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Some Major Canadian Banks Still Allow Cryptocurrency Credit Card Transactions
While TD Bank has revised its policies and stopped allowing customers to purchase cryptocurrencies using its credit cards, some major banks in Canada still allow crypto credit card transactions, the banks reportedly confirmed on Friday.
Also read: Indians Look to Buy Bitcoin Overseas as Regulations Tighten
TD Bank Halts Crypto Credit Card Purchases
Canada's largest bank by assets as of April of last year, Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD Bank), said on Friday that it is "halting the use of its credit cards to buy cryptocurrency as it conducts a review of the 'evolving market'," Financial Post reported. The bank explained in an emailed statement:
At TD, we regularly evaluate our policies and security measures, in order to serve and protect our customers, as well as the bank.
TD Bank's Friday announcement reverses its stance earlier this month when the bank said it permitted cryptocurrency purchases using credit and debit cards "as long as the merchant is authorized to accept Visa, Mastercard, Interac or Visa debit and the transaction isn't determined to be fraudulent," according to the bank's spokeswoman Julie Bellissimo.
Some Banks Still Allow Crypto Credit Card Purchases
Some banks in Canada, however, still allow their customers to buy cryptocurrencies using their credit cards currently.
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), the country's second-largest bank by assets, said on Friday that "it does allow its credit and debit cards to be used for transactions involving cryptocurrency in limited circumstances," Financial Post noted. Nonetheless, the bank cautioned clients about the volatility of cryptocurrencies which "could expose them to substantially higher debt levels than they are able to repay." An RBC spokesperson said in an emailed statement:
We do recognize that regulatory, risk and other external environmental factors relating to cryptocurrency continues to evolve…As such, we continue to review our policies to consider how we can best support clients.
The Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank), the third largest bank in Canada by asset, is also looking closely at its cryptocurrency transaction policy, the news outlet added. The bank's spokesperson said in an emailed statement, "We understand that regulatory and risk factors related to cryptocurrency continue to evolve and as a result, we are closely reviewing our policies with respect to cryptocurrency transactions." At the time of this writing, the bank has not announced any changes in its policies.
Additionally, the National Bank of Canada, the country's sixth-largest lender, said earlier this month that it allows crypto transactions, the publication further noted.
A Global Trend
Globally, an increasing number of banks are halting the use of their credit cards for cryptocurrency transactions. In the US, JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup have stopped allowing customers to use their credit cards to purchase bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
In the UK, Britain's largest banking group, Lloyds Banking Group, has banned its customers from using credit cards from any of its subsidiaries to buy cryptocurrencies including Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax, and MBNA.
In Australia, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) announced last week that it would no longer allow customers to purchase cryptocurrencies with credit cards. "We have made this decision because we believe virtual currencies do not meet a minimum standard of regulation, reliability, and reputation when compared to currencies that we offer to our customers," the bank explained.
In Asia, Thailand has asked all commercial banks in the country to disallow cryptocurrency purchases using credit cards. In India, while SBI is allowing the use of its credit cards to buy cryptocurrencies for the time being, Citibank has banned the use of its debit and credit cards for crypto purchases.
Do you think all banks will eventually stop allowing crypto purchases using their credit cards? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Sanjay Singh 27 November 2018
Categories Strategy & Operations, Technology
Surfing the subscription wave
High tide is in. Can you stay afloat?
I grew up near the beach under a scorching South African sun. On a blistering hot day, there was nothing better than grabbing your surf board and heading into waves. Part of the challenge was always trying to paddle past the breakers. With wave after wave hitting you, being able to stay afloat and get to calmer waters was often challenging.
Ironically, without always knowing it, companies tend to find themselves in similar positions. I am talking about multi-year subscription deals where you are buying licenses for a contractual period that is longer than a year. Often, these deals are looked in the context of that current financial year and perhaps the next.
Seldom is it looked at in the longer term which can be catastrophic, because the reality of multi-year deals is that they create a wave effect year over year. You may be still living with the residual financial impact from deals that were entered into years ago. And these can quickly add up.
If you are one of the lucky few whose budgets increase annually, then this isn't a problem. Any layering can be accommodated. But how many of us have increasing budgets? With budgets reducing and costs increasing, you effectively become trapped between a rising tide and a lowering sky. And with multi-year deals being fixed, you are not in a position to reduce them, meaning being forced to cut in other, more controllable, areas.
I am not suggesting that increasing subscription costs are solely to blame. Other fixed cost components, including depreciation, behaves in a similar way. The net effect is the same though … a creeping tsunami of spend that you might not even fully see or appreciate until you are facing it head on.
From my experience, there are a few strategies to employ to mitigate this risk.
Make sure you understand the terms and contracts of the cloud providers you are dealing with. Reduce lengthy term tie-ins with shorter contracts even if they may be more expensive in the short term. It would help if you could model these scenarios.
Take a long-term view of short term purchase decisions. You can afford it now but can you afford it in the future?
Diligently track and monitor your cloud investment. I know that this is boring and tedious work, but the cost saving or avoidance opportunities make it well worth it.
Consider the full expected lifespan of a system rather than the actual licensing for it. If you are investing $20MM to build a Salesforce application, you are probably not going to retire it after 3 years. And if the system stays, you will probably need to have licenses for it.
Using these strategies will help you rachet down your unused or unneeded inventory of licenses more frequently due to shorter contracts and also take a longer-term view of your subscription spending reducing the likelihood of a nasty financial surprise.
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Minding Africa's Business
Tuesday's World Events — Posted on October 6, 2009
(by Mindy Belz and Alisa Harris, WorldMag.com) – June Arunga watched mobile phone use in Africa skyrocket: "It was like the discovery of the wheel." She and business partners at BSL Ghana Limited had an idea. With many parts of the continent cut off by poor electricity, nonexistent landlines, and too-expensive computers (or computers so old they operate on DOS), cell phones are the continent's lead form of communication. Africa has the largest telecom market of any continent in the world-300 million of the world's nearly 3.5 billion cell phones, and growing by the millions each year.
But while phone use has taken off, financial services lag: Eighty percent of African households have never opened a bank account. They wait in long lines to pay an electric bill with cash. Villagers making beautiful crafts have no way individually to market them beyond the village or to engage in ecommerce.
Arunga and associates saw a business opportunity: Turn mobile phones into mobile currency. The cards for prepaid phone service, called "scratch cards," can be sold in denominations of $5-$1,000. Using an embedded code that can be sent as a text message, mobile phones can make online purchases and money transfers. A further selling point for state-owned telecoms: Phone numbers can serve as tax identification numbers, boosting government revenue normally lost in the continent's vast cash-only economy.
The Kenyan-born Arunga, 28, has credentials and visibility to push a bold venture. With a law degree from the University of Buckingham, she founded a film company, Open Quest Media, and worked with a BBC film crew in 2003 to produce a documentary of her own 5,000-mile journey from Cairo to Cape Town called The Devil's Footpath. She also has worked on behalf of business ventures across the continent. But government officials and overseas execs, who own most of the continent's telecoms, stopped her and her partners cold: Pushing commerce via telecommunications, they told her, could risk foreign aid packages and overseas contracts. What Arunga discovered, she said, is that in the global competition for finance, "money will go to Africa for charity-with no prospect of accountability whatsoever-but no one can wrap their head around investing in African business."
While Arunga has been pushing money-making proposals on investors, she and a new host of business-minded Africans-buoyed by a potent brew of homegrown ideas and Western financial savvy-are running head-on into what should by now be obvious: Government-to-government aid to Africa is hurting trade.
"Study after study after study . . . have shown that after many decades and many millions of dollars, aid has had no appreciable impact on development," writes Dambisa Moyo in her 2009 book Dead Aid. "Aid has financed consumption rather than investment; and foreign aid was shown to increase unproductive public consumption and fail to promote investment."
Like Arunga, Moyo grew up in Africa. Harvard- and Oxford-educated, she worked two years for the World Bank before joining Goldman Sachs. Ever since Dead Aid came out in March, it has been on the New York Times bestseller list.
At 40, Moyo represents a post-colonial generation of Africans that has firsthand knowledge of the cycle of poverty, has seen how free markets and the private sector work, and believes many Africans can escape impoverishment through economic growth rather than charity handouts.
"It bothers me that we would rather focus on what I call the four horsemen of Africa's apocalypse-war, disease, poverty, and corruption," says Moyo. "Everybody wants to have the photo-op with the starving baby, but the world is asking us to raise our children on this continent under a very negative perspective, and one that's couched in pity. Any psychologist or psychiatrist will tell you that if you tell someone constantly and long enough they are not good enough, not equal, they are poor, they aren't going to amount to anything, they need to be helped-that can't be a formula for long-term sustainable development."
Arunga, who now calls Ghana home, has been striking the same theme in lectures and interviews: "There is basic human dignity that comes from people being involved in the market and solving problems and making a living from being useful rather than receiving charity. I don't think charity is a way to wealth, and I never heard of one telling their children it is either."
The continent as a whole, according to Arunga, has a "branding problem." Potential investors don't comprehend its resources or capacity.
When Arunga pitched the mobile phone plan, one potential U.S. investor asked, "Do people have mobile phones?" When Arunga explained that they do by the millions, the investor asked, "But who do they call?"
As Arunga tells it: "This is a very well-educated person, a public figure, and I was shocked. She was liberal, and I expected her to have an international sensibility, but I had to explain by asking, 'Who do you call?'. . . and then I explained, 'That's who they call too.'" As Arunga explained to an audience at New York University earlier this year, "The branding problem is a big one. The only pictures she'd seen are pictures of Africans begging and dying."
That brand of Africa is where at least one in two people lives on less than a dollar a day; one-third of the population suffers from malnutrition, and one in six children dies before age 5.
Average annual GDP per capita in Sub-Saharan Africa is less than $2,000-the lowest of any of region in the world-and more than half the continent's GDP comes from two countries, Nigeria and South Africa.
The brand of Africa that Arunga, Moyo, and others want more prominently displayed is where human and natural resources ignite to produce a legitimate trading partner and exporter of raw and finished goods for the future. Over 40 percent of Africa's population is under age 15, meaning its share of the world's labor force (given a leveling of HIV/AIDS and other diseases) is set to rise dramatically over the next decade.
Africa is a leading depository of in-demand minerals and metals like platinum, nickel, and cobalt (hosting 60 percent of the world's cobalt reserves and 90 percent of its platinum)-raw materials vital to the production of automotives, computers, and satellite technology. In addition, it is a major producer of gold, diamonds, and uranium.
Africa's proven oil reserves are nearly 10 percent of the world total (making up 12.5 percent of current supply). And it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. As President Barack Obama noted at a G8 summit in July, "There is no reason why Africa cannot be self-sufficient when it comes to food. It has sufficient arable land."
Yet for all that, most African governments remain 70 percent to 80 percent dependent on foreign aid (that is, government-to-government transfers of aid, not including most humanitarian aid and emergency relief). The United States sends approximately $40 billion in direct foreign aid to Africa each year, while the continent attracts less than 1 percent of the world's foreign direct investment-about $17 billion.
This aid regime started about 60 years ago as African countries began to move out from colonial rule, creating self-perpetuating bureaucracies and disincentives for development. The results are hard to argue: Sixty years ago roughly 10 percent of the continent's population lived on a dollar a day, and today over 70 percent live on a dollar a day. As Moyo writes in the introduction to her book, "Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world."
Ironically, that alarm bell began to sound just as celebrity advocates like Bono, Madonna, Bob Geldof, and others began a global aid crusade. The U2 frontman and singer-songwriter Geldof launched a campaign that culminated with the Live 8 benefit concerts in 2005-a campaign that notably failed to bring in the desired G8 donations but gave popular credence to the belief that what Africa needed was more charity.
"By the late 1990s, most of us in the aid world knew traditional aid wasn't working," said William Duggan, senior lecturer at Columbia Business School and author of the just-released book, The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty. "After 30 years and trillions of dollars, most countries receiving aid were just as poor as when the aid started." Meanwhile, China, he noted, took off without aid: "But instead of an aid re-think, Jeffrey Sachs and Bono, Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie whipped up popular support for 'more aid.' This knocked the wind out of any true reform."
Lost in a media frenzy, the anti-aid camp took to giving lectures and writing books: American University's George Ayittey wrote Africa Unchained in 2004, followed by former World Bank economist William Easterly's best-selling The White Man's Burden in 2006. By 2009, with a global recession forcing Western governments to reconsider aid expenditures, a convergence among those in the anti-aid camp took place, with Moyo's Dead Aid and numerous other books (see sidebar, left) along with Duggan's Aid Trap, which he co-authored with Glenn Hubbard, and a burst of new watchdog websites and blogs.
Suddenly Africans like Moyo and Arunga found themselves with publicists and worldwide lecture tours and an appearance on Oprah!-achieving along with a growing group of prominent entrepreneurs (see sidebar, next page) their own kind of celebrity status.
Moyo remains notably hard on people like Bono: "I think they are wrong in their fundamental approach to ask for more aid to Africa," she said in New York in March, "and they actually have taken over the space of becoming the face of Africa, and spokespeople on behalf of the African continent." Many Africans may appreciate the attention, she said, but they also wonder, "What's the point of having a democratic society, albeit in a nascent form, if at the end of the day someone else outside of the continent is designing the future?"
In 2006 Bono upbraided the church in America for its slow response to global poverty and the AIDS epidemic. But at the Willow Creek's Leadership Summit two months ago he said, "The church has done incredible things. . . . I think we referred to it as the sleeping giant but I didn't know the giant could run that fast."
Beyond celebrities, evangelical leaders like Willow Creek's Bill Hybels and Rick Warren have "sharpened Christians' awareness," according to Brian Fikkert, director of the Chalmers Center at Covenant College and author of this year's When Helping Hurts: "We have seen in the past 30 years an enormous increase in the willingness of evangelicals to combine words and deeds." But Fikkert said he worries that some of these efforts keep the poor in a state of inferiority and shame while elevating the giver. Fikkert's book is headed to a fourth printing since its July 1 release, representing sales Fikkert said "are well exceeding our expectations" and show the "tidal wave of energy and interest." by the church. "We are trying to say to that tidal wave, there may be some better way of doing things than what you're trying to do right now."
One better way, according to George Ayittey: smart aid, or "aid that empowers the African people." The United States should give aid not based on the promises of governments to reform, he said, but based on the formation of independent, critical institutions, like central banks, judicial systems, media, electoral commissions, and neutral and professional armed forces.
He and other experts say that the United States could do more to bring down trade barriers, too. In 2000 Congress passed the African Growth and Opportunity Act, giving tangible incentives for African governments to open up their economies and create free markets. But the bill largely has freed up petroleum exports from Africa while other trade barriers remain, most notably in agriculture (most U.S. food assistance must be U.S. grown) and textiles (African textile exports to the United States must contain U.S. fiber).
African governments also must get serious about reform, according to Ayittey: "They don't want to give up power."
And that's where Africa's entrepreneurs come in. "One has to remember that it is Africans who have to come up with their own solutions for their problems," said Ayittey.
Ghana BSL, the communications firm that Arunga co-founded, has chipped away at opposition to its venture and is now months into the launch of its mobile phone banking venture. It's too early to measure success, but Arunga's business partner, Herman Chinery-Hesse, is being called the Bill Gates of Ghana.
Copyright ©2009 WORLD Magazine. Reprinted here October 6th from the October 10, 2009 issue with permission from World Magazine. Visit the website at WorldMag.com.
In "The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty" by R. Glenn Hubbard and Colombia University School of Business professor William Duggan, the authors introduce a bold idea for the world's poorest countries. Over the past twenty years, more citizens in China and India have raised themselves out of poverty than anywhere else at any time in history. They accomplished this through the local business sector-the leading source of prosperity for all rich countries. In most of Africa and other poor regions, the business sector is weak, but foreign aid continues to fund government and NGOs. Switching aid to the local business sector in order to cultivate an ordinary middle class is the oldest, surest, and only way to eliminate poverty in poor countries.
A bold fusion of ethics and smart business, this book shows how the same energy, goodwill, and money that we devote to charity can help business save the world. By diverting a major share of charitable aid into the local business sector of poor countries, citizens take the lead in the growth of their own economies. While the aid system supports noble goals, a local well-digging company cannot compete with a foreign charity that digs wells for free. By investing in that local company, a sustainable system of development can take root.


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THE REX BOX: The QB Competition
Randy Lange
NYJets.com Contributor
Rex Ryan talked about his quarterbacks today.
The coach didn't really say anything earthshaking, but he gave indications of where the Kellen Clemens/Mark Sanchez competition stands now and when it might be resolved.
"I think it's a good competition," Ryan said at today's news conference. "We'll start seeing a little more when we start scrimmaging more, the two-minute situations and all that kind of stuff. We'll find out in the end, after all our preseason games, and I think we'll have a good feel for who's our guy.
"Obviously, you want to make that decision as fast as you can. But we're not there yet. I'm not ready to do that."
And while Rex didn't give a specific timetable for the Jets job to be decided, he did offer his rule of thumb:
"I think ideally you'd like to have a pretty good idea going into that third preseason game of who that guy is."
So it's possible but not definite that he and coordinator Brian Schottenheimer will settle on their starting QB before the Jets "travel" to the Giants for the last preseason game ever played between the rivals in OMS — Old Meadowlands Stadium.
"Really, a whole lot hasn't changed," he summed up. "I think Clemens has got a better grasp of the system than Sanchez does. They've both had their moments. Then they've both had their moments when it's 'What are you doing?' The competition's good. I think of something an old coach used to say: 'The cream'll rise to the top and we'll be able to figure it out.' "
Diet update: Rex did indeed have his big bowl of Cheerios with skim milk this morning after five days on his liquid diet. The figure after the first five days on the diet: Ryan has lost 20 pounds. He said he's down to 322.
"Did I call it?" he told reporters. "I have a funny feeling more of my predictions might be coming true than just that."


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Video: Nick Markakis receives standing ovation in his return to Baltimore
By D.J. ShortJul 27, 2015, 10:01 PM EDT
After playing his first nine seasons in the majors as a member of the Orioles, Nick Markakis left Baltimore for a four-year, $44 million contract with the Braves last December. The veteran outfielder made his return to Oriole Park at Camden Yards tonight as a visitor and received a standing ovation from the appreciative Baltimore crowd before his first at-bat. Check it out below:
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Very cool stuff from the fans. And also from the Orioles, who played Markakis' old walk-up music.
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Go Gold has recently announced bids, first for the Animas subsidiary controlling the Santa Gertrudis project in Mexico, and now for the whole company, for approx $10m, with significant shareholder lockups which followed a counter-offer by Marlin Gold.
Go Gold is led by the team who built Gammon Gold in Mexico and the stock price has remained relatively strong during the bear market, recently obtaining $35m financing from Orion Mine Finance (formerly part of Red Kite) - although other companies in that list may make you doubt where the smart money is.
Go Gold previously acquired a significant tailings project, Parral, which reports a low capex and high IRR , on which the Orion financing was based, and a large Mexican exploration land package.
Animas was a newsletter write favourite as it launched in 2008 tumbled into the crash and rebounded through to the end of 2010, crashing precisely at the start of 2011, well ahead of the price of gold, like so many venture companies as insiders exited and took profits. Somehow the venture index managed to keep running higher into March 2011. The Santa Gertrudis district has past producing mines and the newsletter story was around the prospectivity under a former Newmont geologist. Go Gold perhaps believe there is near term low capex production potential which might be a better use of the tailings income stream than a large district exploration programme. A nice 400-500% returns for recent buyers, but the charts show that to be very few stockholders.


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Royal School student Matthew Richards competed for the English Schools team in the World Schools Games in Morocco. What an excellent experience for 15 year old Matthew. He returned very happy with eight 100 Frees between 51.4 and 52.3, now back into training with the focus on the British Summer Championships being held in Sheffield.


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Forever and One Week by Caroline Cairn Book Tour & Giveaway !!!
Forever and One Week
Spirits of Saoradh # 2
Author: Caroline Cairn
Date of Publication: 24th April 2016
ASIN: B01EPTMFYA
Word Count: 78.5K
Cover Artist: Bree Archer
The Spirits of Saoradh, who carry the guilt of a crime they committed when they were alive, now spend their ghostly days in the Void, dark nothingness where time and space are distorted. Until they get bound to a human. As often as needed, that human can call them to the real world, ask them to grant a wish, then send them back to the Void. The Spirits also have to follow strict rules or be punished, unaware that they can earn their redemption through a selfless sacrifice.
Spirit Logan despises the obedience he has to show to his humans, and prefers the enjoyable solitude of the Void. For three years, he has managed to threaten them into severing their bond, thus having his memory wiped of their existence. Except his latest human, an emotionless woman with a secret past, isn't scared of him. Worse, she doesn't care about his ability to make wishes come true.
Tessa, a twenty-six-year-old nursery teacher in Fort William, Scotland, doesn't expect a sullen ghost only she can see and touch to burst through her solid defences. Both dismayed and intrigued, she offers Logan a deal he can't refuse: to live with her in the human world for one week, at the end of which she will agree to release him.
Slowly, Tessa braves through the safety of her detachment towards people to show Logan some kindness. But the more her feelings deepen, the more Logan increases his distance…
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"What the hell do you want?"
The sharpness of his voice didn't shock her as much as him turning up in her dining room. She presented the coffee tin to the Spirit lurking in the shadowed corner. She didn't notice herself pressing on the metal until it created a dent.
"I would like a full one, please."
If he could fill the can with the same beans he had used the last time he had granted her wish, she would cry in happiness. His coffee had tasted like smooth chocolate with a hint of bitter nuttiness. The fruity flavour of her usual brand had suddenly vanished to blandness.
"Are you asking for freaking coffee again? Are you serious?"
Her extended arm began to ache. "Please, and I need some painting supplies, too."
He crossed his arms. She couldn't watch the expression on his face as it was bathed in darkness, but his posture was relaxed. "I thought you didn't need me." The sarcasm was drenched in triumph.
She brought the empty tin to her chest. He hadn't been cross at her for her lack of reaction yesterday. He had been cross because he had been unable to rebuff her. "I take it you won't give me anything." She threw the tin in the bin.
Feet spread out in front of her fridge, she opted for the last of the yoghurts, the lemon flavour one she hated. Why the supermarkets insisted on using this vile fruit in their value range, she had no idea. Paper lid removed, she tucked into her breakfast without enthusiasm, standing in the middle of the room.
She carried on eating, bracing herself for what was to come.
"Hey—" He grunted with annoyance. "Hell, I don't even know your name."
"Tessa." The slightly acidic and too-sweet yoghurt churned her stomach.
"Well, Tessa, you need to wish for it. I can't get you anything until you use the proper word. Say it."
She plunged her spoon in the foul creaminess. "What's the point? You're going to refuse me anyway."
His arms unfolded as he levitated, crossed-legged, elbows wide. His fingertips drummed his thighs with increasing speed. "Try me."
She didn't bother replying. She knew his kind. People who had to have their way because they considered themselves so much smarter than others. Tessa dealt with them with casual indifference, because that meant they wouldn't search for trouble. They would leave her alone.
But him?
He grated that part of her she had put to sleep a long time ago.
She didn't like it.
Not one bit.
Yet it compelled her, like a chickenpox itch you know you shouldn't scratch but can't resist.
Once she had dropped the empty yoghurt pot in the bin, she proceeded to wash her spoon, aware of a glare cutting a hole at the back of her head. She wiped the cutlery dry with slow movements, blew on it then polished it. The sound of fingertips on denim was getting louder in her ears. So he was getting frustrated.
She couldn't wait for his next move.
Water running from the tap, she rinsed her sponge, soaked it in a lavender-scented cleaning spray and wiped every nook and cranny, from the sink to the kitchen counter, with deliberate fussiness. She lifted her kettle and her toaster, pushed her plant to the left, then back to its place, and scrubbed those pesky corners. The cupboard doors were next, after a few more sprays of lavender.
If I started singing, would that be too much?
His hoarse breathing had turned into a low growl.
But she was too far gone to stop. So when her wrist got captured by a powerful hand, an unexpected thrill coursed through her.
"Say it," he ordered. "Say how much you wish for coffee."
His grip was painful. Implacable. It brought her back to reality, chased away that stupid excitement she never should have pursued. Logan was just like everyone else. No doubt he would resort to violence because she had taunted him. Because she hadn't done as she was told.
So she shut herself down, and let him pull her to face him.
"Jesus Christ, not again." He yanked his hand away from her.
Images of her mother flashed like a nightmare. She had to concentrate to keep her vision focused on him.
"How can you go from provoking me to this lifeless thing?"
She rubbed her wrist, where his print had marked her flesh. He could scream as much as he wanted and take out his anger on her. A calm resolution had flooded her senses. It shielded her soul. Nothing would hurt now. The soft glow of his eyes had intensified to blazing gold, a sheer contrast to his reddening face. His eyebrows were so low they could cast their own shadow over his cheeks. And his lips…
A painful twinge hit her in the throat.
His bottom lip was cut, the blood dried up as a crust. But it was his neck that had her stumbling back against her sink. It had two perfectly parallel, crimson crevices crossing from one side to the other. She was no expert, but these scars were fresh, and made by a razor-sharp blade. She could swear it.
His tirade halted abruptly.
He seemed to hesitate between retreating in the corner and standing his ground. That he chose the latter didn't surprise her.
"That's none of your business," he replied to her silent question.
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The Basics of creating a track.
alpine1600s
The secondary grill on the Virgo is very reminiscent of a Torino. It's fun to cruise in.
The Basics of creating a track. Feb 26, 2015 1:05:52 GMT lildyl214 likes this
Post by alpine1600s on Feb 26, 2015 1:05:52 GMT
The possibilities in creating tracks in GTA Online are astounding. But to extract the most potential from a track it must have a focus. To help focus the goal of a track, one could limit the available vehicles, but before we get to the cars, the track must have its own identity.
Starting with basics on tracks we have corners and straights. If there are more straights on your track than corners, without even touching the vehicle options you naturally limit your track to vehicles with great straight line speed. So if there are more corners than straights, you limit your track to vehicles with great traction.
Since the classes in GTA generally vary from either straight line or great traction, making the track balanced helps keep things interesting.
Last Edit: Feb 26, 2015 4:42:04 GMT by alpine1600s
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Ser Tandur
The Basics of creating a track. Feb 26, 2015 16:23:44 GMT
Post by Ser Tandur on Feb 26, 2015 16:23:44 GMT
Feb 26, 2015 1:05:52 GMT alpine1600s said:
This has been harped on alot, especially by me when it came to Broughy's fastest car videos. Many of the more popular tracks favor the cars with better traction. While the misnomer is that you need a 3 mile straight for the higher top speed cars to get an edge, that's simply not true. It doesn't take much distance for the higher speeds to kick in.
The trick is putting enough straights in to balance with the corners. A track with one long straight and 14 corners isn't going to do cars with high top speed much good.
Another thing people tend to forget is taking into account the speed at which a corner can/is taken. Supers take corners faster and will hit the outside exit line further from the corner. Slower cars are the reverse. I'm sure many in the crew are big racing aficianados. If you'll notice on alot of professional circuits, there are kerbs on the outside of corners as well. They are where the cars will hit the outside line on their exit from the corner. It's been carefully designed to fit the speed of the corner.
Some people complain about barriers on sidewalks on the outside exit of a corner. It's not always about stopping curb surfing. Sometimes it's about making a corner slower, giving other cars an edge (for example, the Elegy rules at high speed corners, but if you make it have to use it's brakes, other cars will catch up).
P.S. There is no need for you to create a duplicate thread in another forum. Since this is the better location, please delete your original thread. To do so, click the gear icon in the top right of your post, then select the option to Delete Post. If not, we'll lock the thread in 24 hour or less.
Last Edit: Feb 26, 2015 16:23:55 GMT by Ser Tandur
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Post by driftin on Feb 26, 2015 17:13:37 GMT
Original thread has been locked. The Content Creator board is a much more appropriate place. If you wish to continue with this then please stick to just this one thread and not create a new one.
I think it's an interesting topic by the way and I'm looking forward to seeing what else you have to say.
The Basics of creating a track. Feb 26, 2015 19:23:25 GMT lildyl214 likes this
Post by alpine1600s on Feb 26, 2015 19:23:25 GMT
Being that the identity of our track is established before it is given a name or what vehicles the designer intends, we must compare the two foundations of any track, straights, what most people are capable of navigating, and corners!
First, the simpler of the two, straights. The main two variances in straights are length, which the consensus is that longer is better, and elevation.
Width can be a factor, but a minor one at that.
Second, and most importantly, we have corners. Here is where racing gets interesting. Variances in corners include, radius or angle, width, and elevation.
Going at a high rate of speed in a straight line can be fun. Depending upon traffic or static objects, it will eventually get boring, even if you're going 200 mph, which in GTA is not rendered possible.
So to keep from getting bored we should make tracks consisting only of corners! Though corners are by far the more difficult and variable, alas, we are human! (Some are part pony) Fatigue is the key word. Most would like to race for more than just 10-20 minutes. Our dear friend the straight comes in to rest our weary left thumbs!
(Next Post, "Balancing corners and straights.")
Condolences for my lack of knowledge of forum layout, but I beleive the bumps are worth the end result.
Last Edit: Feb 26, 2015 20:33:02 GMT by alpine1600s
Feb 26, 2015 19:23:25 GMT alpine1600s said:
(Next Thread, "Balancing corners and straights.")
No, you mean next post in this thread.
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The Basics of creating a track. Feb 27, 2015 15:17:40 GMT drummerloin, Pardonias, and 1 more like this
Post by averageloz on Feb 27, 2015 15:17:40 GMT
I was going to make a similar (more in depth) thread to this , but I kind of feel like all the good tracks have been made, it's just so hard to find road combinations that are both good and unused by someone before you. There are alot of pretty awful track creations out there!
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"All the good tracks have been made." With the amount of props increased in next gen, and what I've been able to do with 60 props (dynamics) I sincerely doubt that. I beleive that many don't know how to use props efficiently when it comes to track balancing. Hence this thread.
The Basics of creating a track. Feb 27, 2015 17:38:52 GMT averageloz likes this
For the same reason many people block off poles to prevent them being knocked down, you should avoid using dynamic props. They, when hit, can leave debris across the racing track making it a hot mess for any following.
Couldn't agree more that people do use there props wrong, but props isn't the issue. I'm talking about general track layouts. If you divided the map in to sections, there are effectively 10 or so 'areas' along with the army base and the airport, which are pretty large chunks of map that can't be used. Each area has been pushed by everyone to find the best layouts within the limits of the creator, sure the game is big, but with a lot of people playing it, it soon becomes smaller than it looks!
Ah ha! You forget the pretty indestructible "destructible barrier!"
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The Basics of creating a track. Mar 7, 2015 13:40:12 GMT lildyl214 likes this
Post by frazicle on Mar 7, 2015 13:40:12 GMT
I think creativity can go along way. You can create race in a very well worn area of the map - hell, even somewhere like Rockford - but with the right layout and prop placement, the race can have its own unique identity and feel unlike anything you've played before.
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The Basics of creating a track. Mar 8, 2015 3:23:47 GMT
Post by alpine1600s on Mar 8, 2015 3:23:47 GMT
Continuing soon, still breaking in the PS4.
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The Basics of creating a track. Mar 16, 2015 19:37:43 GMT
Post by lildyl214 on Mar 16, 2015 19:37:43 GMT
I always love what you have to say about racing alpine1600s. You have such a way with words. It's like poetry to me. Your words are emitted by not of that of your voice as one would assume. But, it doesn't matter how you sound. Your words outweigh your voice. That applies to everyone of course. But, that applies to you especially. Your words affect me in such ways as to make me feel better about life itself. Your words are very, very powerful. And, with all of that said, all I can say is thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Last Edit: Mar 16, 2015 19:38:55 GMT by lildyl214
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The Basics of creating a track. Mar 28, 2015 2:24:44 GMT jbcarfreek, fox4flame, and 2 more like this
Post by alpine1600s on Mar 28, 2015 2:24:44 GMT
My apologies for the delays in sharing. Recently upgrading to a PS4 and Heists has been an interesting foray into the world of online co-op. Despite the network faults and glitches here and there, I have enjoyed the Heist update. I enjoy the Casco very much, I wish more expressed an interest in racing Classics. Many don't realize some of the best roads for Classics are in the hills.
Also the Blista Compact/CRX is a hoot to drive.
Anywho, back to creating a track, the reason I started this thread. lol
Straights and Corners.
Starting with corners, I may have forgotten to mention blind corners. Blind corners are one of most annoying aspects of creating a track. Blind corners limit sight distance and are especially prevalent around the SE docks and in the residential Vinewood Hills. One reason why I do not encourage "hot lapping" is because of complacency. Blind corners encourage hot lapping and therefore lead to complacency. Is complacency completely unavoidable? No, partial complacency is a natural tendency for our bodies to react. But when you train to hit the apex of every corner without enough opponents to challenge you, your body takes over and before you know you have run your opponent or crew mate right off the road!
One way to gauge blind corners is by using the first person point of view. Checkpoint position and Jersey/redlined concrete barriers are low enough to negate blind corners. The black and yellow extended tire barriers are great but they are high enough to create blind corners. If a blind corner is unavoidable, a chicane is recommended to lower the average speed and lessen the chance of a collision, while keeping corners varied and technical. Though some will have more knowledge of a track than others, especially the author, avoiding blind corners will make racing enjoyable, and dodging collisions in front of you possible.
Last Edit: Mar 28, 2015 2:26:51 GMT by alpine1600s
You've forgotten all about how the right analog stick can help you with blind corners tremendously alpine1600s.


As a teenager my husband could finish an entire baguette in one sitting, as part of his meal. Now he's older and less voracious but still eats an astonishing amount overall (just ask our weekly grocery bill!). But I chalk that up to his being French. He'd probably say the same thing about me and rice.
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Catherine finally nice to see your lovely message, the theme is very relevant .. perhaps I'm not a big consumer of bread, but in my family love the prints.
Yes, sometimes I eat brown rice, buckwheat flakes, rye, oats .. just try not to eat those foods in which yeasts.
I'm a Nomad bread consumer. I do enjoy buying a specialty loaf from time to time, but it must always be a soft bread. No biscotti for me.
Thanks for sharing your bread profile Christine :) Now that you mention it, I wonder if a baguette sandwich (my favorite kind!) would classify me as a Nomad too... with kids I can certainly relate a hurried rhythm, especially when it comes to eating.
Love the list of French bread eaters. I'm probably a bipolar. Still love a good artisan baguette but can't help myself from buying some specialty loaves on the weekend. Awesome blog!
You're adventurous Charmaine! What a wonderful trait to have, with food.. and life in general :) Merci for sharing.
I wish I could eat that!


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Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi in Washington, DC, on January 13
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Also, I was planning on deloading this week (including today) for the bench press, but I felt fresh from taking it easy on Monday that I figured heck, why not go for some PR's??
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September 17, 2014 by Tom Oakley
MSN: Repositioning through a major revamp
This month, Microsoft announced that its news portal and the 34th most visited website globally, MSN, is to receive a biggest revamp in 20 years. In this article, I will outline what the makeover entails and why it is needed, as well as offer my perspective on the objective behind it and, most importantly, whether it will be a success?
Whilst MSN claims to engage with an audience of 425 million people across 50 countries and 40% of UK internet audiences on a monthly basis, the last 12 months have not been pretty from Microsoft's perspective. According to web measurement tool Alexa, traffic has stagnated to the extent that MSN has dropped three positions in the global web rankings (from 31st). Even more worryingly however is the drastic decline in visits to the portal from search engine referrals over the same period – from 19% to 3.4%. Instead, MSN maintains a lot of traffic as the default homepage on several versions of Internet Explorer (the second largest global web browser as of June 2014 with a 23% share, according to StatCounter) and from being the standard logout page for other Microsoft products such as Outlook.com.
In my opinion, the current situation for MSN can be attributed to the lack of a USP or significant differentiation that makes itself superior to its competitors in the eyes of consumers. Looking at the UK's most popular news sites in the graph below, each major player successfully differentiates itself in a way that MSN currently lacks, be it through columnist personalities, political stance, scope of issues or regional focus:
Seemingly aware of this inability to compete, one of MSN's rebrand features is an abandonment of this goal in favour of a more collaborative offering by signing up 1,300+ content providers, including The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times and CNN, therefore shifting its focus onto offering top content from the web rather than original content.
When viewed in the context of the overall revamp, it appears to be part of a wider strategy to differentiate MSN as the 'Perfect Homepage' – being not only a host of the 'best' articles from a vast array of providers but also a central 'hub' with a new "Services Stripe" containing quick links to Microsoft and third-party resources such as Outlook.com and social networks, as well as "actionable items" including a shopping list, symptom checker and savings calculator:
In addition to the ease of use and hub functionalities of the site, this 'Perfect Homepage' repositioning is reinforced by the ability for users to personalise their own MSN page and any changes settings being automatically applied across devices. Even more explicitly, when clicking to view the revamp preview on the MSN website, a message appears offering the opportunity to make it your default homepage:
Given this approach and therefore acceptance of the decline in web search referrals, for MSN it is almost no longer a case of differentiation to offer something unique and keep its audience coming back, but interesting enough to stop its audience leaving permanently (by changing their default MSN homepage) – to halt the existing defection in viewership.
What is key to point out in Microsoft's approach is rightly playing to MSN's strengths in repositioning it as the 'Perfect Homepage' by building on automatic traffic from Microsoft products such as Internet Explorer. However, I feel the need to be more critical of the strategic execution – which lacks sustainability in its differentiation. Don't get me wrong, creating a hub that combines easy access to personal productivity tools and content from a large number of providers does differentiate MSN from the likes of Guardian Online and BBC News, but lacks any authenticity to MSN that is not easily replicable. To build upon this point, there is still something missing that would enable MSN to stand out from the crowd – instead, competitors will inevitably cherry pick the "actionable items" that they see fit to replicate on their own sites and force MSN back to square one.
In this age of user-generated content and customer engagement through social media, I would be inclined to differentiate MSN as the 'Conversation King' of online news through a focus on community-building to encourage conversation and debate on news content from across the web. In doing so, MSN would become more than simply a bundle of content from other providers, but would actually add its own value through comments, conversations and debates between its own online community that can be enjoyed by other members and site visitors. Not only are virtual communities an innovative tool for attracting, retaining and maintaining strong and valuable relationships with the consumer (Wang & Chi-Feng, 2011), a study by Packard et al. in 2012 showed that increased involvement of members of a company's online community spend results in more time spent on the website compared to non-members – hence driving traffic.
As it stands however, I am dubious of the attempt to reignite MSN as a news portal and instead see it as an execution that will do little more than stem the rapid decline in readership. Even as a personalised homepage, I see a flaw in the lack of facility to remove specific content providers from appearing on MSN – with individual functionality limited to selecting which categories are visible and in what order; far from the 'Perfect Homepage'. Looking at the success of Twitter as a primary news source is proof that consumers respond well to this control over exactly who delivers their news.
Overall, I have come to the conclusion that Microsoft is content for MSN to continue piggy-backing off the success of other Microsoft products that forward traffic directly to MSN, rather than seeking adding anything new or distinctive itself. Perhaps you have a different view? Let me know your thoughts on the strategy for MSN and its potential success.
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"Life has a funny way of giving you what you need before you think you're ready for it," Seidel tells CNN Sport, weeks out from the fifth marathon of her career in Boston next month.
While many distance runners step up to the 26.2-mile marathon distance towards the end of their careers, Seidel was a comparatively early convert having made the switch from track racing in her mid 20s.
Partly, that was due to her frustration with running 10,000m on the track — "I kind of kept banging my head against the wall with that one," she says — and partly due to ambitions she had held growing up.
"I always kind of dreamed of doing the marathon," Seidel adds.
"I think there's just this kind of like glamor and mystery around it, and especially for a younger runner who enjoys doing the distance events in high school, that's kind of the ultimate goal. Everybody wants to do the marathon.". CNN
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Seidel's success at the Olympic trials wasn't without challenges. As the pandemic delayed the Tokyo Games by a year, further opportunities to prove her credentials in the marathon distance were placed on hold.
"I struggled with this kind of imposter syndrome after the trials, specifically as probably the person no one expected to make the team and the person that got probably the most criticism like: Hey, why is this girl on the team?" she says.
"I think I really struggled with that, and I struggled going into the Games and feeling like I belonged there and trying to prove that I wasn't a mistake on that team."
The postponement of the Olympics did give Seidel the chance to compete in a second marathon — a sixth-place finish on a modified, elites-only London course involving 20 laps around Buckingham Palace — before gradually turning her attention to the Games.
When the Olympic Marathon came around 18 months after she had qualified for the team, Seidel once again exceeded her own expectations with a typically gutsy, gritty performance in the sweltering heat of Sapporo. CNN
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Winner: Steven Young, Nicola Ozatalay, Kaye Nichol, Ross McQuarrie, Elspeth Leaver and Sinead McLean are finalists in the Andrew Parker Student Nurse Award category of the RCNi Nurse Awards 2016.
They organised a conference about reducing health inequalities for people with learning disabilities.
The award, supported by the RCN, recognises nursing students whose practice, perceptions or interactions with patients have changed as a result of an incident or experience during training.
The team, from University of the West of Scotland and Edinburgh Napier University, aimed to empower nursing students to reflect on their practice to improve care for their patients with learning disabilities. Experts and organisations invited to present at the conference focused on communication and service-user involvement.
The event met Nursing and Midwifery Council requirements and third-year student attendees from each university ran follow up smaller events for first-year students.
The group has also created the learning disability awareness network.
Steven says the experience has been invaluable: 'We have had the opportunity to become involved in aspects of organisation and decision making that student nurses would not normally have access to. Working together with different organisations has been a great experience and will be useful in practice.
'While developing new organisational and management skills, the core team has learned a tremendous amount about learning disabilities and access to healthcare.
'We have had an opportunity to reflect on how our own practice can affect person-centred outcomes for vulnerable adults and have relished the opportunity to share this learning with students across Scotland.


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Model of The Leg of Achilles textured and ready for 3D printing. The original sculpture is dated 270 BC. and it was scanned with 3d scanner Spider.
In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greek hero of the Trojan War.Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel. Because of his death from a small wound in the heel, the term Achilles' heel has come to mean a person's point of weakness.


I'll be honest, the actual ceremony was not the most riveting thing I've ever sat through. We don't have a speaker, because the one a couple of years ago got booed for sharing some rather controversial political views. So you just basically walk out and start the actual graduation process. I wasn't complaining though, it made it end quicker!
I've had this fear since I started college that I was going to be the girl to trip and fall right into Robert Witt. So, needless to say, I was a bit nervous. I've always had really bad stage fright (which is ironic, because I danced competitively until I graduated high school and I went into a profession where you have to be observed all the time). But everything went great!
Alabama normally has graduation in Bryant-Denny (our football stadium), but it is currently being renovated. Not complaining AT ALL about that…it was some kind of hot today, and that would have been miserable! Noah tried to get some pictures, but they were in a dark part of Coleman Coliseum, so they turned out really dark and/or blurry. I wish I had my new camera in (I just ordered a Nikon D40…it's supposed to be in Tuesday, just in time for the cruise). They always take pictures of the graduates shaking the president's hand, so I should get those in a few weeks.
And…sidenote…did you know that you don't actually get your diploma when you graduate?? They have to calculate all of your grades before they can give you that. All I got today was a "certificate of participation"…that's literally what they called it. Haha!
With the Lambert side of the family.
My funny brothers! They decided they wanted to wear some of the gear too!
Noah got me very pretty daisies for graduation, but they sat in a 100 degree car all day and died. Sad, I know.
BUT…he bought them from a local battered women's shelter's fundraiser, so most of what he paid for them went towards that cause. That just makes me feel good, so I really don't care that they died! He got the same thing for his mom for mother's day…isn't that a great idea??
I have been thinking a lot about what I want to say for mother's day, so I'll put that up tomorrow. For now, I'm going spend this stormy Alabama night watching a movie with my sweet hubby and puppy!
Congrats on graduating with your Masters! I graduated with mine in December and it was the greatest feeling ever!! Hope you enjoy teaching first graders!!


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Die Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2017 der Damen waren ein Tennisturnier in der italienischen Hauptstadt Rom. Das Sandplatzturnier der Kategorie Premier 5 war Teil der WTA Tour 2017 und fand vom 15. bis 21. Mai 2017 statt.

Qualifikation
Die Qualifikation für die Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2017/Damen fand vom 13. bis 14. Mai 2017 statt. Ausgespielt wurden acht Plätze, die zur Teilnahme am Hauptfeld des Turniers berechtigten.

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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen joined on the red carpet by sister Elizabeth | HELLO!
June 07, 2016 - 18:50 BST hellomagazine.com The Olsen sisters looked amazing!
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were joined at the CFDA Fashion Awards on Monday night by younger sister Elizabeth – and they made quite the stylish trio.
Fashion designer twins Mary-Kate and Ashley, 29, looked chic in their trademark black, opting for co-ordinating looks from their fashion house The Row, and Elizabeth, 27, made sure to match them for their red carpet outing, also wearing their label.
Speaking to PEOPLE recently, actress Elizabeth revealed how proud she is of her big sisters. She said: "They're nominated for two CDFA awards this year, for accessory and for [best] designer, so it's really exciting."
And what's the best part about having two seriously stylish designers as siblings? The free clothes! Elizabeth continued: "I just got a shipment. It's really great; I feel very lucky. They're amazing and so comfortable and really cool."
According to the twins' favourite hair stylist Mark Townsend, they both knew exactly what they wanted for the night. Mary-Kate "wanted her hair to look like she came directly from the beach", so he styled her blonde tresses into textured waves.
For Ashley, Mark went for a middle-parted textured look – and all three of the girls looked amazing!
Mark recently revealed his go-to technique for getting the Olsen sisters red carpet ready, and all it takes is some extra hold hairspray and a toothbrush!
What did you think of the Olsen sisters' looks? Let us know in the comments box below.


Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) have been proposed for many applications. One of the principle limitations of these lenses is abundant chromatic aberration that prohibits broadband use without design compensation. I present a novel configuration that exploits this typically unwanted effect to create an image spectrometer for visible or IR applications. The DOE provides both imaging and dispersion. A monochromatic CCD is scanned along the optical axis through a region described by the image locations of the desired wavelengths. Each detector position is an image location of one wavelength. However, the images captured by the CCD are a superposition of this infocus image and the images of the other wavelengths at various stated of defocus. Post-detection processing with computer tomography techniques is used to remove the unwanted blurred components, leaving an image for each spectral componenet. This paper presents the design, algorithms, experimental demonstration, and computer simulations of this image spectrometer's performance.


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Pomorania Antiqua
2017 | Tom XXVI | s. 45-70
Surowce krzemienne w życiu wspólnot łużyckich pól popielnicowych na przykładzie osady w Rudzie, pow. Grudziądz, woj. kujawsko-pomorskie, stanowisko 3–6
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Flint's Role in the Life of Lusatian Urnfield Culture's Society Base on Discoveries from Settlement in Ruda, Grudziądz Commune, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (site 3–6)
Site 3–6 in Ruda, Grudziądz commune, is situated in southern part of the Grudziądz Basin (fig. 1), just at the foot of the brink of Vistula Valley, on the flat, vast headland, sloping towards the river. The motorway Investigations Team at the Institute of Archaeology Nicolas Copernic University, during their research in years 2000–2002, found some evidence of settlement from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman Period and Middle Age. The settlement of the Lusatian Urnfield Culture (exist here at late Bronze Age to early periods of Iron Age) discovered in the northern and central part of this site, included remains of 50 homesteads composed of dwellings of different purpose as well as pits of various functions. Archaeological material from the site is represented by abundant set of ceramic dishes fragments (fig. 2), dishes and ornaments of bronze, metallurgical clay casting moulds (fig. 3), amber as well as tools of stone and flint (fig. 4-11). In 56 features dated to late Bronze Age and early Iron Age 129 flint products and 36 flint natural materials (fig. 4-11) were found. These contains scaled pieces and splintered chips mainly, 30 per cent were flakes and production waste. Flint tools and blades were rare. Decisive majority of the flint artefacts acquired on site were made of erratic, Baltic flint; they were present in all morphologic groups. Less numerous were Pomerania flint artefacts. Only 3 specimens were made of chocolate flint. Subsequent 91 flint products and 36 natural flint materials were found in cultural layer (fig. 12-14). This group contains flakes and production waste mainly. Pieces and splintered chips were significantly less. Discovered flint knifes so called projectile points (fig. 14d–e) proved the local flint production. Flint items found in cultural layer can be dated to the Neolithic as well as to the Bronze Age and early periods of Iron Age. But specimens discovered in features connected with Lusatian Urnfield Culture settlement (especially products with traces of flaking), confirmed making use of older flint items (fig. 7g, 8e, 11h, 11k) in local society of late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. In a place or in situation when people were had not an access to usually used tools (for instantiation in the fields or in the forest) they could found old flint tools, used these to mashing up, cutting and stinging and brought to the household.
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This short walk leads out to Melvich Beach - one of the finest of the north coast's many superb sandy beaches.
Grassy dune path and sandy beach. The suggested return route may be affected by high tides.
Melvich is served by buses between Thurso and Bettyhill.
Melvich Beach car park - signed down a track from the A836. Open start point in Google Maps for directions.
There is a dedicated car park for Melvich Beach down a signed track from the main road through the village; it is not recommended for caravans, so if you prefer you can park on a layby beside the main road immediately next to the turn off. From the car park go through the pedestrian gate but rather than following the main path to the centre of the beach, turn left and follow a narrower grassy path that stays behind the dunes, keeping to the right of the fence. After 400m the path meets a small burn - follow this down and out onto the beach.
Melvich is a stunning and unspoilt stretch of golden sands, enclosed by the pier of Portskerra to the west (no footpath link) and the cliffs below Rubha an Tuir to the east - which are overhanging in part. Turn right to head along the beach, keeping below the dunes.
The main path leads straight back to the car park from a break in the dunes, but unless the tide is high you can continue beside the dunes to the far end of the beach, and then turn right to follow the course of the Halladale River inland.
The river is spanned by a long pedestrian footbridge; at the time of writing this is officially closed for safety so do not cross. Instead continue briefly by the river until a grassy path heads back up to the car park.


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Unemployment in SA is currently 27.6% – but the ANC regime tells voters how the figure is going to fall, they just have to vote for the party
The South African economy started at a very bitter note this year with unemployment rising to 27.6%. This was 27.1% in the fourth quarter of 2018, but the ANC regime told voters how the figure was going to fall, they just had to vote for the party.
Extensive unemployment has risen to the highest level so far, 38%. It was previously 37%, which was already a record. By contrast, the number of unemployed increased by 3.7% to 6.3 million and the number of discouraged job seekers by 7.5% to nearly 3 million. This means that nearly 9.2 million South Africans of working age (aged 15-64) are not in school, do not study further and are not voluntarily unemployed (such as homemakers or early retired people). The number of unemployed has risen almost twice as fast as the number of working-age people, increasing by 1.6% to about 38.3 million.
The figures come from Statistics South Africa's(SSA) quarterly employment survey (QLFS) for the first quarter of 2019, which was released on Tuesday morning. The figures probably confirm economists' suspicion that economic growth was negative in the first quarter, but growth figures are only released in June.
While the election campaign was underway, South Africa had to hear how new jobs were to come in with foreign investors coming to the country. However, the latest statistics show that the ANC president has deceived the voters, or does not know what is happening in the country. This is the opinion of a Pretoria economist after it became known that the number of unemployed increased by a further 237,000, which means 16.3 million people are economically active and further increases in unemployment are expected due to the economic recession in which the country currently traffic.
In which industries is work created or terminated? Four out of ten companies measuring SSA have fewer employees than a year ago.
• The industry that has lost most employees in numbers is community services, which include the public service and various state institutions. This industry has nearly 211,000 fewer or 6.4% less employed than a year ago.
• Construction experienced the largest decline, 6.4%. This represents 92,000 fewer people working in the sector than a year ago.
• Manufacturing (-3.7% or -69 000 people) and agriculture (-1.1% or -9 000 people) are the other industries with fewer employees.
• Transport and logistics have the highest percentage of new employees, up 6.7% or 64,000 more than a year ago.
• Financial and business services employed the largest number of people, 114,000 or 4.7%.
• Perhaps surprisingly, given the pressure on consumers, 26,000 or 2% more people were employed in private households a year ago, including domestic workers, gardeners and nannies.
• Trade has 2.1%, or 69,000 more employees.
Concerns have been expressed about the increase in crime caused by the high unemployment rate, and the apparent inertia with the police to seize the criminals makes South Africa an unattractive investment point.
Sources: Netwerk 24, Vryburger
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Energic 207 motoculteur 7cv 2 temps (used in 107).
Engine. Energic, 7cv , Single cylinder, 2 stroke, Alésage 75mm x Course 75mm. Cylinder 330cm3, Air cooled.
Energic Patissier 2 stroke phases from left to right.
Magneto. Morel CT-1 or Lavalette.
Energic motoculteur 207 7cv brochure info.
Starting. By hand cranking/turning the pulley at the front of the engine, usually with a cord.
Air filter/Cleaner. Metallic air filter.
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Gears. 6 forward and 3 reverse gears depending upon the options.this operates through a lever.
Clutch. Multiple disc type built win with the gear box immersed in oil, within the engine casing.This operated from a lever pulled up under the left hand side of the steering wheel.
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Wheels. Pneumatic Tyre wheels 500 x 15. Blockage independent for each wheel.
Energic 207 motoculteur 7cv side view.
Fuel consumption. Up to 1 1/2 liter of fuel per hour dependent upon working conditions.
Throttle control. Operated from lever on the the right hand handle bar. Clutch on the left hand side by means of a up ward moving lever.
Weight. 235kgs With additional wheel weights of approx. 25kgs single or (50kgs) double. Also it is possible to fill the tyre with water for extra traction and weight.
Energic 207 motoculteur 7cv with vine protection shields/sides bavolets.
Additional equipment. Fully automatic wheel width regulation. potato lifter/arrache pomme dr terre, barre de coupe 1.45m, various plows (15 – 22cms) – brabant, buttior, bineuse, charrue simlpe 3 types, bi-soc plows, cultivateurs, expirpateur 5 dents, rotivator/fraise rotaive – 350/500mm, harrow/herse, wheel weights/masses, extra sprockets in the gearbox to double the gears, poulie 110mm, various towing brackets/attelages, sprayers/ pulverisateur 100 liters- pipe- 1 lance, metal wheels/roues méttaliques, seed planter/semoir, winch/treuil and various variations on wheel sizes and dimensions.
Energic 207 motoculteur 7cv rear view.
Energic 207 motoculteur 7cv typical plough set up reversible 1 soc.
Energic 207 motoculteur 7cv cultivateur 5 dents.