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Special Report: TV Upfront
TV advertising deal-making could be pushed back amid coronavirus outbreak
The pandemic could be the catalyst to move to a calendar upfront
By Jeanine Poggi. Published on March 19, 2020.
NBCUniversal takes its upfront from Madison Ave to Main Street with '30 Rock' reunion
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The coronavirus outbreak is poised to upend the way TV ad dollars are negotiated this spring, pushing deal-making to later in the year, according to multiple network and agency executives.
"This could be the catalyst for something that probably should have happened 20 years ago — move to calendar upfront," says Peter Olsen, exec VP, ad sales and content partnerships, A+E Networks. "My guess is the fall season will get delayed because they can't produce pilots."
Much of the TV ad business is negotiated during the upfronts, when the networks look to sell the bulk of their commercial inventory for the September-August period. Deal-making officially kicks off with network presentations in the spring, which roll into negotiations that take place from around Memorial Day through July 4th and sometimes into the better part of the summer.
But with little visibility around when business will return to normal amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as each day passes the idea that negotiations will actually be able to take place this summer is becoming less likely.
While TV networks are preparing to stream or digitize their presentations to ad agencies and their clients in the wake of social distancing, there are too many what-ifs to even prognosticate what deal-making could look like.
The majority of TV productions are currently shut down due to the coronavirus. This includes pilots for new series. Those would need to be ready by May for the networks to plan their fall schedules. But depending on how long the pandemic lasts, there may be little in the way of new content to showcase to advertisers.
But perhaps an even biggest issue to contend with right now is the lack of live sports.
"Production issues aside, any discussions about the upfront are theoretical until we get a fix on how the billions of dollars that's already committed across all sports platforms - including the Olympics, NBA, NHL, MLB – are going to impact supply and demand," says Catherine Sullivan, chief investment officer, North America, Omnicom Media Group.
Then there are ad budgets to plan. Right now, most advertisers are scrambling to re-allocate their 2020 ad budgets, let alone think about 2021. Even those brands that aren't directly impacted by coronavirus are asking to shift commercials to later in the year, according to one marketing executive at a large consumer brand.
"We are very focused on what clients are doing in next two months; most clients aren't focused on what they are doing in the fourth quarter next year," says Michael Law, president, Dentsu Aegis's Amplifi.
One option could be to do business in scatter for the fourth quarter and then negotiate in the fall for the first through third quarters, and then in the spring of 2021 go back to the typical May negotiations, Law says.
"I think we will see a slower-moving market," he adds. "I don't see how a market can move faster with any truth to it…The economic impact is so unknown. There are companies right now fighting to keep their business alive in some cases. They can't make a 12-month forward commitment. As of today, March 19, the market is going to take a deep breath and try to figure this out instead of trying to accelerate on pure predictions."
There are some marketers that already strike deals on a calendar basis, but these are a smaller part of TV networks total deals. The Big Four broadcasters and The CW typically bring in about $10 billion in ad commitments during the upfronts.
"For better or worse we have been bellyaching about the upfronts for years," says one long-time industry executive. "We've said the timing is not right, the format isn't right, the silver lining coming out of this could be an entirely new way of doing business."
Of course, none of this can happen in a vacuum. There will be a point in time where the industry will need to get together and decide how to proceed, much in the way they might decide on a new currency, and that decision is unlikely to happen in the near-term.
And ultimately there will likely be at least some brands that feel their business won't be impacted as negatively, according to one media buyer. "A certain subset of advertisers thinking that way means it will happen in some capacity within that traditional time frame."
Either way, it will be hard to call whatever happens this spring business as usual.
Jeanine Poggi
Jeanine Poggi covers the TV industry and how broadcast and cable networks and distributors are adopting to the changes in the world of TV advertising. She joined Ad Age in 2012, following six years covering the retail and media industries and other financial sectors for Women's Wear Daily, Forbes and TheStreet.
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Kate is very interested in mental health, and using the natural environment to alleviate low level mental health issues.


The Georgia Force, Atlanta's home team in the Arena Football League, and Comprehensive Pet Therapy (CPT), Atlanta's most respected pet training company, have partnered to create "Black" and "Blue." Black and Blue are the Georgia Force's official canine mascots. However, true to CPT's name, Black and Blue's function is far more comprehensive than the traditional canine football mascot. Black and Blue are professional football's first non-humans trained to retrieve the kicking tee after each kickoff. In addition, Black and Blue may occasionally perform during intermission activities and greet fans during promotional events.
The Force and CPT debuted Black and Blue on NBC during their nationally televised home opener Sunday, February 16, 2003. The unique tee retrievers were released from the end zone corner to gallop toward the tees, quickly grasp the rubber object in their mouth, and promptly return to their handler. Georgia Force kicker Steve McLaughlin is pleased that he no longer has to saunter back to the end zone to pick up the tee. Moreover, the 11,200 fans in attendance at the spanking new Arena at Gwinnett Center were highly entertained by the efforts of these working mascots. Noticeable applause commenced each time Black or Blue entered the field.
The concept for Black and Blue was created by former Georgia Force COO Mike Storen, who had his personal pet trained by CPT. Mike was familiar with CPT's higher level work and thought that CPT would be a great match for constructing the Black and Blue program. CPT and the Force first met in early October 2002 to design the program parameters.
CPT then began selecting and training the dogs most appropriate for the roles of Black and Blue. On November 2, 2002 CPT held tryouts open to any dog from within its 21,000 dog customer base. Four judges evaluated the candidates from amongst the following criteria: obedience, retrieve drive, tolerance of noise and crowds, sociability, athleticism, adaptability, endurance, and appearance. Similarly, the owners were evaluated for their attitude, appearance, and charisma. Upon completion of the tryouts, CPT selected six dogs/handlers as members of the Black and Blue Team.
Formal practices began shortly thereafter and have continued weekly for the past three and a half months. CPT provides complimentary training and coaching for the selected dogs and owners who will perform at each of the Force's eight home regular season games and any home playoff games. Each game CPT coaches Mark Spivak and Patricia McDonnell select two dogs from amongst the team to represent The Force as "Black" and "Blue." The pressure was on for the first game since the dogs never had the opportunity to practice in game-like conditions containing a sold out arena with 11,200 boisterous fans, pyrotechnics, loud rock music, and two full teams of AFL players. Nevertheless, the dogs performed near flawlessly in front of a network television audience as well as the fans in attendance.
Since its inception in 1992, CPT has trained the dogs of over 21,000 Atlanta area customers. CPT offers group classes at six locations, in-home private lessons throughout the Atlanta metro area, and a unique board training program at 10 locations where customer dogs reside at a trainer's home as opposed to a kennel. CPT Head Trainers have competed on world teams, placed in national competitions, won regional titles, placed dogs in movies, and appeared as behavioral experts on television news shows.
For more information, please contact Mark Spivak by phone (770-396-6433).


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Amends
Details: C2015B00169
Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Bill 2015
- C2015B00169
A Bill for an Act to amend the Fair Work Act 2009, and for related purposes
For authoritative information on the progress of bills and on amendments proposed to them, please see the House of Representatives Votes and Proceedings, and the Journals of the Senate as available on the Parliament House website.
Registered 17 Sep 2015
Introduced Senate 17 Sep 2015
C2015B00169
2013‑2014‑2015
The Parliament of the
Presented and read a first time
No. , 2015
(Senator Waters)
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Fair Work Act 2009 3
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Act 2015.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Date/Details
1. The whole of the Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Fair Work Act 2009
1 Paragraph 5(8)(b)
Omit "and high‑income employees", insert ", high income employees and certain terms that have no effect".
2 Section 321
Division 3 is about the guarantee of annual earnings that may be given to a national system employee whose earnings exceed the high income threshold. Modern awards do not apply to such an employee.
Division 4 is about terms that have no effect.
3 At the end of Part 2‑9
Division 4—Certain terms have no effect
333B Terms prohibiting disclosure of pay have no effect
A term of a modern award, an enterprise agreement or a contract of employment has no effect to the extent that the term:
(a) prohibits an employee from disclosing the amount of, or information about, the employee's pay or earnings; or
(b) permits, or has the effect of permitting, an employer to take adverse action against an employee if the employee discloses the amount of, or information about, the employee's pay or earnings.
4 At the end of Schedule 1
Part 3—Amendments made by the Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Act 2015
13 Definitions
In this Part:
amended Act means this Act as amended by the Fair Work Amendment (Gender Pay Gap) Act 2015.
14 Application of section 333B
Section 333B of the amended Act applies in relation to a modern award, enterprise agreement or a contract of employment that is in operation on or after the day on which this item commences, whether or not the award, agreement or contract was made or entered into before that day.


This is my 100th post so forgive me if I slack a little with JavaOne coming and some other personal things I'm doing right now... There are several cool you tube videos which people posted in the last couple of months and also some nice news which I didn't really post about. First you should check out the featured app section of the lwuit site. It is hidden away within the site and most people sadly don't notice it, Meirav and Martin worked allot to give it makeover and it looks stunning.
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The Protestant Work Ethic: Just Another Urban Legend Summary
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One of the most frustrating experiences you can go through is having your wifi speakers cut out right as your favourite part of a song comes on. It's the audio equivalent of the hated buffering notices on streaming video. But why is it happening? You set up your speakers with no problems, your WiFi seems to be working fine on your phone and computer, yet your WiFi speaker keeps cutting out! Before you end up throwing your speaker into a wall, try some of the following troubleshooting tips to help your connection.
One of the challenges in diagnosing a connection issue is that there are many points along the chain that could be causing problems. For example, if you are streaming music from Spotify, controlled by your phone, and then ultimately to your speaker, the connection problem could be ISP related between Spotify & your phone, or an internal network error between your phone and the speakers.
1. What's your internet connection speed?
First, you will want to double check what your speed is from your Internet service provider. Typically a download speed of 25Mbps (note: Megabit per second, not megabyte) should be more than enough to stream music & video from the internet. If you're under 10Mbps you will want to consider upping your service level from your provider, which may solve the problem right away. To check your internet speeds, connect your computer to your modem/router by ethernet cable and visit http://www.speedtest.net/ and run a test. Make sure that you are actually getting the speeds that you are paying for! It can also help to run this test at different parts of the day, as your internet speeds can be affected by your neighbour's usage, especially with cable internet plans. Lastly, pay attention to what else is happening on your network when the speaker cuts out. Did someone else in your home start streaming video right before the drop? If you have 4 or 5 people, each with their own smartphone, tablet, and/or laptop connected to the same WiFi network, you may need to bump up to a 50Mbps plan to keep things running smoothly.
Speedtest.net has an app for both iPhone and Android, download it and then stand near the speaker that's cutting out and run the speed test from your smartphone. Ideally, you should be getting close to the same speed as you previously got with a hardwired connection. If your speed is significantly slower than you want to move the speaker and WiFi router closer together. If this doesn't help then there may be some other networks interfering with your WiFi.
Conflicting networks may be causing a problem with your home network, causing your speaker to keep cutting out. To help diagnose this you will have to use a WiFi Scanner application on your computer.
Mac Users: OSX has a wifi scanner built-in to the operating system. To access it, hold down the Option button and click the Network symbol at the top of the screen, and click Open Network Diagnostics. Once opened, Select Window (Next To File, Edit, etc) > Scan to test your current WiFi network.
PC Option: There is a free scanner app called "WiFi Analyzer" available to download from the Microsoft store.
What To Look For: There are a few things we can investigate here to fix our WiFi speaker connection problems. First, check whether your WiFi network is a 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequency, and then check your speaker to make sure it is compatible with the one that's chosen. For example, Sonos speakers utilize the 2.4GHz frequency, but the Paradigm Wireless can accept either 2.4GHz or 5GHz. You may experience problems if you are trying to connect a 2.4 GHz speaker to a 5GHz router. If your speaker can accept both frequencies, 5GHz has a much faster data transfer rate, however, has less range than 2.4GHz frequency.
Aside from frequency, there is also the channel your WiFi is operating on, and it may contain a lot of interference, especially for those living in Apartments.
If your network is overlapping with other nearby networks, consider picking a lesser used channel to reduce interference. For Mac users, your network diagnostics will simply tell you which are the best channels to use on 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequencies.
Do You Need A New Router?
If you have a large house, and your router is several years old it may be time to consider upgrading. The new WiFi routers with the AC standard are up to 3x faster than the previous N standard. Now, most wireless speakers do not support the AC standard, however, your connection can still benefit from a new router through beamforming technology. Unlike older routers that disperse WiFi in an equal radius out from the router, newer AC routers detect which devices are using the network, and directs the WiFi signal towards them. The result is much faster speeds at farther distances from the router. This could also help with speaker connection issues.
Sonos has their own solution for connection issues called Boost Installation. When setting up your speakers, you can choose a Boost installation. This involves hardwiring one of your Sonos speakers, which then creates its own Sonos specific WiFi network to which the rest of your speakers will connect. This is also helpful if your router only supports 5GHz which is not supported by Sonos. Another benefit of this installation is it allows you to place speakers further away from your WiFi router, as they only need to be in the range of another speaker.
At this point, we've looked at your internet connection speed, Wifi router speeds, speaker placement, WiFi network frequency, and interference from other devices. If you are still having connectivity issues, it may be worth contacting your Local AVU to have a networking professional take a look at your system. Every home is unique and there may be something related to the construction of your home that's causing the interference that can't be easily diagnosed. Our installers have experience with smart home automation and providing network access to each corner of a house so they will be able to tell you exactly what needs to be done to ensure maximum connectivity. Click here to find your local Audio Video Unlimited in Canada.
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HOWELL-Levinson Axelrod Attorney Kathleen DiGiovanni recently secured a $2.5 million jury verdict in an underinsured motorist (UIM) case against Allstate on behalf of a car crash victim who suffered serious injuries when his vehicle sustained two impacts on the New Jersey Turnpike.
According to court documents (Monmouth County Superior Court), the case stemmed from an initial collision that occurred while the victim was driving to his home in Howell, New Jersey from Manhattan, New York at about 10:45 pm. Unknown to the victim at that time, a vehicle driven by the defendant was stopped in traffic in the left lane of the Turnpike. Because the defendant had turned off all the vehicle's lights, failed to turn on its hazard lights, and gave no warning to oncoming motorists, the victim was not able to see the vehicle until he was roughly 30 feet away. At that time, court documents indicate, the victim attempted to swerve to the right to avoid the stopped vehicle, but was unable to complete the maneuver and crashed into the defendant's car.
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As court records show, the collision thrusted the victim's vehicle sideways into the center lane of the Turnpike, where it was then struck a second time by a vehicle driven by another motorist. The vehicle ultimately came to rest in the far right side of the road.
The force of the two impacts caused the victim to suffer serious injuries, including multiple fractures of the hip, and he was transported to the Jersey Shore University Medical Center to undergo emergency surgery. The trauma surgeon who performed the surgery used four plates and 13 screws to reconstruct the victim's hip. Medical experts who evaluated the case and the scope of the plaintiff's injuries agreed that he will require a total hip replacement in the very near future. The victim, who is now in his late 40s, will need a revision surgery within the next 15 to 20 years.
Attorney Kathleen M. DiGiovanni filed a lawsuit on behalf of her client against the driver who stopped in traffic, alleging that the defendant's actions and failures to turn on her vehicle's lights led to the preventable accident and injuries suffered by the victim, and that she should be held liable for resulting damages. That case was settled prior to trial.
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Because her client had underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage, Attorney DiGiovanni also filed suit against the victim's own insurance company. That case was tried before the Honorable Owen McCarthy, J.S.C. in Monmouth County Superior Court. Lawyers representing Allstate stood in place of the defendant whose vehicle was stopped in traffic, and attempted to argue that the plaintiff and the driver of the second vehicle which struck him were both negligent in contributing to the crash. However, Attorney DiGiovanni was able to effectively refute the arguments, arguing that her client was an innocent victim of the stopped car's negligence, and the jury sided with her by returning a verdict holding the defendant 100% liable for the crash. Her client was awarded $2,500,000 in damages. Because the verdict exceeded the Offer of Judgment filed by Attorney DiGiovanni against the defendant Allstate for policy limits, her client will also be able to recover the costs of trial and attorney's fees from the defendant Allstate, as well as the difference between the recovery from the stopped driver and the UIM policy limit.
The outcome secured by Attorney Kathleen M. Giovanni is a significant victory for her client who, by successfully holding the defendant fully liable, now secures the compensation needed to cover extensive damages and the considerable expenses associated with future care of his injuries, including his need for a future revision surgery. It is this type of result, even in the face of insurance companies that do all they can to skirt liability and pay victims as little as possible, that make Attorney Giovanni and the Levinson Axelrod legal team proven advocates for injured victims harmed in the most serious wrecks.
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Kathleen DiGiovanni is an Associate attorney who works primarily out of the Howell and Belford offices of Levinson Axelrod, P.A., a New Jersey-based personal injury law firm committed to providing experienced and knowledgeable representation in cases involving preventable injuries caused by the negligent and wrongful acts of others. Since first opening its doors in 1939, the firm's award-winning lawyers have successfully recovered more than $1 billion in verdicts and settlements for clients, more than $350 million of which has been secured in the past five years alone. Learn more about the nationally recognized firm and its legal team by calling (732) 440-3089 or visiting www.njlawyers.com.
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Imperial Chinese Armies 1840–1911
Philip Jowett (Author), Gerry Embleton (Illustrator)
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An in-depth analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century. Beginning with a run through of the Chinese forces that combated the British and French during the two Opium Wars, this history goes on to trace the forces who were drawn into internal wars and rebellions in the 1850s and 60s, the open warfare in North Vietnam, the string of defeats suffered during the First Sino-Japanese war and the Boxer Rebellion. Providing an unparalleled insight into the dizzying array of troop types and unique uniforms, this is a history of the sometimes-painful modernization of China's military forces during one of her most turbulent periods of history.
Read an extract of Imperial Chinese Armies 1840–1911
Introduction /Chronology /The Chinese Imperial Army of the Qing Dynasty from c.1840 – the First Opium War against Britain (1839-42), and Second Opium War/Arrow War (1856–60) against Britain and France /Muslim and provincial rebellions and clan wars, 1840–1911 /The Franco-Chinese War in Vietnam and Formosa (1884–86) – the Black Flag army /The First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) /The modernized Imperial Army, 1895–1911 – the Boxer Rebellion and international interventions (1900) /The armies of the 1911 Revolution /Weaponry /Uniforms /Plate Commentaries
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RAPAPORT... Angola is seeking stronger ties with Antwerp as the southern African nation looks to improve the profitability and transparency of its diamond sector.
The country has failed to benefit sufficiently from its diamond resources due to government policies, according to its president, João Lourenço, who came to power in September and is planning to reform the industry.
Catoca, the country's largest diamond mine, lost $464 million over the past six years because producers were only able to sell goods through Sodiam, the state-owned trading company, Reuters reported Monday, citing an internal Catoca document. That policy has restricted miners' revenues, as Sodiam could choose to whom it sold diamonds, often resulting in politically connected buyers obtaining goods at below-market prices, Reuters said.
Engaging in trade with Antwerp could present an opportunity to create value, according to Nishit (Bali) Parikh, president of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC). The Belgian city has a track record of generating a 15% premium for producers that export their goods directly to the hub rather than shipping them elsewhere, Parikh said in a speech during Lourenço's visit to Antwerp last week.
Antwerp is the first diamond trading center Lourenço has visited as president, the AWDC claimed. Angola's transformation would involve both increasing rough production and creating more employment through local processing and polishing, Lourenço added.
Angola currently only exports 1% of its rough diamonds directly to Antwerp, but some 50% end up in the city, Parikh noted. The African nation ships 70% of its diamonds to the United Arab Emirates, according to Reuters.
"If I can do better business by trading my goods through the market in Antwerp, why would I send my goods somewhere else first, and then let someone else get a better deal by sending them to Antwerp?" Parikh said.
Selling straight to Antwerp would also "show the world you are serious about fostering transparency, and intend to follow through on your message of change," the diamantaire continued.
Lourenço has embarked on a reform agenda since taking over from José Eduardo dos Santos, whose controversial rule lasted 38 years. Through those changes, the nation hopes to attract more foreign diamond miners, Reuters quoted Lourenço as saying. Alrosa — the largest rough supplier to the Antwerp market — currently holds 41% of Catoca, which produced 7.2 million carats in 2016. The Russian miner is also an investor in Angola's new Luaxe mining project.
Angola's total output was 9 million carats in 2016, including other smaller deposits such as the Somiluana and Lulo mines, according to data from the Kimberley Process. The country plans to double its annual production by developing Luaxe, which, at full output, it expects to yield 10 million carats annually, Reuters reported in 2016.
Sodiam and its parent company, Endiama, could not be reached for comment.
Main image: AWDC president Nishit Parikh (center) talks with Angolan President João Lourenço in Antwerp. Inset: Lourenço with AWDC officials. Images courtesy AWDC.


Previous research suggests that media use negatively affects well-being for girls and boys. This study uses secondary data from a nationally representative sample of adolescents (often referred to as Generation X) who were attending school during the 1990s to examine gender differences in body image, school success, alternative time use, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms, and explores whether television consumption has an impact on these outcomes utilizing cultivation theory and social comparison theory. Preliminary analysis revealed that television consumption was not associated with self-esteem for girls, while boys who watched the most television reported the lowest levels of self-esteem. Television consumption was associated with depressive symptoms for both girls and boys, with the adolescents who watched the most television reporting the most frequent depressive symptoms. Overall, the OLS models indicated that television consumption had only a small association with adolescent well-being. Given vast changes in media since the 1990s, future research should consider other types of media (such as music and social networking sites), as well as television content that is accessed from an alternative source.


"Multiple laser technology in a small footprint will broaden the appeal of additive manufacturing in new markets and applications"
Global engineering and additive manufacturing firm, Renishaw, is set to unveil its latest hardware and software developments in Frankfurt next month during the third annual formnext powered by tct event taking place on 14th-17th November.
In the same place where it launched its RenAM 500 system back in 2015, Renishaw will introduce its new RenAM 500Q, a four-laser additive manufacturing system, which is said to quadruple the speed of the process and significantly improve productivity in the most commonly used machine platform size. The machine promises a substantial reduction in cost per part whilst maintaining the quality and precision offered by standard single laser systems.
Attendees will also be introduced to Renishaw's AM process monitoring technologies including InfiniAM Central and InfiniAM Spectral that allow manufacturers to benefit from gathering and analysing sensor data from additive manufacturing systems to develop consistent processing. Fully developed and manufactured in-house, the new process monitoring system combines a chamber camera with synchronous sensing of laser power, galvo position and multi-spectral melt pool sensing. New products InfiniAM Central and InfiniAM Spectral which give users essential information to understand the component build process and monitoring melt pool characteristics in high resolution.
"Multiple laser technology in a small footprint will broaden the appeal of additive manufacturing in new markets and applications," explained Robin Weston, Marketing Manager at Renishaw's Additive Manufacturing Products Division. "The technology is moving towards applications where it's not just the technical benefits of AM that are attractive but also the production economics of using it in a serialised manufacturing process for high quality components."
Renishaw will also present High Temperature Build Volume, a new technology that enables manufacturers to build bulkier components from materials that are not currently feasible with less risk of thermal stress effects. Plus visitors will be able to see demonstrations of Renishaw's automation product ideas and updated QuantAM build preparation software.
Renishaw can be found in Hall 3.1, Messe Frankfurt, on Stand E68. To attend, visitors can register here.


Drivers have always been divided. There are those who love cars and enjoy driving them. Then there are the people who merely see a car as something to get them from A to B. Many of us want our cars to be practical, economical and environmentally friendly. But for the first group, there will always be one other important aspect to consider when getting in a car that possibly trumps all the others: it has to be fun. I believe the future of motoring still is.
The world has now spent decades talking about the options for cars once fossil fuels run out or become too expensive. In reality, we are still a long way off that. Whether we move to electric, hydrogen or an as-yet-undiscovered power, it is likely to be a gradual shift for us.
Is Autonomous The Future We Want?
In recent years, top of the agenda for the future of motoring has been autonomous vehicles. What tends to spring to mind are robot-type vehicles, with no human interaction required. Another option is vehicles driving themselves with no occupants at all. The latter certainly seems like a possibility in the future. Delivery drivers are likely to be out of a job. Anything that can't be sent by a drone will turn up in a driverless van. This feels like one of the more practical uses for autonomous vehicles. However, personal journeys are a tad different. Sitting in a car that drives itself, where you merely have to enter a destination, seems a little, well, dull.
It would be foolish to deny how autonomous driving is already starting to sneak into our cars. So far, they are all aspects I very much approve of as they are largely designed with safety in mind. Automatic braking, parking sensors and lane assist systems are all helping to make our driving safer. If we can continue driving but get rid of the potential for accidents caused by human error, then autonomous safety features could continue to be popular.
Intelligent vehicles are part of the future of motoring and these are not the only technologies moving into our cars now. New vehicles come with infotainment systems and are becoming connective hubs. The future of motoring will undoubtedly include the Internet of Things, enabling vehicles to send and receive data. GPS has arguably been one of the biggest changes to how many people drive. However, as cars connect to the internet a whole other realm of possibilities opens up. Your car can find the nearest or cheapest petrol station, read out breaking news and garages can remotely diagnose vehicle issues. A connected car seems much more ideal over an autonomous one.
But How Does Driving Feel?
Overall, I believe most drivers will want to retain a degree of control over their vehicles, even if this becomes optional. Our driving has too much passion and sentimentality invested in it. Driving is a physical connection with the beautiful beast you are in control of. It all starts out so complicated when you have to consciously think through everything but then one day you suddenly realise it has become automatic. You are completely in control of this magnificent machinery. That is when you truly start to enjoy driving, that is when it becomes fun.
Your first knocked-about hatchback, the clapped out motor you've managed to keep going for years, the sleek machine you fell in love with on the forecourt or the supercar track day experience. Every one of them sends something through you. The first growl of the engine, the crunch of gravel beneath the tyres, then sensing the climbing revs and working through the gears. The wind, the rush of growing speed on a long, straight, empty road, gripping the steering wheel tight as the g-force hits you swinging round a corner and more, so much more. The brain flips a switch when you sit in the driving seat. Ultimately, cars are driven not be fuel, not by engines, not by gears, but by emotions. The future of motoring is fun and driving is about feeling everything.
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Cryptocurrency This Week: India Could Ban Virtual Currencies & More
Harshit Rakheja
04 Aug'20 5 min read
The Indian government is reportedly having inter-ministerial consultations on a proposed bill to ban all types of cryptocurrencies
Ripple CEO says there is an erosion of trust in global financial markets
China's central bank is planning to use its digital currency to challenge the dominance of Alipay and WeChat pay
India's Crypto Economy is a brand-new weekly newsletter (delivered every Thursday) from Inc42 to help you decode the rapidly growing crypto economy and its implications on business, work and life. We launched this newsletter on the 4th anniversary of our weekly series "Crypto This Week" which completed 190 editions in May, 2021.
Trouble may be looming on the horizon for cryptocurrency trading platforms in India, with the government reportedly moving into advanced deliberations over a bill from last year which seeks a complete ban on virtual currencies.
The bill, entitled, "Banning of Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2019," was drafted by an inter-ministerial committee headed by former Finance and Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg. Lawyer Mohammed Danish, the co-founder of Crypto Kanoon, a crypto regulatory media platform, had filed an RTI application with the Department of Economic Affairs to establish whether media reports suggesting that the government had begun consultations on the bill were accurate.
In his RTI, Danish had inquired, "Has any cabinet note been sent for IMC (inter-ministerial consultation) on the legal framework of cryptocurrencies/virtual currencies?" and, "Does this cabinet note seek inter-ministerial consultation on Banning of Cryptocurrency & Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2019? If not, what is the purpose of this cabinet note?"
In its reply to Danish's RTI, the Department of Economic Affairs wrote, "The government had set up an inter-ministerial committee (IMC) for examining the issue of cryptocurrencies. The report of the IMC on VCs (virtual currencies) has since been submitted by its members but is awaiting approval of the government. The report and bill will now be examined by the government through inter-ministerial consultation by moving a cabinet note in due course."
The proposed bill calls for a complete ban on all cryptocurrencies and related activities such as mining, holding, advertising, promoting, buying, selling and providing exchange services, among other things. Indian institutions have long been hostile towards cryptocurrencies as it is believed that such currencies are used for anti-social purposes such as funding terrorist activities, a fact backed through evidence collected by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an inter-governmental organisation to combat money laundering. These supposed ramifications are believed to be a consequence of cryptocurrencies being outside the purview of any country's central bank, the lack of any underlying fiat, episodes of excessive volatility in their value, and their anonymous nature which goes against global money-laundering rules.
In March this year, the Supreme Court quashed a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circular from 2018 which had ordered a banking ban on cryptocurrencies in India. Since the SC order, there has been a spurt in cryptocurrency-related activities in India, with some crypto exchange platforms reporting a 400% spike in trading activity. It remains to be seen if the positive outlook for cryptocurrency exchange platforms in India will hit a roadblock with the coming of a blanket ban on virtual currencies possibly in the upcoming monsoon session of the Indian Parliament, the dates for which are yet to be notified
In other news, Bitcoin is trading at $11,135 at the time of writing, reporting a marginal increase of 1.69% from last week, when the price of a Bitcoin was $10,949. Bitcoin's market cap is $205.46 Bn.
Image credits: coinmarketcap.com
Ethereum is trading at $391.52, reporting an increase of around 24% from last week, when the price of Ethereum was $316.6. Ethereum's market cap is $43.86 Bn.
Ripple CEO Says Cryptocurrencies Gaining Momentum As Trust In Fiat Currencies Erodes
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of global payments system Ripple, has said that in an uncertain world where the global economy is witnessing a downturn due to the financial disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, governments were seriously considering the blockchain technology. Garlinghouse, in a series of tweets, while commenting on a Bloomberg article which detailed the pros and cons of potential alternatives to the dollar such as gold, yuan and crypto, said that with the erosion of trust in the global financial system, people will inevitably gravitate towards cryptocurrencies. "It addresses frictions (settlement, transparency, among others) that were assumed VERY hard to solve before. Crypto is up 80% while USD is down 3% YTD," Garlinghouse wrote in a tweet.
Garlinghouse admitted that the US dollar's dominance as the backbone of the global financial infrastructure wasn't going to be lost anytime soon to other assets such as gold, the yuan or crypto, among others, anytime soon. "But is it weaker today?" he asked. Evidently, as the dollar index, which measures the greenback against a host of leading currencies, had its worst month in a decade in July, as it lost more than 4%. It is down 10% from its peak in March.
China's Central Bank To Use Digital Currencies To Counter Alibaba & Tencent Dominance
China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBoC), is reportedly planning to use its digital currency electronics system to counter the dominance of Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Tencent in the country's digital payments sector. The report comes only a few days after it was reported that PBoC had promoted an antitrust investigation against both companies' digital payments platforms, Alipay and WeChat Pay for suppressing competition in the sector. PBoC will use the DCEP to provide banks equal opportunities in the field of digital payments as it earlier did to technology giants.


Color Marketing Group's celebration of violet erupts for 2018!
2018's emerging violet hues can soothe the psyche, or add a touch of luxury, or both!
Predicted during international workshops in 2016, for emergence in 2018, violet, in numerous values, has been deemed an important color for the year, appearing in every region of the CMG World Color Forecast™!
In celebration of the predictions, Color Marketing Group® congratulates, and concurs with Pantone, on their exciting choice for their color of the year, Ultra Violet. We are ecstatic with their choice and our shared enthusiasm for color. Violet hues appeared in forecasts from CMG's Asia Pacific's "Pudding Purple," to North America's "Bruised Steel," as colors of importance for the year.
Those are just two that are close in family. In all, ten out of 64 World Color Forecast™ hues, almost 15%, fall into the violet family! The importance of this color influence from quiet, contemplative lavender, to bold, sumptuous violet, and numerous iterations between, cannot be denied. Whether luxurious or healing, CMG members around the world have seized the nuances of this hue to emerge in 2018, transporting the aesthetics of products as wide reaching as fashion, home, action recreation, and automotive.
In 2018, Violet emerges in the world of color, from a world of color professionals, who share a passion for the right hues at the right moment.
CMG's World Color Forecast™ is exclusive to members – find out more about membership, or join online today.
Beautiful variation of color, so luxurious!
Thank you for the shout-out and happy we are in concurrence. And………..where can I buy those fab shoes. Love the combo…greenery and violet!


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Synthetic Graphite: A New Solution for PC Board Thermal Management
March 21, 2022 mpdigest 0
by John Priday, Chief Technical Officer, Teledyne Labtech
As the power generated by microwave semiconductor devices and high-speed processors continues to increase, the printed circuit board (PCB) must play multiple roles: supplying power to the devices, passing the increasingly high-speed signals between devices with as little loss as possible, and aiding in moving heat generated by the devices to heat sinks.
In contemporary consumer electronics such as smartphones, the task of heat dissipation is not left solely to the PCB; areas of high heat concentration are also managed using pre-formed adhesive pads made from synthetic graphite, a good dissipator of heat (Figure 1). These are used to spread the heat energy over a wide area, reducing the temperature-induced stress on individual devices such as RF power amplifiers, maximizing performance and improving life expectancy.
Figure 1: Typical smartphone RF section showing the use of a synthetic graphite pad to aid thermal management
Defense Systems Pose Unique Challenges
Some of the most acute heat management challenges are found in aerospace and defense applications that have stringent requirements for size, weight, and power (SWaP) that make heat management even more challenging. These applications typically sacrifice low cost to achieve the best combination of thermal management, signal fidelity, size, and weight.
Examples include GaN RF power amplifiers, phased array transmit/receive modules, and high-speed digital signal processing cards. The most common heat dissipation technique is the use of copper sheets as ground planes, but we wondered if the benefits of synthetic graphite could also be useful for SWaP-constrained, medium-power applications. If this proved to be true, and as many high-performance PC boards have four to six copper planes or even more, synthetic graphite could be a very effective, lightweight heat-mitigation tool. We decided to find out, and the results are promising.
Why Synthetic Graphite?
Synthetic graphite offers significant weight savings and benefits in terms of thermal management for PCBs that have medium-power RF and microwave devices mounted on them. It can distribute heat efficiently in the X-Y plane out to the perimeter of the board, where it is then extracted via clamps to a cold wall (Figure 2). The result is that semiconductor devices can operate at substantially lower stabilized temperatures, which can increase their mean time between failure (MTBF).
Figure 2: Aerospace card application with a QFN packaged high power device on a PCB. Thermal management is aided using cold walls and board clamps to allow heat to be moved into the enclosure. The use of thermal graphite would be beneficial if a suitable approach could be found to accomplish it.
Synthetic graphite has excellent in-plane thermal conductivity of between 1500 to 1600 W/mK, about four times that of copper, and densities between 2.0 to 2.1 g/cm3, about one-quarter of copper. In summary, it's four times lighter and transfers heat four times better than copper. It is available in thin sheets ranging from 10 μm to 40 μm in thickness and is typically supplied with a self-adhesive coating and on a carrier. It has an excellent ability to spread heat across its width (X, Y). However, it is much worse for transmitting heat in its third dimension (Z), where z-plane conductivity is about 5 W/mK down through the thickness of a PCB.
High-density active devices often mounted in QFN style packages can dissipate a significant amount of heat, so one of many roles of the PCB is to channel it from the underside of the semiconductor devices through to the chosen heatsinking scheme as efficiently as possible. This is generally achieved by mounting devices on thermal/ground pads to the top layer of the PC board,which is electrically and thermally connected to lower layers through plated through-hole (PTH) vias. Sometimes the vias are filled with solder but more often with thermally conductive filler.
To replace copper planes in a PC board sandwich, graphite would have to perform well in several areas to make it worthwhile. It would need to have a significant thermal benefit without adding weight, and the graphite planes would need to minimally impede the passage of microwave signals in their role as ground planes. It would also have to be mechanically robust and survive normal processing stresses during manufacture and use, and finally, it must be easy to process using normal PCB manufacturing techniques.
Among all these requirements, mechanical robustness was the most difficult, and Teledyne tried many different techniques to get the graphite layer to adhere. Thermal conductivity was often very high, but thermal stress tests could induce cracked vias or delamination. Continued development eventually resulted in a successful approach, which is described below.
An evaluation board was designed to allow each aspect of performance to be demonstrated. The board was produced in two versions, one using two graphite planes, the other nearly identical but using copper planes (Figure 3).
Figure 3. The two test boards, one using synthetic graphite planes, the other substituting copper planes
The most extreme stress experienced by almost all PCBs is during processing because the thermal shocks experienced by solder processing steps are extreme. Customers usually require PCBs to withstand two excursions from room temperature to solder temperature for double-sided boards and allow for the possibility that three more rework cycles will be required, which is noted as Condition A of the IPC-650-TM-2.6.8 test methods.
Tests were performed with 1 cycle of 10 seconds solder float at 288°C and then five cycles starting from ambient room temperature for each cycle, all of which were successfully passed. The only notable degradation seen was in the via filler that cracked after five thermal stresses, which was the likely result of coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatch but was not considered significant.
Having shown that graphite can be incorporated into a PCB and survive thermal shocks, the most important question is then whether it actually improves heat dissipation. To explore this, a power resistor was mounted on both PCBs using H20E conductive epoxy to act as a heat source. Thermal measurements were made using a Teledyne FLIR infrared camera. In both cases, the same power (6.7 W) was applied and allowed to stabilize for 5 min. The boards were suspended in the air with no additional heatsinking. The resistor was more than 20° C cooler in the graphite-plane case compared to the equivalent using copper planes. This would significantly improve the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) reliability of a semiconductor device in normal use.
For this new heat mitigation material to be useful, it could not substantially degrade signal integrity, so to evaluate microwave performance, the test structures had both stripline and microstrip test paths. To make measurements, 10-mm aluminum plates were bonded to the back of the PCBs to allow for mounting of SMA connector interfaces.
A vector network analyzer was used to conduct measurements from 5 to 20 GHz, and the results are shown in Figure 4 for both stripline and microstrip test structures. The graphite planes caused a maximum degradation in insertion loss of no more than 2 dB. This was for a 100-mm trace length, which is two to three times that of the typical total length of the signal path on most PC boards. For many applications, this performance will be more than acceptable. It should be noted that for results above 18 GHz, the stripline was not optimal because of the mismatch of the connector interface.
Figure 4: Measurements from 5 to 20 GHz of insertion loss (S21) for stripline (left) and microstrip (right)
In the opinion of Teledyne Labtech, graphite plane PC boards have a great enough thermal advantage to make them an alternative to copper as they can allow components to run at least 20°C cooler. They also weigh less than their copper counterparts, particularly when more ground plane layers are employed. In their role as ground planes, they do not significantly impact the passage of microwave signals for 100mm path lengths in both stripline and microstrip.
The boards are mechanically robust and survive normal processing stresses incurred during manufacture and use and withstand the rigors of IPC-650-TM-2.6.8 thermal shock tests even after five cycles from room temperature to 288°C in 10 seconds with no cracked vias or layer delamination. They operate over the same temperature ranges as regular PC boards and use conventional manufacturing techniques, with only a modest increase in time and cost.
There are certain restrictions resulting from the need to maintain via integrity and we recommend early stage discussions with Teledyne Labtech to ensure all designs for manufacturing considerations are included.
KANEKA Corporation for supplying its synthetic Graphinity graphite sheets.
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The Perfect Slum
on the architecture of informal settlement
The Top End Variety
Not a developing countries' prerogative
Banks of Sumida river Tokyo.
A high-end economy like Japan may not be the first place to look for Economic Weaker Section (EWS) dwellings. Nevertheless, some homeless people can be found in makeshift shelters. There are several stories on the backgrounds of these homeless. A popular one among westerners says these people have become jobless and cannot bear the disgrace under the eyes of their family. Although many people serve in lifelong employment in one company, even when they do not perform satisfactory by any standard, Japan does have a labour market.
Another story deals with finance, of course. There are people in desperate deep debts, think only of the addicts who are one of the family in the Pachinko parlours. Loan agents do not hesitate to hire gangsters to collect debts. Alex Kerr explains.
"Yakuza (organised crime) threatens your family, comes banging on your door at night or calls you in the office twenty five times per day. As a result ten thousands of people disappear every year in a process known as Yonige, "Midnight Run". They leave their homes, change identity and move to another city, all to hide from the enforcers of Japan's consumer loans.
Traditionally people must clear all debts by the end of the year, so New Year's Eve is the premier time for Yonige. The 80.000 who fled in het night of 1996 had nearly doubled by 1999, to 130.000.
So popular is the Midnight Run that it has spawned a new business, Benriyasan (Mr. Convenient), facilitators who help families flee their
homes and who take care of their possessions while they are on the run. In 1999, Japanese television featured a new drama, "The Midnight Run Shop", whose hero devises schemes for people to evade gangster lean enforcers. It's a Mission Impossible for debtors,... "
Alex Kerr, Dogs and Demons, The Fall of Modern Japan, Penguin, 2001, page 270.
Banks of the Ara river in Tokyo.
Moreover, it is clear we are not dealing with muddled people here. The improvised dwellings are neat. They sit on a wooden platform and everything is tidied up. The gray shelter even has an overhead door on a rack. Although this scene is utterly Japanese, there is one feature that definitely refers to the global architecture of dwellings of the displaced: the blue sheet.
In real estate, there are three factors of importance to the value of property: location, location, and location. Therefore most remarkable is the location of the shelters of the homeless in Tokyo.
Photo collage of the Amsterdam Eastern Harbours(left) and Tokyo Sumida River.
In Amsterdam, living on the water is considered highly luxurious whereas in Tokyo the riverbanks are left over for the homeless.
While in many countries living on the water is considered very attractive, the Japanese consider their rivers and the sea as primarily hazardous. Rivers in Tokyo are screened off from the city with high concrete walls. The banks provide excellent space for those who look for a place to put their shelters. Others hide their tent in the bushes and shrubs in public parks.
In debates about homeless people, new groups of displaced people have appeared. Executives on business trip spend fewer nights at home than out. In addition, even ordinary commuters fall victim to this trend. As commuting becomes too time consuming, more and more people sleep in hotels instead of there home bedroom.
From the top, things may look upside down.
The Perfect Slum by Sytse de Maat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://theperfectslum.blogspot.nl/.
You went to the library and found an empty bookshelf about slums?
Informal settlement, squatter settlements, slums, favelas, barrios and bidonvilles are the home of over a billion people. Surprisingly, little of its architecture is documented. Planners and designers are more focused on changing it and finding 'solutions'. But wait a minute, do we know what we are talking about? Do we really know what slums are? Do we know how they work? Do we understand slum dwellers?
Architecture inhabited by so many people deserves a proper place in the architecture library. It is time to look at what is there and discover the logic of it all. There IS logic, it all makes perfect sense.
Slum, the Vernacular Architecture of Swelling Citi...
Constriction by Construction
Multiple Floors
The Use of Demolition
Tabula non rasa
What "The Perfect Slum" is about
Connecting to People
Sytse de Maat, On The Symbiosis of People and Building. The Perfect Slum.
Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities
Katherine Boo, Behind The Beautiful Forevers
Peter Bialobrzski, Case Study Homes
Kalpana Sharma, Rediscovering Dharavi: stories from Asia's largest slum
Stewart Brand, How Slums Can Save the Planet
Suketu Mehta, Maximum City
Paul Oliver, Dwellings
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital
Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
Mike Davis, Planet of Slums
How Syria's architecture laid the foundation for brutal war
Dharavi: The Heart of Mumbai
Slums of India [BBC Documentary]
Slumming It
Mumbai's Shadow City / National Geographic Magazine
Dharavi, Slum for Sale (trailer)
Dharavi Slum Development
The Mumbai Makeover
Caracas, The Informal City
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Dharavi (1992 movie)
Wide Urban World: Are shantytowns a normal form of urban residence?
Informalising Architecture: The Challenge of Informal Settlements
Manila by Neal Oshima
Open Source House
Community Architects for Shelter and Environment
Urbz, User-generated Cities
Doctoral Thesis 'On the Symbiosis of People and Building. The Perfect Slum'.
Learning from Vernacular
Nederlands origineel van The Perfect Slum
Original version of this blog, in Dutch
Sytse de Maat
Tobias Baitsch


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Organizations have to be 100% secure at 100% of the potential access points 100% of the time, whereas unauthorized users only need to penetrate one time in one location to steal a large amount of valuable data.
The lack of network visibility and awareness complicates the ability to detect and prevent abnormal activity and cyber-attacks. To better defend and protect organization assets from advanced targeted attacks, organizations need to have full visibility provided by new methods of security analytics. This should be implemented as holistic solution which is capable of collecting, organizing and analyzing the data in scalable open platform which enables fast and simple integration to existing applications and products.
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Wow…that's really interesting! I agree that there must have been more to our ancestors than meets the eye. I hope you find your proof! If so, let me know & then we can both work out a story lol.
I'm thinking hoax? Don't get me wrong, I'm intrigued by theories of people who were more advanced for their time, but there have been too many hoaxes in archeology to discount the possibility. It's a fascinating story and much moreso if it's true.
A hoax?! Lol, you have no imagination.


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** and the size of the block is iSize bytes.
** free blocks into a single big free block.
** and initialize fields of the MemPage structure accordingly.
** Adjacent freeblocks are coalesced.
** routine and return SQLITE_CORRUPT if any problems are found.
** spot on the list where iStart should be inserted.
** Check to see if iFreeBlk should be coalesced onto the end of iStart.
** onto the end of iPtr.


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How to use Coupon Adwords to boost your YouTube channel
The latest tricks to boost YouTube videos are out, and now you can do so by creating a YouTube video.
The new features are called YouTube Adwords, and it's an entirely new kind of video that will appear on your channel.
You can't upload the same video to multiple channels at once, but you can create multiple YouTube videos that can all appear on YouTube at once.
This new ad system has a few key differences to YouTube's Adwords system.
YouTube doesn't have a single Adwords account per channel.
Instead, each YouTube channel can have up to three YouTube channels, which can be as few as three and as many as seven.
Each YouTube channel also has its own unique YouTube ad system.
In addition to the video ads that are already visible on your channels, there are also video ads for YouTube videos.
YouTube ad networks allow advertisers to place video ads on the videos of their channels, but they also allow the advertisers to embed ads into the videos themselves.
The YouTube video ad network is designed for advertisers who want to target videos for targeted audiences.
This YouTube Ad Ads feature will allow you to upload a single video to your YouTube account, but YouTube also allows you to use the Adwords feature to generate revenue from other channels that share your YouTube videos and video ads.
For example, you can put a video ad for your own channel into a video on your YouTube channels.
When the AdWords ad is placed on the video, it will appear in the YouTube channel.
If the video ad appears in the channel, then the YouTube Advertisers will get the money from that video ad and the channel will earn revenue from those AdWords videos.
You can also use the YouTube ad network to pay for YouTube content you're selling on your own channels, such as videos for your business, and you can embed the Adverts for YouTube on your videos.
If you're an advertiser and you're interested in getting paid for advertising on YouTube videos, you will need to register with YouTube.
If the Advertiser has the YouTube account associated with the YouTube video, then YouTube will charge the advertiser a fee per ad that appears on the YouTube videos for a set period of time.
You'll need to pay YouTube a fee in order to use this feature.
If your Advertisor has the channel associated with a YouTube channel, the Admins of that channel will allow the advertisers to set up YouTube channels that they control.
These Admins will then be able to manage the Advertys and YouTube videos associated with that channel.
This system is great for advertisers, because you can use the feature to pay off your YouTube ads to other channels.
If you manage the channels of an advertisers Admins, you'll also be able increase the quality of your videos, which will help drive more subscribers and ad revenue.
The YouTube AdWords feature is available to any YouTube channel that's registered with YouTube and has a YouTube Admins account.
YouTube says that the Adoption Program is available on all YouTube channels for an unlimited number of channels and that the number of accounts will increase every two years.
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The Perishing
By: Natashia Deón
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A Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where she's from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times, but Lou's extraordinary life is about to take an even more remarkable turn. When she befriends a firefighter at a downtown boxing gym, Lou is shocked to realize that though she has no memory of meeting him, she's been drawing his face for years. Increasingly certain that their paths previously crossed—and beset by unexplainable flashes from different eras haunting her dreams—Lou begins to believe she may be an immortal sent here for a very important reason, one that only others like her can explain. Setting out to investigate the mystery of her existence, Lou must make sense of the jumble of lifetimes calling to her, just as new forces threaten the existence of those around her. Immersed in the rich historical tapestry of Los Angeles—Prohibition, the creation of Route 66, and the collapse of the St. Francis Dam—The Perishing is a stunning examination of love and justice through the eyes of one miraculous woman whose fate seems linked to the city she comes to call home.


The World Cup in Germany this summer will be the biggest tourist draw in Europe for 2006 as well as being the most popular and watched sporting event in the world. The host cities of Germany are prepared for the influx of tourists and fans, seeking to soak up the atmosphere of the greatest show on Earth.As one of the main host cities Munich is set for the opening of the tournament with added accommodation and improved transport links added to cope with the additional hoards that will descend on the city this summer. Munich is no stranger to high volumes of tourists as open of the most popular short break destinations on the continent and, of course, the centre of the world famous Oktoberfest.Last minute travellers to Munich during the World Cup will find it difficult to attain accommodation. Despite the added rooms and camps, most hotels and sites have been sold out for some time.
Some of the major hotel booking resellers might have some availability if not in Munich then perhaps in the surrounding towns of Bavaria. There are alternatives outside of the city of Munich and these options can be explored further by visiting the official German tourist website (http://www.germany-tourism.co.uk/pages/getting_around.
html ).Bavaria itself is one of the main tourist hot spots in Germany with a range of attractions that should keep even the most restless of tourist occupied for a week or so. For those hoping to mix some World Cup action with something more sedate then Bavaria might just be the place to explore. Bavaria is a great region for driving with rolling landscapes and scenery befitting any country, not least the famous Black Forest itself.
Car hire is easy to come by in the region and is centred around Munich and in particular the International Airport. Most of the major car rental firms have a presence there to travel around Munich for the World Cup or to the wider Bavaria to get away from the celebrations.
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Early US Armor
Armored Cars 1915–40
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Author: Steven J. Zaloga
Illustrator: Felipe Rodríguez
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Publication Date: 25 Jan 2018
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The first American armoured cars began to emerge around the turn of the century, seeing their first military use in 1916 during the Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa. When the United States entered World War I, the American Expeditionary Forces used some armoured cars in France, and American armoured cars were used by the French Army.
The inter-war years saw considerable innovation and experimentation in armoured car design. Of the 1930s scout car designs, the M3A1 scout car was good enough to be produced in very large numbers in World War II, and was widely exported to many other armies via Lend-Lease. It also served as the basis for the late M2 and M3 armoured half-tracks.
In this study, using detailed full colour plates and rigorous analysis, US armour expert Steven J. Zaloga chronicles the development of the US armoured car in the years leading up to World War II.
Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union.Felipe Rodríguez Náñez (aka Felipe Rodna) was born in 1976, and he lives with his wife and two sons in Salamanca, Spain, where he works as an architect and computer graphics artist. He combines his experience in CG art and his passion for modelling in his illustrations, where he looks for a good balance between technical detail and craft.
The first armoured cars
World War I armored cars and the Pancho Villa expedition
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One of the hottest topics recently has been changes around the Cayman AML Regulations and Ingrid Pierce discusses enhanced Anti-Money Laundering Regimes on page 12 of the Wells Fargo Prime Services, Business Consulting Group's Industry and Regulatory Update Quarterly, dated July 2018.
It seems as though everyone is getting hot under the collar about AML. That is, new and improved regulations and guidance on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. As well they should. In addition to the obvious requirement that those conducting relevant financial business ought properly to know their customers and apply the appropriate level of due diligence to those with whom they do business, managers operating in multiple jurisdictions must take into account cross-border issues and determine how best to navigate the rules in each jurisdiction.
One option is to adopt a jurisdiction by jurisdiction approach. Executed correctly, this will enable a business to operate to the standards of the relevant jurisdiction and not undertake more than is required in any given circumstance.
For most businesses however, this can be an onerous and costly task which requires a careful gap analysis and ongoing monitoring of the changes taking place in each jurisdiction. An alternative approach which is equally effective and may be easier to administer, is to apply a global standard across all jurisdictions, operating to the highest requirements across the board. This would also fit with the recommendation of the Financial Action Task Force for financial institutions. While easier to adopt, in practice this may trigger organisational changes to the way in which work is done and could have the effect of creating new roles and responsibilities which may not technically be required, but need to be implemented to achieve the 'one standard' approach. There is no easy answer to this and much will depend upon the nature and size of the business, the level of existing infrastructure and the capacity of internal resources with sufficient seniority and experience in the relevant regulatory compliance area.
Those conducting relevant financial business in the Cayman Islands will be aware of recent revisions to the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, 2017, codifying a risk-based approach. In adopting such an approach, private equity funds and hedge funds must identify, assess and understand the AML risks in relation to their respective customers and the geographical area in which such customers reside or operate. While there are specific requirements in relation to record keeping, training of staff, reporting suspicious activity and maintaining internal control procedures, the risk-based approach means that no one size fits all. It may therefore be entirely appropriate for funds to adopt quite different policies and procedures, depending on their overall business and customers.
This report is originated, owned and edited by Wells Fargo Prime Services, Business Consulting Group and is provided for general informational purposes. Walkers involvement was as a guest contributor and must not be relied on for, accounting, legal, regulatory, tax, business, financial or related advice or investment recommendations. �2018 Wells Fargo. All Rights Reserved.


Charlesworth & Son / BUILDING WORK SUFFOLK / Removal of internal walls with installation of steel and bricking up window and door.
engineering pads to pick up the upstairs floor all neatly boxed out and plaster boarded in. Work so far has taken three weeks and there is plenty more to come from this project.


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