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Rubbish Bins Melbourne: How Long Does It Take To Deliver Bins?
Rubbish bins Melbourne: how long does it take to deliver bins once they have been booked? When a new customer calls us to make a new booking for waste or recycling services – such as rubbish bin collection Melbourne, one of the most common questions they ask is "when can you deliver the bins?"
It is the nature of the world that people think hard about the service they want to book and once they have made that decision – they want it implemented and delivered as soon as possible. A good example of this is when a new business is opening its doors for the first time and has
– a.) limited experience of arranging bins and waste services and
– b.) have forgotten or not been aware that they need to book bin services.
How long does it take to deliver rubbish bins Melbourne bins once you have booked?
As a rule of thumb – it will take roughly a week to 10 days to deliver your bins once you have booked your recycling or general waste bin hire for waste removal Melbourne. Let me go into a bit more detail about the process and what happens once you make a booking with Waster.
This is because setting up a bin service involves the creation of an account, checking access times, health and safety inspections and then finally routing it on to a truck route and day etc:
Rubbish bins Melbourne Step one: Waster checks all your details and confirms that the bins you have booked for waste disposal Melbourne are what you actually want – people do make mistakes.
Rubbish bins Melbourne Step two: we perform a site inspection by verifying truck access, any gates, overhead restrictions and council curfews. It is vital to sort this out at the beginning – as it can be time consuming to alter services and bins etc once they have been delivered.
Rubbish bins Melbourne Step three: we arrange the bin service by booking it on a route and service day. Bear in mind that not all areas will be serviced by every truck type every day. For example, Sydney CBD generally does not have recycling collections at weekends. We book the waste collection Melbourne service and aim to make the schedule best suit your business requirements.
Rubbish bins Melbourne Step four: we arrange delivery. This involves booking the bins on a truck. This is obviously trickier the bigger the bin size is – Waster offers bin sizes from 120 litre bins up to 4.5 cubic metre bins – i.e. quite a significant difference. Generally, most bins can be delivered in most areas a couple of days a week.
Can we deliver bins quickly in emergency circumstances
Waster prides itself on high quality customer service and in many examples we have made extra efforts to deliver bins on quick turnarounds – i.e. even the next day. On many occasions our teams have put a couple of small bins in our vans to deliver to customers the very next day. Of course – it is not possible to put 4.5m bins in the back of a van!
For comprehensive details on our services – access our online helpcentre which answers common questions. For other general questions check out our articles on wheelie bin cleaning and wheelie bin sizes. Check out our guide for new businesses arranging waste services in Melbourne here – bin collection Melbourne.
We also invite you to check out our prices and services as below:
At Waster – we can also of course provide shorter term rubbish removal Melbourne services – such as for a concert or event. These short term services will involve a delivery and removal fee and are priced on request.
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Daisy, Holly, Miss Snowflake and Mr Brambles here again!
You know, sometimes The Missus and Old Two Legs leave us behind, and it's not right! Like today, they just upped and disappeared in the car, but I'll tell you more later!
First thing OTL, the ferrets and us went off to The Beach for our bit of exercise on the sand. It was a little dark to begin with but the sun was shining on the sea and OTL said it looked 'Ethereal' , what ever that is!
|Ethereal? Wossat?
One thing I have found out, a ferret doesn't know his left paw from his right paw!
There was I trying to teach a simple 'Step & Kick' with the right paw.
I gave up counting the number of times I showed him, look, this is your right paw!
|Right Paw, Lift And Kick!
|This is the Right Paw!
Holly started off laughing but even she got bored in the end and said that we should sing out 'Step & Kick' and not mention left or right!
|Come on, Forget Left and Right, just Kick!
We had some fun sharing sniffs with the ferrets on the way back to the car and we introduced Mr Brambles to the 'Rat Wee' and the Vole Wee and he showed us some Grass Snake Poo!
|Yep! That's Snake Poo alright!
About an hour later they returned with just the small car, the big car was having it's MOT!
OTL had a big bag of Bird Seed over his shoulder and a big bag of Peanuts in his hand, also for the birds!
Holly and I stood guard by the back door to make sure that no other Peregrine landed in our garden to scare the birds or attack OTL!
Lunch time we were out again and we found the Two Legs who cuts the grass charging about on a small tractor with some grass cutters on the back, Scary!
|Mind your Claws Girls!
|Is there a Storm Coming?
|You know it takes two hours to brush me!
OTL got the Ferret Travelling Cage out and set it up so the ferrets can have some time inside playing with it so they are used to it by the time we go on holiday!
Once again, off TM & OTL went and picked up the big car without us! We had to sit by the window and wait for them to come back, it was Soooo Booooring!
Not sure what is for dinner tonight but we plan to have some from each of them!
See you tomorrow!
Daisy, Holly, Miss Snowflake and Mr Brambles.

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Gigantic bugs are invading the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro for its 40th anniversary celebration in 2014.
Gigantic bugs are invading the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro for its 40th anniversary celebration in 2014.
These animatronic creatures are not your typical slimy and crawly bugs.
There's an extra-large Seven-Spot Lady Bug, a flashing Say's Firefly, a spraying Bombardier Beetle and giant Black Ants among the 13 different robotics in "Bugs: An Epic Adventure."
One can also see a Madagascar Sunset Moth, Giant Devil's Flower Mantis, Red Tailed Bumblebee, Stag Beetle, Orb-Web Spider, Emperor Scorpion, Blue-Eyed Dragonfly and Grasshopper – all towering over zoo visitors.
Taking center stage is a Mexican Red Knee Tarantula, a more than 30-foot-wide, super-sized version of this large spider which has long and thin hairs with sturdy barbs on its eight legs.
Spokesbug for the collection is a Praying Mantis created by Asheboro artist Rich Powell who has developed cartoon characters for each of the giant bugs which the public also can identify with throughout the year.
These larger-than-life-sized bugs introduce zoo visitors to invertebrates through educational materials about how helpful they are to the environment and also how they outnumber mammals on earth.
"Bugs: An Epic Adventure" takes the place of the prehistoric creatures which visited the North Carolina Zoo the last two years. The robotic bugs, like the dinosaurs, are built by Billings Productions of Texas and are debuting in the United States this year. They provide a lot of realistic movements and surprises for zoo visitors at the zoo's former dinosaur park through October.
There are even more adventures awaiting zoo visitors, especially younger ones, at the extensively-renovated former kidZone. Youngsters will discover there are a wide variety of activities to help them connect to the outdoors and nature. There's a stream to explore – great for those hot afternoons – as well as a mud cafe, an elaborate rope bridge and a tree top experience and stone labyrinth.
Both "Bugs: An Epic Adventure" and the new kidZone will be unveiled when the zoo officially begins its 2014 season with a 40th Anniversary Grand Seasonal Opening on Saturday and Sunday, March 29-30.
Opening weekend is also when the 2014 offering at the newly renovated 4-D Theatre at the zoo's Junction Plaza begins. This year it's SimEx-Iwerks' "Rio: The 4-D Experience" which features the popular last blue macaws, Blu and Jewel, on an adventure in Rio de Janeiro, complete with 4-D special effects.
And zoo visitors will also have an opportunity to once again ride the Endangered Species Carousel, also located at Junction Plaza, and feed the giraffes at the Acadia Station Giraffe Deck in the Africa region. There are additional charges for Bugs, the 4-D Theatre, carousel and feeding station beyond regular zoo admission, but there are also special combo passes which offer fun tickets to enjoy these attractions through October.
Of course, there are also plenty of live zoo residents – young and old – to view at the world's largest habitat zoo. Along the five miles of pathways in the North America and Africa regions a visitor has the opportunity to learn about the zoo's approximately 1,600 residents representing 225 species native to these two continents.
And there are a lot of zoo youngsters to delight visitors. Male gorillas, Apollo and Bomassa, are now a year and a half old and there are plenty of young chimpanzees.
One of the zoo's newest residents is Patches, a female polar bear who loves her renovated exhibit and has captured the hearts of zoo visitors just as hundreds of other animals have since the zoo officially opened on Aug. 2, 1974, when an interim facility was dedicated that day.
It wasn't until Oct. 15, 1979, that the first exhibit of the present-day Africa region was opened to the public. That was the zebra/ostrich/giraffe habitat. The grand opening of Africa took place June 28, 1980, when the zoo's five newest habitats at that time featured elephants, rhinoceros, lions, chimpanzees and baboons. The elephant exhibit contained the zoo's first African-born elephant who had originally arrived in July 1978 as a 4-year-old. C'sar remains a favorite for zoo visitors.
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Want to visit the North Carolina Zoo?
The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro is open daily from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April through October; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. the rest of the year, except Christmas Day.
Special attractions, open from April through October, begin daily operation at 10 a.m.
Combo Passes – providing the "best value" for zoo visitors – are available April through October and cost $18 for adults; $16 for seniors, ages 62 and older; and $14 for kids, ages 2-12. These include general zoo admission and three fun tickets for use, in any combination, for Bugs, the 4-D Theatre and Endangered Species Carousel (separately, the charge is $5 for Bugs, $4 for the 4-D Theatre and $2 for the carousel).
There's a $2 charge for the giraffe feeding deck where visitors can be eye-to-eye with giraffes and feed them, too, weather permitting.
Regular zoo admission, without the attractions, is $12 for adults; $10 for seniors, ages 62 and older; and $8 for kids, ages 2-12. Children under 2 years of age are free. Group discounts for 15 or more are also available if purchased in advance.
A variety of zoo memberships – from individual to life – are available through the North Carolina Zoo Society and provide free admission to the zoo. A set of three fun tickets for society members costs $9. For more information about memberships, go to the zoo society's website at nczoo.com or call (336) 879-7250.
For more information about the zoo, go to nczoo.org or call 1-800-488-0444.
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N.C. Zoo offers special events
The North Carolina Zoo has several special events planned for 2014. All these activities are included with regular zoo admission and will be held during operating hours. (Events are subject to change or cancellation due to weather.)
40th Anniversary Grand Seasonal Opening, March 29-30
Celebrate 40 WILD zoo years with the grand opening of "Bugs: An Epic Adventure" and the reopening of kidZone. Enjoy live music, dancing, puppet parades, educational activities and much more during this exciting weekend packed full of family fun throughout the park.
Earth Day Weekend, April 12-13
The zoo is having a "Party for the Planet." Dance to African drums and explore new ways to help take care of the earth.
Eggstravaganza, April 19
Celebrate the new spring season. See zoo animals hunt for treats inside decorative eggs made specially by zoo volunteers.
Amphibian Awareness Day, April 26
Enjoy educational activities and learn about amphibian conservation efforts.
Birds & Blooms, May 10
Learn about the mission of International Migratory Bird Day as you explore bird activities around the Forest Aviary.
Save Our Snakes, May 17-18
Learn about native snakes and their important role in nature.
World Oceans Day, June 7
Be part of this growing global celebration and discover ways to protect the future of our oceans.
The Bear Necessities, June 14
Meet the bear keepers and enjoy educational displays and crafts. Remember to bring your Teddy Bear to the Teddy Bear Clinic for a checkup with zoo veterinarian staff.
Great Apes, Sept. 20-21
Discover the amazing lives of gorillas and chimpanzees. Learn about the zoo's worldwide conservation efforts and how you can help.
Howl-O-Ween, Oct. 4
Meet the keepers and learn about red wolf conservation.
Batology 101, Oct. 18-19
Discover the good nature of bats and see a live vampire bat feeding.
Boo at the Zoo, Oct. 25-26
Celebrate the magic of the season with a weekend of safe daytime Halloween fun. Enjoy trick or treat games, storytelling, live entertainment and a children's costume contest.


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Town Board Public Hearing MUO-3 Designation of 3311 and 3301-3015 St Rt 364
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Town of Canandaigua Town Board will be conducting a public hearing on a draft local law to amend the Official Zoning Map to designate property located at 3311 and 3301-3015 State Route 364 as part of the MUO-3 (Mixed Use Overlay District). The public hearing will be held on Monday, July 17, 2017, at 6:00 p.m. in the lower level public meeting room of the Town Hall, located at 5440 Routes 5 & 20 West, Canandaigua, New York. All persons of interest will be heard at this time and date. Written comments may be submitted prior to the meeting to Town Clerk Jean Chrisman at firstname.lastname@example.com.
A copy of the application and draft local law may be viewed during normal business hours in the Town of Canandaigua Town Clerk's Office or on the Town's website (townofcanandaigua.org).
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I finally got done with the base. When I started I really didn't know how this pecan wood turn out looking when it was finished. I really like it! All the worm holes and spalting really make it unique. I don't think I would want to build a big piece of furniture out of it but as a workbench it's great. Know that the base is done I'm really excited to move on to finishing the top.
All the wedges are ready to go.
Just before the finish goes on we made our mark.
Here's the finish.
Here it is applied.
Here is a close up of the foot.
Hopefully it won't be to long before I can post the top glue up.
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Bringing a pet into your home – and your heart – offers so many benefits. Laughter, love and joy are three wonderful things I have an abundance of, thanks in large part to my three cats. Pets provide companionship to the lonely, and they can be great teachers for children too. Encouraging children to take an active role in caring for a pet helps them learn important life skills and lessons, while also learning about responsible pet ownership. Here are eight essential skills the family pet can teach your children.
Giving children age-appropriate chores related to feeding, grooming, and cleaning up after the family pet helps them understand what it means to be responsible, dependable and conscientious. Taking care of a pet teaches children the importance of being reliable, since the pet is counting on them to provide what they need. At the same time, tasks like bathing, brushing and grooming can deepen the bond between pet and child.
Patience and Consistency
House-breaking a puppy or a kitten can teach children to be patient, because young animals do not learn everything they need to know overnight. Some pets are slower to learn than others and thus require more time and effort, but consistent methods are a vital element of training success. Having your child help with the pet's house-breaking and other training helps them learn that patience and consistency will pay off in the end.
Goal Setting and Perseverance
Children can learn about the process of goal setting and achievements by being involved in training a pet, be it for house-breaking, performing tricks or obedience training. When they put in the persistent effort these things require, they're not only rewarded with a well trained pet, but an increased sense of pride and self worth at what they have accomplished.
As pack animals, dogs do best in a household where there is a pack hierarchy and an established leader. Although that person should ideally be an adult, you and your dog can teach your child what it means to be a good leader, one who your dog willingly and happily follows.
Having a pet in the family opens the door to a wide variety of emotions that are very important for children to discover and articulate. Pets can help children learn to express feelings of love, compassion, caring and concern. And experiencing the sadness involved in saying goodbye when a pet passes away, helps children learn to deal with loss.
Although kindness is not exactly what I would call a "life skill," I'm including it because, of all the things pets can teach children, I think it might be the most important. Children who are taught to be kind to animals grow up to become compassionate adults who treat both humans and animals with kindness and respect throughout their lifetime. That, in my opinion, is a priceless lesson to learn.
So you see, pets can teach children a great many skills that will help them grow up to become well-adjusted members of our society. When you add in the pure delight pets can bring to a child, it seems unthinkable to let them grow up in a house without one.
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After a two year break, East London Grime MC Devlin is back with a bang with new single "50 Grand". It's Devlin at his aggressive and passionate best, while making powerful social commentary alongside man of the moment Skepta. The accompanying video is just as in your face and to the point as the song and you can watch it below. "50 Grand" is out now on iTunes, Google Play and Spotify.
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Hello everyone!
Today, I have swatches and review of a nail lacquer from Orly called La Playa.
La Playa is a part of the 4-piece ¡Viva! Collection that Orly released for Summer 2010. This was a Latin inspired collection, so the colours would suit Indian skin tones as well.
About Orly Nail Lacquers:
At ORLY we never stop looking for the next big idea. By keeping hot on the heels of the latest trends, our talented team of color experts deliver the bright ideas, hot colors and bold textures our fans love. Color is the foundation of everything we do. It is our heart, and soul, and the reflection of our multi-faceted personality. Full of the classics, the revolutionary and time-tested fan favorites the ORLY Permanent Color Collection has something for everyone.
Formulated without DBP, Formaldehyde and Toulene.
Fun fact: Orly's founder, Jeff Pink, is credited for the French manicure.
Colour: La Playa is a beautiful inky, navy blue creme. It's dark, but even in dim lighting, you can figure out that it's blue and not black. Though I like the colour, I have to admit that it's not unique at all.
Dark blues work better with my skin tone than lighter ones. Bailamos from the same collection looked gorgeous in the swatches online. I figured it wouldn't look too good on me, so I resisted buying it. But considering my love for teals, I might give in and get it someday.
Formula and Pigmentation: The formula was a tad thin but it's pigmented enough. I get full coverage with a thin first coat and a thicker second coat.
Application: La Playa is easy to apply. The Orly brush handle is rubberised and contoured to give you a good grip and control. I've used up more than half of the polish though, so it's become a bit difficult to get enough product onto the brush.
Staying power: The staying power is what keeps me from loving La Playa. If I forget to apply a basecoat and topcoat, I end up with major tip wear and even chips, within one or two days. So disappointing!
Availability: Orly polishes are pretty hard to find in India. A few websites had begun selling them a couple of years ago. But unfortunately, they don't anymore. A lot of American nail polish suppliers that I used to buy from have also stopped shipping to India. The ones that still do, have atrocious shipping charges. So for Orly, we're just left with eBay as an option.
What I like about Orly Nail Lacquer La Playa:
- Beautiful navy blue creme
- Smooth application
- Good pigmentation
- Rubberised brush handle
What I don't like about Orly Nail Lacquer La Playa:
- Chips quickly
- Availability
Rating: 3.5/5
This is a good option if you're looking for a basic navy creme. Just make sure you invest in a good base and top coat as well.
Have you tried Orly Nail Lacquer La Playa?
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What a weird word, but, oh, how it crept into mainstream marketing and business vernacular. Blogs seem to be boundlessly popular and somewhat simple to maintain, but why should your business do it? Why spend your time maintaining an editorial calendar, writing mini essays, monitoring comments, and responding to your audience? Why is a blog so important? Why does everyone, from bird-watching enthusiasts to Hewlett-Packard, embrace the power of the blog?
I'll tell you why: It is a soapbox– a platform– allowing you to pontificate on your passions. It is the perfect complement to a social, "web 2.0" world. A good blog is honest, informative, and enlightening. It is the epitome of push marketing. You generate content based on your insights and expertise and then put it out there for people interested in what you say to find, discuss, and share.
Creating a body of work that examines your industry, discusses best practices, and highlights hot topics like case studies begets for your business a position of thought leadership. Thought leadership establishes you as a forerunner in your sphere as it pertains to your services, products, and the insight your experience gives you. The more informative and well written your posts are, the more likely they are to speak to people searching for answers. This can easily lead to a perception of expertise that gets your thoughts shared on social channels and your perceptions sought by others on the lookout for an experienced voice. This esteemed perception will do great things for your business, as demand for your voice grows.
A blog qualifies as social media because it can serve as a form of communication as well as a marketing and public relations tool. Your posts can generate buzz and create conversations around topics that, in turn, gives you tremendous insight into your audience and the perceptions of your industry, business, and products. These insights can help you shape your business to meet the needs of the public or simply give you more fodder to develop ideas and stories for your blog. Like social, it offers a level of transparency for your company, allowing users to see beyond the logo and into the minds and hearts of your business through posts by the owner, CEO, managers or other internal specialists. It lends a touch of humanity to your business especially with direct messages that address crisis management by creating a two-way conversation with readers.
One of the strongest assets of a blog, when it is used strategically, is search engine optimization. Whether it is part of your website or a stand-alone component, every article or post builds keyword-rich content about what you do, gives you a platform to explain your business, and provides an excellent opportunity to further develop your linking strategy. Mentions of products in an article can link to product descriptions and the e-commerce portion of your site. Talking about services and clients can link to case studies or demonstrations of your portfolio page. If you are business-to-business, a blog can also allow you to reward clients by talking about their business or projects and link to them. In return, they may link to you.
Blogs provide a space for you to include contextually relevant ads. This is great because people may find an article by searching a certain subject. While your post informs them and showcases your extensive knowledge, an ad that describes the service mentioned in the post can drive that user towards a conversion for you. If you are Mushnik's Flower Shop running The Little Blog of Flowers, and you build an informative article about The History of Wedding Flowers or Top 10 Most Overlooked Wedding Flowers, you can utilize that space for an ad. A nicely designed ad with the call-to-action, "Looking for Wedding Flowers?" and a phone number that sits on the page's side bar that links to your wedding package page when clicked is an excellent way to leverage a digital channel.
It's very common for a business website to stay static for long periods without adding content, but a blog allows you to build new and relevant content on a continuous basis. This content can be augmented with video, audio, and images— all of which contribute to a strong SEO mix. Beyond being another portal to your site and business, a blog is also another way to draw interest and drive readers to your social channels through strategically placed social badges (the little icons for Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and more that serve as links to those pages). Engaging articles also have a viral quality if you add "Like," "Share," "+1," or "Tweet" functionality to your posts.
Blogs can be fun and really tap into your writer/creative side. At this point, it is almost a must, as more and more people turn to the web to research everything from dentists and mechanics to camping equipment and vacation spots.


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This article talks about forgotten VPs. It showcases the VP musuem, which is in Illinois in the boyhood home of Dan Quayle:
Huntington, Indiana, an industrial town that was never much and is even less today. It's also the boyhood home of our 44th vice president.
His elementary school is unmarked, a plain brick building that's now a senior citizens center. But across the street stands an imposing church that has been rechristened the "Quayle Vice Presidential Learning Center." Inside the former chapel, you can see "Danny" Quayle's report card (A's and B's), his toy truck and exhibits on his checkered tenure as vice president. He "accomplished more than most realize," a caption states, noting Quayle's visits to 47 countries and his chairmanship of the Council on Competitiveness.
But the learning center isn't a shrine to Quayle—or a joke on its namesake, who famously misspelled "potato." It is, instead, a nonpartisan collection of stories and artifacts relating to all 47 vice presidents: the only museum in the land devoted to the nation's second-highest office. This neglect might seem surprising, until you tour the museum and learn just how ignored and reviled the vice presidency has been for most of its history. John Nance Garner, for one, said the job wasn't worth a bucket of warm spit.
The VP museum, which once used the advertising motto "Second to One," isn't kind to the nation's founders, either. It was they who are largely to blame for the rogues, also-rans and even corpses who have often filled the office. The Constitution gave almost no role to the vice president, apart from casting tie-breaking votes in the Senate. John Adams, the first to hold the job, called it "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived."
The article talks about how the VP has moved from a non-job into a position with at least some function today:
It wasn't until the mid-20th century that vice presidents began to emerge as more than a "contingent somebody," or "nullity" in Washington (the words of Lincoln's first VP, Hannibal Hamlin, a cardplayer who said the announcement of his candidacy ruined a good hand). As government rapidly expanded during the Depression, Franklin Roosevelt used "Cactus Jack" Garner, a veteran legislator, as his arm-twister in Congress. During World War II, Roosevelt made his second VP, Henry Wallace, a globe-trotting ambassador and head of wartime procurement.
Harry Truman, by contrast, served FDR for only 82 days and wasn't consulted or prepared for the top job, a deficit he set out to correct as president. His VP, Alben Barkley, joined the National Security Council and cabinet meetings. Truman raised the salary of the office and gave it a seal and flag. Barkley's tenure also bestowed an enduring nickname on the job. A folksy Kentuckian who disliked the formal "Mr. Vice President," Barkley took his grandson's suggestion and added two e's between the title's initials. Hence "Veep."
The status and duties of vice presidents have risen ever since, along with their political fortunes. Four of the past 12 VPs became president; two others, Hubert Humphrey and Al Gore, just missed. In 1988, George H.W. Bush became the first sitting vice president to win election to the top job since Van Buren in 1836. The perks of office have also improved. A century ago, VPs still paid for their own lodging, car repairs and official entertaining. Today, they inhabit a Washington mansion and West Wing office, have large salaries and staffs, and merit their own anthem, "Hail Columbia."
You can end by taking this quiz from Smithsonian Magazine on VP trivia. I have to say that a lot of the questions were guessable,even if you don't know the answer.
Monday, July 09, 2012
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SAP BI/BW is the only BI solution that SAP owns that was developed by SAP, and it is easily the worst BI solution that SAP has in its stable. The problems with BI were a major motivator for the purchase of Business Objects, which was beating BI in too many head to head proposals. The idea was that Business Objects – particular its data modeling functionality would be ported to BI, but this never occurred.
Application Detail
The term "best in class" is often thrown around, however what about the term worst in class? We ask because SAP BI/BW meets the definition of a "worst in class" application. Among the areas that we measure, SAP BI/BW is last in all of them, and we question BI/BW's ability to exist as a product independent. In BI/BW, there is no bright light to be found. The user interface is inferior; the engineering of the data cubes and overall backend is the worst that we have ever seen (unfortunately, this same solution is replicated in the SAP APO DP product). At every customer that we evaluate, SAP BI/BW, as well as SAP APO DP, can do the least of any of the applications in its category. Both have the highest TCO in their respective software categories. Companies that use BI have bad reports and companies that use DP have high forecast error. However, because the major consulting companies can bill for their SAP DP and SAP BI/BW resources, and do not have resources trained on more efficient applications, they continue to be recommended to clients. If you are a buyer that had a major consulting company recommend SAP BI/BW or DP to you, and you have observed the lack of productivity in these applications, you now know why these products were recommended to you. It had absolutely nothing to do with the quality of these applications. BI/BW has atrocious report development productivity. This means that BI/BW reports are universally late; companies that purchase BI/BW are not able to meet their reporting needs. We have occasionally heard BI/BW referee to as a Roach Motel for reporting requirements. That is "requirements go in, but reports don't come out."
The entire slow motion and problematic BI and DP product is what happens when a company like SAP, that had no previous experience in advanced data structures creates products in a software category and uses its marketing muscle and partnerships with influencers like consulting companies and IT analysts to present the notion that SAP has competitive applications in these categories.
Buyer after buyer complains to us about reports that are late or never appear, and this should not be surprising to anyone when we use SAP DP (which uses the same data backend as SAP BI), things that take us days to do, take hours in other applications. The application Demand Works Smoothie has a very efficient approach to building relationships versus SAP DP (Demand Works is profiled in our section in our Software Selection Package for Demand Planning). When we were testing the application, we at first thought Demand Works had developed some new database technology. However, it uses a star schema the same as SAP DP (and the same as BI/BW), yet the way in which Demand Works configured the star schema made the application almost maintenance free, while SAP BI/BW makes setting up data structures too similar to a root canal. SAP BI/BW is the prototypical application that comes with a lot of bells and whistles (and is now being promoted to run on "HANA" – an in-memory database technology).
However, HANA will still not address the productivity problems with the application. Other vendors such as Teradata have been using solid state drives (SSDs) combined with hard drives to improve performance for some time; they don't make a big marketing push related to offering upgraded hardware to their clients. (SAP proponents would argue that HANA is much more than SSDs, and it is, but because SAP is so grandiose regarding HANA and so much of their statements regarding what HANA includes – it's a lengthy conversation as to what HANA actually is, and many of SAP's comments regarding HANA are also not reliable.) In fact, SAP's constant harping on HANA is a distraction, as it is intended to be by SAP sales. The sap is attempting to distract customers from looking at the reality of SAP's dated, expensive and inefficient applications by adding the marketing zest of a further technology promise in the embodied in HANA so that buyers will not notice that its' previous technology predictions and promises have not worked out.
Naturally, buyers can choose any other BI application other than SAP BI/BW and be sure of making a better decision than choosing SAP BI/BW. SAP BI/BW does not even make sense for companies that already own a large number of other SAP applications. Getting a few limited adapters will not make up for purchasing the worst BI/BW application currently sold.
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Vendor and Application Risk
SAP BI/BW implementations are some of the toughest in IT. The building of data structures is so antiquated and difficult that it will require gobs of time from some of the most expensive resources that work in business intelligence. Users will complain mightily regarding the reporting interface, and the project will have major user adoption issues. When report changes are requested, they will take a very long period, The project team will have to constantly fight the business users to migrate them away from whatever personal or parochial data tools/reports that they rely upon – in order to redirect them back to SAP BI/BW so that the buyer can get some financial payback on SAP BI/BW.
Likelihood of Implementation Success
This accounts for both the application and vendor-specific risk. In our formula, the total implementation risk is application + vendor + buyer risk. The buyer specific risk could increase or decrease this overall likelihood and adjust the values that you see below.
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Risk Management Approach
SAP BI/BW has extraordinarily low productivity, and so reports should be kept to an absolute minimum. It is better to let the business users know how few reports they will get up front rather than stringing them out, only to disappoint them. Unfortunately, none of this will be communicated by SAP or by their partners, the major consulting companies. BI/BW is known only to be able to deliver a very small number of the promised reports at company after company. We typically recommend hiring an independent consultant – and they can be found readily for SAP BI/BW. However, don't expect objectivity from this consultant and they will tow the line proposed by SAP and the major consulting company, and a buyer will have a difficult time finding one that will tell them the truth.
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The industry fallout caused by the Brexit vote of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union will take some time to become clear but what is emerging is a determination by the architects of the Single European Sky to deliver the vision of ATM modernisation for the region, writes Aimée Turner.
UK air navigation services provider NATS has played a pivotal role in the region's efforts to boost the competitiveness of its aviation industry although some observers fear that the United Kingdom could now lose its place at the negotiating table in shaping future regulation.
NATS is certainly keen to play down the potential impact on the Single European Sky project and on its participation within the technical SESAR (Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research) programme, both of which seek to increase safety, efficiency and capacity while reducing delays within European airspace.
"The impact of the UK's vote to leave the EU will not in the short term change anything," NATS told Air Traffic Management. "We will still have to comply with the requirements of the current regulatory targets as part of the UK-Ireland Functional Airspace Block (FAB); we will continue to upgrade our technologies during the 2015-2019 regulatory period, which will enable us to deploy concepts developed through SESAR that will benefit our customers and passengers. Neither will it change the need for airspace modernisation in the UK."
The UK's decision to leave the EU could still lead to uncertainty around many of the agreements and regulations that underpin Single European Sky legislation.
"Longer term, any potential impact of the decision on NATS will depend to a large extent on the type of new relationship that is forged between the UK and the EU and how aviation will be treated within this," said NATS. "If the UK continues to comply with the requirements of Single European Sky legislation, we would not anticipate significant change to NATS' future activities, although it may be the case that the UK is less able to influence the future direction of SES legislation."
International airline industry group IATA has warned that if no formal arrangement existed in future in terms of post-Brexit cooperation with the EU, there could be a 'full divorce and a clean break' in aviation terms. "Any bilateral air services arrangements between the UK and the EU would be strictly limited to market access," it warned. "This option would secure maximum policy freedom for UK policymakers with the only supranational influence coming through the multilateral Chicago Convention framework of ICAO. At the same time, the UK could be excluded from European initiatives such as the Single European Sky which it has long promoted and championed."
One highly placed source ventured that NATS may be freed from complying with stringent European ATM performance targets although a lack of adherence here may place a question mark over its access to European funding for its national SESAR programme through the Connecting Europe Facility. "It will all depend on the terms of a future exit agreement but this could take two years to resolve," he said.
NATS conceded that there may be implications for its contribution within the SESAR programme should the UK Government choose to seek an alternative to its current commitment to the Single European Sky, but noted that it was not possible to assess what these might be at this stage.
Another issue for NATS is arguably its business in Europe and what measures may apply in future as this could significantly affect its trading. In recent years EU regulations have opened up the flight market with aviation regulations including Article 119 which guarantees EU airlines the right to operate point to point air routes within the EU, in addition to the Open Skies agreements which allow EU countries to act as one when agreeing rules with other countries.
The extent to which operating from outside the EU would impact costs for travellers and therefore traffic levels would depend largely on the agreements the UK Government adopts and the ease with which the transition to the new arrangements takes place.
NATS here conceded that economic uncertainty and market volatility that may result from the vote to leave could affect the demand for air travel and therefore its future revenue although it insisted that any changes here would be mitigated by traffic volume risk sharing arrangements.
IATA here warned that prolonged uncertainty will influence both the magnitude and persistence of any economic impact: "Preliminary estimates suggest that the number
of UK air passengers could be 5 per cent lower by 2020, driven by the expected downturn in economic activity and the fall in the sterling exchange rate."
Industry commentator Andrew Charlton of Aviation Advocacy also questioned what would become of those agreements signed by the Europeans on behalf of all of the members of the European Union – notably the EU-US Open Skies agreement, adding that the mandate that the Commission has just secured to negotiate with the United Arab Emirates, will now "likely not include Britain". "That weakens both the European case and the British case too," said Charlton.
One European ANSP chief told Air Traffic Management that he believed that NATS would continue to participate in the Single European Sky and SESAR programmes. "It is too early to draw any conclusions, the UK's exit from the EU may take several years, and during this time a lot can change. But Norway has been part of SESAR and they have done it with their own money. The key issue is that NATS will still be physically in Europe and very much involved to what we are doing here."
He pointed out that NATS and those UK companies participating in the SESAR programme will remain intent on maintaining and growing market share although funding that growth could become an issue.
"NATS' system development is tied to the Single European Sky and SESAR, so it will take perhaps a decade before they will really take a separate course from EU developments – if they will at all. They are also part of Eurocontrol where they will remain," he said.
He also noted the leading role NATS plays within the European ANSP alliance Borealis: "I am definitely troubled on this issue. We have applied for a lot of support money from the EU to develop Borealis Free Route Airspace and NATS probably won't get that funding now. I hope that we will continue doing things together but there is always this political element that has its own logic so I dare not to predict," he said.
A further issue is the political spat between Spain and the UK over the vexed issue of Gibraltar which has hobbled fresh SES2+ legislative measures to accelerate the delivery of the Single European Sky objectives.
EU transport commissioner Violeta Bulc told an aviation summit earlier this year that completing the Single European Sky remained central to guaranteeing the sustainable future of the industry both domestically within the EU in addition to its performance in international markets. "Delivering on the SES 2+ regulation in 2016 is vital," she said. "This is the single biggest issue to be resolved in making our EU aviation market more efficient and competitive."
In the wake of the Leave vote, theoretically at least, the problem of Gibraltar would be solved since there would no longer be any need for a specific clause as advocated by Spain.
Brexit fallout for Single Sky remains unclear
The industry fallout caused by the Brexit vote of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union will take some time to become clear but what is emerging is a determination by the architects of the Single European Sky to deliver the vision of ATM modernisation for the region, writes Aimée Turner.


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Annexinema At the Cinema
Friday 10th December 2010
Byron Cinema & Bingo, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
Annexinema was commissioned by Sideshow to research and make a film responding to the history of cinemas and cinema-going in Nottingham and beyond. This was presented at Hucknall's Byron Bingo, a former cinema whose auditorium remains intact, yet unused, above a bingo hall.
Guest were taken by coach from Nottingham to Hucknall, during which Dr Lucy Faire, a social historian from the University of Leicester, gave a talk on our local cinemas as we passed some of the key sites of their history.
Part 1
Jack Helyer
At the Pipe Organ
A recording of Helyer playing the Conacher organ at the Odeon Cinema, Nottingham, circa 1962.
At the Cinema 1
UK, 2010, video, 5mins, black & white, sound
The intertwining histories of early cinema and trains.
Ken Jacobs
Opening The Nineteenth Century: 1896
USA, 1990, 16mm, 9mins, colour, sound, 3-D utilizing Pulfrich Effect
"1890s Lumiere/1990 Ken Jacobs. Shafting the screen: the projector beam maintains its angle as it meets the screen and keeps on going, introducing volume as well as light, just as the Paris, Cairo and Venice of a century ago happen to pass."
Stephen Connolly with Patrick Keiller
Nottingham Panorama
UK, 2007, HD video, 7mins, colour, silent
The film consists of a montage of the current city and the early twentieth century tram ride from Nottingham Train Station to the former Victoria Train Station, now the site of the Victoria Centre. Incorporating 'Tram Rides Through Nottingham' (Mitchell & Kenyon, 1902) courtesy of the BFI.
Frank Abbott
Moving Histories
UK, 2010, Video, 5mins, colour, sound
Like the arrival of a comet, the opening of the Grand Theatre cinema in Hyson Green in 1896 created a shift in our understanding of the world, before people from around the world had arrived. Frank's film introduces the site of the Grand, and shows the results of a recent workshop to create new moving images for the space.
Emily Richardson
The Futurist
UK, 2010, HD video, 4mins, colour, sound
The Futurist is a condensed experience of film viewing, a single 360 degree animated shot in an empty 1920s cinema where the sound becomes a cacophony of past projections and the aural experience is closer to that of the projectionist than the audience.
Jim Steptoe
The Projectionist
UK, circa 1960, 16mm transferred to video, 6mins, black & white, silent
An amateur film from the Media Archive of Central England, showing a day in the life of a cinema projectionist at the Victory Cinema in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire.
At the Cinema 2
UK, 2010, slides/sound recordings, 6mins, colour, sound
Memories of local cinemas and their current incarnations.
Bill Freeman
Cinema of the 70s
UK, 1965, 8mm transferred to video, 12mins, colour, sound
A local film shot in 1965 showing an optimistic hope for the future of cinemas in Nottingham. With hindsight, many of the cinemas featured have now closed, and this films stands as a testament to the pre-multiplex era.
At the Cinema 3
UK, 2010, video/sound recordings, 6mins, colour, sound
Recollections of the Elite cinema on Parliament Street (now Gatecrasher nightclub) and a particular screening of Earthquake. Events change with each person's recollection.
Part 2
Dallas Simpson
UK, 2010, 15mins, binaural sound
A binaural sound art performance was made in the Byron cinema in the afternoon during a weekday in October 2010. The 40 minute performance has been edited and layered to create a shorter sound piece that uses aural elements of the building to evoke the history of cinema past.
At the Cinema 4
UK, 2010, still photos/sound recordings, 2mins, colour, sound
The once popular Odeon is still strong in people's memories, whilst the building slowly crumbles into disrepair.
Bill Morrison
The Death Train
USA, 1993, 16mm, 17mins, black & white, sound
The Death Train was originally conceived of as part of John Moran's opera Everyday Newt Burman. The minimal dialogue was taken from the piece in which the Doctor and Mrs. Frumpington share a compartment on a train, which is transporting their souls to the Hereafter.
'A history of cinema is played out during the film's lifetime. Early train footage and zoetrope animation are combined with mid-century newsreel and educational films, finally concluding in a long, modern, aerial shot. Each frame is a compartment in the train of film, pausing briefly before our eyes to be observed, thereby living its life in this screening, while being carried to the Hereafter.
ATV Today
Refining Silver From Television and Cinema Film
UK, 1967, TV news, 5mins, black & white, silent
At an unidentified industrial location we see large amounts of scrap film being collected and shovelled into a furnace. The resulting ashes are then processed for their silver content which is shown in both molten and bullion forms. The facility appears to be destroying a lot of 35mm film as well as television material (BBC and Rediffusion tins are visible).
Wayne Burrows
UK, 2010, performance, 6mins, colour, sound
A fictional slideshow of still and moving images with live narration attempts to reconstruct the events of August 17 1973, when a former Naval radio engineer claimed to have photographed unexplained atmospheric phenomena in and around Nottingham.
At the Cinema 5
UK, 2010, video, 5mins, colour, sound
A close study of The Byron as it now stands in waiting for its next incarnation.


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There may be instances when female stars demanded and received pay parity but actor Dia Mirza believes real change will come when we tell stories that give equal opportunity to both the genders. The actor believes the industry needs to mature in its treatment of women and the kind of roles that are written for them.
"It is about time that women in industry address gender disparity. Until the industry matures in its understanding that we need to treat women equally, not much can change. It is a combination of two things. One is that women need to start asserting their rights and also it has to be narrated. Gender pay disparity exists largely also because films are usually headlined by men," Dia said.
The actor-producer said sometimes it is difficult to ask for equal pay as the film is driven by a male star and the roles of women are not pivotal to its story.
"Salaries are fixed based on the popularity of the stars… A film shouldn't have to be a female dominated film or male dominated. They should give equal opportunity to women. The balance is cued in not just the way we function but also in the way we tell stories. Things will improve when we start witnessing that balance in the stories we tell, in the choices we make and in the way we assert ourselves," said.
Dia said there is a shift in the way industry treats its female stars but much still needs to be done. "I agree that more films these days have strong female characters but we need many, many more. Also if you think about the representation of women in the industry in the technical side — directors, writers, cinematographers, sound recorders, editors etc. –, even that ratio is skewed. So we need more women storytellers to bring balance to that skewed equation.
"I joined the industry at a time the shift we see today didn't even exist. I remember once when I refused a film I was asked, 'Why did you refuse the film? It has a superstar in it and you have four songs, so why are you saying no?' The point is that the idea of what women contributed to a film was very different from what it is becoming now, especially in the commercial cinema," Dia said.
She also commended the #MeToo and Time's Up movements that started after the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal.
Many people in India also resonated with the movements and Dia feels social media has empowered the women all over the world to speak up against the ill.
"Social media has played a very positive role in bringing about a social change. I think it has opened minds. So many women in our country today have become better aware and informed, and have a better sense of their rights," she said.
(With IANS Inputs)


text: Fusion science, which seeks to recreate the energy of the stars for use on Earth, has long been the holy grail of energy researchers. The discipline has its skeptics, but officials at Livermore Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are confident that commercially viable fusion power plants will be possible within the next few decades. Ever since it was founded in the early 1950s, LLNL has been developing methods to unlock the mystery of fusion power. There are two principle techniques: magnetic fusion and inertial confinement fusion (ICF). When the laser was invented in 1960, Livermore scientists glommed onto the idea of using convergent beams of light to ignite a fusion micro-explosion. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) continue to pursue the goal of achieving controlled thermonuclear burn in the laboratory using laser light. On Aug. 13, 2013, all 192 of the ultra-powerful laser beams at NIF converged on a tiny deuterium-tritium filled capsule. In a matter of nanoseconds, the capsule imploded and released a neutron yield of nearly 3×10^15, or approximately 8,000 joules of neutron energy. It was a record-setting yield, three times higher than previous efforts.


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There is no coup plot or any plan whatsoever to derail the present democratic governance, the military said yesterday.
It expressed their unalloyed loyalty to the constitution and President Muhammadu Buhari as the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces would not derail from protecting the nation's democracy and would completely surbordinate themselves to civil rule, the military said.
The Director of Defence Information at the Defence Headquarters, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, at a news conference in Abuja, said the clarification became necessary following the comments credited to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai and the reactions the comment generated across the country and at the international level.
He said : "What I am telling you on behalf of the Armed Forces of Nigeria is that nobody should be afraid of any coup. The Armed Forces is totally loyal to the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, and in complete subordination to civil authority.
"At all levels of commands, we are out there, including our troops, and we will remain focussed and conscious about the oath of allegiance that we have taken and guided by the constitution of this country. So, that is my remark to you, to build on that and then reassure the general public that there is nothing like coup; nothing like that would ever be supported or encouraged.
"If there is a sign of anything like that, then there are instances and guiding rules and regulations and procedures, which we normally follow, and we want to assure Nigerians that we are not in a different world, on our own. We know what is happenning all over the whole world, our armed forces , and crop of officers and men we have are modern. We are in tune with the best international practice of governance and that is democracy, democracy, democracy."
Maj.-Gen. Enenche who was flanked at the briefing by Army spokesman Brig.-Gen Sani Usman and the representative of Navy spokesperson, Commander Edward Yeibo, said the statement credited to the Army chief about relationships between some civilians and army personnel was routine, to ensure conformity with ethics of the military in all ramifications.
The Defence spokesperson said: " Professionally, it is a command responsibility to caution officers and men on routine basis to conform to the ethics of the military in all ramifications, which includes interactions and exchange of visits, among others. This command responsibility is exercised right from the highest echelon, such as the office of the Service Chiefs down to the lowest levels of command. Hence, the caution from the Army in this case .
" Secondly, administratively, officers and men are regularly cautioned to exercise command and control by Appropriate Superior Authorities through commanders at various levels. This is to prevent members of the armed forces from derailing from their core focus of total dedication to their oath of allegiance. Thus, it is a usual practice in military administration.
"However, it is pertinent to state that if there are signs of actions that point to likely breaches of military code of conduct, as it were, cautions or warnings are issued with possible investigations following. Thus, in the present situation, the Armed Forces and the Army in particular has employed the due process to ensure that officers and men remain committed to performing their constitutional roles. As such, the mention of coup plots from some quarters are assertions which are not confirmed.
"At this juncture, let me assure all Nigerians and lovers of this country that the Armed Forces is and will remain totally loyal to the Commander-ln-Chief (C-in-C) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and in complete subordination to civil rule.
"Furthermore, all fears about a coup should be allayed as the contemporary Nigerian Military is abreast with the best international practices in governance, which is democracy. In this regard, the military high and other levels of command will continue to ensure effective training and administration, to ensure that the armed Forces of Nigeria, retain its place of pride amongst the military globally."
He dismissed as untrue the allegations that soldiers were unduly attached to some politicians, saying "only the Minister of Defence and the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces have soldiers attached to them".
Maj. Gen Enenche cautioned Nigerians against jumping into conclusions on certain issues, insisting that administrative procedures which require time, would have to be explored.
He said the armed forces were concerned about the interception and proliferation of arms at the nation's borders and ports, adding that they are working alongside other security agencies and committees established by the government to arrest the situation.
On the renewed efforts of insurgents and recent bomb explosions by the Boko Haram group, Maj.-Gen. Enenche described those involved as diehard insurgents who refused to be de-radicalised, adding that such groups blow up themselves when they are about to be apprehended by security forces.
He that within a short period, the armed forces would clear the Northeast of such insurgent groups.


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Cardiovascular system monitoring includes a myriad of tools and methodological approaches for the adequate diagnosis, treatment of patients, and preventive medicine (Webster, 2006; Akay, 2006). The cardiovascular system is a complex network centered on the heart, a self-paced organ that pumps blood through the pulmonary and systemic circulations. Heart activity may be analyzed via various physiological signals that are related such as the electrocardiogram (ECG), impedance cardiogram (ICG), the phonocardiogram (PCG), or blood pressure (BP). These different signals represent different information, related to electrical and hemodynamic processes (Guyton and Hall,2006).
Reliable, noninvasive and continuous assessment of the cardiovascular state is extremely important in clinical practice since the cardiovascular state may shift rapidly e.g. in anesthesia care or neurally mediated syncope onset (Meyer et al., 2011). The advantages of noninvasive physiological signal analysis have long been known (Lewis et al., 1977), but recent studies have focused in the noninvasive signal analysis of the cardiovascular state to estimate hemodynamic variables such as BP and Cardiac Output (Smith and Ventura, 2013; Couceiro et al., 2011). Noninvasive monitoring of the cardiovascular state of a patient is gaining a lot of interest for a safer, continuous, and comfortable patient assessment, in clinical and home-based scenarios (Zheng et al., 2014; Ha et al., 2014).
Two reviews on noninvasive methods to estimate BP were recently published: (Peter et al., 2014) focused on the noninvasive estimations using the auscultatory, oscillometric and tonometry techniques, as well as on pulse wave velocity and pulse transit/arrival time as BP surrogates; in (Buxi et al., 2015), the authors focused on pulse transit/arrival time methodologies, discussing calibration, acquisition and processing of the non-invasive signals, and the design of measurement systems. This chapter focuses on the review of the noninvasive surrogate cardiovascular signals only, addressing not only the pulse transit/arrival time methodologies, but also the combined and individual use of heart sound (PCG) and photoplethysmography (PPG), discussing their limitations.
The use of surrogate measures for BP inference is gaining commercial traction and products for clinical use are already available (Nihon Kohden, 2015; Sotera Wireless, 2015). Pulse wave transit time calculated from the ECG and the PPG is analyzed to detect changes in the BP in order to trigger a cuff-based BP measure (PWTT, Nihon Kohden) (Nihon Kohden, 2015). Recently, a first system was approved by the FDA for BP monitoring in general ward based on pulse arrival time (ViSi Mobile, Sotera Wireless), which requires intermittent recalibration by standard cuff-based BP measurements (Sotera Wireless, 2015). Due to this market interest, the need in the standardized characterization of these new BP measurement approaches has been addressed by a first IEEE-standard for wearable cuffless blood pressure measurement devices dealing with the calibration issue and performance evaluation (IEEE-SA, 2014).
This chapter presents a review of approaches for the noninvasive BP estimation based on noninvasive surrogate metrics of the cardiovascular state. It is organized in the following sections: Blood Pressure Monitoring, where current methods in clinical use will be briefly described; Physiology of the Cardiovascular System, where basic principles and their relations to different noninvasive signals are presented, as well as BP regulation mechanisms are discussed; Methodological Review, where the main approaches for the noninvasive BP estimation will be described with a review on the most relevant studies; and finally, a critical Discussion is presented.


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Little Man has started March break.
To celebrate, we both visited Montreal's Retro Expo.
It took place at the Delta Hotel.
For Little Man it was just an exposition of really cool, really old stuff.
For me it was a look into my childhood.
The event itself was fun.
For a five dollar entry fee you can take a stroll back into what it was like to be a child of the 80s and 90s.
I stood looking at all the merchandise thinking, so and so had that toy, he had that one. I was never allowed that one.
It was really great fun.
Little Man found his happy place at the video game table. They had everything from Gameboy to the original Nintendo console, Game Cube, Sega and all sorts in between. Since we have quite a few of those consoles still in operation, Little Man came home with a couple of games. March Break will now be Simpsons action packed!
I came home with a mission to track down Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. I was addicted to that game a number of years back. The story line was fantastical and in depth. I am looking to purchase another copy of this game for a reasonable price. I do not really want to sacrifice an organ. I might need it later.
It was a wonderful day!
While we did not actually take photographs within the event, we did take a few on the way home.
While I am not sure what this week will bring, we will make the best of some down time and quality video gaming marathons.
I hope you are all well
Chat with you later.


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Minecraft #17
Today i will be talking about gold. Gold is one of the ores that you can mine but when you break it you have to put it in a furnace to smelt it so it can be an iron ingot. Once you have it an ingot you can make stuff with it. Some stuff you can make is a golden apple,golden block,golden tools,powered railways. What the golden apple does is it gives you regeneration for about 10 seconds also it gives you absorption for 1 minute absorption gives you 2 extra hearts so you don't die. A golden block can be for decoration or you can make a super golden apple. What a super golden apple does is it gives you the same thing as a golden apple but it gives you fire resistance and resistance and it is really good. Golden tools suck because they break really fast but they break blocks fast. Powered railways lets you travel on mine carts faster so you can go to your destinations faster gold is really good BUT DIAMONDS ARE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Minecraft #16
I will be talking about a mod called too much TNT. This mod adds a lot more TNT. Some of the more TNT added are Drill TNT,water TNT,fire TNT,ice TNT and a lot more TNT which makes the game even more fun. The strongest TNT is the nuke when u place it down you have 25 seconds to run away as far as you can if you do not make it far enough you will get hit by the nuke and die. When the nuke explodes it makes a big hole in the ground and there is green stuff on the ground if you step on the green stuff you will take damage because it is one of the nukes effects. You can make a nuke bunker but the nuke will still destroy the bunker. The house TNT has 3 different versions the first one explodes and it makes a wood house the second one makes a stone house and the third one makes a brick house. When the TNT explodes you take no damage it just makes a house for you the houses are basic. The drill TNT has two types the first one makes a 1 block drill into the ground all the way to bedrock and the second one does the same thing but it makes a bigger hole. The other TNT'S are basic water one makes water fire makes fire. There are a lot more TNT'S but that's like 30 or more. Go download the mod it's an amazing MOD!!!!!!!!!
Minecraft #15
I will be talking about a mini-game called dragon escape and the mini-game you have to run away from a dragon while doing parkour there are many obstacles and if you do not make it to the end you fall down in the void or in the lava. You can get classes 1 of the classes is warper you can tele port to the person in front of you and you get a axe that will make you get a double jump and all the other classes are the same except the disruptr one you get a TNT
Minecraft #14
I will be talking about MODS!!!!. Mods are a thing in minecraft which adds more stuff to minecraft to get mods you have to download it from a website some mods are the lucky block mod what it does is it is a block that you can break and you might get good stuff or bad stuff. Some of the bad stuff is a giant zombie TNT a block that drops on you and kills you also a cage the drops lava on you. The good stuff is a lucky sword that is a really strong sword also free potions and blocks that you can break and get really good stuff. More mods are new worlds and new bioms.
New Video games coming out
There are a lot of new games coming out like Pokemon Omega ruby And Alpha Sapphire also Watch Dogs, Uncharted 4, Halo 5, Drive club, Super smash bros and a lot more. For pokemon it is a remake for Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire which were some of the best Pokemon games. Watch Dogs is a free roam game where you can hack stuff using a cell phone and do other cool things. Uncharted 4 not much information has been leaked. Drive club is a game here you can create your own driving club where you can add your friends to your crew and it is only on PS4. The new Super Smash Bros allows you to choose your favourite Nintendo or SEGA character's and fight other strong opponents.
Last of us
Today i will be talking about a game called the last of us. This game is about the apocalypse these people get infected by this disease and they turn into zombies. And these people have to escape.
Minecraft #12
Today i will be talking about another mini-game it is called the walls. In that game you have a team of 4 or 5 and you are in a cube shaped place. When you start you have nothing you have to find stuff mine for stuff and in 15 minutes the walls fall down and you have to go kill the other team some people make sky bases and you have to build all the way to top the last team standing wins.
Minecraft #11
I will be talking about game mode for multiplayer it is called sky wars. In sky wars you start in glass then you drop down and you have your own island and there is a chest,inside the chest there are tools that will help you win there is usually a sword,lava,water,food, and a lot of building blocks that will help you build to the middle and you have to kill other players.
Minecraft #10
I will be talking about builds. If you do not know what a build is it is making something in minecraft like a statue. There are a lot different build like a picture of your minecraft character a logo or a game like flappy bird Mario or anything. People usually make builds for the character logo or games out of wool because it is the best looking thing and you can change the color of wool by adding cactus green by putting cactus in a furnace or lapis which makes it blue you have to mine lapis also red dye you can get them from roses and a lot more colors. So the point of a build is because it looks cool and if you make a build for a character you can add stuff inside of it or make a house inside of it.
Minecraft #9
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May 15, 2018 PRISM International (Professional Records and Information Services Management) the not-for-profit organisation for document storage and archive companies has announced it will be combining with NAID (The National Association of Information Destruction).
Members including OSG Records Management voted unanimously to join together to provide a single entity. OSG Records Management is a long-standing member of PRISM and regularly meets with industry leaders to discuss developments to the industry. OSG will work with PRISM and NAID to address new issues with particular reference to the markets of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and former CIS countries.
The rationale for such a move was explained by NAID and i-SIGMA CEO Bob Johnson, "From the perspective of the marketplace, proper information and asset destruction is only one piece of the information management and data security challenge; this merger will create a unified mission."
Zeal over the merger was equally shared by newly installed PRISM President, Christopher Jones of Secure Records Solutions, "As a merged entity, we will have a stronger voice with policymakers, regulators, and decision-makers. Together we'll be able to share resources to help grow our businesses. And combined conferences and events will grow our presence worldwide that serves to reduce member costs. This simply makes sense."


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Apr 24, 2008
We Dodged a Bullet: Extremists Failed to Privatize Social Security
The stock market, like any other market, goes through cycles of activity. A secular bear market is a long period of time in which prices stagnate or decline and investors suffer punishing losses from which they might never recover. Such secular bear markets can last as long as 25 years! Since the mid 1990's, Washington extremists have been pushing the idea of privatizing Social Security. In this endeavor, they have shown themselves to be ignorant of - or maliciously indifferent to - secular stock market trends. Up to now, they have been unsuccessful in privatizing Social Security so as to enrich Wall Street. A Marketplace.org commentator reflects on their failure and says,
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concert day was a pain in the butt, probably cuz we sat too much on stage on the wooden platforms. HAHAHAHA
oh well. I thought romance of the red chamber was kinda not too bad. like I felt the best people in the production were the 3 leads. Their singing was good and so were their stage presence. :) oh yeah! the people from sco backstage are really nice, such as jedy! hahah she's like the friendly auntie from next door! hahahha
yeah gabriel, jialing, cc and I had so much food yesterday I think, from the leftover chicken and fish in the packet food to the buffet reception at the green room. HAHAHA :P
just emailed thomas seet for another internship enquiry. Thanks daniel!!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
concert day was a pain in the butt, probably cuz we sat too much on stage on the wooden platforms. HAHAHAHA
Saturday, February 27, 2010
i think i haven't been getting enough sleep the past week. SIANzzz.
met prof gerard with xh and daniel in the morning yesterday. was kinda embarrassed that we didn't really prepare for it... blah.
then had bt203 class and meeting. yay going shangri-la next thur with my thm group for site inspection. WOOHOO. yeah we were google-mapping and pp was damn amazed by the street view function. HAHA i was when i first saw it too.
yup then had sco prac at esplanade. after which was supper at marina square macs. :)
shit man. there's nothing to do online...why are all the WGM videos on youtube removed?!?! argh...
welll i still have been checking mail constantly after the disappointment a few days ago...yeah a positive email or phone call or sms would be really good!!! then i can stop being unhappy and all emo-uped.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
jaebum left jyp for good...
i just sang 2am's this song for class but i have no idea what the lyrics are about. BLAH.
went to screening room in the afternoon with jiesin and jade to do an interview with the management. it's quite fruitful. i guess those 2 girls will go down sometime again. hahah!
okay. another long day tml! meeting + meeting + rehearsal. OMG. no time to nua at home.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
i wish people can be less selfish and think for everyone instead, or at least act to make the situation better.
the sun's been scorching for the past few days. -sweats-
long day tml... HAHHAHA school then project then rubberband. WOOHOO i think our rendition is getting better liao. yay.
blah. have been eagerly checking my emails everyday, hoping that vincent's email will pop up in my email with good news. BAHHHH i guess no news is still good news. :)
TIRED from waking up early in the morning, and from rubberband prac. hahah everyone was quite excited and anxious i guess! that's why got comm breakdown. HAHAHAHA!!
Monday, February 22, 2010
ok and so the 4 things happened as planned.
BM305 meeting was rather productive :)
had egyptian lunch with josh. woohoo humus! then we went to the burnt house along arab street (?! shit what's the name??!?! oh yes haji lane!) yeah was climbing high and low, almost got hit by a nail, and was traumatised by joshua's account of how the second level almost collapsed from his weight. HAHAH! yeah we were trying to get drinks at 7eleven only to arrive at the store swamped by kids at their school excursions. HAHAHA what luck.
and had a photoshoot! woohoo josh's photography skills and camera are DAMN GOOD!
mr koh! yeah check out josh's facebook photos! esp the hdr ones!
then interview with ashli from transinex.
then sco rehearsal at sch. i walked from adelphi to SCH! woohoo. yeah had my subway dinner which i bought at 8.30pm at 10pm. OMG. haha
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
prac with maestro yeh and prof xu was kinda fun, and yet awkward at the same time since we just got our scores today and only learnt them today too. HMM. better prac more on monday!!!
anyway had vegetarian lunch at this restaurant along upp serangoon road. okay the food was really good, but the service sucked. they had 2 extra baby chairs which were reserved for a group which weren't even there and they wouldn't give them to my nephew. and we had to ask for plastic bowls THREE times. and the lady boss and her staff was talking about her new specs about 2 metres away from us. WTH. i guess i am hyper-sensitive to service failures.
watching hello baby on youtube. HAHA
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
catch rubberband on FM933 tml @ 9.15pm! :)
prac at zach's was KINDA productive only after daryl came. HAHHA yeah. we will be doing a new song which we have nv done before as rubberband on air tml. :)
just came back from raffles city whereby i had S61 class gathering at the crepe's place in raffles city fountain area. savoury crepes were going at 50% with a uob card so how could we miss it!? haha. yeah everybody's still the same, just that each one of us are definitely more mature in our thoughts, and PROBABLY knows where we are heading towards in life. HAHA
man what to sing for ntu open house!??!! after a few days' deliberation i decided to sing JJ's 背对背拥抱 and 2AM's This Song. hahha
aim is to get changmin's strong and stubborn G#.
actually i just wanted to list down some of the things that i wanna learn about singing:
- be able to blast that high note.
- expand my falsetto to at least a G. it currently caps at E
- expand my bass range. i am currently barely audible at F, but comfortable at A
- be able to do simple 尾音
- use more chest tones and be less nasal.
- faster ad libs to attain a more r&b feel
looking for ways to aid monday's photoshoot. poses and hair. maybe props?
another shaggs night! hahah
just came back from nelson's house. hahah looking forward to in song 2010 and concert tour in dec! :) shall post the details on the forum during 202. :)
going to haji lane on monday for photoshoot with josh! woohoo excited over egyptian lunch too. HAHAHAHA
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
dun like the fact that i seem to have countless number of things to do but i don't seem to be progressing
1. 933 interview songs
2. impresario finals song
3. ntu open house songs and writeup (hopefully joel will help with this)
4. bm305 readings and project
5. jam concert tix collection
6. perf crew profile and photo (yay josh's helping me with it! woohoo)
7. touch composition (due 22 feb)
8. thm club poster
9. in song 2010
10. vc handover
11. vc concert tour (shall wait for nelson)
12. PA application
13. BT202 indv assignment (due on 4 March)
1000th post! woohoo
shaggs max! hahah
got to sengkang mrt late (oppss)
went to cold storage to get the ingredients for dinner
couldn't find croutons at all.
i dun like chewy bubble gums
found shuting to be exceptionally talkative in the afternoon HAHAHA =X
was youtubing and saw this really cool vid of 2am and davichi. awesomeness at 2:24 and 3:36!
caught micky and jaejoong on golden fishery and mireen went "ándwae!" (how to spell?) for around 15 times
we were lao-ing yu sheng but we got it all over the floor and our hairs and even some people's hair. HAHAH EEEEEEEE. no wonder cr's dad complained about the floor being sticky! hahah sorry cr!
nic pangsayed and didn't come at all.
coleslaw sauce from cold storage's really gooooooood.
cr's japanese curry rice is ups! i would like to have 20X more meat inside though! hahahah
saboteur - wendy and miaoru are damn good at the game. they are born to cheat people of their feelings. :(
i zha hu for 2 times at mahjong. my gosh. they gave me discount but i still lost $9.60 in one game! blaahhhhh.
yay vs rocks.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
white and green tml :)
alright happy CNY everyone! :) and happy valentine's too! :)
omy. 中国杂技 is incredible! how do the chinese kids manage to smile so vibrantly throughout their performances? maybe cuz it was difficult to get on stage with so many other kids fighting for the same slot, that's why they cherished it. maybe it's cuz they really enjoyed it. or maybe because of some other reasons.
and how did those <10-year-olds manage to sing so nicely in front of thousands of people.
i think we just have to believe in whatever that we are singing in. believe in every note u make.
damn. feeling hungry. HAHa
doesn't really like waiting for something that he wants. BLAH. i like instant results and replies.
i am really quite disappointed in mac. it kept hanging when i tried to shut it down. itunes is incredibly slow. and msn messenger just sux. oh yeah not forgetting that keynote and pages don't read ppt and doc documents as well. BLAH. a seriously big gap 4. kinda felt overpromised by apple.
man! i guess i really cannot live without the internet! hahah
was really at a loss when i couldn't access the internet yesterday night. hahah
met up with alex, wenhao, terr and iris at vivo to get the cakes and yusheng and i did some shopping and finally managed to get the basics! woohoo and yay daryl's surprise birthday party was a success. another high-5 reg! he totally didn't expect it. hahaha obviously oblivious to everything around him. blur cock. oh togi's food was really good too! love the authentic korean hospitality that the lady boss showered on us. they even had tv which was on a korean channel! and we had yu sheng with lotsa crackers and yeah we made lotsa noise! hahhahah damn nice! bakerzin's blueberry and blackforest cheese cakes were fabulous too. after dinner we went and chillax by the river at clarke quay. yeah with lady HAHA whom julio named k. HAHA :)
Friday, February 12, 2010
woohoo. total coolness other than hsiao's pronunciation. HAHA
我们大 笑着一起 回头
两颗心 就会漫出来 快乐
想起来 怎么像梦
小的美好 大的感动
是过了 多少个秋冬
沦为下片的 电影
永远都不 会懂 什么叫认错
还想爱 却调头放手
倔强的表情里 闪过了失落
你的泪 让我痛
woohoo going to jam hsiao's concert on 13 mar! woohoo!
xiao jing teng has a disgustingly good voice. HAAHHA tell me how to make mine coarse!
oh yeah. was supposed to take an hour long nap. but got woken by lee kuan from impre. HAHA we are gonna have an interview on 933 soon i think. WOOHOO
eh. i didn't know that i get to dream that quickly! like i have been dreaming for the entire 20 mins which i have been asleep. i think i started dreaming at most 5-10 mins after i dozed off. whoah interesting! :P
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
nv ever thought that i would get a pair of green jeans. HAHAH! just like how i never would have gotten the checked pants from tw. :P shopping and dinner with lip yong today was fun! :) alright. but waraku wasn't really good. like the upsized portion was merely just an addition of more noodles. and it sucks that we weren't able to order food from the 2 shokudos which were just side by side each other. horizontal communication!!!
Monday, February 08, 2010
thinking of doing a lin you jia song for thur and open house. :)
可能我浪荡 让人家不安
才会 结果都 阵亡
我又不脆弱 何况那算什么伤
我没有说谎 我何必说谎
你懂我的 我对你从来就 不会假装
我哪有说谎 请别以为你有多难忘
角落那窗口 闻得到玫瑰花香
我没有说谎 我何必说谎
你知道的 我缺点之一就是很 健忘
我哪有说谎 是很感谢今晚的相伴
我没有说谎 我何必说谎
爱一个人 没爱到难道就会怎么样
别说我说谎 人生已经如此地艰难
我没有说谎 是爱情说谎
它带你来骗我说渴望的有可能有 希望
我没有说谎 祝你做个幸福的新娘
我的心事请你就 遗忘
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Saturday, February 06, 2010
tonight shall always be remembered as the BEEs Night. HAHAH
happy 21st christina!
Was at a photoshoot for impresario in the morning. sorry that rubberband was terribly late! hahah we damn dua pai. HAHAH
anyway photoshoot was fun and professional i guess. HAHA :)
Friday, February 05, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
what a fruitful day.
had an interview for PA just now. hopefully things work out fine and i would be able to work in either beijing or shanghai during the summer hols! huahahahah seriously looking forward to it!
yeah. but failed to go for blood donation cuz i forgot my ic! damn it. shall attempt another time tml. HAHA
waiting to go to nie for choir at 4.30pm. lalala.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Monday, February 01, 2010
haha spent the whole day at alicia's house cuz she's just moved into her unit. HAHAH yeah was her maria for today - helped her mop the floor, cleaned the windows, carried bags and chair. hAHAHA :P then had lunch and dinner with her and jie ying. :)
dreading the meeting tml cuz i dunno a thing. SHITs.


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