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Kate grew up in Northern Virginia before moving to the Midwest, earning her degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. She spent a year covering gun violence and public health for The Trace in Boston before joining The Frederick News-Post in Frederick County, Md. Before joining the Mercury in 2020, she covered state and county politics for the Bethesda Beat in Montgomery County, Md. She was named Virginia's outstanding young journalist for 2021 by the Virginia Press Association.
State sees increase in addiction treatment access as lawmakers consider expanding care
By: Kate Masters - February 17, 2020
A state agency is reporting substantial gains in addiction treatment under Virginia's Medicaid expansion — a report that comes as lawmakers consider several budget proposals to expand the continuum of care for substance use disorders. The state unrolled new addiction treatment services in 2017, when 1,536 state residents died of fatal overdoses. That year, Virginia […]
Virginia is poised to create its own health insurance marketplace. Here's what you need to know.
By: Kate Masters - February 17, 2020
Virginia is poised to become the 14th state to create its own health insurance exchange via two bills working their way through both chambers of the General Assembly. Filed on behalf of Gov. Ralph Northam, who endorsed new health care initiatives in a column last October, the legislation aims to stabilize the often-volatile health plan […]
Lawmakers from both parties agree: It's time to step up state aid for needy school districts
By: Kate Masters - February 14, 2020
When it comes to stressing the needs of cash-strapped school districts, Keith Perrigan, president of the state's Coalition of Small and Rural Schools, likes to let other educators do the talking. Members of the coalition shared plenty of anecdotes at a news conference on Thursday outlining their priorities in the ongoing legislative session. Among them: […]
Smaller crowds but continued anger at Virginia's second March for Life rally
By: Kate Masters - February 13, 2020
More than a year has passed since video of Del. Kathy Tran, D-Fairfax, attempting to explain her ultimately unsuccessful, controversial late-term abortion bill ignited a furor. But outrage was still fresh at Virginia's second March for Life rally, where many anti-abortion activists cited the legislation as their reason for attending. "It's infanticide," said Noreen Rodgers, […]
Will Virginia lawmakers finally agree on a way to end surprise medical bills? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
By: Ned Oliver and Kate Masters - February 13, 2020
A cold war over how to stop surprise medical bills in Virginia has been dragging on for years. On one side are insurance companies. On the other are doctors and hospitals. Trapped in the middle are patients, who get stuck with expensive medical bills after finding out after the fact that they were treated by […]
Virginia House, Senate pass long-anticipated immigrants' rights bills
By: Kate Masters and Ned Oliver - February 12, 2020
Legislation extending driver privileges and in-state tuition regardless of immigration status, pushed for years by advocates for Virginia immigrants, cleared both chambers of the General Assembly Tuesday. "There's a growing cognizance that these are communities who need licenses and in-state tuition," said Monica Sarmiento, the executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights. "They're […]


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Version 7.00 → Play Store
► Seconds hand in analog clock!!!
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► Touch screen to reset markers
► Quarter minute markers
► Minute vibration
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► Keep colors of ambient bubbles while having uniform colors in active watchface
► Set uniform color of all ambient bubbles based on battery level, steps progress or weather
Bug fixes:
► Custom icon toggle bubbles (wifi, ringmode) did not appear correctly on ambient watch-face when uniform colors were set
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Fire on the Ranch
Back in August I was spending some time on the Fires in Animal Housing Facilities project and wanted to interview some farmers and ranchers to make them aware of the survey that was being conducted and ask them some follow up questions. While interviewing Clint McRae, a 4th generation cattle rancher in Montana, he shared his experience and knowledge in fighting wildfires to protect his ranch. And although his cattle are free range, and not housed (i.e., no longer applicable to the Fires in Animal Housing Facilities project), I still thought many would enjoy listening to the full interview that is part of the NFPA Podcast: Fire on the Ranch. My hope is that you learn about the strategies that thousands of cattle ranchers utilize to maintain their livelihoods.
Getting back to the Fires in Animal Housing Facilities project….this study will help assist the Technical Committee responsible for NFPA 150, Fire and Life Safety in Animal Housing Facilities Code, which establishes life and safety requirements for both humans and animals in all types of animal housing facilities. The goal is to ensure that there are minimum requirements in place to prevent the loss of animal life, human life, and property from fire or other emergencies. This project is anticipated to be completed in early 2022. Read the project summary for more information and stay tuned!


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Julie Hawkins: Event Planner and Troubleshooter
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Imagine that you're hosting a breakfast event for more than 50 people, and you've shown up to the venue to discover that the power is out.
For Julie Hawkins, this wasn't a hypothetical situation — it's one of the many on-the-job challenges she's faced.
"I was in Rome, Ga., to host a breakfast event promoting Campaign Georgia Tech," said Hawkins, who is stewardship event coordinator for the Office of Development. "When I arrived at the venue the morning of the event, I discovered that a drunk driver had hit a power pole nearby, which took out the electricity. Initially, I had a moment of panic."
Then her focus shifted to creating a quality event, in light of the situation. For example, since there were no refreshments, she asked others to pick up coffee and breakfast food from Starbuck's and area grocery stores. Thanks to good weather, she was able to move the event from inside the venue to an outside area, which the guests enjoyed more than being in the original space.
"About 75 percent of my job is troubleshooting and solving problems before anyone discovers them," Hawkins said. "This actually ended up being one of the best campaign events so far."
Recently, The Whistle had a chance learn more about Hawkins and her time at Tech.
Did you always want to work in event planning?
I guess it was destiny, given I was basically the social chair of my preschool class. But no, I didn't expect to end up in this field. In college, I wanted to go into broadcast journalism, which led to an internship working in the promotions department at a radio station. After college, I worked as a marketing assistant at a concert venue and had an opportunity to organize a fundraising event for a musical group. I loved being able to put my organizational skills to good use.
How did you arrive in your current position?
Since the job at the concert venue was seasonal, I accepted a temp position at Tech as an administrative assistant in the provost's office about six years ago. My supervisors knew that I was interested in event planning, so I was given opportunities to work on these projects. Eventually, my current position opened up, and here I am.
What is an average day in your job like?
While the campaign is on, I have two types of days: office and on-the-road. When I'm in the office, I spend time on tasks such as prepping schedules and materials, gathering RSVPs and putting together presentation materials for people who will be attending the events, including Dr. Peterson and John Brock, alumnus, campaign chair and CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. When I'm on the road, I'm usually doing things such as troubleshooting with the venue.
What are three things that you always take with you when traveling to events?
I have a big blue case that contains everything I need for a mini office — including Sharpies and tape, which can fix almost anything. I also take a first aid kit and pictures of my dogs.
Where was your favorite campaign event location?
I really enjoyed San Juan, Puerto Rico, where we hosted a dinner for 150 people. I was surprised at how many people in that area had a connection to Tech.
How will your job evolve as the campaign winds down?
I will travel less and my focus will shift to planning more on-campus events for donors.
Where is your favorite place to have lunch?
I like to go to Ms. Ruthie's Deli in the Student Center and get a veggie wrap. With all of the traveling and eating out I do, it's nice to be able to get something to eat that is familiar and always tastes the same.
If you were stranded on an island, what is the one book you would want with you?
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. This is my go-to book whenever I need an old favorite to read.
Tell us something about yourself that others might not know.
I love to run half marathons. Also, my family is a "Tech family." My dad, Pete Dawkins, has worked at Tech since the 1970s, and my mom, Sherry Dawkins, worked here for about 20 years — they met on campus. So, my sister and I basically grew up at Tech.
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Close encounter with Taiwanese singer, dancer, TV host and actor, Show Luo, 罗志祥. Before this private concert event, I didn't even know this dude. I swear my exposure to Mandarin music pop culture is truly limited. Nicked named Xiao Zhu or Little Pig, Show Luo is dubbed "Asia Dancing King" following in the footsteps of one of the Heavenly Kings, Aaron Kwok. The short performance following his morning touch down from Hawaii did not showcase his dancing abilities. i was expecting to be blown away like those Korean B-Boys dancers. I suppose he is talented, but it didn't come across. Despite his thick eye bags, he was still a charmer with his boyish grin and ridiculously bad spoken English.
On stage with probably the only dance track
Fans girls went crazy when Show Luo picked up an iPhone from the crowd and took a Selfie! Plus points on knowing how to tease his fans
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4 Mindsets to Inspire Your PresentationSee also: Top Tips for Effective Presentations
Businesses exist to provide something to people. Be it product or service, when a person receives any form of benefit and/or comfort from a business, a transaction is deemed successful.
When they like it, they become repeat customers. But how do you make sure your customers keep coming back to you? You do this by satisfying their needs. In principle, this is why people buy into a business.
That is for your established targets, though. What about inviting other potential clients to connect with your business? By using the same principle, you can even include their "wants". Aim to do this even at your pitches. Having the forethought to satisfy their immediate needs during your presentation—curiosity, mainly, along with interest—goes a long way. They're still listening to you, aren't they?
This is one example of catering your goals and beliefs to your target market. In presentations, being straightforward, outright, and honest about your own values—corporate or personal—will make you an object of empathy. This makes you relatable. When the audience connects with you and understands that your product could make their lives easier, your life and business, in return, will benefit.
Moreover, staying dynamic in your approach is crucial for maintaining audience engagement. Alongside effectively communicating your values, modern tools can also significantly contribute to impactful presentations. For instance, tools like Canva's free pdf to PowerPoint converter allows you to seamlessly transform your valuable content from PDFs to dynamic PowerPoint slides. This technological integration empowers you to convey your message in an engaging and versatile format, thereby captivating your audience's attention and enhancing their understanding.
Building the perfect presentation and crafting great copy take effort, time, and, inspiration. So where do you get the last?
Your product. You hold in your hands the lifeline of your business. How well you sell it will make or break your career as an entrepreneur.
Here are a few mindsets to help you kick-start that presentation while brainstorming for your pitch.
1. Your Product Should Deliver - and More
Your presentation should cover the basics: answering the what, how, when, and where of your product. Of course you will be showing it, discussing its appearance, features, and specifications through a video or a live demonstration that will help build your audience.
You will be presenting how it will solve problems and what curiosity or craving it satisfies. But there should be something more than that.
Why does your product exist? Why did you make it? You should aim to answer that: "the why."
You have at least three questions in mind:
a) "Why did you make it?"
b) "Why should they buy it?" and
c) "Why should they choose it over your competitors'?"
In doing so, you get to identify, discuss, and demonstrate what problems your product can solve.
The last two questions address what makes you unique from competition. What's in your product that rival companies don't have? What can your product do that theirs can't?
Taking your place above and beyond the competition is an important factor you should show your potential customers. Don't keep what sets you apart from the others a secret. This may just be the edge you need to secure a solid market.
Giving your audiences the questions they're subconsciously thinking of and the answers they're unknowingly looking for will inspire them to buy your product.
2. Your Audience Doesn't Know What They Want Until They See It
According to Steve Jobs, "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
While many product-oriented companies, for example IBM, disagree and ask for feedback from their customers, Apple was one of the few who didn't care about what consumers wanted because of the fact that they do not know what they want. Look at that success story.
This may be a good place for you to start when preparing to showcase your product. Somewhat related to the question above, "Why should they buy [your product]," you will show every innovation you have thought and included in your design—maybe even to the point that it becomes the industry changer.
In that sense, having the same mindset when designing your product is also beneficial, albeit absurdly difficult. Spending all that time and money to validate a device that may or may not be widely accepted, which in turn makes it a poor innovation idea and a failure in the eyes of people, is the risk that you have to take especially when starting from scratch without solid research and validation. But when that gamble works, you're a hero.
In your presentation, do not show what is innovative about your product. Unless they're not experts, they would've figured it out with just one look. Instead, show how it will be beneficial to them. That way, you justify your idea with practicality.
This style of innovation may push your creativity to the limits, but not heeding the voices of your target market can only take you so far. You can't disregard customer feedback for so long, because ultimately, a major thing you can get from them—apart from their money, trust, and loyalty—is constructive feedback. They can point out problems they experienced with your product and report those issues to you; it's up to you to fix it.
3. Your Audience Will Not Use Your Product
Let's continue with the innovation mindset. You're starting from scratch and ready to shell out money for the research and validation of your product.
How do you design it then?
With the mindset that no one, absolutely no one, will use your product. They will instead rely on other methods to get the result they want (which your product proposes) without getting what you offer. That's when you decide to create a product they cannot ignore.
Setting this low standard upon yourself will test your determination, starting from the designing of your product to its pitching, to come up with something greater and better than you have done before. Instead of setting yourself up for greatness and facing an arbitrary wall that is pressure, set yourself up for greatness by starting with the small things.
The same principle goes when creating your pitch. You already plowed through the low expectations you had when starting out; what's stopping you from doing the same to the follow statement: "No one will listen to this product pitch because it's boring."
4. People Can - and Will - Use Your Product to Achieve Their Goals
Let's go to the reverse of the third point above. Having high expectations of your product will lead you to designing and creating a better result, something that will help people not only to their convenience but also to their inconvenience.
This is called the Pygmalion effect. The high standards you set will bring out your potential in designing your product—and, down the line, crafting your pitch. Meeting that expectation may take a lot out of you, but the rewards will definitely be worth it. It's another type of gamble, sure, but you've risked more when you started out.
The whole concept is easy to understand, especially when you consider what you've done to get to this point. You've done your best since the beginning; continue that. What's stopping you?
Nailing a great presentation, one that will wow your audience, is gruelling work. With many things to consider when preparing, like how you look or sound, your PowerPoint presentation should at least be the one thing you're not worried about. You've already got too much to handle while waiting for your turn to speak.
You don't have to be a visual expert when creating your deck. You can get inspiration from an unlikely source: your product. Try thinking of a few ideas when crafting the perfect presentation visual aid. Your product should do more than deliver what you say it will do. This will interest and engage your audience, especially when you answer "the why." Show them how innovative your product is and how it will be a great help. Lower your standards so that you can create something better than you have ever imagined. Lastly, and alternatively, set high expectations that can influence the output you will eventually finish.
Don't worry about mental blocks. At this point, they may not be much of a bother for you. You've already got your eyes on your goal, and you've started your journey years ago. Keep on going. It's the only direction you will want to take.
About the Author
Rick Enrico is the CEO and Founder of SlideGenius, Inc.
He regularly publishes expert presentation tips on the SlideGenius blog.


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His early career almost didn't get off the ground, but John Scales' determination saw him play for nearly 20 years, although that time was plagued by injury.
He did not make it at local club Leeds United, having to move down to the West Country with Bristol Rovers to make the first team. His performances brought him to the attention of Wimbledon, who had recently joined the old First Division and his dominating performances alongside Eric Young won them many good reviews. His first medal came in the giant-killing of Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup Final with the Dons winning 1-0, although his appearance in the final was an odd one for him, as a substitute playing up front !!
This obviously lived in the memory of those at Anfield, as they signed the centre-half for £3.5 million in 1994. He was played in a three man central defensive formation with Neil Ruddock and Phil Babb, where his heading and pace were shown off to their best. In his first season with the Reds, he won a League Cup winners medal in the 2-1 victory over Bolton Wanderers.
Having had three good years at Liverpool, his appearances became limited by niggling injuries and he was suddenly sold to Spurs, despite being a favourite among the Liverpool fans.
After coming to Tottenham in 1996, Scales failed to make himself a regular in the team because of a string of injuries that have disrupted his career. There was talk in 1997-98 of West Ham being interested in buying him, but Scales seemed set on proving his worth at Tottenham. He could fit quite well into the centre of defence, but his lack of speed off the mark hampered him in this role. He has played at full-back before and there is some flexibility in his experiences there, but he may need to lose his "nicest man on Earth" tag to become a bit more ruthless in his play.
What John really needed was a decent run in the side to see if he could have added something to the team. 1998/99 was a continuation of the rest of his Spurs career with injury further preventing him appearing in the first team. Yet another injury ravaged season in 1999-2000 for John Scales, who when he did play early on looked sound, but was caught out for the goal at Watford and he looked set to depart in the close season, but shortly after a free move to Ipswich Town in summer 2000, he had to retire because of injury.
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Well-defined polystyrene (PSt), poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL) or poly(2-methyloxazoline) (POx) based polymers containing mid- or end-chain 2,5- or 3,5-dibromobenzene moieties were prepared by controlled polymerization methods, such as atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), ring opening polymerization (ROP), or cationic ring opening polymerization (CROP). These polymers were subsequently modified by Suzuki type coupling reactions with 2-thiophene boronic acid. The resulting polymers, containing a conjugated sequence with 2-thienyl groups at the extremities, could be further used as macromonomers in chemical oxidative polymerization in the presence of anhydrous FeCl3. Poly(thienyl-phenylene)s having the respective PSt or PCL chains as lateral subtituents were obtained in this way. All the starting, intermediate, or final polymers were structurally analyzed by spectroscopic methods (H-1 and C-13 NMR, IR) and gel permeation chromatography (GPC) measurements. Thermal behavior of the macromonomers and final polymers was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analyses. Optical properties of the polymers were monitored by UV and fluorescence spectroscopy. The emission spectra of the polymers show a clear bathochromic shift of the lambda(max) emission in all the cases with respect to the monomers because of the extending of the conjugation length. (c) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


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Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. Today's episode is our second Patreon subscriber request episode. We are watching the first episode of the Swedish miniseries "Lola Uppochner" or as it is known in America, "Lola Upside Down."
Today's intro music is "Running One" from the Run Lola Run original soundtrack.
Welcome back to Pilot Inspectors. We finally made it to 300 episodes! To celebrate, we are talking about the pilot episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, created by Mike Schur, one our favorite television producers working today.
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Dinarland Highlights – 4.18.21
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This is part of the plan to re-open the country to international status and allow a free flow of people and capital in and out of the county. This is what we need to see.
"The act of altering the value of a nation's currency relative to other currencies is typically influenced by market pressures. The pressure is now."
The pressure is not going to end until the CBI completes the project to delete the zeros and the revaluation of the dinar against the dollar.
Let's do a thought experiment. Let's say you live in Iraq and you have a certain amount of currency. They are not going to gain like you and I are. Because we bought with U.S. dollars. That means we bought it at a tenth of a penny. Well their economy is set up at a tenth of a penny. In other words they didn't pay anything. The currency was just given to them. If you go buy a coke at a tenth of a penny [Or 1450 dinars] and the value goes up because there's a revaluation or they just simply corrected their currency – they're just going to move the decimal over. Now it's just a dollar. So now you have the currency that's a dollar and a coke that has the price tag that's a dollar…There's going to be a little bit of gain for them but not like you and I are going to get because we bought with the U.S. dollar. That's a principle you have to understand.
What if somebody out there put an article out and says, 'hey we're going to revalue next month.' What do you think the population in Iraq is going to do? Do you think they go out and spend the dinars that they have? No! They'll squirrel it away. It would literally shut their economy down. That's why I tell people you're not going to find a magical article coming out of Iraq saying we're going to revalue in a month or two months or a week…Iraq is not telling everybody we're going to add a ton of value to this – it would ruin the supply times velocity of the Iraqi dinar.
There's obviously a lot of pressure to have the rate change take place in Iraq and it's coming from all angles. Having said that, these reforms are doing exactly what they were supposed to do – help get Iraq back on their feet. I know they were talking it's going to take three to five year. I'm not seeing that. They're actually moving at a much faster pace…
Obviously the more they grow the private sector the better the economy rebounds. It it strengthen the currency…building up your foreign reserves assets helps the currency. The GDP of your economy helps grow the currency. We won't necessarily need to have some RI or RV called out. There could be other things that happen that affect the value…that does not mean there won't be an RI or RV called. That still might happen but there are other things we can be focused on that help our situation…
…we have spent the last eight plus years telling members the truth of how or if the dinar can ever appreciate in value. It's based on sound principles and the economic success of Iraq. There is no magic wand or overnight RV. There is no significant overnight RV, it's not how monetary policy works.
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Embroidery Digitizing is the art of taking a logo or any graphical image and converting it into embroidery points. Generally when a digitizer digitizes an embroidery design, they are using a computer software program and using its tools to plot these points. Those points are then converted into stitches by the software and then saved to an embroidery software format which the embroidery machine can read. The final embroidery file tells the machine in which direction to move the frame for each stitch.
Before embroidery machines where run by computers, all embroidery was done by hand by moving the garment manually as the needle moved up and down creating the stitch. Around the late 1970s Embroidery Machines were then equipped with X and Y motors which moved the garments left and right and back and forward. The X and Y movements were controlled by software programs also known as digitized designs or digitized logos.
In the late 1970s till around the late 1990s, all digitizing was done on a large tablet with a puck. The large tablet was generally about the size of a small dinner table. The tablets were typically white and on a stand so that they would be stood up at a slight angle where the digitizer could sit in front of it. The tablets look similar to a white board. The tablets were attached to a computer. An embroidery artist (sometimes the digitizer) would then hand draw the logo by about 10 times the size of the final embroidery product, usually on heavier stock paper or something that might look like project board or poster board. Using colored pencils the artist might also color in parts of the drawing so the digitizer knew what colors each part of the logo was supposed to be. The artist might also pencil in various notes on the paper for the digitizer. Due to the width of an embroidery stitch or embroidery thread and the garment fibers, very fine detail is sometimes hard to achieve with embroidery. A good embroidery artist would remove or enlarge parts of the image that were too small for embroidery stitches. They might also add reference lines or marks for the digitizer. The large paper was then handed to the digitizer who would meticulously tape the paper to the digitizing tablet using masking tape or a tape easy to remove. It was very important that the design was not only taped perfectly level to the table but that the corners and center points were marked as well. At this time computer software was not available to move, rotate or recenter the image so if the paper was not taped just perfectly, the final embroidery product would not be perfectly squared either. The reference marks were made so that if the digitizer had to take the paper off their tablet, they would know exactly where to put it back on if they needed to stop in the middle of a design. The papers were usually rolled up or folded and saved.
Once the digitizer had their design taped to the table, they would use the puck to start plotting each stitch one by one. The puck looked very similar to a computer mouse with cross hairs and many more buttons. A digitizer might place the puck at one point of the design, then click a button, then move the puck again and click the button again. Each time the digitizer clicked the button on the puck, a stitch was made. During the early years of digitizing, the tablet was directly connect to a paper tape punch machine. The paper tape looked like a roll of masking tape or something similar but was only paper. Each time a stitch was made with the puck the paper tape was immediately punch a hole. These punched holes would tell the machine which way to move the X and Y axises before placing the point. If the digitizer made a mistake with their stitches, they would have to physically find the holes on the paper tape that corresponded to those stitches and tape them up and then re-punch new holes with a paper tape hole punch device. The paper tapes were also the only copy of the design available. Computers did not have storage space and floppy disk were not yet affordable. If the paper tape was lost or damaged, then the design would be lost and the digitizer would have to re-digitize it. These paper tapes were usually labeled and stored away for future use. Sometimes the term punching or punch a tape might be used to refer to the act of digitizing. This term now is generally only used by the people who have been in the embroidery business a long time.
Years later around the early 1980s once PCs started becoming more advanced, the data points were saved on the PC and once the entire design was completed the paper tape could be made. Further advancements were later added like on screen editing where a digitizer could move points around that have already been digitized, rather then finding the hole in the paper tape and physically making new holes. Paper tapes soon after were replaced by floppy disks. The digitizing process because a little easier over the years too. Instead of having to digitize each and every stitches for example, a digitizer could use their puck to plot 4 points of a box and the software would automatically fill the box in with stitches. Instead of having to plot many points, digitizers could then just create basic shapes and the computer would fill in the rest. On-screen editing began to be much more popular which means a digitizer could quickly plot these points without being entirely accurate and then go to the PC and adjust the points by hand, using a mouse which was much faster than meticulously placing each point with the puck. Most digitizers would quickly digitize a design off the tablet, then move to the PC for final editing. Once the design was edited, it would be run on a sample machine such as an inexpensive single head and then reedited. This process would go back and forth till a final sew-out was achieved that could go to production with customer approval. Due to the extremely high costs of digitizing equipment most digitizing was done by specialty digitizing companies. At this time, some digitizing companies might have several artists, several digitizers, several editors and several people just for making sew-out samples. With today's software advances one digitizer is usually responsible for the entire digitizing process from artwork to digitizing to editing to sample sew outs. Sometimes even the machine operator is responsible for the companies digitizing which was unheard of years ago.
At the very beginning of the commercial digitizing era in the 1970s and very early 1980s, most all embroidery digitizing was sent directly to the embroidery machine manufactures (Japan, etc) and was very expensive to have done with long wait times as long as weeks. Due to high demand digitizing companies started appearing in the USA. A complete digitizing station with software, tablet, etc at one time was as much as $100,000. Therefore there were only a few digitizing companies around the USA employing many artists, digitizers, etc. As prices of digitizing equipment slowly dropped, many embroidery companies began doing their digitizing in-house.
Today, most all digitizing is done on-screen. On-screen digitizing has since replaced the tablet. Digitizers can now just load their images on screen and zoom in and out as needed. They no longer need their artistic counterpart to enlarge and redraw the logo. Software prices have since drastically dropped and a lot of digitizing software is illegally pirated. Unfortunately since then there has been a huge increase in poor quality embroidery sew-outs. Digitizing is an art form. Before a digitizer begins to digitize a logo, they must plan the entire design out in their heads. Much like a game of chess, the digitizer much know exactly where they want to start embroidery and where they want to end. They must plan how to control the movement of the machine to create the least amount of stitches to have the machine embroidery at optimal speeds. This is referred to as Production Digitizing and is more of an old art form usually only practiced by digitizers who have been digitizing for a long time.
Automatic and Manual Digitizing
Some embroidery software packages have Automatic Digitizing features. Automatic Digitizing is the act of taking a computer graphic image and converting it to stitches automatically. Traditionally the stitches are created manually on the computer software, plotting each point in the same direction or same steps that the digitizer would want the machine to run. Automatic digitizing software will automatically plot all the points by vectoring the image. What this means is that the automatic digitizing software will look at the graphic and attempt to find common shapes such as boxes, rectangles, and curves. For example, the letter T generally is made of 2 rectangles. One rectangle goes up and down and another one goes to the left and right. Automatic digitizing software will attempt to find these shapes and then process them into stitches. A digitizer who is manually digitizing an image will do the same thing. As humans we can easily recognize these basic shapes. If a digitizer is manually digitizing an image, they will tell the software where all these points are at by manually plotting all the points. For example, a box, square or rectangle has 4 points one in each corner. Once these basic shapes are plotted or 'digitized', the software can fill them in with stitches.
Automatic digitizing makes its best attempt to finding these shapes in images and then plotting the points. However automatic digitizing software programs generally are not advanced enough to find missing shapes that we as humans can naturally see. For example, cursive writing is written in a way that is constantly flowing when being written even though the lines cross each other. We as humans can see the curves and imagine how the artist wrote the cursive script. However most automatic digitizing software does not have the artificial intelligence to see this the way we do. Most automatic digitizing software also does not produce production embroidery files. This means, the automatic digitizing software will make its best attempt at optimizing points but, almost always an embroidery file created automatically will have a very large percentage more stitches than a file created by a good manual human digitizer. These extra stitches means the machine will take longer to embroidery which ends up lowering profits.
Automatic digitizing also does not do any kind of artwork modifications. When using automatic digitizing software, the artwork must be as clean and as 'embroidery ready' as possible. Anything too small for embroidery will need to be enlarged or removed with a graphics program before processing through the automatic digitizing software. Because automatic digitizing software does not enlarge or remove sections too small for embroidery, the final embroidery product might have many areas with large blobs of stitches. Sometimes the time needed to clean the artwork and then edit the final automatic produced file takes longer than it would just to digitize the design from scratch manually.
Automatic digitizing might work for some designs but the majority of artwork provided by end customers is usually never good enough for automatic digitizing software. It is generally always recommend to have designs manually digitized by a professional digitizer who has been digitizing for a long time and understands Production Embroidery. Automatic digitizing is usually just a 'bells-and-whistles' tool used by embroidery software or embroidery machine salespeople.
Its highly recommended that a legitimate embroidery company find or outsource their digitizing work to a professional with many years of digitizing experience or higher someone with graphic arts skills and train them to become a production embroidery digitizer. The final embroidery digitized file can possibly make or break an embroidery company.
Most any embroidery machine that is in tune will embroider a good quality digitized file without problems. However, even the best embroidery machine in the world will struggle with poor quality digitized files.
Production Digitizing
Production Digitizing is the process of digitizing an embroidery design in a way that will optimize embroidery operations. What this means, is that the digitizer will study a logo for a few minutes before digitizing it. They will determine the optimal way to digitize the logo so that when it is embroidering it takes the shortest routes between points, and the least amount of trims and color changes. The embroidery design should then have fewer stitches and embroider as quickly as possible, allowing the embroidery machine operator to get more garments embroidered in less time.
When an embroidery machine starts embroidering, it takes a few seconds to go from 0 stitches per minute to whatever speed the machine is set to. It takes approximate 6 seconds for a machine to trim a stitch from the time it has to slow down, cut, and then start back up till it gets to the max set velocity. It also takes a few more seconds to do a color change. An embroidery design with no trimmers will embroidery much faster than the exact same logo with the exact amount of stitches but with many trims. A good digitizer will find the closest points between one point and the next so that the stitch between them is so small, it will probably not be visible to the naked eye and therefore not need a trim command.
Production Embroidery Digitizing was very big in the 1980s and 1990s but with the advent of new software programs and with the low cost to get into digitizing, most digitizer do not produce production embroidery designs. It is now very easy for anyone to become a digitizer and therefore quality suffers. The difference between a good digitizer and a bad digitizer is usually if they can produce production embroidery or not. Because most embroidery is done over and over its best to have the design digitized for production embroidery to cut back on time to embroider and thread breaks.
Unfortunately with most digitizing done outside the USA, it is hard to find digitizers who digitize for production embroidery. It is usually recommend to test out about 5 different digitizers to see which one can digitize the same design with less thread breaks, less trims, less stitches and overall the digitizers who digitize designs that embroidery the quickest. In the long run a good production digitizer can make or break an embroidery company.
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The Jets and Patriots are now both 8-2, with New York first in the AFC East thanks to their Week 2 defeat of New England. The two teams meet again Monday night in Week 13, in Foxboro.
Elsewhere around the AFC East, the Dolphins were shutout by the Chicago Bears Thursday night, 16-0, dropping their record to 5-5. On Sunday, the Buffalo Bills spotted the Cincinnati Bengals a 21-point lead before storming back with 35 second-half points to win easily, 49-31. After eight straight losses to begin the season, the Bills have now won two in a row.
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IBM Champions for Power Systems Felipe Besa, Torbjorn Appehl and Dmitry Mironov share how their organizations overcome compliance challenges.
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Security-related regulations can sometimes be viewed as a drag on company resources, with CEOs, CIOs and IT departments having to dedicating valuable time to ensure strict compliance. But not having these regulations would lead to a nightmarish landscape of security, privacy and operational disintegration—an implosion of basic data governance.
Indeed, regulations can be beneficial to businesses that take them seriously. Compliance is almost like a Good Housekeeping seal of approval, proving to customers and business partners that companies aren't taking any chances with their data. And from a bottom-line perspective, compliance can help organizations avoid substantial fines should a security breach occur.
The hows of compliance can sometimes be mysterious, especially if a company doesn't have the proper tools in place to assist with and automate much of the compliance process. That's why IBM has created solutions such as IBM PowerSC* security and compliance and IBM PowerVC* virtualization that can remove much of the complexity of becoming and remaining compliant to the alphabet soup of regulations (some of which are described here) currently being enforced.
To help remove compliance hesitation due to compliance confusion, we spoke with two IBM Power Systems* clients and an IT-services provider who've gone through the process. Although their journeys to compliance may not exactly mirror those of others, they're proof that regulation compliance doesn't have to become a dreaded chore.
Compliance and the Insurance Industry
I work for a large insurance company. We use the IBM Power Systems platform to support our core SAP systems, and in an ongoing effort to improve support for our business, we've always aimed to maximize the use of all available resources. To achieve this goal, we've done an in-depth analysis of our processes, tools and competencies.
We started from the assumption that we needed to implement the best practices defined by manufacturers of the solutions that we use to support our IT operations, but we also needed a method to apply the necessary changes and control compliance. When we first began, we didn't have all of the tools we needed—so guess what we did? Yes, we started using spreadsheets. Obviously, this wasn't the best way to accomplish what we wanted; it was time consuming and subject to errors.
Thanks to IBM's commitment to deliver innovative solutions to its clients, we were happily surprised by two great new tools: IBM PowerSC security and compliance and IBM PowerVC virtualization and cloud manager. With the help of IBM Systems Lab Services, we were able to overcome the following challenges: centralized management and proactive monitoring, best-practices adoption, deployment-standardization improvements, simplification and acceleration of the build process, and the implementation of security and compliance requirements.
We've modified our build process by defining a Standard Operating Environment (SOE) with all necessary adjustments to our use cases, as well as automation through PowerVC virtualization. The images we use today are secure by default, and to achieve this, we used IBM PowerSC security and compliance to build, test and apply a custom profile to meet our security requirements. Yes, we used spreadsheets for control, but now we use the IBM PowerSC GUI as our single pane of glass for IBM Power Systems platform security.
In our cloud adoption, we're seeing the transformation of our IT environment into something increasingly hybrid, and to reduce risks even more, we decided to take a step forward and now we are implementing CIS controls to increase cyberdefense. To achieve this, we're evaluating the possibility of using PowerSC to automate the application of CIS benchmarks—configuration guidelines to safeguard systems against cyberthreats.
Being in compliance can be a transient state, and we've realized we have to know why our systems are compliant and why they aren't. And now we can!
Felipe Bessa is an IBM Champion for Power Systems and IT specialist with a leading South American insurer.
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I'd say the overall maturity level involving security in the Nordic and Europe in general is still quite low. But new regulations such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act—in combination with several of security-related scandals—are now forcing companies to think about why they store data, where they store it and who can access it.
When it comes to IBM i, most things are still on a very basic level—like using the QAUDJRN security audit journal—but the interest surrounding solutions such as PowerVC virtualization is growing rapidly as the demands for securing data are growing and the complexity of meeting those demands increases. For example, auditing everything on a system is easy, but to find out all the evil things an employee may have done in the system eight to 14 months ago is very difficult if you're not using the proper tools.
Also, it's still too easy to fool auditors—"Are you logging everything?" As someone said during the IBM Technical University in Rome last October, "Torbjörn, if auditors knew what we could do to a system, we would all be in prison." The good thing is, if you have full control of your data, you'll have an easy journey, no matter which regulation you're dealing with.
Torbjörn Appehl is a compliance assurance partner for CGI Sweden.
Compliance Doesn't Need to be Complex
I like compliance audits—and I'm not even preparing for their passage. Sound strange? Let me explain. I work for a large financial institution that has to comply with a lot of requirements, both local and international, like Basel III, GDPR, PCI DSS, etc.
During dialogues with auditors, I often surprise them with the standard features of AIX*. For example, I was once asked which monitoring events would arise if I changed the file protected by the integrity control system, and they were very surprised when I showed that it was technically impossible. Trusted Environment technology truly ensures system integrity without any compromise. The demonstration of role-based access control (RBAC) opportunities caused another respectful nod. I emphasize that these aren't part of a special enhanced version of AIX, but standard features.
"IT security and compliance are complex processes. Use modern technologies, read books, learn best practices and you'll succeed."—Dmitry Mironov, IBM Champion for Power Systems and Power Systems expert with a large Russian financial institution
If you have many instances of the OS and need to ensure full control of their compliance, the best way is to use additional software such as IBM PowerSC. Usually, the auditors have no further questions after demonstrating this.
But I want to warn readers about two common mistakes: First, while you may have powerful and flexible tools, they require fine-tuning, testing and maintenance.There's no security out of the box.
Second, remember my first statement, that I'm not preparing for audits. This is because ensuring compliance isn't a test for which you can quickly prepare, pass and forget until next year. This is an ongoing process, starting from planning and then going through the entire life cycle. The system should be always ready. Remember this and explain it to your colleagues.
Here's an example of how I work with compliance standards. I carefully read the document and mark the requirements. Then I align them with the IT platform settings. This is the basis for the system configuration policy. I regularly carry out manual policy checks—not relying just on automated tools. Of course, when a standard is updated, you'll have to run the whole cycle again—but it's worth it.
IT security and compliance are complex processes. Use modern technologies, read books, learn best practices and you'll succeed.
Dmitry Mironov is an IBM Champion for Power Systems and a Power Systems expert with a large Russian financial institution. Felipe Bessa is an IBM Champion for Power Systems and IT specialist with a leading South American insurer. Torbjörn Appehl is a compliance assurance partner for CGI Sweden.
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I'm a very proud parent. Several of my children were in the marching band and my son played junior varsity football, so my wife and I spent many Friday nights listening to the band and cheering on the Bremerton High School Knights — our home team just across the Puget Sound from Seattle.
As proud as we are, I recognize those high school activities aren't about me or the other adults, or even the teachers and coaches. The games are for the kids — the players on the field, the band and the students in the stands. And it's those kids who have been largely left out of the conversation about the Supreme Court case Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which has hung over our community for more than six years.
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I'm disappointed, though not terribly surprised, that the court found Monday that it was OK for the team's former coach, Joseph Kennedy, to hold public prayers with student players on the 50-yard line after football games. In their 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the justices undermined the religious freedom of public school students in favor of those of their adult coach. I'm very concerned that public school teachers and coaches now won't know where the line is between their private prayers and public religious displays that students will feel pressured to join.
I witnessed the team gatherings Kennedy led many times and assumed they were traditional postgame pep talks; the coach would stride to the school logo at center field and hold up a pair of helmets while the players would encircle him and take a knee. From the stands, I couldn't hear what he was saying, but I assumed he was celebrating a game well played or motivating the players to come back stronger for the next game.
It wasn't until 2015 that I, along with most of the community (and the rest of the country, once he started holding news conferences), learned that Kennedy often included Christian prayers in those postgame team meetings. I've known Kennedy for a long time; we worked together in the local shipyard for nearly 15 years, and he coached my son for a season. We were friendly, and I respected his work with kids in the football program.
But he crossed a line when he started praying with students — with other people's children.
Teenagers see coaches as authority figures who determine playing time and influence how well they interact with the rest of their teammates, their friends. When Kennedy met with the entire team on the field immediately following games, with the community watching, it would have been incredibly hard for a teenager, any teenager, to refuse to participate, even if Kennedy's prayers conflicted with the student's personal religious beliefs. I feel for any kids, especially religious minorities or nonreligious kids, who participated because they thought it was the only way to be a good teammate, to impress their coach and to be included as part of the team.
It's not the job of coaches or teachers to lead schoolchildren in prayer or coerce them, whether explicitly or implicitly, to join in religious activities. Students and their families, not public school employees, get to decide their religious practices and beliefs. Religious indoctrination is not the instruction that I or the parents I know want the public school involved in.
I wish I'd known sooner that Kennedy was praying with students during those postgame pep talks. I would have spoken up because I — like most of the Bremerton parents I've talked with — know it's wrong for a public school coach to abuse his position of authority in that way. I'm speaking up now, in part by having joined a friend-of-the-court brief with other community members that told the Supreme Court ahead of its decision that the Bremerton School District did the right thing to protect students' religious freedom.
The court, however, has failed in that protection. Its ruling Monday undermines the constitutional promise of church-state separation and long-established law that public school coaches like Kennedy and public school teachers (including my daughter who now teaches middle school) cannot lead students in prayer.
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Like many parents who send their children to public schools, I trusted Bremerton to provide my four kids with a quality, secular education that was inclusive and welcoming to all students, regardless of their religious beliefs. I'm proud that Bremerton has tried to do that. It is a shame that the court did not respect and maintain established protections for the next generation of students, which may soon include my grandchildren, so they can play freely and cheer on the Bremerton Knights without feeling like they have to pray to participate.
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If you have considered one of these, call your plan to see if it covers gym memberships or health programs. The easiest reply is NO, you don't NEED a gym membership. The only thing you have to have a profitable wholesome lifestyle is consistency. Your workouts should happen the place you're motivated to consistently exercise in a protected and efficient method. Another interesting distinction between a sports activities membership and a fitness center is that sports activities clubs attract people with comparable interests and values. Joining a group or a league is a good way of assembly people with similar likes, which could in flip create personal and even enterprise relationships, making a sports membership a great place to do networking.
National bodily activity tips in Canada advocate 60 minutes of average- to vigorous-depth every day exercise for teenagers to achieve health benefits. Remember, too, that good well being does not come from being good in talent-associated bodily fitness. It comes from doing activities designed to improve your health-related physical health, and it may be loved each by great athletes and by people who contemplate themselves poor athletes. She can most likely run a protracted distance with out tiring; thus she has good health in no less than one space of health-associated bodily health. Running is a superb type of physical exercise, however being a runner would not assure health in all parts of well being-associated bodily health. Like the runner, you may be fitter in some components of fitness than in others. The feature named The Six Parts of Health-Related Fitness describes every half and reveals an instance.
Fitness is the flexibility to carry out particular tasks nicely. The fitness needed to be an elite marathon runner is much different from the fitness needed to be an NFL linemen. Essentially many variations are current between the two however lots is open to discussion. Your main aim must be to keep high levels of fitness which should help end in a wholesome lifestyle together with sound nutrition.
Building bone, muscle and joint strength is necessary for kids. Sports can help people of all ages preserve and improve the health of their heart, lungs and blood vessels. Physical activity can considerably cut back the danger of coronary illness and stroke. According to the British Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, approximately 40 p.c of deaths related to coronary heart disease are associated to inadequate bodily exercise, weight problems, stress and raised blood stress. Sports may help with all of these physical issues, decreasing the chance of coronary disease by about 50 p.c. Each of the four weeks may even include a pay-it-ahead exercise to spread help and kindness all through your group. Open gymfor students to expertise new sports and fitness activities.


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Imagine your bills were taken care of, and there was a steady stream of income arriving in your bank account each month. You'd be untethered from a work-centric existence. That feeling you can almost taste- it's financial freedom.
For those who love to travel, they may feel most alive when experiencing new sights, cultures and people. Slow travel is a way to experience locations in a deeper way than a vacation, settling in a place for weeks or months, shopping local markets and chatting with the neighbors. This is the kind of dream financial freedom can provide.
In my twenties, I visited Australia for five weeks with my best friend, volunteering on local projects and traveling up the coast with a bus-load of college students. The combination of friendly people and lovely accents was so charming, I didn't want to leave when it was over. I still think about the beautiful places I saw, and how fun it would be to live on the Gold Coast for a while, exploring by day, and enjoying pub life by evening.
When my husband and I got married, a friend of his traveled from Hamburg, Germany to attend our wedding. She now has a child who's close in age to ours. Bob and I talk about taking a trip to visit her and her family, but we haven't yet squeezed it in between our own family vacations and conferences. What would it be like to be financially free, and spend a few months or years living in Hamburg? While my husband melded into the local music community, I could develop friendships and learn some of the language with my son.
These are the kinds of experiences I dream of; they are the stuff of a well-planned retirement. But what if you could pull this off before the age of 65? As a physician, you can achieve financial freedom if you plan for it.
When financial gurus and investors talk about the drive it takes to learn the principles of personal finance and use them to achieve financial freedom, they talk about the importance of knowing your "why." Having a clear purpose allows you to sustain the drive it takes to use these strategies over time to reach your loftiest goals, including financial independence. When a family member or onlooker asks, "Why take the risk associated with that investment?" or "Why make extra work for yourself becoming a landlord?," knowing what motivates you keeps these doubts from knocking you off course.
When I started making six figures, I realized what a huge responsibility it was to care for this new income. I had a six figure student loan balance at the time, and was contemplating marriage. A few years later, we are married with a child. As the family breadwinner, my financial goals center around taking care of our needs while saving for our future. I say my goals, because I am the driving force in this arena. While my husband advocates saving, and is a relatively frugal fellow, I'm the one who is more interested in our long term investing strategy.
Like many doctors, my first encounter with a financial advisor (FA) resulted in the purchase of an expensive life insurance policy. This policy is a type of whole life insurance, pitched as a way to minimize tax burden in retirement. This type of investment is also notorious for charging hefty fees, and making its purveyors a large commission. Like buying a luxury SUV to put money in, I pay large fees each month for the privilege of investing post tax dollars in various exchange traded funds (ETFs) within the policy.
I won't delve further into the details of this insurance product, but after an independent analysis by an actuary, I decided to keep the policy rather than cashing it out and cutting my losses. To me, its benefits are largely behavioral. Even in my financial naivete years ago, I knew there'd be a benefit to forcing ourselves to save a large portion of my pay every month. It has been a way to artificially constrain our budget. As a result, the cash value has grown to a significant sum. If I pass on, my family will benefit from the life insurance component.
In part because of this misadventure with a financial advisor (a fiduciary, the kind you are meant to be able to trust), learning about personal finance has become a hobby. I realize that unlike our taxes, we can't really outsource our financial plan to a professional. The degree of trust needed is too great. As my favorite financial bloggers say, "No one will care for your money like you do."
Also, have you seen how expensive a FA's advice is? If you don't understand what they are doing for you, it's hard to gauge whether they are doing a good job or not. This puts you in a really vulnerable position. The alternative to outsourcing money management is to do it yourself. A straightforward approach is outlined and advocated for in The Simple Path To Wealth, one of my favorite books on the subject.
Physicians are busy, and there are a lot of demands on our time. But a self-directed financial education should be a priority too. There are abundant books, blogs, and podcasts for every level of sophistication. Some of my favorites can be found here. Many niches exist within the field of personal finance, so there is a resonant voice out there for everyone. Some resources focus on the technical aspects of financial planning, like types of tax advantaged accounts or travel hacking, while others focus on the psychology of spending and saving.
What financial bloggers have taught me is that my potential is limitless. People with fewer resources than me have found financial freedom, and are living their dream lives in their thirties and forties, not their sixties.
Chasing financial freedom takes extra time and effort beyond my normal working hours. I'm experimenting with monetizing this blog, in case my next post goes viral. And I've begun real estate investing, recently purchasing a rental property in my town. The process I'm learning will allow me to acquire a property overtime, while my tenants pay the mortgage. In this way, I'm building wealth, while my tax bill is decreased by deductions like depreciation and expenses. Some people build their nest egg slowly, while I prefer to take a more aggressive tack.
I like learning about how other people spend money with intention. In this way, they can enjoy it without guilt, while getting the most bang for their buck. For example, many doctor moms benefit from extra help around the house, hiring someone to wash and fold the laundry or run errands. On the other hand, we are not car people, so when a friend shows off her new BMW, I can admire it without considering one for myself. One day the money saved will fund an amazing adventure, maybe an RV trip to Glacier National Park, or a large ski-trip with a slope side nanny. For now, the money saved gives us a cushion, and peace of mind.
Aside from learning to spend intentionally, I want to diversify our income and setup passive income streams. Finding financial freedom is like solving puzzle, but with multiple possible solutions. I'm building a money machine so one day, I can stop trading time for money.
The path can be riddled with failures, even if you're doing it right. In this recording, I share some of my gaffes with you.
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Opening and Operating a Home Business in New York City
More than 8.3 million people live in New York City, according to the United States Census Bureau's 2019 estimate. It is also one of the most expensive cities in the nation. Roughly 67% of the residents of New York City are renters, paying an average of $3,436 per month when all five boroughs are included. A single-family home had a median price of $571,000 in January 2020, and condos and co-ops went for only slightly less. With so many people crowded into such an expensive area, it is no wonder that many people in New York City are looking for ways to earn more money. However, some people believe that it is impossible to operate a home-based business in New York City. Although there are numerous restrictions, statutes, and conditions that could apply, it is not illegal to run a business from your home. You just need to make sure that you handle even the little details correctly.
Check the Zoning Laws
Once upon a time, live/work spaces were relatively common in NYC. For more than a century, artists were especially drawn to the concept of having their studios only steps away from their bedrooms. Writers, composers, photographers, and a host of other creative types followed suit. However, by the 1970s, new ordinances, the skyrocketing price of real estate, and the gentrification of some of the more affordable neighborhoods contributed to the demise of the concept as it once was. Under current NYC regulations, properties tend to be commercial or residential, and there is little leeway to combine the two. That means that if you own or rent a residence in New York City, it is a virtual certainty that your domicile is zoned as a residential property. If so, you can still operate a business from your home, but you will need to comply with all zoning regulations.
NYC Regulations for Home-Based Businesses
New York City has a list of regulations that you must comply with if you want to operate a business from your home.
1. The maximum square footage that your home office or business can occupy is the lesser of 500 square feet or 25% of the residence's total area. To illustrate, if your apartment has 1,000 square feet of total space, your business cannot occupy more than 250 square feet, while a small apartment with a total area of 600 square feet could not contain a home office larger than 150 square feet. If your condo has 3,000 square feet, your business cannot occupy more than 500 square feet, which is substantially less than 25%.
2. The residence must be used primarily as a home. Your business must clearly be incidental to your use of the property as a home.
3. The person who owns and operates the business must live in the residence. The business is not allowed to employ more than one person who does not reside in the home.
4. The type of business cannot be one of those listed by the New York City Zoning Code as prohibited home businesses.
Businesses That Cannot Be Operated From a Home
Under the city's zoning code, the following businesses cannot be operated from a home office or as a home-based business.
• Advertising agencies
• Barbershops
• Beauty parlors
• Kennels or stables
• Businesses offering electrolysis, depilatory, and similar services
• Insurance offices
• Interior decorators' workshops or offices
• Pharmacies
• Real estate offices
• Ophthalmic dispensaries
• Stockbroker offices
• Veterinarian services
Other Municipal Restrictions
If you operate a home-based business in NYC, there are a few other things that you cannot do.
1. Your business cannot produce any objectionable effects. These include offensive noise, heat, smoke, humidity, dust and other particulates, glare, or offensive odors.
2. You are not allowed to offer your products for sale in your building's lobby, courtyard, or hallway. You are also forbidden from offering them for sale in your home's driveway or yard. In fact, your goods cannot be visible from the exterior of your home or apartment, so forget about window displays.
3. You cannot store products outside of your home or accessory space.
4. Any exterior renovations must be consistent with what is normal for residential properties. You are also forbidden from making renovations that might change the character of your residential neighborhood.
5. If you have a single-family home that lies in a district zoned R1 or R2, the only type of sign or nameplate allowed is one connected with your profession.
6. No signs that can be seen from the exterior are allowed for condos, apartments, multifamily homes, and other properties that are not within the R1 or R2 districts.
Register Properly
The first thing you need to do is choose a legal structure for your business. By default, your business will be a sole proprietorship, but this leaves you personally responsible for any debts that your business incurs. Research the different types to decide what is best for you. With this chore out of the way, you can move forward.
• Register your new business. Sole proprietorships and general partnerships must register with the county clerk. Limited partnerships, LLCs, and corporations must register with New York State.
• Obtain a Federal Employer Identification Number, also known as a Federal Tax ID Number. Sole proprietors can often use their Social Security Number instead.
• Register with the NYS Department of Taxation and Finance to obtain your sales tax permit.
• Research the types and limits of insurance coverage you will need. You should obtain liability coverage, and you may need to obtain workers' comp insurance. Check your renter's or homeowner's policy to make sure that your business equipment and products will be covered; in many cases, they will not be, so you will need a rider or a separate policy.
• Research your business idea to see what other types of regulations might apply. For example, there are special regulations for operating a child care business from home, and there are a couple of additional hoops you will need to jump through if you plan to launch a food preparation business from your home kitchen.
Home-Based Business Ideas for New Yorkers
New York City has been the launching pad for numerous businesses that started small before becoming household names. Your choices are virtually unlimited, but here are a few ideas that might spark your imagination.
1. Hot, home-cooked food can be an enticing treat for people who cannot take an extended lunch break to visit a packed restaurant. You could offer a service where they subscribe to get your homemade food delivered to them.
2. If you have skills, turn them into a business. Web design, content writing, graphic design, editing, animation, and similar skills are ideally suited for a home-based business.
3. New York City is considered by many to be the most linguistically diverse metropolitan area in the world. Although no precise count exists, experts state that more than 600 languages are spoken in the NYC metropolitan area. This means that translators are always needed for verbal and written translations. If you are fluent in more than one language, you could turn your linguistic skills into cash, especially if you are fluent in Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, French Creole, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, or Yiddish.
4. New Yorkers love their dogs, and their dogs love the outdoors. However, many people have a difficult time taking their pets out for exercise. You could start a business to walk their dogs for them.
5. Some people can spend hours shopping every day, but others find going to the grocery store to be a major challenge. As a personal shopper, you could find yourself selecting and delivering everything from designer clothing to pantry staples.
Other possibilities include commercial and residential cleaning services, online tutoring, floral delivery service, dry cleaning pickup and delivery services, and minor home repair services.
Read Your Lease, Rental Agreement, or Homeowner Association Policies Carefully
In addition to the municipal codes, you need to make sure that you do not run afoul of your HOA, property management company, or landlord, especially if you live in a gated community or controlled-access building and plan to have customers or clients call on you. You should also review any clauses regarding deliveries to your NYC home business address. If the lobby of your building is filled with boxes of products for your business, you could face a problem with your manager. Having a virtual business address service accept your parcels can be one way to avoid the issue. After you are notified that a package has been received, you can pick it up or arrange to have it forwarded to you. Lastly, although this is not an official policy, it is just good business to make sure that you do not cause your neighbors any problems that you can avoid. Your neighbors are likely to be unhappy if they are awakened at the crack of dawn by your customers banging on your door or struggling down the hallway with their orders. Try to limit your activities to normal business hours to help keep peace in your building or neighborhood.


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Economics Valuation of Flood Mitigation Services Provided by Tropical Forests in Malaysia
Pattanayak, Subhrendu
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Forests are provider of many ecosystem services which benefits a wide group of people. But the lack of markets to capture payments for these services meant that forest owners chose to convert their assets to provide marketable goods for a smaller group. Payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes was developed specifically to ensure that forest owners can receive payments in return for providing ecosystem services. One such service provided by forests is flood mitigation and valuing this service has always been challenging due to the lack of suitable data. This study has the unique opportunity to fill in this knowledge gap by using a 20-year flood data from Malaysia. The purpose of this study is thus to measure the economic benefits derived from flood mitigation services by increasing forest cover by 10%. The conceptual approach is the Freeman three-stage framework and the main techniques employed are regression analysis and benefits transfer. In the first stage, it was found that the 10% increase in forest cover leads to a reduction in number of days flooded by 1.552 days for every flood in West Coast Malaysia. In the second stage, we found that one lesser day of flood decreases the number of evacuees by about 10.4% and number of deaths by about 3.62%. These two results are combined to show that a 10% increase in forest cover reduces the number of evacuees and deaths by 16.1% and 5.61% respectively. Valuation of these benefits is undertaken in the third stage using benefits transfer where it was calculated that the flood mitigation benefits provided by 10% increase forest cover is about 3.5 million ringgit over 20 years on West Coast Malaysia. This figure not only provide a good starting point for implementing a PES scheme but is also useful for conducting a cost-benefit analysis of different flood mitigation policies. However, it should be highlighted that this value is an understatement of the actual benefits as there are many other prominent averted damages not included.
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CitationTan-Soo, Jie-Sheng (2010). Economics Valuation of Flood Mitigation Services Provided by Tropical Forests in Malaysia. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/2209.
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Abdomen ultrasounds use high frequency sound waves to visualize and assess various abdominal organs, including the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidneys, aorta, inferior vena cava, and spleen. Please inform the sonographer performing your exam if you've had abdominal surgery or the removal of your gallbladder, spleen, or kidney.
We do our best to have our radiologists interpret the information and forward the results to your doctor by the next business day.
This exam is covered under the Alberta and Saskatchewan Health Care Plans.
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Working Group Members
2021 - CBKT Webinar: Accelerating CARICOM engagement in the CIPM MRA
BIPM contact
Bureau international des poids et mesures
The BIPM is organizing a webinar on the CIPM MRA for the countries of CARICOM (Associate Economy of the CGPM). The webinar will support CARICOM NMIs in their engagement in the CIPM MRA.
The programme of the webinar will cover international aspects of metrology and specifically the engagement 'tools' in the CIPM MRA and it will also cover a regionally specific perspective.
Programme highlights:
DAY 1: Role of metrology
- Metrology and Global QI
- Metrological traceability
- Role of NMIs
- Available mechanisms for providing metrological traceability
- National and Regional aspects (CARICOM experience)
- SIM + International aspects of metrology
- Q/A + discussions
DAY 2: CIPM MRA is a secure technical foundation
- CIPM MRA overview
- Assuring data quality in the CIPM MRA (requirements)
- Case study
- Q/A + discussions
DAY 3: KCDB 2.0 technical exchanges
- KCDB environment
- KCDB User account
- KCDB CMC writing platform
- KCDB Search facilities
- KCDB Statistics
- Q/A + discussions
Target audience
Those who oversee and manage the metrological infrastructure in their country; staff of NMIs who submit CMCs; CMCs reviewers; and those staff who participate and pilot comparisons.
Dates and time
- Date: 12-14 January 2021.
- Time: 16:00 - 18:00 CET (UTC +1)
- Duration of sessions: 2 hours each day
Registration details will be circulated by the CROSQ Secretariat.


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On May 23rd, Fox will release the Director's Cut of the Orlando Bloom film Kingdom of Heaven on May 23rd. This 4-disc set will be presented in a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with both English DTS & Dolby Digital 5.1 audio tracks. Extras will include an Introduction by Ridley Scott, an Audio Commentary (with Ridley Scott and crew), a multi-part Documentary entitled Path to Redemption (Part I: Good Intentions, Part II: Faith and Courage, Part III: The Pilgrimage Begins, Part IV: Into …he Promised Land, Part V: The Burning Bush and Part VI: Sins and Absolution), a "Tripoli" Overview & Gallery, a first draft screenplay by William Monahan, Screen Tests & Cast Rehearsals, three featurettes ("Costume & Weapon Design," "Creative Accuracy: The Scholars Speak," & "Unholy War: Mounting The Siege"), Multiple Galleries (location scouting, production design, conceptual art, and costume), Storyboard Comparisons, Deleted & Alternate Scenes, Trailers, and more.
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)
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