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Breakdown Maintenance
What is breakdown maintenance?
Breakdown maintenance is maintenance performed on a piece of equipment that has broken down, faulted, or otherwise cannot be operated. The goal of breakdown maintenance is to fix something that has malfunctioned. To the contrary, preventive maintenance is performed in order to keep something running.
Sometimes breakdown maintenance is performed because of an unplanned event. For example, if a critical piece of machinery breaks, the maintenance is performed because of the imminent need for that machine to operate again. However, breakdown maintenance can be planned for in advance, which is what we might call "good" breakdown maintenance.
types of breakdown maintenance
Planned breakdown maintenance
Planned breakdown maintenance means that the organization is prepared for a breakdown and even expects it to happen. The equipment runs until it breaks, which initiates a run to failure (RTF) trigger. While RTF triggers can be unplanned, breakdown maintenance plans use RTF as a way of lowering the cost of maintenance.
This kind of plan needs to be rigorously documented and controlled. Employees should be clear on exactly which parts will break down and which parts will be maintained normally via preventive maintenance. Without these checks, a breakdown maintenance plan can be exploited or run awry.
Unplanned breakdown maintenance
Unplanned breakdown maintenance, on the other hand, occurs when a piece of equipment fails or breaks unexpectedly—also called an unplanned downtime event. While some facilities may not utilize a planned breakdown maintenance plan, nearly every facility needs resources in place for unplanned breakdown maintenance. After all, every piece of equipment will break or fault at some point in its life.
examples of breakdown maintenance
Breakdown maintenance is unique in its applications because it cannot be used with certain industries or products, especially ones that involve health and safety. This means that breakdown maintenance is most frequently used when parts are inexpensive or nonessential.
Here are some examples in which breakdown maintenance is applicable:
Equipment can't be repaired at all (inaccessible, designed to not be repaired)
Asset consists of inexpensive or easy-to-replace parts
Non-critical pieces of equipment (like hand tools)
Objects/equipment that are disposable or meant to be replaced at the end of their lifespan
Short-life assets (batteries, high flow pumps)
As you can see from these examples, breakdown maintenance becomes viable when there's no inherent safety risk to letting a part or piece of equipment break. As an example, consider a facility's light bulbs. If a light bulb is not linked to a safety feature, it doesn't make financial sense to replace it before it has burned out.
However, breakdown maintenance is absolutely not viable when people's lives can be endangered by a part or product breaking. For example, the aviation industry cannot rely on parts breaking down to fix them because doing so could threaten the personal wellbeing and safety of people on planes. This is also true for tire manufacturers who are responsible for road safety. When it comes to people's lives, preventive and predictive maintenance are the right choice.
Advantage of breakdown maintenance
Failed equipment can lead to disastrous consequences, but a clearly-documented breakdown maintenance plan can actually have a few significant benefits for an organization.
Minimizes maintenance cost by cutting out unnecessary preventive maintenance
Lowers cost of replacing disposable items frequently (light bulbs, tools, fuses)
Downtime for repairs is consolidated
Low staffing needs
Simple and easy to understand when maintenance is required
What is breakdown maintenance?
types of breakdown maintenance
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Liverpool Football Club are absolutely massive.
Manchester United are currently in pre-season training in Australia, where Red Devils supporters Down Under were able to watch a session in Perth.
A Liverpool fan, though, stole the show in brilliant fashion. Knowing when and where the training session was going to take place, they hired a plane and flew a banner saying 'Liverpool FC 6x European Champions' over the top.
One Twitter user captured the hilarious scenes on camera.
So someone's hired a plane to fly this banner above the WACA before @ManUtd's training session 😂 #MUTOUR pic.twitter.com/MTarK62pEW
— Joshua Thomas ⚽ (@Joshua_Thomas97) July 11, 2019
We can expect plenty more reminders of the Reds being the Kings of Europe this season. Unbearable? We don't think so. Why wouldn't you celebrate such a brilliant achievement?
Liverpool's new third kit is dividing opinion
There'll be plenty of singing about being Champions of Europe tonight as the new campaign gets underway with a pre-season match against Tranmere Rovers at Prenton Park.
This Australian Reds fan has set the bar quite high (literally), though, when it comes to reminding rivals about Madrid!

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|February 19, 2020 10:32 AM
|Representative Mary Jo Daley
|All House members
|World Breastfeeding Week Resolution
|Breastfeeding is one of the best investments in saving lives and improving the health of mothers and future generations. Breastfeeding protects children against a wide variety of infections and diseases, such as sudden infant death syndrome, diabetes and respiratory illnesses. In addition, breastfeeding can improve maternal health, lowering the risk of certain cancers and cardiovascular disease.
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action seeks to protect and support breastfeeding across the world and annually recognizes "World Breastfeeding Week" as a means of highlighting the critical importance of breastfeeding children. Pennsylvania has made marked improvements in breastfeeding rates among infants over the past several years, but we still fall behind other states in meeting national breastfeeding benchmarks set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In an effort to address this issue and to support the overall goals of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, I plan to introduce a resolution to designate the week of August 1-7, 2020, as "World Breastfeeding Week" in Pennsylvania. Please join me in supporting this important resolution.
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AI, cloud, and AppDev are already driving agility, efficiency, innovation, and insights for you and your competitors. You've got current plans and projects on the drawing board that you expect will leapfrog you to the front. But that success also hinges on having the artificial intelligence (AI), AppDev, and cloud expertise to create the applications and cloud environments that drive them.
Gaining control, monitoring, and actionable insights of IoT at the edge via AI and cloud will require experts that have done the work in real-world settings. At this stage, you may find it's too costly and inefficient to have these experts on staff since you need that expertise for specific projects at specific times.
A lack of skilled experts and difficulty hiring them topped the list of challenges in AI for over 3,500 business leaders surveyed according to O'Reilly's 2021 AI Adoption in the Enterprise report. Statistics show that of the insufficient number of AI, cloud, and AppDev experts available, only a fraction can work in cross-functional teams and deliver successful results in the actual world.
You 're likely engaged in long-term training and recruitment processes to fill these needs but the projects on the docket can't wait. The collection and analysis of data sets over time for actionable smart decisions requiring AI/ML data set training models will affect finance and healthcare to manufacturing, retail, and beyond.
A few enterprises have made great strides in establishing the center of excellence programs to fulfill those needs. The challenge is that you're feeling the pressure of advancing projects and programs today and not in a future CoE end state.
Customer demands and enterprise needs are changing much too fast around AI to expect even current AI team members to bring the real-world expertise to see projects through to successful end states, so what's the answer? If only there were a way to have access to a COE team of AI, AppDev, and Cloud experts that were fractionally available with the skills you need when you need them to integrate into your existing team and projects.
AI, DevOps, and Cloud Experts as Fractional Resources to fill specific roles at a specific time in project teams would be a dream come true for CIOs, CTOs, CXOs, and PMs from healthcare finance, manufacturing, and beyond. Having AI experts in artificial intelligence, Machine learning (AI/ML), IoT, DevOps, and cloud expert team as a fractional resource for firmware/software development based on budget and when you need them.
As a digital transformation company, Techolution has focused on the many achievable possibilities of practical enterprise solutions, innovation, efficiency, and growth at the intersection of AI, AppDev, Cloud, the Edge, and 5G. The most obvious reason is because your interpretation and needs from digital transformation differ from others. They all vary based on your specific sector, enterprise, and a swath of projects across divisions and departments developing over time.
We've worked years on developing our AI Center of Excellence (CoE), which gives you access to dedicated or fractional resources from our pool of subject-matter experts at Techolution. That translates to an adjustable portfolio of these experts that can meet any of your project needs or budgets as they develop.
Our AI CoE has experience with solving a broad swath of modeling problems across industry sectors including:
From ML and Algorithm Validation to Backend infrastructure development and Cloud Migration, the Techolution team can fulfill your resource portfolio with the experts you need in the proportion in which you need them. That means realizing your DevOps, cloud, and Data Analytics needs for Firmware/Software project development. Our AI Center of Excellence as a Service delivers your proportional expertise needs in:
Our AI COE has experience with solving a broad swath of modeling problems across industry sectors including:
AI, DevOps, and cloud skills are in high demand and short supply, so getting it all is a budget and logistical nightmare. Techolution can solve all your problems with our AI Center of Excellence (CoE) by:
It doesn't matter whether your AI and AppDev need are similar or completely different from your sector peers and those peers in other sectors: Every application of AI/ML is unique to specific data sets and outcomes. This translates to a reality where having any AI/ML expert isn't enough to ensure the successful outcome of a project. You need to make sure you have the right specialists in the right proportions that can meet these two criteria at a minimum:
If we look at a couple of sectors as examples, we can see the importance of how a fractional AI CoE will make all the difference in outcomes.
Healthcare, as one example, has just gone through the biggest wake-up call in its history with the pandemic, where provider ICU staffing, beds, and technology faced a flood of critical patients. Techolution's AI CoE became the solution source for a remote patient monitoring (RPM) project requiring (AI), IoT, DevOps, and cloud experts in the right proportion, at the right time, and within a finite budget.
The result was an application that enabled ICUs to gain insights from current and former patient data set vitals from the devices connected to ICU patient beds. This application could learn based on that data and prescribed condition thresholds controlled by providers. The outcome was to determine proactively which patients might go into a new condition phase based on real-time changes in their individual vitals data. This enabled smaller (or overburdened) ICU staffs to:
Having the support of a cross-functional team of AI, application development, and cloud experts was just the first boon of Techolution AI CoE. These experts had deep experience working together in cross-functional teams on real-world projects and could integrate with the hospital's team and needs. This resulted in a very specific solution that other hospitals can adapt to their needs across the country.
With the possibility of having over 64 billion IoT devices by the end of 2025, collecting sensor data and generating useful insights will be paramount for every industry from telecom to manufacturing. By 2023, cloud-based AI will increase 5X from 2019, making AI one of the top cloud services according to Gartner. This growth shows how AI, IoT, and the cloud in telecom and manufacturing have similar challenges to other sectors.
They must all be capable of quickly accessing, monitoring, and analyzing data remotely in near actual time to make big service, maintenance, and bottom-line decisions. But they also differ when you look at the individual challenges on the ground.
For example, Telco towers are the backbone of communication and the growth of 5G that affects every consumer and business. They need to ensure that they have a way to deploy, manage, monitor, and act on the data from the countless IoT sensors on remote towers. This is vital to uptime, costs, and market competitiveness for them and their millions of consumers and business customers.
We brought together our AI CoE and Application Management Platform to help global telcos to plan, implement, monitor, and access vital IoT sensor networks and their data on remote towers to alert them to maintenance, load, and even market changes leading to new lines of business and service through AI, AppDev and Cloud experts joining with their internal IT teams.
Over 80% of business IoT projects will use AI and ML in one way or another by 2022, according to Gartner. The whole of the digital twin landscape relies on the intersection of AI, cloud, 5G, and IoT expertise. That's one of many reasons the Techolution team has been working for some time on developing a vision of possibilities for digital transformation. A vision that is adaptable to your real-world needs today and tomorrow.
That has resulted in our AI CoE and its integration with cloud transformation and AppDev where we can bring the individual or team expertise you need for your projects to ensure outcome success. It's all about anticipating possibilities to deliver solutions for the industry, market, and customer-changing forces that will make businesses competitive in the digital age.
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Here is a guide to how galas are organised and their terminology…
1. Time Trials
Occasionally, the Club holds time-trials for swimmers to attempt new distances and to gain new personal-best times (PBs). Time trial results cannot be used for County and Regional qualifications.
2. Club Galas
Club Galas tend to be a competition between 6-8 clubs, with points awarded for the finishing position in each race. For this type of gala, swimmers are selected by coaches to represent the Club. The team with the most points wins.
3. League Galas
BPSC takes part in one League competition: the M11 League.
This is a competition for Under 13s, and takes place annually between April and June. The M11 league has 3 rounds with the finishing position for each Club in each round, awarded points towards an overall total. In the final round, the teams are split into a top and bottom half-final.
4. Borough /County /Regional /National Meets
BPSC are members of Middlesex County and London Region.
The borough events do not call for qualifying times, all swimmers are encouraged to enter these competitions.
The target that most coaches set their swimmers, is to be fast enough to achieve the Middlesex BAGCat (British Age Group Categories) -qualifying times. For anyone just outside of the qualifying times, the county hold Development Competitions to give swimmers a chance to achieve those qualifying times.
Once the County BAGCat qualification has been achieved, the next target is the Regional Championships. These are split into BAGCat championships for 10-14-year-olds and the Youth Championships for 15-18-year-olds.
Once qualification to the Regional has been attained, the next step is the National Championships.
2022 Middlesex County Qualifying Times
5. Open Meets
Open meets are run throughout the year by various clubs; there are 4 categories of Open Meet:
Level 1 – These can only take place in a 50m pool and are for swimmers that are at or close to Regional/National qualification.
Level 2 – These can only take place in a 25m pool and are for swimmers that are at or close to Regional/National qualification.
Level 3 – Most competitions that we enter are Level 3 and are for swimmers looking for County and Regional Qualifying times.
Level 4 – This is the level for Club championships and closed meets such as the Borough Championships. Times achieved at this level can be used for qualification into County championships, but not Regional.
6. Club Championships
Every year we hold our Club championships. All members of Broomfield Park are encouraged to enter, so long as you can swim 25 metres!
Swimming Terms
PB – Personal best time
QT – Qualifying Time
IM – Individual Medley
Long Course – Competitions taking place in a 50 metre pool
Short Course – Competitions taking place in a 25 metre pool
Upper Qualifying Time – Many competitions have upper qualifying times so that the right level of swimmer enters the meet. All swimmers entering must be slower than that time.
Lower Qualifying Time – This is the slowest time that a swimmer must be able to achieve to enter the competition.
Speeding Ticket – If a swimmer is faster than the upper qualifying time for a meet, they are awarded a speeding ticket. This is an achievement and often means the swimmer had achieved a BAGCat qualifying time
Whipping Area – This is not as bad as it sounds. It is not where a swimmer goes if they fail to get a PB. This is where the swimmers line up pre-race and where they are told which heats they are in.
Club Records
We have various Club Records.
Our original Club records date back during the whole history of the club. These records we term as the 'Club Records' and they only have an Open category and a Junior category. The Junior category being for swimmers aged under 17.
The Club records originally only covered 100m, 200m and 400m events.
In 2007 we added the 'Age Group Records' for the individual age groups starting from 9 and under and going all the way to 18 year olds. We also added the 50m events to both the 'Club Records' and the 'Age Group Records'
We now have masters records. These start at the age of 18, with all age bands going up in 5 year age groups except for the youngest age group which is 18-24.


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Long out of print and overdue for rediscovery, the late Richard Corben's visionary graphic novels are getting new editions by US publisher Dark Horse from next year.
Known for his legendary fantasy underground masterpieces published by Fantagor Press as well as in Heavy Metal, Richard Corben's work returns to Dark Horse in an exclusive line that will reprint his long-out-of-print work with new material in deluxe hardcover editions, including introductions from other comics legends, and never before published graphic novels as well.
The first book in the line will be Murky World, collected completely in print for the first time, presented in a gorgeous hardcover with a dust jacket.
In Murky World, Tugat the warrior wakes from a strange dream to find himself in a bizarre land populated by hungry deadlings, cruel necromancers, buxom cyclops, evil cults, and more as he sets off on a dangerous journey with his beloved horse Frix.
This special edition also includes an introduction by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, Corben's Dark Horse Presents one-shot, and never-before-seen bonus material.
To celebrate the Den's 50th anniversary, Den: Neverwhere will be the next book in the line to be reprinted. Thrust into a bizarre fantasy world called Neverwhere, the muscular adventurer Den goes on an exotic adventure through ancient ruins meeting an evil queen, her sacrificial doppelganger, bizarre lizard men, giant insects, and more strange and dangerous madness in this legendary saga brimming with horror, magic, and violence.
This deluxe graphic novel will also be published in a hardcover format with a dust jacket. The art of Den: Neverwhere will be restored by José Villarrubia, Corben's long-time collaborator, who will also write the foreword, re-lettered by Nate Piekos of Blambot, and include an introduction by comedian, actor, and writer, Patton Oswalt.
On Corben, José Villarrubia said, "Growing up Richard Corben was my idol and years later I was fortunate to be his collaborator and eventually to consider him a friend. He was the most innovative comics creator of the 20th century, distinguished by his virtuosity in using mixed media. His color was without paragon and continues to surprise me. Studying his work has been and is a lifelong passion."
"I'm so pleased and proud to share Corben art and stories with the world," said Dona Corben. "It means so much to me to make his early works available in print again; and, I'm excited to share his new story that he poured all of his imagination and artistic vision into. I'm incredibly proud of him as an artist and a person, and touched that his work means so much to so many."
• Murky World HC will be available at comic stores April 26, 2023 and in bookstores 9th May 2023 | Pre-order it from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link)
• Den: Neverwhere will be available in comic shops 26th July 2023 and in bookstores 8th August 2023 | Pre-order it from AmazonUK (Affiliate Link)
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United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) works in some of the world's toughest places, to reach the world's most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: TA NOB Nutrition Officer
Job no: 540443
Location: Abuja
Contract Type: Temporary Appointment
Level: NO-2
Categories: Nutrition, NO-2
A university degree in one of the following fields is required: Nutrition, Public Health, Nutritional Epidemiology, Global / International Health and Nutrition, Health / Nutrition Research, Policy and/or Management, Health Sciences, Nutritional Epidemiology, or another health-related science field
A minimum of two (2) years of professional experience in a developing country in one or more of the following areas is required: nutrition, public health, nutrition planning and management, or maternal, infant and child health/nutrition care.
Experience in health/nutrition programme/project development in a UN system agency or organization is an asset.
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered an asset.
Application Closing Date
10th June, 2021 - W. Central Africa Standard Time.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should CLICK HERE to apply online
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Give your beautiful thoughts a wonderful display just by wrapping them up in lovely fonts. Here's an assortment of free fonts that will help you to smarten the texts like headlines, web content, blogs, articles and so on, a stunning and attention grabbing outlook. Most of the fonts available are modish and stylish that will get along with any type of layout to enhance its visibility. You should better download your favorite fonts from this week's collection quickly!
Awesome Hamurz Font
Stop using the same straight up fonts, and start using the Hamurz Free Font, which consist of curvy and wavy alphabets. This font is a perfect for artistic stuff as it can add more creativity to the overall appearance. You can download the entire set of Hamurz Free Font that consists of lowercase, uppercase, punctuation and numerals.
Excellent Humblle Rough Font
New Humblle Rought Free Font is a beautiful mixture of Style Street and lifestyle that wraps up texts and content beautifully. This modern vintage brush typeface style font is all you need to give a natural and realistic look to your design. It is a perfect fit for branding materials, business cards, greeting cards, posters and so on.
Beautiful Elrotex Brush Font
Use the creative Elrotex Brush Font to give your artwork a brush handcraft feels that will make it stand out of the crowd. This appealing font is suitable for various type of printing such as website header, flyer, poster, t-shirt, logos, image slider and so on, which will enhance the overall look of the design.
Fabulous Fibon Sans Regular Font
Use the balanced and low contrast font, Fibon Sans Font to display the text or content imprinted on websites and printable in a stylish and presentable manner. It is a regular weight free font that comes with the uppercase, lowercase and full set of the ligature, using them you can portray your thoughts and views delightfully!
Amazing Variane Script Font
The exclusive Variane Script Typeface Font showcase alphabets in a medium size that are not too thick or too thin. This hand-lettered cursive typeface will uplift the appearance of your website and logo. This font comes with a set of alphabets, numerals and punctuation that is all you need to write up your thoughts and views.
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Be it the web content or text on printable material like flyers, logos, posters and signage, the Boldy Typeface Font could be used for imprinting various type of texts. This simple yet elegant are visibly clean and flexible to make the content easily readable and understandable to the viewers.
The bold style of this font gives every alphabet a weightiness that signifies the importance of the content imprinted using them. Plus, it comes in three terminal forms accompanied with glyphs and it displays alphabets with the swirl at the ends which adds elegance to the font. This font with chic style is available in .TTF format for free download.
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Obituary of Marjorie E. Janes
Marjorie E. Janes, 65, of Woodstock Valley, CT passed away Sunday, October 3, 2021 at her home.
Born in Holden, MA in 1955, she was the daughter of the late Harold and Elizabeth (Marshall) Janes.
She graduated from Wachusett Regional High School in 1973.
Marjorie was a Master Gardener who liked to share her plant knowledge with others. She would offer assistance in garden design and planting information to anyone who asked for help. She would even show up with tools and help with the planting. Her love of gardening was evident in the gardens surrounding her home and places of employment.
Marjorie was first and foremost a Master Weaver. She had been weaving for most of her life. Her dishtowels were in great demand as were her scarves and other woven items. Her designs were both classic and unique. She displayed her work every year at local shows with her "must do" show being The Roseland Cottage Fine Arts Festival. She had been a participant for 38 of the 39 years it has been held. She would bring her loom and spend the day giving demonstrations on how weaving was done.
Marjorie was a compulsive list maker and took great joy in removing items as they were completed. She was an avid reader, had a wonderful sense of humor and was a great storyteller. She was generous, always going above and beyond what was required, but most importantly she was a devoted friend who will be forever missed.
She is survived by four sisters and a brother: Lorinda Fearebay and her husband Dennis of Berlin, MA, Barbara Gutierrez and her husband Arturo of Evergreen, CO, Marshall Janes of Townsend, MA, Natalie Ridge and her husband Stephen of Evans, NY, and Caroline Lomicka and her husband Jeffrey of Chelmsford, MA. She is also survived by many nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews, as well as countless friends.
She was predeceased by her siblings Gregory Janes, Deborah Janes, and Joanne Strauch.
There are no calling hours. A private service will be held at a later date. Donations in Marjorie's name may be made to Roseland Cottage, 556 Route 169, Woodstock CT 06281. Share a memory at Smithandwalkerfh.com


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Why you should buy bitcoin | Crypto Investments
I heard of Bitcoin a while back. And for a while, I've asked myself: should I buy Bitcoin? Is Bitcoin a good investment?
I heard of Bitcoin a while back. And for a while, I've asked myself: should I buy Bitcoin? Is Bitcoin a good investment?
I couldn't just hear about it and jump in. Nope, I kept debating, questioning, putting it off. Perhaps you're in the same boat.
Okay, back to business.
You've heard of Bitcoin for a while now, and the profits early investors made, but you still can't make a decision, right?
Since Bitcoin was created in 2009, the price has kept going up, from $0.01 to $20,000 per coin.
Fun fact: The average growth over 9 years would have been 28% per month.
So, is Bitcoin worth buying in 2020? Is it safe? Should you buy Bitcoin right now, or wait? And how much Bitcoin should you buy?
So…. Should I buy Bitcoin? 4 Reasons Why You Should
So, is Bitcoin a good investment? I get that question a lot. It needs a little patience to develop and understand, especially because you want to make an informed decision, right?
1) Permanent Rules
Although new coins are mined and added to the circulating supply regularly, Bitcoin will never cross over its 21 million coin supply cap. This rule is in contrast to all world governments, who print more money every day.
2) Bitcoin is and will always be scarce
One of the main reasons Bitcoin has risen in value so dramatically is its scarcity.
If all the Bitcoin supply in existence were to be distributed evenly across the people of the earth, then there would only be 0.0023 BTC for each person.
If you own more than 0.0023, you will own more than most people will be able to own.
3) Transferring BTC incurs low fees
International payments can be time-consuming and surprisingly expensive (No, I'm lying. It's not surprising at all). Fees can range from 3.5% to above 10%, and take days to process.
Bitcoin has fees too. And to be fair, the fees can go quite high as the value of Bitcoin rises or the Bitcoin blockchain experiences heavy use. However it's faster and cheaper.
Trading fees at ChainEX however, are beyond reasonable.
4) ChainEX makes it easy to get started
ChainEX is a proudly South African private company, and currently, a South African digital asset exchange that provides a platform for South Africans to buy, sell or trade over 20 different digital assets using the South African rand as the default fiat-buying currency for some.
ChainEX provides you with a secure, online platform from which you can purchase and trade with different digital currencies and assets.
But wait…… There's MORE! ChainEX also offers a referral program! Earn more by referring your people to the platform too!
Q: "So, wait… I can make money from trading AND referring?!"A: "Yes, yes you can :)"
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text: In the past I have questioned AttentionTrust publicly. I wasn't sure just what they were doing and no one seemed to be able to explain it in language I could understand. To be honest, I'm still a little fuzzy, but I'm hoping next Friday will clear that up. That's when I, and 40-50 other /ROOT Vault owners will convene to talk about the whole shebang. I figure it's my chance to finally get my questions answered or at the very least to talk geek for a few hours. So anyway, you could come too if you'd like, just go sign up. If you're looking for me, I'll probably be in the back sitting next to Andrew Teman, resisting the Kool-Aid at all costs.


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Suzanne Jackson's brand SoSu has been hit with a complaint over "misleading" followers online.
The SOSU cosmetics founder has been hit by the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) for breaches to the advertising code.
Jackson was hit with a complaint over misleading her Instagram followers with a dramatic eye look she featured on the platform.
The complaint stated that she had misled her followers over the look she created herself and that the 37-year-old's post suggested the model's eye look had been achieved using the mascara and kohl pencil featured in the post.
According to the Irish Mirror, the influencer was wearing false eyelashes and the complainant considered the Instagram post to be misleading, which was upheld by ASAI.
The complaint against Ms Jackson's Instagram post was among 16 cases reported to the watchdog across social media, online and email that were found to be in breach of the advertising code.
Commenting on the latest rulings, Orla Twomey, Chief Executive of the ASAI, stated: "The latest complaints bulletin from the ASAI shows that we have an important role in ensuring that advertisers in Ireland adhere to the advertising code.
"The ASAI monitors advertisements and marketing communications regularly to ensure that they are legal, truthful, decent, and honest, prepared with a sense of social responsibility to the consumer and society and with proper respect for the principles of fair competition.
"The ASAI provides a free and confidential copy advice service to the advertising industry to help them create responsible ads.
"If an advertiser, agency, or medium has any concerns about a marketing communications' compliance with the ASAI's Code, they can contact us and avail of the free and confidential copy advice service."


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Is FEGLI boiling you alive? Lessons from the 'Boiling Frog' on making smarter insurance decisions.
The boiling frog is a fable describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. All gore aside, the premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out. However, if the frog is put in room temp water which is then brought to a boil slowly, the frog will not realize the danger until it's too late. The story is often used as an analogy for the inability to notice threats that arise gradually, rather than suddenly.
This story of the boiling frog also illustrates an aspect of human psychology: we tend to accept things that creep up on us slowly but steadily, even when they take control of our lives. But one day we wake up and find ourselves in 'boiling water.'
What does this have to do with Life insurance, FEGLI and Option B? Quite a bit actually. FEGLI and the steady unnoticed rise in cost of FEGLI is the 'boiling frog' of the federal employee benefits and I'll explain why.
FEGLI, (short for Federal Employee Group Life Insurance program) provides group life insurance to all federal employees, regardless of your current health status. The premiums are deducted from your paycheck automatically and upon being hired, anyone can participate without a health screening. When you go through a life transition such as getting married or having kids, you can add more life insurance via FEGLI. There is no open enrollment with without underwriting with FEGLI. The most recent open enrollment occurred in 2016.
FEGLI also provides options to choose various amounts of coverage and the more life insurance you add, the more you pay. As you age, the payroll deductions increase slightly annually with large price bumps every five years. The incremental price increases (e.g., heat increases) may be tough to notice because no one really checks their paystubs, especially in comparison to other larger deductions such as FEHB premiums, TSP contributions, taxes, etc.
Lastly, the largest component of FEGLI is option B. Option B allows additional insurance to be layered on the basic benefit as a multiple of your salary. The most of you can add is 5X your salary.
FEGLI starts out as a really inexpensive option for an entry level, non-married healthy person in their 20's. However, by the time a person reaches their mid-30s, with larger incomes, families and insurance needs FEGLI stops becoming a bargain. By the time someone reaches their 40's the cost difference can be substantial.
The crucial FEGLI feature central to our 'boiling frog' analogy is that participation in FEGLI is guaranteed regardless of health. Insurance is typically underwritten, which is the process of classifying the risk to the insurance company and then pricing a policy accordingly. Think of car insurance.
If you're a good driver, own a safe car and have no speeding tickets you will get a better rate than your neighbor who has three tickets for speeding, owns a rear wheeled drive Ford Mustang in snowy Michigan and has two accidents in the past year. It would be downright unfair and certainly not smart for you to use an insurance company that treats you and your neighbor as equals and makes you pay the same price.
Welcome to FEGLI.
This is exactly what happens and why the FEGLI is so expensive. You could be a marathon runner, eat 100% organic and be in great shape but if you are the same age as your overweight, diabetic, smoking a pack of day coworker you will pay the exact same. For him, life insurance via FEGLI is a bargain. For you, not at all.
As you approach 40 you may be paying 1.5-2X the price you pay could be paying for life insurance with any number of companies. Still have FEGLI in your 50's and that price differential approaches 3X as expensive as the private market.
Life insurance is a crucial for all families and I'm not advocating eliminating it. Far from it. But if you've been overpaying for FEGLI for many years, you might already be a frog already in hot water.
For example, we recently helped a 50-year-old border patrolman with a wife and two kids.
Sadly, his FEGLI case was typical. He had option B FEGLI (5x his salary) because he still needs the insurance. Has one kid in college, one going in 2 years.
He is currently paying FEGLI $200.00 a month which will go up each year. He is also due for a large price increase at age 55 to $378.00/month! He thinks he needs the insurance of another 10 years. Therefore, we recommended a 10-year term coverage for the same amount he currently had with FEGLI with an A-rated insurance company at a Standard Plus health rating. (not even the best health price since he was slightly overweight) His premium would immediately reduce to $85 a month and remain the same for 10 years. Zero increases.
The cost savings alone for the first 5 years amounted to $12,000. His son is currently at Wayne State University and he pays almost that amount in tuition each year!
So…by doing a simple review of his FEGLI, he just saved a year of tuition. Yeah, it's that simple.
Had he already been overpaying for FEGLI for years? Of course. FEGLI is after all the boiling frog for federal benefits. He was still appreciative because we got him out of the hot water before it was too late.
In all sincerity, the best part of the planning was that we are able to reposition the found money to another financial need (college) while leaving him with the same exact amount of life insurance and protection. This found money allowed him to not reduce his TSP contribution rate (like he planned) to cover the costs of college for his younger son still 2 years away. He was thus able maintain the current savings rate in his Thrift Savings Plan and keep him on track for retirement.
All from a quick insurance analysis.
The morale of the story is to not be a frog. Take a look at your FEGLI premium and get some competitive prices and try not to gasp. Life insurance has never been easier to buy so there is really no excuses. Insurance companies provide online applications, easier in-home medical exams and you don't even have to deal with an agent if you don't want to.
Not sure you want to go it alone? We can help. As financial advisors who are fiduciaries, we must always do what is the best interest of the client and promise no salesmanship and no strings attached. Insurance agents, even the great ones, aren't held to that same standard and can advise clients incorrectly.
Look at is this way, you might save some money and given today's time and age; you can never be too careful with your cash, or your insurance.


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Base sa ulat ng Philippine News Agancy, sinegundahan ng Commission on Elections (COMELEC) ang petisyon na inihain ng National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) laban sa Gabriela partylist.
Ayon sa kautusan na may petsang Nobyembre 27, sinabi ng Comelec's Second Division na may legal standing ang NTF-ELCAC na maghain ng petisyon laban sa rehistrasyon ng Gabriela Party list dahil sa pagtanggap umano ng pondo mula sa foreign government at sa pagsuporta sa aktibidades ng gma terorista.
Ang reklamo laban sa Gabriela ay nag-ugat sa dokumentong "Overview of Non-Government Actors in the Philippines-Program 2017-2021" na ibinahagi ng Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Belgium sa Pilipinas.
"Said document revealed that the Belgian Government, through its accredited non-government organizations (NGOs) particularly G3W, also known as Viva Salud, funded the respondents… Respondent's act is a blatant and direct violation of the Constitution which prohibits, in no uncertain and equivocal trend and qualifications, political parties, coalitions of political parties or organizations from receiving support from any foreign government," sabi ng NTF-ELCAC.
Tinukoy sa dokumento ang ulat ng Anti-Money Laundering Council na nakatanggap ang Gabriela ng hindi bababa sa 22.7 million. Nabanggit din sa dokumento ang sinumpaang salaysay ni Edison Coloma Villanueva kung saan sinabi nito na sinusuportahan ng Gabriela ang mga gawain ng New People's Army.
"What is more revealing, Villanueva, in his salaysay (testimony), states that Gabriela utilizes its funds for the procurement of firearms and ammunitions for the CPP-NPA," sabi sa dokumento.
"Since the CPP-NPA has been declared as a Terrorist Organization, through Proclamation No. 374, s. 2017 under Republic Act No. 10168, and having also been declared as a Terrorist Organization by the United States of America through Public Notice 9768 and the European Union Council Decision, Common Foreign and Security Policy dated August 4, 2017, respondents acts of helping and supporting a declared terrorist organization is violative of the Constitution, and are clearly advocating and or using violence and other unlawful means to advance their goals," dagdag naman ng NTF-ELCAC.


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The Reelers offer friendly, animated square dancing ("Plus" program) and round dancing (cued ballroom) on the first and third Friday of each month from the end of September through the beginning of June. Our terrific visiting square dance callers come from throughout the region, our regular round dance cuer is awesome, we offer a special feature tip at each dance, and our refreshments are delicious!
7:30-8:00 round dancing
8:00-10:00 alternating Plus and rounds
We also offer square dancing lessons! Our Mainstream (beginner) class is in progressand happens on Monday nights 7-9 pm.
The Reelers normally dance at Ironia Elementary School, 303 Dover-Chester Road (Route 513), Randolph, NJ 07869. Alternate sites are noted on the schedule as needed.


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Three months into my hiking journey and I still haven't found a better trail food than beef jerky. I love the taste, I love the protein boost and lets be honest its like having a dried steak in your pocket. What could go wrong with that?
The only problem I have found with my jerky habit so far is that there are so many options out there. I sit and stare at the grocery aisle for hours just trying to figure out which one to buy. So in an effort to help all of you avoid my fate, I decided to buy them all and give them a test for you. Also, now I have beef jerky to last a normal human for a year, or the Fatman a week.
What I ended up was with 5 beef jerky's that I bought at King Soopers and one package from Dollar General that was sent from my brother as part of a care package. The brands I picked up were Old trapper, Jack Links, Kroger, Simple Truth Organic, and Clover Valley from Dollar General, and Chef's Choice.
A couple of notes before I get started. The nutritonal information that I list is from the package itself and was provided, obviously, by the company. The cost was from the full price of each item not including any sales. Beef Jerky seems to always be on sale somewhere so those prices may vary.
Clover Valley
First out of the gate was Clover Valley original flavor.
- Bag Size 2.75oz
- Cost $3.25
- Sugar/Oz 4g
- Carb/Oz 7g
- Protein/Oz 10g
- Sodium/Oz 560mg
- Fat/Oz 1g
- Cost/Oz $1.18
There is a mix of thin cut and thicker cut (1/4 inch) in the bag and I tried a piece of both. The thinner cut was easy to chew and almost dissolved in mouth. The thicker cut piece was more stiff and took some chewing but as I was chewing it began to break up and became easy to chew. Nothing really stuck to my teeth or got stringy.
The salt was the first thing that hit me and stayed with me for the first few chews. A bit of a smokey flavor came through after and it was very pleasant. There is a small aftertaste of salted beef but nothing over powerful. There also wasn't an overly sweet flavor and I didn't get that sugary film on my hands or coating my mouth. (Editor Note: This is the only brand that I did not have the "peppered" flavor.)
Simple Truth Organic
Second try was with the Simple Truth Organic Cracked Pepper flavor.
- Bag Size 2.5oz
- Cost $3.79
- Sugar/Oz 6g
- Carb/Oz 6g
- Protein/Oz 9g
- Sodium/Oz 470mg
- Fat/Oz 1g
- Cost/Oz $1.51
The pieces are a bit of a smaller cut with most being about one by one inch. The individual pieces have some flexibility to them and they are soft as soon as they are put in the mouth but a regular sized piece doesn't break down quickly and needs a lot of chewing to break it up.
The pepper hits fast and has a really nice spice to it. After the first bite my whole mouth was engulfed in the peppery flavor and that is all I could really taste. I don't really detect much salt at all or even any beef flavor. One minute later and a drink of water later and all I can taste in mouth is pepper and my tongue still has a burning sensation. I'm not saying that is good or bad but just something to keep in mind if you have a sensitive mouth.
This also has the lowest cost, cost per ounce and lowest sugar. It also is tied for the smallest bag and the has the least amount of protein per ounce.
Kroger brand
Third on my list, after a pause to clear the pepper taste away, was Kroger Beef Steakhouse Jerky, Peppered flavor
- Bag Size 2.85oz
- Cost $3.49
- Sugar/Oz 5g
- Carb/Oz 5g
- Protein/Oz 13g
- Sodium/Oz 490mg
- Fat/Oz 1g
- Cost/Oz $1.22
The pieces in the bag are pretty large, a bit tough to get a whole one in the mouth at one time. The jerky is relatively stiff in the hand only giving a little bit around the edges. It takes some force to bite a piece off and the jerky begins rather stiff in the mouth but breaks down after a few chews and becomes manageable.
There seems to be less pepper per piece of jerky so the flavor of the beef comes through unless you get a direct hit on a peppercorn. The beef has a sweet, slightly smokey flavor to it. The pepper, while not as prevalent and adds a nice contrast when you get that flavor against the sweetness of the beef.
This has the lowest carbs and most protein.
Jack Links
Jack Links was batting clean up in my order and I tried the Jack Links Peppered flavored
- Bag Size 2.85 Oz
- Cost $3.99
- Sugar/Oz 7g
- Carb/Oz 8g
- Protein/Oz 10g
- Sodium/Oz 510mg
- Fat/Oz 1g
- Cost/Oz $1.40
The Jack Links actually split in two while I was trying to bend it with my fingers and from first bite it is really soft. The beef separates at the first bite and becomes very soft in the mouth almost immediately. Before I knew it the piece was finished while other jerky's usually take more chewing this was a quick snack. There is an assortment of piece sizes in the bag from large to small.
The Jack Links has a very sweet taste to it. The sweetness hits you from the first bite and is the overwhelming flavor. There is an occasional pepper flavor from a corn but the pepper struggles to overpower the sweet. The aftertaste has a hint of a smokey flavor but still tastes very sweet.
This has the highest sugar and the highest carbs.
Old Trapper
The fifth jerky I tried was from Old Trapper and was their Peppered flavor
- Bag Size 10oz
- Cost $12.99
- Sugar/Oz 5g
- Carb/Oz 6g
- Protein/Oz 11g
- Sodium/Oz 590mg
- Fat/Oz 0g
- Cost/Oz $1.29
The Old Trapper was flexible in the hand test but without breaking without using a tearing action. Even though it is a big bag there are a lot of smaller pieces mixed in with a few large pieces. While the pieces aren't stiff they are very chewy. It takes more chewing to break down and it doesn't really dissolve in the mouth at all.
Old Trapper has visible pepper corns on it and the pepper flavor is the first thing that you taste but you can also taste the beef come through. The beef is semi-sweet with more of a vinegary hint of flavor that comes through. I think it is a good balance of sweet and peppery flavors that balance each other well.
This has the biggest bag and the lowest fat. It also has highest cost per bag and highest sodium per ounce.
Real Jerky Company Chef's Cut
The Chef's Cut is the last jerky for me to try. I had their Chipotle Cracked Pepper flavored.
- Bag Size 2.5oz
- Cost $3.99
- Sugar/Oz 6g
- Carb/Oz 6g
- Protein/Oz 10g
- Sodium/Oz 340mg
- Fat/Oz 2.5g
- Cost $1.59
The Chef's cut is soft and pliable with the hand test and breaks apart easily. It also dissolves in the mouth with a few chews. It is the softest of group so far with no hard edges and easily broken down with soft chews.
It tastes more like a roast or fajita meat that has been bagged up and even has grill lines on it. There is slight spice at the beginning with a smoky-sweet aftertaste. It is almost too sweet to me but I'm more a savory person. It doesn't give the feel of beef jerky when eating it. I feel like I would warm this up and put it in a tortilla but I am having a mental block about taking this on a hike as a classic beef jerky.
This also is tied for smallest bag and has the most fat and highest cost per ounce.
Picking a favorite beef jerky is like picking a favorite bacon. They all have good qualities and different flavor profiles and textures that may be better or worse for certain people. Plus, there are no wrong choices! For instance, sitting on my back porch the very strong pepper and spice of the Simple Truth Organic sounds great but will it be best on a hike when you need quick consumption for energy replacement? Are the Kroger or Clover Valley with a stiffer texture going to be better shoved into a backpack or do you want a softer cut because you are going to be tired and don't want to burn the calories chewing.
It is all a very personal choice. Going in I thought that Jack Links would be my favorite. Out of the bag I thought Chef's Cut would be my favorite based on how it looked and smelled. Afterword factoring in the flavors and costs I think I would say it would be between the Clover Valley and the Old Trapper as my favorite although I was surprised that even the big bag of old trapper that is offered isn't the cheapest per ounce option.
I have added a breakdown with some numbers highlighted in the table below with black and red based on notes from the posts.
|Clover Valley
|Simple Truth Organic
|Jack Links
|Old Trapper
|Chefs Cut
|Bag Size
Feel free to leave comments or suggestions for other brands below or you can email me your comments or follow me and comment on any of the social media platforms listed below. Happy Hiking!


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by Caleb Curry/Staff Writer
Bang! Bang! The constant sound of the hammer making toys. Constant Christmas carols, happy faces, laughing, and talking.
"It's the most wonderful time of the year!" the elves sang.
"Wonderful, haha," Mike said quietly, "More like horrible. Oh by the way my name is Mike. I've been one of Santa's elves here in the North Pole for 15 years. Now the world doesn't recognize life in the North Pole so human rights violations and labor laws don't apply out here. Fifteen years and not a dime for my trouble. I just love the work some would say, or it's the kids' happy faces that get me up in the morning. All of that is pure nonsense. No amount of happiness can fulfill the amount of pain that my ears go through. This much constant noise is enough to make someone-"
"Bang! Bang! Clank! Bang! Smash!" the hammer continued.
"Hey, Jonathan," Mike yelled, "I'm doing a mysterious monologue to the documentary crew here. If you don't stop, I will take that mallet and throw it out the window."
"Sorry about that. As I was saying, the working conditions are laughable and free will is nothing but a construct of our imaginations, which is why I have formulated a plan. This documentary is not going to focus on the joys of Christmas and the 'happiness of the holidays.' Instead I will be drawing attention to the human rights violations committed by the big man in the red suit," Mike finished.
"Let's start by interviewing Mitch," Mike said, "Hey, Mitch."
"Hey, Mike," Mitch said, "What's with the big camera?"
"Documentary about the joys of the holidays," Mike said with a wink to the camera. "How long have you been making jack-in- the-boxes?" he added.
"I'm entering hour seventeen now," Mitch responded.
"And have you seen a cent for your labors, Mitch?" Mike inquired.
"What does that have to do with Christ-" Mitch started.
"Don't be such a cotton-headed Ninny muggins, Mitch, and answer the question."
"No, I guess," Mike said, "Also that was a bit rude of you and I would like an apology."
"Well, that's all the time we have for Mitch," Mike said quickly. "Let's go take a look at the reindeer."
"And here we are in the wild, a look at the reindeer in their natural habitat," Mike said, "except they're not because Santa kidnapped them and brought them to the frigid North Pole. He fed them magic carrots that make them fly, and forced them to fly all around the world to each house with the world's heaviest bag of toys," Mike said angrily. "Now there is just one more thing I want to show you," Mike said with a smirk.
"The Holy Grail of Big Red's great atrocities," Mike said, "Santa's stash of coal for the naughty kids. The world is striving to find fuel sources because natural resources will run out, and here the Big Kahuna is with an eternity's supply." Mike said. He closed out, "Ladies and gentlemen of the Earth I call you to put an end to Santa's reign and dethrone him if not for us, for the lifetime supply of coal."
"A shocking news story has developed today as a documentary titled 'The True and Scary Story of Santa Claus's Compound' reached the world today," the news anchor said, "The documentary was produced and hosted by a former elf named Mike. Mike showed up on the coast of the U.K. requesting asylum after allegedly swimming from the North Pole." She went on, "Many world leaders requested a conference with Santa Claus who made the decision to cut off communication with them all together. In response countries started taking sides and the unofficial declaration of World War Three has begun. We will now show you footage of different leaders stating which side they will be on."
"If there is large amounts of coal in the North Pole, then sure I'll go to war," The U.S. President said.
"Human Rights violations are ay-okay with us, so we'll take Santa's side," the leader of Communist China said.
"I'm going to stay out of this one," the German leader said.
"In other news, parents are now angry that they will have to spend their own money on Christmas presents. The U.S. president has said the term 'Christmas Spirit' is just commie propaganda. The U.K. said they will be renaming the holiday on December 25th to 'Happy Cold Day,' and some people are pushing for people to remember the true reason for theholidays. This is Channel 12's Jane Wilkinson wishing you a Merry Happy Cold Day and a good new year. Good night," Jane closed.


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The expansion of the information economy is accelerating. Every two years, the digital universe will double in size, and according to EMC will reach 44 zettabytes (44 trillion gigabytes) by 2020. That's about 5,200 gigabytes of data per person. Data processing fuelling the information economy also fuels the continued energy consumption of data centers. As the information economy expands, so will demand for energy by data centers.
Data centers already consume a high amount of electricity. US data centers were responsible for 91 billion kilowatt hours in 2013, and that number is expected to climb to 140 billion kilowatt hours by 2020, according to the Natural Resources Defence Council. That adds up to $13 billion in costs, 100 million metric tons of carbon emissions and, notably, about 2 to 3 percent of all US electricity use.
To offset these increases, the White House has challenged US data centers to improve their energy efficiency by 20 percent — more than 20 billion kilowatt hours — before 2020. Through its "Save Energy Now" initiative, the US Department of Energy is training datacenter energy practitioners (DCEPs) to help facilities realize these goals.
All businesses, including data centers, are also assessing broad, international energy agreements. At the UN Climate Summit last year, the EU set a goal to reduce emissions by 80 to 95 percent by 2050. And as part of the last year's landmark agreement between the United States and China, the United States pledged to reduce emissions by 26 to 28 percent before 2025, while China announced it would achieve peak carbon emissions before 2030.
Although data center operators are already working hard to improve energy efficiency, it will take broad, industry-wide initiatives on both the supply and demand sides, to meet the UN Climate Summit targets and other goals that have been set across the globe. Fundamentally new approaches to the energy supply chain are required, from how energy is produced and stored to the investments required of government agencies and other institutions.
Demand-side Focus, So Far
Pledges for reduced carbon emissions and new energy efficiency challenges to date, largely project onto the demand side of the climate control problem. This is in the form of taxation schemes and regulations on energy use born by the data center operators as the consumers of energy.
Data centers, as one of the largest industrial consumers of energy worldwide, due to the continued expansion of the new information economy, are at once positioned to demonstrate leadership in sustainability efforts while also being subject to these imposed regulatory pressures to demonstrate energy efficiency improvements. While data centers must continue to consume energy to support the growing data processing demands, they also must grapple with the costs and burdens of this dynamically changing landscape of governmental regulations. This is typically accomplished with a two-pronged approach of programs to improve their use of energy and accepting the increased cost of buying green energy from the grid.
Many data center operators go to extraordinary lengths to continually ratchet down their power usage effectivenss (PUE) values. For example, the practice of seawater cooling has been implemented by one European facility, which has cut its energy bill by $1 million and lowered its PUE. Data center operators will also pay premiums on their utility services in order to compensate for their energy consumption for a proportional amount of energy generated by sustainable sources. Some data centers even derive up to 90 percent, and some even 100 percent, of their power from sustainable sources like solar, wind and hydro, using these approaches to how they procure energy from the grid.
Because energy costs are such a large part of their cost of doing business, some data center providers have been standard-bearers of energy efficiency and environmental responsibility, maintaining a sense of urgency toward carbon reduction and energy efficiency improvements long before today's public initiatives. These energy efficiency practices and innovations pioneered by data center operators are often leveraged by other industries, such as digital media and content distribution providers who are tenants in those data centers and who want to demonstrate environmental stewardship as a part of their leadership in the new information economy.
New Energy Production and Storage
The likely economic realities of fossil fuel energy sources, including oil, natural gas and coal, have compelled researchers to predict how soon conventional power will reach obsolescence. Some have boldly predicted that we could reach a crossroad as soon as 2030.
To reach that point though, there will need to be improvements in the efficiency of solar photovoltaic cells (PVCs) and turbines. Costs of those technologies will also need to come down. Furthermore, economic and regulatory conditions will need to facilitate new capacity from sustainable sources being easily integrated and adopted.
In addition to improvements in the generation efficiency of solar and wind technology, it's important that advances also take place for energy storage technology. There are promising developments, from pumped hydroelectric power and liquid air energy storage (LAES) to hydrogen storage and kinetic flywheels. Another is liquid-metal batteries, which operate silently and emission-free, have a long lifespan compared to conventional batteries, and discharge slowly over time. MIT researchers are working toward liquid-metal batteries that store power for less than $500 per kilowatt hour — a third of the cost of traditional batteries.
The Other Side of the Climate Change Equation
Continued pressure on the demand side of the climate change equation will have limited impact absent similar movement on the supply side.
When compared to fossil fuels, sustainable energy sources represent a very small percentage of power brought to the grid. If we truly hope that sustainable sources play a major role in total grid energy, then significant help is needed with advancement of technology as well as changes in market conditions that presently facilitate continued widespread use of fossil fuel for power generation. This level of help can come from government and institutional investments.
Realizing the technological advances required to make wind and solar a viable energy generation alternative to fossil fuels will require significant investment of capital for research and development.
Last year, global investment in clean energy topped out at $254 billion, far off the recommendation of the International Energy Agency, which has called for an additional one trillion in annual investments to stave off the worst impacts of climate change. This "Clean Trillion" initiative needs to continue through 2050 to keep global temperatures from increasing beyond the established limit of two degrees Celsius. To continue to address the supply side of the carbon emissions issue, governments and other institutions' involvement to facilitate investment in technologies that make the energy production and storage process more efficient would be most helpful.
Bob Landstrom is the director of product management at Interxion. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, a master of science in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri, and a master degree in IS security management from Villanova University. He has a US patent for an arithmetic data error detection and correction code, and is a frequent conference speaker in the data center industry and the author of numerous white papers and publications. Bob teaches data center and IS security topics for industry professional organizations, the US Department of Energy, and is an adjunct professor at a university in the United States.


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The Truth About Kaley Cuoco's First Engagement
Kaley Cuoco is now happily married to Karl Cook. The couple wed in 2018 according to Women's Health. They got together in 2016 after meeting at a horse show — Cuoco is a big fan of horses. "I'm so happy. I can't stop smiling. Life is so so good," The Big Bang Theory star said at the time (via People). Of course, true Kaley Cuoco fans know that Cook is not her first love. The blonde beauty was married before, to tennis player Ryan Sweeting.
Cuoco married Sweeting in 2013 according to Us Weekly. Their union would last for three years. After the couple divorced, the actress admitted, "I think even when I went through my big breakup — even my friends that know me so well — I might have said things like, 'I'm never going to love again. I'm never going to get married again.' You say these things. But the people that know you best, they know my heart and that's just not me."
It seems Cuoco has found her prince charming. But even before marrying Sweeting, the 8 Simple Rules star struggled to find her happily ever after.
Kaley Cuoco was engaged three times
Pre-Ryan Sweeting, Cuoco was actually engaged to someone else. The year was 2011, and the guy was Josh Resnik, an addiction specialist (via Us Weekly). The now-married star was only 25 years old when her rep told People about the couple's plans to wed: "The surprise proposal took place during a quiet date night at home. The couple are very happy and excited to begin planning their wedding." That was in October — by March of 2012, the brief engagement was off.
"I'm not engaged anymore," Cuoco announced, without providing more details (via People). It seems she moved on quickly, because by December of the following year, the now 34-year-old was married to Sweeting — she would date a few other men briefly in between these two major relationships. Of course, this is all in the rear view mirror by now. Onward and upward, right Kaley?


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Wow, I am kind of amazed that I am actually on track with my goal so far :)
Aren't they so cute!? I am crazy about the cute orange yarn on #2 and the new design I came up with for #1. I will list them later today in my shop.
Hope you like the sneak peak.
There's lots more to come and I am so excited to share!


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We're on Day 9 of the 21-Day Lockdown, imposed nationwide by Prime Minister Narendrs Modi as a crucial weapon in the fight against the Coronavirus global pandemic. On the morning of Friday, April 3, 2020, with a surprising shift from his infamous 8 pm time slot, PM Modi issued a video message for the citizens of Indian at 9 AM IST. In the message, PM Modi urged the citizens of India to switch off all their lights at 9 PM IST Sunday, April 5, 2020, for 9 minutes, and light a candle, oil lamp, or torch outside their homes, in a show of national solidarity.
Here are the key highlights of PM Narendra Modi's speech:
PM Modi reminded us, today as the lockdown completes 9 days, that he appreciates how the country has come together during this COVID-19 crisis, in the biggest ever lockdown in history.
He stated how other countries are now following India's example, whether it is in terms of the lockdown or clapping to honour their healthcare, sanitation and essential service professionals for their hard work during the crisis.
PM then went on to remind us that nobody is alone in this, a reminder that is especially needed for the poor and marginalised sections of the country, who might be shrouded in darkness about their future. He urged that we will have to unite as a nation and take these people and ourselves from the darkness of Coronavirus into the light.
For this purpose, PM Modi has proposed that at 9 PM IST on Sunday, April 5, 2020, all citizens turn off the lights in their homes, and light a candle or a diya (lamp) or even switch on their phone torches in their balconies or at their doorstep, in a show of solidarity and light in these dark times.
However, having learnt from the colossal errors of the the previous Sunday clapping activity where people had taken to the streets and rendered the whole social distancing exercise during the #JanataCurfew useless, the PM diligently urged people to not step out of their homes in anyway during this blackout, and to continue maintaining social distance.
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Increased arterial stiffness is a degenerative vascular process, progressing with age that leads to a reduced capability of arteries to expand and contract in response to pressure changes. This progressive degeneration mainly affects the extracellular matrix of elastic arteries and causes loss of vascular elasticity. Recent studies point to significant interference of dietary polyphenols with mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology and progression of arterial stiffness. This review summarizes data from epidemiological and interventional studies on the effect of polyphenols on vascular stiffness as an illustration of current research and addresses possible etiological factors targeted by polyphenols, including pathways of vascular functionality, oxidative status, inflammation, glycation, and autophagy. Effects can either be inflicted directly by the dietary polyphenols or indirectly by metabolites originated from the host or microbial metabolic processes. The composition of the gut microbiome, therefore, determines the resulting metabolome and, as a consequence, the observed activity. On the other hand, polyphenols also influence the intestinal microbial composition, and therefore the metabolites available for interaction with relevant targets. As such, targeting the gut microbiome is another potential treatment option for arterial stiffness.
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- Aging
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Also known as a swing loan, gap financing, or interim financing, a bridge loan is typically good for a six month period, but can extend up to 12 months. Most bridge loans carry an interest rate roughly 2% above the average fixed-rate product and come with equally high closing costs.
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Commercial bridge loans are a flexible loan arrangement intended to provide short term financing until an exit strategy, like a refinance or sale, can be executed. Commercial bridge loans act as interim funding, facilitating the purchase of commercial real estate and completion of rehabs or upgrades, but not acting as permanent financing.
On a bridge loan, you might end up paying higher interest costs than on home equity loans. Typically, the rate will be 0.5 to 1.0 percent higher than for a 30-year, standard fixed-rate mortgage. Additionally, some people feel stressed when they have to make two mortgage payments plus accrue interest on a bridge loan because of the additional funds going out each month.
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We've explained a bit why CRE bridge loans generally cost what they do; now we'll try to get more specific. In the space RRA lends into, we currently see bridge loans priced in the 5-10% interest rate range, with a sweet spot around 5.5% – 7.5%.
The loan is also usually a short term loan offered at a higher interest rate. The idea is that once the first property is sold, the bridge loan will be paid off immediately from the $200,000 net proceeds from the sale of the first house.
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Working in partnership with the Watford Dementia Steering Group, the Golden Memories At Home reminiscence programme offers support and signposting to those living with dementia and their carers.
Developed as an extension of the programme that was based at Vicarage Road, Golden Memories At Home aims to evoke the same magic and personal memories as previous face-to-face sessions.
Golden Memory Boxes have been created and contain a host of wonderful resources from Watford FC and the Watford Museum – from sporting memorabilia to a 'Journey through the decades' booklet, detailing each decade from the 1940s including key events, fashion and food facts. These boxes will be delivered to your home.
Regular telephone calls and/or doorstep visits can be arranged. These provide a friendly familiar voice of support, especially for those living on their own.
There will be additional opportunities to join special events via Zoom. Most recently, a Valentines Cream Tea was arranged with live music and special guest appearances. Future events include an Easter Variety Show.


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This month seen my savings continue grow to $3,500. My retirement savings did drop a little bit this month down to $95,700. While the overall value of my account dropped it was my best month of the year for dividends at $370. For the year my dividend income is $1,101. Option income for the month was $298. For the year option income is $881. My top 3 positions in the IRA are Microsoft, cash and Verizon. The Tortoise Acquisition position was sold off because the covered call I sold reached the strike price and my shares were assigned. With the option premium and capital gains I made almost $2,200 in profit on my $2,600 position in Tortoise Acquisition. I sold a lot of positions this month as I still work on figuring out my investing strategy. One of my big issues is that there are so many good companies to invest in and I want to invest in all of them. My IRA had grown to more than 60 positions which is too much for me to keep track of at this point. My net worth improved this month to -$1,900. I am somewhat overwhelmed by how making some small changes in my life to spend less, earn more, pay down debt and invest has had such a dramatic impact on improving my financial situation.
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April 28, 2011 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved abiraterone acetate (Zytiga, Cougar Biotechnology) in combination with prednisone for the treatment of metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer in men who have received prior docetaxel chemotherapy.
The application was reviewed under the FDA's priority review program, and the new oral agent is being approved ahead of the product's June 20, 2011, regulatory goal date, according to the FDA.
In the pivotal COU-AA-301 trial, patients who received abiraterone acetate plus prednisone had a median overall survival duration of 14.8 months, compared with 10.9 months for patients receiving prednisone plus placebo. The difference was statistically significant.
"Zytiga prolonged the lives of men with late-stage prostate cancer who had received prior treatments and had few available therapeutic options," said Richard Pazdur, MD, director of the Office of Oncology Drug Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
Abiraterone treatment also resulted in significant differences between the 2 treatment groups for all the COU-AA-301 trial's secondary endpoints, including time to prostate-specific antigen (PSA) progression, radiographic progression-free survival, and PSA response rate. These results and the survival data were presented this year at the 35th European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress and reported by Medscape Medical News at the time.
Abiraterone investigator Johann de Bono, MBBS, PhD, suggested that the modest improved survival was impressive in light of the efforts to date in the field. "While 3.9 months may not seem like much, in the history of prostate cancer, only 4 drugs have ever shown a survival benefit," he noted at ESMO.
The new drug targets the protein cytochrome P450 17A1 (CYP17A1), which plays an important role in the production of testosterone, according to the FDA. Abiraterone works by decreasing the production of testosterone, which stimulates prostate cancer cell growth.
Abiraterone is being marketed by Centocor Ortho Biotech.
More Details on Efficacy, Adverse Events
In the COU-AA-301 study, Dr. de Bono and colleagues randomly assigned 1195 patients with castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer who had been previously treated with docetaxel to receive abiraterone, 1000 mg, plus prednisone, 5 mg, twice daily (n = 797) or placebo plus prednisone (n = 398) at 147 centers in 13 countries.
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Adverse events were more commonly observed in the abiraterone group. Fluid retention was more common (30.5% vs 22.3%), as was hypokalemia (17.1% vs 8.4%), but grade 3/4 hypokalemia (3.8% vs 0.8%) and grade 3/4 hypertension (1.3% vs 0.3%) were infrequent.
Liver function test abnormalities were reported in 10.4% of the patients who received the investigational agent compared with 8.1% in the placebo group. Cardiac problems were also more common in the abiraterone group compared with placebo, at 12.5% vs 9.4%.
However, overall, Dr. de Bono believes that the drug is not terribly toxic. "It is an oral agent and does not have the toxicity of chemotherapy, and it is well tolerated in my experience," he said at ESMO.
Multiple New Treatments on Horizon in This Setting
In addition to the newly approved abiraterone, 2 other new agents have been approved for men with advanced prostate cancer in the past year.
Sipuleucel-T (Provenge, Dendreon) is an immunotherapy indicated for asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic men with castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer. It improved overall survival duration by a median of 4.1 months compared with survival in a control group.
Candidates for this vaccine should have a good performance status, an estimated life expectancy of more than 6 months, and no visceral disease, according the 2011 National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines.
Another new second-line option in this setting — cabazitaxel (Jevtana, Sanofi-Aventis) — has also been shown in a phase 3 trial to prolong overall survival; median survival duration was 15.1 months in the cabazitaxel group and 12.7 months in the mitoxantrone group.
For more information on abiraterone, contact the FDA Office of Oncology Drug Products or visit the FDA Web site.
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Looking for a vet center for your Sphynx inside Miami? Before searching for a vet, it is advisable to learn key selection requirements. The ideal vet clinic must meet some substantial conditions described below
What are the Key Tags of the good veterinary clinic
A befitting veterinary center need to:
- Locate very close to your property, within a 15-20 minutes drive
- Be available 24 hours or take until late, especially for urgent instances
- Have adequate vets that are able to give high-quality care
- Be properly prepared. High-quality healthcare machines assures the right-time and correct of the diagnosing your Sphynx pet
These bits of advice can surely make your option simpler. In addition to these short tips, look trough the document how to choose the best veterinarian for your Sphynx.
In case, you embrace a Sphynx kitten from a cattery positioned in Miami, demand the phone number of the veterinary surgeon who already manages your breeder's cats. The benefits are the following:
- To start with, this veterinarian is already familiar with your Sphynx kitten, and it is always good.
- Next, the Sphynx cat breeder can entrust the cats to a reputable vet only.
- Thirdly, the breeder can recommend an effective veterinary hospital near you.
Therefore, adopting a Sphynx, you will be prepared for the visit to a veterinarian clinic close to you.
Location counts
If you reside in Miami, make an effort to choose for your Sphynx a veterinarian clinic in your area. This type of choice helps you to save the required time in a crisis and also lessen the delivery headache.
In the daytime or around the clock?
The chance to contact a veterinarian center anytime is essential, particularly in emergency instances when a Sphynx all of a sudden gets sick. Most contemporary vet hospitals are available 24 hours or take until late to provide after-hours urgent care, as we indicated in our vet record. Many of them take pets on Saturdays and Sundays and holidays.
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If you do not possess a chance to see your permanent veterinary clinic for urgent situation help, find a different one as soon as you can.
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- Unrestrained hemorrhaging or bleeding that doesn't end within a few minutes
- Changes in respiration, difficulty breathing or nonstop coughing and/or gagging
- Lack of ability to pee or pass feces (stool)
- Blood in urine/stool
- Any injuries to your cat's eye(s) or unexpected blindness
- Ingestion of something poisonous
- Loss of balance or convulsions
- Lack of ability to move
- Broken bone fragments or significant lameness
- Severe panic and acute anxiety
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The reinvention of Bryce Cartwright is far from complete but the Titans back-rower's improved fitness and attitude has been given the thumbs up by former Gold Coast assistant coach Trevor Gillmeister.
Gillmeister, who helped the defensive techniques of several players last year on a consultancy basis, is set to continue that role in 2019 when called on by coach Garth Brennan.
It was the progress in Cartwright that caught Gillmeister's eye as the former Panther aims to return to the form that led to him being on the cusp of NSW selection in 2016.
After joining the Titans last February, the 24-year-old had an underwhelming season which saw him dropped to Intrust Super Cup side Tweed Heads.
Brennan did not lose faith in Cartwright but wanted to see a marked pre-season improvement from a player who was one of his marquee signings in 2018.
Titans captain Ryan James recently told NRL.com how Cartwright had been a regular at extra running sessions in the off-season. The results of that, and his continued progress, was noted by Gillmeister.
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"Bryce got to the Titans really late last pre-season but he looks remarkably fitter than he did when I saw him last year. I could see at training that he was talking a lot more on the field and was involved a lot more in the plays," Gillmeister told NRL.com.
"If you aren't fit you can't do that. I was just impressed with his all-round talk and his confidence. I didn't see a lot of their training sessions last year but when I did he looked quiet and in his shell.
"It would be a big plus for the Gold Coast and for Bryce personally if he can get back to where everyone thinks he can [be] and hopes he can."
Brennan said Cartwright had further to go but noted he was headed in the right direction.
"Bryce is in the best shape I've ever seen him, and that's fitness-wise, his headspace and with his talk," he told NRL.com.
"Whether that translates onto the field, who knows, but he is doing everything he possibly can to put himself in the position to make that happen.
"It is small steps. He has got a long way to go to come from where he was last year to being the Bryce Cartwright we know he can be, so it is not going to happen overnight. So long as he can keep improving it is only going to be better for the Titans."
Gillmeister said Cartwright needed to focus on the mundane, not the marvellous, in 2019.
"Everyone talks about his brilliant skills and his offload but he doesn't have to be the superstar that sets up a try and wins the game every week," Gillmeister said.
"Garth will be looking for him to just do his job and his role in the team. It sounds boring and cliched but that is all he has to do."


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A Muslim man was fatally shot by Canadian police while having a mental health crisis in the city of Ontario, Canada on Saturday.
The 62-year-old Pakistani-Canadian man was identified as Ejaz Choudry and suffered from schizophrenia, a report by CBC Canada said.
Choudry's family called a nonemergency line to seek assistance after he refused to take his medication during a state of crisis.
The provincial police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, which is currently probing the incident, said that the police were called because Choudry was not taking his medication, but his family claimed they called the assistance line and sought assistance from mental health professionals rather than police.
A video recorded at the time of the incident shows police officers entering the second-floor apartment of the deceased from his balcony and opening fire immediately after kicking the door open.
The father of four children was alone at his home at the time of the incident and had a knife in his hand.
The incident caused an uproar among the city's Muslim and Pakistani community, who took to the streets to protest police brutality.
"He wasn't a danger to anyone else. He was by himself in his home where he felt safe," Hassan Choudhary, one of Mr. Choudry's nephews, told the Canadian Press. "He can't think straight, he's schizophrenic, and (police) are going and killing him because he's going to kill himself? Where's the logic in that?"
Another nephew of Choudry, Khizar Shahzad, told reporters that his uncle did not speak English. He noted that his uncle's daughter had called a nonemergency crisis line to seek help from paramedics so he could be taken to the hospital to given his medication.
However, when paramedics arrived at the scene, they called police after realizing he had a knife, according to Shahzad, who said he pleaded with officers to allow a family member to try to speak to his uncle, but they refused and entered the unit through the balcony.
Choudry's family expressed a lack of faith in the provincial investigation into the incident, demanding justice from authorities and calling for a public inquiry.