ENGLEWOOD, NJ – Homeowners at The M at Englewood South have much to feel lucky about this St. Patrick's Day, topped by owning an upscale condominium in a vibrant environment that conveys the charm and ease of an urban center.
Situated just minutes from the everyday services and exciting shopping, entertainment and dining of downtown Englewood, the 125-home neighborhood has quickly become one of Bergen County's most popular residential destinations for young couples and single-professionals seeking affordability and access to many lifestyle components. John Kelly, a former renter who purchased at The M at Englewood South, exemplifies how the community appeals to the first-time buyer looking for a high level of convenience.
Two well-known restaurants — Panera Bread and Anthony's Coal Fire Pizza – lie near the community's entrance on Route 4. Two miles away, downtown Englewood offers more than 300 stores and restaurants. Its bustling streets blend historic storefronts with modern buildings and retail outlets, including Shop Rite, Capital One Bank, Chipotle, Victoria's Secret, Group USA, The Children's Place, and eateries such as Cassies, La Cumbia and 50's era Baumgart's cafe. It's also home to the Bergen Performing Arts Center, where an extensive list of popular musicians and performers take the stage every year.
For Cecilia Liu, a homeowner who moved to The M at Englewood South from nearby Ft. Lee, the easy access to the wealth of shops and cultural and entertainment opportunities she was accustomed to was a big draw.
Many of the homebuyers at The M at Englewood South are young professionals who work in Manhattan, making its location less than 4 miles to the George Washington Bridge a perfect fit. The M provides a shuttle service to the nearby NJ Transit bus stop with service into New York City.
"I love the fact there's such easy access to New York City, especially considering I still commute to Midtown daily," commented Bryan Forbes, who escaped New York City's skyrocketing apartment pricing and purchased at The M.
The community itself provides all the attributes that today's young homebuyer desires. With on-site social and recreational amenities and a maintenance-free environment, there's plenty of time for residents to enjoy leisure activities.
Ms. DeMarco is not the only homeowner who has fallen in love with the resort-inspired pool and sundeck at The M at Englewood South. Opening Memorial Day weekend, the outdoor amenity has unquestionably cemented its status as a social center with scores of residents gathering to unwind and socialize during summer months. There's also a resident's clubroom with catering kitchen for large parties and entertaining. What's more, residents receive a one year membership at The Gym, a 40,000 SF state-of-the-art fitness center located at 20 Nordhoff Place.
While lifestyle and location are major reasons for purchasing at The M at Englewood South, the driving force behind the sales success is its luxury homes and outstanding pricing. Two-bedroom condominiums at The M at Englewood South start from the mid-$400,000s. Adding to the community's affordability are special limited-time incentives that provide $20,000 off the price of a two-bedroom residence. There's also an innovative 97% financing program that creates a low initial down payment.
Residences range in size from 755 to 1,499 square feet and feature an open living space, sumptuous bedrooms, state-of-the-art kitchens with maple cabinetry, under-counter lighting and granite countertops, large laundry areas with side-by-side General Electric washers and dryers, and large walk-in closets. There is also oak hardwood flooring throughout the living area and ceramic tile flooring in the entry hall and kitchen. A parking space in The M's enclosed garage is included in the purchase price.
"These are open and functional floorplans that provide plenty of living space and appeal to a wide range of buyers, whether it's a young couple purchasing their first home or an empty-nester looking to scale down from a single-family residence," says Elli Kim, Sales Representative for The Marketing Directors, exclusive marketing and sales agent at The M at Englewood South.
The M at Englewood South is located at 1104 Riverview Avenue. For more information and to view new fully-furnished model homes, visit http://www.LiveAtTheM.com or call 201-982-7306.


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Below are my thoughts on what i expect from people taking my class.
1) Be respectful – separate the speaker of the poem from the poet. They are not necessarily the same.
2) First point out the strong points, what works for you.
3) We have to trust that the poet has allowed for some distance between them selves and the poem.
d) Forced rhymes – don't have obvious syntax shifts, or unusual words just to have a rhyme.
5) Most important, do not force your voice onto someone else's poem.
6) As the listener – take notes, let us know what we say is important, do not react (this one is hard). If you are reacting you may be missing the point being made.
7) It's your poem you can ignore or take any advice given. At any moment, you may invoke "writer's prerogative" and we'll move on.
Writing poetry – get the story, narrative, idea, metaphor onto the page, turn off the internal editor. Then let the poem come out in the rewrites, "the visions and revisions." If you write a poem line by line or sentence by sentence. and go back to make that word, line, sentence perfect, you'll lose the direction the poem is taking. (I am a firm believer that the poem will dictate the poem, you are but the vessel). My style is to rewrite and rewrite and rewrite repeatedly until the poem reveals itself. Another way is to get the story down, then do the line for line bit on the second or third draft. If in my rewrites I see a form showing through, then I do the line by line bit, but that happens much later in the rewrite process.
Another point is that it may work better for you not to write the first draft too soon. Let it gel around in your brain for a while, but in some cases not writing it down means you've lost it. Experience will tell you.
I also have found that the idea that led me into the poem may not be the idea that comes out of the poem. This shows itself generally by my having to cut the first line somewhere in the rewrite process.
Writer's block – there are two types of writer's block – short term and long term. Short term can usually be fixed by doing a writing exercise or reading a lot of poetry. Long term is caused by an outside source, IE: stress, less time, etc. To fix L.T. you need to fix the source of the trouble.


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What SEC Action on Robinhood Would Mean For Citadel
Sep 8 , 2021
Robinhood's largest purchaser of its orders is Chicago-based Citadel Securities, sister company of prominent hedge fund Citadel.
After US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler indicated a comprehensive prohibition on paying for order flow is "on the table," Robinhood Markets Inc. continued to fall.
After Gensler told that paying for order flow — where brokerages direct consumer orders to trading companies and earn fees in return — has "an inherent conflict of interest," Robinhood dipped approximately 0.8 percent to $43.31 as of 10:28 a.m. in New York on Tuesday.
Gensler has previously made similar arguments about the technique, which has been scrutinized by policymakers in Washington for months as a result of the run-up of meme stocks like GameStop Corp. Even yet, any talk of an outright ban might frighten investors, in part because paying for order flow accounts for a large portion of Robinhood's income: payments for its clients' stock, options, and cryptocurrency transactions accounted for nearly 80% of the company's second-quarter revenue.
Citadel Securities, located in Chicago, is Robinhood's largest order buyer. For the trading orders on which it generates money, the sibling business of famous hedge fund Citadel relies on brokers. That sector has exploded in recent years, thanks to the advent and meteoric rise of startup brokerages like Robinhood, which don't charge customers to trade and instead make the majority of their money by charging businesses like Citadel Securities for order flow.
Eliminating such fees may jeopardize or terminate the "no-cost" brokerage model that has attracted a slew of new traders to the market, as well as lower the volumes on which Citadel and its competitors rely.
A representative for the Citadel declined to comment.
Some politicians have questioned if this encourages businesses to push consumers to participate in excessive buying and selling because brokers like Robinhood benefit from selling deals. Gensler said in a Monday interview with the online news magazine that it allows market makers to have a "first look" at transaction data, which may lead to undue advantages.
According to Gensler, countries such as the United Kingdom have already outlawed payment for order flow. Some in the financial sector have questioned whether the SEC would require further congressional power to outright prohibit the practice.
Making major changes to the system, according to Jaret Seiberg, a policy analyst at Cowen Inc., would be tough.
"Gensler has other priorities, and given the intricacy of the problem and the tangled politics that surround payment for order flow, he is unlikely to intervene directly against payment for order flow," Seiberg wrote in a note.
What Bloomberg Intelligence Says:
"He didn't rule out outlawing PFOF, but we don't think he's very keen on doing so, preferring instead to make changes as early as 4Q. PFOF has been shown in studies to result in advantageous pricing for ordinary investors, therefore regulation to ensure effective execution is more plausible than a ban." —Julie Chariell, BI senior industry analyst for fintech
Hong Kong Billionaire Loses Half Her Fortune on China Probe
Huabao International Holdings Ltd. plunged a record 67% in Hong Kong trade after the company's disclosure that Chairwoman Chu Lam Yiu was under investigation for possible disciplinary infractions.
People Need Food and Energy. This Stock Is a Play on Both
Orkla (ORK.Norway; ORKLY) is a Norwegian corporation that has businesses that produce both. The previous industrial behemoth turned itself into a consumer-goods corporation, with its primary food sector producing frozen pizza, sauces, and ready-to-eat meals accounting for around 37% of its 2021 sales. The heritage hydroelectric power plants are likewise owned by the Oslo-listed company.
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For 25 years, David Salisbury have been supplying conservatories, orangeries and timber windows and doors in Europe, the UK and North America working only with contractors whose work meets the high standard they expect of those who will handle their products.
Style Windows Managing Director Edward Poynton said that the new relationship with David Salisbury opened up a whole new market in high quality wooden conservatory designs for Channel Islanders and was a great boost for the company.
'It can frustrating for Islanders to find out that advertising promises made by national firms do not apply in the Channel Islands partly because they have not found contractors they are able to work with in the islands and so will not price a job directly for a Channel Island client.
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David Salisbury are well-versed in producing designs to suit contemporary or heritage tastes and have been used to supply designs for listed buildings in the UK. Always using timber frames, the company is able to tailor each project to suit the home.
David Salisbury's Commercial Sales Director Simon Phipps said that following the success of their conservatories and orangeries in North America and Europe, David Salisbury also wanted to meet the demand for their product in the Channel Islands.
'David Salisbury sought to find a partner in the Channel Islands who had the same high standards of design, care and customer service which our own customers can expect to receive.
'Having met all of the team at Style Windows and witnessed the experience and high level of service they have become known for in Jersey, the final decision was an easy one. We are delighted to be working alongside Style Windows who can now offer the residents of the Channel Islands the David Salisbury product along with the associated service that they deserve,' said Mr Phipps.


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A distributed control system (DCS) is a computerised control system for a process or plant usually with many control loops, in which autonomous controllers are distributed throughout the system, but there is no central operator supervisory control. This is in contrast to systems that use centralized controllers; either discrete controllers located at a central control room or within a central computer. The DCS concept increases reliability and reduces installation costs by localising control functions near the process plant, with remote monitoring and supervision.

Distributed control systems first emerged in large, high value, safety critical process industries, and were attractive because the DCS manufacturer would supply both the local control level and central supervisory equipment as an integrated package, thus reducing design integration risk. Today the functionality of Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and DCS systems are very similar, but DCS tends to be used on large continuous process plants where high reliability and security is important, and the control room is not geographically remote.

Structure

The key attribute of a DCS is its reliability due to the distribution of the control processing around nodes in the system. This mitigates a single processor failure. If a processor fails, it will only affect one section of the plant process, as opposed to a failure of a central computer which would affect the whole process. This distribution of computing power local to the field Input/Output (I/O) connection racks also ensures fast controller processing times by removing possible network and central processing delays.

The accompanying diagram is a general model which shows functional manufacturing levels using computerised control.

Referring to the diagram;

 Level 0 contains the field devices such as flow and temperature sensors, and final control elements, such as control valves
 Level 1 contains the industrialised Input/Output (I/O) modules, and their associated distributed electronic processors.
 Level 2 contains the supervisory computers, which  collect information from processor nodes on the system, and provide the operator control screens.
 Level 3 is the production control level, which does not directly control the process, but is concerned with monitoring production and monitoring targets
 Level 4 is the production scheduling level.

Levels 1 and 2 are the functional levels of a traditional DCS, in which all equipment are part of an integrated system from a single manufacturer.

Levels 3 and 4 are not strictly process control in the traditional sense, but where production control and scheduling takes place.

Technical points

The processor nodes and operator graphical displays are connected over proprietary or industry standard networks, and network reliability is increased by dual redundancy cabling over diverse routes. This distributed topology also reduces the amount of field cabling by siting the I/O modules and their associated processors close to the process plant.

The processors receive information from input modules, process the information and decide control actions to be signalled by the output modules. The field inputs and outputs can be analog signals e.g. 4–20 mA DC current loop or two-state signals that switch either "on" or "off", such as relay contacts or a semiconductor switch.

DCSs are connected to sensors and actuators and use setpoint control to control the flow of material through the plant. A typical application is a PID controller fed by a flow meter and using a control valve as the final control element. The DCS sends the setpoint required by the process to the controller which instructs a valve to operate so that the process reaches and stays at the  desired setpoint. (see 4–20 mA schematic for example).

Large oil refineries and chemical plants have several thousand I/O points and employ very large DCS. Processes are not limited to fluidic flow through pipes, however, and can also include things like paper machines and their associated quality controls, variable speed drives and motor control centers, cement kilns, mining operations, ore processing facilities, and many others.

DCSs in very high reliability applications can have dual redundant processors with "hot" switch over on fault, to enhance the reliability of the control system.

Although 4–20 mA  has been the main field signalling standard, modern DCS systems can also support fieldbus digital protocols, such as Foundation Fieldbus, profibus, HART, modbus, PC Link, etc.

Modern DCSs also support neural networks and fuzzy logic applications. Recent research focuses on the synthesis of optimal distributed controllers, which optimizes a certain H-infinity or the H 2 control criterion.

Typical applications
Distributed control systems (DCS) are dedicated systems used in manufacturing processes that are continuous or batch-oriented.

Processes where a DCS might be used include:

 Chemical plants
 Petrochemical (oil) and refineries
 Pulp and paper mills (see also: quality control system QCS)
 Boiler controls and power plant systems
 Nuclear power plants
 Environmental control systems
 Water management systems
 Water treatment plants
 Sewage treatment plants
 Food and food processing
 Agrochemical and fertilizer
 Metal and mines
 Automobile manufacturing
 Metallurgical process plants
 Pharmaceutical manufacturing
 Sugar refining plants
 Agriculture applications

History

Evolution of process control operations
Process control of large industrial plants has evolved through many stages. Initially, control would be from panels local to the process plant. However this required a large manpower resource to attend to these dispersed panels, and there was no overall view of the process. The next logical development was the transmission of all plant measurements to a permanently-manned central control room. Effectively this was the centralisation of all the localised panels, with the advantages of lower manning levels and easier overview of the process. Often the controllers were behind the control room panels, and all automatic and manual control outputs were transmitted back to plant. However, whilst providing a central control focus, this arrangement was inflexible as each control loop had its own controller hardware, and continual operator movement within the control room was required to view different parts of the process.

With the coming of electronic processors and graphic displays it became possible to replace these discrete controllers with computer-based algorithms, hosted on a network of input/output racks with their own control processors. These could be distributed around plant, and communicate with the graphic display in the control room or rooms. The distributed control system was born.

The introduction of DCSs allowed easy interconnection and re-configuration of plant controls such as cascaded loops and interlocks, and easy interfacing with other production computer systems. It enabled sophisticated alarm handling, introduced automatic event logging, removed the need for physical records such as chart recorders, allowed the control racks to be networked and thereby located locally to plant to reduce cabling runs, and provided high level overviews of plant status and production levels.

Origins
Early minicomputers were used in the control of industrial processes since the beginning of the 1960s.  The IBM 1800, for example, was an early computer that had input/output hardware to gather process signals in a plant for conversion from field contact levels (for digital points) and analog signals to the digital domain.

The first industrial control computer system was built 1959 at the Texaco Port Arthur, Texas, refinery with an RW-300 of the Ramo-Wooldridge Company.

In 1975, both Yamatake-Honeywelland Japanese electrical engineering firm Yokogawa introduced their own independently produced DCS's - TDC 2000 and CENTUM systems, respectively. US-based Bristol also introduced their UCS 3000 universal controller in 1975. In 1978 Valmet introduced their own DCS system called Damatic (latest generation named Valmet DNA). In 1980, Bailey (now part of ABB) introduced the NETWORK 90 system,  Fisher Controls (now part of Emerson Electric) introduced the PROVoX system, Fischer & Porter Company (now also part of ABB) introduced DCI-4000 (DCI stands for Distributed Control Instrumentation).

The DCS largely came about due to the increased availability of microcomputers and the proliferation of microprocessors in the world of process control.  Computers had already been applied to process automation for some time in the form of both direct digital control (DDC) and setpoint control. In the early 1970s Taylor Instrument Company, (now part of ABB) developed the 1010 system, Foxboro the FOX1 system, Fisher Controls the DC2 system and Bailey Controls the 1055 systems.  All of these were DDC applications implemented within minicomputers (DEC PDP-11, Varian Data Machines, MODCOMP etc.) and connected to proprietary Input/Output hardware. Sophisticated (for the time) continuous as well as batch control was implemented in this way. A more conservative approach was setpoint control, where process computers supervised clusters of analog process controllers. A workstation provided visibility into the process using text and crude character graphics. Availability of a fully functional graphical user interface was a way away.

Development
Central to the DCS model was the inclusion of control function blocks. Function blocks evolved from early, more primitive DDC concepts of "Table Driven" software. One of the first embodiments of object-oriented software, function blocks were self-contained "blocks" of code that emulated analog hardware control components and performed tasks that were essential to process control, such as execution of PID algorithms.  Function blocks continue to endure as the predominant method of control for DCS suppliers, and are supported by key technologies such as Foundation Fieldbus today.

Midac Systems, of Sydney, Australia, developed an objected-oriented distributed direct digital control system in 1982. The central system ran 11 microprocessors sharing tasks and common memory and connected to a serial communication network of distributed controllers each running two Z80s. The system was installed at the University of Melbourne.

Digital communication between distributed controllers, workstations and other computing elements (peer to peer access) was one of the primary advantages of the DCS.  Attention was duly focused on the networks, which provided the all-important lines of communication that, for process applications, had to incorporate specific functions such as determinism and redundancy. As a result, many suppliers embraced the IEEE 802.4 networking standard. This decision set the stage for the wave of migrations necessary when information technology moved into process automation and IEEE 802.3 rather than IEEE 802.4 prevailed as the control LAN.

The network-centric era of the 1980s
In the 1980s, users began to look at DCSs as more than just basic process control. A very early example of a Direct Digital Control DCS was completed by the Australian business Midac in 1981–82 using R-Tec Australian designed hardware. The system installed at the University of Melbourne used a serial communications network, connecting campus buildings back to a control room "front end". Each remote unit ran two Z80 microprocessors, while the front end ran eleven Z80s in a parallel processing configuration with paged common memory to share tasks and that could run up to 20,000 concurrent control objects.

It was believed that if openness could be achieved and greater amounts of data could be shared throughout the enterprise that even greater things could be achieved. The first attempts to increase the openness of DCSs resulted in the adoption of the predominant operating system of the day: UNIX.  UNIX and its companion networking technology TCP-IP were developed by the US Department of Defense for openness, which was precisely the issue the process industries were looking to resolve.

As a result, suppliers also began to adopt Ethernet-based networks with their own proprietary protocol layers.  The full TCP/IP standard was not implemented, but the use of Ethernet made it possible to implement the first instances of object management and global data access technology.  The 1980s also witnessed the first PLCs integrated into the DCS infrastructure.  Plant-wide historians also emerged to capitalize on the extended reach of automation systems.  The first DCS supplier to adopt UNIX and Ethernet networking technologies was Foxboro, who introduced the I/A Series system in 1987.

The application-centric era of the 1990s
The drive toward openness in the 1980s gained momentum through the 1990s with the increased adoption of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components and IT standards.  Probably the biggest transition undertaken during this time was the move from the UNIX operating system to the Windows environment.  While the realm of the real time operating system (RTOS) for control applications remains dominated by real time commercial variants of UNIX or proprietary operating systems, everything above real-time control has made the transition to Windows.

The introduction of Microsoft at the desktop and server layers resulted in the development of technologies such as OLE for process control (OPC), which is now a de facto industry connectivity standard.  Internet technology also began to make its mark in automation and the  world, with most DCS HMI supporting Internet connectivity.  The 1990s were also known for the "Fieldbus Wars", where rival organizations competed to define what would become the IEC fieldbus standard for digital communication with field instrumentation instead of 4–20 milliamp analog communications.  The first fieldbus installations occurred in the 1990s.  Towards the end of the decade, the technology began to develop significant momentum, with the market consolidated around Ethernet I/P, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus PA for process automation applications.  Some suppliers built new systems from the ground up to maximize functionality with fieldbus, such as Rockwell PlantPAx System, Honeywell with Experion & Plantscape SCADA systems, ABB with System 800xA, Emerson Process Management with the Emerson Process Management DeltaV control system, Siemens with the SPPA-T3000 or Simatic PCS 7, Forbes Marshall with the Microcon+ control system and Azbil Corporation with the Harmonas-DEO system. Fieldbus technics have been used to integrate machine, drives, quality and condition monitoring applications to one DCS with Valmet DNA system.

The impact of COTS, however, was most pronounced at the hardware layer.  For years, the primary business of DCS suppliers had been the supply of large amounts of hardware, particularly I/O and controllers.  The initial proliferation of DCSs required the installation of prodigious amounts of this hardware, most of it manufactured from the bottom up by DCS suppliers.  Standard computer components from manufacturers such as Intel and Motorola, however, made it cost prohibitive for DCS suppliers to continue making their own components, workstations, and networking hardware.

As the suppliers made the transition to COTS components, they also discovered that the hardware market was shrinking fast.  COTS not only resulted in lower manufacturing costs for the supplier, but also steadily decreasing prices for the end users, who were also becoming increasingly vocal over what they perceived to be unduly high hardware costs. Some suppliers that were previously stronger in the PLC business, such as Rockwell Automation and Siemens, were able to leverage their expertise in manufacturing control hardware to enter the DCS marketplace with cost effective offerings, while the stability/scalability/reliability and functionality of these emerging systems are still improving. The traditional DCS suppliers introduced new generation DCS System based on the latest Communication and IEC Standards, which resulting in a trend of combining the traditional concepts/functionalities for PLC and DCS into a one for all solution—named "Process Automation System" (PAS). The gaps among the various systems remain at the areas such as: the database integrity, pre-engineering functionality, system maturity, communication transparency and reliability. While it is expected the cost ratio is relatively the same (the more powerful the systems are, the more expensive they will be), the reality of the automation business is often operating strategically case by case. The current next evolution step is called Collaborative Process Automation Systems.

To compound the issue, suppliers were also realizing that the hardware market was becoming saturated.  The life cycle of hardware components such as I/O and wiring is also typically in the range of 15 to over 20 years, making for a challenging replacement market.  Many of the older systems that were installed in the 1970s and 1980s are still in use today, and there is a considerable installed base of systems in the market that are approaching the end of their useful life.  Developed industrial economies in North America, Europe, and Japan already had many thousands of DCSs installed, and with few if any new plants being built, the market for new hardware was shifting rapidly to smaller, albeit faster growing regions such as China, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

Because of the shrinking hardware business, suppliers began to make the challenging transition from a hardware-based business model to one based on software and value-added services.  It is a transition that is still being made today.  The applications portfolio offered by suppliers expanded considerably in the '90s to include areas such as production management, model-based control, real-time optimization, plant asset management (PAM), Real-time performance management (RPM) tools, alarm management, and many others.  To obtain the true value from these applications, however, often requires a considerable service content, which the suppliers also provide.

Modern systems (2010 onwards)
The latest developments in DCS include the following new technologies:

 Wireless systems and protocols
 Remote transmission, logging and data historian
  Mobile interfaces and controls
 Embedded web-servers

Increasingly, and ironically, DCS are becoming centralised at plant level, with the ability to log into the remote equipment. This enables operator to control both at enterprise level ( macro ) and at the equipment level (micro), both within and outside the plant, because the importance of the physical location drops due to interconnectivity primarily thanks to wireless and remote access.

The more wireless protocols are developed and refined, the more they are included in DCS. DCS controllers are now often equipped with embedded servers and provide on-the-go web access. Whether DCS will lead Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) or borrow key elements from remains to be seen.

Many vendors provide the option of a mobile HMI, ready for both Android and iOS. With these interfaces, the threat of security breaches and possible damage to plant and process are now very real.

See also
 Annunciator panel
 Building automation
 EPICS
 Industrial control system
 Industrial safety system
 Safety instrumented system (SIS)
 TANGO

References

Control engineering
Applications of distributed computing
Industrial automation

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AI, AI, AI, and MORE AI! — As we saw earlier this year at Enterprise Connect, collaboration vendors are rapidly enhancing their products with artificial intelligence to improve usability, allow new functionality, and enable buyers to better understand adoption patterns and benefits. Several speakers who participated in the emerging trends day discussed using AI to allow videoconferencing systems to recognize human figures, enabling meeting organizers to take attendance or administrators to better understand room utilization.For example, with data from video cameras showing that three people typically use a room designed for 10 or that eight to 10 attendees often cram into a room designed for five, facilities managers and workplace architects could better design meeting spaces to align with demonstrable need. AI built into cameras also could better frame room images, allowing for a more natural conversation among videoconference participants.Beyond video, other discussed use cases for AI involve smart assistants that can listen for action items in meetings and add them to a task or project management application. AI could suggest relevant files to open based on what it learned about similar meetings. It could determine that people critical to a project weren't invited to a meeting, and it could transcribe meetings in real-time, even in multiple languages.
Audio Is Still Kind of Important — Another area of differentiation is the audio component of videoconference systems. At InfoComm, Dolby demonstrated its noise cancellation and spacial capabilities in partnership with BlueJeans and Highfive. Logitech showed its new Rally system, which uses directional microphones and front-of-room speakers to reduce background noise and improve audio quality. As high definition and even 4K video become more common, ensuring high-quality audio for in-room, remote desktop, and mobile participants is one area in which vendors look to gain competitive advantage.
Digital Whiteboards Were Everywhere — By my current count, more than 25 vendors now offer digital whiteboard solutions aimed at easing the way teams share, manipulate, and annotate content both in meeting rooms and when working remotely. However, our research shows that use cases for such boards largely remain limited to groups needing a common canvas for ideation, integrating information from multiple sources (e.g., for control rooms or incident response), or other collaborative tasks requiring multiple individuals being able to work on a common piece of content. Integration of digital whiteboards into team spaces enables saving, continuing, and revisiting content at any time. Other vendors, such as Highfive (with Dolby), demonstrated the ability for their room cameras to capture and share content on plain old traditional whiteboards, enabling remote participants to see the contents of the board even if they aren't able to manipulate or annotate it themselves.
Metrics Matter — On my panel, representatives of Altia Systems, AVI-SPL, Crestron, GBH Communications (now SKC Communications), Plantronics, and Vyopta and I discussed how UC success metrics are rapidly changing from IT-focused measurements of success (e.g., number of trouble tickets, video quality, MOS, etc.) to more user-centric measurements such as user satisfaction, productivity gains, and utilization rates. IT buyers' increasing desire to understand the business value of their collaboration investments is driving these changes. While many IT leaders I speak with tell me they believe that incorporating videoconferencing into meetings improves collaboration, they want to be able to demonstrate those improvements via quantifiable metrics like shorter project times, quicker meetings, improved sales, and better customer responsiveness. Here, as we discussed in our panel, AI (did I mention AI?) can play an increasingly important role in analyzing data from multiple sources to assess results of video deployments.
Giving Users Interoperability and Flexibility — Announcements and/or demonstrations from BlueJeans, Crestron, Google, Logitech, Microsoft, Pexip, Polycom, QSC, Videxio, ZiipRoom, Zoom, and many others highlighted the growing ability of collaboration buyers to choose solutions that best fit their needs and provide maximum flexibility to their workers. Examples include ZiipRoom's controller and mobile app that easily enables room systems to connect to any meeting service such as BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, Skype for Business, Webex, or Zoom. Partnering with Google, both Pexip and Videxio demonstrated the ability to incorporate existing room systems into Google's Hangouts Meet conferencing app, a capability already provided by Pexip for Microsoft meeting apps, and natively by vendors like BlueJeans, Cisco, and Zoom. In their booths, meeting service providers often intermixed voice and video devices from vendors like Logitech, Polycom, and Yealink to highlight the growing choices available to collaboration buyers. Of course, this requires a bit more effort to determine which of the variety of possible solutions is the best fit for a given scenario.
For buyers of collaboration technology, the one constant is change. AI, emerging collaboration platforms, and increased buyer choice will enable greater customization of collaborative workspaces to meet specific needs, but will also require more due diligence to evaluate solutions and approaches. Perhaps AI will eventually help there as well!


Whether you have an older dog or a puppy, how he or she behaves is important. Online dog training is the simplest and least expensive ways to learn how to train your dogs.
If you are like me, you don't have a clue where to start when training your dog. For years I have put up with behavior from my dogs that I don't like, simply because I didn't know what to do and thought it was going to cost me a fortune to take them to a professional trainer.
And there are dozens, if not hundreds more problems. These are just some of the problems I've encountered with my dogs over the years and ones that I was finally able to curb with a bit of time, work and surprisingly not a ton of money.
Nothing could be further from the truth. I currently have three dogs and all of them are rescues. One of them, named Lucy, came from a very abusive background and was six years old when I rescued her. She wasn't too bad considering how bad the first part of her life had been, but there were definitely things about her that I would have liked to change.
That is so wrong! Since I've started training my dogs, I've come to realize that older dogs are just as easy if not easier to train than a puppy.
I'm happy to report that after just a couple of months, Lucy is much better behaved and is happier too since I don't have to get angry or frustrated when she does things I don't like. Is she perfect? No. But then again none of us are. And to be honest, I love to spoil my dogs and often let some behavior go. I know I shouldn't but that's my problem, not my dogs!
Again, nothing could be further from the truth. As soon as you are starting to potty train your dog, you can start training them in other ways too. Dogs mature a lot faster than us humans do and can understand you from a very early age.
I personally found it harder to train my puppy but then again I have dogs ranging from six months to nine years. A nine year old dog has a lot less energy than a puppy and by it's nature tends to get into less trouble.
We have three dogs. One of them used to like to bark at the door. A lot. If he wasn't home or was sleeping somewhere in the house where he couldn't hear the door, the other two couldn't be bothered if the mailman came or someone else. But when he started barking, that of course got the other two to join in. It was a nightmare.
Because we are a dog family, all of our friends and family know and expect our dogs to be wandering about when we have a party or some kind of function at our home. But the problem was, when a lot of people were coming over, every single time someone came to the door, the dogs would bark. It didn't make for a pleasant party atmosphere.
So barking at the door I decided was the first thing I would work on. I was dreading doing it because I don't like to reprimand my dogs. But I read a lot about online dog training and realized you don't have to be mean to your dog in order to train it.
I'm pleased to report that in virtually no time at all I had trained this bad behavior out of Buster (oops, sorry to mention, that is his name). I was so excited in fact that I threw a party at our house just to see how the dogs would react. The difference was night and day. Everyone commented on how well behaved my dogs were and kept asking who trained them. No one seemed to believe that I did it myself.
So you can teach an old dog new tricks. Doggy Dan taught me!


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In this third episode, Bella talks with Greenwich sophomores Jack O'Gorman and Eddy Iuteri.
NEW CANAAN — Michael Collins was talking with a reporter during FCIAC Football Media Day last week when John Marinelli, the new coach at Greenwich and his former offensive coordinator at New Canaan, walked by and sat next to the quarterback.
Marinelli put his arm around Collins and listened to him answer a few questions before getting up, nearing his mouth toward the tape recorder and uttering five words before departing.
Each July, as a large portion of local media descends on Dunning Stadium for New Canaan's 7 on 7 Tournament, I think back to a conversation I had with Rich Albonizio four or five years ago.
Albonizio, the coach of Greenwich at the time, was watching his team go through what has become a much more popular and celebrated version of what my friends and I did growing up, in yards or vacant fields. One person snaps the ball to the quarterback while everyone else on offense becomes a receiver.
The Cardinals' leader has his focus on a Class LL championship after last year's trip to the title game.


Finally! They've passed testing and can be implemented! You can plug an mp3 player into them, they're not as huge and unsightly as the current hearing aids and they are much much more effective than the old school ones.
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A 200-year-old piece of Chengal timber has made an epic journey – from an old factory in Klang to become a designer workstation at Co-labs Coworking on Level 4 of The Starling mall in Damansara Uptown, Petaling Jaya. The workstation has customised slots to place your tablets and mobile phones as well as specialised pods to store your belongings.
A few metres away, a "breakout area" awaits with comfortable seating pods. One can use them for a meeting with colleagues or for a brainstorming session. These are just one of several meeting areas in the premises. For longer sessions, you can book a meeting room.
As a co-working space, your colleagues aren't the only ones working there. The events hall, pantries, printing stations, nap pods, nursing room and other facilities are also shared with employees from other companies.
Welcome to Co-labs The Starling, a 20,000 sq ft co-sharing workspace at the heart of Petaling Jaya's business centre. Co-labs also features a photo studio for product photography sessions, coffee stations, telephone booths for private phone calls, a recreation room equipped with Sony Playstation 4 and Nintendo Wii, lockers to store your belongings, a shower area along with mentorship and internship programmes.
It is almost a perfect office! The ambience and environment will certainly appeal to those who don't require a traditional office to conduct their daily business needs.


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Three officers murdered, fourth one injured after car stop involving alleged carjacking
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Posted by: Gregory Hoyt| January 12, 2021 |Categories Fallen, Featured
SAN JUAN, PR – A stop involving an alleged carjacking that took place in Puerto Rico's capitol on January 11th resulted in three police officers being killed and one other being injured.
Three police officers were killed and a fourth was injured Monday near Puerto Rico's capital following a carjacking, authorities said. https://t.co/MsK24ZnlR6
— WSVN 7 News (@wsvn) January 11, 2021
From what officials say of the incident, two of the slain officers were shot, while the third killed died as a result of being run over. How the fourth officer was injured during the incident has not been revealed.
Reports indicate that the currently at-large suspect commenced a carjacking in the northern city of Carolina, allegedly stealing a car from a woman. From there, officers attempted to stop the suspect in Isla Verde after a vehicular pursuit, where the suspect reportedly opened fire on the officers.
In a statement provided by Governor Pedro Pierluisi, the three slain officers were identified as Officers Luis Marrero, Luis Salamán and Eliezer Hernandez:
"I deeply regret the grief the families of these three heroes who were killed while doing their duty to protect the lives of everyone on our Island. These violent acts of contempt for life can't have space in the Puerto Rico we want."
"I have decreed three days of mourning in memory and honor of our brave police officers who lost their lives."
"To all your families, my solidarity and my prayers for you to have the strength and comfort you need in these hard times. Our entire people mourn the departure of Luis Marrero, Luis Salamán and Eliezer Hernandez."
As for the officer who was injured during the incident, Governor Pierluisi identified him as Officer Angel Luis Colón:
"I was able to speak with Officer Angel Luis Colón, who was injured [on January 11] in the line of duty, I expressed my wishes for recovery, and that his family and Puerto Rico need him."
"I spoke with the Commissioner of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau and the
Secretary of the Department of Public Safety in the wake of [January 11's] tragedy in which three brave police officers died in the line of duty."
"This loss of life needs to end now. Our people and these families deserve more. The investigation will be carried out to identify the culprits so that they are tried to the fullest extent of the law."
"We join together in prayer for them and hope that God will bring comfort and strength to their families."
The investigation into the incident is still in the preliminary stages, and there hasn't been many details released on what law enforcement officials know about the at-large suspect.
When commenting on the matter, Captain José González of the PRPB remarked on how this incident was one of the most substantial attacks on law enforcement in Puerto Rico in recent memory:
"I've never had a scene like this."
Authorities did say that the vehicle the suspect had allegedly stolen has since been recovered, but no other information outside of that aspect has been shared.
Please follow Law Enforcement Today as we gather further insight into this developing investigation.
In other news related to fatal carjackings, police in Chicago have made a fourth arrest recently in the murder of a retired Chicago firefighter.
Here's that previous report from earlier in January.
CHICAGO, IL – In the ongoing investigation into the murder of 65-year-old retired Chicago firefighter Dwain Williams, a fourth suspect has been arrested.
The attempted carjacking turned murder from December 3rd, that was captured on surveillance video, has been has been an ongoing investigation in order to track down the numerous assailants involved.
Fourth suspect arrested in connection to shooting that killed retired Chicago firefighterhttps://t.co/Q7IoQ1SFV0
— Roseanne Tellez (@RoseanneTellez) January 1, 2021
According to officials, the fourth suspect arrested for the Chicago murder was located by the FBI in Pennsylvania, reportedly taken into custody under a separate warrant.
The City of New Castle Police Department identified the suspect as 19-year-old Jaylen Saulsberry, which he's currently being held in the Lawrence County Jail according to officials.
Jaylen Saulsberry – New Castle Police Department
Chicago Police Supt. David Brown stated noted on Twitter that the suspect's extradition is being sought as of this time:
"The 4th suspect in the 12/3 murder of the ret. CFD firefighter has been arrested on a separate warrant in PA by [the FBI] & is currently being held on a $2M murder warrant. We're seeking his immediate extradition back to Chicago. Great work by CPD detectives & federal law enforcement."
The 4th suspect in the 12/3 murder of the ret. CFD firefighter has been arrested on a separate warrant in PA by @FBI & is currently being held on a $2M murder warrant. We're seeking his immediate extradition back to Chicago. Great work by CPD detectives & federal law enforcement.
— Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown (@ChiefDavidBrown) January 1, 2021
It's currently unclear as to what that separate warrant was in relation to that led to Saulsberry being arrested in Pennsylvania. However, this now marks suspect number four arrested in this crime, with two other adults and one juvenile having been arrested for the murder of Williams.
We at Law Enforcement Today have been keeping up with the investigation into the fatal shooting of Williams. Here's our previous reporting on the case.
CHICAGO, IL – A third arrest has been made in the ongoing investigation into the murder of retired Chicago Fire Department Lt. Dwain Williams that occurred on December 3rd.
Third person charged in murder of retired Chicago firefighterhttps://t.co/KRvPNe04w0
— rebecca sifuentes (@rebeccasifuent1) December 29, 2020
Prior to that, two suspects – aged 15 and 18-years-old – were already arrested, with both of them facing murder charges.
Dwain Johnson – Chicago Police Department
Dwain Johnson was identified as the 18-year-old arrested earlier in December, but the juvenile has neither been named or officially charged yet.
However, on December 26th, police arrested 20-year-old Devin Barron, and investigators believe that Barron may be one of the two gunman to have pulled the trigger on Williams during the attempted carjacking.
Police have reason to believe that the three suspect in custody were part of a "carjacking crew" that may be responsible for numerous other crimes reported in the general area.
During the day that Williams was murdered, he'd just left the Let's Get Poppin' popcorn store located at 11758 S. Western Ave., when three suspects – two of which were armed – exited a vehicle that pulled up to where Williams was about to enter his vehicle.
Williams, who was concealed carrying at the time of the encounter, fired at the assailants in self defense. The two suspects, as seen on video, fired several shots at Williams, striking him in the abdomen.
The retired firefighter had only enjoyed his retirement for two years at that point and was even slated to return working as a civilian employee at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
Devin Barron – Chicago Police Department
Investigators reportedly caught up with Barron at a hotel in south suburban Lansing on December 26th, with police believing he is one of the gunman featured on the captured footage.
Barron was said to have been found in possession of three guns when he was arrested on December 26th, but prosecutors didn't say if any of the three guns on the suspect were one of the ones used in Williams' murder.
Additional evidence against Barron alleges that his cellphone was at one point synced with the Bluetooth that was inside of the getaway vehicle featured in the video of Williams' death.
Police had discovered the getaway vehicle – later found out to have been stolen days before the murder – in southwest suburban Tinley Park sometime after the murder.
Barron's fingerprints were also allegedly found to be on a food wrapper that was found in the rear of the recovered vehicle.
According to officials, Barron also has a pending case linked to an October arrest for allegedly forcibly kidnapping a woman from her home and dragging her into a vehicle where he was alleged to have repeatedly struck the victim.
His next court date for the murder case is slated for January 15th.
Earlier in December, we at Law Enforcement Today had reported on when the news first broke of Williams being murdered while trying to prevent himself from becoming a victim of a carjacking.
Here's that original report from the day following his murder.
CHICAGO, IL – A 65-year-old retired Chicago firefighter was killed in a gunfire exchange when he defended himself from being carjacked on December 3rd.
At around 2 p.m. on December 3rd, Dwain Williams of the Longwood Manor area of Chicago had just left a popcorn shop called Lets Get Poppin' at 11758 S. Western Ave in Morgan Park on the South Side.
As he approached his vehicle in the parking lot, a dark-colored sedan approached and four males got out. The men produced guns and Williams drew his firearm, there was an exchange of gunfire, and Williams was shot in the abdomen.
He was transported to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead.
Dwain Williams was a Chicago Fire Department lieutenant who retired from the department about two years ago after joining the force in 1992, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
His final assignment was with the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, where he was going to return to work as a civilian employee as soon as next week because "he really loved working in that environment," Langford said.
A 65-year-old retired Chicago firefighter was fatally shot Thursday afternoon during an attempted carjacking on the Southwest Side, according to police. https://t.co/wgR4LCGPlE pic.twitter.com/DolLlXmAZL
— Block Club Chicago (@BlockClubCHI) December 4, 2020
Matt O'Shea, Southwest Side Alderman stated that Williams was a decorated firefighter:
"I can tell you he was a hero. He spent his entire career working hard as a first responder for our great city. What a tremendous loss."
Brian McDermott, Chicago Police Chief of Operations, announced in a press conference on the incident:
"My heart goes out to the family of the victim and to the victim himself."
According to information obtained from the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago police have responded to 1,229 carjackings this year through November 22, more than double the 514 carjackings in Chicago in all of 2019.
McDermott added:
"The Chicago police department is well aware of the increase in vehicle hijackings, we're doing our best right now to increase the capabilities of our citywide task force."
McDermott also stated that he understands the concerns of citizens on the subject.
"The message is we hear their concerns loud and clear, and that we understand the fears that they're going through. We all have people that we know that live in this community that shouldn't have to live in fear."
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When we set out to tell food stories for our "Coming to the Table" magazine issue, we wanted to highlight the immigrant women who carry forward the global food traditions that enrich New York City's culinary landscape.
Manolia Charlotin was Fi2W's managing editor in 2014 and 2015.
We met women from so many different backgrounds who support their families, create community, and maintain culture in their adopted home through cooking, growing, selling, and serving food.
Among New York's 25,000 street vendors, 90 percent are immigrants and nearly half are women. Our feature story "Feeding the Street" shed a light on the largely unknown workers who make street food and the challenges they face.
We also covered the Caribbean women at the forefront of urban farming in Brooklyn, the women who prepare food in spiritual spaces, and two Queens families who threw a Mexi-Jewish Trini-Filipino birthday feast for their young daughters.
This journey inspired our "United By Faith" issue, which explored the role of faith in helping new Americans integrate into broader society — from traditional healers to Santería, Vodou, and the many faces of Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism.
The issue covered botanicas (Latino healing centers), apartment mosques, and women faith leaders — stories that reveal an aspect of immigrant life that plays an essential role in preserving cultural heritage and building a bridge between immigrants' ancestral lands and their new homes.


An incredible journey into the spritual world by a gifted author!
The Moa Series has won 23 literary awards and was sparked by her firsthand encounter with an ancient Hawaiian spirit. For almost 200 years, Moa, an ancient Hawaiian spirit, has tried to solve the mystery surrounding her parent's senseless murder and she's running out of time. She and her entire lineage will perish if they do not find human aid. An energetic eighteen-year-old, Hillary Hause, has no idea that she holds the key to this centuries-old secret. With the help of her older sister, Molly and Heidi her seven-year-old niece, Hillary embarks on a journey determined to save herself, her family, Moa and the Hawaiian Islands. Will they all learn to accept themselves and their newly discovered spiritual gifts or cease to exist, never knowing Moa's truth?


Stem cell therapy has been used in many medical fields to aid in healing and even help tissue regenerate. Teeth stem cells have shown promise in helping with dental issues as well, and possibly even providing an opportunity for new teeth to be regrown. This could allow dental professionals to use the stem cells in teeth to regenerate teeth for restorative dentistry rather than resorting to dentures or implants. Here's how this works.
Stem cells are found throughout the body and are specific type of cells that are able to differentiate into other types of cells and tissue. That means they can actually develop into a specific type of cell or tissue, which makes them invaluable for treating illnesses or helping the body heal. There are different types of stem cells, but the types most abundant in teeth are called mesenchymal stem cells.
Mesenchymal stem cells are typically used in stem cell therapy used to address issues with the skeletal system. This type of cell can make cartilage, bone, or fat, making it an excellent option for treating orthopedic ailments. However, these cells are able to specialize in many types of cells so they can develop into cells with specific shapes, functions, and tissue so they have a lot of potential in the dental field as well.
There are numerous applications that dental stem cells can be used for. They can be used to restore pulp tissue that's removed due to infection, or regenerate periodontal ligaments that are lost to periodontal disease. One of the most promising applications of dental stem cell therapy is actually regenerating teeth. Using a scaffold of natural materials it's possible for a tooth to actually be regrown in the tooth socket, rather than outside the tooth, which requires artificial implantation.
A major reason tooth stem cells are becoming a preferred source of stem cells is how easily they can be harvested. Other stem cells may require extraction from bone marrow. However, tooth stem cells can be taken from teeth that are lost naturally or by dentist extraction. Contact Tooth Bank today to learn more about harvesting and storing teeth stem cells for future use.


I fainally managed to post these last photos from our vacation. On our way back home we stoped to visit Savannah. Beautiful city! We fell in love with it immediately and just like that we decided to take another trip this year, hopefully soon.
I wore something very similar today…such a classic casual look. Interesting pics as always, you guys share so many beautiful destinations with us.


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Jimna is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Jimna had a population of 91 people.

Geography
Jimna is situated on the Jimna Range approximately 1690 feet (515.11 metres) above sea level.

Jimna Diggings is a neighbourhood in the east of the locality, an area historically used for gold mining ().

History
Duungidjawu (also known as Kabi Kabi, Cabbee, Carbi, Gabi Gabi) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Duungidjawu country. The Duungidjawu language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Somerset Region and Moreton Bay Region, particularly the towns of Caboolture, Kilcoy, Woodford and Moore.

The name Jimna is believed to be an Aboriginal word djimna meaning place of leeches.

The first Jimna Post Office opened on 1 July 1868 and closed in 1879. A receiving office was open from 1891 to 1909, and from 1925 until the second Jimna Post Office opened on 1 July 1927. This closed in 1981.

In 1887,  of land were resumed from the Yabba pastoral run for the establishment of small farms. The land was offered for selection on 17 April 1887.

Monsildale Provisional School opened on 2 June 1913. In 1923, the school was moved and renamed Foxlowe Provisional School. On 25 June 1926 it was renamed Jimna Provisional School. On 1 October 1934, it became Jimna State School. It was mothballed on 31 December 2006 and closed on 31 December 2009. (In about 1941, a separate Monsildale State School was opened but closed about 1961.) It was at 21 School Road (). The Jimna school site was developed as a camping ground retaining the school buildings and other facilities. The school's website was archived.

Commercial loggers Hancock and Gore moved their sawmill from Monsildale to what would become Jimna in 1922.  The sawmill was burnt down by fire in 1947.

The state government established a hoop pine nursery at Jimna in 1935.  Jimna hall was opened in 1934. When sawmilling contracted in the mid 1970s the town's population reduced significantly.

In the , the locality of Jimna had a population of 91 people.

Heritage listings
Jimna has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 Kilcoy-Murgon Road: Jimna Fire Tower
 4 Tip Road: former Jimna Single Men's Barracks

References

Towns in Queensland
Suburbs of Somerset Region
Populated places established in 1926
1926 establishments in Australia
Localities in Queensland


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On Changing Face Value of Issued Bonds
Riga, Latvia, 2019-06-17 15:46 CEST -- Liquidation Committee of ABLV Bank, AS in liquidation (hereinafter – the Company) has made a decision to carry out change of face value for each bond of all bonds issued by the Company to EUR 0.01 applied to all bonds with face value expressed in EUR, and to USD 0.01 applied to all bonds with face value expressed in USD.
After the changes the total amount of claims arising from the bonds shall remain the same – the face value of one unit shall be decreased, but the total amount of bonds shall be increased proportionally in a way to keep the total amount of claims the same.
The change of face value of the bonds is necessary in order to make possible organisation of disbursements under claims of the Company's creditors that are arising from the bonds issued by the Company by stages, partially and individually to each bondholder.
The face value of the bonds shall be changed on 12 July 2019.
The Company is entitled to carry out such financial instrument action in accordance with Section 139 of the Credit Institutions Law, which provides that the liquidator sets the procedure of disbursements and covering the debts. Change of face value of the bonds will in no way affect the lodged creditors' claims and the procedure of approving them.
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The Five Star motion, which includes mayors in Turin and Rome, has plainly said it's from the Italian cash hosting the Games. Even now, once I have not studied the dialect for almost 40 years I can however recognize a number of the talk in French Television shows. While the Vatican is in Croatia, I've no issue together Italian money blog with the performing language being French. Outside school, French or English were preferred languages of communication. Simply because they take such satisfaction in their look, German males appear to be better-looking then different countries. What stunned me many about my remain in italy is that numerous chinese men were brief.
A pal, a teacher of liturgy within an eastern European was arranging the liturgy for a group of European bishops, there were quite a few cardinals in work, who in order of precedence presided in the liturgy, the low-Italians cheerfully celebrated Mass both within the local language or in Latin, the Italians nonetheless insisted d utilizing German although scarcely anybody, least of all of the laity present, talked French.
Any bishop without French is seriously disadvantaged, it would be difficult for a low-italian-speaking cardinal to work while in the Chapel, not just Rome, even though he'd great Latin or all or any of the world languages: English, Mandarin, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese while it is quite probable to become Pope with just Italian.


Taipei, 21 October 2016 – ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of highperformance DRAM modules, NAND Flash products, and mobile accessories today launched the ADATA P20000D and P12500D smart display power banks.
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Both power banks offer a high degree of safety, with six protective circuits and a shock and fire resistant enclosure. The ADATA P20000D further includes a high luminance LED flashlight. Sufficient for multiple charges of smartphones, tablets, and mobile devices such as wireless headphones and game controllers at 20000mAh and 12500mAh respectively, the P20000D and P12500D are smart and! portable power stations.
The ADATA P20000D and P12500D forego the vagueness and uncertainty of simple flashing lights or bars, instead incorporating highly visible digital displays that show exactly how much charge is left, shown in easy to understand percentage points. Rather than going for the traditional "more or less" approach, ADATA designers this time opted to deliver complete charge info accuracy, as befits large capacity power banks.
The large capacity of the ADATA P20000D and P12500 means they are enough for up to 6.4 smart phone charges, 1.8 average tablet charges. Charging is made more efficient thanks to the inclusion of two USB ports that output a total 2.1A, so users can charge two devices at once to save time, whether recharging smartphones, tablets, game controllers, wireless headphones, and any other device with a USB port.
From carefully-tested power cells to fire, shock, and vibration resistant enclosures, the P20000D and P12500D protect users, devices, and the environment. They employ intricate circuitry to guard against overcharge, overheating, overcurrent, under current, over discharge, and shorting out.
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"Oil market is in a fragile situation considering the supply and demand balance, so the oil producers should be wary of any trouble in the oil market, especially due to U.S. measures against big oil producers", Zanganeh was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA upon his arrival in Moscow.
Last week, the API reported a surprise build in crude oil of 1.93 million barrels.
Production cuts from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) helped push the group's supply to a four-year low in March, a Reuters survey found.
A day before, the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported a slight rise in the USA crude oil inventories by 3 million barrels.
Net U.S. crude imports rose last week by 386,000 bpd while exports dropped by 163,000 bpd to 2.7 million bpd.
Washington has instructed oil trading houses and refiners to further cut dealings with Venezuela or face sanctions themselves, sources told Reuters, and has urged Malaysia and Singapore to be vigilant for illicit Iranian crude in its waterways.
"Overall, with a more relaxed financing environment, government efforts to bail out the private sector and positive progress in Sino-U.S. trade talks, the situation across the manufacturing sector recovered in March".
Morrison said Hanson's broadcast comments on the Port Arthur massacre, to which the gunman pleaded guilty, was the final straw.
Representative Doug Collins , the committee's top Republican, said Democrats are "desperate for dirt on this president". Eliot Engel of NY , chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, returns to the capital.
Retailers are also raising alarm bells, according to officials with two groups that represent hundreds of US retail firms. Trump said he has seen some encouraging signs from Mexico, which he said is arresting more migrants.
According to ProFootballTalk , the league is not folding yet, but appears to be trending in that direction. The league is just eight weeks into its inaugural season.
"Every single plan that this White House has ever put forward since Donald Trump was elected, covered pre-existing conditions". Bates' ruling comes after an intense week in the courts for the administration's health care policies.
Gerrard promised a tougher approach to discipline within his squad when asked if Morelos could change his ways. The Scotland global was criticised by Rangers boss Steven Gerrard , who blamed him for Morelos' red card.
Refining them down to four, backbenchers voted again on Monday, hoping to find one solution that majority could agree on. Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was "disappointing" that none of the proposals secured a majority, BBC News reports .
Trump said on Friday he planned to hold a media event at the border in the next two weeks. In the last tweet of the series, Trump said Mexico is simply taking money from the U.S.
At a news conference following Finch's death, police said the officer who fired his gun had been placed on paid leave. Her 20-year-old boyfriend, who found her at their shared apartment, apparently committed suicide earlier this week.


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Having a slow cooker in your cupboard, is a seriously smart move.
If you don't have a slow cooker you can simply use a large stock pot and cook on a low heat.
Add the tomato paste, beef stock and cornflour in a separate bowl and combine together.
Add into the slow cooker and mix with the other ingredients.
If it is quite runny after this time, add 3 tablespoons water and 1 teaspoon cornflour to the mix.
Serve with spaghetti, pasta or rice.
This is a HUGE recipe – it makes a lot. Once it has cooled down you can freeze it in batches and use with spaghetti or when you're making lasagne!
You can also use this as pie filling, or add a bit of chilli and have it as a taco filler. Or even for nachos.


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Robert Fairman, Professional Model
Asia Francine Butler
Name: Robert Fairman
Major: Public Health
Hometown: Charlotte
Photo courtesy of Jason Benjamin & Matt Daniels – HeadshotsCharleston.com.
Meet Robert Fairman, a fashion model with a passion for runway modeling. This young man has a promising future in the fashion industry thanks to his natural talent for modeling; Robert has been in the industry for a little over a year and has already had the honor of participating in Charleston Fashion Week and walking on the biggest runway on the East Coast. His fierce look and incredible talent has earned him the opportunity to model the designs of some of the more well known names in the industry. Read on to find out how Robert became interested in modeling, how he prepares for shows, and tips he has for aspiring models!
HC: What sparked your interest in modeling?
RF: When I was little, I did a little bit of baby and toddler modeling. In high school, I had some people ask me to come do a shoot for them, but I turned them down because I didn't think of modeling as cool back then. Last year, one of my roommates said, "Hey, my brother did fashion week last year in Charleston. You should go ahead and do it." So last year was my first fashion week, and modeling has just taken off for me since then.
HC: How did you feel with your first fashion show?
RF: You can't describe it. It's the longest walk of your life on an 85-foot runway, the biggest one on the East Coast. Walking down that runway knowing that people want to buy what you're wearing for their stores. The clothes aren't what you'd see the average person wearing, but there are people there from major companies that see the beauty in it and think, "Okay, I could pay the designer $200,000 for six of those jackets."
HC: Who was your role model as a child?
RF: My parents. I know that's one of the most cliché answers ever, because everyone says their parents are their role models. If not them, then my grandpa. My grandpa passed away in July and since then, everything he always tried to teach and instill in me has hit home. You never really think about the advice you're getting; it's things like praying every day, go to church often, or advice on how to treat people. You don't really think about the advice until afterwards. Then you're thinking turns into, "Papa would've wanted me to treat people this way," or "Papa would've wanted me to take on the challenge that I'm facing this way."
HC: How did your parents help you with becoming a model?
RF: My parents were extremely supportive. Growing up, we were a sports and music family. I grew up playing soccer and being a choir member and my brother always ran or cycled and played in band, so for a long time, that was our realm of knowledge. Outside of sports and music, we didn't really know anything. Last year, when I announced that I was going to do a fashion week, my family was interested and thought it was really cool. I update them on when I get modeling jobs and if I speak with agencies. My mom came to one of my shows this past week, and I got to watch part of the show in the audience with her. It was a really cool experience. They're very supportive of it and they know that it's important and something that I enjoy doing.
HC: How do you cope when you're under pressure?
RF: In dealing with general pressure, I hang out with my fraternity brothers and my friends, work out, or go to the beach. Modeling can be really stressful and is a brutal and ever-changing industry. It's tough, but I have two model coaches that are the most amazing people I've ever met. One of my good friends is a great photographer that does all the fashion week journals and knows people. Great people like them in life can be really reassuring and alleviate some of the stress. At Charleston Fashion Week, I met one of the women that helped start Charleston Fashion Week and she asked me what agencies I'm talking to and told me that I have a great look. The reassurance from the remark of one extremely influential woman calmed my nerves for the entire week.
Photo courtesy of Brocklens.
HC: How do you prepare for shows?
RF: I'll use Charleston Fashion Week as an example, because it's one of the longest ones. We find out if we're going to model in November/December and, if you're chosen, you receive a huge packet of stuff that you're expected to do. It includes things like a moisturizing regimen for in the morning and at night, face medication for if you have acne, recommended foods for different meals, and recommended work out routines. Before modeling, I had no clue what moisturizing was, I knew my mom and grandma did it and that it contained sunscreen. The meal and work out recommendations are written from an educational standpoint. You should be working out four to six times a week and you should be incorporating things like granola, yogurt, salads, and fresh fruit into your meals. They also remind you that you should stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water and to stay away from fried foods. The two to three weeks before Charleston Fashion Week, I didn't eat any fried foods, because I knew I would break out and look really greasy and unhealthy if I did. That's something you can get kicked out of the show for.
There are also other little things to remember. Over Spring Break I visited London which doesn't have much sunlight, but if I would have gone to the beach or something and got sunburnt, that's something I could have gotten kicked out of the show for. There are some agencies that are super strict and have a nutritionist, dietician, specific workouts for you to do, specific gyms and trainers that you go to, but it's more of an educative standpoint. There's a documentary on one of the Victoria Secret models and she wakes up, goes to spin class, goes to pilates, does kickboxing, then goes to yoga, but it's like focused on making healthy decisions.
HC: What are some of your favorite designers?
RF: I'm a sucker for J. Crew and Polo. Todd Snyder is actually one of the designers I walked for last year and I love his stuff. He was the head of outerwear at Polo, director of men's wear at J. Crew, and the director of men's wear at Gap. He started his own line recently and I love his stuff! He's such a good guy. His head designer associate is from Raleigh and lives there, so it was cool to talk to him about stuff like that and to be able to relate to him. Another cool thing about modeling is that you get to see stuff that you'd never imagine to see people wearing in public. Modeling gives me an opportunity to be different.
HC: How often do you exercise?
RF: I try to go to the gym every day. I don't go on Tuesdays, because that's when I have Bible study. Every other morning I try to run a little bit and then do yoga or pilates, because they increase core strength and give you lean muscle while, at the gym, you're trying to bulk up. Cardio helps with a mass of things, and I also do CrossFit and weightlifting. Thankfully, the male body image for modeling is going towards lean muscle. People were so used to seeing big, ripped male models with arms as big as my thighs, but now that image is starting to go out of style. Lean muscle guys that are pretty defined, which is my body type, is the look agencies are turning towards. Agencies have been turning guys away a lot recently for being too bulked. During Fashion Week, I didn't have time to work out often. There was a Thursday where I had to be on set at 7:30 a.m., I didn't get out until 1 p.m. I had time to grab lunch and I had to be back from 2 p.m. until 11 p.m. Then I had to get up again and do it on Friday and Saturday. If you work out consistently leading up to it, you won't feel so pressured to do it the week of.
HC: Any advice for Seahawks that are also aspiring models?
RF: Get involved in the little things first. I skipped that, but I don't recommend going that route. Doing little things like the college fashion week here and the Wilmington Fashion Week are a great way to get started. And there are so many different types of modeling to get involved with, such as runway, editorial, commercial, showcase, trunk show, so it really depends on where you want to fall. Find a photographer and take some head shots. Stepping outside of your comfort zone helps. You have to remember that you're in control of it, but also that it is a job. Last year, I was in makeup for one of my shows and the lady was mixing lime green into the foundation and I didn't think it would look well, but it was part of the job and the designer said he wanted it done that way. I thought it would look terrible, but the way she mixed it, gave me an olive complexion and it ended up looking fine. If you're super uncomfortable doing anything, say something but also remember that it is a job.
Furthermore, be careful who you sign agencies with. I'm talking to professional agencies now and I'm waiting to hear back from them and I always make sure to research whoever I plan on signing with! Be informed. Once you get some footing, you'll be able to discern who the bigger names are and which agencies will be able to take you in the direction you want to go. Be comfortable with who you are. In the modeling world, you're surrounded by the most beautiful people ever, but also the most self-conscious people ever and being comfortable with yourself helps you be more confident. Remember to take care of yourself mentally and physically, too! One thing I learned off YouTube was looking at different fashion shows and how people walk in them is great help if you want to get into runway modeling. There's a specific walk that you have to do.
Source: Jonathan Balliet
Charleston Fashion Week
Asia Francine Butler, known amongst her friends as "The Last of the Time Lords" is a professional student for the University of North Carolina Wilmington. After receiveing her International Baccalaureate Diploma in December of 2013 and being immersed in the friendly and lively atmosphere of UNCW, she decided to pursue a variety of interests, including, but not limited to writing for both Her Campus UNCW and Cape Fear Living Magazine, acting as an Orientation Leader for the International Students, being a Conversation Partner for the English as a Second Language students at UNCW, being a Peer Mentor for incoming International Students, and being a Historian in the Seahawk Crossing for the Residence Hall Association, being a Brother of the academic National Honors Fraternity, Phi Sigma Pi, and being a member of Sigma Alpha Lambda's honors society. She writes at least four articles a month, two for Her Campus UNCW and two for Cape Fear Living Mgazine, and has positively affected the lives of hundreds of international exchange students and UNCW students. Furthermore, she have positively affected and engaged in the lives of many people in the North Carolina community through volunteering with Habitat for Humanity UNCW, UNC Weekends, Burrito Bikers, and playing intramural soccer. Although she has a passion for writing, she is enrolled as a history major in the University of North Carolina Wilmington in preparation for entering law school in the Fall of 2016. While she enjoys temporarily living at the beach for most of her college career, her heart lies with her two adorable German Shepherds, Mitch and Maple along with the loving Butler parents and her two creative and beautiful younger sisters in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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SLA and NYC Health Updates
There are several updates food establishment/restaurant and bar owners should be aware of in regards to the New York State Liquor Authority and NYC Health.
The New York State Liquor Authority's (SLA) has updated its Q&A page regarding Phase 3/4 Guidelines for licensed on-premises establishments. Click here to view the Q&A page. Note that, as stated in the Q&A, only incidental music is permissible at this time, which means that advertised and/or ticketed shows are not permissible. Click here for the SLA's full guidance.
According to an alert we received from the NYC Department of Small Business Services, NYC Health is beginning to conduct modified restaurant/food establishment inspections in response to the health and safety concerns around the COVID-19 public health emergency. Click here to read the guidance we received.
You can also review the NYC Hospitality Alliance's article about What to Expect When You're Inspected and review NYC Health's PDF "Reopening New York City: What Outdoor and Take-Out and Delivery Food Services Need to Know" for additional information. Licensees should stay up to date with any changes to state and federal requirements related to their operations. Restaurants and bars participating in the Open Restaurants Program can apply for a free virtual compliance consultation session with NYC's Department of Small Business Services.
Additionally, as part of the "Three Strikes and You're Closed" initiative, any establishment that receives three violations will be shut down. Egregious violations can result in immediate loss of liquor license or closure before a third strike. Learn more at www.sla.ny.gov.