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Chemical Composition, Antioxidant, and Antimicrobial Activities of the Leaf and Fruit Essential Oils of the West African Plum, Vitex doniana
Vitex doniana (West African plum or black plum) is a plant with varying phytoconstituents and biological activities across different countries. In this study, essential oils extracted from the leaves and fruits of Vitex doniana cultivated in Ghana were investigated for their antimicrobial and antioxidant activities. The antioxidant actions of the essential oils were determined using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), phosphomolybdenum, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS), and 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging assays. For both essential oils, the total antioxidant capacities ranged from 44 to 68 µg/g AAE, the IC50 values for H2O2 scavenging activity were between 87 and 242 µg/mL, whereas that for DPPH assay were between 322 and 599 µg/mL. The IC50 for the TBARS assay for both essential oils also ranged from 247 to 414 µg/mL. The antimicrobial activities of the essential oils were investigated using the broth dilution assay. The minimum inhibition concentration for the essential oils ranged from 12.5 to 50 mg/mL. Biofilm inhibitory activity was also evaluated for both essential oils, and the fruit essential oil showed a half-maximal inhibition of biofilm formation (BIC50) at 44.40 ± 0.6 mg/mL, whereas the BIC50 value of the leaf essential oil was 109.1 ± 0.9 mg/mL. The fruit essential oil was superior to the leaf essential oil in inhibiting the secretion of pyoverdine. Molecular docking analyses suggested that methyl cinnamate, ethyl cinnamate, p-menth-4-en-3-one, trans-α-ionone, benzyl benzoate, isobutyl cinnamate, and folic acid likely interacted with LasR and algC proteins, and hence, contributed to the inhibition of biofilm formation and pyoverdine secretion. Essential oils from Vitex doniana could, therefore, be exploited as a natural source of radical scavenging and antimicrobial agents and could be useful in the pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industries.
The Antioxidative Properties of Selected Herbs Estimated Using Various Assays
Antioxidants can be determined using a variety of analytical assays. The total of antioxidant properties, depending on the sum of the products of their concentrations and antioxidant powers in the sample, is usually called total antioxidant potential (TAP). The direct method developed by us, based on the voltammetric measurements, was used to determine the TAPs of selected herbs. However, it is expected that the detection limit of this assay will be much lower when the convection current is increased and the capacitive current is eliminated. Such conditions are found in electrochemical HPLC detection. The advantage of this method is the ability to perform measurements at different potentials, which is analogous to the measurements related to various radicals in indirect methods. Measurements performed at high potentials of the working electrode allow us to test weak antioxidants. It turned out that electrochemical methods provided additional information about the antioxidant properties of the herbs. Some of them have a large part of TAP caused by weak antioxidants in high concentrations. The obtained results were correlated with the TAP values related to DPPH (2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) radicals and the total content of polyphenols in the sample.
Docking and Molecular Dynamics Identify Leads against 5 Alpha Reductase 2 for Benign Prostate Hyperplasia Treatment
Steroid 5 alpha-reductase 2 (5αR-2) is a membrane-embedded protein that together with other isoforms plays a key role in the metabolism of steroids. This enzyme catalyzes the reduction of testosterone to the more potent ligand, dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in the prostate. Androgens, testosterone, and DHT play important roles in prostate growth, development, and function. At the same time, both testosterone and DHT have been implicated in the pathogenesis of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). Inhibition of the DHT formation, therefore, provides a therapeutic strategy that offers the possibility of preventing, delaying, or treating BPH. Currently, two steroidal drugs that inhibit 5αR-2, dutasteride and finasteride, have been approved for clinical use. These two come at a high cost and also portray undesirable sexual side effects which necessitate the need to find new chemotherapeutic alternatives for the disease. Based on the aforementioned, finasteride and dutasteride were subjected to scaffold hopping, fragment-based de novo design, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics simulations employing databases like ChEMBL, DrugBank, PubChem, ChemSpider, and Zinc15 in the identification of potential hits targeting 5αR-2. Altogether, ten novel compounds targeting 5αR-2 were identified with binding energies lower or comparable to finasteride and dutasteride, the main inhibitors for this target. Molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations studies identify amino acid residues Glu57, Phe219, Phe223, and Leu224 to be critical for ligand binding and complex stability. The physicochemical and pharmacological profiling suggests the potential of the hit compounds to be drug-like and orally active. Similarly, the quality parameter assessments revealed the hits possess LELP greater than 3 implying their promise as lead-like molecules. The compounds A5, A9, and A10 were, respectively, predicted to treat prostate disorders with Pa (0.188, 0.361, and 0.270) and Pi (0.176, 0.050, and 0.093), while A8 and A9 were found to be associated with BPH treatment with Pa (0.09 and 0.127) and Pi (0.077 and 0.033), respectively. Structural similarity searches via DrugBank identified the drugs faropenem, acemetacin, estradiol valerate, and yohimbine to be useful for BPH treatment suggesting the de novo designed ligands as potential chemotherapeutic agents for treating this disease.
Sedimentary Facies Evaluation of Tight Oil Reservoirs of Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin
Tight sandstone gas has become one of the important unconventional resources. It is of great significance to study the pore throat structure of tight sandstone for the development of tight sandstone gas reservoirs. On the basis of previous research results, this paper studies the tight reservoir characteristics of Yanchang Formation by combining geological data with geophysical logging. The reservoir characteristics are described and studied in detail by ordinary thin section, casting thin section, graphic granularity, and scanning electron microscope experiment. The experimental results show that the reservoir sandstone types of long 6 segments are mainly lithic feldspathic sandstone and feldspathic lithic sandstone, with high component maturity and structural maturity. The components of cement mainly include authigenic clay minerals illite, chlorite, and carbonate minerals. The reservoir space is mainly composed of feldspar-dissolved pores and residual intergranular pores. Compaction and cementation are the decisive factors of pore reduction. At present, the average porosity of the reservoir is 8.33% and the average permeability is 0.12 × 10−3 μm2, which belong to an ultralow porosity and ultralow permeability reservoir. On the basis of studying the origin, superimposition, and distribution of sand bodies and taking into account the sedimentary characteristics, origin, and trigger mechanism of gravity flow, a multisource sedimentary model is established in the study area, which is dominated by sandy debris flow, accompanied by turbidity current and local development of sandy slump. The thick massive sandstone with the most exploration significance in the study area is formed by the superimposition of multistage sandy clastic flow sediments along the gully in the direction of delta to lake. Summarizing the characteristics of reservoir development and evaluating and predicting it can provide geological basis for the next exploration and development of deep-water tight reservoirs in the study area.
Rapid and Green Methods for Qualitative Classification of Polygonati Rhizoma and Polygonati Odorati Rhizoma Using a Handheld near Infrared Instrument
The confusing use of Polygonati Rhizoma (PR) and Polygonati Odorati Rhizoma (POR) poses an unpredictable threat to the health of consumers. Sensitive, nondestructive, rapid, and multicomponent techniques for their detection are sought after. In this study, a low-cost, short-wavelength (898–1668 nm), and handheld near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer combined with multivariate spectral evaluation methods was used to establish calibration models for identifying PR and POR. NIR spectra were treated with a standard normal variate (SNV) before performing chemometric approaches. Then principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) were tested for calibration model development. The PCA results showed that spectral differences existed between the two herbs. However, the evaluation techniques could not separate them with the required accuracy. The PLS-DA calibration model, on the other hand, could separate the two herbs according to their spectral information with the prediction accuracy of >98.3%. Thus, it has been proven that a rapid, green, and low-cost method to support on-site and practical inspection through a handheld NIR instrument has been established to identify PR and POR and ensure the safety of the clinical medication.
Comparative Study of Prism Octahedron Network via Eccentric Invariants
Topological indices are empirical features of graphs that characterize the topology of the graph and, for the most part, are graph independent. An important branch of graph theory is chemical graph theory. In chemical graph theory, the atoms corresponds vertices and edges corresponds covalent bonds. A topological index is a numeric number that represents the topology of underline structure. In this article, we examined the topological properties of prism octahedron network of dimension and computed the total eccentricity, average eccentricity, Zagreb eccentricity, geometric arithmetic eccentricity, and atom bond connectivity eccentricity indices, which are used to utilize the distance between the vertices of a prism octahedron network.


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Meg Britton-Mehlisch
AboutMeg Britton-Mehlisch is the Pittsfield reporter for The Berkshire Eagle. Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, she previously worked at the Prior Lake American and its sister publications under the Southwest News Media umbrella in Savage, Minnesota.
With a match from free cash secured, Pittsfield officials plan to jump-start 'phase two' of renovations to Springside House
The Pittsfield City Council signed off on using $500,000 in free cash to match a prestigious federal grant for Springside House. With $1 million now secured, city leaders believe they can get to work on the long awaited "phase two" of renovations to the Springside House.
With school shootings and lockdowns, it's been a scary week. Here's how to talk with your kids about what's happened
Between the school shooting in Nashville and the rash of "swatting" incidents across the commonwealth this week, parents are facing some difficult conversations with their children. The Berkshire Eagle reached out a mental health professional for some advice on how to navigate those talks.
A referendum on the North Street bike lanes has hit a dead end, but questions remain about the street's design
The City Council shot down a controversial push to place the design of North Street before voters on the November ballot. But alternate plans remain under discussion.
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Parks Commission chair Clifford Nilan said the commission would switch to having a formal open microphone period at the beginning of its meetings over the next three or four months.
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A man was arrested Tuesday after police say he caused two accidents, including a major collision on Dalton Avenue that left three people injured and shut down traffic for several hours.
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Power is slow to return for many in hard-hit Southern Berkshire towns, but residents are taking it in stride
Egremont, West Stockbridge and Monterey are some of those towns with the most extended power loss, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management's power outage map.

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Andreas Theocharis

Nowadays, several socioeconomic, environmental and technological reasons drive the necessity to change the energy production, delivery and utilization landscape to a more sustainable framework. Recent advancements on renewables energy resources and electrical power engineering technology, in combination to the most advanced achievements from computer science applications, information technology and communications, offer a positive ground to develop and establish the future generation of energy systems. In this field, the my scientific and applied research activities include

Renewable energy and storage systems design and applications for smart power systems: solar, wind and thermoelectrical energy for residential, commercial and industrial applications, combined heat and power systems, transportation systems.

Modelling and development of electrical power components and systems: transformers, photovoltaic generators, fuel cells and thermoelectric generators for power systems analysis and applications.

Power systems transients, dynamics and power quality: low and high frequency switching transients, distributed generation and distributed storage dynamics, ac and dc microgrids.

<a href="https://www.kau.se/en/electrical-engineering/research/research-electric… electrical power, renewable energy and distributed generation systems (IEPRE&DG) | Karlstad University (kau.se)

Teaching of several courses as instructor in the field of fundamental physics, electric circuit analyses, AC and DC electric power systems operation analyses and control, analysis and design of electric power installations, renewable energy systems.

Current teaching activity

ELGA21/ELGB13 Electrical technology

ELGB09 Introduction to power systems

ELGB16 Renewable energy sources and their applications

ELGC24 Integration of Renewable energy in electrical power systems

ELGC22 Electrical power systems

Network/Research Collaboration

Karlstads ElochStadsNät

Glava Energy Center

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Eindhoven University Of Technology, The Netherlands

DNV GL, The Netherlands

TenneT, The Netherlands

University of Manchester, UK

Siemens Wind Power A/S, Denmark

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Denmark

Nexans, Norway

Sintef Energy Research, Norway

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Siemens AG Berlin, Germany

Dnepropetrovsk National University, Ukraine

Hellenic Electricity TSO, Greece

Hellenic Operator of Electricity Market, Greece

Hellenic Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES), Greece

University of Patras, Greece

National Technical University of Athens, Greece


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Jennings Townhome
Welcome to the Brand New Jennings Townhome in Orange Park, FL.
Staycation - Vacation - Any-Cation!
Located about 40 minutes southwest of the Jacksonville International Airport, this brand new build townhome has a lot of living space - nice large bedrooms and a great open concept living/kitchen/dining area. Convenient to Orange Park, Middleburg, Green Cove Springs and Jacksonville. Thirty Minutes to see the Jaguars, Jumbo Shrimp, Jacksonville Giants or the Jacksonville Icemen. A quick 10 minute drive to Doctor's Lake. Great location with restaurants and shopping nearby. Convenient to many area golf courses too!
This townhome has a great layout with the Owner's Suite with King Size Bed and En-Suite Bathroom on the main level. Nice and open living area with SMART TV and basic cable, great kitchen and dining area, with privacy film on the patio doors. Upstairs offers a second living area - with SMART TV and 2 more bedrooms and guest bathroom. We have some outdoor chairs that we store in the garage as well as a BBQ that are available for use. There is a washer/dryer on the main floor off of the kitchen/dining area.
Pet Friendly - additional cleaning/pet hair removal fee required. Pets must be disclosed in advance. Fee is per pet - max 2 pups. All dogs are to be treated with Advantage or similar topical flea and tick repellent three (3) days prior to arrival. Fleas and ticks are very rampant in this area and can cause harmful/fatal illness to humans and pets. All items above are the sole responsibility of the dog owner. Failure to disclose the pet in advance will result in a $500 fee.
There is a tank provided with the grill, but propane is not included. There may be some left from a previous guest, otherwise you would need to bring the tank to an area grocery store, Home Depot, Ace Hardware or Lowe's and swap it out for a full tank.
There is a PADL rental location about 10 minutes away at Doctor's Lake - https://www.padl.co/locations/paddle-board-rentals-in-middleburg-boat-ramp/ Rent directly from your Smart Phone and tour along the lake and Black Creek!
Doctor's Lake Marina also offers boat & pontoon rentals so you can take advantage of our area waters including Doctor's Lake, the Black Creek and the St Johns River.
Several boat ramps around the area - so if you are bringing your boat to enjoy fishing along the Black Creek, St Johns River or Doctor's Lake - just let us know and we can let you know which options will be best for you!
To learn more about all there is to see and do in Jacksonville, go to www.VisitJacksonville.com
To explore various things to do around Clay County - visit https://exploreclay.com/
Guest Arrival is anytime 4pm EST or after. If the property is approved for early arrival, you will receive a message letting you know you can arrive early and we will activate the door code. If you do not receive a message, then the arrival will remain at 4pm EST.
Guest Departure is anytime 10am EST or before. If you have not departed by this time and do not have written prior approval for a late departure, you will be assessed a $50 late departure fee for every 30 minute delay. The Cleaning Services we use schedule their teams for multiple cleans in advance and any unplanned delays create issues. With unscheduled/unapproved late departures, they are required to bring in additional team members to assist, which incurs a higher cost that must be charged. Any requests made for a late departure must be made a minimum of 24 hours in advance of departure time and are subject to approval/availability.
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Tenant is at least twenty-five (25) years of age and will be an occupant of the unit during the entire reserved dates. In addition to Tenant, other authorized occupants that have been identified to us are included. Should any unauthorized persons occupy or use the Premises, Tenant shall vacate the premises immediately without any refund. Rental status is transient and gives no residential claim to the guests. Transient accommodations, or "short term rentals" are also subject to applicable Florida Sales and County tourist development taxes which are added as a part of your total payment. Should the laws change regarding applicable taxes, we will adjust your reservation accordingly. This may include an additional charge should tax rates be increased or a refund if tax rates are decreased.
Reservations made for teenagers or young single groups will not be honored without any accompanying adult staying in the unit at ALL times. We require at least one member of the party to be 25 (twenty-five) years of age! Any violators will be evicted according to Florida Statute 508.141 with forfeiture of all monies.
The maximum number of occupants allowed per property is listed in the property description. Maximum capacity applies to any given time, such as during a gathering of people at the property that includes guests that are not staying overnight. If maximum capacity is exceeded, occupancy may be terminated without a refund.
Pets are allowed up to 25 lbs - max 2; pet fee is per pet and pets must be disclosed in advance. Failure to disclose in advance will result in a $500 fine.
Any reservation obtained under false pretense will be subject to forfeiture of reservation deposit, damage deposit, and/or balance of rental payment.
Smoking is strictly prohibited. Your damage deposit will be forfeited, and you will incur an additional charge for carpet cleaning and deodorizing if any evidence of smoking is found. Or you will be billed a $500 penalty for violating the Smoking Policy. Smoking would include all forms of tobacco, cigarettes, pipes, cigars, e-cigarettes, vaping, etc.
Linens & towels are provided. Excessive Stains, Damage or loss of the Linens will result in a $50 Charge. An initial supply of paper products is provided. Extra items needed are the responsibility of the Tenant. Limited cleaning supplies are provided. There is a $50 fee to restage the house if furniture is moved around and not returned to its original place.
Property Damage must be advised BEFORE departure. Failure to disclose may result in an additional charge.
Posted on the refrigerator & are standard for short term rental properties. Failure to complete these instructions will result in an additional charge of $50 per hour for completion.
When you book our property, we will text, message or email you the code to your identified contact preference - 2 hours prior to your arrival. This will give you access to the front door of the property. Additionally, names & ages of each guest are required in advance of your arrival; make/model of your vehicle(s) are required upon arrival. Maximum Occupancy of both persons and vehicles is enforced.
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In this webinar Mahesh and Rohit will present a novel way of performing continuous correlated and connected analysis of the three dimensions of quality, namely, process quality, functional quality and structural quality. They will further dig into feed-forward and feedback loops to guide developers to make decisions, reduce cognitive load and thus improve the developer experience in building distributed systems such as Cloud applications.
Most delivery and platform setups we see are still "static". They require Ops and developers to operate an ever increasing number of config files, which hinders productivity and increases the change failure rate. In this demo we'll show how you can reduce your config complexity by up to 95% (as measured by the # of files our team has to maintain) using Dynamic Configuration Management (DCM). This webinar is a must-see for those looking to nail Dynamic Configuration Management or build a dynamic Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
Kubernetes is widely used across industries. Many organizations are standardizing, using the open source tool as the building block for their platforms. Despite this, the Kubernetes knowledge gap and its associated learning curve are not yet converging. In this session we'll be discussing tools that help bridge this gap and speed up Kubernetes adoption.
A common misconception about successful Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) is that they're just a well-connected suite of tools and abstractions behind a shiny front end. This couldn't be further from the truth. Learn how to design a successful IDP in this session with Fernando Villalba, Platform Engineering Evangelist at Humanitec.
Join platform engineering pioneer, Kaspar von Grünberg, for a webinar as we dive into the latest DevOps benchmarking study and explore trends that are shaping the industry and help you enhance your DevOps strategy. We'll analyze the key findings and provide insights into how you can optimize your DevOps processes to stay ahead of the game.
The software development era has transformed how businesses build, deploy, and manage their applications. To stay ahead, they need to transform their static setups into a modern Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that empowers developers to innovate and move quickly. In this session, Kaspar will walk you through the architectural components of a modern dynamic IDP based on real-world experiences.
Modern platforms are highly complex and depend upon numerous integrated systems to deliver an application service. Many testing approaches cannot scale and new techniques must be used to find issues. Through production traffic replay, Platform Engineering teams can discover issues before they are released to customers, cutting down on expensive outages.
Platform engineering is not only about tech, it's about humans. Starting a platform engineering initiative needs a culture where folks feel comfortable to speak up in an innovative, inclusive environment. In this session, Humanitec's Director of Customer Success and "platform therapist" Mallory will elaborate on how to create a culture of psychological safety.
Ala and Aaron built the internal platform that runs League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and Valorant at Riot Games. 120 people, five years, iterative shipping, an immense organizational cost, and it was already legacy by the time we were 'done'. Their journey led them to create one of the missing links to solve some of the hardest platform engineering problems.
Managing secrets is an essential consideration when you adopt Kubernetes. There are several approaches to storing and correctly using secrets while following a GitOps approach. These improve the coordination between your developers and platform / SRE teams without compromising security and while getting the full benefits of GitOps.
The software supply chain is under attack and, given the number of high-profile data breaches over the past several years, it's clear these attacks are working. These attacks are considered so catastrophic that the Log4Shell breach was described as having set the "internet on fire." In order to make sure we're not next, we need to make securing the supply chain a top priority!
Kubernetes has wide reach across the industry. But adopting Kubernetes in an unstandardized way can cause unexpected inefficiency. Here's how your organization can evaluate and select tooling to avoid this pitfall.
Most delivery and platform setups we see are still "static". Static setups require ops and dev teams to operate an ever increasing number of config files, hindering productivity and increasing change failure rate. In this demo we'll show how you can reduce your config complexity by up to 95% (as measured by the # of files our team has to maintain) using dynamic config management. If you are looking to nail dynamic config management or build dynamic Internal Developer Platformss this is a "must see".
MercadoLibre hosts the largest online commerce and payments ecosystem in Latin America. Lucia and Juliano will show us how they evolved from a complex microservices scenario and built their platform, Fury. Fury manages more than 26k microservices and provides a very productive environment to MercadoLibre's 12k+ developers.
Data Platforms and Hadoop have made the life of SREs, operators, and platform engineers difficult. In this talk, we'll show you how converging data applications onto micro service platforms running on Kubernetes can destress operations and increase the performance and overall satisfaction of developers.
Many engineers, be it product, infrastructure, system or Ops, find themselves in broken DevOps setups, causing high cognitive load, frustration, and even burnout. In this talk, Humanitec's Director of Customer Success and "platform therapist" Mallory will explore how the discipline of Platform Engineering can enable true developer self-service while reducing cognitive load.
Many teams start with Kubernetes, and it works well for 5-10 projects, but adopting it at scale in an enterprise environment becomes challenging. That is where an enterprise-wide architecture practice helps scale Kubernetes deployments across the entire organization. This talk will focus on common patterns, architectures and best practices that help drive Kubernetes adoption across the enterprise.
Keeping local and cloud environments in sync is really challenging. This is made even more complicated when the technology stack in each environment is different. Why are we still talking about "worked on my machine"? For instance, why does it need to be that complicated to keep Docker Compose for local development and Helm Charts for Kubernetes based environments in sync? In this webinar, Sören and Susa will discuss these challenges in detail and show you how to overcome them with Score. Score is a new open source project Susa and Sören are contributing to which puts the developer experience at the center, not the infrastructure.
Landing zones are a universal concept of multi-projects and multi-accounts architectures (used in Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, etc.) and serve as a blueprint for cloud environments. They create an effective operational and governance model to drive your cloud adoption strategy, determine how teams will collaborate, and ensure security and control as your organization grows. In this webinar, you will learn what landing zones are and how you can start implementing a landing zone with Terraform in Google Cloud.
Hila will cover the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to Terraform, and show best practices for working with it, so you'll ultimately have a go-to approach and a paved way for working with Terraform, and also hopefully make you think about the big picture and utilize Terraform in a broader context rather than just an "infrastructure as code" tool.
Backstage has become a de facto industry standard in the developer portal space. Developers use it as the main access point to discover the capabilities of their Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). Taras Mankovski is one of the most experienced Backstage experts. He works with enterprise clients, helps them build their developer portals for more than 100k developers and has developed several Backstage plugins. In this webinar, Taras will share valuable insights and best practices to ensure you make the most of your Backstage setup.
Is service mesh the future of application connectivity? It delivers immediate value to any architecture by increasing application traffic's security, reliability and observability. But at the same time, it can be challenging to understand the concept, how to adopt it and deploy it in production. In this talk, we will go over the pros and cons of service mesh and discuss the biggest challenges teams usually face.
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Wise recently decided to launch a developer portal based on Backstage as part of their Internal Developer Platform (IDP). In this webinar, Lambros will explain how product management methods such as value stream mapping and user testing helped the developer experience team at Wise to identify the need for a developer portal, scope the first version and validate its value.
Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are a hot trend right now. Yet, there is still very little and quite tribal knowledge on how to successfully "platform" your setup. Kaspar has seen hundreds of successful and unsuccessful platforming endeavors. In this session, packed with insights and examples, he will walk you through how to structure your platforming process and how to architect your platform.
This roundtable event is exclusive. There are no presentations. No product demos. We're having an open conversation with questions, comments and personal experiences.
Terraform is the de facto industry standard when it comes to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) setups. Same as for most other platform engineering tools, however, one of the key questions that come up for Terraform is the trade-off between self-service and speed vs. security and compliance. In this webinar, Joern and Marc-Steffen will show how Terraform can scale for the enterprise and strike the right balance between both sides.
When you're part of a platform team, it can seem like you're juggling many conflicting priorities. Some teams ask you constantly to add new features or tools into the platform, while others are determined to build their own solution. Some stakeholders are fully committed to supporting the platform's success, where others constantly question the ROI and seek metrics and KPIs.
In this talk we will go through some of the lessons learned building some of the biggest cloud apps and commercial websites in the UK. Marc built platforms for and with companies like Nationwide Building Society, DevOpsGroup or Hashicorp. He will share best practices and give an in-depth explanation of modus operandi.
If you aren't investing in product management for your Internal Developer Platform (IDP), you're making a common mistake. In this talk, platform veteran Aaron Erickson will share his insights and best practices he learned from building IDPs at large-scale enterprises like Salesforce.
Incident management can be challenging and throw you curveballs with unexpected issues, resulting in data loss, downtimes, and overall money & hours of sleep going to waste, BUT! There are practical things you could do to make it a smoother process and handle it better. Join this webinar with Hila to learn more about best practices in incident management.
The most fundamental of trade-offs in platform engineering: providing the right level of abstraction and consistency, without compromising on autonomy and speed of innovation. This trade-off poses a never-ending tension between Dev and Ops. Andrew and Kaspar will discuss how to overcome this through open, composable abstractions and provide insights on the latest trends in the platform engineering, cloud-native and database world.
Terraform is the most adopted Infrastructure as Code tool in the market. It enables you to define resources and infrastructure in human-readable, declarative configuration files, and manages your infrastructure's lifecycle. In this webinar, we will explain best practices for handling Terraform at scale.
Join this webinar with Viktor Farcic, host of the Youtube channel DevOps Toolkit and co-host of DevOps Paradox. He will share some insights into what Kubernetes really is - it might be something completely different than you think!
We are very excited to host another session with Bryan Finster, founder and former lead of the Walmart DevOps Dojo. We will be expanding on his PlatformCon talks and answer questions from the community.
What is the right level of abstraction an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) should provide? And how to design those abstraction layers when building your own IDP? Platform veteran Jon Skarpeteig will share his insights about design choices, trade-offs and challenges you are likely to encounter when designing and building your IDP.
No one lacks an opinion when it comes to CPU limits. Are they a mandatory requirement or a misunderstood evil? Most cloud providers tell you to set them, yet members of the original Kubernetes team at Google say not to use them! Why all the debate about something that seems so simple? Should you use CPU limits or not? Natan will go through both sides of the argument. He'll explain why there is so much controversy over something so simple, and help you determine what is right for your team.
Greg discusses Palantir's experience and growing pains in scaling their Apollo Platform's internal use of GitOps to 100+ environments, 500+ unique services and 1000+ engineers. He'll talk about the problems encountered, unsuccessful attempts at solving them and ultimately Apollo's reimagination of GitOps at Palantir.
GitOps is an efficient and effective approach to continuous deployment (CD) that leverages Git as a single source of truth for both infrastructure and applications. Join us as we demonstrate how to build a multi-stage pipeline for applications and clusters, automate deployments and integrate EKS with your GitOps deployments.
How do we connect multi-region and multi-cloud servers, containers and developers without firewalls, VPNs, IPs, subnets, ACLs, NSGs, VPCs, NAT, VLANs to manage which systems can communicate securely? For the last thirty years we've needed complex IP-based configs, but there's a better way. Identity-based networks are coming. In this talk you'll learn what they are and why they matter.
Observability is more than pretty dashboards, it's a powerful tool for developers to design better code. A key part of the modern developer's stack. However, just activating code tracing and metrics is not enough to make observability matter. In this talk, Roni will show how Continuous Feedback is what you really should get to for your setup.
Kubescape is an open source security testing tool for Kubernetes. In the last 10 months it was used to scan more than 10k Kubernetes clusters for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. In this talk, Shauli Rozen will share key insights from this database, including the most common K8s security challenges and how to approach them.
Choosing the right open source project to use can be quite challenging - not knowing if it's going to be the right fit, how it will behave, and if you end up wasting time trying to make it all work. In this talk, Senior DevOps Engineer Hila Fish will share some best practices on how to evaluate open source software before adding it to your DevOps toolchain.
This is another special edition of our Platform Engineers meetup to wrap up on our learnings from PlatformCon. We will look at the most interesting talks and discuss future trends in platform engineering.
This is a special edition of our Platform Engineers meetups to follow up on our learnings from the first ever PlatformCon. Lee and Luca will discuss the best and the worst and the main takeaways from this community coming together for the first time.
This roundtable event is exclusive. There are no presentations. No product demos. We're having an open conversation with questions, comments, personal experiences and some beer (The beer is on us. This is an in-person event in San Francisco).
This is a special edition of our Platform Engineers meetup, ahead of our first ever PlatformCon. Jessica, Stefan, Schuyler and Luca will discuss the latest trends in platform engineering and how PlatformCon speakers will tackle them.
Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are a hot trend right now. Yet, there is still very little and quite tribal knowledge on how to successfully "platform" your setup. Kaspar has seen hundreds of successful and unsuccessful platforming endeavors. In this session, packed with insights and examples, he will walk you through how to structure your platforming process and how to architect your platform.
Designing a consistent and simple infrastructure layer is the foundation for a solid production management platform. In this webinar, Andrew Fong (ex VP Infrastructure at Dropbox) will share his experience on how you can approach Terraform vs Pulumi vs SDK in order to build a repeatable solution.
Containerized apps or containers in general are everywhere in our days and seem to be the standard. But there is one main downside: container networks are hard to secure. In this webinar we will explore an alternative called Unikernels. Ian Eyberg, CEO at NanoVMs will showcase an open source solution and guide you through first steps on how to get started deploying unikernels.
One of the biggest hurdles to implementing continuous delivery and DevOps in an industrial environment – dealing with milestones and macroscopic quality gates – can be overcome with a continuous quality assurance approach that applies the "green to green" and "shift left" paradigms not only to software, but also to non-software artifacts. In this webinar, Peter Fassbinder (Siemens) will share some insights from his extensive experience on how to tackle such a challenge.
Every engineering organization that's cloud-native is now talking about platforms and how to build one. But what is a platform and what does Platform Engineering actually mean? Lee Ditiangkin will discuss the vision behind Platform Engineering and how your team can make the most of this new approach.
A migration from the Container Network Interface (CNI) in AWS VPC to Cilium, an open source plugin for Kubernetes, can feel like swapping the wheels of a running car. In this webinar Frederico and Simone from Meltwater will show you how they managed that challenge at Meltwater.
How do you architect and build an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)? Michael Wood (Hashicorp) and Chris Stephenson (Humanitec) do just that, all day long. They'll use Terraform from the Hashicorp Cloud Platform (HCP) and Humanitec to build an IDP that scales.
Henning Jacobs, Executive Principal Engineer at Zalando, will show how the leading e-commerce for fashion in Europe provides an internal platform for their 1000+ engineers. He will dive into how they use custom integrations on top of SaaS and open source, such as Kubernetes and Spotify's Backstage, to deliver a great developer experience to over 200 internal engineering teams.
Brian Kernigham said: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place." In fact, debugging in a modern K8s production environment is even harder with the orchestrator spinning containers up and down all around you and weird networking wizardry that keeps everything glued together. In this webinar we will explore the newly released kubectl debug feature, the open-source KoolKits project and the notion of Continious Observability.
GetFeedback by SurveyMonkey is an enterprise customer experience solution, capturing data from multiple sources, receiving 500M requests everyday. To keep up with the company's growth Renato's Platform team faced the challenge to build a self-service microservices setup that allowed for expansion and product integration. In this webinar, Renato, the former Head of Platform, will share his experience.
Kubernetes is an extremely powerful technology and is a darling of the DevOps universe for very good reasons. However, implementing it across an engineering organization is not straightforward and often tricky. The promises of resource efficiency, scalability and better app and infrastructure management can often turn into Ops nightmares. In the last few months, we ran an extensive survey on the performance of Kubernetes setups of teams of all sizes. In this webinar, we will share our key findings and learnings.
We are very excited to host this AMA session with Bryan Finster, founder and former lead of the Walmart DevOps Dojo. We are looking forward to your questions!
Managing configs across multiple environments can be really challenging. This is especially true when certain configs should change according to different environment types like dev, staging and production, but others should not. In this workshop Chris will show you how to find and fix broken configs when things went wrong.
We are very excited to welcome Liz Fong-Jones to our webinars for the second time! This time we will talk to her about the adoption of SRE, how to ensure observability and measure Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
This roundtable event is exclusive. There are no presentations. No product demos. We're having an open conversation with questions, comments, personal experiences and some beer. (The beer is on us. The logistics are at the bottom of the page.)
Nigel Poulton is one of the most influential trainers and authors to everything that is Kubernetes or Docker related. We are excited to talk to him about how to get started with containers and Kubernetes.
We spoke to hundreds of software engineering organizations that are starting the journey in platform engineering. But where to begin? And how to avoid falling into common traps at the start of your platform journey? In this webinar, Kaspar will walk through the most common fallacies we have seen across hundreds of engineering organizations in the last year.
What's the difference between a Service Catalog and an Internal Developer Platform? And how do both concepts relate to value streams? How to make the most use out of such concepts to ship code reliably and improve the developer experience? In this webinar Dominik, VP Product at LeanIX and Kaspar, Humanitec's CEO, will shed some light on these areas.
This webinar will be all about Kubernetes CNI and Network Policy. Chris and Reza, both Developer Advocates at Tigera, will guide you through the requirements the K8s networking model puts on a cluster, the why and how a CNI helps meet them.
Observability is key in a cloud-native setup. In this webinar, Ben Sigelman, will talk about effective observability strategies and give you an introduction on CNCF's OpenTelemetry project.
In this webinar we will discuss principles and best practises of data-driven engineering. Ralf, founder and CEO of Logilica, will show you how to define the right DevOps metrics and how to measure them based on already existing lifecycle data.
As much as we would like all environments to be the same: they're not. It's too expensive to spin up a new CloudSQL instance for every dev project, developers have kubectl on the dev cluster but not production and staging needs to be loaded with test data before every release. In this workshop, Humanitec's CTO Chris Stephenson will show how you can run Postgres in-cluster in dev, pre-loaded with test data in staging and fully managed in production.
We talked to more than 1,800 engineering teams, analyzed their setup and benchmarked them against our models. We are excited to present the results in this webinar and discuss them with the participants.
Cloud native is hard. 17% of teams have to operate multi-cloud, 60+% multi-account and 90+% multi-cluster. How do you effectively setup and manage application configurations across all clusters? In this workshop, Humanitec's CTO Chris Stephenson will demo the approach of working against baseline YAML files to keep configs under control.
As a business scales, it becomes critical to change how developers do their work. Creating leverage for other developers is key to growth. An Internal Developer Platform (IDP) comes in to help. In this webinar, Alan Barr will share his journey building an IDP for 100s of engineers at Veterans United Home Loans and what you should pay attention to so your IDP doesn't suck.
Debugging cloud native apps running in a Kubernetes cluster can be tricky. With the combination of an Internal Developer Platform like Humanitec and pain-less cloud native debugging with Rookout, it feels like developing on your own machine.
Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) are a key element of most top-performing engineering teams' DevOps strategy. In this webinar, Steve Pereira will discuss how an IDP can help you move beyond "ticket Ops" and where it fits in your DevOps roadmap.
Secrets management is a key element of application configuration management. Hashicorp Vault has established itself as an industry standard for managing secrets for Kubernetes applications. In this hands-on session, Nils will show a best practice implementation of Vault that you can apply to your own clusters and setup.
Developer self-service is a fundamental step every engineering team needs to take to reach true DevOps, true "you build it, you run it". A key element to achieve self-service is to simplify as much as possible how application developers interact with the infrastructure team setup. In this workshop, Humanitec's Chris Stephenson will show practical examples of how engineering orgs can optimize their deployment workflows on top of EKS, GKE and AKS.
We talked to more than 1,800 engineering teams, analyzed their setup and benchmarked them against our models. We are excited to present the results in this webinar and discuss them with the participants.
Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and Kubernetes are all key trends in DevOps. They are changing the way most engineering teams think about and interact with their setups. In this webinar, Jim Sheldon will show how his team at Meltwater built a high-performing developer platform combining the best of all worlds.
Observability is key for SRE, especially for production environments. As the number of environments and services increases, your observability setup gets a lot more complex. This leads to a major challenge: Ops want to shield some of this complexity away from developers, while still providing them with the right degree of observability to debug quickly. We are excited to discuss this topic with one of the leading experts in this field: Liz Fong-Jones
Technological transformation is tricky. Whether you are doing a refactoring of one of your services or a complete re-platforming of your setup, there are so many factors at play one needs to consider. From technical to cultural aspects and everything in between. All of this gets a lot more complex at an enterprise scale. We are excited to discuss organizational transformation with Courtney Kissler, who led large-scale reorgs and tech transformations at Starbucks, Nike, and now Zulily.
GitOps and developer self-service are key trends in the DevOps industry. But how can companies operating in highly regulated industries benefit from these new approaches? We are excited to have Steve Wade, a leading expert in implementing self-service and GitOps setups for top-performing Fintech companies, as a guest speaker in this webinar.
In this two-part webinar series we will look at two seemingly opposed DevOps approaches: GitOps and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). While GitOps aims at making all configurations and infrastructure available to developers as code, IDPs abstract away as much complexity as possible from engineers. Our CTO Chris is excited to co-host this with Kostis, Developer Advocate at Codefresh. Part 1 will be a high level debate, while in Part 2 they'll show real life examples with hands-on coding.
What does it take to build an internal platform? Why do so many internal platform projects end up as half baked solutions with low adoption and high maintenance? We are excited to discuss common pitfalls and requirements for successful platform implementations with Chris and Cristóbal, platform pros at ThoughtWorks.
In this two-part webinar series we will look at two seemingly opposed DevOps approaches: GitOps and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). While GitOps aims at making all configuration and infrastructure available to developers as code, IDPs abstract away as much complexity as possible from engineers. Our CTO Chris is excited to co-host this with Kostis, Developer Advocate at Codefresh. Part 1 will be a high-level debate, while in Part 2 they'll show real-life examples with hands-on coding.
The ability to spin up fully provisioned preview environments with every pull request can help your developers to rapidly test and iterate on new functionality. In this practical workshop we explore how to enable this for your developers on top of Kubernetes. The approach we are taking is reproducible on any existing CI/CD setup and any cloud.
Top performing engineering organizations all have one key trait in common: They enable their developers to self-serve the tech they need. But how to reach this goal in a highly regulated industry? In this webinar, David and Alexandru will discuss how their teams built a self-service setup for over 150 engineers in the payment industry, while keeping their workflows extremely compliant.
With the shift to Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies, a number of pressing security issues arise. In this DevSecOps talk, Thomas Fricke will share insights about the security model of Kubernetes, its pros, its vulnerabilities and how to get your cluster bulletproof.
We talked to more than 1,500 engineering teams, analyzed their setup and benchmarked them against our models. We are excited to present the results in this webinar and discuss them with the participants.
Why is it so important to unlearn things in DevOps at the right time? And why is the history of Infrastructure as Code such a good example of this? We are very excited to discuss this with two industry leaders: Barry O'Reilly, entrepreneur, business advisor and author of the books UNLEARN and LEAN ENTERPRISE and Kief Morris (Thoughtworks), author of the book INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE.
According to the brand new State of DevOps Report 2021 by Puppet, platform teams are the key to DevOps success at scale. We are excited to discuss this and further key findings with Nigel Kersten, Field CTO at Puppet and one of the authors of the report.
In many engineering organizations, dependencies on SRE and Ops teams for provisioning of resources and deployments become a huge blocker for development teams. In this webinar, Stefan Kolesnikowicz, SRE Manager at Achievers, will discuss how to support engineers without limiting them, improving the developer experience by using a GitOps based internal platform.
Developer self-service is the key common denominator of high-performance engineering organizations like GitHub, Spotify and Salesforce. Kubernetes is a great foundation on which to build modern self-service setups. But it also comes with huge complexity and a new set of dependencies. In this webinar, Kaspar will discuss how to navigate around these obstacles to enable developer self-service on Kubernetes.
According to the latest Puppet report, top performing engineering organizations all have one key trait in common: developer self-service. They enable their developers to self-serve the tech they need to run their apps and services autonomously, releasing pressure on Ops teams. In this webinar, Aaron will discuss why companies like Salesforce and GitHub built self-service setups and what this means for the performance of their engineering organizations.
Kubernetes has become the new darling of the infrastructure world, but often when making technical decisions we forget what tech really is. It's a byproduct of problem solving. The actual focus is and always has been people and solving their problems, whether it's for your clients or your colleagues. In this webinar, Lian Li and Eva Lettner, Engineering Managers at Container Solutions will share their insights and best practices, helping organisations transform their tech and their culture to adapt to the new world of Cloud Native.
Kubernetes is increasingly becoming the de-facto standard for container orchestration in the enterprise. Challenges can present themselves regardless of whether you're using managed services from the likes of AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, OpenShift (IBM), or even self-managed Kubernetes clusters. In this webinar, we will discuss typical challenges when migrating enterprise setups to Kubernetes.
Do your developers constantly bug you for environments, help with YAML or a fresh database instance? The 2020 State of DevOps by Puppet clearly shows what the top 10% teams do significantly better than everyone else: enable developers for self-service. In this webinar, we will show why companies like Github and Spotify built self-service setups. And we'll demo our own self-service approach at Humanitec.
Enabling developers to self-serve Kubernetes and other cloud native resources is a clear sign of an advanced DevOps setup, but most teams have yet to reach this level. In this webinar, you will learn how to enable developer self-service by using Humanitec's API via Postman.
Internal Developer Platforms are increasingly becoming mainstream at most large tech enterprises. One of the visionary thinkers and most experienced veterans in this field is Aaron Erickson, who built the Internal Developer Platform at Salesforce. We are very excited to talk to him about his experiences and best practices in this webinar.
What are the key differences between the traditional approach to internal platforms and tooling vs the modern approach, better suited to fast paced digital innovation? We are very excited to discuss this with Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies.
Dynamic environments are a challenge for NoSQL databases like Elasticsearch. In this webinar Philipp Krenn from Elastic will discuss with Humanitec's CTO Chris Stephenson how to overcome the pitfalls of automated provisioning for new dynamic environments that use Elastic.
Among key DevOps trends to watch, the latest State of DevOps Report by Puppet turns the spotlight on developer self-service and platform engineering. That's why we're very excited to discuss this new shift in engineering with Nigel Kersten, Field CTO at Puppet and one of the authors of the report.
Cost control and optimization of cloud bills have become increasingly important issues for businesses. As cloud adoption rises, IT professionals are looking for ways to reduce their new (big) expense line items. In this webinar we will cover the best options teams have to reduce cloud costs and discuss practical strategies to cut your cloud bill.
Do your developers constantly bug you for environments, help with YAML or a fresh database instance? The 2020 State of DevOps by Puppet clearly shows what the top 10% teams do significantly better than everyone else: developer self-serving. In this webinar, we will show why companies like Github and Spotify built self-service setups. And we'll demo our own self-serving approach at Humanitec.
Galo Navarro worked in a team tasked with building an internal PaaS for 1500 engineers at e-commerce giant Adevinta. In this webinar, he will give unique insights into the why and how of building internal platforms. He will share best practices on how to set up platform teams, how to evaluate what components to build or buy, how to execute and how to measure success.
Why do the best teams in the world ship faster than anyone else? Because they built their own Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) to make their developers self-serving. We are excited to partner with Enterprise Docker and DevOps London to explain why teams like Github, Google, and Spotify built IDPs and what impact they have on their teams. Kaspar, CEO of Humanitec, will demo how to build your own IDP using Humanitec.


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BluEnt's application development capabilities widen with live chatting and video streaming apps
New Delhi, June 5, 2017: BluEnt, a leading IT and Web Development Company in USA provides services that cater to business requirements in these challenging and dynamically changing times. The world is of the presenters today. 63% of US Citizens between 18 to 34 are ardent fans of live broadcasts and 42% of their peers create these streams. Keeping pace with concurrent technologies, BluEnt specializes in livestreaming and video chatting apps development. We have already helped more than 200 businesses to register their presence in the online space.
Streaming is not a new concept; leveraging it to create an impact on your business strategy is. Multinational giants such as Nestle, GE and Doritos are already doing this.
Sajeel Khanna, SVP, BluEnt Technologies, observes, "Sharing live video streams help you connect with potential prospects and your customer community in a novel way. People relate more to what you are advertising and the services that you are offering, thus making your brand more real, relatable and accessible."
We believe that brands of all sizes must have equal opportunity to use live video chatting apps to promote business, which is why, our solutions are scalable and are tailor made to cater to the needs of your specific industry.
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The City by the Bay wants voters to give them the authority to slap a $2,000 to $5,000 tax on housing units unoccupied for six months.
The tax would exclude single-family homes as well as duplexes. It would apply to all multiple-family complexes of three units or more.
Some cities such as Oakland across the Bay and Vancouver – the San Francisco of British Columbia – include second homes and seasonal properties.
Vancouver instead of a flat tax penalizes owners of a vacant unit 3 percent of its property tax. That city's so-called "Empty House Tax" has raised $231 million for regional housing plans between 2017 and 2020. A report indicated 800 more homes were either rented or sold during the four-year period in Vancouver.
Oakland's tax in its first year raised $7 million in fund a commission on homeless as well as a mobile outreach team for the homeless.
The working theory in San Francisco is the tax will bring 4,500 "new units" into the rental market. There is also a bizarre assumption among some that it will lower rental prices.
Whoever opts to pay the tax instead of renting a unit obviously will pass the cost of the tax onto other tenants when the opportunity arises.
While it might not make sense to not rent out units, the property owners have their reasons.
The empty home tax is a nice work around to avoiding the issue as to whether the government can seize housing units which, for all practical purposes, is exactly what they are proposing to do in San Francisco.
Instead, they are simply taxing property owners to do the government's will. This is on top of the one percent basic property tax in California. That means the owner of a three-unit multiple-family property in San Francisco that has a value of $1 million and, for whatever reason, opts to leave a unit vacant for six months will be paying a $5,000 empty house tax on top of a basic $10,000 annual property tax bill.
Such a move shouldn't surprise you given it goes hand-in-hand with what the federal government did by effectively seizing property at the start of the pandemic by barring any landlord from evicting someone who is not paying rent.
Keep in mind it was Washington's attempt at helping people who lost their jobs due to the government lockdown and not anyone who opted to stop paying rent even though they continued working.
Lo and behold, just like people who used the federal government largesse to walk away from debt obligation during the mortgage meltdown that sent jobless rates soaring without hurting their credit or paying taxes on the forgiven debt, there were those that could still make their mortgage payments who hoped on board.
Back in 2008 a good number of people who were underwater but still had the income to pay their mortgage walked away and bought similar or even better homes with less money out-of-pocket.
There were renters in the pandemic who could pay and opted not to do so.
The end result in 2008 and 2020 was a lot of people who played by the rules were hurt by essentially a government property seizure due to the absence of a requirement to demonstrate need.
The de facto property seizure in 2020 has contributed to housing inflation. Those who lost income – especially mom and pop landlords by being forced to accept situations where tenants regardless of need stopped paying rent or who opted not to file for government housing assistant to make their landlord whole – are now trying to recoup their losses.
The empty home tax is more of the same. It assumes the government can and will dictate the best use of private property. The reasoning of property owners for not renting their property be damned.
What makes the entire process disingenuous in Oakland's case is the tax collected is not being used to expand the availability of more housing. Instead, it funds a bureaucratic commission dealing with the homeless and a mobile unit to take services to the homeless.
Wouldn't it make sense to use the empty room tax collected to help non-profits build more affordable housing units? It could even help homeowners as allowed under Senate Bill 9 to convert and existing single-family homes to as many as four unit, do a legal garage conversion or build an auxiliary dwelling unit.
Then there is the issue of cities like San Francisco that are enamored with the economic disruption crowd that has allowed people with tons of tech money stick it to government regulated concerns such as hotels and taxi companies.
An outright ban on rentals of homes for less than 30 days such as can be done through Airbnb and others would likely free up more housing units for rent than an empty house tax.
It would also drive tourists and travelers back to hotels where it is easier to track room taxes. That is likely to capture more revenue for San Francisco than an empty house tax.
But why do that? Government's first impulse is always to use taxes to inflict their will on the behavior of the public sector.
Besides an empty room tax requires the expansion of the bureaucracy to monitor the actions of the private sector. Instead of calling an empty room tax it should be dubbed "The Bureaucrat Full Employment Act."
Little did the framers of the constitution know that as tyrants seizing private property even by de facto means or imposing burdensome taxes King George was a rank amateur.
This column is the opinion of Dennis Wyatt, and does not necessarily represent the opinion of The Ceres Courier or 209 Multimedia Corporation.


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The umpire felt Novak Djokovic's fury during his latest win at the Australian Open, where he demanded a 'drunk' fan be removed from the stands.
The Serb's return to Melbourne always appeared likely to draw some scrutiny from the stands following last year's Covid-19 deportation debacle, and tensions spilled over at Rod Laver Arena on Thursday. Djokovic led Enzo Couacaud by two sets to one and was closing in on a third-round place when a group of overzealous fans dressed in 'Where's Wally' outfits proved too much to take.
""You're kidding me. You know who it is," the tennis legend shouted to umpire Fergus Murphy as he gestured towards the fan(s) in question. "The guy is drunk out of his mind! From the first point, he's been provoking me.
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"He's not here to watch tennis, he just wants to get in my head. You heard him at least 10 times; I heard him 50. What are you going to do about it? Get him out of the stadium."
The former world No. 1 was eventually granted his wish as security stepped in to usher the perpetrator's out of the arena. Tennis Australia chief Craig Tiley confirmed in the build-up to the competition that fans faced being booted out if they heckled Djokovic (or any player) during matches.
"If they disrupt the enjoyment of anyone else – boom, they are out," he told the Herald Sun earlier in January. "We don't want them on site. They can stay away or we will kick them out."
It didn't disrupt Djokovic's rhythm enough to prevent his 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-0 win over Frenchman Couacaud, teeing up a third-round showdown against Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov. The nine-time Australian Open-winner is gunning for a record-extending 10th title at Melbourne Park, having rekindled his romance with the tournament following huge disappointment in 2022.
Former British No. 1 Laura Robson empathised with Djokovic's plight and suggested "everyone would be a bit frustrated with that level of heckling." The Australian Open holds a reputation as one of the rowdier Grand Slams on the circuit, but it was decided Thursday's taunts crossed a line.
"There's not a huge distance between the people in the first couple of rows and the baseline," Robson told CNN. "And so that was what he was dealing with point after point and, eventually, it took until almost until the end of the match before they were kicked out, but you can understand the frustration."
Later on Thursday, Scottish favourite Andy Murray endured the longest match of his career to overcome Thanasi Kokkinakis from two sets down and reach the third round in Melbourne for the first time since 2017. He and Djokovic could face off in the quarter-finals should both reach that stage, though Murray must first make his way past Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut and one more test before that dream matchup can materialise.


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The U.S. Treasury offered $33 billion in 10-year notes Tuesday at a significant auction yield of 2.96%, but fading demand from customers from foreign customers ahead of tomorrow's important June inflation looking at manufactured for a messy benchmark auction.
Traders bid $2.34 for each $1 of 10-calendar year notes on offer you from the Treasury, auction facts indicated, the cheapest considering that December of 2020 and a notably softer tally than the 2.41 'bid-to-cover' ratio recorded at the very last auction on June 8, when the produce was 3.03%. Costs and yields in the bond sector shift in reverse directions, building present-day paper a lot more high-priced than it was in early June.
Overseas prospective buyers, the knowledge indicated, took down just beneath 61.3% of the sale, down 2 proportion points from the June sale and very well shy of the latest normal of around 70%.
Benchmark 10-12 months note yields bumped modestly reduce, to 2.956% in the immediate wake of the auction, though 2-year bonds held in close proximity to 3.041%, degrees that retain the steepest "inversion" of the yield curve since 2007.
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Traders normally related a sustained inversion as a sign of in the vicinity of-expression economic downturn as traders offer small-term notes in anticipation of Federal Reserve charge hikes, but acquire for a longer time-dated paper in advance of an financial slowdown.
According to a analyze from the San Francisco Federal Reserve, a sustained inverted yield curve has preceded all of the 9 recessions the U.S. economic system has suffered because 1955, building it an very precise barometer of economic marketplaces sentiment.
Shares ended up tiny-altered with the Dow Jones Industrial Normal marked 90 factors bigger on the session and the S&P 500 moving 1 position to the draw back. The Nasdaq Composite was marked 5 points bigger from very last night's near.
The CME Group's FedWatch device is exhibiting a 93% opportunity of a 75 foundation position fee hike later on this month, and a 30% likelihood of comply with-on shift of the exact same dimension in September.
The Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDPNow forecasting device, a serious-time benchmark, suggests the U.S. economy is shrinking at a 1.2% clip, next a likely contraction in both the very first and second quarters of the year.
June information on inflation and retail gross sales is also set for launch this 7 days, with the former envisioned to present one more jump in the headline rate, to an eye-watering 8.8%, before the 12 months-on-year measurements commence to subside about the ultimate months of the year.


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I'm merrily skipping into 2014 with a sprightly bounce in my step (and a wobble of my belly) as I am on the threshold of entering a brave new world of broadcasting. As you know from yours truly endlessly banging on about it, I am launching my radio show – previously heard on a radio station with an audience of three – on the cutting edge of envelope-pushing technological brilliance known in every corner of this planet as TuneIn Radio.
If you don't listen to it, then you are officially a dinosaur. Pretty much in the same category as my dear old mum, whom I adore, cherish and idolize, but she can be a prize dinosaur. We were watching the telly over Christmas and Jay Z was the guest on a show. She asked who he was and I told her he was a rapper. She responded: "What store does he wrap at?"
Mum is 88 and still sends me home with soup and bread pudding and, as dinosaurs go, she's pretty amazing.
So anyway, where was I? Oh, right. It occurs to me that the 40 million people who tune in to TuneIn each month may not all be familiar with my wine philosophy. Of course, wine is only one small feature on the show, but it's the only one where a philosophy is needed given the centuries of drivel uttered about my elixir of choice.
Since I now have some of my audience around the globe reading this very column online and some future listeners may well be perusing this, AND some of you were probably not yet born when I first uttered it on these pages, let me share that philosophy with you one more time.
I apologize if it's deja vu again, but then again it could very well be deja vu for the very first time, unless you have just returned in Doctor Who's TARDIS from the year 2114, when I repeat my mantra in my January column that year. I should point out that, like DOCTOR WHO, I too regenerate every four or five years, but please keep that to yourself as my wife hasn't found out yet; she simply marvels at my ability to stay young looking, trim and dead sexy (thankfully her eye doctor is pretty useless at his work).
So here is my philosophy. I'm not terribly interested in the elitism of vino, or in the snobbishness that lurks in the darkest depths of the wine world's psyche. Never, ever tell me how much a wine critic's convoluted rating system influenced your wine-buying decisions.
Not only will I immerse you into a vat of pickled tomatoes up to your ear lobes, I'll also sing the opening number to the "Sound of Music" – and I ain't no Julie Andrews!
As far as I'm concerned, wine critics have no redeeming qualities, unless you consider the ruination of a winemaker's entire livelihood an endearing characteristic. Don't let anybody dictate your drinking habits or spend your money for you – that's the exclusive privilege of spouses!
Which leads me to another interesting Silverstone observation. Wine-upmanship seems to hit men during their middle years. You know, when they trade in the sensible five-door car for a two-seater convertible in go-faster colors.
And let's not forget the price tag syndrome. If it costs a lot, and was produced in France, it's replacing the Rodin in the living room. That's absolute gobbledygook. Wine isn't made to display; it's made to drink.
And the quality of a wine isn't determined by its shelf price, never has been and never will be. I make it a habit never to spend more than $10 on a bottle of wine. Now, I didn't say I wouldn't drink anything more expensive, because I will, but only if somebody else is buying!
So "which is the best bottle of wine to pour?" That's easy. The one you most enjoy drinking. Regardless of its price or its hyped status, if you love it, that's the one for you. Don't be intimidated by wine and always buy what your bank balance can support … not your ego. Happy New Year and Cheers!


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Venice Carnival 2023 officially kicked off on February 4th with a light-filled night parade down the Grand Canal.
For the next two weeks, the floating city will be one big, spectacular party with costumed revelers posing in the squares, theatrical street performances and dozens of events.
The festival attractions hundreds of thousands of visitors to Venice each year.
This edition is titled "Take your time for the original signs" and has been inspired by the signs of the Zodiac.
Here are some of the best pictures so far from one of the world's most lavish carnivals.
The event began with a light-bedecked barge carrying actors and performers down the Grand Canal.
Thousands gathered on bridges and jetties to watch the fire displays and exotic costumes of the parade, entitled "Original Dreamers."
Another water cavalcade took place on February 5th with hundreds of rowers in elaborate costumes on traditional boats.
The protagonist of the parade was a 7-meter-long papier mache rat known as the Pantegana.
Revelers in sumptuous carnival costumes posed for photos in the streets.
Bakeries have begun churning out indulgent carnival pastries like frittelle, round deep-fried donuts filled with raisins or cream.