dumpster size you need or ask our opinion. Schedule a delivery date that fits your timeline and start loading debris once the bin is on-site. Once you're done, request a pickup online or by phone.
How long can I keep my dumpster?
Our agreements typically give you 7 to 10 days, but rental periods can vary by location. If you need the container longer than your rental period, reach out. Depending on our inventory, we may be able to offer an extended rental at a low, daily rate.
What does my dumpster rental price include?
Your dumpster rental covers the costs of delivery, pickup, a generous rental period and a covered weight limit. Costs can change based on your exact location within Longview, our container availability, what material you toss and any additional fees assessed by sorting facilities. To get the best idea of what is included in your dumpster rental, reach out to our team.
Do I need a permit to rent a dumpster?
You typically need a permit if your dumpster is blocking a public street or lane. If the dumpster is placed directly on your property, you won't need a permit. Visit the city's website to apply for a Right-of-Way Construction Permit.
Where does my trash go?
Trash in Longview is taken to a variety of landfills and transfer stations, including the Pine Hill Landfill, located at 1102 Four South Industrial Boulevard.
What items are allowed in a dumpster?
We accept household junk, such as old furniture and appliances, and yard waste, including tree stumps. We can also deliver front load dumpsters to accommodate daily waste needs at your business. Accepted items for roll off and front load containers will vary by dumpster size and location.
How does the landfill know if there are prohibited items in my dumpster?
When your trash is taken to a landfill, workers sort the debris where it should be directed and will find any prohibited items. This can result in an additional fee. We will let you know what can and can't go in your dumpster when you reach out, and we'll note all prohibited items on your invoice so you know what to look out for during your project.
Longview Home Improvement Resources
Check out these local resources to ensure you're ready for every step of your project.
Check out Longview's permit page to make sure you don't need permission from the city to complete your project.
See what the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has to offer as you prepare for your home improvement project.
If you need help with exterior repairs such as yard cleanups, painting, landscaping and more check out the Habitat for Humanity's Brush With Kindness program.
Reach out to the Longview Public Works Department to learn more about how you can dispose of residential hazardous waste.
Dumpsters for Businesses & Contractors
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Hours of Operation
Sat: 7 am - 4 pm CST
Longview, TX 75601
Residential & Construction
We accept the following debris in our roll off dumpsters:
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Notes or restrictions may apply.
We accept the following debris in our front load dumpsters:
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Emma Augier de Moussac and Brighton Bay second in 7-year-old finals Sunshine Tour
15 March 2017
VEJER DE LA FRONTERA – Just now, the Czech Republic rider Emma Augier de Moussac put down a remarkable achievement by becoming second in the 7-year-old finals on 1.45m level with her horse Brighton Bay (Ultimo x Kreator).
The combination has competed in the 7-year-old classes during the last 5 weeks at the Sunshine Tour in the Spanish Vejer de la Frontera. They were able to place themselves for the thrilling finals that were on today’s program. It is an important class because the future top horses distinguish themselves from the rest in this age.
Emma is riding the Ultimo-son since she bought him at the Dutch Sport Horse Sales in 2014. The gelding was then named Fulltime Fortuna. Her analysis on her ride today: “Brighton Bay is such a clever horse. That was definitely an advantage in the difficult combinations that the course designer came up with today. But what is tricky for some, is easy for him.” The duo has had a very strong show in Spain; 11 out of the 12 round were clear. What is her planning with Brighton Bay? “He can enjoy his rest now. He did so well. Our focus is now on Lanaken.” | <urn:uuid:66b77da9-0778-4e63-b269-915c7be20e06> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.dutchsporthorsesales.com/emma-augier-de-moussac-and-brighton-bay-second-in-7-year-old-finals-sunshine-tour/ | 2024-04-22T22:53:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.983498 | 292 |
Almost 20 fires have ravaged California over the past two months. Some are still blazing. The region is experiencing earlier, longer and more ferocious wildfire seasons due to increasingly hot, dry temperatures.
In 2017, more than a dozen massive blazes swept through Northern California, killing 41 people, destroying 6,000 homes and devastating the area's celebrated wine country. Up until then, this had been the deadliest and most destructive series of fires in California's history.
This year, the Ferguson Fire has devastated Yosemite National Park in California, while the more northerly Carr Fire has burned more than 220,000 acres (81,000 hectares), 1,079 homes and 500 buildings.
The largest fire blanketing the region in smoke, however, is the Mendocino complex — a merger of two fires — which has burned more than 415,000 acres of northern California, 157 homes and 120 other buildings. This makes it the largest fire in the state’s history, surpassing the Thomas Fire of December 2017.
In the wake of the wildfires of 2017, this year's blazes might seem more normal — but that certainly doesn't make them any less terrifying. And as far as the future is concerned, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight to the fires sweeping the globe.
Six firefighters have died battling Californian fires in 2018, according to state authorities. A national disaster was declared in Northern California on August 4.
Off the back of the record-breaking $2.7 billion (€2.2 billion) the state of California spent fighting fires in 2017, in 2018 the state managed to spend one-fourth of its emergency funding on firefighting by the end of July.
Across the Atlantic, an intense summer heat wave across Europe created fertile ground for fires.
More than 80 people died in Greece in July, as the country's worst wildfire in a decade razed the small resort of Mati, about 28 kilometers (17 miles) east of Athens. Thousands were evacuated and more than 1,500 homes were damaged, and many destroyed.
In Spain's Valencia region, some 2,500 people fled their homes to escape fires that swept across nearly 2,500 acres. In neighboring Portugal, a major fire broke out in Monchique, in Algarve, during early August as temperatures climbed to the mid-40s Celsius (100+ Fahrenheit).
Even parts of the Arctic, where summer temperatures have been 10 degrees Celsius higher than average, have been on fire. Also typically temperate Scandivian and Baltic countries were set ablaze. Throughout July, Sweden experienced some of its worst fires in decades and the hottest July in 250 years, according to the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency. Norway, Finland and Latvia have also been fighting flames.
Canada's province of British Columbia declared a state of emergency on August 15 as hundreds of wildfires burned across the region. Thousands have been evacuated and more than 600,000 acres have gone up in flames.
In 2017, Alberta and British Columbia endured the worse fire season since records began, with more than 3.11 million acres having burned by mid-October.
Future droughts 'locked in'
While forest fires are invariably sparked by lightning or people (either carelessly or deliberately), they are being driven by heat waves that climate scientists warn may soon be the norm, especially since climate researchers are forecasting more hot years to come.
"Wildfires are a natural feature of summers, but climate change is increasing the risk," Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, told DW.
One major wildfire propellant is drought. The winter preceding the 2018 fire season in California in particular was "very dry," Ward said. "Droughts are a factor that mean you're more likely to generate dry wood, which is fuel for fires."
With regard to Greece, for example, "there's very clear evidence the northern Mediterranean countries are experiencing more frequent and intense droughts, and that's down to climate change."
According to Ward, we now have "no control" over the occurrence of droughts for "the next three or four decades because they are locked in by the concentration of greenhouse gases that have already built up."
So have the past two years been record wildfire years?
It's certainly been an intense couple of years for fires in Europe and North America. Even so, Martin Wooster, professor of earth observation science at King's College London, said other parts of the world have seen worse over the past decade.
In 2015, drought caused by the El Nino weather system created lethal conditions for Indonesian forests and peatlands already degraded by draining and logging.
The smoldering peat — ancient, decayed vegetable matter condensed into a carbon-heavy fuel — kept fires burning for months on end. "This led to huge fires, far bigger than any seen in Europe, and some of the worst air pollution ever experienced," Wooster said.
Despite this, there does appear to be a distinct trend, as fire seasons become longer and more intense. "In the western United States, the general perception is that there is no wildfire season any more, but that it's continuous all year round," Kevin Trenberth, a scientist at the Climate Analysis Section of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the US, told DW.
In many parts of the world, wildfires are part of a natural cycle. Savannas, for example, are maintained by fire. Some trees not only survive fires but need them to release their seeds. Human intervention can disrupt these cycles, the scientific discipline of forest ecology has found.
Logging of old-growth forest is also a factor that has increased the risk of catastrophic wildfire. Since large, older trees are likely to have survived fires, they are more resistant than smaller, younger ones. When second-growth forests do burn, the smaller trees can carry flames to the upper canopy, making the older giants more susceptible.
Putting out small fires can allow flammable debris to accumulate until a colossal fire starts that cannot be controlled. "One thing that can increase the risk of big fires, ironically, is the suppression of fires," Ward said.
Allowing small fires to burn, and to control them, is effective because you "get rid of the dry wood," he added. "If you don't, eventually you get a fire that is much bigger and more destructive."
Global warming is certainly resulting in hotter, drier conditions making such infernos more common, even with careful forest management. Different climatic conditions also mean forests can take far longer to recover.
Meanwhile, fire cycles are also beginning in areas like the tropics that have no natural fire ecology.
Climate change isn't the only human-induced element. Fires can also be started by careless people dropping cigarettes, letting campfires burn out of control, and are fueled by poor land management.
For this reason, Ward cautioned that in addition to reducing emissions to lessen drought, governments need to ensure the public is properly educated about wildfire risk. And people should not be building in fire-prone areas.
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54-year-old Nicholas Chaban was more than twice the legal limit of alcohol with a side of cocaine when he got a DUI citation in December 2013.
He was cited 3 more times by September.
On Friday, Former chief financial officer for the Philadelphia health-care provider Mazzoni Center, Chaban pleaded guilty to all 4 DUIs, as well as trespassing and drug-possession charges that came in the month of May after he was bounced from a Conshohocken bar.
According to Montgomery County Court Judge, Cheryl Austin, “I’ve got five files in front of me. That’s a record”.
He is still not going to jail. The Norristown resident was sentenced to time served, inpatient rehab, and 2 years of probation. The judge cannot give him a higher sentence than that.
Under a state law that has been altered since Chaban was charged, each of his drunken-driving crimes counted as a 1st DUI offense due to the reason that all happened before he was sentenced for the 1st arrest.
Assistant District Attorney Bradford Richman, head of the year-old DUI unit in the prosecutor’s office said, “This guy’s exceedingly lucky he didn’t kill somebody”.
Chaban was taken into custody in Conshohocken in the month of July twice within a week for driving under the influence of alcohol. The 2nd time he was arrested, he drove into 6 parked motor vehicles.
In 2 separate incidents, his BAC level increased to 0.16 percent which is double the legal definition of drunken driving. In the month of September, he drove away from a crash in Whitpain Township and into a fence. He stayed in prison after that incident until Friday’s hearing.
On 31st of December, changes to the law went into effect. They ensure that multiple DUIs are counted as subsequent offenses and carry increasingly harsher penalties even if they happen before a defendant has been convicted or sentenced for a first offense.
During Friday’s sentencing, the judge said that she could have sent Chaban to state prison if the offenses had occurred this year.
Montgomery County has also altered the way it handles habitual drunken drivers. A repeat offender’s DUI cases are now all assigned to one prosecutor. The office is also increasing its struggles to revoke bail for individuals who are taken into custody on a second DUI. Richman told that in some cases, prosecutors ask judges to make operating a vehicle a bail violation and seek to have defendants surrender their driver’s licenses as a bail condition.
Chaban was wearing a denim prison jacket at the hearing, didn’t speak at length. His attorney, Vincent Cirillo, described him as a family man in crisis. Marital issues, an elderly father and job related depression contributed to a breakdown, according to him. “At some point in time, anyone can really hit a breaking point and basically go over the edge”.
Chaban has two master’s degrees and a history of driving under the influence of alcohol with 2 arrests between the year 1984 and 2002.
Additional legislation is in the works to keep drunken drivers off the road and away from other drivers. Mothers Against Drunk Driving is supporting state bills to require that an interlock system be installed for 6 months in first-time offender’s vehicles. A similar law is awaiting Gov. Christie’s signature in New Jersey.
Frank Harris, MADD’s director of state government affairs said, “It teaches sober driving behavior that license suspension alone just can’t”.
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HV Power Transformer Monitoring
What is transformer monitoring?
Transformers are key assets in the power grid and industrial processes. Transformer monitoring reduces business risk through:
- Providing better safety for workers and the public
- Reducing unexpected failures
- Reducing unplanned outages
The consequences of an unexpected transformer failure can be catastrophic, yet many failures are preventable. The condition of a transformer is only as good as its worst performing component.
Transformer monitoring actively monitors various operating characteristics to make sure they are functioning properly. Transformer monitors collect data and send alarms to notify the user if something looks off.
There are a wide range of transformer monitors available that can detect the symptoms of transformer failure by monitoring the cooling system, load tap changer, dissolved gas, bushing power factor and capacitance, partial discharge, oil levels, pressure, temperatures and more.
Failure Modes of High Voltage Transformers
What can go wrong on a transformer?
A major failure on a transformer is defined as an incident that takes the transformer out of service for seven or more days. To determine the risk of unexpected failure, it’s important to consider the consequences and the probability of failure occurring. About one out of every 200 transformers fails each year according to this CIGRE Transformer Reliability Survey. According to another study, major failures cost about $14,000 per MVA in property damage. In general, it is safe to say that unexpected failure can be costly.
There are a lot of helpful resources to better understand what can fail on a transformer. Therefore, it is important to evaluate several key areas when determining the risk. First the technical condition of the unit and the importance to the network (aka the criticality). Then perform an analysis of the make and model of the unit, unit features, years in service, and location. Transformer monitoring significantly decreases the risk of unexpected failure.
On average 1 out of every 200 transformers experience a major failure each year.
30% of transformers that fail are beyond repair
Major failures cost $14,000 per MVA in property damage, according to a study from 2003 (factoring in inflation).
How do transformer monitors decrease the risk of unexpected transformer failure?
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My Danish course makes learning Danish as easy as “A, B, C” and not “Æ, Ø, Å”. Being a foreigner (and also an Indian) the struggle with Danish pronunciation is real but my teacher takes the time to focus on my pronunciation and makes sure I get it right before we move on.
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President Buhari has appointed Ahmed Abubakar as the substantive Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA).
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, made the disclosure on Wednesday in a statement signed by him.
According to the statement, the appointment takes immediate effect.
Abubakar, was before his appointment as the new NIA DG, the Senior Special Assistant to the President (SSAP) on Foreign Affairs/International Relations.
Abubakar holds a B.A degree in French Language and Literature, and an M.A degree in Francophone Maghrebian Literature, both from Bayero University, Kano. He is a retired career Foreign Service officer. Before his appointment as SSA to the President on Foreign Affairs/International Relations, Abubakar was once the Senior Adviser at the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), with headquarters in Ndjamena, Chad.
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The rapid rise in costs of gas and electricity in the UK, caused largely by energy supply shortages, means that more households are facing fuel poverty.
The latest data published by Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, which covers the year 2020, shows that the ELL boroughs of Lewisham, Croydon, Hackney and Tower Hamlets are all above the London average rate of 10.9 per cent of households living with fuel poverty.
With 14.1 per cent of households living with fuel poverty – an increase of over 2000 households since the previous data release – Lewisham takes on the position of the worst borough within inner London and the fourth worst when compared to all London boroughs.
Although data has not yet been released for 2021 or 2022, recent fuel price rises have only increased pressure on struggling households.
Dr Giovanna Speciale, CEO of South East London Community Energy [SELCE], said: “We are seeing a tragedy unfold, low-income households are being squeezed. They are having to economise on all those things that most of us take for granted – a warm home, hot water and electricity for appliances.”
Hojee Man, CELCE Energy Advisor and PRS Project Officer told ELL: “It’s really picked up since October – there has been pretty much just a rush of a lot of people phoning us up asking ‘how do I manage this?’”.
“There are a lot of people that have told us that they are running out of money as soon as they put it on the pre-paid meter – in a day or two it’s all gone. That’s how dire it can be for some.”
A household is defined as being in fuel poverty if it is rated ‘D’ or worse for energy efficiency and if its disposable income (the remaining income after housing and energy costs are paid) is below the poverty line - which is 60 per cent of the national median income.
Analysis of energy efficiency ratings by the Office of National Statistics have revealed that just under 50% of houses in Lewisham had a ranking of "D" or below as of March 2021 – this means it is very likely that the borough will continue being severely impacted by fuel poverty.
Janet Daby, Labour & Co-op MP for Lewisham East, raised the matter to new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak this week at parliament demanding for answers: “My inbox has been full of emails from constituents of Lewisham writing to me about their desperate situation of their wages simply not going far enough,” she said. “I’m also receiving emails about rents going up, energy bills going up and of course the cost of living is already up.”
In August 2022, Ofgem announced its energy price cap would increase to £3,549 per year from October 2022, with the cap set to rise again in January 2023.
The size of the January increase has not yet been announced, but it is expected to take bills to £4,200 per year - with some sources predicting even larger numbers.
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I spent Sunday and Monday in Manhattan, so I’ve been thinking about population density, the extent of the market and what it means for the division of labor, and the deadweight losses of land use. I was pleased, therefore, when this article popped up on my Twitter feed: Matt Yglesias proposes land-use liberalization as a policy that would “cure” wage stagnation. The direct benefit comes from the fact that there’s a lot of construction that would start happening if it were easier to build in Manhattan and San Francisco. The indirect, longer-run benefits come from labor productivity gains from higher population density. Larger markets mean a finer division of labor and, therefore, higher productivity and more innovation.
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Thermal camera for automotive diagnostics
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I have bother a FLiR (ThermoCAM which cost ~£5K quite a few years ago) and i3systems clip-on. The clip-on is better resolution but, as others have noted, attaching it to a phone can be messy, and the phone needs to be very top-end to get the full frame rate. I'm using a medium expensive phone and get about 2-3fps, so it's not very useful for dynamic situations (and even focusing is a slow affair).
For automobile use I would definitely go for an all-in-one like the E4. Life is just so much simpler (which, of course, cuts both ways) and your focus is then fully on what you're looking at rather than what you're using to look at it with.
Thank you all for your input. There is a lot here to think about. I will take all your advice into consideration before I make a final decision. I will let you know when I do.
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Whilst we will always remember the 1980s as being a happy time filled with joyous memories, we can occasionally be heard declaring that the youth of today simply “don’t know they’re born.” From streaming services that let them watch whatever they want at a time that suits them, to health and safety rules that keep them wrapped in a ball of proverbial cotton wool, our children and grandchildren have absolutely no concept of the struggles we faced only a few decades ago.
From ‘family’ TV shows that gave us horrendous nightmares, to being forced to walk what felt like tens of miles to get to school, below are 10 extremely frustrating problems that only 80s kids had to deal with.
10. Our favourite tapes getting eaten
Services such as Spotify and YouTube mean that today’s young people have an entire universe of music at their fingertips, which they’re able to exploit in the privacy of their own bedroom at an hour that is comfortable and convenient.
Some of you may be old enough to have started a vinyl music collection, but ours was held on a plethora of dodgy tapes that often lasted for just a few listens before our cheap cassette player chewed them up. Unfortunately, our VHS player fared no better, ruining our favourite movies by eating up the very film that they were stored on.
9. Waiting for video games to load
Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 console can apparently load games in just a few seconds, which is absolutely no comfort to those of us who had to wait what felt like hours to play the likes of Horace Goes Skiing and Daley Thompson’s Decathlon.
Sometimes our rubber-keyed ZX Spectrum did manage to load the game we were desperate to play, but there were many occasions when the hypnotic lines and electronic noises eventually resulted in a frustrating freeze, meaning we had no choice but to start the loading process again from scratch.
8. Being scared stiff by films and TV shows
Looking back, the film industry had a weird idea of what constituted family entertainment back in the 80s. If we weren’t hiding behind the sofa from the monsters of Doctor Who, we were being given nightmares from the horrific moments that found their way into PG-rated movies.
Who can forget the melting Nazis of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the screaming woman turning into a cyborg in Superman III, the devil dogs of Ghostbusters or the human sacrifice scene of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (to name just a few)?
7. Failing to obtain those final few Panini stickers
Collecting Panini stickers was always an utter joy, but whether you were trying to complete your collection of football, Star Wars, He-Man or ThunderCats stickers, it became incredibly frustrating when you were unable to obtain those final few stickers. As you may remember, stickers were only available in sealed blind-buy packets, so you didn’t know what you had until you’d handed your money over.
If your friend didn’t have the required ‘swapsie’ in their collection then your only option was to continue spending your hard earned pocket money to purchase more sticker packs, usually to no avail.
6. Waiting for children’s television to start
Thanks to streaming services and dedicated children’s TV channels, the young people of the modern age are able to watch their favourite programmes whenever, or indeed wherever they choose. No such luck back in the 80s!
All we had was Children’s BBC and Children’s ITV for barely two hours every weekday afternoon, before Home and Away and Neighbours (which of course we also watched religiously).
5. Seriously dangerous playground equipment
These days, if we can drag kids away from their devices long enough to actually go outside to play, they’ll be swinging and climbing on carefully constructed frames, swings and slides covered in safe layers of rubber with soft cushioned tiles below, so if they fall off it’ll be like landing on a mattress.
Back in the 80s, we were used to climbing metal frames that got burning hot on sunny days, with jagged edges almost guaranteed to leave us with infected cuts, and nothing to break our fall but gravel and dog muck.
4. Family members taping over our favourite films
Our childhood film collection was often stored on a library of VHS tapes that we did our best to decorate in a way that would discourage parents or siblings from ever recording over our favourite cinematic masterpieces.
Unfortunately, whether it be due to parental disobedience or because we had forgotten to mark the VHS tape sufficiently, our precious recordings were often wiped out by episodes of Coronation Street or Eastenders. The inhumanity!
3. Struggling to record songs from the radio
It must be nice to be able to listen to any music track on a device of your choosing, because an 80s kid had to compile a cassette of their favourite modern pop songs by painstakingly recording them from the weekly Top 40 chart rundown.
This process may sound easy enough, but it meant having to constantly time your recordings so they cut out the endless waffle of the radio DJ, who would talk unhelpfully over the beginning and end of every single song they played.
2. Watching our favourite TV characters die
As well as scaring the pants off us on multiple occasions, a 1980s TV show would often provide further trauma by killing off one of our favourite leading characters in an unexpected or horrific way.
From Optimus Prime biting the dust in The Transformers: The Movie to Danny Kendall passing away during a memorable episode of Grange Hill, a 1980s childhood meant having to deal with the issue of mortality on a regular basis.
1. Being unable to contact our parents
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It’s no secret that currently the Egyptian economy is not doing very well… at all.
Hopefully, the recent radical decisions taken by the government, and the Central Bank of Egypt will slowly rectify the damage. Well, they’d better do, because these recent reforms have been unpopular with most people. The restrictions on importation, the higher taxes, and the inflexibility of overseas spending have had many people (and businesses) steaming with fury.
The government is saying that these decisions are a necessary evil, at the least for the time being. We, at “EL MENS” believe in taking a positive stance. More importantly, we believe in Egypt’s ability to overcome obstacles – we know; it sounds a bit cheesy, but we really do…
That’s why we’re launching the #EG100100 initiative. Many people would like to buy Egyptian products, whether willingly – in order to assist the economy, or unwillingly – because imported products are becoming increasingly-expensive. No matter which camp you belong to, you might want to ditch many imported products, but you don’t know that Egyptian alternatives even exist.
That’s where we come in; in the coming period of time we intend to shed some light on products that are 100% Egyptian (Masry 100 fi el 100). It doesn’t matter if it’s produced by a huge local industrial giant, or a small family-owned business; if it’s 100% Egyptian, it deserves our (and your) attention.
However, no matter how hard we research the subject, we will never be able to point out to the vast array of available products. That’s where you guys come in. If you know a product that’s 100% Egyptian and that happens to be excellent (or 100 100), just post about it in the social medium of your choice, while including #Egyptian100100 in your post. We will find your post via the hashtag, and then share it on our website, and social media to increase awareness for as many local products as possible.
Of course, everything has to start somewhere; so here are the first products that deserve the #EG100100 hashtag in no particular order:
1- Isis for Food Industries
Long before the profusion of the “eat clean” concept, Isis were the masters of organic products. Since 1997, Isis have been providing the market with a whole range of products ranging from tea to herbs and honey, that are free of any artificial additives or preservatives.
Check their wide range of products here:
2- Hassan Allam Holding
Founded in the 1930s, Hassan Allam Holding is one of Egypt’s largest and best known construction and property groups, with two fully owned subsidiary companies: Hassan Allam Construction and Hassan Allam Properties. With a large portfolio of projects, such as Swan Lake, Seasons, and Little Venice, continue to provide luxury residential communities and holiday resorts to Egypt and the region.
You can check out their projects here:
One of the first all-Egyptian startups of the digital age, since 2010 Bey2ollak has been the go-to app for manoeuvring the ever-crowded streets of major Egyptian cities.
If you’re already reading this article, chances are you already know all about Bey2ollak, but if in case you don’t already know, you can check out their app and traffic updates here:
Established in 1990, Domty has been producing a vast array of consumer products, ranging from cheese to juice. Domty’s ability to produce premium-quality food products has been recently crowned with its recent IPO, signalling it as one of the main players in its sector.
Check out their ever-growing range of products here:
Born in 1981 as a lifestyle Egyptian fashion brand for men and women, Dalydress was originally set up to commercialize menswear. However, in 1992 a new team was created to launch a complete collection of womenswear ranging from casual styles to the urban, sophisticated look. With the growing-availability of international brands in Egypt, Dalydress still provides an all-Egyptian alternative to clothes-shopping.
Check out their range of clothes and accessories here:
A pioneer in its field, Rich Bake has been providing the market with freshly-baked, preservative-free, pre-packaged bread since 1997. Constantly adding new products to their portfolio, such as the health-conscious “well-being” line of bakeries, their brand is constantly getting stronger.
Check them out here:
Nola is the epitome of an Egyptian startup gone wild… wildly successful, that is. Specialized in gourmet cupcakes, Nola was the first of its kind in Egypt. Their diversified menu now includes cakes, cake pops, cheese cakes, as well as their signature cupcakes.
Feast your eyes on their creations here:
Since its establishment in 1961, ASFOUR Crystal has been providing fine-quality transparent and coloured crystals to Egypt and the world. Today, ASFOUR is the world’s largest producer of full lead crystal; the world’s biggest built-up facility for crystal production; the world’s single largest employer of skilled crystal craftsmen and women; and the world’s most used crystal brand by international chandelier manufacturers. Well done!
Check out their shiny creations here:
Established in 1989, the self-proclaimed ‘paradise out of desert’ is located twenty five kilometers north of Hurghada. It’s a mere four-hour flight from Europe’s major capitals. Comprised of islands, lagoons and secluded sandy beaches, the town is a leisure paradise, featuring seventeen hotels, a lot of activities, dining options, and a bustling night life. El Gouna is truly one-of-a-kind.
Check it out here:
10-Amr Helmy Designs
Established in 1980, Amr Helmy Designs is the leading kitchen manufacturer in the Middle-East. The Egyptian designer has been designing “D.N.A. kitchens”, which means kitchens with genetic architectural heritage from the world’s diversified cultures. Kitchens by Amr Helmy Designs have been sold and celebrated all around the world.
Check out their creations here:
Feel free to share these photos and add the hashtag to all your outings, meals, shopping sprees, or whatever activity you’re using an Egyptian 100% product. Support #EG100100
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Ely Art Bank
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Ely Art Bank and Garnet Mercantile is open for our 2023 season.
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Ely Art Bank and Garnet Mercantile
Located in the heart of downtown Ely, the Art Bank & Garnet Mercantile stand as vibrant symbols of creative expression and community engagement. The Art Bank, a captivating transformation of an erstwhile bank, now thrives as an art gallery and cultural center, inviting patrons to explore a rich tapestry of local artistic talent while offering a versatile venue for events. The Garnet Mercantile, a nostalgic reinvention of the former JC Penney store, complements this creative haven with a diverse range of collectibles, homemade garments, antiques, and various locally crafted items, all contributing to the celebration of local artists and artisans.
The Art Bank is an enchanting space that bridges the gap between history and contemporary art. With its origins as a bank, the architectural remnants of the past blend harmoniously with the dynamic, ever-changing artworks that now grace its walls. The gallery hosts an eclectic assortment of artistic forms, spanning from exquisitely detailed pottery to striking paintings that evoke many emotions. By providing a platform for local artists, the Art Bank becomes a hub of cultural exchange, fostering a deep connection between artists and the community they serve. The ability to rent the Art Bank for events further solidifies its role as a communal space where celebrations, exhibitions, and gatherings come to life surrounded by the beauty of artistic expression.
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Cybercrimes are constantly in the news, with giant corporations that most would believe have foolproof methods of protecting themselves from these types of attacks suffering great losses.
One of the latest large-scale incidents happened when hackers exposed personal records of more than 53 million current, former or prospective T-Mobile customers. The company announced that the breach didn’t uncover any payment information, but the extent of the damage is still considerable, and T-mobile is yet to face all the consequences.
According to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center, data breaches are up 38% in the second quarter of 2021, with signs trending towards an all-time high for this year. This steady and constant increase in cyber attacks on businesses is obviously quite concerning, and it highlights the importance of preparedness for all companies, no matter how big or small.
Are you prepared for cyber risks?
Read our 2023 Cyber Risk Index Report to find out what businesses are worried about, how they’re protecting themselves, and what the future holds.
Reports have shown that nearly 50% of small businesses claimed that they experienced a cyber attack last year. This is why it’s not only important to do everything you can to protect yourself from these types of attacks, but also to know what you need to do if your business becomes the victim of a cybercrime.
That’s where having a strong response plan comes into play.
A cyber incident response plan is a written set of guidelines that instructs teams on how to prepare for, identify, respond to, and how to recover from a cyber attack. A detailed response plan should include technology-related issues but also address the problems that other departments encounter, such as HR, legal and compliance, finance, customer service, or PR teams, among others.
Why Does Your Business Need a Cyber Attack Response Plan?
Time is of the essence when it comes to minimizing the consequences of a cyber incident and you want to do everything in your power to save your data. If a company does not have an incident response plan, the entire process of dealing with a cyber attack can become an even more chaotic and daunting experience that could last indefinitely.
Having a proper incident response plan in place helps companies make sure that their reaction to the attack is as swift and organized as possible.
Given that there are quite a few ways hackers can endanger your business, it’s crucial for your business to have a variety of incident response scenarios mapped out that cover the myriad types of cyber attacks that can occur.
Your response plan should indicate what steps to take in case of a data breach, an insider threat, social engineering attack, or a ransomware attack, for example, since the source of the breach and the outcome are often completely different based on the type of attack.
Be sure to identify your main cybersecurity risks and include them in your response plan to put your team in a better position to respond properly to any and all potential incidents and mitigate the risk of further damage.
How to Create Your Cyber Attack Response Plan
Before you start writing the actual guidelines, you need to go through the preparation phase. Of course, this entire process will depend on the needs of your organization; how big your business is, how many employees you have, how much sensitive data you store, etc.
However, we’re going to provide some general recommendations that should be applicable for just about any type of business putting together a cyber incident response plan.
Assemble Your Incident Response Team
As mentioned earlier, a cybersecurity incident doesn’t affect just your computers and IT infrastructure, it affects the entire company. That’s why it’s necessary to include at least one dedicated person from each department you identify as crucial when dealing with the aftermath of the attack.
Of course, you should start with your IT Security department and assign people responsible for discovering the source of the attack and containing it, as well as instructing other employees about what actions need to be taken. If you don’t have an internal cybersecurity team, identify the person in charge of contacting your outsourced security agency.
Cyber attacks can cause a lot of distress among your employees, especially if their own data or their clients’ data has been stolen. A designated HR professional should be able to handle most of the internal communications and employee concerns. Of course, people from your customer service team should deal with notifying and assisting your clients.
Considering that these types of incidents often get public attention, you should also have legal and PR professionals in the wings, ready to handle all external communications and related processes.
Identify Vulnerabilities and Specify Critical Assets
No matter how good your protective cybersecurity measures are, you need to assume that some vulnerabilities could potentially allow cybercriminals to infiltrate your network. If your biggest vulnerability is your employees, make sure to document that and improve your training and education procedures. Instruct them to keep an eye out for social engineering attacks and ensure that everyone follows the company’s password policy.
Specifying the most critical assets will allow the response team to prioritize their efforts in the event of an attack. If your team knows where you are most vulnerable and which assets you consider to be critical, they will be able to act quickly to contain and limit the consequences, since they can know what they are looking for and where they should probably be looking for it.
Identify External Cybersecurity Experts and Data Backup Resources
Whether you have your own IT security team or not, the scope of the incident could be so extensive that you would need an external expert to help audit and remedy the situation. Do your research to find a person or team you can rely on and contract their services to assist with fortifying security measures and with potential incident response aid.
You might also want to look for data backup resources and purchase enough space for all your crucial documents and information. Set up automatic backups and name the person or team in charge of this process as well.
A very important part of the entire process is responsibility; making sure that everyone in your company and beyond knows what they are responsible for and exactly what they need to do when such an event occurs.
Create a Detailed Response Plan Checklist
According to the 6-step framework that the SANS Institute published a few years back and has since remained the model for an incident response plan, other than the Preparation phase, there are another five crucial areas to plan around: Identification, Containment, Eradication, Recovery, and Lessons Learned.
- Identification: Identify the breach.
- Containment: Contain what was attacked in order to isolate the threat.
- Eradication: Remove all threats from your devices and network.
- Recovery: Restore your system and network to their pre-incident state.
- Lessons Learned: Understand what errors were made and what steps need to be taken to curtail future attacks.
Each of these phases consists of a few elements, and they often overlap, but it is essential that you go through all of them.
Design a Communications Strategy
Communication is crucial in the cyber attack aftermath because it’s the part of the attack that is going to be most visible to the public and your clients if you’re not doing it well.
When you design your crisis communication strategy, there are a few things you need to consider:
- Who do you need to notify?
- What public or government institutions do you need to contact?
- What is your deadline to report the incident?
Carefully analyze federal and state data breach laws to ensure you don’t miss any important steps when reporting the incident.
You also need to plan carefully at what point you should notify your clients, partners, vendors, and anyone else affected by the cyber attack.
If the cyber attack was serious, made the news, and a lot of different sources became aware of it, making a public statement is imperative. These types of situations need to be handled very carefully, as they are very sensitive and can lead to a tremendous amount of reputational fallout if you don’t handle it correctly.
Once again, the best course of action might be to hire an outside agency with experience dealing with these types of issues instead of trying to handle all of the PR efforts on your own.
Test and Regularly Update Your Response Plan
While it’s true that you can’t really test your incident response plan when there’s (luckily) no incident, you can create a test environment and try to execute your plan. This will allow you to notice any discrepancies or shortcomings and fix and rewrite your document accordingly and on time.
Depending on the frequency of regulatory changes and changes inside your company, revisiting the plan once or twice a year would ensure that it is always up to date and ready to be implemented when necessary. Ensure you also regularly update your security measures and keep up with the latest expert recommendations and best practices.
Naturally, if a cyber attack occurs, make sure to perform a detailed report to understand what went wrong and what changes you need to make to your plan to protect your company better from future attacks.
The Key Elements of a Cyber Incident Response Plan
Let’s look at some of the key elements a comprehensive plan should include. As always, note that some of these won’t apply to your business if you’re a smaller company, whereas some larger businesses might even need a more complex plan of action.
Identifying the source of the breach: Once you realize that your system has been breached, the first thing you need to do is to find out where the attack originated. Conduct a thorough investigation to identify the computer or network where the attack started.
Containing the breach and limiting additional damage: Computer viruses spread quickly and your security experts should do their best to isolate the infected devices and keep the damage as localized as possible.
Assessing the scope of damage: When you are certain that the breach is under control, it is time to examine your entire system and gauge the severity of the situation. The extent of damage will give you a clearer picture of what was affected by the breach and what your following actions should be.
Consulting your legal team and reporting the incident to appropriate regulatory agencies or officials: Seek advice from your legal team on complying with the laws and regulations related to a cybersecurity attack and how to report the breach. Confer with them about any legal implications that may arise from the incident.
Informing your insurer about the incident: If you have a cyber liability policy in place, contact your insurer to assist with the consequences of the attack. A comprehensive, first-party cyber liability policy covers your costs related to the incident, whereas a third-party policy covers the damages suffered by other affected parties. If you don’t have cyber insurance coverage or think you might be underinsured, now may be the right time to change that.
Notifying all affected parties: Once you have identified any third parties whose data might have been compromised, make sure to notify them right away. If you are not sure who was affected, ensure that you notify everyone who could potentially suffer any consequences from the attack.
Issuing a public statement and controlling a potential PR fallout: If the extent of the attack was significant and it affected other stakeholders in your company, the public is bound to find out about it. Make sure that you issue a timely statement to the public so that you can get ahead of and control the situation that follows.
Cleaning up your systems: When you have taken all the necessary steps to minimize the damage, you can start cleaning your systems, starting from the quarantined devices and networks that may require a complete overhaul.
Restoring lost data: Retracing the path and origin of the attack can reveal all the compromised data and indicate the approximate date of the attack. That information will help identify the most recent backup that was not affected and can be used to restore lost data that was, hopefully, backed up on other devices or systems.
Learning from the breach and strengthening cybersecurity protocols: By this time, you should already have a lot of information about what security areas you need to improve. Use the knowledge you gained during the recovery period to strengthen your policies and further educate your staff. It would also be a good idea to update your response plan accordingly and share your insights with your business network so that your partners can be prepared should they face a similar situation and need to get you involved.
Your incident response plan should be a living document that you can and should edit and refine regularly. It should also be customized to your type of business. For example, law firms should have a custom incident response plan that is different than a tech startup.
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Replacing an existing door and hanging a new one in its place might seem like a task best suited to a professional, which is why, even though you might want to, you never actually get around to the pesky task. By following the steps below and doing a bit of planning, you can not only learn how to hang a door but also do it in the best possible way.
Required Tools And Equipment
HardPoint Hand Saw
Drill (Wired or Cordless)
Hammer Or Wooden Mallet
Hinges and Screws
Wood Plane (Hand or Power)
Drill Bit Set
Safety Goggles and Eye Protectors
Mask and Mouth Protector
Steps On How To Hang An Internal Door
Step 1: Remove Old Door
Before installing a door, you need to remove the old door to put a new one in its place. Chances are, your door has been attached with the help of hinges. To remove this door, you first need to remove all the pressure from the hinges.
To do this, place a wedge under the door. The basic idea behind this is to support the door from below so that the weight is lifted off the hinges. After this, you can start loosening the hinges using a screwdriver with a thin tip or flat-headed chisel. Once they're loose, carefully lift the door out of its frame.
Step 2: Measure New Door To Size
There are two ways in which you can measure your new door. One of them is to measure the door against the frame and make markings accordingly. Another method is to hold your new door against the old one and trace it along using the old door as a reference. Use a pencil and measuring tape to ensure the markings aren't off-base. If you need to make estimates, round up, not down.
To measure the standard internal door sizes with the help of a frame, measure using the inside of your frame. Be sure to measure the height from three points (top, middle, bottom) and the width from two points (left and right) to ensure that your measurement is correct throughout.
Step 3: Cut And Trim New Door To Size
After using any of these methods to measure and mark your door, you now need to cut and trim it according to the new size. As far as cutting the door is concerned, you will need to use a tool like a hacksaw or any suitable substitute. For trimming and making smaller adjustments, a planer should do the trick.
Step 4: Measure Hinges
Measuring hinges, without a doubt, is one of the most crucial steps to follow while hanging a door. Your calculation here has to be spot on so that everything fits together well, and there is no room for errors.
You can measure your hinges the same way you did with the door - by using the old one as a reference. Another method is also making completely new markings on the door according to the size of your old hinges.
Step 5: Fit Hinges
To fit the hinges, mark a location on your door frame (which is ideally 11 inches from the bottom for the second hinge and 7 inches from the top for the first hinge). Place the hinge at these marks and draw a rough outline. From there, you can use a knife to trace the lines and make it easier to cut later.
You can then use a chisel and a hammer to cut the mortise in the shape of the hinge using the faint outline you created with the knife. Repeat this step for the second hinge as well. Then, place your hinges on these holes and use your drill to fit the screws on the door. Repeat the same step on the door frame.
Step 6: Hang The Door
After following the above steps, you've almost learnt how to install an interior door correctly. Now, all you need to do is connect the door to the jamb and adjust it so that both the hinges on the door fit their corresponding parts in the frame properly. This might take some adjusting, but be patient. You can even use a small block to support the door from below.
Finally, use the hinge pins to secure the hinges tightly on the door. Then, make sure you've fit the door well by opening and closing it several times and testing it properly.
How To Fit An Internal Door Handle
Step 1: Fit Latch
After you have successfully learnt how to install a door, you can now look closely at adding a few final steps. One of them is fitting a latch.
One of the most common latches is a mortice latch that essentially has a catch that can be pushed down to open the door. This latch has a keep fitted inside the door frame which is connected to the main latch via a spring. To install this latch, you need to first mark the centre of the door and decide where you want to put the handle.
Hold the latch against the door and mark the spindle centre with reference to the point where you marked the centre of the door. Following this, drill a hole for the spindle and door latch.
Step 2: Fit The Handle
To fit the handle, first, take the plating and attach it to the edge of the door with the help of screwdrivers. You will need to drill some holes prior to fitting this casing. After measuring the casing, drill the holes according to the four corners of the handle.
Now, connect the main handle with the latch plate or casing, and secure it with screwdrivers. Next, check whether the handle is functioning correctly by opening and closing the door. Make sure the latch is going inside the door frame when you pull the handle down. This will ensure the proper working of the door.
Now that you have successfully hung an internal door check everything properly to make sure your hard work has not gone to waste. Cover all bases - right from the working of the hinges to the functioning of the handle
A key aspect that is equally deserving of your attention is safety. Without any masks, gloves or safety goggles, these tools can cause serious injuries. Always wear all your protective gear before using heavy equipment like drills and saws. Make sure you have taken all the necessary precautions and only then carry on with your task.
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Shabana Kauser is the dynamic owner of Emerald Doors, the famous door-selling company in the UK with immense knowledge and experience in working with architecture, interior design, and home decor. She continues to share tips and technical know-how of balancing interior elements, door fittings, room aesthetics, and the like. Personally, she loves coffee, always dabbling with several blends. | <urn:uuid:6d7db7e0-b7e4-42bc-bc04-93d8cc33c4f5> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.emeralddoors.co.uk/blogs/news/hang-internal-door | 2024-04-22T22:30:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.930529 | 1,435 |
Don’t know where to start with importing household goods to New Zealand? We have the information you need to get the process going:
- How to avoid border clearance problems
- Items to declare
- Prohibited and restricted items
- Importing vehicles and pets
- Packing tips
Let’s start with the three things to do to get your goods through customs as quickly as possible.
1. Prepare an inventory
A detailed inventory listing all items in the consignment must accompany your shipment. You must also declare the necessary items. See our packing tips at the end of the article to making this process simpler.
2. Complete the necessary declarations
You’ll need to complete an Unaccompanied Personal Baggage Declaration form if your personal items are shipped by sea or by air.
Should your shipment contain goods that pose a biosecurity risk, it’s advisable to complete a Personal Effects Supplementary Declaration. This declaration provides more information about specific items and could change the risk status of your consignment.
3. Provide the required documentation
Personal goods being shipped to New Zealand must be accompanied by:
- A completed NZCS 218: Unaccompanied Personal Baggage Declaration
- A completed sea container Quarantine Declaration (for full container loads)
- A detailed inventory
- A completed sea container Quarantine Declaration, if you’re shipping a full container load
- Valid treatment certificates for goods that have been fumigated, heat treated or cleaned
- The shipping arrival papers, for instance Bill of Lading, Airway Bill or Arrival Advice
- Supplementary declaration, which provides more information about specific items and could change the risk status of your consignment.
- Any permits you need, for example:
Items to declare
New Zealand maintains the right to inspect certain items once these items have entered its borders to maintain the country’s strict health and safety standards. These items must be declared and include:
- Fresh or dried fruit, vegetables, mushrooms or fungi
- Any meat, fish, shellfish or poultry
- Ingredients used in cooking, all milk products, cheese, eggs or eggs products, and milk-based baby foods
- Hunting trophies or stuffed animals
- Traditional or herbal medicines or remedies, health supplements and homeopathic remedies that include animal or plant parts
- Dried flower arrangements or Christmas decorations made from plant material
- Items made from wood
- Items stuffed with seeds or straw
- Items made from bamboo, cane, coconut or straw
- Items containing hair, fur, unprocessed wool, skin, feathers or bone
- All outdoor, camping, sports equipment, hiking boots and other sporting footwear that could be contaminated with soil, seeds or water
- Animal grooming and veterinary equipment, beekeeping equipment, saddles, bridles, bird cages and pet beds
- Gardening equipment and outdoor furniture
This is not an exhaustive list, so check with your importer or with customs if you’re unsure about any items that you’re planning to take with you.
Restricted and prohibited items
Some personal items are prohibited or restricted from entering New Zealand:
- Any packets of food
- Honey, pollen, propolis, honeycombs and other bee products
- Plants, bulbs, cuttings, corms, rhizomes or tubers, commercially packed seeds and seeds for planting
- Packaging such as straw or used fresh food cartons
- Items restricted under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) such as coral, ivory, snakeskin or whale bone items, turtle shell and some sea shells.
It is best to leave these items behind when packing for you move, unless you can ensure that is accompanied by official certification.
We’ll also advise you to read up on New Zealand’s restricted and prohibited items. You can get the information you need from New Zealand’s Customs Service.
Importing vehicles and pets
You are allowed to take your car and your pets to New Zealand, but you’ll have to meet all the requirements to be able to do so.
You can find out more about importing cars from the New Zealand Transport Agency. To learn how to import your pet, consult the Ministry of Primary Industries.
If you pack properly when moving your household goods to New Zealand, you’ll minimize the time it takes to inspect your goods. Here are tips for achieving this:
1. Create a packing list:
Record all boxes and what is in each box. Also include a description of what the goods are made from. For example, metal bed frame or cane basket.
2. Label and number:
Number the packing boxes and match the numbers on your packing list. Be sure to use permanent marker to write on boxes when you’re labelling them. Don’t use sticky labels, as these often fall off during the move.
3. Cartons and packing materials:
It is best to not use second-hand boxes or bags, unless you’re absolutely certain these are free from animal or plant material. Additionally don’t use straw, sawdust, wood shavings or other plant materials as packing or filler.
4. Pack items in groups:
Pack similar goods together and group the boxes together.
5. Pack for safety:
Securely wrap sharp or breakable objects such as knives or ceramic items. Clearly mark boxes with medical items, dangerous goods, or any items that could pose a safety risk. Do not pack flammable items such as fireworks or paint thinners.
Summarising importing household goods to New Zealand
You have to create a packing list, ensure that you provide the required documents, and declare the necessary items to import your goods when moving to New Zealand. Please also refer to the Ministry of Primary Industries (MIP) and New Zealand Customs websites for more information.
You’ll also make your life much easier if you work with a shipping company that specializes in the import and export of household goods. Such a company would be able to advise on the costs, the forms, and the general requirements when shipping your family’s belongings.
Sources: MIP and New Zealand Customs
No EOI selections for residence under the Skilled Migrant and Parent categories for another 6 months
Immigration New Zealand announced on Monday, 19 October, that it’s deferring the fortnightly selection of Expressions of Interest under the Skilled Migrant and Parent categories for a further 6 months. The decision to defer this process was first made back in April due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The New Zealand Government has said that the continued deferral will give INZ the space to focus on processing applications from people who are in New Zealand or people who are eligible to travel while border restrictions are in place.
Can migrants still submit Expressions of Interest?
This is what Intergate Emigration’s licensed advisors had to say when we asked them this question:
“The Expression of Interest for the Parent category is a hard copy that’s couriered to New Zealand, so while EOI selection is closed, migrants are going to be unable to submit EOIs. Applicants will have to wait for the EOI selection to reopen again.
Our advice to skilled migrant applicants would be to also wait for EOI selections to reopen again. EOIs from offshore applicants are only eligible for selection with 160 points and a job offer, so it won’t make sense to submit an EOI in the interim. The best plan of action would be to look at the temporary route first and to do an assessment to ensure that you qualify for the visa.”
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Future Malware Evolving into Python-Based Cryptocurrency Mining Threats Using Stolen NSA Exploits and Cryptojacking
Whether you believe in evolution or not, in the technology world there is a constant shift that clearly demonstrates how malware threats are evolving at the hands of creative hackers who look to weaponize exploits to eventually cash-in on victimized computer users. In the vast landscape of malware, we are currently witnessing a giant leap in the evolution of today's common threats, that being ransomware turned into cryptocurrency mining malware.
With cryptocurrencies being in such high demands, it's no wonder that cybercrooks are leveraging cryptocurrency in many different forms as a platform for newly-created malware to attack. In the recent months, researchers from all over have found malware authors wielding the ETERNALBLUE and ETERNALROMANCE exploits to place their targets on cryptocurrency. In the process of creating such threats, malware authors have created many different examples of Python-based malware threats to essentially mine through a process called cryptojacking.
This Week In Malware Episode 22 Part 3: Browser-Based CryptoJacking Cases Increase To New Unseen Levels In 2020
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What are Examples of Cryptocurrency Mining Threats?
Among the many new threats to come out of the latest batch of Python-based malware is Adylkuzz, Smominru, and WannMine, which researchers believe to be an updated variant of the popularized WannaCry Ransomware threat that spread to hundreds of thousands of systems around the world. Each threat when aimed at a vulnerable computer is essentially the act of cryptojacking, or taking over specific functions of a computer and using it to mine cryptocurrency.
The exploit kits ETERNALBLUE and ETERNALROMANCE are more or less exploits developed by the NSA (U.S. National Security Agency) once primarily used in taking advantage of a vulnerability within Microsoft's Server Message Block (SMB). Essentially, an exploit kit is a bundled software package or toolkit that hackers or computer 'experts' use to perform targeted actions or deliver other software in an unconventional method. Not expected, hackers stole the exploit kits and leveraged on new unprecedented levels to aggressively spread malware on systems with known vulnerabilities that the exploit kit can easily mitigate. As it turns out, the exploit kits are not heavily utilized in the propagation of many threats, including the popularized Monero Miner (XMR) that is used to mine the Monero cryptocurrency via infected computers.
FortiGuard Labs, one of the many security solution services to initiate research on the new string of malware that is currently leveraging exploit kits to spread and actively mine cryptocurrency, discovered the threat called "PyRoMine." PyRoMine is one of many threats to leverage the ETERNALROMANCE exploit kit to spread. Within the crosshairs of PyRoMine lies many vulnerable PCs that can be attacked by a stand-alone executable file, which is the premises of hackers utilizing Python-based compiler to bundle the threat into a single entity. Fundamentally, use of a Python-based threat is a much easier method for attacking vulnerable computers, which is done using the PyInstaller to package a program written in Python to be a stand-alone executable file that may be included in a downloaded ZIP file.
What’s in Store for the Cryptocurrency Mining Barrage?
The ability to mine cryptocurrency, or cryptojacking, is commonly done on dedicated machines that utilize a large amount of electricity. In the scope of what hackers can do with a multitude of infected PCs instructed to mine cryptocurrency will not only leverage computers in a way that victims notice a higher electric bill, but many of the systems' resources will be sapped to the point of being useless for essential functions.
While ransomware in its traditional form continues to be a serious threat, among the most dangerous we have seen in the history of the computer and Internet, cryptocurrency mining threats may emerge to be the king of the hill.
In some ways, computer security researchers and experts alike will find it in their best interest to treat the outbreak of new cryptocurrency mining threats much like we would with a human viral plaque. It behooves them to ward off further threats and learn as much about them as they can to prepare for the imminent dangers that will later spread at unprecedented levels.
What’s in store for the future of Cryptojacking?
Cryptojacking, as we suspect, will evolve into a continual issue as the cryptocurrency craze continues. Vulnerable computer users may not necessarily identify cryptojacking scenarios as quickly as they would the plethora of other traditional malware threats. Being that cryptojacking has taken on an entirely new face, one that is mostly unrecognizable by the average computer user, it naturally has a leg up on its ability to attack through website-delivered scripts, which in turn can infect a system through visiting a hacked website.
The unseen dire circumstances of cryptojacking can affect organizations and personal computers to leverage CPU resources and Internet connectivity to bring an attacked computer to its knees ultimately. Because cryptojacking is an underlayer of cryptocurrency mining, it should be treated with special attention and prompt computer users to keep their system updated with the latest version of their web browser, operating system, and anti-virus/anti-malware software.
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To protect consumers, most of the countries have regulations. The information of name of the material, heat resisting temperature of food contact, whether it’s one-time use or reusable must be shown. Hence, business owners can pay attention to the external label of plastic containers. Besides, at the bottom of many plastic packaging, a triangle sign is shown. The number is a Resin identification code. We can learn the material by checking it. However, most laws don’t stipulate that composite materials have to be marked separately. It’s most helpful to learn more about plastic.
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I have read that slowly the Byzantine Varangian Guard, were slowly replaced by English mercenaries, so some connection. Though I was reading an English historian, they think a lot is just invented, such as at Sutton Hoo, the artifacts are of Saxon style, though of British craftsmanship.
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In line with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's 2030 vision on empowering women and in cooperation with the Gulf Alliance and Saudi Aramco, "Which is a leading national energy company”, The Eastern Province Driving Academy was established. The Academy was provided with the latest technologies, to be the latest driving academy for women’s driving in the Kingdom.
The Academy is located in Al-Ahsa, Al-Mubarraz (near Aramco Industrial Training Center).
The Eastern Province Driving Academy (EPDA), contains approximately one hundred Saudi driving vehicles and instructress who were qualified by the best certified driving experts from the company, “Swedish company working in the field of road safety training”.
Our courses are in line with UK Institute of Automotive Industry training and the International Driver Education Association, and the driver training methodology has been accredited by AA Driving School in the UK. This ensures that the driving education standard is constantly updated to keep pace with the latest advanced driving technologies.
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BCAA supplementation has been shown to reduce the serum activities of intramuscular enzymes associated with muscle damage.
Intake of BCAAs can help contribute to enhancing exercise performance by exerting its influence on fatigue, muscle damaging substances (lactate dehydrogenase) and energy metabolism substances.
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I forgot my password. How do I find it?
Click on the "Forgot your password?" link located on the Registration page. You will be asked to enter the email address you use to set up your account. The password will be emailed to you.
Is there a way of changing my password?
Yes. You may edit your password by clicking on the "Change Password" link located under "My Account" on your main Registration page once you login.
I could not print my invoice. Is there a way of printing my invoice after I have already registered?
Yes. If you log back into the Online Registration site, you will receive a listing of all of your Registrants and you will be given the option to view and print the receipts from there.
Can I pay with Cheques?
At this time payment is by Credit Card Only.
Can I pay with cash?
To pay with cash you must contact the Registrar and arrange for a time to drop off payment.
When will I be contacted on evaluation skate dates?
Everyone should be contacted by (Date TBC). If you have not been contacted by this date, please email the office, [email protected] with your child's name, age and your phone number.
Can I request that my child play with his friend for carpooling purposes?
You may speak to your Convenor at an evaluation skate date.
What documentation do I need if I want to coach?
In order to coach in the Mississauga Hockey League, you require a current Criminal Record Check (available at the MHL Office) and certain Hockey Canada required courses. Your first step is to complete a coach application on our website.
When does body checking start?
the MHL and GTHL Competitive 'A' level and Recreational (House) League are now considered "non-contact". Body checking in a game will result in a penalty being assessed.
Where do I get more information?
Throughout the Erindale Hockey website and our bulletin board, which is to the right as you enter Erin Mills Twin Arenas, to keep up with the latest news at Erindale. Should you require further information please email [email protected]
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As a doctor, your profession is treating people and helping them avoid contracting diseases. However, for your business to survive in today’s competitive market, you will need to draw clients to your clinic or hospital. But how exactly do you do this?
Most people have turned to search engines to find doctors within their area. This means you should be optimizing your website to rank higher on search engine results pages (SERP) for you to stay ahead of your competition. This is the role that SEO for doctors plays.
How SEO for Doctors Saves You Time and eliminates Stress
There are a myriad of doctor SEO strategies that we could apply to drive your medical website’s traffic. With high web traffic and a high conversion rate, you are assured that your sales will stay above your competitors. Some of the benefits of well-thought doctor SEO strategies include:
Higher Targeted Leads
If you searched for a doctor on google right now, you would receive millions of results. But if you searched for a doctor within a specific geographic position, you will note that the results drop significantly. Search engine optimization for doctors puts your website in front of potential clients who are looking for medical services you offer in real-time.
Since the leads from local medical SEO are more targeted and a great fit for your profession, the chances that the searcher will visit your website for more information are high. Traffic from local searches has a higher conversion rate.
It is Affordable
Compared to traditional advertising, medical practice SEO is way cheaper. Traditional advertising is limited in terms of its reach and has a shorter life span. On the other hand, You can reach a larger audience over a longer duration of time with just a low cost with SEO for doctors.
Not only does doctor SEO offer a high return on investment, but it also allows your business to compete fairly for organic traffic with larger medical practices that have the capital to invest in bigger ad campaigns.
It Will Make You A Source of Authority
SERP rankings are, in part, determined by the traffic visiting your site and how these visitors interact with the site. Do they respond by spending more time on your site, or do they immediately bounce back the SERP for a better option?
For this reason, websites ranking high on the search engine results page are viewed as being more trustworthy compared to those with low rankings. As your ranking goes up with the help of an expert in SEO for medical practice, the public interest in your practice increases as well. Public trust is a critical factor when one is choosing a physician.
SEO Tips for Doctors
Now that you know what SEO for doctors can do for your practice and marketing strategy, following these medical SEO tips will help accelerate the process:
Local SEO for Doctors
Most people prefer visiting the doctor near their home or location. This means that their google search will definitely include a specific town or neighborhood. Local SEO helps optimize your website for such searches. It will help you reach more potential clients.
It entails including your location in the web page content, the URL, title tag, and meta description. Also, be sure to include your address at the page’s footer. This address should be the same across all the website pages, Google Maps, social media pages, and online medical directories.
Creating Quality Original Content
There are a number of ranking factors that search engines consider when ranking web pages for SERP. Fresh and relevant content, traffic, and the number of web pages are some of them. To make sure your website is ever updated, consider publishing a fresh post every week.
Creating new content not only adds pages to your website but also helps attract more potential visitors and clients. When creating the content, focus on topics that draw more attention and use keywords that most people use when searching the topic on search engines.
Most importantly, make sure your page content is unique, interesting, and helpful to potential clients. Search engines also penalize copied content.
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When your medical website content is referenced by practitioners, it becomes more credible and subsequently ranks higher in SERP. The results are even better when reputable websites in the medical profession link to your content.
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Paris has honoured Ahmad Shah Massoud with a plaque that recognises him as a hero of Afghanistan.
An Afghan rebel leader, who was assassinated after warning the European parliament of the dangers of Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, has been honoured in Paris with a plaque recognising him as a hero of Afghanistan.
Ahmad Shah Massoud first visited Paris exactly 20 years ago, and on Saturday the city's mayor Anne Hidalgo was there to receive his son.
His father studied at a French lycee in Afghanistan, and in April 2001, he made his first visit to Europe.
He spoke to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, warning them about Al-Qaeda and bin Laden, just months before the September 11 terror attacks in the United States.
Two days before those attacks, Massoud was assassinated by Al-Qaeda.
Alongside other mujahideen, Massoud fought against the Soviet Union after it invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
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Thank you & welcome to Europa-Remodeling online. We are a remodeling company located in Katy, Tx and we serve the surrounding Houston area and all of Texas. We offer high-quality kitchen cabinets and bathroom cabinets that are made and manufactured in Germany. The materials and hardware used for all kitchens and bathroom cabinets are manufactured by the biggest kitchen cabinets manufacturer in Europe. Daily, over 3500 kitchens are produced, quality tested and shipped from the corporate headquarters in Germany. Our kitchens offer exceptional value for money and are made to satisfy a wide variety of lifestyles and tastes. The German manufacturer is among the most modern and efficient manufacturing sites for kitchen fixtures and furniture in all of Europe. Granted, every kitchen is unique - all are custom designed with the utmost precision. The high degree of automation guarantees that our standard of quality remains constant.
We encourage you to visit our kitchen and bathroom cabinet showroom near Houston in Katy, TX. It's only 25 miles away from Houston downtown. So you can assure yourself of the high-quality we provide. We also invite you to view our wide variety of cabinets, countertops, and kitchen and bathroom accessories offered - all available to touch and feel in our showroom in Katy, near Houston.
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The MEEA provide scholarships to enable Indian students to spend one year studying in France for the second year of their MSc degree. The scholarship amount totals €1000 per month for 10 months for the duration of a course. Various other support can be provided, including meetings with sponsors, internship offers, health insurance, APL and intensive French courses.
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Professionals in light, sound and video technology. Purple Group has been a technical supplier for festivals, dance, pop, rock events, (proms) concerts and a large number of (inter) national tours and bands for over 25 years. We rent out light, sound and video. In addition, we have the necessary technicians and transport options to make every production successful. Over the years, Purple Group and its employees have gained a lot of experience in the field of festivals and other (live) events. Because of this we are cut from the right stuff and festival blood flows through our veins. We know how to handle your event and the artists present. In addition, our materials and necessary infrastructure are designed in such a way that they are tailored to festivals, so that we are not faced with surprises. You work directly with the work planner / project manager to keep the lines short! Also for LED screens. As a technical supplier we offer both light & sound and our own LED screens. So you do not have to switch with different technical parties. We use our years of experience and expertise to provide you with the best possible support and the correct information. Together we make your event even better.
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Eventtia is delighted to announce that it has completed a new integration with Latin America’s leading online payments platform, Mercado Pago. Responding to customer demand, this new integration will provide customers across the region with a new option to receive payments.
MercadoPago is a payment platform with a strong presence in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. With the integration, attendees can now purchase tickets and event-related services with major credit and debit cards, bank transfers, and cash payments.
Following integrations with Stripe, PayU, Paypal, Wombi and Ingenico this is the fifth payment platform that customers will now have to manage payments with Eventtia.
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After a suggestion by Phil T at Cambridge Teslathon I tried to make a slow motion video using my EMIpi
After finding the right command line for high frame rate from https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-camera-mode-released/ I tried the 90 FPS at 640/480 pixels
As I had no way to view the videos I had no idea what I’d captured. Until after the Thon.
Returning home I found a problem. First I hadnt got a .264 player, and then when I played the videos they were at normal speed.
Reading up on .264 the frame rate isn’t encoded in the video, so the player will try to play them at normal speed. A quick google revealed the answer if you use a program called GPac https://gpac.wp.mines-telecom.fr/mp4box/ you can re-encode the videos at mp4 and re-sample them at whatever viewing rate you like.
This is my test video shot at 90fps and re-sampled at 5fps (1/6 real speed see below)
and the same video re-sampled at 1fps (1/30 real speed see below)
The actual speed in these videos is open to debate.
The first one should be 18 times slower than “real” and the second 90 time slower than real. But if that were true the frames would change one a second, and that is clearly not the case.
So my guess is that MP4box is assuming that the original video was 30fps (not 90fps) so setting a frame rate in MP4box of 30fps would give an actual speed of 1/3rd real. 10fps therefore would be 1/9th real, and 1fps would be 1/30th real.
I should be able to prove this as I know the break rate of the coil, and should be able to analyse the arc progression with each bang.
Downside is obviously the resolution.
I need to try the other modes.
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A pair of Tesla fanatics in Belgium proved you can drive a Tesla Model S more than 560 miles (900 kilometers) on a single charge. That is a record, for now. It involves some tradeoffs, though: flat roads, light traffic, slow speeds, and no climate control.
Steven Peeters and Joeri Cools drove at speeds around 25 mph (40 kph) as the car ran for just under 24 hours on the 100-kilowatt hour battery of a new Tesla S P100D.
The record-setting Tesla P100D. Belgian police at first thought it was a self-driving prototype. Credit: Steven PeetersHow they set up for the challenge
According to a post(Opens in a new window) by Peeters, the previous endurance record for a Tesla was 452.8 miles (728.7 km) in a Tesla P85D. An 546.8-mile (880-km) run was discounted because it included downhill segments. Peeters had just acquired a Tesla P100D with a 100-kWh lithium-ion battery. He swapped Michelin Primacy tires on 19-inch alloys. The Model S P100D is rated at 315 miles range in mor e ormal driving.
They searched Google Maps and Street View for a course that was flat and with little traffic, a challenge in Belgium, and settled on a circuit near the port of Antwerp. They then waited for a good weather forecast.
The 26-km (16-mile) loop used for most of the endurance test.23 hours, 45 minutes with no AC
The distance-racers set the start and finish point as a 22-kW charger close by the main "track" of 26 km. By repeatedly driving the same loop, they learned the best line for lowest energy consumption. They experimented with speeds, and found small differences really did affect efficiency. Peeters write in his blog:The first few rounds we were really looking at all the different options and what they meant for our power consumption. Of course, A/C was out of the question, but would using the fan only be more efficient than cracking the windows slightly to get some fresh air? Would folding the mirrors be more efficient? What is the optimum speed to drive at? Etc. You would be surprised to find out that 40kph [24.8 mph] is actually the most efficient speed. Both 38kph and 42kph already showed quite a difference in consumption. We were definitely not expecting that. As for the other questions, we did learn a lot about driving economically, but we’ll keep that [t]o ourselves for now and let the other potential nut cases figure that out on their own :-).
At one point they were pulled over by the police, who suspected the "TEST" sign in the rear window indicated a self-driving car; assured that it was just a slow-moving endurance test car, the cops radioed their colleagues to leave them alone. As night turned to day, the forecast for 22 degrees C (72 degrees F) became 26 degrees C (79 degrees F) and the car, with no AC, reached 38 degrees C or 100 degrees F. "It was just like sitting in hell and the sun was really burning," Peeters wrote. "We let a sigh of relief every time we turned back around and had the sun behind us, were the tinted windows provided some protection."
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Microsoft wowed everyone with its AI demos in early 2023, causing Google to make an unforced error when it tried to respond. The explosion of interest in AI has made Microsoft trendy again after years of looking like yesterday's news, and it's wasting no time monetizing the OpenAI partnership. The ChatGPT-powered Copilot features previously demoed for Microsoft 365 apps are almost ready for prime time, but they won't be included with the base subscription. Businesses that want Copilot in Office apps, will have to pay an additional $30 per month for every user.
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Despite the national epidemic of family violence, the federal government are still leaving women in danger -- by failing to provide adequate federal funding for the services needed to help women escape abusive relationships. It means that thousands of women who take the brave step of trying to escape an abuser are being left with nowhere to turn.
We can't let this go on. That means speaking up and holding the government accountable until the provide family violence services with the funding they need to help stop this horrific abuse. Can you take 5 minutes to send the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women Michaelia Cash about this issue via [email protected]?
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- Explain the reason you're emailing - Let the Minister know that you're emailing because you're very concerned that the federal government are leaving women in danger, by failing to provide adequate funding for the services needed to help women escape abusive relationships - and leaving many with nowhere to turn.
Let the Minister know that you want the government to commit to fully fund the services needed to help women escape abuse, and to prevent abuse in the future. That means providing full funding for services like:
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Legal assistance services - can be critical to ensure a woman is able to find out where she stands with family law, and to feel able to escape her abuser. Community Legal Centres (CLCs), are an important provider of this support -- in fact a third of the work they do is family violence related. But inadequate government funding for CLCs meant more than 150,000 people aren't able to get the help they need every year, among them family violence victims.
At the same time Family Violence Prevention Legal Services - which provide specialist and culturally safe services for Aboriginal women are also unable to meet demand.
The Productivity Commission has told the federal government the legal assistance sector as a whole needs an urgent injection of $120 million. - Men's behaviour change programs - work with men who use violent and controlling behaviour to prevent and minimise the harm of family violence. These programs are calling for an additional $56 million of funding, on top of services needed to support women and prevent further violence), to improve and expand on current services.
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Pacific Games and Fiji’s long distance champion Yeshnil Karan has hopes of qualifying for the Paris Olympic Games alive.
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Luke Hochevar had just become a champion, the winning pitcher in an epic, World Series-clinching victory for the Kansas City Royals. Amid the hysteria of hugs and dogpiles and Gatorade showers, Hochevar found himself standing behind the pitcher’s mound, taking all of it in with a macro, decade-long view.
“God just set before my eyes everything that this organization has come through,” Hochevar said earlier this season, “… knowing God has His hand in it.”
The Royals came from behind in eight of their 11 postseason victories, including a ninth-inning, two-run deficit in the Series-clinching Game 5. Team attributes such as relentlessness and clubhouse culture can be difficult to measure. They had to seem even more esoteric back in 2007 when Dayton Moore, entering his first full season as a general manager, cast a grand vision focusing as much on high-minded, heart-level principles as it did on arm strength or swing mechanics.
“The first meeting he had in spring training in 2007, he laid out what he foresaw this organization being down the road,” Hochevar said. “Not only that, but how we’re going to address that and change the culture and turn this into a winning atmosphere.”
The slow build is a lost art in modern-day sports, where quick fixes rule and teams reinvent themselves more often than we see a new presidential election.
But the Royals placed their trust in Moore, who has led the franchise’s return to the top of Major League Baseball. It happened in large part because they empowered a man who desires to tether nearly every major decision to Scripture and whose leadership principles come from Jesus, not the latest and greatest podcast.
“He’s just a good man who really loves his family, really loves Jesus and really loves baseball,” said Christian Newsome, pastor at Journey City International in Lee’s Summit, Mo., and one of Moore’s closest advisers. “He is the real deal.”
For Moore, a humble deferral covers all of who he is—and who he strives to be.
“If there’s anything good in me at all,” he is fond of saying, “it comes from Jesus.”
• • •
Dayton Moore holds his immediate family very close. When rattling off his roles, husband and father are the “most important” he has.
Moore had just finished his graduate work and was an assistant baseball coach at George Mason University when he married Marianne on Sept. 5, 1992. They are now the parents of Ashley (20), Avery (17) and Robert (14).
All professions have the potential to be all-consuming, but general manager of an MLB team is uniquely demanding. Moore’s baseball year begins with eight weeks—largely away from his family—at spring training. Then comes the six-month stretch of professional sports’ most grueling regular season, flittering from roster decisions to disabled lists to draft choices to trade deadlines. The high-stakes, drama-filled postseason comes next—which took the Royals all the way through October in 2014 and 2015. And finally, the outdatedly termed “offseason” is filled with free agency, phone calls and organizational meetings.
The Moore Family: Robert, Avery, Dayton, Ashley and Marianne while in Israel in 2015.
Moore guards against being overrun by all of it and encourages others to do the same.
“Every year in spring training he says, ‘Your family is more important than this,’” Hochevar said. “‘You take care of home, and baseball will be fine. But you take care of home first.’”
Five days after the Royals won the 2015 World Series, the Moore family headed to Israel on a missions trip with a team from Journey City International. The trip overlapped with MLB’s GM meetings, where the seeds of free-agent deals and trades often are planted. Moore’s absence was questioned in some baseball circles, specifically the media.
But Moore was taking care of home first.
“To watch him walk through the streets of Jerusalem with his arm around his daughter,” Newsome said. “To watch him throw rocks into the Sea of Galilee with his son, Robert. To see him holding hands with his wife, Marianne, walking through the Valley of Elah where David killed Goliath … I saw him at tremendous peace over there.
“And I saw him tremendously engaged with his family, probably in a way that everyday life being a general manager doesn’t afford.”
• • •
Moore was born in Wichita, Kan., to Robert and Penne. The family spent time in Kansas, Florida, Tennessee, New York and eventually Moline, Illinois, as his dad’s career as an aviation mechanic instructor dictated.
While Robert’s job meant he wasn’t around “as much as we’d like,” Dayton admired his father’s work ethic and dedication to provide for his family. He also saw more than enough of a glimpse to understand what a “spiritual leader” looked like.
“I knew a relationship with Jesus was important because I saw that modeled,” Dayton said. “My father, he was my hero, like a lot of little boys. When presented with the opportunity to have Jesus as a part of my life and accept Him into my heart and soul, it was a natural thing to do.”
That decision grew deeper roots while Moore was playing baseball for Garden City (Kansas) Community College. He was invited to a Bible study, giving him perhaps one of his most formative early examples of what a positive clubhouse culture could foster.
“You’re away from home for the first time, and you’re looking for deeper relationships outside your family,” Moore said. “And for the first time, I really understood.”
That, in part, is why Kansas City always stayed with Moore and why he fully understands the privilege and platform that comes with being the Royals’ general manager.
He is a driving force behind the Kansas City MLB Urban Youth Academy, which has a goal of providing free baseball, softball, educational and vocational programs for 1,000 local children. And, in 2014, he and Marianne started the “C” You In The Major Leagues Foundation to use youth baseball to develop character-driven leaders, help families in crisis, and support education and faith-based initiatives. His speaking calendar each December and January is packed with appearances on behalf of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and other ministries. He has encouraged and exhorted 300-plus pastors in the middle of Kansas City, and he has hopped in a car for a 10-hour round trip to Dodge City, Kansas, to share the gospel and motivate donors and FCA staff.
“He’s the first person to the event and the last person out,” said Marcellus Casey, FCA’s multi-area director for Missouri and Kansas. “The resources he has he holds with an open hand, and that increases our FCA ministry.”
For Moore, road trips are a swirl of relationship-building and competition. He always drives, Casey said, and he sets a clear goal of how many cars he must pass in between stops for gas. When he does slow down, he makes friends.
“At every gas station, I would be at the door ready to leave, and Dayton would be talking to them, asking how their crops are doing, knowing someone they know,” Casey said. “He’s going to get to know people, in the hotel lobby or wherever we stopped for lunch.”
• • •
Some of Dayton Moore’s favorite words—accountability, transparency, forgiveness, empowered, unashamed—are not merely tidy catchphrases to put on a Twitter bio. (He doesn’t have an account.) Rather, they are the template for everyday life, in every area of his life, and Moore said they are “absolutely crucial to have the proper balance as a husband and father and professional.”
Moore worked his way into Major League Baseball as an area scout with the Atlanta Braves, steadily climbing the ladder from 1994 through 2005 as a key member of a front office that oversaw 11 consecutive division titles.
Moore has made it a priority to engage with the Kansas City community, like speaking at local events.
In the early 2000s, Moore discovered the book, “The Management Methods of Jesus: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Business.” The mix of everyday situations and eternal perspective resonated with Moore. When he took the Royals job, he set his own management approach with many of those lessons in mind. Among the central tenets: forgiveness and relentlessness. He expects those of himself before everyone else, and he knows the two are intricately connected.
“There’s all kinds of critics in this game. Even people within your organization that think there’s a better way to do things,” Moore said. “I can never recall a single day in my life where I haven’t thought about this game. But the truth of the matter is you go through periods where you do think about quitting.
Moore loves investing in local up and coming ball players and hosts an annual youth baseball camp.
“Usually, when you trace that back to why you feel that way, it always leads to the forgiveness piece. There’s something in my life that’s making me angry—whether it’s a relationship I need to repair or something else I need to deal with. I don’t think I’d be able to do that without my faith.”
Newsome and Tim Cash, the longtime chaplain with the Braves whom Moore calls his “spiritual mentor,” are two men whom have been given total access. They take turns staying with him during spring training, witnessing his relentless reading of Scripture every morning, and hearing the worship music piped into the room at all times.
“This guy is an honest-to-God follower of Jesus and is very unashamed of it,” Newsome said. “Not boastful about it. Not arrogant about it. But if you spend time with him, you know it.”
Newsome and Cash sit in on front-office meetings and hear phone conversations he has with reporters. That can lead to exploring the difference between a critical eye (someone “can perhaps uncover a blind spot”) and a critical spirit (“Maybe they enjoy that you’re struggling or you’re down, and I have to give that away to Jesus,” Moore said).
It’s all part of how Moore’s desired organizational harmony begins with him.
• • •
In the mid-1970s through the 1985 season, the Royals went to the playoffs seven times and played in the World Series twice—winning once.
But following the 1985 championship, for nearly three decades, that era became nostalgic at best as hope dwindled in a city known for its sports passion. From 1986 through 2012, Kansas City lost 90 or more games 13 times and never even sniffed the playoffs.
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Yes, that includes the first five-plus seasons of Moore’s tenure. Under many modern paradigms, that would have had everyone from the fans to owner David Glass question the prudence of “the process” Moore is so fond of citing.
“How can we get better each and every day?” Moore said. “How can we create a special environment where people want to work and players want to play? Period.”
Culture change revolved a lot around belief. And not the kind that would be fleeting. He wanted to hire people who “believed deeply in what we were doing” and find players who “believe in each other and do whatever they can to support each other.”
Moore hasn’t simply demanded that. He’s shown how to do it.
Brian Flynn was traded to the Royals in the winter of 2014 and headed from his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, up to Kansas City for a physical. The Royals were the third organization of Flynn’s career, so he’d been through the routine before. Not long after arriving at Kauffman Stadium, however, Flynn ran into Moore, who asked him about where he was from, his family and how he was raised.
“Not all clubs are like that. He has a busy job and doesn’t have time to chit-chat,” Flynn said. “I just really respect the guys who are calling the shots around here. They’re just good dudes who actually stop and talk to you, get to know you as a person.”
From the highest-paid player on the roster to a left-handed reliever who has bounced between the minors and the big leagues, culture was equally important to Moore.
Manager Ned Yost and Glass were other huge pieces of the puzzle.
Like Moore, Yost had absorbed the excellence of the Braves organization. Specifically, Moore said, Yost found a model in how Bobby Cox “poured into people and let them do their jobs.”
Glass has proved more patient than many pro franchise owners. He has invested in Moore personally, sticking with his general manager and eventually giving him a contract extension. He has equipped Moore, signing the checks for the type of players Moore has sought to implement and maintain clubhouse culture. And Glass has empowered Moore, allowing a setting in which Moore can speak confidently about baseball and Jesus.
By 2013, the Royals turned the corner. They finished 86-76, which set the stage for the following two seasons: two American League pennants, one World Series title, 11 spots on the All-Star team.
“It’s just easier on everyone when you’re allowed to be yourself,” center fielder Lorenzo Cain said, “[and] allowed to be a man and go about your business.”
Business became fun, and the process was finding its fulfillment.
“My only goal is to do the right thing every day and treat people the right way,” Moore has told Newsome. “If I get to do it long enough, I promise it will work. If we run out of time, we will never regret a day of it.”
Recommended Read: For more about Dayton Moore’s “C” You In The Major Leagues (CYITML) Foundation, visit CYouInTheMajorLeagues.org. While there, order the revised edition of More Than A Season: Building A Championship Culture by Dayton Moore with Matt Fulks. (All proceeds from the sale of the book benefit CYITML.) |
Bringing It Home: Grand Vision Ready: “Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, but happy is he who keeps the law.” – Proverbs 29:18 (NASB) Set: Dayton Moore has always been a man of vision. Whether observing his father’s life of faith that inspired him to begin his own relationship with Christ or harboring a knack for baseball analytics and clubhouse culture through the top ranks of Major League Baseball, the driving force behind Moore’s determination has always been the strength of God. From the beginning of his tenure with the Kansas City Royals, Moore has set the standard of excellence and intentionality as a godly role model and leader. He advises players and staff members to “take care of family first,” and through that, baseball will take care of itself. Across a wide assortment of roles, Moore’s grand vision for his life leans on the love and guidance of God. In the front office or locker room, at church or home or hotel room, everything is done with Him. It’s his confidence in God’s guidance that gives him grace to embark in missional living with his players, family and, truly, anyone he meets. The question Moore often asks (“How can we get better each and every day?”) is one we should also be asking ourselves. God equips us for our sphere of influence. Despite the struggles and sacrifices it might take for His ultimate glory, we must take steps in faith with our eyes fastened upon the future. We can have confidence knowing that what He has planted in our hearts and minds will be brought to fruition in His perfect will and timing. Without a grand vision, our lives can quickly disintegrate and crumble, and we risk becoming only a shadow of the man or woman God created us to be. If we aren’t pierced by an underlying burden that prods us out of bed each day, we miss out on joining together with the Lord to bring light to a darkening world. God has placed within you plenty of possibilities with the desire that you hold tight to His promises and cultivate a life mission that lasts. What is your “What if?” Is there something seared across your heart that you’re prayerfully taking steps to cultivate and bring to life? Are you beginning to search through the secret things between you and God to make your part of the world a bit better? Determine God’s grand vision for your life and get to work. Allow Him to shape it and form it exactly as He means to. Go: • Do you know the grand vision for your life? Have you taken steps to bring it to pass? • How can you partner with God in your journey? • List three specific steps you can take to get your faith vision up and running. Workout: • Psalm 138:8 • Jeremiah 29:11 • Ephesians 2:10 Overtime: Lord, Let Your vision fall fresh on my spirit. I must make a stand for what my life looks like when I am surrendered to Your heart. Father, help me see the world around me and where You know I will best fit to share Your love. I have a quick attention span; keep me focused on the road You have set before me that will bring You glory. Amen. |
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”His Excellency the Governor of Rivers State, Barrister Nyesom Wike is a giver. He has a ministry of giving, like I have always said you cannot meet him and go back empty that is the kind of person he is,”
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike on Friday redeemed his pledge of $20,000 (#15,600,000) to each player and official of Rivers United that won the 2021/2022 Nigeria Professional Football League title, reports Prime Business Africa.
Governor Wike announced the donation of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000) to each player and official during a reception organized in Port Harcourt to honour the team for emerging champions of the NPFL in July.
Rivers State Commissioner for Sports, Barrister Chris Green redeemed the pledge on behalf of his Principal at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt on Friday evening.
The Governor said the gesture is in fulfilment of his earlier promise to reward those who bring honours to the state.
While speaking in a media chat after the presentation, Barrister Green extolled Governor Wike for his magnanimity and unending support to the club.
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Experience the Coastal Charm at Carolina Reef 206 - Perfect Vacation Condo
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With its recent renovations and modern furnishings, Carolina Reef 206 offers a stylish and comfortable retreat for guests seeking a coastal vacation in North Myrtle Beach. This one-bedroom vacation condo features a queen-size bed in the bedroom, perfect for a restful night's sleep. The living area also includes a queen-size sleeper sofa, providing additional sleeping space for up to four people. Guests can enjoy their favorite shows and movies on the HD flat screen TVs in both the living room and bedroom. The efficiency kitchen is equipped with new countertops and stainless steel appliances, allowing guests to prepare their own meals and snacks during their stay. Whether you're looking to relax by the pool, soak in the hot tub, or explore the nearby attractions, Carolina Reef 206 has everything you need for a perfect coastal getaway.
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For your convenience and to ensure maximum savings and exceptional service, you can book your stay at Carolina Reef 206 directly through Seaside Vacations. By booking directly with Seaside Vacations, you can take advantage of their easy and efficient booking process. Simply visit their website and check the availability details for Carolina Reef 206. If you have specific dates in mind, you can inquire about them along with any other questions you may have. Seaside Vacations provides a user-friendly platform where you can specify your travel dates and the location/destination of interest. In addition to the booking process, Seaside Vacations also offers customer reviews, allowing you to read about the experiences of previous guests who have stayed at Carolina Reef 206. This way, you can make an informed decision and have peace of mind before your vacation. Book your stay now and experience the coastal charm of Carolina Reef 206.
Carolina Reef unit 206 offers breathtaking, million dollar oceanfront views that will leave you in awe. Imagine waking up to the sound of crashing waves and stepping onto your private balcony to take in the panoramic vista of the sparkling blue ocean. This vacation condo is perfectly situated to provide you with the ultimate coastal relaxation experience. From the comfort of your own living space, you can watch dolphins playing in the distance and seabirds soaring above. The mesmerizing ocean views are not only stunning to look at, but they also offer endless opportunities for oceanfront activities. Whether you want to take a leisurely stroll along the beach, go for a swim in the refreshing waters, or simply bask in the sun while reading your favorite book, Carolina Reef unit 206 provides the ideal backdrop for your seaside getaway.
Convenient Crescent Beach Location
Nestled in the heart of North Myrtle Beach's Crescent Beach section, the convenient location of Carolina Reef unit 206 offers easy access to a variety of attractions and amenities. Here are four reasons why this vacation condo is the perfect choice for those seeking a coastal charm and a beachfront paradise:
- Proximity to popular shopping venues, restaurants, and entertainment allows you to explore the vibrant culture of North Myrtle Beach at your convenience.
- With approximately 100 golf courses in the area, golf enthusiasts will be delighted by the numerous options available for a round of their favorite sport.
- Families will find a plethora of family-friendly attractions nearby, ensuring that there is something for everyone to enjoy.
- Whether you are traveling solo, with a partner, or with your family, Carolina Reef unit 206 provides the ideal vacation rental option with its modern furnishings, spacious layout, and breathtaking ocean views.
Experience the convenience and coastal charm of the Crescent Beach location at Carolina Reef unit 206 for an unforgettable beachfront getaway.
Modern Furnishings and Amenities
With its newly renovated interior and modern furnishings, Carolina Reef unit 206 offers a stylish and comfortable vacation experience for guests seeking the perfect blend of coastal charm and contemporary amenities. The renovation process has transformed this vacation condo into a sleek and inviting space, with attention to detail and a focus on creating a relaxing atmosphere. The living area features a queen-size sleeper sofa and an HD flat-screen TV, perfect for cozy movie nights or catching up on your favorite shows. The bedroom boasts a comfortable queen-size bed and another HD flat-screen TV. The efficiency kitchen is equipped with new countertops and stainless steel appliances, making meal preparation a breeze. The modern furnishings and amenities of Carolina Reef unit 206 have received rave reviews from previous guests, who have praised the stylish design and the comfort it provides.
Family-Friendly Vacation Rental
This vacation condo is the perfect choice for families seeking a comfortable and enjoyable getaway in North Myrtle Beach. Here are four reasons why it's a family-friendly vacation rental:
Kid Friendly Activities: There are numerous family-friendly attractions nearby to keep the little ones entertained. From water parks and mini-golf courses to amusement parks and nature trails, there is something for everyone to enjoy.
Nearby Dining Options: North Myrtle Beach offers a wide range of dining options to satisfy even the pickiest eaters. From casual beachfront cafes to upscale seafood restaurants, you'll find a variety of cuisines to suit every taste.
Outdoor Amenities: The condo complex features a pool, kiddie pool, and hot tub, providing plenty of opportunities for family fun in the sun. Spend the day swimming, splashing, and relaxing by the poolside.
Comfortable Accommodations: With a queen-size bed in the bedroom and a queen-size sleeper sofa in the living area, there is enough space for the whole family to sleep comfortably. The newly renovated condo also offers modern furnishings, HD flat-screen TVs, and a fully equipped kitchen for your convenience.
Enjoy a memorable family vacation at Carolina Reef 206, where you can create lasting memories with your loved ones.
Maximum Savings and Service With Seaside Vacations
Seaside Vacations offers vacationers the opportunity to experience maximum savings and exceptional service for their North Myrtle Beach getaway. When booking through Seaside Vacations, guests can enjoy a range of benefits that ensure a stress-free and enjoyable vacation. With their extensive knowledge of the area and wide selection of properties, Seaside Vacations can help travelers find the perfect rental that suits their needs and budget. Their website provides availability details, allowing guests to easily plan their trip. Additionally, Seaside Vacations prides itself on providing excellent customer service. Their dedicated team is available to answer any questions or address any concerns that guests may have during their stay. Don't just take our word for it, check out the positive customer reviews of Seaside Vacations to see why they are the go-to choice for vacation rentals in North Myrtle Beach. | <urn:uuid:5d293da5-3bbb-4793-a29f-ce694a7da1b1> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.findrentals.com/seaside/p147020 | 2024-04-22T22:02:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.920921 | 2,518 |
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2022 Palm Beach County Preliminary Values Released
The Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office has submitted the 2022 preliminary tax roll to the Florida Department of Revenue and the local taxing authorities. Overall, the taxable values County-wide have increased 15.19% while the School Board taxable values have increased 22.54%. The taxable value County-wide now stands at $255.5 Billion, inclusive of over $4.42 Billion in new construction. According to the Honorable Dorothy Jacks, CFA, AAS, “Demand for properties of all types continues to grow.” “Both commercial and residential markets have seen an increase in value and new construction” she continued. This is a result of the influx of new Florida residents and the post-Covid Market.
The largest increase year-over-year was seen in the newest city of WestLake, where Minto Communities is developing the new city. WestLake saw an increase of over 74% due to new construction of nearly $155 Million. Manalapan (28.06% increase), Village of Golf (22.83% increase) and Glenridge (18.38% increase) experienced some of the larger increases seen throughout the County. Additionally, the largest cities; Boca Raton, Palm Beach, and West Palm Beach saw increases of 14.47%, 18.07% and 17.85% respectively. Each of these cities also added over $300 Million of new construction to the tax roll, with Boca leading the way with over $580 Million. You can review the entire 2022 Preliminary Tax Roll Chart here.
The Florida Department of Revenue will now review and approve the tax roll for the 2022 tax year. The TRIM Notices will be sent out to the property owners in mid-August with the appeal deadline to follow 25 days after the mailing of the notices. The anticipated deadline for the 2022 tax year is September 12, 2022.
The amount you will pay in property taxes for 2022 is directly based on the County’s opinion of Market and Assessed Value for your property as of January 1st. With the ever changing market and property values on the rise for most property types, it is important for a qualified property tax professional to review and analyze your properties to ensure that your values are fair and equitable. If you feel the value of your property is too high or just wish to have an independent review, then we encourage you to call us at (954) 282-2005 or email Nick at [email protected].
FirstPointe Advisors, LLC is a full-service ad valorem tax service provider. Our management team has the experience to manage both large national engagements along with local and regional clients. At FirstPointe Advisors, LLC, you come first. We strive to provide innovative solutions to your property tax needs. With our experience and first-class client service, we will create an easy review and appeal process for you.
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A. calvus is commonly kept as an aquarium fish in setups devoted to East African fish. Several local variants exist, and some may prove to be distinct species or subspecies. Examples include:
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Removal matters – where one parent seeks to move with a child or children either to another state or to a place within the Commonwealth that is far enough away to cause a significant impact on the parenting plan – are amongst the most fraught cases that attorneys and courts have to wrestle with. Unlike most other issues that arise in the context of parenting, removal matters do start to resemble zero-sum conflicts where the stakes can be enormous.
Over the last dozen or so years, judges have viewed these cases through two different lenses when they are trying to determine whether a parent can be permitted to move away with the child or children. These lenses are shaped by the parenting plan in effect and whether or not one parent is a primary physical custodian. In cases where the moving party has primary or sole physical custody of the child(ren), the court’s determination is driven by the so-called “real advantage” standard articulated in Yannas v. Frondistou-Yannas, 395 Mass. 704 (1985). Where, however, the parents share physical custody, the court uses the standard articulated in Mason v. Coleman, 447 Mass. 177 (2006), known as the “best interests” standard.
Under the “real advantage” standard established in Yannas, a judge engages in a two-part inquiry. First, a judge must examine whether there is a good reason for the move – a ‘real advantage’ to the moving parent. In other words, the custodial parent has to prove that there is “a good, sincere reason for wanting to remove to another jurisdiction.” Once that threshold is satisfied, the judge has to consider the interests of the custodial parent, the noncustodial parent, and their child, and balance those interests to determine whether removal is in the best interests of the child.
Under the “best interests” standard established in Coleman, a judge has a more exacting standard, as there is no so-called “custodial parent” whose interests are so interwoven with the child or children. Thus, the advantage to that parent is but one of several factors that a court considers, but the best interests of the child are the paramount consideration in the inquiry.
In a recent case, Miller v. Miller (https://cases.justia.com/massachusetts/supreme-court/2018-sjc-12298.pdf?ts=1516122121), the Supreme Judicial Court considered what happens when no existing custody arrangement has been established – what happens when the removal question occurrs at the outset of the litigation? There was no determination yet of whether physical custody was shared or not, which meant that the court did not have a basis for applying either the Yannas or the Mason analysis.
The SJC ultimately determined that the judge must first perform a functional analysis to determine whether or not there is a custodial parent. Then, the court must apply the corresponding standard. As part of a functional analysis, the court would go through a factual inquiry “regarding the parties’ respective parenting responsibilities to determine whether the custody arrangement more closely approximates sole or shared custody.”
In a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Gants noted that, while he concurred with the judgment, the Yannas-Mason analysis was really a fiction that did not serve the interests of justice, far removed from the realities of parenting. The concurrence notes that the proper analysis is one that simply asks what is in the best interests of the child, as that is the paramount concern of the parents and the judge. Pigeonholing parental roles and creating legal fictions to cater to an outdated analytic structure only serves to inflame disputes, puts an outsized importance on the “label” one affixes to the parenting plan, and is ultimately beside the point given that the ultimate inquiry is what is in the child’s first interests.
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WELCOME TO INSPIRATION NATION
WHERE WE WILL REVIEW 1 chapter of JOYCE MEYER’s book, “The Battlefield of the Mind” each day during APRIL!
The Cliff Notes from today’s reading:
“Chapter 18: PLEASE MAKE EVERYTHING EASY; I CAN’T TAKE IT IF THINGS ARE TOO HARD!!
Oh weee, this mentality is very common! You’ve heard:
- I can’t do it!
- It’s too much!
- It’s too hard!
Sadly, often times divas will just quit; using “it’s too much work” as the excuse! The enemy tries to inject this phrase into people’s minds to get them to give up! Sisters, Joyce shares, that we should stop saying how hard everything is, and when we do, over time, things get easier!! How does she know? Wellll sister, we have the Holy Spirit, living in us!!
1: THE HELPER
Things get hard when we try to do them on our own!! STOP THAT!!! Use your HELPER inside of you! The Holy Spirit sister 🙂 -Amen!
2: THE EASY WAY AND THE HARD WAY You can be sure sure that anywhere God leads you, He is able to keep you! He never allows more to come on us than we can bear! If you know God has asked you to do something, don’t back down! Sometimes God leads us the hard way instead of the easy way, because He is doing a work in us!
3: SUNDAY WARRIOR, MONDAY WHINERS
This is where you talk a good game on Sunday – in church with your fellow believers – but on Monday, when it’s time to walk the talk, they faint at the slightest “test”. If you are whiner and a complainer, get a new mindset, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13 )
KEY TAKE-A-WAYS from Chapter 18: “PLEASE MAKE EVERYTHING EASY; I CAN’T TAKE IT IF THINGS ARE TOO HARD!!”
1. The reason what we are going through is not really hard, is because God gives us the HOLY SPIRIT to work in us powerfully and to help us in all that we are called to do!
2. Satan knows if he can defeat you in your mind, he can defeat you in your experience!
3. Going into battle (accomplishing a goal) with the wrong thinking is like going to the front lines in a war without a weapon!
1. Today’s reading assignment is to read Chapter 18 of the book only.
2. Do you find yourself delaying starting a goal, because you think so much about how hard it is??
4. Share this post! Let’s encourage our family and friends to WIN THE WAR IN OUR MENTAL BATTLEFIELD with us!!
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I’m Nicole Twyman, a native New Orleanian, who has lived all across the US! Although, my small family of 4 currently calls Los Angeles, CA home. I am a proud 40+ year old mom of a wonderfully energetic and theatrical daughter, and a handsome, scholarly athlete!
While I have worked in corporate America as a certified senior project / program / portfolio manager for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Procter & Gamble & IBM, my passion is service. It has always been my desire to live a life of service to others; which I took every opportunity to explore as an active member of many of my church’s ministries and of my public service sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.
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We've been talking a lot about fees the last few months. To wrap up the conversation, I wanted to take a moment and provide a real world example of analyzing fees and returns on investments. A few years ago, I was meeting with a client who brought up the fees associated with the bond funds in her account at the time. She requested we exchange the funds for different ones with lower fees. She made no mention of unhappiness with the performance of the funds. After listening to the request, I first thanked her for the question. I'm always thankful when clients engage in the financial planning and investment management process. Then I provided my thoughts and analysis. In general, while I generally agree lower fees are good and as a firm we strive to always meet that criteria, what we strive for above anything else is to get our clients the highest total return in their accounts after all fees have been considered. What became clear to me after our interaction was that she had run her portfolio through a free online portfolio analyzer. I knew because I've run my portfolios (which look just like yours) through these engines myself and had the same results spat back to me. Unfortunately, these tests only look at fees, they don't look at all at performance, and, as we've discussed, isn't that what investing is about, in the end? Turns out the two bond funds in her portfolio at the time had fees of 0.75% and 0.79% per year. One fund paid 4.56% in interest payments each year and the other paid 5.07%. There was also capital appreciation (or loss) to consider. This is simply looking at price per share over time. One fund's share price was down 0.01% and the other's up 2.57% at that point in the year. These numbers were after fees. If we assumed nothing happened the rest of the year, the client would have made 4.55% on the one fund and 7.64% on the other (again, after fees). Next, I compared it with the "low fee" bond fund recommended by the analysis engine (a fund that's fees were 0.05%/yr - fantastically low!). The fund paid out just 2.34% in interest payments each year to its holders and its share price had appreciated 1.41%, for a total return (assuming no change in share price the rest of the year) of 3.75%. Of course, this was much less than both of the funds I had been using! When I showed all this to the client, she promptly dropped her request. In the end, recall that I get paid for investment management based on your account value, so my interests are that your account value increase. You might think of it this way, too-- if you went camping in the winter, would you rather have a Walmart made tent, or one from the North Face? I like to save money as much as the next guy, and so sometimes I buy from Walmart. But other times spending a little more is worth it if the quality of product (i.e. end result) is much better. In the case of the bond funds mentioned above, the numbers certainly bore this out. One final note as we think about the future. The push to low fee funds is now fairly mainstream. While Wall St. fought it for a long time, they're coming on board now. Schwab recently announced a no fee fund. That's right, no fees! They later retracted the announcement, but the story illustrates the point all the same. Wall St. will sell what the public wants to buy. If all the public cares about is a sticker that says "low/no fees" Wall St. will make it. Never mind the quality of the product, as long as the cost is all that matters, you'll find plenty of opportunities to buy more. This all reminds me of a book I used to read to my children, "10 Apples Up on Top." In it, the characters try to best one another balancing an ever increasing number of apples on their heads. "You can do three? But I can do more! Look, see, I have four!" Investment funds are doing their best now to lower fees, besting one another constantly. I can't help but wonder if the end result will be similar to the book's.... a big mess! | <urn:uuid:ef86388f-23c0-430b-bfee-db5b1403b53d> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.flatironswm.com/post/2019/08/03/a-dropped-request | 2024-04-22T23:31:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.980819 | 892 |
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Have you been bitten by the football bug? If nothing gets your heart soaring as much as this beloved game, then you know that for a good game you need a good football. Weighing in at 410-450g with a circumference of 68-70cm, the football is the only major equipment required to play the game. A ball that is suited to your choice of game as well as within regulations is essential to a good game. Nivia footballs are some of the best footballs available on the market and luckily, you can buy Nivia footballs online. Nivia footballs online are available in a variety of sizes and designs. So how do you choose a ball that is ideal for you? Read on to find out!
Choosing The Right Football
The type of footballs you require depends on a variety of factors like match and turf. The various types of football are mini/skill footballs, professional match footballs, beach footballs, etc. It is vital to choose a ball that is neither too soft nor too hard. A hard ball will hurt to play with and a soft football will have too much bounce. It is also better to buy a football that is sewn together instead of glued.
Other important factors to consider while purchasing Nivia footballs online are:
Size and weight: Footballs come in different sizes. These size varies depending on age and the league being played. It is vital to choose the correct size since a ball that is too small or too big can cause injury and deter peak performance. A heavy ball will be harder to kick and less aerodynamic.
Indoor vs. outdoor balls: Indoor balls have more durability and have slightly less rebound when compared to outdoor balls. This is so that they can be played on indoor turf fields and can bounce off walls. You can’t play an indoor game with an outdoor ball and vice versa.
Material: Rubber is the most commonly used material. However, rubber balls are never used in league play. A slightly more expensive option is a PVC ball but this has a plastic feel. Leather balls are the most expensive and aren’t suited to playing in wet conditions. Professional leagues generally use polyurethane balls.
Type of bladder: The bladder gives shape to the ball and aids in buoyancy and movement. They can be made of either Butyl or Latex. Butyl ball bladders are cheaper but don’t last as long. Latex bladders are more durable even though they need to be inflated more often.
Types Of Nivia Footballs
Nivia footballs are available for a wide variety of football gamesStreet footballs: These are designed to withstand being played on gravel and concrete
Beach footballs: These are softer since beach football is played barefoot and are water resistant.
Trainer footballs: Extremely durable balls designed for any skill level on any playing field.
Futsal balls: Smaller than regulation football balls, but the same weight and with less bounce.
Regulation match footballs: These are used for regular football games and have been thoroughly tested for size, weight, bounce, and durability.
Buy Nivia Footballs Online
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How AeroGuard Prioritizes Safety
At AeroGuard, our goal is to provide safe, high-quality pilot training, unmatched by other flight programs. To attain that goal, we conduct solos in a unique way, prioritizing the success of our students.
Solo flight is required by the FAA in order to get your Private Pilot License, which is the first of many steps within your training journey. However, for our student’s safety and to maximize the quality of instruction, we only fly the minimum 10 hours of solo time required by the FAA and place students with an instructor for the rest of the AeroGuard PPL Course and all other ratings. We also structure our programs so that students complete the majority of their solo time towards the end of the Private Pilot License Curriculum after they’ve received ample training and landing practice with their instructor.
Supplementary to how our curriculum is structured, we’ve implemented the following operational policies around solo flights to ensure the well-being of our pilots.
Pre-Solo Safety Briefs
AeroGuard’s Director of Safety personally conducts the pre-solo briefings with students for them to absorb a variety of knowledge and apply it to their training. During these meetings, students are provided with a series of tips and information, including clearing techniques, decision making, when to declare an emergency, the safety system and more. These briefings ensure the student is not only fully aware of any issues that may arise during their flight, but how to properly handle them if they do.
Number of Solo Operations at AeroGuard
One of the ways AeroGuard supports their students’ safety during solo operations is by regulating the amount of solo operations that are allowed during any given day. AeroGuard policies only allow one solo flight every 15 minutes per campus, whether it be a local flight or cross-country flight. Furthermore, AeroGuard does not allow more than one student to conduct a solo flight in the local traffic pattern per runway at any given time. When it comes to cross-country solos, AeroGuard will only grant up to 7 students to be out at one time across each campus and of course, no student pilots can conduct solo flights at night.
AeroGuard limits the number of solo operations to ensure that each solo flight can be closely monitored by our Duty CFIs, adding another layer of protection to our soloing students.
Use of a Duty CFI
Before a student can solo, there are multiple endorsements that need to be made by their instructor stating that they have the full ability to do so. In addition to their everyday instructor, a student’s stage check instructor will also verify this with a stage check held prior to a student’s first solo. Once the student’s solo flight is scheduled, that’s where the Duty CFI comes in.
Our Duty CFIs are greatly experienced flight instructors who double check the instructors endorsement, review flight plans, check the weather and the risk assessment to ensure all is in order. They also act as the student’s instructor on the ground by monitoring the solo flight while the student is on their route to ensure everything goes according to plan. Throughout the flight, the Duty CFI is in constant contact with ATC allowing them to get messages to the pilot if needed. If the Duty CFI observes any changes that may be a concern for the pilot, they can call the solo back to base.
The Duty CFI is a unique offering that isn’t seen at many flight schools and just one of many safety precautions AeroGuard has in place for solo flights.
Solo Flight Preparation
Prior to flying solo, the Student Pilot (SP) and their endorsing Instructor Pilot (IP) must complete several tasks including completing a Solo Dispatch Release Form outlining the current weather conditions, flight plan, and a verbal student assessment ensuring students are well-prepared for solo flight. Students then meet with the Duty CFI no later than 15 minutes prior to their scheduled ramp-out time.
The student will then go with their IP to the aircraft for a final pre-flight check, making sure its fuel is full and checking the plane’s overall condition. On any flight, not just solos, the SP must also take a Stratus (a portable, flight data recorder system) for situational and traffic awareness and to record the flight route.
Upon completion of the solo flight, the SP will meet and de-brief with the Duty CFI after ramping in with Dispatch.
Solo Flight Weather Constraints
One of the biggest factors for safe Solo operations is weather, and making sure that solo pilots are prepared for expected changes, from visibility, to wind, storms and even heat.
Prior to dispatch, the student pilot must complete and review with their instructor the Weather Brief information on the Flight Release Form, as well as ensure conditions are within accepted tolerances. At AeroGuard, we have implemented a range of weather restraints to keep our pilots as safe as possible, including:
Limitations on the amount of total wind, crosswind, and knots on the runway of tailwind during takeoff and landing.
VFR requirement, along with 2 nautical miles of obstacle clearance on either side of the flight path.
No severe thunderstorms in or expected within 20 nautical miles of the planned flight path.
No known or forecasted icing conditions, and no solo operations if the temperature exceeds 105°F.
Instructors have final judgment as to what the appropriate weather limitations are for their students. They may choose to impose even more restrictive weather limitations for their individual students on a case by case basis.
Safety First Training
As demonstrated above, at AeroGuard we take safety and the quality of our instruction seriously. We continuously work to strengthen our preventative efforts, which is why we have taken these steps to build a range of policies and procedures for solo operations.
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A good designer would ‘diplomatically’ look beyond the clients colour sense and artistic ability and concentrate on the clients potential business or target audience. How they think, what turns them on, etc. Then design and present a solution which has long term benefit to the client and his or her audience. That’s basic design strategy in my humble opinion. Cheers. | <urn:uuid:d13f8670-1eec-44cc-9b21-c33b73e97517> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.flyingsolo.com.au/forums/reply/1005091/ | 2024-04-22T22:05:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.961564 | 77 |
The Roquette Foundation for Health supports the Y’a Du Rab association in its project: 20,000 baskets against food insecurity
By purchasing and enhancing fruits and vegetables from local producers, the association offers anti-waste food baskets to people experiencing precarious situations and organizes awareness workshops on nutrition and healthy eating.
The project “20,000 food baskets against food insecurity” aims to change habits towards a healthier, balanced, and sustainable nutrition.
Eating better also involves combating food waste; awareness workshops are set up to explain the stakes.
In a very concrete way, through recipes adapted to their budget, equipment, and the limited time they have, the association wants to transmit the joy of cooking to beneficiaries, especially students.
Thanks to the cooperative model on which it is built, the project also aims to reconnect and create new links between the academic world, the agricultural world, and the business world: | <urn:uuid:f17ed504-734d-460b-8a6a-5b6cffc4d815> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.fondation-roquette.org/en/project/20-000-food-baskets-against-food-insecurity/ | 2024-04-22T21:49:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.949156 | 187 |
I just came across a very alarming article about olive oil in the Hartford Courant: Impure olive oil? Say it ain't soy. If you have a friends or family with a soy allergy, please read this article.
Apparently some imported "olive oil" isn't olive oil at all; it's soybean oil and it's being sold much cheaper than other, real olive oils. Not surprising, the "olive oil" does not bear the required allergen statement indicating that it contains soy--that's frightening. It seems reading your labels is not enough; if you see something that seems exceptionally cheaper at the supermarket, you may be well advised to make calls, send emails, and ask questions regardless of what the label says.
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Is it just me or...I feel like there's some sort of restaurant week event every other month?
Don't get me wrong, I ain't complaining,
You'll definitely see me dancing in circles if they hold this kind of promotion every day.
So let me quickly share my thoughts on Craft before Restaurant Week ends,
*(October 10 - October 15, 2010).
By the way, I tried Campanile last time for lunch,
Here's the review,
The food was better than I expected,
You can even to-go some fresh bread since La Brea bakery is just right next door.
Back to Craft -
It's next to some commercial high-rise buildings,
I wonder if these executives dine at Craft all the time during lunch hours.
Right after walking into the restaurant,
Doesn't that makes you feel like shooting the maitre d' for fun??
Especially after 30 minutes wait,
oh yeah, we did wait for a while even after making a reservation few days earlier,
Maybe the Restaurant Week event is having an effect on this place.
Passing through the bar area -
As we settled down at our table -
Warm and cozy ambience,
Let me give you a brief intro of this place before my food porn starts,
Tom Colicchio is the man behind the entire Craft-series restaurants,
Maybe you saw him as the head judge on the Bravo TV show Top Chef?
Yes, That's the guy.
As for Craft - Los Angeles branch, Anthony Zappola and Shannon Swindle are the two head chefs in charge of the dishes.
Here it comes our bread -
I didn't get a picture of the butter that was being smeared all over the bread,
But seriously, it was good,
Pure buttery aroma, it was so creamy that I just wanna shuffle the whole thing into my fridge and eat it as dessert.
It is THAT good.
Friend brought a bottle of wine to go with our food -
(They didn't charge us the corkage fee)
Here it comes our first course, served in family style -
Braised octopus with mint vinaigrette.
Good but not spectacular.
Chicory salad with Asian pear and balsamic -
One of my top three dishes of the day,
Especially when you bite into the pear, together with little salt flakes,
They were having a little party in my mouth.
Sides, first is market vegetables -
Just regular veggies with some baby roots.
Italian butternut squash puree -
I seriously can't remember how it really taste like,
Everybody finished it way ahead of me because I was still taking pictures,
Sometimes my camera does get in the way of me enjoying food,
Oh well, feast with my eyes!
Second course, braised beef cheek,
Served with Yukon gold potato puree and orange -
You can really feel the collagen from the meat,
I was surprised how big these pieces are,
I guess same thing applies to beef tongue, I can never imagine a cow can have such a huge tongue...
Wild skate wing with Anson Mills grits and walnuts -
Never had skate before so decided to give it a try,
The texture is similar to flounder,
The semi-sweet walnuts definitely bring up the flavor, without it, it'll be a regular dish.
35 day dry-aged sirloin (not included in the dineLA menu) -
Comes with roasted bone marrow, topped with lots of chives.
How to describe the flavor of dry-aged beef..
It's a wee bit like eating a very well cured ham,
There were layers of different hints as you bit into the meat, really enjoyed it.
Room for dessert? Qui!
Chocolate panna cotta with hazelnut crumble -
I actually picked out the crumble even though it was made with my favorite ingredient,
Just..it was so salty...way too salty for dessert.
However, the panna cotta itself is very creamy, kind of like intensified chocolate milk in a panna cotta form.
Front: Ricotta cheesecake (not included in the dineLA menu)
Back: Spiced pear shortcake with Cajeta ice cream and candied pecans
Cheesecake - on the salty side.
Shortcake - tastes more like a scone but the ice cream part was good,
The pear that comes with it had a strong cinnamon aroma, if you are a cinnamon lover, you'll fall in love with it (sadly, I'm not).
Complimentary popcorn, chocolate rice crisps, and lemon marshmallows -
Chocolate rice crisps were so salty too...
Overall I think Craft did pretty well for savory dishes,
As for dessert, almost everything we had that night was over-salty,
I mean, I dig salty dessert..but this was way overboard.
Side note: service was attentive, friendly staff, always carry a sincere smile.
Cindy's Rating: 7
Craft Los Angeles
10100 Constellation Blvd
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Half of Americans Plan to Spend Less Than $500 on Holiday Gifts This Year. Here's Why You Should Follow Their Lead
- Holiday spending commonly drives consumers into debt.
- Keeping your holiday gift tab low could help you avoid that fate.
- Buying gifts on a budget or doing homemade gifts this year are two ways to keep your spending in check this year.
Keeping your holiday spending to a minimum could benefit you in several ways.
Many people love the practice of giving out holiday gifts. After all, it's nice to spread joy and put a smile on a child or family member's face. Plus, there may be people in your life you're really grateful for, like your children's teachers or the folks who cut your grass every week. It's natural to want to give them a gift as a way of saying thank you.
But the cost of holiday gifts can really add up -- especially if you're obligated to buy things for a lot of different people in your life. And if money has been tight, you may be inclined to cut back on holiday purchases this year -- gifts included.
A recent survey by Principal found that almost half of consumers plan to spend less than $500 on holiday gifts this year. It pays to take a similar approach if you're grappling with money-related worries.
You don't need debt hanging over your head
A lot of people are facing higher living costs these days due to inflation. And that's been putting a strain on many workers' paychecks.
If you don't have a lot of money to spend on the holidays, then limiting your gift purchases is a smart move. The smaller a budget you set, the less likely you'll be to rack up a tab on your credit cards and pay it off over time.
Credit card debt is bad news no matter when you accrue it. Credit cards are notorious for charging high amounts of interest. And also, too much credit card debt can actually cause credit score damage.
Plus, there's something demoralizing about starting off a new year with a credit card balance hanging over your head. Many people like to make New Year's resolutions in January that have them boosting their savings account balances and working toward different financial goals. But it's hard to make progress on those types of goals when you have debt payments to deal with.
Consider gifts from the heart
If you don't have a lot of money to spend on holiday gifts this year, it definitely pays to put yourself on a budget. That could mean limiting yourself to $400, $300, or less.
Another route to consider taking is making your own gifts this year. Doing so could lower your costs tremendously.
If you're good at knitting, you can make scarves and hats for the people you love. If you're great in the kitchen, your family members might really enjoy getting a tin of homemade cookies or a jar of jam. And you can always give the gift of your time. If you have a sibling with young kids, offering up a night of babysitting as your gift could really make their day.
The fact that some consumers are cutting back on holiday gifts is a good thing. If you're inclined to follow their lead, don't feel guilty about it. Instead, give yourself a pat on the back for making a sound financial decision.
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Vettel tops opening-day tyre test in Abu Dhabi after spin
A spin and damage to his rear wing did not prevent Sebastian Vettel from setting the fastest time on the first day of Pirelli tyre testing in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, as Kimi Raikkonen made his return to Sauber.
The ten teams are all present at the Yas Marina Circuit to carry out running on the 2019 Pirelli tyres, while also using this year’s compounds as reference points at certain times.
Three hours into the opening day, Vettel lost control at Turn 1 and spun backwards into the wall, damaging his rear wing and bringing out the red flags. The contact was relatively light and Vettel was able to drive back to the pits for Ferrari to take a look, returning to action later in the afternoon and setting the fastest time of the day with a 1m 36.812s.
There were familiar names at the top of the timing screens as Valtteri Bottas was second fastest for Mercedes, 0.419s slower than Vettel, having posted his best time in the morning session and gone on to complete 120 laps.
Although tyre testing makes analysing relative lap times virtually redundant, Pirelli did confirm all drivers set their best laps on this year's hypersoft or the 2019 equivalent, with the exception of Max Verstappen who used ultrasofts. Regardless of the tyre situation, there were plenty of new faces in different cars to keep fans entertained, with Raikkonen the headliner.
Seventeen years after making his debut for the team, Raikkonen was back in a Sauber and running the number seven on this year’s car. A productive day came to a premature end when Raikkonen stopped at the Turn 7 hairpin shortly after completing 100 laps, finishing three seconds off the pace in 11th place.
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Another debut went to Lance Stroll, who was third quickest on his first outing for Force India. Stroll has yet to be confirmed as team mate to Sergio Perez for 2019, but will drive all day on Wednesday and was quickly up to speed with the team. A 1m 37.415s left Stroll 0.6s behind Vettel, and just over half a second quicker than Max Verstappen in fourth and Perez in fifth.
Perez had driven the car in the morning session before handing over to Stroll, with the Mexican managing 67 laps despite two red flags. The second was caused by Vettel - which required some minor repairs to the barriers - but the first limited Haas debutant Pietro Fittipaldi’s track time. Fittipaldi stopped on track and dropped some oil, with a power unit change confining him to the garage for more than half the day.
Fittipaldi did get back out on track during the final two hours of running and ended up eighth behind Lando Norris and Nico Hulkenberg, who both enjoyed productive days for McLaren and Renault respectively.
Norris managed 136 laps and was 1.3s off the pace, while Hulkenberg - whose former Renault team mate Carlos Sainz will take over from Norris at McLaren on Wednesday - was 0.6s slower but completed similar mileage.
Williams ran both of their 2019 race drivers, with George Russell getting his first taste of the FW41 in the morning. The newly-crowned Formula 2 champion completed 42 laps and was tenth fastest, just under a quarter of a second slower than Robert Kubica. With Polish flags opposite the Williams garage, there was plenty of enthusiasm after Kubica was confirmed in a race seat last week, but he was limited to just 32 laps after not starting running until mid-afternoon.
The highest mileage went to Sean Gelael in the Toro Rosso, who managed 150 laps on day one, ending the day in 12th place.
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OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence (AI) company, has unveiled its latest breakthrough ‘Sora’, a text-to-video model, it says in a blogspot. Showcased as a tool proficient in translating textual instructions into "both realistic and imaginative" visual scenes.
In the company’s official announcement, OpenAI reveals that ‘Sora’ allows users to create one-minute-long, photorealistic videos based on their provided prompts. OpenAI says Sora is capable of constructing intricate scenes featuring multiple characters, motion patterns, and detailed foreground and background elements.
"Sora is able to generate complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background,” OpenAI states in its blogpost.
"We are also granting access to a number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gain feedback on how to advance the model to be most helpful for creative professionals," the blog post adds.
The existing model exhibits certain shortcomings, keen observers may discern certain nuances betraying its AI origins, such as discrepancies in simulating complex physics. OpenAI acknowledges these limitations, emphasising their continuous efforts to enhance the model's performance.
“It may struggle with accurately simulating the physics of a complex scene, and may not understand specific instances of cause and effect. For example, a person might take a bite out of a cookie, but afterward, the cookie may not have a bite mark,” the company says in the blogpost.
“Sora can also create multiple shots within a single generated video that accurately persist characters and visual style,” the blogpost adds.
The emergence of Sora mirrors a broader trend in AI development, with a noticeable shift towards improving video-generation capabilities. Competitors like Runway, Pika, and Google's Lumiere have also made progress in this arena, presenting their own text-to-video models.
As of now, Sora is exclusively available to a select group of individuals designated as "red teamers," responsible for evaluating the model for potential risks and drawbacks. OpenAI has additionally granted access to visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gather feedback, recognising the pivotal role of community input in refining its technology, the blog post adds.
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Exploring elements that deeply affect us - memory, the passage of time, denial, connection and renewal - my self-portraits strive to be both universal and intensely personal.
Ever since its invention back in the 19th century, photography has been documenting life. At the same time it focuses on inviting audiences to a rather subjective world, while trying to be taken serious as an art form. Photography has always been considered a male dominated profession, but luckily things are changing. Scholars, writers, bloggers, photography students and enthusiasts have been giving due to the female pioneers of the field. Most of them were always standing and/or hiding in the shadows, oblivious to how much they could acclaim and accomplish. Arguably, the technique, concepts and thematic female photographers use differ from those of a male photographer. At a time when most women were convinced that their place was in the kitchen and certainly not in the dark room, there were those who were struggling to surpass their male counterparts and work towards gaining respect and recognition for their work.
Elizabeth Siegfried (American photographer, 1955) was born in Maryland, but has been living and working in Canada for nearly thirty years. Her university studies were in English, but after she graduated she followed her passion for photography and participated in a six-month residency program at The Maine Photographic Workshops (MPW) in Rockport, Maine. Over the following fifteen years, Siegfried returned to MPW five times including a month as artist in residence with an emphasis on platinum printing. In 1992 Siegfried was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and in 1997 and 2010, Sal Lopes, the celebrated master platinum printer, mentored her in the art of platinum/palladium printing. Siegfried graduated from Maine Media College with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in May 2019. She presently works with digital capture and explores the expression of color, but has not lost her love of historical processes and analogue photography. Siegfried has exhibited her images in Canada, the US, Italy, Germany, Japan and Mexico. She taught platinum printing workshops for eleven years at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography and later ran platinum workshops out of her studio and Ryerson Polytechnic University during CONTACT, Toronto's annual photography festival. She has been a judge for the Photography/Multi-Media Computer Generated (Purchase) Awards for the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition and on the jury for The Ontario Arts Council Project Grant. Known for her work in portraiture of self and others, meditative landscapes and photographic narrative, Siegfried has had her work reproduced in publications as Shadow and Light Magazine, SHOTS, and more. Her work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Aaron Copland House in Cortlandt Manor, New York; Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan, and others.
Anne Zahalka (Australian photographer, 1957-) is one of Australia's most highly regarded photo-media artists having exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas for over thirty years. She has held over forty solo exhibitions and her work is included in all major museums in Australia. Zahalka's work has often explored cultural and gendered stereotyping, challenging these with a humorous and critical voice. She deconstructs familiar images and represents them to allow other figures and stories to be represented that reflect on diversity and difference. More recently her concerns have shifted to the environment and the ecological disaster that has been unfolding globally and in her country. In Wild Life, Australia, 2019, Zahalka reimagines early Australian dioramas from natural history museums to mark out unsettling ethical and environmental issues. Working with conservationists, scientists, curators and photographers, she incorporates new data to set out alternative ways of seeing the landscape and the damage that has been wreaked on it. Zahalka was selected for the international photography exhibition Civilization - The Way We Live Now shown at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, in Seoul and at the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2019, Zahalka developed a major exhibition with the Museum of Sydney presenting a history of early commercial street photography. In the same year, the photographer travelled to Prague to undertake a residency at the Béhal Fejér Institute to exhibit The Fate of Things, an installation about love and loss tracing her family's story of persecution, exile and survival. Anne Zahalka's interest in portraiture is obvious, and dives into the innate adaptability of the genre. She uses portraiture to question dominant stereotypes while complicating the distinction between reality and artifice.
I've always loved the way photography can condense the world into a single frame so seamlessly and faithfully, recording its minutiae.
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Returning to a former club can go two ways.
Picture the scene: you arrive home with the fans singing your name, all these years later. It's a homecoming of sorts, as everyone remembers the chants, the memories of before - and everything clicks into gear like it did last time. It's like you've never been away.
Or the complete opposite. You tarnish a legacy that you spent so long building the first time around by not living up to your own standards. The nightmare scenario.
We've got 30 players here - some of them had one of these experiences. Just tell us whether they have or they haven't ever returned to a former club. Returning back from a loan, of course, does not count.
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A 22-year-old returns to his apartment to mark the locations on a map of Paris where he experienced his first heartbreak and first attempted murder. “Only first times matter to me,” the boy later confesses. It didn’t matter whether the experiences were good or bad. They were important because they were the first.
When I watched Leos Carax’s Boy Meets Girl for the first time, I almost laughed out loud because the scene with the map sounds exactly like something I would do. When I was 18, I kept a list of first times in the back of my journal. I put the important next to the unimportant, didn’t distinguish between good and bad. It was my way of recording a time when so much was happening for the first time that I no longer had time for the long, rambling journal entries of previous years. The list would have to do.
When I started it, I cherished each first time whether I enjoyed it or not. I quoted Oscar Wilde’s “always be in search of new sensations” and decided that I wanted to try to everything once. I kept that list so that I wouldn’t forget, not realising that it would lead me to misremember how things really were.
Once I put an experience on paper, I condemn it to nostalgia. Memory is tricky. Whenever I write about anything that really happened involving another person, I’m scared that person will reach out to me and say that what I wrote never happened like that. That I got it wrong. That my memory is a liar. We tell ourselves stories in order to live etc. My memory of many first times is hazy, lost to the mists of alcohol, nostalgia, and time.
At some point in our lives, first times start happening less. They never disappear completely, but they happen less frequently and mean less each time. You will never relive your first kiss or the first night you stayed out ‘til dawn. You can only remember. When Alex in Boy Meets Girl tells a girl at a party that only first times matter to him, she replies, “You won’t last long then.”
I suppose my fear of running out of first times is a roundabout way of saying I’m afraid of getting old which is a roundabout way of saying I’m afraid of dying. Dying is the last thing we all do for the first time.
In my journals, I rarely gave much space to the first times that culturally we consider the most important (losing your virginity, moving out of your parents’ house etc.) Most of the first times that really shifted my perspective happened without ceremony. They happened listening to my iPod in my bedroom. They happened running up escalators to catch the last train home. They happened in pubs and clubs that became palaces because of how much they meant to me.
The title of this piece is borrowed from a Pulp song. Pulp are from Sheffield, the city where most of my first times happened. I could create a constellation of crosses on that map. First love. First heartbreak. First attempted murder (just kidding.) A lot of Pulp songs are about growing up. ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’ acknowledges how, “We’ve changed so much since then oh yeah we’ve grown.” ‘Disco 2000’ asks, “Won’t it be strange when we’re all fully grown?” Walking around the city listening to these songs made me nostalgic for the present while it was still unfolding. I imagined meeting up with all my uni friends in 2030 at a fountain down the road. I don’t speak to them anymore. I went back to Sheffield alone last year and revisited all the places where my first times happened. These locations are like consecrated ground.
I sometimes wonder whether my obsession with first times is only a selfish obsession. As we get older, we are less likely to hear sentences like, “I’ve never felt this way before” or “this is the best night of my life.” When I’ve dated people older than me, I silently mourned the fact that we probably won’t have many first times together because they will have done everything already.
The constant pursuit of first times isn’t dissimilar from anything else we strive for. I don’t like staying in one place or repeating the same routine for too long. When I worked a dull temp job in 2018 where I repeated the same tasks every day I would drive to work each day listening to the same Bright Eyes album. I had just gone through a breakup – first heartbreak! – and I guess I was really leaning into those feelings. The album opens with a child reading a book aloud. “I do not want to wake up in the same old bed and eat breakfast in the same old kitchen,” he says. “Every room in my house is the same old room, because I have lived there too long.”
It’s coming up to a year that I’ve lived in my current flat in London and it’s the longest I have ever lived somewhere that wasn’t the house I grew up in. I’m trying to have a summer of first times anyway. My friends and I keep joking that we’re in our healthy era because we’ve been trying lots of new sports now that we’ve run out of cocktails to try for the first time. First times don’t run out. They just change. How long will we last? I don’t know, but it’s not over yet. | <urn:uuid:6554cc63-ef18-4849-aed7-0f6b9656eddc> | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | https://www.fourteenzine.com/writing/do-you-remember-the-first-time%3F | 2024-04-22T22:56:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00868.warc.gz | en | 0.972097 | 1,204 |
Sure, anyone can invest their money in things like stocks or bonds or even cryptocurrency. But if you want a portfolio that’s actually COOL, why not invest in dinosaur bones and wines that only like 17 people could afford to drink?
A whole new group of “alternative investing” websites and apps have come out over the past few years that let you invest your money in cool STUFF . . . some of which can gain a lot more value than old school investments. Here are four examples:
1. Vint.co is a place where you can invest in rare wines . . . where the prices have tripled since 2006.
3. Republic.com lets you invest in video games before they come out, giving you a piece of the action as people buy them and play them.
4. Masterworks.io turns you into an art investor . . . they buy famous works of art, you buy shares, and then you get a cut when those works sell in the future.
There are other sites where you can invest in trading cards, real estate, farmland, sneakers, or even supply chain financing. And most of the time, you can get rolling with only a few hundred dollars.
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