America's Cup 2021: Interactive explainer: Inside Team NZ's speed machine – how it all works
The boats being raced in this year's America's Cup are pushing the boundaries of both science and design.
The 75-foot foiling monohulls are unlike anything seen before in our waters and have been attracting huge interest and fanfare as they fly across the Waitematā Harbour daily.
But how exactly do these boats fly? What differences are there between Team NZ and Luna Rossa? And what are the responsibilities of each crew member?
Cheree Kinnear and AUT's Sailing Professor Mark Orams break down every inch of Team NZ and Luna Rossa's 75-foot, 7.5 tonne America's Cup boats.
The twin cantilevering foil arms, which extend out the side of the boat, provide lift and stability and are controlled by battery-powered hydraulics.
When the boats are foiling, the force of the wind on the sail is essentially trying to push the boat over on its side, so the foil in the water on the opposite side of the wind helps keeps it stable.
The other foil, if kept in the water would drag, therefore, is lifted. But because it's heavy it also helps with stability. The only time both foils are kept in the water is during a manoeuvre.
"The foils basically support the boat," Orams says. "They're around the size of an ironing board so you've got this massive yacht and all the force is supported by this very narrow foil."
The foil arms also have adjustable flaps attached to the bottom of each wing, and the flight controller's job is to control the flap's angle when foiling.
"If you think of an airplane's wings, the flaps go down to give you lift to take off and then as you take off, you'll see the pilot retract the flap as you've got enough speed that you've got to reduce the drag. It's the same principle with the main foils," says Orams.
Team New Zealand have fairly straight foils while Luna Rossa's resemble more of an inverted 'Y' shape and slant downwards to the tips.
"In aerodynamic terms that gives you more stability," Orams said. "So somehow Team NZ have figured out how to stay stable but have a really low drag set up on their foils. That tells me they must have a very sophisticated way of controlling their flaps."
Controlled by the helmsman, the rudder acts like the tail wing on a plane and is essentially a steering device.
The 'elevators' at the bottom of the rudder control the pitch of the yacht and enable stable flight -basically how much the boat flies nose up or nose down when foiling.
The rudder must work in unison with the foil arms, as Orams explains.
"If you've got them both going the same way, so both angles up, they'll both go to the sky and the boat will breach and fall to the surface. In contrast, if they're both down it'll nose dive so they have to work together."
Just like the foil arms, the larger the rudder, the more control the boat has, but once flying, the more drag it can create. The challenge is in striking the right balance.
While both teams have similar rudders, Team NZ's is the smallest.
The hull is the main body of the boat.
The unique difficulty with designing the hull of these foiling AC75's is, because it spends time both in and above the water, it needs to be built hydro-dynamically and aero-dynamically.
To achieve this balancing act, the hull needs to have enough buoyancy to take off yet be thin enough that when flying, has minimal drag.
Team NZ and Luna Rossa have relatively similar shaped hulls, in that they're arrow-shaped in design but Team NZ is much wider at the back.
"What they're trying to achieve is buoyancy in the hull by making it wide but as they present the hull to the wind direction, that it has as little profile as possible," Orams says.
"A little bit like a fighter jet.
"Luna Rossa's shape is less radical with no hard corners or bumps whereas Team NZ have a bit more of a narrow bow and boxy stern."
The other important aspect of the hull design is the shape of the keel. When the boat is at full flight, wind travelling underneath from one side of the hull to the other can create turbulence.
Extended keels, as seen on both boats, force the wind to go front to back and tunnel either side of the hull.
"It's a lot less drag and allows the boat to go faster," Orams says. "So both teams have these keels that drop from the middle of the boat that closes the gap between the water surface and the hull."
Mast & sails
Each boat must have an identical mast, but how it's installed, how much it leans and where it's positioned is up to the teams.
The sails are constructed out of carbon fibre. Team NZ and Luna Rossa both use North Sails, which are built in a mould.
The jib – being the triangular sail at the front of the boat – is single sided so when the boat goes from one tack to the other, the sail inverts in its shape onto the other side.
The mainsail, however, has two skins, and so creates a "soft wing".
"This is the engine of the yacht so how teams adjust it is huge," says Orams. "Mainsails are adjusted using hydraulics, powered by the grinders, how much power the grinders can produce determines how much adjustment the mainsail trimmer can make. And they have to be adjusted a lot for manoeuvres, puffs and lulls and they're always trying to manage the compromise between power and drag."
When it comes to race day, each team selects which sails to use based on recommendations from their meteorologist. The mainsails are selected fairly early but they leave their jib choice until much closer to the start time.
"You'll have your plan A, plan B and plan C before you even leave the dock," Orams said.
At the top of mast and front of the bowsprit, there are instruments that measure the wind strength and angle.
This provides the afterguard (helmsman and tactician) with valuable information when racing.
It also provides critical information about angle of attack, foil arm cant, pitch of the elevator and the rudder.
"They'll look at some key things such as the target of their boat speed, turn rate in manoeuvres, the speed going into a turn, through the turn and coming out and how they accelerate to get up to speed," said Orams.
"It determines where the mainsail is, the foils are adjusted to and the angle the helmsman is steering the yacht."
In basic terms, grinders use hand winches to create hydraulic power for the trimmers to adjust the sails.
To create hydraulic power, pressure needs to be created to pump hydraulic oil through pipes so the grinders ensure pressure is kept in the accumulator tanks.
"Think about it like a hot water cylinder. When filled up, you've got plenty of hot water and pressure but when you have two showers going, the pressure drops and so goes the temperature, the grinders are basically keeping the pressure up in those tanks," Orams explains.
"Without pressure, a person will essentially push a button and nothing will happen."
Both Team NZ and Luna Rossa have eight grinders, four on each side of the boat.
Flight controller
The flight controller is in charge of the foils and plays an essential part in ensuring the boat pulls off manoeuvres while foiling.
With the more traditional approach, Team NZ have thrust the role onto Blair Tuke.
Luna Rossa, on the other hand, has opted for the configuration with two helmsmen in Jimmy Spithill and Francesco Bruni, meaning both alternate in the role of flight controllers as they manage the foil control system.
Mainsail trimmer
The mainsail trimmer controls the 'engine'.
They're key to spotting changes in wind and can change the top and bottom sections of the mainsail.
But they must coordinate with the helmsman, as Orams explains.
"It's like if you were in a car and you've got one person on the steering wheel and the other with a foot on the accelerator. If they're not in sync with one another, it's really difficult," said Orams.
"They have to be like fighter pilots, very cool and calm."
The helmsman's primary responsibility is steering the boat and making decisions in manoeuvres.
He talks the team through their routines when entering a tack or gybe and the helmsman has the final say.
Team NZ has one helmsman – Peter Burling. But as mentioned above, Luna Rossa has opted to have two – Spithill and Bruni.
"The tricky thing for teams is when they change from one tack to another, how do they control the boat? Team NZ has one primary helmsman, and you want to steer the boat from the windward side. So when they go into a turn Burling ends up on the wrong side so Glenn Ashby has to steer while he crosses the back of the sail," Orams explains.
"In a new innovation, Luna Rossa have one helmsman on each side and swap between roles of steering the boat and controlling the pitch."
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The performance implications of perceptual differences of dependence in marketing channels: The mediating role of trust
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address two essential questions: do perceptual differences regarding dependence matter in determining channel performance, and if so, how? Design/methodology/approach – The paper conducted an empirical study of 347 cellular telephone supplier-retailer dyads in China. A questionnaire survey was employed. Findings – The results reveal that a retailer's perceptual difference of dependence exerts a significant effect on its evaluation of supplier performance only. Retailer trust partially mediates the effect of the perceptual differences on supplier performance and retailer performance. Therefore, the particular side of a dyadic relationship that researchers choose to study matters in an unbalanced dependence relationship. Practical implications – Managers, depending on their side, should pay close attention to perceptual differences and their consequences and deliberately employ different strategies to ensure effective channel management. Originality/value – Do differences in parties' perceptions of dependence influence channel performance? If they do, how do these perceived differences exert direct and indirect impacts? By answering these questions, the authors contribute not only to an understanding of the unique nature of dyadic channel relationships but also to methodological notions about whether to study one side in a dyad.
|Keywords||B2B marketing, Channel relationships, Marketing in China|
|Journal||Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics|
Yang, Z. (Zhilin), Jia, F. (Fang), & Cai, S. (2014). The performance implications of perceptual differences of dependence in marketing channels: The mediating role of trust. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 26(3), 344–364. doi:10.1108/APJML-12-2013-0154

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Does market volatility affect your pension choices?
Published: September 1, 2020 by Jennifer Armstrong
If you're retiring this year, you may be worried about what the market volatility caused by Covid-19 means for your options.
The good news is that Pension Freedoms, introduced in 2015, means you can choose how and when you access your retirement savings.
Market volatility may have affected the value of your pension but that doesn't mean your overall plans have to be adjusted. However, it's important that you understand the impact it could have.
The impact will depend on how you intend to access your pension.
1. Taking a lump sum
Once you reach retirement age, it is possible to take your pension through lump-sum withdrawals. You can even choose to withdraw the entire amount, though this isn't appropriate for most retirees.
Usually, you can withdraw up to 25% tax-free. If you've intended to take a lump sum out of your pension to take advantage of this, it's worth assessing if your pension value has fallen. Withdrawals that exceed the 25% tax-free lump sum will be taxed as income and could push you into a higher Income Tax bracket. As a result, taking a lump sum may not be the most efficient way to access money.
2. Purchasing an Annuity
An Annuity is a product you buy with your pension savings that delivers a lifetime income. As a result, if the value of your pension has fallen, you may find that the income you can purchase is now lower. But it is an option that can provide financial security throughout retirement.
The amount paid out will depend on the Annuity rate. For example, a 5% Annuity rate would pay out £5,000 every year for every £100,000 initially paid.
The Annuity rate you're offered varies depending on a range of factors, including your age and health. You can also choose to purchase a joint Annuity, ensuring your partner would continue to receive an income if you passed away first, or one that rises alongside inflation to maintain spending power. These options would typically mean a lower level of income to begin with.
If you'd like to use an Annuity to fund retirement, you'll need to assess how recent volatility has affected your overall pension value. This means you're able to see what Annuity rates mean in terms of income. Take some time to shop around, different providers will offer varying rates. The good news is that with a guaranteed income, you won't have to worry about market volatility affecting income in retirement.
3. Using Flexi-Access Drawdown
Flexi-Access Drawdown allows you to take a flexible income that suits you, usually, the remainder will stay invested until you make another withdrawal.
This is the option where investment volatility can have the biggest impact. As your savings remain invested, you need to be aware of how your investments have performed. Continuing to take the same level of income during a downturn, as you did previously, will mean you need to sell more units to receive the same amount. This can deplete your pension quicker than expected if you haven't considered it beforehand.
As you're responsible for how and when you access your pension, you also need to ensure it lasts throughout your life, which will undoubtedly include some periods of short-term volatility. Therefore, you must consider downturns as part of your retirement plan.
Remaining exposed to the markets isn't all negative though. Historically, markets have recovered in the long term. Keeping your pension invested means you have an opportunity to benefit from a recovery as well as long-term gains.
Creating a retirement plan
How and when is the 'right' time to access your pension will vary between retirees. It's a decision that should focus on your retirement goals and long-term plans.
Remember, you don't have to access your pension as soon as it becomes available. If you don't need the savings yet, leaving your pension invested can give your investments a chance to recover in the long term and perhaps grow further.
You also don't have to choose one of the above options exclusively. You can mix and match the options to suit you. For instance, you could withdraw your 25% tax-free lump sum at the start of retirement, use a portion to create a base income with an Annuity, and use Flexi-Access Drawdown to access the remainder at different points.
If you'd like to discuss your retirement plans, whether this is how current circumstances have affected your initial plans or you're starting from scratch, please get in touch.


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Shut Down the Entire Cluster
To perform an orderly shutdown of the entire cluster:
1. Log on to the D-SRV, and start Cluster Administrator.
2. For each role in the cluster (LC1, LC2, LC3, and DS1), select the role, right-click,
and select Take Offline.
3. Power off the A-SRV.
4. Power off all CAs.
5. Power off the D-SRV.
Start Up the Entire Cluster
To perform an orderly start up of the entire cluster:
1. Power up the D-SRV.
2. Power up the A-SRV.
3. Power up the CAs.
4. Wait for five minutes.
5. Log on to the D-SRV, and use Cluster Administrator to bring the DS1 role on line,
a. Right-click the DS1 group.
b. Select Bring Online.
6. Use the Cluster Administrator to bring the LC Roles online one at a time. Wait for
each role to come online before starting the next role.
As you bring each LC Role online, make sure that the LC Role is assigned to a
unique CA. If each LC Role is not assigned to a unique CA, reassign it as follows:
a. Right-click the LC Role.
b. Select Move Group.
c. Select a CA that is not assigned a role.


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Wandering Jew Plant or Tradescantia Zebrina is an extremely beautiful but low-maintenance indoor houseplant. Considered invasive in nature in a lot of areas around the world, this quality of the plant makes it an increasingly popular indoor vining houseplant. Their characteristic heart-shaped leaves with a deep purple hue, stands them out from an army of indoor varieties, making them ideal decor plants.
About Tradescantia Zebrina - Wandering Jew in Hanging Basket
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- Make sure if you are placing the plant indoors it receives some amount of bright indirect light. The absence of bright light will fade the distinctive leaf markings and the silvery sheen.
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- The plant cannot grow in low light levels.
Water Tips for Healthy Growth of Wandering Jew Plant
- Always examine the moistness of the soil and water accordingly.
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- Never water the crown of the plant, always water the soil from the side.
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- During monsoon fertilize once in 2 months.
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Do you know how to become an online travel Consultant?
Formation is at the base of every journey, for this reason we think this aspect that accompanies the activity of an Evolution Travel online travel Consultant fundamental not only in the initial phase but also afterwards, with constancy and continuity.
The aim of the whole journey is to develop the technical/touristic knowhow and the personal and professional competence necessary to build a successful entrepreneurial activity through classroom and online courses and formative events that are constantly organised to enable you to build a solid and fruitful commercial activity in the world of travel and tourism.
In synthesis here is how the formation of an Evolution Travel online travel Consultant is organised:
- BASIC COURSE - Theory
It is a course that is developed over recorded online sessions with a learning confirmation test in which you can see all the operative instruments in detail, the procedures and resources that an online travel Consultant has to manage his activity.
- BASIC CLASSROOM COURSE – Practise
The second phase of the Basic Course is a classroom course of 4 days and represents the moment in which the online travel Consultant begins, in the proper sense, his activity. Yes, we enter into the heart of the matter and begin to work the first requests!
- COACHING ONLINE – Online personalised sessions
It is a formative session, held by an expert online travel Consultant that follows a single person in his specific needs for 10 hours distributed over a two month period.
Online courses to which you can participate thanks to a dedicated platform that enables you to assist the course comfortably from home and interacting through a chat shared by all the participants. Every week there are from a minimum of 2 to a maximum of 4 e-learning courses, which means an average of 150 e-learning courses in a year! From tourism technique, to online sales strategies, to procedures related to booking trips, to personal growth, to web-marketing, to the management of your time, to the single products and destinations and on how to sell them.
- EDUCATIONAL – Travelling as Consultants
Educationals are trips that the various Tour Operators organise to let operators in this field, who are in charge of selling the product, experience first-hand and on location, the destinations and services offered, in order to sell the product to their clients in a better way.
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The Open Days are formative days organised in various Italian cities to examine various aspects of the activity more in depth: from the instruments of the online agency, to specific touristic products, to web-marketing strategies to promote oneself on the WEB.
- ANNUAL CONVENTION - Formation, news, ideas…Once a year, in September, all Consultants reunite for the online travel Consultant Convention: 2 days that represent an important moment of gathering and formation for all participants!


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noun (plural bilbies)
- another term for rabbit-eared bandicoot.More example sentences
- If you look at just the numbers of small native animals like woylies and potoroos and bilbies, at the end of '98 we had 900, 2001, three years later we had 2,500.
- Tragically though, sanctuaries like this are becoming the only place to see creatures such as bilbies, bettongs and bandicoots.
- I mean, we have an enormous wealth of reptiles, the richest in the world, our insects are amazing, our marsupials, our numbats and our bandicoots and our bilbies - how many people have seen a bilby or know what a bilby is?
late 19th century: probably from an Aboriginal language.


text: This volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations. As a novel theory of governance, EGT understands governance as radically evolutionary, which implies that all elements of governance are subject to evolution, that these elements co-evolve and that many of them are the product of governance itself. Through this book we learn how communities understand themselves and their environment and why they create the complex structures and processes we analyze as governance paths. Authors from different disciplines develop the EGT framework further and apply it to a wide rage networks of power, governance of agricultural resources etc. The contributors also reflect on the possibilities and limitations of steering, intervention, management and development in a world continuously in flux. It bridges the gap between more fundamental and philosophical accounts of the social sciences and applied studies, offering theoretical advancements as well as practical recommendations.


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- Evening is defined as the time after sunset and before bedtime, or a later period of a lifetime or career.
- An example of evening is seven o'clock at night.
- An example of evening is the post retirement life of a professional golfer; the evening of his life.
A perfect evening for a romantic meal.
evening definition by Webster's New World
- the last part of the day; close of the day and early part of night; period between sunset or the last meal of the day and bedtime
- in some parts of the South, in rural areas, and in parts of England, the period from noon through sunset and twilight
- the last period, as of life, a career, etc.
- a part of the night spent in a specified way: a musical evening
Origin: Middle English ; from Old English æfnung, verbal noun ; from æfnian, to grow toward evening ; from æfen, evening, akin to German abend, probably ; from Indo-European base an unverified form epi-, an unverified form opi-, after, later (from source Classical Greek epi, Classical Latin ob): basic sense "later part of the day"
evening definition by American Heritage Dictionary
- The period of decreasing daylight between afternoon and night.
- The period between sunset or the evening meal and bedtime: a quiet evening at home.
- A later period or time: in the evening of one's life.
- Chiefly Southern U.S. The time from noon to twilight.
Origin: Middle English, from Old English ǣfnung, from ǣfnian, to become evening, from ǣfen, evening.


PokéBase - Pokémon Q&A
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I'm guessing Alakazam or Metagross.
Just curious. XD
The one that has eaten all our Gummis in EOS.
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>Alakazam's brain continually grows, infinitely multiplying brain cells. This amazing brain gives this Pokémon an astoundingly high IQ of 5,000. It has a thorough memory of everything that has occurred in the world.
Once again, Pokedex Entry.
Now, the question is:
Which one has higher IQ? Which one is cleverer? Which one is smarter?
To answer this, we need to know what IQ means in terms of a supercomputer. How much IQ does a supercomputer have?
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According to this website,
>One of the world's smartest computers took an intelligence test and scored as well as a four-year-old human being.
>The computer basically can name the dots, but can't connect them.
From here on, it seems simpler. Basically, Metagross can solve equations, but not necessarily understand them, or know them. On the other hand, Alakazam has the ability to know and remember everything in the world. Implying that not only does it know the equation that Metagross solves within seconds, but also why, and the answer, kind of before hand. Also, the Dex entry talks of infinite brain-cell generating capabilities, that, in my opinion, out-trumps Metagross without a doubt.
Also, Metagross can only analyze, meaning it would probably fail the Turing test (keep in mind, however, it does use this in battles, so it is question of whether it is acting them out as simulations, or as actual strategies. If they are merely simulations, then it is not AI, but given that it acts based on the simulations, it may be AI). Now, Alakazam, as we know, has Intelligence of its own, and acts based on strategies it creates, as opposed to Metagross, instead of creating simulations, and discarding those that aren't beneficial.
tl;dr: Metagross solves stuff, Alakazam already knows the answer.
Alakazam Wins.
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Had to upload this genius from RareCandyTreatment :3
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Alakazam: Solved a 5 x 5 rubik's cube in 78 seconds
All hail alakazam
You're awesome, Infinity.
But doesn't Uxie technically have the highest IQ? Seeing as it is the embodiment of Knowledge.
I could actually disagree for good reasons here, but then we would end up with rocket science and "why einstein was wrong" arguments xD
Thanks a bunch Infinity(cool name).
How kind of you to say that, Astro! :3 (No seriously, you made my day!)
Well, about Uxie, it IS legendary Pokemon created SPECIFICALLY to represent Knowledge itself. If you think of it as an embodiment, or a rather, spirit, or entity, designed to keep things in check, as opposed to a Pokemon then indeed, Uxie can't be compared to either of the above Pokemon in terms of IQ.
And, Luke, no problem at all, man! I had fun thinking about the answer to this, and digging up stuff that I hadn't known previously either! It was a great question, one that forced me to think about super-computers and other stuff that Alan Turing was good at. As for the name, glad that you like it. It is, to be honest, a kind of a play on my actual name (or rather, its translation). + It sounds cool af. :3
That comic is still as fun :)
if it can recall everything since it was born, why can't it recall the move role play if it learned it before?
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I would go for Metagross because (Not only I like it) It has FOUR brains. Take that Alakazam. Alakazam's brain only grows but it doesn't have 4.
So say 1000 IQ for each brain he would only be 4000 IQ.
But then Alakazam had has 5000 so it could be him.
So I rekon overall... Alakazam wins
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I know it is confusing so just read the BOLD writing.
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As far as I know, Alakazam is the only Pokemon that has had their IQ stated. Alakazam's IQ is also probably the highest because it's IQ is said to be around/over 5,000. We also know Metagross is very smart because it's Pokedex entries say that it's four brains are able to calculate difficult problems faster than a supercomputer. It doesn't tell Metagross's exact IQ but it tells that it is very smart.
Pokemon that also (probably) have a high IQ (Maybe the highest)
Lapras: Some of Lapras's Pokedex entries state that it is highly intelligent and it can understand human speech.
>Its high intelligence enables it to understand human speech. It likes to ferry people on its back.
Uxie: Uxie is the being of knowledge, it is most likely very smart.
Arceus: Arceus is the god of Pokemon, God knows everything.
Mew: The ancestor of all Pokemon must be very smart.
Beldum & Metang: The pre-evolutions of Metagross, Metagross is smart so Metang & Beldum are most likely smart.
Abra & Kadabra: Same thing with Beldum & Metang, they are the pre evolutions of Alakazam
Slowking: Look at dex entries. (Thanks Astro!!)
Hope I helped!
and knowledge.
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Isn't Slowking hyperintelligent as well?
I knew I was onto something with slowbro!!!
Ancestor of all pokemon must be smart? Say that to microbes
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Metagross Ruby entry: METAGROSS has four brains in total. Combined, the four brains can breeze through difficult calculations faster than a supercomputer. This POKéMON can float in the air by tucking in its four legs
>Alakazam Red and Blue entry: Its brain can outperform a supercomputer. Its intelligence quotient is said to be 5,000.
Ok so both outperform a Super computer. Intelligent, huh? The highest IQ in the world is 154. So 5000 is a lot. If each Metang's iq was 500, it couldn't beat Alakazam.
So there, Alakazam, way to go.
But there is no proof for alakazam to have the highest IQ as it is the only Pokemon to have their IQ stated.
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Actually unlike everyone else I have to disagree completely with everone.
Either Uxie or Arceus.
Arceus because its the god of Pokemon and so knows everything and is 'all knowing'
Uxie is the Pokemon of wisdom and so technically theoretically has the highest IQ.
I said that they might
Seems probable.
but they can still only know 4 moves and can't use potions by themselves...
Thats only in the game so it would be fair. If they could do that, everyone would be using them! Maybe they could, but perhaps they have battling laws for that or something. The games are just pieces of coding.
What sapphire said, all Pokemon can learn only 4 moves, if any Pokemon could learn more than 4 moves would give it an unfair advantage (beside maybe magikarp where it would do absolutely NOTHING)
The Christian God is all knowing but Pokemon theology seems to be a bit different. It probably more closely models eastern religions where gods are more limited to roles or represent a universal energy or something like that. In Pokemon theology arceus may be God and still not all knowing. Uxie still stands out though. But wisdom and intelligence can be argued as not the same.
To quote Dexter Jettster her, "You'd think you Jedi Knights would know the difference between knowledge and… wisdom. Heh heh heh."


The Correct spelling is: scarf
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 - n., pl. scarfs (skÃ¤rfs) or scarves (skÃ¤rvz).
 1. A long piece of cloth worn about the head, neck, or shoulders.
 2. A decorative cloth for covering the top of a piece of furniture; a runner.
 3. A sash indicating military rank.
 tr.v., scarfed, scarfÂ·ing, scarfs.
 1. To dress, cover, or decorate with or as if with a scarf.
 2. To wrap (an outer garment) around one like a scarf.
 [French dialectal escarpe, sash, sling, from Old North French, variant of Old French escherpe, pilgrim's bag hung from the neck, from Frankish *skirpja, small rush, from Latin scirpus, rush.]
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The definition of chew means to use teeth to bite, cut through and grind into smaller pieces, or is slang meaning to reprimand someone.(verb)
See chew in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: ME chewen < OE ceowan, to bite, chew < IE base *gjeu-, to chew > Pers ǰavidan, Ger kauen
See chew in American Heritage Dictionary 4
verb chewed, chew·ing, chews verb, transitive
Origin: Middle English cheuen
Origin:, from Old English cēowan.
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Coins (also referred to as gold pieces, gp, gold, or simply money) are the most common form of currency in Old School RuneScape. They can be used to represent the value of virtually every single tradeable item in the game, as well as various services offered throughout.
When the number of coins in a single stack exceeds 99,999, then the examine text reads "____ x Coins", where the blank is the exact number of coins in the stack. If there is less than that, the examine text reads "Lovely money!" when examined in the inventory. When a stack of coins on the ground is examined, the examine will always show the exact amount.
Players often refer to one thousand (1,000) coins as 1k and one million (1,000,000) coins as 1m or 1mil. Both can be applied to larger numbers, for example, 10m refers to ten million coins (10,000,000). More rarely, 1b or 1bil refers to one billion coins (1,000,000,000).
Alchemy spells, which create coins, cannot be cast on coins. If a player attempts it, a message will inform the player that "Coins are already made of gold." You can, however, turn other items made of gold like gold ore and gold bars into coins.
The alternate terms for coins have seen seldom official usage since RuneScape Classic was replaced by RuneScape 2. One of the only NPCs who say "GP" ingame is the brewer dwarf in Keldagrim. The reason given is that he prefers to associate with gold at the expense of proper terminology. Additionally, when the glassblower was added to Entrana, he always referred to coins as 'gold pieces'. Another instance that a player may find coins referred to as "gp" is when attempting to pass through the gates to Al-Kharid, right-clicking upon the gate will give the player the option to spend 10 gp to go through.
- 3 coins respawn can be found from Varrock West Bank basement, more can be telegrabbed from the locked room.
- There are a few coin spawns in the room with Elvarg.
- There are a few coin spawns in the Taverley Dungeon near ghosts.
- There are a few coin spawns in the Haunted Mine.
- There are a few coin spawns in the King Black Dragon's den.
- There are a few coin spawns in the Asgarnian Ice Dungeon.
- There are some 5-coin spawns in Varrock Sewers near the red spiders.
- Asking Anja at Rimmington for some free stuff, will lead to a long dialogue, followed by Anja giving 1 to 3 coins.
- There are some gold spawns all over the Wilderness.
- There are 7 coins that spawn in the Edgeville Dungeon.
Real world trading
Some players purchase coins in exchange for real-world money using websites such as eBay. This is known as real world trading. Although players can potentially gain monetary value within RuneScape by such means, this method is not recommended, as Rule #12 of the RuneScape Code of Conduct forbids the trading of RuneScape items for items outside of RuneScape, and can result in a player ban.
- Coins appear in the inventory as plain flat cylinders, but during Grim Tales, it is revealed that coins have more intricate designs imprinted on their faces.
- During the quest Shilo Village, there is an item that looks like coins in one of the tunnels; however, the coins can be picked up only by use of Telekinetic Grab. They are not the same as normal coins, being non-stackable and untradeable. If a player tries to pick them up without Telekinetic Grab, they will be attacked and the coins will turn to dust.
- The maximum number of coins in a stack is 2,147,483,647, because RuneScape uses 32-bit signed integers to store values, which are unable to represent a higher number. Theoretically it would be possible to use higher values by storing them in larger data types like long (64-bit integer with a maximum value of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807).
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A Brief History of Wood Floors
wood floor
Humans have been building homes for at least 400,000 years, but it was only in the 1600s that we got around to making floors out of wood. Prior to that, the floors of most houses were made of bare dirt or stone.
The first wood floors in Europe were simple. Just a few rough-hewn pine planks supported by joists, or even split logs set into the dirt with the cut side facing up. These early wooden floors were nothing like the elegant, polished interiors we associate with hardwood flooring today. They were unfinished, and smoothing was accomplished through years of regular foot traffic, not by sanding and polishing. Think of how many splinters you might have gotten in your feet after installing a wood floor in your home if you lived in the early 1600s!
Soon artisans began to refine wood flooring. By 1625, wealthy Europeans could pay to have intricate parquet floors installed in their homes. These floors were made by hand-cutting pieces of wood into small shapes that could be arranged together in repeating geometric patterns.
The abundance of timber in the New World made wood floors much more commonplace. But most American settlers and pioneers did not have much use for the impressive, artisan-crafted designs used in wealthy European homes. Early American plank floors were simply the most practical option in a country full of old-growth forests. The floors tended to be simple, with the boards cut at random widths and lengths and no stain or varnish applied.
The innovation of shiplap joinery made wood floors more durable and less prone to developing gaps, through which cold air, moisture, and small objects could pass.
In the 1700s, people began to apply painted designs to their wood floors. These could range in complexity from simple checkerboards to ornate vining or flowering patterns. Stain and varnish did not become common until the late 1800s.
During the Industrial Revolution, the process of making hardwood flooring became much less labor-intensive. Whereas before each plank would have to be sawn individually by no less than two men, now steam-powered lumber mills and woodworking machinery could process more boards in a day than two men could do in an hour. The technology meant wood floors could be produced more cheaply, and the finished product would be more uniform and attractive.
Still, the installation process was much more labor-intensive until the invention of the electric sander. Prior to that, floors had to be hand-scraped or have loose sand rubbed over them.
The 1940s and 50s saw a decline in the use of wood for flooring, as carpets and other flooring materials like linoleum grew in popularity. But nowadays, people are turning back to hardwood flooring for its simplicity, durability, and beauty.
Who knew the history of wood flooring could be so interesting? The history buffs at Five Step Carpet Care aren't just here to regale you with factoids, though. If you live in Western NC and are in need of professional wood floor cleaning services, give us a call at _PHONE_ or drop us a line today!


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Types of traditional settlements and forms of folk houses
Course Syllabus 课程章节1
Settlement is the general name of various forms of human settlements. This class mainly teaches the types of traditional settlements in Shanxi, namely urban settlements and rural settlements. Feel the site selection and layout characteristics of these two settlements through real photos.On this basis, it introduces the forms of folk houses in Shanxi. Shanxi folk houses follow the general law of the construction of folk houses in other local settlements, draw local materials and adjust measures to local conditions. However, due to the great differences in natural and geographical conditions, the forms and styles of folk houses in Shanxi traditional settlements are very different. With the accumulation of years, these residential forms constitute the distinctive characteristics of Shanxi settlements and have unique artistic value.


"No more music. The flood saw to that."
Waterlogged is a side quest in Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds.
"Not enough... must be... perfect!"
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Obtaining the quest
This quest can be obtained in one of two ways. If Aloy speaks to Laulai, she will inform Aloy of a sudden rush of water that has flooded the basin at Deep Din and obstructed her family's legacy. Aloy will offer to investigate. Laulai can be found in Song's Edge, but if Aloy does not speak to her there she will turn up in Longnotch later.
Alternatively, Aloy can bypass Laulai and visit Deep Din or Greycatch on her own. The quest will automatically start when Aloy gets close to one of the locations.
 1. Go to the Lake
 2. Follow the River Upstream
 3. Find an Entrance
 4. Enter the Greycatch
 5. Explore the Control Room
 1. Examine the Control Panel
 2. Examine the Schematics
 3. Examine the Breaker Bank
 6. Explore the Dam
 7. Find the Source of the Shouting
 1. Talk to the Oseram
 8. Follow Gildun
 9. Close the First Sluice Gate
 1. Find a Path to the Other Side
 2. Unblock Sluice Gate
 3. Lock the First Sluice Gate
 10. Follow Gildun
 11. Find a Path to the Second Sluice Gate
 12. Lower the Emergency Ladder
 13. Close the Second Sluice Gate
 1. Find a Path to the Other Side
 2. Look for the Counterweight
 3. Get on the Counterweight
 4. Lock the Second Sluice Gate
 14. Recover the Emitter
 1. Kill the Snapmaw
 2. Search the Snapmaw
 15. Restore Power to the Door
 1. Return to the Control Center
 2. Replace the Emitter
 16. Go to the Storage Room
 1. Find a Power Cell
 2. Replace the Power Cell
 3. Talk to Gildun
 17. Go to the Overflow Basin
 18. Enter the Overflow Basin
 19. Find the Source of the Sound
 20. Talk to Laulai
Waterlogged - Ultra Hard - No Damage - Video Guide
Frozen Wilds Audio Datapoints
Frozen Wilds Text Datapoints - Quests
 - Gildun can be found at Longnotch after the quest's completion, and a conversation can be had with him. However, he will speak as if Firebreak and The Forge of Winter have not been completed (this is likely a glitch).
Horizon Zero Dawn Quests
Cauldrons Cauldron RHO - Cauldron SIGMA - Cauldron XI - Cauldron ZETA
Corrupted Zones Corrupted Zones
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds Quests


text: Abstract Generally, huge energy consumption is required in the operation of the multi-chiller system in air-conditioning system. Concerning minimizing energy consumption, both Lagrangian method and genetic algorithm have been applied to optimize the partial loading rate in each chiller. As is demonstrated by previous studies, though the Lagrangian method could minimize energy consumption, it could not effectively execute convergence at low demands. And despite its capability to execute convergence at low demands, the genetic algorithm may not get the minimum energy consumption solution as Lagrange method did of solving the optimal chiller loading problem. As an efficient method, the particle swarm algorithm has been proposed to solving continuous parameters optimization problems. This paper applies particle swarm algorithm to minimize energy consumption of multi-chiller system. The objective function is energy consumption and the optimum parameter is the partial loading ratio of each chiller. To further testify the feasibility of the proposed method, the paper adopts two case studies to compare the results of the developed optimal model with Lagrangian method and genetic algorithm. The result of the two case studies shows that the particle swarm algorithm outperforms the genetic algorithm not only in overcoming the divergence of Lagrangian method occurring at low demands, but also in getting the minimum energy consumption solution of solving the optimal chiller loading problem.


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From: Monica Howie
Subject: [teacherartexchange] tie-dye tissue paper
Does anyone have advice on creating a tie-dye effect using wetted
1. My young students really enjoyed that aspect of "bleeding" tissue
2. We did not use that technique in isolation...felt that it was more
effective if some of the tissue stayed on the paper for texture and
3. Not all tissue brands "bleed"
4. Tissue also bleeds on to the artists' hands and is nearly impossible
5. Ditto for art furniture.
6. We used white glue and water mixed, applied with stiff bristle


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Bryna Name Meaning & Origin
Origin of the name Brenna:
A name of disputed origin and meaning. Some believe it to be a feminine form of the Celtic Bren which is from the root bri (strength, force). Alternatively, it may be derived from the Gaelic bran (raven)
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- Comments and insights on the name Bryna
very unique, different. Not very common though.
- Personal experiences with the name Bryna
A store which sells handbags called Bryna Nicole Handbags named after a person named first and middle; Bryna Nicole
- Nicknames for Bryna
Bry, Brybry, BB, B, Bryan
- Meanings and history of the name Bryna
Variant of Brenna, used as a feminization of Bryn and Bryan.
- Famous real-life people named Bryna
- Bryna in song, story & screen


How can I reduce TinyPilot's latency?
On a well-provisioned local network, TinyPilot achieves 100-200 milliseconds of latency on its video stream. On slower networks or across the Internet, you may experience higher latency. This article includes steps you can take to reduce TinyPilot's latency.
Why does latency increase?
To stream video, TinyPilot uses the MJPEG streaming format. This protocol achieves low latency, but it consumes significant bandwidth.
Reducing TinyPilot's bandwidth and latency
To reduce TinyPilot's bandwidth usage, you can tune its video streaming settings. From the main menu, select System > Video Settings.
Screenshot of TinyPilot navigation bar selecting Video Settings
Adjust the frames per second (FPS) and video quality settings and apply them to test the latency under the new settings. Latency will reduce as you lower the FPS and JPEG quality.
Screenshot of TinyPilot Video Settings dialog
Experiment with different settings until you've found the right balance of video quality for your network connection.


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Where does road salt come from?
The Magazine answers...
With heavy snow falls all week, supplies of the rock salt are running low. Where does the salt scattered by gritters come from? Forget all those notions about political dissidents with pickaxes.
Salt Union photo of continous miner machine
From here, beneath the ground in Winsford, Cheshire...
De-icing or gritting salt is nothing like the white grains we use to season food. Made from crushed rock salt carved out of underground mines, it is brownish in colour and resembles gravel.
The salt used to melt ice and add traction on the UK's snow-covered byways comes not from the sea but from three main mines - the Salt Union's Winsford Rock Salt Mine in Cheshire, Cleveland Potash in Teesside and the Irish Salt Mining and Exploration Company in County Antrim.
These deposits were formed millions of years ago when the UK and Ireland were covered by inland seas. Over time, the seawater evaporated, leaving vast salty deposits that were gradually covered over. Some are 100m deep, others well over 1.6km - a mile - underground.
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Salt now used instead of traditional grit made of sand and small stones
De-icing salt is rock salt carved from mines deep underground
Mine deposits formed as ancient bodies of salt water dried up
Today rock salt is extracted by machines known as continuous miners fitted with rotating steel cutting picks which grind salt from the walls of these vast cathedral-like spaces.
"The salt is then carried away from the cutting surface by conveyor belts to be crushed and treated further," says Salt Union spokeswoman Katie Moffat.
It is treated with anti-caking agent, then put into storage to await transportation to gritting depots by lorry or rail.
Those who work the salt mines are trained engineers who keep the machinery running - a far cry from the pickaxes and buckets used in the mines' early days in the 1800s, when rock salt was primarily used for salt licks - blocks of salt - for animals.
Rock salt is now used for winter highway maintenance as salt lowers the freezing point of water to below zero Celsius - how low depends on the concentration of salt to water.
Gritter being loaded with salt
... to the gritting lorries
This means when salt is spread over a road or a footpath, it either melts the snow and ice as it dissolves, or helps prevent ice forming.
After heavy snow throughout this week and more forecast to fall, de-icing salt has been in such demand that council stocks are running low. And to restock when the roads are slick with ice can be problematic, so supplies are being rationed. Meanwhile, production has been stepped up at Salt Union's mine which has been working 24 hours a day since the beginning of January.
But as well as drilling salt for the nation's byways, Salt Union has also found a use for the spaces left over by mining - storing important documents.
"A salt mine is clean and dry, with huge caverns carved over time, leaving giant pillars of rock salt for stability," says Ms Moffat. "With low humidity, no water and no UV light, it's perfect for archive document storage."
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As well as storage rooms, the spaces formed by extraction also form road-sized pathways for the miners and mining equipment to move around between cutting surfaces.
The Salt Association, the trade body for producers, estimates the UK's salt mines to have about 225km (140 miles) of tunnels - almost as long as the M5 motorway. Which is itself in need of de-icing after Thursday's blizzards.
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What are Pavers Made of?
People tend to throw the terms "paver" "paving stone" "concrete paver" "brick paver" around interchangeably. That is because of the many changes that pavers have undergone over the years, leading to the variety of options on the market today.
Historically, pavers were made from clay or natural stone. As the availability of stone and/or raw materials declined over time, combined with changes in science and manufacturing technology, it was not long before manufactured concrete pavers became the popular hardscape choice.
At Unilock, when we talk about pavers, we are typically referring to the manufactured concrete paving stones that we produce.
Pavers are made on specialized machinery that blends the materials and presses them into paving stones. The ingredients used to create pavers are quite simple:
 1. Sharp sand
 2. Small stone chips (about 1/8" or 3 mm in size)
 3. Cement powder
 4. Water
 5. Pigment
 6. Additives to help with curing, de-molding, and reducing efflorescence.
Although pavers are made on a specialized paver machine/press, the basic ingredients of the concrete are exactly the same as traditional concrete, only with slight changes to the proportions of those ingredients.
Because of the machinery used to mold and press these pavers, these concrete pavers are two to three times stronger than regular poured-in-place concrete. The fact that they are so strong allows us to offer a Lifetime Warranty. The manufacturing process also allows us to create paving stones and retaining wall blocks in a variety of colors, shapes and textures.
The only other additional ingredients are those used to make EnduraColor products. These "secret sauce" ingredients include high-quality specialty aggregates and a slightly different manufacturing process that results in a particular look and feel, while providing visual longevity and lasting performance.
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The theist pump is used to extract and examine the contents of the fish's throat before it reaches its stomach. This helps discover what trout are feeding on allowing you to accurately match the food source. This study of the trout's food source dramatically improves catch rates. The pump is made of a rubber bulb and a small diameter plastic tapered straw which is easy to operate.
TO USE: Cradle fish in hand in a horizontal position with gentle but steady pressure. Fill the pump with water, then empty bulb so only the straw contains water. With bulb collapsed slide the tube gently into the fish. Squirt a few drops of water into the fish's throat then release the pressure on the bulb. The contents of the fish's throat will be drawn into the straw. With smaller fish use less suction. Release fish, squeeze contents of the pump into palm or vial to examine.


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free_in : term -> term -> bool
Tests if one term is free in another.
When applied to two terms t1 and t2, the function free_in returns
true if t1 is free in t2, and false otherwise. It is not necessary
that t1 be simply a variable.
- FAILURE CONDITIONS
In the following example free_in returns false because the x in SUC x
in the second term is bound:
whereas the following call returns true because the first instance
of x in the second term is free, even though there is also a bound instance:
# free_in 'SUC x' '!x. SUC x = x + 1';;
val it : bool = false
# free_in 'x:bool' 'x /\ (?x. x=T)';;
val it : bool = true
If the term t1 is a variable, the rule vfree_in is more basic and probably
- SEE ALSO
frees, freesin, freesl, thm_frees, vfree_in.


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Definition of dog whistle in English:
1A high-pitched whistle used to train dogs, typically having a sound inaudible to humans.
- X rays are light emitted at much higher frequencies than humans can see, in the same way as a dog whistle blows at a frequency that is beyond the sensitivity of the human ear.
- Blow into it and the sound produced is not unlike that of a dog whistle.
- He kept blowing a dog whistle in a fruitless attempt to coax Molly out.
1.1 [usually as modifier] A subtly aimed political message which is intended for, and can only be understood by, a particular group: dog-whistle issues such as immigration and crime
More example sentences
- She nailed the point of why the Government was holding such an Inquiry, describing it as "dog whistle politics to men's groups aggrieved by the Family Court".
- This dog whistle may have been missed by his audience, and was certainly neglected by the press, but it resonated in Conservative headquarters.
- Mr Norris added that modernisers who felt uneasy about the party's focus on "dog whistle" issues such as asylum may struggle to criticise the leadership.
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- This article is about flavor, the sensory impression. There is another article on Flavor (particle physics) for the particle property.
Flavor (or flavour) is the sensory impression of a food or other substance. It is determined by the three chemical senses of taste, olfaction (smell), and the so-called trigeminal senses, which detect chemical irritants in the mouth and throat.
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How Do I Pull A Call Recording From Stages?
Follow these steps to learn how to pull recordings from the calls made on your accounts. You can use them to audit service quality and ensure your customers are being taken care of.
 1. To pull a call recording, first log into the Stages portal here:
2. Once you have logged into Stages, The first step to pulling a call recording is to open the site data screen for the account under "Site," in the main menu.
3. After opening the data screen window, click on the triangular "play" button at the top right of the account's history section.
4. To filter the results, you can enter the date of the signal you are looking for before pressing the play button.
5. Once you found the recording you are looking for, simply press the "speaker" button at the left of the event.


Mirepoix (pronounced as Mir-pwa) is a French (if I'm not mistaken!) term to describe a combination of onions, carrots and celery. It is commonly used as a base ingredients to add flavour to soups, stews, and sauces, either used raw, buttered or roasted.
The other combination consisting of capsicum, celery and onions is known as Trinity. It is not so common in comparison to Mirepoix.
For both cases, you can use any types of onions but I chose red onions over others because it has a stronger taste and mildly sweet unlike yellow onions which are too sweet but good for onion soups. Celeriac could be used in place of celery and there is of course no substitute for carrots.
As for proportions, many said that it is a 1:1:1 ratio but I have always use a 2:1:1 ratio. As simple as it might sound, all you need is a food processor or a blender to make this. Believe it or not, 1 celery and 1 carrot each is half the weight of one red onion!
So, in my opinion, the 1:1:1 ratio is not referring to weight, but the number of each of them is used.
That's just my two cents and now everyone knows what's mirepoix :)
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IP culture shift: the rise of summary disposition
Andrew Moeser analyzes the shift towards summary disposition in Canadian IP litigation
Canadian intellectual property law has evolved considerably over the last few years, initiated in part by changes to summary procedures but increasingly carried forward by Canadian courts and new legal strategies. This pivot towards the use of early disposition instruments in place of longer and more expensive trials is having significant reverberations for IP holders and businesses. We asked intellectual property expert Andrew Moeser of Lenczner Slaght what caused this change and why – and what effects it will have on IP law now and in the future.
Why has the shift towards summary disposition occurred, and why now?
Most intellectual property litigation in Canada happens in Federal Court, where there are two mechanisms for early disposition: summary judgment and summary trial.
Summary judgment has been around for a long time. However, historically, the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal ("FCA") had typically held that summary judgment is not the preferred means of resolving IP cases, which are often complex. This reluctance was particularly apparent in patent infringement cases, which are technical and usually involve expert evidence (see e.g., Suntec Environmental Inc v Trojan Technologies Inc, 2004 FCA 140). Summary judgment was usually only successful for procedural issues, such as cases turning on payment of filing fees.
In 2009, the Federal Courts Rules were amended to add a summary trial procedure, which was modelled on a mechanism that had been successfully used in British Columbia. Summary trial is brought by way of a motion with affidavit evidence, but after that, it is a highly flexible process. The Court can make any procedural order about the conduct of the summary trial – e.g., length, which witnesses will give live testimony, whether live testimony will consist of cross-examination only or include evidence-in-chief, etc. The motion can be brought at any time before the trial date is set, including prior to discovery. The rules empower the Court to grant judgment generally or on an issue, as long as "there is sufficient evidence for adjudication, regardless of the amounts involved, the complexities of the issues and the existence of conflicting evidence."
Despite the availability of the new summary trial procedure, it was used sparingly in its first few years.
As in many other areas of Canadian law, the Supreme Court of Canada's call for a "culture shift" in its 2014 Hryniak decision was a signal to IP lawyers to give greater consideration to summary procedures. However, unlike in some other areas, there was a bit of a lag in embracing this "culture shift" in the IP bar. Along with the relative newness of the summary trial procedure and the complex subject-matter of many IP cases, a 2015 decision (Manitoba v Canada, 2015 FCA 57) held that Hyrniak did not materially change the procedures or standard to be applied in summary judgment motions, which may have suggested to some lawyers that the Federal Court and FCA retained their historical aversion towards summary judgment.
In the last couple of years, there have been several new decisions where the Federal Court endorsed summary judgment and summary trial in appropriate IP cases, including in complex patent cases (see e.g., Gemak Trust v Jempak Corporation, 2020 FC 644; ViiV Healthcare Company v Gilead Sciences Canada, 2020 FC 486). Recently, the FCA weighed in and similarly endorsed summary judgment in a patent case (Canmar Foods Ltd v TA Foods Ltd, 2021 FCA 7). We may now see a positive feedback cycle where with each new decision lawyers are expanding the scope for summary procedures in IP cases, and it is likely that this trend will continue until the case law solidifies around the appropriate limits.
This in turn absolutely affects the options that IP lawyers should present to their clients. In many ways, this trend is consistent with the broader "culture change" we have seen in the legal profession post-Hryniak, where lawyers are reminded to consider whether a trial is required to resolve any case.
What are the wider implications, if any, of this trend for Canadian consumers?
Most IP litigation involves IP holders and businesses supplying goods and services, rather than Canadian consumers themselves. It is possible that summary disposition could lead to reduced transaction costs associated with IP enforcement, and those cost savings could be passed through to the consumer. For example, in a recent patent trial decision, the Federal Court commented that:
The trial lasted 21 days. Nevertheless, as these reasons will show, the case largely turns upon an issue of claims construction. Claims construction, we are often told, is a question of law, although some forms of evidence are admissible to assist in the process. Where more than 90% of the value of the claim depends on a question of law, the parties should contemplate bringing a motion for summary judgment or summary trial. Had the parties done so in this case, a considerable amount of judicial resources would have been saved, and each party's legal costs would have been substantially reduced. As I suspect that both parties will pass their litigation costs on to their customers, it is ultimately skaters and hockey players across Canada who will bear the burden of the parties' strategic choices. (Bauer Hockey Ltd. v. Sport Maska Inc. (CCM Hockey), 2020 FC 624)
There are also a couple of exceptions where consumers might see a more direct effect.
First, IP cases often affect the availability of a product or service in the marketplace. IP holders sometimes seek injunctions to prevent allegedly infringing competitors from selling their products, and later market entrants sometimes seek a determination on the validity of a competitor's patent or trademark before launching a product. Faster disposition of IP cases could lead to faster availability (or removal) of products in the marketplace.
Second, consumers themselves are sometimes involved in IP cases, such as in copyright infringement cases relating to online file-sharing. There have been some recent examples of copyright holders suing consumers, in some cases seeking to sue large numbers of consumers in so-called "reverse class actions". In theory, the increased availability of summary disposition could have a direct effect on consumers in these kinds of cases, and that effect could go either way – either the IP holder or allegedly infringing consumers could seek to make use of summary procedures.
Will this shift have any effect on cross-border transactions, or are its effects strictly limited to Canada?
This is a complicated question. IP rights are national in scope – e.g., inventors get a Canadian patent that provides exclusive rights in Canada and a separate US patent that provides exclusive rights in the US. But there are at least three ways where there could be a cross-border effect.
First, cross-border issues are sometimes raised in Canadian IP cases, such as where there is an international supply chain and export/import issues arise in the infringement analysis.
Second, this trend could bring Canada more in line with the US, where summary judgment has historically been more available in IP cases. That said, it is unlikely that summary motions will become quite so common in Canadian IP cases: among other reasons, our costs-shifting regime is a disincentive to bringing summary proceedings with a very low likelihood of success. Similarly, though it is not a summary disposition per se, the Canadian summary trial procedure could also be used to narrow the issues in dispute in patent cases through an early hearing relating to claims construction, which is similar to the Markman procedure in the US where patent claim terms are interpreted at an early stage.
Third, there are often parallel IP proceedings occurring in different jurisdictions, and parties typically employ sophisticated transnational litigation strategy. The availability of summary proceedings (and the opportunity to get a fast decision) potentially makes Canada a more important venue in such strategies.
Is the rise in summary disposition strictly limited to patent cases, or will it affect IP law in Canada on a wider scale?
It affects IP law in Canada on a wider scale. In fact, some of the earliest uses of the summary trial procedure were in trademark cases. As an example, in cases relating to counterfeit goods, sometimes the legal issues are relatively straightforward and there is no technical complexity, and the cases turn on contested facts and credibility issues. Credibility issues have traditionally been a substantial obstacle to summary judgment, but they can be addressed with live witnesses at a summary trial.
The more notable aspect of the recent trend is that summary disposition has been treated more favourably in patent cases as well. So the takeaway message is that there are no longer particular categories of IP cases that are (or are not) suitable for summary disposition; it is more about a case-by-case analysis of whether the facts and legal issues in any specific case lend themselves to either summary mechanism.
How will this trend affect small businesses and individuals seeking to protect their IP and patents?
Summary disposition can make it more cost-effective to pursue IP enforcement. The opposite side of the same coin is that summary disposition can also be a cost-effective tool for defendants to short-circuit weak IP infringement allegations.
Do you have any other insights on helping IP clients navigate the legal landscape post/during COVID?
The Federal Court is very much "open for business", and this includes scheduling and hearing motions for summary judgment and summary trial. In addition to the ongoing use of case management in IP cases, the Federal Court has been on the leading edge of courts using technology to keep cases moving ahead despite physical distancing restrictions and other public health measures. The Court has been conducting video hearings of contested matters, including video trials, almost since the beginning of the pandemic.
Andrew Moeser is a partner at Lenczner Slaght. Andrew's practice is primarily focused on intellectual property litigation, with particular experience in industries such as pharmaceutical and biologics, information technology, and oil and gas. Andrew also has experience in commercial litigation relating to environmental


The Corona Simulator
The Corona Simulator
In this guide we'll walk through the basic functionality of the Corona Simulator.
There are three files that will launch the simulator. Two are meant to be run from the terminal, and the other by itself. The terminal-launched versions will give you access to the debugger as well as display any errors that may occur. These three files are named 'Corona Simulator', 'simulator' and 'debugger'.
To launch the Corona Simulator, simply double click its icon. In the dialog that appears, navigate to your project directory and click "Open".
The project simulator itself has all the similar features across the three versions mentioned earlier:
 - Re-launching: If you modify your code, rather than restarting the simulator, you can relaunch from within the simulator by either going to 'File' and choosing 'Relaunch' or typing 'command-R'. If you've saved the changes to your main.lua file, you will now see the latest version in the simulator.
 - Video Recording: if you want to show off your app or need to demonstrate a functionality or a bug, you can record a video of it at 15fps. To access this, go to the 'File' menu and select 'Record Video' or hit 'control-R'. You will then be prompted for a file name and location to save your video. Once you have done this, your video will start recording. To stop, simply go back to the 'File' menu and select 'Stop Recording' or 'control-S'. The file is saved in quicktime format.
 - Accelerometer Control: You can change the simulated orientation of the device or send a 'shake' command by accessing the 'Hardware' menu, or by pressing 'Command' along with the left, right, or up arrows.
 - Suspend: You can suspend your simulation at any time by accessing the 'Hardware' menu and selecting 'Suspend' or 'Command' and the down arrow. This will pause your project's simulation. To resume, access the 'Hardware' menu again and select 'Resume' or press 'Command' and the down arrow again.
To access the terminal launch versions, simply drag either the 'simulator' or 'debugger' to the terminal and hit 'Return', or double-click them to launch a terminal window automatically. Both will ask you to navigate to your project directory and click "Open". The debugger requires a command in order to begin. Type 'help' at the prompt for a list of those commands.


Subject: Re: Inherited shared slots
From: Erik Naggum <>
Date: 1998/04/13
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <>
* Erann Gat
| Here's a puzzle for you CLOS and MOP wizards.
 I'll try to answer, anyway.
| Is there a way to have a slot variable that is inherited as a class
| allocated variable in the sub-class?
 sorry to be so elaborate, but do you mean as in this example:
(defclass foo ()
 ((zot :allocation :class)))
(defclass bar (foo)
(eq (setf (slot-value (make-instance 'bar) 'zot) (cons nil nil))
 (slot-value (make-instance 'bar) 'zot))
 should yield T?
 if so, you're in luck, because this is already the specified behavior of
 shared slots, _unless_ you create a new slot with the same name. here's
 what the HyperSpec says on this issue (7.5.3):
 A consequence of the allocation rule is that a shared slot can be
 shadowed. For example, if a class C1 defines a slot named S whose
 value for the :allocation slot option is :class, that slot is
 accessible in instances of C1 and all of its subclasses. However, if
 C2 is a subclass of C1 and also defines a slot named S, C1's slot is
 not shared by instances of C2 and its subclasses. When a class C1
 defines a shared slot, any subclass C2 of C1 will share this single
 slot unless the defclass form for C2 specifies a slot of the same name
 or there is a superclass of C2 that precedes C1 in the class precedence
 list of C2 that defines a slot of the same name.
 hope this helps.
 religious cult update in light of new scientific discoveries:


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The first annual Cancer Nurse Coordinator Initiative (CNCI) evaluation report has drawn on a number of data sources, including:
- a specific Cancer Nurse Coordinator (CNC) database that provides information about the activity and function of the nurses
- a CNC online survey which profiles CNCs and their activities, contribution and perceived effect on patient experience
- a provider online survey to assess understanding and perceived effects on patient experience
- a patient survey to assess patient experience of the new role and its contribution
- qualitiative interviews.
The data collected to inform the 2014 annual report provides high level insight into implementation of the CNCI and shows that:
- the CNCI is implemented across 20 DHBs using four delivery models that reflect DHBs' existing cancer care structures and population profile
- CNCs have an important role in the treatment team and contribute to improving communication between health professionals about patient care
- CNCs are seen to be contributing to a more coordinated patient journey and making a difference to patients and their family/whanau.
The evaluation provider is looking at enhancing the data collection tools to further improve data quality for the 2015 annual report.


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What is the shelf life of hemp oil
The short answer is, if stored correctly, an unopened bottle of our hemp oil will last 14 months from the date of production. The long answer is there are several factors that can influence the shelf life of hemp oil. The major ones are how the seed is pressed, how the oil is packaged and how the oil is stored.
Pressing hemp oil to extend shelf life
Since the essential fatty acids in hemp are very susceptible to degradation and rancidity, producing a shelf stable oil starts with being very careful at the production stage. By ensuring that the oil has had minimal exposure to heat and to oxygen, the production of the oil ensures that the goodness that was available in the raw seed is retained in our virgin cold-pressed hemp oil. We do this through a production process that protects the essential fatty acids from exposure to oxygen by replacing the "air" in the production environment with pure nitrogen. In addition to protecting the oil from oxidation, we also ensure that the oil is kept well below the allowable temperatures required to be able to call the oil cold-pressed. These two factors enable us to produce a product that is as close as possible to mimicking the seed in it's ability to safeguard the oil. You might consider our method better, since seeds can get broken, allowing oxygen to access the oils.
Sealed jugs devoid of oxygen extend shelf life
The oxygen free environment doesn't stop at the pressing stage, we continue it right through to the bottling stage where the oil is maintained oxygen free and then the last bit of space in the top of the filled bottle is also replaced with nitrogen before the bottle is sealed with a foil topper and the lid is put on. These extra steps ensure that the oil will remain fresh for a long period of time after it has been placed in the bottle, literally for many months allowing us to set a best before date of 14 months from the date of manufacture.
Cold storage of the oil extends shelf life
Keep your oil cold. While we maintain an environment that is consistently lower than 15 C for short term storage of the products, we highly recommend you storing your oil in the freezer for longer term storage. One of the many wonderful benefits of hemp oil is that it will not turn to a solid at the temperatures reached in your home freezer so you can keep you oil there and it will still pour for you. There may be some separation of the naturally occurring waxes but this will just result in some cloudiness and is not something to be concerned about. It will not affect flavour or consistency when the oil warms.
Keep your oil cold and out of the light
The two things you need to be aware of after you get your oil is that you should keep it cool and out of the sunlight. Store the oil in the freezer for long term storage and in the fridge in the short term. The oil can withstand moderate temperatures, for instance while being shipped, without any significant degradation. For long term storage, just ensure you maintain a cold temperature.
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Cold Pressed or Refined Hemp Oil?
Hemp oil is referred to as the most perfectly balanced oil created by nature. This is due to the perfect balance of unsaturated Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids that cannot be found anywhere else. Hemp oil is also rich in vitamins, antioxidants, and other health beneficial substances. However, this only applies if the oil is cold pressed, as only unrefined hemp oil preserves all the nutrients contained in the hemp seed.
How is unrefined hemp oil made?
Unrefined, cold pressed hemp oil is obtained from hemp seeds with mechanical extraction at a low temperature that doesn't exceed 40 degrees Celsius. Cold pressed hemp oil is not chemically cleaned or bleached and the sediments are removed mechanically using filtration.
The shorter shelf life of cold pressed oil
Due to the lack of chemical treatment and absence of high temperatures, the active substances found in the seeds of the plant are also preserved in cold pressed oils. Because of this, the oil has a shorter shelf life and needs to be stored in cold places, and the supply chain between the manufacturer and the end consumer needs to be shortened as well. Incorrect storage and irregularities in transportation can make the cold pressed oil go bad faster. The first sign alerting you to any irregularities will be an unusual odor. Properly stored, fresh cold pressed hemp oil has a strong green color, as well as a strong but pleasant smell that resembles a mixture of freshly mowed grass and nuts.
Why is unrefined oil better than refined oil?
Refined oil has a cleaner appearance, with a lighter color, and does not contain small particles. Refining is a relatively complex process that includes treatment with chemical compounds and at high temperatures, reaching up to 270 degrees Celsius. The process removes most of the vitamins contained in the oil, as well as other health beneficial substances. Also lost in the process are Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, which are the ingredients that give hemp oil the title of the most balanced oil. Refined hemp oil is primarily used in cosmetics, the production of various ointments and even plastics.
Two main reasons most cosmetics manufacturers decide to use refined oils
 - Refined oils last longer allowing for a longer supply chain between production and the end consumer, higher volumes of stock and lower risk for the manufacturer
 - Refined hemp oil is significantly cheaper than unrefined oil
At Hemptouch, we swear by unrefined, Cold Pressed Hemp Oil
All our products are based exclusively on cold pressed hemp oil. This is the only way to preserve all the beneficial substances that make hemp oil so popular in skin care. We realize this makes the shelf life of our products much shorter and that it affects the supply chain, which is a challenge in business, however, this helps us ensure our products are always fresh and of the highest quality.
Because we want to have full control over the ingredients used in our products, we make the cold pressed oil from our own hemp, grown on our field in Novo mesto, where we can observe its growth from seed to full-grown plant.
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Print the stencil and use it to trace the ostrich beak and feet onto yellow foam sheet. Use scissors to cut out the beak and feet. Press the foam ball onto the end of the duster. Glue googly eyes onto the front of the foam ball.
With an adult's help, use scissors to cut a groove into the foam ball just below the eyes. Put a bit of glue into the groove and press the wide edge of the beak into the groove. Wrap one end of the yellow chenille stem to the top of both legs and use the other end to attach it to the bottom of the duster.
Your ostrich is ready to go!


Arc diagram
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An arc diagram of the Goldner–Harary graph. The red dashed line segment shows where this graph was subdivided to make it Hamiltonian.
In graph drawing, an arc diagram is a style of graph drawing, in which the vertices of a graph are placed along a line in the Euclidean plane, with edges being drawn as semicircles in one of the two halfplanes bounded by the line, or as smooth curves formed by sequences of semicircles. In some cases, line segments of the line itself are also allowed as edges, as long as they connect only vertices that are consecutive along the line.
The use of the phrase "arc diagram" for this kind of drawings follows the use of a similar type of diagram by Wattenberg (2002) to visualize the repetition patterns in strings, by using arcs to connect pairs of equal substrings. However, this style of graph drawing is much older than its name, dating back to the work of Saaty (1964) and Nicholson (1968), who used arc diagrams to study crossing numbers of graphs. An older but less frequently used name for arc diagrams is linear embeddings.[1]
Heer, Bostock & Ogievetsky (2010) write that arc diagrams "may not convey the overall structure of the graph as effectively as a two-dimensional layout", but that their layout makes it easy to display multivariate data associated with the vertices of the graph.
Planar graphs[edit]
As Nicholson (1968) observed, every embedding of a graph in the plane may be deformed into an arc diagram, without changing its number of crossings. In particular, every planar graph has a planar arc diagram. However, this embedding may need to use more than one semicircle for some of its edges.
If a graph is drawn without crossings using an arc diagram in which each edge is a single semicircle, then the drawing is a two-page book embedding, something that is only possible for the subhamiltonian graphs, a subset of the planar graphs.[2] For instance, a maximal planar graph has such an embedding if and only if it contains a Hamiltonian cycle. Therefore, a non-Hamiltonian maximal planar graph such as the Goldner–Harary graph cannot have a planar embedding with one semicircle per edge. Testing whether a given graph has a crossing-free arc diagram of this type (or equivalently, whether it has pagenumber two) is NP-complete.[3]
However, every planar graph has an arc diagram in which each edge is drawn as a biarc with at most two semicircles. More strongly, every st-planar directed graph (a planar directed acyclic graph with a single source and a single sink, both on the outer face) has an arc diagram in which every edge forms a monotonic curve, with these curves all consistently oriented from one end of the vertex line towards the other.[4] For undirected planar graphs, one way to construct an arc diagram with at most two semicircles per edge is to subdivide the graph and add extra edges so that the resulting graph has a Hamiltonian cycle (and so that each edge is subdivided at most once), and to use the ordering of the vertices on the Hamiltonian cycle as the ordering along the line.[5]
Minimizing crossings[edit]
Because it is NP-complete to test whether a given graph has an arc diagram with one semicircle per edge and no crossings, it is also NP-hard to find an arc diagram of this type that minimizes the number of crossings. This crossing minimization problem remains NP-hard, for non-planar graphs, even if the ordering of the vertices along the line is fixed.[1] However, in the fixed-ordering case, an embedding without crossings (if one exists) may be found in polynomial time by translating the problem into a 2-satisfiability problem, in which the variables represent the placement of each arc and the constraints prevent crossing arcs from being placed on the same side of the vertex line.[6] Additionally, in the fixed-ordering case, a crossing-minimizing embedding may be approximated by solving a maximum cut problem in an auxiliary graph that represents the semicircles and their potential crossings (or equivalently, by approximating the MAX2SAT version of the 2-satisfiability instance).[7]
Cimikowski & Shope (1996), Cimikowski (2002), and He, Sýkora & Vrt'o (2005) discuss heuristics for finding arc diagrams with few crossings.
Clockwise orientation[edit]
For drawings of directed graphs, a common convention is to draw each arc in a clockwise direction, so that arcs that are directed from an earlier to a later vertex in the sequence are drawn above the vertex line, and arcs directed from a later to an earlier vertex are drawn below the line. This clockwise orientation convention was developed as part of a different graph drawing style by Fekete et al. (2003), and applied to arc diagrams by Pretorius & van Wijk (2007).
Other uses[edit]
Arc diagrams were used by Brandes (1999) to visualize the state diagram of a shift register, and by Djidjev & Vrt'o (2002) to show that the crossing number of every graph is at least quadratic in its cutwidth.
 1. ^ a b Masuda et al. (1990).
 2. ^ The application of semicircles to edge layout in book embeddings was already made by Bernhart & Kainen (1979), but the explicit connection of arc diagrams with two-page book embeddings seems tо be due to Masuda et al. (1990).
 3. ^ Chung, Leighton & Rosenberg (1987).
 4. ^ Giordano et al. (2007).
 5. ^ Bekos et al. (2013).
 6. ^ Efrat, Erten & Kobourov (2007).
 7. ^ Cimikowski & Mumey (2007).


Unexpected results when using a link rule to apply styles
A link rule can apply a character and/or paragraph style to a variable text link. Then, when data is merged into a text link that is using this link rule, the result will be similar to placing that plain text or formatted text in a text frame and applying the selected paragraph and/or character style to that text. If a link rule is not applying styling as you expected, see the tips below:
First, manually copy/paste the data into the text link and then apply the style(s) that the link rule is set up to apply. This mimics what will happen when DesignMerge merges this link.
Next, confirm the link rule is applying styles that have been set up in the document. Note the name of the style that the link rule will apply must match the name of the style that has been set up in the document.
Also, test the link rule to confirm it has been set up correctly. You can test a link rule by doing the following:
 1. Open the Rules dialog (open the DesignMerge menu and choose Setup > Rules).
 2. On the left side of the Rules dialog, select the name of the link rule that you wish to test.
 3. On the bottom right side of the Rules dialog, click the Test button.
 4. When prompted, select the data file that you wish to use to test this rule.
 5. The Test Rule dialog will open where you can step through the records in the selected data file, reviewing the results presented on the bottom of the Test Rule dialog.
Then, examine how you have used this link rule in the document:
 - Confirm the variable link and link rule are assigned to a selection of text and not to a text frame. The ability of a link rule to apply styles has been designed specifically for variable text links. If the variable link is assigned to a text frame, then the rule will not apply any paragraph or character styles.
 - Confirm the linked text has been assigned to the appropriate variable link and link rule. One way to do this is to select the variable text link in the document and then look at the information that is displayed on the DesignMerge panel. For more information about assigning a link rule to a variable text link, see Tutorial #1b (Using Rules), available in DesignMerge Documentation.
 - If you would like the link rule to apply a paragraph style to the entire paragraph that contains the variable text link, the variable link must be the first character in the paragraph.


text: A review and a brief analysis of four well-known constant-life diagram models of layered composites, most often encountered in scientific publications, are presented. The main advantages and disadvantages of models are noted. A special modification of the Harris diagram was proposed as an alternative to the given diagrams for engineering predictions of fatigue characteristics of layered composites at different asymmetry coefficients R of cyclic loading. Using the example of constructing the proposed diagram for CFRP AS4-PW open-hole specimens, a good agreement between the calculated and experimental data is shown, which makes it possible to hope for acceptable accuracy of the calculated estimates of fatigue strength characteristics of layered composites using this diagram. An example of using the diagram for estimation of fatigue life of CFRP Т300/5208 [45/0/-45/90]2s open-hole specimens under quasi-random program loading is presented.


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Company Overview: We are a dynamic and innovative Technology SaaS company at the forefront of industry transformation. Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses to thrive in the digital age. As we continue to expand, we are seeking a skilled and experienced Part-Time Finance Director to join our team remotely in the UK.
As the Finance Director focused on Investor Relations and Fundraising, you will be a key player in our growth journey, responsible for attracting investment capital and building strong relationships with investors.
This role presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to our financial strategy while enjoying the flexibility of remote work.
Position: Part-Time Finance Director
Location: Fully Remote (UK) Type: Part-Time
Role and Responsibilities:
As the Part-Time Finance Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our financial strategy and ensuring the long-term financial sustainability of the organisation. You will work closely with our executive team and contribute to key decision-making processes. Your responsibilities will include:
- Financial Strategy and Planning:
- Collaborate with the executive team to develop and execute financial strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes, providing accurate and insightful financial projections.
- Monitor financial performance and variances, analyzing trends and making strategic recommendations.
- Financial Reporting and Analysis:
- Prepare comprehensive financial reports, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
- Provide actionable insights based on financial analysis to support strategic decision-making.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, regulations, and reporting requirements.
- Cash Management and Risk Mitigation:
- Manage cash flow and liquidity, optimizing working capital efficiency.
- Identify and manage financial risks, implementing strategies to mitigate potential issues.
- Oversee credit control and collections to maintain healthy cash flow.
- Financial Operations:
- Supervise day-to-day financial operations, including invoicing, payments, and expense management.
- Implement efficient financial processes and controls to maintain accuracy and transparency.
- Ensure timely and accurate payroll processing.
- Financial Leadership:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a small finance team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Act as a strategic partner to the executive team, providing financial insights to drive growth and innovation.
- Present financial performance updates and recommendations to the board of directors.
- Fundraising Strategy:
- Collaborate with the executive team to formulate a fundraising strategy aligned with the company's growth objectives.
- Identify potential sources of funding, including venture capital, angel investors, and strategic partnerships.
- Evaluate and recommend the optimal funding mix to support the company's expansion plans.
- Pitch Development:
- Develop our data-driven pitch materials that effectively communicate the company's value proposition, growth potential, and financial outlook.
- Craft persuasive investor presentations and financial models that showcase the startup's vision and opportunities.
- Investor Due Diligence:
- Lead due diligence processes, working closely with legal, finance, and operations teams to ensure smooth and thorough investor reviews.
- Prepare necessary documents and information to address investor inquiries and concerns.
- Negotiation and Deal Closure:
- Negotiate investment terms and conditions, balancing the interests of the company and investors.
- Coordinate legal and financial aspects of fundraising agreements, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Financial Strategy Alignment:
- Collaborate with the CFO and finance team to ensure fundraising initiatives align with the company's overall financial strategy.
- Provide insights to the executive team based on investor feedback and market trends.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with a strong academic record.
- Proven experience as a Finance Director or similar senior finance role, preferably within the Technology SaaS industry.
- Solid understanding of SaaS business models, recurring revenue, and subscription-based pricing.
- Exceptional analytical, financial modeling, and forecasting skills.
- Proficient in financial software and tools.
- Strong leadership and team management abilities.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
- Comfortable working independently and remotely, demonstrating self-motivation and time management skills.
- Proven track record in fundraising and investor relations within the startup ecosystem.
- Demonstrated ability to attract investment capital and close funding rounds.
- Strong financial modeling and valuation skills.
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- Be part of a forward-thinking and dynamic team driving technological innovation.
- Enjoy the flexibility of remote work with a strong emphasis on work-life balance.
- Contribute to shaping the financial direction of a growing SaaS organization.
- Collaborate with industry experts and gain exposure to cutting-edge technologies.
If you are an experienced finance professional looking for a challenging and rewarding part-time opportunity, we encourage you to apply. Join us in our mission to revolutionize the technology landscape while achieving personal and professional growth.
To apply, please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience and motivation for the role. We look forward to reviewing your application.


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JOURNAL OF AERONAUTICS AND SPACE TECHNOLOGIES, cilt.12, sa.2, ss.129-135, 2019 (Diğer Kurumların Hakemli Dergileri)
The Stochastic Multiobjective Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) is a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method that is preferred when there is a lack of information on selection criteria, no definite judgment on information, no credibility of the information on the criterion, or where no preferences are desired. The Step-Wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) method has emerged as a method based on the method of evaluating the weight ratios of the criteria, which is simple and rapid processes according to the known and widely known methods of MCDM. In this study SWARA-SMAA-2 method is proposed which integrates SWARA and SMAA methods. The aim of the study is to design an independent decision-making process and to make use of it by reducing the influence of uncertain and inconsistent data by integrating it with the SMAA method through the importance weights of the evaluators of decision-making field experts. The proposed method was first applied to the drug benefit risk analysis problem in the literature, and the results obtained were compared with other studies on this problem. The results of the evaluations showed that the SWARA-SMAA-2 method gave more reliable and consistent results than the other methods.