(2008) Vlaams Jongerencongres van de Chemie, 9e, Abstracts.
The synergy effect between gamma and beta phase of bismuth molybdate catalysts: Is there any relation between conductivity and catalytic activity?
(2008) SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. 21(3).


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Bill Clinton Didn't Look Too Happy During President Donald Trump's Inauguration Speech
By Evan Real
His face says it all. Former POTUS Bill Clinton didn't look too thrilled during President Donald Trump's inauguration speech in Washington, D.C., on Friday, January 20. Watch his sad expressions in the video above!
PHOTOS: Bill and Hillary Clinton Through the Years
The 42nd president — who attended the inaugural festivities with his wife and Trump's Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton — did not crack a smile during the ex–Celebrity Apprentice host's first oration as commander in chief.
PHOTOS: Presidential First Children Through the Years, From Alice Roosevelt to Sasha Obama
When Trump, 70, was introduced as the 45th president of the United States, Bill, who was standing in the crowd next to Hillary and former First Lady Michelle Obama, looked visibly tense and bit his lip. The former secretary of state, 69, and Obama, 52, also failed to smile, but did not look quite as solemn as Bill.
Former President Jimmy Carter, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, former President Bill Clinton, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush watch President Donald Trump's inaugural address on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
PHOTOS: Hillary Clinton's A-List Supporters
The Clintons arrived at the Capitol for the real estate tycoon's swearing-in ceremony at around 10:21 a.m. ET on Friday morning. Hillary — who beat Trump by nearly 3 million popular votes, with 65,844,954 to his 62,979,879 — donned an all-white pantsuit for the historic ceremony. Jimmy Carter and former first couple George W. Bush and Laura Bush were also in attendance. However, George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, were unable to make it last-minute because of health issues.
Former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton arrive for the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images
Hillary took to Twitter on Friday, opening up about why she decided to partake in the celebration of Trump's presidency.
"I'm here today to honor our democracy & its enduring values," the former New York senator wrote. "I will never stop believing in our country & its future. #Inauguration"

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Clutch carrier that is used on 1941-71 L & F head 4 cylinder and 1949-55 2WD 6 cylinder engines.
This is the clutch carrier that is used on 1941-71 L & F head 4 cylinder and 1949-55 2WD 6 cylinder engines. The carrier is ready to accept a new throw out bearing and has the tab to mount the spring.


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Moshe Ziffer (; 24 April 1902 – 9 April 1989) was an Israeli artist and sculptor.

Biography
Moshe Ziffer was born in 1902 in Przemyśl, Austria-Hungary. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1919. In 1924–33, he studied sculpture in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. Stone sculptures by Ziffer are on display at the campuses of Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ziffer bequeathed his sculpture garden in Safed to the Safed Municipality. He left his home in Tel Aviv and many of his sculptures to Tel Aviv University.

Ziffer died in 1989 in Tel Aviv.

Awards and recognition
Albert Einstein said of Ziffer:"Du bist ein Ziffer und ich bin Ein stein aber du arbeitest mit stein und ich arbeite mit ziffern" ("You are a figure (ziffer—figure, digit, number) and I am a stone (ein stein) but you work with stone and I work with figures").
Einstein also described his work as "simple and noble as the man who created it."

In 1947–48, Ziffer was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in Sculpture, for his design of a wall at Haganah House, Tel Aviv.

Environmental sculptures
1938, "Unknown Pioneer", at New York International Fair
Memorial in honour of the breakthrough at the Burma Road, Hulda
Memorial in honour of the fighters of the Givati Brigade and members of Kibbutz Nitzanim killed in the 1947–1949 Palestine war,
Sculpture Garden, Safed
1958, "Lot's Wife", Brussels International Exhibition

Portrait busts
Ziffer sculpted busts of Albert Einstein, David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann.

References

Further reading
Ziffer, Moshe; with Jonel Jianou, Arted, Paris, France
Tal, Miriam (text).—Ziffer Sculpture Garden Artists Colony Safad,
United Artists, Tel Aviv, 1972.

External links

Ziffer House: Documentation and Research Center of Israeli Visual Arts

Israeli sculptors
Austro-Hungarian Jews
Jews in Mandatory Palestine
20th-century Israeli Jews
1902 births
1989 deaths
20th-century sculptors

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Progress regarding reduction in use is starting to happen even before what health expert David Burch considers 'the over-restrictive proposed EU legislation' is finalised for veterinary medicinal products and medicated feed.
The European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption (ESVAC, 2017) for 2015 has just been published. The highest users of antibiotics in food-producing animals (F-PA) expressed in tonnes of active substance are summarised in Table 1, and compared with the usage divided by the amount of animal treated using the population correction unit (PCU) system, which is calculated for each species of animal or bird.
Based on tonnage of antibiotics used Spain and Italy are very high users and when divided by PCU, they are still very high users. In contrast, Germany and Poland are quite high overall users but based on PCU are more moderate users. France and the UK are even lower users, approaching that of the Netherlands 64 mg/kg PCU and Denmark 42 mg/kg PCU, who have made great strides in this area.
Some countries are now starting to make some real progress in reducing their antimicrobial consumption and ESVAC made a comparison of use in 2010 and 2015 (see Table 2).
This shows that Spain and Poland have actually increased their usage of antibiotics but several countries have made substantial reductions and real progress during this time e.g. the Netherlands, Germany and France.
Recent data has shown that Germany has continued this progress in 2016, by reducing the tonnage consumed to 742 tonnes, a further 8% reduction from 2015. France has also reduced its consumption, especially of the more critically important antibiotics (CIAs) by greater than 75%.
These compounds that include the 3rd and 4th generation cephalosporin (ceftiofur; cefquinome) the fluoroquinolones (enrofloxacin; danofloxacin; marbofloxacin) and the polymixin (colistin) are coming under strong pressure to reduce their use, so that the chances of resistance spread to man from animals are minimised as much as possible. Macrolides (tylosin; tilmicosin; tulathromycin; tylvalosin) are also considered CIAs by the World Health Organisation (WHO) but in the EU they are considered of low or limited risk to public health (Category 1).
In the UK, the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) have also just released their latest antibiotic sales figures for 2016 and these have dropped further by 61 tonnes to 337 tonnes, a further 17% drop in usage and this has brought the mg/kg PCU figure down to 45 or a drop of 34% from 2010.
This has been due to extensive reductions in both the poultry (-71%) in 2016 and more recently the pig sector, by monitoring usage and consumption and making changes to management, housing, nutrition and improving herd health, to allow these improvements to occur. An overall national target was set at 50 mg/kg PCU by 2018 but this has been exceeded already to 45 mg/kg PCU in 2016.
Individual species targets have now been set by species working groups under the supervision of the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture (RUMA) Alliance to be implemented over the next 5 years and it is hoped to reduce the pig use of antibiotics by 62% from the estimated 2015 baseline of 263 mg/kg PCU to 99 mg/kg PCU by 2020.
This really is outstanding work, and I must admit, as a cautious rather conservative observer, I thought it would be unlikely to achieve such an ambitious target but it seems that it can, with the full backing of the UK pig industry behind it.
The Estonian Presidency is pushing forward on the Veterinary Medicinal Products and Medicated Feed legislation. I have commented before on some of this legislation but feel there are a couple of aspects that I would advise representative and national bodies to challenge and reject.
1. Antimicrobial medicinal products shall not be applied routinely nor used to compensate for poor hygiene, or inadequate animal husbandry or lack of care or to compensate for poor farm management.
1a. Antimicrobial medicinal products shall not be used in animals for the purpose of promoting growth or increase yield.
The above is quite reasonable and becoming largely accepted.
This is unreasonable and shows a complete lack of understanding of population medicine to restrict it to an individual animal. The restrictions above regarding preventive use are sufficient, this paragraph (2aa.) is too restrictive and I can only advise that it should be challenged and withdrawn or you will lose preventive use totally in pig, poultry and calf medicine.
Similarly, in the Medicated Feed legislation on page 38 they have inserted a table in ANNEX IIA, which refers to maximum residue levels of cross-contamination (no longer carryover) for active substance of veterinary medicinal products in feed. They are pursuing a carryover of less than 1% and have set targets for carryover for particular medicines. For amoxicillin it is 0.5 mg/kg or 0.5 ppm. If it is included in feed at 400 ppm this represents a 0.125% carryover rate. Some of the others are more moderate, tetracyclines are 2 ppm but even so when included at 400 ppm it is still only 0.5%.
This is too restrictive and should be challenged.
Most feed companies can work with 3% carryover but this very restrictive level will lead to the effective ban of medicated feed, as nobody will be able to comply. For over 12 member states where medicated feed/feed premixes comprise more than 40% of their antibiotic use, this could be extremely critical.
These include the countries Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, UK, Ireland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, Hungary, Iceland and Slovakia.
If countries want to be able to continue to use medicated feed, this legislation needs to be challenged and blocked.
• Category 3 – which are not used in veterinary medicine.
I think it would be timely to introduce 3 categories of use for veterinary medicines, such as low, intermediate and high risk/last resort antibiotics and a further category 4 for antibiotics that are not used in veterinary medicine but in human medicine only.
A dividing line could easily be drawn here. For example, the aminoglycosides are coming up for review by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), they could make streptomycin Category 1, neomycin, kanamycin, etc. Category 2 and gentamicin and apramycin Category 3.
The products that are not currently licensed for veterinary use, such as tobramycin and amikacin could be in Category 4 and basically would not be used or available for veterinary use.
• Category 3 could include penicillins + beta-lactamase inhibitors and 3rd and 4th generation cephalosporins.
This would thereby protect the more advanced human use products from veterinary use, like the ureido-penicillins, carbapenems, monobactams and 5th generation cephalosporins in Category 4, and reduce the potential impact of any antibiotic resistance development in animals, which may be then transmitted to man.
It looks as if the EU is starting to listen to common sense, regarding the reclassification of the Categories of Antibiotics - discussion documents now out in Feb 2019. Good news.


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Joan Palà i Claret (1876 - 1960) fou un empresari i polític català, diputat a les Corts Espanyoles, nebot de Joan Palà i Valls.

El seu oncle fou fundador de Colònia Palà de Torroella a Navàs. Fou elegit diputat pel districte de Berga dins la fracció Liberal Demócrata del Partit Liberal a les eleccions generals espanyoles de 1923. El 1932 fundà amb el seu germà Indústries Valls SL per a explotar els salts d'aigua del Cardener. En esclatar la guerra civil espanyola hagué de fugir a Marsella, d'on passarà a Sant Sebastià fins al final del conflicte.

Enllaços externs
 Les Indústries Palà
 Fitxa del Congrés dels Diputats

Empresaris catalans del sud contemporanis
Diputats pel districte de Berga
Diputats catalans al Congrés dels Diputats pel Partit Liberal Fusionista


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196 F. 2d 899 - Stroh Brewery Co v. United States
196 F2d 899 Stroh Brewery Co v. United States
STROH BREWERY CO.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Harrison T. Watson and Edward S. Wunsch, Detroit, Mich., Watson, Lott & Wunsch, Edward S. Wunsch, and Harrison T. Watson, all of Detroit, Mich., on the brief for appellant.
Harold S. Harrison, Washington, D.C., A. Devitt Vanech, Roger P. Marquis, and Harold S. Harrison, all of Washington, D.C., Edward T. Kane, Charles E. Duffy, Detroit, Mich., for appellee.
Before HICKS, SIMONS and ALLEN, Circuit Judges.
HICKS, Circuit Judge.
This action was instituted by appellee on September 14, 1943, by filing in the District Court a condemnation proceeding to acquire the use of a large number of parcels of land, including the five parcels herein involved. Exhibit 'A' to the petition set forth that the Condemnation sought was for a term of one year extendable for yearly periods thereafter during the existing national emergency and for three years thereafter at the election of the United States. A Declaration of Taking was filed on February 1, 1944. This Declaration stated that the estate taken was for a term of one year commencing September 14, 1943, extendable for yearly periods thereafter during the existing national emergency, and for three years thereafter, at the election of the United States. On the same date a judgment on the Declaration of Taking was entered by a District Judge. In this judgment the estate taken was defined as follows:
' * * * the estate taken for said public use, the same being a term for one year commencing September 14, 1943, in such lands and all improvements thereon, extendable for yearly periods thereafter during the existing national emergency, and for three years thereafter, at the election of the United States; together with the right to remove, within a reasonable time after the expiration of the term or extension thereof, any and all improvements and structures placed thereon by or for the United States; together with the right to demolish and remove the improvements located on Lot 3 * * * .'
The concluding paragraph of this judgment is as follows:
'It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that since, as this Court has been informed and advised, the Federal Public Housing Authority, the acquiring agency, took possession of said lands subsequent to the filing of petition for condemnation herein and prior to this date under authority of Act 507, 77th Congress approved March 27, 1942, and known as the Second War Powers Act (50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 631 et seq.), such possession is confirmed and continued for the uses and purposes of the estate taken and this cause be and the same hereby is held open for such other and further orders, judgments and decrees as may be necessary and just.'
Appellant acquired the ownership in fee of the five parcels here involved after appellee had taken them and after its project was in operation. In August, 1950, appellee gave appellant a notice of the extension of the term of taking for a period ending September 14, 1951. On September 12, 1950, appellant filed a 'Petition for Order Requiring Removal of Structures and Restoration of Possession.' Appellee filed both an answer to this Petition and a motion to dismiss it. On February 23, 1951, appellant's petition was heard by the Court (The sitting Judge being other than the Judge who entered the judgment heretofore quoted from), and the Court dismissed the petition for lack of jurisdiction to entertain it. Appellant thereupon sought to amend its petition as to request the Court:
'1. To find that the term for which the estate was originally taken for public use as provided in the judgment has expired.
'2. To find that the use to which the Government, or those purporting to hold under it, are presently putting the petitioner's land, is a private use, rather than the public use contemplated in the original taking.
'3. That if the Court resolve either proposition, first or second, affirmatively, that it then determine what would constitute a reasonable time that it would take to physically remove or demolish the structures placed on petitioner's land, and enter an order fixing the end date of the Government's right to possession accordingly.
'4. In the alternative, that if it be determined that the term has not expired, and that the use is still, the public use which would authorize continued retention by the Government, and those holding under it, that the Court then determine and order the Government to pay petitioner a sum that will presently constitute fair compensation.'
But from the Court's viewpoint the amendment did not change the result. This appeal followed.
Our question is a very narrow one. Simply stated it is, 'did the Court err in dismissing appellant's petition for lack of jurisdiction to entertain it?' No other question presents itself for review.
Appellee undertakes to support the Court's conclusion upon the broad principle that the United States cannot be sued without its consent. As applicable here this contention is fallacious. Appellant has not sued the United States. It has only sought to have its rights determined in and under the statutory proceeding brought by the Government. When the Government came into court it stood in the same position as any other suitor. See Mountain Copper Co. v. United States, 9 Cir., 142 F.625, 629; E. C. Shevlin Co. v. United States, 9 Cir., 146 F.2d 613, 615. In its original judgment on Declaration of Taking the Court was clearly within its rights concerning the subject matter of the controversy in holding the record open 'for such other and further orders, judgments and decrees as may be necessary and just.'
We do not undertake to determine what appellant's rights were. We say without more that the Court should have determined them and until they were determined the District Court must necessarily retain its jurisdiction for that purpose. United States v. Westinghouse Co., 339 U.S. 261, 268, 70 S.Ct. 644, 94 L.Ed. 816.
The Order appealed from is reversed and the case remanded to the District Court for the purpose indicated.


Admiring a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, sipping on mulled wine and hot cocoa, and listening to catchy Christmas tunes. Sounds like the perfect Christmas gathering—and also describes the Toronto Christmas Market pretty well! Visiting the market has become a yearly tradition in my home, which is perfectly okay with me because Christmas is my favourite holiday.
There's definitely no lack of food and gift vendors at the market! I always look forward to trying Christmas-themed food and drinks. This year, I picked up a tasty grilled cheese with turkey, cranberry sauce and brie cheese, a hot chocolate spiked with Reyka vodka and topped with whipped cream and candy cane bits, and a classic hot apple cider. We also got to sample some hearty vegetable soup from Campbells. There's nothing quite like a warm bowl of soup on a chilly day!
Unlike many of my family and friends, I actually love cool weather, so walking around an outdoor market bundled up in a giant scarf and cute Canadian mittens (that I purchased at one of the vendors), made for a perfect afternoon. We got lucky with the weather this year as it was chilly, but not too windy or snowy.
Did you visit the Toronto Christmas Market this year? What's your favourite part of the market? What are your family's Christmas traditions?


Saturday morning, Sante has a very early-morning start (alarm at 4.30am) and we both woke up to the sound of the snow plower going down our street. What??? It hadn't snowed for four days, and went to bed snow-free!
I think at least five inches must have fallen that night. Sante, who had a train at 5.45, left the house to catch the bus at 5.15. No bus passed in either direction, and he went on foot to the train station, about 25 minutes. He said he walked in the middle of the street most of the way because it was like walking through sand on the non-plowed areas.
Here's our house, on the left, first floor with that beautiful terrace.
In Milan, there was chaos, with fallen trees blocking streets and the trams being snowed in. On the way home, many trains were cancelled, and Sante waited over an hour for a bus, replacing the train service, to arrive. About 15 minutes into the bus ride home, it gets stuck in the mud, and all the passengers have to walk on foot to the nearest train station, about 1/2km away. He was happy when he finally got home.
Today went very early to local mini-mall (9am) and usually they have tastings and free punch or something every afternoon to "reward" their customers, so we knew we would be missing that day's apple pie or cookie. On our way out, we saw a small gathering around a Christmas tree, and people were tossing ornaments into a box…and walking away with 30-count boxes of Ferrero Rocher!! Hold on a minute!!
Sante remarked that a game like this only worked in the north of Italy, because in Puglia the first few people who discovered this game would have called all their relatives to hurry down there, and probably the one running the game already told everyone the night before, and the prizes would run out in the first five minutes. Thank goodness for that!
We also passed the gyrating, Yellow-Rose-of-Texas Santa again…this time he was singing the Oo-Ee-Oo-Ah-Ah, Ching-Chang, Walla-walla-bing-bang Witch Doctor song (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you're very lucky). Again, another holiday classic!!
Rosso99 replying to the above post you left on my blog. Thanks for the correction. I took some classes at Berlitz before my trip to Rome. I was traveling by myself and wanted to know some basics. A friend I met in class, told me about the Italian Cultural institute. We started taking classes there in April. Our professor is great, very patient. It's not easy to learn a language as an adult but love doing something new and interesting. My parents are multi-lingual but despite years of French, I can't speak another language. Living in LA it probably would have been more practical to learn Spanish and my parents now live on the French side of St. Martin. However, I fell in love with Italy and learning Italian so French will have to wait. Would love to pratice, God knows I need to. Did you know Italian fluently before you moved to Italy? What made you move there? Ciao!
We are looking forward to long the holiday weekend! I like the Befana the most, it was the day I married my husband (the first time) at our local commune. I can not believe it has almost been a year.
I once ate so many Ferrero Rochers I couldn't see anything but chocolate crunchy balls for days!
Pretty! We have no snow here. It is clear ski and sunny. Very strange. I am jealous we have no snow!


Read the quotes by our players following the match against Luzern.
On the good work in the team's preparation: "I was watching how the team worked every day. It worked really well and hard. I noticed we would be ready to have a good team when we would have to start playing in front of our supporters, in a very beautiful stadium".
On the atmosphere in his first official match: "I was really looking forward, just like all the players, to play an official match in our stadium. Today it was fantastic, the atmosphere was really intense. I'm really happy to have experienced this moment, but most of all for the victory".
On today's match: "We entered the pitch very strong. We were pressing really hard. The team had great will and was looking forward for this match and it showed this from the very first minute. We scored a very beautiful goal and from that moment on the team showed it can control the match and be dominant. This is how this absolutely fair win happened".
On the fact he is already integrated in the team's ideas: "That's because of the team, my team mates, everyone. Everybody has welcomed me in the best possible way. My family is really happy living in this city. All these things play a very important role. When a player feels so good, that's very positive for his work".
On his performance: "I feel really well. We made an excellent work and that's how we'll continue".
On how he experienced the match: "I'm very happy we were effective and we achieved the victory on a very important match, in front of our supporters. We're on a very good path but we're still in the beginning. We have lots of work ahead of us".
On how he managed to adapt so quickly: "When you arrive on such a big club like Olympiacos, it's very easy to adapt because you feel how good the team is and how organized the club is. This makes our work much easier. I'll continue working hard to help the team even more".
On how he experienced his first official match in Karaiskakis Stadium: "It was a very good match on our side, the supporters were fantastic and they really helped us a lot".
On Olympiacos' beautiful performance: "It's still very early. The legs feel heavy. I had said that Olympiacos will play good football because I believe it. Our goal is what we did today to happen in all matches, because that's what the club deserves. For starters, I'm very happy to have been proven right. This doesn't mean anything. Our road will be a difficult one".
On the fact he scored his first official goal in Karaiskakis Stadium: "I was really longing for it, especially on the second goal, which gave a larger advantage. My feelings were really intense".
On his celebration: "It's not something special. It's just feeling happy. I was really longing for it".
If he dedicates them to someone: "To my daughter, who is always telling me to score. They also go out to two people that were here today. They know who they are".
On the fact they started with full speed: "This is what we try to transmit during the preparation. The supporters will really like Olympiacos. This club has many demands. Today we took a step forward and we are more confident for the future. Our goal is for us to enter every match with full speed. If we achieve it, the fans will love it. And so will we".
On the coach's belief that Olympiacos would be ready: "He works a lot. He doesn't change the plan a bit. He's sure about his options. All this week he analysed very well the match. He explained us what he wants, we do it and this combination brought us the win".
On what team he wants to face in the playoffs: "I want to see this Olympiacos and, playing this way, the chances that we qualify are very big".
On the improvement of Olympiacos' image from Holland until today: "Our goal is that we might maintain the intensity our team had today in great periods during the matches. The stronger the team gets, the better it will be. Furthermore, we also have players with personality and some experience. We want to enter in the Europa League, and to have all the young players in the team helping as much as possible. If we have this mentality, everything will go well".
On the fact it's the first time he scores two goals in a European match and if he could score more: "No, I didn't get in another opportunity. I wish I had. But Guerrero scored two more, it makes four in total, and that's what counts".
On his daughter: "The red-and-white really looks good on her. It's very important for her to be close to her father and to be close to sports. Her mother was also an athlete. I try to keep my family close to me. They give me a lot of strength".
On what she tells him before he leaves the house: "To score! And now she tells me to make the celebration with the heart, because the heart is red".


"Can I get a discount if I pay you in cash?" is something Tradies get asked all the time. Some say 'Yes', but smart Tradies know better.
While cash is king for Tradies, there are several problems hooked to it, including chasing late payments, disorganised bookkeeping and lack of a money trail for filing tax return, to name a few.
However, with the rise of technologies like cloud-based job management and accounting systems, keeping track of invoices, payments and your legal financial obligations has become a lot easier.
Customers can't pay you unless you invoice them. But invoicing can be long and hectic and hence tends to get pushed until weekends or even month end.
While, invoicing customers the instant you complete the job, sounded like a big deal a couple of years back; as new technology kicks in, things have changed quite a bit.
Creating detailed tax invoices including everything from customer name, address and job description to costing of individual items/products and labour rates, is now a matter of few clicks on your mobile device thanks to cloud technology platforms like i4Tradies, that can be accessed anywhere, anytime, and help you send instant invoice to customers within minutes.
Not only this, but you can also track how much money you are making per project in order to improve efficiencies and profitability. Moreover, you can keep any eye on overdue invoices that helps you send reminders to customers whose payments are still pending.
Tradies know this one too well. There's nothing worse than chasing late payments and it seems like the tradies have been struggling with this problem since forever.
For Tradies, late payments can make all the difference between being profitable or not. Money in hand at the right time, means you can pay your business expenses on time, pay employees, buy tools and invest in new technology, all of which helps your business grow.
Unfortunately, 90% businesses fail due to lack of cash-flows, but that doesn't mean you need to get paid in cash.
With the ability to accept credit or debit card payments for services rendered, with electronic bank transfers linked with cloud-based job management solutions like i4Tradies, money enters a Tradie's account almost instantly.
What's more, offering customers the convenience of making mobile payments, makes it possible for them to pay you even before you leave the site. Less time spent chasing equals to more time spent on growing the business.
Many Tradies that receive cash for their services, do pay tax. But there are still plenty, who don't. This has given rise to a billions of dollars flowing out of the tax system and into the illegal cash economy, hurting the law abiding tax payers and eventually the entire economy.
More recently, Australian Taxation Office has been cracking down on businesses that have been concealing income, as well as advocating customers not to pay cash to their Tradies.
To avoid running in with the law and risk losing hard earned business reputation, Tradies need to make sure they are meeting their legal financial obligation. Cloud accounting softwares integrated into Job Management Apps for Tradies, support the ATO's push to fight the cash economy, allowing easy generation of detailed tax invoices that includes company's ABN, date stamps, costing of items and service and applied GST that allows a transparent audit process of all the money flowing in and out of the business.
Today, progressive Tradies know too well that mismanaged books, late payments and ATO penalties are a recipe for business disaster. As more and more consumers tend to incline towards greater convenience offered by electronic mobile payments, tech-savvy Tradies all across Australia are adopting cloud based solutions that not only help them keep customers happy but also allow more financial freedom to run their business the legal way.
i4Tradies is one such Tradie software platform that allows you to manage your financials better, keep track of business profitability and declare taxable income in a transparent, legally compliant way.


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Design thinking is an approach to problem solving when it comes to software development. By indulging in brainstorming, prototyping, iterations, and testing into the process, assumptions are challenged and perspectives are redefined by the design thinkers. In other words, it is a way to deliver a well-designed product which is powered by innovation. The experts of Cybercraft Company have listed the attributes of design thinking below.
Accepting the fact that things will be uncertain and ill-defined when working on a problem and the answers might also be uncertain, unobvious, and unknown. DT works on the wicked problems. In other words, those with no fixed solutions, complicated and uncertain.
Working together with colleagues and experts from various fields and at almost every stage of the process. To solve the complicated problem, a multi-disciplinary approach is required.
Standing on the giant's shoulders or developing something from the ideas of others during the ideation process. Instead of putting down or arguing against an idea, build upon it and suggest the possible tweaks and improvisations. In DT it focuses on building solutions with lots of ideas.
Being naturally driven to ask questions, even when you believe that you are aware of the answers. Being curious also means that the person's mindset is fresh as a beginner. In DT understanding a problem needs a lot of courage.
An ability to think from someone else's point of view. In DT, it begins with a deep understanding of customer's ideas and perspectives.
The ability to see things with a larger picture, and viewing at a problem or a situation from a myriad of angles. In DT, you need to look at the problems with a wide perspective. You need include problems, users, value chains, and distribution channels.
A cycle of feedback loops where the usage of new information can lead to improvisation of ideas in the entire process. In DT, the process is not sequential. But a feedback loop leads to other processes which help in deriving solutions and ideas.
The ability to discuss about ideas with zero judgments expressed or shown towards the ideas or the people. In DT, the decisions and ideas should never be personal.
Embrace the wild ideas, never jump to the conclusions and adopt an experimental approach. DT is all about exploring ideas, even the wildest ones and trying them out if they work.


Welcome to the Yoga and Meditation Center - Shashi Yoga. Here in order to teach you how to fix your body, our focus is to bring you the most updated knowledge of a science which originated thousands of years ago.
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Q: How do I let two apps in Symfony share components? I have frontend and admin apps in Symfony 1.2/Doctrine and both generate email messages.  I see a lot of shared code doing the email between the two apps.  If I wanted to consolidate the email into one component, where would it reside?  Doesn't seem like it should go in the model.  Suggestions?

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Sorry I thought you also want to share the email text between applications, i.e. sending the same email from different applications. Anyway, an event handler could be interesting for you.

Best way (i.e. cleanest approach): Create a custom event handler that listens to a custom event and raise your event where appropriate. More about events in symfony.

Another approach: Put your email text into a template. You can do the same and use a shared template folder this way. But then you have to duplicate the logic to send the email.
Or you put the text and the code to send the email into a separate class and put it into the global lib folder.
If sending the email is not business logic but some kind of notification, don't put it into the model.

A: In my Symfony projects I find that makes sense to have an Email.class.php class in lib/ with
<?php

class Email
{
  public static function sendEmail($body, $bodyTxt, $subject, $to, $replyto = null){
   ...
  }
}

And then you can call it from everywhere with Email::sendEmail(...) after clearing cache.

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Liverpool test next for Micky Mellon's men
By Paul Harper on Jul 09, 2019
Football is back. Well, sort of. The pre-season friendlies have started and Tranmere have a big one this week with Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool visiting Prenton Park.
The summer break seems to have flown by. I guess when you reach the play-offs, as we did, the gap between the end of the season and the start of the next is shorter. But still, it does seem to have gone by very quickly.
Micky Mellon's squad have been back in pre-season training for almost two weeks now, including six days in Scotland where they took on Livingston in their opening fixture, losing 2-1.
You can read whatever you want into results in pre-season friendlies, but at the end of the day, they count for nothing when the real action starts on August 3.
Yes, of course, you'd like to win every game you take part in, but glittering form and results in pre-season doesn't mean you're going to start the season on fire. We've seen it in the past where we've had great results in pre-season and started the league slowly, and vice versa.
These games are all about building the players' fitness, working on partnerships and understandings between players in game scenarios and for new players to bed themselves in and learn about the philosophy the manager and his staff have and working towards that opening league game of the season.
Looking at that game against Livingston at the weekend, most of the squad got a run out and at least 45 minutes under their belts, some a bit more, and Micky had a look at a couple of trialists.
I'd expect that some players will be given an extended run against Liverpool on Thursday evening. Those who played 45 minutes on Saturday might get an hour, that sort of thing. There may be a few trialists knocking around which the manager wants to look at again, as well.
It will be a good workout for the players. This is the fourth year in a row that LFC have visited Prenton Park, and no matter what kind of a side they put out, it's going to be pretty hard work to get the ball off them if we're going to be completely honest.
But that kind of test will help the fitness levels greatly, which will benefit the players in the build up to when it really matters at the beginning of August.
Here on Rovers Rearguard, we'll have more match build up leading up to the fixture, so please keep an eye out for that.
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Learning to play blues on piano has been some musicians' dream.
To start with, you must know 12-bar blues. This is a very common progression if you want to do blues piano playing. To play this particular blues form, most pianists make use of seventh chords. A song is uslly broken into 3 sets. Each of the set consists of 4 bars. Start by playing the song on the C key. We shall use this key to illustrate theI7 (C7) in the C key. Then the IV7 tone (F7) and the V7 tone (G7).
The initial set is played as I7-I7-I7-I7 (C7-C7-C7-C7). The next set is played as IV7-IV7-I7-I7 (F7-F7-C7-C7). The final set is V-IV-I-I (G7-G7-C7-C7). Use your right hand when playing these three sets on the piano. To come up with a sound that sounds just like blues piano, try to master playing 7th chords.
For your left hand, follow the 8 note pattern in crochet (quarter notes) form. The pattern is like this: | I-III-V-VI- | VIIb-VI-V-III |. Right hand meantime plays the C Chord with the left hand notes will be played as | C-E-G-A- | Bb-A-G-E |. While for the chord F, you will be playing | F-A-C-D- | Eb-D-C-A |. Remember to play the F chord with the right hand. For the chord G, you will be playing | G-B-D-E- | F-E-D-B |. Again remember to play the G chord with the right hand.
Try to examine the chords and notes played both by the left and right hand. If you already know the different piano chords and notes, learning blues piano can be very easy. Before anything else, you will have to master 12-bar blues in the key C. Once you have mastered it, you can try playing it using other keys.
If you want to establish a good foundation in playing the piano easily especially "by ear", you must learn to play the blues first. Many successful pianists started out by playing blues and then they slowly (sometimes quickly) made their way into playing the music style that they love. Once you develop a strong musical foundation(especially the ability to feel music - also called musicality), the new lessons will be so much easier. Learning the different music styles is challenging but if you can play them with elegance and grace, your audience will love and praise your performance.
Find a good teacher that can teach you all the things you need to know about blues piano. If you can't find a piano teacher, you can use other methods like using DVD or CD programs, online piano lessons, and a piano guide book' or write to us via the form below. The learning process will be solely determined by you. If you are serious with playing piano and if you are determined to master your lessons, you will soon learn to play blues piano. (You may just want to get a competent teacher to check if you have acquired the musicality. Best is just to write to us and then we video skype to see if you have "got it").
You see, it may takes some time before you can play really good. It might even take years of learning and constant practice (but I doubt it would take that long with the guidance of a competent teacher). By exerting enough effort, time, and money (and under the tutelage of a competent teacher), you can be a very good pianist.. I guarantee it (T&C apply).
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The F-Series Firewall can be deployed to the Google Cloud Platform to secure and connect your cloud resources. The NextGen Firewall can be deployed either by uploading the disk image available from the Barracuda download portal, or by using the marketplace image in Google Launcher.
You can deploy the latest firmware version of the F-Series Firewall directly from Google Launcher. You must bring your own licenses (BYOL), PAYG images are not available.
For more information, see How to Deploy the F-Series Firewall in the Google Cloud via Google Launcher.
If you need to deploy a firmware version of the F-Series Firewall that is not available through Google Launcher, you can manually upload and deploy the firewall images. The firewall images for each firmware version that is supported for Google Cloud is available in the Barracuda Download portal.
For more information, see How to Manually Upload and Deploy the F-Series Firewall in the Google Cloud.
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Market Questions Morgan Stanley's Pre-IPO Uber Stock Placements for FAs
By Miriam Rozen May 21, 2019
Wirehouse Morgan Stanley took the rare step of offering employees, including some of its financial advisors, as well as high net worth clients, the opportunity to invest in Uber Technologies, prior to the ride-hailing company's Initial Public Offering this month. And Morgan Stanley employees' participation in the pre-IPO deal, reported by Bloomberg, raises questions.
The PE deal had already drawn skeptics and a proposed class-action investor lawsuit against the ride-hailing company before the Uber IPO's lackluster market reception. It's raised even more questions since the shares of Uber's IPO offering, for which Morgan Stanley was the lead underwriter earning reportedly $41 million in investment banking fees, slid during their first few days on the public markets. Bloomberg reported the Morgan Stanley's pre-IPO PE deal's price was valued at $48.77 per share. Since Uber went public this month, its stock price has fallen as low as $36.08.
Morgan Stanley's spokesperson did not return a request for comment for this story.
"There are definitely conflicts of interest," says Jay Ritter, a professor at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business, who specializes in IPOs. Those conflicts potentially arise between Morgan Stanley, as the lead underwriter, and the pre-IPO deal's investors — both employees and clients, Ritter says. The SEC requires underwriters with prior investments in a company to retain "independent underwriters who sign off on the offering that the price is fair, but in practice that tends to be just a formality," Ritter says.
"Obviously, the Uber trading has not worked out so well. There are a lot of reasons the stock is where it is," says financial advisor recruiter Bill Willis, president and CEO of Willis Consulting in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. "I probably wouldn't have let my advisors participate in it because of the way that this all smells and sounds," Willis says about the pre-IPO deal. "It looks they were giving advisors preference but maybe the answer is that they did because they couldn't fill out that round of funding," he adds.
According to a story in the New York Times, published in February 2016 at the time of the pre-IPO private equity deal, Morgan Stanley offered $475 million of new preferred stock in Uber through a special fund labeled New Rider LP. Investors in New Rider needed to have $10 million net worth and a minimum $250,000 investment.
"For Morgan Stanley, the deal may raise competing loyalties. The deal may have been more important to Morgan Stanley for cementing its relationship with Uber" than for its potential investors, the story concludes. "It could put the Wall Street firm in a prime position for investment-banking business, like leading an initial public offering or advising on acquisitions. Morgan Stanley has sought to address this tension by including 10 pages of potential conflicts of interest in the deal documents," the Times article states.
At this point, New Rider's investors are prohibited from selling shares for 180 days after the IPO, according to Bloomberg.
But the exact terms of the offering are not publicly available, as Morgan Stanley has sought to keep them confidential. Last year the wirehouse's lawyers from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett filed a motion in support of Uber's attempt to keep the documents sealed in the company's legal battle with Irving Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund from Texas, which invested in New Rider. Morgan Stanley's John Gernon, a managing director and head of equity products, wrote a declaration in support of the wirehouse's sealing motion.
Morgan Stanley "is in the business of providing investment and risk-management solutions to a wide range of investors and institutions including corporations, pension plans, intermediaries, sovereign wealth funds, central banks, endowments and foundations, individual investors (including high net worth), governments and consultant partners worldwide. Competitors of the Manager and/or Morgan Stanley have and will likely continue to offer limited partnership interests similar to those offered by New Riders LP, and those competitors would likely be interested in the confidential, non-public information contained in the Confidential Limited Partnership Materials," Gernon wrote. Release of the New Rider terms would cause "competitive harm," he added.
The Irving Firemen's pension fund first filed its complaint against Uber in September 2017. In it, the pension fund alleges Uber misrepresented to it and other New Rider investors the extent of the company's security data breaches, sexual harassment problems, and negative publicity, which was likely to curb its growth.
In the 12 months prior to the Irving Firemen's pension fund filing the lawsuit, Uber suffered a wave of bad news. It settled for $20 million with federal investigators looking into allegations the company misled drivers about pay; faced an onslaught of negative headlines about its allegedly "toxic" work environment for women; became embroiled in a legal battle with Google, which alleged Uber's executives engaged in trade secret theft to obtain self-driving car technology from Google's Waymo unit; faced federal investigators' inquiries a second time after the Times reported that its "Greyball" technology deceived municipal authorities about the company's flouting of their laws; and, ultimately, in June 2017, founder Travis Kalanick quit his CEO role in the wake of the controversies.
In the company's pending motion to dismiss the Irving Firemen's lawsuit, Uber's lawyers argue that the pension fund had no standing in court since it, and other New Riders' investors, only purchased shares in a Morgan Stanley-backed limited partnership, which owns the stock, and do not themselves share direct ownership of stock.
With 20/20 hindsight of Uber's 2017 troubles and this month's IPO's market reception, it's tempting to ask: Why did Morgan Stanley entwine itself, its reputation and its employees in the pre-IPO Uber fundraising, particularly since it has led to such questions?
"I don't know the facts, but it's possible that part of the pitch to get the lead as the underwriter is we can also raise additional capital for you pre-IPO through this deal. On the other hand, Morgan Stanley's people were also true believers in Uber. Maybe clients were probably clamoring for a pre-IPO deal. I don't think Morgan Stanley had any bad ideas," Ritter says.
For Morgan Stanley, its capability to offer private equity deals to wealth clients ranks as an advantage generally, and likely with the New Rider deal specifically, he says. "Morgan Stanley was viewing this as an opportunity to get in. If Uber's stock had gone up, it would have created a lot of good will with clients and prospects. At this point though, things haven't worked out very well," Ritter says.
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Cowboys Explain Dak Prescott's Absence from Hype Video Amid Contract Rumors
Timothy Rapp@@TRappaRTTwitter LogoFeatured ColumnistFebruary 8, 2021
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The Dallas Cowboys released a hype video for the 2021 season Monday, and quarterback Dak Prescott—who heads into the offseason as a free agent—was conspicuously absent.
Dallas Cowboys @dallascowboys
Next season starts now. #DallasCowboys | #CowboysNation https://t.co/R45IJhO7lf
Obviously more than a few folks took notice, and the team's director of media and programming, Derek Eagleton, and DallasCowboys.com writer David Helman quickly explained the omission:
Derek Eagleton @derekeagleton
This was simply an oversight that should have been caught and corrected by us. Anyone who's making it seem like Cowboys' decision makers use social media videos to make statements doesn't understand or take the time to understand how it all works. Trust me, there's no story here. https://t.co/7Pt8fgrCwl
David Helman @HelmanDC
@Money_Mase11 @CowboysStats @dallascowboys he's not under contract and the people who make those videos don't have any better of an idea of what's going to happen than the rest of us. it ain't that deep.
The 27-year-old Prescott and the Cowboys weren't able to agree on a long-term contract extension before last season, leading to the team resorting to a $31.4 million franchise tag to keep Prescott out of free agency.
The Cowboys could go the franchise tag for a second straight season, but that's the nuclear option for two reasons:
1. It would cost them roughly $37.7 million.
2. It would be the last time they could go that route, meaning Prescott would be a free agent in the 2022 offseason and likely would depart, seeing as he and the Cowboys would have failed to come to terms on a long-term deal in three consecutive offseasons.
Losing Prescott at any point would be an enormous setback for a Cowboys franchise that has made the playoffs just three times since 2010 and hasn't won a Super Bowl since 1995, the largest title drought in team history.
Prescott was having a superb season in 2020 before a compound fracture in his right ankle in Week 5 ended his year, throwing for 1,856 yards, nine scores and four interceptions while completing 68 percent of his passes. He was on pace for another career year, a season removed from setting career highs in passing yards (4,902) and touchdowns (30).
With Prescott out, the Cowboys lost four straight games and went 4-7 overall down the stretch, missing the playoffs yet again.
Suffice to say, Cowboys fans will see Prescott as an indispensable part of the organization's future and will expect the team to feel the same. That he wasn't on the hype video heading into this offseason will understandably be seen as an ominous sign, even if it was merely an oversight.


On a flight from Chicago to Pittsburgh, while on approach, the aircraft went into a sudden nose dive and crashed into a wooded ravine 6 miles northwest of the airport. The accident was caused by a loss of control of the aircraft resulting from the movement of the rudder surface to its blowdown limit or an uncommanded rudder reversal. The rudder surface deflected in a direction opposite to that commanded by the pilots as a result of a jam of the main rudder PCU servo valve secondary slide to the servo valve housing offset from its neutral position and overtravel of the primary slide. All 132 aboard were killed.
CAM-3: They didn't give us connecting flight information or anything. Do you know what gate we're coming into?
CAM-3: Do ya know what I'm thinkin' about? Pretzels.
CAM-3: You guys need drinks here?
CAM-1: I could use a glass of somethin', whatever's open, water, uh, water, a juice?
CAM-2: I'll split a, yeah, a water, a juice, whatever's back there. I'll split one with 'im.
CAM-3: Okey-dokey. Do you want me to make you my special fruity juice cocktail?
CAM-1: How fruity is it?
CAM-3: Why don't you just try it?
CAM-2: All right, I'll be a guinea pig.
The crew recieve instructions to reduce speed to 210kts, maintain FL100 and contact Pittsburgh Approach at 121.25.
CAM-1: Two ten, he said?
CAM-1: I may have misunderstood him.
Pittsburgh Approach asks Flight 427 to turn left heading 100.
CAM-2: All right. Thank you. Thank you.
CAM-3: I didn't taste 'em, so I don't know if they came out right.
CAM-2: That is different. Be real good with some dark rum in it.
APP: USAir 427, Pittsburgh Approach. Heading 160, vector ILS Runway 28 Right final approach course speed 120.
CAM-2: What kind of speed?
RDO-1: We're comin' back to 210 and, uh, one sixty heading, down to ten, USAir 427.
CAM-1: What runway did he say?
CAM-1: There's little grapefruit in it?
CAM-3: Yeah. You saw that from the color.
CAM-1: Else is in it?
RDO-1: Cleared to six, USAir 427.
CAM-2: Oh, my wife would like that.
CAM-1: Cranberry, orange, and Sprite.
CAM-2: Yeah. I guess we ought to do a preliminary.
Pre-landing checks take place; Approach requests a left turn heading 140, and speed reduction to 190kts.
CAM-2: Oops. I didn't kiss 'em goodbye. What was the temperature? Remember?
PA: Seatbelts and remain seated for the duration of the flight.
PA: Folks, from the flight deck, we should be on the ground in about ten more minutes. Uh, sunny skies, a little hazy. Temperature ... temperature's, ah, 75 degrees. Wind's out of the west around ten miles per hour. Certainly 'ppreciate you choosing USAir for your travel needs this evening. Hope you enjoyed the flight. Hope you come back and travel with us again. This time we'd like to ask our Flight Attendants please prepare the cabin for arrival. Ask you to check the security of your seatbelts. Thank you.
RDO-1 : Did you say Runway 28 Left for USAir 427?
APP: Uh, USAir 427, it'll be 28 Right.
RDO-1: 28 Right, thank you.
CAM-2: Right, 28 Right. That's what we planned on. Autobrakes on one for it.
CAM-1: Boy, they always slow you up so bad here.
APP: USAir 427, turn left heading one zero zero. Traffic will be one to two o'clock, six miles, northbound Jetstream climbing out of thirty-three for five thousand.
RDO-1: We're looking for the traffic, turning to one zero zero, USAir 427.
CAM-1: Whoa ... hang on.
CAM-2: No... END OF TAPE.


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Ibiquity: No Fees for Translators
Ibiquity Digital Corp. has clarified some aspects of the licensing fees it plans to charge broadcasters for its in-band, on-channel digital audio broadcasting technology.
By Leslie Stimson
WASHINGTON Ibiquity Digital Corp. has clarified some aspects of the licensing fees it plans to charge broadcasters for its in-band, on-channel digital audio broadcasting technology.
Company President/CEO Robert Struble told attendees at the Public Radio Conference in May that FM translators and boosters, commercial and noncom alike, would be exempt from IBOC licensing fees.
Roughly 3,650 FM translators were licensed to operate in the United States as of May, according to the FCC.
FM translators rebroadcast the signal of a primary FM station on a different frequency, typically to fill in coverage. Boosters essentially are translators operating on the same frequency as the main FM station.
Radio World also asked Ibiquity about the status of fee negotiations with major broadcast groups. Struble declined comment, saying the discussions were proprietary.
Cheapie fee
Clarifying its intended fee policies, an Ibiquity spokesman said a station's IBOC license fee would be transferable to a new owner. This stipulation, and the fact fees will not apply to translators and boosters, are new information.
Ibiquity bases part of its fee structure on the FCC's annual regulatory fees, which noncommercial stations do not pay. Ibiquity said the one-time licensing fee for public radio stations would be $3,750, reached by multiplying the lowest commercial FCC regulatory fee ($250) by Ibiquity's standard multiple of 15.
One PRC attendee expressed outrage that Ibiquity will charge noncoms any license fee at all in addition to seeking a percentage of the profits from a station's data services. The attendee asked whether the FCC would look into it.
Struble said, "If we don't get fees, we won't be a viable business," and radio would not have a digital path anytime soon.
Keith Larson, chief engineer of the FCC's Media Bureau, said any commission position on fees would be premature.
"That issue hasn't surfaced because we have yet to pick an approach," he said.
As of late May, the agency had yet to endorse IBOC as a digital standard for America's terrestrial radio. Ibiquity hopes the commission will endorse IBOC by September to give receiver manufacturers certainty about the technology.
Another attendee asked if using TV Channel 6 to alleviate overcrowding on the FM band as stations transition to IBOC – or using that spectrum for analog expansion instead of going digital at all – was still a possibility. This was one of several alternative-spectrum proposals raised in the DAB Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in 1999.
Larson said TV's transition extends to the end of 2006 and that radio wants to go digital sooner, so the Channel 6 spectrum would not be available in time. Struble said radio might also be required to pay for any new spectrum.
NPR is pursing a second audio channel for stations using IBOC, said Don Lockett, NPR's vice president and chief technology officer.
Some public stations would like to program differently for the digital signal during the transition period in which stations transmit both analog and digital signals. NPR has stated this in comments to the FCC and has discussed it with Ibiquity.
While it would be feasible to use a station's spectrum allocation for two talk channels, said Struble, Ibiquty does not recommend it. One of IBOC's selling points is a blend-to-analog feature, used to avoid a digital drop-off in some interference circumstances, and this requires the same programming on the analog and digital services.
Members of NPR's Digital Transition Advisory Committee are working out the specifics of paying for the digital transition, including funding priorities. Lockett said that of the 135 FM NPR member stations that had filled out Ibiquity's early-adopter equipment forms, the total estimated conversion cost is $14 million.
Omitting stations that need dual antennas, the average conversion cost for these FMs is approximately $107,000, he said. For the nine AMs that had filled out the forms, the total conversion estimate was $900,000, for an average of about $110,000 per AM.
Mark Handley, president and GM of WEVO(FM), Concord, New Hampshire Public Radio, said the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was able to secure $21 million in 2001 and $25 million in 2002 for digital conversion costs. He told attendees radio would be competing with public TV for that money.
"You'd better think about other sources of funding," Handley said.
Nighttime tests
Meanwhile, Ibiquity is preparing for additional nighttime tests of its AM system.
The company has applied for new experimental stations in Warren, N.J. (50 watts on 1700 kHz) and in Frederick, Md. (4 kW on 650 kHz) for additional system testing.
The idea is to use experimental stations near its two headquarters to debug software before deploying the technology on real stations, a spokesman said.
In May, Ibiquity still was working to identify specific stations for AM nighttime testing. It wants to test clear-channel stations using skywaves – tests the standards-setting National Radio Systems Committee had not previously required.
Also last month, additional SCA receiver tests conducted by Ibiquity were completed. The trade association representing radio reading services, the International Association of Audio Information Services, was reviewing the results. All parties had agreed that previous SCA tests were inconclusive.
Struble said the new SCA test results showed no meaningful impact on either the host or surrounding stations.
Ibiquity Vice President and General Counsel Al Shuldiner said Ibiquity conducted mapping exercises for approximately18 stations that inject radio reading service signals onto their FM subcarriers.
These tests focused on the performance of SCA receivers under a number of scenarios: the default case involving no adjacent-channel signals, establishing SCA receiver performance with no IBOC, then with IBOC on the host FM channel; a second scenario, again without adjacent channels but this time with simulated multipath interference; and finally, a scenario in the presence of analog and IBOC adjacent channels (upper and lower single first-adjacent, and upper and lower single second-adjacent channel cases were tested).
The tests showed between about 2 to 3 percent of a population within a station's coverage area would be affected by some interference to the subcarrier. Not all of those listeners would be radio reading service subscribers, he said; only a fraction of that affected population uses a subcarrier service.
NPR said the results showed no impact on the 67 kHz and 92 kHz subcarriers, nor first-adjacent-channel interference, although there was some second-adjacent-channel interference. Results were submitted to the FCC in the DAB rulemaking Docket 99-325.
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The dandelion is a plant that has been used mainly for medicinal purposes, since it has depurative properties that serve to cleanse the body.
It is said that this plant comes from the European continent, although today it has spread throughout all continents. Dandelion is considered a weed for gardeners and can be found on large grasslands or grassy roads.
The dandelion is characterized by being a plant that does not exceed 40 cm in height, because it has a yellow flower and a white fruit with a spongy appearance.
As we already mentioned, dandelion contains properties that help purify toxins in the body. This means that you can help us clean the organism and the different systems of the body such as the digestive, the circulatory and the renal.
Salads: Use your leaves to season.
Tea: Prepare an infusion with the plant.
Among the medicinal properties of the dandelion highlights the diuretic, which is responsible for eliminating toxins that affect the body and hinder its operation.
The infusion of this medicinal plant will serve to eliminate the fluids that our body accumulates unnecessarily, helping in turn to eliminate possible infections that may occur in the system renal.
How to prepare the dandelion tea?
The infusion of this plant helps to extract its most important properties. In this way, by consuming it, our system can take advantage of and alleviate the conditions that are presenting at the time.
In this order of ideas, we will explain how to prepare a tooth infusion so that you can consume it easily and safely.
Heat the water and, when it reaches a boil, pour it into a cup along with the dollop of dandelion.
Shake a little and let stand for 5 minutes.
Administer the infusion twice a week for a month or when you have exceeded your meals.
The depurative property of this medicinal plant will be effective when treating digestive system conditions. This helps considerably to eliminate excess fat accumulated in the body and, in turn, improves the production of bile that serves to have a better transit digestive system.
By this we mean that by incorporating the dandelion to your eating habits will help in an incredible way to eliminate the problems of slow digestion, and even those that occur sometimes at the time of going to the bathroom.
For this we recommend adding fresh dandelion leaves to your salads so you can enjoy its properties.
In a bowl lightly tear 2 sheets of green lettuce.
With the help of the grater, grated media carrot.
Add the dandelion and add a few drops of lemon.
This medicinal plant can also help us to alleviate some conditions such as rashes that are caused by diseases such as psoriasis.
These can cause stinging and pain. In this case, we can say that we can also use the medicinal properties of the dandelion topically and thus improve the symptoms.
Take two handfuls or 80 grams of dandelion leaves.
Place them in warm water for 15 minutes.
Remove the leaves from the water and place them on the affected area.
With the help of a clean bandage, it wraps and protects.
Let her act for one hour and repeat until the rashes go away.
In case of presenting side effects when applying or consuming the plant, it is essential to contact a doctor.
It can be found in parks. For this reason, you must be washed in a suitable way, preferably with hot water. In this way we can eliminate any agent that may cause an infection.
Remember that overuse of any medicinal plant or medication can lead to intoxication, and even affect another part of the body.


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Discussion in 'iPad' started by azfalcons, Feb 18, 2016.
Just picked up the iPad pro 128. I want the pen but was just curious if there is a second hand pen other companies offer that work or just the apple pen for 99.00?
There are many pens out there that work just fine with the iPad Pro.
But why don't you like the Apple Pencil?
If it's the price, I can say that it is absolutely worth the 99$. I tried a few of the cheap ones and none of them were really great. For example, I liked the Bamboo Stylus (I think it was 15€ when I bought it) and I always had to replace the tip every 2-3 weeks of heavy use, because it ripped. The Adonit Jot Pro (fine tip with a plastic disc) scratched the hell out of the screen protector.
if its not the price then nothing comes close to the Pencil in all respects. it's in a class of it's own.
The current release is iOS 9.2.1. When 9.3 is released, it will fully support the Apple Pencil on the iPad Pro.
I meant in the sense on 9.3 beta you can no longer scroll with the pencil making it only workable if you are using it as a pencil watching sketching or clicking on an app for example.
There's a reason why apple does not recommend using a beta, and that's because its no ready for prime time.
You mean, "If I totally disregard Apple's warnings concerning installing beta software on production systems and decide I really want to be a troubleshooter for Apple I will encounter bugs."
You are clearly a public-spirited computer professional to volunteer to walk through the minefield of unreleased software. Your brave sacrifice will help make the general release better. That you found and reported a bug in a beta (you did report it, didn't you?) means that it will be fixed in the general release.
Sadly, I have spent too much $$$ on stylus over the last two years and never found one that was even close to the Apple pencil. I have even spent $99 on one of the Adonit stylus. This Apple pencil is close to perfect for me. I only use it for writing since I don't know the first thing about drawing.
I had the 53 Pencil for a weekend and then exchanged it for an Apple Pencil. If you can afford the Apple Pencil, get it. It is clearly superior.
For the iPad Pro, no... There really isn't another stylus for it. The issue is that many of the other stylii (which work with varying success on other iPads) don't work on the iPad Pro. None of the "fine point" stylii work at all on the iPP. The 53 Pencil "works" but performance is hampered on the Pro (though it works well on any other iPad).
I have plenty of thoughts on other Stylii for other iPads, but for the Pro there really is only one choice (and it's really the best choice anyway): Apple Pencil.
Which other stylii doesnt work? I've tried numerous on the Pro and all work (to varying degrees). Yet to have a regular stylus not work. Surely all capacative normal stylii work?
The fat rubber tip stylii may work okay - the only stylus I have like that is the 53 Pencil and that one worked "okay" (it did not glide across the screen as smoothly as it does on other iPads and seemed to occasionally loose contact).
None of the "fine point" stylii work on the iPad Pro - including, but not limited to: Adobe Ink, Wacom Bamboo Creative 2, Wacom Fineline, Adonit Script (these are the ones I own and have been able to personally test - all worked fine on the Air 2 and the Mini 2/4, but none worked at all on the iPad Pro). At first I thought it was my iPad, but other people have confirmed the same - the Bluetooth/fine point stylii do not work on the iPad Pro.
So, technically, any of the fat rubber tip stylii may yet "work"... Personally, I never thought any of those (with the exception of the 53) were very useful at all - I can't write with any of them (including the 53) and drawing was a "better than nothing" proposition (though, again, the 53 was pretty great on non-pro iPads - I still use it on my Mini, and I use the Fineline if I want to hand write something on the mini).
I haven't gone as far as you have, but I agree. Nothing has come close like the Apple Pencil has. I hate to found like a total fan girl, in fact I don't own one but have used one enough to know. If Apple is going to give us a stylus, this is the one I would have wanted them to design.
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but from what you've said it might not work. yet sracer says different with his. so far the concern is pretty much in the grey area.
surely the ipad pro shares the capacitive touch screen facilities all ipads do?
Grab the Jot Touch, it's a fantastic stylus that works not only within every app but the system as well. The only real advantage of the Pencil is the side shading, so drawing apps. Everything else, especially writing, the Jot Touch is pretty much identical, it's also Bluetooth with palm rejection and pressure sensitivity so you can also use it for drawing if you so wish and it works very good. I use my Pencil for literally 2 apps, the rest of the time it's all about the Jot as the iPad Pro is a finger magnet, so I like using a stylus to navigate the system with. I never bought it into that crap about stylus's should only be used for apps, it was just a way for Apple to save a little face for being so against the stylus all of these years. Using a stylus as a input device for the entire system is actually really useful, esepially when using the keyboard, I would still prefer a mouse but you know.
The listing on Amazon actually said it's not compatible with the Pro.
Your Jot Touch works with the iPad Pro???? That's very surprising because it's not officially supported and I've seen lots of posts saying it doesn't work. It also uses the same PixelPoint tech that's in the Adobe pen and that doesn't work on the Pro.
Did you have to do anything different or unique??
Yes, which was a bit confusing, but when i asked the question in Amazon he wasnt sure. Yet sracer has one which works fine. As i say, a bit grey area.
Wacom Stylus Pen is cheap than Apple Pencil. I must remind you Apple Pencil is very EXPENSIVE to replace it I lost my Wacom Stylus Pen this week so have to order it next week.
Just make sure you're running 9.3, that's all, also turn the pressure sense up. I just upgraded to a Wacom Creative 2 anyway, a better solution.
I'm sorry, but nothing could be further from the truth. The real advantage of the Pencil is.... well, everything: precision, low latency, low activation pressure - etc. I have the Jot Touch, before you ask - as well as Wacom's Creative Stylus and the 53's Pencil. Like many here, I bought a lot of styluses trying to find one that allowes me to draw on my iPad. They all ended up on the shelf. Apple Pencil, on the other hand, even surpases professional Wacom styluses found on Intuos and Cintiq tablets - meaning, it's not only best-in-class, it's literaly the best stylus there is.
I understand that for some reason you may find it equal to Jot Touch - everyone is different and maybe you have some special usage case. If you use it just for navigation, I guess it's kind of comparable (not really, but, almost). But for anything else, it's almost like comparing drawing with a piece of coal to drawing with a Rotring technical pen.
I think it's important for people who aren't really technical but want to get a stylus for their iPad Pro to know that nothing comes even close. There are technological reasons for this (all other styluses are capacitive - even those that generate capacitive fields like the Jot Touch, which is a technology that was not designed for such levels of precision) and the Pencil is something different (probably something similar to the tech Wacom uses on their tablets).
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October Essence Poetry Enhanced
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October Essence Poetry Enhanced is the second edition, filled with gorgeous Autumn images to accompany each poem. Keep the leaves of falling all year long with this inspired book of poetry!
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