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In the universe of ergonomic gaming chairs, the spotlight often falls on the innovative realm of footrest design—a feature that goes beyond mere comfort, actively enhancing the user’s office or gaming experience. We will immers you in the world of footrest functionality, comparing the designs of two distinct chairs and exploring how they elevate comfort and practicality in the pursuit of an ergonomic nirvana.
Understanding the Footrest as a Game-Changer
The footrest, often an underestimated component, emerges as a game-changer in the ergonomic landscape. Model A and Model B each introduce unique footrest designs aimed at providing users with a sanctuary for their lower limbs. These footrests are not just about relaxation; they’re a strategic addition designed to enhance the overall gaming or work experience.
Model A: Tailored Comfort at Your Feet
Model A takes a tailored approach to footrest design. Its footrest is seamlessly integrated, offering users a dedicated space to stretch and support their legs during prolonged periods of use. Crafted with ergonomic principles in mind, Model A’s footrest not only promotes healthy blood circulation but also aids in minimizing fatigue, ensuring users remain focused and comfortable throughout their sessions.
The practicality of Model A’s footrest shines through its adjustability. Users can effortlessly modify the footrest’s angle and height, customizing it to match their preferred seating position. This adaptability ensures that whether immersed in an intense gaming session or grinding through work tasks, users can fine-tune the footrest to their unique comfort requirements.
Model B: Versatility and Relaxation in Motion
Model B, on the other hand, introduces a dynamic approach to footrest design. Its retractable footrest unfolds with a smooth, fluid motion, presenting users with an inviting extension to their seating experience. Crafted from high-quality materials, Model B’s footrest not only delivers on comfort but also complements the chair’s aesthetic appeal, contributing to an overall sense of luxury.
What sets Model B apart is the incorporation of additional features into its footrest design. Equipped with built-in massage capabilities and heating elements, Model B’s footrest transforms into a multifunctional tool for relaxation. Users can indulge in a soothing massage or bask in the warmth during colder gaming or working sessions, creating a truly immersive and indulgent experience.
Comparative Analysis: The Intersection of Comfort and Practicality
Comparing the footrests of Model A and Model B reveals distinctive approaches to the intersection of comfort and practicality. Model A stands out for its adjustable precision, allowing users to fine-tune their comfort levels to suit different activities. It prioritizes a tailored, ergonomic experience, ideal for users who seek targeted support during extended sessions.
Conversely, Model B introduces a touch of luxury and versatility with its retractable design and additional features. It transforms the footrest into a realm of relaxation, going beyond traditional comfort to offer users a customizable and indulgent experience. It caters to those who see their gaming or work setup not just as a functional space but as a haven for relaxation and rejuvenation.
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In the world of ergonomic gaming chairs, the footrest emerges as a silent hero, contributing to the overall comfort and functionality of the chair. Whether it’s the customizable precision of Model A or the multifunctional luxury of Model B, each footrest design adds a layer of sophistication to the ergonomic experience. As users navigate the diverse landscape of gaming chairs, understanding the nuances of footrest design becomes pivotal in selecting the chair that aligns with their unique comfort and relaxation needs. Welcome to a realm where footrests aren’t just supports for your legs; they’re gateways to an elevated ergonomic journey.

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While all of us are focusing on the lack of toilet paper and cleaning supplies at the supermarket, some basic foods were becoming more expensive.
It’s inflation in action. Prices of eggs, meat and poultry are up, sometimes way up.
John Alfano is the president of the five-store local chain Doris Italian Market. He says we can blame the COVID-19 pandemic.
“For sure, certain commodities, eggs is probably the one that stands out the most, where prices have really shot up, and availability, beef prices, we’ve noticed a huge increase in beef prices,” said Alfano.
The best example of the price increases? Eggs.
"Oh, 200 to 300%, we used to be $1.99 a dozen for jumbo eggs, we’re over $4 now,” Alfano said, adding that his store is keeping the markup low to help his customers.
Those rising food costs impact businesses further down the food chain.
At Buenos Aires Bakery and Cafe in Pembroke Pines, owner Ryne Morozowski says his profits are down about 60%.
“Prices are going up but they’re stabilizing, it’s a difficult task to keep our costs low, we’re not gouging prices, we haven’t raised any prices,” Morozowski said, adding that so far, he’s managed to keep all of his employees on the job.
The pandemic makes it harder for Morozowski to operate his business in a variety of ways. For example, he buys his milk at wholesale markets which now only allow two gallons per customer.
“Normally, we can go through anywhere from 60 to 80 gallons of milk in a week, so only buying two gallons doesn’t really cut it for us,” said Morozowski.
The big box supermarkets are feeling the same pinch. You will see some price hikes in Publix, for example, and the company sent us a statement saying, “When customers see an increase in pricing, it is because the cost associated with the item has gone up.”
For consumers, though, there is a light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel. The prices of basic commodities appear to be leveling off, and the merchants think soon, they’ll be back to normal.
“We already see it in the poultry market, the beef is still kinda tight, we’re hoping shortly that will ease up as well,” Alfano said.
“We’re thankful for people coming out and just, be safe, people need to stay at home as long as they can unless they have to go get some food,” Morozowski said.
Food for thought, as the pandemic continues to impact the food we eat.

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Russian banks reported record profits last year fuelled by a rush to take out government-subsidised mortgages, as well as a boom in financing to purchase assets being sold by western companies exiting the country.
Despite strict international sanctions intended to isolate the Russian financial system as punishment for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, its banks generated Rbs3.3tn ($37bn) in 2023, up about 16 times from the previous year, the Russian Central Bank (CBR) said in a report published on Tuesday.
The performance came as “somewhat of a surprise”, said Alexander Danilov, the head of the CBR’s banking regulation department. In March the regulator had estimated profits would be more modest and only “exceed Rbs1tn ($11bn)”.
The record profits are another sign of the relative resilience of the Russian economy despite US and European efforts to hurt it via trade restrictions and other punitive measures. On Tuesday the IMF said it now forecast Russia’s economy to grow 2.6 per cent this year, twice as fast as expected in October.
A large part of the country’s banking sector has been cut off from the Swift international interbank payment system and has little or no access to western capital markets as a result of the war in Ukraine.
A 34.5 per cent surge in mortgages was the primary reason for the jump in bank earnings, driven by a generous government stimulus programme designed to galvanise consumer demand. Subsidised mortgages accounted for more than half of the new home loans.
The CBR’s key interest rate stands at 16 per cent following five increases that began in July when the rate was 7.5 per cent. It is nearing the all-time high of 20 per cent reached in the direct aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine.
While general interest rates in the Russian mortgage market are about 14 per cent, subsidised home loans are issued at up to 8 per cent — and 6 per cent for young families — with the difference covered by the state budget.
Russian citizens were rushing to take out mortgages either due to the fear that the programme would not be extended beyond the summer, or to quickly invest devaluing roubles in real estate, the CBR report said.
Policymakers and regulators have expressed concerns that subsidised loans are having a counterproductive effect, overheating house prices instead of making housing more accessible and stimulating demand.
Another contributing factor to the domestic credit boom is lending to those purchasing assets from international companies, which have either been forced to sell due to sanctions or which have been expropriated by the state.
Banks’ aggregate corporate credits portfolio grew by more than 20 per cent in 2023, with Rbs500bn of new loans related to the deals with foreign companies leaving Russia, according to the CBR report.
Lenders’ capital and balance sheets were also flattered by a reduction in risk costs due to the relaxation of regulatory requirements and a significant currency revaluation, the report added.
“The banking sector looks stable and I do not see any red flags at the moment,” said Alexandra Prokopenko, a non-resident fellow at Carnegie Russia Eurasia who previously worked for the CBR. “The sector is accumulating money again. Should the Russian economy face another external shock, it will have buffers that can be deployed — and the government will not have to spend money to bail it out.”
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I can’t really explain my definition of harmony with words. Maybe that is why as a photographer I use images, just like a musician would use sounds.
For me, harmony in photography is to capture a dynamic movement using a single frame, and to enable people to perceive it when they look at the image. I understand harmony as life, and life is always in movement.
Life is movement, but it is not always reduced to physical movement. Evolution or the expansion of consciousness is also a movement, and it keeps us alive. It is a movement towards a better and deeper understanding of our own nature and identity. Being in movement, having a purpose, is feeling alive.
This movement takes place in space, but mostly in time. Without time, without ageing, there is no possible movement.
We need to accept the passing of time if we want to stay alive. We need to accept our age and ageing. Our materialist culture is afraid of death, and many people are obsessed with efforts to “stay young”. But being truly young is to be alive, and thus not to be afraid of the movement of life, which leads us all to death.
What this means is that death is a part of life, not apart from life. Everything that begins must come to an end as Morpheus in the “Matrix” says. Being alive is to accept death, not as the negation of life but as its natural conclusion.
He who fears death will never be truly alive.
He who enjoys life will understand death as part of the harmony of the whole.
The spiral and unceasing movement of these tango dancers is like an ode to life.

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Ono Enters into License Agreement with Bial
News Apr 30, 2013
BIA 9-1067 (development code) (generic name: Opicapone) in Japan, is a long acting COMT (Cathechol-O-Methyl Transferase) inhibitor originated by and currently being developed outside Japan by Bial (Porto, Portugal, CEO: António Portela) for the treatment of symptom reemergence due to levodopa “wearing-off” in Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Under the License Agreement, Ono will pay Bial an upfront fee and development and sales milestones based on the development stage and sales performance of Opicapone.
Opicapone is an adjunct therapy to levodopa preparations (levodopa/carbidopa or levodopa/benserazide) in PD patients. It is well established that levodopa preparations offer the most effective symptomatic treatment of PD. As the disease progresses, PD patients develop “wearing off” phenomenon, where the duration of the effect of levodopa is shortened. To address this “wearing off” phenomenon, adjunctive therapy to levodopa preparations is used to help maintain or boost the effects of levodopa. COMT inhibitors have been widely used to prolong the duration of levodopa effect.
The existing COMT inhibitor in Japan requires multiple administration per day due to its short duration of action and is concomitantly administered with each levodopa preparation.
Phase 3 clinical studies of Opicapone by BIAL are currently ongoing and in clinical studies so far it has demonstrated an increase in the systemic exposure to levodopa and showed a long-lasting effect on COMT inhibition from once daily dosing. Opicapone is expected to improve a dosing convenience, compared to the existing COMT inhibitor in Japan.
Ono will continue to make great efforts to offer a new drug which truly contributes to patients wellbeing and fulfills unmet medical needs.
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Police are looking for a vicious sex attacker who used a gun to force a 15-year-old girl to sodomize him while the girl's mother and 3-year-old cousin were forced to watch. At 3:30 am yesterday, they were accosted near Rockaway Boulevard in Rosedale, Queens, the suspect held a gun to the 3 year old's head and ordered the teen and her mother to remove their clothes then ordered the teen to sodomize him. He is described as a 40 years old black man, dreadlocks, 5' 10, 250 pounds, wearing dark or black jeans. Police are asking anyone with information about the case to call the police tips hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.


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Report on Corrosion in Systems Storing and Dispensing Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD), Hypotheses Investigation
September 5, 2012
Prepared by Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH
Clean Diesel Fuel Alliance
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American Petroleum Institute
1220 L. Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005-4070
Corrosion in Systems Storing and Dispensing Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD), Hypotheses Investigation
Severe and rapid corrosion has been observed in systems storing and dispensing ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) since 2007. In addition, the corrosion is coating the majority of metallic equipment in both the wetted and unwetted portions of ULSD underground storage tanks (USTs). To investigate the problem in an objective manner, multiple stakeholders in the diesel industry, through the Clean Diesel Fuel Alliance, funded this research project. The design included the identification of retail fueling sites and the development of an inspection and sampling protocol to ensure uniform and thorough inspections of USTs. Fuel, water bottoms, vapor, bottom sediments, and scrape samples were taken from six sites: one that was not supposed to have symptoms (but did to a much lesser degree) and five that were to have the severe corrosion. Then, samples from the inspections were analyzed for genetic material and chemical characteristics. These data, in combination with information on additives, have allowed Battelle to draw conclusions with respect to three working hypotheses.
Specifically, the hypotheses are:
1) Aerobic and anaerobic microbes are producing by-products that are establishing a corrosive environment in ULSD systems;
2) Aggressive chemical specie(s) (e.g., acetic acid) present in ULSD systems is(are) facilitating aggressive corrosion; and
3) Additives in the fuel are contributing to the corrosive environment in ULSD systems.
All of the sites inspected contained microbes, although at different abundances. The dominant organism identified from three of the sites, Acetobacter, has characteristics pertinent to the corrosion observed in all of the sites, such as acetic acid production, ethanol utilization, low pH requirements, and oxygen. Although geographically on opposite sides of the country, from different fuel suppliers, and of relatively new construction materials, the presence of the organisms was relatively uniform. The traditionally expected hydrocarbon degrading organisms were found in insignificant abundances. This indicates that the inspected ULSD USTs are selective environments for these specialized, acetic acid producing organisms. Of note from the chemical analyses is that acetic acid was found to be ubiquitous (water bottoms, fuel, vapor, and scrapings) in all of the sites inspected. In addition, ethanol was unexpectedly identified and measured at five of the six sites. Components necessary for the organisms identified to proliferate were analytically determined to be present in the majority of the samples: trace amounts of ethanol, low pH, oxygen, and water were present in the diesel USTs inspected.
Finally, although additives could play a role in the corrosive environment, it is unlikely that they are the primary cause of the observed corrosion.
This project was designed to objectively investigate multiple hypotheses as to why ULSD USTs have been experiencing severe and rapid corrosion. The in-depth site inspections were performed on a limited number of sites and therefore may not be representative all of systems experiencing this phenomenon. Although it cannot be stated with statistical significance, ingredients necessary for the observed and chemically determined corrosion in this environment were present at the inspected sites. The most obvious issues causing this problem were the focus of this research and the development of corrosion at different sites could also be influenced by other factors (environmental, geographical, seasonal, etc.) not discussed in this report. The project final hypothesis for this investigation is that corrosion in systems storing and dispensing ULSD is likely due to the dispersal of acetic acid throughout USTs. It is likely produced by Acetobacter bacteria feeding on low levels of ethanol contamination. Dispersed into the humid vapor space by the higher vapor pressure (0.5 psi compared to 0.1 psi for ULSD) and by disturbances during fuel deliveries, acetic acid is deposited throughout the system. This results in a cycle of wetting and drying of the equipment concentrating the acetic acid on the metallic equipment and corroding it quite severely and rapidly.
The subject of this review is diesel fuel – its performance, properties, refining, and testing. A chapter in the review discusses diesel engines, especially the heavy-duty diesel engines ised in trucks and buses, because the engine and the fuel work together as a system. In addition, because environmental regulations are so important to the industry, the review examines their impact on both fuel and engine.
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Most Emergency Power and Engine Performance failures start in the Fuel Tank and are caused by the inherent instability of fuel.
Fuel degradation is a natural process that causes the formation of sediment, tank sludge and acid. It starts at the refinery and continues until the fuel has been used. Heat, pressure, temperature changes, water and microbial contamination accelerate the fuel breakdown process.
The mandated use of biofuels has caused a dramatic increase in fuel re-polymerization. This is causing rampant filter plugging, fuel injection system failures and a significant reduction of stored fuel shelf life.
Advancements in engine and injection system design demand perfect fuel. However, changes in fuel production methods combined with the use of biofuels are seriously endangering engine performance and the reliability of critical power. Traditionally, the solution has been to periodically replace stored fuel and clean tanks. This is a very expensive and only a partial solution at best.
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An analysis of data center failures shows that focusing reliability efforts on generators is the best way to improve uptime.
Data Center Knowledge Magazine, 7×24: Generators Are Key to Improving Reliability By Rich Miller, November 15, 2011
When it comes to reliability, diesel generators are far and away the most important pieces of equipment in a data center, and regulatory mandates on fuel may be creating new problems that could raise generator failure rates.
Those were the key points made by Steve Fairfax, President of MTechnology, in a provocative keynote presentation Tuesday at the 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference in Phoenix. Fairfax, whose firm does “science risk” consulting work for both vendors and end users, said in-depth analyses of failure rates in data center components and systems yields counter-intuitive results, especially when it comes to maintenance.
“Generators are the most critical systems in the data center,”
said Fairfax, whose studies of failure data found generators played a role in between 45 and 65 percent of outages in data centers with an N+1 configuration (with one spare backup generator).
“Reducing generator failures has more than 10 times the impact of reducing other component rates. This is where you should be focusing your attention – on generators. That’s what will take you down.”
Fairfax identified three key threats to generator reliability:
- fuel quality problems due to old fuel mixing with newer fuel
- quality issues with new Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel and biodiesel fuels
- wear and tear from efforts to start cold generators as quickly as possible
Fuel Tanks and the “Diesel Solera”
Fairfax said the leading problem with generators is not the failure to start, but the failure to run properly once the generator has started. A key factor in the “failure to run” scenario is fuel quality.
Fairfax highlighted a phenomenon he calls the diesel “solera,” a term for the process for aging wine by mixing small amounts of older vintages with newer wine. While the solera process can help improve wine, it can introduce reliability challenges when it occurs in a tank of diesel fuel – which happens when older fuel remains in the bottom of a tank when it is refilled.
“Every year we take some of the diesel fuel out and add fresh fuel,” said Fairfax. “When was the last time you emptied that tank and cleaned it out?”
Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel and BioDiesel
Another factor is the regulatory requirement to use Ultra Low-Sulfur Diesel Fuel (ULSD). While ULSD improves the emissions profile of generators, Fairfax said data center operators should pay close attention to fuel quality and tank conditions. Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel is less stable than older distillate diesel fuels, he said, with a maximum storage time of 6 months. “Stabilizers can extend that, but then you have an interesting chemistry experiment going on in your diesel tank,” said Fairfax, who says this could result in a higher incidence of leaks and accelerated wear on seals.
Fairfax offered three recommendations on managing this challenge:
- Empty and inspect fuel tanks whenever possible.
- Change your generator testing policies. “Test them as you will run them,” said Fairfax, who said tests should run for 24 to 72 hours to simulate an extended utility outage, which will draw down diesel supplies in ways not seen in shorter periods.
- Sample your diesel fuel on a regular basis to track fuel quality.
Biodiesel, which is mandated in several states (including Massachusetts, Washington and New Jersey), poses additional challenges. “Biodiesel has a completely different chemistry” than older diesel fuels, said Fairfax, who said biodiesel can dissolves sediments that could clog filters, and has even worse stability than ULSD.
10-Second Start Times
Fairfax noted the NFPA guide to Emergency Power Supply Systems calls for generators to be able to start in 10 seconds for life safety applications. While not all data centers are required to adhere to this, many follow the NFPA guidelines by default. Farfax said Mtechnology’s research found no basis for the 10-second guidance, which he said places high stress on the generators that can shorten lifespan and impact reliability. The 10-second target requires cold equipment to start with a wide-open throttle, creating the highest possible thermal and mechanical stress.
“You get a huge benefit by reducing stresses. One of the best things you could do to improve the reliability of generators is to increase the start time to 30 seconds.”
Unfortunately, a general consensus about diesel fuel being “good for life” is a common idea, but this belief is a myth. Many have found this out the hard way, especially in electric power generation. In order to avoid untimely shutdowns, it is imperative that a systematic approach be in place to avoid contaminated fuel.
With today’s fuel injection systems operating at such high pressures, utilizing extremely fine tolerances, the days of poor contamination control are over. Today’s injectors are extremely vulnerable, subject to wear and premature failure as diesel fuel ages and is not maintained properly.
Poor fuel maintenance can also lead to clogging and blockage of fuel filters. This can slow or even stop the flow of fuel, leading to engine starvation, injector damage, poor performance, and ultimately engine shutdown.
Unlike on-highway trucks and off-road machinery that consume fuel relatively quickly, diesel gensets store large amounts of fuel for extended periods. Stored diesel fuel can present symptoms of fuel degradation in as little as six months. In some applications, the genset will see very little use, allowing the fuel to age. This increases the formation of sediments and bacteria in the fuel. In these cases especially, it is critical that this energy source be maintained.
A few things to consider when maintaining the integrity of your diesel fuel supply:
- Have fuel samples been taken from three locations (bottom, middle, top) of tank, and evaluated to properly identify fuel quality?
- Have bacterial and fungal growth inhibitors been added to help combat the effects of fuel being stored for extended periods?
- Does the fuel supply have its own filtration? Does it have the ability to filter down to 0.5 microns under pressure, as well as a fuel/ water separator to aid in the effort to ensure clean fuel delivery?
- Has there been a thorough inspection of the fuel tank, including interior video inspection, complete equipment inspection (connections, gauges, monitoring devices) as well as identifying non-compliance issues?
- Are proper contamination control precautions being taken when replenishing fuel supply? It is important to ensure that the fuel that is received is from a reputable source, who also takes the proper precautions to ensure quality fuel delivery.
Utilizing these maintenance measures will contribute to the longevity and performance of your investment. A failure due to neglect should not be an option, and is easy to avoid if the proper procedures are put into place.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Indonesia’s inability to meet the rising energy needs of its businesses, from steelmakers to hotel resorts, threatens to put the brakes on growth in Southeast Asia’s largest economy.
The recent update of Indonesia’s sovereign debt rating by Fitch to investment status should help attract more investors. But analysts and industry watchers fear wasteful subsidies and rampant corruption will reduce crucial investment in the infrastructure needed to supply power.
“Indonesia is not fulfilling its full potential because of these energy and infrastructure problems,” said Erman Rohman, director of economic programs in Indonesia at The Asia Foundation, a San Francisco-headquartered nongovernmental organization.
“A business can’t grow when it is facing blackouts a few times a week,” he said.
Almost half of 13,000 companies surveyed by the foundation in 2010 and 2011 experienced power outages at least three times a week.
Indonesia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and the third-largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), but almost one-third of its citizens have no access to electricity. In outlying regions such as Papua, the figure rises to more than half.
A World Bank report for 2011 ranks Indonesia 161st among 183 countries in the ease of businesses getting reliable electricity supply, down three places from the previous year. In this category, Indonesia has received worse grades than Congo and Albania.
Recurring blackouts this year have forced hotels on the resort island of Bali to rely on diesel generators for back-up power, which costs more than regular power supplies.
“The situation has improved, but there are still blackouts from time to time. We have to use diesel which is more expensive and adds to our costs,” said a senior executive at a Bali hotel.
Due to poor transport links in the archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, movement of coal is hampered by lace of railroads. A lack of pipelines is on reason why only a small percentage of Indonesia’s rich natural gas deposits are being utilized to power industries at home.
“Indonesia needs to improve access to energy for the smaller islands to diversify the sources of growth now concentrated in greater Jakarta and Java,” said Ferry Wong, head of research at Citigroup Securities Indonesia.
Indonesia’s GDP is expected to grow by 6.3 percent next year, according to the country’s central bank, while electricity demand is forecast to rise a robust 6.2 percent, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) estimates.
Heavy spending on subsidies and problems with land acquisition have held back investment in infrastructure.
Analysts say that with Indonesia growing at more than 6 percent a year, it needs to spend the equivalent of 5 percent of its gross domestic product a year to keep up with growing infrastructure needs.
While a newly-passed land acquisition law makes it easier for developers to secure land to build ports and power stations, there is political and public opposition to tackling subsidies.
The country’s utilities sell power to end-users at subsidized rates of $70-$75 a barrel of crude oil, well below market prices of $95-$105 a barrel, said Citigroup’s Wong.
“If oil prices continue to rise, this will be a risk to Indonesia’s economy because it puts a strain on the budget.”
Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said on December 13 that this year’s fuel subsidy bill will total 168 trillion rupiah ($18.5 billion), up from the budgeted figure of 129.7 trillion rupiah because of increased demand and higher-than-expected average oil prices.
The government plans to remove fuel subsidies in April for private cars in Jakarta and Bali, but the selective nature of the cuts is likely to limit their effectiveness.
“Motorcycles are exempt from the subsidy (cut), and there are roughly 10 times more motorcycles than cars being sold in Indonesia,” said Martin Adams, an EIU energy analyst in Hong Kong.
State utility PLN cannot cover costs at current tariffs, which the government has been reluctant to raise, capping the power firm’s ability to fund investment, analysts said.
There are plans to raise electricity tariffs in 2012 by an average 10 percent on average for most customers, which would cut an estimated $1.1 billion from the state subsidy bill. But there is no certainty rates will be raised. Early this year, the government proposed a 15 percent hike, but the legislature thwarted the plan.
Underinvestment at the lower levels of government is also a problem, with only 14 percent of local government budgets allocated to infrastructure, compared with 60 percent for personnel, a study by the Asia Foundation shows.
“For road and bridge programs, the average funding allocated was only… around a quarter of the amount needed for periodic maintenance alone,” said the report, “Local Economic Governance 2011”, based on a survey of almost 13,000 businesses conducted for the foundation by Nielsen Indonesia.
Corruption is also a problem, and one that has been exacerbated by Indonesia’s decentralization after longtime strongman Suharto resigned in 1998. Unlike during his tenure, officials in local governments far from Jakarta have the power to permit or block projects, and some provincial civil servants have grabbed the chance to enrich themselves.
“The situation is worse than I had thought, people are paying up to $10,000 to $15,000 just to get these jobs, although their annual pay is just 10 percent of that,” said Rahman.
Bribery also puts off foreign investors at a time when Indonesia is seeking $100 billion of private investment to overhaul its creaking transport network.
DECLINING GAS OUTPUT
In recent years, Indonesia has shifted away from using oil towards gas to generate power as rising crude oil prices boosted subsidy bills and the country became a net oil importer in 2004.
PLN plans to cut oil’s share of the energy mix to 3 percent by 2013, from about 20 percent now. Analysts estimate that producing power from oil-based fuels costs it $15 per million British thermal units (mmbtu), but gas-fired power plants would only cost $12 per mmbtu.
But the lack of gas supply has prevented companies from taking advantage of the lower-cist fuel source, since producers earn more from higher-priced exports.
Gas shortages forced Krakatau Steel, Indonesia’s largest steelmaker, to shelve plans to expand production capacity, President Director Fatwa Bujang said this month.
In response to the shortage, the government is July freed private firms to import natural gas for the first time.
Indonesia will export 362 LNG cargoes this year, down 15 percent from 2010. It is building LNG import terminals with nearly 10 millions tons of capacity to meet demand.
The PLN, where Nur Pamudji was appointed as director last month, wants to boost the national electrification ration to more than 73 percent next year, from below 69 percent now.
To reduce blackouts, the utility plans to add 10,000 megawatts (MW) of generation capacity by 2014 to the existing 30,000 MW.
But even if realized, Indonesia’s energy woes could still cap its economic growth in the short term.
“The government realizes that it needs to remove subsidies, improve the business environment, install more generation capacity and extend the grid, but these are all long term undertakings and we can expect only gradual movement,” said EIU’s Adams.
(Additional reporting by Reza Thaher; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Simon Webb)
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The treatment of carbon based fuels with AFC-705 has a significant effect on trace sulfur combustion chemistry. In diesel engines, gasoline engines and open flame applications (boilers) the use of AFC-705 treated fuel will significantly reduce sulfur oxide (SOx) emissions, and related sulfur acid corrosion problems.
AFC-705 does not react with the sulfur in the fuel nor does AFC-705 have any effect on the sulfur content of the fuel. AFC-705 does not effect fuel specifications at recommended treatment levels. Fuel containing one percent sulfur prior to AFC-705 treatment will still contain one percent sulfur after AFC-705 treatment. However, the use of AFC-705 will determine where the sulfur ends up and what its chemical state will be after combustion.
The combustion of sulfur in fuels invariably leads to the formation of sulfur dioxide S + O2 ® SO2 (1) and sometimes sulfur trioxide 2SO2 + O2 ® 2SO3 (2). Sulfur trioxide formation is catalyzed by vanadium pentoxide (V5+). This is the most stable oxidation product of vanadium, when vanadium containing fuels are burned in air 4V + 5O2 ® 2V2O5 (3). The catalytic effect is thought to relate to the reversible dissociation 2V2O5 ® 2V2O4 + O2 (4) at temperatures between 700O-1125O C. The sulfur trioxide reacts with water vapor to form sulfuric acid SO3 + H2O ® H2SO4 (5) which is primarily responsible for acid corrosion problems in combustion equipment.
AFC-705 affects the production of gaseous SOX emissions. It enhances the formation of CO2 during the combustion phase thus limiting the amount of SOX produced during the exhaust phase. The increased production of CO2 reduces the amount of excess O2 available for other reactions. The difference in the amount of CO2 produced during the combustion and the exhaust phases correlates to a temperature differential. This temperature differential results in lower exhaust temperatures and shorter heat transfer times.
Minerals contained in fuel are generally oxidized to metal oxides during the combustion process. When vanadium is oxidized to V5+the production of sulfur trioxide increases due to reversible dissociation, and sulfuric acid is ultimately formed. The use of AFC-705 inhibits the formation and reversible dissociation of V5+ during the exhaust phase by limiting the available O2, high temperatures, and time periods needed for these reactions to occur.
This greatly reduces the catalytic effect V5+ has on the formation of Sulfur trioxide and thus the formation of sulfuric acid. By reducing the catalytic effect of vanadium, AFC-705 promotes the combination of SOX compounds with other minerals in the fuel such as Na and Ni. This leads to the formation of stable mineral salts and mixed mineral sulfates found in the clinker or fly ash.
In this manner, AFC-705 decreases the gaseous sulfur emissions by increasing the particulate portion of the combustion residue products. AFC-705 treated fuels will therefore show slightly higher sulfate content in the ash than untreated fuel.
What do all of these true stories have in common? Poor fuel quality. In all of these cases, poor fuel quality shut down emergency standby power generators exactly when they were being counted on in the middle of a disaster. And the number of hurricanes, wildfires, blackouts, floods, earthquakes and the like in recent years has added significantly to the lore, though most are closely guarded stories and a PR person’s nightmare.
The frightful truth is that many emergency generators—an organization’s last line of defense in a catastrophe— will not perform as expected if and when that time comes. This article will share some insights into the issue to hopefully raise the percentage of emergency backup power systems that will operate as planned when needed.
At its essence, poor fuel quality is about what ends up in fuel that doesn’t burn well, and the complete story will surprise even veteran operations managers. Diesel fuel contaminants should be grouped into the following categories: Water; Microbial Growths; Inorganic Particulate Matter; and naturally forming Fuel Breakdown By- Products. The origins of them all can be traced to either a site-specific problem or in a fuel delivery from upstream in the supply chain.
Water is a widely acknowledged concern, but it need not be a problem as long as some manner of routine fuel maintenance is performed. If a tank is well-designed and is in good condition, with no means of water leaking in at the site, then only small amounts of water should be present. Water appears quite normally in most tanks through condensation.
This water can be removed easily through the use of a wide range of solutions that include absorptive eliminators and filters, coalescers, centrifuges and the like. All mobile tank cleaning systems used by tank cleaning services and permanently installed conditioning and filtration systems utilize one or more of these approaches and are effective at removal of normal levels of water content. A quality multi-spectrum additive often includes an emulsifier which can also pass small quantities through the system.
Microbial contamination (bacterial and fungal growth) is the most frequently mistaken problem. It only exists where there is water for it to grow in, so if you are diligent in carrying out a fuel maintenance program, you should never see the problem. Where it does exist in a long-ignored tank, microbes feed on the fuel, multiply and excrete waste products, all of which will end up clotting in your filters. These by-products are highly corrosive and pose a threat to many tanks.
The problem is that clogged filters are widely misinterpreted as containing microbial products, when they actually most often are deteriorated fuel by-products (sludge). This leads to endless streams of toxic biocides being needlessly dumped into tanks, which, when mistakenly used, make the problem worse. Often the result is diesel fuel now so spoiled that it needs to be disposed of and replaced, a costly and unnecessary consequence with serious environmental impacts. Not to mention that it may have sidelined the generator for several days. Again, take care of the water, and you’ll never need a biocide.
Inorganic Particulate Matter
Other particulate pollutants in diesel fuel are mostly dirt, rust and other metallic particles that find their way into the fuel either during the many tank transfers that occur in the supply chain or from a corroding tank somewhere along the line. It is infrequent that the level of particulate matter is very high and is generally welltreated through conventional filtration that accompanies a standard tank cleaning system or onboard permanent tank-side solutions.
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Fuel Breakdown By-Products
Least understood is the natural process whereby organic fuels break down. Diesel and other fuels are naturally unstable, and actually less stable today due to modern refining techniques (catalytic cracking) that are designed to produce more fuel per barrel. Most major oil companies have documented on their Web sites that 6 to 12 months is the useful shelf life for their products, but the deterioration process starts as soon as the products leave the refinery.
This fuel breakdown is a process where agglomerating hydrocarbon chains bond together to create larger clusters. These larger compounds, present even in what visibly appears as clear and bright fuel, do not burn as efficiently. This incomplete combustion robs fuel economy, leaves carbon deposits on injectors and raises emissions, often with visible smoke and soot.
As the process continues, with even larger compounds being formed, the fuel begins to appear “dirty.” Eventually it progresses to forming sludge that falls to the bottom of the tank. This clotting fuel is the material that is commonly clogging fuel filters and shutting down generators. Often it may happen when a tank gets low and new fuel is poured in, agitating the sludge and dispersing throughout the fuel, releasing the threat that had been lying dormant. Or maybe the new fuel delivery came from such an agitated tank upstream in the supply line.
The Bottom of the Barrel
Water and tank sludge, of course, drop to the bottom of the tank, and a too-often overlooked but critical concern is that any tank cleaning be done properly by getting to the bottom of the tank. Access is frequently a limiting factor, but an inspection port can be installed to alleviate this problem. Similarly, when installing a recirculating conditioning and filtration system, the pickup tube into the tank is optimized when near the bottom (not using the fuel system’s draw, which is several inches higher to avoid the very substances you wish to collect).
Take the Test
Any generator that is in a critical application ought to be a candidate for a routine fuel testing service, probably on a quarterly basis. All the talk about fuel quality means little if you don’t have a benchmark to measure from. Be sure to get your samples from both a midpoint and the bottom of the tank.
Put Fuel Maintenance into the Vocabulary
Too often, fuel condition is overlooked, mostly out of ignorance of the issue. When that happens, the extreme of fuel removal, replacement, and possibly extensive tank cleaning or even tank replacement, is the cost. That is, if you’re lucky and didn’t have a generator failure in a real emergency situation. Only the business in question can determine the cost in the case of a total failure. But, generally, they wouldn’t have a generator if total power loss was an acceptable outcome.
It is crucial that disaster-planning professionals become aware of the need for a fuel maintenance routine to assure the survival of critical systems in the event of an emergency. PEI members are perfectly positioned to advance this educational effort. It can also represent a value-add service, as well as potential source of revenue and profits. Perhaps most important, you will be participating in raising overall organizational survivability and reducing the human suffering and loss of life in the midst of the worst of catastrophes.


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Google today launched Android Pie, the latest major upgrade for the company’s mobile OS. With Android Pie, Google introduced a new gesture-based navigation system inspired by Apple’s iPhone X that is supposed to offer a much more intuitive navigation experience when compared to the on-screen buttons and other physical solutions.
While the gesture-based navigation system on Android Pie is pretty cool, they have been quite controversial. Not a lot of beta testers have been a huge fan of them, and it all seems pretty janky. I haven’t tried Android Pie personally, but it looks like quite a mess when compared to what Apple did with the iPhone X. Either way, Google is taking a big step with the gesture-based navigation system with its upcoming Pixel phones. The company is apparently ditching on-screen navigation and physical navigation buttons on the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL in favour of the new gesture-based navigation system.
“While Pixel devices that are updated from Oreo will still see their three-button navigation by default with an option to switch to gestures, future Google phones (and any other manufacturer that wants it) will ship with only gesture navigation,” EK Chung, a UX manager for Android at Google, told Android Central. It’s not clear whether the upcoming Pixel devices will include an option to switch to the classic on-screen navigation system, though that almost seeems mandatory unless Google improves the gesture-based navigation system before the Pixel 3’s release.
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So when exactly is the Pixel 3 coming out? Like the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, Google will be reportedly announcing the Pixel 3 on October 4. That’s not surprising as the company usually launches new products in October. We have already seen how (hideous) the device looks, and it’s going to be an iterative upgrade for the Pixel line from the looks of things. Pixel phones aren’t the only things we will be looking forward too, though, as Google is expected to announce other hardware at the event.

I'm sure gestures can be useful but to suggest they're more intuitive than buttons is rather absurd given the thousands of times that people have pushed buttons in their life. Not to mention that any action that lacks a visual "hint" always takes users longer to learn.

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I think you meant to reply to nbplopes.

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Sometimes the reason behind down-votes are incomprehensible.

In reply to nbplopes:

Sure, you can learn to use gestures, but that doesn't make them more intuitive than buttons which people have long experience using. And the importance of visual cues is something that is well understood in UI design, not something I made up for this discussion.

I have no idea what your last two paragraphs are trying to say. Perhaps some examples would make it clearer.


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This is a follow-up meeting to the September 25 public hearing. Because the public hearing process closed at the conclusion of the September 25 meeting, no public comment or additional evidence will be received from the public. The commission will review and discuss all evidence relative to the following agenda items:
1) Application 17-010 for consideration of a Zone Map Amendment for 239 Grandview Avenue (aka Kent Building) to change the zoning map from T5 Zone to a T5.5 Zone.
A T5 Zone allows for up to 24 dwelling units per acre at this location. The proposed T5.5 Zone allows for an unlimited number of dwelling units per acre at this location. The applicant is seeking to develop approximately 66 dwelling units on a 0.9070 acre site that is currently limited to 22 dwelling units.
Request: “I am seeking a zoning map amendment from T5 zone to T5.5 zone for the property/parcel located at 239 Grandview Avenue in Bellevue. This change in the zoning map will all for the building to be converted into a higher and better use by allowing greater density. This makes it conducive for selling to a developer who is willing to convert my building into market rate housing. The sale and subsequent conversion will be a win for both me and the citizens of Bellevue”.
Owner/Applicant: David S. Hosea, Ft. Thomas, KY.
Developer: Orleans Development, LLC, Covington, KY.
Please note that the public hearing portion of this hearing was closed at the conclusion of the September 25 public hearing. The purpose of this meeting is for the commission to review and discuss all evidence previously presented and to come to a disposition on the matter.
For more information, please contact City of Bellevue, Zoning Administrator at (859) 431-8866.
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Unlike other posts on my site, which are mainly about places that you must visit, this one will be different today. It won’t be about the beautiful place you have to see or cannot miss, but about what remained here after it was totally destroyed and devastated last week by dumb human activity powered by even dumber EU funding finances programme.
I would not write anything about this if I would not have decided to get back to my home country last year after living in Prague for the last 8 years. But I did, I bought a flat in my hometown Kosice (in a district where I have never been before actually) and I found one beautiful place located just a few meters from where my new flat was located.
Slovakia is devastating nature like developing country
Slovakia Destroys Nature
Well, it was nothing really special to boast with, nothing like the high mountain range, or peaks with breathtaking views, huge waterfalls, turquoise sea, or dense forest. It was just a great amount of trees that grew up on the banks of the river Hornad.
They were growing here 25 long years until they grew up into a real jungle that was full of birds, fish and life. Before, I have never ever seen such big birds as a heron in the wild. And I have never thought I would see them from my flat’s windows.
Slovakia destroys nature – a heron on a tree which was destroyed as well (sorry for bad photo quality, but my photo camera has a limited zoom). It’s how I used to see them from my window.
During the nights, I was listening to the sounds that are more typical of the jungle or rainforest, rather than of the cities, or urban suburbs. During the days, I was watching big heron flying from one tree to another.
And during the hot weather we all were well protected by the shadow of the trees, while walking through the cold waters of the river. Oh, how hot last summer was! I can’t even imagine such hot summer without those trees!
Slovakia destroys nature – hiding in the shadow of the trees
It was a place where thousands of people were spending their free time every week, relaxing, walking, fishing, or just sitting and talking, enjoying their lives at the river.
But now… it’s gone! The government decided it is better to earn ridiculous €3500,- and cut 1300 live trees rather than leaving it as it was… for free… for people… for animals… for “useless” nature… Unfortunately, this is by far not the only case in Slovakia that is threatened the same way, all the rivers are the same.
Minister of environment of the Slovak Republic (Peter Žiga) has never cared about nature. He studied at the University of Economics in Bratislava, specialization in Business Management and MONEY is what he was dealing with only. It is very interesting (just coincidence?) that he was a Director and CEO of a private company which main business was a timber trade. Since he is Minister, this company is enjoying their best times! Since he is Minister, Slovak nature is having its worst time ever!
Slovakia destroys nature – what remained
I don’t think that Slovakia has something to offer apart from its nature. It is unique and used to be unspoilt.
But now it is crying like never before, it is crying like rainforests in Madagascar and other developing countries, that are cut because of palm and rapeseed oil, which has no value at all.
Slovakia destroys nature – this is how it looked like before
Sorry to bother you, but our stupid government and useless Slovak Environment Centre forced me to write the first negative post on my blog.
I hope that at least few of them will read this and then wake up!
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Even you can help to force our politicians to do some changes in the Act and stop destroying OUR nature. Just fill in the form and send the details to sign the online petition here: http://www.ekoforum.sk/peticia/zive-rieky (in Slovak). For more information, related videos and pictures, visit my Facebook page about this human stupidity.
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Matthew Lillard is an American based actor, director, producer, and voice actor, who is best recognized for his characters played as Stu Macher within Scream, as Stevo within SLC Punk!, Chip within Serial Mom and as Shaggy Rogers within the live-action Scooby-Doo.
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Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists… people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it’s mostly about bottom line and making money.Matthew Lillard
Somehow, someway, you get kind of labeled this guy who was in a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie too many. And Freddie Prinze Jr. – it’s not his fault, either – it’s just these are the things that happen. I’m not a George Clooney; I don’t have a ton of opportunities.Matthew Lillard
Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They’re just going by the wayside. They’re just cutting through that caliber of acting.Matthew Lillard
I always think that I’m the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.Matthew Lillard
Thing is, I’m a funny actor, but I’m not good at being funny. I’m going to ramble for a second: I’m an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.Matthew Lillard

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Cropland abandonment occurring both nationally and globally threatens food security and environmental sustainability. We explore whether agricultural cooperatives help reduce cropland abandonment, using data collected from 5,593 households in 229 villages in China. By estimating a two-stage residual inclusion approach, we provide evidence that the existence of agricultural cooperatives in rural villages reduces the probability of cropland abandonment and the abandonment ratio. Further analysis shows that cooperative effects on cropland abandonment and the abandonment ratio are heterogeneous across geographic locations.... [Show full abstract]
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The companies announced the $26 billion deal in November and on June 3 received the green light from the Department of Justice, which said it decided to close its investigation of the planned acquisition. The day after the DOJ’s announcement, both Schwab and TD Ameritrade’s shareholders approved the acquisition as well.
The Federal Reserve Board also announced ysterday that it will allow The Toronto-Dominion Bank of Canada and its U.S. subsidiary, TD Group US Holdings, to take a minority, non-controlling stake in Schwab in connection with Schwab’s planned acquisition of TD Ameritrade.
The Fed’s approval means that “all necessary approvals of the proposed acquisition have now been received,” Schwab says.
The companies expect to spend 18 to 36 months on integration following the close of the deal, Schwab says.
“Until then, Schwab and TD Ameritrade will continue to operate as separate broker-dealers, and clients of the two firms can continue to do business with their respective companies as they do today and can expect the same level of great service,” the company says.
Schwab served 14.3 million active brokerage accounts, 1.7 million corporate retirement plan participants, 1.5 million banking accounts and $4.5 trillion in client assets as of the end of August, according to the company.
TD Ameritrade has around 13 million client accounts representing about $1.5 trillion in assets, the company says. TD Ameritrade also offers custodial services to over 7,000 RIAs, according to the company.
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text: It has been recognized widely that sequestration of atmospheric CO2 by terrestrial ecosystems can contribute significantly to the stabilization of atmospheric CO2. The carbon sequestration potential of crop lands should be considered as a modest but non-negligible contribution to climate change mitigation. Salinity is one of the most important environmental factors limiting crop production of marginal agricultural soils in many parts of the world. In our research, several physiological analyses were performed in atmospheric CO2, in daylight, both in normal conditions and with salinity (40 mm NaCl). Crops like melon or pepper showed significantly lower photosynthetic rates when they were grown in saline conditions. Also, the total chlorophyll content and carbon percentage were lower in the salinity-treated plants of these species. For lettuce, treated plants showed a significant decrease in photosynthetic rates and chlorophyll content, but there were no differences in carbon content. On the other hand, there were no significant differences in the values of total chlorophyll content, photosynthetic rate, or carbon content for tomato and watermelon plants when control and NaCl-treated plants were compared. The mineral composition data showed greater increases of sodium in both roots and leaves of melon and pepper when plants were treated with NaCl compared with the rest of the species. In conclusion, tomato and watermelon seem to be more efficient in CO2 fixation than the other crops of this experiment and this seems to be related to their greater salinity tolerance.

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AMS 3095A Qualifications for AkzoNobel
New AkzoNobel Base Coat/Clear Coat systems have qualified to Aerospace Material Specification 3095A (AMS 3095A). The qualified systems use water based Metaflex SP 1050 for surface preparation. Metaflex SP 1050 pretreatment promotes superior adhesion, system durability and outstanding performance while providing easy strip-ability within the typical MRO requirements. The environmentally friendly surface pretreatment reduces paint preparation time and costs. The new systems eliminate mixed...


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Charley’s photography focuses on capturing moments, and the essence of the person in those moments.
His work redefines wedding photography and has been described as Fine Art.
Each wedding is unique and my primary aim is to capture your story –
the smiles, the tears, the kisses… all of those once-in-a-lifetime memories.
I look forward to being a part of your day and documenting every
one of your special moments.
I know, I know. Weddings are very expensive, but the most important things you leave with are your spouse and the memories you shared with your loved ones during that day.
While you will share your life with your spouse, quality photos will help you remember the emotions and love you feel as your partnership grows.
So even If you decide not to hire me, I strongly encourage you to hire someone who is experienced and talented at photographing weddings.
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text: SciSoc makes its debut to the University's Interfaculty Sport Program on Wednesday (27th March) with Tennis! For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, the Interfaculty Sports Program consists of weekly sports competitions between teams from each faculty of the university that are mostly friendly and casual. Who represents your awesome (read: superior) faculty? You guys, of course! We needs YOU to invoke your inner avid athlete, omnipotent Olympian or even your resident Sporty Spice and lead the Science Faculty to victory! Come along on Wednesday to Manning Tennis Courts to watch, support or even compete in the name of SCIENCE! Each round consists of a Men's Singles, Women's Singles and Mixed Doubles. Our first round is at 9am, against Engineering. Semi-finals are at 11am and finals are at 12:30pm!


Eyewear pioneer EssilorLuxottica has implemented Boomi’s integration platform as a service (iPaaS) to expedite order processing to meet higher demand for its products across ASEAN, the Middle East, Turkey, Africa, India, and Australia and New Zealand (AMERA).
Using the Boomi AtomSphere Platform, EssilorLuxottica quickly and easily integrated internal applications and customer orders from a variety of channels in real time, unlocking significant efficiencies and savings.
Having leveraged the Boomi platform to successfully integrate approximately 10,000 external customers to its business-to-business (B2B) system in 2019, EssilorLuxottica AMERA again sought Boomi’s cloud-based solutions in late 2020 amid bottlenecks stemming from the combination of supply chain disruptions and higher demand.
Unifying data formats and improving data integration between all internal applications became an urgent business need, prompting EssilorLuxottica AMERA to deploy the Boomi AtomSphere Platform, including Boomi’s electronic data interchange (EDI), and API Management tools.
Running a host of enterprise resource planning systems (ERP), EssilorLuxottica was keen to achieve ERP modernisation and drive the efficiency of its Next Generation (NG) Order to Cash processing platform, which handles approximately 70,000 to 80,000 orders daily.
“The challenge was to replace all the existing middleware, customised microservices, and third-party middleware to enable greater data sharing capacities and performance in order to keep up with customer expectations,” said Mel Yuson, director of enterprise architecture at EssilorLuxottica AMERA.
“We needed a service-level agreement (SLA) that could effectively oversee immediate integration, not via batch data integration nor synchronous, but one that is in real time and asynchronous,” said Yuson.
Yuson said EssilorLuxottica AMERA sought Boomi’s services to orchestrate higher data payloads and enhance order processing performance, resiliency, and scalability so that end-to-end order processing would take under a minute — and ideally around 30 seconds — highlighting that any delays would cause a serious backlog in the manufacturing process.
“We initially faced numerous challenges as this was the first time we managed a real time, asynchronous integration of EssilorLuxottica’s order processing platform and ERP using Boomi’s platform,” he said.
However, with assistance from Boomi’s Customer Success and Support team, EssilorLuxottica AMERA investigated and identified performance degradation factors including the network file system (NFS) protocol.
On the back of Boomi’s recommendation, EssilorLuxottica AMERA deployed solutions to simplify file sharing and increase operational efficiency by four times. Boomi’s partnership approach enabled EssilorLuxottica AMERA to address the implementation roadblocks and achieve the SLA target of 30 seconds.
In addition to accomplishing the 30 second end-to-end order processing SLA, EssilorLuxottica AMERA reduced costs and optimized its data integration infrastructure, which was previously being handled by external parties.
“Integrating new and existing technologies facilitates the level of flexibility and agility that customer-facing enterprises need today, enabling unification of data sources to achieve performance efficiencies, generate revenue streams, and drive digital transformation,” said Ajit Melarkode, VP of business development in APJ at Boomi.


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A team of curators in the business of spreading a unique form of retail therapy through old world goods and unique creations. Our uncompromising views on craft and creativity allow us to curate only the good and special finds that we spend hours scouring for. We fancy ourselves as time travelers who carefully handpick what we want to bring back into our market’s consciousness.


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Over the course of two days, residents from Delta and surrounding communities nearly filled an entire 53-foot container on Saturday with donations to be sent to Lytton evacuees.
Keeping current need in mind, organizer Kathy Mawhorter says this week, they will only be accepting emergency supplies, including first-aid kits and other medical supplies, non-perishable food, gift cards for local stores, and water and Gatorade.
“We’re trying to be sensitive to only acquiring what is really needed right now … And the people of Ladner have been most generous, as they usually are in a situation like this,” she says.
This week’s donation drop-off hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the last day being on Friday, July 9, until further notice, as many donations have already been sent up and the evacuees are still waiting to be relocated.
Mawhorter thanks the magic of social media in being able to get so much support for the Lytton community, and humbly says that she was just the one who made the Facebook posts.
“If everybody just does their own little bit, it ends up being a lot,” she says.


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SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS SIDESHOW
With an eclectic mix of instruments and influences, it’s hard to put the sound of Electric Guest in a box, but one journalist described their music as “a mutant-albeit somewhat cleaned up and electronic-‘60s garage thing”. Ultimately, it’s damn fine pop music courtesy of Electric Guest and their friend, and uber producer, Danger Mouse. Watch Electric Guests’s new video for ‘This Head I Hold’, then check them out live at this Splendour In The Grass sideshow.


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Teochew Kitchen at Craving Coffee
Matthew Ho grew up eating all sorts of South East Asian bites. He probably quite liked it 'cause now he's running this pop up feeding the very same sort of stuff to the likes of you and we. For three days the Teochew Kitchen team will be bringing the flava to the welcoming home that is Craving Coffee. Gobble Szechuan-roasted almonds, smashed cucumbers, chilli ginger soy choy sum, Szechuan spicy garlic aubergine, sticky hoisin chicken wings, beef rendang and more. With all mains £10 and under looks like you've found yourself a cheap and friendly night right here.

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The EcoTheo Review is delighted to welcome Billy Moore as its new visual arts editor. Billy has an M.F.A. from the University of Colorado and has worked as a photographer for over four decades. In addition to this small selection of Billy’s work, we are happy to publish his artistic statement on the important role photography plays in capturing the landscape and fostering ecological enchantment.
“Human beings are a product of the landscape. They depend on it to survive, and it has long been the basis of belief systems, history, and religions that underscore the vital role that the land has played and continues to play in our existence. It is defined in our perception as the various elements that constitute the landscape, the physical world we inhabit. Our perception of these elements define our humanity.
The landscape is the result of natural forces, manmade activities, and time. As such, it is the living record of these processes and a reflection of the state of the world and, for that matter, humanity as well.
Photography is like reality, but it isn’t.
The basis of photography is the act of pointing, of showing in a photograph the results of many decisions made by the photographer of selecting a place–a segment of the visible world–and freezing it in a moment in time. The nature of photography ties it to the physical world since it is a record of light being reflected from a surface responding to illumination. But there is even more of an abstraction that takes place in substituting the camera’s mode of operating for direct human perception of the scene photographed. Camera work isolates a portion of the subject and contains only the visual information that the photographer selects. It then utilizes the camera’s mechanical nature to further control the manner in which the light from the subject is recorded on photosensitive material.
When we perceive the camera’s recording of a scene as identifiable subject matter that looks, at least to some extent, the “way it is supposed to” from the perspective of the viewer, it becomes a believable representation of the subject, one that can contain meaning beyond the surfaces it portrays. While engaged in perceiving an image, if there is sufficient inspiration and execution in the process of its creation, the possibility of metaphor can show more than what’s visible in the image. The presence of the unseen is the culmination of the experience of a photograph for viewer as well as photographer.”
– Billy Moore, 2018


The CRM Relationship
John Milne – 05/05/2022
When working in a technology platform, what is the primary home for the advisor? We have consistently received this question from our clients, and the most transparent answer is, “Well, it depends.” For example, more relationship-focused advisors may primarily live within the CRM tool. In contrast, advisors with deeper reporting or data needs would possibly opt to make the portfolio management system their central hub. Then, there are the financial planners who live within the application of their choice. Historically advisors had to clearly choose which domain to use because each tool focused on a particular set of non-integrated solutions, forcing users to hop between applications to get all the needed data.
Naturally, this was far from ideal but a matter of necessity. The level of integration between systems was surface-level, with the data models not designed to work well with each other. For example, SS&C’s Black Diamond Wealth Platform’s previous focus was to generate accurate performance on client accounts and portfolios with a system keenly concentrated on the account and household entities. We have recently invested in shifting our system, beginning with defining who the client is by determining what’s important to them, where they live, their birthday, and more. By building out the concept of a Client Relationship and contacts within Black Diamond, our system integrates more easily with CRMs and planning tools to ensure we speak the same language.
Now that we can more clearly define who the client is, we are building additional tools on the platform for the advisor to manage their client’s end-to-end needs. For example, with data telling us more about account owners and their birthdays, we built out our Required Minimum Distribution dashboard to ensure clients are taking their withdrawals during retirement. Black Diamond now also supports critical workflows like Docusign and To-Do’s that help the client stay on top of key action items they own. And later this year – we are looking to launch a revamped experience around financial planning that focuses on what’s important to the client and what needs their timely attention.
We are committed to developing all this functionality in a way that seamlessly sources key information from other systems. For example, when a task is created in the CRM, data flows into Black Diamond for presentation to the client via the portal. Later this year, we are starting an integrated approach with our partner RightCapital to offer a deeper reporting experience within Black Diamond. This integration is an option for advisors to add to their suite of tools to consolidate information and make life easier.
Finally, we are building out the capabilities of our API suite to enrich data in other systems. Whether it is performance in the CRM or PDF reports in your planning tool, we want to remain as open as possible. There are many great applications that help complete an advisor’s technology puzzle. It is incumbent upon our team at Black Diamond to ensure we offer the best, cohesive experience for our advisors and their clients.
I hope that the system walls that historically kept us isolated from one another will continue to reduce to rubble as we shift towards more future integration. Learn more about integrating your CRM with SS&C’s Black Diamond Wealth Platform by requesting a personalized demo today.
Looking for a new CRM solution? SS&C Salentica is a purpose-built CRM that perfectly complements firm’s running Black Diamond. This platform partnership makes advisors more competitive and efficient by integrating data that allows automation of routine tasks and complex workflows. For more information on adding this solution to your tech suite, contact us at (800)727-0605 or firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Just as medieval and modern heritage is significant in large areas of Barcelona, the last vestiges of Roman civilisation are not as well known as they should be in the city. Nicknamed as Barcino, the Catalan capital was a colony that arose in times of the Roman founder Octavio Augusto and slowly gained size in parallel with the construction of various public places. The following are the most interesting of those preserved today.
San Jaime Plaza, which now houses the headquarters of Generalitat de Cataluña and Barcelona City Council, was established as the forum of Barcino. Following the usual urban plan in the imperial era, the forum was located right in the centre of a perfect grid, which today corresponds roughly with Barcelona's Gótico Quarter. Very close to this point, on Paraíso Street, the Temple of Augusto is situated. In fact, only three columns remain of what was probably one of the most important religious buildings of the city.
Photo: Plaça de Sant Jaume / Plaza de San Jaime
Without straying too far, in Plaza de Ramón Berenguer el Grande there is a section of the Roman wall that is still intakt. This is one of the most important monuments of the period. This protected structure is perfectly integrated in the contemporary urban theme of the city and has several terraced buildings. The most striking is undoubtedly the section that corresponds to the old gates to the city, popularly known in Barcelona as Portal del Obispo, because it stands at the end of Obispo Street.
The next stop prompts us to take a few steps towards the Portal del Obispo. The Barcelona City History Museum (El Museo de Historia de Barcelona) (MUHBA) is always a recommended visit but in the case of Barcino, one could say that this is a must-see tour to take. Not surprisingly, besides the notable collections of Roman remains among other civilisations, the basement of the building houses a large archaeological area open to the public. In fact, it is considered Europe's largest Roman underground excavation.
And finally, it is not possible to learn about the Roman Barcelona without visiting the deathly path of Plaza de la Villa de Madrid. This will direct us towards Rambla de Canaletas. Also called the necropolis of Barcelona, this morbid complex was built on the outskirts of Barcino and now virtually defines the western edge of Barcelona's old town. With as many as 85 graves having been discovered, the complex is now practically an open-air museum.


Christian Brueckner broke into the secluded home two years before the three-year-old went missing from her family’s apartment.
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On 18 December 2017, after nearly two years of sustained gains, the price of bitcoin reached an all-time high of $20000. Just over 17 months.
“Gold can go up 3-times or 5-times in the next three to five years. Bitcoin, well.
Satoshi Bitcoin Wallet Address 13/04/2015 · The Genesis Address – the very first bitcoin address, which is home to the first bitcoin ever mined from the genesis block. It’s assumed to be controlled by Satoshi Nakamoto, although the btc has never moved. There is a technical issue that prevents the original 50 BTC from being transacted. Total Received: 65.44021956 BTC 18 Dec
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Coinmetrics claims that this suggests that Bitcoin is increasingly becoming a store of value, as opposed to a medium of exchange. Coinmetrics.
Dil Dhadakne Do completes five years of its release.
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Ranveer Singh celebrated 5 years of ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’ with a throwback pic. He took to social media and shared a throwback.
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In this one day workshop you will learn how to make your own mosaic made from vintage and antique china. This craft, known as 'Pique Assiette' ('stolen plate') is a way of reusing and re-loving broken and unwanted china. You will learn how to select, nip, design, create, grout and finish your very own mosaic to take home. A choice of shapes will be available for you to choose from which include a heart, bird, square and pot stand. What to bring: A packed lunch
What's included in the price?
Included on the day: All materials Expert tuition 1 to 1 guidance Detailed demonstrations A selection of tea, freshly brewed coffee, biscuits and delicious cakes. If you have any specific dietary requirements or allergies, please feel free to bring along your own provisions/milk alternatives etc. And of course you take your wonderful creations from the day. Terms - Fee is payable on booking. If, having booked, you can no longer attend, we are unable to offer a refund or transfer you to another workshop. However, you may nominate someone else to attend the workshop or class in your place by notifying us. We reserve the right to cancel a workshop up to 48 hours prior to the workshop date. We will only cancel due to insufficient places sold and you will be refunded the full amount paid. Level: Beginner Number of students: 10
Non-refundable - Refunds are not available
A unique venue in the Berkshire countryside offering a range of creative workshops and flowers from our very own cutting garden.
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All-girl team from the Philippines wins Sustainable Engineering Hackathon on UNESCO’s World Engineering Day
An allgirl team of university students from the Philippines has won a hackathon marking UNESCOs World Engineering for Sustainable Development Day on 4 March Ghia Luwalhati Nicole Elizabeth Tan and Reaner Jacqueline Bool from the WONDERPETS team 1 from Batangas State University in the Philippines used Metal Organic Frameworks which are novel adsorbents to turn recycled plastic bottles into a type of sponge that is extremely porous making it an effective means of removing pollutants from water Better still the sponge can be used again and again
Coastal blue carbon ecosystems – Supporting food security, sustainable oceans and climate action
Interview with Fethi Mansouri - Advancing a new social contract in the post-Covid-19 era?
Professor Fethi Mansouri PhD UNESCO Chairholder Cultural Diversity and Social Justice at the Deakin University Melbourne Australia and UNITWIN Convenor Interreligious Dialogue and Intercultural Understanding IDIU shares his views on the impact of COVID19 on intercultural dialogue New forms of solidarity and dialogue are emerging at a time when social distancing seems to be the only efficient blockade to the pandemic At the same time massive economic disparities and access to health care are being pushed to the limit with inevitable consequences on the rise of racism and discriminations Are we ready to engage in a new social contract in view of the postCOVID19 era
The socio-cultural implications of COVID-19
Professor Fethi Mansouri UNESCO Chairholder for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice at Deakin University Melbourne Australia and UNITWIN Convenor for Interreligious Dialogue and Intercultural Understanding shares his views on the sociocultural implications of COVID19

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