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Cygnett Chargeup Digital 6000 Portable Powerbank Review
Over the holiday break I purchased a 'Power bank'. So welcome to my first technology review for 2016 on theCygnett Chargeup Digital 6000 Portable Powerbank review. I should start a series on useful tech gadgets to have…
The batteries on smartphones and tablets don't last as long as we like them to so a spare battery is always a useful thing to have have around. Unfortunately not many phones these days have a battery you can replace so the solution is a 'Power Bank' you can carry around as a spare like the Cygnet Chargeup. The Cygnett version like other power banks can charge phones, cameras, tablets, remote control toys, game controllers. It did work with any device I plugged into it. Power Banks in general are very handy when travelling especially when that USB port on the plane or train is faulty or waiting during travel delay even at events where you can't really hang around a powerpoint when your device runs out of power.
There are so many Powerbank style devices to choose from and I liked most of them but the Cygnett ChargeUp Digital series appealed most as it had a digital battery level LED read out, 2 USB ports, a stylish design. The only missing on the ChargeUp Digital was maybe a touch but obviously the device I'm charging probably has bright screen anyway. The interesting feature is that the charging does not start until you press the power button. My version has a capacity of 6000 mha which I think is plenty for a 2 complete charges of my smartphone, currently a Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
The conclusion is that the Cygnett Chargeup Digital 6000 is a definite a good thing. It looks good, well made, works well and a handy size to carry around. Price for the ChargeUp 6000 version is under $70 AUD which is the average price for a power bank of this capacity but you can get discounts, you don't need to look far for those.


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Strategic Goals 9, 10, and 11
National Interest: Law Enforcement Strategic Goal 9: Countering Terrorism STRATEGIC GOAL OVERVIEW/PUBLIC BENEFIT Since the events of 9/11, combating international terrorism has become the USG's top priority. The Department is the lead federal agency working with other nations to counter terrorism and minimize the threat of terrorist violence at home and abroad to the United States, its interests, and its allies. It has made key contributions to the worldwide campaign against terrorism in its efforts to create international coalitions that are willing and able to accomplish U.S. counterterrorism objectives.
Annual Performance Goal 1 SUMMARY OF KEY RESULTS AND IMPACT During 2002, the Department made significant progress in creating and sustaining the international political will necessary for states to take strong, decisive action against terrorism. Bilateral and multilateral consultations resulted in unprecedented cooperation with foreign partners in all areas of the global war on terrorism. In this context, a Joint Working Group with Pakistan was established, China agreed to an FBI Legal Attach� Office in Beijing, and NATO invoked Article V for the first time in its history to assist the United States with countering terrorism. One hundred and sixty ATA courses provided to priority states: Five additional organizations designated as FTOs in FY 2002: PERFORMANCE RESULTS BY INDICATOR AND TARGET 5
National Interest: Law Enforcement Strategic Goal 10: International Crime STRATEGIC GOAL OVERVIEW/PUBLIC BENEFIT Like terrorism and drug trafficking, international crime simutaneously targets domestic and external U.S. interests, affecting a wide range of U.S. citizens daily. Trafficking in women and children, migrant smuggling, contraband smuggling, money laundering, credit card fraud, cybercrime, theft of intellectual property rights (IPR), vehicle theft, public corruption, environmental crimes, and trafficking in illegal firearms cost U.S. taxpayers and businesses billions of dollars each year. International crime groups threaten the rule of law and stability.
Annual Performance Goal 1 Transnational crime groups often operate from or through countries with weak criminal justice and banking systems that lack the resources, ability, and often the political will to confront organized crime. Department programs in targeted countries help strengthen criminal-justice and law-enforcement institutions, which are necessary for detecting, investigating, arresting, and convicting transnational crime figures and breaking up their operations. This not only improves foreign governments' SUMMARY OF KEY RESULTS AND IMPACT The Department signed an agreement with Costa Rica to establish a regional ILEA there, the fifth such academy to be established worldwide. During FY 2002, the ILEA program trained 2,200 students; other programs trained an additional 9,500 students, thereby upgrading the skills and professionalism of justice sector and law enforcement officials. ILEA training focuses specifically on regional issues and problems. U.S.-trained officials are more likely to apply U.S. standards and methods in their daily operations and training curricula, and are more willing and able to cooperate with the United States. During FY 2002, the number of students trained through bilateral programs dropped drastically as U.S. training agencies redirected training resources to counterterrorism operations and programs, but by the end of the year, those numbers began to rebound. [Text version of a photo: Two views of the outside of academy building; Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, U.S. Department of State photo. Caption reads: "The International Law Enforcement Academy in Gaborone, Botswana."] The Number of Law Enforcement Officials Receiving Counternarcotics Training Has Increased by 75% Since 2000: PERFORMANCE RESULTS BY INDICATOR AND TARGET
Annual Performance Goal 2 Regional and international cooperation among governments is essential for combating transnational crime. Working together, members of the international community set standards and agree on collective actions, thereby paving the way for operational cooperation and allowing the United States to share the financial and political burden of fighting international crime. SUMMARY OF KEY RESULTS AND IMPACT The UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime, which defines standards for combating transnational organized crime, has now been signed by 143 countries and ratified by two dozen states. This progress represents a major step toward forging an international response to the growing threat of transnational crime. The treaty will enter into force when forty states have ratified it; meanwhile, all signatories are obliged not to take steps contrary to the Convention. PERFORMANCE RESULTS BY INDICATOR AND TARGET
National Interest: Law Enforcement Strategic Goal 11: Countering Illegal Drugs STRATEGIC GOAL OVERVIEW/PUBLIC BENEFIT Illegal drugs, most of which originate abroad, impose a staggering toll on the American people, killing thousands of Americans annually and costing more than $160 billion in terms of law enforcement, health care, and lost productivity. In the President's words, "Illegal drug use threatens everything that is good about our country." Drug traffickers, many with links to terrorists groups, threaten the rule of law, political and economic stability, and even the sovereignty of many countries, including some key allies and friends. No country is immune.
Annual Performance Goal 1 SUMMARY OF KEY RESULTS AND IMPACT Targeting coca, opium poppies, and marijuana during cultivation is the single most effective means of reducing the quantity of such drugs entering the international market and the United States. In recent years, aggressive eradication programs in Pakistan (opium poppy), Bolivia (coca), and Peru (coca) reduced illicit cultivation in those countries by more than 90 percent. Although the number of hectares of coca under cultivation in Colombia apparently increased to about 210,000, actual production of cocaine likely decreased because 122,000 hectares were sprayed. PERFORMANCE RESULTS BY INDICATOR AND TARGET
Annual Performance Goal 2 SUMMARY OF KEY RESULTS AND IMPACT The United States depends on the cooperation and assistance of foreign governments to combat international drug trafficking and traffickers. Most source-and transit-zone states are developing countries with weak criminal justice systems. Thus, in coordination with other USG agencies, the United Nations and other international organizations, the Department assists these countries with equipment, training, institutional development, and operational cooperation essential for mounting effective counternarcotics programs and operations. PERFORMANCE RESULTS BY INDICATOR AND TARGET
PROGRAM EVALUATIONS AND MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES Two Program Evaluations were conducted in FY 2002 that pertained to this Strategic Goal: Detailed information on these evaluations' major findings, recommendations, and actions to be taken can be found in the the FY 2002 Key Program Evaluations by Strategic Goal section of the Appendix. |

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Consultants for Golf Club Management
Golf consulting club is gaining popularity. Experienced professionals who are knowledgeable in business, leadership and marketing, but also in golf, help clubs re-enter the 21st century in a stronger position. The consultants' help the puppies develop new ideas and projects that will allow them to maintain and improve their income streams, as well as attract new members of all ages, and in many cases of both sexes. It seems that the days of ice-only golf clubs for men are a thing of the past. And although some would prefer this not to be, thousands of golf clubs see the benefits of improving their business practices and developing services that contribute to the overall economic stability of the clubs.
Golf is still a very popular sport.
You just need to see images of any of the major tournaments and there is no doubt that it is still a popular sport. However, there is growing concern that some clubs are struggling and need to consider different tactics in order to continue to grow and improve. Golf club consultants successfully help clubs rebuild their courses and implement interesting new projects that provide a return on investment and attract members and investments in the club. There is no doubt that they have a positive impact on the world of golf.
There are many golf clubs and facilities in the world, and for those who are in the most popular tourist destinations and in the largest settlements, life is beautiful. However, for small clubs, times are difficult and they need professional support and advice that a good consultant can provide.
Consultants can help with club management in terms of managing assets, staff, room improvements, course management, and more. They can also help clubs more effectively and correctly navigate the audience. Passionate golfers also understand the importance of attracting youth to sports. It is imperative to encourage the next generation to practice golf in order to remain one of the most beloved sports and leisure activities in the world.
An excellent golf course and revitalize the tourism industry for a small town. You can fill the hotel almost all year round, and you can offer local youth another option for activities that allows them to go out and enjoy healthy activities. Golf clubs can be places to meet, make contacts, and enjoy good food and hospitality. They can earn extra income by hiring their place for functions and business conferences. Clubs have so many options and opportunities, but without the right knowledge and experience, it will be difficult to develop and plan them.


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Corporation, S-corp's or LLC? Which one is best for me?
When opening up your business it can get intimidating and confusing in regards on taxes and how to pay your self. This post is an attempt to alleviate the stress involved with opening up your business. Here at Five Star Brokerage you can rely on professional and accurate tax advice to keep more of your hard earned dollars in your profit. Ready? Here we go:
1. Corporation definition as per NYS Department of State Website -
A business corporation is a legal entity separate and distinct from the individual(s) who compose the business. It has rights and abilities similar to those of a natural person. Principal features are perpetual duration, limited liability and easy transferability of interests. A corporation may be formed for any lawful business purpose or purposes
2. S-Corp-
Similar to the above definition the S-corp is a tax election with the IRS to avoid paying corporate tax. As per the IRS website below is a definition for the S-corp:
S corporations are corporations that elect to pass corporate income, losses, deductions, and credits through to their shareholders for federal tax purposes. Shareholders of S corporations report the flow-through of income and losses on their personal tax returns and are assessed tax at their individual income tax rates. This allows S corporations to avoid double taxation on the corporate income. S corporations are responsible for tax on certain built-in gains and passive income at the entity level.
To qualify for S corporation status, the corporation must meet the following requirements:
Be a domestic corporation
Have only allowable shareholders
May be individuals, certain trusts, and estates and
May not be partnerships, corporations or non-resident alien shareholders
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text: Media Media releases Inquest into death of Sarah Reed, found dead in her cell in HMP Holloway after an acute mental health crisis, opens Tuesday 3rd July 2017 Before HM Assistant Coroner Peter Thornton QCSitting at City of London Coroner's CourtWalbrook Wharf, Upper Thames Street, London EC4R 3TD Opens 4 July 2017 at 10.00 am- expected to run for 2-3 weeks.Note: Those who would like to attend have been asked to bring a photo ID with them Sarah Reed, 32 died on 11 January 2016 while in the custody of HMP Holloway. Sarah had been remanded to HMP Holloway on 14 October 2015 following an alleged assault which took place whilst she was a sectioned patient at a mental health unit. Sarah had been suffering from serious mental ill health since the death of her six-month old baby in 2003. She suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, emotional unstable personality disorder and an eating disorder. She spent many years in and out of mental health institutions and prisons. The times when she was not in institutions, she totally relied on her family for support, who desperately tried to get the right help for her but felt that she was constantly being failed by the system. In 2012, Sarah was assaulted by a police officer James Kiddie. That experience aggravated her mental health issues. The inquest into her death will seek to explore the following issues:• Her medication and issues around why they were altered and stopped• The use of segregation and punishment for her behaviour• Suicide and self-harm risk assessments• Delay in obtaining fitness to plead assessments and lack of transfer to a mental health unit• Issues around family contact• Mechanisms and circumstances of her death The family of Sarah Reed said:''We are looking forward to this inquest taking place. Sarah was adored and loved by the whole family and her death has been devastating for us. Before she was remanded, she had started to turn her life around. She was in a good relationship, she finally had housing and she was more settled. The one thing I am sure about is she died unexpectedly. We are hoping to get to the bottom of what caused her death and we are also asking for the general public to support us." Deborah Coles, Director of INQUEST said:"Sarah Reed was an extremely vulnerable black woman with a long history of mental ill health. She was one of 22 women who died in women's prisons in 2016, three of whom were women of colour. Twelve of these deaths were classified as self-inflicted, representing an eleven year high. The fundamental question in this case, like so many more before it is: why was Sarah ever sent to prison in the first place? The state's responsibility for deaths goes beyond the prison walls and extends to failures in mental health and substance abuse provision, sentencing policies and the failure to implement the Corston report and invest in alternatives to custody." ENDS NOTES TO EDITORS For further information, please contact Lucy McKay on [email protected] or 020 7263 1111 INQUEST have been working with the family of Sarah Reed since her death. The family is represented by INQUEST Lawyers Group members Irene Nembhard of Birnberg Peirce & Partners Solicitors and Sean Horstead of Garden Court Chambers. A campaign for justice began following Sarah's death. Details can be found on their Twitter or Facebook. Deaths of women in prison• In 2016 there were a total of 22 deaths in women's prisons in England and Wales. This is the highest total number of deaths on the female estate since INQUEST started recording statistics in 1990. Three of those who died were women of colour, including Sarah. Of these deaths at least 12 were self-inflicted, the highest number since 2004.• According to Ministry of Justice statistics (March 2016-March 2017), within the female prison estate there were 10 self-inflicted deaths at a rate of 2.6 per 1,000 prisoners. This is compared to 1.3 per 1,000 prisoners across both the male and female estates.• More information on the deaths of women in prison can be found here, with reports from a number of oversight bodies. Sarah Reed• Sarah was assaulted by police officer James Kiddie in November 2012. Kiddie was convicted of common assault in March 2014 and sentenced to a community order• Following Sarah's death the Guardian wrote this article discussing her death and treatment by the various institutions she interacted with. They also interviewed Sarah's mother, Marylin. HMP Holloway• HMP Holloway closed in July 2016, with prisoners being moved to HMP Downview and HMP Bronzefield. George Osborne, announced the closure on 25 November 2015, saying prison would close and would be sold for housing.• Local campaigners are asking that some of the site of the prison is retained for "urgently needed community facilities and women's support services, such as domestic violence and mental health" (see Women in Prison). The campaign page can be found here.


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I have been wanting to write this post for some time as I have been getting about 15-20 of the same question every single day. "Why are my monthly Pinterest views taking such a huge hit?"
First off, your monthly Pinterest views are simply showing you how many people are seeing your content each month. So yes, the more views the better. However, more views don't necessarily mean more traffic back to your website.
Focusing on your Pin Metrics and how your pins are converting will help you with that.
Every year between the months of August and December, Pinterest sees a HUGE spike in users. Why? The holiday season is fast approaching and people usually start looking for Halloween ideas in August!
Then, January rolls around, and users see a HUGE drop in their monthly Pinterest views. Why? There are roughly 30% fewer users active on the platform. I like to call it, the "seasonal slump."
Again, this is not a reason to freak out. Unless your website traffic is being directly affected, then you may have to change some things. Such as how many pins you are pinning and how
Here is a quick rundown on the Pinterest Algorithm.
This is the Pinterest, "Smart Feed." It's the algorithm that Pinterest uses to determine what a user sees in their home feed.
Pinterest wants you to see content you are interested in. Pinterest priorities and ranks pins based on their quality and SEO, which is all determined by the algorithm.
Sometimes they change their algorithm. So while one week they are basing things off domain quality. (Pins being pinned directly from your website, showing Pinterest you are creating quality content people want to save.) This is why you ALWAYS want to have pinnable images in your post! And a "pin it" plug in!
The next week they could be pulling content based on relevance. Here is where good SEO comes into play.
The point is, the algorithm is always changing. So your views will ALWAYS be changing. And you need to know that isn't
I have seen users with well over a million monthly Pinterest views, but they get very little traffic back to their site. Again, monthly views ONLY mean how many people are seeing your content. NOT interacting with it.
Then, I have had users with low monthly views, 200,000, and they get TONS of traffic back to their site.
It's all about conversion my friends.
A cool new feature.
Carousel Pins.
Carousel pins are a cool new feature that all Pinterest for Business accounts have access to. It lets you add up to 5 images that rotate, but all link to the same PIN URL.
However, each image can be linked to a different URL on your site. You also have the option for different titles AND descriptions.
I have yet to create a carousel pin, but I am going to guess these pins will be prioritized for distribution as Pinterest wants other users to see this awesome new feature and start using it!
So, if Pinterest confuses the HECK out of ya, click here and let me walk you through it ALL!
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Multimodal pricing and optimal design of urban public transport: The interplay between traffic congestion and bus crowding
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mode - bus, mode - pedestrian, operations - capacity, operations - crowding, ridership - perceptions, policy - fares
Bus design, Congestion, Crowding, Fare, Quality of service, Walking
The interplay between congestion and crowding externalities in the design of urban bus systems is identified and analysed. A multimodal social welfare maximisation model with spatially disaggregated demand is developed, in which users choose between travelling by bus, car or walking in a transport corridor. Optimisation variables are bus fare, congestion toll, bus frequency, bus size, fare collection system, bus boarding policy and the number of seats inside buses. We find that optimal bus frequency results from a trade-off between the level of congestion inside buses, i.e., passengers' crowding, and the level ofcongestion outside buses, i.e., the effect of frequency on slowing down both buses and cars in mixed-traffic roads. A numerical application shows that optimal frequency is quite sensitive to the assumptions on crowding costs, impact of buses on traffic congestion, and overall congestion level. If crowding matters to users, buses should have as many seats as possible, up to a minimum area that must be left free of seats. If for any other reason planners decide to have buses with fewer seats than optimal (e.g., to increase bus capacity), frequency should be increased to compensate for the discomfort imposed on public transport users. Finally, the consideration of crowding externalities (on both seating and standing) imposes a sizeable increase in the optimal bus fare, and consequently, a reduction of the optimal bus subsidy.
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.
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Tirachini, A., Hensher, D.A., & Rose, J.M. (2014). Multimodal pricing and optimal design of urban public transport: The interplay between traffic congestion and bus crowding. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological Volume 61, March 2014, Pages 33–54.


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The White Swan Inn brings romance and magical atmosphere to San Francisco's Nob Hill/Union Square area. It's a small hotel, but you'll find a fireplace in each of its 26 rooms. Its dark wood paneling, rich floral carpets and use of elegant fabrics and enchanting English art & collectibles recall old-world London, with service and dining to match.


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The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, Raytheon and nearly 200 other companies want you to know they're down with woke capitalism.
The organization representing the nation's most powerful chief executives is rewriting how it views the purpose of a corporation, updating its decades-old endorsement of the theory that shareholders' interests should come above all else.
The new statement, released Monday by the Business Roundtable, suggests balancing the needs of a company's various constituencies and comes at a time of widening income inequality, rising expectations from the public for corporate behavior and proposals from Democratic lawmakers that aim to revamp or even restructure American capitalism.
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The group says its members "share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders," and commit to doing well by their customers, employees, suppliers and local communities. "Each of our stakeholders is essential," the group adds. "We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country."
The new statement includes 181 signatures of the 192 current members of the Business Roundtable, which represents many of the biggest companies in the United States. While the statement represents at the very least a symbolic change in the group's thinking, it was not clear how companies would change their practices in light of the new commitments, nor how any changes in behavior would be assessed or monitored.
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This reads to me as our ruling oligarchs laying the groundwork for a coming crackdown and mass deplatforming event where they will go into overdrive policing speech, banning gun sales and targeting dissidents — aka "discredited entities" — to prevent them from engaging in commerce as we're seeing in China.
China restricted 2.56 million discredited entities from purchasing plane tickets, and 90,000 entities from buying high-speed rail tickets in July: NDRC #socialcredit pic.twitter.com/4zAwJ7hrBn
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Amazon has banned hundreds of books, Apple has banned Alex Jones and pro-lifers, Salesforce has banned gun sellers and Bank of America and Chase Bank have both closed dissidents' bank accounts.
These companies are not interested in fostering "diversity and inclusion" when it comes to ideologies. They're interested in forcing prog-globalism down our throats and crushing all dissenters.
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- Restricting Gun Sales Cost Dick's $150 Million Last Year
- Amazon Just Banned the Books that Helped Thousands QUIT Homosexuality
- Amazon now requiring marketplace sellers to submit video for a facial recognition database
- New York Times Tells Big Banks to Blacklist Gun Purchasers
- Blatant Election Rigging: Twitter Wants To Make Sure We NEVER Have Another President Like Trump
- Whistleblower: Facebook Is Promoting ISIS Propaganda While Targeting Conservative Patriots
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Meet Evelyn (Spring Collection)
Hello VFT Family!
We are so excited to introduce 3 new patterns with you; Cairo, Elodie and Evelyn for our Spring Collection.
I am so thrilled to be able to introduce you to Evelyn...
Cold shoulder dresses and tops are a HUGE trend right now and have been for the last year or so. The funny thing is I think it was huge when I was in high school. What was old is new again, right?!! But the cold shoulder sleeve is only one of the amazing features on this new Evelyn pattern.
Along with the double layered ruffle sleeves, it also features front and back bodice ruffles making it look like one continuous line. The faux princess seam is beginner friendly and presents a clean finish with bias tape.
(Sewn with Liberty of London Lawn Fabric)
Another added feature are the front bodice pintucks. These are actually sewn prior to cutting out the front which cleverly makes it a simpler process with great results.
(Sewn using Sharon Holland, Art Gallery Fabrics, Bountiful Collection in Voile)
Are you afraid of zippers? Well not any more! The Evelyn tutorial has tons of photos and we walk you through every step! You will be throwing out that button foot and replacing it with a zipper foot before you know it!!
One of my favorite designer details is the use of trim for the bodice ruffles and/or sleeves. It added a very special unique touch to the dress. Love it!!!
Evelyn comes in Kid sizes 2-10 and Tween sizes 10-16.
She works best with fabrics that drape well like voile, lawn, rayon, silk but can also work with seersucker, lightweight chambray, swiss dot and lightweight cottons.
One of my FAVORITE features of Evelyn (I am a bit obsessed with) is the vintage 2"-2 1/2" (depending on size range sewn) deep hem! OH MY heart! Swoon!! The skirt also has the option for a lining that enclosed the skirt/bodice seam line. All seams will then be neatly enclosed, NICE!!!!
Here is the exciting part for you....
Be on the lookout very soon for details on an exciting giveaway! Hint... there maybe some fabric involved. ;)
Make sure you check out the website while the Spring Collection is on sale!!! Use code: SPRINGDRESS for 15% off.
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Mikel Arteta's first job as Arsenal boss: restore order at the Mayhemirates
Spaniard will need to have talks with club captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Mikel Arteta will be unveiled as Arsenal's new manager in the next 24 to 48 hours and one of his first tasks will be to have heart-to-heart talks with club captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The Spaniard will have been alerted to comments made by the striker's brother, Willy, who used an Arsenal Fan TV Instagram post to criticise Arteta's lack of managerial experience.
According to The Sun, irate Arsenal fans "have demanded Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is stripped of the club captaincy" as a punishment for his brother's remarks.
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While there is no evidence that Pierre-Emerick endorses his brother's view of Arteta, it's another embarrassing episode and underlines the anarchy within the "Mayhemirates".
Aubameyang exit?
On the other hand, did the Arsenal skipper give his brother the green light to go public with his criticism of 37-year-old Arteta?
There is mounting speculation in north London that Aubameyang wants out of the club, and this may be part of an elaborate strategy to force his exit next month.
The Sun says Arsenal are aware that Aubameyang needs to be handled sensitively and they are hoping that the appointment of Arteta and a new backroom staff will persuade the Gabon goal machine to sign a new contract.
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Aubameyang has 18 months remaining on his £200,000-a-week deal and the Sun claims he is in "no rush" to extend it.
As it stands, he will walk out of the Emirates as a free agent in 2021 and if Arsenal can't convince the 30-year-old to extend his deal they may have to sell him in June rather than risk letting him leave on a free transfer the following year.
Apparently the Gunners are "relying on Arteta's appointment to quell the dressing-room unrest caused by a miserable run of one win in their last 12 games", and they believe that getting their captain on board will signal a new chapter for the club in 2020.
Sign of intent
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror says that Arteta has already drawn up his January shopping list as he looks to overhaul the awful Arsenal squad, and in his sights is Sevilla teenage sensation Antonio Zarzana.
Described by the paper as a "wonderkid", the 17-year-old midfielder has been scouted by Liverpool and Bayern Munich in recent months, but Arteta is hopeful he will be able to persuade Zarzana to commit his future to Arsenal.
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Euromaxx - 360° Open House Zurich, Switzerland
March 9, 2020Digitalization has also become a part of architecture. In Zurich, architects, robotics experts, materials scientists, statisticians and sustainability specialists joined forces to develop new construction technologies.
The DFAB House is the first residential house worldwide to be planned digitally and built using 3D printers and robots. It is located on the NEST of the Empa Campus in Dübendorf, Switzerland. NEST is a research building of the two institutes Empa and Eawag.
Konrad Graser, who himself studied architecture at the ETH Zurich, was project lead of the research project and is proud that the DFAB House, which was completed in 2019, was not only digitally planned but also to a great extent digitally built. Researchers from a total of eight ETH professorial departments worked on the building, in collaboration with industrial partners.
The three-story DFAB House is located on the uppermost of three platforms at the NEST building at the Dübendorf campus. The word "NEST" may remind us of incubators, but the abbreviation actually stands for "Next Evolution in Sustainable Building Technologies" and describes a modular research building. New residential and research modules are added or replaced again and again on the three carrier platforms.
The NEST complex consists of a central fixed building core, with an atrium, community and utility rooms, onto which different building modules – so-called units – can dock. For the construction of the unit DFAB House, for which Konrad Graser was co-responsible, researchers transferred several novel digital construction technologies from the laboratory into real-world residential applications.
The pilot project wants to show both to what extent digital technologies make building more sustainable and efficient and can also increase the potential for new design ideas.
Robots, AI and 3D printers on the construction site of the future
One of the new construction techniques is called "Mesh Mould": Based on a computer model, a two-meter-tall robot on site builds a load-bearing wall. To do this, it bends wire into shape, welds it into a mesh structure and cuts off the excess trim. Then workers pump cement into the structure and trowel it off by hand. This technique saves both material, energy and costs as well as allowing for many different geometries.
Two robots working in tandem prefabricated the components of the load-bearing timber construction of the two upper floors. One robot holds the wooden beams while its counterpart saws and drills. The tools are changed automatically. The individual, irregular wooden frames have been arranged in complex geometry and look like old-style half-timbered houses.
Posts with variable cross-sections for the glass façade were also manufactured automatically. Using the "sliding construction method", robots filled a 40-centimetre high formwork segment with concrete and simultaneously pulled it upwards. The segment contains two metal plates that are moved by actuators and adjust the cross-section, which allows different shapes to be created.
The "Smart Slab" process can also be used to create individual complex concrete structures: A 3D printer produced the formwork for the floor slab. Compared with a conventional concrete slab, this printed version saves on building materials and is also lighter. The almost chiseled ceiling, together with the undulating, robotically created concrete wall, characterizes the aesthetics of the living room. The architectural potential of digital construction technologies is immense, according to the researchers' findings.
The doorbells show that the DFAB House is more than a pure laboratory project. They bear the names of academic guests who have lived here for more than half a year. They use the 200 square meters as a platform to test new smart home solutions under real conditions. From the stove to the lights, everything in the house is networked and the photovoltaic modules on the roof supply an annual average of about one and a half times as much electricity as the unit itself will consume.
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Whew! Now that the weather today is taking a turn for the warmer -- it is the perfect late afternoon/early evening to take a cruise on the LeBarge Tropical Cruise and enjoy the colorfully holiday-festooned, twinkling-lights abounding, waterfront homes that line Sarasota's bays. I've been on this cruise and you get pretty up close and personal to the bayfront yards of the rich and famous (and just some beautiful natural areas as well) -- but this time of year, the light shows and displays are bound to get your holiday mojo working.
The boat leaves at 4:30 this afternoon -- so you've got just enough time to get down to the dock near Marina Jack's and sign up -- plus there's live music on board -- BC Hathaway crooning classics -- and you can order up a drink to keep you warm (if you're legal age of course).


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What if we let nature 'speak' our emotions to our loved ones when we are far away from them? Drawing inspiration from the practice of belayar (voyage) in the Malay Archipelago during the 19th century, A Voyage of Love and Longing invites visitors to re-trace the complex emotions at its different points, from departure to return, through the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings.
Discover how the region's flora and fauna feature in tales of love and longing from the Malay world, and send out your favourites to those who matter through a digital flipbook at the end. Or perhaps you prefer to chart your own sea adventure? See what awaits you through an interactive in-app game, and if you can make it back safely to your loved ones.
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Camp Wheeler (2)
Camp Wheeler (2) (1917-1919, 1940-1945) - A U.S. Army World War I National Guard Mobilization and Training Camp first established in 1917 near Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Named Camp Wheeler in G.O. 95, 18 Jul 1917, after Lieutenant General Joseph Wheeler (Cullum 1843), Confederate General during the U.S. Civil War and later a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army during the Spanish American War. Abandoned in 1919. Reactivated in 1940 for World War II and deactivated in 1945. World War I (1917-1918)One of sixteen U.S. Army National Guard Mobilization and Training Camps established in 1917 to train and integrate National Guard units for service in a U.S. Army division. Camp Wheeler was established in July 1917 under the supervision of construction quartermaster Major Walter Hernwood on a site of about 21,480 acres. The camp was to have a capacity of about 43,000 officers and enlisted men that would become the 31st U.S. Infantry Division. The camp was completed in 1917 at an eventual cost of $ 3,900,000. The first commander of the camp was Major General Francis J. Kernan (Cullum 2896) who formed the 31st U.S. Infantry Division and initiated troop training. The 31st arrived in October 1917 and departed for France on 1918-10-21. The 31st returned to the U.S. and was demobilized in Dec 1918. When the 31st arrived in France it was skeletonized and its members were dispersed as replacements for other units leaving only a token number of troops in the 31st. The 31st did not see combat as a unit. At the end of the war the camp became a demobilization center until it was abandoned in April 1919. World War II (1941-1945)Camp Wheeler was reactivated in 1940 on 14,394 acres of the original site and was used as a training camp and prisoner of war camp until 1945. Colonel A. R. Emery was the first camp commander. A 1,000 bed hospital was constructed for returning wounded soldiers. After the war the camp was abandoned as surplus property on 19 Jan 1946. The leased land returned to its owners. Current StatusMarker only near Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
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A new baby isn't the only incredible gift Kylie Jenner has recently received. The reality star took to her Instagram story over the weekend to reveal the extravagant present she got for giving birth to her and boyfriend Travis Scott's daughter Stormi: a $1.4 million Ferrari! "Push present,"she says while showing off her sleek new ride on camera. "Can't believe she's mine,"she wrote over a photo of the luxury car in the driveway. The 20-year-old was given a jet-black Ferrari LaFerrari which boasts a hot red interior. The hybrid sports car is known for its speedy acceleration and butterfly doors.
It won't be surprising to learn that Kylie's shiny set of wheels is considered a limited-production car, with only 500 ever made according to the brand. The lucky girl was seen taking her fresh whip out for a spin with her man in Malibu, marking their first public appearance together. According to PEOPLE, the new parents sped out for a lunch date with friends and family at Nobu Malibu. Photos show that the television personality wore a black t-shirt with black pants, while her love Travis matched her in a black jacket and graphic tee. The pair looked content as they were pictured during the outing and inside the supercar, where Kylie rode in the passenger seat.
READ: Kylie Jenner shares sultry post-baby photo 11 days after giving birth
As previously reported, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star welcomed her first child in secret on February, 1 with Travis. Kylie took to social media to confirm the happy news, writing that the newborn weighed 8lbs 9oz. She apologized to her fans that are used to her documenting every part of her life, saying she chose not to confirm that she was expecting. "I'm sorry for keeping you in the dark through all the assumptions," she wrote. "I understand you're use to me bringing you along on all my journeys. My pregnancy was one I chose not to do in front of the world."


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Day 2 of the NWSL Challenge Cup gave us a couple of very different matches. The early game had most of its action in either penalty area, while the late game featured a lot of pretty play in the center with no end product. I admit I liked the former a lot more than the latter, but there was still something I loved from every team.
1. This run by Amy Rodriguez
Now this here is 2015 A-Rod.
This goal by @UtahRoyalsFC @dmatheson8 has the in front.
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I'm wondering if the extra time off let Rodriguez both rest up and do a bit more quickness training, because her first step burst hasn't looked this good since before her torn ACL.
Utah's opener is such a great all-around team goal too. The Houston defense is watching Brittany Ratcliffe check back, Rodriguez notices which space is going to be open because of it, Lo'eau Labonta plays a perfect through ball, Rodriguez follows it up with a perfect cross, and Diana Matheson makes the perfect run to get on the end of it. More of that, please.
2. Tziarra King feeling the love
Between her silky skills, fearless attacking style, big smile, and willingness to take a lead on social justice issues as a rookie, Tziarra King is quickly becoming a popular figure in NWSL. She was asked post-game if she knew she was already a fan favorite.
"I've been getting a lot of messages from a lot of people showing their support and I'm so grateful for that," King said. "it means so much to me, genuinely, and it definitely fuels me."
The league named her woman of the match for scoring a late equalizer on her debut, and I'm so happy that her career is off to such a great start.
3. Rachel Daly already in top form
Dash fans were a bit annoyed that Daly didn't get woman of the match, and despite how happy I am for King, I understand why. She was the most dangerous player on either team while she was on the pitch, scoring two goals and getting robbed of a third by some dubious officiating.
Her timing and composure on the first show why she's playing center forward these days, not winger or fullback.
The passing and then the finish by @RachelDaly3
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I don't know how productive the Dash are going to be if Daly isn't at her best, so it's good news for them that she already looks like a scoring machine.
4. Jasmyne Spencer bringing awareness to police violence against black people
OL Reign forward Jasmyne Spencer wore a headband with the names of Black people killed by police on Tuesday night. Among the names she wants to make sure we don't forget: Michael Brown, George Mann, Manuel Ellis, Tanisha Anderson. And of course, there are hundreds more.
This is a horrible subject, but an important one, and I'm glad Spencer took the opportunity to make sure we don't forget about the victims that people are fighting for as they protest racial inequality and police brutality.
5. Jennifer Cudjoe's story
I'd appreciate it very much if you'd stop what you're doing to read this wonderful story by Bria Felicien. She profiled Ghanian midfielder Jennifer Cudjoe, who made her debut for Sky Blue FC on Tuesday night.
Cudjoe made the team from open tryouts, and looked super clean on the ball when she came into the match. I imagine Sky Blue head coach Freya Coombe will have been impressed by her technique and composure in her first pro game.
Today's games
Portland Thorns FC vs. Chicago Red Stars — 12:30 p.m. ET
I'm hoping that the Red Stars are a bit more mentally prepared to give their best in this match. Head coach Rory Dames admitted his team was exhausted by conversations around the national anthem on Saturday, and I'm expecting to see a better team on Wednesday.
Washington Spirit vs. North Carolina Courage — 10 p.m. ET
A lot of people think this is a preview of the final, myself included. The Courage are the best team in the league, but Rose Lavelle appears to be on top form already.


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An American owner, an American in Woking and an American team on the grid. The Formula 1 series is peppered with Americans hither and thither but with new owners, Liberty Media, and McLaren's new American marketing genius, Zak Brown, as well as the Haas F1 team, are there enough Americans to finally raise F1's brand and appeal in the US? As a recent Forbes article points out, growing their digital market is a priority and the US could be a large market for that format.
According to McLaren's Zak Brown, there certainly is room to grow in America and as one of, if not the, largest consumer markets in the world, it should be at the top of home-grown Liberty Media's goals.
"We are a global championship," Brown said. "And while we continue to go to new and emerging markets, which is great, at the end of the day North America is the wealthiest and largest sports market.
"We've got so much room for growth there. So while we should continue to expand and look at new and exciting territories, we've got to become bigger in North America.
"There are so many people there, there's so much television, and there's so much economics there. It's such a great sports market. I think F1 can be huge there over time."
There is an intrinsically American approach to racing that is usually centered around oval track appeal as that has been the racing format most heavily marketed and promoted for the last 50 years. Road course racing's halcyon days in America were the late 1960's through the late 70's.
In those heady days, there was a different generation, different culture and a post-war love affair with the European sports car that simply doesn't exist today but that's not to say there can't be a new appeal to F1 that may attract Generation Y and perhaps more importantly, Generation Z.
This isn't a critical assessment of Gen Y, each generation moves to its own interests and cultural rhythm but Gen Z seems to be showing signs of Gen X's love of cars and mobility, arguably, more so than its predecessor. Building a brand and appeal in the US will be open to all who show interest, for sure, but Liberty Media may find a slightly more receptive audience in Gen Z and Gen Alpha than trying to appeal to Gen Y's established idioms and forays.
Are there Gen Y racing rans? Of course there are, and they love the sport as much as any generation prior but as Brown points out, it's economics and multipliers that are crucial to any marketing initiative. Simple impacts on a generation like the economy are big indices that must be factored in F1's approach to the US. With 80 million Gen Y's in the US, they may constitute far fewer race fans than their predecessor who are half their size.
Gen Y grew up in a robust economy while Gen Z is growing up in a time of recession, terrorism, violence, volatility and complex issues. Gen Z is less likely to engage in social media that tracks their digital impression and more likely to embrace driving earlier as mobility is important to them. Gen Y grew up in malls while Gen Z prefers online shopping. Gen Y watched YouTube, Hulu while Gen Z prefers live streaming and co-content creation.
Gen Z will be more likely to face multigenerational households and marriages and plan to start working earlier. Gen Z will be more keen to cope with reality instead of retreating and seeking virtual reality. Gen Y spent money boldly while Gen Z prefers to save it.
The average allowance for a Gen Z is $16.90/week and this represents a $44 billion market but while Gen Y is larger, they weren't as influential on household purchases as Gen Z are. Gen Z are more influential on dinner menus, family car selection and vacation spots than their predecessors.
A catalyst to the economics multiplier that Brown spoke of could be that three out of four Gen Z's say they wish their current hobby could be their full-time job. A far greater response than Gen Y to the same question.
It's not that simple
I'm not advocating that Gen Z is the savior of F1 in America and that Gen Y are hopeless cases of anti-F1 fodder. Gen Y has a strong component of motorsport fans in the US but mathematically, with 80 million of them, the math is helped by the sheer size and attrition of the generation itself. They mirror their parents in size and had the birthrate not gone down, they would have been the largest generation ever.
As we look across F1's appeal in the US and even the world, it is facing many of the same issues that American sports are facing. Waning viewer numbers and sponsor investments. I won't suggest this is the definitive answer but there are generational studies on behavior that could answer some of the questions over their fickle nature toward traditional media, sports and programming.
Measuring attention spans of typical generations is an interesting exercise and Gen Y, in aggregate, has a slightly longer attention span than Gen Z which is measured at 8 seconds with 11% of them diagnosed with ADHD. Is that a factor? To some marketers it is but I might argue a different alternative that could play well into Liberty's approach.
It may seem that Gen Z's 8-second attention span is a challenge for marketers but for a generation that uses video like Gen Y used texts, and a generation that's never known an analog world, they are actually very cunning navigators and curators of the information they want. Immensely talented at harvesting, curating and digesting content. Here's why.
The world has become comprehensively noisy. The internet is, let's be honest, complete white noise. Gen Z have become much more adept at curating this consistent flow of white noise into meaningful data and they do it really quickly. No mystery here but for Gen Y marketing approaches, content was king. For Gen Z, it is relevancy and contextualized native experiences that transcend the traditional first, second and third screen nomenclature. For Gen Z, all screens are equal and all deliver moments or micro-moments of attention.
Gen Z is not choosing mobile first, they are choosing mobile only. The level of consumption via mobile devices in Gen Z are far greater than Gen Y was and contextually, they look for relevancy and interesting content with rapid precision. They eschew any traditional approaches to marketing as an annoyance and Liberty Media would do well to focus on the fact that Gen Z is much more responsive to earned media than paid media. Recent elections in the US show how a successful candidate used very little paid media and gained wide-spread press coverage through earned media approaches.
Gen Z is less likely to respond to an attempt of F1 to market to their block or homogenous group. They are, like their parents, focused on the individual and the native experience that is relevant and contextual to their everyday life. This means that F1's marketing approach in the US will need to be granular in approach and create leverage in Gen Z's authenticity without shoving their brand into places it doesn't fit or belong.
Legacy marketing fail
As the owner of a successful website and podcast, I can safely say that the traditional approach to marketing, ad buys and website monetization is, quite honestly, a joke. It has been a mark way overstepped. It's given rise to sponsored content due to the intrusive and offensive ads littered around the internet via Google Ads and a multitude of me-too companies. With over 50% of Gen Z likely to use ad-blockers, the marketing world is clamoring for a new approach and there are areas of success but F1 will find it difficult to engage in sponsored content in the US. Their orbital sponsors may have an easier time of it.
What consumers value most
F1 may find more fertile ground if they realize that big gains are not made through technology innovation per se, rather by linking those innovations to the elements that their consumers value most.
In order to do this, you have to build relationships and most companies lack the patience or time to invest in building those relationships. The 1960's was an authentic love and appeal to F1 in the US and it was a native experience that was organically grown. No company—and certainly not F1—exploited that era and marketed the cultural wave for all it was worth. Liberty Media will need to engage relevant, contextually native content for mobility using location and purchase data to tailor the appeal of F1 in the US.
It would be difficult to suggest that the magic number for relevant, contextually native and moment marketing attempts should be anchored to the 8-second rule for attention spans but in reality, if Liberty Media can't tell the F1 story to Gen Z inside of 8-seconds, then the brand will struggle gaining a seat at the relevancy table of these wickedly efficient curators of information.
This isn't to suggest that there is no room for the long-form content in a world of 8 seconds. We're creators of the long-form message at our website, podcasts and even this article. Verbose? Possibly but we're not trying to be seeker-sensitive in our approach and I feel strongly that once hooked, the new F1 fan very much desires the long-form of contextually relevant information.
It makes little sense for Liberty Media to continue pulling at the threads of F1's legacy marketing approach. It would be far better for Liberty to unpack a brand new garment for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.


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hsCRP Assay
Product Features
The Diazyme High Sensitive C-Reactive Protein (hsCRP) Assay has a linear range of 0.20 - 20 mg/L that extends below the measurement range typical of most conventional CRP assay's. This lower range of measurement may include the evaluation of conditions thought to be associated with inflammation in otherwise healthy individuals. |
Assay Principle
The assay is based on a latex-enhanced turbidimetric immunoassay method. When an antigen-antibody reaction occurs between CRP in a sample and anti-CRP antibody which has been sensitized to latex particles, agglutination results. This agglutination is detected as an absorbance change (570 nm), with the magnitude of the change being proportional to the quantity of CRP in the sample. The actual concentration is then determined by interpolation from a calibration curve prepared from calibrators of known concentration. |
Intended use
The Diazyme High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hsCRP) Assay is for the in vitro quantitative determination of C-reactive protein (CRP) in human serum and plasma on automated clinical chemistry analyzers. Measurement of CRP is of use for the detection and evaluation of inflammatory disorders and associated diseases, infection and tissue injury. For in vitro diagnostic use only. |
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Kit | DZ135A | R1/R2 (Dual Vial Liquid Stable) | Dual Vial Liquid Stable, Immunoturbidimetric |
Calibrator | DZ135A-Cal | Cal: 4 Level | |
Control | DZ135A-Con | Con: 3 Level | |
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Japan Pavilion
Far East meets Middle East on the road to Expo 2025
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Four years from now, the next World Expo will kick off in Osaka, Japan and the event's upcoming hosts are marking this exciting transition in style. From its beautiful design to its eco-features, the Japan Pavilion offers an elegant fusion of Arabic and Far Eastern traditions that celebrates the long history of cultural convergence between Japan and the Middle East. Inside, join a journey of sustainability and innovation, take in dynamic projection shows and experience a dazzling finale where you'll make your first connection with Expo 2025 Osaka.
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Fusing design from Asia and the Middle East
An elegant fusion of Asian and Arabian designs, the Japan Pavilion is enclosed within a rectangular façade that resembles folded white origami. This textured, three-dimensional shade structure is made of a paper-like membrane, and draws inspiration from both Japanese Asanoha hemp leaf patterns and Islamic geometric designs.


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A three-story residence at Ocean House steps from the sand of South Beach has listed for $8.75 million.
Located at 125 Ocean Drive and across the street from Prime One Twelve, the 2,452-square-foot home has three bedrooms, four bathrooms, and boasts a 1,350-square-foot rooftop deck with a shaded lounge area, private pool, and summer kitchen.
Interior details of the renovated unit in the heart of the South of Fifth neighborhood include oak and marble flooring, an Italian chef's kitchen, and plantation shutters throughout.
"Ocean House offers ultra-luxurious private residences in the heart of SoFi – which is a rarity," says listing agent Jeff Miller of Brown Harris Stevens. "This property stands apart thanks to its unique and private design in the middle of this buzzing location."
Meanwhile, the residence sold in January for $3.975 million—before the renovation.
Ocean House amenities include a private beach club, salon, and wine cellar.


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No one knows this better than Violet Phillips. When her beloved mentor goes missing, she suspects murder, which sends her spiraling out of control and away from the stable life she has built for herself. Soon, her past will begin seeping out with a vengeance.
"I will teach you how this game is played."
Self-destruction threatens to consume Violet when a handsome neighbor that has been watching her from afar intervenes on her behalf. Shepard Leone may be six years younger, but it does not stop him from seducing her ears as well as her heart.
"Fascinating how much life can change in twenty-four hours."
When Violet is forced to go down a dark road into a past where she must confront the demons that nearly destroyed her, will she be unable to deviate? Struggling with the loss of her missing friend, Shepard will find a way in and reawaken desires that she thought were forever lost. But Violet never forgets that if you are not careful, distractions will be your undoing.


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Mr. Freeman is listed in Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business and New York Super Lawyers. Chambers has quoted clients as saying, "Has many strengths, including excellent analysis of issues, understanding of government agencies, client service and the ability to achieve the best outcome"…"He is a good negotiator who never loses his cool and always stays focused on what's important."
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Freeman served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Frank E. Moss (D-Utah) and a trial attorney at the Federal Trade Commission. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees cum laude from Harvard University. He is a member of the New York, Massachusetts, and District of Columbia bars.
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The Obangame Express 2018 exercise took place in the Gulf of Guinea with the participation of navies and agencies from 31 countries.
The Brazilian Navy (MB, in Portuguese) deployed to the Gulf of Guinea to participate in the multinational exercise Obangame Express 2018. The purpose of the exercise is to train African navies to patrol the Gulf of Guinea and increase maritime security in the region, ramping up efforts to fight frequent crimes, such as piracy, narcotrafficking, human trafficking, armed robbery, and illegal fishing.
Obangame Express, an annual event, kicked off in 2010 under the aegis of U.S. Naval Forces Africa, the naval component of U.S. Africa Command. The 2018 version took place March 21st–29th on the African coast with the participation of 31 countries, including Germany, Belgium, the United States, France, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. The exercise, whose name means "union" in the dialect of the Fang tribe, originally from the continental area of Equatorial Guinea, also aims to cultivate interoperability among participating navies and agencies.
According to MB Commander Carlos Eduardo Fiorino Carneiro, head of the Naval Operations Command Surface Assets Unit (ComOpNav, in Portuguese), MB took 109 service members to the exercise and was in charge of operations area A, which included Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of the Congo. "We had three officers who worked in the Maritime Operations Center (MOC) in Angola, and from there initiated, coordinated, and evaluated all the events in area A; one officer in the Exercise Control Group in Gabon, who worked as a liaison officer with the U.S. Navy; and a team from the Almirante Marques de Leão Training Center deployed on the Ocean Patrol Ship (NaPaOc, in Portuguese) Amazonas, for real-time assessments of African navy procedures," Cmdr. Fiorino told Diálogo.
According to MB Captain Charles Alan da Silva, head of the Special Operations Division at ComOpNav, MB's participation was essential in ensuring interoperability with partner nation armed forces. "The whole world's armed forces are increasingly used in a combined format to defend common interests of partner nations, especially when fighting transnational crimes. So, the combined deployment of multinational assets, exchange of procedures, sharing of experiences and tactics, like we did in Obangame Express 2018, results in greater efficiency of the forces involved," Capt. Alan said.
Applying maritime law
According to Cmdr. Fiorino, Obangame Express allows African service members to take a closer look at materials boarding teams used and techniques employed once aboard. The exercise also contributed to an improved application of international maritime law. "It's a way of expanding the involvement of signatory countries to the Yaoundé Code of Conduct, through the implementation of a regional strategy for maritime security in Central and Western Africa, and strengthening the partnership among the 20 countries that signed the code," he said.
This was the fifth time MB, represented by NaPaOc Amazonas, participated in Obangame Express. "As an oceanic patrol ship, it was able to sail to the Gulf of Guinea quickly and more economically than a larger ship. Its size made it ideal for this type of event, since a wide array of boarding exercises were conducted in which the Brazilian ship participated as the target, simulating a pirate vessel," Cmdr. Fiorino explained.
He added that specific systems were used to coordinate activities within a very complex scenario, such as SeaVision—a real-time monitoring system of units at sea, which receives information from the ships' automatic identification system—and HipChat, a virtual chat room through which all information flowed at the exercise's execution phase. "[This] made communication possible with all maritime operation centers, and it was essential for actions to play out," Cmdr. Fiorino said. "Each scenario of the exercise was initiated using pre-planned injections on HipChat. The Angolan service members at the MOC received messages from representatives of each navy prepared during planning meetings, and took the measures they deemed necessary based on content to allow for a gradual evolution of the situation."
As part of the exercise, participants transmitted information shifting the status of the target ship from unknown to suspicious, leading to an actual boarding. "Within that context, the Brazilian team at the MOC was responsible for coordinating, assessing, and analyzing actions of its service members, with daily debriefings, once scenarios ended," Cmdr. Fiorino explained.
This was the officer's second time participating in Obangame Express, which he considers an excellent training opportunity for service members involved and a chance to interact with counterparts from other countries. "The hardest part was performing command and control in a satisfactory way, that is, coordinating the event within our area of responsibility, so that every action is done effectively to achieve the mission's objective," he said.
According to Cmdr. Fiorino, the Senior Leader Symposium, held March 26th–28th in Gabon, set the 2018 edition apart from past editions. The U. S. Naval War College-coordinated event included lectures, discussion panels, and debates on common maritime challenges and opportunities to improve international maritime security.


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It's officially spring….and you know what that means — it's time to start doing some cleaning and freshening things up. I had a family friend who was having a bunch of guests over not too long, and she wanted to give her kitchen chairs a face lift. So, we grabbed some upholstery fabric (Mood Fabrics has tons of it) that could stand up to heavy traffic and gave them the boost she needed. This task is easier than it looks and only takes a couple hours on a lazy Saturday. In the long run it will save you money and is noticeable right away — you'll be glad you did it!
SUPPLIES: upholstery, scissors, screw driver (phillips and flathead), heavy duty stapler and staples, and wood round and foam (that should come inside your chair if you are just recovering them).
1. Go ahead and flip your chair over and remove the screw that is attaching your metal frame to the actual seat.
2. Carefully remove the bottom staple covers from each of the chairs. I say "carefully," because you are going to reuse these.
3. Right on the seam, take your scissors and cut off the old upholstery. While you're on this step….take that flathead screwdriver and remove all the old staples and old upholstery.
4. Now that you've cut off all your old covers, take one and use it as the pattern for your new ones. Lay one out flat, add 4 inches all the way around as a "seam allowance," and trace it out.
5. Go ahead and cut out the oversized circles you've now created.
6. Now it's time to grab your wood rounds and cushion, and drape your new fabric around them. Pull the fabric taut and start stapling polar points. (Note: I suggest manipulating the fabric and playing with it as you work your way around so you can see how it will lay on the seams). After that, go ahead and staple back on the black staple covers from Step #2..
7. The last step is to screw back on the metal frames.
Brandhyze Stanley is the chief voice of the award winning blog, Frugal-nomics.com; a platform designed to share with women how to live and look fabulous on a dime. A DIY girl at heart—Brandhyze has been featured on The View, The Early Show, The Today Show, InStyle Magazine, Essence Magazine, and MTVStyle. A Wilhelmina Model for over a decade, with a Business Degree from Loyola University Chicago, Brandhyze provides DIY content to the popular How-To Site, eHow; and has been a contributor for the Huffington Post, Yahoo Finance, Super Money, Good Housekeeping, and Newsday Westchester, to name a few. Brandhyze is a huge thrifter and a lover of all good deals, follow her on Twitter @MyFrugalnomics and on Facebook at Facebook.com/Frugalnomics.


text: India is a crucial partner for South Africa's economy which offers enormous trade and investment opportunities, writes an expert from the region. South Africa and India relations are enjoying an unprecedented renaissance, founded on shared economic interests and longstanding historical ties since the latter lifted economic sanctions against South Africa after the end of apartheid. Both countries are major players in the global economy and share a common vision of shaping the development agenda through multilateral engagements such as the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) and the India, Brazil, South Africa (IBSA), and other related platforms. Growing trade relations between the two emerging economies have achieved thriving business partnerships, and as such South Africa has identified India as a strategic partner due to the fact that its economy presents enormous trade and investment opportunities for South African businesses. The current challenging global economic climate, and the need for BRICS countries to stimulate their economies, develop trade markets, and grow job opportunities for their citizens, see South Africa, India and other member countries having a shared commitment towards deepening cooperation. With South Africa being India's largest export market in Africa accounting for over 22 per cent of India's merchandise exports, and India emerging as the fourth largest exporter to South Africa - bilateral trade between the two countries which has grown by 380 per cent over the past ten years is anticipated to reach a target of $18bn by 2018. In 2015, over 100 Indian companies were reported to have operations in South Africa. These were mainly engaged in mining, general manufacturing, information technology (IT) and financial services. Although fewer than 50 South African companies currently operate in India - Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to India from South Africa is growing at an impressive pace. South African companies such as Tiger Brands, the Airports Company South Africa, Bidvest, Anheuser-Busch InBev (formerly known as SABMiller), FirstRand Bank, Standard Bank, Old Mutual, Balela Leisure, Anglo American, Sasol, and Nando's Group Holdings have made great investments strides in the Indian market. Premised on this, South Africa recognises the magnitude of Indian investment to its economy, and acknowledges that economic optimisation opportunities and increased government support initiatives should be strengthened as these are the key enablers that will promote economic growth for both countries. To this end, platforms to enhance business relations between the two countries have been established in recent years - with Indian business organisations working with Business Unity South Africa and the Black Business Chamber. These business platforms, alongside the respective countries' governments, have developed initiatives to escalate India-South Africa relations. For example, the India-South Africa CEO Forum, originally led by Ratan Tata (chairman of the Tata Group) and Patrice Motsepe (chairman of African Rainbow Minerals), was relaunched in 2010 after being largely inactive for several years. Four sectoral working groups have since been established in the areas of energy, financial services, mining and infrastructure. In addition, the two emerging economies partook in the South Africa - India Business Forum in July 2016. This forum served to identify trade and investment opportunities through closer strategic cooperation for socio-economic advances for the countries. In response to growing FDI in South Africa - the government of South Africa has numerous measures to broaden, diversify and attract additional investment, and these include the formation of the Special Economic Zones in value-added manufacturing sectors which offers unparalleled opportunities for foreign investment from countries such as India. South Africa is definitely open for business, with its globally competitive expertise and products in a range of value-adding sectors such as renewable energy, infrastructure development, agriculture, transport infrastructure, mining, defence, and tourism. This presents opportunities to strengthen multi-lateral trade and economic relations and the potential for stronger investment relations between South Africa and its BRICS partners. Moreover, South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry launched the 8th Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP) in mid-2016, which aims to strengthen efforts that promote long term industrialisation and diversification beyond traditional commodities. As a country, South Africa is guided on its growth and developmental trajectory by the National Development Plan. This plan is supported by, amongst others, the 9-point plan for reigniting economic growth, which presents new focus sectors for private sector investments in areas such as the oceans economy through Operation Phakisa, support for SMME's, as well as building the agriculture and agro - processing value chain systems. South Africa is a key middle power, and the only African country represented in various regional economic international groupings such as the G-20 and BRICS. The country uses its membership at such multilateral fora to champion the African development agenda which is underpinned by three critical elements, namely: market integration, industrial and infrastructure development. Africa's time has certainly come with the continent working towards holistic growth and development through Agenda 2063 - the strategic framework to achieve continental development goals which was adopted in 2015. A fundamental component of this - is improved regional integration. This will be driven by increased trade and investment between African states, through initiatives such as the Tripartite Free Trade Area and the Continental Free Trade. The South African government has put in place initiatives to aid the realisation of the objectives set by Agenda 2063. These include measures to relax cross-border regulations and tax requirements. Similar measures are in place for foreign companies wanting to invest in African countries using South Africa as their regional headquarter. Against this backdrop - it is evident that there is a growing consensus and a paradigm shift that sees South Africa playing a centralised role in solidifying Africa and India relations in the global economy. Our fraternity in the continent transcends geographical borders and we are confident that the spirit of partnership for mutually beneficial relationships with the international community such as the one we share with India will inspire positive change for sustainable socio-economic solutions for our nations and the people we serve. Dr Kingsley Makhubela [@klmmakhubela] is the Chief Executive Officer of Brand South Africa, set up in 2002 to create a positive brand image for the country.


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In yet another step binding it closer to IBM, SugarCRM has acquired iExtensions, the CRM solution for Lotus Notes.
A big part of our business is international," SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin announced to an audience of analysts and reporters at SugarCon in San Francisco on Monday. "Quite a number of our big customers in Europe are on Notes and need Notes integration."
The acquisition of iExtensions "can move our Lotus integration road map up by almost a year," Nick Halsey, chief marketing executive and EVP of corporate development at SugarCRM, told CRM Buyer.
SugarCRM's partnership with IBM fueled one of four areas of enhancements in the latest release of its platform, the Sugar 6 Spring 2011 release.
The purchase of iExtensions deepens a partnership between SugarCRM and IBM that was formally launched earlier this year, when SugarCRM announced integration with LotusLive after joining the IBM Global Alliance Portfolio as a cloud solutions provider.
For IBM, the partnership is one of several it has entered to boost the adoption of its LotusLive public cloud services.
Stronger Ties
By purchasing iExtensions, SugarCRM adds enhanced support for IBM collaborative tools inside Sugar 6, including native Lotus Notes support, Notes email and calendar plugins, and a connector to the IBM Domino product line.
SugarCRM also unveiled an integration between its CRM software and IBM's LotusLive, new connectors for IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Suite, and IBM Websphere Cast Iron for the SugarCRM integration platform.
SugarCRM's integration with LotusLive gives users of both applications access to the other's features. LotusLive users will get access to the customer relationship management capabilities and other features of SugarCRM.
SugarCRM users will get social business capabilities through LotusLive. They will be able to conduct Web conferencing and share documents inside the Sugar system.
Integration with IBM's Cognos business will offer users access to advanced reporting, analytics, dashboarding, and scorecarding around their CRM data.
Websphere Cast Iron for SugarCRM will make it easy to populate the SugarCRM system with rich data from legacy and third-party systems. IT will also let users more easily integrate cloud-based or on-premises solutions with Sugar.
Big Blue's Cloud Push
SugarCRM is one of many companies IBM is teaming up with as it pushes into the cloud.
In March, the computer giant launched cloud-based social media analytics capabilities for marketers.
One product, IBM Coremetrics Social, helps companies analyze the business impact of their social marketing initiatives. Another, IBM Unica Pivotal Veracity Email Optimization Suite, analyzes email links that are shared across social network platforms. This lets markets cross-sell across channels better.
The launch of the analytics capabilities follows the creation of a new consulting practice at IBM dedicated to what the company calls "smarter commerce."
Smarter commerce focuses on helping companies adapt to rapidly changing customer demands in the digital marketplace.
IBM's smarter commerce offering delivers real-time intelligence on the social media response to a brand, or to products, contents and services being offered by a company.
IBM's Take
Big Blue expects to make a lot of money from social business.
"We think social business could conservatively be a (US)$100 billion market space," Sean Poulley, vice president, social business cloud at IBM, told the SugarCon audience. "We think at its core, social business embraces networks of people to create business value."
The infusion of social capabilities with business processes is going to be transformative, Poulley continued. "At the core, the way people interact with each other and are consuming information is changing."
The combination of IBM and SugarCRM will deliver a hybrid model for deployment that can help customers move their enterprise perimeter to the cloud.
The hybrid model has become a favorite of enterprise software vendors in the face of resistance from companies that aren't inclined to move their on-premises data to the cloud any time soon.


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Hi Rioters,
I am an inner-north resident of 7 years, but need some advice for a friend moving from Canada to live in Canberra.
I fear I am slightly biased towards recommending an inner-north location, and would prefer to have a more balanced view for her to consider before deciding on the best place for rental accommodation. I have a feeling this topic has been discussed here before, but for the life of me couldn't find any articles that were relevant.
Her priorities are:
"A walkable/bikeable neighbourhood, with good access to parks, fruits/veggie stores, natural food stores, and other amenities. Also reasonable commute to work (by the airport) and yoga studio that I'll likely join (in Mitchell). I'd like to live in a bohemian/artsy community but one that is safe and clean."
My first thought was O'Connor, but I'm not a 'bohemian/artsy' person so not really sure on that point??!
Any recommendations would be very much appreciated!
Mrs G