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Steam distillation is a separation process which consists in distilling water together with other volatile and non-volatile components. The steam from the boiling water carries the vapor of the volatiles to a condenser, where both are cooled and return to the liquid or solid state; while the non-volatile residues remain behind in the boiling container.
If the volatiles are liquids not miscible with water, they will spontaneously form a distinct phase after condensation, allowing them to be separated by decantation or with a separatory funnel. In that case, a Clevenger apparatus may be used to return the condensed water to the boiling flask, while the distillation is in progress. Alternatively, the condensed mixture can be processed with fractional distillation or some other separation technique.
Steam distillation can be used when the boiling pointof the substance to be extracted is higher than that of water, and the starting material cannot be heated to that temperature because of decomposition or other unwanted reactions. It may also be useful when the amount of the desired substance is small compared to that of the non-volatile residues. It is often use to separate volatile essential oils from plant material.for example, to extract limonene (boiling point 176 °C) from orange peels.
Steam distillation once was a popular laboratory method for purification of organic compounds, but it has been replaced in many such uses by vacuum distillation and supercritical fluid extraction. It is however much simpler and economical than those alternatives, and remains important in certain industrial sectors.[
In the simplest form, water distillation or hydrodistillation, the water is mixed with the starting material in the boiling container. In direct steam distillation, the starting material is suspended above the water in the boiling flask, supported by a metal mesh or perforated screen. In dry steam distillation, the steam from a boiler is forced to flow through the starting material in a separate container. The latter variant allows the steam to be heated above the boiling point of water (thus becoming superheated steam), for more efficient extraction.
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The headline was actually uncertain, but, the reality is the science is unprovable: unable to be demonstrated by evidence or argument as true or existing.
It cannot be demonstrated or verified. Read on.
At the end of May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a notable, yet mostly ignored, large-scale study of COVID transmission in American schools.
A few major news outlets covered its release by briefly reiterating the study’s summary: that masking then-unvaccinated teachers and improving ventilation with more fresh air were associated with a lower incidence of the virus in schools. Those are common-sense measures, and the fact that they seem to work is reassuring but not surprising. Other findings of equal importance in the study, however, were absent from the summary and not widely reported. These findings cast doubt on the impact of many of the most common mitigation measures in American schools. Distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and, most notably, requiring student masking were each found to not have a statistically significant benefit. In other words, these measures could not be said to be effective.
Cast doubt on most common mitigation measures including distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers and most notably requiring students to wear masks- NOT EFFECTIVE. NOT HAVING A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT BENEFIT
In the realm of science and public-health policy outside the U.S., the implications of these particular findings are not exactly controversial. Many of America’s peer nations around the world — including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy — have exempted kids, with varying age cutoffs, from wearing masks in classrooms. Conspicuously, there’s no evidence of more outbreaks in schools in those countries relative to schools in the U.S., where the solid majority of kids wore masks for an entire academic year and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. These countries, along with the World Health Organization, whose child-masking guidance differs substantially from the CDC’s recommendations, have explicitly recognized that the decision to mask students carries with it potential academic and social harms for children and may lack a clear benefit. To date, the highly transmissible Delta variant has not led them to change this calculus. (Many experts I spoke with told me that while the Delta variant represents a major and concerning new development in the Covid pandemic, it probably shouldn’t change our thinking on a mask requirement for schools.)
Because this is about politics not science. Like much of the big pandemic experiment.
The extreme political heat around the issue of masks in schools is making it hard to have a coherent conversation about the science. At the risk of generalizing, much of blue-state America is strongly in favor of masks in schools, while much of red-state America is opposed. In Florida, Tennessee, and elsewhere, local school-board meetings are verging on violence as parents and officials fight over the question. But with tens of millions of American kids headed back to school in the fall, their parents and political leaders owe it to them to have a clear-sighted, scientifically rigorous discussion about which anti-COVID measures actually work and which might put an extra burden on vulnerable young people without meaningfully or demonstrably slowing the spread of the virus. In that context, the best practices for mask use in schools — elementary schools in particular — are much less obvious than CDC guidance and news headlines about keeping schools safe might have you believe.
Follow the science. So we’re told. Except when the science and political machinations are at odds- Then we follow the political games and to heck with the well being of children. Right? That’s how it looks!
The study published by the CDC was both ambitious and groundbreaking. It covered more than 90,000 elementary-school students in 169 Georgia schools from November 16 to December 11 and was, according to the CDC, the first of its kind to compare COVID-19 incidence in schools with certain mitigation measures in place to other schools without those measures. Scientists I spoke with believe that the decision not to include the null effects of a student masking requirement (and distancing, hybrid models, etc.) in the summary amounted to “file drawering” these findings, a term researchers use for the practice of burying studies that don’t produce statistically significant results. “That a masking requirement of students failed to show independent benefit is a finding of consequence and great interest,” says Vinay Prasad, an associate professor in University of California, San Francisco’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. “It should have been included in the summary.” “The summary gives the impression that only masking of staff was studied,” says Tracy Hoeg, an epidemiologist and the senior author of a separate CDC study on COVID-19 transmission in schools, “when in reality there was this additional important detection about a student-masking requirement not having a statistical impact.”
Repeating.. “when in reality there was this additional important detection about a student-masking requirement not having a statistical impact.”
After the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics issued their student-mask guidance last month, I contacted both organizations asking for the evidence or underlying data upon which they had based their recommendations. The AAP did not respond to multiple requests. The CDC press office replied that since children under 12 cannot be vaccinated, the agency “recommends schools do universal masking” and included links to unrelated materials on vaccines and a recent outbreak among adults. Over the course of several weeks, I also corresponded with many experts — epidemiologists, infectious-disease specialists, an immunologist, pediatricians, and a physician publicly active in matters relating to COVID — asking for the best evidence they were aware of that mask requirements on students were effective. Nobody was able to find a data set as robust as the Georgia results — that is, a large cohort study directly looking at the effects of a mask requirement
A year ago, I said, ‘Masks are not the end of the world; why not just wear a mask?’” Elissa Schechter-Perkins, the director of Emergency Medicine Infectious Disease Management at Boston Medical Center, told me. “But the world has changed, there are real downsides to masking children for this long, with no known end date, and without any clear upside.” She continued, “I’m not aware of any studies that show conclusively that kids wearing masks in schools has any effect on their own morbidity or mortality or on the hospitalization or death rate in the community around them.”
Schechter-Perkins is just one of a number of top experts calling for this type of discussion — and raising questions about the CDC’s recent recommendations and what has become accepted conventional knowledge. “We lack credible evidence for benefits of masking kids aged 2 to 5, despite what the American Academy of Pediatrics says,” Jeffrey Flier, former dean of Harvard Medical School, wrote recently. While there are models, and simulations on mannequins with masks, “mechanistic studies are incapable of anticipating and tallying the effects that emerge when real people are asked to do real things in the real world,” Vinay Prasad of UCSF wrote in a critique of the CDC’s child masking recommendation. “The CDC cannot ‘follow the science’ because there is no relevant science.”
The CDC cannot “follow the science” because they have none. They are playing politics
This question of “relevant science” is what makes the Georgia study worth careful consideration. Over and over, studies and reports on children in schools with low transmission rates claim in their summaries that masking students helped keep transmission down. But looking at the underlying data in these studies, masks were always required or widely worn, and implemented in concert with a variety of other interventions, such as increased ventilation. Without a comparison group that didn’t require student masking, it’s difficult or impossible to isolate the effect of masks. (This is the error made by Duke University researchers who wrote a report about North Carolina schools, later summarized in a New York Times opinion piece.) I reviewed 17 different studies cited by the CDC in its K-12 guidance as evidence that masks on students are effective, and not one study looked at student mask use in isolation from other mitigation measures, or against a control. Some even demonstrated that no student masking correlated with low transmission. In a number of the studies cited by the agency there was universal masking combined with other measures, such as ventilation, so, as noted, there was no way to know whether a mask mandate contributed to mitigating case rates or not. One study cited was of child-care centers with limited secondary transmission, yet children were not required to wear masks. Another was of a hair salon. One study, in Switzerland, was of schools with low transmission rates where young children were not required to wear masks. Finally, one study was of an Israeli school outbreak where the students weren’t wearing masks. Except students all over that country were exempt from masks at the same time, yet this was the only noted outbreak. If anything, that could seem to suggest a lack of benefit of masking students. Moreover, the windows were closed and it was only grades 7-12.
Children are less likely to have severe disease from SARS-CoV-2, and when infected less likely to be symptomatic, which correlates with lower contagiousness. Those facts alone may account for part of the reason why the Georgia study found no clear benefit for a masking requirement for kids in schools. Though the CDC says that layered mitigation in schools is effective, without studying each of the layers individually, it cannot know which of those measures work, and to what degree, and which don’t. For example, several experts told me, it’s entirely possible that open windows or fresh-air ventilation accounts for nearly all the mitigation benefit in a classroom and other “layered” interventions may contribute only a marginal benefit or none at all.
While the protective value of a mask mandate for children in school seems, at best, uncertain, experts have concerns about the potential downsides of them in a learning environment.
“Mask-wearing among children is generally considered a low-risk mitigation strategy; however, the negatives are not zero, especially for young children,” said Lloyd Fisher, the president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. “It is important for children to see facial expressions of their peers and the adults around them in order to learn social cues and understand how to read emotions.” Some children with special needs, for example those with articulation delays, may be most affected, he suggested. Fisher stressed his opinions are not to be perceived as contradicting AAP’s stance for universal masking of students but said he wanted to discuss some of the potential harms and the importance of using evidence and data to drive decisions on when to eliminate mask usage.
“There are very good reasons that the World Health Organization has repeatedly affirmed their guidance for children under 6 to not wear masks,” said a pediatrician who has both state and national leadership roles in the AAP but who wished to remain anonymous because they did not want to jeopardize their roles in the organization. “Reading faces is critical for social emotional learning. And all children are actively learning language the first five years of life, for which seeing faces is foundational,” the pediatrician said.
One troubling aspect of the CDC and AAP’s guidance for masking children in school, nearly every expert I interviewed said, is that it has no endpoint or specific metrics.
So, there is more to read at the link provided. Bottom line masking children does more harm then good. It’s child abuse.
Ties in quite nicely with the earlier report:

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When You Attend, You Will Learn...
- Understand the stages of brain development
- Recognize what impedes neurological growth in children
- Identify the parent or caregiver's role in fostering resiliency in terms of brain development
- Explore ways in which parents can help with the production of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) that foster positive mental health outcomes
- Identify concrete strategies that nurture neurological growth in children
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To give back to people suffering from the rare genetic disease Phenylketonuria Pku the pleasure of having lunch at a restaurant without being forced to choose between ‘a salad or a plate of grilled vegetables’, promoting knowledge of this pathology among restaurateurs – and more generally in the population . These are the objectives of Pkuisine®, The Pku friendly kitchen, a unique project of its kind and presented today which aims to create a network of Pku friendly restaurants. PKU in our country affects approximately one child for every 3,000 live births. “Phenylketonuria – explains pediatrician Evira Verduci – is a congenital defect of metabolism caused by mutations in the gene encoding the hepatic enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase, which is responsible for converting the essential amino acid phenylalanine into tyrosine”. If not corrected from birth, this condition leads to severe neurological damage. Diet is the only way to prevent complications. “The goal of the diet is to maintain phenylanine levels in the blood around normal values with an intervention based on three fundamental principles: abolition of natural proteins, use of foods for special medical purposes and supplementation of protein intake with amino acid mixtures” recalls the dietician Fina Belli. It is therefore a question of limiting the intake of foods with a higher protein content, primarily products of animal origin, cereals, legumes and nuts and integrating the diet with protein-free foods for special medical purposes such as pasta. , bread or biscuits. Thanks to this diet it is possible to guarantee the child an absolutely normal development but following such a rigorous diet for life is not always easy. And it is precisely to these needs, to these difficulties, that the campaign “Add a seat at the table – The pleasure of eating out safely” tries to answer with the Pkuisine® project, Pku friendly kitchen presented today. The project was made possible thanks to the contribution of Medifood, a division of Piam Farmaceutici, engaged in the fight against rare hereditary metabolic diseases with the support of Fipe – Italian Federation of Public Exercises, Patient Associations (Amegep Domenico Campanella, Aismme, Iris Sicilia, Cometa Asmme, Cometa Emilia-Romagna, Ammec, Apmmc), Scientific Societies (Simmesn) and a board of 10 specialists made up of dieticians, pediatricians and a neuropsychiatrist. The work led to the definition of the digital Toolkit consisting of Guidelines and Cookbook. In particular, the recipes, specially studied by the board of experts and which include protein-free foods that can be easily managed by the individual restaurateur and require the use of suitable products, of which a first free supply is sent to the restaurateurs who join Pkuisine®. An important contribution to the project came, among others, from chef Maurizio Fantinato who validated the recipes developed by the scientific committee. “The theoretical part was very well prepared by the technicians – says the chef – I adapted the recipes to a professional kitchen”. Thanks to the project, people with PKU will have the opportunity to geolocate the restaurants participating in the initiative and identify them also thanks to the window stickers applied on the windows. In addition, the list of all the restaurants will be found on the Pkuisine® website to which people with ku will also have the opportunity to report a restaurant to invite it to join the project. “Food is a source of health and well-being as well as the symbol par excellence of hospitality and welcome. For all these things, Fipe and Italian catering have always been sensitive to the issues of intolerances and metabolic diseases related to food” comments Aldo Cursano, vice president of Fipe-Confcommercio.
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Fokker G-1 The Fokker G.I was a Dutch heavy twin-engined fighter plane comparable in size and role to the German Messerschmitt Bf 110 and the British Mosquito. Although in production prior to World War II, its combat introduction came at a time when the Netherlands was overrun. The few G.1s that were mustered into service were able to score some victories, but ultimately the aircraft was withdrawn from operations, and the remainder of the production run was taken over by the Luftwaffe as trainers. The G.I, given the nickname le Faucheur ("reaper" in French), was designed as a private venture in 1936 by Fokker chief engineer Dr. Schatzki. Intended for the role of jachtkruiser, "heavy" fighter or air cruiser, able to gain air superiority over the battlefield as well as being a bomber destroyer, the G.1 would fulfill a role seen as important at the time, by advocates of Giulio Douhet's theories on air power. The Fokker G.I utilized a twin-engined, twin-boom layout that featured a central nacelle housing two or three crew members (a pilot, radio operator/navigator/rear gunner or a bombardier) as well as a formidable armament of twin 23 mm (.91 in) Madsen cannon and a pair of 7.9 mm (.31 in) machine guns (later eight machine guns) in the nose and one in a rear turret. Besides its main mission, the G.1 could be configured for ground attack and light bombing missions (it could carry a bomb load of one 400 kg/882 lb bomb or combinations of two 200 kg/441 lb or 10 26 kg/57 lb bombs). The design and construction of the prototype (registered as X-2) was completed in just seven months. At its introduction at the Paris Air Show in November 1936, even before its first flight, the G.I was a sensation, appearing in a purple and yellow finish (evocative of the Spanish Republican colors, thought to be Fokker's first export customer Like all Fokker aircraft of the period, the G.I was of mixed construction; the front of the central pod and the tail booms were built around a welded frame, covered with aluminium plating. The back of the central pod, however, as well as the wings, had a wooden frame, covered with triplex, a technique also used in Fokker's successful passenger aircraft at that time. The G.I prototype, powered by 485 kW (650 hp) Hispano-Suiza 14AB-02/03 engines, had its first flight at Welschap Airfield, near Eindhoven on 16 March 1937 with Karel Toman-Mares at the controls. Later, Emil Meinecke took over much of the test flights. The maiden flight went well, but a subsequent test flight in September 1937 ended with a supercharger explosion that nearly caused the loss of the prototype.The accident prompted a replacement of the Hispano-Suiza engines with 559 kW (750 hp) Pratt & Whitney SB4-G Twin Wasp Junior engines.


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A CONSERVATIVE-orchestrated political coup has given Harrow Council its first female leader - Councillor Susan Hall.
The Labour and Tory groups combined to vote out leader Councillor Thaya Idaikkadar, and with him his minority Independent Labour administration, at tonight's extraordinary full council meeting at which the two rivals similarly joined forces to suspend several key constitutional powers such as the Mayor of Harrow's ability to adjourn the meeting.
Ms Hall then won the subsequent new vote to take the reigns of power against Labour group leader Councillor David Perry by 31 votes to 24, with five abstentions.
She told the Observer afterwards: "First female leader of the council? I'm absolutely delighted.
"There's gaps in the budget we'll be looking at. The residents are complaining that the roads are filthy and the parks unkempt.
"The reality is I want the Conservative vision: a cleaner, safer and fairer Harrow."
Ms Hall will announce her new cabinet and deputy council leader tomorrow but told the meeting she would honour the arrangement of having opposition non-voting members of the cabinet to stimulate debate and "keep portfolio holders on their toes".
She and deputy group leader Councillor Barry Macleod-Cullinane were the two non-voting members on Mr Idaikkadar's cabinet committee of six, and used their position to regularly query and question the minority administration's executive decisions.
"It's not going to be so funny when we're on the other side," she said after her victory.
The people of Harrow voted Labour into power in the 2010 local elections with 34 councillors to the Conservatives' 27 before this May incumbent council leader Mr Idaikkadar led a splinter Independent Labour breakaway group who ruled as a minority.
The electorate now, following tonight's unprecedented mid-term shake-up, have a Tory-run council although both the Conservatives and Labour have 25 members each, with eight for Independent Labour, three Independents, one Liberal Democrat and one UK Independence Party member.
Labour activist Uma Kumran, of Pinner, took to Twitter in wake of the decision and said: "Tories didn't win 2010 election in Harrow. Tonight they're in power in Harrow. #NoMandate."
Chief reporter Ian Proctor filmed key portions of the meeting, and will be uploaded throughout the day along with all the latest reaction including the announcement of a new Conservative cabinet.


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Jaguar Mark XXI autonomous car gets powered by solar energy
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Zero-emission electric car concept powered by solar energy.
Now since we are quite sure that cars of the future will be powered by green energy sources and won’t often need a human behind the wheel, the design of the cars which will be used in the future will be completely different from the ones we are accustomed to. Car designer Christopher Pollard is one such designer whose designs show us the world of tomorrow, and his latest creation is not surprisingly a unique car dubbed the Jaguar Mark XXI.
The zero-emission car is powered by photovoltaic panels that are installed all over the body of the vehicle. These panels lift and face the sun when the vehicle is not being driven. The energy generated by the solar panels is stored in the vehicle’s onboard battery pack, which helps power it when the sun isn’t shining.
Since the driver isn’t needed in the vehicle, the car’s interiors can be designed to suit the requirements, which is this case consists of inward-facing seats that create the setting for a sociable living space.
There’s a spreadsheet program that comes with the Mac Operational System which is called Apple Numbers. Actually, it’s a part of Apple’s iWork suite. This program crates files with data organized into rows and columns and may as well be provided with some graphs, tables, images and formulas. Rows are usually labeled with numbers while columns are labeled using letters. An Individual sell can be determined by a unique combination of both. Read more
Photo editing can be a cumbersome and time consuming job, but it's what makes the end product even more stunning. To do this, there are tons of software that allow you to work on your material anywhere without the new of installing it on your computer. Today, we review Fotophire - the latest and also complete photo editing toolkit you can access on the cloud. Check out what we think about it and how you can use it for your photo works. Read more
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Programming collective intelligence : building smart Web 2.0 applications / Toby Segaran, O’Reilly, c2007.
Most programmers will find this book fascinating. What algorithm does Amazon use to predict what books are likely to interest you? Netflix with DVD’s? Google with search results? Example algorithms are in Python. With a foreword from Tim O’Reilly and a recommendation from Dan Russell, Google’s ‘Uber Tech Lead’.
Thinking inside the box : the 12 timeless rules for managing a successful business / Kirk Cheyfitz. Free Press, 2003
This timeless book should be read by everyone wanting to run a business profitably. Or choose a business to invest in, or work for. It is quite readable, and the 12 chapters are independent so you can put it down at the end of a chapter without losing context.
Smart and gets things done : Joel Spolsky’s concise guide to finding the best technical talent / Joel Spolsky. Apress, 2007.
This is for the HR person charged with hiring programmers, and the software manager. It is also obliquely for the programmer who is unsure why he does not like his current job, and needs to know what questions to ask of a prospective employer.
Spolsky writes in a lucid and flowing manner, as you will know if you have been reading his previous books on software design and his blog.
Professional C++ / Nicholas A. Solter, Scott J. Kleper. Wiley, c2005.
Here is everything a programmer needs to get going in C++. It’s a thick book, but it does not cover everything because there are so many details in C++. Job seekers will value the appendix, which lists likely interview questions. Managers who interview programmers will find this useful too.
Ajax in action / Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello; Manning, c2006.
Founders at work : stories of startups’ early days / Jessica Livingston. Apress, c2007.
Fascinating interviews with founders of technology startups including Paul Graham, Joshua Schachter, Mike Lazaridis, and Joel Spolsky.
Thinking in Java / Bruce Eckel. Prentice Hall, 2006
The most readable book on Java that I know of, and at 1482 pages it is a weighty tome. Read it all to improve your design skills, or use it as a reference.
C++ coding standards : 101 rules, guidelines, and best practices / Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu. Addison-Wesley, 2005
Such a simple yet invaluable book to anyone coding in C++, because code readability is so important. Lend it to co-workers and hope they read it.
The recommended standards are practical, and after you have read this book you will see them as common-sense. Each is supported by references to well known authorities.
Security engineering : a guide to building dependable distributed systems / Ross J. Anderson. Wiley 2008, hard cover
1000 very readable pages of straight talk on security. This affects almost everyone. The first edition was published in 2001, and the book appears to have been rewritten. I wish there was a new edition yearly.
According to B. Schneier, “It’s beautiful. This is the best book on the topic there is”.
Silence on the wire : a field guide to passive reconnaissance and indirect attacks by Michal Zalewski. No Starch Press, 2005
This book on internet security is much different than most. Firstly, it is a joy to read! It has no dry descriptions of the latest vulnerabilities, but instead it delves into the technologies that underlie the Internet, and explores their inherent limitations.

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It’s taken almost two years, but finally Modestep have returned with all-new material, and a tour.
Their brand new track Snake (premiered via UKF), sees the group preview their new direction, focusing more on electro-rock versus their previous dubstep efforts from their early material – clearly a new focus following the arrival of two new band members.
Snake essentially is as close to a rival to The Prodigy as you could probably get nowadays, plus it’s been debuted as a free download (which you can cop by entering your email address in the Unlock FM widget, below).
Additionally, to coincide with their new material, Modestep have also announced a string of March 2015 UK dates. Tickets for their brief tour go on presale this Wednesday (21st January) via Ticketmaster UK with a general release following two days later. Click here for more info.
Meanwhile you can stream Snake following Modestep’s full tour schedule, below:
Mon March 9 – Gorilla, Manchester Gorilla
Tue March 10 – O2 ABC2, Glasgow
Wed March 11 – XOYO, London
Fri March 13 – O2 Academy 2, Birmingham

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We start our great Christmas gifts for loved ones list with a popular piece of technology by electronics giant, Samsung. The Galaxy Tab S6 is the perfect gift for your loved one who needs power at their fingertips in an extremely compact device. Key features of the tablet include a fast-charging battery with 15-hour life, magnetically attachable S Pen with button controls, and quality AGK tuned quad speakers for immersive sound. The S6 tablet also has the ability to transform into a laptop, by simply attaching a keyboard, adding versatility to the device. For tech nerds, more detailed S6 specs include; a super AMOLED display, 256Gb RAM, wireless Bluetooth, Android operating system, and a 2.84GHz processor. If you’re after companions for the S6, the Samsung Galaxy smartwatch
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…the guy who broke into a home and forgot to log out of his Facebook account. Seriously. He was identified by his profile picture and now faces up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 […]
A severe storm barreled through a West Virginia town on June 10, leaving telephone lines and trees scattered behind. For Brianna Vance, 10, she used the only thing she could think of when she needed […]
Kim Kardashian just posted one of her wedding photos!
Tony discovered something about his sister on Facebook this weekend that drove him nuts.
Does Morrissey get the d-bag of the day award?
I will be taking the show on the road to the Walt Disney World Resort, a place I consider home…here’s why!
Is your email or social network on the list?
Facebook will begin implementing a new news feed design in the coming weeks. Look for larger pictures, a wider feed, and a more clean look.
Zazza & Julie have ________ (verb) another _______ (adj.) MadLib!
We have all brought the drama to our Facebook page every now and then. But, you probably shouldn’t.

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Dog exercise mills
The TRACO exercise mills for dogs are working on the same principle as the mills for horses. The fench are replaced by cages with safety wall in the back and front, so the dog can moving free. Ofcourse are the dimensions much smaller as a horse exercise mills. The construction and the control are the same. Also the dog trainer can be upgrade by a extensive fench and or roof.

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Could robotics be the merging point between the technology generation & a waning workforce? Experts believe so.
“We’re Hiring”, it would seem, is the new global mantra as jobs for skilled workers (and sometimes manual workers) remain unfilled. The COVID-19 pandemic is a major factor at present time. However, an unfortunate truth is that vocational training has lost its allure at a time when the world desperately needs people trained in skilled technology jobs. A glaring side effect of these unfilled jobs is the nearly catastrophic supply chain. Parts, components, and materials of all kinds are taking months to reach industrial manufacturers instead of weeks. These delays in production cause delays in finished product reaching consumers. The result? Guaranteed delivery dates are no longer a consideration.
We didn’t get here overnight, and experts have predicted it may take a decade or more to fix. There are more than enough villains but consider that today’s 18-35 demographic grew up and went to school with computers, this has ultimately shaped the last 2 generations’ choice of profession and/or trade. Colleges now offer degrees in video game design. Social media platforms are the most prominent source of news. Celebrity & pop culture are shaping the market, creating an avenue where “influencers” can make 6-figure wages in short order. As is the case with such trends, it causes others to seek out similar income avenues rather than be trained in a trade skill.
While this problem is not exclusively limited to the United States, there are steps that every company in the industrial manufacturing/production world can take to enlighten and motivate the next generation of trade skill workers. Intern, co-op programs and apprenticeships are important. Consider the rise in demand for robotic automation and engineering. Companies who design, engineer, and install custom robotic automation systems are constantly looking for talented, motivated individuals willing to learn. With the rapidly growing world of industrial automation helping to improve the manufacturing space, a new job market has emerged creating with it a new realm of skills & positions. This market is seeking out ways to enhance manufacturing and production autonomously and that aligns with the always evolving tech world.
It won’t be a quick fix. Communication and promotion of such needs in engineering is critically important. The next generation headed to the workforce is crucial to be marketed to. Robotic engineering, electrical engineering, programming, etc. are all creative, problem-solving opportunities that lead to hands-on experience and newly emerging career opportunities. It is incumbent upon the automation industry to spotlight the enormous opportunities that await those seeking to work within technology particularly as it pertains to robotic automation. Engineering degrees are helpful, but those with the appropriate aptitude and attitude can easily (but not quickly) be trained to become valued resources. In short, many automation engineering jobs do not require a college degree. In fact, some robotic integrators relish the opportunity to teach these positions “on the job”.
RōBEX, a Perrysburg OH based robotics integrator, is one such company. This manufacturing engineering-based company has dramatically expanded since opening its doors in 2017. Lead by a team with a combined 300+ years of robotic engineering experience, they’ve been able to attract intelligent, talented people and created an environment where they can grow personally and professionally. Their core business is developing automation solutions for customers in manufacturing, beverage, food, building products, packaging, and warehouse distribution.
“While there’s some truth to the fact that our business has been particularly strong because of the shrinking workforce, as we’ve all seen, automation has created and is continuing to create new jobs. Those new jobs & skills are ones our team knows and can help to provide that knowledge to the next generation entering the workforce” said Cal Bowers, Vice President of Growth.
RōBEX is a precision certified integrator of automated systems that include industrial robots, collaborative robots, smart conveyors, autonomous mobile robots, autonomous mobile forklifts and more. One of their ongoing objectives has been to automate dozens of “manual tasks” within a plant, increasing efficiency, safety and productivity.


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Status position of 97B in the bay on Wednesday evening :18.2N and 89.6E.
Winds at a speed of 20-25 knots and core pressure at 1005 mb.
No, its not a mistake, the status position is exactly the same as the morning report, no cahange in last 12 hrs.
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New START treaty:
President Vladimir Putin has proposed a one-year extension without conditions of the last major nuclear arms reduction accord- the New START treaty- between Russia and the U.S.
About the the New START deal:
It is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation with the formal name of Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.
- Signed on 8 April 2010 in Prague, and, after ratification entered into force on 5 February 2011.
- Replaced the Treaty of Moscow (SORT), which was to expire in December 2012.
- Its name is a follow-up to the START I treaty, which expired in December 2009, the proposed START II treaty, which never entered into force, and the START III treaty, for which negotiations were never concluded.
Under terms of the treaty:
- Number of strategic nuclear missile launchers will be reduced by half.
- A new inspection and verification regime will be established, replacing the SORT mechanism.
- The number of deployed strategic nuclear warheads is limited to 1,550.
- Number of deployed and non-deployed inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers, submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers, and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments to 800 will be limited.
Timeline to meet these Targets:
- These obligations must be met within seven years from the date the treaty enters into force.
- The treaty will last ten years, with an option to renew it for up to five years upon agreement of both parties.
- About STARTS and New STARTS treaties.
- Timelines under New START.
- Terms of the treaty.
Discuss the significance of the New START treaty.
Sources: the Hindu.


Let’s move a few decades back to have a better understanding of virtualization value.
A computer line
Imagine for a second: early 1960s of the 20th century, a large scientific institute with several hundred employees. There's only one computer for the whole institute. If a scientist needs to compute something, he makes a program and brings it to an operator who works with the computer. The operator runs the program and brings the outcomes to the scientist.
Computing machines were rare, slow and very expensive back then. Programmers themselves did not have access to them, because individual work was considered ineffective: while programmers entered data or took a pause to think about their issue, the machine was idle, and it was unacceptable. To prevent this idle time, developers and computers were separated.
A few years later, scientists came to the idea that if they allow more than one user to use the computer, efficiency will increase. When one user enters data, the computer works with the tasks of other users. It will fill pauses and minimize idle time. This idea was called the time-sharing concept.
The Time-sharing concept implies that computing resources are shared among many users. It appeared in the early 1960s and led to many revolutionary changes, including the emergence of virtualization.
High-speed task switching
At first, the idea of time-sharing was implemented literally: the processor switched between tasks only at the time of I/O operations. While one user was thinking or entering data, the computer processed tasks of another user.
The equipment became more powerful, and the tasks generated by several users were not enough to fill its capacity. Then the processor was taught to switch between tasks more often. Every task received a "quantum" of time when the processor worked with it. If one quant wasn't enough to complete the task, the processor switched to another task returning to the first one at the next quant. The switches occurred so quickly that every user may even think that he used the machine alone.
The first time when the time-sharing concept was implemented was the Compatible Time-Sharing System of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1960s. It was compatible with Fortran Monitor System and ran on IBM 7090 mainframe.
By the way, around the same time, the time-sharing system was also started at Dartmouth College (the one where Basik was invented). The scientists even managed to sell it, although it did not get widespread.
From time-sharing to virtualization
The first operating system supporting time-sharing was Multics, the predecessor of the Unix family. Both Multics and the system from Dartmouth College found its application although they were far from being perfect: slow, unreliable, and unsafe. Scientists wanted to make them better and even knew how, however, the equipment capabilities were limited. It was hard to overcome these limits without having support from manufacturers, and after some time they joined the work as well.
In 1968, IBM created a new mainframe that supported CP/CMS system developed together with Cambridge scientists. It was the first OS supporting virtualization. The CP/CMS system was based on a virtual machine monitor or hypervisor.
The hypervisor runs on the hardware and creates several virtual machines. This approach is much more convenient than the time-sharing system and here's why:
- Virtual machines share mainframe resources instead of using it one-by-one in their turn, so efficiency is higher;
- Every VM is an exact copy of the original hardware, so you can run any OS on every single machine;
- Every user has his own OS, so he doesn't affect other users - the entire system becomes more reliable.
After some time CP/CMS was improved, renamed and launched for sale. It became the basis for VM/370 OS, which was used with one of the most popular IBM's mainframes, System/370.
Such systems already looked much more familiar to a modern user - as terminals connected to the mainframe. The mainframe was a big and powerful computer while terminals were devices having a screen, keyboard, and mouse. Users worked with terminals to enter data and set tasks, and the mainframe processed these data. One mainframe could be connected to tens or even hundreds of terminals.
Sunset and dawn of virtualization technologies
The personal computer boom started in the late 20th century, affected not only the mainframe industry but also the virtualization technologies development. While computers were expensive and bulky, companies preferred to use a mainframe with terminals because they could not afford to buy a computer for every employee.
Over time, computers became smaller and their price was affordable enough for private companies. So in the 1980s, personal computers changed terminals. Together with mainframes, virtualization technologies have faded into the background, but not for long.
To improve stability, system administrators allocated one machine per application. Stability had increased, but it raised the equipment costs as well. And here was the moment when virtualization came back on a scene. Virtualization allowed using several independent virtual machines hosted one physical computer instead of allocating several dedicated computers for the same task.
With operating systems development, it became necessary to run a certain OS within another OS. Virtualization could solve this task as well. In 1988, SoftPC was released. This software allowed running Windows and MS-DOS applications on other operating systems. A few years later, Virtual PC appeared, making it possible to run other operating systems on Windows.
The hosting industry development became another reason to revive virtualization technology.
The evolution of the Internet led to a true rise in virtualization technologies.
At first, companies hosted their websites on their own servers. It wasn't a problem for big and successful companies to buy own equipment. But after some time, smaller companies and individuals also felt a need to have a website. They didn't have money to buy own servers so other companies decided to rent the equipment to them. It was the beginning of the hosting industry.
In the first years, hosters provided you some disk space on an FTP server or an entire server. With FTP hosting websites of different users were kept in different folders of one computer. Thus FTP hosting was unreliable and insecure while renting an entire server was expensive.
Server virtualization solutions began to evolve. In the early 2000s, VMware introduced its product for the x86 servers called ESX Server. After several years many other solutions appeared: Xen, OpenVZ, and other hypervisors. Virtualization technologies formed the basis of cloud technologies, but we will about them in another article.
In order to simplify virtualization management for providers and private infrastructure owners, virtualization control panels began to appear. In 2003, ISPsystem released VMmanager.
VMmanager — a modern control panel for virtualization management
VMmanager makes virtualization technologies available to anyone. You can create virtual machines on Linux or Windows and resell them to your clients or use them for own needs.
Hosting providers use VMmanager to automate VPS provisioning. Web developers, admins, software development companies and other commercial organizations and freelancers use it to create isolated virtual machines.
The panel has a neat and convenient interface allowing users to automate or speed-up routine operations.
Other advantages of VMmanager:
- All-in-one solution: the panel may replace the console, tables for equipment inventory, diagnostic and monitoring tools.
- Simple and convenient interface: panel users may easily create VMs of the desired configuration and manage the whole virtual environment.
- Task management and troubleshooting: If you encounter a problem, it is easy to find the cause in the Task Log.
Feel free to run the demo to evaluate the capabilities of VMmanager. If you want to test it on-premise, you may download and install it on your server. 30 days for free!


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Blog Shared responsibility for health: troubling language and unmet need Maybe the shared responsibility framework needs a different framing: one that starts with the acknowledgment that people who have health problems have a rightful expectation that they will be supported at a time of need, says Charlotte Augst. Blog Tackling HIV stigma in the health service Dr Tom Beaney, a GP trainee working in The King's Fund policy team, reflects on new data from the Positive Voices survey and considers the stigma that people with HIV face within the health service today. Blog Shedding light on service design involving patients and the public Rich Stockley explains how good patient and public involvement requires a robust and well-designed research process, and not just hoping for the elusive ‘lightbulb moment’. Blog The pivot: changing our relationship with the health system The nature of the health challenges we face today mean it is no longer appropriate to continue with our existing systems. 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Ariya Porter Home Office, 2018-01-20 08:23:32. When an organisation wants to create a new office or remodel the existing one, the emphasis must be on flexibility, productivity and creativity with less clutter. Hiring an interior design consultancy that uses holistic design principles and the latest technologies in their projects would help companies to create great office interiors.
Ariya Porter Home Office, 2018-01-08 18:54:11. Regardless of how big your office is or what room you are trying to transform there are certain elements that are key to office interior design. Once you take these into consideration you will be on your way to the home office that you always dreamed of. First, the lighting is very important for many reasons. Next, the room has to have some decent decor. Finally, the furniture is critical too. Here are the key elements of interior design for your office:
Aubrie Rivas Home Office, 2018-03-02 20:06:37. There is a reason for an increase in home office interior design. In today's job market there is a huge demand for more people to work from home. This means that that there is bigger call for home offices. While all homes may not have an extra room to dedicate solely to an office, there are many ways to turn even the most unlikely corner into a well functioning home office. These offices can be put together to offer efficiency with careful planning.
Margot Maynard Interior Design, 2018-08-07 23:57:30. Once looks, colour combinations are decided upon, the required furnishing can be done in the office keeping in mind the intelligent utilisation of work space, availability of air flow and free movement and enough power plugs for appliances. Proper planning helps you with coping up with all these problems.
Marlee Beck Interior Design, 2018-08-08 17:10:40. 2) Business Interruption
Lauren Delaney Interior Design, 2018-08-08 05:58:07. Does driving to the new offices cause you or your staff greater issues? If so, does this mean that previously dedicated staff who arrived on the dot may suddenly become an issue due to traffic, length of commutes, costs and issues getting to work. Moving a long distance away from your current location may be the dumbest move you ever made.
Lauren Delaney Interior Design, 2018-08-07 23:16:47. Thus, you should consider having a fish tank as well. If, however, you do not
Angelique Owen Interior Design, 2018-08-08 16:33:57. The first thing that you need to think about is the primary use of your home
Elizabeth Jefferson Interior Design, 2018-08-07 23:39:43. will need a desk that can comfortably accommodate your PC as well as files and
Celia Collier Interior Design, 2018-08-08 13:55:26. Now comes the tricky part. You'll want to decorate your office now more like a part of a home than like a part of an office. Office decor is not designed to be functional; it is designed to be cheap. You don't need to be cheap in your own home. Bookshelves look very nice in an office, as they match the functional shelves near your office while also evoking the style of a library.
Emilie Acevedo Interior Design, 2018-08-08 02:27:22. other important supplies. However, make sure that the desk is not so large that
Kara Ratliff Interior Design, 2018-08-08 08:26:00. However, before hiring designers for the interior of the office, some factors need to be considered first. Firstly, the budget for designing should be predetermined, as without proper planning it can exceed. Secondly, the nature of work of the occupants should be considered and properly conveyed to the designer. Assessing and incorporating the nature of work in designing process helps in creating practical interiors. Furthermore, the theme and objective of the company should be well communicated. Office Interior designs that reflect the objective or theme of the company are more effective and offer greater benefits. Sometimes, the interior of the office convey the unsaid message to the clients and leave a positive impression. Therefore, it is important to match the objective of the interior with that of company goals.
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If you are troubled to know the steps involved in setting up Linksys range extender, then this article will be of great help to you. Extenders are networking devices, specially designed to tackle the issue of dead spots, present in the network. Linksys range extender also does the same. For this, Linksys range extender amplifies the WiFi signal coming from network router or access point, before sending it to other client devices.
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Account Options Sign in. Top Charts. New Releases. Add to Wishlist. Use the Linksys app anywhere you have an internet connection to check connected devices, set up guest access, or keep your kids off the internet when they should be doing homework. The updated app now covers Velop, whole home mesh WiFi that provides seamless, full-strength WiFi for the whole family.
Shield makes sure kids get content that's right for their age. Fully customizable presets give you complete control over the content your kids see. Linksys Shield can be used on up to 14 devices connected to your Velop tri-band system. Your price may be converted to your local currency. Your day trial converts to a paid subscription unless you turn off auto-renew.
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If you have several computers in your office, you can connect them all to the same network with a Linksys wireless router. Connect an Ethernet cable to the port labeled "Internet" or "WAN" on the back of your wireless router. Connect the other end of the cable to the Ethernet port. This app is the command center for your Velop system and Linksys Smart Wi-Fi routers. Use the Linksys app anywhere you have an internet connection to check .
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What if my Linksys router or network stops working after the configuration change In case you by mistake make some change that breaks your Linksys home network, you can always go back to zero by following the generic 30 30 30 hard reset trick. By default, the first time you run the software for the setup process, it'll show linksus how to connect the router with the cables and an Internet exclusivity talk dating, such as linksts broadband modem. The router is able to offer two concurrent networks, on the 2. Open your browser and type the router's ip address into the address field. You'll need to configure it first before your computer will connect to the Internet. Be careful when you configure your router so that you don't break the network. Instructions how to login to the Linksys router web interface Make sure that you are connected to your Linksys router, either by ethernet cable of over WiFi. Following are the instructions to connect to your Linksys router's interface for configuration and diagnotstics. You'll have to access the web interface to do so.
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Give it 10 seconds or so to initialize and then plug an ethernet cable into your wall jack and into the port on the back of the router marked Internet. Next get another ethernet cable and plug one end into your laptop and the other into one of the ports labeled on the router.
how do I hook up my landline phone to a linksys ac1900 router and connect them to cable?
In order to share your DSL Internet connection with other computers in a wireless home network, you must connect your DSL modem to a Linksys wireless router. While this seems like an easy process, knowing the instructions for hooking your Internet connection to a wireless router reduces the frustration during set up. Your DSL Internet service should also already be activated in your home by your Internet service provider. Turn off your DSL modem and ensure the Linksys wireless router is unplugged. Disconnect the DSL modem from your computer. Plug the Ethernet cable into the Ethernet port on the back of your computer. Plug the other end of the Ethernet cable into the Internet port on the Linksys wireless router. Plug a second Ethernet cable into one of the numbered ports on the Linksys wireless router. Turn on your DSL modem. Connect the power adapter to your Linksys wireless router and allow it to power on.
How to Hook Up a Linksys Wireless Router
If you have several computers in your office, you can connect them all to the same network with a Linksys wireless router. Networked computers access the Internet and share data, such as documents or project information, with one another. Your router won't work just by plugging it in, though. You'll need to configure it first before your computer will connect to the Internet. Connect an Ethernet cable to the port labeled "Internet" or "WAN" on the back of your wireless router. Connect the other end of the cable to the Ethernet port on your cable modem. Use an Ethernet cable to connect your computer to port 1, 2, 3 or 4 on the router.
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Rittenhouse Square (2005)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
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Rittenhouse Square is a public park in Philadelphia located not far from the campus of the Curtis Institute of Music, and while the square has had a long and checkered history, these days locals know it as a place to relax, enjoy the day, and sometimes hear music students show off their talents. It's also a hangout for the city's homeless population, many of whom enjoy the passing parade of beautiful women who visit the park to enjoy some fresh air and sunshine in the city. Legendary independent
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Succeeds as a vivid video album of the metropolis at the millennium.
There are certainly more unpleasant ways to spend an hour and a half, but it's unlikely that Rittenhouse Square will generate much interest outside Philadelphia.
A good stroll inside your nearest city park would provide a more edifying experience.
Robert Downey Sr.'s terrific Ritten house Square made me want to move to Philadelphia. Thankfully, the feeling quickly passed.
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IP Telephony platform vendor BroadSoft has accepted $10 million in mezzanine equity financing from Meritech Capital Partners. The company will use the funding for corporate purposes, including financing the continued growth of its operations and its expansion of market share in fast-growing regions, including Latin America, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
“In the last two years, we have doubled our staff and expanded our European and APAC operations to ensure the success of our customers,” said Michael Tessler, president and CEO of BroadSoft. “We are well-positioned and leading the way in the network migration trend currently playing out as carriers increasingly begin to switch from traditional telephony systems to IP networks.”
Meritech Capital Partners, a premier late-stage venture capital firm and a new BroadSoft investor, was the sole investor in the $10 million Series D round. Meritech targets late-stage companies with proven and differentiated technology, rapidly growing revenue and seasoned management teams.
“BroadSoft fits our investment style, and is strong across the board-from leadership to execution and product development,” said Mike Gordon, managing director, Meritech Capital Partners. “BroadSoft continues to grow its revenue, expand into and dominate new markets and win service provider customers away from its competitors with its innovative BroadWorks(r) platform. We are excited about investing in BroadSoft’s future as a leader in VoIP applications.”
“This funding from Meritech will fuel BroadSoft’s continued expansion into fast-growing global markets and ensure we maintain the highest level of support services for our increasing customer base,” Tessler added. “We count more than 40 incumbent carriers as customers worldwide, and are also winning smaller, competitive providers that aggressively roll out new BroadWorks-based services, such as our fixed-mobile convergence applications.”


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As the race to develop self-driving and electric vehicle (EV) technology heats up, Goldman Sachs has picked three global car stocks to buy.
Analysts at the investment bank said the gap is widening between automakers innovating in these areas, and those lagging behind.
Driverless cars and other autonomous technologies are a hot topic, as Tesla is set to release its first full self-driving technology (known as FSD) this summer.
“The market is very interested in the progress of Tesla’s FSD technology that is set for release this summer,” the Goldman analysts wrote in a note Saturday, with all eyes on the level of autonomy it achieves.
The analysts’ auto picks — all Japanese firms — have a potential upside to their share prices of at least 27%, and are moving closer to launching new technology.
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At the April 4 Student Government Association meeting, members of the Ithaca College student senate put forward three bills, two of which did not pass the proposal stage and the other of which was voted down.
The SGA has yet to pass more than one bill during the Spring 2016 semester as of the April 4 meeting, a drop from the nine bills passed in the fall semester.
At the April 4 meeting, SGA senators proposed three bills that were each criticized for providing insufficient research. Each bill was either tabled for a future meeting or voted down. The bills were prohibiting tobacco use on campus, expanding the location and hours of the Grab and Go Service, and the formation of a committee to negotiate more diverse options in the dining halls.
SGA President Dominick Recckio said ineffective bill proposals are a result of the new bill proposal process included in the Spring 2015 reform of the SGA constitution. Compared to the old bill proposal process that allowed for bills to be passed with only marginal supporting research, the new process requires concrete data and facts.
Proposed by Class of 2017 Sen. Tim Conners, “Tobacco Free IC” resolves to make the campus tobacco-free by the 2017–18 academic year. Conners said the tobacco-free bill is consistent with the college’s efforts toward environmental sustainability and community health, and would incentivize people to quit smoking.
“It’s not the idea that you’re attacking people for smoking. It’s just saying, ‘Here’s the trend, here’s the facts,’” Conners said. “People also have the right to not be infringed on by tobacco and the harmful impacts that has.”
The Senate voted 10–5 against the bill. Recckio said the bill didn’t resolve any clear line of action.
Class of 2016 Sen. Matilda Thornton-Clark said she didn’t support the bill because it did not include provisions to assist smokers in quitting.
“There was nothing in the bill about working with students who do smoke and want to quit,” she said. “It was all punitive. It was all about enforcement.”
Class of 2019 Sen. Thomas “TJ” Horgan said he didn’t trust the Office of Public Safety to fairly enforce the bill.
“Campus safety has proven themselves incapable to enforce these rules in a uniform and unbiased manner,” he said. “In my opinion, even allowing Public Safety to dictate who gets to smoke a cigarette, and for communities that have already been marginalized, allows for some very ugly consequences.”
Conners said the committee created by the bill would initiate enforcement and provide aid for campus community members looking to quit smoking.
The second bill, proposed by Class of 2018 Sen. Theophilus Alexander and International Sen. Attila Mendli, sought to add a location in the Campus Center for Grab and Go and extend its hours. The Senate unanimously voted to table the bill for the next week so Alexander and Mendli could solicit feedback from Sodexo and include more research in the bill.
The bill was criticized by Senator–at-Large Ezeka Allen for lacking research about the transitional issues the bill would pose for Sodexo.
“Logistically, like for employment, there are a lot of people at play — it’s not just the students,” she said.
Recckio said Alexander and Mendli could have raised the issues in the bill to the Food Service Advisory Committee.
“The research wasn’t in the bill. The bill only made a committee,” he said. “The Food Service Advisory Committee already exists, and students haven’t done enough of a job understanding how Sodexo and Ithaca College works.”
The third bill, proposed by Mendli, aimed to create a Sodexo Healthy Food Advising Committee that would address an alleged lack of vegan, vegetarian, organic and healthy options in the dining halls. The Senate voted in a 13–2 vote to table the bill for a future meeting so Mendli could solicit more information from Sodexo.
Senate Chair Marieme Foote said the stricter bill proposal process revealed flaws in proposals that would not have been caught in the old process.
“The Sodexo ones would have definitely passed a lot easier last year,” she said. “Now we’re looking for a lot more research, a lot more contact with people who work in those fields.”
Thornton-Clark said a lack of effective bill proposals at the meeting is because many of the senators are new and unaware of the demands of proposing a bill.
“I think a lot of the research involves talking with administrators on campus, and senators may be wary about that, or the administrators aren’t responding as much,” she said. “Also, they might not know that they need to do that to prove their bill is sufficient.”


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What Exactly 6 years Super League Fenerbahce nor Turkey can remove the Cup, this season was to pass empty …
Eliminated in the cup, it is difficult in the league
The yellow-blue team, who threw the towel to the cup in the quarterfinals, has made its championship chances very difficult with the last defeat of Gençlerbirliği in the league. Because they are 5 points behind the leader Beşiktaş, who is missing 1 game, and 3 points behind Galatasaray in the second place. Moreover, it does not give hope to the football fans displayed by the team. The sadder picture on behalf of Fenerbahçe is the money spent on the transfer and the increasing debt every year.
3 SEASONS DELETE TEAM AGAIN
Fenerbahçe, which has its third season under the chairmanship of Ali Koç, has formed a team from scratch every year. 16 players were transferred in the 2018-19 season, 14 in 2019-20, and 22 this season.
Of the 52 players bought in three seasons, only the testimonial and rental fees were paid at least 65 million euros. (some of the rent is not disclosed)
The fees paid to the players are much more than that. Fenerbahçe has not been explaining the money it has paid to the players for a long time. However, when an assessment is made in line with market conditions, it is estimated that a total liability of 150 million euros was entered into for contracts made with 52 players.
225 MILLION EURO
When 65 million euros of testimonials and rentals are included, it is seen that 215 million euros are spent for footballers.
When this figure is added to the total of 10 million Euros given to Phillip Cocu, Erwin Koeman, Ersun Yanal, Erol Bulut, who have been appointed as the coach in the last three seasons, and the sporting directors Damier Comolli and Emre Belözoğlu, the bill is getting bigger: 225 million Euros. (1 billion 700 million TL)
According to the figures announced in January, Fenerbahçe, which has 4 million 719 million liras in debt, will have to make new transfers in June if it cannot be champion this season, and the debt burden will increase.
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Himalaya: Listen. Learn. Grow.
In this Danish fairytale, a king's impatience kills and curses his daughter. Each night she's doomed to rise from her crypt as a murderous ghost who kills the sentries watching over her tomb. But soon a drunken stranger comes to town who proves that faith and persistence can turn a monstrous situation into something beautiful.


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There is no doubt that AI is the future of CRM
But What exactly Is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence is when machines are able to simulate human intelligence and carry out tasks that require it. Even though science fiction often shows AI as robots with human characteristics, but it’s too far fetched. In reality AI surrounds us and we interact with it all the time and sometimes without realizing it. Today’s artificial intelligence is most visible in products like Siri from Apple, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s...well, pretty much everything to self- driving cars. All those products are making our lives a little bit easier even in very common tasks.
Artificial Intelligence combining with CRM
The year 2019 is truly here and CRM with Artificial Intelligence brings amazing benefits it presents for companies worldwide means it’s not going away any time soon. Before thinking about it in the bad way that real people will be replaced in sales and marketing , just let’s take a moment to tell something about it.
For a very long time, businesses have viewed CRM platforms as simply a functional software for customer data. However, in the digital world we now live in, CRM offers so much more, especially for businesses that operate in the service economy. In nowadays CRM combining with artificial intelligence means many new development in the CRM world like text and face recognition, voice functionalities like the voice assistants on smartphone.The use of voice is changing the way we live and work, and integrating it into CRM will only make tasks simpler, allowing for dictation instead of manually typing or to quickly access information through voice commands. AI-powered CRM, such as Salesforce’s Einstein, enables organizations to get information from simple to complex data by using voice commands. The less known, Zia, from Zoho CRM, is a voice assistant that allows users to easily and quickly access information through mobile or desktop applications. Moreover spam filters, sales forecasting, smart searches, and sentimental analysis are all areas that can do a lot more with Artificial Intelligence. Based on these examples there is no doubt that AI is the future of CRM for 2019 and beyond. Here are some statements to prove it :
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Spy Capital Film in final stage
Currently in Post Production - released will be announced in March 2022
By: Westside Studios
The capital city of Spies: Exciting Documentary "Spy Capital Vienna"
In 1987, the world's most famous spy, James Bond, tried to put a stop to a supervillain in the film "The Living Daylights." Central scenes of the film were shot in Vienna at the time. What only very few know: In Austria's capital, a lot of colleagues of the British top spy have been cavorting for many decades. Around 7,000 secret agents are said to be currently and actively working in Vienna.
The documentary film "Spy Capital" is currently being shot in Vienna (Post-Production)
From Colonel Redl to Colonel Martin Moeller.
The film leads in nine gripping espionage cases from the year 1910 to the year 2021. It begins with the well-known case of Colonel Alfred Redl, who worked as a mole of the Russians. The end illustrates the agent exchange at Vienna Airport in 2010 and the new case of arrested and released Colonel Martin Moeller 110 years after Redl. Ten Russian spies operating in the US in exchange for four Western agents jailed in Russia. Among the "shadow men": British-Russian double agent Sergey Skripal.
The makers of the documentary managed to recruit top experts for the film project, which was shot at the original locations - even if the conditions during the corona pandemic were of courses not always ideal. Filmmaker Dewall said that the financing could ultimately be secured without secret meetings in coffee houses, messages in "dead letter-boxes"
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Michael Bearwald has a sweet tooth. But he doesn’t just indulge it; he puts it to work—as owner of Bent Fork Bakery in Highwood, along with wife and co-owner Liz Bearwald.
We’re in Bent Fork before the holidays, and it looks like Santa’s workshop on steroids. Cookies are everywhere—in beautifully arranged baskets, mostly, but also on cookie sheets arranged around the bakery and in the back, which is wall-to-wall filled with antique toys and unique items. (Antique collecting is sort of a hobby for the Bearwalds, who also sell them out of a separate room in their bakery.) There are no elves to be found here—just a small, dedicated staff rolling dough and adding tinsel to baskets, which will be sent out to lucky families and corporate meetings all over the country.
The Bearwalds have been making Christmas cookies for a long time, long before they ever opened the storefront on Sheridan and Waukegan Roads. In fact, the Bearwalds were the proprietors of a bakery in what is now Englewood in the 1920s. So baking is sort of in the blood.
One of the recipes that has been handed down through the ages comes from Michael’s grandfather, whose secretary made a delicious date nut bread around Christmas time. When Michael was a little boy, he would make the date nut bread in little orange juice cartons. Then, with an entrepreneurial spirit, he would go door to door during the holidays, selling the Christmas bread in his hometown of Northbrook.
The only thing that’s changed is that customers now come to him. And the recipe, thanks to careful tinkering by the Bearwalds— adding, among other things, flax seeds—has been rechristened “morning bread” in honor of the workers at the bakery who, I have to assume, eat it to start their mornings. How lucky!
Said Liz, “You got a recipe for our own, homemade staff bread. So there you go!”
And that sweet tooth of Michael’s? Its been carefully calibrated, and also gives the bakery its name. One of the couple’s friends gave it to them right before she passed away. They named it in her honor, as well as Michael’s, who always orders the “bent fork” dessert when they go out to dinner. Call it R&D.
Bent Fork Bakery is located at 335 Waukegan Road in Highwood. Call 847-926-4438 for more information.
Bent Fork Bakery’s Morning Bread
2 tablespoons soft butter
1 tablespoon salt
1 pound pitted and diced dates
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup mashed ripe banana
1 tablespoon flax seed
1 ¾ cup white sugar
2 ½ cups unbleached flour
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups boiling water
Preheat oven to 350. Using your Mixmaster, incorporate butter with sugar and mix until blended, then mix in eggs, vanilla and banana. In a separate bowl, pour boiling water over dates and add baking soda. Into the butter/sugar/egg bowl, add all dry ingredients, adding walnuts last. Mix together on medium low, then add dates and stir well. Pour into 2 8-9” loaf pans. Bake 45-55 minutes. Enjoy one now, and freeze the other!

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Playa Avellanas is 30 minutes drive south from Tamarindo. It's a remote area surrounded by many beautiful beaches, with a few shops and restaurants. Some of the closest beaches are: Playa Negra (World Class Wave, 10mn drive), Playa Lagartillo, Playa Blanca and Playa Junquillal. A little further down, you'll find Playa Marbella (Epic Surfing) and San Juanillo (Beautifull Cove & Local Fishing). To the north, Tamarindo, Playa Grande, Playa Conchal, Flamingo, Portrero and Pirate Bay...
Vida Verde Guesthouse is located 20 minutes of a nice walk from the beach. Avellanas, our favorite of all is a long and white sandy beach that will make any picky traveler happy. Surfers or swimmers, bath tanner and shade lovers, waves and small pools adepts, it has it all!
Guanacaste Province is the driest of Costa Rica with 100% sunshine from November to May and occasional rains from May to October. September and October being the rainiest months of the year but still very nice.