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Investors wary of stocks and bonds will quickly be able to try their success on a brand new sports activities betting fund that hopes to profit through the usage of algorithms to are expecting the final results of fits.
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Up Stratagem, ambitions to exploit advances in synthetic intelligence to examine soccer, basketball, and tennis fit the use of algorithms to place bets before and at some stage in games.
The business enterprise's leader executive officer, former Goldman Sachs trader Charles McGarraugh, stated its "closing intention" became to set up betting on sports activities as an asset magnificence.
Among the techniques it uses, the organization has evolved generation to map football pitches spatially in actual time, tracking balls and players, allowing its computers to "watch" a football suit. Betting both before and all through video games, the enterprise also employs sports activities professionals in a tracking function.
Keep Your Friends Close and Investors Closer
Most have heard the saying " hold your buddies close however your enemies closer." When it comes to commercial enterprise, an entrepreneur has to consider following those pointers. Founders depend on traders to help financially when starting or developing a commercial enterprise. These finances are derived from three styles of traders: family and friends, angel buyers, and mission capitalists. By no approach is an angel investor or assignment capitalize an enemy, but because of a loss of trust or non-public relationship, the entrepreneur tends, to begin with asking own family and pals for monetary capital. Investments from cherished ones are very not unusual, despite the fact that businessmen have to take precaution in depending totally on those price range.
Family and friends are important while walking an enterprise and
Investments from friends and family are regularly what make a startup possible inside the first location" (Wasserman 257). Those people also offer aid, encouragement, and positive grievance for the entrepreneur. The ability to bop thoughts off others and advantage self-assurance in offering a marketing strategy is useful. "A founder is greatly influenced via the circle of relatives and way of life wherein she or he grew up in. The maximum effective influences may additionally come from the early messages dispatched with the aid of the phrases and movement of older loved ones or via the way of life wherein someone grew up" (Wasserman 30). The founder will, in the end, have the final decision even though loved ones participate in an effective effect.
Regardless of the business stage, startup or growth
The entrepreneur has to be prudent in deciding on an investor(s). According to David Amis and Howard Stevenson inside the e-book, The 7 Fundamentals of Early Stage Investing, an investor can participate in one or extra of the five essential roles: Silent investor, reserve force, crew member, teach, controlling investor, or lead investor. Other concerns when deciding on an investor must consist of:
1. Investor's goals and passions
2. Market information/expertise three
. Social capital in a particular enterprise
4. Successful revel in and recognition
five. Financial ability
It isn't always out of the area of opportunity to have a chum or family member(s) invest inside the entrepreneur's commercial enterprise and attain a high stage of success. The founder both furnished a professional structure for the member to abide by or the buddy/member of the family encompassed several or all the traits listed above.
Investments from family and buddies are difficult to address when the member values the small amount of wealth donated,
Does not offer any enterprise abilities or enterprise expertise, and struggles with an expert dating. "A boss-subordinate (entrepreneur-investor) relationship might also make best organizational feel, however, will no longer fit a pair of quality friends very well; nor will positions of identical authority match a father and son" (Wasserman 102). The fulfillment of the enterprise sits on the shoulders of the entrepreneur and all choice-making is his/her obligation. Stressful enterprise conditions and variations in opinion can considerably boom tension in a personal relationship. Retaining a pal or family member as an investor removes a non-enterprise surroundings, that may reason impacting dating harm.
Mixing Alcohol and Prescription Drugs – The Big Gamble
Many people with a ingesting trouble also are the use of drugs for an array of reasons. It is a great concept to recognise the risks concerned from mixing alcohol with these capsules. Here is a listing of some of the outcomes that can be expected whilst blending ingesting with tablets.
Antibiotics as we recognize are used to treat infectious sicknesses. In mixture with acute alcohol consumption, a few antibiotics can motive nausea, vomiting, headache, and in extra extreme instances convulsions. At the very least, alcohol consumption decreases or nullifies the outcomes of the antibiotic. In other phrases, there's no factor in taking antibiotics in case you are consuming due to the fact the antibiotic won't paintings and also you won't enjoy any of the advantages of the antibiotic.
Alcoholism and depression often cross hand in hand, leading to a superb risk of alcohol-antidepressant interactions. Alcohol will increase the sedative effect of tricyclic antidepressants together with Elavil and other similar drugs, impairing the mental talents required for say, using. This is because acute (consuming on a ordinary basis) alcohol consumption will increase the provision of a few tricyclics, potentially increasing their sedative consequences. Also there is a chemical known as tyramine, observed in some beers and wine to be able to interact with a few anti-depressants, ensuing in a dangerous rise in blood stress, and if it is going excessive enough can result in stroke. Even simply one drink can set the stage for an interplay like this.
Anti-diabetic Medication
Oral hypoglycemic capsules are prescribed to assist lower blood sugar ranges in some sufferers with diabetes. Chronic alcohol consumption decreases the supply of these wanted drugs on your device. Alcohol additionally interacts with a few drugs of this class to supply symptoms of nausea and headache. In addition to the potential drug interplay, at the same time as slight quantities of alcohol can purpose blood sugar to upward push, excess alcohol can absolutely lower your blood sugar stage — sometimes causing it to drop into dangerous levels.
When diabetics run into critical departures from the suitable blood sugar levels, it outcomes in organic degeneration.
Drugs like Benadryl and similar drugs on this family are available with out prescription to treat allergic signs and insomnia. Alcohol can accentuate the sedation caused by some antihistamines, causing slower reactions and bad judgment. These pills might also motive immoderate dizziness and sedation more intensely in older humans.
Antipsychotic Medications
Drugs together with Thorazine for instance are used to decrease psychotic symptoms which include delusions and hallucinations. Acute alcohol consumption increases the sedative effect of these tablets ensuing in impaired coordination and probably deadly respiration issues. Further, the combination of chronic alcohol ingestion and antipsychotic capsules can accelerate liver damage.
Antiseizure Drugs
These tablets are prescribed specially to deal with epilepsy. Chronic ingesting can appreciably reduce the patient's safety in opposition to the epileptic seizures, even all through a length of abstinence.
Sublimated Soccer Jerseys – The Indispensable Sports Wear
In recent instances 'sublimation' has emerged as a completely popular printing method. In fact, it could be defined as the inimitable face of virtual printing generation that satisfies the endless dreams of this dynamic client global. This particular manner is used to print sublimated dyes directly to a polyester base object or material with the assist of a in particular made inkjet printer. Heat and stress when thrust upon the dye trade into gaseous form and get absorbed into the cloth similar to its own part and does no longer appearance as something imprinted. Want to know greater about how this route of motion is useful? Let this post stroll you through the same.
Easy on the pocket: Screen printing needs a splendid deal of putting in place
Separate displays, movies whereas this resourceful modern-day method does now not contain the sort of distinctive listing of prerequisites. As such, it's far touted as a value-effective measure.
You get what you need! Since there may be no cumbersome screen shuffling on this manner, customization is handy, in contrast to batch display printing. With sublimation, soccer jersey designers can print every item retaining customer individuality in mind.
Resilient in nature
The print generally would not fade away or rind and chink, therefore, is lengthy-lasting. Such printing is most appropriate for sports activities-put on because the garments must undergo significant washing.
A time-saver technique: This new approach of printing in a manner saves time as with each change of print you do not need to replace backward and forward the displays which become a have to inside the traditional style of printing.
Weightless prints: The prints deliver no supplementary weight. They clearly meddle with the fabric and become one. Though this procedure uses warmness and pressure, you may be astonished to look the final product. The material texture stays just the identical with the most effective addition of prints.
It should be cited that sublimation works most effective on polyester fabrics. Larger runs can be highly-priced if compared with screen printing but right here once more, you need to make certain what is it precisely that you need—- a customized paintings of art that fits your flavor or vintage college screen printing that is by way of the book. Here is more of what you want to find out approximately them.


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Довідка LibreOffice 7.6
You can decide to reduce the data necessary to print your document. The settings can be defined differently for printing directly to the printer or for printing to a file.
Викличте меню - LibreOffice.
Click one of the following settings options:
Printer - to define options for reducing data while printing directly to a printer
Print to file - to define options for reducing data while printing to a file
Select any combination of the four options, then click OK.
All documents that you print from now on will use the changed options.
Print your document.
You can reduce data for transparency, for gradients, or for bitmaps. When you reduce the data, on many printers you will not see a reduction of printing quality. But the printing time is substantially shorter, and when you print to a file, the file size is much smaller.

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How to move into the White House
January 27, 2017
When President Donald Trump walked into his new home on Jan. 20th, every detail of the White House was already picked out and polished, from perfectly placed tables by his request to his favorite brand of hair gel. But nothing in the White House could be touched until the Obamas stepped foot outside the building, the same day the Trumps would step foot in. Every four years, on the day of Inauguration, the White House staff has approximately five hours to pack the former president's bags and begin setting up the wall portraits, rugs, and closet suits for the new president and his/her family.
For five hours, the entire residence staff begins remodeling the White House for the new president while the nation's eyes are all turned toward the Capitol. The White House becomes a beehive, with all-hands-on-deck carefully executing the transformation of the White House. Nonetheless, other than decorating and remodeling, every new president must adjust to the complexity and order of the White House.
"My first piece of advice to Trump Administration employees is to take a tour of the White House," former director of press advance Katie Lillie said for TIME. "So when the press secretary asks you to bring the press to the Map Room, or to meet at the Palm Room door, you actually know where you're going."
In addition to adapting to the new home, a new president must also adapt to the new level of being a politician. The adjustment to life as a president is difficult, and even more so for President Trump. Trump enters the office as the the most recent president without political experience since Dwight D. Eisenhower. However, even Eisenhower had spent years in a role of Supreme Allied Commander and Army Chief of Staff before assuming the presidency.
Worried for the future of Trump's presidency, former president Barack Obama have warned him of the coming challenges that come with being president.
"The main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a difference between governing and campaigning," Obama told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "What [Trump] has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of largest organization on earth."


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Medal of Honor recipient and current University of South Carolina sophomore Kyle Carpenter led the traditional "Game! … Cocks!" cheer prior to last night's season opener against Texas A&M.
The Afghanistan vet had said prior to the game that he was nervous to get in front of the crowd of 80,000, but as you can see below, his execution and showmanship were on point.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD3gQNTLtbo[/youtube]
Carpenter's performance might have been the highlight of the evening for Gamecock fans, as their 9th-ranked squad was beaten 52-28 by the 21st-ranked Aggies.


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I finally took the plunge and decided to really give the RTL a makeover. I was supposed to wait until Smart v1.1 with this, but releasing a product only to alter the RTL radically later would be unfair to our customers. Better to put in place a foundation that wont break the codebase later and that we can build on. So for the past 5 days I have edited every single method and class in the RTL's foundation. But for what you say? Why fix what already works?
One of the hidden gems that my buddy Eric added to the compiler, is that we have direct access to the real javascript objects. You might have noticed that we used to keep a reference to the actual HTML Tag by use of TObject? In the older (and current) API all visual components have a property called tagRef. The problem was – this reference was both slow and dangerous. If you try to call any of it's methods the app will crash, because it points to the real javascript handle and not our virtual method table.
Using a TObject reference also meant a greater speed penalty, since you had to typecast and test in a variety of ways before you used it. But now, all that is a thing of the past. The tagRef property has been completely removed from the RTL and has been replaced by a proper THandle. What is the fuzz about? Well, this property IS the actual javascript object. So, Eric in his infinite wizdom added support for magic stuff like:
[sourcecode language="delphi"]
What happens here is that you are accessing the javascript object directly, with nothing in between (!). As you can imagine, this gives us a tremendous advantage in speed over other solutions. It also means that the compiled code will be smaller, more efficient – and most importantly, easy to maintain. So now you can interact directly with the native DOM elements without an ASM section.
Speed injection
An example of just how much extra juice we managed to squeeze out of the browser with this rewrite, can be demonstrated by the "plasma" graphics demo we posted earlier (donated by a tester). Under the older RTL it rendered 120.000 pixels (manually plotted into the HTML5 graphics context via R,G,B,A) at roughly 4 frames per second on an iPhone 4S. That is extremely slow (but considering the amount of calls involved, im surprised we got 4 frames at all). After I ejected the use of tagRef and re-wrote parts of the w3graphics.pas unit, I now get 11 frames per second. Please remember that this extremely fast for a scripting engine, being able to draw 120.000 * 4 bytes eleven times a second. On my iMac it runs at a decent 80 FPS, which is even more impressive.
And this is just for starters. To keep the RTL backwards compatible I have retained the functions in w3system.pas (things like w3_setStyle, w3_setAttrib and so on), which means there are actually thousands of calls being made that are now redundant. It will take a lot of energy to get rid of them by Monday – but when I decide on something I never quit until it's done.
Structure helpers
Following up on Delphi's introduction of record functions, I have stripped the older functions for making and working with TRect, TRectF, TPoint and TPointF – and instead placed them directly in the record itself. This is much more uniform and leaves little doubt where a function should be (so new users dont have to wonder what unit function X resides in). Here is the interface for TRect as of writing. More and more functions will be added, but this is the "bare bones" i guess:
[sourcecode language="delphi"]
TRect = Record
function Width:Integer;
function Height:Integer;
function toString:String;
function topLeft:TPoint;
function BottomRight:TPoint;
function Clip(Const RectToClip:TRect):TRect;
function Empty:Boolean;
function NullRect:TRect;
function Compare(Const aRect:TRect):Boolean;
function ContainsRow(Const aRow:Integer):Boolean;
function ContainsCol(Const aCol:Integer):Boolean;
function ContainsRect(Const aRect:TRect):Boolean;
function ContainsPos(Const aLeft,aTop:Integer):Boolean;
function ContainsPoint(Const apoint:TPoint):Boolean;
function Intersect(Const aRect:TRect;var intersection:TRect):Boolean;
function Expose(const aChildRect:TRect):TExposure;
function Make(Const aLeft,aTop,aWidth,aHeight:Integer):TRect;overload;
function Make(Const aWidth,aHeight:Integer):TRect;overload;
function MakeAbs(Const aLeft,aTop,aRight,aBottom:Integer):TRect;
FireFox support
The first version of Smart Mobile is designed exclusively for webkit, which means Safari mobile (iPad, iPod, iPhone), Android and equivalent desktop browsers. So little or no effort has gone into making Smart apps run on Opera or FireFox. But with some tweaks I now have a Sprite3d App running under FireFox as well 🙂
The bootstrap code (the section of code that initializes and starts your application) has been altered to include a browser check. So now it checks what system you are running and cache's known style-prefixes and other information. The magic function that will make all the difference is called "w3_CSSPrefix". This will help make your CSS calls "universal". So where you would previously have written:
[sourcecode language="delphi"]
You can now make it run on all browsers by changing it to:
[sourcecode language="delphi"]
Hardware accelerated animations and events are a bit crappy on FireFox at the moment (in terms of commonalities), for instance their "animation end" event don't fire as it's supposed to, and it also deviates from the naming convention used elsewhere. So mozAnimationEnd wont do. I'll have to come up with a solution for that. But full FireFox support wont happen until later. But you can prepare your app for universal support by using the w3_cssPrefix function.
API drivers
The only way to fully maximize the potential of all platforms is to create a common ground, but one that is rich enough to cater for a browser's unique features. As such, I have decided to create a driver system to solve the browser compatibility problems once and for all. This is currently being prototyped but should make it into Smart v1.5 probably. In short you have a basic class with functions for getting the correct style names (and more) for the current browser. The driver will also contain functions to examine device capabilities (is camera supported, is database supported, is orientation supported, touch, sound formats, image formats — the whole multimedia spectrum). When your app starts, the browser will be recognized – and the appropriate driver created. The RTL will then reference the driver to get the correct properties to set.
As a bonus, anyone can write a new driver should a different browser appear on the marked. And should there be changes, you simply update the driver rather than every n'th class or method in the RTL.
The javascript punters are going to go "whaaat? how did they do that?". Easy, object pascal 🙂


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Inadvertently talking
What do you get when a man's sperm coordinates with a lady's egg? With a lot of good fortune, you inevitably get a sound, typical infant. At the same time suppose it is possible that you're not all that fortunate. What do you do with "muddlings?" Well, Ambra's begun an exchange about premature birth for the sole purpose of "sparing" a youngster from a low quality of life in the event that its found early that the kid is physically damaged. What's more in an altogether different post, Avery recounted an extraordinary story yesterday of how he grew up and the little decisions that he made that've put him on his present way. In my commets at Ave's, I said a little hypothesis I'm half-believin in these stupor and its tangentially identified with Ambra's issue.
I'm not so much going to get profound into Ambra's case at this time. Suffice it to say, I think its an inconceivably troublesome choice once in a while. In the event that somebody's choosing a fetus removal in light of the fact that their infant has a deformed finger (or maybe an additional one or whatever), that is a breathtakingly triviality and criminal waste of life. Be that as it may imagine a scenario in which it were something more extreme, in the same way as spina bifida or the like. One of my closest companions had a circumstance fundamentally the same a few years prior and they chose to prematurely end. On the off chance that memory serves, it was on account of the infant was diagnosed with Down's Syndrome. They've since had two solid infants, however my mate was communicating some regret over that premature birth choice simply a day or two ago.
You need to live with that choice whatever is left of your life. I'd like to think, it'd take a great deal more than DS to make me consider fetus removal. Like Ambra says, its a genuine test of standards; maybe it may be more a challenge of standards and how you prioritize them.
As to's circumstance, he was stating that however his mother was a solid positive impact on him, his decisions were his own, made of his own through and through freedom. I was assuming that maybe he had minimal decision whatsoever. Maybe his prepared in inclination when he exited the womb was such that he would be the sort of individual/youngster to respond well to his mother's sort of urging. What I'm fighting here is that life may be an arrangement of "mischances" that either fortify your natural inclinations or stifle them. By mishaps I mean regarding who you are destined to, the individuals you experience in life, and so forth. There are a million and one components out of our control. Is life pretty much an inquisitive mix of inclination and destiny?
Maybe there are common conceived executioners wandering the roads at this moment, however they don't express those propensities on the grounds that they grew up with impacts that happened to check those proclivities. On the other hand what about the one child who gets teased by his father however takes the ribbing in stride, ready to chuckle at himself, versus a sibling or sister who gets the same teasing, yet who runs off wailing, quietly vowing to one day wound the old man in his slumber. Why does one kid settle on one "decision" and the other one so altogether different? Why aren't "great" decisions evident to all? Doesn't speculation toward oneself imply that everybody would select in (say) Harvard and live the white-picket wall dream?
That being said, in any case, how I kinda mix those two fine presents together is on say that one takes a gander at physical imperfections and I sorta compare the other to mental/enthusiastic deformities (alright, that is a true, looong stretch - Avery wasn't discussing that whatsoever, yet I've horrendously wound it to fill my needs here). Conceivably, what is required is the right child rearing style for the temperment of the child in the womb. Yet imagine a scenario in which it were conceivable to recognize servere identity issue before conception. Is that motivation to prematurely end, as well? I can without much of a stretch envision a contention where identity issue is a significantly more paramount attention than a physical deformity in the matter of personal satisfaction.
On the off chance that you get a chance, please lease the motion picture Gattaca (Jude Law, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke - Blair Underwood and Maya Rudolph are in it as well). It's excellent. Bring tissues.


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by Rainer Apel
Moscow Bets against Kohl.
by Silvia Palacios
IMF Sabotages the Nuclear Program.
by Carlos Wesley
Back on the Front-Burner.
by Ricardo Martín
Cocaine Congressman Caught in Peru.
Go Nuclear Now.
by Carol White
Reports on the latest budget-cutting "restructuring" of the Strategic Defense Initiative, emphasizing a system that will be obsolete before it is deployed.
by Charles B. Stevens
Part II of the analysis of recently released letters and reports on this powerful SDI technology.
by Webster G. Tarpley
Deng's skillful playing of the summit-hungry Kremlin is all the more remarkable in the light of the salient fact that Deng's finesse tends to obscure: The Beijing regime is even more desperate, even more crisis-ridden than the Soviet Empire itself.
Documentation: A commentary by Taiwan's China News.
by Christopher White
The savings league's proposal for "reregulation" of the entire banking system shows that, at last, someone is beginning to wake up to the approach of the most cataclysmic financial catastrophe in human history, and to recognize that the current financial system is not to be supported, but reorganized.
by Suzanne Rose
by Marcia Merry
Feeding 15 Million Hungry Children.
by William Engdahl
Soviets Face New Oil Crisis.
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Introduction to the new Special Report issued by EIR in Wiesbaden, West Germany, "Europe 1992: Blueprint for Dictatorship."
by Thierry Lalevée
Israel's descent into the maelstrom of the same fundamentalist irrationalism infecting the Arab world is to be attributed to the vacuum in American foreign policy, and cynical "New Yalta" manipulations of the superpowers.
by Luba George
by Konstantin George
A probable November strike wave will be met by savage repression, thrusting Poland into a new crisis.
by Lydia Cherry
by Ramtanu Maitra
by Mark Burdman
by Robyn Quijano
Documentation: The letter of resignation of trade union leader Jorge Carrillo.
by Nicholas F. Benton
Although to date, concrete policy proposals have been left to Lyndon LaRouche, a spate of warnings by individuals ranging from Henry Kissinger to the West German Defense Minister has echoed LaRouche's estimate of the Soviet threat.
by Jeffrey Steinberg
by Ralph de Toledano
by Nicholas F. Benton
Will Nuclear Energy Survive in U.S.?


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Google is finally addressing one of the more annoying quirks of Gmail's web interface by overhauling the right-click menu, adding a lot more options in the pop-up list that should make it way more useful.
As updates go, it's a pretty simple one: once the rollout hits your account, you'll be presented with the above list of options when you right-click on an email, adding options to reply, forward, label, move, mute, and snooze emails — options that honestly should have been there for a long time.
Compare that to the old right-click menu, which gave just a paltry three options: archive, mark as unread, or delete.
Google says that it'll be rolling out the update starting today to G Suite users with Rapid Release domains, and on February 22nd for Scheduled Release customers, although it'll likely take a few days in either case to roll out. No timeframe for bog-standard free Gmail accounts has been given, though if past trends hold, it'll likely make its way to your inbox sometime in the coming days.


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Improved Treasure Hunters Backpack (What A Beast, Review, Photos+)
Hello, friends!
A couple of months ago a friend visited me and said: "I watched a video from a detectorist here, and a cool backpack was advertised." In general, we are very interested to see what kind of backpack this and I bought it.
My friend took one backpack in camouflage, and I myself took one in mono-color, so as not to stand out in the crowd too much if I go detecting.
It seems that any backpack is suitable for detecting, but no, there are also some nuances here. This backpack was designed specifically for our needs and tasks, namely:
- In the backpack, you can put a folded or disassembled metal detector (and it will fit in not even one – I have 3 metal detectors!)
- The backpack can also contain a shovel – a short Fiskars or any other alternative, for example – Black Ada. There are side pockets and a place for documents, papers, sandwiches, batteries and a thermos.
- The straps are slightly narrow. If we carry a fully stuffed backpack, then the shoulders begin to hurt and rub. Especially if you need to walk a long distance. But here is something to think about: the price of a backpack of a similar size, but having better materials, hardware and design go for $ 150. An example is the Tasmanian Tiger.
This backpack is enough to run from home to the train, and then from the station and to the field for example, but for long transitions, you need to take another backpack.
The zipper on the bag is a little weak. It is clear that the designer and the developers have tried to meet the normal price range, but it happens as a result of the cheapness of the components. Zippers require attention, but with the presence of direct hands, material, and tools, you can always change the zipper to something more sensible.
The backpack can be folded almost twice and fastened with Fastex. Conveniently, if the shovel is small and the detector is compact – there will not be something sticking out from behind the head, and that will result in fewer questions.
Conveniently, there is a carrying handle on the side. But why is this convenient? I'm driving a car, and many of my friends are too, and for a car such a backpack will be good – you put the detector, shovel and everything you need in it, and you will not need to pick it up by the shoulder strap, but by the side handle, put in the trunk and drive off. The detector will not be in sight if they stop you for checking, and this bag looks very much normal. It is sewn quite well.
A small example of the contents is a spade sticking out because it's long, and the metal detector Minelab E-Trac inside. In addition, the X-Terra, the Fisher F-70, and the Golden Mask 5+ will fit very easily in the bag – one bag for all your friends is enough, just put the shovels separately.
But what more took my attention about this bag? The backpack is high, and the police may have questions about the content. But why? I could easily carry a carbine or other weapons in such a backpack because for this purpose it also fits, and the police can have similar thinking and draw the relevant conclusions. But otherwise – the backpack is good, the material is not bad, it's worth the money I would say. For something better and more comfortable, you would have to pay ten times more.
More about detecting tips you can find here!


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Motion control development kit (4-axis system)
Our motion controller is designed and developed for a variety of applications, such as packaging machine, meter and mixer, injection machine, testing equipment, PCB drilling machine, process automation, lab automation, as well as CNC machining or turning centers. This ACC1-MCU4-MD3 package is a development package for helping customers to get started quickly. In addition to whatever included in the ACC1-MCU4 standard package, the development package also includes:
- Three sets of small motors, drives, and cabling
- A switch box installed with a manual pulse generator (hand wheel), emergency stop pushbutton etc.
- A sample motion control program ready to run
The development package is of a plug-and-play type, so that after quick connection and power-on, one can immediately make the motors runs. The small motors and drives can be returned to Acc Motion for trading-in the right size motors for your specific product. The following standard features of the ACC1-MCU4 family is always included:
- A compact industrial-grade computer with built-in PLC and 4 motion control channels
- Built-in Ethernet, RS-232C, Keyboard & mouse, eHMI interface
- High reliability; the computer has no any moving part inside; it is self-cooling and equipped with electronic
- Supplied with a signal connection unit that has 16 inputs, 16 outputs, ability to expand 72 I/Os easily
- Supplied with API software and programming manual
- Supplied with PID tuning utility software
- Supplied with PLC ladder programming utility software
- Acc Motion Solutions Inc can be contracted to develop a control system to your specific need
Our motion controllers have been used in many different application areas and been installed on many CNC machines in the United States of America.
(Please note that the pictures are for general demonstration and the actual pictures of the product may look different.)
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|Quantity (Piece or set)
|MCU - Motion Control Unit - 4 axes
|PSU - Power Supply Unit
|SCU - Signal Connection Unit
|Cable between MCU and SCU
|Keyboard and mouse adapter
|Manuals and API programs in a CD disk
|Switch box installed with manual pulse generator (hand-wheel), emergency stop pushbutton etc.
|Set of small servo motor, drive, and cables for system development & testing
|3 sets
|Set of simple motion control programs ready to run the demo system in the same CD
|1 set


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Here at Little Vikings, we're really excited about the opening of a unique new attraction in Yorkshire, The Northwood Fairy Sanctuary. It's set within 100 acres of glorious woodland with 1.5km of imaginative nature trails winding through it: be inspired by a willow walled maze, a large collection of fairy doors on trees, fairy treehouses connected with rope bridges, a tree stump village, giant mushroom ring, Elven thrones and a natural play area, with sandpit, mud kitchen and den-building. Brought to us by the brains behind Jollydays Glamping and Northstar Club (both tried, tested and recommended by Little Vikings), Northwood is billed as a natural rustic attraction. It's no theme park: it's sympathetic to its woodland surroundings and perfect for reconnecting children and adults to the freedom and magic of the natural world, all year around.
Inside there is a unique Fairy Museum, largely the work and collection of Professor Harvey John Howland, an eminent fairy collector and fellow of the New Society of Arcane and Natural History. The museum's based in Professor Howland's old studio and houses some of his writings, drawings and curiosities. The bulk of the collection is made up of carefully restored fairy clothes, shoes, crowns houses and other stunning artefacts. This collection of exquisite miniatures is unlike anything else in the UK and will inspire and inform both children and adults.
The Northwood Kitchen is a new woodland café / bar, where you can enjoy the woods whatever the season. It's a fabulous place to enjoy your daily coffee (no tickets to the trail are needed), or a stronger tipple by the fire. Striking woodland décor, friendly staff and the best local (organic if possible) food and drink.
Northwood is a fantastic place to have a kids' party and it welcomes schools and homeschooling groups. It's set outdoors in the great Yorkshire countryside, so be prepared with suitable footwear and if it's wet, waterproofs or a change of clothes!
Open 6 days a week and all year round, you'll find full times and pricing on the website. Check out the website for exciting seasonal events, such as autumn lantern walks in the woods and magical candlelit storytelling with St Nicholaus.
Limited car parking means booking of time slots is in advance and online only, to allow them to manage visitor numbers and ensure a better experience for everyone. Northwood is just 15 minutes from the outskirts of York and Malton, just 10 minutes from the A64, it is within easy reach of Hull, Leeds, Harrogate, Middlesborough, Sheffield and Newcastle and less than 2 hours from Manchester.
Good to know – If you want to make a break of it, Northwood is also home to the Jollydays Glamping accommodation with its huge and well-equipped safari-style tents, a communal campfire and craft cabin to keep everyone happy and busy. Find the Little Vikings review of Jollydays Glamping here.
The details – Northwood Trail, Buttercrambe Moor Wood,
YO41 1AP York. Visit the Northwood Trail website here.
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We provide supportive learning materials for teachers, which can be taken back into the classroom, ensuring school visits are truly educational and reach beyond the traditional.
Education Behind Bars consists of three core elements, each of which is delivered by a team of trained guides and facilitators.
Each student will receive an Education Behind Bars pack containing;
Your tour of Shepton Mallet Prison is run by a guide with encyclopaedic knowledge of the prison's history, from when it opened to the day it closed. Students will hear first-hand what life inside a prison is like and discover the prison's history dating back more than 400 years.
The tour experience will take in all areas of the prison including the 19th century hard labour yard, and treadwheel house, the Old Gate Lodge, original cells dating from the 17th century, our largest prison wing with 94 cells, the exercise yard and the execution room.
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Supported by your Tour Guide, students will explore Shepton Mallet Prison in small groups. Completing Activity Booklets, which have been designed to engage and educate students in an immersive and informal manner.
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Malang, that released on 7th January 2020 has earned 15.6 Cr on its first two days. Here are the third-day collections of Malang.
Malang may earn up to 10 Cr on its third day. The film has earned 25.6 Cr in India, 36 Cr worldwide, and 6 Cr overseas in its first 3 days. The film got 20% of occupancy on Sunday, 9th February 2020.
The film that stars Aditya Roy Kapur, Disha Patani, Anil Kapoor, and Kunal Khemu was directed by Mohit Suri. The film was written by Aseem Arora, produced by Luv Ranjan, Ankur Garg, Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, and Jay Shewakramani under Luv Films, T-Series, Northern Lights Entertainment.
Despite getting negative talk on day1, the film still got better collections than 1st day. But we should wait and see how it performs from tomorrow as today it can get the weekend advantage.
The film is performing well in areas like Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata as the film is getting better occupancy in these areas. As there are no other big films for release ahead, the film can earn up to 30-50 Cr by the end of its full run.
Aditya Roy Kapoor is now working for the films- Ludo and Sadak 2 which are to be released in 2020. His previous film Kalank turned out as blockbuster as it collected 145.2 Cr on its full run. We still clearly don't know whether Malang is a blockbuster or not, we have to wait and watch how the audience takes this film from tomorrow.


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COBIT(Registered trademark) is a business framework for the governance and management of enterprise IT. Enterprise IT means all the technology and information processing the enterprise puts in place to achieve its goals, regardless of where this happens in the enterprise. Enterprise IT is not limited to the IT department of an organization but certainly includes it
COBIT 2019 is the latest version of COBIT. Some of the enhancements from the previous version of COBIT ( i.e., COBIT 5) are:
- introduction of design factors. Design factors provide guidelines to organisation to tailor the guidelines to suit their needs
- introduction of focus areas.
A focus area describes a certain governance topic, domain or issue that can be addressed by a collection of governance and management objectives and their components. Examples of focus areas include small and medium enterprises, cybersecurity, digital transformation, cloud computing, privacy, and DevOps
- Component: Components are factors that, individually and collectively, contribute to the good operations of the enterprise's governance system over IT. Components interact with each other, resulting in a holistic governance system for IT. Processes, Organisational Structures, Policies, Competencies are some of the examples of Components.
- Component can be defined at Generic level and a Variant can exist. DevOps exemplifies both a component variant and a focus area. DevOps requires specific guidance, making it a focus area. DevOps includes a number of generic governance and management objectives of the core COBIT model, along with a number of variants of development-, operational- and monitoring-related processes and organizational structures
The governance and management objectives in COBIT are grouped into five domains.
Evaluate, Direct and Monitor (EDM) domain groups the governance objectives. In this domain, the governing body evaluates strategic options, directs senior management on the chosen strategic options and monitors the achievement of the strategy.
Management objectives are grouped in four domains.
Align, Plan and Organize (APO) addresses the overall organization, strategy and supporting activities for I&T.
Build, Acquire and Implement (BAI) treats the definition, acquisition and implementation of I&T solutions and their integration in business processes.
Deliver, Service and Support (DSS) addresses the operational delivery and support of I&T services, including security.
Monitor, Evaluate and Assess (MEA) addresses performance monitoring and conformance of I&T with internal performance targets, internal control objectives and external requirement
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COBIT is a comprehensive framework that covers Governance , Plan, Build, Run stages of IT. COBIT is set of control objectives that can be audited. COBIT does not specify any implementation guidelines, practices or tools. The organisations often chose a lower level framework to implement COBIT's control objectives.
Summary Ratings
COBIT is first released in 19961 and celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2016. COBIT has been periodically updated by the sponsoring organisation ISACA.2. It is one of the widely adopted framework for organisations pursuing IT Governance. The rating 4 given is because there is no legislative or regulatory requirements in Australia to enforce COBIT in Government or financial sector.
COBIT is tool agnostic.There are multiple tools required to govern and manage IT guided by COBIT framework.
ISACA provides extensive training support and assessment support for COBIT.
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- Evaluate, Direct and Monitor (EDM) – 5 processes
- Align, Plan and Organise (APO) – 14 processes
- Build, Acquire and Implement (BAI) – 11 processes
- Deliver, Service and Support (DSS) – 6 processes
- Monitor, Evaluate and Assess (MEA) – 4 processes
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Defining and operating a framework for making decisions, managing stakeholder relationships, and identifying legitimate authority.
LEVEL 6: Implements the governance framework to enable governance activity to be conducted.
LEVEL 7: Directs the definition, implementation, and monitoring of the governance framework to meet the organisation's obligations under regulation, law, or contracts.
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Wayne County nurse charged with abusing patient
An investigation by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has resulted in the arrest of a Collinwood nurse for allegedly taking medications from her client and forging documents, the TBI said Monday.
At the request of the Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and with the assistance of the Waynesboro Police Department, in May 2017, TBI agents began investigating complaints that medications were being stolen from a patient who lived in a Wayne County group home.
Agents developed information that in the spring of 2017, April Thrasher, 34, a nurse for the home, allegedly stole the client's medication and forged documentation, concealing the fact she had taken the medication. Thrasher has since resigned from that position, according to the TBI.
On April 16, the Wayne County Grand Jury returned indictments charging April Nicole Thrasher with one count of abuse/neglect of an adult, one count of theft and one count of forgery, the TBI said.
Monday, TBI agents and deputies with the Wayne County Sheriff's Department arrested Thrasher, and booked her into the Wayne County Jail on a $15,000 bond.


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Countdown with the whole crew…
Looking for parent-approved way to ring in 2018? Hong Kong has no shortage of party options, but when it comes to the big night, it can be tricky to find one that caters to the kids. After all, only the best will do! Set on Repulse Bay beach, Limewood offers a relaxing setting and a breath of fresh air…
This well-known resto is all about merging South American, Southeast Asian, Hawaiian and Caribbean cuisines together. The place itself is 100% family friendly. Think a beach play area, a kids menu, a laid-back vibe and stunning views.
Wondering what Limewood has in store this New Years Eve? To really wrap up the year, the focus is on creating a festival of creativity – through both, cuisine and culture. Set up camp with the whole crew and enjoy listening to live music whilst the 2017 sun sets over the ocean. Head over nice and early for the first sitting (from 6pm to 8pm) and make the most of the sunset dinner package (with a glass of complementary Nicolas Feuillate Champagne). We can't forget to mention that children under 11 eat for free. The live art performances, entertainment and playing on the beach is just an added bonus! Sounds pretty perfect to us.
The menu features red Mediterranean prawn aguachile and coconut glazed grilled sweet corn to start, and the option between two mains to share. First up is the Limewood Bo Ssam, one of the signature dishes next, featuring a slow-cooked, melt-in-your-mouth pork shoulder. If you're opting for something a little lighter, go for the whole grilled sea bass. Both dishes come with fresh lettuce cups, homemade ginger scallion sauce and smoky coleslaw. To end on a sweet note, you get to indulge Limewood's ginger doughnut, complete with lemongrass dust and Snowball Ice Cream. Check out the full menu here – it won't disappoint!
Planning on staying out after, or leaving the littles tucked in bed this year? We applaud both decisions! Join Limewood from 9pm for the official countdown. This late dining dinner menu is followed by free flow drinks, and all diners are encouraged make the most of the live music (and the sound of crashing waves), dancing into 2018 with our toes in the sand.
First seating (from 6-8pm) and second seating (from 9pm onwards) are both for $650. For the first setting, kids can choose one complimentary item from the kids menu, while adults can get a complimentary glass of Nicolas Feuillate Champagne, and for the second seating, a free flow package is available, priced at HK$350 with bubbly, red & white wines, classic margaritas and rum punch flowing. We'll cheers to that! Buy your tickets here.
Limewood, Shop 103/104 The Pulse, 28 Beach Rd, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, 28668668, www.limewood.hk


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One of my friends turned me onto this really neat website (Thanks Tricia)! You can convert your digital photos into polaroids. I love it! Check it out at www.rollip.com. Here are a few I converted today. I'm addicted; have fun!
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DescriptionVictim. Murderer. Serial Killer. What next?
The third darkly comic thriller in the highly addictive Sweetpea series featuring serial killer Rhiannon Lewis.'Think Bridget Jones meets Killing Eve – only with better jokes' Daily Mail
Can a serial killer ever lose their taste for murder?
Since confessing to her bloody murder spree Rhiannon Lewis, the now-notorious Sweetpea killer, has been feeling out-of-sorts.
Having fled the UK on a cruise ship to start her new life, Rhiannon should be feeling happy. But it's hard to turn over a new leaf when she's stuck in an oversized floating tin can with the Gammonati and screaming kids. Especially when they remind her of Ivy – the baby she gave up for a life carrying on killing.
Rhiannon is all at sea. She's lost her taste for blood but is it really gone for good? Maybe Rhiannon is realising that there's more to life than death…
The third book in the critically-acclaimed series following Sweetpea and In Bloom featuring everyone's favourite truly original girl-next-door serial killer Rhiannon Lewis.
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A personal blog by Ackworth born Gerald England who married a Lancashire lass, went West and now lives in Cheshire.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
ABC Wednesday - X is for Xania
I've already posted a series of sixty photos of Crete at Crete 2006
and a different series of thirty photographs on my photoblog Sithenah beginning with Landau in El Venizelou Square, Chania, which is the location of the first of these four charcoal renditions.
This one shows my wife, Christine and I comfortably seated behind Georgious.
A mixture of ancient and modern walls in Xania.
and finally the lighthouse at the entrance to the Venetian harbour.
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Hi Ackworth Born! Did you do these charcoal drawings? They are really terrific! Crete sure would be an amazing place to visit. Happy New Year to you!ReplyDelete
these are so cool--how do you do it???ReplyDelete
The charcoals were created from my original photos using PaintShop Pro.ReplyDelete
Photos with a good bit of contrast work quite well - I first tried the technique when a magazine editor wanted some b&w illustrations.
In the end, the editor chose to use some other ones so these seemed ideal to use here, rather than more photos.
Congratulation - that was my favourite. I did not dare use because of the uncertainty of the spelling. I was there the in thr first week of September, and it won't be the last. Recommended.ReplyDelete
Creative use of extrusion!
Xtra your photos.ReplyDelete
I imagine these charcoal drawings in your home, reminding you of treasured moments. They're wonderful - and so unique in the presentation of X today.ReplyDelete
Oh, now after reading the comments I see how you did those "charcoals". I must play at something like this myself - but sadly it won't be of scenes from Crete.ReplyDelete
Nice effects on the photos, very creative. Happy New Year.ReplyDelete
Wow, those are neat!ReplyDelete
Beautiful.....I really like how you made them look like charcoal....obviously you are a pro!!....good "X"ReplyDelete
Nice one - Ackworth Born.ReplyDelete
These look like rubbings. Very cool effect.ReplyDelete
What an amazing "X" post! Beautiful images...I'm going to have to play around with that technique.ReplyDelete
Nice X.ReplyDelete
Very creative to have these charcoal renditions of your original photos. I like the drawing of you and your wife on the carriage the best.ReplyDelete
Magnificient charcoal pictures. Very well done. Great post for the letter X.ReplyDelete
Hi Ackworth Born!, this is such an interesting post. I learn new thing from your blog again and thanks for nice post on ABC wednesday. Moreover, you process beautifully and very interesting.ReplyDelete
You have created very nice pictures. Is there something that a computer can't do? A lot of things, lucky for us!!!!!!!!
I really like these renditions. Great postReplyDelete
really nice work, you've inspired me to make some of my ownReplyDelete


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I promised to follow up on my recumbent bike exploration, and you are probably wondering if I'm riding twenty miles a day or is it gathering dust in the boat shed. Well short answer, somewhere in between.
I bought the bike because I like riding but needed a change from the traditional bike I was riding. Leaning forward on a regular bike made my hands numb and my back sore, and those kept me from saddling up for anything more than a tour of the neighborhood. So, to summarize, I took the leap and bought a used recumbent cruiser both for my comfort and curiosity. The bikes are something different and, like a young Steller's jay, I a curious about unique divergent ideas.
I was surprised after doing some reading that the bike was easy to get accustomed to though the ride is decided different for a regular bike, both in handled and balance. Articles I read online cautioned riders to practice in empty parking lots and quiet neighborhoods before heading out on the open streets. Good advice. I had my first wreck showing off for my wife in the driveway. I made a tight turn like I would on my old bike and dumped myself indelicately into the gravel. No surgery required.
The biggest struggle I have is launching. I say launching because that is how it feels. One sits balanced on the seat with feet on the ground and rotates one pedal to a near vertical position. Then the rider must push off with one foot and pedal with the other. There is no way to push with the hands as we do on traditional bikes. All the weight on the ass, and I must launched with a push and wobble like a five year old on his first solo.
I was feeling so lame with my launch technique that I went to YouTube (for the longest time I could never find 'UTube' when I ran a search online- sad) and watched a five-minute video of a guy launching on a bike like mine. He made it look easy, but he was short enough that he could move the bike along like a scoot bike. My legs are too long to do that, so I still look like a klutz on the start off. When I ride, I try to avoid any stops while riding unless they are downhill or away from an audience. It's all about technique and practice.
Anyway, I have been riding regularly, moving from cruising the neighborhood to riding out on the highway both north and south. While a ten-mile ride made me tired and my legs complained, there were no numb hands, no aching back, no sore groin. Yesterday, I rode thirteen miles, half of it into a tough south wind, and this morning I am not suffering and looking forward to a ride this afternoon.
I do notice that hill climbing, even a gentle slope, is a challenge to me and I seem to climb slowly. Part of this is the physics of this type of bicycle. The other part is the development of riding technique and muscles. The power muscles are different for a recumbent and need to build while the technique for applying force to the pedals comes from the hips differently than when riding erect. I'm learning, and every time I ride I am motivated to ride more, and that is the key to any fitness activity. Motivation. I will see you on the road until the snow flies again, and we can all get back to skiing. Or maybe I'll get studs and try winter riding. --- Yeah right!


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This afternoon I drove up Ohio 7 from Huntington to Gallipolis and on to Point Pleasant. As expected, there were some detours, but I'm from that area, so I already knew most of the back roads that could be used for detours.
Here are a few pictures from that trek.
First, about all of Harris Riverfront Park in Huntington is under water, including the sidewalk at the top of the bank. At least the playground that my granddaughter refers to as the Blue Park was still dry as of this morning.
At Crown City in Galllia County, Ohio, the sign was up warning people to stay off the bridge painted yellow, as most of it was under water.
Ohio 7 just before the mouth of Swan Creek. In early afternoon only a part of the southbound lane was under water. By evening the water was up to the double yellow line.
Below the
And just below those two Campbell boats was another, the M/V Tommy H.
Just above the dam, the road was closed.
And some people wanted a closer look. The guardrail along the road was under water.
At Mound Hill Cemetery in Gallipolis, the encroachment of floodwater on the floodplain was plain to see.
Property with a river view? No kidding.
Silos are reflected in backwater.
Across the river in Point Pleasant, this truck at the Campbell dock was partly under water
On the trip back down, the water was over the road a couple of miles above Crown City. I drove through this water, as it didn't seem too deep.
Down below the Lawerence County village of Athalia, the road was closed, but some people drove through it anyway. (My apologies for the lens flares).
This water looked too deep, so I turned around and took a detour on back roads. When I got home, someone had sent me this link about how a family of four had to be rescued after driving into the water below Gallipolis.
These photos were all quick edits. I have a couple that I want to spend more time on, so I may post them Monday or Tuesday. This is one. It happens to be my wife's favorite of those I took today.
This is the sun setting behind the hills of Glenwood, W.Va., with floodwaters covering a bottom on the Ohio side near the mouth of Swan Creek.
The river is supposed to crest in my area tomorrow. Part of Pomeroy, Ohio, was under water today. I was tempted to drive up there tomorrow, but (a) just getting there could take a while, and (b) emergency services people probably have enough to do without people coming by to look around. If I were still a member of the credentialed media, maybe I would go.
I don't recall heading downriver to look at a flood, so if I go somewhere tomorrow, it will likely be to Greenup, Ky. We'll play it by ear in the morning.


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UConn, which last month officially left the American Athletic Conference, announced Wednesday that it is suspending its football program for the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic.
UConn, which went 2-10 in its final season in the AAC, is the first FBS program to suspend its football team because of the pandemic. The Huskies were expected to play as an independent this season.
"After receiving guidance from state and public health officials and consulting with football student-athletes, we've decided that we will not compete on the gridiron this season," UConn athletic director David Benedict said in a news release. "The safety challenges created by COVID-19 place our football student-athletes at an unacceptable level of risk."
Huskies football coach Randy Edsall said he consulted his players before the university made its decision.
"We engaged and listened to the concerns of our football student-athletes and feel this is the best decision for their health, safety, and well-being," Edsall said in the news release. "Our team is united in this approach and we will use this time to further player development within the program and gear ourselves to the 2021 season."
The university said members of the football team will remain enrolled in classes, either virtually or in person, and would have access to facilities and support services to ensure they remain on track academically.
UConn officials said no student-athletes have tested positive for the coronavirus since early July.
"The necessary measures needed to mitigate risk of football student-athletes contracting the coronavirus are not conducive to delivering an optimal experience for our team," Benedict said. "Ultimately, the student-athletes would rather preserve their year of eligibility with an eye to competing under more typical circumstances during the 2021 season."
"We've done the things necessary to put ourselves in a position to be able to play this season...but as we continued through this process it became evident that we weren't going to be able to do that," added Edsall.
Four of the games on UConn's schedule -- road games at Illinois and Ole Miss and home games against Indiana and FCS foe Maine -- were canceled because of scheduling decisions by those teams' leagues. Games at Virginia and North Carolina were also in question.
In a statement released by the school, UConn's players said, "As a team we are in full support of the decision to not compete in 2020. We have many health concerns and not enough is known about the potential long term effects of contracting COVID-19. Additionally, we have not had the optimal time to train mentally & physically to be properly prepared to compete this season. We love this game and love competing. We came to campus in the beginning of July knowing there would be challenges presented by the pandemic but it is apparent to us now that these challenges are impossible to overcome."
The Huskies officially left the AAC on July 1 and are required to pay their former league an exit fee of $17 million by 2026. UConn is joining the Big East in all sports besides football, men's and women's ice hockey and rowing.
"I hear people saying that because we're independent we are able to do this," added an emotional Edsall. "Let me just say one thing. If I was a head coach in a conference, at a Power Five conference or a Group of Five conference, I would be saying the same thing. I'd be doing the same thing. Because these young men's lives are more important than money. They're more important than money. I'm just glad we made the right decision.
"I give our kids credit for doing the things that they've done because we don't have a positive test as of right now. That's something that we can control. We can't control what's going to happen come August 14-15, when there's 8,000 more people here on campus."
The Huskies are only 6-30 in three years since Edsall returned for a second tenure before the 2017 season. UConn hasn't had a winning campaign since 2010, which was Edsall's last season before he left for Maryland. He guided the Huskies to an 8-5 record, a share of the Big East title and Fiesta Bowl appearance that season.
UConn said it would consult the Big East before making a decision about other fall sports.
UConn has been one of the most cash-strapped athletics departments in the FBS. In 2018, according to financial data filed with the NCAA, UConn generated about $79.3 million in revenue. About 49% of that revenue came from institutional support ($30.5 million) and student fees ($8.5 million). Only $2.7 million was raised from donors and about $2.4 million from football ticket sales, according to the data.


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Driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol is illegal in the United States, with each state having their own laws restricting and penalizing this action. New Jersey's laws are particularly stringent, carrying a number of different possible penalties ranging from fines to possible jail time, and much more. While a DUI conviction is normally considered a misdemeanor, they are taken extremely seriously and carry some of the heaviest penalties of any non-felony crime.
If you find yourself facing DUI charges, it's important to know what sort of penalties you could find yourself subjected to if you're convicted, and thus why it's so important that you fight back against them. Here is a brief explanation of the penalties you could be subjected to if you're found guilty of driving under the influence.
Jail Time
Perhaps the first and most obvious penalty for driving under the influence is a jail sentence. Those who are convicted are often required to spend at least a few days in jail, with maximum penalties starting at as much as 30 days for a first offense.
Repeat offenders have a much stronger chance of facing at least some form of a jail sentence, with the maximum penalties for a second offense being 90 days, and a third or subsequent offense being up to 180 days. Judges are often more prone to assigning closer to the maximum penalty for repeat offenders as well, particularly if the defendant shows that they clearly didn't learn their lesson the first time.
Will you have to go to jail? Not necessarily. First-time offenders who have no aggravating factors in their case may be able to petition the court or work out a plea deal to avoid jail time and instead deal with a probation period. However, it's difficult to arrange such a deal on your own, so you should consult with a Bergen County DUI attorney as soon as possible.
Fines, Fees & Added Costs
Like many other crimes, a DUI conviction carries a fine, with the amount depending largely on some of the circumstances of the offense and whether or not the conviction is a second or subsequent. First-time offenders face a minimum fine of $250 and up to $500, and repeat offenders start at $500 and can go up to $1,000. For a third-time conviction, the fine is set at $1,000.
However, that's just the start. You'll also be required to pay a series of fees in order to process your case, including a $100 surcharge for each of the following:
- Drunk driving enforcement fund
- Motor vehicle restoration fee
- Violent crimes compensation fee
- Intoxicated driver program fee
- State and municipality fee
So that's an extra $500 in fees alone for your arrest. And then to go even a step further, you'll also have to pay your court costs and other various processing fees, which can total thousands in extra cash out of your pocket. Your auto insurance will also sharply increase, including a $1,000 annual insurance surcharge for the first three years after your conviction.
In total, it's not uncommon for a DUI conviction in the state of New Jersey to cost drivers as much as $5,000 to even as high as $10,000 or more in fees, fines, and added costs!
License Suspension
A driver's license suspension is perhaps one of the most inhibitive and obnoxious DUI penalties you can face. For a first offense, your license will be suspended for a minimum of three months and could be so for as long as a year. A second-time offender can be suspended for two years, and a third-time offense can carry an immense ten year license suspension!
What's worse is that New Jersey is one of just a few states that does not have a restricted license program, meaning you'll lose your ability to drive yourself and be forced to rely on the grace of others or public transportation to get yourself around.
Ignition Interlock Device
Ignition interlock devices are essentially breathalyzers that are connected to the ignition switch in your car. You must pass the breathalyzer test in order for it to enable your ignition system, which allows you to start the car. Failing a breath test is recorded in the device, which then is reported to the court when you take device in for calibration and tuning each month. A failed test could wind up subjecting you to even further penalties.
New Jersey law may mandate that you install one of these devices in every vehicle you drive for any DUI conviction at a judge's discretion.
If you need legal assistance after being arrested for DUI, contact the Law Offices of Joseph R. Donahue, LLC today by dialing (201) 574-7919 to request a case evaluation!


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What is Eastern Star?
The Order of the Eastern Star is the largest fraternal organization in the world to which both men and women belong. It is NOT a religion, but rather an organization of believers in a way of life to further enhance our own religious beliefs. This organization was formed to protect the widow and orphan, comfort and sympathize with those in need and in sorrow, and through social enjoyments and cheerful companionship increase the happiness for ourselves and others. We are dedicated to faith, hope, charity, love and the promotion of good will to all mankind. We have ongoing special programs, entitled ESTARL (Eastern Star Training Awards for Religious Leadership). An Education Loan Program, our grants are awarded to those seeking to serve in full-time religious service. (Applicants need not be related to or be members of our Order to apply or receive one of our awards.) We also have educational loans available for students of Eastern Star families. We support the Order of Rainbow for Girls, the Iowa Job's Daughters, and the Order of De Molay (for young men).
The Grand Chapter of Iowa, Order of the Eastern Star is the name of our state organization in Iowa. It is composed of approximately 4600 individuals who are members in about 68 local chapters. Our national organization is called the General Grand Chapter. There are Grand Chapters in 50 states, all seven provinces of Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, Japan, China, the Philippines, Republic of Panama, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Bermuda and Okinawa. The Grand Chapter of Scotland has jurisdiction over the chapters in the United Kingdom. Grand Chapters of New York and New Jersey have jurisdiction over chapters in their respective states. Headquarters for our General Grand Chapter are house in The International Temple in Washington D. C. If you are a member in good standing in the Order of the Eastern Star, you may visit any local chapter or Grand Chapter in these areas.
Becoming a member is easy. You must have a belief in a Supreme Being.
Who may join: Affiliated Master Masons in good standing and any female relatives who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption to Affiliated Master Masons in good standing, or if deceased were in good standing at the time of death; as well as members — either active for three (3) years or majority — in the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls® or in Job's Daughters International®, each of whom having attained to at least the age of eighteen (18) years, are eligible to membership in the Order of the Eastern Star.
How to join: To inquire about membership, talk to a current member, or contact a local chapter. To find chapters in your area, contact the Iowa Grand Chapter Secretary (see complete contact information below). Petitions are carefully read, eligibility investigated and election to membership must be by a vote of the Chapter. The Order strives to select persons of mental, moral, and spiritual quality who will work together in harmony to perform its objectives.
There are many personal rewards of membership in the Order of the Eastern Star, such as:
- Chapter meetings are open to all members, not just the officers or delegates.
- Social hours and refreshments at the meetings.
- Opportunity to help others through volunteer service in the community each year, adopting and helping to support "State Charitable Projects" and striving State-wide to make meaningful contributions. (Examples of projects supported: Cancer, Arthritis, Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, Heart and Eye Banks, Mobile Meals, Make-A-Wish, Autism and funded the purchasing of major medical equipment for research and use at the University of Iowa Hospitals.)
- Lasting friendships.
- Travel - visiting other chapters! Enjoying old and developing new friendships. Additionally, members may attend the Grand Chapter Session which is usually held the last week in October with some of the sessions and social events open (to which you may bring non-member friends and/or family). Along with the business meetings, there are many social events you may attend. The same applies to our General Grand Chapter which holds its session triennially (every 3 years).
- Inspiration of the ritual. The founder and author of our Ritual (the book that defines, explains and clarifies our Organization) was written by the late Dr. Rob Morris. Dr. Morris, a successful lawyer, lecturer and instructor in Masonry, based our Ritual on the teachings of the Holy Bible. He wrote the Ritual in 1850 to provide the female relatives of Masonic Brothers a way in which they could share the same inspirations that prompted men to noble deeds of Benevolence and Charity. The Ritual is written in English, Spanish, German and Italian languages.
If you are interested in becoming a member please contact the Grand Chapter Secretary


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T15K6 plate, hard alloy
Supplier — AvekGlob Company — offers at reasonable prices from the manufacturer plates made of a solid alloy grade T15K6. The supplier guarantees the timely delivery of products to any address specified by the consumer.
Technical specifications
The solid alloy T15K6 is a highly melting compound of solid, ceramic tungsten carbide with temperature resistant titanium carbide in the presence of viscous cobalt. This material is a composite of a metal matrix in which cobalt particles are placed in a matrix of tungsten carbide. Tungsten carbide has the formula WC, and titanium carbide — ТіС.
Due to the low percentage of carbon, the hardness and wear resistance of the alloy under consideration is lower than that of a similar alloy matrix BK15, but the permissible shear strength increases and the toughness does not decrease.
Urgency of application
T15K6 hard alloy is used in the manufacture of a variety of metal cutting tools, in particular for semi-black and fine turning, thread cutting on metal cutting machines, semi-finished and finished milling, reaming, reaming and boring pre-treated holes and other operations that are performed with carbonaceous or alloyed steels. A stock of plastic strength allows products made from this alloy to withstand bending and eccentric loads.
Chemical composition
In accordance with the technical requirements of GOST 3882−74, the alloy T15K6 has the following composition:
Tungsten carbide — 79%;
Titanium carbide — 15%;
Cobalt — 6%.
Physical and mechanical properties
The temperature of the red resistance is 1200 0 C;
Strength limit, MPa — 1550… 1600;
Density, kg / m 3 — 11100… 11700;
Coefficient of thermal conductivity, W / megade — 9,3;
Bending strength, MPa — 1100;
Hardness according to Rockwell (scale A) — 90;
Impact strength, kJ / m 2 — 13.2.
Assortment and application features
The solid alloy T15K6 is obtained by sintering the dimensions of the initial mold taking into account the shrinkage of the material. Available plates, discs and cylinders of various sizes. It is possible to obtain plasticized plates, previously sintered at high temperature. To obtain the final product it is necessary to use the technologies of electric spark, electric-arc or anodic-mechanical treatment. Less effective grinding with carborundum circles with the subsequent grinding of the final surface of the part with powders of boron carbide.
When machining parts with a tool made of T15K6 alloy, it is possible to use significant cutting speeds.
Supplier — the company AvecGlob — offers to purchase at affordable prices from the manufacturers of plates that are made of a solid alloy grade T15K6. Products can be bought at a price formed on the basis of European and world standards of production. Implementation is possible in bulk and retail, for regular customers, a flexible system of discounts operates.


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Technology's a great industry to cover as a journalist. It is a seemingly endless fount of products, statements and events that make you go "hmmmm." A couple of head-scratchers for this week:
* While Google Inc.'s network of top-secret data centres is redundant out the wazoo, infrastructure chief Vijay Gill says there's one condition the company's having trouble protecting against: gunfire.
Gill told U.K.-based IT news site The Register that itsfibre connection to its data centre in The Dalles, Ore., is regularly shot out by hunters. Whether it's for sport or out of boredom, according to Gill, these upright, law-abiding citizens try to shoot down the insulators on the electricity poles that carry Google's fibre.
Gill says repair crews are normally sent out by helicopter or tractor, but the company once had to send a repair crew out on skiis when weather wasn't co-operating.
Google is trying to move the fibre link underground to avoid the shootouts.
* Don't have enough voice options for your talking GPS? Tired of listening to "Woman, Australian Accent" tell you where to go? Tom Tom will treat you to turn-by-turn directions from Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, according to a press release from the company.
While I can see Sam's bowdlerized stream of epithets working quite seamlessly in the cut-and-paste turn-by-turn environment, I have trouble picturing Bugs's lazy drawl reproducing well.
Tom Tom will continue to roll out classic Looney Tunes voices for its GPS units through the fall, including Daffy Duck's splatter, Sylvester's lateral lithp and Pepe Le Pew's amorous murmur.
Apropos not much, wouldn't Barry White be awesome for turn-by-turn instructions?
* From our Probably Inflated Product Claims bureau in Wawa, Ont., comes a report of this press release claiming an iPhone-powered alarm clock that will change your life.
"In addition to waking you up refreshed, this is the only alarm clock ever created that also had the power to wake you up as a better person," says the press release fromiFit Technologies.
The Sleep Science Alarm uses high-techmonitoring technology and "complex sleep fatigue algorithms" to determine sleeping stages and awake the snoozer at the optimum time. (Which, for me, is simply several hours later than I've set the alarm, but that's a whole 'nother issue.
Among other claims, the Sleep Science Alarm "doubles as as your personal Psychologist." That is a tall order for an iPhone app.
Anyway, feel free to give it a hack. It's available on iTunes and the Apple App Store.


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ANALYSIS: By Shane Cronin, University of Auckland
The kingdom of Tonga doesn't often attract global attention, but a violent eruption of an underwater volcano on January 15 has spread shock waves, quite literally, around half the world.
The volcano is usually not much to look at. It consists of two small uninhabited islands, Hunga-Ha'apai and Hunga-Tonga, poking about 100m above sea level 65km north of Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa.
But hiding below the waves is a massive volcano, around 1800m high and 20km wide.
- READ MORE: The 'pulse' of a volcano can be used to help predict its next eruption
- Why White Island erupted and why there was no warning
- Other Tongan volcano eruption reports
The Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano has erupted regularly over the past few decades. During events in 2009 and 2014/15 hot jets of magma and steam exploded through the waves.
But these eruptions were small, dwarfed in scale by the January 2022 events.
High-resolution Himawari satellite imagery of the #HungaTongaHungaHaapai volcanic eruption in Tonga 🌋
Our climate stations recorded a brief spike in air pressure as the atmospheric shock wave pulsed across New Zealand. pic.twitter.com/BfLzdq6i57
— NIWA Weather (@NiwaWeather) January 15, 2022
Our research into these earlier eruptions suggests this is one of the massive explosions the volcano is capable of producing roughly every thousand years.
Why are the volcano's eruptions so highly explosive, given that sea water should cool the magma down?
If magma rises into sea water slowly, even at temperatures of about 1200℃, a thin film of steam forms between the magma and water. This provides a layer of insulation to allow the outer surface of the magma to cool.
But this process doesn't work when magma is blasted out of the ground full of volcanic gas. When magma enters the water rapidly, any steam layers are quickly disrupted, bringing hot magma in direct contact with cold water.
Volcano researchers call this "fuel-coolant interaction" and it is akin to weapons-grade chemical explosions. Extremely violent blasts tear the magma apart. A chain reaction begins, with new magma fragments exposing fresh hot interior surfaces to water, and the explosions repeat, ultimately jetting out volcanic particles and causing blasts with supersonic speeds.
Two scales of Hunga eruptions
The 2014/15 eruption created a volcanic cone, joining the two old Hunga islands to create a combined island about 5km long. We visited in 2016, and discovered these historical eruptions were merely curtain raisers to the main event.
Mapping the sea floor, we discovered a hidden "caldera" 150m below the waves.
The caldera is a crater-like depression around 5km across. Small eruptions (such as in 2009 and 2014/15) occur mainly at the edge of the caldera, but very big ones come from the caldera itself. These big eruptions are so large the top of the erupting magma collapses inward, deepening the caldera.
Looking at the chemistry of past eruptions, we now think the small eruptions represent the magma system slowly recharging itself to prepare for a big event.
We found evidence of two huge past eruptions from the Hunga caldera in deposits on the old islands. We matched these chemically to volcanic ash deposits on the largest inhabited island of Tongatapu, 65km away, and then used radiocarbon dates to show that big caldera eruptions occur about ever 1000 years, with the last one at AD1100.
With this knowledge, the eruption on January 15 seems to be right on schedule for a "big one".
What we can expect to happen now
We are still in the middle of this major eruptive sequence and many aspects remain unclear, partly because the island is currently obscured by ash clouds.
The two earlier eruptions on December 20 2021 and January 13 2022 were of moderate size. They produced clouds of up to 17km elevation and added new land to the 2014/15 combined island.
The latest eruption has stepped up the scale in terms of violence. The ash plume is already about 20km high. Most remarkably, it spread out almost concentrically over a distance of about 130km from the volcano, creating a plume with a 260km diameter, before it was distorted by the wind.
This demonstrates a huge explosive power — one that cannot be explained by magma-water interaction alone. It shows instead that large amounts of fresh, gas-charged magma have erupted from the caldera.
The eruption also produced a tsunami throughout Tonga and neighbouring Fiji and Samoa. Shock waves traversed many thousands of kilometres, were seen from space, and recorded in New Zealand some 2000km away.
Soon after the eruption started, the sky was blocked out on Tongatapu, with ash beginning to fall.
All these signs suggest the large Hunga caldera has awoken. Tsunami are generated by coupled atmospheric and ocean shock waves during an explosion, but they are also readily caused by submarine landslides and caldera collapses.
Changes of Hunga Tonga – Hunga Ha'apai volcanic #island caused by recent eruption. #Radar images taken by #Sentinel1 satellite on Dec. 10 and Dec. 22.
Satellite data processed in @sentinel_hub#Tonga #volcano #HungaTongaHungaHaapai #SAR pic.twitter.com/TNxzxRJ3Ov
— kosmi (@kosmi64833127) December 23, 2021
It remains unclear if this is the climax of the eruption. It represents a major magma pressure release, which may settle the system.
A warning, however, lies in geological deposits from the volcano's previous eruptions. These complex sequences show each of the 1000-year major caldera eruption episodes involved many separate explosion events.
Hence we could be in for several weeks or even years of major volcanic unrest from the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano. For the sake of the people of Tonga I hope not.
Dr Shane Cronin is professor of earth sciences, University of Auckland. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article.


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Randomized Controlled Trial of Imago Relationship Therapy: Exploring Statistical and Clinical Significance
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For decades, couples around the world have used Imago relationship therapy (IRT) to improve their relationships. While anecdotal success stories abound, no randomized controlled trial of IRT's impact has been accomplished until now. The authors review the results of a randomized controlled trial of distressed, treatment-seeking couples who completed 12 sessions of IRT and the impact their involvement had on their marital satisfaction. Results showed that (a) individuals in the treatment condition experienced statistically significant increases in marital satisfaction, while couples in the control group did not; (b) levels of marital satisfaction did decrease significantly from posttreatment to follow-up but remained significantly higher than at pretreatment; (c) though statistically significant, the improvements experienced by the treatment group were not clinically significant improvements; and (d) while approximately one-third of participants achieved recovery during treatment, at the dyad level, only one couple achieved recovery. Further analysis and recommendations for future research are discussed.
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Gehlert, Nathan C., "Randomized Controlled Trial of Imago Relationship Therapy: Exploring Statistical and Clinical Significance" (2017). 2017 Faculty Bibliography. 12.
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Electric Requiem: God Save the Queen
Samson Young
The Queen's Pier in Hong Kong was closed and demolished by the government in 2007 amidst considerable objection from the public. Like many other historical landmarks in the city, the former royal dock built in the colonial times had to make way for urban development. This incident inspired avant-garde Hong Kong musician
Samson Young to compose and direct the experimental piece Electric Requiem: God Save the Queen. It was later performed live in 2009 by the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong with chorus by the Hong Kong Voices. The video portion features iconic actress Helena Law Lan as Her Majesty, a role she had played in films and on
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Employees from facilities throughout the UK were proud to participate in the 3rd Annual Scarborough Engineering Week October 13-15. The event welcomed over 3,000 young people ages 4-19 years and showcased some of the most prominent local and regional business, who rely on engineering to be successful. Employees who staffed our booth had the opportunity to raise awareness about the mining industry and promote our company, products and engineering careers at our company.
Event organizers shared, "empowering young people to take control of their future in an ever changing world is essential for successful futures, especially as they progress to careers which do not yet exist, use technology not yet invented and solve problems we do not even yet know are problems. This is at the heart of Scarborough Engineering Week."
We are dedicated to promoting and interest in careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math through a wide variety of outreach initiatives in the global communities in which we operate. Inspiring today's youth to pursue an education and STEM focused career helps build an innovative and creative workforce for tomorrow who will also be dedicated to solving mining's toughest challenges.
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LONDON, January 12, 2022: DeFinity, an institutional digital asset ECN and DeFi marketplace for foreign exchange, digital assets and CBDC, announces the world's first settled cash FX trade written to its permissionless layer-1 WeOwn blockchain.
Michael Siwek, co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of DeFinity Markets, says: "The opportunities for DeFinity across both digital and traditional asset classes are vast and underpinned by the adoption of blockchain technology. The timing to print settled cash FX and digital asset transactions to the blockchain infrastructure has come at an opportune moment in line with our recently announced Cobalt partnership."
The OTC foreign exchange market has been opaque since its electronification in the late '90s. Prices vary across venues, which can make it difficult to establish an even execution benchmark.
Ashwind Soonarane, co-founder and COO of DeFinity Markets, says: "We are immensely proud of deploying our technology at such an exciting time for the digital asset and blockchain space, helping our institutional clients achieve and retain full transparency around best execution practices."
Anonymised or fully disclosed data can be recorded in real-time, or on a delayed basis to protect proprietary strategies. Clients can customise certain components of the service to meet their needs around internal and external reporting requirements.
DeFinity offers counterparties the ability to trade and record the full lifecycle of transactions on the layer-1 blockchain. With the unique hybrid architecture of the WeOwn layer-1 blockchain, users of the service can opt-out of the permissionless channel and instead retain full privacy with a permissioned blockchain, sharing data with select counterparties, regulators and third-party analytics vendors.
Manu Choudhary, co-founder and CEO of DeFinity Markets, added, "DeFinity is incredibly fortunate to operate on one of the fastest third generation, layer-1 blockchains, which affords the platform the ability of being highly-scalable, performance-driven and focussed on transparency & decentralisation."
Chris Park, co-founder and CFO of DeFinity Markets, concluded, "The willingness from counterparties to report transactions on a permissionless blockchain demonstrates the preparedness of the market to lift the veil around some traditional FX market friction points, which will add benefit to the buy-side and sell-side communities. Off the back of these developments, we are truly excited that DeFinity went revenue positive in December 2021 with the first live trading client."
DeFinity is institutional custody agnostic and its ecosystem allows for a wide range of custodians to interact with its buy-side and sell-side participants, whilst also allowing those participants to be fully flexible as to execution venue. DeFinity has always held the vision of creating the environment to realise the inflexion point for institutions as FIAT & crypto converge. Establishing a market leading position with our partners in both individual asset classes will position us to accelerate the delivery of our roadmap.
About DeFinity Markets
DeFinity Markets is a financial technology firm powered and owned by DMALINK, WeOwn and their respective founders. DeFinity operates an institutional digital asset ECN and DeFi marketplace for fiat Foreign Exchange, Cryptocurrencies and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). In addition to the digital asset ECN, DeFinity is a layer-2 protocol and decentralised exchange solution with a focus on interoperability, utilising existing blockchain frameworks such as WeOwn, Ethereum, Polkadot, Binance Smart Chain and Cardano. Harnessing the power of decentralisation within a strong regulatory framework, the firm is specifically geared towards the future support of central bank digital currencies and decentralised financial services for FX clearing.


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Balakrishnan, Rohini and Helversen, Dagmar Von and Helversen, Otto Von (2001) Song pattern recognition in the grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus: the mechanism of syllable onset and offset detection. In: Journal of Comparative Physiology a Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology, 187 (4). pp. 255-264.
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The male song of the duetting grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus consists of syllables alternating with noisy pauses. The syllable-pause structure is important for song recognition by the female. Using playback experiments we investigated the mechanism by which intensity modulations within the song pattern are used to detect syllable onsets and offsets. We varied the relative onset level (level of the syllable beginning relative to the noisy pause) and the relative offset level (level of the noisy pause relative to the syllable end) independently in different experiments. For all females, an increase in intensity defining the syllable onset was necessary to evoke responses. Syllable offset cues were not always necessary: some females responded to continuous noise stimuli wherein only syllable onsets were marked by short pulses of high intensity. Those females that did not require syllable offset cues did not. however, lack a functional pause detection mechanism, since their responses to model songs containing silent pauses were restricted to a given range of pause durations. We propose that syllable-pause detection involves two independent processes: (1) syllable onset detection by a phasic neuronal unit that can be re-activated only after a short pause, and (2) the rejection of unacceptably long pauses by a second unit.
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This C/PBL resource is an introduction to geochemistry in the context of the geological and archaeological record. It is based on the following question: What would the geochemical record of human activities and civilisation be in the geochemical record of the future?
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The resource is focussed at level 1 and 2 students so it places a particular emphasis on simple organic and inorganic chemical formulae, and equations related to geochemistry and climate change science. Analytical techniques such as mass spectroscopy are also examined.
The range of applications covered in this problem brings together a number of different areas of overlap between chemistry, earth sciences, the physical and life sciences. This problem is unique in that it allows the students to utilise current research publications to produce a synthesis of information about this new and interdisciplinary area of scientific research.
No prior archaeological or geological knowledge is required or expected to complete this problem.
This resource and its components are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.