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CES 2021: Asus Unveils New ZenBook Pro Duo 15, VivoBook S14, & TUF Dash Laptops
January 13, 2021 David Albert	Asus, CES, Dash, Duo, laptops, Pro, S14, TUF, Unveils, VivoBook, ZenBook
In addition to new gaming laptops under its ROG portfolio, Asus is also expanding its ZenBook, VivoBook, and entry-level TUF laptop lineup at CES 2021. The company has refreshed its ZenBook Duo lineup with an improved design, VivoBook S14 with better internals, and added a new TUF gaming laptop to its kitty.
Asus Laptops Launched at CES 2021
Starting off with the ZenBook Pro Duo 15, it is the company's next-gen 15-inch laptop and equipped with the new tilting Asus ScreenPad Plus. Asus has brought over this tilting second screen from the ROG Zephyrus Duo gaming laptop. Another major highlight of this laptop is the fact that both the main and secondary screens have a 4K resolution. You will find a 4K OLED HDR display at the top and a 4K touchscreen at the bottom.
The titling display is coupled with the company's AAS+ cooling system, which further helps improve the laptop's performance. Zephyrus Pro Duo 15 is powered by up to the latest 11th-Gen Intel Core i9 CPU and up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 laptop GPUs. This is coupled with 32GB of DDR4 RAM, up to 1TB PCIe SSD storage, and a bigger 92Wh battery that supports fast-charging.
Asus has also upgraded the non-Pro ZenBook Duo, which boasts a 14-inch Full-HD primary panel and a secondary touchscreen with the new tilting design. It includes the latest 11th-Gen Intel Core U-series CPU, up to Nvidia MX450 GPU, and more. The rest of the key specifications look pretty similar to the 15-inch variant.
Asus has also refreshed VivoBook S14 with upgraded internals and design. It is now Intel Evo-verified, which means it is powered by the 11th-Gen Intel Core i7 processor with Intel Iris Xe graphics support. This is coupled with 16GB RAM, Intel Optane Memory H10, and up to 1TB PCIe SSD storage.
"VivoBook S14 also incorporates the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology, which delivers up to a 40% performance boost 4 while conserving battery life, enhancing cooling efficiency and ensuring quiet operations," as per the blog post.
Asus claims that it is the lightest 14-inch VivoBook model, weighing just 1.3kg. It also boasts a slim 15.9mm profile with diamond-cut edges, Deep Green all-metal chassis, and a unique new VivoBook logo on the lid. This laptop also includes Thunderbolt 4 ports, Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A ports, a microSD card reader, and more.
The latest addition to the company's TUF gaming lineup is the TUF Dash. It boasts a slim (14% smaller) and lightweight (10% lighter) design, along with an 810G MIL-STD durability rating. The laptop offers two display options – a 240Hz/ 3ms Full-HD panel with 100% sRGB color gamut support or a 144Hz Full-HD panel with 65% sRGB color gamut support. The latter is the same as the current-gen TUF laptops.
Under the hood, TUF Dash is powered by up to the latest 11th-Gen Intel Core i7 H-series processor and up to GeForce RTX 3070 laptop GPU. You will also find up to 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 RAM and up to 1TB SSD storage. Asus also offers you an advanced cooling system, including a heat spreader and five copper heat pipes, and N-Blade fans. There's also a Thunderbolt 4 port onboard to connect an external GPU and it supports a 100W Type-C charger.
The TUF Dash also carries a new logo and a prominent TUF branding on the top panel. It will be available in two colorways – Moonlight white and Eclipse Black. Asus will be sharing the price and availability details, subject to region, over the coming weeks. So, stay tuned for more information.
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Sono qui riportate le conversioni tra le antiche unità di misura in uso nel circondario di Clusone e il sistema metrico decimale, così come stabilite ufficialmente nel 1877.
Nonostante l'apparente precisione nelle tavole, in molti casi è necessario considerare che i campioni utilizzati (anche per le tavole di epoca napoleonica) erano di fattura approssimativa o discordanti tra loro.

Misure di lunghezza

Il braccio mercantile di Bergamo, il braccio da fabbrica di Bergamo ed il braccio di Milano si dividono in 12 once, l'oncia in 12 punti, il punto in 12 atomi.

Il cavezzo si divide in 6 piedi, il piede in 12 once, l'oncia in 12 punti, il punto in 12 atomi.

Misure di superficie

La pertica si divide in 24 tavole, la tavola in 12 piedi di tavola, il piede in 12 once, l'oncia in 12 punti, il punto in 12 atomi di tavola.

Il braccio quadrato da fabbrica di Bergamo ed il braccio quadrato di Milano si dividono in 12 once, l'oncia in 12 punti, il punto in 12 atomi di braccio quadrato.

Misure di volume

Il braccio cubo da fabbrica di Bergamo ed il braccio cubo di Milano si dividono in 12 once, l'oncia in 12 punti, il punto in 12 atomi di braccio cubo.

Misure di capacità per gli aridi

Il sacco di Bergamo si divide in 8 staia, lo Staio in 4 quartari, il quartaro in 4 sedicini, il sedicino in 4 quartini.

Nel Mandamento di Lovere si usa il sacco di Clusone col nome di sacco da mulo e si divide in 2 sacchi da portino.

Misure di capacità per i liquidi

La brenta di Bergamo si divide in 6 secchie, la secchia in 9 pinte, la pinta in 2 boccali, il boccale in 4 zaine.

La soma o cavallo di Sovere si divide in 50 pinte, la pinta in 2 boccali.

Pesi

La libbra grossa si divide in 30 once, la libbra piccola in 12 once, l'oncia in 24 denari, il denaro in 24 grani.

Per gli usi farmaceutici si adoperava la libbra piccola mercantile e la libbra medica di Vienna eguale a grammi 420,008.

Gli orefici usavano il marco di zecca di Milano di grammi 234,997, il carato d'Olanda di grammi 0,20567 ed il carato di Venezia di grammi 0,20703.

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Antiche unità di misura italiane

Provincia di Bergamo

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COSMETIC CONDITION: Excellent. There is one tiny piece of the grill which has lifted very slightly around the bottom of one of the round windows. Unopened detail packs. Includes instructions.


Posted in: Operating Systems.	Tagged: best operating systems, Mac OS, mac vs windows, operating system, which OS is better, Windows.
By now you have no doubt heard about that age old debate between computer users: Windows vs. Mac OS. This isn't anything new and both systems have their pros and cons. This doesn't mean that they are identical, though, and the truth is that you are probably going to be better served by one system over the other. Take a look at the features of both Windows and Mac that we will show you in this article and then make up your mind for yourself.
You shouldn't choose windows, if you are really worried about security. If you are a Windows user, then you already know about computer viruses. For some reason, users of a Mac are less likely to get a virus, but mainly the majority of people are using Windows. Spyware and malware have the same type of results. It will cost extra time and money, when you have a Windows OS, because you will have to have an anti-virus software, and it will need to be updated regularly The threats will be much fewer when you have a Mac, but it is still wise to take precautions. When you reveal your own data to a scam artist or hacker, you are causing security issues by your own actions, and you should always remember that. There are many issues that would never happen, if you used common sense, and it doesn't matter what computer.
Aside from price, the main advantage of Windows is that it gives you more choices and the ability to customize. In terms of Mac, you only have one company: Apple. PC computers, on the other hand, are manufactured by all sorts of companies from the huge and easily recognizable to the small and rarely seen.
The advantage of this is that you can build a PC piece by piece if you want. You can go online, for example, and buy a custom system, which not only allows you to save money, but also ensures that you're only getting exactly what you need. Macs come with plenty of their own benefits, but buying one pretty much commits you to whatever is in the box.
You shouldn't buy your computer totally because of the way it looks, but it is important to most people. There are a lot of people who end up getting a Mac, because they like the way it looks. High functioning products that looked nice, as well as being ergonomic, have always been the goal of Apple, and that is where their design efforts have been focused. If you were wondering why most other brands were less expensive than Apple products, this could be the reason. As long as you are willing to take the time to look, you can find an appealing computer that is Windows-based. It is important to consider, but still the design of a computer isn't the most important factor. The above points regarding Windows vs Mac OS are just some of the things you should consider before making a choice. If you have been having a hard time making up your mind, it's a good idea to visit one of the larger computer stores, including maybe your local Apple store if one is convenient where you live. You'll find that it's easier to make a final decision once you've gotten up close and personal with all of your options.


After months of waiting it finally arrived. "A Single Throat Opens," a lyric exploration of addiction, is now available here! Part memoir, part epistolary experiment, this collaboration (written with Meghan McClure) means so much to me.
I've been able to move beyond some of the conflicts I've held onto from my childhood. Addiction is never something in the past; it's a continuation. I hope in writing this I have been able to continue toward something bright and lovely. I hope I have been able to provide those dealing directly or indirectly with addiction some comfort.
The awards will be held on October 14th at the Central Library in Seattle. To be held in the same esteem as poets like Paisley Rekdal and Tara Hardy, Don Mee Choi and Megan Snyder-Camp, seems like a strange slip up. These are poets I've heard about for years, and who am I but a reader with a golden ticket?
Other nominees in the various other categories include Sherman Alexie, Lindy West, and Ted Chiang. If you live in the Seattle area and attend the ceremony, I'll be the one looking dazzled but happy, a reader surrounded by writers.
I'm happy to have one of my poems featured on the Crab Creek Review blog! It owes a debt to Kevin Young's beautiful poems in his "Book of Hours." If you missed this book when it first came out, I highly recommend going back and remedying that. It is gorgeous.
or what to hunger for.
Read the rest of the poem here!


Home » What is EnergyPATHWAYS?
EnergyPATHWAYS is the modeling tool the U.S.DDPP developed to create its landmark national decarbonization reports, and to support city, state and regional decarbonization efforts. The tool set was originally developed as part the California Public Utilities Commission work on limiting carbon emissions. Since that time, it has been improved and generalized to work on a multi-national, national, regional, state or local level, it has been expanded to support researchers in other countries, and it has been turned into an open-source project.
Today, EnergyPATHWAYS is being used by other groups in the U.S., including NGOs, research institutions and public utilities and regulating agencies, and we expect other countries to begin to use it for their own national decarbonization reports.
U.S. DDPP will continue to develop and enhance the EnergyPATHWAYS platform and to use EnergyPATHWAYs on future reports at all geographical levels.


Co-op Essentials is an accelerated version of the required course for co-op students, COOP 101. It is designed for non-traditional students with significant work history. The course covers all of the essential job development topics including, introduction to the SCDC and SCDConline, resumes, interviewing, and workplace issues. The emphasis of Co-op Essentials is on integrating and adapting the student's previous experience to a co-op environment.
Restrictions: Can enroll if concentration is 4COP or concentration is 4TOP or concentration is 5COP or concentration is 5TOP.
Prepares new students to achieve success, personally and academically, in their first co-operative education experience. Topics covered include career exploration, resume skills, interview techniques, professional conduct in the job search, contemporary workplace issues, and job searching and the Internet.
Professional Skills Enrichment is designed to enable the student to hone their job search skills. Taught as a series of workshops, each class focuses on a different career-related topic including Networking, Utilizing Social Networking Sites, and Mastering the Interview. Students are required to attend a mock interview and participate in a mock networking event.


Woodrow Harry Kratz, who devised a system for the automatic delivery of fuel oil and later operated an air-conditioning and cleaning-solvents business, died of respiratory failure Sept. 5 at Bonnie Blink Masonic Home in Cockeysville. He was 89, and a former Sparks resident.
Mr. Kratz was born and raised in West Baltimore and graduated from Polytechnic Institute in 1929.
While working as a route dispatcher for Standard Oil Co. in Baltimore in the early 1930s, Mr. Kratz came up with the idea of automatic fuel delivery.
"He devised the Esso Watch Dog Degree Day System using the 'K' factor [after Kratz] to project automatic delivery of heating oil," said his son, Alan R. Kratz of Eldersburg. The system -- which is still in use -- is based on a customer's pattern of oil consumption and the "degree days" calculated by subtracting 65 from a day's average temperature.
In 1939, Standard Oil discontinued kerosene deliveries, and Mr. Kratz took over the routes and subsequently added fuel oil. He later established Globe Solvents Co. of Maryland, which delivered industrial cleaning solvents to area businesses.
During World War II, he served in the Army's 45th Division, and in 1944, participated in the invasion of Anzio, Italy. He attained the rank of sergeant.
In the early 1950s, to keep his fuel oil company employees busy in the summer months, he established Woodrow H. Kratz Sales & Service, one of Baltimore's early Carrier air-conditioning dealers.
Mr. Kratz retired in 1999.
He was a past president of the Pikesville Lions Club and the Oil Heat Association of Maryland.
In 1939, Mr. Kratz married Eunice Graf, who died in 1975.
In addition to his son, he is survived by his wife of 26 years, the former Doris Sturm of Sparks; and a grandson.


President Mario Draghi said the European Central Bank expects to keep interest rates low for an "extended period" as he tries to restrain market borrowing costs, a new departure for a central bank averse to setting policy in advance.
With ECB officials today leaving their main refinancing rate at 0.5 percent, Draghi fleshed out their outlook for monetary policy after investors pushed up long-term bond yields, threatening economic growth. The statement came on the same day that the Bank of England also tried to manage investor expectations in Mark Carney's first week as governor.
Stocks and bonds rose, while the euro fell after Draghi's comments. The remarks followed a surge in Portugal 's 10-year bond yield above 8 percent for the first time since November and after the Federal Reserve signalled it may soon pull back monetary stimulus.
By using so-called forward guidance, Draghi's aim is to persuade investors that the ECB has no plans to end its easy policy stance so they in turn will keep longer-term rates low, paving the way for consumers and households to borrow cheaply and bolster economic activity. Historically, Draghi and predecessor Jean-Claude Trichet have said that the ECB "never precommits" to any future monetary policy.
The reason for taking what he called an "unprecedented" step was the ECB's expectation that the subdued outlook for inflation will extend into the medium-term amid broad-based weakness in the 17-nation euro-area economy, Draghi said.
"The risks surrounding the economic outlook for the euro area continue to be on the downside," he said, pointing to recent tightening in global financial conditions as one threat.
The Stoxx 600 Index jumped and was 2.1 percent higher at 291.54 points at 3:03 p.m. in Frankfurt . The euro declined, falling as low as $1.2883 from $1.2985 before the press conference. The yield on Portugal 's 10-year bond yield, which yesterday climbed to 8 percent for the first time since November, declined as low as 7.37 percent.
David Fuller's view It is hard to believe that anyone seriously thought that Mario Draghi and the ECB were likely to raise rates anytime soon. Nevertheless, this welcome statement for the markets was a departure from the ECB's cautious policy that it "never precommits", previously introduced by Mr Draghi's predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet.
Europe has a long list of economic problems, as everyone knows. However, all those forecasts over a number of years, claiming that the Eurozone could or should break up and might even collapse, missed two critical points as I have long maintained: 1) That the euro would survive, if that is what most European politically leaders actually want; 2) Mario Draghi's ECB has been politically and economically astute, and therefore very effective under extremely difficult and chaotic circumstances.


There hasn't been a foreign pianist who has caused such a stir since Glenn Gould's arrival in Moscow in the midst of the Cold War, or Van Cliburn's victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition.
Though placed "only" fourth at the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition in July 2015 Lucas Debargue was the only musician across all disciplines who was awarded the coveted Moscow Music Critic's Prize. Straight after this incredible breakthrough Lucas Debargue is invited to play solo and with leading orchestras in the most prestigious concert halls in Russia, France, Italy, the UK, Germany, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, South Korea and with such famous conductors as Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Jurowsky, Andrey Boreyko, Tougan Sokhiev, Gidon Kremer, Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Fedoseev.
Lucas Debargue has already released three CDs, the first with works of Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt and Ravel (March 2016), the second with works of Bach, Beethoven and Medtner (September 2016) and the third with works of Schubert and Szymanowski (October 2017), all with the Sony Classical label.
Born in 1990, Lucas Debargue was 11 years old when he took his first piano lessons at the Compiègne Conservatory, in the class of Christine Muenier. He got quickly fascinated by the virtuoso repertoire, yet it wasn't until 10 years later, after he had graduated from Paris Diderot University with a Bachelor's Art Degree, that he decided to return to studying piano at the professional level.
After a year of studies at the Beauvais Conservatory in the class of Philippe Tamborini, he was put in touch in 2011 with his current mentor, the celebrated Russian professor Rena Shereshevskaya. This encounter became decisive for Lucas: she quickly recognized in him a piano interpreter with a great future and accepted him in her class at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot to prepare him for the major international competitions.
During his studies he was supported by the École Normale, the Zaleski Foundation as well as by the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Massy and the orchestral ensemble Les voyages extraordinaires. In 2014 he won the 1st prize at the 9th Gaillard International Piano Competition (France) before becoming one of the prize winners at the 15th Tchaikovsky Competition when the world instantly discovered a startling and original new talent.
In parallel with the studies at the École Normale he entered the Paris National Superior Music Conservatory which he left in June 2015 with a Licence Degree. But he never interrupted his his studies at the École Normale: in April 2016 he obtained there a Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste with a Special Cortot Prize and at present he continues to do his post-graduate work with Rena Shereshevskaya at the same school.
Engagements for the 2017–2018 season include concerts with the Orchestre National de France at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra at the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Russian National Orchestra at the Berliner Philharmonie, appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and Symphony Center in Chicago as well as tours to cities in Japan (Hiroshima, Tokyo and Osaka), Russia (Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kazan and Moscow) and Germany (Karlsruhe, Cologne, Essen and Munich).
Lucas Debargue draws inspiration for his playing from literature, painting, cinema, jazz and develops very personal interpretation of a carefully selected repertoire. Though the core piano repertoire is central to his career, Lucas Debargue is also keen to present works by lesser-known composers such as Nikolai Medtner, Samuel Maykapar or Nikolai Roslavets. He also composes his own music, and some of his works have already been premiered in Russia as well as in France.


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Using Star Power To Grow Your Business with Sarah Shaw
We appreciated the new perspective that Sarah brought to today's show! Even if you don't have your sights set on celebrities, her tips are great for any business owner wanting to grow through influencers.
Sarah Shaw is a 3rd generation entrepreneur, and she has done it all. She's worked in the film industry, had a successful handbag business, and is particularly skilled at reaching out to celebrities to get her products more recognition and make more sales. She now teaches others how to do just that at sarahshawconsulting.com. In addition to all of this, she's a single mom to 9-year-old identical twin girls.
On the Podcast
1:10 – Launching A Handbag Business
10:15 – How Do You Even Get A Celebrity's Address!?
11:36 – Filling Huge Department Store Orders
17:20 – Hitting $500,000 in Sales In 2 Years
20:05 – Tenacity in Business
24:00 – Setting Your Business Revenue Goals
28:30 – Getting Your Products in Front of Celebrities
37:00 – Leveraging Self-Confidence
40:28 – Sarah's Adorable Mommy Moment
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Launching A Handbag Business
How did Sarah get started in business? And what made her handbags a smashing success? She started her handbag company on a whim while working in the film business, doing costumes for movies. She had this random idea, which surprised her because she never thought she'd be an entrepreneur. "I am a third generation entrepreneur, but I thought no way would that life be for me! I want a steady paycheck and retirement!"
She started her handbag company on a whim while working in the film business, doing costumes for movies. She had this random idea, which surprised her because she never thought she'd be an entrepreneur. "I am a third generation entrepreneur, but I thought no way would that life be for me! I want a steady paycheck and retirement!" Sarah rememebers.
But when small business is in your DNA, it's hard to fight. Sarah worked on this handbag idea during her nights and weekends, shuffling around her schedule to do it. She asked everyone she had ever met in her life for help. It felt a bit dumb, but she didn't let the feeling deter her from trying.
One of her big, early mistakes was that she didn't have any insights on figuring out pricing structure. When you have a product-based business and are laying out money to create your items, if you're not correctly pricing your work you'll go out of business fast.
Service-based businesses have it a bit easier in terms of pricing. Their ROI is generally higher, and oftentimes the startup costs aren't as steep.
As her business grew, Sarah knew she had to get on top of pricing. Let's say a bag cost her $25 to make. She might be selling those wholesale at $50, while a store sold it for $100. She didn't know how markups worked and her numbers didn't add up. When she would sell bags person-to-person, she would maybe sell a bag for $30 or $40 and feel good about it because she just wanted her money back. Profitability was not on her mind, and it would have driven her out of business if she didn't realize her pricing structure wasn't sustainable.
The one business aspect she totally DID get right off the bat was marketing. She wasn't afraid to ask people, even those she didn't know well, if they wanted to buy her bags. Then, friends of friends started asking for a Sarah Shaw Handbag and word spread around LA. Some of Sarah's friends worked on movie or television sets, and she asked if she could set up a table of her handbags at lunch. She sold a few more bags this way.
Over dinner one night, a costume designer friend of Sarah's was lamenting the fact that she had to outfit Donald Sutherland in only Donna Karan clothes. (Donna Karan was a big name designer in the late 1990s.) Then Sarah had a lightbulb moment: I can get my products to celebrities and let them market for me!
Before the age of social media, what a brilliant way to get your product in front of more eyes!
Sarah recalls, "I called everyone I knew who had film connections and started to get bags into the hands of agents and publicists."
As Sarah built her business, she started an email list of people who purchased her bags. When she started her celebrity product project she sent an email to her list of 1,000 and told them what she was doing, letting them know that she was getting bags to celebrities. (This was a great practice run of some promotional emails she would be sending later!)
About 5 to 6 months after sending those initial bags, Sarah had an unexpected payoff when Liv Tyler showed up on the pages of InStyle magazine holding one of her bags she had sent over months and months earlier. Another day Sarah was waiting in an office and flipped open US Weekly to find Kristen Davis carrying one of her bags, too!
At that point, Sarah "started sending those pictures to magazines, mentioning the celebrity holding her product, and they started writing about it. Not many people were seeding celebrities with products at that time, but it seemed logical" to Sarah. She was a pioneer in that field.
After that, her business took off!
She got her bags to over 70 A-List celebrities. She made bags specifically for Julia Roberts in Oceans 11 and America's Sweethearts. Those bags were purchased by Bergdorf Goodman and Sundance Catalogue, respectively.
In one of her most business-changing connections, Sarah was asked to make a bag for the Legally Blonde movie. Though the bag was never seen in the film, it did make the cut of an advertising poster. Thanks to the publicity, her company went from half a million in sales to a million that year. Nordstrom bought tons of bags, over $150,000 worth. And Sony Pictures was so excited about it that they sent over mini movie posters to include in each bag.
Sarah appeared on E! Entertainment and Access Hollywood. She found that success really builds on itself.
Sarah is grateful for this unique way to have her product validated: "You need to make sure you have something to keep you going, and to know that you have something more than just you and your mom think is cute!" And Sarah's celebrity endorsements certainly prove that.
How Do You Even Get A Celebrity's Address!?
We had to ask, how do you even go about getting the address of a celebrity!? Sarah's business started before internet use really took off. Back then, she just called up agencies to ask who represented So-and-So. Sometimes she would write a letter or send the product with a note, "Could you please get this to Sarah Jessica Parker?" But there was no way to verify if her bag got into the hands of the celeb.
Now, Sarah recommends using ContactAnyCelebrity.com. This site has contact information for pretty much any famous person on the planet.
Filling Huge Department Store Orders
A lot of moms listening are thinking that it would be a dream come true for a big store to place orders for their products! Does Sarah have tips to help make sure this mega-business dream would work out? Is it even profitable?
Sarah strongly cautions mompreneurs to take any relationship with department stores very slowly, saying, "They're not always your best friend. They could love you today and hate you tomorrow." And one return of a mass order from a department store could easily bankrupt your business.
Sarah recommends getting a solid base of small stores (think boutiques and shops) who actually know and support you first. Then you could turn to department or mass market stores (think Costco and Target). Really think about working with those bigger retailers as icing on the cake.
Sarah explained that these days, most stores work essentially on consignment – though it's more complicated than that. Usually, in the small print, they'll have language referring to either a 30, 60 or 90-day period after which all of your products would get returned if they don't sell.
For moms who do want to pursue bigger stores, Sarah recommends you test the waters first. Either suggest or agree to a small test run of products before going big time. She says most stores will want to start small anyway, but really encourage it – and be thrilled with the chance, since, as she says, "If it doesn't go well, it won't be a financial disaster." (Hard words to hear, but true.) Picture a store chain with 80 to 90 stores. You might suggest testing your product in their top 10 stores first.
Sarah also warns that working with the buyer can be SUPER important. You want to ensure they're purchasing your best bestseller, not just their favorite product. (And you'll have to listen to the podcast for a fun entrepreneur family story Sarah has.)
Bottom line: you know your products best, and send what you know will work. You're the expert on your product! Her wisdom was SO good and applies to lots of areas of business.
Hitting $500,000 in Sales In 2 Years
One of Sarah's businesses made an impressive $500,000 in sales during her first 2 years, with just one patented product!
"I'm kinda an animal when it comes to business!" Sarah says. She had lots of investors in her handbag company but had to close the business in 2002 when she lost most of her investors after 9/11. She hobbled along in business for a while but realized she couldn't function without that investor money.
She tried a few ideas but realized how much she didn't know about running a business. With Sarah Shaw Handbags, a lot of her day-to-day operations were hired out. So she started teaching herself Photoshop, email marketing, and website building.
In 2003 she created the genius idea of a handbag organizer. She patented the product and thought she'd have an easy time getting it into the hands of all the stores she once sold handbags to. Her attitude was very carefree, "I have all these stores who sold my handbags and they love me! I'll sell a ton!"
But none of those handbag reps wanted her new product.
'It lit a fire under my rear end!" Sarah said. And she thought, "I'm going to show you all you're missing something huge!"
And she set out on a mission.
Tenacity in Business
Sarah initially kept her focus on high-end stores found in the pages of fashion magazines. (Remember, this was in 2003-2004. There were very minimal search engine optimization and no social media!) Then she had a shift in her strategy: "I started looking for distributors overseas. I wondered what it would be like to work with mass distributors like QVC and Walmart." She took a closer look and realized that the small stores were really making up the bulk of her revenue. She made enough to get personal revenue for herself, about 85 stores in her 1st year, and at end of 2nd year she sold in 400 stores
The business snowballed from there.
Much like her handbags, she got the product to media outlets and to celebs. She even made custom handbag hangers for Jennifer Aniston! She also scored a magazine feature in Redbook and sold about 900 hangers after that. Sarah said that living in Los Angeles it's easy get lost in celebrity magazines – like Marie Clarie and Harper's Bazaar – and forget about the other magazines that actually have some of the largest reaches in the country.
Needless to say, Sarah's tenacity paid off. She called a minimum of 10 stores a day trying to get her handbags in: "I'd psyche myself up and gather all my selling materials around me, then I'd pick up the phone. I don't take no for an answer…as long as they leave the door open, I'm going to keep putting my foot through it."
Setting Your Business Revenue Goals
No matter your business, Sarah says you've got to spend the time on the avenue driving your business. "I don't like to think about how much the company as a whole will make. What I like to do is figure how much money I personally want to make and go from there." A $1M goal, for example, is huge! Take the money goal and divide it by how many products you have to sell to hit that goal. Maybe I need to sell 1,000 products to make $1 million. And you need 100 stores to order 10 units. If you don't think you can get 100 stores in a year, and they each ordered 4 times a year, you'd still make the money. Break down your goal into more manageable bites and work on hitting those goals one at a time. (Maybe it'll be something like every 10th store you call gives you a yes, then you know that you need to call 10 stores each day for 10 days to get the number that you need!)
In Sarah's case, she wasn't getting anywhere with the stores she usually sold to. So what did she do? She found sales reps who could help her, and also help her product get licensed. "Suddenly I could turn my one product in twelve colors into something to support my family."
Getting Your Products in Front of Celebrities
Sarah has carved out a real space in the marketplace for herself, getting businesses owners connected with celebrities to promote their products. I had to ask if she could give us specific advice on how other women in business can reach out to celebs and actually get noticed by getting products into the right hands.
Sarah had a few really solid tips:
Know your customer base and which celebs would resonate with them. If you go after Celebrity A but they don't necessarily care about her, no matter how much you push it the news will fall flat because they like Celebrity B better. You really want a return for all this effort!
Be clear about why you're getting your particular product or service to THAT particular celeb.
If the celebrity is never seen out and about, it may not be worth your time to source them with products. Make sure you're sending to celebrities who keep a public profile. (For example, if you make baby hair clips you could send it to someone who just had a baby. And if they're the type to take their baby on walks in the stroller, it would be a good bet to send your product to that celebrity.)
When you find that perfect celebrity, reach out to them and write an honest note about why you want to send them your product. Most of the time celebrities are happy to receive the offer; it's rare that you'll get a no.
Follow up with the agent or publicists to ensure that the celebrity has received your product.
Once you have confirmed that the celebrity has your gift in hand, Sarah thinks it's great to put up a landing page on your site featuring everyone who has your product. If you do this, it is very important to get the disclaimers right. Something like, "We know these celebrities have received their product as a gift and were not paid to receive the product as a gift. These individuals have not reviewed this product."
Sarah is a huge fan of the media blitz! She thinks it's a great idea to write to popular magazines and tell them which celebrities have your product. (Fun fact: you do not need to purchase permission to reprint a photo featured in a magazine. You can simply scan the image into your computer and put it on your press page.)
Or, you could write to various bloggers with the same news. The blogger may not necessarily be interested in finding and featuring celebs, but the news that your product is in the hands of an A-lister may give you credibility!
If ever you do spot your item in the same picture as a celebrity, Sarah says it's important to act fast on the news! You want to really publicize the moment.
But if you're worried about not being able to meet demand, you can simply write a note in your shop that, "Because this item was featured in People Magazine, it's on backorder until blah blah date." Don't worry about the windfall, just take it as it comes!
I thought her comments about how to handle an unexpected windfall was SUCH a good point! I did something similar with a product in which I did a Kickstarter. I did pre-orders and was able to then go place the big order with my manufacturer knowing I already had sales. It makes sense that if you get a ton of unexpected traffic because of a celebrity being seen with your product, use the momentum to take the pre-orders or backorders, whatever you call it! That way, you have the cash to make the product. Or if you're a handmade business, now you have the cash to find your assistant to help you produce more product.
Leveraging Self-Confidence
Blindly calling stores can be really scary! Or maybe you've loved a celeb since you were five and are trying to send them a free product. It can be intimidating. What you need is to boost your confidence.
Celebrities aren't any different from other people! Store buyers aren't better than you and don't know more than you. They're all normal people with a job that makes them famous. We all know their face, but not really them.
Sarah told a story of one time when taking her kids to the pumpkin patch in LA, Amy Adams was also there with her son. But just outside of the patch, there were tons of photographers standing on hay bales set up like a grand stand taking photos of them. "Celebrities can't even go to the pumpkin patch without being hounded. It makes it more humbling to think of them as a real person. They can hardly have a personal life that isn't scrutinized."
And of course, it is exactly being in the public eye that makes celebrity attention so valuable – but it's good to keep this all in perspective.
Sarah's Adorable Mommy Moment
Sarah has identical twin girls. When they were around 3, they were at grandma's house to celebrate her birthday.
Sarah's sister said to one of her daughters, "Go and see your mother."
And Sarah's daughter said emphatically, "That is NOT my mother!"
When asked what she meant, her daughter replied, "That is my mama, NOT my mother!"
(Sarah said she'd spare us the diaperless twin story that ended up with poo all over their cribs! But safe to say, they never slept in just a diaper again!)
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Le Tankgewehr M1918 est le premier fusil antichar de l'Histoire, développé pour l'Armée allemande dans les derniers mois de la Première Guerre mondiale.

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Le fusil antichar utilise le système à verrou Mauser, avec une cartouche à charger manuellement dans la chambre. Il dispose d'une poignée pistolet et d'un bipied emprunté à la mitrailleuse MG 08/15. La mire de visée est graduée de .

La balle en acier trempé de  () a été développée pour un usage aérien et antichar (TuF : Tank und flieger) avec la mitrailleuse MG 18, demeurée à l'état de prototype. Elle pouvait percer environ  de blindage à , ou  d'acier simple à .

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Lors de la guerre de tranchées, les belligérants utilisent des plaques de blindage destinées à la protection des soldats, en particulier guetteurs et tireurs d'élite. Pour tenter de les percer, Britanniques et Allemands s'arment de fusils de fort calibre, tels les . Avec l'apparition des tanks anglais puis français, l'Armée allemande se dote en 1917 d'une cartouche antichar spéciale à tirer avec le fusil Gewehr 98 standard, dite  ou S.m.K. (Spitzgeschoss mit Kern). Celle-ci s'avère trop faible face au nouveau tank Mark IV. La firme Mauser propose alors en  un fusil de forte puissance spécifiquement destiné à la lutte antichar, dont la production débute en mai à l'usine Waffenfabrik Mauser AG d'Oberndorf am Neckar. La finalité de l'arme, avec une simple balle perforante, n'est évidemment pas la destruction de l'engin ciblé, mais d'occasionner panique ou pertes parmi l'équipage, voire des dommages sur les organes de motorisation.

Le fusil est servi par une équipe de deux ou trois hommes, généralement des artilleurs de tranchées servants de minenwerfer. Le premier tireur porte un sac avec 13 cartouches et le fusil. Les autres servants transportent deux sacs de toile avec 20 cartouches, une boîte de 72 cartouches et le bipied. En raison du poids et du recul de l'arme, celle-ci ne peut être utilisée que sur une position statique. Pour ces mêmes raisons, elle est relativement impopulaire au sein de la troupe. Le tireur se plaint, après deux ou trois tirs, de maux de tête et de vertiges. Aucun dispositif contrebalançant le recul, tel un frein de bouche, n'est prévu ; les servants improvisent bien souvent un rembourrage sur leur uniforme.

La dotation théorique est de trois T-Gewehr par régiment.

 ont été produits.

La possession d'armes antichar étant interdite par le Traité de Versailles, la Reichswehr aurait caché une certaine quantité de ces armes. Celles-ci auraient été utilisées par la Wehrmacht lors de l'attaque de la Pologne en 1939.

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Welcome back 'SC! USC's Performing Arts Committee and USC's Special Events Committee is taking you to Wicked the Musical at the Pantages Theatre on Wednesday January 28th 2015.

                             Yeup! FREE TICKETS TRANSPORTATION :)

                             Enter the lottery on January 19th 2015 between 9AM - 3PM for a chance to win a spot! (So, it's not first come first serve - just sign up anytime between 9AM - 3PM.) The winners will be randomly selected and notified via email!

                             The lottery link will be posted at 9AM on January 19th 2015 on USC Performing Arts Committee and USC Special Events Committee's pages! You also have to like our pages to be eligible.

                             Good luck!

                                 SHOW DETAILS:
                             Students will receive FREE transportation and a FREE ticket for the January 28th showing. You must use the transportation provided to and from the theater.

                             Show Date: Wednesday, January 28th
                             Show Time: 8:00PM
                             Campus Departure Time: 6:00pm
                             Where: Pantages Theater in Hollywood
                             Who: USC students only

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Drop your pens, grab a fork, and dig into all the FREE food you can imagine. On Monday, October 27 from 11:30am - 2:00pm, restaurants and vendors from all around LA are coming to campus to show you a Taste of Downtown LA.

                             As usual, the event is FREE to all USC students. If you want to skip the lines, look out for upcoming contests to win "fast pass line" tickets!

                             PARTICIPATING VENDORS:

Savory:
                             -Mendocino Farms
                             -Spitz
                             -Viztango
                             -The Lobos Truck
                             -Etchea
                             -Tatsu Ramen
                             -Downtown Dogs
                             -Don Chow Tacos

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                             -Sprinkles

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Come celebrate USC Homecoming next Thursday (Oct. 16th) with USC Program Board's 14 Committees and Assemblies right in McCarthy Quad. Let's get pumped to beat the Buffalos on Saturday!

                            What to expect: FREE Food, LIVE musical performances, a tie dye station, contests, bungee jumping, pedal-powered stage, and so much more. Check out what each assembly/committee is contributing!

                            - Rally with the Trojan Marching Band starts promptly at 7pm on the Quad!
                            - Blu_Noise starts their set at 7:30pm
                            - Food Eating contest starts at 7:30pm, 4 winners will receive big Amazon giftcards! More details to come.
                            - Rock the Bike Spin Class at 8:30pm
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                            - All other activities will take place 7-10pm (while supplies last)

                            Academic Culture Assembly: "Before I graduate.." Chalkboard

                            USC APASA: Free BOBA and APASA TANKS!

                            Black Student Assembly at USC: Delicious Food Trucks - Farmers Belly by the Greensmiths and Postcards Central American Soul

                            USC Environmental Student Assembly and USC Speakers Committee: Rock the Bike will be powering the stage!
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                            USC Latina/o Student Assembly and USC ISA: Food Eating Contest (7:30-8:30pm) -- 10 minutes each & winners from each round (4 rounds total) will receive a $50 Amazon Giftcard!
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If you want to start the year off with a bang, join us for our annual Comedy Show! Look forward to hilarious performances from Pete Holmes, Brent Sullivan and Rhea Butcher!

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                            Opener: BRENT SULLIVAN
                            Headliner: PETE HOLMES

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Winter is Coming, and it's not too far away.

                            USC Special Events Committee and HBO are proud to announce the Game of Thrones Season Five PRE-SCREENING in Bovard Auditorium at USC on Monday, April 6! That's right, you'll get to see it before its official release on HBO!

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                             Seating: General Admission on a first come, first served basis.

                             **This event is for USC students only. USC Student ID's will be checked at the door**

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Head over to Parkside Performance Cafe and learn how to make your own natural body care items! We'll have ingredients to make your own scrub, face mask, deodorant, body spray and more! Everyone will go home with your own DIY product that you can easily replicate in your own home. Boba and desserts will also be provided!

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'13 Sins' a horror send-up of cutthroat lives
Milquetoast extraordinaire Elliott was so nice (read: spineless) when he was in high school, he'd greet with a sweet smile the bullies who daily jammed his head in the toilet bowl.
In "13 Sins" Mark Webber plays a man drawn into a macabre contest.Read more
by By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer | Columnist
A New Orleans insurance salesman with a college degree in mythology and folklore, he's so moral (read: weak) he talks senior citizens out of buying his company's more expensive plans.
Played with a certain understated nobility by Mark Webber (Goodbye World, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), Elliott is the perpetually bemused antihero of the thoroughly enjoyable, if uneven, horror comedy 13 Sins, a satire about the ethic of avarice and cutthroat competition that defines so much in contemporary life.
A man who seems to have the capital letter L (for loser) carved on his forehead, Elliott is called into his boss' office at the beginning of the story expecting a promotion.
Instead, he is fired. Richard Burgi is brilliant in a one-scene walk-on as Elliott's sadistic, emasculating boss, who tells him he's too spineless to succeed in business or as a husband for his pregnant fiancée, Shelby (Rutina Wesley).
That's when it happens. Sitting at a red light and harassed by a housefly trapped in his car, he gets a call. Speaking in classic game-show hyperboles, a mysterious voice tells Elliott that if he has the guts to kill the insect, he'll win $1,000. When he complies, a wire transfer immediately registers on his bank account.
He agrees to eat the fly for $3,266 more - the exact amount Shelby owes on her credit card.
Complete 11 more challenges, Elliott is told, and he'll win millions. Man, he's up for it!
Based on the 2006 Thai hit 13: Game of Death, writer-director Daniel Stamm's picture moves at a fast, steady clip as it shows Elliott becoming enmeshed in an escalating series of stunts that leads, inexorably, to some serious acts of bloody violence.
13 Sins is a smart, stylish picture elevated by fine performances by Webber and a superior ensemble of supporting players, including Richard Bower, Ron Perlman, and Pruitt Taylor Vince.
13 Sins **1/2 (out of four stars)
Directed by Daniel Stamm. With Mark Webber, Rutina Wesley, Tom Bower, Ron Perlman. Distributed by Dimension Films.
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Parent's guide: R (strong, bloody violence, profanity)
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Crowd-funding is a widely discussed and disputed financing approach these days. It has proven to work in many industries, including the entertainment sector. But what implications will it have for the healthcare industry? Will it have any impact on healthcare at all?
So far, there are only few examples of crowd-funded healthcare ventures. One of them is the Rare Genomics Institute, a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing better and faster diagnostics and therapies for rare diseases. They decided for a personalized approach by putting up individual cases of rare disease sufferers on their website and organizing funding for the diagnosis and treatment of the affected patients. Thereby, Rare Genomics Institute provides treatment opportunities for patients who otherwise would not be able to pay their medical bills, as these kind of therapies (and diagnostics) are usually not funded by healthcare providers.
What seems to work as a fundraising approach for individual cases in the US still has to prove its viability in other regions of the world – and in a larger healthcare context. Could expensive drug development eventually be financed by crowd-funding? According to an article in Genetic Engineering News, there is currently not much evidence that biopharmaceutical companies could benefit from crowd-funding, as their financing requirements are significant and long-term oriented. In fact, there are only very few examples of biopharmaceutical companies which have managed to close a financing by crowd-funding, e.g. cancer immune therapy company Urodelia (France). However, the financing volume has not been disclosed. Others, like AMD Therapy (Germany), a fund dedicated to finance the development of novel therapeutics to combat age-related macular degeneration, or Selexel (France), which is developing cancer therapies based on RNA interference, are still raising funds. Interestingly, AMD Therapy aims to raise as much as EUR 60 million by crowd-funding – much more than other biopharma companies in Europe were able to raise by private equity financing during the past 12 months.
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Q: Calculating the charge per unit of lenght of a cylinder The internal cylinder of the figure is made of a non-conducting material and has a volumetric charge distribution given by $\mu (R)=C/R$, where $C=200nC/m^2$. The exterior cylinder is made of metal and both cylinders are infinitely long.

I want to calculate the value of the electric field for all values of $R$ (the radius) using Gauss law. And I know how to do that. However, I am also asked to calculate the charge per unit of lenght of the internal cylinder, how can I calculate it?

A: $$ \int_0^{3 cm} \int_0^{2\pi} \mu(r) rd\theta dr = \int_0^{3 cm} 2\pi \frac{C}{r} r dr = 2\pi C\cdot 3cm =  $$
$$2\pi \cdot 2\cdot  10^{-7}[\frac{C}{m^2}]\cdot 3\cdot 10^{-2}[m] = 12\pi \cdot 10^{-9} [\frac{C}{m}]$$

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The cross and divine mercy of Jesus
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Have you found yourself wondering if Jesus loves you? Think you don't deserve this love? If you want these doubts dispelled, try praying the Stations of the Cross.
Based on scriptural accounts from the time when Jesus was condemned, leading to his death and when he was laid in the tomb, these 14 stations really help you to remember his sacrificial love for us.
Back in college, the Way of the Cross (another name for the stations) helped me meditate on Jesus' passion and resurrection at a time when my Lenten journey kept hitting a wall. I kept thinking I needed to earn salvation through my own efforts instead of realizing that it was a gift.
Praying the Way of the Cross with Scripture, meditations and songs put things back into perspective. By reflecting on these stations, Jesus' sacrifice acquires new meaning.
Think of Jesus carrying his heavy cross, Jesus falling while people surrounded him, how he saw his mother, how he comforted those who were sad for him, how he was nailed to the wood, his death on the cross before being laid in the tomb.
This act of love was not easy.
We know that Jesus' crucifixion was not the end of the story. Thinking of the cross is a way to acknowledge the means of our salvation.
Training our will to do God's will and to glorify him can be difficult but it does not compare to the gift we have received on the cross. Praying, fasting, almsgiving — as well as the sacrament of confession and getting rid of sinful habits — can strengthen us, help us grow in virtue and draw us closer to God during Lent amid our own crosses.
Jesus told St. Faustina Kowalska, the 20th-century Polish nun who received the message of divine mercy, that God's love and mercy are for everyone: "I have opened my heart as a living fountain of mercy. … On the cross, the fountain of my mercy was opened wide by the lance for all souls — no one have I excluded!"
We know what the cross represents, but sometimes we can see it so often that we forget its meaning or what it calls us to do.
Before praying the 14 Stations of the Cross last summer, English-speaking pilgrims in Poland during World Youth Day heard from Sister Gaudia, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. She told the young people that every time she thought of God's mercy, an image of the cross would appear in her head.
"Love, the cross and mercy are about one thing: giving life for others," she said.
The sister then asked the youth to hold their crucifixes or rosary beads and to think the words "for me" when looking at the cross. "(Jesus) became human for me, he left his wisdom, his teaching in the Bible, for me. He performed many miracles then and now for me. He gave his life for me," she said. "He could not have done anything more than that, to give his life for us."
It is hard not to feel loved after that.
We can show we are convinced of this love through our actions, and by giving life to our neighbors. As we approach the season of Easter, we can continue to work on the ways we encounter the love and mercy that Christ has already given to us.
See two ways to pray the Stations of the Cross, here and here. And try praying with this video series of the Stations of the Cross.
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Robotics team flies to Houston for world championship
McKenna King , Staff Writer
Spartan Robotics Team placed second in its division in the 2022 FIRST Robotics Championship competition. The team competed against 75 other teams, and the championship included 454 teams from 43 countries total. The competition took place in Houston, Texas from April 20 to April 23.
"It was probably our most difficult competition because in order to get to champs, you have to qualify by doing well at an earlier competition, so all the robots there were already at a pretty high level," said junior Marissa Tsoi, the competition president of Spartan Robotics.
At the beginning of each year, FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, releases a new game for robots to compete in. Then, teams have six weeks to design and build a robot. The game for the 2022 season is called Rapid React, which is based on transporting cargo. The cargo is tennis balls that robots launch into a hub to score points. There are red and blue alliances, both composed of three teams. Alliances can also score points when their robots climb up layered bars called a hangar.
"It's really important that we communicate with each other in order to reach our goals," Tsoi said. She led the strategy team, which involves negotiating with other teams and forming a plan for upcoming matches. Tsoi said everyone was really engaged and prepared for almost any situation.
Photo courtesy of Marissa Tsoi
Senior Amanda Backholm, the entrepreneurship president of Spartan Robotics, said the scouting team arrived at the venue at 5:45 to reserve seats even though it opened at seven.
"Everyone was really committed to the team," she said. Backholm said the team decided to focus on the robot having a fast shooting mechanism rather than being able to climb to the highest level.
"We weren't able to get all the way up there because we decided to focus on shooting instead of climbing," Backholm said. "There's a lot of thinking that goes into the beginning of the year, like what we want to prioritize."
The team received the Industrial Design Award, which is awarded by judges to the team that has an elegantly and efficiently designed robot. Junior Milind Upadhyay, the software captain, said the team's robot is "unconventional" because it uses a catapult. The catapult is made from carbon fiber and can shoot in a fifth of a second.
"Our robot is pretty complicated, so many teams from around the world would come and ask questions about it," Upadhyay said.
Backholm said the robot is called Buckets because of its catapult. The first day of the competition involved practicing for the upcoming matches. The second and third days were for division qualifications, where teams competed in randomly selected alliances composed of three teams. On the final day, teams select alliances and compete until noon, when the winner of each division is announced. The six division winners go on to compete in matches called Einstein finals. The teams on the winning alliance become world champions.
Photo courtesy of Thomas Zoki Li
Tsoi said there was no room for error.
During competitions, the team splits into separate groups to perform different tasks. The scouting team collects data on other robots in the competition, which is used for determining strategy and which other teams to ally with. The pit crew is responsible for repairing the team's robot, and the strike team helps repair allies' robots. The drive team controls the robot after the 15 second period at the start of every match where robots must move autonomously.
Spartan Robotics usually has two identical robots, one for competitions and one for practice. During the offseason from summer to December, the team builds a third robot as an exercise for students. Upadhyay said building the robot was difficult because of the team's inexperience. Due to the pandemic, no one had been through a full season, he said.
"We set deadlines in January, and we drastically failed to meet those deadlines, but ultimately we still pulled it together for the competitions. We definitely exceeded our expectations," Upadhyay said.
McKenna King, Print News Editor
McKenna is a sophomore and serves as a print news editor for the Oracle. Outside of school, she enjoys sewing, drawing, and cooking.
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As part of Whitmill's commitment to the States of Jersey's Eco Active initiative, we are continuously aiming to reduce the amount of plastic, notably single use plastics, that is used in and around the office.
At the end of 2018, staff were all issued with the new Whitmill pens which are bio-degradable and long lasting. Whitmill is starting 2019 off with another push towards our Eco-Active goals of reducing single use plastic by giving all our staff a reusable Whitmill take-away cup.
The aim of introducing these reusable take-away cups is to cut the amount of single-use cups used by our team members and which end up in the kitchen bins after only one use.
In a recent report from the Environmental Audit Committee, figures showed that in the UK we use 7 million disposable coffee cups every day – that's 2.5 billion every year. However, the problems with coffee cups go beyond their sheer numbers; one of the biggest issues with disposable take away cups is their ability to be recycled. Take-away cups are technically recyclable, however due to the complicated way in which they are produced, there is no facility to recycle the cups on island and there are only three specialist facilities in the UK.
Single use take away cups are made largely of paper and are lined with plastic polyethylene, which is tightly bonded to the paper making the cups waterproof and therefore able to contain liquid. The difficulty of recycling coffee cups is increased by the fact they are contaminated with drink. This means cups cannot be recycled at standard recycling plants, and must instead be taken to the special facilities. According to the report, the reality is that less than 1 per cent of coffee cups ever end up being recycled.
Unrecycled plastic takes hundreds of years to break down, meaning lots of it ends up impacting the natural environment. Gradual breakdown of plastics results in tiny "microplastics" that can be ingested by animals, and chemicals that are potentially toxic for various creatures, including us. While plastic is a major concern, the paper component of take-away cups also has environmental impacts as many paper cups that are downed and disposed are made from virgin paper pulp. This means tress are cut down to produce a cup that only ends up being used for the length of time it takes to drink a coffee. Add to this the carbon footprint of coffee cup manufacturing and distribution for these single-use items, and it is clear that disposable coffee cups in their entirety have a major impact on the environment.
This is why we have decided to offer our employees reusable take away cups. We would also like to encourage more Jersey businesses to offer incentives to customers, just like the likes of Pret a Manger do in the UK – they offer a 50p discount to customers who bring their own cups. Raising awareness of the nature of disposable coffee cups is important; one of the report's key recommendations is that companies must take responsibility for the impact of their cups. This is what Whitmill is doing for our first Eco-Active goal of 2019.


Of the many things that I used to do before I had children (sleep in, comb my hair, have peace and quiet while I shower, etc) one of them was creating my own photo greeting cards. I used to spend an endless amount of time online perfecting our holiday cards with just the right picture, words, design and more until I was happy with what was going to be sent out to everyone we knew.
I did manage to keep it up a little bit in the past few years after having had Big Sister E and Little Sister B, because the thought of sending out beautiful custom-made birth announcements was one that I couldn't let go. However, the time-consuming aspect, combined with my obsessiveness to get every detail perfect, has all but made my at-home photo cards endeavor a thing of the past.
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"What are you making?" I asked my daughter as she tinkered with Legos.
"Something," she responded. "I don't know what it will turn out as."
We had just read Arthur Geisert's Hogwash and wanted to bring it to life, but I didn't know exactly how to do it. We thought it would be fun to make one of the contraptions from the book out of Legos. I wasn't confident we would succeed but she was content to just tinker and figure it out. So, I followed her lead.
After two afternoons of tinkering and thinking and eventually putting all of our ideas together we figured it out. We definitely made something.
Arthur Geisert is the author and illustrator of over 25 books including Thunderstorm, Country Road ABC: An Illustrated Journey Through America's Farmland, and Oops. As a child growing up in Los Angeles, Arthur admired his grandmother "who was always painting" and he loved to read books by Holling C. Holling. He said, "I used to read [Minn of the Mississippi and Paddle to the Sea], never cover to cover. I would just thumb through and just look at the margins and go back and forth through the books. I think my books can do the same thing." (MackinVIA and The Gazette).
Geisert graduated from Concordia University and studied further at University of California at Davis, Chouinard Art Institute, the Otis Art Institute, and the Art Institute of Chicago (Children's Books and their Creators). He spent time as an art teacher and made a living selling prints of his copper plate etchings, a printmaking technique he learned in college. According to MackinVIA, Geisert thought his prints could work as illustrations in children's books and started submitting his work to publishers. He submitted for over ten years with no contracts. Then, at a print show, Arthur met an editor from Houghton Mifflin who helped connect him with the children's editor who later would publish his first book Pa's Balloon and Other Pig Tales in 1984. (Patricia Newman).
Oh, Arthur's pigs! Many of his books feature pigs as characters including his three New York Times Best Illustrated books, Pigs From A to Z (1986), Roman Numerals I to MM: Numerablia Romana Uno Ad Duo Mila (1996), and Ice (2011). It has been widely documented that Arthur never saw a pig until he moved to Iowa as an adult. (Amazon and The Gazette).
Which of Arthur Geisert's pig books is our favorite? We love Lights Out and The Giant Seed, but our favorite has to be Hogwash.
In Hogwash, all the little pigs in the village meet up for some messy fun at the local mud hole. A short distance away is a building with barrels of paint. Soon, the pigs are covered in mud and paint but the pig mommies aren't worried because there is a sophisticated machine to wash the piggies before they head home for the day. Arthur Geisert devotes seven page spreads of the book to the complex cleaning machine. It is so fascinating to page back and forth through the book to see how the pigs are placed on the machine, washed, rinsed, and dried. The expressions and body language of some of the pigs make it fun to add dialogue to this wordless book.
We have had these little pink pigs for years. I remember playing farm with my youngest daughter. That was over ten years ago. The pigs were always the key characters in our little skits. When I found the box of farm toys a few years ago, I immediately thought of Arthur's books. I wondered how these pigs could be used for a family reading experience.
There is so much to look at Arthur's books.
This was my favorite part of the Hogwash cleaning machine. The little pigs are clipped to a clothesline by two pig mommies. Rotating wheels send the pigs across to the other platform where two more pig mommies are waiting.
I wondered if we could make this part of the cleaning machine with Legos. We had a few failures, but this design was moving in the right direction.
Meanwhile, my daughter experimented with making clothes out of felt for our pigs.
We tried clipping the pigs to the line, but even the mini-clothespins were too heavy.
Instead, we wrapped the felt clothes around the line to attach the pigs. The pigs stayed on and the two rotating wheels successfully moved the pigs across the line.
The next day, I followed my daughter's lead of wanting to do more. I had a few ideas. We started by making a hill out of a cardboard box.
She was a little excited!
In Hogwash, paint spills down the hill and the pigs play. Could we reenact this part of the book? I didn't know how it was going to turn out but it sounded like fun.
All the pigs waited as she poured washable paint at the top of the hill.
"More paint, Dad!" she said.
I thought this would be fun, but I never imagined it would be this fun!
"Dad, look at that little piggy."
The paint swirls were awesome.
My little piggy wanted to play in the paint too.
"Bwah-ha-ha-ha! I like getting the pigs dirty," she said.
We took all the pigs out of the paint. It was time for a Hogwash.
In the book, the pigs slosh around in a big pool. We used a bowl.
After the pigs were a little cleaner she said, "Wait! Can I do it again?" She helped the pigs play in the paint two more times!
Next, it was time to rinse them off. We used a colander to give them a shower.
Then, the pigs walked through the blowers.
Finally, it was time for pigs to get hung out to dry.
She put on their clothes.
The pigs were clean and happy!


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Q: Why is it that sometimes showing hiding forms misfires? My form1 is the mainform. I use it for login purposes and after I dont need it
I hide it. If the login is successful, on button click,form3 is called.
procedure TForm1.AdvGlowButton1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
ABSQuery4.Active:=false;
ABSQuery4.SQL.Clear;
ABSQuery4.SQL.Add('select .....bla,bla,bla....');
ABSQuery4.Open;
if ABSQuery4.FieldByName('passsword').AsString<>''
then  begin
Form3.Show;
Form1.Hide;
end else begin
cxTextedit1.Text := '';
showmessage('wrong password');
end;
end;

Now I am noticing that sometimes the event produces strange results.
Form3 is shown but Form1 remains visible also. For showing the main form
from form3 I use :
procedure TForm3.FormClose(Sender: TObject; var Action: TCloseAction);
begin
Form1.Show;
end

Since I need the application icon for Form3, I have there :
procedure TForm3.CreateParams(var Params: TCreateParams) ;
begin
  inherited;
  Params.ExStyle := Params.ExStyle or WS_EX_APPWINDOW;
  Params.WndParent := 0;
end;

Can you tell me am I messing anything up or is there a better way to
make the forms behave properly?

A: There is a better way to do this. For a start, you should give your forms meaningful names!
Your real problem is that your main form is being hidden because you are using it as your login form. You make life needlessly difficult and complicated by doing that.
So the main piece of advice is that you should make you real main form be the Delphi main form. The Delphi main form is the first form created using Application.CreateForm. I suggest that you call Application.CreateForm exactly once, to create the main form.
This may leave you wondering how to create other forms. Well, you just create them using the standard constructor, just like any other object.
So your .dpr file code might look like this:
Application.Initialize;
LoginForm := TLoginForm.Create(nil);
try
  if LoginForm.ShowModal <> mrOK then
    exit;
finally
  LoginForm.Free;
end;
Application.CreateForm(TMainForm, MainForm);
Application.Run;

Once you make this change you will find that you don't need to take steps to force the main form onto the taskbar.


He has smashed Northern Ireland's goal-scoring record out of sight, and included England and Spain among his victims, but David Healy insists an injury-time equaliser against Azerbaijan ranks as one of the most richly rewarding moments of an illustrious international career.
A 20-yard free-kick curled round Azerbaijan's defensive wall and past a badly-positioned keeper salvaged a point with seconds left and saved Northern Ireland from World Cup embarrassment.
Drawing at home with the two teams below them in Group F, Luxembourg and Azerbaijan, still points to another failed qualifying campaign.
But there was no mistaking Healy's elation at ensuring his international days do not drift aimlessly towards their conclusion, after lighting up Windsor Park once again.
At the peak of his powers, the prolific Northern Ireland marksman shaped one of Windsor Park's most memorable nights, with a brilliant winner against Sven Goran Eriksson's England, and followed up with an equally-stunning hat-trick in a 3-2 home triumph over Spain.
Now 33, he had gone four years without scoring, before going on as an 81st-minute substitute and claiming his 36th Northern Ireland goal on his 94th appearance.
Just as he was in danger of becoming his country's forgotten man, it turned the spotlight back on to the many individual feats that have decorated his career. He is the only Northern Ireland player to have scored two hat-tricks, and his 13 goals in the build-up to Euro 2008 is the highest tally by any player in a qualifying campaign.
There was an almost tangible sense of relief, as Healy reflected on his return to the scoresheet, and said: 'When you turn up for trips, but don't always play, you begin to wonder whether another goal will come. I had this dream in my head that I would score at least on more goal in front of the Kop at Windsor Park before I finished.
'It was always there and was something I desperately wanted to happen. I'm sure everyone knows how long it has been since my last goal, and I'm sure I will read all about it, but I don't need to worry about that now.
'I always felt if I could do it one more time in front of the Kop, I would go home a very happy man, and it feels great to have made it a reality. After seeing that free-kick go in, and running to the fans in the Kop, I can die happy.
Though Michael O'Neill hasn't always selected him during the past 12 months, Healy had nothing but praise for the Northern Ireland manager and sensed he may yet have the chance to extend his goals tally still further.
'Michael has been brilliant with me and has spoken to me at every opportunity,' said Bury's former Rangers striker.
'Even when I was sorting my club situation out in the summer, and not playing, he kept me involved and made it clear I still had a part to play.
'I hope there might be more goals to come, because I love being part of the squad and helping some of the young boys find their feet. I have had so many ups and downs with Northern Ireland, and if I can pass on some of that experience, I'll happily do it.
'It was a disappointing result against Azerbaijan, but, talking to Michael, he knows there are positive aspects, in the way some of the younger lads came to the fore, kept going and kept creating clear-cut opportunities.


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