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Australians Cut Off from Amazon's US Website Thanks to New Tax Hike
Australians won't be able to purchase goods from Amazon's international websites after July 1 thanks to a sales tax on overseas purchases, leaving room for competitors to take advantage of Amazon's smaller presence in the country.
Australia will implement a 10 percent Goods and Services Tax on online overseas purchases under $1,000 AUD, or about $756 USD. The GST currently applies to items sold overseas for over $1,000 AUD.
Amazon is leaving its Australian customers without access to any of its other websites except for the much smaller Australian website, which is about one-tenth the size of the U.S. website, according to Reuters.
"While we regret any inconvenience this may cause customers, we have had to assess the workability of the legislation as a global business with multiple international sites," an Amazon spokesman said.
The $500 million to $700 million AUD ($376 million to $527 million USD) that Australians spent on all Amazon websites represented about 10 percent of all online overseas spending, Australian Financial Review reported Thursday.
Amazon's competitor eBay said it will not follow in Amazon's footsteps.
"eBay customers love the fact that we have a huge selection of over one billion listings across eBay's global marketplaces so we are working on a solution that enables Aussie buyers to continue to shop from all eBay sites, while also capturing the required GST," a spokeswoman said.
"eBay's GST solution will allow us to collect GST in any currency, from any seller, from any eBay site. It also allows imports to Australia to continue without any structural barriers, redirects or blocks to the buyer experience," the spokewoman added. "This requires major changes to eBay's global systems and we are working to have these ready by July 1."
The online auction site announced on Tuesday it's launching eBay Plus, a subscription-based service in Australia that offers free country-wide shipping and returns.
"We know our customers love the value and convenience of online shopping but our research shows the cost of delivery can stack up over time," Tim MacKinnon, managing director of eBay Australia & New Zealand, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Alibaba, a Chinese-based Amazon competitor, said it is preparing to implement the GST, though it remains critical of the tax system.
"The implementation of this tax is difficult and requires many changes to Alibaba's systems," a spokesman said.
Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison called out against Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos.
"The second-biggest company in the world, run by the richest man in the world, shouldn't get a leave pass from paying tax in Australia," Morrison told Reuters in an email on Thursday.
"If multinationals aren't forced to pay their fair share of tax, they will have a competitive advantage over retailers here in Australia, on our own main streets and in our shopping centers," he added.
Ed Husic, the Australian Labor Party's digital economy spokesman, said Australian customers will feel ripped off by the GST.
"For a lot of consumers who like to be able to hop on to other platforms in other countries, to test out prices or be able to buy stuff they can't get there here, they will feel really ripped off," he said. "Consumers who might have been able to get something they wanted, that they couldn't get in Australia, have now had the door shut on them."
Morrison lashed out against Australia's Labor Party for its criticism of the GST, saying he is "disappointed, but not surprised, the Labor Party has once again chosen to side with the big multinationals to try and protect them from paying their fair share of tax in Australia."
Husic said that "the government could easily have sat down and tried to work this out. They didn't. They have no one to blame but themselves."
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"If you want something done right, do it yourself," the saying goes, and that's what Zero is going to do. Instead of waiting for the rest of the industry to catch on to the potential of electric motorcycle racing, it's going to run a national-level race at this winter's The One Moto Show, in Portland, Oregon on February 8.
Or at least, Zero is calling it a national level race, billing it the "first ever Electric National" race in the USA. So far, there's been no sign of an actual sanctioning body, though. Far as we can see, it's going to be a flat track-style event run with the other classes at The One Pro flat track races at Portland's Veterans Memorial Coliseum. There's very little information at The One's page, simply that it's an all-electric race, requires a 19-inch front wheel, they're requiring expert-level riders, and entry is free upon approval.
Zero's Facebook page says "The first ever Electric National, presented by Zero Motorcycles, is happening at this year's The One Motorcycle Show races. National level riders on all electric motorcycles and a stacked gate of top level racers. Cash money for a prize and the glory of being the 1st ever Electric National! See you there on February 8th."
It will be very interesting to see which manufacturers and riders show up. North America just hasn't taken to electric motorcycle racing, even though companies like now-defunct Alta have produced machines that would have easily competed with their gasoline-powered counterparts in events that suited their limitations. Maybe Zero will finally get some momentum behind this scene.

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By Shantanu Kaushik
Cyberattacks cripple various enterprises and businesses regularly. Some trades and industries face malicious attempts more than others, but the extent of the damage for any industry can be substantial. Security is a concern for organizations since operational integrity is what keeps a business afloat. Cloud-native has helped organizations implement zero-trust security measures with hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures. The need for securing data while at rest and in transit requires an added protection layer.
Data Encryption is essential to protect sensitive and private data. You can use multiple algorithms to encrypt data for protection, such as DES, AES, and RSA. Cloud systems can implement automatic data encryption and decryption based on data transmission demands and data sensitivity.
After shifting to the cloud, organizations used cloud storage to store large files and databases. Storage solutions, such as Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS), provide unlimited storage and identity-based authentication using Alibaba Cloud RAM. The deep integration offered by Alibaba Cloud provides seamless user access.
Information and data security are a primary concern for organizations. Gartner predicted, "The global information security market is forecast to grow at a five-year CAGR of 8.5% to reach $170.4 billion in 2022. Technology product managers will see new spending driven by regulations and increased awareness as organizations' needs evolve to address more complex threats."
In this article, we will explain Alibaba Cloud Data Encryption Service and its usage scenarios.
Alibaba Cloud Data Encryption Service provides hardware security modules (HSM) over cloud-hosted hardware. Hardware security modules are hardware devices that process encrypted data (cryptographic operations) using encryption keys. Some of the primary benefits of Alibaba Cloud Data Encryption Service are listed below:
Alibaba Cloud Data Encryption Service uses encryption keys to protect your data with hardware-based devices that allow you to access HSM instances within Alibaba Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). These instances are tamper-resistant and enable a single-tenant access system to protect your encryption keys. The Data Encryption Service also allows custom application mapping using industry-standard APIs, including JCE.
The Data Encryption Service is a hosted service that works with any other Alibaba Cloud solution. Some of the Data Encryption Service usage scenarios are listed below:
In this scenario, you can encrypt sensitive data and business secrets with the HSM integration in your application architecture.
Financial services are prone to cyberattacks. Financial motives are the primary reason for cyberattacks.
Risk Based stated, "Data breaches exposed 36 billion records in the first half of 2020."
Let's take a look at the Data Encryption Service architectural flow for financial systems on the chart below:
In this scenario, all of the online payments, card-based payments, app-based payments, and POS payments use a frontend system comprised of a settlement system that takes care of financial books, a payment system that processes the incoming payment, and a financial system to forward incoming and outgoing payments to the settlement system. All of these systems are covered using a proxy for added security measures. HSM issues the encryption keys at the backend to help with data security while in transit.
The strictest security and compliance requirements within the financial structure will ensure payment integrity and confidentiality during data in transit and at rest.
Websites working with the secured HTTP/HTTPS protocol use a public-private key pair. Each session uses a public key certificate to establish a secure HTTPS session for each client. Alibaba Cloud Data Encryption Service allows your SSL offloading directly with HSM by generating private keys. Processing from a web service allows SSL offloading without consuming any web server resources, maintaining the availability and efficiency of the web server.
The Data Encryption Service is available to all Alibaba Cloud users. You can use HSM to perform multiple operations, such as SSL offloading, TLS web server processing, transparent data encryption, and sensitive and financial data encryption. Cloud data must be secured when in transit and at rest to ensure data integrity. Alibaba Cloud Data Encryption Service lets you secure the most important aspect of your organization – data.
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Where were chemistry kits like this when I was a kid? It has some excellent experiments, a manual that plainly explains chemistry concepts, and it comes with a chemistry station to put together! Some of the awesome experiments include making a fire extinguisher on a small scale, making color-changing slime, growing salt crystals, making "invisible" ink, and creating an underwater volcano. Some experiments are more basic and recognizable, such as a self-inflating balloon. Even the less "fun" experiments, however, are quite cool because the manual explains why the substances involved work the way they do, and later experiments may use a concept learned in previous ones. Rather than the "throw away" kits that just contain some experiments, but not a lot of useful information, I feel kids can come out with a lot of foundational chemistry knowledge after going through this one! For instance, in the classic "oil and water" experiment, the manual explains that the reason water does not mix with oil is due to water molecules being polar and oil molecules being nonpolar, which is due to the sizes of the atoms that make up the molecules. It then explains that they can be mixed if an emulsifier (dish detergent) is added. This knowledge is then applied to a later experiment with moving colors, which travel because of an emulsifier and the attractions caused by it. As the manual clearly explains the concepts that go along with the experiments, children are able to learn and apply chemistry concepts at the same time. The 20 included experiments can all be done with the enclosed materials and common household items. - Janine
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Grab your beakers and test tubes and step up to your special laboratory station for some exciting chemistry experiments. See how much fun chemistry can be as you do slimy, fizzy, colorful, and bubbly experiments. This cool laboratory setup has lots of different vessels and pieces of lab equipment so kids can play the role of chemist while doing real, safe experiments. All of the experiments use non-hazardous chemicals.
This playful introduction to the basics of chemistry includes approximately 20 experiments. The experiments are presented on printed cards that can be clipped onto the lab station for easy reference. Experiments include glowing slime, color-changing slime, fizzing reactions, oozing bubbles, rainbow in a test tube, chromatography, cabbage juice pH tests, solutions, filtering, crystals, fire extinguisher, and underwater volcano.
The kit includes a large plastic chemistry station, experiment cards, various vessels in different sizes, syringe, measuring cup, pipette, spatula, tube, petri dish, funnel, non-hazardous chemicals for the experiments, and experiment manual.


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NetLogix Ranked on Channel Futures MSP 501 — Tech Industry's Most Prestigious List of Global Managed Service Providers
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Business success depends on a company's information technology (IT) infrastructure. Technology can help a company become more productive, creative, and competitive if it is properly managed by a good managed services provider. However, many small to mid-sized business owners struggle to maintain their IT internally because it requires a great deal of time and expertise.…Read More →
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When we think of data breaches, we often think of big companies like Facebook or Google – not small law firms. Unfortunately, every kind of business is at risk when it comes to cyber threats, including attorney offices and legal service providers. According to the American Bar Association (ABA), roughly 29 percent of law firms…Read More →
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PINE, Arizona — Wealth, in one way or another, was the main reason modern communities sprouted up in Arizona's High Country.
Gold found in the multicolored hills of the Bradshaw Mountains caused the area's European population to boom in the 1860s, attracting prospectors with dreams of riches.
The natural wealth of rich soil, towering pines and an abundance of water offered in the area that would become Pine-Strawberry offered different riches to people who ventured out of the mines, according to the community's historical society.
Both kinds of wealth continue to draw people today to both live and vacation in Pine-Strawberry. But, increased development is threatening the community's most precious resource: water.
The town's largest water supplier has seen more than half of its wells dry up, going from nearly 40 active wells to 14.
The situation has become so dire that residents are meeting with Sen. Mark Kelly's team to try and secure funding for potential solutions.
The main solution being purposed by town leaders, however, will only make matters worse, according to one of the state's leading hydrologists.
Dry wells, 60-year-old pipes hitting a tipping point
The few wells that the Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District (PSWID) has left are strained. The district supplies water for 8,000 people, including more than 5,000 part-time residents and tourists.
There are around 100 private wells also in the community either used by companies or by individual residents, but PSWID's Director David Dickinson said many of those wells have also dried up.
"It's just too many straws in the glass," Dickinson said. "That's why a lot of folks are running dry. The way the [water well] rules are written right now, anybody can build a well, and that's kind of the problem."
Outdated infrastructure is another problem entirely.
The town's residents are sitting on a miles-long collection of old, poorly installed water pipes that mostly haven't been updated since the 1960s.
Maps provided by the district show the vast majority of the water piping needs to be replaced. The community has no funding to do so.
"Back in the 60s and 70s, developers just went the cheapest route they could," Dickinson said. "They just put these pipes in and put rocks on top of it. 80% of our current operations budget is going towards just putting band-aids on this stuff until we can get funding to replace it."
The consequence of this mentality is a "hodge-podge" of separate stand-alone systems of wells, piping, pumps, booster stations and storage tanks put in the ground under Pine-Strawberry.
Wells and piping are the immediate concern of community leaders, but there's a deeper issue under the surface.
"They're in overdraft": Where Pine-Strawberry's water is (not) coming from
Pine-Strawberry's wells pull water from two aquifers, or underground areas where water has become trapped. One aquifer is shallow while the other is deeper below the earth.
Aquifers can be thought of as water bank accounts, according to Kristine Uhlman, one of Arizona's top hydrologists. You can put in and take out money from a bank account, and you can put in and take out water from an aquifer.
"If you take out too much water, you're going to be in overdraft, meaning you're taking out more than is being put in," said Uhlman, who literally wrote the book on Arizona water well ownership.
Pine-Strawberry is absolutely in overdraft. The shallow aquifer that the majority of people use has dropped 57 feet in the past ~45 years, according to PSWID.
Uhlman almost fell out of her chair when she heard this.
"That's pretty dire," Uhlman said. "That's definitely overdraft."
If that aquifer was actually a bank account, the bank would have closed the town's account long ago and would have probably taken legal action against it.
Living in an arid climate with little to no rainfall doesn't help matters.
The vast majority of water in aquifers across Arizona can be described as "old money." On average, Arizona aquifer water is around 10,000 years old, which means the last time the aquifers were replenished was during the last ice age.
"If you were to drink from a water fountain at the University of Arizona, that water has been measured at 10,000 years old," Uhlman said. "I like to imagine that water was rolling off the back of a woolly mammoth."
Even if Arizona wasn't currently facing a megadrought, the amount of water Pine-Strawberry is using wouldn't be replenished for years.
RELATED: 'The nature of the beast': The numerous ways Arizona's megadrought will affect people's health
The town's proposed solution may make matters worse
The water district and community residents will be meeting with Mark Kelly's team on Thursday to go over the issues and possible sources of funding.
The top priority of the meeting is to get new, deeper wells to sidestep the issue of "too many straws" being in the shallow aquifer, according to a presentation obtained by 12 News.
The new wells would cost around $2.2 million each to create.
"Our highest priority now is more deep wells, and we're trying to get funding for that," Dickinson said. "The deeper aquifer...is a more reliable source than the shallow aquifer that everyone has their straw in."
Uhlman completely disagrees. She says that drilling deeper wells would not only prolong the problem, but could also backfire and make the problem worse.
"If you drill deeper, and pump deeper, the shallower well will go dry faster," Uhlman said.
Deep wells drilling into the earth push layers of earth down with it, forming what's called a "drawdown cone." These cones often lower the "water table", or the surface of an aquifer.
If PSWID goes through with drilling deeper wells, it would push the shallow aquifer's water table below the point where older, cheaper wells would be able to reach.
"A deeper well would be an answer for people who have the money, but it will be extremely detrimental to those who have been there with their shallower wells for a long time," Ulhman said. "They have to realize that these wells will be negatively impacting their neighbors. Going deeper is no guarantee."
Other reasons she offered against drilling deeper wells were lessening of water quality, exposure to hazardous chemicals, and increasing the possibility of deeper aquifers closing up due to drilling.
She recommended the district focus more on conservation rather than new water well creation. The decision ultimately falls on the community members of Pine-Strawberry and the possible funding made available by federal and state agencies.
Residents also asked this question during a community meeting with Kelly's team. The district told residents that if they find a new well is affecting community wells, they would shut it down.
If the district is worried about having "too many straws" in the cup, the science seems to say building deeper wells would only puncture a hole in the bottom of the cup, spilling all the water on the ground.
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'Birds Of Prey' Adds 'The Mindy Project' Star Chris Messina As DC Comics Villain Victor Zsasz
The cast of the upcoming DC Comics movie Birds of Prey continues to take shape. Margot Robbie is reprising her Suicide Squad role as Harley Quinn while Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jurnee Smollett-Bell are joining the DC Extended Universe as Huntress and Black Canary respectively. Meanwhile, Ewan McGregor is taking the role of the villain Black Mask, and now we have word he'll be working with another recurring bad guy from DC Comics.
Chris Messina is best known for his series regular role on The Mindy Project and a recent turn in the HBO limited series Sharp Objects, but he's also had quite an eclectic career starring in a variety of indie and arthouse films over the years. Now he's heading into comic book blockbuster territory by taking the role of Batman villain Victor Zsasz.Deadline has word on the casting of Chris Messina as the secondary villain, who will be working with Black Mask in the film. If you don't recognize the name Victor Zsasz, it might surprise you to know that you've already seen the character on the big screen before. Victor had an extremely small role as a criminal on trial in Batman Begins, receiving a diagnosis from Dr. Jonathan Crane (Cillian Murphy). But he is far more prominent in Batman comics.
Victor Zsasz almost functions as a serial killer version of Batman. When he was 25, his parents died in a boating accident. Suddenly the head of an international company with a huge family fortune, Victor Zsasz ends up depressed and gambles his life away, losing everything to The Penguin. Left with seemingly nothing to live for, he decides to kill himself, but instead, chooses to kill a homeless man. The thrill of the kill creates a madman, and Victor starts slitting throats and posing them for those who stumble upon the crime scene. Every time he kills, he adds a tally to his body.
Victor Zsasz will likely be working with Black Mask in a henchman-like capacity, maybe as his second in command. But that's just speculation on my part. Putting Chris Messina in that role is an interesting choice since he's never really tackled a villainous character like this before.
Along with Chris Messina, Warner Bros. Pictures also announced the addition of Steven Williams (The Chi), Derek Wilson (Preacher), Dana Lee (Dr. Ken), Francois Chau (The Expanse, The Tick), and Matthew Willig (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs) to the Birds of Prey cast. However, their characters have not been revealed at this time.
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree – Summary and Questions With Their Answers
Introduction: Yeats was born in Ireland but spent the first sixteen years of his life in England, returning for a holiday only to his native Sligo. He was in London much later in his life when he heard tinkling water and was transported back to the small island of Innisfree on Lough Gill, a lake in Sligo, where he had dreamed of living as a young man. This experience influenced the 'Innisfree Lake Isle,' which is rich in its use of images, rhythm and rhythm to evoke sound and location.
About the poet
William Butler yeats was an Irish poet and of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment he helped to found the Abbey theatre. Born in Dublin Ireland on June 13th 1865 W. B Yeats was the son of a well known Irish painter. He spent his childhood in County Sligo.
He was a well-known Irish poet and drdramatist. He was deeply devoted to the cause of Irish independence and played a major role in reviving the general public interest in Ireland's cultural heritage. He also worked for the establishment of the National Theatre of Ireland. His works combines brutal naturalism psychological analysis poetry and biting satire with an abiding respect for the courage and persistence of the Irish people. he was considered to be a leading figure of Irish ReRenaissanceHis autobiography 'Shame the Devil' was published in 1934. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923,making him the first person of Independent Ireland to be honoured with the prize. Some of his major works are the winding stair and the Resurrection.
Word meanings.
1.Innisfree – the name of an island.
4.wattles—twisted sticks
5.glade—open space
6.Dropping—falling in drops.
7. Veils—curtain
8.cricket—an insect
9.glimmer—twinkling /shining
10.linnet—a small singing bird
11.lapping—sound of the water striking gently against shore.
13.arise—get up
14.Cabin—small hut
15.bean—a small vegetable
Context of the poem Lake Isle of Innisfree
The lake Isle of Innisfree refers to an actual place in County Sligo, Ireland that WB Yeats knew well from his childhood. Thr Isle of Innisfree is one of 20 small Islands located within Lough Gill a freshwater lake.
Although Yeats lived much of his life in the cities of Dublin and London he spent his summers as a child in County Sligo where is mother was from. The lake Isle of Innisfree is written from the the perspective of someone in an urban environment. It demonstrates the tension of modern living in which someone might yearn for a simpler, more peaceful way of life amidst the bustle of the 'roadway'or 'pavements grey'. The poem has a beautiful rhythmic almost hypnotic spell.
Feeling homesick while living in London he was reminded of the lake by a fountain in a shop window. This poem thus was the result.
Summary of The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Yeats makes a decision at the beginning of this poem. He says 'I will arise and go now' He has decided to take a break from the modern society and the hectic life schedule. He says that he will go to Innisfree (an island in Ireland) and build a small simple hut. He will have nine bean- rows and Honey Bee Hive.The poet wants to live alone in peace with nature. The poem reflects on the tranquility of life… in fact living in a cottage is quite different from the fast and hectic life. We can enjoy nature, when there is peace of mind but real peace is impossible in a city we find it in a solitary place only. Also he will get honey from the hive. Yeats says that the open space where he will build his cabin will be filled up with the buzzing sound of the bees.
In the second stanza we see Yeats's strong belief that once settled in Innisfree he shall acquire a great measure of peace which comes down from the Heaven just like the dew that falls on the ground in the evening and stays there throughout the night blending with the singing of the cricket till late momorningThen they disappear altogether with the lifting of the morning mist just like a veil that is lifted from the face of the bride. The glimmering darkness of midnight and the purple colour of the late afternoon set the scene for the evening with linnets flying to and fro, and in an around the cabin.
Finally in the third stanza, Yeats feels the urgent means to go immediately to the island of Innisfree for eternally.. day and night, he will hear the lake water lapping softly on the shores of the island. If he places himself anywhere in the island, on the roadside or the distant pavement :he will continue to hear it in the deep core of his heart. .
Important Questions and Their Answers
I. 1. What kind of place is Innisfree?
Ans. Innisfree is an island near Silgo in Ireland. It is full of natural beauty with peaceful atmosphere. The tranquility of this place attracts the poet a lot.
2. What are the three things the poet wants to do when he goes back there ( stanza I ).
Ans. The poet wants to do these following things when he goes back to Innisfree-
a. To build a cabin with clay and wattles.
b. To grow nine rows of bean and to make a bee hive for the bees.
c. He wants to live alone in the bee loud glade.
ii. what he hears and sees there and it's effect on him ( stanza II ).
Ans. He hears peace dropping slowly from the veils of the morning and the song of the cricket. He sees some beautiful scenes like the glimmer of the midnight. The purple rays of the sun during the noon and the colourful evenings which are full of linnet's wings.
These beautiful scenes and the calm environment of Innisfree make the poet spellbound and gives him mental peace.
iii. what he hears in his " heart's core " even when he is far away from Innisfree ( stanza III )
Ans. The poet hears the sound of the water lapping the shore of the island even though he is far away from the place.
3. By now you may have concluded that Innisfree is a simple, natural place, full of beauty and peace.
How does the poet contrast it with where he now stands? ( Read stanza III )
Ans. The poet had used some terms in the poem like ' stand on the roadway, or on the pavement grey' , this line symbolises death and decay of the city life while Innisfree is visualised as a symbol of peace aas relaxation. In this way, he has contrasted both the places. He is not at all happy with the unnatural and busy city life, instead, he has expressed his desire to settle down at Innisfree.
4. Do you think Innisfree is only a place or a state of mind? Does the poet actually miss the place of his boyhood days?
Ans. Innisfree is a real place with all its natural beauty.
He really misses that place as he stayed there for many years during his childhood days.
Afterwards, when he started staying in London, he wanted to get back his old sweet days spent in Innisfree and he also expresses a strong desire to go to Innisfree and stay there.
II. 1. Look at the words the poet uses to describe what he sees and hears at Innisfree.
i. Bee- loud glade
ii. Evening full of linnet's wings.
iii. Lake water lapping with low sounds.
What pictures do these words create in your mind?
Ans. i . Bee-loud glade- In our mind, these words create the image of bees producing humming sound outside the small cabin of the poet at Innisfree.
ii. Evening full of linnet's wings- These words create the image of linnets, small, brown grey coloured birds, flying in the sky over Innisfree during the evening time, making the place look more beautiful.
iii. Lake water lapping with low sounds- These words create the image of lake water hitting the shore and producing a pleasant sound. It also creates a captivating view of the place in our minds.
III. Look at these words:
……. Peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
What do these words mean to you? What do you think " comes dropping slow… from the veils of the morning"? What does " to where the cricket sings" mean ?
Ans. These words mean that the place, Innisfree, is full of natural beauty and the calm and peaceful environment of the place makes the poet happy and relaxed.
I think, peace comes dropping from the veils of the morning and slowly awakes the poet.
" To where the cricket sings" mean that the song of the cricket adds more beauty and serenity to the place.


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Roblox is officially completing its rollout of the Creator Hub, a new hub that gives developers more tools and centralizes things like documentation and a developer forum into one place. Making the information easier to find seems like it could be quite helpful for developers, and that has an important aftereffect for Roblox, too: Roblox makes its money by taking a cut of what its developers earn, so it's incentivized to make things better for the creators on its platform.
Creator Hub aggregates five Roblox resources, Nick Tornow, Roblox's VP of engineering, tells The Verge:
Roblox's resources used to be "disparate standalone apps with their own URLs," Tornow said, but now they're being consolidated into the one hub. Roblox had observed that developers didn't know the information was available to them "unless they looked around a lot," according to Tornow. But the unified hub will make things better for Roblox, too, by letting it do things like more easily hyperlink and connect things from one area to another.
While the Creator Hub will be rolled out to all of Roblox's more than 12 million developers as of Wednesday, 375,000 daily active users have already been using the Creator Hub, Tornow said. Those that tried it are "really loving it," in part thanks to features like a user acquisition dashboard and the Talent Hub.
The company set me up with interviews with two developers who have used the Creator Hub, and both seemed to really like the changes (which wasn't too surprising; the company wouldn't have me interview them if they didn't like the new features). Alex Hicks, chief design officer of Twin Atlas, called the new user acquisition dashboard a "missing piece of the puzzle" for analytics on the platform. Vivian Arellano, a digital designer and game developer at Fullflower Studio, likes the documentation that's available. Both also spoke highly of the Talent Hub (which technically launched in open beta in 2021), saying it gives creators a better option for hiring than soliciting help on Twitter.
Some developers are offering jobs in the low hundreds of Robux
In looking through the Talent Hub myself, though, I was surprised to see some developers offering jobs in the low hundreds of Robux, the platform's special currency. To get an idea of just how paltry that would be, buying 400 Robux costs $4.99. And when developers can't cash out Robux into real currency until they earn at least 50,000 Robux, creators that are only able to take those jobs would have to work a lot of them to earn into real money. Many listings appear to offer fairer rates, but the low-rate jobs could increase concerns about how the platform exploits kid developers.
But overall, the Creator Hub seems like it could be a boon for the Roblox developer ecosystem. Roblox already has some big success stories: in June 2022, 2.7 million creators earned Robux, according to Tornow. He also said that "dozens" of experiences have more than a billion visits, and I am guessing those experiences are quite lucrative for their creators.
If you're a Roblox developer, I'd love to hear your thoughts about Creator Hub and about developing for the platform. You can reach me at email@example.com.
That said, Roblox relies on creators to make experiences that get people to come to the app so that it can take its cut of purchases. (It takes a larger cut than most other platforms: the company estimates that it gives developers 29 cents on average "per in-experience dollar spent.") That means it needs to create an appealing environment for creators; otherwise, they might leave for platforms like the App Store, Google Play, other video games, or other metaverse-y environments like Fortnite.
"We're trying to build an ecosystem of creation, a whole sector of the economy, that's building experiences in the metaverse," Tornow said. "We think everyone who uses Roblox can be a creator, and that may take different forms of creating clothing or outfits or avatars or whole experiences," he added later. "But creation is a key part of living, and it should be a key part of living in the metaverse."
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360 Degree Feedback is an assessment of your overall performance at work. It is an opportunity for you to get feedback on what you do well and what you could improve on from various perspectives. You will be able to see specific comments about your strengths and weaknesses and learn about your growth potential. You are also given a chance to elaborate and respond to your comments. If you fail to respond or your comments are vague, you may be left with the impression that you do not care about what is being said.
How does 360 Degree Feedback work?
There are many different ways that 360 Degree Feedback can be done. The most effective type of feedback is where a manager gives feedback directly to each employee in private. This allows the manager to deliver the feedback that they feel will improve the people's performance and help them grow as they move forward. Managers can do this, especially if they have experience in the same field or department. The 360 Degree Feedback can also be done using surveys or meetings. The meetings allow a large group of staff members to get together and discuss areas that need improvement.
What makes the most sense when doing 360 Degree Feedback?
Since 360 Degree Feedback is a type of self-assessment, it is essential to have feedback from other people. This will allow you to get multiple perspectives. The more perspectives you have, the better, as not everyone will have a similar opinion about you. However, some feedback should come from supervisors who know your work well and are in your immediate work group. But, the best source of feedback will be someone who is not in your position or department but has been asked to look at you.
The type of 360 Degree Feedback will depend on all of these factors:
1. The culture of each workplace :
In specific workplaces, individuals are encouraged to share feedback, and in other workplaces, they are not. The culture at a workplace will determine what kind of 360-degree feedback is done. There are several things that the leadership should determine:
If it is essential to have 360-degree feedback, you must have guidelines and processes. Without consistent guidance from top management, the performance of employees can easily suffer when they are not given feedback on what they do well and areas in which they can improve.
2. The responsibility for creating those guidelines :
To ensure that 360 Degree Feedbacks does not become a low priority, it should be made clear who will be responsible for creating and distributing the feedback process to employees. It should also be made clear who has the responsibility to follow up on the feedback given to employees.
3. The preparation time needed :
Ask all employees to participate in 360-degree feedback. You must allow enough time for people to think about and write their answers, and if you are gathering feedback from more than a few people, you will need extra time to submit their answers before they can be shared with other staff members. It would help if you did not wait until the last minute and then find out that there aren't enough responses or that those gathered are ambiguous or incomplete.
4. How frequently employees will have 360 Degree Feedback :
Some workplaces decide that all their employees will receive feedback every year, while others only give feedback once every few years. The frequency with which 360 Degree Feedbacks is practiced in an organisation will depend on how often it is needed. It is essential for leadership to set guidelines for when it should be done and when it should not since getting too much or too little is detrimental to employee performance and growth.
5. The culture of each department :
Some departments have a positive atmosphere and embrace change. Sometimes, change is not as easy as others. It will be up to the manager and leaders of each department to determine what feedback process is best for their department.
6. The history of the organisation:
Different organisations have had different experiences with 360 Degree Feedback. Some may have been successful with it, and others may not have. 360 Degree Feedback may create more conflicts in some organisations than others. Leadership should look at any previous feedback attempts made to establish a plan for providing this type of feedback.
7. The number of employees:
The more people being assessed, the longer it will take to gather the responses and analyse them. Organisations may be able to assess a few people at a time, but as soon as more than 10 or 15 are being assessed, leadership should realise that this will take more time and effort than usual to complete.
How is 360 Degree Feedback essential for every organisation?
360 Degree Feedback is helpful in many ways. It can help improve organisational performance by providing constructive criticism and feedback on employees' performance. Identifying areas where employees can improve helps build a more productive workforce. When the organisation provides 360 Degree Feedbacks to its employees on an ongoing basis, it helps them understand how their work can be improved to ensure a positive work environment that fosters growth and development.
As workplace environments become increasingly competitive and challenging, 360 Degree Feedbacks has become needed in more organisations to help increase employee morale and encourage career growth. "It helps facilitate transparency of performance, which equates to fair evaluations of employee accomplishments. It also creates a culture of continuous learning and development.
What is the primary purpose of 360 Degree Feedback?
The most common use of 360 Degree Feedbacks is to evaluate a person's performance. The 360 degree appraisal advantages and disadvantages can identify areas for improvement in an employee's performance and allow the employee to see areas where they are underperforming. This allows an employee to make any necessary changes in their behaviour. 360 Degree Feedbacks also helps foster a positive work environment by showing an employee's strengths and weaknesses, which allows them to work on improving those weaknesses.
You might go to Mercer Mettl, which is one of the most extensively utilised platforms for conducting online interviews by businesses. The best thing about Mercer Mettl is that it believes in giving its clients a statistical and strategic solution for 360-degree feedback. It makes the businesses much more confident in making the decision.


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Family of Lubbock murder victim shares more about teen, pleads with suspect to come forward
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Lakaria Moore's grandmother says her heart is heavy, knowing someone has taken her grandbaby from her family. Lubbock police say the 18-year-old was murdered, and they are looking for her killer.
Homicide detectives believe Christopher Carter, 39, is responsible for Moore's death. She was reported missing over the weekend, before police found her body in east Lubbock County Monday afternoon. Officers later obtained a murder warrant for Carter, who was last seen with the teen.
Tuesday night, family and friends honored Moore with a candlelight vigil at Mae Simmons Park. Her grandmother, Shirley Moore, says Lakaria had a beautiful smile and was a friend to everyone.
"She had a big heart and she was sweet. I never saw her, that she didn't have a smile on her face. She was an awesome young lady, life taken far, far too soon," Moore said.
About a hundred people gathered under the pavilion at the park to pray, release balloons and comfort the family.
"The turnout tonight was awesome, there was so many people here showing their love toward Kari [Lakaria], and we just appreciate everything everybody is doing and all the prayers," Moore said.
Bishop Deshun Avery, with First Progressive Baptist Church, prayed over the family.
"The family itself is larger even than this particular area right now. So, the whole community really needs to heal," he said.
Moore's mother says she was killed by someone she thought loved her. Avery says her murder was senseless, and should serve as a reminder to look out for each other and your family.
"I think really being open and honest about, you know, what's going on in relationships. 'Cause sometimes our kids are really private about who they're dating and so forth. So, really being open about what's going on... It's not so much about being in their business, but we do want to know who they're dating and where they are," Avery said.
Moore's grandmother is pleading with her killer to turn himself in.
"If anybody know anything out there, I would hope and pray that they would call and let somebody know where he is or any tips, or anything that you could possibly tell to help bring him to justice," Moore said.
Lubbock police say Carter should be considered dangerous and should not be approached.
Anyone with information about the investigation or the location of Christopher Carter is asked to call Crime Line at 806-741-1000. Callers may remain anonymous and could get a cash reward.
Moore's family is collecting donations to help pay for funeral expenses here.
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Dario Rosendo was born in Cuba and moved to the US in 1961. He knew Mongo Santamaria personally for more than thirty years. He is a conga player, a concert and events promoter, radio presenter and an avid conga drum collector. He currently resides in Miami.
The following interview with Dario Rosendo was especially conducted for my Master of Philosophy in Music [By Research] thesis titled The Conga Drum: Development, Technique, Styles, Improvisations and the contribution of Master Drummer Ramon 'Mongo' Santamaria which I completed in 2008 at the ANU in Canberra. The thesis documents the conga drum's historical development, investigates basic hand techniques and current technical hand developments, as well as the enormous contribution of master drummer Ramon 'Mongo' Santamaria, arguably the most influential player in the history of the instrument, exploring his percussive output as well as his ensemble, composition and arranging proficiency. I conducted this interview with Dario Rosendo via telephone.
PERTOUT: When did you get interested in congas?
ROSENDO: Back in Cuba there was a lot of rumba and in my neighbourhood particularly, and I just got fascinated by it. My father may he rest in peace being from Spanish background, was Galician and didn't understand why a little white boy like me was so interested in the Afro-Cuban styles of drumming. I always loved it though. I developed some things on my own and played as I felt, this was my childhood in Cuba and then we moved to the US around 1961.
PERTOUT: How and when did you commence your connection with Mongo?
ROSENDO: I had seen Mongo on an Andy Williams television show when I was young and that image and sound stayed with me. Although I was in the US and the rock'n'roll sounds were prevalent and also part of my life, I had this strong Afro-Cuban connection. Later when I was a student in the late 1960s, there was a concert here in Miami featuring an array of artists including Marvin Gaye and Mongo Santamaria. It was like a soul review type of concert. I went along with friends but had no money and could not afford the entry fee, then I noticed Mongo arriving in a bus. Now I knew he was Latin but didn't really know that he was Cuban. We approached him and asked him if we could him take the gear inside the venue to get in as we didn't have the money to pay. He immediately said you are compatriots, if you can help we'll all walk in together. And that's how my friendship with Mongo started. The next time I saw him was at Miami Dade Community College at a concert there where he also had Armando Peraza with him. Mongo gave me a conga lesson right there and then, in front of people after the concert.
PERTOUT: What did he show you?
ROSENDO: I asked him about the basic tumbao and he explained how to develop the left hand. He had this saying 'pura-madura', he would tell me to make sure my left hand was sounding just like it was saying that, it had to sound like that phrase. Then he gave me his number and told me to call him if I ever got to New York. I did and spent many, many times with him. He became like family, as if he was my dad. From then on every time he came to Miami I would tell him not to bring his congas as I would take mine to the concerts. I would spend time with him and take him out and around. I spent a long time with him till he died. When he was dying in hospital I was there holding his hand. I loved him like a father, he was an amazing man.
PERTOUT: I believe in the last few years of his life he lived in Miami?
ROSENDO: Yes he was here, but I must say not very happy. He would always tell me that he didn't like the opinions of the exiled Cuban community as they are so right wing. He also felt that they were somewhat racist. As he was a black Cuban man he would often remind me that there were no black Cubans on television in Miami. Racism always bothered him. He suffered a lot when he was young. He would tell me that New York was a really different city, that in New York you could see black Latin Americans on television, that in contrast in Miami they were all white.
PERTOUT: Was he living in Miami with family?
ROSENDO: He was living with Yolanda, a woman who had been at one point in time associated with Joe Frazier, the boxer. He had a club in Philadelphia called The Knockout and Yolanda was the hostess there. Mongo used to play in that club, they developed a relationship and lived together. She used to look after him very well. That was the last eight years of his life. I think Yolanda was very good with him, she was a lot younger and really looked after him. In the last days of his life, Mongo lived alone, however he had family members close by.
PERTOUT: Where was the rest of his family?
ROSENDO: Ileana Santamaria who was his wife lived in New York. I think she worked for the United Nations. Her daughter Ileanita is the one who sings, I met her in nappies, nowadays she is a singer. Mongo was very proud of her. Mongo had six children, Ileanita is the youngest. Nancy is the oldest, then Monguito the pianist, then Felipe, Rosita, Felicia who lives in Los Angeles and then Ileanita. Monguito is in Miami and plays piano, he was with Fania records in the 1970s. He is now rehearsing a new band and trying to do a few things on the back of his father's name. Felipe who is an electrician is also a great quinto player, music in his blood.
PERTOUT: Can you tell me about his Vergara congas?
ROSENDO: Tommy Saito has the last set of Mongo's Vergara congas. He is a Japanese gentleman, who must be in his seventies and lives in California. When Mongo used to play with Cal Tjader, he was a fan of the band and would follow Mongo around. Mongo bought him three Vergara congas back when he went to Cuba to record for Fantasy records. The last set Mongo used to play actually belonged to Tommy, because Mongo's original sets had been robbed at The BlackHawk club in San Francisco. The congas Mongo has on the cover of Live At The Village Gate for example are his Vergara congas, the red one as well. Mongo use to often paint some of his congas red, as he was a santero and believed in chango. Sometimes he would leave them in the original wood colour. The ones on that cover of that particular album he had from 1961, he had them until a few months before he died. Then I packed them up for him and sent them back to his owner Tommy Saito. Generally he would paint one red and would say "that one is for chango."
PERTOUT: What about the ones on the cover of the Soy Yo album?
ROSENDO: Those were made by Jose Garcia. When Mongo bought three Vergara congas for Tommy Saito in Cuba he also bought three for Jose Garcia, a Mexican gentleman who now lives close by here. Jose had a relative that worked in fibreglass, he made some fibreglass moulds from Vergara congas and then gave them to Mongo as a present in the mid 1980s. I also bought three of those congas made by Jose Garcia and one day doing a performance with Andy Harlow in Calle Ocho someone took them.
PERTOUT:Who was behind the Vergara brand?
ROSENDO: Gonzalo Vergara was a Spaniard in Cuba who was not a player but an artisan. He made the best congas, like Stradivarius. He made congas from the late 1940s, maybe around 1948 to around 1964. He ended up in jail in 1964 and I believe he died there.
PERTOUT: And the brands you see around now like Skin On Skin, Junior, JCR, Matthew Smith, they are all Vergara lookalikes?
ROSENDO: Yes, they are imitating the Vergara congas, all based on the Vergara model.
PERTOUT: And what sort of skins do they use?
ROSENDO: In the main they are all using cow skins, as the mule skins are extremely hard to obtain.
PERTOUT: What type of skins did Mongo like on the congas?
ROSENDO: First of all don't forget that Mongo was a bongo player, he took up the tumba later, in Cuba he was known as a bongo player. Mongo use to like a very thin skin, he didn't like thick skins, he use to say that it affected the drum. As far as drums, his favourite were the Vergaras. He was endorsed by Meinl and played those congas, but his favourite were still those Vergaras, which actually belonged to Tommy Saito.
PERTOUT: As far as Mongo teaching you, what are your recollections?
ROSENDO: He showed me some things, some Afro-Cuban things like palo and he helped me with my tumba. He used to tell me that I had a lazy left hand that I had to develop that hence the phrase 'pura-madura' that he kept repeating to me to hear the pattern. He would demonstrate that to me. Because he wasn't a schooled musician, he didn't read music or anything like that, it was all taught in that form. I remember meeting the great Kako who did a stint with Mongo and he asked me "did Mongo teach you 'pura-madura'?" and I said "of course". The really helped me in my development.
PERTOUT: What about in terms of his professional friendships with colleagues in New York?
ROSENDO: At times he would tell me about his dissatisfaction with the Latin community in New York in terms of the adaptation of Cuban sounds and styles under the salsa umbrella. He was often angry about the fact that they used the terms salsa, or the 'New York sound'. To him it was all mambo, cha cha cha, it was guaracha Cubana, it was Cuban music. He felt that players such as Eddie Palmieri and Ray Barretto had this thing going on like that, Mongo used to say "New York sound? New York sound my ass, that is Cuban music." Ray Barretto really loved Mongo though, loved him, but Mongo never let him get close.
PERTOUT: What did he think of the new generation of players like Giovanni?
ROSENDO: Around 2001 I took him to a drum clinic by Giovanni Hidalgo and Giovanni dedicated the whole night to him. They played Afro Blue, Para Ti, Come Candela, Mambo Mongo, all those numbers. He was quite weak around that time already. Later he told me that he had felt like playing that night. He thought Giovanni was the best player around. He also loved Poncho Sanchez very much, Poncho was very sweet to him. Mongo was very proud of Poncho's career but would say Giovanni is in a class of his own. Giovanni loved Mongo as well. On that particular night Giovanni dedicated the concert to Mongo. He said that Mongo was like his father, he came down the stage and kissed Mongo's hands. Giovanni was also part of the Tito Puente Golden All Stars band that also included Mongo as an invited guest.
PERTOUT: Did he talk to you about his influences?
ROSENDO: Yes he would mention Clemente Piquero 'Chicho' who was Beny More's bongo player and also played with Septeto Boloña. They were from the suburb where Mongo grew up, the Jesus Maria district of Havana. Mongo replaced him as a teenager when 'Chicho' went to play with the Matamoros group. He was Mongo's idol.
PERTOUT: Was Mongo close to Chano Pozo?
ROSENDO: Yes they were friends, Mongo did play with Chano. Chano had a dance review in a club, it was called Congo Pantera and Mongo played quinto. Mongo and Silvestre Mendez were in the ensemble and Chano used to dress as a panther and dance. Mongo also played bongos in Chano's Conjunto Azul. Later Mongo and Armando Peraza played with a dance review that was called Pablito Y Linon, they went to Mexico then to the US. When Pablito killed Linon in a jealous rage then killed himself, Mongo and Armando started a duo and called themselves The Black Diamonds in New York. Then he joined Perez Prado and later Cal Tjader before developing his solo career.
Telephone Interview. 26 January 2007.
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Belleville Downtown DocFest's annual filmmaker panel discussions and workshops bring the filmmakers to you.
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Watch the 2022 interviews that were screened as part of the 2022 Festival. We're proud to have screened these films and grateful to the filmmakers for sharing their time to take us behind the scenes and to tell us more about their films.
- Can You Hear My Voice was followed by award-winning filmmaker Bill Brummel discussing his inspiring film.
- Kendra Mylnechuk, the subject of the eye-opening doc, Daughter of A Lost Bird was on hand to tell her story first-hand for the 2022 Festival DocFest.
- Award-winning feature film Fanny: The Right to Rock included a must-see Q&A with the film's director, Bobbi Jo Hart and producer Robbie Hart.
Can You Hear My Voice Q&A
The film is a triumphant testimony illuminating a universal theme – the human capacity for resilience in the face of overwhelming adversity. Produced and directed by award-winning Bill Brummel, his first film since having his own voice box removed in 2016.
Daughter of A Lost Bird Q&A
A perfect example of cultural assimilation, the film's subject is a thriving woman who grew up in a loving, upper middle-class white family, and feels no significant loss with the absence of Native American culture or family in her life. And yet, as a Blackfeet/Salish woman, director Brooke Swaney could not imagine that she could be content or complete without understanding her heritage. So, together they embark on a seven year journey.
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This award-winning film tells the untold story of the iconic 1970's all-woman rock band. David Bowie described Fanny as one of the most important bands of the era. Using documentary footage and photos, as well as interviews with notables like Bonnie Rait, Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine, Todd Rundgren, The Runaways' Cherie Currie, Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian, The B52's Kate Pierson, Charles Neville and David Bowie guitarist and bassist Earl Slick and Gail Ann Dorsey, the film traces Fanny's rise to fame.
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Our 2020 panel included three award-winning guest speakers:
- Maureen Judge is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker and television producer, Judge has directed and produced documentary films, television series, and dramatic shorts. Her films explore themes of love, betrayal, and acceptance in the modern family setting. Judge's latest documentary 17 And Life Doesn't Wait (2019) gives us a glimpse into what it means to be a girl today. It's a remarkably candid view of life as seen through the eyes of three teenage girls in their final year of high school.
- Daniel Roher is the director of Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band (2019), the first Canadian documentary to open the Toronto International Film Festival. His latest movie was produced by long-time Robertson collaborator and Oscar winner Martin Scorsese.
- Alan Zweig is a director and writer, known for films such as Vinyl (2000), Hard Name (2009) which received the Genie Award for best documentary, and Hurt (2015) winner of the Platform Prize at Toronto International Film Festival and best feature documentary Canadian Screen Award. DocFest was honoured to present Zweig's film There Is a House Here and to have him attend our Festival in 2018. Zweig's most recent documentary Coppers, nominated for Best Canadian Feature Film in 2019, is a hard-hitting film about ex-cops that presents an honest, empathetic, and occasionally harrowing look at a uniquely difficult profession.
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- First time filmmaker Trista Suke who knocked it out of the park with her award winning film Foxy.
- Sean Scally who shared his perspective as a local filmmaker who makes documentaries from Quinte region history.
Thank you to the filmmakers for participating in our 2018 panel discussion. Chanda Chevannes UNFRACTURED, Tess Girard AS THE CROW FLIES and Julia Barnes SEA OF LIFE
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Several night calls from Occupy Victoria protesters requesting help to remove obnoxious and noisy rowdies raiding the Centennial Square tent city over the weekend put Victoria police in a confusing situation.
It put police between a "rock and a hard place," Const. Mike Russell said about calls from protesters he described as "illegal campers" wanting police help to move out people legally in the square.
Russell said there were quite a few calls.
Protest spokesperson Anushka Nagji last week said the People's Assembly of Victoria, which organized the protest, had been forced to establish a "vigilance detail" of four men to patrol the tent city at night to ensure it remained quiet and peaceful.
She said the problems generally happen after downtown bars close and rowdies shout obscenities and other slurs at protesters trying to catch some sleep.
Until this weekend nothing had happened that the security detail hasn't been able to diffuse, including handling a tiny element of Victoria's homeless community "bent on creating problems," said Nagji.
Meanwhile, Victoria city council last week gave thumbs up to the Occupy Victoria tent protest.
With only Coun. Geoff Young opposing, council agreed to support Occupy Victoria as long the the protesters remain peaceful and restrict themselves to using "non-violent assembly" to get their message out.
The protest is part of a "worldwide citizens' movement to address historic and existing inequalities in financial and governmental institutions, policies and practices," council said.
"The People's Assembly of Victoria represents local resident participation and public engagement in this global protest and dialogue," the motion read.
Council's action effectively ends any threat of using police to clear out Centennial Square protesters who have set up about 50 to 60 tents in the square.
The Downtown Victoria Business Association plans to set up a large temporary public skating rink in the same space later this month.
Protest spokespeople and the DVBA have been meeting regularly to reach a compromise.
Although no formal agreement has been reached to shift some tents into an area of the square that won't interfere with the ice rink, Nagji said most protest campers "don't mind moving."
But it's not unanimous, she said.
Some protesters don't like the idea of relocating and might not move due to the unwritten rules of the camp where individuals cannot be forced to accommodate the rest.
"It's up to them themselves to decide whether to move," said Nagji.
Mayor Dean Fortin said he has no deadline on how long the city will allow the protest camp to remain.
Fortin said the city won't take police action as long as the situation remains peaceful and no criminal activity takes place.
"Right now we have no deadline," said Fortin, adding he is closely monitoring what happens at other Occupy protest camps to get a feel for what might happen next in Victoria.
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Mercedes had doubts over Bottas' strategy claims
While Mercedes did discuss moving Valtteri Bottas onto a one-stop strategy per the Finn's wishes, they said it would've been "very difficult" to execute properly.
Bottas was called in to pit a lap after Max Verstappen took his second stop in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, which the Mercedes driver did not want to do – wondering on team radio if the team had "thrown away an easy 1-2" by not allowing him to stay out to try and make it to the end of the race.
Bottas still managed to come home third in the race, but felt another step up on the podium might have been possible if he was able to try and survive on just one stop.
But Toto Wolff feels stopping Bottas again was the correct call, to ensure he made it onto the podium and stayed ahead of Sergio Perez.
"I'm not sure we could have held on to a one-stop," Wolff said, quoted by Autosport.
"Maybe, but it was risky also to lose P3 against Perez. I think it was OK. It was maybe marginal between the two, but we didn't want to risk the place to Perez."
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Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin also confirmed that Mercedes were "talking about it" on the pit wall when coming up with Bottas' strategy, but thought it was better to be safe than sorry.
He explained that seeing how Verstappen's pace diminished towards the end of his hard-tyre stint at the end of the race was justification for the decision he and his team took to bring Bottas in.
"Valtteri felt it would work, and you gamble, but the problem is if you gamble wrong, then we could have risked a podium with Valtteri," Shovlin said.
"With Lewis, when you think you can beat Max on the same strategy. you do that because we felt we had the car pace to really attack if we could get a bit of a tyre offset.
"So the option of going on an oddball strategy was discussed, but wasn't that attractive because there is doubt and if you get it wrong you cannot win the race.
"You look at how Max dropped off on the hard tyre, it would've been very difficult and you have got to incorporate a lot of management."
The war continues between Mercedes and Red Bull
The war of words continues between Mercedes and Red Bull.


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Chirpy once sewed this sampler:
Though loved ones are distant, they are never far away.
It's Marriage
It's Family
Martha Stokes and Richard Stokes had Chirpy Stokes.
It's Hatred
It's Friends
It's Business
It's Complicated
It's a secret tearing at the soul
It's a secret growing in the soul
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Electric buses are the all rage these days. The electric vehicle (EV) movement is now in full swing. Technology is advancing slowly, but steadily, and rapid charging electric buses (EBs) are soon to enter service. The battery problem that is still holding back widespread adoption of affordable electric cars may be less problematic in larger vehicles that return frequently to a main hub. The funny thing about this new wave of buses is that when I was a child there were electric buses everywhere I looked and batteries were not a problem at all, because they didn't use any.
One of my earliest childhood memories is standing with my mom outside a supermarket in the Boston metro area. I suspect it was the Mount Auburn Star Market (in Cambridge, MA). A bus was stopped and she says something like "Now watch what the man does." A bus driver gets out of the bus, retrieves a very long stick and then uses it to put the bus's connection rail back on the power rail that runs above the street. (See buses in the photo). Those EBs ran on every major street in my area in back then. This was not unique to my hometown. The internet is full of video of old EBs all over the world going back almost a century.
This memory of mine is likely from the very early '70s. I am now 46. The electric buses are gone in Boston, Cambridge and the surrounding areas, though some trolleys and subway trains do use electric power. Those zero emissions buses were all replaced first by diesel buses. The buses we use now converted to natural gas about 10 years back, trading one hydrocarbon for another. Everyone was so proud of the environmental advance. I remember the ribbon cutting ceremony. Folks now live as far away from the city as they can afford to. The diesel commuter rail trains that feed the cities are empty half the time since everyone wants to commute the same way at the same time of course. There is a plan to expand the diesel, always half-empty, commuter rail system dramatically, even to Cape Cod.
Those old electric buses were running with zero tailpipe emissions in the days when cars had exhaust emissions 3 to 5 orders of magnitude greater than those today, which can now hardly even be measured by conventional methods, hence the name "partial zero emissions vehicle" or P-ZEV. Back then the unburned hydrocarbons exiting our cars' tailpipes (this being pre-catalyst and pre- exhaust gas recirculation) had a nice flavoring of tetraethyl lead. The fun thing about tetraethyl lead is that it never leaves. Once you put it into your environment it is the gift that keeps on giving. Yet, in the midst of all this air pollution nuttiness, the city buses were all running on electrons. Let's pretend the powerplants back then weren't all actually powered by coal.
Overall, about a quarter of the energy now produced in Mass. is from coal, but only 5% of the electric grid south of Boston where I live is powered by coal because much of it goes to neighboring states. In an amusing twist 7% is actually oil, and total hydrocarbon sources for electricity are 48% of what is in the grid. The next biggest contributor is nuclear power at 27%. That low carbon electricity source will never increase, because the environmental lobby is successfully keeping any new nuclear power from being added, and is close to eliminating Pilgrim and VT Yankee, both older nuke plants waaay past their original design lives. The no-nukes folks were also successful in keeping Seabrook from building out its second reactor (this was a while ago). If we had that, maybe we wouldn't need the oil and coal. I'm really not sure.
According to National Grid's cool information sheet it sent me with my bill in Plainville, MA solar is 0% of the system power in my area and wind is a close second with 0%. It's hard to believe because solar arrays are everywhere. A footnote in the bill that says "Electricity customers in New England are served by an integrated power grid, not particular generating units." So one can pay more for the clean electrons if one feels better doing so, but it just makes the dirty electricity cheaper for the neighbors. Here in Southeastern MA, we almost got a big clean energy boost from Cape Wind, but that was fought by not just the environmental lobby and the politicians that supported environmental issues (like the famous Ted Kennedy), but by pretty much everyone else.
I'm happy to see electric buses being reintroduced. To me they make the most sense of all EVs today, just as they did 40 years ago when they were everywhere one looked.
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2050: A Chinese odyssey
The global economy is unraveling so fast right now that it can be hard to think beyond the immediate future. Troubles in the euro zone are shaking global markets like a dead rat, and even China's economic prospects are now in question. Add to that the endless supply of real news, fake news, and internet schadenfreude we swim in each day, and our little noggins are just full. But some among us still have the wherewithal to look beyond all the noise to the distant future – trying to forecast, for example, what China look like in 2050. One utopian school of thought has it that, after eradicating poverty, Jiang Zemin will use the dark crystal of scientific development to transport the Chinese people to a higher plane of existence. This is something like the Rapture, except that instead of hanging out in heaven the Chinese will be relaxing next to their pools in Orange County and instilling equal opportunity on the moon. At that point, us laowais will be left to fend for ourselves, as shown clearly in this series of photos from the future. We laowais, inventors of glorious things like the rule of law and drive-thrus, will reduced to driving tuk-tuks! And judging from the photos, we will also be sorely in need of a snack. But hey, we can think of worse fates for struggling Western workers. With China's urban wages climbing nearly 20% per year, proud Westerners could soon be jostling for jobs chopping Chinese hedges.
Terracotta warriors v Iranian ayatollahs
Brilliant but tragically misguided. You're thinking of the Green Power Ranger, Gertrude Bell's travelogues or maybe the "whiz kids" in David Halberstam's Best and Brightest. But we're thinking of the Qin Shi Emperor (or Ying Zheng, for those with the impudence to assume familiarity). Chinese archeologists announced this week they had unearthed 100 more of his Terracotta warriors. Qin Shi was (probably) correct to calculate he needed more than the existing 8,000 soldiers to protect him in the afterlife. But he made one fatal error: If you look closely, the army is actually made of clay, rendering them defenseless against rebels in this life (who, in fact, destroyed them). A seemingly simple oversight, but to be fair to Qin Shi, we've seen some gamers at Chinese internet cafes make the same mistake – magical powers online will not, in fact, protect you offline. Speaking of countries whose online battles do spill over into real life, the US has conspicuously left China off its list of countries it won't slap with sanctions for trading with Iran. Remember in Q1 when China's imports of Iranian oil were plummeting? Who could have predicted China was really just trying to negotiate better prices out of the Iranians? Answer: us. Of course, Iran does have a chance to get revenge for being nickeled and dimed in the afterlife. You'd think they have something of an advantage, being fatwa-wielding ayatollahs and all, but China now has 8,100 Terracotta Warriors. No prediction from us on that one.


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The epistle to Titus is the second of the pastoral epistles written by Paul, and its similar to 1st Timothy in many ways. Titus was a Greek and a Gentile. He was with Paul during the Jerusalem meeting of Acts 15 and the fact that he wasn't compelled to be circumcised supported Paul's case against Judaism in the epistle to the Galatians.
In the epistle to Titus, Paul had appointed Titus to oversee the churches in Crete. After Paul had been released from Rome, he continued his missionary work there. News of conditions of Crete came by messengers and Paul saw that Titus needed encouragement so he wrote this epistle to strengthen and give him the authority to settle disputes in Crete.
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"Puppies are the most trusting and joyous creatures on the planet. Oh to be more like a puppy."
Colleen Paige, Founder, National Puppy Day
March 23rd is National Puppy Day! This special day was created to bring awareness to the plight of puppies sitting alone in pet shelters. Some of them never find a forever home.
I rescued a puppy three and a half years ago, and she has brought me nothing but unconditional love and endless joy. I was happy to rescue a pup rather than supporting a puppy mill by purchasing a dog from a store. Here is my sweet bundle of love, Coco Chanel:
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Post a link to an online photo of your puppy (or grown dog) here in the comments, or in the comments on this same post on Facebook. At the end of the day, March 23rd, I will choose the most engaging photo and send the winner an autographed copy of my children's picture book, Goober and Muffin.


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Emiliana Serbatoi reaches its 35th anniversary
CAMPOGALLIANO (ITALY) - An outstanding celebration has gathered a worldwide presence of almost 250 customers who has proudly taken part to the grand opening of the new industrial plant, synonym of a growing future. Emiliana Serbatoi celebrated 35 years of activity, an important milestone that crowns a journey of hard work, intuitions and innovations, commercial proposals and brand-awareness, business trips and trade shows; an event destined to remain in the history of this entrepreneurial reality deeply rooted in the territory and launched on the markets of the entire planet.
Today, Emiliana Serbatoi is an international leading manufacturer of tanks and advanced fuel solutions for the safe storage, transport, management and supply of fuels and liquids in general. Long time has passed since the 17th of June 1983, when Giancarlo Morselli and his son Gian Lauro settled in Sant'Anna street, Modena a small production plant.
Thanks to a winning combination of technical expertise and forward-looking business choices, steady growth has matured over the years, starting from a first essential input: tanks and solutions designed and developed in total compliance with ministerial norms.
Later on, business development has led to a crucial moment in 2001, when the company has moved to the new and wider Campogalliano headquarters, in Largo Maestri del Lavoro, a few steps from the entrance of Brennero highway which is a real "door" towards Europe. Once again, it has been another farsighted choice and even today these buildings represent the "heart" of the company, the place where the successful and strategic decisions are taken every day.
While in 2013 a second manufacturing plant was acquired in San Donà di Piave, close to Venice, over the decades the range of products has widened: alongside with the well-known steel tanks, an innovative line of polyethylene tanks and
high-tech solutions for fleet and levels management have been launched successfully in the market.
Moreover, thanks to a constant investment in quality control and management, Emiliana Serbatoi now meets the highest quality standards: in fact, the company boasts several certifications, namely the Uni En Iso 9001: 2008, approvals issued by Italian Ministries in their respective field of competence and approvals emitted by internationally accredited institutions like Tuv, Bureau Veritas and Crif rating agency Cribis D & B. Finally, Emiliana Serbatoi is present in the "White list" of the Prefecture of Modena and proudly sells ADR products with UN mark every day and worldwide.
Today the company, firmly guided by Gian Lauro Morselli, counts on the skillful work of about ninety employees and has achieved a turnover of over 25 million euros, equally divided between local and foreign market. Nevertheless, the opening of the brand new 4-thousand-meter warehouse at the side of the company's headquarters is not only an amazing way to celebrate the 35th anniversary but also a stimulating path to face future challenges and markets' globalization.
In front of a nourished presence of clients from every corner of the world, the event organized for the anniversary has also welcomed the participation of several authorities, represented by the governor of Emilia-Romagna's region, Stefano Bonaccini, who highlighted the fact that Emiliana Serbatoi is «a model of our industrial district that knows how to evolve, overcoming international challenges».
Located in the elegant location of Villa Cesi in Nonantola, the event was opened by the honors of the president, Mr. Gian Lauro Morselli: «We have really traveled a long way; my father Giancarlo and I - he said – kicked off the business 35 years ago with a small workshop in Sant'Anna street, thanks also to the precious support of my mother Laura in the first years. If I look back, everything seems impossible. Today Emiliana Serbatoi is an international reality, we export our products to all continents, we have two production sites, in Campogalliano and San Donà di Piave, and just in these days another manufacturing plant has been set up here. Every day» he added on his speech «we are proudly standard bearer of "Made in Italy", a winning mixture of creativity and quality that, combined with our professionalism, enthusiasm and passion, we daily export to the entire planet». Hard work, a worldwide sales network, technological avant-garde and a proactive customer care represent the backbone of a company able to establish an international presence but still deeply rooted within the territory. An identity anchored to strong values shared with all the partners.
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