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48/10 Village Majorda,Adao Waddo, Salcette, Goa
“Am I in Bali or am I in Goa?” is question you will often find yourself asking at the Alila Diwa. At this family-friendly hotel, kids have their own kids’ club and teen zone, an outdoor play area as well as their own children’s pool. Parents, on the other hand, have their infinity – edge pool surrounded by rice plantations, while the Arabian Sea crashes on to a palm fringed beach slightly beyond. Better yet, once the tykes are tucked in, kick up the romance a notch with a private dinner on the beach. Everyone is happy at the Alila Diwa.
- Baby cot.
- Bottle sterilizer.
- Bottle warmer.
- Child toiletries.
- Child menu.
- Interconnecting rooms.
- Babysitting services (INR 350++ child/hr until 10 pm; extra charges after 10 pm).
- The hotel houses a private mini theatre with a daily screenings of a kid’s movie at 3 pm.
- Designated pool for children with kiddie-sized deck beds.
- Spa Alila offers a child-friendly ancient healing therapy for children that includes gentle massage using 100% organic oils especially designed for children.
- 15 minutes INR 1200
- 30 minutes INR 1800
- 60 minutes INR 3500
- Outdoor play area with a trampoline, monkey bars, balancing bar and climbing frames.
- Gonsua beach is just 500 meters away from the resort and it takes about 2-3 minutes to get there. Hotel provides a complimentary shuttle to Gonsua beach.
- The leisure concierge team can organize many family-friendly fun experiences. Choose from spice plantation tours, baking bread with the local bread man to picnics on the beach or even hilltops. You can even visit the local fish market, select some fresh catch and then learn to cook a local delicacy at the Alila Cooking School.
- Family Terrace Rooms are perfect for families. These are housed in the same wing as the kids’ club and kids’ pool and have additional bed for your little ones. All on the ground floor, each room opens onto an outdoor garden patio for the kids to run around.
- The Kids’ Club is a hub of activity, well stocked with books, toys, board games, puzzles and art and craft utilities. There is a long list of complimentary activities that kids can partake in including charcoal painting, collage work, paper lace making, thread painting, origami, shell collecting, clay moulding, magic tricks and a whole lot more. Some of the paid activities include saree draping, nail art, sand sculpting, hair braiding, tattoo art and dance classes.
For the older lot there are Wii stations, table tennis, foosball, air hockey, carom and computers with internet connectivity.
As for the youngest ones, there’s a toddler zone with soft toys for them to play with, a little rocking horese and cots for them to nap in after they are exhausted!
- Child DVDs for rental.
- The private mini theatre screens the latest Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters as well as classics for general viewing at 7 pm.
- A library stocked with books for adults.
- Bicycles available for parents to cycle around the resort or into neighbouring villages.
- Once the kids are tucked in for the night, the leisure concierge team can organize a private dinner for the parents on the beach, complete with a bonfire, fireworks and champagne.
- Let the night slip by at Edge Bar, which transforms into a lounge at night with sun beds, music, drinks and food.
- International airport – 17 km
- Distance to beach is 500 m
- 153 rooms & suites
- 3 restaurants
- 1 bar and lounge
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[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Written By: Jim Myers; AAKP Board of Director’s member, Ambassador for the state of Indiana, and contributing editor of AAKP’s Pediatric Kidney Pals e-newsletter
I have been asked to write about my motivation for the AAKP Pediatric Kidney Pals Newsletter. It’s a good question. I was not a pediatric patient, diagnosed at the age of 30, however I do love children and have an affinity with them. But that’s not the answer either. I met someone when I first went on dialysis in 2012. She changed my life forever. This is her story.
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A bathroom carpet is often the most overlooked bathroom necessity. These carpets are the most effective and inexpensive way to give your dull, mundane bathroom a refurbished and chic look. Here are a few pointers to choose the perfect bathroom carpet.
There are various types of bath carpets available in the market. You can choose a small bath rug or a typical carpet mat that covers the entire floor area. Bath mats with air pockets and rubberised mats are also a viable carpeting option in case safety is your first priority.
If you are opting for a carpet styled floor mat, you must ensure that the length of the mat is such that it does not run below the bathtub or the toilet seat. This may cause the carpet to remain damp for days leading to early damage. If you are buying a small bathroom carpet, then make sure that the size complements the size of the bathroom. A carpet too large can eat up space and look clumsy whereas a carpet, which is too small, looks out of place.
While choosing the style of your bath carpet, you should keep in mind the traffic of the bathroom in question. If you have a big family, especially kids, then it is wise to go for a densely waved or uncut bath carpet as they can endure dirt and grime for a much longer period. A plush carpet style can be used for the master or guest bathrooms which have considerably less traffic.
Colours and safety measures
Most people tend to use white or beige for their bathroom, however, bathroom carpets are available in almost all colours these days. The colour of the carpet must complement or contrast the colour of the bathroom wall in order to give your bathroom a perfect finish. In addition, an important thing to remember is that light colours exhibit more dirt, so choose your carpet colour depending on the number of people using the bathroom. However, colours, which are too dark, tend to make the bathroom look smaller than it actually is. Most bath carpets are reversible but many have one side lined with rubber to prevent slipping. This is an absolute necessity for kids and elderly people who are prone to bathroom accidents. If the bath mat or carpet of your choice is not rubber lined, then you can always get them lined by rubber mats that fit perfectly. Absorbent mats are a necessity as they soak up excessive water and prevent slippage and accidents. The right bathroom carpet can give your bathroom a brand new feel and bear testimony to your personal aesthetic style. Happy bath carpet hunting!!

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Candles are a popular home decor item that can add warmth and ambiance to any room. But why settle for a basic candle display when there are so many creative and unique ways to showcase these beautiful objects? In this article, we’ll explore some cool ways to display candles that will elevate your home decor game.
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One of the simplest ways to display candles is by arranging them in a group. This can be done on a tray, a decorative plate, or even a wooden board. Mix and match different sizes and shapes of candles for a visually interesting display. You can also add in other elements such as flowers, greenery, or decorative objects to create a more dynamic arrangement.
For a unique and eye-catching display, try using floating candles. These can be placed in a bowl or vase filled with water, creating a beautiful and serene centerpiece. You can also add in some flower petals or greenery for an added touch of elegance. Floating candles are perfect for special occasions or as a romantic addition to your home decor.
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Candle holders are a classic way to display candles, but there are so many different styles and designs to choose from. From traditional candlesticks to modern geometric shapes, there’s a candle holder for every type of decor. You can also mix and match different styles for a more eclectic look.
If you’re looking to add some drama to your candle display, consider using wall sconces. These decorative fixtures can hold candles and be mounted on the wall, creating a stunning focal point in any room. Wall sconces come in a variety of styles and can be used to add a touch of elegance or a rustic charm to your home.
For retail stores, creating an eye-catching candle display is essential for attracting customers. One idea is to use a ladder to display different sizes and scents of candles. You can also create a display using shelves or a bookcase, arranging the candles by color or scent. Another option is to use a large tray or table to showcase a variety of candles and other home decor items.
Candle lanterns are a great way to add a touch of coziness and warmth to any room. These can be hung from the ceiling or placed on a table or shelf. You can also use them outdoors to create a magical atmosphere for a backyard gathering. Candle lanterns come in a variety of styles, from traditional to modern, and can be used year-round.
By using these cool ways to display candles, you can add a unique and personal touch to your home decor. Whether you’re looking for a simple arrangement or a more elaborate display, there’s a candle display idea for every style and occasion. Have you tried any of these ideas? Let us know in the comments below!

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The Basics of NMR
by Joseph P. Hornak
Publisher: Rochester Institute of Technology 1999
Nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR as it is abbreviated by scientists, is a phenomenon which occurs when the nuclei of certain atoms are immersed in a static magnetic field and exposed to a second oscillating magnetic field.
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This book provides a beginners guide to hydrodynamic modelling with focus on agglomeration processes. The basic terms and principles are introduced including Eulerian and Langrangian models. The text is on a bachelor or master-of-science level.
An introduction to the chemical world. Topics: Properties of Matter; Atomic Structure; Compounds and Bonding; Chemical Reactions; Aqueous Solutions; Phases of Matter; Chemical Equilibria; Chemical Kinetics; Thermodynamics; and more.
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The third of a three part series of texts designed for a first-year university course. Tutorial questions with solutions are used to help the students to self-pace themselves. Colored molecular structures, graphs and diagrams bring the text alive.
by David W. Ball, John W. Hill, Rhonda J. Scott - Flat World Knowledge
The Basics of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry is a new textbook for the one-semester General, Organic and Biological Chemistry course. It is written by three chemistry professors with specific, complimentary research and teaching areas.

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Interactive map: COVID-19 cases by neighborhood in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The City of Cincinnati has created a tool that allows users to see how many coronavirus cases have been confirmed in their neighborhood.
Use your mouse to hover over an area on the map below and it will tell you how many COVID-19 cases are in a particular neighborhood.
You can also see the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Cincinnati as well as deaths caused by the virus.
County-level data can be found by zip code here.
The map below shows the number of coronavirus cases by county in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana
Take your mouse and hover over the county and it will tell you how many positive coronavirus cases have been diagnosed there.
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Diagnosis is: made by history, observation and input from relatives/ significant others. Mayo Clinic Defines Schizophrenia as “a severe brain disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior.” ...Read more
Bleeding, pain: Intl hemorrhoids can give u bleeding with a bowel movement, blood on the toilet paper or in the bowl. If large, they can become trapped and give u pain or at least bad inflamation, itching. Ext. Hemorrhoids can itch and if a clot forms and obstructs them they can b extremely painful and a patch of skin can die off causing infection. Usually begin with fiber and hygine changes, sx if refractory. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Blood tests: Blood tests and blood/tissue cultures are necessary for making the diagnosis of brucellosis; they include testing for antibodies against the bacteria and isolating the organism from blood cultures. Brucellosis is treated with a course of antibiotics. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Many tests: Through carotid (ultrasound) scan, nuclear stress test, stress echocardiogram, echocardiogram, pet scan, ct scan, mri, ankle brachial index test, peripheral ultrasound, ekgs. These tests are only used after a thorough history and physical that provides the indications for the appropriate test(s). ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Colonoscopy: Colitis is an inflammation of the lower bowel. A direct visualization of the tissue lining the bowel is the most precise way to make the diagnosis. The patient is sedated and a colonoscope is inserted into the lower bowel to examine the tissue. A biopsy may be done during the procedure. ...Read more
Lumbar puncture: Symptoms of meningitis typically include high fever, ill-appearing child, vomiting (usually without diarrhea), neck pain/stiffness or alteration in mental status (eg. Excessive lethargy). Some children may have a purplish rash on the body. The clinical signs may prompt further testing. The definitive study of choice is a lumbar puncture (spinal tap). ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Big work up: All suspected patients get blood and urine tests. Then to see how widespread the disease is, ekg, echocardiogram, brain mri, audiology and eye exams are next. Patients with neurologic symptoms need spinal fluid tests, and people with developmental delays get neurogenetic testing and counseling. For more info and to find docs that take care of these diseases, see umdf.Org. Good luck. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Skin or blood test: Milk allergy usually begins in infancy. Most children have skin or GI issues (pain and diarrhea). Less common are nasal and chest symptoms or anaphylaxis. The diagnosis is made by skin test (by an allergist) or by measuring specific ige (blood test). Many infants, older children and adults are intolerant to milk in which case these tests would be negative. Other types of milk allergy do exist. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Tough case: Sorry to hear you have this condition. Since it is not correctable surgically you are really stuck with managing the symptoms. There are some interventional pain management techniques that may help. Spinal cord stimulation is an excellent option as an addition to medication management and psychological counseling for coping techniques. ...Read more
Usually ultrasound.: Most ovarian cysts are diagnosed by ultrasound. This is a noninvasive radiologic test. It is safer than ct, without radiation and is both cheaper than ct and mri. Ovarian cysts, however, may be found on ct if the patient was referrred for a ct study for nonspecific abdominal or pelvic pain symptoms. ...Read more
High blood pressure: A blood pressure over 140/90 with or without edema, excessive sudden weight gain, lab abnormalities, headache not relieved by tylenol, (acetaminophen) upper abdominal pain, vision disturbances, seizure or stroke. The most important sign is elevated blood pressure. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Same as for adults: Typically the workup for ibs in a teenager is the same as for adults with a few exceptions. Your doctor may check for other intestinal disorders that are unique to children and teenagers before diagnosing someone with ibs. The workup may include blood work and some imaging studies and possibly a referral to a intestinal specialist-- a gastroenterologist. ...Read more
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The Kenyan rangelands contribute significantly to the country's GDP through livestock production and tourism. With dependence on rain-fed pastures, climate variability coupled with human induced factors such as overgrazing has adversely affected the rangeland ecosystems however, even though indigenous communities and conservation experts already use their knowledge of the landscape to make decisions, this information is usually localized. Successful management of the rangelands requires reliable and relevant information on vegetation changes to quantify the effects of these changes on the rangeland ecosystem. Intensive and long-term ground-based assessments can produce fine scale, accurate and localized information. However, they are expensive, time and labor intensive; and do not provide full coverage and visualization of the spatial dynamism in rangeland ecosystem.
Locally, organized groups have been established to develop mechanisms for improving the health of the rangelands. These include conservancies such as the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) which brings together 35 community led conservancies to collectively implement initiatives for sustainable management of the rangeland ecosystems. This is achieved through efforts such as reseeding and practicing planned rotational grazing. The conservancies use emerging technologies and the indigenous knowledge of the rangelands landscape, to implement measures geared toward improving the rangelands ecosystem.
SERVIR E&SA has been developing the Rangelands Decision Support Tool as a response to the need from stakeholders for a dynamic rangeland monitoring tool. The main goal of developing it is to facilitate near real time assessment and monitoring of rangeland resources by developing a web based tool that will aggregate key indicators to rangeland productivity with ancillary data and allow for integration of user selected indicators to produce maps at different administrative and conservancy boundaries. Between October 2 and 4, 2019, RCMRD/SERVIR E&SA conducted a training for stakeholders drawn from various counties in Northern Kenya. The training was on the Rangelands Decision Support Tool as a response to the need from stakeholders for a dynamic rangeland monitoring tool.
The the web-based Rangelands Decision Support Tool (RDST) automates data processing and provides an easy to use interface for accessing indices for rangeland monitoring. MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), anomalies and deviation indices are provided on the tool at decadal, monthly, and seasonal time steps. Users begin their assessments by selecting their monitoring units and an NDVI index that responds to their specific questions. These questions respond to assessing current conditions, monitoring trends and changes in vegetation, and evaluating proxies for drought conditions. The information can then be overlaid with other ancillary datasets (roads, water sources, invasive species, protected areas, place names, conflict areas, migration routes), for context.
At the click of a button, the information can be downloaded as a map for further analysis or application in sub regional decision making. Information and maps generated by this tool are being used decision making tool by rangeland managers in the counties and in other management units (conservancies and ranches). Specifically, inform adjustments to existing grazing plans, managing movement of livestock from designated grazing areas in wet and dry season, monitoring the success of rehabilitation efforts and resilience of the rangeland ecosystems, monitoring drought, managing scarce water resources, and monitoring the spread of invasive species. Successful implementation and application for decision making has relied heavily on local indigenous knowledge and capacity building on use of the earth observation indices. The SERVIR project service planning engagement approach was used in engagements with stakeholders. This improved their participation in co-development of the tool and indices; and in adoption of the tools for decision making.
The Rangelands Decision Support Tool (RDST) allows specific user groups to plug in program specific data that can be used to provide interpretations of rangeland conditions. Data includes vegetation greenness/proxies to productivity at multi temporal scales (10 day, monthly, seasonal). The greenness indices include Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) maximums, averages, Standard anomalies (Z-score) and absolute anomalies (difference from long term mean) and a Vegetation condition Index (VCI). The tool provides users with explanations that directs them in selecting the right indicators, preferred boundary (county/conservancy/grazing block), and allows users to select overlay data such as invasive species, towns, water sources and produce pdf map for assessment and monitoring. Further, surface water maps which are a critical driver in rangelands management are being developed as an addition to the tool.
To build capacity on the use of the tool, SERVIR E&SA held a three day capacity building workshop to train selected participants on application of the tool. After the training participants were expected to have a clear understanding on the use of the tool, and demonstrate how they can link the information to their monitoring plans. Feedback on the tool would also be provided.


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Traditional gastronomy offering good roasts made using the best local produce. Our speciality is wood-fired oven roasted Burgos suckling lamb. Grilled meat and fish, as well as specific pieces for takeaway, by order. Excellent wine list. We have a cosy dining room with capacity for 55 people. Our friendly service, the optimum quality of our products and their preparation make our carvery/grill an ideal place to enjoy lunch or dinner in a privileged setting.
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text: Filed under: Stream Tampa Bay Lightning Game Day Coverage 10.24.2015 Tampa Bay Lightning at Chicago Blackhawks game coverage Contributors: John Fontana Share this story Share this on Facebook Share this on Twitter Share All sharing options Share All sharing options for: 10.24.2015 Tampa Bay Lightning at Chicago Blackhawks game coverage Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email The first of two rematch games between last season's Conference champions is also the flip-side of back-to-back games for the Tampa Bay Lightning. They're in Chicago for the first time since their Game 6 Stanley Cup Final loss to the Blackhawks. 9 Total Updates Since Oct 23, 2015, 11:30am EDT Follow this stream October 25, 2015 Regarding lack of recaps this weekend By John Fontana@Johnny_Fonts Note form management regarding the fact we didn't give you recap stories for Friday and Saturday's respective games. October 24, 2015 Game Chat: Lightning at Blackhawks By John Fontana@Johnny_Fonts Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final !! Not really, not nearly. We'll chat through it thoug. October 24, 2015 Talking Lightning/Balckhawks with "The Committed Indian" By John Fontana@Johnny_Fonts October 24, 2015 Crease shuffle; Poulin on waivers By John Fontana@Johnny_Fonts Kristers Gudlevskis recdall, Andrei Vasilevskiy's looming return to practice... Something had to give... and that is Poulin's status as Ben Bishop's backup. October 24, 2015 Lightning at Blackhawks preview By John Fontana@Johnny_Fonts The other side of back-to-back games for Tampa Bay is a rematch of the Stanley Cup Finals. October 23, 2015 Hold the phone on "Bishop back-to-back" By John Fontana@Johnny_Fonts October 23, 2015 Bishop to start today AND tomorrow? By John Fontana@Johnny_Fonts The Bolts starter seems tabbed to start both games of a back-to-back series. Why? October 23, 2015 Bolts vs. Blackhawks WATCH PARTY By John Fontana@Johnny_Fonts For New York City and tri-state area Lightning fans, there will be a little event on Saturday night in NYC. October 23, 2015 Who scheduled this @#$!&? Bolts at Jets preview By John Fontana@Johnny_Fonts Back-to-back games!!... versus a team that hasn't played since Sunday, featuring a border crossing, then a rematch of the Stanley Cup Finals? Who planned this?

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Descuentos en disneyland paris
Existen descuentos en los hoteles Disneyland Hotel, Disneys Hotel New York, Sequoia Lodge, Hotel Cheyenne, Santa Fe y David Crockett Ranch.
34 For the first time in the resort's history, both the Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park closed from 14 to regalos originales para tu pareja caseros 17 November 2015, as part of France's national days of mourning following the November 2015 Paris attacks.
2, the resort covers 4,800 acres (19 km2) 3 and encompasses two theme parks, many resort hotels, a shopping, dining, and entertainment complex, and a golf course, in addition to several additional recreational and entertainment venues.Tokyo Disney Resort in 1983.The Disneyland Hotel is located over the entrance of the Disneyland Park and is marketed as the most prestigious hotel on property.Implemented a "reverse split" consolidation of shares of 100.Es descuento citibank carrefour la mejor opción para que puedan probar todo lo que ofrece esta gran marca. .Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2015.
Para usarlos solo deberás insertarlos en el lugar indicado al finalizar tu proceso de compra en su página web.
Desde entonces se han convertido en el lugar de ensueño de miles de niños de todo el mundo, ofreciendo más de un centenar de espectáculos diarios, eventos, restaurantes, atracciones para todas regalos caseros para mi novio en su cumpleaños las edades y familias y, recientemente, la incorporación de los estudios Disney donde.
"Disneyland Paris (Euro Disney) Frequently Asked Questions 1996, Andre Willey/Tom Drynda".The creditor banks bought US500 million worth of Euro Disney shares, forgave 18 months of interest, and deferred interest payments for three years."Without it we couldn't be presenting the Disney product that people would be expecting." 13 Opening day and early years edit Euro Disney opened for employee preview and testing in March 1992.After the banks showed interest, Litvack informed Eisner and Wells.11 Due to the European recession that August, the park faced financial difficulties as there were a lack of things to do and an overabundance of hotels, leading to underperformance.Photography and filming are strictly forbidden in backstage areas.5 The construction manager was Bovis.The first phase of the expansion will be completed in 2021.FPO: By clicking "Continue you will be leaving Disneyland Paris and will be redirected to Hong Kong website to make hotel reservations at Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel and/or Disney's Hollywood Hotel managed by Hong Kong International Theme Parks Limited.


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Since 2004, Safe Home Care research activities have been based on the following National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-funded projects on:
- Safe Home Care Intervention - The newest research, starting in 2019, aims to develop guidance for safer home care by working together with the home care industry, home care workers, and their clients to evaluate practices, tools and training.
- Safe Cleaning and Disinfection - Since 2014, the Safe Home Care Team has been developing scientific evidence to guide the home care industry on cleaning and disinfection products and practices that are effective for infection prevention and safe for the respiratory health of home care aides, nurses, and clients.
- Occupational Health and Good Practices - Since 2010, the Safe Home Care Team has been investigating a wide range of occupational safety and health conditions as well as good practices in home care. The Team also followed up on the earlier findings related to sharps injuries and other blood exposures.
- Sharps Injuries and Other Blood Exposures - From 2004 to 2009, the Safe Home Care Team focused on investigating sharps injuries and other blood exposures among home health care providers in Massachusetts (Project Title Safe Homecare and Risk Reduction for Providers, i.e. “Project SHARRP”).


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ADMIN LETTER #.C.S. 3-00
TO: COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES
DATE: Effective Immediately
ATTENTION: County Directors of Social Services
Children’s Services Supervisors
Children’s Services Social Workers
District Court Judges
The Administration for Children and Families has issued a memorandum with accompanying regulations and final rules regarding Title IV-E foster care eligibility. Among other things, the purpose of the memorandum was to inform the states of federal expectations regarding requirements of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) relating to Title IV-E. This letter contains important information about IV-E eligibility that must be implemented immediately. Implementation is particularly critical since we are preparing for a federal IV-E audit and since federal IV-E funds pay for more than 50% of the cost of the foster care system in our state.
The new rules require that every court order relating to a child’s placement contain necessary language to ensure the child’s eligibility for IV-E foster care payments. The new rules require the following:
(1) Contrary to the welfare - The very first court order that sanctions the removal of a child from the home, even temporarily, must contain a determination regarding whether remaining in the home is “contrary to the welfare” of the child. In other words, even an initial ex parte nonsecure custody order must contain a determination that it would be “contrary to the welfare” of the child to remain in the home. Previously, we have considered a determination in the order at the 7-day hearing to be sufficient to satisfy this criterion. [G.S. 7B-507(a)(1) provides that “each court order subsequent to the initial nonsecure custody order (that is, all continued nonsecure, dispositional, or review orders) should have a finding that continuation in or return to the juvenile’s own home would be contrary to the juvenile’s best interest”.] This is no longer true. With the issuance of this Administrative Letter, the initial court order removing custody must contain the required language or the child will not be eligible for IV-E funds for the duration of that removal period. The Commentary to the federal regulations, however, explains that the exact wording need not be used as long as it is clear that the court concluded that continuation in the home would have been contrary to the child’s welfare. It is the Division’s position currently that the language contained within our form Order for Nonsecure Custody, AOC-J-150, that “there are no other reasonable means available to protect the juvenile,” meets the federal requirement for a “contrary to the welfare” determination.
Note: The Division of Social Services has contacted its federal regional office in Atlanta. We have asked for a written response as to whether the language contained within our form Order for Nonsecure Custody, AOC-J-150, that “there are no other reasonable means available to protect the juvenile,” meets the federal requirement for a “contrary to the welfare” determination. Also, the Division has discussed the situation with the Administrative Office of the Courts and has its concurrence that if the response from the federal regional office is unfavorable, AOC-J-150 can be modified at that time by the Division to include the specific language of “contrary to the welfare”.
(2) Reasonable efforts - Even if a “contrary to the welfare” determination is contained in the very first court order removing the child from the home, the child is still not IV-E eligible until “reasonable efforts” findings are made. Under federal law, regardless of how a child is removed from the home, states have 60 days from the time of the child’s actual removal from the home in which to obtain a judicial order that reasonable efforts were made to prevent the removal or that no efforts were possible. However, this does not mean that agencies should wait to obtain this judicial determination, because if reasonable efforts language is not in place within 60 days of a child’s removal from the home, that child will also not be IV-E eligible throughout the removal period. Thus, a judicial determination regarding reasonable efforts must be obtained at the earliest opportunity. [G.S. 7B-507(a) requires that reasonable efforts findings be made at the 7-day hearing (as well as at all subsequent continued nonsecure, dispositional, and review hearings)]. The court order should address whether reasonable efforts were made since the last court hearing and whether the agency should make reasonable efforts in the future. See, G.S. 7B-507(a)(2) and (3).
Note: County Departments of Social Services must always make reasonable efforts to achieve the court-approved plan for the child. Reasonable efforts must be made to prevent removal of the child from the child’s own home unless the circumstances of the child prevent that. Reasonable efforts to reunify the child and family must be made unless the court sanctions that this plan is not appropriate. Reasonable efforts must also be made to obtain a timely and permanent home for the child when return to the parents cannot occur.
The Court must determine the level of effort that is reasonable based on safety considerations and the circumstances of the family. Sometimes, based on its assessment of a family, the agency determines that it is reasonable to pursue a plan other than reunification for the child. The Court must sanction the agency’s decision not to pursue the stated plan. In such circumstances, if the Court determines that the agency’s assessment is accurate and its actions were appropriate, the Court should find that the agency’s efforts were reasonable, rather than reasonable efforts were not required. G.S. 7B-507(b).
(3) Detailed findings - The federal regulations require that the “contrary to the welfare” and “reasonable efforts” findings be detailed; that is, the findings must include specific relevant facts about the case. There are a number of approved ways in which to provide detailed findings including: (a) describing the facts/efforts in the court order or findings; (b) having language in the court order that cross references or refers specifically to detailed statements in an agency or other report submitted to the court; (c) having language in the court order that cross references to a sustained petition; or (d) checking off items from a detailed checklist. If the “contrary to the welfare” and “reasonable efforts” determinations are not included in the court orders identified in paragraphs (1) and (2) above, a transcript of the court proceedings is the only documentation that will be accepted to verify that the required determinations were made.
(4) Placement authority - The federal regulations re-emphasize that the county DSS agency must have placement authority (when it has custody). If the court orders a specific foster placement that differs from the DSS recommendation, the court assumes the agency’s responsibility for placement and the child becomes ineligible for IV-E reimbursement. The recent federal regulations have underscored this point. If the court sanctions the placement plan recommended by the county DSS, the child will be IV-E eligible if the other criteria are met.
(5) Immediate implementation - The requirements regarding “contrary to the welfare” (#1 above) and “reasonable efforts” (#2 above) findings are departures from the procedures we have followed in the past. Agencies must modify procedures to comply with these rules so that a “contrary to the welfare” finding in the very first court order removing a child from the home and “reasonable efforts” findings in the continued nonsecure custody order resulting from a 7-day hearing occur immediately.
We greatly appreciate your attention to these important issues regarding IV-E eligibility. If you have questions about this information, please contact our Policy and Planning Team at (919) 733-3360.
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Local Business Liaisons
Children’s Program Representatives
Child Welfare Attorneys
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Guest Blog by Alexis Haralambous
Throughout our lives, we often question why our family is who they are. My answer to that is simple – we may not get to choose our family, but we are given the opportunity to choose our friends! Growing up in a Greek household, I realized this gift very early on.
The greatest thing about choosing our friends is that they come in all different shapes and sizes! It does not matter if someone has been in your life for days or years, what matters is that they are there no matter what.
I have a new found appreciation for my girlfriends after going through a breakup recently. I mean, where did everyone go while I was spending all my time focusing on being the perfect girlfriend? It’s amazing how quickly you notice your lack of effort in your friendships when the other relationship is no more. After rounding everyone up again, I saw that anything is possible with the right group of girlfriends! Who else can we tell our whole lives to, not be judged, and receive comfort that the same time?
As women we often feel like it is a luxury to go out with our friends. I say it needs to become a necessity! They are a big part of our sanity, our happiness, and most importantly our heart! Time is not something that we have, it is something we make — so never become too busy for your girlfriends!

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PUB Approves Battery-Storage Systems
Alameda Municipal Power customers can now apply to use battery-storage systems. At its Sept. 17 meeting, the Public Utilities Board approved these systems, which customers can use to save energy they can use at any time.
To qualify, battery-storage systems must be paired with renewable energy systems, like a solar-power system. AMP, however, prohibits these systems from sending energy back to the city’s own distribution grid.
AMP is charging application fees for new solar-power installations; new solar-power installations combined with battery storage, and expansions of existing solar systems to include battery storage. Residential application fees are $300, while commercial and multi-family application fees run $660 for systems up to 50 kilowatts and a minimum $1,100 for systems of more than 50 kilowatts.


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Foundations: Bunn-Sharp House near Unionville an 18th century master carpenter’s show piece
The present owners of this ancient house are well aware of its interesting history.
This lovely Amity Township home, near the Berks County village of Unionville, belonged to one of Berks' best-known master carpenters, Jacob Bunn, and his son John. Their large body of work encompassed the late 18th and early 19th centuries and can be found throughout Berks County and parts of Chester County.
Notable examples are the Fisher mansion in Oley and its twin, "Greystone," in South Heidelberg Township; St. Gabriel's Chapel; Ridgewood Farm; and several of the houses in Unionville, also known as Browertown. This includes two herringbone stonework homes built by the Browers in Union Township.
The house sits on a plot settled by Jonas Yocom, one of the area's early Swedish settlers. There were many marriages among the Yocom, Bunn and Brower families of Browertown, directly across the Schuylkill River from the home.
The earliest part of the house is a 1763 2 1/2-story stuccoed stone section in the rear, with a hall-parlor plan of two rooms on each floor. Its slightly banked cellar is very interesting, with its barrel-vaulted root cellar and well/spring.
The larger main section, built in 1783 of clapboard sheathed logs, was the sales showcase of master carpenter Jacob Bunn. Customers came here to view prime examples of the beautifully skilled, finely detailed wood craftsmanship he had to offer. In full public view is a magnificent stairway featuring the Bunns' characteristically modeled drop finials, well-turned spindles and scrolled brackets.
The present owners of this ancient house, Robert and Jeanne Sharp, are well aware of its interesting history.
"People came in and out, looking in the 'showroom' at the corner cupboard, molding, fan-light, window surrounds, and the grand room upstairs," said Robert.
Asked why they bought the house, Robert, who restores old and historic buildings, replied, "It was old, and exactly what we wanted."
The house looks comfortably lived-in, with a fine and authentic patina of age. The furnishings are an eclectic mixture of antiques and pieces created by Jeanne, a fiber artist. The house itself retains original features such as an English triple-throw lock on the front door, and a circa 1800 peat burner insert in the dining room fireplace. Antique oriental rugs adorn the floors throughout the house.
Upstairs is the crown jewel of the home, the museum-quality, carved and paneled second-floor parlor and master bedchamber. This room features dentil moldings and pitch-pedimented windows, with a mantel and over-mantel flanked by a pedimented cupboard. These rich architectural details are in an elegant second-floor parlor-master bedroom that includes an ornately carved fireplace and flanking cupboards. These are a Bunn trademark that also can to be seen in the Fisher house in Oley and in Greystone.
"There are very rare and special architectural details here," Robert said. "Look at the little, hand-carved pieces here in the cross-hatching, and the Greek key and shell motifs, and especially the even rarer rope beading around the fireplace mantel. This fine woodwork is priceless!"
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York offered the Sharps a substantial sum for the room. They declined.
The exterior of the 1783 house features a beautifully fashioned front entry with fluted pilasters, fanlight and raised panel door. All six-over-nine windows are crowned with wooden keystone motifs.
"We have 16 acres now," Robert said. "There were originally many more, and Jacob Bunn had a vineyard across the road. We are 850 feet from the river, and we found at least three wells on the property in addition to the one in the cellar."
Behind the main house is a charming 21/2-story summer kitchen with an incised date of 1804 and the initials J.B. This structure appears to be earlier, and may have been remodeled and made into a small but comfortable home with its elegant English style fireplace, mantel and flanking cupboards on the second floor. This renovation was done at the time John Bunn married his cousin Hannah Brower and could have been a temporary home for the newlyweds and, later, ideal for the grandparents.
"Bob likes to play cards with his buddies in here," said Jeanne, who works with many types of fiber and cloth, "And I keep my spinning wheel, wool carder and other equipment upstairs."
The Sharps love their historic house. Through their 17 years of living there, they have found happiness and contentment in their home.
"I love this house; it is a nice, warm house," said Jeanne. "I always feel at home here."
"I was supposed to be looking for a truck, and I found this wonderful house instead!" said Robert with a laugh.
Susan Speros is historic programming and interpretation coordinator for the Berks County Parks and Recreation Department. She writes for the Berks History Center's Review and 4 Centuries in Berks Historic Properties Tour. She is also a partner with Michelle Lynch in a Berks-based historic preservation and research consulting firm. Contact her at BCFoundations@outlook.com.

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New Retail Center 2nd & PCH Announces Tenants
The 2nd & PCH retail center is scheduled to open for business in Long Beach, Calif., this fall with a slate of tenants taking shape.
It was recently announced that eyewear brand Warby Parker, and activewear retailers Lululemon Athletica and Athleta will be moving into the mall being developed by CenterCal Properties, LLC, which is headquartered in El Segundo, Calif. Earlier this year, CenterCal announced that fashion retailers Urban Outfitters, Free People and the Long Beach–headquartered Linne’s Boutique would open shops at the center with a gross leasable area of 220,000 square feet, according to a statement on the mall’s website.
Other tenants coming in include a Whole Foods Market, a Shake Shake, a Sephora beauty store and Gorjana jewelry. Other committed tenants include a Barry’s Bootcamp fitness center and a Hawt Yoga studio.
The 2nd & PCH retail center is located, aptly enough, near a busy intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and East 2nd Street. It will open for business in an area that enjoys a lot of retail. Across Pacific Coast Highway is Marketplace Long Beach, which is anchored by a Trader Joe’s. It also is the home to restaurants including Wahoo’s Fish Tacos, Claim Jumper and California Pizza Kitchen.
Marina Pacifica Mall is a short walk down Pacific Coast Highway and is the address of a Nordstrom Rack and Pier 1 Imports as well as an AMC Theaters multiplex. The area is a short drive from the East 2nd Street retail district of boutiques and shops in Long Beach’s Belmont Shore area.
CenterCal also is developing the retail centers Mountain View Village in Riverton, Utah, and The Village at Totem Lake in Kirkland, Wash. CenterCal introduced The Veranda mall in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Concord, Calif., in 2017.

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Dogs are widely regarded as man’s best friend, but it is possible for any dog to attack a person unexpectedly and cause tremendous harm. If you or a family member recently suffered a dog attack, a Madera dog bite lawyer is the ideal resource to consult to determine your options for legal recourse. You likely have grounds to seek compensation for your damages, and the right attorney can be incredibly helpful for the difficult legal proceedings ahead of you.
Law Offices of David Davidi, APLC, offers compassionate and client-focused legal counsel to victims of dog attacks in the Madera area. If you recently sustained any harm from another person’s dog, the strict liability rule in California states that they are responsible for repaying your losses. However, the actual process of securing this compensation could be more challenging than you might expect.
Our firm is ready to work closely with you through all stages of your recovery efforts. You can rely on our team to help gather any evidence needed to assert strict liability, and we will uncover every form of compensation you can seek from the defendant. You have a limited time in which to pursue your recovery, and the sooner you connect with our team, the more time we can have to build your personal injury claim.
The first challenge you will face in your impending dog bite claim is proving strict liability applies to the case. This means you must prove you were legally present wherever the attack occurred and that you did not provoke the attack. Once you have asserted strict liability, you can proceed with claiming compensation for the damages you suffered from the attack.
The purpose of a personal injury claim is for the plaintiff to prove accountability for their damages and to secure compensation for those damages. Under the state’s personal injury laws, the plaintiff has the right to seek compensation for:
The sooner you connect with a Madera dog bite lawyer, the more likely you are to succeed with your recovery efforts. The team at Law Offices of David Davidi, APLC, is ready to help navigate the proceedings necessary to secure compensation for your damages, and the sooner you reach out to our team, the sooner we can start working on your case.
Under the strict liability rule in the state, a dog owner is fully responsible for any damages their pet caused as long as the situation meets two conditions. First, the victim must not have instigated the attack, such as attacking the dog or the dog owner. Second, the victim must have been legally present wherever the attack happened. This means a trespasser or intruder could not assert strict liability if they were harmed by a dog after illegally entering the owner’s property.
The damages available in a dog bite claim are the same that you could claim in any other personal injury suit. You have the right to seek full compensation for economic damages, including your medical expenses, lost income, and property damage from the incident. You can also claim compensation for projected future financial losses and your pain and suffering, and your attorney can help determine a suitable amount to include with your claim.
There is a two-year statute of limitations on personal injury claims in the state, including dog bite claims. This time limit starts on the date an injury occurred, and the plaintiff must submit their complaint to the court within two years; otherwise, they lose the chance to file their claim. If two years seems like more than enough time, remember that compiling the foundation of your case may be more time-consuming than you expect.
It is technically possible for you to file a dog bite claim without hiring an attorney, but having legal counsel you can trust can significantly improve your chances of success with your claim. Your attorney can streamline your proceedings and shorten the time it takes for you to recover. Additionally, they can also help maximize your recovery, potentially helping you secure far more compensation than you likely could have managed on your own.
The attorneys at Law Offices of David Davidi, APLC, accept personal injury cases on a contingency fee basis, so you pay nothing unless our firm wins your case. If we are unable to obtain a recovery, you owe nothing, and if we do win compensation for your damages, your contingency fee will be a percentage of the total amount recovered. This eliminates any risk of paying more for legal representation than you win in compensation for your damages.
The right Madera dog bite lawyer can have a tremendously positive influence on the outcome of your impending claim. Law Offices of David Davidi, APLC, can work closely with you to determine the full extent of damages you can seek from the defendant and guide you through your proceedings as efficiently as possible. Contact us today to schedule a free consultation with a Madera dog bite lawyer you can trust with your recovery efforts.


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Just before we can get into striving to understand whether or not organic pest management is the solution to the pest-handle connected environmental considerations, it would be correct to give ourselves a small qualifications data on this total pest control organization for the reward of people who may be encountering it for the extremely 1st time.
Now, pests are organisms (usually insects) that are injurious to the interests of the men and women who refer to them as these kinds of. Therefore to farmers, the insects that invade and consume up their crops (regardless of whether in the fields or throughout storage), would be termed as pests. On the other hand, the ‘domestic insects’ that are inclined to mess up with items in domestic options (like moths, that can mess up with cloths in storage), are witnessed as pests by housekeepers. Worth retaining in head is that although most pests are bugs, there are also very are number that are non-insects: with the likes of rodents (that can mess up with crops in farms of items stored in domestic options) being seen as pests way too, the reality that they are not insects notwithstanding.
pest control Mornington Having noticed that pests are injurious, it would be natural that the folks who take place to ‘fall victim’ to them would want to get rid of them. In the meantime, men and women who have not however fallen target to pests would be eager to avoid this sort of a ‘fate.’ Hosting pests, by the way, can be a serious destiny: 1000’s of hectares of farmland have been acknowledged to be wasted by pests in a solitary working day, major to losses that often run into millions of bucks. It is the measures taken to avoid pest invasion then, or to solve pest invasion if it has currently taken place, that are referred to as constituting pest manage.
Now pest handle normally takes numerous forms, depending on the pests one particular is attempting to get rid of (or to prevent the invasion of). And although even bigger pests like rodents may be controlled by means of mechanical means like trapping, for a extended interval of time, it is chemical control that has labored for the large greater part of pests, which have a tendency to be bugs as prior mentioned. The substances employed in this endeavor are what are termed as pesticides. And even though pesticides are generally extremely successful in pest-control, the draw back to them tends to appear up when we think about the truth that they are inclined to be very environmentally unfriendly. Worth trying to keep in thoughts, at this stage, is the fact that the substances referred to as pesticides are likely to be extremely strong kinds. So it typically happens that traces of them stay exactly where they have been employed, even soon after the pests are gone. People traces are eventually washed down to the drinking water bodies where they wreck great havoc to the (non pest) crops and animals resident in the water bodies.
It is issue about this environmental influence of chemical pest-control that led to concerns as to whether a far more environmentally buddy technique for managing pests couldn’t be produced. The end consequence was the exploration of options like the biological pest control, which we are trying to see regardless of whether it is really the solution to issues raised about (chemical- primarily based) pest management.
In organic pest-manage, it is other organisms that are recognized to be predators to the types seen as pest that are unleashed on the explained pests consuming them up and consequently resolving the pest problem. Hence if the troublesome pests are aphids, the other organisms that are acknowledged to feed on aphids are introduced into the subject where the problem is, to feed on the aphids, rather than spraying an environmentally unfriendly chemical.

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OMEGA has combined black ceramic with depth-defying technology to create four striking new divers' watches that look beautiful and perform brilliantly, both above the waves and deep below.
OMEGA has announced the official launch of its first ever online sales platform. Exclusively for customers in the United States, the brand’s famous collections can now be purchased directly through the company’s website.Read more
Phillips sells historically important and unique stainless steel prototype tourbillon wristwatch for CHF 1,428,500 all in, at the Geneva Watch Auction. The watch sold after a lengthy bidding war of almost 19 minutes and sets the world-record for any OMEGA sold at auction.Read more


Studies in this week’s Hutchins Roundup find that the EITC increases later-in-life earnings and work hours for single mothers, people are much more likely to die when they turn 62 years old, and more.
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Existing literature shows that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) reduces poverty and increases employment among the low-wage workers it targets. David Neumark and Peter Shirley of the University of California, Irvine, hypothesize that the EITC could also have longer-run benefits because those who work more may accumulate more skills and enjoy persistent earnings increases. Using information on various state and federal EITC policies with longitudinal data on women’s earnings, marital status, and children, the authors estimate the impact of the EITC benefits received by women when they were between ages 22 to 39 on labor market outcomes at age 40. They find that, for single mothers, more generous EITC policies increase later-in-life work hours and earnings, implying that pro-work incentives can increase economic self-sufficiency.
Most Americans become eligible for Social Security benefits when they turn 62 years old. Comparing death rates of those who have just turned 62 with those who are almost 62, Maria Fitzpatrick of Cornell and Timothy Moore of the University of Melbourne find that mortality increases by 1.5 percent in the month people turn 62, and the effect is greater among men. This jump in mortality at age 62 was not observed prior to 1962, the year that the Social Security eligibility age was lowered to 62. The authors find that the demographic subgroups with the largest increases in mortality at age 62 are those most likely to retire then, including unmarried males and males with little education. Further, the primary drivers of the increased mortality at 62— more deaths from traffic accidents and lung-related conditions—are causes of death that have previously been linked to losing a job.
Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Walker Ray of the University of California, Berkeley, seek to explain how the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing (QE) reduced short- and long-term interest rates. Using high-frequency data from futures trading around U.S. Treasury debt auctions, they identify unexpected shocks to the demand for Treasuries to estimate the likely effects of QE on bond market yields. They conclude that QE can move interest rates for debt at specific maturities because investors prefer to hold some maturities over others, but this mechanism only works when financial markets are disrupted and investors don’t arbitrage differences in the returns across maturities. The authors find that other potential QE channels, such as signaling future monetary-policy moves or influencing inflation expectations, appear less important. QE, the authors say, is an effective way to lower long-term rates in periods of crisis, but less so in normal times.
Chart of the week: More people who’ve been out of the labor market are finding work
Quote of the week:
“The labor market has tightened since we raised rates in June, but inflation is not rising. It doesn’t appear that we are sustainably moving closer to our inflation target. Inflation expectations are low and may have already fallen. Monetary policy is currently only somewhat accommodative. There don’t appear to be urgent financial stability risks at the moment. The global environment seems to have a fairly typical level of risk. One new development is the flattening yield curve, which is also urging caution. From a risk management perspective, we have stronger tools to deal with high inflation than low inflation,” says Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari.
“Looking at all of these factors together led me to vote against a rate increase….[M]onetary policy is entering a delicate phase. We all want the economic expansion to continue. However, continuing to raise rates in the absence of increasing inflation could needlessly hold down wage growth while potentially increasing the chance of a recession.”


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ASBA and NSBA are hopeful the Senate will look to repeal of the expanded 1099 reporting provision as an ideal vehicle to display both sides' commitment to small business and bipartisanship.
EDITABLE LETTER BELOW – PLEASE EDIT AND EMAIL TO YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE.
Subject: Repeal Expanded 1099 Reporting Requirements
Dear Senator _________,
As a small business owner, I am writing to ask that you support efforts to repeal Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that requires any business that purchases more than $600 of goods or services from another business to submit a 1099 form to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Specifically, beginning Jan. 1, 2012, the provision would require information reporting—on a Form 1099—for all business transactions with a vendor, whether incorporated or not, valued at more than $600 and the reporting requirement would be for both services and property. With millions of small businesses filing two forms for each vendor, it is likely that the number of 1099s filed each year by small businesses could easily exceed 100 million.
This new and costly provision stands to greatly harm small businesses for a number of reasons. First, it poses a vast new burden on us by increasing the number of firms for which small-businesses must file a 1099 report from an average of 10 to an average of 86. Another severely concerning by-product is the fact that it will hamper business-to-business transactions by spurring customers of small businesses to look to ease this reporting requirement by consolidating purchases. This will give a significant and inherent advantage to big-box stores over small businesses like mine.
This mandate has nothing to do with health care coverage or reform, and instead was used as an unrelated "pay for” as a way to help the IRS track and collect taxes on income that now goes unreported by enlisting businesses to help create a paper trail.
As enacted, every small-business owner—including myself—will face increased paperwork and administrative burden for each additional 1099 form prepared. Increased costs are incurred for mailing additional forms and for hiring outside assistance to ensure that businesses are correctly complying with the law. Furthermore, if a business previously has not been required to utilize the Form 1099 filing system, greater difficulty with compliance is likely to ensue. While it may seek to capture non-compliant corporations, it clearly places the burden on the wrong taxpayer—the compliant small-business.
Businesses are already overburdened with tax paperwork and reporting requirements, so the additional requirements included in the PPACA will only increase the cost and complexity of complying with the tax code.
I am hopeful that you will take every opportunity to oppose this burdensome new requirement and support efforts to repeal Sec. 9006 of PPACA.
Now is the time for Congress to support proposals that are fair and reasonable, and that do not hinder the survival, growth and innovation of our nation’s entrepreneurs.
Thank you for your consideration.


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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected Senator Godswill Akpabio’s withdrawal from a scheduled rerun election for the Akwa Ibom North-West District which takes place this Saturday.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) may be unable to field a candidate for the January 25, 2020 senatorial rerun in Akwa Ibom State, ordered by the Court of Appeal.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom state has mocked the Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio, saying he withdrew from the rerun poll to avoid another defeat.
The Senator representing Akwa Ibom North-West (Ikot Ekpene) Senatorial District, Senator Chris Ekpenyong, has advised the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to avoid unnecessary distractions and use his tenure to address the challenges confronting the Niger Delta region.
Ahead of the rerun election for the Ikot Ekpene Senatorial seat, Senator Godswill Akpabio and Dr. Chris Ekpenyong, have once again engaged in a war of words over the coveted seat.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State has welcomed the judgement of the Court of Appeal on the Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial election which nullified the election of Chris Ekpenyong and ordered a rerun in only one local government area – Essien Udim Local Government Area – between Mr Ekpenyong and Godswill Akpabio, a former Senate minority leader.
The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State has ruled in favour of Senator Godswill Akpabio, nullifying the election of Dr Chris Ekpenyong, who was wrongly declared the winner of the February 23, 2019 National Assembly election in Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District.
A member of the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Justice Sheriff Hafizu, has said Senator Godswill Akpabio was robbed of his victory in February 23 National Assembly election.
The National Assembly election petitions tribunal sitting in Uyo has upheld the election of Christopher Ekpenyong who represents Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District.
The minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Sen Godswill Akpabio, and his opponent in the election of Akwa Ibom North East (Ikot Ekpene) senatorial district, Chris Ekpenyong, will know their fate next week as the National Assembly election tribunal rounds off its sitting in the state.
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Senator Godswill Akpabio has denied the allegation that he bribed the Chairman and members of the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal in Akwa Ibom State.
Senator Chris Ekpenyong of Akwa Ibom North West senatorial district has urged the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal to dismiss Senator Godswill Akpabio’s petition challenging his election, on the basis of incompetence.
Dr. Alloysius William, one of the witnesses called by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, before the National Assembly elections petition tribunal sitting in Uyo, stunned the court with some revelations at the weekend.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom has called for the resignation of Hon. Justice Jennifer Mbalamen Ijohor, who is the chairman Panel of 2 in charge of National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in the state.
Senator Godswill Akpabio has insisted the Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial district election was massively manipulated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Chief Ebenezer Babatope, a former Minister of Transport, has said Godswill Akpabio, former Akwa Ibom State governor, committed political suicide by dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) prior to the 2019 elections.
Senator-elect for Ikot Ekpene District (Akwa Ibom North-West), Chris Ekpenyong, has warned former Governor Godswill Akpabio to stop the campaign of blackmail and intimidation against the duly constituted election tribunal currently trying the case in Uyo.
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Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, has said his principal has been fair to the Southeast region in political appointments and infrastructural projects.
Of course, the French duo is not the only one to be going to the ‘chopping block‘. This summer is looking likely to become an exodus for many players and even though Barcelona want to sell Dembélé and Umtiti, other operations might take priority simply because they’ll be much easier to pull off.
Super Falcons of Nigeria Captain Asisat Oshoala says women’s football in Africa needs a lot of investment from cooperating bodies and serious attention from football governing bodies if they are to compete with the rest of the world.
Global oil prices fell on Friday, adding to steep losses from the previous session, and were headed for weekly declines on worries that renewed lockdowns following a surge in coronavirus cases in the United States and elsewhere would suppress fuel demand.
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday sign into law the revised 2020 budget passed by the National Assembly in June.
The chairperson of the Plateau Chapter of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalist (NAWOJ), Jennifer Yarima, has observed that women and girls living in houses without toilet facilities are more at risk of being raped.
The Bauchi State Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has warned residents of Bauchi state to adhere strictly to protocols of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for Coronavirus, saying that the pandemic is not yet over.
The Kebbi State Government says it has set in motion machinery to provide material support and training to fish farmers to improve production of fish for domestic and export purposes.
Former “Glee” star Naya Rivera is presumed to have drowned while boating on a lake near Los Angeles, authorities said on Thursday, but no body had been found almost 24 hours after she was last seen.
The Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his uncompromising stance against corruption in the country and passed vote of confidence on him.


Marines train at Southwestern Community College
FRANKLIN – A group of 22 U.S. Marines recently traveled from Camp Lejeune to Southwestern Community College for wildland fire chainsaw safety training.
“They bypassed no telling how many community colleges to come here,” Kameron Buchanan, fire/rescue program director/coordinator/Instructor, said in a news release. “We’re honored they chose us.”
The Marines spent several days last month in Franklin learning how to safely use chainsaws while combating wildfires.
The training was led by Sean Parks, an instructor with the U.S. Forest Service.
For Buchanan, who recently returned from a nine-month deployment to Qatar through the Air National Guard, helping train a group of active military personnel had special significance.
“You appreciate it a lot more from being on that side of things,” Buchanan said. “You know the time, effort, blood, sweat and tears they put in to get where they are. Whatever they do, they go above and beyond.”


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ANU Students Stand in Solidarity with NTEU at Recent Protest Actions
By Eleanor Ellis
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) recently organised two demonstrations, fighting for higher wages and improved working conditions, with ANU students attending both protests in support of ANU and UC staff.
The ANU Visibility Action took place on Tuesday 18 October, and the University of Canberra (UC) strike occurred the following week on Wednesday 26 October.The Visibility Action began with approximately 50 NTEU members and ANU students meeting at 7.30am, before dividing into smaller groups and heading to different entrances across campus. Participants displayed signs stating the various demands, handed out flyers with instructions on joining the NTEU, and spoke with staff and students as they entered the university.
The UC strike began with a rally, drawing the attention of approximately 150 people, comprised of 100 NTEU members, 20 members of other unions, and 30 students, according to ANU student Skye Predavec.
At the ANU action, ANUSA President Christian Flynn stated the primary issue campaigned for was an immediate 5% pay rise for all ANU staff.
NTEU ACT Division Secretary, Dr Lachlan Clohesy, said the NTEU is calling for this pay rise “on the basis of a cost of living crisis. Our members are feeling cost of living pressures every time they go to the supermarket, the petrol station, or pay their rent or mortgage”.
Clohesy claims the 5% pay rise is separate to the bargaining claims and “does not require bargaining to be completed, or even to have started. ANU can pay staff an administrative pay increase tomorrow, if they choose”.
According to the ANU Annual Report, the “University’s Operating Result…[reported] a surplus of $236.7 million” in 2021.
“It is clear the ANU can afford to value, support and respect ANU staff,” Clohesy continued.
The Report also states that approximately $255.6 million was allocated to both academic and non-academic salaries, a decrease from the $295 million allocated to each subdivision in 2020.
The demands of the UC strike were similarly focused on wage increases in line with inflation, as UC management is allegedly attempting to cap wage rises at 3.5% annually.
Other issues campaigned for at the ANU action included “fair salaries, healthy workloads, better job security, and flexible work,” according to Clohesy.
“It’s clear…ANU staff feel that management needs to do more to value, support, and respect their many contributions to the university”.
An ANU spokesperson stated that “ANU has some of the best working conditions in Australian higher education,” including “competitive salaries, generous leave entitlements, as well as employment policies that target underrepresented groups in the higher education sector”.
They continued that “these types of [bargaining] discussions can take time, but the University has no doubt our staff and students would agree that working conditions are worth investing the time in and getting right”.
ANUSA Education Officer Beatrice Tucker told Observer that ANU staff members they spoke to “were in very strong support” of the action for pay rise, “with many discussing they want to take further action if their demands aren’t met”.
The ANU spokesperson also claims that the University has “entered into preliminary discussions with the NTEU” and other unions and self-representing employees, and “have engaged with many of our staff over a number of different forums, and received a wide range of feedback, suggestions and ideas for the new Agreement”.
Regarding the impact the action for wage increases may have on students, Tucker stated “staff teaching conditions are student learning conditions…supporting staff in their demands is in student interests, especially since the ANU isn’t supporting quality education as it claims to be”.
ANU student Nick Reich responded similarly, adding “if staff members are burnt out, can barely pay their rent, and feel no joy in their work… the university suffers. Staff make the university run. They should have a say in how the university is run, and they should be paid much more than they are rather than all the money that goes to top executive salaries”.
Reich recommends any students wanting to show support to “attend any strikes or rallies that happen in the future at UC and ANU, and bring other people along…It’s so important for any student to show concrete solidarity with staff who are fighting against university management in the interests of all staff and students”.
The full log of NTEU claims can be read here.
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by Dale Chappell
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in United States v. Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019), declaring another residual clause unconstitutional is retroactive and further held that a conspiracy to commit a crime could not support a conviction for use of a firearm during a crime a crime of violence.
The case came before the Court after Antonyo Reece filed a motion to vacate his convictions and sentences imposed under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) that were connected to conspiracy to commit several bank robberies. Reece had gone to trial and was found guilty of numerous crimes, including conspiracy to commit bank robbery and actual bank robbery, which were all connected to several convictions under § 924(c) for carrying a firearm during all of those bank robbery offenses. He was ultimately sentenced to 1,080 months in prison, which included 10 years for the underlying bank robberies and stacked sentences for the § 924(c) convictions. After the appeal, Reece filed his motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to vacate his sentences and convictions, citing a string of cases that recently invalidated other residual clauses.
Reece’s motion made two arguments: (1) that the “residual clause” of § 924(c) is unconstitutional in light of the other recent cases invalidating similar residual clauses and (2) that his conspiracy offenses could not support the § 924(c) convictions because they had to necessarily fall under the residual clause. The district court denied his motion, ruling that the residual clause of § 924(c) was not affected by the recent decisions in other residual clause cases, and the court further ruled that all of his underlying convictions still qualified as crimes of violence for § 924(c) purposes.
On appeal, the Fifth Circuit granted a certificate of appealability (“COA”) on (1) whether the residual clause of § 924(c) is unconstitutionally vague, (2) whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in a case involving a residual clause materially similar to § 924(c)’s clause is retroactive to Reece’s case, and (3) whether a conviction for conspiracy to commit a crime of violence could support a § 924(c) conviction. However, while the appeal was pending, the Supreme Court decided United States v.Davis, 139 S. Ct. 2319 (2019).
The Court noted that Davis would apply to Reece’s case if it announced a new rule of constitutional law. A new rule is announced by a case when “the result was not dictated by precedent existing at the time the defendant’s conviction became final.” In re Williams, 806 F.3d 322 (5th Cir. 2015). “[A result] is not so dictated … unless it would have been apparent to all reasonable jurists.” Chaidez v. United States, 568 U.S. 342 (2013).
Because Davis resolved a circuit split on the issue of the residual clause’s constitutionality, Davis easily satisfies the standard for a new rule of law, the Court explained. This conclusion is dictated by the fact “the result in Davis was not apparent to all reasonable jurists,” according to the Court.
Additionally, Davis must apply retroactively for it to apply to the present case. The default for new rules of constitutional law is that they do not apply retroactively. Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288 (1989). However, there are two narrow exceptions to the principle of non-retroactivity: (1) new substantive rules and (2) new watershed rules of criminal procedure. Welch v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1257 (2016). The Fifth Circuit concluded that Davis announced a new substantive rule because “the residual clause’s invalidation narrows the scope of conduct for which punishment is now available.”
Therefore, the Court ruled “that Davis announced a new rule of constitutional law retroactively applicable on a first habeas petition,” and as a result, “we consider the merits of Reece’s petition.”
The Court then explained that “Reece’s three firearms convictions predicated on conspiracy to commit bank robbery can be sustained only if conspiracy to commit bank robbery” falls within the elements clause of § 924(c)(3). He argued that conspiracy does not because it does not require “the use, threatened use, [or] attempted use of physical force.” The Court agreed.
To convict Reece of conspiracy under the elements clause, the Government was not required to prove any element involving the actual use, attempted use, or threatened use of force, so conspiracy does not constitute a crime of violence under the elements clause. As such, the only way a conspiracy offense can support a § 924(c) conviction, the Court said, is for it to fall under the now-unconstitutional residual clause. Thus, conspiracy does not qualify as a crime of violence for purposes of § 924(c).
The Government argued that Reece had procedurally defaulted his claim because he never raised it on direct appeal. While it’s generally true that a claim raised for the first time in a § 2255 motion that could have been raised on appeal is procedurally barred from relief in a § 2255 motion, the Court noted an exception here: Reece was actually innocent of the § 924(c) convictions, which avoids any procedural bar, the Court said.
Accordingly, the Court vacated Reece’s sentence and remanded to the district court for resentencing. See: United States v. Reece, 938 F.3d 630 (5th Cir. 2019).
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Business success hinges on many things, from a strong vision to quality employees. However, one area to never overlook in business is equipment. All businesses rely on a myriad of equipment, from computers to printers to fax machines and more. While it may be easy to take these items for granted, such equipment is often integral to the success and productivity within a business. More importantly, all of these items need to work together as part of a cohesive network. Smart companies will turn to printer fleet management to ensure that their equipment is functioning at top capacity.
Printer fleet management involves organising and monitoring the equipment throughout the office. This can include printers, fax machines, copiers, and more. The goal with printer fleet management is to not only make sure that all equipment is set up and connected properly, but to manage and monitor usage throughout the company. The first step with any management plan is to assess the current state of the hardware. This assessment should consider the distribution of equipment and the quality of the hardware in place. Therefore, managed print services begins with the supply, spending time reorganising what is already in place and perhaps adding to the current supply with updated models or improved pieces. Once the supply is fully documented, it is possible to shift the focus to maintenance.
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European Central Bank policy makers have every reason to remain cautious about the region’s economy as they meet on Wednesday.
The U.S. has thrown out a fresh tariff threat, Italy’s government has almost given up on growth this year, and Brexit remains unresolved with a crunch point approaching. On top of that, the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its global outlook yet again.
Aside from the various concerns — the reason the ECB says risks are to the “downside” — another topic set to feature prominently is the institution’s negative interest-rate policy.
No policy shift is expected at this meeting as officials scrutinize the economy to calibrate a new bank lending program announced last month, although warnings about risks to growth and inflation may grow louder. The ECB will make its announcement at 1:45 p.m. in Frankfurt, followed by a press conference with President Mario Draghi 45 minutes later.
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While any new U.S. levies may be months away, the proposal could damp confidence, dimming prospects for a rebound later this year. The euro area is already the weak link in the global economy, with Italy in recession and Germany battling an industrial slump that will see growth slowing to a six-year low.
ECB officials have stepped up calls on European governments to help stimulate the economy and are likely to take this message to IMF meetings in Washington this week. In its World Economic Outlook on Tuesday, the fund lowered its 2019 prediction for global growth to 3.3 percent from 3.5 percent less than three months ago. It sees a pickup later in the year, but also warned of threats that could scupper that view.
A disorderly departure of Britain from the EU is one of the euro area’s biggest threats that would — should it materialize — amplify the region’s slowdown. It’s a scenario all of the bloc’s 27 remaining nations as well as the U.K. are trying to avoid.
Less consensus exists around how to achieve such an outcome. Britain’s main political parties are deadlocked over how exactly to exit, and EU countries disagree on how far into the future the deadline should be pushed out. European leaders gather Wednesday for yet another Brexit summit.
Draghi can expect to be quizzed about the ECB’s negative-rates policy after he sparked speculation late last month that policy makers are preparing to soften the impact on bank profitability. Yet no decision is imminent.
Committees, whose work is often the basis for formal policy proposals, didn’t discuss a system that would exempt some funds from the charge, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Dutch governor Klaas Knot and others have urged colleagues to stay away from so-called tiering, which the ECB studied in 2016 but found too complex to implement in the euro area.
Little news should be expected about the ECB’s new long-term lending program, after policy makers signaled that new forecasts in June would be key to judging how generous the terms should be.
The lowest interest rate will probably be below the ECB’s benchmark, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg. That means banks — at least for now — will be paid to take up funding.
Investors are growing increasingly impatient with policy makers’ regular assessment that inflation will eventually pick up. Market-based measures for future price growth slid to the weakest since 2016 earlier this month as faith in the ECB’s ability to hit it goal wanes.


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All of the silver is sterling. Length from the bottom of the leverback earwires is 1 3/4" (4.5 cm).


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This is interesting and almost pointless to report, but I figured its worth a post on a slow news day.
According to the Census Bureau, in 2011 about 25,000 people moved from Miami-Dade County into Broward County. That’s more than any other county-county migration in the state and its the sixth highest number in the U.S. The higher rates of migration all take place in and out of Los Angeles County in the west coast.
Now what makes this 25,000 person figure somewhat useless is the fact that 11,000 Broward residents actually move into Miami-Dade as well. That pretty much cancels out the other and puts Miami-Dade’s total loss of residents at about 13,000.
There you have it folks. Soon enough, Miami-Dade will be a ghost town with nothing but abandoned cookie-cutter homes and rotting condos with empty swimming pools.


I have the coolest job: my employer, EFF, is now officially doing development on Tor, an anonymizing network tool that lets people use the Internet without being snooped upon:
Your traffic is safer when you use Tor, because communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network take a random pathway through several servers that cover your tracks so no observer at any single point can tell where the data came from or where it's going. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, and even the onion routers themselves to figure out who and where you are. Tor's technology aims to provide Internet users with protection against "traffic analysis," a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.
Traffic analysis is used every day by companies, governments, and individuals that want to keep track of where people and organizations go and what they do on the Internet. Instead of looking at the content of your communications, traffic analysis tracks where your data goes and when, as well as how big it is. For example, online advertising company Doubleclick uses traffic analysis to record what web pages you've visited, and can build a profile of your interests from that. A pharmaceutical company could use traffic analysis to monitor when the research wing of a competitor visits its website, and track what pages or products that interest the competitor. IBM hosts a searchable patent index, and it could keep a list of every query your company makes. A stalker could use traffic analysis to learn whether you're in a certain Internet cafe.
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The anemometer's probe selection range of 0 to 100 m/s flow rate can be divided into three sections: low speed: 0 to 5 m / s; medium speed: 5 to 40 m / s; high speed: 40 to 100 m / s. The anemometer's thermal probe is used for accurate measurement from 0 to 5 m/s; the anemometer's rotary probe measures the flow rate of 5 to 40 m/s; ideally, the pitot tube can be used in the high speed range. result. An additional criterion for properly selecting the anemometer's flow rate probe is temperature. Typically, the anemometer's thermal sensor is used at temperatures up to +-70C. The special anemometer's rotor probe can reach 350C. Pitot tube is used for +350C or above. The thermal probe of the anemometer's thermal probe anemometer works on the basis of the cold impinging airflow to remove heat from the thermal element. With an adjustment switch to keep the temperature constant, the current and flow rate are proportional. When a thermal probe is used in turbulent flow, airflow from all directions simultaneously impacts the thermal element, which can affect the accuracy of the measurement. When measured in turbulent flow, the temperature indicator of the thermal anemometer is often higher than that of the rotary probe. The above phenomenon can be observed during the pipeline measurement process. Depending on the design of the management pipe turbulence, it can occur even at low speeds. Therefore, the anemometer measurement process should be performed in the straight section of the pipe. The starting point of the straight line should be at least 10 Ã— D (D = pipe diameter, in CM) before the measuring point; the end point is at least 4 Ã— D behind the measuring point. The fluid section must not have any obstruction. (Angle, Resuspension, Object, etc.) The working principle of the rotary probe of the anemometer's rotary probe anemometer is based on converting the rotation into an electrical signal, first passing through a proximity induction and counting the rotation of the rotor. And generate a pulse series, and then through the converter conversion process, you can get the speed value. The anemometer's large bore probe (60mm, 100mm) is suitable for measuring turbulence at medium and small flow rates (eg at the pipe outlet). The anemometer's small-caliber probe is more suitable for measuring airflow with a pipe cross-section that is more than 100 times larger than the cross-section of the expedition. Positioning of the anemometer in the air flow The correct adjustment position of the rotary probe of the anemometer is that the airflow is parallel to the axis of the rotor. When you gently rotate the probe in the airflow, the indication changes. When the reading reaches a large value of zui, the probe is in the correct measurement position. When measuring in the pipeline, the distance from the starting point of the straight part of the pipeline to the measuring point should be greater than 0XD, and the influence of turbulence on the thermal probe and pitot tube of the anemometer is relatively small. The anemometer's airflow velocity measurement in the pipeline proves that the 16mm probe of the anemometer is widely used. Its size guarantees good permeability and can withstand flow rates up to 60m/s. Airflow velocity measurement in the pipeline is one of the feasible measurement methods, and the indirect measurement procedure (gate measurement method) is applicable to air measurement. VDI12080 provides the following procedures: â— Square section grid, measuring common specifications â— Circular section gate, measuring centroid axis specifications â— Circular section gate, measuring range linear specification Anemometer measuring vent in exhaust air It will greatly change the relatively balanced distribution of airflow in the pipeline: a high-speed zone is generated on the surface of the free vent, and the rest is a low-speed zone, and a vortex is generated on the grid. According to the different design of the grid, the airflow section is relatively stable at a certain distance (about 20cm) in front of the grid. In this case, the measurement is usually carried out using a caliber wheel of a large anemometer. Because larger calibers average the unbalanced flow rates and calculate the average over a larger range. The anemometer is measured in the suction hole using a volumetric flow funnel: even if there is no grid interference at the pumping point, the air flow path has no direction and the airflow section is extremely uneven. The reason is that the partial vacuum in the pipe draws the air out of the air chamber in a funnel shape, even in a region close to the suction, and there is no position that satisfies the measurement condition, and the measurement operation can be performed. If the measurement is performed by the grid measurement method with the average value calculation function, and the volume flow method is used to measure and determine the volume flow rate, etc., only the pipe or funnel measurement method can provide repeatable measurement results. In this case, different sizes of measuring funnels can meet the requirements of use. A measuring funnel can be used to generate a fixed section at a certain distance in front of the flap valve to meet the flow rate measurement condition. The center of the section is measured and fixed, the center of the section is measured and the section is fixed, and the center of the section is measured and fixed. Here. The measured volume obtained by the flow probe is multiplied by the funnel coefficient to calculate the volumetric flow drawn. (eg funnel factor 20)
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Charlie Hunnam just avoided the possibility of having to address his decision to drop out of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Hunnam – who was set to play the erotic film's lead role, Christian Grey – was slated to attend the Paley Center's benefit gala honoring the FX network until the "last minute," an event rep told PEOPLE, without providing any further explanation.
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