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Once we left the harrowing dooms, Mom and I had planned to spend one more day in Oregon and visit my good friend Tami. But Tami’s man-puppy got sick, and so she had to travel down to where I’m from to see him in the hospital, while I was visiting where she’s from. Before I tell you this story, I think it would be real swell if everyone hit the “love” button so that she will have all the extra heart she needs to be brave and strong while she’s scared.
That left us with a great, big hole in our plans to fill with anything interesting we could find between The End of the World and Reno. “Do you remember that craggy castle-looking mountain on the way up here?” Mom asked. “Let’s go visit that!” “That thing looked like something out of an evil movie,” I said. “I bet it’s awesome!”
Mom kept an eye on the sky as we drove down through Oregon. “Those clouds look pretty thick,” she said. “I sure hope that we can see the cool stuff!” But it seemed like her worrying was for nothing, because when we crossed into California the clouds broke up and we spent half an hour staring out the window at Mt. Shasta. It looked as clear and sharp as the mountain emoji, with just a few whisps of dramatic-looking fuzz for decoration. I thought that the evil castle-mountain wouldn’t look frightening enough if they were laying on a fuzzy bed of Shasta clouds and blue sky. Luckily, once we crossed to the other side of the range, the clouds closed in like the ominous organ music in a monster suspense movie and stuck hard on the mountain above where we left the wagon.
We had to climb the height of a skyscraper up from the road on a steep, rocky trail, but after about half a mile the trail just slithered through the trees along the side of the mountain, and would have been perfect for running if the muscles in our legs hadn’t felt so chapped from the relentless dooms the day before. Instead, we walked through the trees and muppet-fur rocks, never getting friskier than a couple of hops from rock to rock across streams.
Out across the valley we could see where the trees on the mountainside went from dark to dusty white, but then everything disappeared behind the clouds and we could only imagine the monster castles hidden behind them. That is, until we turned a corner and there they were, sticking up into the sky like something sharp and deadly. The clouds hazed and misted dangerously around them, making them look vague and imaginary. Finally the trees opened up, and I looked across a narrow valley to where the mountain was throwing a thin stream of water thousands of feet down the sheer rock face.
A few minutes later, Mom pulled out The Witch and looked confused. “I thought we were supposed to get to the falls, but the map says the route ends here.” “Maybe they’re this way,” I suggested, peeking down a narrow path that kept going straight in the spot where the trail turned back on itself. Mom crept out on the little trail for about a wagon’s length and peeked over the edge of the mountain. I peeked around from behind her. Far, far below we could see water tumbling down the crease in the mountain. “Is that it?” I asked. “I… uh… maybe?” Mom said. “Well how much further does this trail go?” I asked. “Maybe we should keep going?” “This is the Pacific Crest Trail,” Mom explained. “It’s the one that goes all the way to Canada. Or… is it Mexico in this direction? Anyway, it could go on forever and we’d never know if the thing we’re looking for is around the next bend, or if we’d gone too far.” “Oh,” I said, thinking about how good some turkey bacon would taste right about now. I didn’t want to walk so far that I couldn’t make it back to the Covered Wagon where Mom had hidden it in the filing cabinet that doubled as the food fortress when she was inside the gas station without me.
As we walked back down, we met another family coming up the trail behind us. “Is it much further to the falls?” the man asked. “I… uh… well I don’t know if I found the falls…” Mom said, sounding a bit foolish. Maybe she was going to explain further, but then I decided that I needed to bark at the man’s dog and Mom said I had to leave.
Once we had found the Covered Wagon again, I sent Mom into the gas station at the bottom of the road to find more snacks while I tried to figure out how to open the Food Fortress. When she got back she looked annoyed. “I saw the guy from the trail in there,” she said. “They found the falls. I asked him what it looked like and he said that there was a big pool of water at the bottom.” “We didn’t find a big pool of water…” I said, confused. “Yeah, he said it wasn’t long after he met us. We must have turned around right before we got there.” Then I realized something that had been bothering me. “Oh… that must have been the curse,” I said. “What curse?” “A mountain like that must have a curse,” I said. “I couldn’t figure out what it was, but it must be a curse that makes waterfalls disappear.” “You don’t think the curse was that it makes maps inaccurate?” Mom snarked. “Of course not. Getting lost is what you do,” I pointed out. “You do it all the time. You don’t need a curse for that.”
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FIFA, the governing body of world soccer, is no stranger to controversy. Allegations of bribery, corruption and vote-rigging have swirled around the organization for years, many of them recently centered on Qatar and its winning bid for the 2022 World Cup. Jerome Champagne, a French former diplomat and FIFA executive, wants the chance to right the ship.
- Jerome Champagne is running for FIFA president next year.
Mr. Champagne is running for FIFA president next year likely against Sepp Blatter, who has held the position since 1998 and is expected to seek re-election. He spoke to The Wall Street Journal this week about his platform and positions, which include a focus on democratizing the sport and the inclusion of human rights criteria in the World Cup award process.
WSJ: You’ve talked before about wealth disparities between clubs in Europe and the rest of the world, and how that’s negatively affecting the game. What about the increasing power of global investors and billionaire owners like Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour of Manchester City? Should there be curbs on people like this?
Mr. Champagne: “Money is necessary in football. If you want to build an artificial field in Bolivia or eastern Europe to develop the game, the cost is $600,000 to $1 million. If you look at what FIFA makes, over a four-year period it’s $5 billion. You can only mark a third for development. We need more money in football.”
“We need more investors, but we need to make sure all these investments won’t all to go to Europe. Financial fair play is a good idea because nobody can spend more than one earns, but I do believe the financial surplus doesn’t address the real issue. One percent of these clubs make a lot of money and the others are suffering.”
WSJ: You’ve worked in the Middle East before, having advised the Palestine Football Federation and the Palestine Olympic Committee. You also worked for a time at the French embassy in Oman. Is the region ready for a World Cup?
Mr. Champagne: “I think football in the Arab world is very important and I see that possibly we need to do more to produce local players. I know it’s a challenge in countries where the population is not so huge.”
“Do you think the U.S. were ready to have the World Cup in 1994, when [Major League Soccer] was not born? I think we should be very humble, and I do think the world cup in the region would boost the sport in the region. The real issue is not whether the region is ready – of course they’re ready.”
WSJ: Let’s talk about the allegations of corruption surrounding the awarding of the World Cups of 2018 and 2022 to Russia and Qatar. Is it your belief that these votes were clean?
Mr. Champagne: “Innocent until proven guilty. The World Cup should remain untainted. We cannot go with some doubts. We cannot go with allegations. If something is discovered, we will have to take a decision.”
WSJ: Are you saying you’d strip Qatar of the 2022 World Cup if something were found?
Mr. Champagne: “It will depend on whether we find something, what will be found, and whether it influenced the vote. All options are on the table.”
“We need to have institutional reforms. I support change in FIFA statutes that transfers the decision to the Congress [a FIFA body composed of its 209 member associations that elects its powerful Executive Committee]. The decision of hosting the World Cup was made by the Congress until 1966 and after that it was transferred to the Executive Committee. FIFA is a federation of national football associations, created by them and for them and in order to serve them.”
WSJ: A lot of concern has been raised recently about alleged exploitation and poor living conditions for migrant workers in Qatar who will build its World Cup stadiums and the surrounding infrastructure. What’s your stance on this?
Mr. Champagne: “I welcomed [FIFA executive committee member Theo] Zwanziger when he said the World Cup should include human rights in the list of criteria for hosting. Football is about equality. When players are congregating in the locker room there’s no color, creed or sexual orientation. What matters is how you master the ball. It’s a value of equality, it’s a value of opportunity, it’s a value of no discrimination. As much as it is possible democracies are supposed to be based on these things.”
WSJ: So should there be minimum standards for workers in World Cup host countries, like the ability to unionize?
Mr. Champagne: “Yes, proper unions, the right to travel and all these things which are the minimum standards. I welcome what Zwanziger said, which is we need to incorporate these criteria.”
“Before the focus was on workers from the Indian subcontinent, a lot of companies have made deals there. Foreign governments are sending people and building there and suddenly we have FIFA to solve a problem when these countries haven’t done anything? Have you seen any government severing ties because of the workers?”
“I have no problem that FIFA is under the microscope. It’s a reality. But I think FIFA cannot be asked to solve a problem that foreign governments and foreign companies haven’t done anything to solve.”
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Apparently, "transparency" is the new black in restaurant practices, which is great news for the food allergic and food intolerant community.
Last week, in the Orlando Sentinel article about Darden group’s Red Lobster and their new allergen menu roll out (disclosure: I am also quoted in this article), they mentioned the T-word: "After recently disclosing nutritional information for every item on all of our menus, the allergen menu is a natural next step in our commitment to transparency and our belief that guests benefit from access to information about what's on our menu," spokesman Mark Jaronski said in an e-mail."
And now, Domino’s Pizza kinda cool new media campaign as reported by Nation's Restaurant News:
"How many times have you wondered why the products you buy don't look as good in person as they do in TV ads?" said Russell Weiner, Domino's Pizza chief marketing officer. "That's because most of the time companies use artificial techniques to make their products look better than they do when served to you in person." Domino's said the real food photos are part of its "transparency" campaign with customers, which kicked off last year with the introduction of an overhauled pizza in response to negative comments from its guests. "It's a natural progression for us now to take this step," Weiner added. "If we're going to be real and honest about the taste of the product, we want to be as authentic as possible about how it looks."
Keep an eye out for it ("transparency") and let me know where else you see or read it.

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Hey fashionistas! I know it's been a while since my last post. Since I'm always encouraging you guys to live the best and healthiest lives you can possibly live, giving you dietary and fitness advice, one of my favorite post yoga snacks is yogurt. I'll eat yogurt in the morning for breakfast or at some point throughout the day. It's a great source of calcium to support strong bones and teeth. :)
Right now, I've been introduced to the Chobani flips. I love yogurt like this because you get your flavored yogurt with clusters and chunks of your favorite crunchy snacks. The part about the taste is the balance of flavors between the yogurt and the clustered additives. The Chobani Flips come in many assorted flavors depending on what you particularly have a taste for such as sweet, tart, and even spicy flavors. Their are a good variety of flavors to choose from such as Key Lime Crumble, Peanut Butter Dream, to Sriracha Mango.
I find Chobani Flips to be good portable nutrition for lunches or breakfast on the run. Also you don't have to be on the go to enjoy this snack, my new roommate and her mom purchased these while we were at Target, as soon as we got home she ate one of the containers. This shows it's a perfect thing to eat in between meals as well as very filling to curve your appetite a little longer until your next meal.
If you're a calorie counter when it comes to your dietary health, do not fret! There maybe 18g of sugar, but regular amounts of physical activity throughout the day will allow you to burn off calories in no time. Also while you're at it, you're getting 12g of protein! Also according the their website, the Greek yogurt is kosher, vegan, and non-GMO.
So if you get a chance, check out the Chobani flowchart to see all their flavors. My personal favorite is the Peanut Butter Dream because if anyone knows me, I love to put peanut butter on everything. I hope as always that I'm encouraging good lifestyle choices amongst you guys, and of course...
Stay Beautiful <3


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Attorney General William Barr has said crime is down and order is being restored in Chicago as a result of the Justice Department’s Operation Legend. On Wednesday, Barr announced more than 500 people have been arrested in the city since July.
He added many of the arrests were for violent crimes, such as homicides, sexual assault and robbery. Operation Legend was launched in Kansas City this summer following the fatal shooting of 4-year-old Legend Taliferro, whom the initiative is named after.
The operation was expanded to multiple cities and has resulted in more than 2,500 arrests. Roughly 600 people are now facing federal charges.
“We have dedicated hundreds of federal government’s best investigators, analysts, fugitive trackers and other experts to work with our state and local colleagues in law enforcement here in Chicago to help get violent criminals off the streets,” stated Barr. “I’m pleased to report that Operation Legend is working.”
The attorney general has criticized cities that are trying to defund the police. He fears their actions will have devastating consequences.
He concluded his remarks by thanking all law enforcement for their service.


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The once-flourishing Nigerian agriculture was abandoned after the first discoveries of a huge oil windfall, off the Gulf of Guinea in the late 1950s. Today, with its accounts at their lowest and its foreign currency soaring with the fluctuating falls in the price of oil, the country, which has just lost its place as the continent’s leading economic power, no longer has the means to import its rice or palm oil and seeks to get out of the recession by favoring the agricultural sector.
It must be said that the Nigerian economy’s addiction to black gold, the prices of which have now fallen sharply, has ruined the accounts of the State, which derives 70% of its revenues from hydrocarbons. As a result, poverty and unemployment are now the order of the day with a large percentage of the citizens living below $1 per day.
Each year, the rate of unemployment gives an upward jolt as seen in a report by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS). According to this report, Nigeria’s unemployment rate during the fourth quarter of 2020 was 33.3%, an increase from the 27.1% recorded in the second quarter of 2020.
How does Digitization of Agriculture Come in?
Digital solutions can make a decisive contribution to the further development of the agricultural sector, which has to contend with many challenges due to years of neglect.
The Nigerian government sees digitization as the key to a successful transformation of the agricultural sector. Strengthening this sector aims to fight poverty and improve food security.
Focus on climate change and food security
Nigeria has various goals in using and promoting smart agriculture. Above all, the diversification of the economy, which is targeted at guaranteeing food security and the containment of climate change is in the foreground. The effects of climate change have been noticeable for a long time due to increasing desertification and water shortages in the north part of the country, as well as the resulting violent conflicts between nomadic shepherds popular referred to as Fulani herdsmen and farmers.
The conflicts that have been going on for years have led, among other things, to a decline in the production of food such as corn and millet in the affected states. The sustainable and efficient handling of important water and land resources is particularly important and an important driver for the introduction and promotion of corresponding intelligent solutions.
Another driver is the country’s food security, which is affected by climate change and which must be guaranteed. Nigeria is particularly vulnerable because agricultural production is not only threatened by climate change, but Nigeria is highly dependent on food imports. Despite the use of various instruments such as import bans on certain products to stimulate local production, Nigeria cannot be self-sufficient. The government now wants to optimize processes with the help of intelligent solutions and facilitate access to markets and finance to increase productivity along the entire agricultural value chain.
High expectations for the agricultural sector
The Nigerian government is pursuing ambitious goals with its Digital Agriculture Strategy (2020-2030). In the next ten years, agricultural productivity is to be increased by 50 percent, food waste is to be reduced by 50 percent and the effects of climate change are to be reduced by 40 percent. The agricultural sector is expected to create around 10 million additional jobs, especially for the young population. The government assumes that agriculture can increase its contribution to the gross national product by 50 percent to a total of over 30 percent.
Farmers want to increase output
Depending on the size of the company and field of activity as well as the degree of digital maturity and financing options, the requirements and possible uses of digital solutions vary.
The agricultural sector is characterized by small-scale farmers, who make up around 80 percent of the farmers. On average, a farmer has a 3-hectare piece of land. There are few large companies and commercial processors. Only about 8 percent of farmers practice livestock farming, about 3 percent work in fishing, and a little more than 1 percent in forestry.
Most farmers are usually confronted with fundamental challenges, some of which can be solved very well and sometimes only to a limited extent with digital offers. These include the insufficient availability of resources (seeds, fertilizer, etc.), the use of outdated equipment, a lack of specialist knowledge, poor access to markets and financing, inefficient supply chains, high post-harvest losses, and a high dependency on precipitation.
Due to the numerous fundamental challenges, the optimization of inputs and increasing yields are the main focus for smallholders. Above all, digital solutions from precision farming can play a decisive role here, as they digitally process and make information available to the farmer. These include, for example, weather and field data apps, management systems, and platforms for exchanging information and gathering information on topics such as sales opportunities and financing options.
Automatic and semi-automatic solutions are increasingly being used on larger farms with more arable land and commercial processors. These include drones and connected tractors, for example.
Politics relies on digitization
The Digital Agriculture Strategy, the roadmap for the digitization of agriculture, was inspired by the general economic development plan Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) and is an offshoot of the Nigeria Digital Economy Policy and Strategy 2020-2030, the digital roadmap for the whole economy.
The Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the subordinate National Agency for Information technology development (National Information Technology Development Agency – NITDA). NITDA is the competent authority for intelligent agriculture and has the authority to issue regulatory standards and guidelines for the ICT sector.
Due to the tight budget situation, the Nigerian government has only limited resources for targeted financial support. Financial support comes primarily from donors such as USAID and banks such as the African Development Bank, as well as from private foundations such as the Bill Gates Foundation.

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With the holidays around the corner, you may find yourself in the kitchen more, whipping up batches of baked goods and other sorts. You may find your favorite traditional recipes could use an extra boost of health. Baking and cooking are important activities in yoga practice. It is linked to an increase in a person's overall wellbeing. In this week's Universe in the Clouds Wellness Wednesday series Holiday Edition we'll be diving into some CBD/THC infused baking.
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We're drooling over here and eager to relax with these warm and delicious baked holiday cookies.
Anti Anxiety CBD Cookie Recipe:
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter , softened
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar or sub coconut sugar
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- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 20 mg CBD oil , or tincture (optional)
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour (gf optional)
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp dark chocolate chips
- 3 tbsp finely copped Brazil nuts
- 3 tbsp pumpkin seeds
- 1 tbsp flaxseed
- Position rack in center of oven, then preheat to 325F.
- Mix butter with sugar in a medium bowl until creamy. Stir in egg yolk, vanilla and CBD oil. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips, nuts, pumpkin seeds and flaxseeds.
- Divide batter into 4 equal portions. Gently roll each into a ball and arrange, 3 in. apart, on parchment-lined baking sheet. (Cookies will spread as they bake.)
- Bake until cookies are golden around edges, 15 to 18 min. Let cookies stand on sheet for 2 min, then transfer to a rack to cool completely or serve warm.
This recipe yields four cookies, each with about 5 mg of CBD.
These CBD cookies are meant to be consumed almost immediately. (If you plan on storing cookies, place them in resealable bags and clearly label your treats. Keep them out of reach of children and pets.)
Substitute 20 mg CBD oil with a total of 4 mg THC oil, if desired. This will yield four cookies, each with about 1 mg of THC. Experienced users can mix and match the proportions of CBD and THC oils.
Sneak away and have a moment to yourself with these relaxing holiday staple medicinal cookies. Happy Holidays everyone.
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ST-Ericsson, the joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson established last year, announced that Samsung is using two of its chips in its latest dual SIM, dual-standby phones – the Samsung Ch@t 322 and the Samsung E2152.
The ST-Ericsson chips – G4852 and G4906 – are low-cost and power-efficient, and allow two SIM cards to be used in one phone at the same time, “enabling consumers to easily make or receive calls over two different networks or via two different subscriptions.”
The Samsung E2152 is a cheap candybar (under $100) that’s available in some European and Asian countries as of September. The Samsung Ch@t 322 (pictured below) is a QWERTY handset that was launched last month in Russia and should be available soon in other markets (the CIS, China, India, the Middle East and Africa).
I assume other handset makers will choose ST-Ericsson’s chips, too, which means we’ll see more cheap dual SIM handsets soon.
According to Strategy Analytics, about 206 million dual SIM, dual standby phones will be sold around the world in 2014. The number of units sold in 2010 is estimated at 41 million.
Via Press release
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- Samsung Chat 322 dual SIM QWERTY phone announced
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- Samsung Star S5230W and S5233W come with Wi-Fi
- Dual SIM phone sales to double in 2010


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We could not have asked for more from last night’s Made In Venezuela event! It was a fun-filled event for our fashion-loving guests, who got an exclusive look at jewelry of various Venezuelan designers showcased both at Jewel Be Mine and Vava Showroom.
Co-founders of Jewel Be Mine Natalie Mery (left) and Valentina Osuna (right) with Karent Sierra (middle)
We loved sharing these designs with friends and fans alike, and our time was made even better by snacking on delicious ice cream, courtesy of Dolci Peccati Gelato, and sipping on yummy sangria. And what would a Jewel Be Mine event be without something fun going on in our Beauty Corner? Our lovely Braid Bar beautified our guests with braid designs that we didn’t even know were possible! This was courtesy of the amazing Beauty School of America. The braids were the perfect complement to the intricate earrings and handcrafted bracelets featured at our event. Here are some snapshots of the fun:
It’s always a treat for us to host events and share our passion for up-and-coming designers…and ice cream. Yes, we are passionate about ice cream! If you attended the event, we’re dying to know, which designers did you love? If you have any pictures from the event, tag us on Instagram with #iamjeweled or #jewelbemine…we’d love to see your pics!
We’re in the process of planning more fabulous events…stay tuned!


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When the sound of the music at a milonga is truly great, you don’t notice the music, but you dance in a deeper connection with your partner. What causes the music to sound so good in one dance hall and so clangorous in the others?
Dance music is easier to hear and easier to dance to when it is “crisp” rather than “muddy”. Let me define “crisp” as the best and clearest sound quality to which you have access, and “muddy” as somewhere on the spectrum between “crisp” and noise. We spend money on an Apple computer instead of buying a Toshiba, or we buy an external DAC, for the crisp sound quality. When the music is muddy, the rhythm is less clear, more effort is needed to dance on the rhythm, partners may hear the rhythm differently and dance out of sync, and often the music is played uncomfortably loud to help the dancers hear the rhythm. As focus is distracted to hearing the rhythm of the music, the connection between dancers is impacted, which is crucial in tango, where the connection is the object of the dance.
At Salon Canning, at Milonga Cachirulo, with an expert DJ, where connection is paramount, since they dance mainly milonguero style, the sound quality was the best I have heard in any dance hall. It was crisp. It was easily heard without being overly loud. It was comfortable to be in the room with that sound. One felt welcome and coddled.
What causes the sound to be muddy? The quality of the source, the amplification, the cables, the room acoustics and the speaker placement all have an impact, but the biggest, and hardest to solve, is the speakers themselves. So let’s deal with speakers.
- Every speaker is non-linear in its response; at louder sound or higher frequency the speaker cone support will increasingly restrict the movement of the speaker cone, such that the electrical impulse will create less sound than at the center of the cone’s travel. As the speaker cone nears its travel limits, the inaccuracy of its response sounds like distortion.
- A speaker box contains 2 or 3 speakers, and a crossover, which uses an RLC network to separate higher frequencies from the lower frequencies. The higher frequencies are routed to the smaller of the speakers (tweeter or mid-range). The RLC crossover introduces a time delay, however, and the woofer makes its sound before the tweeter does; the speakers are then out of sync.
- The sound bounces off the walls, ceiling, furniture and floor, and this echo arrives at your ear slightly later than the original sound. In the worst cases, you can hear an echo; even when you can’t hear an echo, it reduces the crispness of the sound, which then sounds muddy.
- Multiple speakers generating the same sound emit waves which interfere with each other at some location in the room, and amplify or cancel each other; this effect varies with frequency.
The solution to the non-linearity of a speaker is to play a sound, at a certain frequency and volume, through the speaker, and take note of how loud it is. If sounds of many frequencies and volumes are played over a speaker, and the results recorded, one could make a “profile” of this speaker. When playing music, this profile could be used to adjust the volume to compensate for the speaker’s varying response, note by note. And since one note of music is made up of many frequencies, this profile can be recorded and applied to each frequency, accordingly, within each note. The creation of the “profile” is the key, and applying it to each sound as it is played corrects for the speaker’s deficiencies, such that a $100 speaker can be made to sound like a $1000 speaker.
To carry the process further, each speaker in the system can be played, and the delays at the different frequencies noted, to create a profile which compensates for the crossovers. With overtones distinctly rendered, you can distinguish between the sound of a given note as played on a piano or violin or guitar, which might all sound similar if the sound is muddy.
If you play a short sound, and then listen, you can hear the echo. The echo will vary greatly according to the room acoustics, furniture, people, and speaker locations, so you can create an echo profile for a certain space, under certain conditions. If you then play a sound, and use an echo profile to play the same sound – inverted – after a short delay, the second sound will cancel the echo from the first.
Wave interference can also be profiled, and the profile applied to the music being played, such that each frequency component of each note is volume-adjusted to compensate for points of cancellation or amplification.
This theory was researched thoroughly 40 years ago, and software was developed to apply it. It was explained to me by one of the originators – the manufacturer of the super-fast computers needed to apply these profiles in real time. It was incorporated into upscale home stereo systems which sold for upwards of $30,000 at the time. Later, it was licensed by Pioneer and incorporated into their Elite receivers – and called MCACC (Multi-Channel Acoustic Calibration System). My home stereo is a Pioneer Elite, and it is the best quality sound I have ever heard in a home stereo system (and I have been an audiophile for 60 years). I have tested this theory . . .


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The Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Blood Glucose and Musculoskeletal Pain among Type 2 Diabetic Patients at the North Gaza Healthcare Clinic of the UNRWA
Objective: Exercise training programs have emerged as a useful therapeutic treatment for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Majority of the Western studies and others highlighted the effective role of exercise in T2DM.Therefore, the ultimate objective of this study is to discover the effect of an aerobic exercises on diabetic patient’s type 2blood glucose(HA1c,fasting blood glucose, body weight) and musculoskeletal pain.
Methodology : stratified random sample was taken from three teams at the clinic ,female patients with average ages between 35-70,different weights .Mixed aerobic exercises and therapeutic exercises were given to the patients once weekly .The study continued four months, consisting of 16 patients .Pre-test and post -test exam was done for patients on (Fasting blood glucose -HA1c- weights –pain scale).Psychological ,diet and medication advices was given to the patients.
Results: The results shows improving and difference in the measurements of HA1c, fasting blood glucose, weights of patients, and pain pre –and post intervention.
Physical activity plays an important role in controlling blood glucose besides medication and diet, our finding support the predict intervention of aerobic and therapeutic exercises. These results provide support for encouraging type 2 diabetic individuals who are already exercising at moderate intensity to consider increasing the intensity of their exercise in order to obtain additional benefits in both aerobic fitness and glycemic control.
Recommendations: the study advised to implement aerobic exercise and therapeutic exercises with type 2 diabetic patients and enhance the role of physiotherapy in the non-communicable diseases.
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3- Colberg, S. R., Sigal, R. J., Fernhall, B., Regensteiner, J. G., Blissmer, B. J., Rubin, R. R., ... & Braun, B. (2010). Exercise and type 2 diabetes: the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Diabetes Association: joint position statement. Diabetes care, 33(12), e147-e167.
4- Karjalainen, J. J., Kiviniemi, A. M., Hautala, A. J., Piira, O. P., Lepojärvi, E. S., Perkiömäki, J. S., ... &Tulppo, M. P. (2015). Effects of physical activity and exercise training on cardiovascular risk in coronary artery disease patients with and without type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 38(4), 706-715.
5- Krause, M., Heck, T. G., Bittencourt, A., Scomazzon, S. P., Newsholme, P., Curi, R., &Homem de Bittencourt, P. I. (2015). The chaperone balance hypothesis: the importance of the extracellular to intracellular HSP70 ratio to inflammation-driven type 2 diabetes, the effect of exercise, and the implications for clinical management. Mediators of inflammation, 2015.
6- MacMillan, F., Kirk, A., Mutrie, N., Matthews, L., Robertson, K., & Saunders, D. H. (2014). A systematic review of physical activity and sedentary behavior intervention studies in youth with type 1 diabetes: study characteristics, intervention design, and efficacy. Pediatric diabetes, 15(3), 175-189.
7- Nauck, M. A., Stewart, M. W., Perkins, C., Jones-Leone, A., Yang, F., Perry, C., ... & Rendell, M. (2016). Efficacy and safety of once-weekly GLP-1 receptor agonist albiglutide (HARMONY 2): 52 week primary endpoint results from a randomised, placebo-controlled trial in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus inadequately controlled with diet and exercise. Diabetologia, 59(2), 266-274.
8- Thent, Z. C., Das, S., & Henry, L. J. (2013). Role of exercise in the management of diabetes mellitus: the global scenario. PloS one, 8(11), e80436.
9- Thent, Z. C., Das, S., & Henry, L. J. (2013). Role of exercise in the management of diabetes mellitus: the global scenario. PloS one, 8(11), e80436.
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“Hel—Connor, why is the princess crying like that?”
“Mason, I need your help. I’m taking Julia to the office.”
“By yourself?” he interrupted.
“Yes. I’m stuck in traffic, and she won’t stop screaming. She won’t take the pacifier either.”
“You gave her the pacifier? Does Ellery know this?”
“No, and you’re not going to tell her either. Help me; I don’t know what to do.”
“Do you have any classical music with you?”
“I don’t think so.”
“Look in the diaper bag. There may be a CD in there.”
Reaching in the back, I grabbed a hold of the diaper bag and, as I was bringing it up to the front, items started falling out onto the floor. Julia was still screaming, and I was about to have a nervous breakdown.
“There’s no f**king CD in here!” I screamed into the phone.
“Connor, I’m sorry, but there’s nothing you can do until you get to the office.”
After hanging up, I looked at my phone and had an idea. Still stuck in traffic, I downloaded some classical music onto my phone. Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” was the first song on the list. I hit play and turned the volume up as loud as it would go. I held the phone towards the back and closer to Julia. She didn’t stop crying right away, but the noise was becoming softer. As traffic started moving, Julia fell asleep, and I felt like I could breathe again. Finally, we arrived at Black Enterprises. I pulled into the parking garage and parked in my spot. As I looked behind me, I saw that Julia was still asleep, and I needed her to stay that way. I carefully opened the door and started picking up all the things from the diaper bag that fell on the floor. As I gently unbuckled the car seat, Julia’s eyes opened, and I froze. Grabbing the pacifier that was sitting next to her, I put in her mouth and her eyes slowly closed. I started to sweat at the thought of her screaming bloody murder again.
Stepping off the back elevator that led to my office, I was instantly surrounded by a flock of women who wanted to see Julia. When I walked down the hallway to my office, I realized that Valerie wasn’t sitting at her desk. Shit, her vacation started today, I remembered as I was counting on her to keep an eye on Julia. Opening the door to my office, I set the car seat on my desk, while I gathered some files for the meeting.
“Whoa, Connor! Why is Julia here?” Phil asked in shock.
“Because I didn’t have anyone to watch her, Phil,” I replied with irritation.
“Don’t you have a manny or nanny or whatever?”
“He’s on vacation, and Ellery is working on her paintings.”
“You can’t bring a baby to a meeting,” he said.
Glaring at his stupidity, I calmly said, “Have you forgotten that Black Enterprises is my company and I can do whatever the hell I want? If I want to bring my daughter to the meeting, then I’ll damn well do it!”
Phil sighed and walked out of the office. “The meeting starts in five minutes,” he said.
Julia opened her eyes. I grabbed my files and the car seat and headed to the boardroom.
Upon entering the room with fifteen men and women, all eyes glared at me when I walked in. “Sorry I’m late, but as you can see, I have my daughter with me today and if any one of you has a problem with it, the door is right over there. Are we clear?”
While I stood and looked at the people in the room, there was silence. “Very good. Now let’s proceed.”
As I changed Julia’s diaper, I looked up and saw Ellery standing in the doorway of the nursery with a smile on her face.
“Hey, baby, how long have you been standing there?” I asked.
“Long enough to hear that little conversation the two of you were having.”
“That was a private conversation between me and my daughter.” I smiled.
She walked into the nursery, gave me a kiss, and picked up Julia from the changing table.
“How did it go today with your daddy?” Ellery asked her as she held her in the air.
“Things went fine. I don’t know why you have a hard time believing that I can’t handle my daughter by myself,” I said as I threw the diaper away.
“What’s that, Julia? You screamed all the way to the office, and daddy was having a meltdown?”
Damn it. She must have talked to Mason. “That’s not how it went down, Ellery.”
“That’s not what I heard, Connor.” She grinned at me.
“Why would Mason tell you that I called him?”
“What’s that, Julia? Daddy gave you the pacifier?” She glared at me.
“Can’t I do anything without someone telling you everything?”
“Mason didn’t tell me, well, not technically. I was on the phone with him when you called, and I made him put it on three-way so I could listen.”
“Ellery Rose! That’s an invasion of privacy.”
“Oh, please. I found it amusing and as much as I wanted to come rescue you, I knew you’d figure out what to do.”
“Thank you for the confidence,” I said as I put my hands on her h*ps and softly kissed her on the lips.
“After all, you are the CEO of a billion-dollar company. You’ve dealt with worse. I wasn’t worried that one little baby would be the thing to break you. I’ll admit that I was a little worried about something else.”
“What were you worried about?”
“There’s nothing sexier than a man with a baby, and I could see those vultures at your office taking advantage of that.”
Smiling at her, I took Julia from her arms and laid her down in her crib.
“What are you doing?” Ellery laughed as I picked her up.
“There’s only one vulture I want taking advantage of me, and I want it right now.”
“Connor, what about Julia?”
“She’ll be fine. She’s safe in her crib, and if she starts to cry, then we’ll stop. But, I want to make love to you now. I don’t want to wait another second.”
Before laying her down on the bed, my fingers tugged at the bottom of her shirt, lifting it over her head. As my mouth smashed into hers, she reached her arms back and unhooked her bra, letting it fall to the floor. After my hand cupped her breast and tugged at the hardness of her nipple, I picked her up and she wrapped her legs around me as I laid her gently on the bed. I wanted to devour her as I took her breast in my mouth. Her fingers were quickly unbuttoning my pants as I was unbuttoning hers. I stood up and took them down as fast as I could. I ripped my shirt from me and threw it on the floor as she sat up and took her pants off, throwing them across the room. She looked at me with a seductive smile and laid down on her stomach.
“Christ, Ellery, you have me so hard.”
“Then put that erection to good use, Mr. Black.”
A growl came from the back of my throat, and I swore I almost came right then and there when she said that. I dipped my finger inside her to make sure she was ready for me, and sure enough, she was more than ready. Hovering over her, I slowly pushed myself inside and began thrusting in and out of her when, suddenly, Julia began to cry.
“Don’t you dare stop, Connor!” she exclaimed.
“I won’t, but—”
“There are no ‘buts’! You cannot and will not stop! I’m so close. Oh God. Oh God!” Ellery screamed as her body tightened and released itself, causing me to explode inside her.
We lay there as our hearts raced and we tried to catch our breath. All of a sudden, it was quiet. Ellery turned her head and looked at me.
“Of course she stops crying now.” She laughed.
That’s my daughter. My love, my life, and my little angel.
As I stood in front of my easel, putting the final touches on my fourth painting, I looked out the large window that overlooked the city. So many thoughts ran through my head about the showing at the gallery, Connor’s new Chicago building, and Peyton’s bachelorette party, which was starting tomorrow at ten a.m. Connor and I had a slight argument about it because he wanted Denny to drive us around the city all day and night. I told him no, and he wasn’t happy. Needless to say, I won. I didn’t understand what he was so worried about, because he was having Henry’s bachelor party tomorrow night as well. I heard the door open and, as I turned around, Connor walked in, set his briefcase on the chair, and then wrapped his arms around me.
“Hi, good looking.” I smiled.
“It feels so good to hold you. I missed you, baby,” he said as he buried his face into my neck.
“I missed you too. What’s wrong?”
“It’s just one of those days where if everything could go wrong, it did. Where’s Julia?” he asked.
“She’s at home with Mason.”
He broke our embrace and looked at me. “Now tell me exactly what you’re doing tomorrow for Peyton’s bachelorette party.”
I looked at him with knitted eyebrows. “Why do you want to know?”
“I’m your husband, and I should know what you’re doing.”
I was hoping to get away without having to go over the party detail by detail because he wasn’t going to be happy when he heard what I had planned. This could be the start of a huge fight.
“Please have a seat, Mr. Black, while I explain to you the details of Peyton’s bachelorette party. You will in no way say a word or comment on the upcoming events. There will be no arguments, no harsh words, and I forbid you to become jealous. If you decide you want to start an argument, then you’ll be cut off from sex for a very long time. This is my best friend’s party and I’m putting everything sexy into it before she gets married. It’s what we women do, and if you can’t trust me, your wife, who loves you more than life, then you need to go and see your therapist.”
He sat there, with his legs crossed and his hands folded in his lap, and stared at me as I finished my last sentence. “Okay, and the same goes for you.”
After he said that, I started to get a little worried and a sick feeling crept inside my stomach. But I wasn’t going to let him know that. He didn’t know what I had planned, and I didn’t know what he had planned. We were both going to do our own thing and trust each other. I knew how much he loved me and he knew how much I loved him.
“Okay, fine,” I said as I faked a smile.
He got up from the couch, kissed me, and said he had some plans to confirm. I knew he did it on purpose because it was killing him that he didn’t know what I had planned, so he was trying to get back at me. I told him that I’d be upstairs in a bit after I finished my painting. Connor’s mom and dad were taking care of Julia for the weekend because Mason and Landon were joining the bachelorette party.
The next morning, I awoke before Connor. We had dropped off Julia at his parents’ house last night and then we had sex all over the penthouse, taking advantage of the fact that Julia wasn’t here to interrupt us. While I stood in front of the mirror, I put my blonde hair up in a high ponytail. As I brushed my teeth, Connor stood in the doorway of the bathroom in nothing but his pajama bottoms, with his muscular arms against the doorframe.

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When to shift manual transmission? · Assuming you own or have access to a vehicle with a manual transmission, sit in the driver’s seat and take note of the various features and components while the vehicle is not running. Shift to the gear before the one you are on. If the gear shift is not in neutral, you can fix this by pressing down fully on the clutch and moving the shift into the central (neutral) position. Wait till you get down to 10 or 15 miles per hour or just before the engine starts to lug, then throw in the clutch and shift into second in case you need to accelerate. The car will need a little more gas if reversing uphill or no gas and have the footbrake ready if reversing downhill. Ok first, if it takes a couple years to learn this right, that&39;s OK. However, this is no replacement for the rpm guide listed in the user manual.
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When you take your right foot off the brake, you press the clutch with your left foot, shift down a gear. When do you need to shift gears? Try to even it out to where you don&39;t jerk a lot and have a smooth shift. Driving smoothly in a manual / stick shift car can be a little tricky to get right. If you park facing downhill, leave your car in reverse; if you park facing uphill, leave your car in first.
· Get These Manual Transmission Cars While You Still Can. In general, manual transmissions require shifting when your vehicle reaches about 3,000 rpm, or when the engine seems to be overworking; keep an eye on the tachometer if you’re not sure when to. It doesn’t take that much to learn how to drive a manual transmission, so here&39;s everything you&39;ll need. See more results. Block shifting is where you skip one or. You will have to touch the accelerator pedal to do some rev matching before releasing the clutch. · In addition, while stick shifts have been fading away for years now, some automakers just recently phased out manual transmissions on several models.
Though an automatic is available on the outgoing Evora 400, a six-speed manual is the only choice on the GT. How to use manual shift on automatic car? If you have never drivien a manual and want to know the basics read through our easy guide and find out how to do it. You might have press the gas slightly (especially if oyur car easily stalls).
Remember to put it into neutral before starting the engine, though. Unless you’ve driven a car with a manual gearbox, it’s a sensation you’ll never experience. When driving a manual car, you&39;ll need to learn how to use the clutch properly and also how to shift. As you drive a manual transmission, you naturally develop a RPM ear that helps you know when to shift. You can release the clutch, and at this point, you would want to rev-match by giving the gas a little blip to match the engine speed to the transmission speed of the car. When the shift knob is in this position, the engine and drive wheels are in a disengaged state, so even if you release your foot from the clutch, the car will not go forward or backward.
Once you have the gear you want give it gas and let go of the clutch simultaneously. In a manual transmission, the driver rather than the engine shifts the gears of the car. Driving a car with a manual transmission—also called a stick shift—requires more skill and understanding than operating a vehicle with an automatic transmission.
If your handbrake fails, gravity will struggle to move your car against the gearbox in the opposite direction. · And if you need more incentive to opt for the manual versus the automatic, the manual car&39;s top speed is 190 mph. Read your vehicle&39;s manual prior to driving when do you shift in a manual car using the semi-automatic transmission system. No matter what gear you’re driving in, plan to shift at the 2,500-3,000 RPM range.
If you want to find out how to drive a manual - check out our guide on how to drive an automatic car. This means if you search for a or model, you may find more cars available with a manual gearbox. If you&39;re not careful, you run the risk of.
Say you are driving at 60mph but have to brake and slow the car to 20mph. Driving a manual car is not. Accelerating requires shifting to higher gears. In manual shifting, a common tip is to shift up when within 1,000 rpm of the red line on the tachometer. The proper way to stop is to rely solely on the brakes. The faster the engine turns, or the more RPM, the louder your engine gets. Don’t put the car into neutral right away, though. · In a manual-transmission car, you can save yourself some effort and skip gears on up- and downshifts, but there&39;s a right and a wrong way to do it.
It is not a simple skill and many people aren&39;t even capable of driving a manual transmission at all. Commonly called a “stick shift” (also referred to as a “standard” or a “stick” or a “manual”), the vast majority of cars used to be built with this type of transmission, where the driver uses a clutch pedal and gearshift to guide the car through all its gears. Listen to the engine. TOM: When it&39;s time to move again, push in the clutch, put the car in first gear, and drive away. Calculate the best RPM for shifting using gear ratios and torque curve. Beginners should get in the habit of shifting from first gear directly to second gear, not third. The proper way to slow down your manual transmission-equipped car is to downshift. Move the stick through all the gears starting with 1st through 4th or 5th, and then reverse.
You can tell it&39;s in the neutral position if it feels loose to the touch and you can move it easily from side to side. Typically, manual cars will have three pedals: clutch, brake and accelerator (in that order, left to right). · Shift gears when you’re between 2,500-3,000 RPM. When I first learned to drive, a very long time ago (in a brand new Austin Metro, that’s how long ago it was), I was taught to brake while going down through the gears. In a stick shift vehicle, you will be manually shifting gears to adjust your speed, rather than letting the car do it for you. Shift gears when you’re between 2,500-3,000 RPM. If you keep your foot on the clutch pedal while coasting or waiting for the light to change, you&39;re wearing out an important part of the clutch called the clutch release bearing.
One of the greatest joys of driving is making a perfectly timed shift, dancing on the clutch pedal, and perfectly matching the revs as you race through the gears. Before you start. Here you wouldn&39;t have to change down through the gears but could go from fifth to third, or even to second. This is called block changing. Shifting at a higher RPM provides increases the acceleration of the car, but if the RPM gets too high it can damage the engine or blow up the car. · It&39;s also one of the only mid-engine sports cars you can buy with a stick shift. Raise the clutch to the biting point the same as you would when you drive forward but this time the back of the car will raise up slightly. A driver knows when to shift gears based on the RPM or revolutions per minute of the engine.
· Everything You’ll Need. Ford Fiesta ST. Sometimes these cars are also called five speeds. Push the clutch in, and at the same time shift into neutral. Where appropriate, you can miss a gear.
Always read when do you shift in a manual car your owner&39;s manual for the most accurate instructions on driving your vehicle safely. The automatic: 174 mph. A less common option is the automated manual transmission (AMT). When your car is in gear, the stick shift lever doesn’t move around a lot; if it does, your car is not in any gear, it is in neutral.
More When Do You Shift In A Manual Car videos. Sometimes called a semi. Getting maximum efficiency out of a manual-transmission car has a lot to do with keeping the revs low. Whether it&39;s the timing of the clutch or the gear shift itself there is q. How to Drive a Manual Car: In this instructable I&39;m going to show you how to drive a manual car.
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Watch: 'The National' discusses the day's UN General Assembly agenda in New York
Editor-in-Chief Mina Al-Oraibi is joined by London bureau-chief Damien McElroy
UN meetings are in full swing in New York.
Leaders from around the world are on hand to discuss concrete ways they can move their countries forward and closer to reducing carbon emissions by 45 per cent over the next decade.
Meanwhile, leaders from the Middle East have been holding meetings discussing the impact of the attacks on Aramco.
The National's Editor-in-Chief Mina Al-Oraibi and the paper's London bureau-chief Damien McElroy discuss the day ahead.
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The influence of man on climate began to show itself as early as several thousand years ago. In many areas forests gave way to cultivated land, which resulted in an increase in surface wind speed, and some change of temperature and humidity in the lower boundary layer, as well as a change in the regime of soil moisture, evaporation, and river runoff. Another effect of man's activity upon climate is artificial irrigation, which has been applied in arid regions for many centuries. Irrigation appreciably increases evaporation from the earth's surface, causing temperature decrease and an increase in relative humidity. Observations have shown that the effect of forest felling and irrigation on meteorological conditions is limited only to changes in local climate, i.e., the climate of the regions where pertinent measurements are carried out [Landsberg, 1970].


A year after Jacksonville's 'reorg,' plans for City Hall change still waiting
One city councilman on the efforts: 'Overpromise and under-deliver.'
A year ago Thursday, Jacksonville's City Council approved legislation that Mayor Alvin Brown's office billed as the first step in a complicated two-phase reorganization of city government.
Mention of the second phase has all but vanished since then.
"We should get away from the idea of looking at reorganization as phases," Cleveland Ferguson III, the city's deputy chief administrative officer, said last month. "… That's just a part of our continuous improvement of city government."
Reorganization was pitched as a key to getting the city through rough financial times by finding new efficiencies.
Reshaped city departments were expected to be able to cut their spending by 10 to 15 percent.
The council approved most of Brown's plan to change how departments were organized, but a more fine-grained plan for realizing savings, dubbed Phase 2, was never presented.
And while parts of city government have changed - some with council action - the change to City Hall has been more incremental and incomplete than Brown's plan first suggested.
The distance from that early vision has carried political costs in Brown's relationship with the council.
"Overpromise and under-deliver would probably be a perfect description" of the reorganization efforts, said Councilman Matt Schellenberg, who said Brown still owes details to make a restructuring plan complete.
"He promised us a second layer [of reorganization]. He promised it in the first quarter of this year, I think. As of today, I haven't heard anything."
If details materialized now, it would be a surprise to some.
"At this point, I'm not expecting to see any major changes at all," said council President Bill Bishop. He said he asked the Mayor's Office repeatedly about its reorganizing plans during the first half of 2012, then left the topic alone because the council's attention needed to focus on the 2013 budget.
"That's still a disappointment to me. … This whole reorganization was supposed to be a crowning achievement and, as of yet, it just really hasn't played out," Bishop said. "…I think the Mayor's Office was a little naïve in what they thought they would be able to accomplish."
By summer, reorganization did take a back seat to the city's pension worries, as administrators realized they needed to raise tens of millions of dollars more than expected to meet retirement commitments for this budget year, said Ronnie Belton, the city's chief financial officer.
"We got whacked," Belton said. "… We went from $95 million [in expected police and fire pension costs] to $122 million."
That made the math behind reorganization's predicted cost-cutting harder to follow. Where a row of departments had earlier suggested steps to save $20 million in Phase 2, the city needed more savings than that by Oct. 1 just to stay even.
That need fueled a round of layoffs that carry their own problems.
With about 150 workers cut from city departments, council members say some departments seem hard-pressed to keep up with demand for services.
"There are certain departments, let's say Public Works, where we're seeing a degradation of work," Bishop said. " ... There aren't as many people to do the job, so it takes longer."
The departments' combined spending from Jacksonville's general fund is budgeted to be about $12 million less than for 2012.
But Belton said Brown's office is still trying to curb costs of government in seemingly small and un-dramatic ways that, taken together, can yield big savings that reorganization sought.
"Quietly, day by day, we're doing things that all have to do with this reorg," he said. "… We know now that reorg was a day to day process."
For an example, Ferguson pointed to the city's procurement office and a recent push-back against "escalation" costs in contracts - the way routine inflation edges up everyone's prices year by year. He said the city's procurement chief was recently given directions to challenge more of those increases and negotiate better deals.
"We're looking at cost savings every day," Ferguson said. "We have saved tens of thousands of dollars … probably on a weekly basis over the last six to eight weeks."
When the bond-rating business Fitch issued a AA rating to city bonds last week, it noted that "management believes there remains capacity to achieve savings that would not dramatically impact service."
The Mayor's Office is still discussing steps for a next phase in reorganization, but that's at an "embryonic" stage with no firm timeline, Ferguson said.
The council hasn't really been ready for a next phase anyway, said Councilman Stephen Joost, who was council president when Brown launched his reorganization effort.
He said reshaping city government included measures Brown introduced early this year to create the Downtown Investment Authority, replace the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission with a citywide Office of Economic Development and streamline the city's incentives offers for business expansion.
The incentive changes, the final item, is scheduled for a council vote Tuesday.
"We keep getting way, way, way into the details," he said. "I don't think it's anything on the mayor's part. It's the council trying to get through the details. Then the budget hit [and] that took all the oxygen out of the room."
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This volume primarily contains information on the ancestors of Robert Leet Patterson, who included members of the Williams family, Herron family, Wilson family, and Baird family. Other entries pertain to the establishment of European colonies in North America, United States coinage, and the history of Derry, Ireland.
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Preparation of ITO Sputtering Target by Slurry Casting Forming Atmosphere Sintering
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ITO sputtering target, namely indium tin oxide target, is coated with a transparent and conductive ITO film on a glass substrate or organic film by magnetron sputtering. ITO sputtering target can be prepared by many methods. One of them is the law of sintering in powder casting forming atmosphere.
Air sintering for slurry casting
The technological process of preparing high-density target materials by using slurry casting forming technology and atmosphere sintering technology together: The solid phase composition of slurry is composed of mixed powder with an average particle size of less than 1 μ m, and the slurry can be prepared by adding equal binder. The blank body can be obtained by casting forming. The binder can be removed at a certain temperature and then sintered in a certain pressure pure oxygen atmosphere and a certain temperature. As result, a high density ITO sputtering target is prepared.
Characteristics of air sintering for slurry casting
It is an emerging target preparation method that powder casting technology and atmosphere sintering technology are used together. Slurry casting technology has the advantages of simple equipment, low production cost, and continuous operation. However, powder performance requirements, slurry performance, mold structure, drying conditions, and other factors are rigorous in slurry casting because the change of these factors affects the quality of the target material. The development direction of the target material is high density, high uniformity, and large size in order to achieve these. The method of combining the slurry casting forming technology and the atmosphere sintering technology has obvious advantages. This kind of high-density target can reduce the occurrence of nodulation and micro-arc in the sputtering process.
At present, in the market, the size of ITO sputtering target prepared by slurry casting and sintering at atmospheric pressure can reach more than 2200mm × 2500mm. The relative density of the target material can reach more than 99.5%.
As a sputtering target supplier and manufacturer in China, AEM Deposition provides all kinds of pure metal sputtering targets, alloy sputtering targets, ceramic compound sputtering targets, and other targets. See the following list for details:
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Blackmores Share Price and Company Fundamentals
Last traded: Today at 6:10 AM
Blackmores Limited develops, sells, and markets natural health products for humans and animals in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, China, and internationally. The company offers vitamins, and herbal and mineral nutritional supplements. It also provides products for various conditions related to arthritis, joints, bones, and muscles; brain health; cold, flu, and immunity; digestive health; energy and exercise; essentials; everyday health; and eye health. In addition, the company offers products in the areas of fish and nutritional oils; heart and circulation; infant nutrition; kids health; men's health; multivitamins; nails, hair, and skin; pet health; probiotics; pregnancy and preconception; stress relief and sleep support; weight management; and women's health. It provides its products through retail and online channels. The company was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
|Primary activities||Natural health solutions|
|Industry / Sector||Packaged Foods / Consumer Defensive|
|Full time employees||1200|
|Mailing address||20 Jubilee Avenue Warriewood Sydney NSW 2102 Australia|
|Phone / Fax||61 2 9910 5000 / 61 2 9910 5555|
|Share registry||COMPUTERSHARE INVESTOR SERVICES PTY LIMITED|
Blackmores paid $1.05 dividend and the ex-dividend date was 22 Mar 2022.The dividend payout ratio is 45.05%. The dividend payout ratio is defined as the amout of dividend paid divided by the earnings of the company.BKL dividend payout ratio is less than 70. This is ideal as it gives company room to grow the dividends and also the excess earnings can be invested in company for growth.
BKL's forward dividend amount is $1.26 and the forward dividend yield is 1.63%. A forward dividend yield is the percentage of a company's current stock price that it expects to pay out as dividends over a certain time period, generally 12 months. Forward dividend yields are generally used in circumstances where the yield is predictable based on past instances. If not, trailing yields, which indicate the same value over the previous 12 months, are used.
As of Aug 2022, following are the company executives and directors listed on Blackmores.
|Mr. Alastair Symington M.A.I.C.D.||CEO, MD & Director||47||1.79M|
|Mr. Patrick A. Gibson B.A., BA, CGMA, F.C.M.A., FAICD, FCIS, FCMA, FGIA||Chief Financial Officer|
|Mr. Andrew Fuary||Chief Operations Officer|
|Ms. Dee Henz||Group Financial Controller & Investor Relations Mang.|
|Ms. Helen Mediati||Group Gen. Counsel & Company Sec.||44|
|Raffaele D'Alisa||Director of Communications|
|Eric Jeanmaire||Sales Director|
|Ms. Joanne Smith||Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer|
|Ms. Jane Franks||Chief People Officer|
|Ms. Cecile Cooper BBus, CPA, Dip Inv Rel, GAICD||Chief Governance Officer|
Profitability and management effectiveness
Return on assets
Return on equity
Profitability ratios are a class of financial metrics that are used to assess a business's ability to generate earnings relative to its revenue, operating costs, balance sheet assets, and shareholders' equity over time, using data from a specific point in time.
The return on equity signifies how well the management is running the company in terms of capital management. The ideal return on equity is greater than 10%. The return on equity is calculated as net income divided by total share holders equity.
Valuation and Trading Info
The market capitalization of Blackmores is and its enterprise value is .
The BKL's stocks Beta value is 0.40 making it 60% less volatile compared to ASX market index. Technology stocks and small caps tend to have higher betas than the market benchmark. This indicates that adding the stock to a portfolio will increase the portfolio’s risk, but also increase its expected return. On the other hand utility stocks often have low betas because they tend to move more slowly than market averages.
Blackmores (ASX:BKL) Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is Blackmores's Stock Symbol?
Blackmores trades on ASX under the ticker symbol "BKL".
2. What is Blackmores's stock price today?
One share of BKL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $77.5.
3. How can I contact Blackmores?
Blackmores's mailing address is 20 Jubilee Avenue Warriewood Sydney NSW 2102 Australia. The company can be reached via phone at 61 2 9910 5000.
4. What is Blackmores's official website?
The official website of Blackmores is https://www.blackmores.com.au.
5. Which share registry manages Blackmores's stock?
Blackmores's stock is managed by COMPUTERSHARE INVESTOR SERVICES PTY LIMITED.

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Seven UK companies have been awarded a share of over £1 million to help track debris in space.
- – Currently there are approximately 160 million objects in orbit – mainly debris – which could collide with satellites vital to services we use every day.
- – UK Space Agency and Ministry of Defence sign formal agreement to work together on monitoring threats and hazards in orbit.
Seven pioneering projects which will develop new sensor technology or artificial intelligence to monitor hazardous space debris, have been announced today by the UK Space Agency.
The UK Space Agency and Ministry of Defence have also announced the next step in their joint initiative to enhance the UK’s awareness of events in space.
Estimates of the amount of space debris in orbit vary, from around 900,000 pieces of space junk larger than 1cm to over 160 million orbital objects in total. Only a fraction of this debris can currently be tracked and avoided by working satellites. The UK has a significant opportunity to benefit from the new age of satellite megaconstellations – vast networks made up of hundreds or even thousands of spacecraft – so it is more important than ever to effectively track this debris.
Today’s investments will help bolster the UK’s capabilities to track this space junk and monitor the risks of potentially dangerous collisions with satellites or even the crewed International Space Station.
Projects backed today include Lift Me Off who will develop and test machine learning algorithms to distinguish between satellites and space debris, and Fujitsu who are combining machine learning and quantum inspired processing to improve mission planning to remove debris.
Two companies, Deimos and Northern Space and Security, will develop new optical sensors to track space objects from the UK whilst Andor, based in Northern Ireland, will enhance their astronomy camera to track and map ever smaller sized debris.
D-Orbit UK will use a space-based sensor on their recently launched satellite platform to capture images of space objects and couple this with Passive Bistatic radar techniques developed by the University of Strathclyde.
Finally, new satellite laser ranging technologies will be researched by Lumi Space to precisely track smaller space objects.
Last year there was a close call in which a £100 million spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) had to light up its thrusters to dodge a satellite. A clash between the spacecraft was far from certain, but the trajectories posed enough of a threat that ESA concluded that they need to manoeuvre the spacecraft out of harm’s way.
Business Secretary Alok Sharma said:
Graham Turnock, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency said:
The funding coincides with the signing of a partnership agreement between the Ministry of Defence and UK Space Agency to work together on space domain awareness. This civil and military collaboration aims to bring together data and analysis from defence, civil and commercial space users to better understand what is happening in orbit to ensure the safety and security of UK licensed satellites.
Building on the UK’s current efforts, which has seen the UK Space Agency and RAF analysts working together since 2016, this agreement will further improve our space domain awareness capabilities.
It could also provide opportunities to work alongside global allies, such as the US, to support our continued work to enhance space sustainability and maintain the UK space industry as a global leader.
The UK is already a world-leader in small satellite technology, telecommunications, robotics and Earth observation, and our universities host some of the best minds in the world for space science. Space surveillance and tracking (SST) is a growing international market which space consultants Euroconsult and London Economics forecast could potentially reach over £100 million.


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- Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has vetoed legislation to raise the state's renewable portfolio standard from 20% to 25% by 2020, citing tax increases of up to $196 million under the plan.
- Hogan had been expected to sign the bill, and a recent poll found more than 70% of the state's voters across both parties supported the increased standard.
- According to Hogan, Maryland consumers in 2014 paid more than $104 million for renewable energy credits and the higher standard would impose "an additional burden on ratepayers."
Earlier this month, the prospects for increasing Maryland's renewable portfolio standard to 25% by 2020 looked good.
By emphasizing the economic benefits behind renewable energy programs, the bill's backers built a bipartisan coalition of enviornmentalists and business interests in the state legislature.
The bill passed the House on a 92-43 vote in March and the Senate followed with a 31-14 vote in April. After Gov. Hogan signed a bill to strengthen greenhouse gas reduction goals that month, supporters told Utility Dive they figured he would approve the RPS increase as well.
But Hogan differed in his view of the bill's economic impacts. In a letter vetoing the bill, Hogan said that while the goals were "laudable," he couldn't support the costs.
"This legislation is a tax increase that will be levied upon every single electricity ratepayer in Maryland and, for that reason alone, I cannot allow it to become law," Hogan wrote. He said the measure would raise taxes between $49 million and $196 million by 2020.
This year, Maryland electric suppliers must demonstrate renewable energy credits for 15.9% of their supply, with a goal of 20% by 2022 (including at least 2% solar and no more than 2.5% offshore wind). The new RPS would have targeted 25% by 2020.
"Electricity suppliers and consumers share an obligation to develop a minimum level of renewable resources in the electricity supply portfolio of the state," Hogan said. "While I appreciate the economic benefit of Maryland's growing solar industry, there is also a corresponding cost which is borne by all citizens under House Bill 1106. I believe the state should not add to this burden."
The higher goals would have made Maryland's renewable target the sixth highest nationally, behind Vermont, California, Hawaii, New York, and Connecticut. Hogan noted that under the existing standard, "Maryland retains its status as a national leader in achieving RPS goals."
Supporters of the measure said they would attempt to override Hogan's veto, but that it could still do damage in the short term.
"This veto will likely cause immediate job losses in the solar industry, while temporarily delaying reductions in harmful air, water and climate pollution," the Chesapeake Climate Action Network said in a statement. "It's deeply hypocritical for the governor to say he supports reducing greenhouse gas pollution and now to veto the top policy solution."

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