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Japanese Startup Floats Bare Metal And Hybrid HPC Cloud
February 25, 2019 Michael Feldman Cloud, HPC 0
There aren't a whole lot of HPC companies in Japan these days, especially when you consider how prominently the country figures in the global supercomputing community. HPC startups are an even rarer phenomenon there, but one such company, XTREME-D, it trying to make a name for itself in the HPC cloud space.
The four-year old startup recently unveiled its flagship cloud product, known as XTREME-Stargate, which is touted as enabling "the new era of cloud platform for HPC and AI." Last week, at the 2019 Stanford HPC Conference, attendees got the opportunity to judge that claim for themselves during a presentation by XTREME-D CEO and founder Naoki Shibata and technical advisor David Barkai.
The startup, founded four years ago, has developed a set of cloud products for HPC and AI users and has been rolling them out over the past year. Its first offering, XTREME-DNA, is an automated cloud administration tool that enables an HPC cluster to be configured and provisioned in an existing public cloud in just ten minutes. At this point, the choice is limited to Amazon Web Services, with Azure and Oracle to be supported in the second quarter of the year.
The Stargate Iaas is the company's own bare metal service aimed at traditional high performance computing applications, as well as AI and, more generally, high performance data analytics (HPDA). Shibata says the first bare metal cloud is housed in a datacenter in Japan, but the company has plans to expand the service to Singapore and the United States.
The nomenclature here is a little confusing since both the DNA and Stargate IaaS offerings are based on what they call Stargate building blocks, which are the modular components common to the two services. These components include HPC templates, a dashboard, a billing payments module, a data manager and so on. The block diagram below illustrates more of the detail:
As you can see, the Stargate modules will also be used in a future service will give customers access to supercomputer centers and another that will tie into OEM bare metal clouds. Another upcoming product is the Stargate HPC Gateway, an appliance that connects the customer site and cloud datacenter in order to provide secure data transfers. It acts as a "super head node" for the remote bare metal cluster, but is also compatible with on-premise and public clouds.
The key to Stargate IaaS is the HPC template, which encapsulates the type of cluster environment that will be provisioned for a given job. The template specifies the OS, machine type, middleware, and application itself. Shibata says the template is what enables the HPC cluster setup to be performed in just a few minutes.
Stargate includes a web-based user interface that lets the user choose the appropriate template and cluster instance, and displays the status of all the jobs that are in flight. Shibata says there is also a command line interface, presumably for people who are fond of writing batch scripts. And for those who want to go even lower, an API is available that can be used to perform cluster preparation and job launch programmatically.
Shibata says the main advantage for their Stargate offering is setup speed, and adds that competing IaaS cloud services require manual preparation, provisioning, and performance tuning that can take days or even weeks to accomplish. As Barkai points out, that kind of time commitment sort of defeats the purpose of a service that is supposed to be "on-demand." In contrast, Stargate users can just click on their template and cluster instance and they're off and running.
The current Iaas cloud hardware is all Intel, with Xeon CPUs, Optane SDDs, and the Omni-Path interconnect fabric. Intel's Parallel Studio development tools are included in the package on a monthly subscription basis. No GPUs, FPGAs, or other types of accelerators are currently available, so even though the cloud is being positioned for AI work, the absence of these components is going to limit what can be done here, especially with regard to training neural networks. If these kinds of AI accelerators are desired, XTREME-D customers will have to get access to them via the DNA service and its hookup to the big public clouds.
The initial Stargate servers are outfitted with "Skylake" Xeon SP Gold processors, but the hardware will be upgraded to "Cascade Lake" Xeon SPs somewhere around mid-March. Since these chips include the new Vector Neural Network Instructions (VNNI), users will at least be able to take advantage of the inferencing speedup that comes with this initial instruction set. But like we said, for accelerated training, customers will have to look elsewhere.
Cascade Lake will also bring with it the ability to access Intel's 3D XPoint persistent memory modules, and XTREME-D has decided to offer them in concert with the Xeon upgrade. The initial rollout looks to be rather modest though, with plans to equip just four nodes with 768 GB of the new memory.
As you can see, Stargate has only limited elasticity at this point. The initial version tops out at 320 cores per user, which works out to just eight nodes. The upcoming upgrade will triple that to 960 cores.
What it lacks in elasticity though, it makes up for in data management, which is clearly targeted to the kinds of AI and HPDA applications that the company seems most intently focused on. Although all the pieces are not yet in place, the infrastructure will eventually have six memory and storage layers, along with an automatic staging capability that moves the data between layers. The hierarchy is illustrated below.
The complete XTREME-D slide deck can be found here, courtesy of the HPC AI Advisory Council.
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Площадь Розы Люксембург (Роза-Люксембург-плац, ) — площадь в берлинском историческом квартале Шойненфиртель, в районе Митте. Площадь треугольной формы появилась в ходе санирования территории в начале XX века и носила разные названия: Бабельсбергская (1907—1910), площадь Бюлова (Бюловплац, 1910—1933), площадь Хорста Весселя (1933—1945), площадь Либкнехта (1945—1947), площадь Люксембург (1947—1969). Площадь Розы Люксембург ограничена улицами Розы Люксембург, Вейдингерштрассе и Линиенштрассе. Под улицей Розы Люксембург размещается одноимённая станция 2-й линии Берлинского метрополитена. Символом площади Розы Люксембург является здание театра «Фольксбюне».

История
Подземные работы по строительству метрополитена повлекли масштабный снос старого и тесного Шойненфиртеля. По новому градостроительному плану берлинского магистрата в центре квартала к 1905 году появилась новая площадь треугольной формы. Первое новое здание у Бабельсбергской площади появилось в 1912 году, и это было торгово-офисное здание, которое в 1926 году приобрела под штаб-квартиру Коммунистическая партия Германии и переименовала в Дом Карла Либкнехта. В 1913—1915 годах на площади было возведено первое собственное здание театра «Фольксбюне» по проекту архитектора Оскара Кауфманна.

Строительство на площади было прервано Первой мировой войной и гиперинфляцией 1914—1923 годов. По результатам архитектурного конкурса 1925 года по проекту архитектора Ганса Пёльцига в 1927—1929 годах было возведено несколько жилых и офисных зданий, в одном из которых 11 апреля 1929 года открылся знаменитый кинотеатр «Вавилон». 9 августа 1931 года неподалёку от кинотеатра «Вавилон» члены КПГ Эрих Мильке и Эрих Цимер совершили убийство двух полицейских. Мильке и Цимер бежал в СССР. В честь погибших полицейских Пауля Анлауфа и Франца Ленка был установлен бронзовый памятник работы скульптора Ганса Даммана. Во Вторую мировую войну памятник был демонтирован и расплавлен в рамках народного сбора металла на военные нужды.

После прихода к власти национал-социалисты присвоили площади имя Хорста Весселя, убитого коммунистами в 1930 году. Штурмовые отряды заняли штаб-квартиру КПГ и переименовали здание в Дом Хорста Весселя.

Во Вторую мировую войну многие здание на площади были разрушены. Для вывоза строительного мусора в центре Берлина использовались узкоколейки с вагонетками. В 1948—1950 годах напротив здания «Фольксбюне» размещалось веерное депо.

В сентябре 2006 года на площади был установлен памятник Розе Люксембург по проекту Ханса Хааке.

Примечания

Литература
 Institut für Denkmalpflege (Hrsg.): Hauptstadt Berlin, Band I. (= Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmale in der DDR.) Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, S. 275—277.

Ссылки
 История площади Розы Люксембург

Объекты, названные в честь Розы Люксембург
Район Митте
Площади Берлина

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The newsonomics of a single investigative story
Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab.
It's a week to celebrate great investigative work. ProPublica made some history with its Pulitzer for online-only work about the financial meltdown, and the Los Angeles Times crowned its success with the larger-than-life Bell corruption tale, winning its own top prize. Both well deserved.
Meanwhile, as journalists sat around their terminals awaiting the Pulitzer bulletin, an investigative series broke across California, perhaps reaching more audience more quickly than any previous investigative piece. There were no bodies to count, nor billions or millions of ill-gotten gains to uncover.
Rather, California Watch's "On Shaky Ground" series is aimed at preventing disaster, getting ahead of the Grim Reaper. The series took a big look at the likely safety issues in the state's schools when (not if, right?) The Big One hits. It found, not surprisingly, that although state law mandated seismic preparations, all kinds of bureaucratic nonsense has contravened that intent. It found that about 1,100 schools had been red-flagged as in need of repair, with no work done, while tens of thousands of others were in questionable and possibly illegal shape. The so-what: Some of the very institutions providing for the kids of California have a certain likelihood of actually falling on top of them and killing them.
It's old-fashioned, shoe-leather, box-opening, follow-the-string journalism, and it is well done.
While it's fun to celebrate great journalism, anytime, it's vital to look at the newsonomics of this kind of investigative journalism. What did it take to get it done? How much did it cost and who paid for it? And, to look at the plainly fundamental question: How do we get lots more of it done in the future?
The series took more than 20 months to complete. The interactive timeline, "On Shaky Ground: The story behind the story," tells that tale with tongue in cheek; it's a great primer for any beginning journalism class. Corey G. Johnson, freshly hired from North Carolina and part of a young reporting contingent that has been mixed and mentored well by veterans like editorial director Mark Katches, stumbles on a list of 7,500 "unsafe schools" as he's doing a routine story on the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake.
Along the way, the story grows in import and paperwork. California Watch, the less-than-two-year-old offshoot of the Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Journalism (CIR), adds other staff to the effort, including reporter Erica Perez, public engagement manager Ashley Alvarado, distribution manager Meghann Farnsworth, and director of technology Chase Davis, among other reporters.
In the end, the series rolled out in three parts — with maps, databases, historical photos, its own Twitter hashtag, a "My Quake" iPhone app — and a coloring book ("California Watch finds a new consumer group, kids"), intended to reach kids, the most important subject and object of the reporting. Already, the state legislature has scheduled hearings for April 27.
The reach of the roll-out is one of the new lessons here. Six major dailies ran at least some part of the series. ABC-affiliate broadcasters took the story statewide. Public radio news leaders KQED, in the Bay Area, and KPCC, in L.A. ran with it. KQED-TV. The ethnic press signed on: La Opinion ran two seismic stories Sunday and Monday, while at least two Korean papers, one Chinese paper, and one Chinese TV station included coverage as well. More than 125 Patch sites in the state (California is major Patch turf) participated.
A number of the distributors did more than distribute. They localized, using data from California Watch, and reporting on their local schools' shape. KQED-TV produced a 30-minute special that is scheduled to air on at least 12 PBS affiliates in the state.
San Francisco Chronicle managing editor Steve Proctor is frank about how priorities and resource use have changed in the age of downsizing. When Proctor came to the paper in 2003, he says, the paper had five to seven people assigned to a full-time investigative team. Now there's no team per se, with the Chronicle investing investigative resources in an "investigate and publish" strategy, getting stories out to the public more quickly and then following up on public-generated leads they create. It's an adjustment in strategy and in resource allocation — and the California Watch relationship makes it even more workable. "We've been pretty sympatico with them from the beginning," he said. "We've used the majority of what they've produced."
So let's get deeper into some numbers, informed by this series, and see where this kind of work can go:
"On Shaky Ground" cost about $550,000 to produce, most of that in staff time, as the project mushroomed. That's now a huge sum of money to a newsroom, even a metro-sized one. Ask a publisher whether he or she is willing to spend a half a million on a story, and you know the answer you'll usually get. It's a sum few newsrooms can or will invest. Consequently, the economics of getting a well edited, well packaged series for a hundreth of that price is an offer few newsrooms can (or probably should) refuse.
California Watch, not yet two years old, runs on a budget of about $2.7 million a year. That budget supports 14 journalists, whose funding takes up about 70 percent of that $2.7 million number. That's an intriguing percentage in and of itself; most daily newspaper newsrooms make up of 20 percent or less of their company's overall expenses. So, disproportionately, the money spent on California Watch is spent on journalists — and journalism.
The project is about midway through its funding cycles. The ubiquitous Knight Foundation (which has contributed about $15 million to a number of investigative projects nationwide through its Investigative Reporting Initiative), the Irvine Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation, all of which have provided million-dollar-plus grants, are reviewing new proposals.
The key word, going forward here, is "sustaining." Will foundations provide ongoing support of the "public good" of such journalism? There's lots of talk among foundations, but no clear consensus among journalism-facing ones. "There really isn't a foundation community that thinks with a common brain — same situation as in the news community," Knight's Eric Newton told me this week. "Each foundation makes its own decisions using different criteria. Some foundations see their role as launching new things and letting nature take its course." CIR executive director Robert Rosenthal is among those trying to find a new course. Although he's a highly experienced editor, he finds that most of his time is found fund- and friend-raising.
California Watch is building a syndication business, feeling its way along. Already, six larger dailies — the San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee, the Orange County Register, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Fresno Bee, and the Bakersfield California — are becoming clients, paying a single price for the all-you-can-eat flow of daily and enterprise stories California Watch produces. They, a number of ABC affiliates (L.A.'s KABC, the Bay Area's KGO, 10 News San Diego, 10 News Sacramento, KSFN in Fresno), and KQED public radio and TV in the Bay Area are also annual clients pay between $3,000 and $15,000 a year each. A la carte pricing for individual projects can run from $3,000 to $10,000. The California Watch media network, just launched in January, is an important building block of the evolving business model. It is clear that while syndication can be a good support, at those rates, it's a secondary support.
So, if California Watch were to be totally supported by foundation money, it would take an endowment of $54 million to throw off $2.7 million a year, at a five percent spend rate. Now $54 million raised one time isn't an impossible sum. Consider just one gift: Joan Kroc left NPR more than $200 million eight years ago. Consider that the billionaires' club started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett (encouraging their peers to give away half of their wealths) is talking about newly raising a half a trillion dollars for the public good. Last summer, I suggested the group tithe a single percentage point of the club's treasury for news-as-a-public-good. It seems to me that stories like "On Shaky Ground" make that pivotal education/health/journalism connection; send "Shaky Ground" to your favorite billionaire and urge him to sign on.
Let's do some cost-benefit analysis. How much is a single child's life worth? How about a school of 250? We could consult a liability lawyer, who undoubtedly would put assign a six- and seven-figure number per life, and then tie up the courts, post-disaster, making the math work. So if California, bereft as it is of capital, were to invest in the infrastructure, per its own laws, wouldn't it be ultimately cost-effective? Of course it would be, and in this case we see in microcosm, the question of American infrastructure writ large. Are we a country that will let more bridges fall into mighty rivers, more schools fall onto our children and more poor roads cause preventable injury and death? You don't need my political rant here. Rather, let us just make the point that journalism — old-fashioned journalism, newly digitally enhanced — is a key part of forcing America to face its own issues, whatever the solutions.
In this project and in California Watch generally, we see the reconfiguring of local media. An owner — whether AOL, Hearst, or private equity — can hardly reject the offer of paying one-hundreth of the cost for space-filling, audience-interesting content. Welcome to a new kind of content farm, to use that perjorative for a moment. Yes, California Watch operates on the same Demand Media-like principle of create-once-distribute-many, realizing the digital cost of the second copy is nil. Let's consider it the organic, cage-free content farm. It makes sense for a state the size of a country (California = Canada); smaller versions of it make equal sense for Ohio, North Carolina, or Illinois.
Older media outsources journalism and in-sources (affordable) passion. There are lots of lessons here ("3 Reasons to Watch California Watch"), but that fundamental rejiggering of who does the work and how it is distributed and customized is a key one. As Mark Katches points out, "They [distributing partners] put their voices on our story." That's a new system in the making.
Old(er) editors can learn new tricks. For a good show-and-tell of that principle, check out Rosenthal's talk to TEDxPresidio two weeks ago. I first saw him give the talk at NewsFoo in Phoenix in December. Amid more tech-oriented talks, his stood out and was much applauded. It's a clarifying call for real journalism, perfected for the digital age. Share it.
Tags: Small post 10 News Sacramento 10 News San Diego AOL Ashley Alvarado Bakersfield Californian business model California Watch Chase Davis collaboration community Corey G. Johnson Demand Media engagement Eric Newton Erica Perez Fresno Bee Hearst Hewlett Foundation Irvine Foundation Joan Kroc KGo Knight Foundation KPCC KSFN La Opinion LABC Los Angeles Times Mark Katches Meghann Farnsworth My Quake app NewsFoo NPR On Shaky Ground Orange County Register Patch political reporting ProPublica Pulitzer Prize Robert Rosenthal Sacramento Bee San Francisco Chronicle Southern California Public Radio Steve Proctor TED
NPR's Argo Project becomes the Argo Network, mixing the local and the national on reported blogs
NPR's Argo Project (or Project Argo — it seems to vary) is starting to take shape — launch is set for one week from today, September 1. Argo is the network's $3 million effort (with Knight and CPB money) to ramp up the online presence and reporting capacity of member stations by building a network of reported blogs grounded in topics of both national and local interest. As project director Joel Sucherman puts it, describing the now-christened Argo Network:
Each Argo site is run by a different member station, but all of them cover news that resonates nationally. While KPLU's 'Humanosphere' covers the development of a burgeoning global health industry in Seattle, for example, it will also be a worthy bookmark for anyone interested in the worldwide mission to end poverty and improve health.
The sites promote each other, as in this box of "Network Highlights" that appears on article pages. It's that network functionality that's one of the most interesting things about Argo; NPR is made up of its member stations, and there's long been tension between the growth of the national organization and the health of the individual stations who comprise its membership and rely on the network for much of their programming. For the mothership to be supporting local programming — even if just on the web — could smooth over what has at times been a contentious relationship. But it also raises challenges of how to make sure the content is useful to both a local and a national audience.
We've got the full list of Argo sites below — go check them out. Some have already softlaunched and look to be in full flower, while others are still on the Argo staging server. NPR officials declined to talk for this post, saying they're not quite ready.
Name: On Campus, based at Minnesota Public Radio
Blogger: Alex Friedrich
Tagline: Everything higher education in Minnesota.
Name: Ecotrope, based at Oregon Public Broadcasting
Blogger: Cassandra Profita
Tagline: Covering the Northwest's environment.
Name: Multi-American, based at Southern California Public Radio
Blogger: Leslie Berestein Rojas
Tagline: Immigration and cultural fusion in the new Southern California.
Name: Humanosphere, based at KPLU (Seattle)
Blogger: Tom Paulson
Tagline: Covering the fight to reduce poverty and improve global health.
Name: The Informant, based at KALW (San Francisco)
Blogger: Rina Palta and Ali Winston
Tagline: Cops, courts and communities in the Bay Area.
Name: The Empire, based at WNYC (New York)
Blogger: Azi Paybarah
Tagline: Everything you need to know about New York state politics and governance.
Name: The Key, based at WXPN (Philadelphia)
Blogger: Bruce Warren and Matthew Borlik
Tagline: Discover Philly's best local music.
Name: MindShift, based at KQED (San Francisco)
Blogger: Tina Barseghian
Tagline: How we will learn.
Name: Home Post, based at KPBS (San Diego)
Blogger: Jamie Reno
Tagline: The military in San Diego.
Name: DCentric, based at WAMU (Washington)
Blogger: Anna John
Tagline: Gentrification w/o representation.
Name: CommonHealth, based at WBUR (Boston)
Blogger: Carey Goldberg and Rachel Zimmerman
Tagline: Where reform meets reality [in health care].
[Note: Still hosted on beta server.]
Name: Climatide, based at WGBH (Boston)
Blogger: Heather Goldstone
Tagline: Oceans, coasts, and climate change on Cape Cod.
Tags: Uncategorized Argo Network Argo Project blogging KALW KPBS KPLU KQED Minnesota Public Radio NPR Oregon Public Broadcasting Project Argo Southern California Public Radio WAMU WBUR WGBH WNYC WXPN

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Treasury Wine Estates' glass half full as China demand lifts
Mark LaMonica, CFA | 14 Aug 2020Text size |
No-moat rated Treasury Wine Estates closed out a difficult 2020 with a full-year revenue drop of 7.1 per cent due to competitive pressures in the US and the impact of covid-related disruptions.
Despite the weak results, Morningstar's regional director of equity research Adam Fleck believes there is room for optimism. Fleck believes Treasury (ASX: TWE) will benefit from rebounding demand in China and improved economic conditions following an expected vaccine in early 2021.
The market agreed on Wednesday, pushing the winemaker's share price up more than 12 per cent to $12.85. It is now in line with Fleck's fair value estimate of $12.30.
Treasury's 2020 results were dragged down by a 16 per cent drop in revenue and a decline in adjusted operating earnings (referred to as EBITS by the firm) of 50 per cent.
The near-term picture remains murky for Treasury and the company declined to provide earnings guidance for 2021.
"While we have recently seen positive signs of recovery across a number of our key markets and channels, we are cautious on the near-term outlook given the uncertainty that remains around the pace of that recovery," said chief executive Tim Ford.
Treasury Wines Estates (TWE) - 1YR
Source: Morningstar Premium
In response to challenges in the North American market which makes up 34 per cent of revenue, the company is undergoing organisational and structural changes that should start to deliver savings. Fleck warns that the process will involve upfront costs and volatility in the short-term.
In recent years Treasury has shifted focus to higher priced wines by growing the company's portfolio of luxury (bottles priced above $20) and "masstige" (bottles priced from $10 to $20) wine. These two categories made up 71 per cent of revenue in fiscal 2020 versus 43 per cent in early 2014.
While the strategy has benefited from continued premiumisation in Australia, North America and Asia, Treasury was disproportionately affected as consumers moved to at-home drinking during COVID related lockdowns. Morningstar believes this shift is temporary.
"I expect the availability of a covid-19 vaccine in first-half 2021, should boost demand for high-priced luxury wines", says Fleck.
He is also optimistic on increased demand from China. "Chinese demand has rebounded following the country's reopening, including a 40 per cent lift in June volumes versus the prior comparable period."
Given these two factors, Fleck maintained his fair value of $12.30 a share and expects 5 per cent revenue growth in fiscal 2021 and improving margins.
This article is part of Morningstar's Reporting Season 2020 coverage. The calendar will be updated daily to connect you with our equity analysts' take on the financial results.
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Any Morningstar ratings/recommendations contained in this report are based on the full research report available from Morningstar.


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Watson 'masseuse' caper thickens; NFL to get involved
By Colin Lindsay | March 18, 2021
Watson 'masseuse' caper plot thickens; NFL getting involved … The NFL has reportedly opened an internal investigation into the growing number of allegations of abuse and sexual harassment against Houston QB DeShaun Watson. By the latest count, three women have filed different civil suits against Watson, while there are reports that there could actually be as many as nine women with such complaints. For his part, Watson claims he's done nothing wrong and 'will fight to clear his name'. Also note that so far these are civil suits and not criminal charges which would be a more serious issue. However, the NFL may not necessarily see the distinction if there are in fact any violations of its personal conduct policy. And how all this will impact Watson's on-going stalemate with the Texans is anybody's guess. Watson, one of the best young QBs in the league, told the team that he would no longer play for them because of unhappiness with the front office and wanted to be traded, while the Texans remain adamant that they won't trade one of the best players in the league at its most important position. In the short term it is hard to imagine that the whole mess won't impact Watson's trade value, although at the same time it could also force Houston to rethink its resolve in not wanting to move the player. Stay tuned.
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Immigration numbers 'could be cut overnight'
Both Labour and NZ First pledged to reduce immigration numbers during the election campaign. Photo: Getty images
The new Labour-led Government could slash immigration numbers "overnight" once it takes power, a former Immigration Minister believes.
With net migration at 71,000 in the year to September, Prime Minister-in-waiting Jacinda Ardern last night said she expected those numbers to be cut by 20,000 to 30,000 per annum.
Coalition partner New Zealand First, which has also lobbied strongly to reduce immigration numbers, has set the lower target of 10,000 people a year, according to its website.
Tuariki Delamere, who now runs an immigration consultancy, told The New Zealand Herald that these drastic changes could be made by the new Government without having to change the law.
"The minister decides on the new instructions for visas. They could change things overnight," he said.
"The law doesn't need to be changed, what they need to change is the policy. That goes through Cabinet, they approve the new immigration instructions and that will set the criteria for visas.
"Once they decide what to do they just write in the new regulations for issuing visas. They could reduce the numbers very easily and very quickly."
It was still unclear how the Government planned to achieve its reductions but the logical targets would be low-skilled worker and student visas, Mr Delamere said.
"Now it really comes down to ... [Ardern] needs to explain, what do you mean by reducing immigration? Are you going to stop all the investors and the entrepreneurs who invest large amounts of money in New Zealand? I don't think so. You have 20 types of visas out there so which ones are you going to make more difficult or cut out?
"But there are a lot of people who shouldn't really be here like students who don't really study - they come here and go straight to work on the orchards."
Mr Delamere said it would be equally simple for the Government to increase the points system for obtaining New Zealand residency.
"The new minister could do that the same day they're sworn in by the Governor General."
A Labour spokesman referred the Herald to the party's website page on immigration, which outlines how it plans to achieve the reduction set by Ardern.
It would limit students visas and the ability to work for "low value courses", which it says would result in a fall of 6000 to 10,000 a year. It would remove work visas without a job offer for lower-level qualification graduates, resulting in a fall of 9000 to 12,000. It would also "regionalise" the work visa occupation list and "ensure that employers hire Kiwis first", leading to a fall of about 5000 to 8000 new migrants.
The policy plan also includes the introduction of an "Exceptional Skills Visa" where up to 1000 sought-after applicants per year could avoid the usual points system requirement, as well as a "KiwiBuild Visa" where residential construction firms could hire skilled tradespeople on a three-year work visa. This would be limited to 1000 to 1500 at a given time.
On its website, NZ First says it aims to reduce the numbers through policies including making sure immigration under "family reunion" is strictly controlled; increasing the permanent residency qualification period from the current two-years; and substantially increasing the minimum English requirement.
Reacting shortly after the new Government was announced, BusinessNZ chief executive Kirk Hope said New Zealand will be "in trouble" if the country severely cut immigration numbers without having education policies aligned to make sure businesses have the skills they need.
"That will stymie economic growth."
According to latest Statistics New Zealand data, annual net migration was 71,000 in September, still up from the 70,000 net inflow a year earlier, but extending the slowdown from a peak in July.
The data continue a trend of slowing net migration, with the seasonally adjusted figures showing a monthly inflow of 5190 in the month of September, the smallest intake since June 2015.
"The annual net migration in September 2017 was lower than the record annual net migration of 72,400 reached in the July 2017 year," population statistics senior manager Peter Dolan said in a statement.
"Compared to this peak, we had fewer arrivals and more departures in the September 2017 year."
Net migration figures had been bolstered by a reluctance of Kiwis to shift across the Tasman as Australia's economy went through a downturn and New Zealanders lost access to certain government supports.
- NZME and BusinessDesk
Parliament opens next week
Podcast: Pulse of Politics
Unions slam 'work-for-dole' proposal
New Govt among most diverse
Doubts about foreign buyer ban
Supporters mob new PM after inauguration
Ecstatic David Clark celebrates new Govt
Big crowd out to welcome Ardern
Poll: Should Aucklanders pay for own roads
Child poverty cut 'key focus'
R&D target welcomed - but how to get there?
Final goodbye from PM's office
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The rhythm of the city is out of control, so in order to keep your balance, it helps putting things into perspective. Why not having this perspective from the top of Bucharest? At the InterContinental Health Club 22 you have the highest level of relaxation, more than a fitness center in the middle of Bucharest. You will discover an oasis of relaxation, a place to pause the noise of the city.
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Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, Chennai Chapter and Centre for Food Technology, Anna University, organizes a one-day seminar on Food Safety Continuum – Challenges and Opportunities.
The program will be attended by over 500 participants from colleges/institutes and industry professionals. DuPont Nutrition & Health spokesperson will present a paper on Good Manufacturing Practices at this seminar.
Topic: Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) - Cultural Perspective in Indian Food Industry.
Speaker: Dr. Ravindra Kumar, Quality and Food Safety Lead – AP, DuPont Nutrition & Health.


We do this through: Godly play in FS/KS1; church visits; visits from our local priest; prayer fish; classroom prayer spaces; Christian symbols and (i.e. school candle, alter, vision and values displays); worship including prayer, reflection, music and bible stories; community involvement in worship; delivering the 'Understanding Christianity' programme and facilitating a pupil led worship group.
Children's outcomes in this areas are measured by children's understanding of what it means to be a Christian and their values, and who can explore and articulate spiritual and ethical issues across the curriculum. We use a specific framework for this and children's progress against this is measured termly. More information about the teaching of RE can be found on our 'RE and Collective Worship' Page.


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T-Pain sang the National Anthem sans autotune at a Dodgers game
Video: YouTube, T Pain
By Tricia Gilbride 2015-09-03 20:27:53 UTC
T-Pain proved that he doesn't need his signature autotune to sing the National Anthem, because this is the home of the brave.
On August 31, T-Pain opened up the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants game in LA with his unmodified vocals, and though the game was close, the home team was victorious, all thanks to T-Pain.
It is worth noting that although announcer Vin Scully referred to featuring Juicy J as "Make That Work" it is actually called "Make That Shit Work." And that's exactly what T-Pain inspired the Dodgers to do when he walked onto the field.
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Biological and Chemical Weapon, indicating poison gas and germ weapons, etc. Called such because "B" e "C" are the first letters of "Biological" e "Chemical". No episodio 25′ "Air", Shigeru Aoba feared that the JSSDF might use BC weapons.
A supercomputer whose basic theory was completed by the late Dr. Naoko Akagi and which was implemented by her daughter, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi. MAGI could be considered the brain of Special Agency NERV, and it formulates, investigates and resolves various problems and plans. MAGI consists of three computer systems: MELCHIOR-1, BALTHASAR-2 and CASPER-3, and a final decision is reached by these three computers conferring together. These computers are similar to humans not only in the sense that they systematically recreate human dilemmas, but also in their use of personality-transplant OS by which human thought patterns are transplanted to the computers. The thought patterns transplanted to MAGI are those of its developer, Dr. Naoko Akagi. MELCHIOR-1 has the transplanted thought pattern of Naoko as a scientist, BALTHASAR-2 as a mother and CASPER-3 as a woman. Incidentalmente, the name MAGI comes from the three wise men from the east who prophesied the birth of Jesus in the New Testament. MELCHIOR, BALTHASAR and CASPER are also taken from the names of these wise men. At the beginning of episode 25′ "Air", five MAGI-type computers in Matsushiro (MAGI-2), Germany, the US and China tried to hack into the original MAGI located in NERV HQ.
A weapon of enormous destructive power possessed by the UN military and the JSSDF. Variations of this weapon include: N^2 mines, N^2 depth charges, N^2 air charges, N^2 bombs, etc. No episodio 25′, when Shigeru Aoba worried about the possible use of BC weapons, Makoto Hyuuga replied that N^2 weapons were to be equally feared.
A phrase spoken by the members of SEELE in episode 26′ when the Geofront reverts into the Egg of Lilith – o "Black Moon". "Misogi" is a religious ceremony in which the body is purified by bathing in water — and thus by extension refers to any means used to purify or sanctify a certain object. While there are theories that the etymology of "Adam", the progenitor of the human race, é "red" ou "earth", its connection with "Red Earth" is unclear.
The 1st Angel. The giant of light discovered in Antarctica. The information that Adam was confined underground below NERV HQ turned out to be false — that underground giant was in fact Lilith. The real Adam was the embryo-like object brought by Kaji from Germany. This was result of humans reducing Adam to an embryonic state after waking it up with the S^2 theory. Second Impact appears to have been an effect of this process. The book of Genesis in the Old Testament records that Adam was the first human to be created by God in His image. There are various theories as to the etymology of the word "Adam", among them: "earth", "red" e "create".
The cable used to supply electric power to the Eva from an external source because the Eva has a very short active time as a weapon. This cable could be considered the Eva's weak point. Por esta razón,, the JSSDF units, during their attack on NERV HQ, were instructed to concentrate their firepower on the umbilical cable (which they called the power cable). Incidentalmente, "umbilical cable (cord)" means the blood vessels which extend from baby's navel to the placenta of its mother's womb. Thus, like a baby receives nutrients through this umbilical cord, the Eva receives electric power through the umbilical cable.
A document that SEELE appears to be using as its action plan. Following what was recorded in these "Secret Dead Sea Scrolls", SEELE built the Eva and fought the battles against the Angels. It seems that this same document also described all the invading Angels. Incidentalmente, the actual "Dead Sea Scrolls" were excavated from a cave near the Dead Sea in Israel in 1947. Their contents include the Old Testament of the Bible and its Apocrypha.
The formal name is "All-purpose Humanoid Fighting Machine – Android Evangelion" (HANYOU HITOGATA KESSEN HEIKI – JINZOU NINGEN EVANGERION). 14 years of time and an astronomical amount of money were used to build the Evangelion in order to carry out the Instrumentality Project. Able to both deploy and neutralize an A.T.Field, it is the only fighting force that humans have to counter the Angels. It operates on electric power, and is limited to about 5 minutes of active time without external supply. Therefore it is normally supplied with electrical power through the umbilical cable. (The Eva series from Eva-05 onward are equipped with the S^2 engine and thus do not need this cable.) Originally the Eva do not have souls. Por esta razón,, the soul of Yui Ikari was made to dwell in Eva-01. The name Eva is thought to derive from "Eva", wife of Adam in the Old Testament, e "Evangel", the English word for "gospel".
The nine Eva units (Eva-05 para 13) built at the various NERV branches. In contrast to the previous Eva, these units are under the command of SEELE instead of NERV. Equipped with the S^2 Engine, they have an infinite active time and thus do not need umbilical cables. They also have collapsible wings on their backs which allow them to fly. In order to carry out the Instrumentality Project, SEELE committed them to the battle against NERV, and as a group they destroyed Eva-02.
A large-scale catastrophe predicted to follow First (Giant) Impact and Second Impact. It was officially explained that Third Impact would be caused by contact between an Angel and Adam kept underground below New-Tokyo-3, and that the Eva and NERV existed to prevent this from happening. Con todo, the objective of the Instrumentality Project was actually to initiate Third Impact.
A deep underground city spreading below New-Tokyo-3. Built using an pre-existing spherical cavity (most of which was filled with earth and sand), the ceiling portion was almost totally destroyed by the JSSDF's attack in episode 25′ "Air", thus exposing the Geofront. NERV HQ is located in the center of the Geofront, and is surrounded by forests and a subterranean lake. The many high-rise buildings that extend downward from the ceiling (Ceiling City = TENJOU TOUSHI) are the same buildings that stand in New-Tokyo-3, and are retracted underground during Angel attacks. The start of the Instrumentality Project revealed that this cavity is actually the egg of Lilith — o "Black Moon".
Beings originated from the source of life called Lilith. They take various sizes and shapes: from a giant octahedron to a minute Angel the size of bacteria, or even a "shadow" Angel without tangible form. Borrowing Fuyutsuki's words in episode 26′, it seems that Angels are beings which got the "Fruit of Life" whereas humanity got the "Fruit of Wisdom". In other words, "Anxos" are another form of humankind with the same potential as humans. Thus, humans are the 18th Angel.
EVA-01 TEST TYPE. The first Eva to be introduced to actual combat, and the second Eva built at NERV HQ after Eva-00. Although it plays a major role in many battles against Angels, it also exhibits a number of unaccountable phenomena, such as going berserk, activating without an entry plug inserted, and remaining active after its operational time limit, etc. In the battle against the 14th Angel, it devoured the Angel and thus directly obtained an S^2 engine. Purple in color, its dedicated pilot is the Third Children — Shinji Ikari. It seems that the soul of his mother — Yui Ikari — was made to dwell inside Eva-01. Tamén, the physical body of Eva-01 was apparently created from Lilith. This is why when the Lance of Longinus was lost, Eva-01 became the sole substitute for Lilith as the medium for Instrumentality (Human Complementation).
A plan to artificially evolve humanity, which had reached its limit as a colony of flawed and separate entities, into a perfect single being. It was promoted under the direction of SEELE, with Special Agency NERV as the implementing organization. Con todo, it seems that SEELE's objective differed from that of NERV — that is to say of Gendou and Fuyutsuki. Eva was not actually built as a weapon, but instead with the aim of realizing this project. Specifically, this appears to have been a project to artificially initiate Third Impact, thus eliminating all of humanity who, after shedding their human forms, would then evolve to a new stage.
Mentioned by Fuyutsuki in episode 26′ as that possessed by Angels. It is written in the book of Genesis in the "Old Testament" that at the center of the Garden of Eden were the "Tree of Wisdom" e "Tree of Life". Humans disobeyed God's command and ate of the "Fruit of Wisdom", but what if they had eaten of the "Fruit of Life" instead? Might this answer be the Angels? Máis, it is also told in Genesis that they who eat of the fruit from the Tree of Life shall have immortal life.
A secret organization that existed since before Second Impact. It covered up the truth about Second Impact and the existence of the Angels, and possesses power exceeding even that of sovereign nations and the UN. After Second Impact, it used the UN as a front to establish the Instrumentality Committee and Special Agency NERV, and to build the Eva series. SEELE's Instrumentality Project proceeded according to the account written in the "Secret Dead Sea Scrolls", and aimed to move humankind to the next level of evolution. Con todo, the loss of the Lance of Longinus and then the further rebellion of NERV Commander Gendou Ikari forced SEELE to modify the plan at the final stage. Incidentalmente, "Seele" means "soul" in German. Máis, the names of all the organizations that are related to SEELE, such as GEHIRN and NERV, are also derived from German. Could it be that SEELE originated in Germany?
Called so because the catastrophe was the largest since an asteroid collided with Earth 4 billion years ago (= Giant Impact). It caused cataclysmic changes in the environment including floods, volcanic eruptions and a shifting of the Earth's axis. Este, together with the civil conflicts that erupted on a world-wide scale shortly thereafter, erased half the world's population. Its cause was generally explained as a massive meteorite falling on Markam Mountain in Antarctica, but it was actually an artificial event — caused by SEELE's and Gendou's attempt to reduce the 1st Angel, Adam, to embryo form before the other Angels awakened.
Sohryu Langley Asuka — selected by the Marduke agency after Rei Ayanami as a suitable person. She received training at NERV's German branch, and was then posted to Japan as the dedicated pilot of Eva-02. Her falling synchronization rate caused her to lose confidence in herself and she went missing for a while, but was found and brought back by NERV agents. She was still under medical care when the JSSDF invaded NERV in episode 25′ "Air".
A symbolic figure in Kabbalism (A esoteric sect of Judaism centering around mystical interpretations of the "Torah") representing in essence a 3-dimensional image of the spiritual realm in the form of a diagram. This same diagram is also drawn in Gendou Ikari's office. The figure is comprised of ten spheres linked by 22 paths, and shows the route for humans to attain the highest possible spiritual level. It is said that this figure can be interpreted in various ways: as a step-by-step diagram for meditation, a map leading to wisdom, or a prediction of humankind's future, etc. In episode 26′ "Magokoro onde, algúns ni", the Eva series form a giant Tree of Sephiroth in the sky.
A military organization under the direct command of Japan's Defense Ministry. Triggered by military conflict between China and Vietnam over the Spratleys in 2003, it was formed by the Japanese government which had no military force of its own (the ground, naval and air divisions of the original Japan Self Defense Force had all been incorporated into the UN Military). The English abbreviation is JSSDF, which stands for "JAPAN STRATEGY SELF DEFENSE FORCE". It is also often called "Senji" for short. No episodio 25′ "Air", under orders from the Japanese government, the JSSDF committed roughly an entire division in an attempt to directly occupy NERV.
A huge underground area spreading directly below NERV HQ. Its lowermost level contains a sea of L.C.L and Lilith, crucified on a red cross. Incidentalmente, in biological terms, "Central Dogma" refers to the irreversible information flow that occurs in the transformation of DNA -> RNA -> protein.
The new capital of Japan built in the former Nagano Prefecture to replace the old Tokyo. Construction started in 2001, and the city acquired all the necessary functions for a capital by 2003. According to the Second Capital Relocation Plan approved in 2005, it was planned that the capital would be moved to New Tokyo-3, which was still under construction at that time. Incidentalmente, old Tokyo was obliterated by Second Impact and a new type of bomb dropped just one week thereafter. Thus, the construction of New Tokyo-2 was decided by the Provisional Government of Japan. When Hyuuga mentions "Tokyo-2" in episode 25′ "Air", he is referring to this New Tokyo-2 as well as the government of Japan which is located there.
Although generally publicized as the new capital city to replace New Tokyo-2, it is actually a fortified city for intercepting the Angels which was built in anticipation of Angel attacks. Con todo, the only real intercepting force is the Eva, and the city mainly performs support functions. Towering armored buildings — supporting facilities disguised as ordinary buildings — stand clustered in the center of the city. These buildings house the Eva launch exits, electric power supply, replacement weapons and ammunition, and supporting guns. There are also many intercepting weapons installations positioned around the city. Underground the city is the expansive Geofront, at the center of which is located the headquarters of Special Agency NERV. No episodio 25′, the city was first attacked by the JSSDF, after which the Eva series were committed to the battle. This annihilated the entire combat capability of the city except for Eva-01.
Individuals capable of piloting the Eva who are selected by the Marduke agency, an advisory body under the direct control of the Instrumentality Committee (the Marduke agency is in fact NERV). They are called First, Second, Third, etc., according to the order of their selection. What is common to these Children is that they are all young boys and girls who have lost their mothers. Incidentalmente, the candidates for Children were grouped into Class 2-A of the First Municipal Junior High School of New-Tokyo-3.
An extra-legal organization whose aim is to promote the Instrumentality Project. It was organized in 2010 by transferring GEHIRN (the investigative agency for this same Project) in its entirety to a new body. Its headquarters are located in New-Tokyo-3, but it is also an international organization with branches in Germany, the US and other locations. Although outwardly it appears to be under the jurisdiction of the UN, in fact the UN has absolutely no influence over it, and it is under the command of SEELE. Possessing multiple Evangelion units, it is the only combat force capable of countering the Angels. Con todo, its weak anti-personnel combat ability was exposed when it was attacked by the JSSDF in episode 25′ "Air".
EVA-02 PRODUCTION MODEL. The world's first Eva to be built on the assumption of actual combat. It was designed and the components were manufactured in Japan, but the final assembly and activation tests were carried out in Germany. It first experienced actual combat when it battled the 6th Angel which suddenly appeared during its transport to Japan, and was thereafter committed to the defense of New-Tokyo-3 in the capacity of intercepting the Angels. Red in color, its dedicated pilot is the Second Children — Sohryu Langley Asuka. It appears that the soul of Asuka's mother — Sohryu Kyouko Zeppelin — was made to dwell within Eva-02.
A military vessel standing by on the subterranean lake inside the Geofront. It features the high speed and sea-worthiness of a destroyer, and can be used for anti-submarine, anti-air and overseas patrol purposes. Registered to NERV, the letters "NERV" can be seen printed on the broadsides of the ship. No episodio 25′ "Air", it is destroyed by the battle between Eva-02 and JSSDF.
The giant crucified on a red cross in the depths of NERV HQ. Its face is covered with a mask on which SEELE's coat of arms is painted, and its hands are bolted to the cross. Although its lower body was missing while pierced by the Lance of Longinus, its lower body grew back as soon as the Lance was pulled out. The Instrumentality Project originally planned to use Lilith, but the loss of the Lance caused SEELE to change the plan and attempt complementation using Eva-01 instead. At that time, Keel Lorentz says that Eva-01 é "Lilith's clone", which apparently indicates that Eva-01 was made by copying Lilith. Incidentalmente, rabbinical scripture states that Lilith (Lilit) was the first wife of Adam, and also that between Adam and Lilith were born demons and spirits.
A giant spiral-shaped lance which is capable of piercing even an A.T.Field. The tip of the Lance is split into two branches, but when thrown these two branches converge into one and penetrate the object. The Lance was first used in the battle against the 15th Angel. It destroyed the Angel in a satellite orbit, but the Lance then continued on to reach the Moon and became irretrievable. Con todo, it appears that the original use of the Lance is not as a weapon, but that it is a necessary item for Instrumentality (Complementation) using Lilith. Incidentalmente, Longinus was the name of the soldier who used his lance to pierce Jesus as He was crucified on the cross. This Lance is stored as a relic in the Cathedral of St. Augustine in Rome.
Striking/piercing weapons used by the Eva series mass-production models. Modeled on the Lance of Longinus, their shapes and lengths can change. When penetrating an A.T.Field, the tip splits into two branches and twists through the field. No episodio 25′, one of these Lances penetrates the A.T.Field of Eva-02 and puts an end to the valiantly fighting Eva unit. Although these Lances cannot be used for Instrumentality (Complementation) involving Lilith, as a weapon they have almost the same ability as the original Lance.


Programmers at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) have boosted the line-up with gala presentations of Jonathan Demme's Rachel Getting Married and Richard Eyre's The Other Man.
Rachel Getting Married gets its North American premiere and stars Anne Hathaway as a sharp-witted drama queen who returns to the family homestead for her sister's wedding. Rosemarie DeWitt also stars. Sony Pictures Classics holds US rights and Mongrel Media will distribute in Canada.
The Other Man directed by Richard Eyre is a world premiere screening and stars Liam Neeson as a man who obsesses over the possibility that his wife might be having an affair. Laura Linney, Antonio Banderas and Romola Garai round out the core cast.
Among the three new special presentations are the world premiere of Ed Harris' Western homage Appaloosa, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger and Jeremy Irons.
The other two special screenings will present the North American premieres of Anne Fontaine's French comedy La Fille De Monaco with Fabrice Luchini, Louise Bourgoin and Roschdy Zem and Philippe Claudel's family drama I've Loved You So Long (Il y a Longtemps Que Je T'aime) that launched at the Berlinale and stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein.
The festival is scheduled to run from September 4-13.


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Q: Merge cells of tables in the header in Word VBA I would like to merge two cells of the second table in the header of my Word document. I created the script below but it has a run-time error: '5491'.The requested member of the collection does not exist.
The error occured on this line" With xTable(2)"
Sub mergercells()

    Set xTable = ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Tables

 With xTable(2)
 .Cell(Row:=3, Column:=2).Merge _
 MergeTo:=.Cell(Row:=3, Column:=1)
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End Sub

Thanks,

A: All you need is:
Sub MergeCells()
With ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Tables(2)
  .Cell(Row:=3, Column:=2).Merge MergeTo:=.Cell(Row:=3, Column:=1)
  .Borders.Enable = False
End With
End Sub

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It seems that the tiara was not attached well, which made it move forward. At one photo you can even see the groom trying to re-arrange it.
It seems that again Pss Diane is not present.
The dress is by Lorenzo Caprile and supposedly has 10.000 Swarovski crystals in it. I did not see any of them btw, perhaps they are in the veil.
I still miss Tessy... but a lovely bride anyway !
Alexandra and Sébastian were not at the wedding?
Nice gathering of Luxembourg and Belgian royals,not sure what Princess Maria Laura of Belgium is wearing looks more suitable for a beach party.
Princess Sibilla of Luxemburg looked very elegant.
is it me but I think the Tiara is ill fitting, I do not like how set on her head and I think her hair looks untidy, She is a beautiful woman!
I miss her too... But wasn't she there? There were photos of her boys as page boys on instagram I believe.
Perhaps Sébastian somehow avoided photographers. Hopefully, there will be group photo or more photos coming.
Congratulations to Marie-Gabrielle and Antonius It looked as if it was a lovely wedding. I apologise if this has been already asked before, but what is the significance behind Marbella? I thought it was quite interesting to have the religious wedding there. I was in Marbella last October and the Old Town is beautiful, so I can understand why they would want to get married there - particularly in the lovely church!
Marie-Gabrielle's dress was lovely. I like the little bridesmaid's dresses too and I love that they used hydrangeas as decorative flowers.
I follow Tessy and remember seeing the photo too. I think she was there. Even though she and Louis are divorced, I can imagine (of course I don't know for sure though) that Tessy will remain friends with the GD family. I'm sure they'll want Gabriel and Noah to attend family events so Tessy will still get to see them that way - and when she makes private visits to Luxembourg.
I seem to be one of the few posters online who was underwhelmed by the bride. I didn't dislike her gown but I felt it looked too snug in some photos, and not the best style for a late summer wedding in the Mediterranean.
And I just didn't care for the placement of her Wonder Woman tiara at all.
The less said about the beach party wear of the bride's extended family the better.
I quite agree with you Moonmaiden for the gown seemed very heavy for a summer wedding and the style was so unattractive to me. The placement of the tiara was so off and it looked like it was ready to fall off her head. This was not a pretty royal wedding, very stiff and lacking in glamour and elegance.
Congratulations to Marie-Gabrielle and Antonius It looked as if it was a lovely wedding. I apologise if this has been already asked before, but what is the significance behind Marbella?
Marbella sterted being quite "posh" place due to members of Hohenlohe-Langenburg family who "developted" it into what is it today. Since the groom is related to them via his sister, that's why they opted for it, I mean to have their wedding there.
Wines from Luxembourg's Crémant Bernard-Massard and the family: Manincor, Prince Felix's Château les Crostes.
The couple will go backpacking in Burma in December.


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Q: NestJS Injecting request or execution context in services How can I inject the request or the execution context in a service?

A: Since version 6.0, current request can be injected into a service, with REQUEST token :
export class AppService {
  constructor(@Inject(REQUEST) private request) {}

  load() {
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Q: How to change the Container Entrypoint in Buildpacks? I am using buildpacks to build a container image of node js application.
the default entrypoint is cnb/process/web that will execute npm start.

I need to change the cmd & arguments from  npm start to node {file.js}
Here's the command that I used to build image

pack build --builder gcr.io/buildpacks/builder:v1 {image-name}

is there any way to change the container entrypoint of the buildpack image? Thanks in Advance!

A: Some buildpacks support a Procfile, which allows you to configure the process used to launch the image like this:
web: npm start

For a more buildpacks-native approach see the documentation on  launch processes. https://buildpacks.io/docs/app-developer-guide/run-an-app/


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I bought the dress at And Other Stories last year, a store that has recently become my go to high street fashion shop for my non work clothes and fashion accessories. I just love the colour, the fabric, the cut of this particular one... And combined with my fabulous Mark McNairy Garrett Leight sunglasses and Pretty Ballerinas wedges I created my perfect summer evening outfit. See for yourself, what do you think?


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Public Health & Policy > Medicaid
Medicaid Pay Going Up for Primary Care
by Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today May 9, 2012
WASHINGTON -- For two years, primary care doctors will be paid for seeing Medicaid patients at the same rates they receive from Medicare, under a proposed rule announced Wednesday.
Under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposal, family physicians, internists, and pediatricians will be paid at Medicare rates instead of state-set Medicaid rates for primary care services provided in fiscal years 2013 and 2014.
Although Medicaid rates vary from state to state, they are generally about 66% of Medicare rates for the same service, although in some they're just a third, according Roland Goertz, MD, chairman of the board of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
That means primary care physicians would see an average 34% pay bump for treating Medicaid patients in 2013 and 2014, an amount that will total $11 billion, according to CMS.
That extra money will come from the federal government, not states, Cindy Mann, director of CMS' Center for Medicaid, told reporters in a Wednesday afternoon press call.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) lowered the income threshold for Medicaid, which is projected to bring an additional 16 million currently uninsured people into the insurance program for the poor. The proposal announced Wednesday was included as a way to ensure that doctors have enough of an incentive to treat all of those newly-enrolled Medicaid patients.
The ACA's expansion of Medicaid is one of the issues currently being challenged in the Supreme Court.
The proposal also increases payment rates for pediatric vaccines, which have been reimbursed at the same rate since 1994, according to the proposed rule.
CMS is accepting comments on the proposed rule for 30 days.


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Welcome back to the first Spark Bites of the month by Spark Growth! This week, Facebook is making it easier for users to transfer content, Twitter mulls over deleting inactive accounts, and YouTube tweaks its policy for gaming-related content. Read on to learn more about these and even more social media updates!
Facebook has made some big updates to its Crisis Response feature. Users in affected areas can now share firsthand information about current conditions, such as which roads are closed. The Crisis Response feature has also been integrated with WhatsApp, though not all of the features on Facebook's app will be ported over. WhatsApp will allow users to message those who are offering help through Facebook (see the image below for an example).
Next up, Facebook is making it easier to transfer your content from one app to another. The company has released a tool that will transfer photos and videos to other services. The first option available for users is Google Photos, which received some new updates itself. The transfer tool will first be released in Ireland, where Facebook will be monitoring user feedback. A global release is scheduled for the first half of 2020.
Last but not least, Facebook has launched Facebook Viewpoints, a market research app that will provide the company with insights for its line of products, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. When users join programs and answer survey questions, they'll receive payment sent directly to their PayPal account. The first survey U.S. users can sign up for is the Well-Being Survey, which looks at how social media impacts users' well-being. The 15-minute survey will reward participants with 1,000 points (which equals $5).
Facebook is making updates to its U.S.-based ads in order to prevent discrimination for content relating to credit, employment, and housing. These three industries are now part of the Special Ad Categories, where more limited audience selection tools are provided. Targeting options that are not available for Special Ads include lookalike audiences. An alternative solution Facebook has provided is Special Ad Audience, which will include features like online behavior but does not include certain metrics, such as age and ZIP code. Marketers can visit the page to see a full list of conditions.
Inactive Twitter users may find their account deleted in the near future. In an effort to free up handles and reduce the number of inactive accounts, Twitter has been sending out notices to inactive users asking them to log in before December 11. While Twitter does have an inactive account policy and recommends that users log into their account and tweet at least every six months, this has been rarely enforced by the company in the past. In an official statement, Twitter said it's looking into ways accounts of deceased individuals can be memorialized before the account is deleted.
On January 1st, 2020, Twitter's updated global privacy policy will take effect. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), larger companies must allow their customers or users more control over their personal information and be more transparent over how their data is used. Twitter has also launched the Twitter Privacy Center, which will provide users with more information regarding the company's privacy policy, data protection, security updates, and more.
Lastly, Twitter is making it easier for marketers to measure brand impact in their marketing campaigns. Twitter Brand Surveys is available for managed accounts in Brazil, Canada, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S. The survey highlights specific tweets that garnered the highest brand lift. Twitter says the Brand Surveys will deliver statistically significant results for marketers even for marketing campaigns with a low minimum media spend. Twitter's proprietary Creative Attribution model also provides marketers with insights on their creatives, highlighting which ones performed well and which ones resulted in low brand lift.
In an effort to make sure users are over 13 years old, brand-new users must disclose their age when creating an Instagram account. The practice will just be used to determine whether a user is old enough to open the account, and the user's age still won't be shown on their profile. For those who currently have an Instagram account, you're in luck. Instagram won't be asking current users for their age.
YouTube has updated its policy regarding creators who upload gaming content featuring simulated violence. This update aligns its gaming content policy with its television and movie policy, where violent content can be uploaded to an account after being approved instead of being age-restricted. However, content depicting more graphic violence may require users to be above a certain age in order to upload it to their channel.
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Q: Construction of the Klein-Gordon field theory - what is missing? Many references I know on QFT start the discussion of the Klein-Gordon field theory with some discussion about harmonic oscillators. One such reference is Folland's Quantum Field Theory book. The idea is usually describe a system with infinitely-many oscillators as a warming up for the real Klein-Gordon free field.
Instead of starting with the Klein-Gordon equation for the field, passing it to momentum space and then recognizing the obtained equation as a collection of harmonic oscillators, I was trying to follow a different approach which I describe as follows.
As in the case of many harmonic oscillators, the idea is to work on a discrete setting and obtain the Klein-Gordon theory as a limiting case. I want to think about the problem as a many-particle quantum mechanical problem of non-interacting free particles. Suppose we start if a finite region (actually a torus) $\mathbb{T}_{L} := [-L/2,L/2]^{d}$ for some $L>0$. The momentum space is just $\mathbb{T}_{L}^{*}:=\frac{2\pi}{L}\mathbb{Z}^{d}$. The one-particle space Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}$ is $L^{2}(\mathbb{T}_{L})$, which has basis $\{\varphi_{p}\}_{p\in \mathbb{T}_{L}^{*}}$, with $\varphi_{p}(x) = L^{-d/2}e^{i\langle p, x\rangle}$, with $\langle p,x\rangle$ denoting the usual inner product on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$.
The states $\varphi_{p}$ are to be interpreted as eigenstates of the Free Hamiltonian $H$ with well-defined position $p$. To describe many-particle states, we pass to the bosonic Fock space $\mathcal{F}(\mathscr{H})$.
Following my previous question, I want to define fields as prof. Susskind proposes:
$$\Psi(x) := \sum_{p\in \mathbb{T}_{L}^{*}}\varphi_{p}a_{p} \quad \mbox{and} \quad \Psi^{\dagger}(x) := \sum_{p\in \mathbb{T}_{L}^{*}}\varphi_{p}a_{p}^{\dagger}$$
where $a_{p}$ and $a_{p}^{\dagger}$ are the (usual) annihilation and creation operators on the bosonic Fock spaces associated to basis elements $\varphi_{p}$. The above field operators are not self-adjoint, so not observables but we can consider a linear combination:
$$\Phi(x) := \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\Psi(x)+\Psi^{\dagger}(x))$$
Question: How should I adapt this scenario to obtain a discrete version of the Klein-Gordon equation? It does not seem that I am too far from it and, as far as I understand, the construction of the Klein-Gordon field theory really looks like this one: (in the continuum) one starts with $\mathscr{H} = L^{2}(V_{m},dp/\omega_{p})$, where $V_{m}$ is the mass shell and $dp/\omega_{p}$ is the Lorentz invariant measure on $V_{m}$, $\omega_{p} = \sqrt{p^{2}+m^{2}}$, and then defines the field quantization analogously to what is done before (known as Segal quantization). However, I haven't used any information about the Klein-Gordon equation, which is something that obviously has to be taken into account (but I don't know how). Also, to obtain the Klein-Gordon field expression, one has to change $a_{p} \to \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\omega_{p}}}$ and $a^{\dagger}_{p}\to \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\omega_{p}}}a^{\dagger}_{p}$ or something like this, because the expressions come with this extra factor in the denominator. However, it does not seem natural to introduce these objects in the above setting. How to change things properly?


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Chiropractic has come into it's own over the last several decades. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), chiropractic is considered #1 in the CAM category (conservative alternative medicine), only being second to faith and prayer.
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Today, redbankgreen introduces a new reader-comments system.
Prompted by a rising tide of everything from petty name-calling to outright libel, nearly all of it from anonymous commenters, we've flushed our archive of comments posted prior to December 2, when we temporarily halted postings.
We've also adopted a registration system in the expectation that it will bring a greater degree of accountability to the commentary. With that, we hope, will be more civil and constructive behavior than we saw in the months leading up to the change.
Maybe we're just in a wintry mood, with the furnace burning through the heating budget way earlier in the season than expected.
Or maybe it's lingering remnants of the frustration that led us to impose radio silence on our comments forum last week.
But none of the comments posted between last Monday and late Thursday jumped out at us as particularly noteworthy. So we're not spotlighting any this week.
Still, there's some news about comments. As many readers know, redbankgreen has temporarily shut down its commenting function. For those who missed the announcement, go here.
Commenting will be back, though.
Our Comment of the Week this week is nice and simple: it's just one resident communicating to another — and the rest of us, of course — while recalling a special moment.
And it's all in the context of a story about a calendar created to preserve a bit of Red Bank history while raising a few bucks for a local charity.
Some weeks, the pickings are better than others, and this past week saw a good number of posts that might merit the Comment of the Week spotlight.
A couple of commenters, for example, made a strong case in calling on the borough of Red Bank to change the name of Drs. James Parker Boulevard back to West Bergen Place, seeing as how the borough government itself isn't consistent in using the current name. Those appeared beneath our article about a detour on what even redbankgreen called "West Bergen Place" instead of Drs. James Parker Boulevard.
Kevin Donohue gets the Comment of the Week spotlight this week for posting a comment with his (apparently) real name and using the forum as a means of reaching out to another commenter.
This week's Comment of the Week gets the nod for giving voice to a point of view that is probably more commonly held than one might assume from reading other comments on this site.
Is sarcasm funny only if you agree with its point of view?
Our Comment of the Week comes from beneath the story "LEHNERT LAID TO REST," about the funeral of the late Fair Haven Councilman John Lehnert.
The very publication of the article, which included three photographs from the funeral, miffed a couple of readers, while others saw it as as respectful.
But a reader who identified herself as Claudia stayed away from that debate. Instead, she took the opportunity provided by the comments to deliver an overdue thank-you to Lehnert, who served as a Fair Haven police officer for 14 years before retiring in 2006.
This week's spotlight comment comes from Jen Gallagher, posted under an article about the proposed Fair Haven ordinance that would have required property owners who are denied tree-removal permits by the borough arborist to notify their neighbors when an appeal is filed with to the town council.
Hopeless idealists that we are, redbankgreen today brings out of mothballs an effort to encourage civil discourse in its reader comments.
Comment of the Week, which we stopped running after three months a little more than a year ago, is back.
Why did we stop? Not sure, really. Perhaps because it seemed to attract very little attention, and did nothing to stop the nearly incessant flow of the kind of comments we hate to read. It fell through the cracks one week, and the idea of bringing it back generated nothing more than a shrug here.
A day later than usual, we return to our weekly Comment of the Week and again spotlight two points of view from the Big Debate on national health insurance.
Once again, we're glad to see so many good candidates for Comment of the Week in our files from last week. Thanks to everyone who posted something.
The comments we highlight here need not be shining examples of argument and the art of persuasion. Spelling, grammar and punctuation aren't all that important, either. What we're looking for is civility and a sincere interest in contributing to discussion of public issues.
The comment below was posted by "Lesley" beneath our article about the Cedar Crossing affordable-housing project getting $400,000 in a construction grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York.
We had at least three spirited debates running simultaneously on redbankgreen last week. It was good to see this site being utilized in that way.
The issues included the question, posed by a reader, of whether there should be speed bumps/speed humps on Waverly Place (this debate actually carried over from the prior week); the wisdom of Red Bank having allowed a photo shoot of a staged accident to slow traffic on Broad Street for most of a day; and whether Fair Haven should pay $1.2 million for a piece of waterfront property and turn it into a small park.
In all the back and forth there were at least five or six comments that might have been spotlighted in this space, which is dedicated to calling out thoughtful and civil commentary. So a big thanks is in order to all those readers who contributed in that vein.
The comment below stands out, we thought, for the sense of history and emotion it evoked.
Last week's article about a plan by Red Bank to install more 4-way stops took a detour.
The discussion in the redbankgreen comments area turned to speed bumps and speed humps — apparently, there's a difference — and their impacts on the values of nearby properties.
Each mixed detailed observation, criticism and praise, which struck as marks of even-handedness. Plus, the authors used their real names, something we think there should be more of on the web.
Whether or not one agrees with him, he's clearly an evidence-driven guy (or maybe a woman — who knows, right?). He looks to outside sources of expertise and often cites it in his comments. And if someone else offers up some documentation in support of an argument, he's likely to check it out and see how it squares with that person's characterization of it.
This week's featured comment was posted by "Jack" underneath an an article that included some discussion of a plan by Red Bank officials to rename Locust Avenue in honor of the late mayor and Supreme Court Associate Justice Daniel J. O'Hern.
This week's selection as Comment of the Week comes from a well-known Red Bank figure, former Councilmember Grace Cangemi.
Here's our second winner in this new feature, which aims to spotlight reader comments posted in redbankgreen that say something well, whether or not we agree with the substance of the post.
I understand belt tightening. I am living it personally. That said, can someone please explain the need this past weekend for the posting of police on rt 35/Riverside Dr for the viewing of ex mayor McKenna's departed wife….rest her soul in peace.


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 Клевенка — село в Ивантеевском районе Саратовской области.
 Клевенка — железнодорожная станция (населённый пункт) в Ивантеевском районе Саратовской области.
 Клевенка — железнодорожная станция Приволжской железной дороги.
Клевенка — до 1963 г. название посёлка Молодёжный в Перелюбском районе Саратовской области.


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Obachan's Kitchen & Balcony Garden: I'm Back!!
Yes, I came back to my room around noon today and found sooooo many comments from all over the world waiting for me on this blog!
Thank you, everyone. There's a lot to tell you, but for now I just want to say that everything went fine.
P.S. Here is a photo that shows one of the things I did on the day after the surgery.
Welcome back Obachan and really glad to know your surgery went well!! Do take your time to recuperate and always looking forward to reading your blog again!!
This flower basket is wonderful!
I'm glad to hear that everything went A ok!
Rest and take care, ok?
Happy to see you are home. Take it easy for a while.
take care Obachan please have a speedy yet relaxing recovery.
Glad you're back Obachan! May you get well soon and hoping to hear about your adventures in the hospital!
Good to hear you're back and everything went fine... enjoy some rest and regain strength!
Welcome back , Obachan ! Take care.
Hey, welcome back, I'm glad you are doing well!
Welcome back, glad everything went well. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
I'm very glad you are back and making a speedy recovery. Your blog is great and we really enjoy reading it.
Hi Obachan, I didn't visit your site for a few weeks and only learnt about your operation today. Welcome back!
Happy to hear that you're back!
Dear Obachan, I'm so happy to hear all went well and looking forward to hearing all about it. I just know you will make a stay in the hospital sound like a fun adventure! Beautiful flowers. Nice boss.
I glad you are back and well!
Welcome back! I nominate you as Kochi city's ambassador. You've done much for this quaint and laidback city of yours that I want to visit it!
Back as perfect form again?
Thats alright to slow down awhile.We can wait for you to pick up speed.Give yourself time to recuperate and reenergise.
Dear Obachan, Sorry to hear of your travails but looks like alls well that ends well, you have my wishes for a speedy recovery.
Welcome back dear Obachan! Glad to know that you are fine now. Best wishes to you and hope you recover really really soon! muackz~ I miss your delicious food blog so so so so much!
I'm happy to hear that nothing went bad, and that you're back to tell us a little more about you and about your wonderful country for a long time from now on! So, Welcome back Obachan!
Dear Obachan, I am glad you are back! I hope you feel better after your medical procedure. Now you can blog about hospital food. I think the painting was made with tea and water. Am I right?
glad everything went well. take things easy yah.
Welcome back, obachan! I'm so glad to hear that you're doing well. Thanks for blessing this corner of the web with your presence, and make sure you get enough rest to make a full recovery!
Really glad to know that your surgery was a success! : ) I'm sure you are recuperating well… Take all the time you need to rest and recover, ok?
Sorry I'm not responding to each comment, but I truly appreciate your kindness.
Hi Obachan, I'm glad to hear that your surgery went well. I enjoyed reading your posts on hospital food. lol! only a food blogger :) hehe!
Thanks for coming by. I'm interested in American hospital food, too, but I hope you don't have a chance to report on it.


AMD has laid workers off before, but not since the company was bleeding an arterial fountain of cash back in 2009. This announcement comes just days after an EETimes report discussing the trouble both TSMC and GlobalFoundries have had ramping HKMG production. "Making bulk silicon HKMG at 28-nm is hard. All foundries are having yield issues and defect density issues right now," said Bob Johnson, research vice president at Gartner. This further tracks with what we've heard regarding Llano. GloFo is still struggling to ramp Llano production, which is part of why AMD is scrambling to get Trinity out the door in early 2012.
Read may be trying to engage in a little preventive maintenance, but cutting staff now sends exactly the wrong message. Bulldozer is stuck behind the eight ball, Llano isn't ramping well, Trinity is only expected to deliver incremental performance improvements over Bulldozer (a fact confirmed by certain reliable birds we've heard from), and AMD isn't giving any guidance on when we might see the 28nm successors to Ontario and Zacate, Krishna and Wichita. It also now appears that despite earlier promises, AMD won't ship 28nm GPUs until Q1 2012.
AMD badly needs to invest in fixing its own products and closing the gap between itself and Intel. Typically that means hiring engineers, as opposed to firing them.
He repeats this, nearly word for word, multiple times. What he doesn't do is give any firm guidance that indicates the company can execute its 28nm ramps while leveraging Interlagos and Trinity effectively.
Step by step. Machine by machine. Sure. But in which direction?


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'Extortion': ICPC arrests 26 officials of FRSC
9:20 AM Motunrayo Ogundipe 0 Latest News in Nigeria
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has announced the arrest 26 officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) "over extortion".
Rasheedat Okoduwa, ICPC spokesperson, said the officials were arrested in a sting operation the agency staged in collaboration with some other organisations.
Okoduwa gave a breakdown of the arrest as nine officials and a civilian in Owerri, Imo state; eight officials in Kaura-Namoda, Zamfara state; five officials of the agency in Ore, Ondo state; and four officials in Potiskum, Yobe state.
She said the officers were arrested for allegedly extorting money from road users on the highways after FRSC management lodged complaints.
"The other agencies involved in the operation, tagged Operation Tranquility, included the FRSC and the Department of State Services," the statement said.
"The part of the operation in Owerri, Imo State, also led to the arrest of a man, who was alleged to be the custodian of the proceeds of extortion.
"The operation, which is the second one in three months since the beginning of 2019, was also conducted simultaneously across four
states of the federation between October 2 and 5, 2019 following the receipt of a complaint from the management of the FRSC of extortion activities by some members of its patrol teams nationwide."
The agency said the FRSC management explained that incidents of extortion were rampant on highways across the country.
"Various sums of money were allegedly found on the arrested corps officials and the civilian during the operation before they were taken into ICPC custody," ICPC said.
"All the officials and the civilian arrested have been granted administrative bail pending their prosecution by the commission at the conclusion of the investigations."


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How is Curbside Pick-up Supposed to Work for Most Retailers?
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Buzz Adams Updated: April 20, 2020
On Friday, April 17th, Governor Greg Abbott announced a set of guidelines for re-opening Texas. The Great Reopening will go in stages and it's the one scheduled for April 24 (this Friday) that I have the most questions about.
I don't have a problem with loosening restrictions, as long as it's not contradicting the best advice from medical experts in the appropriate fields. But I don't understand how most retail stores are going to offer "curbside pick-up to-go shopping". That's what the schedule has happening on Friday of this week.
"Customers may not enter the premises but can purchase items for pickup and delivery. Contact should be minimized as much as possible."
I realize restaurants have been finding ways to serve food to-go. Texas Roadhouse really seems to have it down to an art form. And, I understand how retailers like Target and Wal-Mart are managing (HINT: they're letting customers go inside and pick out what they want…AKA: shopping as usual). But how are most retailers going to make it work.
Let's just use, for example, Burlington Coat Factory because I really love to shop at Burlington. Whenever I do shop at Burlington, I don't know what I want beyond "a shirt" or "maybe some pants". How would you even order a shirt from Ross Dress for Less? "Yeah, I want to order a blue polo-shirt size Large, to go please. Oh, you have more than one? Can you just bring them all out to the curb so I can see?" It's not like Marshall's has a menu. They DO have a website but that's shut-down. Even if it WERE up and running, it's not like every Marshall's store has the same inventory.
And don't get me started on Tuesday Morning. I love Tuesday Morning but I've never once gone in thinking, "I am definitely here to get a wrought-iron bird bath in the shape of a sea-horse." And has anyone EVER gone in to a Pier One with a PLAN to buy something?
It seems to me that the idea of curbside pick-up for most retail stores is forgetting one important aspect: the shopping.
But, I guess it's a step in the (possibly) right direction?
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