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The Booming Business of Global Warming
By Mckenzie Funk
Category: Business | Science
Ebook $14.99
About Windfall
A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world
McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is to see it through the eyes of those who see it most clearly—as a market opportunity.
Global warming's physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see in each of these forces a potential windfall.
The melt is a boon for newly arable, mineral-rich regions of the Arctic, such as Greenland—and for the surprising kings of the manmade snow trade, the Israelis. The process of desalination, vital to Israel's survival, can produce a snowlike by-product that alpine countries use to prolong their ski season.
Drought creates opportunities for private firefighters working for insurance companies in California as well as for fund managers backing south Sudanese warlords who control local farmland. As droughts raise food prices globally, there is no more precious asset.
The deluge—the rising seas, surging rivers, and superstorms that will threaten island nations and coastal cities—has been our most distant concern, but after Hurricane Sandy and failure after failure to cut global carbon emissions, it is not so distant. For Dutch architects designing floating cities and American scientists patenting hurricane defenses, the race is on. For low-lying countries like Bangladesh, the coming deluge presents an existential threat.
Funk visits the front lines of the melt, the drought, and the deluge to make a human accounting of the booming business of global warming. By letting climate change continue unchecked, we are choosing to adapt to a warming world. Containing the resulting surge will be big business; some will benefit, but much of the planet will suffer. McKenzie Funk has investigated both sides, and what he has found will shock us all.
To understand how the world is preparing to warm, Windfall follows the money.
About Mckenzie Funk
McKenzie Funk is a journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, GQ, Outside, and The New York Times. A National Magazine Award and Livingston Award finalist and the winner of the Oakes Prize for Environmental Journalism, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at… More about Mckenzie Funk
Jan 27, 2015 | 336 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143126591
Ebook | $14.99
Jan 23, 2014 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780698151567
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The Wall Street Journal:
"In Windfall McKenzie Funk, an intrepid American journalist, reports on the lesser-known victims and profiteers of climate change brings a dizzyingly abstruse phenomenon down to a more human scale. Mr. Funk leads us away from the rarefied air of Al Gore and his lethal PowerPoint slides, to mingle with the militiamen, inventors, politicians and activists trying to find their way through an era of turmoil."
The Associated Press:
"Funk has written a fun book humanizing the problems of climate change, focused on the colorful entrepreneurs who see in an increasingly inhospitable world golden opportunities."
"This exposé of the powers and people that view global warming as an investment opportunity is darkly humorous and brilliantly researched. Journalist McKenzie Funk looks at the impacts deemed a windfall for 'climate capitalists': melting ice, drought, sea-level rise and superstorms. He reports far and wide, on the oil-rich far north, where nations jostle as the ice retreats; blaze-prone California and its burgeoning band of firebreak specialists; water-rich South Sudan, where large tracts of foreign-owned farmland could become a gold mine as other regions dry up; and beyond."
Men's Journal:
"The idea that, when it comes to climate change, the meaningful divide isn't between believers and doubters but winners and losers is at the heart of McKenzie Funk's immersive and startling Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming."
Mother Jones:
"Most writings on climate change are tedious or polemical. This fabulous book is neither. Journalist McKenzie Funk travels the globe, mingling with the characters who are cashing in (or preparing to) on global warming: Wall Street land and water speculators, Greenland secessionists, Israeli snowmakers, Dutch seawall developers, geoengineering patent trolls, private firefighters, mosquito-abating scientists, Big Oil scenario planners, and African officials overseeing the first phase of a quixotic 4,7000-mile-long foliage barrier against the encroaching Sahara. Rather than waste our time on a settled question (duh, it's real!), Funk offers an up-close-and-personal glimpse of climate change's likely winners—and inevitable losers."
Wired:
"Some Like it Hot: Forget bitcoin—savvy investors bet on water….In his new book, Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming, McKenzie Funk investigates the profiteers cashing in on the planet's woes."
"In Windfall, McKenzie Funk introduces us to people betting money on our dear planet's decimation. Spoiler: They're rich."
Outside Magazine:
"There have been plenty of books documenting the myriad ways that climate change will take us all down. McKenzie Funk takes a contrarian approach, reporting on the people—and, in the case of Greenland and Canada, countries—that are poised to profit handsomely from the coming chaos."
Scientific American:
"Funk's reporting brings him face-to-face with individuals who are investing in planetary crisis. Far from vilifying these opportunists, he attempts to see the warming world through their eyes. "
Canadian Business:
"The business of climate change is growing, in other words, at least somewhat because political action on climate change has so overwhelmingly failed."
Barnes & Noble:
"The bad news is that we're not cutting our carbon emissions. The 'good' news, according to McKenzie Funk's Windfall is that greedy banks and ambitious entrepreneurs are making billions of dollars on global warming. Much of these new frontiers of money-making derive from calculated bets on continued failure and warming, not on corrective measures. Funk's modern day muckraking lends new perspective and detail to mainstream media coverage and the ongoing debates about climate change. Definitely a conversation starter."
The New Yorker's Page-Turner:
"Funk's take on global-warming profiteering is as entertaining as it is disturbing."
Kirkus Reviews (STARRED):
"A shocking account of how governments and corporations are confronting the crises caused by global warming… A well-written, useful global profile emphasizing concrete solutions rather than ideological abstractions."
Publishers Weekly:
"For most of the planet, the specter of global warming is ominous, but as journalist Funk reveals in this startling book, there are those who view the Earth's dangerous meltdown as a golden opportunity…Funk's original, forthright take on this little-discussed profit-taking trend in the climate change sweepstakes is very unsettling."
Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel:
"Funk's talent shimmers from the pages of Windfall. Here is a brilliant young stylist at work, pushing the boundaries of investigative journalism and literary non-fiction. With grace, humor and hard-nosed reporting on the startling business of climate profiteering, he takes us along on a searing ride into the maw of the apocalypse."
Charles Graeber, author of The Good Nurse:
"Funk is a first-rate storyteller who packs adventure and humor in his journalist's bag, and delights in the absurd details of business as unusual. The result is a meticulously researched romp through the backrooms of the climate change industry, by turns thrilling and appalling, and ultimately rather important. There's money under the melting ice, and Funk follows it. Perhaps the only fun book on global climate change you'll ever read."
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe:
"Smart, daring, and darkly funny, Windfall offers a new take on perhaps the world's most intractable problem. McKenzie Funk is a gifted storyteller."
Eric Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave and Going Solo:
"Climate change may well be humanity's greatest challenge, but here McKenzie Funk offers definitive evidence that it's also a great way to make a buck. Windfall is a gripping account of how banks, energy companies, engineers, and entrepreneurs have turned a global crisis into a golden opportunity, harvesting short-term profits while sowing the seeds of future ruin. It's an engaging, infuriating, and important story about the way the world works now, and about the reasons it may not work at all tomorrow."
Donovan Hohn, author of Moby-Duck:
"Exploring the profitable frontiers of climate change, Funk travels the globe like some sort of journalistic special agent, patrolling the melting Arctic on a Canadian battleship one minute, breakfasting with the son of a Sudanese warlord the next. His secret weapons: a highly sensitive irony detector and a satirist's eye for vanities and vices that Twain would have admired. The result is a wonder, a nonfiction eco-thriller that is disturbing, yes, revelatory, yes, but also a lot more fun than books about ecological catastrophe are supposed to be."
Jon Mooallem, author of Wild Ones:
"McKenzie Funk has traveled around a planet that's melting, flooding and drying out all at once to meet the peculiar characters who are making the biggest, amoral hedge of our time: finding the value and opportunity hidden in all this ecological upheaval. Windfall is a shocking and important book that reads, at times, like dystopian science fiction written by Michael Lewis. But this unrecognizable world is our world, of course. Funk argues that the people he meets merely see it more clearly than the rest of us do."
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Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Director Jason Matheny worries a lot about national security risks that probably aren't headlining many lists of pressing threats to the United States — pandemics, autonomous systems, and strategic nuclear war, to name a few. "We also have a need to protect what's really right now a sort of wild west of biotechnology," he told The Cipher Brief's Annual Threat Conference in Sea Island, Georgia last week.
Carnegie Mellon University scientists can now use brain activation patterns to identify complex thoughts, such as, "The witness shouted during the trial." This latest research led by CMU's Marcel Just builds on the pioneering use of machine learning algorithms with brain imaging technology to "mind read." The findings indicate that the mind's building blocks for constructing complex thoughts are formed by the brain's various sub-systems and are not word-based. Published in Human Brain Mapping and funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the study offers new evidence that the neural dimensions of concept representation are universal across people and languages.
While movies may give us the impression that being a spy is an endless parade of gun battles, covert infiltrations, and drinks, it can actually be quite a boring job. ... Cardillo's initiative isn't the first use of AI by the intelligence community though. DARPA and IARPA, the US defense and intelligence research agencies, have funded deep-learning (the basis of AI) since the 1960's, and the federal government spent a whopping $1 billion on AI research in 2015 alone.
In the past, biometric security was something many only saw in spy movies or a futuristic utopia. However, as organizations more consistently look at the potential of biometric tools, they increasingly become a modern-day reality....The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's Odin"project, which was unveiled last month, has awarded funds to various organizations who agree on the positive impact biometrics can have.
Diverse sciences ranging from forensics to nanoscale chemical sampling and storage are among the research opportunities being targeted by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity....The organization's HECTOR program aims to build a framework that enables system architects and application developers who are lacking extensive cryptographic expertise to develop secure distributed applications using advanced cryptographic techniques.


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Can it help or hinder a settlement?
Nancy Neal Yeend
An apology can hasten a settlement or bring discussions to a quick close. It all depends on who is giving the apology and the level of sincerity perceived. There are five elements to consider when apologizing: the speaker, words, tone, acknowledgment and prevention. It goes without saying that any successful apology needs to be spontaneous and unprompted.
An apology needs to be made directly to the individual impacted and by the person who caused the incident. If an attorney apologizes on behalf of his or her client, the apology is rarely accepted, and settlement discussions will often end.
Attorneys are frequently concerned that if the client makes an apology, then there may be legal consequences, and that the apology is considered an admission of guilt. Better to acknowledge, up front, when there is a wrong. This often catches the other team off guard, and tends to move the negotiations towards settlement. Many apologies are made privately during direct negotiations, and not put in writing. If an apology is made during mediation, then the mediator should not be a messenger delivering it to the other side. The apology must come directly from the person making the apology.
When an attorney discusses the possibility of the client making an apology, it is wise to address the five elements of an apology, but not have the client practice the apology to such an extent that it no longer sounds sincere. Over-rehearsed apologies are a waste of time.
According to many who have written on the topic of apologies, the words used have a significant impact on the listener. It does not matter if the apology is from an attorney to his or her client, or between disputing parties, the key words include "I apologize" and/or "I am sorry." Both phrases indicate that the person offering the apology recognizes that they made a mistake.
If someone says, "I regret," then the apology is weakened. Invariably the listener feels that the person "regrets" getting caught and is not sorry for what they did. The apology is therefore discounted or may fuel the flames of the controversy. The person offended may need time to absorb the apology, and depending on the severity of the harm, may need even more time before they can consider forgiveness. It should be remembered that one should never include a request for forgiveness in an apology. This too can diminish the value of the apology. Leave forgiveness to the responder.
How the words are delivered, facial expression, eye contact, and overall body language combine to set the tone of the apology and must match the sincerity of the words. If the person apologizing smirks, does not look directly at the person to whom they are apologizing, leans away or otherwise displays a gesture that can be interpreted as insincere, the apology will be a wasted effort. Tone with its accompanying body language and mannerisms must mirror the sincerity of the apology.
People who make an apology need to not only indicate that they are sorry for what happened, but also acknowledge that they were responsible for the incident. Starting to apologize and then inserting an excuse diminishes the value of apology.
When someone says, "I am sorry, and it would not have happened if the sun was not in my eyes," or "If I had better support staff," it just increases the frustration and anger of the listener, and any benefit of the apology is lost. Explanations or excuses must never be combined with an apology.
The final portion of the apology includes a pledge that what happened will not be repeated. Specific information of what changes will be made or have already been instituted must accompany the apology. Including how the event will be prevented in the future enhances the sincerity of the apology and increases the probability of a settlement. An apology might include something like, "I am very sorry for what happened, and want you to know that I have changed our entire process, so that nothing like what happened to you will ever happen to anyone else."
Prevention takes many forms and, depending on the situation, might include changes in training or oversight of personnel, firing of the individual who caused the problem, bringing a structure to code, or installing a safety device. In some situations, when the action being apologized for is so involved or egregious, the person who was harmed may even be retained as a consultant to advise on what changes need to be made or to evaluate the changes.
The unprompted, heartfelt and sincere apology has the greatest benefit by being stated, in person and directly to the wronged individual. It includes an acknowledgment for causing the problem and identifies how the situation will be prevented in the future. The words used and the tone must reflect genuine sincerity, and not sound like an over-rehearsed statement.
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Nancy Neal Yeend is a dispute management strategist and mediator. As a strategist she designs programs to reduce workplace conflict. She founded of The End Strategy (TES) in Portland, Oregon and mediates pre-suit, trial and appellate cases. Nancy has served as National Judicial College faculty for nearly 25 years.
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Hidden Hero: Michael Hermosillo placed a perfect sacrifice bunt down the first base line in the fifth inning, advancing Eric Young Jr. into scoring position with one out. Young Jr. scored on Carlos Perez's two-run home run as the Bees took a 3-1 lead.
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Maybe its just me, but I use a comforter from home. I should carry my emergency -20' mummy bag in case the voltage drops during the night and the heater stops running lol... but Im gonna get a plug in volt meter just to keep an eye on battery voltage so I wont be surprised.
So why are you thinking sleeping bags vs comforter?
I should clarify. We like the bags for convenience. They are for use in our 13' Scamp with a furnace. Sometime we also decide to sleep in the bunks so the bags make more sense to us..
I use a sleeping bag in the trailer as well. I got a flannel lined, flannel or cotton exterior +40 degree bag. Cabelas if I recall. I only smooth it out in the morning since I leave the back bed set up. Sometimes I lay on it for a nap or before turning out the lights for the night and I despise lying on those slippery nylon shelled bags. I usually run the heater on cool nights and much warmer than a +40 bag is too hot fo rme.
We use a pair of rectangular 40 degree bags from REI. I think they can be zipped together, though I haven't tried it. No need to go high tech or ultra light weight.
We use sleeping bags that are rated at around 40 F. We actually bought cheap Wal-Mart bags for about $10.00 each. I'm still using mine after 7 years. Anne wasn't staying warm enough at 55 degrees so we got her a30 degree bag.
The furnace is set to 55 degrees at night. There's thousands of sleeping bags on the market. I would suggest something not to expensive, if it doesn't work for you it's not difficult to try another.
I have some good down bags, one of them for extreme cold, but like others, in the trailer I am a flannel sheet and duvet guy all the way. While you can't beat bags for warmth, I find them terrible comfort wise. I love to hang my feet out to regulate temperature if I can.
If I were to use a bag, I would get one not too warm, and as large of a rectangular one as I can find. If using it a lot, you should either wear jammies, or use a liner, as perspiration will mung them up on the inside, and they are not usually as easy to wash as sheets.
We've tried the duvet and sheets. It's a killer to make the bed and everything becomes untucked and twisted during the night.
We've gone back to sleeping bags, one light weight and one heavy, zipped together. Can have the heavy one on top if it's cold or the light one, when warm.
RIE and their website has a good selection of bags. MEC website (Canadian version of REI) has some tutorials on what the bag differences are and what might work best for you.Sleeping Bag Information - Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) I'm an ex-tenter and have a down barrel bag (half way between mummy and rectangle) rated to -3C (27F) and it's way to warm for in the trailer. It's better to be on the cold side as it's easier to ad a blanket than opening the bag. Don't worry about the interior material, and as Jim mentioned, use a liner. One of the better investments I've made.
Does this not happen at home then too? Or, are you two just a little wilder when on the road?
LL Bean is also a good source for bags still made locally.
My wife & I share a "BIG BERTHA" double mummy style bag that we bought on-line. It is reversable (Heavy top & thin bottom) for very cold or just flip it over for warmish nights. It has a drawstring hood, pockets for pillows, and a pocket for a thin mattress (we use that feature for when we tent). We have a liner for it that we have used instead of the bag during hot summer nights. This bag easily stows away during the day, and easily sets up for sleeping, as our bed is also our table in our 13 foot Scamp. Used this method for 60 straight days/nights this past summer.
I'm responding to your question about sleeping bags with the broader answer to "How do I make the bed in our trailer the most comfie?" I, too, agree with the comforter preference folks. Sleeping bags were OK while camping in a tent or backpacking but I consider camping in my trailer to be "glamping" and I want comfort. If I were to get a pre-made sleeping bag I would go for the ones LL Bean sells. Their "Camp Sleeping Bags" range in price from $69 -109, come in a variety of sizes/weights, are fleece lined, they zip together and, since they are rectangular, they can also be used as comforters.
We had the same concerns for our 2011 13' Scamp. The seating cushions turned out to be so uncomfortable (like sleeping on a table) we finally splurged and purchased a 2" memory foam topper from Target for about $30. I cut the foam to the exact size of the bed then cut it into two long strips each 22 1/2" wide by 76" long. One cushion is a rectangle and the other has two curves to match the inside of the Scamp. I covered each memory foam piece with 100% cotton knit (think T-shirt soft) as if it were a cushion, with a zipper on the end. Now we have the softest, cushiest, mattress pad! We sleep right on the pad and on top of us we place one or more comforters depending on the temperature. In warmer weather we sleep between the two comforters; one on top and one on the bottom. This method eliminates the need for sheets. We wash the mattress cover and comforters (as needed) after each trip.
As for storage; each 1/2 mattress cover rolls into a cylinder about 22 1/2" wide by 10" high (each one is about the size of one sleeping bag). We secure the roll with luggage straps and store the rolls under the dinette bench (see photo). The bigger question is where to store the comforters! I have several solutions. #1) For when I leave the bed set up for the day. (see photo) Fold the comforter in half (mine are about 90" wide by 76" long) so they are 45" wide by 76" long. When folded this way they fit flat on top of the bed when it is set up and looks like a neatly made-up bed. #2) Fold the comforter in half and place over the dinette cushions (no photo). Put one comforter over each dinette chair and tuck in over the top, at the seat back and over the cushion front. This way the comforters add a decorative touch to the seats without requiring more storage space. #3 More recently, I roll the comforters over a cylinder (ask for an empty fabric roll from a fabric store) a little over 45" wide (2-3" diameter) and secure the roll with luggage straps (see photo). I place the roll resting between the dinette chairs spanning the leg space under the table (no photo). This way the comforters are out of the way and ready to use at a moment's notice without using precious cargo space!
I'd also like to share another bedding tip (see photos). You can see in my photos that I have two medium-weight comforters with two different designs. Depending on my decorating mood I put one or the other design on top. A big issue for my husband and me is the shifting of covers in the night. We each have different preferences for covers AND the covers tend to shift and fall off during the night. We ruled out sleeping bags or zippers connecting the comforters as being too confining and hot. The solution we came up with is to connect the comforters with loop and button connectors. It is easy for me to unbutton one comforter layer while my husband sleeps blissfully with two comforters!
i am in complete agreement with Gilda, when I'm out with the egg, I'm trying to rock the comfort factor... and unless its really really cold, i would rather be curled up in a comfortable comforter relaxing in my bed. maybe if "just a friend" was shareing the bed, they can sleep in a sleeping bag lol.


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Passengers may check in online 48 hours before the departure time of the flight. This option is available for all regular flights operated by GOL, except for flights to or from Paramaribo (PBM) or Punta Cana (PUJ). It is also not available to passengers who are not Brazilian citizens.
Cut-off time for online/mobile check-in:
Domestic Flights: 45 minutes before the flight.
International Flights: 1 hour 15 minutes before the flight.
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For flights to the United States operated by GOL, seats may be assigned, free of charge, within 24 hours before the flight.
For flights operated by GOL and Air France-KLM, online check-in is available within 30 hours before the flight
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During intelligent check-in, you must enter your identification document number and other required information, such as an emergency contact phone number. The identification document indicated must be valid and in good condition so that you can be identified by GOL and inspection authorities.
It is the passenger's responsibility to provide accurate ID information and to check the vaccination and visa requirements of their country of destination. Should the passenger not present a valid ID, GOL will refuse to serve the passengeruntil a valid ID is provided. Should this result in the passenger missing a flight, any and all expenses resulting from flight changes will be of the sole responsibility of the passenger.
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This technical report presents the methodological aspects of the online survey on gender equality and socioeconomic consequences of COVID-19 carried out by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). The survey was implemented in all 27 EU Member States from June–July 2021 and its results are presented in the Gender Equality Index 2022 – The COVID-19 pandemic and care.
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Femicide: shedding light on the 'invisible' victims
Femicide continues to be widespread around the globe. In 2020 the global estimation of femicide shows that 47 000 women were killed by intimate partners or other family members worldwide and around 2 600 in Europe.
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This factsheet outlines all EIGE's publications, published in 2022.
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Gender Equality Forum 2022: Chair Statement
EIGE's Gender Equality Forum 2022 served as a platform for much needed conversations on how to reach a gender equal Europe. This Chair Statement outlines the key learnings and outcomes from the Forum. It provides a path for EIGE's #3StepsForward for the broader gender equality movement from now until the next Forum in 2024.
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Digital platforms have often been celebrated for allowing equal opportunities for public self-expression, regardless of one's identity and status. Yet, not everyone is welcome in the cyberspace. The digital arena has become a breeding ground for a range of exclusionary and violent discourses and beliefs, expressed and disseminated in a context of anonymity and impunity.
Femicide indicators: pilot study of data availability and feasibility assessment
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Buying a car is everybody's dream. However people are often found confused in what cars to buy, that is if either a new car would be a better option or a used car. Such kind of pressure or dilemma arises more if you live in a suburb area or an urban area such as Salinas. Many such places are urban places where buying a car creates a financial pressure on a person. This problem arises more in such areas where a person is confused about the kind of car they should buy that is old or new. So keeping Salinas as a reference point here we will tell you the benefits of buying used cars in salinas.
Low Price Tags and Low Depreciation: The biggest problems in financial terms which people face concerning buying a car is that a vehicle often loses the value at which it was purchased. That is if a car is purchased at a few thousand dollars, it will drop a fraction of the cost as soon as you buy it. Therefore people see it as a waste of money. Whereas in a used car through the value is depreciated but as the vehicle is used the fraction at which the car is underrated will be much less than required.
Sales Tax on New Car: There are many places and many governments which place a sales tax on new cars, but these sales taxes are not applied to use vehicles. Therefore buying a used car is always a better option financially as you will not have to submit any extra money over buying a new car. Buying used cars in salinas is still a better option because of this prime reason.
Registration Fees: The law states that there needs to be registered on each car that you buy. The registration fees on a new vehicle are significantly higher than on an old car. Therefore purchasing an old car will also prove significantly beneficial in this way too.
Few Useless Add-ons: In a new car a person often needs to install a few add-ons which often are very costly. Therefore buying an old car also comes with the prospect that all these add-ons are already installed in the car and therefore these cars.
Buying a used car is beneficial in many prospects, and therefore one should always consider this option when planning to buy a car.


The solution is hidden away in a Microsoft document. In short, you must use NuGet V2 Application Programming Interface (API) feeds and a personal access token when accessing private NuGet feeds on a Mac.
First, select security from your Visual Studio online portal.
Then, you want to create a new Personal Access Token (PAT) with read-only packaging scope.
Now, after restarting Visual Studio, you'll be able to restore packages from your private NuGet feed. Voila!


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BT Group EasyShare Services
BT Group EasyShare Services - Forms
This form is needed to transfer shares to another account within EasyShare (including using this form to request the opening of an EasyShare account for a family member).
To transfer shares as a gift to another individual, insert "NIL" in the top left box.
If the new owner is paying for the shares, Stamp Duty is payable. This is normally paid by the new owner and a cheque, as set out in the notes, should be sent with the form.
BT EasyForm A (pdf - 382 KB) - 25/06/2020 - New
You need this form to request a transfer out of EasyShare and for the share certificate to be produced in a name other than your own. See the notes above and on the reverse of the form in respect of Stamp Duty.
If you wish to take your shares out of EasyShare and have a share certificate produced in a name other than your own, that will be free of charge for the first 90 days after your shares are transferred into EasyShare. After that period, there will be a charge for transferring your shares out of EasyShare - these are set out in the EasyShare terms and conditions, so a cheque for £10.00, payable to Equiniti Financial Services Limited, should be sent with the form.
BT EasyForm B (pdf - 149 KB) - 25/06/2020 - New
Form C
This is the form you need to complete if you want a share certificate to be produced in your own name.
If you wish to take your shares out of EasyShare and have a share certificate sent to you, that will be free of charge for the first 90 days after your shares are transferred into EasyShare. After that period, there will be a charge for transferring your shares out of EasyShare - these are set out in the EasyShare terms and conditions, so a cheque for £10.00, payable to Equiniti Financial Services Limited, should be sent with the form.
This does not apply if you sell shares via the share-dealing service providers, which BT has made arrangements with.
BT EasyForm C (pdf - 31 KB) - 25/06/2020 - New
Form D
This form is needed if you wish to transfer into EasyShare the BT Group shares for which you already hold certificates. You will need to enclose all the relevant certificates with the form and you may prefer to use Recorded Delivery or Registered Post. You will receive an opening statement from Equiniti Financial Services Limited once the transfer into Easyshare has been completed.
BT EasyForm D (pdf - 74 KB) - 25/06/2020 - New
This form should be used to transfer shares from EasyShare into another CREST participant account (e.g. a stockbroker or other nominee account), where the beneficial ownership of the shares does not change. You will need the CREST participant account ID and member account number - for further details contact your broker, fund manager or corporate registrar as appropriate. Transfers to another CREST participant account, are free of charge for the first 90 days after your shares are transferred into EasyShare. After that period, there will be a charge for transferring your shares out of EasyShare - these are set out in the EasyShare terms and conditions so a cheque for £10.00, payable to Equiniti Financial Services Limited, should be sent with the form.
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The forms are all available in pdf format. You may need to download and install Adobe ® Acrobat software before accessing the forms.
Once you have completed all the white boxes on the relevant form, it should be sent (no stamp required), along with any supporting documents and/or payment, to
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Az 1788. év a tudományban és a technikában.

Fizika

 Joseph Louis Lagrange publikálja a Mécanique analitique (Analitikus mechanika) című művét.

Díjak

 Copley-érem: Charles Blagden

Születések

 március 22. – Pierre Joseph Pelletier kémikus († 1842)
 október 14. – Edward Sabine csillagász, fizikus, felfedező († 1883)

Halálozások

 április 16. – Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon természettudós (* 1707)
 május 8. – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli természettudós (* 1723)

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Camping World of Rapid City, lied to and cheated me.
My view from the deck.
This post is a warning for anybody thinking of doing business with Camping World, Rapid city, South Dakota. However, I now see this is not a local issue, but a corporate one.
This is not my typical post. But I've been annoyed, frustrated, have wasted far too much time and have decided this is my only option.
I purchased a camper in May of 2016. I was in a bind time wise. My elderly disabled dad and I were moving out of a rental home and into the house my brother and I had purchased. But the house wasn't ready for my dad. So, we needed a camper to get us by. I made a list of what a camper would need and started looking. I finally found what we were looking for and started the paperwork.
During the signing of documents, the costs were adding up. My dad, who also has dementia, was calling me on my cellphone and the process was becoming emotionally strenuous. And the agent knew it.
He pressed and pressed. On the extended warranty, I said the camper would be parked and not be able to be moved as my dad would be living in it.
He assured me that was not a problem. They could simply send somebody out. Not a problem.
And GAP insurance? I knew better.
I gave in. I needed out of there. I needed to get home to my dad. I needed to close on the camper. Time was short.
Since then, I've called several times to get something looked at and every single time I get trapped in the phone maze. "Oh that's not my department." "You need to call the service department." "We don't send people out… that's not covered in the warranty'." And then we start again.
A few nights ago, the furnace stopped working. Yesterday morning I contacted Camping World. Told them the furnace stopped working. I was told the service manager would call me. It's now Friday night. Weekend starting… and then Monday is Christmas Eve and then Christmas.
This is South Dakota. It's winter.
But no call from Camping World, and to be honest, I didn't expect it. It was their last chance. I took my broken furnace as an opportunity to give them one. Their last one. Then I started looking online to see if this was just a fluke. Is it just me that they are ignoring?
I found dozens of reviews that shared my same story. In short, this was all a pattern with camping World. They never intended to honor the warranty. The doc fees are ridiculously high and the GAP insurance is outrageous. Their MO is to wear you down. Just as they did with me.
I've had my hands full with m dad and didn't want to think about all this until the furnace stopped working and I was reminded that I was on my own… and that I had been ripped off. Consciously. All that was missing was a gun.
So, I'm doing what I can to warn others. They owe me $3000 for the warranty (that they never intended to honor), $700 for GAP insurance (which I had said many times I didn't want), and $400 for DOC fees which of course is a ridiculous fee. They should be no more than $50-$75, tops.
I've called and left messages since the beginning. I've been ignored. So, here we are.
I have a blog and I know how to rank on first page of Google… it just takes a little time. I have plenty of time. And this blog oddly gets a decent amount of traffic.


I haven't done a monthly goal post for awhile because...I haven't blogged.
I love September. It's the beginning of the school year, the beginning of my favorite season, football is on, and fall decorations begin to appear.
1. Go to the eye doctor. Well, I'm out of contacts and when I went to the eye doctor in April they didn't give me a prescription for contacts so I have to go back. Not my most favorite thing. I'd rather go to the dentist!
2. Finish my classes. I'm almost done and I can't wait to start the next round of classes. These have seemed to drag on. I think school during summer is just plain hard.
3. Enjoy our date nights. The first week in September we have two date nights planned. Both of which are concerts! My love for dates is very high on my list of favorite things to do!
5. Boy or girl?!?!?! We find out if we are having a boy or girl this month also! I'm so excited and anxious! We'll be happy with either, but Colson is demanding a sister! The wait is almost over!
I have no doubt this will be a September we're going to remember for a long time!
Although it's still really hot in Idaho during September....in my opinion, it's fall!
Hope everyone has a fun September you're looking forward to!


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chriscrubs November 9, 2020 Business, Investing
Biggest Mistake That Small Business Owners Make
This material is brought to you by Michael E. Gerber's best seller, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It. This book has been voted #1 business book by Inc. 500 CEOs and has been endorsed by numerous high-profile businesspeople worldwide.
Did you know that approximately 20% of new businesses fail within the first two years of being open? And of that, 45% don't make it past the first five years, and 65% during the first 10 years. That means that only 25% of all new businesses make it to 15 years or more.[1] What secret does the 25% have that the rest do not know about? First, let's look at the top 10 causes of small business failure:
No market demand: 42%
Ran out of cash: 29%
Not the right team: 23%
Got outcompeted: 19%
Pricing/Cost issues: 18%
User un-friendly product: 17%
Product without a business model: 17%
Poor marketing: 14%
Ignore customers needs & feedback: 14%
Product mistimed: 13%
That was a specific list of reasons, but they all ultimately funnel into one main mistake made by the owner. The E Myth—which has been credited as one of the most valuable books for small business owners, talks about this miraculous solution overlooked by millions of small business owners every year.
Applications for New Businesses in 3rd Quarter of 2020 are the highest on record (since 2004:3) for quarterly series for both likely employers and non-employers. See new release from U.S. Census Bureau
As Covid spurs the highest jobless rate since the Great Depression, the opposite is happening with the number of registered businesses. A boom in entrepreneurship and new business formations of all sizes are up 82% from a year ago. Suppose you are or plan to be one of these new businesses. In that case, you must understand the following to give your business a better chance to thrive in today's competitive economy.
Owning a Job V.S. Owning a Business:
Most new businesses are not started by Entrepreneurs who set out to build a strong business but by technicians who enjoy the hands-on work themselves. Because of that natural bias, most business owners focus on working in their business when really they should be working on their business.
The Technician who runs the company doesn't want growth or change, but precisely the opposite. He wants a place to go to work, free to do what he wants, when he wants, free from the constraints of working for the boss. Unfortunately, what The Technician wants, dooms his business before it even begins.
A technician seen working in the business
Instead of looking at the business as a one-off operation, the owner should view the business as a prototype for many franchises that will be opened at a later stage. By adopting that mindset, the business owner will not only participate in the business as a technician but also act as a Manager (putting systems in place and controls) AND as an Entrepreneur (having a vision of how the business can create sustainable added-value for all key stakeholders).
A business built and managed by someone who combines the Technician, Manager, and Entrepreneur approach will have a far greater chance of future success than one guided by someone thinking like a technician alone.
There are 3 personalities in a small business:
The Technician is the person with the ""If you want it done right, do it yourself" credo. Thinking isn't working; the Technician loves to tinker and get things done. He loves the feel of things and the fact that things can get done.
The Entrepreneur is the visionary, dreamer, in us. He is the catalyst for change. He lives in the future, never in the past, and rarely in the present. He's happiest when left free to construct images of "what-if" and "if-when." In science, the entrepreneurial personality works in the most abstract and least pragmatic areas. In business, he is the innovator, the grand strategist, the creator of new methods for penetrating or creating new markets. It is our creative personality—always at its best dealing with the unknown, prodding the future, inventing probabilities out of possibilities, engineering chaos into harmony.
The Manager is pragmatic. Without The Manager, there would be no planning, no order, no predictability. If The Entrepreneur lives in the future, The Manager lives in the past. Where The Entrepreneur craves control, The Manager craves order. Where The Entrepreneur thrives on change, The Manager compulsively clings to the status quo. Where The Entrepreneur invariably sees the opportunity in events, The Manager consistently sees the problems. The Manager creates neat, orderly rows of things. The Entrepreneur creates the things The Manager puts in rows. The Manager is the one who runs after The Entrepreneur to clean up the mess. Without The Entrepreneur, there would be no mess to clean up. Without The Manager, there could be no business, no society. Without The Entrepreneur, there would be no innovation. The tension between The Entrepreneur's vision and The Manager's pragmatism creates the synthesis from which all great works are born.
Most new businesses are started by technicians—people who are skilled at what they enjoy doing. Technicians start a business assuming they understand the logistics and technical aspects of a business but quickly realize they don't. Building a business requires the founder to encompass all three skillsets (Technician, Entrepreneur, Manager).
Once a business is started, it goes through three critical phases of growth:
Infancy: In this stage, businesses that fail are often operated according to what the owner wants instead of what the business needs. The Technician who runs the company is not looking for growth or change, but for a space to work with no constraints from a boss. As time passes and the company starts getting 100+ customers a day, the Technician quickly realizes that the business must change to survive. He simply cannot handle the bookkeeping, product development, manufacturing, marketing, cleaning, and everything else that needs to be done—all by himself. Being a technician is only a problem when it consumes all other work in the business to where he cannot focus on growing it.
Adolescence: This stage begins when you decide to get some help. This can happen either right away or months after opening, but it always happens due to a crisis in the Infancy stage. Every successful small business must graduate to the adolescence stage. The help needed in this stage is technical help—people who are experienced in your kind of business who can fill in to do the work you don't like. A bookkeeper is also almost always hired at this stage.
Maturity: A Mature business knows how it got to be where it is and what it must do to get where it wants to go. These are the Fortune 500 companies that have already solidified a position in their industry. Maturity is not an inevitable result of the first two phases. It's not the end product of a serial process, from infancy through adolescence. Mature companies like McDonald's, FedEx, and Disney didn't end up as Mature companies; rather, they started as one. A person who begins as a mature company must pass through infancy and adolescence; however, he does so with a different perspective—his entrepreneurial perspective.
Tom Watson, the founder of IBM, attributed his success of the company to starting as a mature company:
"IBM is what it is today for three special reasons. The first reason is that, at the very beginning, I had a very clear picture of what the company would look like when it was finally done. You might say I had a model in my mind of what it would look like when the dream—my vision—was in place. The second reason was that once I had that picture, I then asked myself how a company which looked like that would have to act. I then created a picture of how IBM would act when it was finally done. The third reason IBM has been so successful was that once I had a picture of how IBM would look when the dream was in place and how such a company would have to act, I then realized that, unless we began to act that way from the very beginning, we would never get there. In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one. From the very outset, IBM was fashioned after the template of my vision. And each and every day we attempted to model the company after that template. At the end of each day, we asked ourselves how well we did, discovered the disparity between where we were and where we had committed ourselves to be, and, at the start of the following day, set out to make up for the difference. Every day at IBM was a day devoted to business development, not doing business. We didn't do business at IBM, we built one."
The entrepreneurial perspective views the business as a network of seamlessly integrated components, each contributing to some larger pattern that comes together in such a way as to produce a precisely planned result—a systematic way of doing business. Each step in developing such a business is measurable—if not quantitatively, then at least qualitatively. There's a standard for the business, a form, a way of being that can be translated into things to do today that best exemplifies it. The business operates according to articulated rules and principles. It has a clear, recognizable form.
The entrepreneurial model (AKA Turn-Key or Franchise Model) views your operation as the prototype that a large number of franchise or turn-key operations will later duplicate. The challenge then becomes to maximize the amount of time you spend working on your business rather than in your business. As the Entrepreneur, you create and perfect the system that runs the business, and the people run the system. In the franchise prototype, the system transforms the business into a machine driven by the integrity of its parts, all working in concert toward a realized objective.
As depicted in the movie "The Founder", McDonald's original founders developing their franchise model so it can easily be duplicated and run with minimal oversight from the entrepreneur
The bottom line is that most small businesses fail because a technician starts his own business without adapting the Entrepreneur and manager personalities, hence stunting his progression through the 3 stages a business must pass through. They fail because they work in their business instead of on their business. Turn your business into a fine machine (using the franchise model) where each position understands its role, and each part is systematized.
To read more about how small businesses succeed, I highly recommend reading The E-myth Revisited. It is arguably the best book for all small business owners.
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Did you hear? Margate will once again be hosting the 2019 Florida Safety Fest!
This years Safety Fest brought to you by Metro Health, Wawa, Wal-Mart and more!
CERT is about readiness, people helping people, rescuer safety, and doing the greatest good for the greatest number. CERT is a positive and realistic approach to emergency and disaster situations where citizens will be initially on their own.
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) in Margate, Florida is an all volunteer program that educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.
Margate's CERT also provides support services to the cities Fire Rescue department in the form of Firefighter Rehab, Canteen services and public education / representation.


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/**
 * @brief       Introductory example for the IEEE WF-IOT 2015 Tutorial
 * @author      Cenk Gündoğan <cnkgndgn@gmail.com>
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include "shell.h"
#include "msg.h"
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <thread.h>
#include <xtimer.h>
#include "board.h"
#include "thread.h"
#include "ssd1306.h"
#include "periph/gpio.h"

#define PRIO    (THREAD_PRIORITY_MAIN + 1)
#define Q_SZ    (8)
static msg_t msg_q[Q_SZ];
bool led_status = false;

static char housekeeping_stack[THREAD_STACKSIZE_DEFAULT];

static const shell_command_t shell_commands[];

extern  void *display_handler(void *arg);
static char display_stack[THREAD_STACKSIZE_DEFAULT];

/* Add the shell command function here ###################################### */

int led_control(int argc, char **argv)
{
    if (argc == 2) {
        if (strcmp(argv[1], "on") == 0) {
            led_status = true;
            LED0_ON;
            LED1_OFF;
            return 0;
        }
        else if (strcmp(argv[1], "off") == 0) {
            led_status = false;
            LED0_OFF;
            LED1_ON;
            LED_RGB_OFF;
            return 0;
        }
        else if (strcmp(argv[1], "red") == 0) {
            led_status = false;
            LED_RGB_OFF;
            LED_RGB_R_ON;
            return 0;
        }
        else if (strcmp(argv[1], "green") == 0) {
            led_status = false;
            LED_RGB_OFF;
            LED_RGB_G_ON;
            return 0;
        }
        else if (strcmp(argv[1], "blue") == 0) {
            led_status = false;
            LED_RGB_OFF;
            LED_RGB_B_ON;
            return 0;
        }
    }

    return -1;
}

extern void batch(const shell_command_t *command_list, char *line);

void buttonPressedCallback(void* arg)
{
    puts("button pushed");
}

/* ########################################################################## */
extern int oledCmd(int argc, char **argv);
extern int oledClearAll(void);
extern void oledWriteText(const char *string);

static const shell_command_t shell_commands[] = {

/* Add a new shell command here ############################################# */

    { "led", "use 'led on' to turn the LED on and 'led off' to turn the LED off", led_control },

    { "oled", "test oled display", oledCmd },

    /* ########################################################################## */
    { NULL, NULL, NULL }
};

/* set interval to 1 second */
#define INTERVAL (1000000U)
void *housekeeping_handler(void *arg)
{
   int factor = 1;
   uint16_t i = 0;
    while(1)
    {
        uint32_t last_wakeup = xtimer_now();
        thread_yield();
        xtimer_usleep_until(&last_wakeup, INTERVAL/(2*factor));
        LED0_OFF;
        //LED_RGB_OFF;
        thread_yield();
        xtimer_usleep_until(&last_wakeup, INTERVAL/factor);
        LED0_ON;
        //LED_RGB_R_ON;
        char st[10];
        sprintf(st, "%d", i++);
        oledClearAll();
        oledWriteText(st);
    }
}

int main(void)
{
    msg_init_queue(msg_q, Q_SZ);

    puts("Type 'help' for a list of available commands");

    LED0_OFF;
    LED1_ON;
    LED_RGB_OFF;

    puts("Biotz OLED experiment\n");
    gpio_init_int(BUTTON_GPIO, GPIO_IN_PU, GPIO_RISING, (gpio_cb_t)buttonPressedCallback, NULL);

    kernel_pid_t hkpid = thread_create(housekeeping_stack, sizeof(housekeeping_stack), PRIO, THREAD_CREATE_SLEEPING, housekeeping_handler,
                  NULL, "housekeeping");

    kernel_pid_t dhpid = thread_create(display_stack, sizeof(display_stack), PRIO, THREAD_CREATE_SLEEPING, display_handler,
                  NULL, "display");

    thread_wakeup(hkpid);
    thread_wakeup(dhpid);

    char line_buf[SHELL_DEFAULT_BUFSIZE];
    shell_run(shell_commands, line_buf, SHELL_DEFAULT_BUFSIZE);

    /* never reached */
    return 0;
}

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In an interview earlier this year, Unai Emery discussed his thoughts on changing his team's formation, which might come at the cost of a partnership between Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette.
New Arsenal boss Unai Emery has the luxury of two free-scoring strikers at his disposal next season in the form of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette, but may find it difficult to play both players at the same time.
Lacazette and Aubameyang both joined the Gunners last season in July and January respectively, but rarely played together during Arsene Wenger's last season in charge. Lacazette found the net 14 times in his debut Premier League season, while Aubameyang scored 10 in 13 matches.
And while the pair both stated Emery first pre-season game in charge of Arsenal - an 8-0 win over Borehamwood where Aubameyang scored a 17-minute hat-trick before setting up Lacazette for the Gunners' fifth - an old interview with Emery gives the impression that the Spaniard will opt to pick only one striker up front instead of two.
In an interview with Spanish football author Marti Pernarnau in May of this year, Emery said: "If the ball is in play, you press. If the play stops, you reposition yourself. For me the 4-1-4-1 is the system which facilitates this type of pressing.
"The 4-4-2 is designed more and more for zonal positioning. It's less aggressive, but is more difficult to get past. That's the case with Marcelino's teams, Quique Sanchez Flores' teams, Saint-Etienne when we last played them..."
However, Emery did not completely rule out the idea of never playing a 4-4-2 set-up in his career, stating that he sometimes deployed that formation while at Sevilla.
"I am not ruling out the possibility of 4-4-2. That's not the idea I privilege, but if it allows me to be more competitive, then I'll go towards it without hesitating. We sometimes used it at Sevilla.
Whatever the new Arsenal head coach decides to do, the Gunners will be expected to score a lot of goals next season, with Lacazette and Aubameyang supported by attacking players such as Mesut Ozil, Aaron Ramsey and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.


I turn the page back, and it's the two weeks we spent in the Bahamas. We stayed in a beachfront cabin, enjoying every sunset as if it would be our last, caring about nothing except for the touch of each others' skin. We went diving off the coral reef, swimming among fish with every color of the rainbow while losing ourselves in the glory of Mother Nature's beauty.
Another page turns back, and it's Paris. You finally got to go there for pleasure instead of business. We wined and dined by the Eiffel Tower, hit every single famous landmark we could think of, and took in all the art and architecture we had always wanted to see.
It's our first anniversary, in Florida. Lying on the beach, holding hands, we blotted out everything but our love for each other and let the warm tropical sun melt away the worries of our day jobs.
Our wedding day. I remember how breathless I was when I saw you in your dress for the first time, radiant in your beauty. We never thought the Director would actually come, much less actually smile.
The night I proposed. I knew that you knew the moment we went to that restaurant you had always wanted to go to, but you still pretended to be surprised. Everyone wanted to congratulate us and shake our hands.
Our first date. I doubt I could have botched it more, yet you liked me enough to let me ask you out again. I still remember the lecture the Director gave us afterwards.
I've reached the front cover. I pause for an agonizing minute before I turn the book over and start from the back again.
I read every word of my termination notice again. I remember the look on the Director's face as she handed me the slip of paper and told me to clean out my desk. I remember that fleeting moment when I saw for the first time a sadness so profound that it could not be described by words, and realized deep down that it was because she couldn't bear to look me in the eye.
I turn back another page and the last of the letters bleeds its sympathy at me again. "John, this is the last time we'll be writing…"
"John, I know it's only been a few months, but we all think that you should…"
"John, it might be too soon, but…"
"John, we're all so sorry…"
"John, I am sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but your wife did not make it to her designated evacuation point following the containment breach and total loss of Site 29. At this time, we are forced to assume that she was killed in action along with the rest of her team…"
It's the last photo of you again, along with the note you wrote me that one fateful day. A piece of simple, lined notebook paper with the hand-scribbled words, "see you at seven". A single tear falls onto the page and I quickly wipe it away to prevent it from damaging the book, even though I know it's a futile gesture. The countless tears that came before have left their mark on it already.
I see you beaming with pride at the party celebrating your promotion once more. I remember all the conversations, lectures and arguments we had, and the Director reminding us in that quiet way of hers that while she would never order us either way, that there is always the unspoken risk in our line of work when it comes to being in love with our coworkers.
I turn the page back, and it's the two weeks we spent in the Bahamas for the thousandth time, and for the thousandth time I wish that as I turn back the book I could turn back time just so I could have one more minute, one more second with you.
Another page turns back, and I die a little more inside.


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Announcing the Winners of the 2022 UT Pharmacy Alumni Awards
The Texas Pharmacy Alumni Association has selected Emmanuel Enwere, Pharm.D., M.S., CPHIMS, Jamie C. Barner, Ph.D., FAACP, FAPhA and M. Lynn Crismon, Pharm.D., FCCP, DABCP, BCPP as the 2022 Alumni Award recipients. This year's winners will be honored on November 12, 2022 at the Texas Pharmacy Homecoming Tailgate, generously sponsored by H-E-B.
Alumni: Help Prepare the Next Gen—Sponsor a White Coat
Your gift of $40 or more will purchase one or more white coats for incoming pharmacy students. Becoming a sponsor is an exciting and rewarding way for UT Pharmacy alumni to make a personal connection with the entering students.
The UT College of Pharmacy Alumni Association has selected Benjamin McNabb, Pharm.D., Julie Johnson, Pharm.D. and Jeanne D. Waggener, R.Ph. as the 2021 Alumni Award recipients. 2020 and 2021 Alumni Award winners will be honored on November 13, 2021 at the Pharmacy Homecoming Tailgate, generously sponsored by H-E-B.
Nominate a College of Pharmacy Alum by August 31
The College of Pharmacy Alumni Association seeks nominations for the three awards that honor alumni and friends of the college. The deadline to submit nominations is August 31, 2021 and awards will be presented at the College of Pharmacy Homecoming Tailgate on Saturday, November 13, 2021.
Williams Talks to KXAN About How Thin Film Freezing Can Help Treat COVID Patients
Division Head and Professor of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Dr. Bill Williams was on KXAN News to talk about promising new data from TFF Pharmaceuticals and Augmenta Bioworks. The companies plan to develop Dr. Williams' thin film freezing technology to better deliver antibody treatment directly to the lungs of COVID patients.
College Exceeds Sponsor a White Coat Fundraising Goal
Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of UT College of Pharmacy alumni, the college exceeded its goal for 2021's Sponsor a White Coat campaign. The college raised $8,880 toward its $5,000 target.


Judith Mikami – Jarman International K.K.
Favorite Thing About Living in Japan: The people, history, and food. I hope to travel to every corner of Japan to learn about the culture, taste the food and make new friends.
Favorite Place to Visit in Japan: Okayama Prefecture, where I have been living for the past 25 years!
BIO: Judith has lived in Okayama prefecture for 25 years. She's originally from Auckland, New Zealand. In NZ, she was elected onto Waitemata City council at the age of 18 years old where she served for three years. She was also a director for PACOM (Pacific Asia Congress of Municipalities) which consisted of councils in the Pacific and Asian countries. She has her own company that works around Japan but in the last nine years, she's been focusing on West Japan. She's been married for more than 20 years and has four children.


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/*Problem 13. Binary to Decimal Number

Using loops write a program that converts a binary integer number to its decimal form.
The input is entered as string. The output should be a variable of type long.
Do not use the built-in .NET functionality.
Examples:

binary	                        decimal
0	                               0
11	                               3
1010101010101011	             43691
1110000110000101100101000000	236476736*/

using System;

class BinaryDecimalNum
{
    static void Main()
    {
        // input
        Console.WriteLine("Enter number in Binary representacion: ");
        Console.WriteLine(new string('-', 40));
        Console.Write("Enter Binary number -> ");
        string input = Console.ReadLine();

        int count = input.Length - 1;
        long decimalNumber = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
        {
            decimalNumber += long.Parse(input[i].ToString()) * (long)Math.Pow(2, (count - i));
        }

        // output
        Console.WriteLine(decimalNumber);
    }
}


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Do not infuse fear psychosis for political mileage: Akila Viraj Kariyawasam tells the opposition
Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam has appealed to the opposition parties not to infuse fear psychosis among the people in order to gain cheap political mileage.
He made this observation taking part in the Adjournment Motion debate on Tuesday.
During the debate, Kariyawasam said:
"The opposition attempts to force the closure of schools for cheap political mileage. The government has provided adequate security for schools after taking into consideration the reports of the Security Council and Intelligence Units. Student attendance in the Uva Province was 20 percent on Monday and this figure had increased to 40 percent on Tuesday. However, student attendance would increase in due course. Although the attendance of the students was very low on Monday, the number had increased by two fold on Tuesday in most of the areas. Conducting security checks at all schools countrywide were completed by Sunday and security personnel had been deployed to all schools.
Before seven days had lapsed, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said that he would contest the Presidential Election. He attempts to become the President over the bodies of the deceased. In the past, those leaders had given money to 28 extremists and to the Bodu Bala Sena too. Even the Pentagon was attacked and bomb attacks took place in France. Their intelligence failed too. That was the nature of global terrorism."


The Sega Genesis Mini just added ten more games, including two licensed Disney games.
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They said it would never release on a Nintendo console, but today, 22 years after it first debuted on the Sony Playstation, Final Fantasy VII has just released on the Nintendo Switch. I'm really excited to finally get a chance to play this classic RPG for the first time ever.
Viewist looks back at the rise and fall of Epyx https://youtu.be/6JC13Tdo4SI It's interesting to learn who was involved throughout the company's history. Jon Freeman was part of FreeFall, which would go on to develop such titles as Archon. As it was pointed out on the Reddit thread, two items that were not mentioned in the video were the 500XJ joystick and the Fast Load cartridge. And yes, there is a tie-in with Atari.
We watched "WarGames" (1983) last night. It wasn't as dated as I thought it would be.
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🏆 🎈 🎉 🍾 Happy 75th Birthday to Atari & Chuck E. Cheese founder Nolan Bushnell!
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