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When you partner with FSI, you partner with a company that is constantly working to meet the fulfillment management needs of its clients. At FSI, the status quo is never good enough. We firmly believe that growth and learning is a never ending process. That is why our fulfillment management solutions continue to grow and change with our business and our clients.
FSI Enterprise. When evaluating fulfillment management solutions, our clients rave about FSI Enterprise. This remarkable program allows you to create ad-hoc reports on demand. Simply select the criteria you desire and let FSI Enterprise do the rest. This web based fulfillment management solution is easy to use and provides detailed information quickly and easily. Providing data on inventory usage helps clients to map trends and save money. Queries on receiving and orders puts info conveniently at your fingertips 24/7 making FSI Enterprise a valuable fulfillment management solution.
Shopping Cart Solutions. At FSI, we work hard to provide fulfillment management solutions that easily integrate with your current online shopping cart. Our goal is to make our online shopping fulfillment management solutions completely transparent to your customer. Their only reaction should be that the process was smooth and efficient, resulting in quick delivery of the products they order.
FSI Track. One of our most useful fulfillment management systems is FSITrack. FSITrack enables our clients to easily monitor and navigate the challenging world of shipping. Being able to track shipments by promotion or job number, date, or a variety of other variables makes FSITrack one of the best fulfillment management solutions available today. We offer this fulfillment management solution to all of our clients, and can even customize its look to include your own graphics, logos or branding information. This web based fulfillment management solution is easy to access and requires no programming on your part.
FSI Profiler. Another popular fulfillment management solution we offer is FSI Profiler. With the abundance of data generated by our clients and their jobs, keeping track of and utilizing that data can be a challenge. That is why we created the FSI Profiler fulfillment management solution for our clients. FSI Profiler is ideal for franchise groups and allows for the creation and management of profiles for each location. You will be amazed at the depth of information that this fulfillment management solution can provide your business.
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Accepting credit cards, warehouses, and shipping and fulfilling orders
Hello Shopify Community, I got some questions that need clarification regarding the subject.1- When a customer uses PayPal express checkout on a product, Oberlo receives their billing address from their PayPal account, but if the shipping address is not the same as the billing address, where is the shipping address obtained from ?
2- Is it possible to integrate PayPal's smart checkout button API to accept card payments from guests who do not have a PayPal account ?
(I managed to inject the button script in the product description, but I figured then guests may use this button, and will enter their billing and shipping details alongside their card details, and PayPal will receive those details, but not sure if Oberlo/Shopify does)
I'm trying to use automation as much as possible.Even though it is important, I dislike the fact that every 3rd party payment processor will require you to have a legal business registered so they can provide their services.
Both Oberlo and Shopify use payment address as default shipping address if there's no shipping address, in paypal or credit card policy the shipping and payment address should be the same in case dispute happened in the future, thus you can set default shipping address once clients havent left shipping address, if you found the shipping address isnt the same with payment address then you may need to confirm with client manually.
In addition to paypal, you can also add stripe or 2checkout as supplement for credit card payment, it is easy.
Yea, I wish I can add 3rd party payment providers. All of them require you to have a registered business, and submit documents for review.
So PayPal guest checkout is my only hope.
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Starting next February, students working on campus will be able to earn paid sick leave under the New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act.
The act stipulated that employees must be notified of the new policy by Nov. 29. On Nov. 21, the University emailed students working hourly jobs on campus informing them that they will start accruing paid sick leave at a rate of one paid hour of leave every 30 hours worked.
"By providing compensated sick time, the new paid sick leave policy should provide additional flexibility for hourly student employees," explained University spokesperson Ben Chang.
The New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act was adopted by the 218th New Jersey State Legislature on March 12, 2018. The act was sponsored by Assemblywoman Pamela R. Lampitt (District 6), Assemblyman Raj Mukherji (District 33), Assemblyman Jerry Green (District 22), Assemblyman Benjie E. Wimberly (District 35), Assemblywoman Shavonda E. Sumter (District 35), and Assemblyman Paul D. Moriarty (District 4).
However, few University students will claim much paid sick leave since most students work part-time jobs with hours that are unlikely to accumulate to an amount sufficient for paid leave.
"Even though I don't think I personally will use [the new policy], and I haven't had a situation where that has come up, I think that it's a very useful and important rule," Isaac Wolfe '20 said.
Wolfe explained that this new rule could be crucial for other students who rely a lot more on campus jobs for day-to-day expenses.
For Krystal Delnoce, '21, who said she is first-generation low-income (FLI) student who works at Dillon Gymnasium as a children's swim instructor and at Murray-Dodge cafe, the rule may come in handy. She said that she has previously found it difficult to take time off from her jobs when she was ill.
"I teach swim lessons, and I'll be the only instructor teaching three or four kids, so if I don't show up, who teaches them?" Delnoce said.
She explained that she became suddenly ill last semester and received little sympathy from her supervisors when trying to find someone to cover her shifts.
"You would get into trouble if you don't find somebody to cover your shifts," Delnoce said. "You sometimes have to push through and it's not always good for the safety of everyone involved."
However, Delnoce worried that she might face repercussions for taking advantage of any paid sick leave she might accumulate, especially when it comes to promotions.
"If I take paid sick leave and … somebody has to scramble [to fill in for me], will that negatively impact me even though I was well within my rights to take that sick leave?" she wondered.
These worries are addressed by the New Jersey Notice of Employee Rights: Employers cannot retaliate against employees for requesting or using earned sick leave. Retaliation includes reduced hours, demotion, or suspension.
Wolfe added, "I'm thankful for whoever instituted [this policy]."


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TOKiMONSTA Steals Our Attention
L.A. Electro Artist Plays Velvet Jones September 20
On August 28, Los Angeles producer TOKiMONSTA (aka Jennifer Lee) took to Twitter in a righteous rage and delivered a surprisingly profound message about how consumers' relationship to music has changed. That is to say, she said "fuck it" (literally) and leaked "Steal My Attention," a song from her highly anticipated and yet-to-be-released third album, Desiderium. Whether it was one artist's desperate plea or just a disconcertingly tact guerrilla marketing technique, this seemingly impulsive act was yet another example of the increasingly fluid demands of consumers who interact with artists on a multiplatform basis.
As for "Steal My Attention," it sounds as inviting and honest as TOKi's 2013 hit "Go With It," though the track's stripped-down style and straightforward danceability clearly point to a rededication to the simplicity of beat making. It's high-energy dance music with R&B rhythms, contrasted by gradual, melancholy melody that refuses to even consider the simplicity of a bright, sugary hook.
Although TOKiMONSTA is the product of more than a decade of formal music training, she credits an early love of hip-hop as primary inspiration for her foray into production and DJ-ing, though her early efforts to produce for rappers fell somewhat flat. A sustained commitment to traditional structures and theory proved advantageous for the up-and-coming TOKi, who eventually signed with Brainfeeder, the hallowed record label of electronic music master Flying Lotus. (She's since left for her own imprint.)
Included on the SoundCloud page of "Steal my Attention," the aforementioned leaked track, there was a note left by TOKi herself, which reads: "I am going through some tough shit right now and all that makes me happy is knowing that I can bring people music that may help them in some way."
In the end, it's that sincerity and enthusiasm which most clearly sets the music of TOKiMONSTA apart from the thump-thump-thumping doldrums — it's a refreshingly honest break for a genre seemingly careening off a creative cliff and into a sea of infinite "bangers" and "breakdowns."
TOKiMONSTA plays Velvet Jones (423 State St.) on Saturday, September 20, with Made in Heights. Call (805) 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones.com for tickets and info.


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And I got myself a new reflective safety vest. Well it's been new since October. Look at me all razzle dazzle.
Sunday, December 05, 2010
the safety dance
And I got myself a new reflective safety vest. Well it's been new since October. Look at me all razzle dazzle.
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Are woo singing this to MRH?ReplyDelete
PeeEssWoo: Nice kholour FLASHdanceLIGHT!
hey too bad the safety vest doesn't play the song too..then woo'd really be supah safety!ReplyDelete
I hope you got paid big biscuits for such a great PSA - 'cuz this info is quite valuable.ReplyDelete
I had the pleasure of meetin' a girly that looked similar to you at the Lowe's store on Saturday. She was a JR/who knows what mix. She didn't have your mask but she did sport the same gray that you do along with bush eyebrows. She was sittin' calmly in the cart and didn't even flinch when I got a little closer to introduce myself, so I'm thinkin' she didn't have the Mr. Bizerko gene. Too bad Mom doesn't have one of them fancy schmancy cameras that upload or I'da took a pic of her.
Woofs and safe slobbers,
Chester ;0=)
Yuh, that is wicked important. PeeWee and momma are lit up like a Christmas tree for night walkies. Even if you are on the sidewalk, you don't want to loom out of the darkness and distract drivers.ReplyDelete
I would also add that if they are on a street with no sidewalks, momma always steps OFF the street and stands still with her flashlight pointed at her feet when a car goes by. Never know when a drunken driver will get confused by the bobbing lights...
P.S. I know what you mean about sizing. PeeWee is a large or extra large in most doggie clothing. As if!
You sure can dance Norwood! Boogie Woogie all night long!ReplyDelete
your pal,
p.s. sorry your new vest was too small...can't wait to see it when you get the right size!
Ha ha! Thanks for the donation to the auction! I think if it played that song, it would be even more popular. Do you have your own soundtrack that plays wherever you go?ReplyDelete
Norwood that is a grrrreat thingy to do fur Blueberry. Super safe boy that you are.ReplyDelete
Love that new safety vest, Norwood - looks very beefcakey on you heheh! and that pink flashie? Well... only you would have enough self- confidence to use it! And how sweet of you to add to Mz Blueberry's list of auction items!ReplyDelete
Kissies and Hugs xoxoxo
Sammie and Avalon
That's a perfect theme song for you, Norwood. that reflective vest really shows off your physique!ReplyDelete
Stumpy wondered if the vest on Blueberry's auction would fit her.
Now that she's getting nuthin' for christmas, I don't have to worry!
- AnonymousMon Dec 06, 11:50:00 AM
First, Riley wants me to say that she is absolutely loving your figure in that vest. Oh darn, I'm going to have to wipe the drool off of my keyboard. :) Second, Riley got all twitterpated when she read that you licked her stamp.ReplyDelete
Okay, enough lovey dovey. Cool vest and awesome dance you did!
Elyse and Riley
Ok, first, the hu-dad is mad at you because he finally got that song out of his head after Glee featured it - and now it is back. You've been warned.ReplyDelete
But we love your safety gear. We have our hunter orange vests for hiking in the woods and reflective leashes, but you are like a moving Las Vegas neon sign. Woo!
Excellent demonstration, Mr. Safety!!! And what a nice fing to do to help the Blueberry Brigade!!!ReplyDelete
You look awesome!
wif love from the Luke
P.S. Was finkin the same fing that the Hu-Dad said above!
I think the pink light is awesome :)ReplyDelete
You should be nice and safe now. Your safety gear is hot! eheheReplyDelete
Well, this was a great PSA, but the Momster is afraid to walk in the dark - not afraid OF the dark, but too darn worried about falling. So if we don't get a walk during daylight, then we don't get one:(ReplyDelete
We love that flashlight - very cool color.
Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara
The vest sure does show all your muscles. CoolReplyDelete
Benny & Lily
You look most handsome in your safety vest, Norwood, and that was very sweet of you to donate the too small one!ReplyDelete
Love ya lots
Maggie and Mitch
hello norwood its dennis the vizsla dog hay luk at yoo yoo glo in the dark like radioaktiv dog!!! ha ha ok byeReplyDelete


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Our startup failed because we didn't know the difference between bad problems and good problems.
I've sent an email to our team today with this subject line.
It's the name of an article I've recently come across – and liked.
Indeed, many startups prematurely optimize for future problems – "good problems" – that come with scale. And they never get there.
Because they don't focus enough on the issues they need to tackle right now – "bad problems." Like improving customer acquisition, optimizing trial user experience, finding product-market fit, funding, etc.
So my message to the team was:
In a rapidly changing market, let's focus all our efforts on things we need to improve right now – so our startup doesn't fail.


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Sofia was my third PLUNGE client wayyy back in 2013. When she shared her story, I began to understand even more what my dream clients needed the most: an accepting soul with the capacity to listen deeply and a savvy marketer rolled into one person.
The PLUNGE became the vehicle for me to organically fuse together my metaphysical and marketing gifts.
Sofia and I worked together to find the threads that wove her business + brand into a coherent story.
The result: she created a brand that continues to inspire her audience.
Yes! I empower sensitive women who want to crack into new levels of divine happiness, but they are conscious of living patterns over and over again in their relationships that keeps them stuck and worn down. It could be unclear how to get to their unique vision and dreams without disappointing anyone because their hopes for the future are totally unique– it's so THEM, or could be. No one is quite like 'em and that creates fear and uncertainty because they love being a part of community.
Sometimes the confusion, going in circles, fear, and uncertainty that keeps solopreneurs stuck in a rut has to do with the way their parents lived or wounds from past relationships. Everything is tied together for my clients– their life purpose, their money, their creativity, their desire to help others, their success, their health and happiness. We look at it all and I help guide women towards the real guiding light– their spirit's voice, their intuition, and the unconditional love of God Goddess the Universe.
Many drawn to me are natural healers, coaches, teachers, writers or other creative goddesses who are so close, but so stressed out by other people's opinions that they can't be free to give their gift! People pleasing, holding back and working like other people do cause the drain of energy, and believe it or not leaning into the scary is the solution! With my help it's more exciting than scary 😀
I love helping sensitive women find their power–intuitive, creative, professional, personal– because they end up helping more people, and the waves of positive change wash over the world!
OMGoddess, It's been a wild ride—bit of a long story ahead. I originally wanted to be a diplomat, explore different cultures and bring new cooperation in the world. By the end of my years at Bryn Mawr College I was so jaded about politics, and felt like I'd have to pretend to be someone else to succeed. I'm not a fighter! I can't do politics or law, what was I thinking? I thought I'd grow out of being sensitive, but I only felt more so. I wasn't going to try to be someone else, because I knew I'd just be miserable. That's when I entered the scary phase of trying to be more ME than I ever had before.
I took some time out in Americorps service teaching in middle school, and there again I felt like my sensitivity kept me locked in unhappiness, drain and fatigue from my job. Meanwhile my relationships were a hot mess. My life was so filled with fear and terror in this transition, I had to be ME and throw up some boundaries but then several close friends pulled away, and I still felt used up and mistreated. I just couldn't shake the pattern.
Figuring out how to survive, forget thrive, as a sensitive woman, became my #1 mission. Along the way I had adventures exploring myself as a full human being. I took a challenge from a friend to take control by becoming a Dominant Woman in the Philly BDSM scene. See my forthcoming book From Girl to Goddess about that wild story. I wrote novel manuscripts-plural, I recorded myself playing instruments, I sang in front of 250 people, I studied as a High Priestess and of course— I claimed my inner mermaid 😀 I allowed myself to love the goddesses and spirituality again, that irresistible pull I had squelched as a teenager. I knew I had to completely flip my entire life to find wholeness, the half life did not work anymore! I remembered my witchiness, and started to value my inner dreamer.
I realized I loved helping people heal one to one in Americorps so I became a Licensed Massage Therapist. That was a bootcamp training in using my intuition, creating safe spaces and holding strong boundaries for my clients. I began to fine tune my ability to sooth emotions and relieve pain or stress. I love acupressure, which I use with clients still as a mindbodyspirit healer and EFT practitioner.
Each massage became a spiritual experience of being present and listening to what was not said. After my Reiki training, I wanted to go deeper, to help people change their lives more through teaching, inspiration, and empowerment. And so I trained more deeply in intuitive development, and spiritual coaching. I realized how intuitive and sensitive I'd always been, and started using spiritual tools every day to avoid picking up other people's stuff so I could live my own life. AND once I had boundaries, miracles started happening finally, deep healing took me, finally! It's the key to everything, baby!
Now I teach those techniques that changed my life in my Sacred Armor eCourse: Creating Better Boundaries for Sensitive Women.
I've been tested accurate and trained as Certified Ethical Intuitive Consultant (Psychic), and read Tarot and Oracle Cards Professionally!
I'll be Certified as a Law of Attraction Coach as of this week. And I now also use acupressure over distance the mindbodyspirit healing tools to help my clients in business clear the fear and confusion so they can receive money for their gifts. (Together it's like ordering up miracles at a restaurant.)
All together with the expansion of wellness, creativity and intuition, with applying LOA and healing wounds from the past, it adds up to my Divine Feminine Empowerment Coaching program.
Yes I'm the gentle type although I have some hidden sass! My colors are teal and red– like Ariel from the Little Mermaid. I love soothing people as well as inspiring them with my passion and enthusiasm. I feel like it's not just my oceanic-ness, or my stories from "when I as a little mermaid" that help people know who I am, it's my tone of voice. I try to stay real to how I talk and how I be, ie. smart, sweet, sassy and silly!
I also consciously infuse my site and everything I do with the emotions and energy of the work I want to do in the world. I find people are often attracted to my site and mesmerized with certain pages and they aren't sure why– that's because they love the energy! I send it to all of my students and rely on my guidance in meditation to serve them in the highest way.
Ariel is a mermaid who has to give up her voice temporarily in her journey to step into her power. I took singing lessons on my journey to find my own. I think we have a lot in common that way. She's teal and red, like my spirit. I feel so alive in the water, it's like I can do anything. At times I feel like the ocean is my true mother, because mine died when I was three. Ariel and I both are trying to find our unique way in the world without a model.
I also love myths about all goddesses, Sun goddesses are rad, but also the dark goddess, Cerridwen, the Morrighan. I occasionally refer to them when I talk about Cauldrons– the vessel of inspiration for the Druids. As a writer and a creator, inspiration and beauty is what I seek at all times. My cauldron model is my pathway for conscious change and creation of any kind. Everything in life that sucks and hurts and confounds can be stuffed into the cauldron provided by the goddess and transformed into healing elixir. Sensitive people and creatives totally forget about structure, boundaries and so on, so I talk about it as cauldrons or containers– the line of what is included or not, what is good and not ok. It's so essential for Everything. I can talk about cauldrons for about a billion years.
Totem animals are really important to me especially birds and I often share about my sightings on facebook. Blackbirds and crows especially catch my eye since 2013, and are associated with the Morrighan, goddess of sovereignty, transformation, shapeshifting, witchcraft and spookiness.
I often talk about different archetypes of feminine power drawn from the Tarot as well, I am so obsessed! I have been playing with the cards since I was 12, 15 years ago. I'm a bit of a mix between The Lovers, The World, The Queen of Cups and The Queen of Wands.
Inspiration is one of my strongest avenues of healing so I try to turn everything in my life into a lesson. It's something I do for my self and then I ride the fear and courage to share with others. I think it's really important to be open about my discoveries as they happen because I learn them better from teaching, and others can enjoy. It makes me very open hearted and focused on being my best self, and a lot of people get attracted to that. I try to sell myself by being myself– weirdness and all.
Also I feel like from my own journey, I've had so many lovely healers charge me money that I know the sale is part of that healing process. I can see the inner commitment of producing that money had to do with my own self worth. Now I don't want to deny other people that right to decide they are worth it, and I've gone through my own healing process around money.
So I see making offers like creating a cool painting–I want people to see it, to know it's available, and I focus on creating good stuff, the relationships, and service. I listen to the voice of intuition for my next steps. It all happens at the right time. For instance I felt guided to make a prayer to archangel gabriel video to combat mercury retrograde, and then I got an offer to write angel articles for a magazine.
We all have more healing to do, so I know I will always have more to help people with, so I can create a runway of giving in my videos and blogs. I serve that up to my clients and my prospects so I'm in their minds and let Spirit do it's work, too.
I'll be running my Sacred Armor eCourse again in the fall. Clients have been telling me it's like learning how to be a witch, lol. Bascially it's all about creating your own personal practice of mindbodyspirit techniques that will keep out other people's energy, create better boundaries and make it easier for you to manifest changes in your own life. It's also a self discovery and empowerment process, learning to work magic on your own mind and being by tapping into your unique learning, intuitive and elemental styles.
This week a full album of harp music from several years ago made it's way public– super exhilerating to share these tunes at http://www.soundcloud.com/sofiawren
I'm doing free Youtube Tarot readings! Check out my blog at sofiawren.com/blog and subscribe to the Youtube channel for the weekly readings for sensitive women.
If you'd like some quick inspiration and an infusion of passion you can get your own private 15 minute video reading, which I just brought back at sofiawren.com/schedule
It's a great first taste of my work and it can always be supported with Feminine Empowerment Coaching and MindBodySpirit healing down the line if you like my style. I believe in my work so I offer 30 day money back guarantees 😀
It's an honor to help other women change the way they feel, so they can the world. I'm so shocked honestly with the amazing people the internet brings my way! Thank you Youtube for spreading my offer of friendship to the world. My youtube readings, and edu-tainment videos are my favorite marketing thing ever (thanks Kris Oster for telling me to do it!!)
To help kind, sweethearts to kick more a$$, enjoy life more and help more people after their own deep transformation makes my heart swell. I know this is making a more beautiful world, and the goddess would smile on that.
Sofia Wren Nitchie is a Feminine Empowerment Coach, Certified Ethical Intuitive Consultant, mindbodyspirit healer and teacher of the Sacred Armor eCourse. She teaches sensitive and caring women who have a dream of helping others in their unique way, but who struggle with fear, uncertainty, and people pleasing. By using spiritual tools, her clients tap into a better way of living in connection to their personal power, emotional freedom, and their unique voice so they can use their perspective to make the world a better place for all of us. Many of her clients desire to serve more people as teachers, coaches, creatives or healers or they seek clarity and confidence on the path they are meant to walk. Sofia offers accurate Tarot and Oracle card readings, as well as packages with Feminine Empowerment Coaching and MindBodySpirit Healing.
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Well, that was one-sided. I suppose we should have expected Pear Butter to dominate. Time for round 2! Head on over to the side bar and vote for your favorite episode from the second half of the season. Once we have votes for that one we can do a final run with the top 5 and
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Designing digital twins
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From the old to the new, what if instead of building new parts to a city, you could go into a computer and tweak bits of the city, and see what happens before laying a brick, a little like SimCity, it's called a digital twin and Mark Girolami, professor of civil engineering at Cambridge, joined Adam Murphy to chat about this new technology...
Mark - First of all, you need to take two perspectives here. The first is, what is digital and what is the twin? Now, engineering and science, for centuries, have always thought of the idea of a twin, an abstracted notion of some reality that you would want to understand and ultimately control. If you think of things such as the tide predicting machines from William Thompson going way back to the 1840s, that was a twin of the tidal systems that allowed individuals to predict when tides would be in or out, and they could then decide on when to set sail. So that's the whole notion of the twin, the digital component of course is that moving from some sort of physical and mechanical twin of a system that we want to study, to a digital, a computer based representation. And having those two things together, coupling the digital representation with the physical via data, provides us with this whole notion of a digital twin, which is much more different than a classical mathematical model where we would run simulations a bit like SimCity, but we'll never actually be going out and building our city from scratch and seeing if reality actually mirrors what the simulation suggested it would be.
Adam - And then whereabouts do we see this being used? What kind of applications does it have?
Mark - Digital twins are being used right across all of the sciences, right across all of the engineering disciplines. And of course what we're talking about today is urban infrastructure, city planning, regional planning. And we are seeing digital twins from rooms in our building. So what are the environmental conditions like? We heard about the underground farms, there are digital twins of those. How do you remove the heat, how do you control the heat, and how can you use those digital twins to predict the type of yield that the farm would produce? Right up to whole buildings where we have digital replicates of the geometry of the construction of the building, and then of course of the physics as well. And that then extends to whole urban central areas, it extends to cities, to transportation systems, to distribution of energy to the measurement and hopefully the improvement of air conditions.
Adam - How do you go about getting the data that you actually then put into these digital twins?
Mark - So data comes from a number of sources, and the obvious one is sensors. And what we are seeing certainly within city environments and urban environments is an almost "Renaissance" of being able to obtain data at unprecedented scales, that we've never had before. So whole pieces of infrastructure are getting sensors, networks of sensors, placed upon them and generating that data. And furthermore, citizens are also being able to contribute data. If you think of the iPhone I've got, if you look at that little sticker at the back, that measures nitrous oxide levels, and it communicates to the iPhone. And this measures the amount of nitrous oxide that I am experiencing in the location that I am in, at that particular time. And that then gets shared to help people that are, for example, in this case here, trying to improve upon the way in which air quality is measured and ultimately the actual improvement of the quality of air itself.
Adam - So taking that example where you have people with these sensors on the backs of their phone, what can you actually do in the digital twin to improve the city?
Mark - So as soon as you start getting measurements, you can take those measurements, you can take that data, and you can incorporate it into your digital representation. That can then be used to refine the predictions that come from the model. It can be used to validate the predictions that come from the model, and then ultimately guide policy makers and decision makers as to whether the predictions that are being made, and the levels of uncertainty associated with those, are something that should be acted upon. Because let's remember the aphorism that all models are wrong, but some are useful. And the key is that, you know, we need to understand that our digital twins are based on models that are wrong, but hopefully they are useful.
Adam - How far away for recently, like putting on a virtual reality headset and being able to walk around the digital twin of the city?
Mark - Well, we're actually there. You can put virtual reality headsets on and walk around whole buildings, you can take pieces apart and so on. It's the exact same. I just saw some work coming out of Berlin, where you're sitting as the driver in a train and actually going right through the city and experiencing the whole environment, the whole urban environment, and traveling through it. So that sort of technology is there. It emerged from the sixties, seventies, and eighties, in the technology that was used in developing flight simulators. And now, that's being used in being able to plan, design and develop and test cities.
Adam - And then if that's what we're doing now, what is the future of a digital twin?
Mark - Well, the fantastic thing that you would want from a digital twin is to have something that is going to be predictive. Something that is going to allow us to take into account those events that are going to have really high consequences. For example, the period of time that we're living through at the moment. Having digital twins that would enable us to forecast, and to look at multiple types of different scenarios, and act upon them. Now, that's at the global level, at the public level, but even at the individual level. If I go back to my little sticker on the back of my iPhone, a federated digital twin could then send a message to my phone to say, you should probably stop walking down Euston road because the pollution levels are too high. It's going to aggravate your asthma. I suggest you turn right here and go in to Costa coffee or whatever for five minutes.


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The Kansas Wayts: Part 2
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This is a story told to me by my Grandfather, George Wayts as it was told to him by his father, James Andrew Wayts. It's one of the adventures James Andrew had getting to Abilene, Kansas. - Nancy Wayts Ayers
"There were no jobs in Decatur, Illinois after the Civil War, and no money for a single man to buy a farm and marry. James, who was always good with horses and cattle, decided to go to Texas and get in on the cattle drives going to Kansas. In 1867, Abilene, Kansas was the terminal point of the Kansas Pacific (later the Union Pacific) Railroad and the nearest railhead for the shipment of cattle brought North over the Chisholm Trail. The number of cattle shipped East from here between 1867 and 1871 has been estimated at more than one million, and often 500 cowboys were paid off at a time. City marshals Tom Smith and Wild Bill Hickok brought in law and order in the 1870's.
"James Andrew had at least one other person (possibly two) from Decatur go with him to Texas. (I think they were his brothers-in-law, John Lowery and John Gill but I am not positive about the names. Also, I think we may have already had Wayt kin living in Texas during this time.) They were with a large herd coming from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene and were in the vicinity to the Republican River when a wild, dark, electrical storm hit. Wind blowing, dirt flying, thunder booming and lightening flashing, the herd went from restless to near panic.
James Andrew had seen blue fire before, so he knew what it was...
"The cowboys kept the cattle in a slow moving circle (perhaps a mile or more across there were so many) trying to quiet them, then the worst happened. A lightening bolt hit in the middle of the herd and blue fire started rolling across their horns. These were Texas longhorns with horns about six feet from tip to tip. The stampede was on, there was no way to control or stop them.
James Andrew had seen blue fire before so he knew what it was, said it was about the size of a golf ball, was blue and made a sizzling sound, almost all the cattle had these balls of plasma rolling across their horns. He said it didn't last but maybe a minute or two but in the meantime the herd went crazy, they were running full tilt and nothing would stop them. James Andrew always had a good, fast horse and evidently the others did, too, as they all made it out alive to tell the story. It took them several hours to get the cattle rounded up again and somewhat calmed down, they did eventually make it to Abilene.
"I don't know how many cattle drives James Andrew went on, but this one may have been enough. He liked Abilene and bought property there. Then he went back to Decatur, Illinois and married his true love, Laura Doake, then an entire wagon train of people from Decatur moved to Abilene. (I often wondered why they didn't take the train, but James Andrew's wagon was pulled by oxen to Kansas.)
"I've seen blue fire myself when we lived in Arkansas. We had a wood cookstove in the kitchen and it came down the stovepipe, blew off one of the round lids, the traveled through the kitchen into the living room and out the window. Never did hurt anything, but it smelled strange."


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Curran, BA, Dixon-Hardy, DW and Barnes, CJ (2006) The Path Of Packaging Waste In The Secondary Sector. In: Brebbia, C, (ed.) Waste Management and the Environment III. Third International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment, 2006 WIT Press , pp. 121-130. ISBN 978-1-84564-173-3
The secondary packaging sector specified in various UK legislation states that a large sector of secondary packaging originates from supermarkets. This paper examines how supermarkets deal with secondary packaging waste that encourage recycling. Supermarkets generally have a policy to recycle cardboard, paper and plastic. Packaging is returned to a central depot and this is where the recycling or bailing occurs. Each supermarket chain has its own policy on recycling and waste disposal based on Government guidelines. Anecdotal evidence suggests that manufacturers of typical supermarket products take little interest in to what supermarkets do with their secondary packaging. This paper presents the current UK situation as to the path of supermarket packaging waste. Keywords: packaging waste, secondary sector, supermarket, recycling, re-use. 1 Introduction In the UK alone there is in the region of 400 million tonnes of waste (Chameleon Net [1]), produced each year and a quarter of which is from households, commercial and industry. The remainder is made up of construction and demolition wastes, mining and agricultural wastes, sewage sludge and dredge spoils. This is shown in Figure 1. The most favoured option for disposal of waste is to place it in landfill sites. Recently this option has been questioned as to being the best option as available landfill sites are becoming scarce. In 2003 there were around 2,300 landfills (Environment Agency [3]), and each one was in the region of 28,000 hectares, which in perspective is less than 0.2% of the land of England and Wales.
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Early into the pandemic it became clear that something was wrong: the first signs of a tangential and potentially deadly threat emerging in the wake of COVID-19.
It was an old problem, in truth, but one given fresh potency as humans scrambled to protect themselves from the coronavirus. As production of single-use face masks and other disposable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) like medical gloves exploded, so too did their presence in the environment.
That presence is one that ensnares and ultimately extinguishes wildlife, scientists report in a new study documenting the deadly effects of 'COVID-19 litter' on animals in their natural habitat.
"PPE litter, also referred to as COVID-19 litter, mainly consists of single-use (usually latex) gloves and single-use face masks, consisting of rubber strings and mostly polypropylene fabric," a team of researchers from the Netherlands explains in a new paper.
"Both masks and gloves pose a risk of entanglement, entrapment and ingestion, which are some of the main environmental impacts of plastic pollution."
It is not a small problem. By one estimate, an astounding 3 million face masks are used every minute during the COVID–19 pandemic, most of which are of the disposable variety, neither designed nor recommended for repeat use.
For months, scientists have warned of the ramifications of this mountain of PPE trash finding its way into the environment, describing it as a disaster that might last generations.
It's not just litter on land, either, but in the oceans too, and in mind-boggling volume: over 1.5 billion face masks may have washed into the ocean last year alone, some think.
Now, we're getting a clearer picture of what this plastic pollution does when it comes into contact with animals, and it's not pretty.
In the study, sparked by the discovery of a perch trapped in the finger of a latex glove, a team led by biologists Auke-Florian Hiemstra from Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Liselotte Rambonnet from Leiden University scoured the internet and social media, collecting reported observations of interactions between animals and PPE litter from the beginning of the pandemic.
They discovered birds using COVID-19 trash for their nests, a dead American robin (Turdus migratorius) entangled in a face mask, a gull with a mask wrapped around its leg for weeks, and other birds unable to remove masks from their talons or beaks.
Bats, hedgehogs, pufferfish, and crabs – all kinds of animals were found tangled up with masks and gloves, some of them living and hobbled, others perished, likely due to the PPE they themselves couldn't discard.
Sometimes, animals unwittingly eat the plastic, like the dead Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus), found on a beach in Brazil, with an ingested face mask later discovered in its belly.
Domestic animals like dogs and cats have made the same mistake, and sometimes even people do too, the researchers found: "A six-year-old child ingested parts of a presumed blue face mask, accidentally baked into a McDonalds chicken nugget," the team writes.
To keep collecting data and raise awareness of the issue, the researchers set up a website (covidlitter.com) where people can share their own observations of this grim phenomenon – in the hope that by better understanding the extent of this pervasive pollution, we can help find effective ways to counter it.
"The pandemic is not over yet, and the amount of PPE used may only increase, and will continue to threaten wildlife way beyond the time access to a vaccine becomes available," the authors explain.
"In addition to this, the already littered items will degrade into micro- and nanoplastics and stay in the environment for hundreds of years."
Of course, the real issue here goes beyond disposable PPE in the COVID era, as this is just another example of the even bigger problem of plastic pollution generally, stemming from how people use and discard single-use items (although even that doesn't capture the true complexity of the plastic predicament).
Nonetheless, to the extent that we can control this in terms of the PPE context here and now, the researchers urge people to cut up disposable gloves and snip the straps on face masks before throwing them away, as doing so could help prevent wildlife later becoming ensnared.
Much better still – avoid single-use PPE wherever safe and possible to do so, and choose reusable alternatives whenever you can (which haven't actually been seen hurting any animals at all, the researchers point out).
"People may suffer from the coronavirus pandemic," the team says, "but nature is getting sick of our plastic."
The findings are reported in Animal Biology.


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Did you know that the prongs of a diamond ring can get loose due to wear and tear or careless behavior?
Without timely discovery and corrective actions, you've got a huge risk of the diamond dropping out of a setting with loose prongs. In fact, it can be very easy to lose your diamond without you even noticing it!
In this guide, we're going to show you how to protect your diamond from falling out and what you should do if you notice potential issues with your setting.
What Are Prongs?
Plainly speaking, the prongs of a diamond ring keep the center stone securely in place.
Most diamond rings in the market utilize a prong based mounting and the number of prongs may vary depending on the ring's design. Basically, the diamonds are installed in small gaps or baskets and kept in place by small, bent pieces of metal gripping onto the diamond's girdle.
The main advantage of using such a setting is to allow more spotlight to be placed on the center stone. Since the prongs only cover up a small area of the diamond, it allows more light to enter and illuminate the diamond.
Why do prongs wear down?
Worn out prongs present a major problem as diamonds can get dislodged and go missing without any warning. The main reasons why diamonds fall out of a setting after a short period of time are due to bad craftsmanship and poorly made prongs.
Prongs will also wear down naturally over time due to abrasion. If you don't know yet, diamonds are the hardest substance on Earth. On the other hand, the metals used to fabricate the prongs (typically white gold or platinum) are much softer than the diamond.
Since the prongs are always in constant contact with the diamond, they get worn out or bent due to normal wear and tear. Bear in mind that repeated bumping or knocks can accelerate the process of weakening a prong.
Taking Care of a Diamond Ring
Nobody wants to find themselves in a shocking situation of staring at an empty void on their ring. As a rule of thumb, you should get your jewelry inspected regularly if you wear them on a daily basis. A good guideline we would recommend is to visit the jeweler once every 6 months for a routine "check-up".
If you think about it from a practical viewpoint, there is not much you can do when your diamond is already damaged – or, what is even worse, already lost. Remember, prevention is better than cure.
- Obviously, you want to apply common sense and be mindful of your surroundings when wearing a diamond ring.
- If you accidentally hit your ring on something hard, the first thing you want to do is to check on the stones immediately. That's because you have better chances of recovering a missing stone on the spot.
Really, the best way to ensure long-lasting jewelry is for you to dedicate time and effort towards regular care routines.
How to Check for Loose Prongs at Home in Less Than 5 Minutes
- Check your ring with a loupe and examine the contact points between the prongs and diamond. If you notice that your prongs had worn down or there are small gaps in between the contact areas, it is likely due for a repair.
- Next, you can run your fingernail across the out diameter of the diamond and gently rock the diamond up and down. Again, there should be no movement in a secure setting.
- Finally, you should gently hit the setting with the tip of your fingers and look out for any weird sounds.
- You can also bring the ring close to your ears and give it a few good shakes. If you hear rattling sounds, it is a sign of a problem with the setting and it needs to be fixed immediately.
What to do when you notice a Damaged Prong?
First of all, always seek professional help. You should never experiment or attempt to fix the ring by yourself as you might void any warranties the ring has. Worse still, you may even chip your diamond during the process.
Repairing broken or bent prongs is a basic routine job that any jeweler can perform. If you bring your ring back to the jeweler you purchased from, any prong tightening or related repair services would likely be provided for free. Even if you decide to bring the ring to another jeweler for a repair, it is a relatively simple job and can usually be done while you wait.


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"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect." From the first edition US cover of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, illustrated by Mary GrandPré.
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Marty Robbins
Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs Exclusive LP (Starburst)
A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing.
Marty Robbins' Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs is what most folks consider to be the single greatest postwar album of Western music. Everything about this album is iconic, from its "quick draw" cover art to the songs it contains—"Big Iron," "Cool Water," "The Master's Call," "Billy the Kid," "The Strawberry Roan," and, of course, "El Paso" (here in its rare, full-length version)— that have come to define the Western genre.
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- Limited edition of: 500
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CARPENTRY I Course No. 8601
CARPENTRY II Course No. 8602
2 years – 6 credits – Advanced Career Education (ACE) Center at Highland Springs
ACE @ Highland Springs Instructor: W. Childress
State Course Title: Carpentry I, Carpentry II.
Carpentry is designed to provide preparation for entry into the residential construction industry. The course begins with an introduction to all hand tools and power equipment used in the trade, and their safe use and operation. Classroom and laboratory instruction provides the knowledge and practical applications of residential and light commercial construction to include interpretation of material and components and the general concept of homebuilding. Students will participate in the construction of a house.
The second year in Carpentry involves more detailed knowledge and practical experience in all areas of residential construction and renovation. The class also focuses more on material estimation and blueprint reading. Before the student completes the course, he or she will also have prepared a resume and acquired some knowledge about job interviews. Students are also given the opportunity to take the NCCER (National Center for Construction Education and Research) Core Curricula Assessment test that can count for up to two additional verified credits for a total of eight credits for completers.
Students can become industry certified in the following areas:
- NCCER Academic Carpentry Level One
- OSHA 10 Card (Class Requirement-Cannot be used as a CTE credential)
- Workplace Readiness
For questions, please contact the Pre-Engineering and Industrial Careers, Agricultural Education, and JROTC Specialist on their page.
Please see your counselor or instructor if you have questions. Click here for more information on this program.
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19 Years Ago DEF LEPPARD's UK X Tour Ends At BRIXTON ACADEMY In LONDON (Photos)
Def Leppard ended the first UK leg of their X/Ten tour 19 years ago on this day in London, England with over 100 photos available to view.
The show took place at BriXton Academy.
The first time the band had played at this venue where a young Phil Collen saw his first concert in 1972.
The Deep Purple show was responsible for igniting his interest in playing guitar and joining a band.
The final night of the first UK leg of the X/Ten tour saw the band play to a sold out crowd of just under 5,000 fans.
The setlist was at the time the longest the band had played in terms of songs performed with 24 tracks in all including an extra encore of 'Wasted'.
Lep fan Jane sent in almost 100 photos which have now been added in full and their highest quality.
View all of the photos on the newly revamped show page linked below.
Visit the Tour News section. For more news on future tour plans.
Visit the Album News section for more news on new music (based on band member quotes).
Brixton/London, England 2003 - Media Review Quotes
"An hour into the set and I find myself enjoying it a lot more than I expected. Recent single Now rocks - big time, while Hysteria and the tongue'n'cheek Make Love Like A Man remind me how of when I used to listen to the band constantly during my college years."
"The best part of the set, by far, comes in the final third, which is dedicated to the old classics. Pour Some Sugar On Me, Animal, Armageddon It, Rock Of Ages and a blistering 10 minute version of Rocket bring the show to an incredible climax and there's still just enough time for their biggest hit When Love And Hate Collide before they say their farewells and disappear backstage.
"Even the classic Sweet cover Action was aired and boy does the band rock out on this! Newer tracks are represented by Now and the forthcoming UK single Long Long Way To Go. The acoustic spot featured Two Steps Behind, which has become a firm favourite from the Retroactive album. A great concert - the heaviest I've ever seen them play - with a good mix of songs. Quality melodic rock from a band that just gets better with age - come back soon!"
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The Best You Exhibition Live in London
Personal Development for everyone – everywhere "A place for people in Personal Development world to meet?"
"…The Best You Exhibition: a place for trainers, mentors, publishers and other service providers and people seeking their specialist skills to meet face to face, talk, make their futures and do business together…"
The Best You Exhibition is a two-day trade fair where the very best businesses and individuals in Personal Development can meet, interact and engage.
This exclusive event will hold exhibitions by the most innovative and well respected members of the industry.
With a large publicity campaign highlighting the great opportunities to interface with some of the great Personal Development specialists, it's also the place for members of the public to find advice, help and guidance to grow and enrich themselves or their businesses.
Exhibitors will be offered the opportunity to address the large walk-in crowd through a series of talks and seminars scheduled to take place throughout the two days.
The event and all the seminars and workshops will be televised live globally through our partnership with TV4 and Real Wisdom TV and will also be aired on various media platforms, including Hulu, Amazon, and Samsung
The Best You Exhibition – A Fantastic Opportunity
For Personal Development Professionals, this trade fair presents an unparalleled opportunity to meet with others in the business, get your message spread wide and meet new clients.
For Attendees Seeking, whether you're seeking change and growth in your own life, in your business, or if you are a complementary health professional seeking to make new connections and find out how it's down, The Best You Exhibition is the place to be.
Some of the confirmed speakers so far are:
The confirmed dates are the 27th and 28th of February 2016.
To find out more, to attend or be part of the exhibition fill in the application below.
- April 2021 - April 9, 2021
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The Group Training Association of Victoria in conjunction with SafetyFirst have been nominated for this years WorkSafe Awards in the category of "Best Solution to a Specific Workplace Health and Safety Issue". Representing our members and being a not for profit organisation, we are well down the road of developing free Occupation Health and Safety… Read more
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On Tuesday morning this week GTAV held a certificate presentation for local employers who have taken an out-of-trade apprentice. The event was held at the Traralgon hospital building site. We would like to thank the members, employers and government officials that attended the event. The Latrobe Valley Express was in attendance for media coverage. You… Read more
Last Saturday the Prime Minister Hon. Julia Gillard launched the Bully Free Australia Foundation in Melbourne. The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Bill Shorten also announced a new bill that will be introduced to the House of Representatives next week. He said the new laws would "make [bullying] a problem that is dealt with… Read more
We are currently looking for nominees to represent Victoria at the GTA Today's Skills: Tomorrow's Leaders program being held from the 18th-23th August 2013 in Canberra. The Today's Skills: Tomorrow's Leaders program has been voted an outstanding success by participants and has resulted in a number of significant changes in their attitudes and work practices…. Read more
Earlier this week GTAV attended a roundtable review into the effectiveness and possible improvements into VET in school programs. For further information, read here As many of you would know this has been an area of frustration to many GTO's running SBAT programs in the past. Scope of the review The review will investigate how… Read more
Congratulations to the following Victorian Trainees, Apprentices and GTOs – as they will represent Victoria at the National Group Training Awards in April 2013. Apprentice of the year – Mr Sevag Parseghian, WPC Group – Automotive Trainee of the Year – Mr Saadat Iqbal, Skilled – telecommunications Indigenous Apprentice/ Trainee of the Year – Miss… Read more


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Arlene Foster will step down as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on 28 May and as First Minister at the end of June. Feargal Cochrane, an Emeritus Professor at the University's School of Politics and International Relations, has commented on what the future could look like for Northern Ireland leadership and the implications on the general public. He said:
'Once it became clear that the overwhelming majority of Arlene Foster's senior colleagues had sent her a letter expressing no confidence in her leadership, it was a matter of when she would step down rather than if.
'The DUP has never had a leadership election before, but an election is more probable to determine its next leader as there are several heavyweights with legitimate claims on the top job, including Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Edwin Poots among others.
'Beyond the internal machinations of the DUP there are some more pressing implications for the rest of us, in Ireland and beyond. Firstly, who becomes leader of the DUP will have a direct bearing on the survival or implosion of the devolved institutions established after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Power-sharing with Sinn Fein, the largest nationalist party and thus an essential partner in government, has never come easily to the DUP. The next prospective leader will be quizzed about their attitude to Sinn Fein, to deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, and to the policy issues that Sinn Fein is wedded to. The chemistry between Arlene Foster as First Minister and Michelle O'Neill as deputy First Minister was never easy, but they did establish a cordial working relationship that enabled the government to function. A lurch to the right would make this more problematic and it would be difficult in those circumstances to see a viable future for devolved government.
'Secondly, prospective leadership candidates will have to take a position on what they are going to do to remove or mitigate the effects of the Northern Ireland Protocol. That issue, along with Brexit and the litany of other policy problems will still be there when the new leader takes up office.
'Very few unionist leaders have come to power preaching the gospel of compromise and moderation and this process is likely to see a race to the bottom over who can act toughest against the Protocol and or Sinn Fein and the Irish government. It is not inconceivable that a DUP hopeful will promise their party that they will not take up office as First Minister if they are elected until the Protocol is removed. If they fail to take up the First Minister role (currently only the DUP is eligible to occupy that office as the largest party in the Assembly) then after seven days the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis will be forced to call an early Assembly Election.
'Collapsing the Assembly and forcing an election with Northern Ireland still battling against the Covid-19 pandemic would be less than ideal for Northern Ireland and is unlikely to achieve anything useful for unionists either. However, while it would be a strategic blunder for the next DUP leader to disappear down a right-wing fundamentalist rabbit hole, it might play well with their base and with the small number of colleagues who will determine who becomes the next leader. The stark reality for the DUP is that there is no quick fix for their current predicament and lurching to the right will only worsen their already beleaguered fortunes.
'Northern Ireland is 100 years old on 3rd May – a difficult anniversary to get past without tensions rising between unionists who want to celebrate the centenary and nationalists who see it as an event that led to generations of political exclusion and sectarianism. In the end though it looks like the DUP has successfully torpedoed its own birthday party.'
Feargal Cochrane is an Emeritus Professor of International Conflict Analysis in the University's School of Politics and International Relations. He is an expert on issues relating to the political conflict in Northern Ireland and on civil society initiatives, especially non-governmental organisations and their capacity to assist conflict prevention and conflict transformation within divided societies. Professor Cochrane's most recent book release, 'Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace', contains the complete history of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to Brexit. Re-published to coincide with the region's centenary, Professor Cochrane argues that Brexit represents the biggest threat to the continued existence of Northern Ireland since Ireland was partitioned in 1921.


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Meet a Few of the Female Scientists Fighting Climate Change By Marvin Li
We were all inspired by Greta Thunberg's daring speech at the UN Climate Action Summit last year. As a sixteen-year-old girl, she gave a stirring call for action to address the climate crisis and led a global youth movement to combat climate change. If all women and men take action like Greta Thunberg, we will resolve the climate crisis. On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, we at Zero Hour would like to feature three outstanding female scientists who are among many at the forefront of the fight against climate change. Their incredible experiences should inspire girls and boys around the world to pursue careers in climate science.
Meet Dr. Inez Fung, a Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of California,
Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a pioneer in climate modeling and has done extensive research on biogeochemical cycles and climate change. Prof. Fung contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment reports. She was one of the 18 scientists who filed an amicus curiae brief in Massachusetts vs U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to advocate for the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. A native of Hong Kong, Fung was the second woman to receive a Doctor of Science in Meteorology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977. When I met her last summer, I was immediately drawn to her boundless curiosity and passion for science. "I like studying the Earth because Earth presents endless puzzles that intrigue me. There is an order in the way parts of the Earth work together - the atmosphere, the oceans, the land, the biosphere, the chemistry, the physics. To be able to express the order in mathematical equations is elegant. When I think I have understood a small question, a new one presents itself." said Prof. Fung. Her latest endeavor is to encourage girls to pursue science. She firmly believes that everyone should have opportunities to enjoy science and that everyone has the capabilities to contribute to advance science.
Meet Dr. Patricia Glibert, a Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Glibert is a world leader on harmful algal blooms (HABs). She has investigated HABs in coastal waters and lakes around the world and found that the frequency and severity of HABs have increased globally due to population growth and agriculture production. Her recent research shows that climate change such as warming and extreme precipitation can lead to more frequent and widespread HABs. I worked with her on modeling toxic HABs on the West Florida Shelf and was inspired by her passion and dedication to scientific research. Glibert received her Ph.D. in organismal and evolutionary biology at Harvard University in 1982. "When I first entered the field of oceanography, I was one of just a few women. It was not unusual for me to be the only woman on a cruise (60 days across the Indian Ocean, for example), the only woman at a national meeting, the only woman at a workshop. I look around now at our students and see mostly female faces. What a change! What a great change! There are so many challenges with pollution, climate change, and the oceans. Many career options are available for girls and boys interested in science and math." said Prof. Glibert.
Meet Dr. Elizabeth North, an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. After completing a B.A. degree in Religion, she found her passion in environmental science and obtained a Ph.D. in the Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has conducted extensive research on biological- physical interactions and fisheries oceanography. Recently, she is exploring how to make use of Earth's natural carbon sinks to sequester carbon and reverse climate change. She is working on a technology that uses algae to form calcium carbonate from dissolved carbon dioxide in water.
Speaking about the motivations behind her research, Dr. North said, "I don't want to stand by and watch the people and land that I care so deeply about go underwater because we've shifted our atmosphere out of balance." Dr. North is actively involved in science communication: "By reaching outside of science, I get to learn about problems that people really need help solving and how to offer solutions in a way that is most helpful." Profs. Fung, Glibert, and North are all making a difference with their research on climate change.
When girls and boys around the world follow their footsteps, we can overcome the greatest challenge facing humankind: we can halt and reverse climate change. Yes, we can!
About the Author
Marvin Li is the Editor of Zero Hour Medium blog. Li is a member of Zero Hour and from Salisbury, Maryland.


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Tue, 10 March 2020
Brian Allan is the Senior Vice-President of Strategic Partnerships at HyreCar. He is responsible to assist OEMs and retail dealers with strategies to profit from the carsharing, ridesharing and transportation as a Service (TaaS) opportunities. Brian serves on advisory boards for several retail and technology firms and he is renowned for recognizing industry trends and developing innovative solutions that leverage technology to improve the employee and customer experience for the automotive industry. After 30 years of service as a General Manager and Group Director of Business Development at Galpin Motors, Brian founded Respective.io, a strategic advisory and investment firm focused on emerging technologies and innovation in the retail automotive industry.
Mike Furnari, HyreCar's Chief Business Development Officer is a previous guest here on Cars Yeah.
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On Thursday, 4 November 2021, Volante's Edison Motor team, alongside the South-East and Eastern Region Police Insurance Consortium (SEERPIC), were announced as the winners of CIR Magazine's 'Risk Management Programme of the Year' award.
Edison Motor and the South East and Eastern Region Police Insurance Consortium (10 police forces combined with just under 8,000 vehicles on the road) have been working together on SEERPIC's fleet insurance since October 2018.
As a prerequisite of cover, Edison developed a unique set of Risk Management Protocols designed to reduce Police Vehicle Incidents, drive down claims costs to both SEERPIC and Edison and ultimately reduce the likelihood of SEERPIC employees and members of the public coming to harm.
Stuart Gemmell (Edison Risk Control Lead) and Julie Gandolfi (Consultant to Edison) have been working tirelessly with all 10 forces over the last three years to implement the protocols, which include:
Chief Constable Garry Forsyth, Bedfordshire Police Force – part of SEERPIC commented: "This has been a huge project working simultaneously across 10 police forces and was ultimately about creating an evidence-based approach to improve driver standards. Before this partnership, policing was becoming almost uninsurable, so to have found a solution that not only allows us to cover our fleet but also helps reduce collisions can only be a good thing. I'm delighted that the project has been recognised with this award, and hopefully it will pave the way for similar schemes to be rolled out not only for policing but for the wider emergency services".
This is a tremendous result for all parties and recognises the innovation, quality, and dedication Edison is renowned for within the motor insurance market.
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Experience matters. No interns, no juniors, no learning on your dime.
The Holini Story
The average annual employee turnover rate in PPC agencies is 30 percent, meaning a substantial portion of employees are unhappy — they're craving professional development, are underpaid, over-booked, and forced to work on accounts they aren't passionate about.
Unhappy employees rarely stay in their jobs for long so agencies fill vacancies with interns and junior specialists. Naturally, the expertise is not comparable and a decline in quality soon follows.
When founding Holini, our goal was to break the agency status quo – make the team members' happiness our no. 1 priority.
This means constant learning, fair pay, only working with carefully chosen clients, and ensuring no-one is over-booked. And yes, this means sacrificing short-term gains but we're playing the long game.
Happy people make happy clients. Scroll down to meet the Holini team.
Happy people make happy clients
Andres is the strategist and our in-house "brain surgeon" for the all-mighty brain of Google. His main role is to support our Google Ads team and regularly oversee clients' accounts to make sure all budgets are invested in a way that brings maximum value.
He's an engineer at heart (and according to the writing on his university MSc diploma), an innovator and a problem-solver who is best at diving deep and understanding complex processes.
When he's not working, Andres can be found on the sports field, enjoying a good book, travelling or spending time with his friends and family.
Liis is our senior Google Ads consultant with a diverse portfolio ranging from eCommerce and financial services to SaaS and B2B businesses. She is also taking care of the growth of Holini.
She helps the digital marketing community up their game by speaking at events and giving lectures at universities. Occasionally she lets her creative juices flow and creates content around all things Google Ads.
When she wants to give her brain a rest she can most likely be found playing with her dogs, dancing, running, hiking, snowboarding or whipping up an amazing kinoa salad.
Michal is our Senior Google Ads consultant with over five years of experience. He has worked with various businesses, including B2B, SaaS, and eCommerce companies. He has been involved in digital marketing agencies and has experience as a freelancer.
He has a great passion for advertising and marketing. He's always keen to learn new things and develop his skills. Outside-the-box thinking and always looking for alternative solutions bring joy to his work.
When Michal is offline, you can find him playing the guitar and chilling with his two cats.
Artur has extensive experience in Google Analytics and GTM. He started his path as a Google Ads support agent and continued as a freelancer, where he worked a lot with eCommerce and SaaS businesses.
Besides creating tracking and data infrastructure, he loves analyzing the data, building visualizations that tell a story and learning new skills.
When he is AFK, he likes snowboarding, football, gym, hiking, and camping with his family and friends.
Taavi is a data geek. Over the years, he has spoken at various conferences, published a number of articles, and answered hundreds of questions related to Google Analytics & GTM in official product forums and support communities.
Taavi loves to dig deep into topics related to web development, data collection and analysis to provide invaluable support to his colleagues, clients and blog readers within the world of digital analytics.
When he's not digging deep into data, he can most likely be found eating a delicious Caesar salad, pumping iron at the gym or bungee jumping somewhere.
Mikołaj is our senior Google Ads consultant with over 5+ years of experience working in various digital marketing agencies.
His primary focus has been on scaling different B2C and B2B platforms using Google Ads and CRO. He also has a master's degree in e-business from the Warsaw School of Economics.
When he's not working, he can most likely be found playing football or doing extreme sports (windsurfing, BMX street riding). Mikołaj is also an avid dog lover and a vinyl record fan.
Everin is our solution-oriented multitasker, whose primary mission is to improve the operational systems, processes, and policies supporting our vision and mission.
With her upbeat and forward-thinking attitude, strong work ethic, and desire to learn, grow and succeed, she excels in building relationships between our clients and teams and does it with great passion.
When in airplane mode, she can be found in South Estonia, enjoying the countryside or behind a piano creating music.
Karolina is our senior Google Ads growth consultant with a strong background in digital marketing. She brings to the team over 5 years of PPC experience from a client's side. Before joining Holini, she worked for international B2B, SaaS, FinTech and marketplace companies.
She enjoys being exposed to a variety of problems at the same time as it helps her stay creative and continuously look for better solutions.
During her spare time, she enjoys a hike in nature, a good book or some 1-on-1 time with PlayStation.
Tymoteusz is our senior Google Ads consultant with over 6+ years of experience working in various digital marketing agencies.
He is excited about new challenges in the SEM field and transforms his passion for strategy into the satisfaction of customers.
When he's not working, he can most likely be found spending time with his family. Tymoteusz is also a french rap fan and children's book author.
Our Analytics Developer, Paweł, has diverse experience working with marketing agencies and businesses. Initially, he began his career as a performance marketing specialist, but he discovered that technical marketing is his forte.
Paweł has a passion for thoroughly understanding clients' businesses and assisting them in growing by implementing tracking, analyzing data, and developing visualizations.
In his free time, Paweł enjoys relaxing in nature, cycling, watching movies, and playing tennis, in which he is also an instructor.
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A number of diarylmethanofullerene derivatives were synthesized. The cyclopropane ring of the derivatives has two aryl groups substituted with electron-withdrawing and -donating groups, the latter with long alkyl chains to improve solubility in organic solvents, an important property in processing cells. First reduction potentials of most derivatives were less negative than that of [6, 6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), which is possibly ascribed to their electron-withdrawing nature. Organic thinfilm photovoltaic cells fabricated with poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as the electron-donor and diarylmethanofullerene derivatives as the electron-acceptor material were examined. The {(methoxycarbonyl)phenyl[bis(octyloxy)phenyl]methano}fullerene showed power conversion efficiency as high as PCBM, but had higher solubility in a variety of organic solvents than PCBM. The Voc value was higher than that of PCBM, which is derived from the electron-donating (octyloxy)phenyl group, possibly raising the LUMO level. Photovoltaic effects of the devices fabricated with the derivatives having some electron-withdrawing groups were also examined.
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|Article number
|Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
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|Published - Feb 24 2009
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- Bulk heterojunction solar cells
- Fullerene derivatives
- High open-circuit voltage
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- Organic Chemistry


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DAVIE, Fla. -- Not a single Miami Dolphins player made ESPN's ranking of top 100 players of 2018. Ndamukong Suh and Jarvis Landry each made it, at No. 51 and No. 82, respectively. Of course, both Suh and Landry were jettisoned from Miami this offseason for a combination of financial and cultural reasons.
The Dolphins were one of three teams, along with the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis Colts, to be shut out. That alone doesn't mean doom and gloom. Miami had three on ESPN's top 100 players of 2017 (Suh, Landry and Cameron Wake), but it didn't prevent them from going 6-10.
The list does make one thing clear: There aren't any in-your-prime stars on this Dolphins team. Wake and Frank Gore have national name recognition, yet neither is among the top players at their positions. It's hard to answer who the Dolphins' best player is, but that might be about to change.
Enter running back Kenyan Drake, the Dolphins' best hope to fill their star void. He's ready to be that type of player and all the pressure that comes with it.
"I want to be a player that can be relied on to make big plays and spark the offense when we might be in a little bit of a stall," said Drake, a 2016 third-round pick out of Alabama who averaged 4.8 yards per carry in 2017. "Playmakers make plays. It is what it is."
Drake is their most exciting player and best big-play weapon. The most apparent glimpse of this came in the final five games of the 2017 season, when Drake paced the NFL in rushing (444 rushing yards on 75 carries and 150 receiving yards on 17 catches). But he's tired of hearing about those five games. He believes it's a flawed stat because several top backs sat out Week 17. He'd rather discuss the next 16 games of the 2018 season.
Leaning on Drake might be the Dolphins' best chance to make a surprise push for a wild-card spot in a weak AFC.
Despite worries that Gore will steal half of Drake's touches, the Dolphins are aware of Drake's talents and will allow him to be the lead back if he proves he can handle it. Dolphins coach Adam Gase's breakdown of an ideal workload for Drake should be music to the ears of Drake, Dolphins fans and smart fantasy football owners.
"You'd love to get in that 70-75 plays per game [range] as a unit. If that happens, then you're looking at hopefully anywhere from 15-20 carries and 6-8 targets," Gase said of Drake.
Gase might be a little optimistic on play count. Even with an expected increase of no-huddle under Ryan Tannehill, no team has averaged 70-plus offensive plays per game since Philadelphia in 2014. The Dolphins averaged a little over 62 plays in 2017.
But even looking at numbers just outside of Gase's low-end projection, Drake getting 18-20 touches a game -- which would be a workload similar to what Jay Ajayi had in his breakout 2016 season -- would allow him to expand upon what he flashed last season. Ajayi had 287 touches in 15 games in 2016, a little more than 19 per game, for 1,423 total yards. Plus, Drake is a better receiver than Ajayi ever was.
As a receiver is where Drake's star potential can be unlocked. In an offense that gave Landry 112 catches last season, the Dolphins will use Drake to make up some of the difference.
"My versatility is a weapon for me, so catching the ball out of the backfield, lining up in a wing set, in the slot or out wide against linebackers or safeties, I feel like I have an advantage," said Drake, who has a 36-yard reception, a 34-yard rush and a 30-yard rush already this preseason.
In his last seven games of 2017, Drake had five plays of 30-plus yards -- four rushes and a reception. Some people will say this isn't sustainable, but Drake has proven throughout his college and NFL career that this is his game. He's the Dolphins Mr. Big Play and he's also their lead back.
"He really makes us dynamic whenever you have a guy that can take it the distance at any point," said Tannehill, who has been manning an offense primarily built around the short pass this summer.
The key for Drake will be health. That's the big "if" in his quest for a full breakout year. Among Drake's injuries, he suffered a broken and dislocated ankle in 2014, then a broken arm in 2015 at Alabama. He hasn't been a three-down workhorse back in college or the NFL.
That's where Gore comes in. Gore will get a lot of playing time on the goal line, in short yardage and in a rotation that will prevent Drake from being a 25 carries-per-game back. It's the kid's time to produce the big numbers, but Gore will protect the Dolphins from having to run Drake into the ground.
An ideal balance would be Drake getting 18-20 touches per game and Gore getting 8-10. Kalen Ballage has some catching up to do, but he might earn a few reps as the season goes on.
Gore said he sees Drake's potential.
"Drake is a great kid. I want him to have success. He works hard. He loves the game. He listens. He's real humble. His skill set is crazy. He can do everything," Gore said. "As long as he stays healthy, works hard and keeps being humble, he will have success and be special. The only thing he got that I don't have is the long speed. I wish I had that."
The Dolphins currently have a dearth of stars, but Drake is in line to have a season that makes him a national name.


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Miraculous Metamorphoses
Artist: Kansas City Symphony
Conductor: Michael Stern
Label: Reference Recordings
Miraculous Metamorphoses is Reference Recordings fourth release with the Kansas City Symphony. Led by Music Director Michael Stern since 2005, the 80 full-time member Symphony has experienced impressive artistic growth, garnering national and international acclaim. The three orchestra-challenging 20th century masterpieces on this SACD, by Hindemith, Prokofiev and Bartok, offer a wealth of symphonic color, drama and thrills.
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Email Marketing:
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