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Despite a rough start to its season, the Palo Alto High School boys’ soccer team (7-5-1, 7-1-0) narrowly clinched a spot in the Central Coast Sectionals and will be playing its first game at 5 p.m. tomorrow at Menlo-Atherton High School.
The Vikings will be facing off against Menlo-Atherton High School (7-6-1, 1-1-3), vying for a spot in Saturday’s quarterfinals.
While initially unable to secure a spot at CCS due to their placement in the standings, the Vikings were able to qualify because of an at-large bid according to junior goalkeeper Kiran Misner.
“Each game you get points depending on how good the team you were playing is and how you did,” Misner said. “The teams with the most points after the ‘automatic qualifiers’ get in on an at-large.”
At-large bids exist to let in teams that may have not performed to their fullest potential during the regular season. Paly had an impressive performance during the preseason, but had a less than stellar performance during the regular season. Their pre-season record may be taken into account, thus giving the chance for the Vikings to play at CCS.
Paly started off the season with a string of devastating losses and ties, with many of their key players unable to play due to injuries. Despite the slow start, the Vikings were able to pick up the momentum and finished the season with a strong winning streak.
Senior captain Derek Schoenberger credits this change to the strength and perseverance of the team.
“We have a strong team this year and have gone through a fair amount of tough losses that have made us stronger as the season progressed,” Schoenberger said. “Our expectations for one another have increased. I think everyone now holds each other to a higher standard and we push each other more both on and off the field.”
“I think what has changed from the beginning of the season is that we are a lot closer as a team and we know each other’s strengths and weaknesses,” junior defender Matt Knowles said.
Team members are optimistic about their chances in advancing in CCS, believing their momentum from their winning streak will carry over into tomorrow’s game.
“We know that every game is going to be a battle, but I know we have the ability to beat any team in the tournament if everyone holds their own and fights for the whole 80 minutes,” Schoenberger said. “I think our greatest strength is our ability to move the ball as a team. Despite the fact that, as a team, we have a lot of speed, our ability to connect passes and work defenders as a unit is generally our strongest aspect.”’
The Vikings will face off against Menlo-Atherton in the first round of playoffs at 5 p.m., tomorrow at Menlo-Atherton High School.


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The 23-year-old has agreed a deal until the end of the season and will help alleviate the loss of South African Jacques Vermeulen, who is set to be out until the New Year after suffering a setback in his recovery from a serious hamstring injury.
The back-row forward, who has won a handful of caps for his country, will join up with the Chiefs following the current Autumn Nations Series, where he is currently in camp alongside fellow Exeter player, Facundo Cordero.
Standing at 6ft 6ins and topping the scales at 106kg, Grondona will offer a sizeable option for Chiefs Director of Rugby, Rob Baxter, in his back-row options.
Born in Buenos Aires, Grondona started his rugby career with the Champagnat club, before being part of the Jaquares squad, where he has featured previously in Super Rugby.
In December of last year, Grondona – along with compatriot Mateo Carreras signed for Newcastle Falcons – but his time in the North East was cut short after he sustained a serious knee ligament injury in training.
Now fully fit, Grondona is hoping his Premiership experience lasts a little longer in the Westcountry, having put pen to paper on the move to Sandy Park.

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Feasibility Study for a Regional Off-Road Motorcycling Facility
The purpose of the study was to undertake a feasibility study and concept plan for a multi-disciplinary off-road motorcycling facility. While the subject site had no formalised use, the site had a number of informal recreation users.
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- identifying opportunities and constraints associated with developing an off-road motorcycling facility;
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Congress must resolve immigration issue, return to work for American people
By Guest Columnist MARK NEWMAN, retired partner with Troutman Sanders
Agriculture is big business in Georgia. One in seven Georgians work in agriculture and the industry contributes nearly $74 billion to our state’s economy. So, when the most important piece of legislation impacting Georgia’s farmers fails to pass the U.S. House of Representatives because of an unrelated immigration issue, it is cause for serious concern.
On May 18, Paul Ryan speaker of the House, brought the Agriculture and Nutrition Act (colloquially known as the Farm Bill) to the House floor for final passage. The Farm Bill sets our national agriculture policy for the next five years and provides stability for Georgia’s farmers.
Unfortunately, this important piece of legislation was voted down by a handful of representatives advocating for stricter immigration policies. Even though the Farm Bill has nothing to do with immigration, these members of Congress decided to flex their muscles and defeat important legislation to make a political statement.
Immigration has become such a hot button issue that it is impacting Congress’ ability to do the ordinary and routine work of the American people. Congress cannot afford to keep the genie in the bottle any longer, it must debate and vote on the major immigration proposals so that Congress can get back to doing its job.
Fortunately, a vehicle exists for both pro and anti-immigration factions to receive a vote on their favored policy proposals. The Queen of the Hill rule sponsored by Rep. Jeff Dunham (R-Ca.) allows four separate immigration proposals to be debated and voted on by the House of Representatives. Whichever proposal receives the most votes is sent to the Senate as the will of the House.
The Queen of the Hill rule is common sense proposal to getting the House back to work. But, Ryan and congressional leadership do not want an immigration vote of any kind before the midterm elections. They’d prefer to let the House grind to a halt for the next five months than allow votes on any immigration proposals.
Voters should demand more of their elected representatives. Members of Congress are elected to make hard decisions, not dodge them because elections are coming, and this means standing up to Speaker Ryan and the Republican leadership. A significant number of representatives are doing exactly that – by signing a discharge petition to force Ryan to put the Queen of the Hill rule on the House floor. Georgia’s elected representatives should support this effort and add their names to the discharge petition.
There is no question immigration is a contentious issue, but it is preventing Congress from doing its job. Voters deserve to know where their elected representatives stand on immigration before the mid-term election and the American people are entitled to a Congress that works. The Queen of the Hill rule is the only path forward on immigration that offers both sides of the debate a vote.
Let’s put Congress back to work. Join me in calling on your representative to sign the discharge petition on the Queen of the Hill rule.
Note to readers: Mark Newman has more than 30 years experience in immigration law and ranked consistently as a top immigration attorney byu Chambers USA and U.S. News – Best Lawyers. His management of the firm’s pro bono work resulted in the 2013 National Public Service Award, from the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section.


AIS joins forces with great allies "Green Phahonyothin" by raising the model network partners for the environment Create a challenge to save the world by inviting a new generation of employees to build awareness to dispose of E-Waste correctly
AIS extends the environmental project "THAIs Say No To E-Waste" by joining with 3 sectors: government, private, and the public, to participate as a network partner for campaigning to build awareness on division and disposal of E-Waste correctly. Most recently, AIS invited great allies, "Green Phahonyothin," which consists of 13 leading organizations on the Phahonyothin road to do an essential mission for the Thai environment "E-Waste The Battle." It Will be a competition to collect E-Waste for proper disposal and launch a new alliance ECOLIFE, an eco-friendly application to make fun of every waste disposal and turn every waste into points, moreover collecting and redeeming points to premiums for green people.
"Green Phahonyothin" is a group of organizations created by working in a partnership network with 13 organizations, including government and private organizations on Phahonyothin Road, consisting of Phayathai District Office, Bang Sue Police Station, Phyathai 2 Hospital, Boonterm, Royal Thai Army Television Channel 5, Government Savings Bank Head Office, Kasikorn Bank Phahonyothin Office, Krungthai Bank Soi Ari Branch, Kiatnakin Bank Phahonyothin Branch, UOB Bank Phahonyothin 8 Road Branch, Bangkok Bank Soi Aree Branch, IBM, and Exim Bank to join in the campaign to promote the division and disposal of E-Waste correctly. This challenge is the second collaboration between network partners after producing shared environmental missions in the past year.
Ms. Nattiya Poapongsakorn, Head of Sustainability, AIS said, "As a Digital Life Service Provider with the goal stands to be a digital service provider that operates businesses with a responsibility to multiple groups of stakeholders, and taking care of the country's social, economic, and environmental responsibilities for development and growth collectively. We have focused on the management of all types of waste during the years, including the integration of concrete projects for internal employees and the general public. However, we recognized E-Waste as another type of waste that we are determined to find ways to separate and dispose of steadily. We, accordingly, set up the project "THAIs Say No To E-Waste" to facilitate the general public to bring E-Waste, including mobile phones/tablets, mobile phone batteries, power bank, charging cable, headphones, and small electronic devices such as cameras, and MP3 players to drop at E-Waste containers at AIS Shop nationwide, AIS Telewiz, Thailand Post office, Central Department Store, various universities, including condominiums and condos, totaling over 1,800 points.
Currently, "THAIs Say No To E-Waste" project can collect E-Waste for 51,786 items, which is equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide by 517,860 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents. AIS will correctly dispose of E-Waste received from all projects using the Zero Landfill process (Waste management for reuse, which can recreate the value of them repeatedly)
The E-Waste problem is a severe difficulty for people all over the world, with increases in the amount of waste every year, which is in the opposite direction to the amount of garbage that has been adequately restricted, that leftover waste may spread toxic substances, which return to destroy the health and cause long-term disadvantageous effects on the environment. Consequently, to carry on the intention that strives to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 5 million kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents or as to the correct disposal of E-Waste for 500,000 items by 2020. Accordingly, AIS created a new challenge for the environment by inviting government organizations, private and public sectors, to join the "E-Waste The Battle" challenge. Therefore, the first match will start with great allies, "Green Phahonyothin," the 13 leading organizations on Phahonyothin road.
The competition will split the organization in Green Phahonyothin into 2 teams: Team A and Team B. Both sides must invite employees, customers, or visitors to join the E-Waste collection point at each organization's collection point. Points counting will start from July to the end of December 2020, in which the winning and losing teams will receive donations and provide to selected organizations or foundations. Although, AIS will contribute to funding the Chaipattana Foundation for performance in environmental activities.
Furthermore, AIS joined with KID KID, an social organization for the environment, to bring ECOLIFE applications to facilitate competition by tracking each organization's waste disposal in real-time via the website: http://www.ecolifeapp.com, and also presents a new dimension in E-Waste disposal, which will help the world and to make merit including receiving ECO POINT, a reward point for the green people and can be redeemed for premiums via the application ECOLIFE.
"This event has gained excellent cooperation from the Green Phahonyothin network organization that recognizes and understands the significance of problems caused by the transfer and disposal of E-Waste incorrectly. AIS is satisfied to be a mediator in creating networks to encourage this great partnership throughout the country. We genuinely hope that the Green Phahonyothin network organization will be a model for E-Waste management toward a stable and sustainable environment (From Green Network to Green Society)." Ms. Nattiya concluded.
Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited or AIS, the No. 1 Digital Life Service Provider, with the highest spectrum of service, totaling of 1450 MHz and has the most number of users over 41.1 million (as of March 2020), ready to drive Thailand by innovation from 5G technology through 3 businesses such as mobile phone services, High-speed internet service under the brand AIS Fiber, and digital services in 5 areas, including video, cloud, digital payment, Internet of Things (IoT), and partner services, as well as extending into new business groups such as the AIS eSports service, and AIS Insurance. All to support the power of the country's digital infrastructure to expand the industry's capacity and improve the quality of life for Thais at once.


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OREF grant recipient compares hip procedures
Femoral head resurfacing, while not a new alternative to total hip arthroplasty (THA), has had a recent resurgence because of improvements in implant design. Although data on short-term outcomes of hip resurfacing are promising, few studies are available on long-term outcomes, the biomechanics of the implant, or the biomechanical differences between THA and resurfacing.
Wael K. Barsoum, MD, vice chairman of the department of orthopaedic surgery at Cleveland Clinic, received a 2008 Research Grant from the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) to compare the relative stability of these two procedures. He is using a cadaveric robotic model to determine the impingement-free range of motion and the force required for dislocation in healthy hips, resurfaced hips, and hips that have been replaced.
Multiple factors influence stability
A number of factors can influence the stability of a hip implant. One variable that may improve stability in THA is an increase in the head-to-neck ratio—the size of the ball relative to the size of the stem anchored to the femur.
Another variable is the jump distance, which is the maximum distance between the femoral head and the acetabulum before the joint dislocates. In THA, the ball and socket are smaller than the anatomic joint, resulting in a relatively small jump distance. Resurfacing may provide greater stability because the head is more anatomically sized, which results in a much larger jump distance.
With either procedure, joint stability may be influenced by the surrounding soft tissues, particularly the anterior or posterior capsules; soft-tissue impingement may either prevent or cause instability. The role of soft tissues and their influence on impingement-free range of motion may be different with THA and femoral head resurfacing.
“The question is, ‘How do all of these factors interrelate?’ We built a robotic system and designed a study that would allow us, in a very controlled fashion, to look at femoral head size, head-to-neck ratio, and soft tissues, and their effect on stability,” Dr. Barsoum explained.
Robotic dislocation model
The robotic system enables researchers to replicate the same range of motion with multiple cadaveric specimens (Fig. 1). “We’ve programmed the robot to evaluate two at-risk positions, rotate the hip until impingement occurs, and then apply forces to test for instability,” Dr. Barsoum said. “The robot will tell us when the hip is about to dislocate before causing any damage to soft tissues.”
Dr. Barsoum and his research team will use five male cadaveric pelvises. With each specimen, they will strip away the soft tissues of the hip on one side and leave the tissues intact on the other. The robot will virtually dislocate each hip in two adverse positions under the following four conditions:
- Healthy hip
- Femoral head resurfacing
- THA with a 26-millimeter head
- THA with a larger head-to-neck ratio, using a 32-millimeter head and corresponding liner
“The robot’s microscribe coordinate system tells us where joint components are positioned at all times,” Dr. Barsoum explained. “When we put the hip in a provocative position and torque it to the point of dislocation, the robot generates data defining the stability envelope of the joint. As we build different stability envelopes with each round of tests, we’ll be able to tell what role each of the individual variables plays in the ultimate stability of the hip.”
He noted that this study may provide some general data that will enable surgeons to be more objective about the potential outcomes of the two procedures. However, he added, “This study will open up a whole new set of possibilities and pose more questions. To better define the intricacies of the differences between resurfacing and replacement, we’ll need to do additional studies.”
Being mentored and mentoring
Dr. Barsoum believes that he owes it to the field to continue on a career path as both a clinician and scientist, because he himself benefited from the training he received.
He stated, “At this stage in my career, I get to mentor people, and at the same time, I get to be mentored by people who’ve gone beyond where I am. I get to learn a lot, and I get to teach a lot.”
Dr. Barsoum’s research program currently involves residents, medical students, and research coordinators. “To see them get excited about academic orthopaedics excites me. It’s a great opportunity for me to give back to our profession,” he said.
Dr. Barsoum also credits OREF for giving young researchers the chance to build their careers. “Unless somebody opens that first door, the opportunity for someone to be a great orthopaedic researcher could be missed. That’s what makes OREF so indispensable.”
Jay D. Lenn is a contributing writer for OREF and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org


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The speculation comes after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle recently hired PR, Miranda Barbot, who worked for former US President Barack Obama. Ms Barbot was part of the team who helped Mr Obama attain the highest office in the US.
Daily Mail Diary Editor Richard Eden claimed that insiders close to the couple said the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are making moves in an increasingly political direction. One insider said: “There are shades of the Clintons or even the Kennedys. It would not be a huge shock now if Meghan went into politics.” On Twitter, Mr Eden said: “Is this another sign that Meghan is plotting a move into politics?”
The news comes after Prince Harry’s remark he is making sure the Queen is “protected” has been perceived as a dig at palace advisers who helped the sovereign, Prince Charles and Prince William draw up the terms of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s exit deal in January 2020, it has been claimed.
With his recent comment to NBC’s Today regarding ensuring Her Majesty is “protected” and surrounded by the “right people”, Prince Harry is believed to have hit out at the Queen’s closest advisers who helped thrash out the terms of the exit from the Firm as senior royals of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a process which became known as Megxit.
Meghan Markle and Harry announced in January 2020 they intended to create a new role for themselves within the Royal Family – which would have seen them becoming financially independent from the Sovereign Grant while still representing the Queen and the Crown through engagements and patronages – but their solution was reportedly not deemed workable.
They eventually stepped down as full-time working members of the Firm and had to renounce carrying out royal duties as well as their military and royal patronages. A source told The Sun: “The protection comment is perceived to refer to the way he thinks the Queen is ill-advised by those around her, particularly during the Megxit Sandringham Summit.”
Prince Harry, who did not elaborate on whom he believes are the “right people” to surround the Queen or what she needs protection from, called some of the aides who were involved in the Megxit process “vipers” in the past, the publication has claimed.

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Admit it? You should brag about it. I, for one, feel like every new game should be an opportunity to drag in anything and everything fun I've picked up along the way elsewhere, however I can twist and tweak it to suit.
I have spent much of the day re-acquainting myself for the first time in several years with Sorcerer, Sorcerer & Sword, and The Sorcerer's Soul, and developing an itch that's just unimaginable in terms of brain spewing out possible concepts.
One of my chief issues with forum games is that often there's little focus on the players to meshing their characters into some sort of whole via interrelations, and inevitably this leads to GMs who feel that they have to set up some sort of a meet-n-greet scenario, and often this scenario ends up being framed in a fashion which one or more PCs have difficulty picturing their characters responding to, and the whole shebang falls apart before ten IC posts have occurred.
Sorcerer seems to scream for the alternate approach, where the GM says 'Here's my setting.' and the players look over it for a few minutes, and then it begins.
"That bit over there in the corner? Yeah. My character has just kicked that over and is currently enmeshed in a brawl with the guards, and apparently there just aren't enough of them, because he's winning."
"There aren't enough of them because most of them have responded to the fire my character set over here, which has nothing to do with planning to help out that other guy, it just looked particularly flammable from my character's perspective."
"You go ahead and deal with those two. While you're doing that, my character is going to be quietly going through the audience, rifling their pockets for loose change."
Or as one of my fellow players in a rather different RPG once said, "Y'all got a right purty town here. Be a shame if something happened to it."
Player agency is antithetical to an awful lot of gamers. And to an awful lot of GMs, too. Instead of going 'Whoa, it's on fire.' and fanning the flames in a direction that will make for maximum climactic events, you see a lot of GMs suddenly forgetting what they are doing and starting to play whack-a-mole.
At its most dramatic, this ends up with the teleport-railroad, where if a PC goes off the charted path, the GM literally has forces-beyond-PC-reckoning chuck the character back to where the GM wants them. And there are people who like that.
I now have a character kicking around in my head. I'm not sure if Sorcerer can handle it, because one of the concepts that attached itself to my backbrain before I got heavily into reading the game, was that the character is kind of stuck with their initial demon. There is no "easy out" of banishing it. It's not an original idea...For cying out loud, Sorcerer cites Elric and Bloodstone left and right. There's probably a way to sort-of-arrange that sort of situation in Sorcerer by setting up specific levels of PC Will and Lore vs. Demonic Power, but I'm not grokking the numbers enough to see it. Hmmmmm.
Odds are I will have to modify the character a bit to suit the mechanic, though. That's doable. But I have to say, today's reading has really churned my creativity to an almost disturbingly productive froth.

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Export of grain since the beginning of MY 2017/18 reached 22.4 MT
Since the beginning of MY 2017/18, as of January 18, 2018 export of grain from Ukraine reached 22.39 million tons, which is 2.59 million tons less than over the same period last year.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reports that wheat exports for the reporting period amounted to 11.71 million tons, which is 486 thousand tons less than over the corresponding period last year.
According to the report, from the beginning of the current MY, Ukraine exported 3.91 million tons of barley (−496 thousand tons) and 6.7 million tons of corn (−1.53 million tons). Exports of rye amounted to 13.2 thousand tons.
Reference: according to the results of the first half of MY 2017/18, India holds the 8th position in the list of importers of Ukrainian wheat with the import volume of 500 thousand tons, which is 20% of the forecasted imports to this country.


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The latest praise for Thor: Ragnarok comes from the director of Guardians of the Galaxy.
Marvel decided to take Thor in a new direction when they brought Taika Waititi on board.
James Gunn took to his Facebook to offer his glowing review of Thor: Ragnarok.
Thor: Ragnarok looks like it could well be one of the MCU’s best films yet.


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“He was the only person I knew who had a purple house.”
That was one of the reflections on famed musical artist Prince from musician and producer Kenny Gamble, who paid tribute to the legendary star as news of his death circulated on Thursday.
Prince, whose full name was Prince Rogers Nelson, died Thursday morning at his home in Minnesota.
Gamble said he thought news of Prince’s passing was a hoax at first, until he got a call from a friend telling him it was real.
“He was one of those great talents that only come along now and then, once in a generation,” said Gamble, one half of the famed Gamble andHuff duo with former partner Leon Huff, from his offices at Universal Charter Schools.”Prince was a musician first. Michael Jackson was a singer and a dancer. But when you saw Prince, he had that guitar. He danced like James Brown with that guitar.”
Gamble said his favorite Prince song was ” Purple Rain” and credited Prince, who hails from the Minnesota area, with creating “the Minneapolis Sound” along with artists like Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Morris Day — just as Gamble and Huff earned a place in musical history for creating the famed “Philadelphia Sound.”
“He was very flamboyant — a little bit of James Brown, LittleRichard, and a whole lot of B.B. King, Muddy Waters,” Gamble said. “It was almost visual music –like Little Red Corvette.”
Gamble said that the greatest thing about Prince was his “social consciousness” — pointing out that Prince went to Baltimore during recent protests over the death of Freddie Gray, and recorded a song about the incident.
“He was a deep thinker,” Gamble said, noting Prince’s period being identified by a symbol, or as “the artist formerly known as Prince.”
“The greatest thing about him was that he was socially conscious.”


DALLAS - The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recognized over 40 people for their contributions to ASHRAE and the HVACR industry at the Society’s 2007 Winter Meeting held in Dallas along with the AHR Expo. Among those honored were the following.
The ASHRAE Hall of Fame honors deceased members of the Society who have
made significant contributions to the growth of HVACR technology. The Society
inducted Mary Engle Pennington, Ph.D., whose pioneering work improved the
safety of perishable foods. Pennington was the first female member of and a
Fellow of The American Society of Refrigerating Engineers (ASRE), an ASHRAE
predecessor. She was known for her outstanding contributions to the
refrigerated preservation of foods in storage.
The ASHRAE/ALCO Medal for Distinguished Public Service recognizes
distinguished public service by an ASHRAE member. The recipient was David
McKenney, P.E., Life Member, chairman and executive officer, McKenney’s Inc.:
Mechanical Contractors and Engineers, Atlanta.
Fellow ASHRAE is a membership grade that recognizes distinction in the
arts and sciences of environmental technology. The honor is earned through
achievement as a researcher, designer, educator, or engineering executive. The
Society elevated 19 members to Fellow:
• William A. Acorn, P.E., principal of Acorn Consulting Services, Tucson,
• Robert A. Bunn, P.E., Life Member, consulting engineer, Nashville,
• Richard C. Cavestri, Ph.D., director and owner of Imagination Resources
Inc., Dublin, Ohio, a research firm.
• Florea Chiriac, Ph.D., professor of thermodynamics, refrigeration and
air conditioning at the Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
• Cynthia L. Gage, Ph.D., senior research engineer with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
• Eckhard A. Groll, Ph.D., professor and the director of global
initiatives, cooperative education and professional experience in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University.
• Jeff S. Haberl, Ph.D., P.E., professor in the Department of
Architecture and the director of the Energy Systems Laboratory at Texas A&M
University, College Station, Texas.
• Mark M. Hydeman, P.E., principal at Taylor Engineering, Alameda, Calif.
• Jiin-Yuh Jang, Ph.D., professor and chairman of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
• K. S. Kannan, Ph.D., P.Eng., C.Eng., chief project coordinator at the
Malaysia Energy Centre, Selangor, Malaysia.
• Yuguo Li, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Hong Kong.
• Kent Peterson, P.E., founding principal and chief engineer of P2S Engineering,
Long Beach, Calif.
• Laurentino Punsalan, P.E., Life Member, managing partner of L.R.
Punsalan & Associates, Makati City, Philippines.
• K. Reinhard Radermacher, Ph.D., professor and a director/founder of the
Center for Environmental Energy Engineering in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Maryland.
• Peter Simmonds, Ph.D., associate with IBE Consulting Engineers, Sherman
• Sriram Somasundaram, Ph.D., staff scientist at Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.
• Shin-ichi Tanabe, Dr.Eng., professor in the Department of Architecture
at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
• Kuan-Hsiung Yang, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Mechanical and
Electro-Mechanical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
• Hiroshi Yososhino, Ph.D., professor in the
Department of Architecture and Building Sciences at Tohoku University, Sendai,


One of the best things about fall is the opportunity to travel to gorgeous places that showcase the vibrant colors and scenery of the season. Whether you want to enjoy a cozy cabin in the woods, a scenic hike in the mountains, or be immersed in the culture of a historic city, there are plenty of ideal spots to choose from.
These 10 places have been voted by our readers as the best places to visit in the U.S. during fall for their beautiful scenery, fantastic weather, and wealth of seasonal activities and events.
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No. 10: Asheville, North Carolina
As the summer sun gives way to cooler temperatures, Asheville offers a wealth of fascinating attractions for autumn visitors to enjoy. Though best known for its spectacular beer scene, the region is also equipped with its fair share of gorgeous natural sites to explore, with area destinations ranging from the Blue Ridge Parkway to the North Carolina Arboretum.
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No. 9: Taos, New Mexico
In terms of natural beauty, fall ushers in spectacular colors across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains — but there's a lot more to do in Taos than just enjoy the scenery. Outdoor adventure reigns supreme throughout the autumn season, with rafting, kayaking, horseback riding, and hiking all available across this idyllic New Mexico town.
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No. 8: Cody, Wyoming
Renowned today for its prominent Old West heritage, the city of Cody serves as the perfect base for exploring the stunning fall landscapes found across Wyoming. Trout fishing, hiking, and wildlife watching are all top activities across the region, but if the weather isn't cooperating, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is perfect for gaining some insight into the rich history of the area.
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No. 7: Bayfield, Wisconsin
Exploring the tranquil beauty of the Great Lakes this autumn? Don't miss out on Bayfield, a cozy town located in the northernmost reaches of Wisconsin. In addition to ample opportunities for kayaking and boating along the Apostle Islands, visitors can also attend the iconic Apple Festival, a time-honored tradition that first began in 1962.
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No. 6: Greenville, South Carolina
During autumn, visitors can explore Greenville's thriving food and drink scene and wealth of outdoor attractions with the added bonus of gorgeous fall foliage. Guests are welcome to discover a new favorite brewery in the heart of the city, while the downtown Falls Park on the Reedy is perfect for a leisurely mid-afternoon stroll in one of the city's most charming green spaces.
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No. 5: Stowe, Vermont
Spectacular fall foliage, craft beer, and classic New England architecture can all be enjoyed firsthand across Stowe, a charming Vermont town that's best known for its incredible skiing opportunities. During a visit, guests can bask in the beauty of the surrounding forest with a stroll along the Stowe Recreation Path, while the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum is perfect for gaining some insight into the town's favorite outdoor adventure activities.
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No. 4: Branson, Missouri
Located just north of the Arkansas border, Branson is one of Missouri's top destinations for basking in the beauty of the Ozarks. Attractions range from the Dinosaur Museum to the TITANIC Museum, but for best results, be sure to spend some time exploring the outdoors, with stunning sites like Table Rock State Park and Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area open for exploration.
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No. 3: Mackinac Island, Michigan
Mackinac Island may measure in at just around 4 square miles in area, but this pint-sized Michigan landmark is a truly incredible ecotourism destination throughout autumn. Whether guests choose to explore the area by foot, embark on a guided kayak tour, or traverse via horseback, there's bound to be incredible vistas thanks to the region's high concentration of vibrant trees.
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No. 2: Allegany County, Maryland
Equipped with a vast stretch of Appalachian landscapes, Allegany County serves as a treasure trove for Maryland outdoor adventure all throughout autumn. The 3,119-acre Rocky Gap State Park is a top destination for hiking and mountain biking, and visitors can enjoy the crisp fall air and changing leaves while camping out.
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No. 1: Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Gatlinburg serves as the gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but there's a wealth of attractions to enjoy right in town without setting foot outside of city limits. Upon arrival, visitors can tour iconic institutions like Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies, while the Gatlinburg Space Needle is perfect for basking in the beauty of the surrounding region from roughly 400 feet in the air.


It should be in cutting and grinding high tensile strength materials like alloy steel, malleable iron, bronze, etc. Types of Abrasive Wheel: Based on requirement and need, there are different grinding wheels used in different machining processes in workshops. It uses a mainly abrasive grinding wheel to cut diamonds, metallic equipment, etc.
For crankshaft grinding, a Vitrified CBN grinding wheel is the best option. Vitrified CBN Crankshaft grinding wheels are innovative tools with grinding features that are mainly used in industrial fields like automotive, aircraft, aerospace, truck, diesel, etc. especially those who need regrinding of pins and bearings.
For this reason, it is used for grinding materials of low grinding resistance like cast iron, brass, and copper. The code for silicon carbide is C. 2. Aluminium oxide. It is reddish-brown in colour. Aluminium oxide abrasive is more suitable for grinding most steels because of its greater toughness to cope with increased grinding resistance offered.
A grinding wheel's durability comes from its bonded construction. 3M Grinding Wheels are built by bonding abrasive grain together with resin to create a hard, durable wheel. This construction makes an abrasive wheel that lasts longer than other metal grinding solutions like flap discs and fibre discs, reducing the amount of time spent ...
On its surface, grinding seems simple: a machine takes a rotating tool (usually a wheel) with abrasive grains and applies it to a workpiece's surface to remove material. Each grain is its own miniature cutting tool, and as grains dull, they tear from the tool and make new, sharp grains prominent.
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The grinding wheel has good strength which avoids cutting improper shape and size. The normal cutting tool doesn't have abrasive. What is the maximum operating speed on a grinding wheel? For smaller grinding wheels (below 80mm in diameter), the maximum operating speed is provided on a separate notice which must be stored alongside the wheel.
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The idea for bonding abrasive material, whether natural or synthetic, together is so the grain bits hold together to give a hard material for the goals of cutting or grinding. Coated abrasives. Coated abrasives are metals that can be used likewise to bonded abrasives. Free and closed coat are the two types of abrasive layers.
Abrasive Cutting & Grinding Discs. Cutting and Grinding practice is used in diverse areas of manufacturing and toolmaking. These processes are used for machining and suited for cutting larger chips with abrasive cutting tools. Compared to machining, it is usually more comfortable and practical for shallow cuts and grinds.
The grinding wheel's abrasive material actually removes, from the workpiece, under 5% of unwanted material. For those interested, the grinding wheel has a rotation speed that is maintained between a maximum of 2000 m/min and a minimum of 1200 m/min.
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Abrasive grinding disc is a wheel composed of an abrasive compound which is expendable and turns in high speed for quickly grinding the workpiece. Call Now Write Us Get Quote Abrasive Flap disc It is used for metal finishing that is made with a circular flat sheet and overlapping small pieces that are bonded to the central piece.
Coding of a grinding wheel consists of six symbols as described below Generally abrasive properties like hardness, toughness and resistance to fracture uniformly abrasives are classified into two principal groups : (a)Natural abrasives, and (b)Artificial abrasives. Natural Abrasives Sand stone (solid quartz) These are relatively soft.
Grinding uses ﬁxed abrasives—the abrasive particles are bonded to the paper or platen—for fast stock removal. Polishing uses free abrasives on a cloth; that is, the abrasive particles are suspended in a lubricant and can roll or slide across the …
These bonds are prepared by mixing abrasives with synthetic resins like backelite and redmanol and other compounds. Mixture is moulded to required shape and baked upto 200°C to give a perfect grinding wheel. These wheels have good grinding capacity at higher speed. These are used for precision grinding of cams,
Rocaris 15 Pack Abrasive Mounted Stone Flap Wheel with 1/4" Hex Shank, Aluminum Oxide Mounted Grinding Point for Grinding, Polishing, Deburring Ferrous …
A Planar grinding machine, like the PlanarMet 300 planar grinding machine shown in Figure 3.3, utilizes a fixed abrasive stone for rapid sample grinding. This type of automated grinder produces planar samples in 1-2 minutes replacing up to 3 traditional grinding steps.
10%As a type of precision machining technology, belt grinding is commonly used for the grinding of free-form surfaces in aerospace and naval ships [1,2,3].With the uninterrupted development of these industrial fields and the continuous improvement of the machining precision and surface quality requirements for component fabrication, the …
Specialized applications like gear grinding, tool grinding and cylindrical grinding demand precision and process stability. To achieve the highest precision, you need the highest-quality abrasives. 3M is a total solution supplier, offering conventional and superabrasive wheels, microfinishing films, dressing equipment and tools you need for any precision grinding …
Grinding wheels, flap discs and fiber discs require a great deal of care and storage to ensure safe use of these abrasive products. Never use a damaged wheel or disc. When stored correctly and used properly, wearing the correct PPE, wheels and discs assist in building, repairing and creating many of the objects around us.
Difference between grinding and milling The abrasive grains in the wheel are much smaller and more numerous than the teeth on a milling cutter. Cutting speeds in grinding are much higher than in milling. The abrasive grits in a grinding wheel are randomly oriented . A grinding wheel is self-sharpening.
The Grinding wheel is a multipoint cutting tool having abrasive particles bonded together and so forming a structure. Generally abrasive properties like hardness, toughness and resistance to fracture uniformly abrasives are classified into two principal groups: Natural abrasives: The natural abrasives are emery and corundum. These are impure ...
Abrasive machining first and foremost generates high stock removal. Abrasive machining is not considered to be a precision grinding process, but that's not to say it isn't precise. Abrasive machining can take the place of "large-chip" machining processes like milling, planing, broaching, and turning.
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Prepare yourself for three days of luxurious sailing through the sea when you step aboard the Royal Caribbean Majesty of the Seas from Ft. Lauderdale and back.
Aboard this sailing you'll call on one city, the amazing Nassau. This route is an unusual one for the Majesty of the Seas, but January is the most popular month to sail it.
This is the total you pay, no sneaky extra fees.
Over 2,300 guests can sail on this top-rated Sovereign-Class class ship, based in the Caribbean and refurbished just three years ago in 2016.
The Majesty of the Seas is home to a ping pong table, two pools, a basketball court, a gym, a casino, two jacuzzis, an outdoor movie theater, a spa, a rock climbing wall, and a waterslide.
Since it was first listed on July 9th of this year, the cost of a stateroom on this sailing has ranged between $271 and $613 including $97 in taxes and port charges. This graph indicates the price over time for every class of cabin.
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This itinerary includes one sea day and one day in port. See the full itinerary below for details.
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|Fri, Jan 3||Nassau, Bahamas||9:00am||6:00pm|
|Sat, Jan 4||At Sea|
|Sun, Jan 5||Fort Lauderdale, FL||7:00am|
The Majesty of the Seas sails this route two times next year, but doesn't sail it this year. The Equinox and Apex also sail routes with the same stops but slightly different schedules.In the accompanying graphic you can see a visualization of when this ship sails as well as the relative price.

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Atlantis Adventures Submarines in Kona Hawaii
Atlantis Submarines are offered on the Big Island of Hawaii and is the top-rated company for Kona Submarine Tours. Atlantis Submarines in Kona is proud to be recognized as the largest provider of tourist attractions on the Hawaiian Islands. Beautiful scenery and marine-life play host to our flagship tourist offering- the Atlantis Submarine underwater adventure – these Submarines feature the most technologically advanced vessels of their kind. View fascinating natural and artificial reefs in air-conditioned comfort, a perk to this great tour!
Big Island Discount offers Kona Submarine Tours through Atlantis so you can receive discounted rates on these Big Island Activities.
Come take a journey beneath the waves with Atlantis Submarines and allow us to show you a side of Kona that you can’t see any other way. Treat your family to Kona’s most beautiful and captivating scenery, habitats, and isolated treasures that only Kona Submarine Tours can take you to.
Atlantis Submarines- Kona Submarine Tours
-10-minute boat ride to and from the Atlantis dive site
- Offers great scenery and spectacular views (photo-op) of historic Kona and Town’s magnificent coastline
- Board the Atlantis Submarine in Kona and descend 100 feet into another version of paradise-- one that has been hidden for people for centuries
- On the Atlantis Submarines you will see an 18,000-year-old, 25-acre fringing coral reef, which boasts a vibrant ecosystem
- View coral formations and tropical fish
Aboard the Kona Submarine Tours there is an expert narrator that will inform you of everything from the formation of the Hawaiian Islands to many species of marine life unique to the Hawaiian waters.
Details of Atlantis Submarines in Kona Vessel:
The Atlantis is a 65-foot, 48-passenger, air-conditioned submarine with 26 large 2-foot diameter side view ports and an extra large 53" front view port. Atlantis submarines will take you to depths up to 100 feet!
So come explore our majestic coastal waters off the Kailua-Kona Pier, and take part in this unforgettable experience that can only be found with Kona Submarine Tours! Atlantis Submarines in Kona and Big Island Discount look forward to seeing you soon in Kona, Hawaii!
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I was high on Crowder coming into this season, as I thought that DeSean Jackson would regress and that Crowder would chew up Pierre Garcon targets. So far this year, the fantasy football points haven’t been there as he has gone over sixty yards just once and his unreliable touchdown production can’t be counted on to start on a week-to-week basis. Last week, I recommended him as a streaming option given his ownership percentage.[embedit snippet=”jeff-ads”]
He went off for 108 yards on nine targets against a terrible Lions secondary, which made his ownership vault upwards. It also left many fantasy owners wondering if they should slot their newly acquired wide receiver into their starting lineup. Washington travels to London this week for the extra-early game against the Bengals, and this is a game and a matchup that should find you leaving Crowder on your bench.
The biggest reason I was high on Crowder last week was the loss of Jordan Reed from the lineup. While I figured Vernon Davis would slot right in for Reed, I also thought a good number of Reed’s targets would go to Crowder. He had his highest number of targets since week three’s seven and produced. Unfortunately for Crowder, Reed is set to return this week from his concussion this week, and this means a loss of important targets for Crowder. Even if Reed doesn’t get final clearance to play this week, it may be too late for west coasters unless starting Crowder is so important that you want to set your alarm to get him into the game (since this is the 6:30 AM Pacific game this week).
Even if that isn’t enough to dissuade you from slotting Crowder into your lineup, he’s taking on an extremely stout Bengals defense that is allowing the sixth-fewest fantasy points per game to wide receivers so far this season. Since the Broncos inexplicably lit them up for three wide receiver scores in week three, the Dolphins, Cowboys, Patriots, and Browns have managed just two wideout scores over the last four weeks, and those were the only two WRs going up against them who scored more than seven fantasy points in that same timeframe.
Jamison Crowder took advantage of a perfect storm situation last week en route to a double-digit fantasy point total last week. Given that the storm is now actively working against him this week after the trip east to London, he isn’t a great play, even for those of us who are wide receiver desperate during week one of the bye apocalypse.


Nokia is best known as one of the world’s largest suppliers of transmission infrastructure to broadband telecommunications and cellular carriers, but the company believes there’s growing demand among enterprises for its LTE wireless, and high-speed optical networking gear.
Seeking to tap that demand, the company is launching a new enterprise business unit on Jan. 1, which will focus on enabling businesses, governments and universities to integrate Nokia’s broadband and cellular transmission infrastructure with enterprise IT and cloud platforms for IoT and other digital transformation implementations.
CEO Rajeev Suri tapped chief strategy officer Kathrin Buvac to lead the new Nokia Enterprise Business Group. The new unit aims to expand Nokia’s networking and software portfolio and services to focus on enterprises building out industrial IoT and cloud-based distributed edge capabilities.
As new wireless network technologies such as 5G services start to go into production, Nokia believes its gear and software-defined networking capabilities will have even greater appeal to enterprises over time. But even wireless existing telco-grade capabilities have a role in many new distributed edge implementations.
“When it comes to networking infrastructure, Nokia is a leader, whether it’s wireless, fixed or IP or optical,” said Houman Modarres, Nokia’s senior director of IP product marketing. “Among the biggest networks you can imagine in every one of those dimensions, certainly you’ll find Nokia that works there. And enterprises increasingly also are using combinations of our technologies.”
Beyond Telecom: The Industrial Enterprise
The formation of the group is tied with Nokia’s new Future X for Industries, a framework announced last month that seeks to deliver process and productivity improvements to several vertical sectors. Future X for Industries is the outgrowth of Nokia’s broader Future X vision outlined in 2015 to evolve its service provider business.
Future X was developed at Bell Labs, the famous research laboratory that became part of Nokia following its 2016 acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent. It aims to help enterprises in industries such as manufacturing, logistics, transportation, energy and public sector address their digital transformation and automation initiatives with Industrial IoT, artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
The new enterprise organization plans to go deeper into addressing requirements that may not typically affect mobile carriers but require the blending of IT, operational systems and emerging edge networks. Many IoT projects that enterprise customers are considering, or planning, may have a need for a mixture of edge IT solutions using enterprise infrastructure such as Wi-Fi and public cloud services.
But given the distributed nature of these projects, Nokia has found that telecom infrastructure including LTE transmission equipment and optical network gear designed for public broadband and metropolitan area networks also increasingly has a complementary place in these implementations.
“What they are doing, especially backed by the technical chops of Bell Labs, addresses real network challenges faced by industrial firms deploying IoT,” said 451 Research analyst Rich Karpinski. “While some telecom vendors are working to deploy IoT vertical applications – and Nokia has its app lineup as well – putting its largest emphasis on improving industrial networking can help manufacturers and related firms expand their mission-critical options, in particular wireless options, in networking together their operational machines and processes.”
Nokia’s effort is ambitious, and it won’t come without challenges, Karpinski added. “It won’t be an easy win – industrial networking already is driven by large doses of time-sensitive industrial Ethernet and similar fixed wireless technologies,” he said. “But 5G, scalable, low-power and delivering application functionality by the slice, is well-positioned to compete for this opportunity.”
While Nokia’s enterprise push into enterprises is more aggressive than other telecom infrastructure providers, the company is also taking on some entrenched players in traditional IT, many of which offer some network gear to telcos including Cisco, Juniper Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell Technologies.
Accelerating the Edge with SD-WAN 2.0 and VSP
Nokia might have better credibility when it comes to providing telco and cellular transmission gear, but it has already straddled into the IT world, embracing technologies such as software-defied WAN (SD-WAN), developed by Nuage Networks, a subsidiary the company gained with its Alcatel-Lucent acquisition.
The company’s new SD-WAN 2.0, launched in September, brings network connectivity and acceleration to the edge. It also provides a services architecture that enables orchestration of IT services among datacenters, public cloud providers and SaaS providers, as well as branch locations.
The Nuage Virtualized Services Platform (VSP), which provides SDN and policy-based automation for cloud-based workloads, supports Kubernetes and Mesos orchestration with support for the Container Network Interface (CNI) and Docker’s Container Network Model (CNM) plug-ins.
VSP also supports the Kubernetes Network Policy API and OpenShift high-availability, multi-tenant deployments. These are key capabilities many early adopters have started piloting and implementing to create modern and more agile digital business operations based on cloud-native applications.
“We’re giving enterprises freedom of choice to consume networking how they see fit, where they see fit, and in a way that they’re not bounded by kind of their traditional building or campus networking approach,” Nokia’s Modarres said.
Creating an Enterprise Ecosystem
By creating the separate enterprise business group, Nokia can broaden its capabilities by adding dedicated marketing and technology professionals, alliances and other partnerships, according to Modarres. For example, Nokia has partnered with IT consulting firm Infosys where the two will collaborate on developing digital asset management solutions that offer AI and machine to machine communications for companies in the energy, manufacturing and transportation industries.
Modarres said Nokia is also partnering with competitors in so-called coopetition-type arrangements, including Dell Technologies and HPE.
Smart Cities Project with Dell Technologies
One such recently announced project that will be closely watched is a digital cities initiative in Holland involving the creation of semi-autonomous barges, powered by hydrogen, to provide last-mile transportation in the city of Delft.
The barges aim to spur economic development by reducing traffic, while reducing carbon emissions to help those in the city get around more efficiently. The plan will implement the Nokia Impact IoT platform with the Dell EMC Digital Accelerator.
Nokia’s Impact is a modular platform addressing connectivity, device management, application development, event processing and data collection. It also applies context to information gathered. Impact supports certified devices and various IP protocols and IP-based low-power WAN protocols such as NBIOT and LoRa, includes Nokia’s NetGuard Endpoint Security offering that uses analytics and threat intelligence to prevent device-level intrusions.
The Dell EMC Digital Accelerator has an API gateway and is designed for data ingestion, using the company’s hybrid cloud infrastructure, including its compute and storage hardware and VMware virtualization, management and orchestration tools.
Kenny Pool, chairman of Dell Technologies’ Big Data Innovation Hub, is a technical architect on the project, now in the early stages of development. Overseeing it is the Delft University of Technology. “This vessel will navigate upon the directives of device communicators from Nokia with their 5G technology,” Pool said. While the initial focus of the project is improving transportation, there are other uses cases planed such as waste management, he added.
Planning for 5G
As 5G networks start to go more broadly into production in 2019 and 2020, Nokia and other telecom providers will play a bigger role in the deployment and management of IoT implementations. But there are many projects that can be deployed with today’s current LTE cellular network infrastructure, Nokia’s Modarres said.
The key benefit of 5G is that it provides higher bandwidth and offers very low latency. “When you look at manufacturing from the context of needing to tele-operate machinery, you need to be able to have the responsiveness at a very exact level, so many of the early applications work fine with LTE but 5G will certainly enhance those use cases.”


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Article: The Ultimate Pro Triathlon YouTube Power Rankings
- The article lists the best pro triathlon YouTube channels for your next trainer ride.
- Channels are ranked based on production quality, content variety, and entertainment value.
- Suggested channels include those of Sam Long, Lionel Sanders, Lucy Charles-Barclay, and Jan Frodeno.
- Each channel profiled is given a brief rundown of its best attributes and style.
- The article concludes with a list of honourable mentions for other pro triathlon YouTube content.
Trifindr’s hot take:
If you’re looking for engaging and informative content to get you through your next indoor training session, the Ultimate Pro Triathlon YouTube Power Rankings is a great place to start. Whether you’re a fan of the howling antics of Sam Long or the focused training insights of Lionel Sanders, this list has a channel that’s sure to hit your sweet spot. Plus, the honourable mentions at the end offer even more options to explore. So go ahead and bookmark this article, grab your headphones, and settle in for some seriously inspiring and entertaining content.


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Deciding on your company‘s goals for growth might be one of the most impactful and at the same time undervalued tasks, especially for young companies or those looking for a step-change in their performance.
"Our bottom-up approach to target setting combines business and market fundamentals with emotional awareness to create better results."
Choosing the right process for setting growth targets can make the difference between success and failure of the entire business. Unfortunately we see many startups setting themselves up for problems in the future by using the wrong factors for setting growth targets. Our bottom-up approach combines business and market characteristics with emotional awareness to create better results. This is one of the foundations of using Slow Growth thinking, leading to long-term sustainable growth.
Your chances for succeeding increase massively when deciding on the right set of goals, in the right way. They should be SMART - specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound. You should also be open to adjusting them as you gain experience and data. The right goals will drive motivation and clearly communicate expectations to everyone involved. In the context of startups and growth companies this becomes especially important, considering there’s not enough or no previous performance data. Your assumptions will play a much bigger role.
Goal setting is a highly emotional process for such companies. For a founder or a leader looking to take their business to the next level, the growth goals they set are very closely connected with some of their most fundamental personality traits, such as their professional and financial ambition, attitude to risk, and their degree of optimism. Being aware of these emotional factors and how they might impact the goal setting is a crucial step in the process. Taking the time for self-reflection, or working with a coach or mentor could make a huge difference here.
Growth problems often start with inappropriate goal setting
There are two main ways startups put themselves in trouble before they even start their growth journeys:
Firstly, they don‘t set growth targets that are specific, that express a long term goal and meaningful monthly targets leading up to it. This is usually because there‘s too much uncertainty around their assumptions and not enough past performance data, so it seems pointless or too difficult to define specific targets. This is completely understandable, we’ve been in that situation ourselves many times. However, it’s crucial to take the time and set well-defined targets. The important task will be to identify the right metrics to set your goals for, and the right factors to determine your assumptions. You should set targets that are relatively detailed for a 12-24 month period, and aspirational for the next 5 year period. Knowing the right factors to base your targets on makes this process a lot clearer, which we’ll go into now.
Secondly, many startups do set long and short term targets, but they use the wrong factors. It can happen very quickly, especially in the stressful environments of startups, to focus too heavily on external factors and ignore the nature of the business and the founding team. This can cause major problems further down the line, such as taking on the wrong investors, continuing unprofitable paid advertising to hit top-line targets, damaging your brand because your product can’t keep up, and losing team members due to stress. All of these can bring your business down, but can be avoided by using the right approach to target setting.
Awareness of the wrong and right factors for setting your growth targets will enable you to create meaningful plans and increase your chances of success:
- Investor expectations. In particular, venture capital funds are often structured in a way that requires exceptionally high returns from very few of their portfolio companies. Not every business has the potential for this kind of scale, even though it could be incredibly successful and profitable on a slightly smaller scale. If your business has the scale potential that fits their expectations, these investors can be highly valuable for your business but your target setting can’t be based on their requirements for returns.
- Empty successes like the goal to capture a certain percentage of a market, be the ‘biggest player’ in a certain industry, number of followers, or new customer acquisition if your unit economics aren’t positive. Focusing on these will lead to making unsustainable growth decisions.
- Emotional drivers that haven’t been reflected on, which have a subconscious impact on decisions. For example, a founder might have a personal desire to serve as many customers as possible and might neglect the necessity of getting to that point gradually and in a sustainable way. Or, a founder’s tendency towards impulsiveness might lead to undervaluing the planning process.
- Competitor performance or industry benchmarks. It’s tempting to try to outcompete the main competitors, or aim to exceed industry standards. But this distracts from making the most of your business’ strengths and assets, which are different for every company. And most industries can have a number of highly successful players so there’s no requirement to outperform your competitors.
- Your company’s unique ability to acquire customers. How difficult or easy will it be to acquire new customers in this particular industry or sector? How competitive is it? What’s the potential for virality; will your customers and the press talk about your brand? And, do you have any competitive advantage inside your business (e.g. business contacts, endorsements from celebrities or big brands, patents, founders’ expertise in marketing or brand building)?
- The number of customers you can serve well and profitably. It’s deadly for most businesses to grow too quickly for your product or service to keep up with demand, hence causing customers to leave and damage your brand. You likely won’t come back from that. How well does your offering scale? How will the marginal cost change? What is your access to materials and/or talent?
- The minimum scale required short-term to continue operating. Even if you can acquire new customers profitably, the total revenue of the business might not pay for your fixed costs, such as key salaries or minimum orders of materials. Knowing the minimum scale will give you something to work towards. However, this needs to kept as low as possible, as otherwise it will increase your risk of pushing for unprofitable, unsustainable growth. This would make your company unviable regardless of whether you meet your minimum scale.
- The kind of business the founding team will be best at building. Founders’ ambitions, motivations and attitudes need to match the targets for them to be realistic to achieve. There are many ways to build companies - some people are great at building and motivating large teams, some more product-oriented and others thrive in public positions. Whether large or small, externally or revenue funded, these decisions should be based on both personality traits and the business fundamentals, rather than just one or the other.
These factors will inform the assumptions for your growth targets, and at this point you can bring in your ambitions. No matter how big they are, you’ll have the confidence of having gone through the right process of setting your targets. Nothing’s for certain, but this will give your company a significantly higher chance to achieve sustainable growth.

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These two names for God show different facets of God's power. El Shaddai is used a lot sorrounding God's promises, especially the promise of descendants to Abraham and Jacob. I would imagine that by the time Jacob heard the promise of nations he would have been a bit cynical, there had only been two sons born to his father and only two born to Abraham. Then God reveals Himself as the Almighty God. Almighty, able to fulfill the promise.
Almighty is also used a lot in Job, describing how God is Almighty when He provides and also Almighty when He takes away.
El Elyon is used talking about God's power and dominion and soveringty. Nebuchadnezzar spoke of the Most High when his senses returned to him and he finally understood God's rule over the heavens and the earth.
El Shaddai and El Elyon - God not only has the power to fulfill His promises, and the soveringty and dominion to see it done. The God who protects His people and destroys His enimies, who is just and righteous in His judgement. Who gives rest in His shadow.


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Concord Pavilion witnessed a relentless display of metal mastery on August 19, 2023 as the enigmatic band Mudvayne took the stage. The quartet, made up of guitarist Greg Tribbett, drummer Matthew McDonough, bassist Ryan Martinie, and the captivating vocalist Chad Gray, turned the night into an unforgettable symphony of chaos and intensity.
Chad Gray, a true frontman, immediately commanded the crowd’s attention with an electrifying entrance, launching right into the opening strains of “Not Falling.” Greg Tribbett, decked out in his signature black and red makeup, spiked hair, and goggles, moved around the stage playing masterful solos, while Ryan Martinie prowled around with an almost possessed energy, fingers on his bass, playing compelling runs.
Throughout the set Mudvayne unleashed their trademark intricate time changes and hardcore rhythms. The crowd responded with intense fervor, making the security team work extra hard.
Among the night’s song highlights in the 13-song set were “Not Happy,” “Under My Skin,” and “Happy?” Each song was an anthem to the fans who were fully present watching their heroes perform in this summertime sanctuary of metal.
Mudvayne’s openers on this megametal bill were GWAR, Butcher Babies, Nonpoint, and Coal Chamber.
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Drawn & Quarterly’s 2016 Free Comic Book Day offering sent Tom Gauld’s Mooncop to the top of my “most anticipated fall releases” list, and as of now we’re only a week away before it drops. With that in mind, here are a couple of items to whet the appetite. First, our old friend Graeme McMillan spoke with Gauld for Wired and shared five reasons Mooncop will be your new favorite graphic novel. In the piece, Gauld explains where the idea came from in the first place:
“The idea of a cop on the moon came from a 1960s tin toy I saw, which was a car with ‘Space Patrol’ on the side and a robot driver in a glass dome wielding a laser cannon,” Gauld told Wired. “The packaging showed the car on a deserted moon, with the Earth in the black sky above. The toy suggested a future where not only had we colonized the moon, but the enterprise was successful enough that it required a heavily-armed police force. I began to imagine the life of a lonely policeman patrolling the moon and the story grew from there.”
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One of the very talented students, Manthan Sharma of Unitedworld School of Law, Semester 5 has successfully published his research article on a very sensitive topic “Non-Consensual Porn and Human Rights violation of Women”. A topic which makes humanity re-think, a topic which should be the concern of every individual in this so-called tech-savvy generation who is touching heights in technology.
The article was published on a web magazine named “GENDER AND INTERNET”.
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This is the card I made for CAS08-Clean and Simple. I stamped "Weathered" background on Kraft card stock. adhered ribbon originals, (retired SU). The punched scallop is from "So Many Scallops", stamped in Garden Green with "thanks" in the middle, stamped in Ruby Red. Very quick to make!
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POLICE are investigating a shooting incident that left one man dead early on Tuesday morning in Nassau.
According to officer in charge of the Central Detective Unit, Assistant Superintendent Clayton Fernander, the victim was walking through Woods Alley off Market Street, when he was approached by two men. An argument ensued which resulted in the man being shot several times; the suspects fled the area on foot.
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This latest homicide takes the country’s murder count to 57 for 2016.
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I find there is some confusion in the industry about Revit using ASHRAE tables for pressure losses in duct fittings. After a bit of investigation, I found the following post, which I believe should be of interest to anyone in the MEP discipline and who want to use Revit for more than just a drafting tool.
Please vote for the idea to improve Revit (posted on the same link)
Consider that the pressure drop through a tap might be a much as 40%. If this loss is not accounted for, the pipes will not be sized as required.
Some further reading on the matter:
- Specify a Pressure Loss Method
- Working with ASHRAE Tables
- Pressure Loss through Tap Always Zero
- The Building Coder – User MEP Calculation Sample
- The Building Coder – Reading ASHRAE Table Information from Elements
My advice would be to consult the pressure loss report.
If it is picked up that some duct fitting does not induce a loss on a section of the route where it should, then some compensation must be made for that. Select the element by its ID and consider it carefully.
Ten to one it is not calculating a loss factor.
Autodesk is aware of the limitation and users should vote en masse so that they have the incentive to fix it. Users should play a much more active role in giving feedback through the ideas in Revit. Your vote matters.
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