ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. has unveiled a new and enhanced version of its ClickMobile product, which helps companies make smart decisions in real-time, improving service efficiency and revenues. New, easy-to-use features, which support just about every step of handling the work order, provide the technician of the future with a portable office to work more productively. Simultaneously, dispatchers and managers are equipped with a set of real-time monitoring tools, increasing their ability to make informed decisions in real-time.
In conjunction with ClickSoftware's ClickSchedule automated workforce scheduling software, ClickMobile enables those organizations to graduate to real-time automated, optimized mobile workforce management that drives higher efficiencies and service responsiveness.
"We recognized that having an integrated solution for optimized scheduling and mobility would result in many benefits for our organization both now and in the future," said Dr. Loftur R. Gissurarson, director of Internal Control and Quality, Reykjavik Energy. "We were suitably impressed with the wealth of features and functionality of ClickSoftware's new mobile product and with their proven track record of successfully delivering mobile workforce management solutions. ClickMobile will connect workers in the field to headquarters giving them up-to-the-minute scheduling changes as well as a paperless means of receiving and reporting on work completed to improve efficiency."
"Many organizations rely on cell phones and GPS maps for mobile workforce management but those approaches focus solely on data transfer leaving the implied decisions to human manual processing," said ClickSoftware's Chairman and CEO Moshe BenBassat. "With even a small workforce of tens of technicians, reacting adequately and in real time to the constant stream of field data is well beyond the capabilities of any human brain. With the release of this new version of ClickMobile, we offer the ability to act in real-time on this field data and produce optimal decisions for resource allocation and job scheduling."
The new version of ClickMobile is built on the latest Microsoft mobility infrastructure enabling vital field activities from the moment a task is dispatched to final completion and reporting.
Ability to centrally configure and push software updates to all mobile users remotely, without having to perform updates to each mobile device individually.
Organizations can be sure of the accuracy of the information exchanged between headquarters and technicians in the field because changes made in ClickMobile automatically appear in ClickSchedule, and vice versa. That's because both applications share the same business objects, databases and logic workflows. Such integration saves companies the time and costs of errors from manual reporting and scheduling operations.


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Parents do not expect their baby to die. At a time when there is meant to be so much joy, everything goes horribly wrong.
About 2558 babies die each year in Australia from causes related to stillbirth and neonatal death. A further 55,000 are estimated to die from causes related to miscarriage. While these deaths are relatively common in number, the impact on individuals, couples and families can be devastating. We can walk with you on this very individual journey of grief as you adjust to your loss.
Sometimes the causes of the death are known, but often they are not. This leaves bereaved parents not knowing what to be afraid of, and what they might do differently next time to try to prevent the loss of another baby. Anxieties run high.
Friends and extended family sometimes don't know what to say or do to help. They try, but often they miss the mark. At the Centre for Perinatal Psychology, we know that it is important to talk about your loss and your baby – the fantasies and hopes and joys you held for your life together. We know how to support you through this so you are not alone.
Many parents also consult with us when they are thinking about falling pregnant or are currently pregnant following a loss. Together we explore how to cope with a subsequent pregnancy after experiencing a loss. This involves thinking about this new arrival and the person they are, as well as not forgetting the baby who has died or the pregnancy that ended. This seems important as many women speak of feeling they are betraying or disrespecting their lost baby if they are to feel joy for a subsequent pregnancy. We also explore ways to manage your anxiety during a subsequent pregnancy so that you do not feel too overwhelmed.
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Q: when to use configurable application context over application context? i am learning spring from quite some time now and
i have researched a lot about this,but couldn't find any satisfying answer.
why would i want to use configurable application context?
what are the benefits? .
also saw the documentation but couldn't understand it.
Here is what the documentation says:

SPI interface to be implemented by most if not all application
  contexts. Provides means to configure an application context in
  addition to the application context client methods in the
  ApplicationContext interface.
Configuration and lifecycle methods are encapsulated here to avoid
  making them obvious to ApplicationContext client code.

A: ApplicationContext gives you more of get/read only methods and encapsulated or doesn't allow Configuration and lifecycle methods.
e.g: you can ApplicationContext's implementation to load Configuration from XML
Most commonly used ApplicationContext implementations are
FileSystemXmlApplicationContext
ClassPathXmlApplicationContext
WebXmlApplicationContext

So all above implementation will not have methods to manage Configuration and lifecycle.
If you want more control over Life Cycle like Initialisation and Destruction, you can use ConfigurableApplicationContext.
Here are few examples of using ConfigurableApplicationContext
https://www.javatips.net/api/org.springframework.context.configurableapplicationcontext
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Submit Your Script
Heller Theatre Company
Nick Lutke
Auditions for "The Deaths of Sybil Bolton"
Heller Theatre Company is pleased to announce auditions for a new full-length play by Playwright-in-Residence David Blakely:
The Deaths of Sybil Bolton
from the book by Dennis P. McAuliffe, Jr.
Adapted by David Blakely
Directed by David Blakely
Auditions: Saturday, July 20 at 1:00 pm, Fly Loft, 117 N. Boston Ave.
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Callbacks TBA.
Nov 1, 2, 8 & 9 at 7:30PM
Nov. 10 at 2:00PM
Lynn Riggs Theater, Dennis R. Neill Equality Center
- female, late teens to early 20s, Native
- female, 50+, Native
All other roles have already been cast.
HTC Playwright-in-Residence David Blakely returns to recount a shocking true-life piece of Oklahoma history: the Osage Oil Murders. Based on Dennis P. McAuliffe, Jr.'s 1990 nonfiction book The Deaths of Sybil Bolton, Blakely's adaptation depicts a journalist uncovering lies, cover-ups, and murder on his quest for the truth: what exactly happened to his grandmother during the systematic reign of terror that killed an estimated 60-plus wealthy, full-blood Osage Native Americans in the 1920s? Blakely expands his four-time TATE-winning* one-act play Four Ways to Die into a full-length true-crime story from Oklahoma's past, with an intimate look at how it resonates in personal history today.
NOTE: This is INSTEAD of the previously-announced Season Auditions, which have been separated into two events. Details on the second event forthcoming.
*Four Ways to Die recieved four awards from the 2018 Tulsa Awards for Theater Excellence ceremony, including Outstanding Original Work, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Ensemble, and Outstanding Properties.
Auditions for Heller Shorts 2019: "Now and Ten"
918.609.0482hellertheatre@gmail.com


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Naše Ukrajina — Národní sebeobrana (ukrajinsky Наша Україна — Народна самооборона) byl blok politických stran a jedním z vedoucích politických uskupení Ukrajiny. Její vůdčí postavou byl bývalý ukrajinský prezident Viktor Juščenko. Uskupení zastávalo konzervativně-liberální, nacionalistické a proevropské postoje. Naše Ukrajina byla hlavním politickým aktérem oranžové revoluce roku 2004 a oranžovou barvu používá dodnes.

Uskupení vzniklo pod názvem Blok Naše Ukrajina (Блок Наша Україна) v roce 2001 a úspěšně kandidovalo v parlamentních volbách 2002, kde získalo 23,6 % hlasů a 112 ze 450 křesel. Tehdy blok sestával z následujících politických stran a hnutí:

 Kongres ukrajinských nacionalistů
 Liberální strana Ukrajiny
 Mládežnická strana Ukrajiny
 Lidové hnutí Ukrajiny
 Strana křesťansko-demokratický svaz
 Strana reforem a pořádku
 Republikánská křesťanská strana
 Solidarita
 Ukrajinské národní hnutí
 Vpřed, Ukrajino!

V parlamentních volbách roku 2006 se preference propadly na 13,95 % (81 křesel). Ve volbách 2007, pro něž byl blok reorganizován a začal vystupovat pod názvem Blok Naše Ukrajina — Národní sebeobrana (Блок Наша Україна – Народна Самооборона), získala strana 14,15 hlasů, což jí vyneslo 3. místo. Největších preferencí dosahovala strana v Zakarpatí, v Juščenkově rodném rajónu poblíž Sum a především ve Lvovské, Ternopilské a Ivanofrankivské oblasti (tedy v převážně řeckokatolické části Ukrajiny).

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Zaniklé politické strany na Ukrajině
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Politické strany založené roku 2001
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New PTSB CEO says loan breaks on offer to end September
Updated / Monday, 22 Jun 2020 15:46
Eamon Crowley is the new Permanent TSB CEO
By Will Goodbody
The new chief executive of Permanent TSB has confirmed the bank will continue to accept applications for mortgage and loan repayment breaks from those in financial difficulty due to the coronavirus crisis until the end of September, following the authorisation of an extension by the European Banking Authority.
But Eamonn Crowley, who the bank earlier announced would succeed Jeremy Masding as CEO, said it was not possible for the bank to offer individual breaks of more than six months in duration due to regulations.
"What we have over the next four to six weeks we have a lot of customers who availed of the first payment break who will roll onto the second payment break," he said.
"Some customers for example may be able to go back to full capital and interest, other customers may avail to continue to pay partially an amount of their mortgage and others will avail of the full payment break."
"But the six month limit is something set down by regulation."
He said it was too early to predict how many customers would fall into long-term arrears once the payment breaks expired, or what impact this would have on the level of bad-loan provisions the bank would need to set aside.
The new CEO said the bank is starting to see small numbers of borrowers who had payment breaks move back to repaying capital and interest again, but it would have a better idea by the end of July about the numbers who had moved from a first to a second break and the impact on impairments.
Mr Crowley also ruled out any possibility of the bank waiving interest due on mortgages and loans that received a payment break, citing the increased costs faced by the bank in offering the forbearance measures and in dealing with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
"We also have to have cognisance of all customers in the bank, not just the customers that are availing of the payment break and indeed ensure that in some way the bank is recovering costs associated, but not all costs by the way, but all the costs associated with the payment breaks, together with the potential for credit loss in this area," he stated.
Mr Crowley said the issue of reducing costs would continue to be on his agenda, but savings were being reinvested in the bank's digital offering.
He also signalled that the bank could in the future look to derive more of its income from fees and charges, as its current level of fee income is lower than that of competitors.
"We have a situation where we have an opportunity by way of how we think about fees," he said.
"But that opportunity has to be balanced on the basis that we are providing a service to customers and we are providing value to customers, so that they are happy to pay it."
He also said that the bank needs to do more business as its cost income ratio is still quite high, and it would continue to look to growing its presence in the SME lending and mortgage markets in order to do this.
On house prices, Mr Crowley declined to speculate to what extent they might fall due to the coronavirus crisis, but also said "it seems reasonable to suggest that house prices will reduce."
Mr Crowley also outlined how he would continue to ensure that the bank is customer focused in its approach and could continue to learn the lessons of the past.
"In more recent years the bank has not always lived up to our heritage and this was evident and well documented in the results of the tracker mortgage examination, which we closed with the Central Bank of Ireland in 2019," he said.
"The organisation has learned a lot from the examination and I am going to work very hard to ensure the mistakes of the past are not repeated."
"I want to foster a positive consumer focused culture within the bank and I strongly believe that maximising the return to customers will lead to maximising the return for shareholders over the long-term. I'll be talking about this a lot more over the coming months, and I will be matching the talk with action."
He said Covid-19 had created a challenge for the bank and the community it serves and the fallout would be significant.
"We'll have to deal with an increase in arrears, we'll also have to deal with a significant fall off in new lending volumes," he said, referring to the bank's guidance that new lending could be 50% lower this year than last year.
But the said that while he is realistic about the challenges, he is optimistic about the opportunities, and PTSB is in a really good position to support the recovery.
He added that the bank's business model will need to evolve and digital will play an every increasing role in its service offering.
"That said the importance of providing a personal service for our customers cannot be overstated," he claimed.
"At the end of the day, a successful business is built on meaningful and trusted relationships and I am committed to combining the best of our digital offering with that of our long history of personal service."
Mr Crowley, who is currently the bank's chief financial officer and an executive director on its board, will take over as CEO with immediate effect.
Outgoing PTSB CEO Jeremy Masding
He replaces Jeremy Masding who last October announced he would step down as CEO after eight years in the role.
Mr Masding said he will remain as a board member until his departure from the company on July 1.
He was the longest serving of any of Ireland's current bank chief executives after his appointment in early 2012 when PTSB was in severe crisis following the banking crash.
Eamonn Crowley held a number of senior executive roles before joining Permanent TSB in 2017.
These included chief financial officer of Bank Santander Poland and chief operating officer of AIB's Central and Eastern Europe Division.
Permanent TSB chairman Robert Elliott said that over the last three years, Eamonn has made an enormous contribution to the bank in his role as CFO, and as a member of its executive committee and board.
"Given his breadth of experience and in-depth knowledge of the bank, I have no doubt that he will successfully lead Permanent TSB through the current Covid-19 crisis and beyond," the chairman added.
Permanent TSB said that pending the appointment of a new CFO, Mr Crowley will continue to perform the bank's chief financial officer duties.
It said the CFO recruitment process has started.
The Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform has welcomed today's appointment of Eamonn Crowley as Permanent TSB's new chief executive, following an extensive selection process.
"Since his appointment as chief financial officer in May 2017, Mr Crowley has played a key role in securing the future of Permanent TSB. In this regard, most importantly, the strength of the balance sheet and the commercial performance of the bank have improved significantly," Paschal Donohoe said.
The Minister also said that under the stewardship of Mr Masding, Permanent TSB has been transformed into a bank that is once again a major competitor in the Irish banking sector.
"During his time as CEO, the bank has had a number of notable achievements including a return to profitability, a significant improvement in its liquidity and capital positions, the successful re-IPO in 2015, and the exit from its EU Restructuring Plan," he added.
Commenting on today's appointment, Davy Stockbrokers said it was widely expected and will be welcomed by investors as it brings clarity at a challenging time for the banking sector.
"In his position as CFO, Eamonn Crowley has had widespread investor engagement since joining the bank in 2017 and has been instrumental in the key success of non-performing loan (NPL) deleveraging to build balance sheet resilience, which should serve the bank well in the current uncertain Covid-19 environment," the stockbrokers said.
"Understandably, his near-term focus is on navigating the bank and its customers through Covid-19. However, as the country recovers and the longer-term impact of Covid-19 becomes clearer, we expect the focus to shift back towards the rebuild of sustainable profitability," they added.
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18-Year-Old from Ville Platte Arrested after Allegedly Shooting Someone During Altercation
Jake Published: May 12, 2022
via Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office
The Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office says that an 18-year-old from Ville Platte has been arrested after allegedly shooting someone in the leg. The shooting apparently occurred after an alleged argument between the teen and the victim turned into a physical altercation.
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An arrest briefing from the Evangeline Parish Sheriff's Office details an incident involving a suspect, 18-year-old Gavin James of Ville Platte, that resulted in one person being shot.
According to the briefing, the incident occurred on May 7, 2022. Officers responded to a report of someone being shot in the leg. The victim was immediately transported to Lafayette General Medical Center to treat non-life treating injuries.
Upon investigating, local authorities found that an argument between the suspect and the victim was underway. The suspect allegedly took out a gun and fired warning shots at the victim, with the victim continuing on towards the suspect.
This is when the suspect fired one more round, which struck the victim in their ankle.
The suspect has been arrested and charged with one count of Aggravated 2nd Degree Battery, one count of Aggravated Criminal Damage to Property, and one count of Illegal Discharge of a firearm.
The suspect now sits at the Evangeline Parish Jail with bond set at $90,000.
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Which are the best universities in the UK?
The best Universities in the UK?
To give you an insight into the wide variety of rankings available in the best UK universities leagues, applytouni.com have produced our own university league table, averaging out the scores to give you an at-a-glance guide to the best universities in the UK.
In this article, we provide a snapshot of which universities are the best in the country, according to all the different league tables. We look at the scores you probably expected, some surprises and evidence that different league tables really don't always agree.
It's not going to be a shock to anyone that Oxford University and Cambridge University are counted among the best universities in the UK. Both top the rankings published by The Times, the Sunday Times and the Guardian.
With Oxford ranked 3rd in the world and Cambridge not far behind in 7th, this opinion is clearly shared across the globe. Ancient colleges, proud traditions and healthy competition between the two have helped keep Oxford and Cambridge unchallenged as major educational forces while becoming less elitist in recent years.
The University of Durham and St Andrew's University, score more evenly in the league tables. Durham scores fifth in The Times, fourth in the Sunday Times and seventh in the Guardian, while St Andrews scores sixth, fifth and fourth respectively.
Warwick University is highly regarded, given fifth place by The Guardian and tenth place by The Sunday Times.
The University of Bath is third in the Sunday Times league of the best UK universities, and ninth in both the Guardian and The Times leagues.
Apply to Uni gives third place to The London School of Economics, agreeing with the league tables published by the Guardian and The Times. The Sunday Times marks it down slightly, regarding it as the sixth best UK university.
Exeter University also ranks evenly high, scoring tenth in The Times, seventh in the Sunday Times and tenth in the Guardian.
Looking at the next best UK universities, things get a little more contentious.
Imperial Collegeis ranked fourth of the best universities in the UK by The Times, yet is only 13th in the Guardian tables, despite being ranked eighth in the world.
Heriot-Watt Universityin Edinburgh suffers even more from a lack of agreement. The Sunday Times table of best UK universities ranks Heriot-Watt in ninth place, while The Guardian ranks it 20th andThe Times ranks it 42nd.
Despite a world university league ranking of 32nd, the University of Edinburgh only ranks 39th in the best UK universities league from the Sunday Times.
It's important to remember that league tables are a guide. What is more important is the course offered by the university and what you think of it when you go there for an open day. The best university for you is the one where you will spend a happy and productive three or four years.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Android.App;
using Android.Content;
using Android.OS;
using Android.Runtime;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Widget;
using Petrolhead.Services;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using Petrolhead.Droid.Services;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.MobileServices;

[assembly: Dependency(typeof(Authenticator))]
namespace Petrolhead.Droid.Services
{

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                if (user != null)
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                        .SetTitle("Signed in!")
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Young philosophers in the media or on stage
When do the young philosophers defend their dissertation?
BERT VAN DEN BERGH (1958)
Bert van den Bergh studied psychology (masters 1985) and philosophy (masters 1987, cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1997 he has been teaching cultural philosophy at the department of European Studies at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. He is a member of the Phenomenology & Psyche study group, under the auspices of the Society for Phenomenological Philosophy. Bert is also a co-chair of the international interdisciplinary network Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization. In January 2019 Boom publishing house will publish an edition of his thesis entitled De schaduw van de zwarte hond ('The Shadow of the Black Dog').
The Young Philosophers
IN SEARCH OF A CULTURAL-PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF DEPRESSION
In mental health, depression is currently principally regarded as a brain disease or mental disorder. Bert van den Bergh argues that these approaches ignore the personal experience of people suffering from depression. He went looking for the fundamental source of this widespread condition from a phenomenological perspective. We have to situate it less in our nature and more in our culture.
Despite all the attention that has been paid to depression in recent years, I think we are looking in the wrong direction. I wanted to counterbalance the current approaches to depression in my dissertation. In mental healthcare depression is usually regarded as a brain disease. Or as a cognitive disorder, where the focus is on the negative spiral of thoughts in people with symptoms of depression. I wanted to counterpose this with an alternative, phenomenological conception of depression. It focuses on people's individual experiences.
I have also placed the so-called depression epidemic, a term coined by the Dutch philosopher of science Trudy Dehue in 2008, in its cultural context. My aim was to expose the relationship between the widespread occurrence of depression and prevailing views of the good life. I found a striking description of this in the French sociologist Alain Ehrenberg's book The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age (originally published in French 1998; first published in English in 2010). By the standards of our ultra-liberal culture, depression is a 'disease of self-realisation'. People fall short of 'being themselves'. You have to be constantly active, cheerful and communicative, and work on yourself as you would on a project. An illustrative example is the singer Laura van Kaam, who won the talent show Voice Kids at the age of 14 in 2013. A few years later she announced on Facebook that she was suffering from severe depression, a message that itself became a hype. Laura is not the only 'winner' who has experienced something like this.
Existential isolation
Ehrenberg describes how we currently conceive the phenomenon of depression. But this does not mean that we experience it like that. Following the Belgian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Schotte amongst others, I regard depression as a disturbed elementary alignment between a person and the world. Depression is not so much extreme gloom as existential isolation.
The concept 'mood' plays a crucial role in the phenomenological approach to human experience. The primary contact between humans and the world is not cognitive in nature, but instinctive or – in phenomenological terminology – 'moodlike'. Things can already go wrong at this basic level. For this reason, I primarily regard depression as 'discord', in both senses of the word: profound malaise due to not being attuned to the world. Someone who is depressed feels removed from everything, and lives as he or she were in a bell jar. Their negative spiral of thoughts is merely a derivative of that. Neither does this fundamental lack of attunement have anything to do with a so-called adjustment disorder, as described in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) which established psychiatry relies on so heavily. Attunement is something elementary, whereas adjustment is secondary or tertiary.
"People with depression are not mad, on the contrary, perhaps they are just a bit too realistic."
The phenomenological approach to depression is also embraced by the well-known German sociologist Hartmut Rosa. In his book Social Acceleration, the book with which he made his name in 2005 (first published in English in 2013), he speaks of a disorder which is distinctive of our ultra-dynamic and hyper-individualistic culture. He considers depression a loss of autonomy. This changes in his recent work Resonanz (2016), where he calls depression a radical form of alienation and no longer counterposes it with autonomy, but rather with resonance.
Rosa contends that our late-modern culture is deficient in resonance. I concur. Not only are people often depressed, they frequently have a basic feeling of haste. They increasingly lack a permanent labour contract and get symptoms of burnout at a young age. Both commercial companies and non-profit institutions are continually in the process of reorganisation. There are attunement problems in many different areas. This causes people to lose their bearings.
Stolen disorder
The dominant approach to depression – as a brain disease or cognitive bias – negates the depressed person's experience of discord. That is why I call it a 'stolen disorder'. I am not trying to say that people should never use antidepressants. Or that they should not restrain their negative thoughts with, say, the aid of cognitive behavioural therapy. And I of course fully recognise that someone's unique, personal situation can be so stressful that it leads to a mental disorder. But I think that when we talk of a "depression epidemic" this is something which is not unique – it is the way we are shaped by our culture. It is 'depressogenic'; it makes people 'sick'.
My research demonstrates that we have to situate the sources of depression much more outside than inside. That will not directly reduce the suffering of people who feel depressed, but hopefully it will make them less lonely. They are contending with a collective problem. They are not 'mad', on the contrary, perhaps they are just a little too realistic, because they suffer more than others from something disruptive about the way we live together.
Bert van den Bergh, De gestolen stoornis, Een cultuurfilosofische duiding van de 'depressie-epidemie', Rotterdam, April 2018.
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Power Ledger (POWR)
Power Ledger is a decentralized network that helps users with crypto to make transactions. Despite previous crypto market crashes, the token, which was released in 2016, had a very high market value during the pandemic.
It is still one of the biggest cryptocurrency tokens today. But the majority of people are unaware that Power ledger is one of the most environmentally friendly tokens. Users receive access to a peer-to-peer platform that functions as a clean energy tracking and trading system with the help of its tokens. The tracking system helps to create more stable energy grids. Power ledger has also been working to reduce administrative procedures to provide a platform that is more user-friendly and energy efficient.
Cardano (ADA) (ADA)
The first peer-reviewed blockchain, Cardano (ADA), and it functions both as a currency and as a digital contract and DApps medium.
In contrast to the Bitcoin blockchain's 7 transactions per second, the Cardano network can process 1000 transactions per second. Many people think it has the ability to compete with the Ethereum network and was developed by Charles Hoskinson, one of the co-founders of Ethereum.
Why is Cardano a green cryptocurrency?
Cardano uses a proof-of-stake consensus, called Ouroboros. Due to the fact that this was the first peer-review protocol for blockchain, and this makes ADA a sustainable cryptocurrency and one of the most popular ones too.
The foundation for the Cardano network is setting it to scale at global requirements without sacrificing security, offering a transparent payment system, in an energy-efficient manner.
ALGO, one of the most eco-friendly cryptocurrencies.
Algorand is a blockchain platform that supports smart contracts and uses proof-of-stake to make it scalable and safe. Pure PoS is accessible to anyone and consumes a lot less energy than other cryptocurrencies.
Why is Algorand a green cryptocurrency?
Algorand uses the proof-of-stake algorithm to validate blocks and does not involve mining, as it tries to lead the way to a sustainable blockchain network system. When the project signed a partnership with Climate Trade, it pleaded to become the first blockchain that was carbon neutral.
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How To Land The Highest Paying Jobs In The Military
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Joining the military is a big commitment, but comes with a lot of benefits. Healthcare coverage for the service member and their family, an allowance to pay for housing, and financial coverage for all moving expenses, just to name a few. But there are certain specialties within the military that actually pay more than others.
So what are the highest paying military jobs?
The simple fact is, there is no such thing as "the highest paying branch of the military", or "highest paying military job". All members of the military, regardless of whether they're in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines, are paid based on their rank and time in the service.
It doesn't matter if you're a Navy SEAL or a cook…if you're an E-4 in the Navy, you'll be paid the same no matter what your job is.
With that said, there are a few creative ways you can maximize the financial benefits of joining the military.
It all starts with the job that you choose. Let's jump right in and find out how you can land the highest paying jobs the military has to offer.
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As I mentioned earlier, all members of the military are paid based on their rank and time in service.
It doesn't matter if you're in the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard.
This basic pay is set as part of the annual Defense budget by Congress and is "typically the largest component of a member's pay," according to the Department of Defense.
Every year, Congress authorizes a pay raise for the military based on the Employment Cost Index determined by the Department of Labor that takes inflation and an overall raise in private-sector pay into account.
Military members are also provided with a basic allowance for housing (BAH) and basic allowance for subsistence (BAS).
It's important to note that, unlike basic pay, the amount you'll receive from BAH and BAS will vary considerably depending on where you're stationed.
Check out our BAH calculator here.
These allowances are not considered pay and are not taxed. Enlisted members are also given periodic clothing allowances to replace and maintain military clothing and uniforms.
Other allowances include family separation allowance (FSA) in certain circumstances and dislocation allowance (DLA).
BAH and BAS are given to all service members based on their rank, location, and number of dependent family members.
Other allowances are often situation dependent, such as given when a service member relocates or is away from their family for more than 30 days.
The military is organized through a clear rank structure, beginning with E-1 and progressing all the way to O-10 in seniority.
When joining the military, new service members elect to enlist (E-1 through E-10) or get commissioned as an officer (O-1 through O-10).
As you might expect, officers are paid much more than enlisted personnel.
There are programs that provide a path for enlisted members to become officers, based on their performance and leadership potential.
Each member of the military is also identified by their specific skills and training.
Each service uses their own terms but all refer to the job or specialty that an individual service member performs in their primary duties.
Click the image above to see a full list of Army MOS'.
Note: See a full list of Army MOS' here.
When a member of the Army tells you their MOS, which stands for Military Occupational Specialty, they are telling you what job they perform for the Army.
MOS codes are identified in a service member's official record so that they are eligible for assignments that use their skills.
Some MOS codes are specific to enlisted or officers, while others can apply to either.
Example MOS codes include:
Ammunition Specialist (89B)- Enlisted
Interpreter (09L)
Infantry Officer (11A)- Officer; Infantryman (11B)- Enlisted
Combat Engineer (12B)- Enlisted
Click Here to see the 10 Best Army jobs for civilian life.
Click the image above for a full list of Navy ratings.
Note: See a full list of Navy ratings here.
Enlisted members of the Navy are identified by their rating, while Officers are identified by their community.
Officers are also identified by a 4 number designator code. This shows if they are an unrestricted line officer, restricted line officer, staff corps officer, or limited duty officer.
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This further identifies what types of roles and responsibilities they will hold while serving.
Navy Classification Codes (NEC) provide further identification of schools and training that service members have completed within their field and are including in their official record.
Example ratings and designators include:
Damage Controlman (DC)
Aviation Ordnanceman (AO)
Yeoman (YN)
Boatswains Mate (BM)
Diver (ND)
Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman (SWCC)
Navy Air Traffic Controller (AC)
Click Here to see the 10 Best Navy Jobs For Civilian Life.
Click the image above for a full list of Air Force jobs.
Note: See a complete list of Air Force AFSC's here.
The Air Force organizes both enlisted and officer specialties using Air Force Speciality Codes (AFSC).
Each service member's job skills are identified by a 4- or 5-digit code of letters and numbers.
The Air Force is unique in including the amount of experience or skill that an individual has in their code.
A new recruit who has only completed the most basic amount of training within a specialty may remain at the level of a Helper or Apprentice.
Those with more experience can move up to the Journeyman or Craftsman level.
This is separate from their actual military rank.
Letter prefixes or suffixes may also be added to indicate specialized training, such as on a particular aircraft.
Example AFSCs include:
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (3E8X1)
SERE Specialist (1T0X1)
Pararescuemen (PJ's)
Combat Controller (1C2X1)
In-Flight Refueler (1A0X1)
Paralegal (5J0X1)
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Note: See a complete list of Marine Corps MOS' here.
The Marine Corps uses the same skill identification structure as the Army with their own specialties.
Every Marine is identified by their MOS.
The first 2 numbers identify the career field while the last 2 numbers identify the actual job.
Example MOS codes in the Marine Corps include:
Dog Handler (5812)
Recon (0321)
Rifleman (0311)
Counterintelligence (0211)
Engineer Equipment Operator (1345)
Cryptologic Digital Network Technician (2611)
Machine Gunner (0331)
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Click the image above for a full list of Coast Guard jobs.
Note: See a complete list of Coast Guard ratings here.
The Coast Guard uses the Navy organization system of ratings for enlisted service members.
Many of the same ratings are used in the Coast Guard and the Navy. Officers train within their specialty and subspecialty fields.
Examples ratings and specialties include:
Boatswain's Mate (BM)- Enlisted
Electronics Technician (ET)- Enlisted
Rescue Swimmer (AST)
Response-Afloat specialty/Ship based Law Enforcement and Homeland Security subspecialty- Officer
Click Here to see the 5 best Coast Guard jobs.
Can I change jobs once I'm already serving in the military?
Military members do have the option to change specialty within their career, but the process can be long and require a lot of paperwork.
Sometimes the military is unable to let military members choose a new skill, either because the training resources are not available or they need the skillset that the member already has.
It is important to understand and choose a specialty that interests you from the beginning.
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Bonuses When Entering Service
The best time to stop to think about long-term earnings potential and bonuses is when you first join the military.
"Choose your rate, choose your fate" is a saying often heard from seasoned military veterans—for good reason.
Choosing your specialty has a big impact on everything from your work environment and operational schedule to the opportunities for additional pay incentives.
When entering service, the military has a few programs that provide financial incentives.
Quick ship or Shipping bonus
The military wants new recruits to get to training as quickly as possible.
For this reason, the Army offers a quick ship/seasonal bonus to those who sign up to attend basic training within 60 days of enlisting.
For those who ship out within 30 days, the bonus is even higher.
The Navy, for example, offers shipping bonuses to those who leave for boot camp during high-need times.
Critical skill bonus
All services have certain specialties that they need to fill in order to do their mission.
The needs of the service change over time, often based on what skills are in demand in both the military and civilian sectors.
To fill these critical needs, services offer critical skill bonuses.
These critical skills often require advanced training and commitment, so those interested should make sure that they are up to the challenge and additional years of service.
Foreign language bonus
Those with language skills in certain areas may be eligible for a bonus if they enlist in an MOS or rating that will use those skills.
Examples include enlisting as a Human Intelligence Collector in the Army or a Linguist in the Navy.
Service members must demonstrate proficiency on a standardized military test.
This bonus may also be available for active duty and reserve service members.
While not a bonus that is paid to the new service member, there are circumstances where the military will repay existing student loans with a new enlistment or commissioning.
Career retention bonuses
The military wants to keep its best and brightest stars in service, when the pull of lucrative private-sector jobs may be pulling them in a different direction.
These bonuses are often given at intervals, such as reenlistments or taking additional tours of duty.
Selective reenlistment bonus
SRBs in the Navy are designed to "increase the number of reenlistments in ratings and Navy Classification (NEC) codes having insufficient retention."
This is based on the needs of the service and may change from year to year.
Other services have similar bonuses available for those agreeing to reenlist with certain skills.
Prior service enlistment bonus
The Army provides financial incentive for veterans returning to service, provided that they enlist in one of the critical-skills needed by the service to complete their overall mission.
They must have left military service while E-4 or below to be eligible for this bonus.
Skill-based bonus
The majority of mid-career bonuses are available to those with certain skillsets that the military needs.
These are usually specialties that the military has invested a lot of time and money in to train individuals; understandably, the military wants them to stay and use that training rather than apply it in the civilian sector.
Mid-career bonuses are often available for aviators, nuclear-trained officers and enlisted, or special warfare operators.
These bonuses usually come with an additional time of service commitment.
Bonuses for the military reserves
Most of the bonuses in the military apply to active duty service members, but there are still opportunities for those serving in the Military Reserves to earn additional pay.
Many of the bonuses (enlistment, critical skills, career retention) available for active duty service members have a similar option for those serving in the Reserves.
A variety of bonuses are available for those agreeing to serve in a critical skill area.
Other bonuses are provided for those who agree to serve part-time or for those who agree to activate soon after joining the reserves.
Because the opportunities in the military Reserves are so varied, it is best to talk to a Reserve recruiter about what you may be eligible for and how to best pursue your path of service.
It is important to note that available bonuses in the military change from year to year, just as the needs of the service change based on the overall mission.
Those interested in joining should talk to their recruiter to get the most up-to-date information on what financial incentives they may be able to pursue.
Current service members should reach out to the career counselors at their command or a trusted mentor in their field to learn more about bonuses they may qualify for within their career.
https://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Basic-Pay/
https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-career-and-job-categories/intelligence-and-combat-support.AR-active.html
https://www.navy.mil/navydata/ranks/rankrate.html
https://www.gocoastguard.com/active-duty-careers/enlisted-opportunities/view-job-descriptions
https://www.uscga.edu/subspecialties/
https://www.goarmy.com/benefits/money/bonuses-earning-extra-money.html
https://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/Pay-Tables/FLPB.html
https://www.navy.com/bonus
https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/career/payandbenefits/N130/Pages/N130D.aspx
A small-town Missouri native, Katie is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy with a degree in English. She served 5 years as a Surface Warfare Officer, including 2 deployments onboard a Guided-Missile Destroyer and Aircraft Carrier. She has a Master's Degree in Education from Johns Hopkins University.
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Karen considers herself a creative person who loves to document her family's crazy-busy life. She loves to blog when she can, photograph anything and everything, and when she's not making a creative mess in her studio, you can usually find her in the garden or with her head in a book looking for design and inspiration. She considers herself a pretty paper artist.
I think my favourite things in the Jolly Holiday kit would have to be the delightful colors. I love using pops of colour with white space and dashes of black, and this kit delivers this. The wood veneers would also be a favourite in this kit. I used a few raw and then coloured some with Studio Calico Color Theory mist.
In the first lesson, we'll be putting together a typical spread while being conscious of the colours of the cards and photos.In the second, we'll focus on creating an 'artistic' spread using a grid format. In the last lesson, we'll document a special standout moment from your week with photos and words.
I want subscribers to leave my class knowing that they can document their daily life with intention and purpose. I hope that they walk away with a realization that this project can be simple, artistic and well-designed.
Chantal is a lover of all things crafty and colorful. She only wishes she could buy and hoard it all, and she enjoys finding inspiration in the most subtle things. She currently resides on the outskirts of her nation's capital, Ottawa, Canada, with her better half and her seven-year-old daughter. She started scrapping digitally back in 2008 after her daughter was born. Although she is still playing around exclusively with those digital goodies, she's somewhat transitioned to paper and hybrid scrapbooking.
Seeing as I am a patterned paper fanatic, I especially loved seeing the bold and colorful mix included in Jolly Holiday. I'm also a firm believer that all kits should include a hint of green; the lower case alpha and puffy stickers are such great example pieces. I can't wait to use them all up!
In the first lesson, I'll be incorporating a digital aspect to my project along with the use of the Main Scrapbook kit. For the second lesson, I'll be documenting one of my daughter's many silly moments, using lifelovepaper's wizard inspired stamp set; expect repetition and lots of color. In my third and final lesson, I'll be showing you how to make the most of those acetate die cut words from the add-on kit.
Don't be intimidated to use something in unexpected ways. Thinking outside of the box can yield some pretty great and unique results. Embrace white space; a project doesn't need to be filled to the brim to be worthy of a good story.


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UN Secretariat and Assembly must approve new rules for UN peacekeepers – report
A new report requested by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on sexual exploitation occurring in peacekeeping missions recommends the UN standardize rules so that all personnel are held equally accountable and that laws in troop-contributor countries and individual responsibility for victims, including "peacekeeper babies," be strengthened.
The report was prepared by Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, the Permanent Representative of Jordan and himself a former civilian peacekeeper, after extensive consultations with officials from the UN Secretariat and from troop-and police-contributing countries, as well as a visit last year to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where many of the allegations have surfaced.
"Resolving the problem of sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeeping personnel is a shared responsibility and can only succeed with firm commitment and action by both the Secretariat and Member States. We are committed to implement the necessary reforms as quickly as possible," Mr. Annan said in a statement after he forwarded the report to the General Assembly.
"I also call upon Member States to act with determination and due haste and to provide the necessary resources to the Secretariat and the United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to put in place the important changes required."
The UN's top peacekeeping official, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, said he concurred fully with the report's findings. "What [Prince Zeid] says provides the basis for a sound strategy to address the issues. Now we want to push it forward," he told reporters.
The report says, "United Nations peacekeeping has a distinguished history of helping many States and peoples to emerge from conflict with the hope of a better future." It adds, however, that peacekeeping personnel have all too often "read normalcy into situation that is far from normal."
"And it is this inability on the part of many peacekeepers to discern the extent to which the society is traumatized and vulnerable that is at the root of many of the problems addressed in the present report."
It points out many gaps in liability, especially since the present peacekeeping regime recognizes different categories of personnel, governed by different sets of rules.
Because "troop-contributing countries are responsible for the conduct and discipline of their troops," it says, the General Assembly should apply the rules in Mr. Annan's bulletin on measures for protection from sexual abuse to all categories, including civilian police, military observers, members of national contingents, UN Volunteers (UNV), consultants and contractors.
On military personnel, the model status-of forces agreement has assumed that the Secretary-General will obtain formal assurances from a troop contributor that it will exercise criminal jurisdiction over its troops in return for the immunity given by the host State, the report says.
However, "such formal assurances are no longer obtained," it points out, calling for such clauses to be inserted once again into the model memorandum of understanding "to ensure that troop-contributing countries have a legal obligation to consider for prosecution acts of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by military members of peacekeeping missions that constitute crimes under the laws of the troop-contributing country or the host State."
Troop contributors must report how they followed up with the investigated cases the UN refers to them but since "a decision whether or not to prosecute is an act of sovereignty," the Assembly is asked to decide that contributors must agree on these procedures before their troops and other personnel are accepted for a mission, it says.
The General Assembly must also authorize a professional investigative body with "experts who have had experience in sex crime investigations, particularly those involving children," it says.
A military prosecutor from the relevant troop contributor should be part of this professional investigating mechanism and a troop contributor handling accusations should hold on-site courts martial, since that would facilitate access to witnesses and evidence in the mission area, the report suggests.
"Troop-contributing countries whose legislation does not permit on-site courts-martial should consider reforming their legislation," it says.
Since "soldiers are only as good as their commanders," commanders who imposed discipline or cooperated with investigations should be rewarded with a special commendation, or a medal.
Missions should have extensive programmes of outreach to the local population and the number of female peacekeepers should be increased, it says.
Abandoned mothers of peacekeeper babies are in a desperate financial situation, the report says. Upon identification through blood or DNA tests, fathers who are not UN staff members could make payments to a proposed UN Trust Fund for Victims, which would also take care of children whose fathers were known to be peacekeepers, but who could not be identified.
A UN staff member who is a father of a peacekeeper baby, in addition to facing other punishments set out under UN regulations, could pay the mother "say, the equivalent of one year's salary of a local employee of the mission," the report says.
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Marijuana suppliers, including KushCo Holdings, have seen their sales significantly increase now that three more U.S. states legalized marijuana in some form in November, and Canada's recreational cannabis market opened nationwide in October.
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Montevideo	- The outgoing president of Uruguay Jose "Pepe" Mujica is known for his humble lifestyle and donating most of his presidential salary to charity.
New York	- Since The New York Times published an op-ed calling for the Federal legalization of marijuana the stakes have risen. The extraordinary maze of legal issues involved in this process is the real problem.
Uruguay has legalized pot but President Jose Mujica has yet to lay down parameters as to how much one can get. But multiple media sources say the president has made up his mind and each marijuana smoker will be able to buy 10 grams of the drug weekly.


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Volume 22 | 2021-2022
Volume 9 | 2008-2009
Nevada Law
UNLV Law
UNLV Law Journals
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in a Crisis: A Few Pages of History
Article | Volume 3
by Thomas E. Baker
Citation: 3 Nev. L.J. 23 (2002).
The Nevada Law Journal is a legal scholarship publication run by UNLV Law School students, dedicated to providing law and policy analysis.
Copyright © 2023 Nevada Law Journal - William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. All rights reserved.
© 2023 William S. Boyd School of Law


1. Description of Corn Flake Extruding Machine: breakfast cereal manufactured by twin-screw extruder or single screw extruder through the treatment of flakes of grain, served with milk and marshmallows, were a very popular food among the families.
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Q: How to identify and write an excel file with .xls extension which has .xlsx content I'm working migrating content from one DMS(Filenet) to another(Webcenter Content),
in this process I encountered an excel file with .xls extension(with content type application/vnd.ms-excel) in Filenet.
I got the InputStream of the file and wrote(File IO Operations) it to a temp location beforing pushing it to Webcenter Content.
The problem is when I download and open the Filenet Version of the excel file  F1.xls, It prompts me with unmatching file format and extension warming but still opens the file and display content.
But the version which I pushed into Webcenter Content (WCC.xls)does not behave the same way.
It prompts the same message but after ignoring the prompt it shows junk characters, and if I change the extension of WCC.xls to WCC.xlsx it display appears fine.
what can i do to identify such things at runtime, any help would be highly appreciated.
Here is the code snipped from my local
        InputStream initialStream;
        try {
            initialStream = new FileInputStream(
                      new File("C:\\Users\\xxxxxx\\Desktop\\Utils\\YYYYY\\FN1.xls"));

        FileOutputStream oStream = null;

            oStream =  new FileOutputStream("C:\\Users\\xxxxxx\\Desktop\\Utils\\YYYYY\\WCC1.xls");
        FilenetConnectionUtil fCU = new FilenetConnectionUtil();
        fCU. writeFileToTempLocation("xx","xx",initialStream,oStream);
        oStream.flush();
        oStream.close();

    }    catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

/* Write Method*/
public void writeFileToTempLocation(String filename, String filepath, InputStream inStream,FileOutputStream oStream) throws IOException {

//  FileOutputStream oStream = new FileOutputStream(filepath);
    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    int n;
    if(inStream != null) {
        while ((n = inStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
            oStream.write(buffer);
        }
    }

    oStream.flush();

}

Thanks,
Rahul Dumpala

A: As .xslx is a zip format, the first two bytes (the magic cookie) should be "PK".
Path path = Paths.get(
        "C:\\Users\\xxxxxx\\Desktop\\Utils\\YYYYY\\FN1.xls"));
// Or: Path path = file.toPath();

boolean isXlsx(Path path) {
    try (InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(path)) {
        byte[] magicCookie = new byte[2];
        return in.read(magicCookie) == 2
            && magicCookie[0] == 'P'
            && magicCookie[1] == 'K';
    } catch (IOException) {
        return false;
    }
}


Dirac Research, the Swedish technology company best known among S&V readers for its Dirac Live speaker setup/room-correction system, has announced that the patented processing is now available for hi-res audio streaming.
Highlights include a floating point processor, 32-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs), a quad-core ARM streamer, multichannel USB audio, and an embedded Volumio music player that allows streamed audio to be controlled via a smartphone, tablet, or desktop-based app. The streamer is equipped with three digital inputs and features 32-bit input/output resolution with 96-kHz internal processing.
The streamer is available now in a rack-mount version ($1,199) with balanced and unbalanced analog inputs; a less expensive SHD Studio version that's smaller and lacks a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is expected to ship in mid-September at a price yet to be announced.
Dirac Live processing corrects both the frequency response and impulse response of speakers over a large listening area to "improve the depth, positioning, and distinction of individual voices and instruments." Dirac takes multiple measurements and uses mixed phase correction to help audio systems to deliver more natural sound with tighter bass and reduced room modes.
For more information, visit minidsp.com.


I am pregnant! My last period was January 24. I have introduced my positive pregnancy tests and I have changed my state to pregnant in the me section. Nevertheless, glow keeps postponing my period date. Could someone please fix this?


Every pair of Union bindings is injected with the highest quality Duraflex nylon. The result is strength, safety and security. It also means having the confidence of a lifetime warranty on all baseplates and heel cups. All other parts are covered for one year from date of purchase. Union reserves the right to repair or replace any faulty parts at it's own discretion. Warranty coverage only applies to Union products purchased from an authorized Union dealer and is only valid for the original purchaser.
Cosmetic damage such as scratches, dents or normal wear and tear.
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JT703B is used for trailer tracking in real time, it is suitable for container transport on trailer and cargo long distance transport inland.
JT703B can connect with the trailer's existing electrical circuit via the power cable. When the trailer is connected with tractor, the trailer's electrical circuit is connected with the tractor's electrical circuit as well, and then the battery of JT703B can be charged from the tractor indirectly.
1. JT701 is with IP67, perfect feature for dustproof and waterproof.
2. JT701 can be hiden under the trailer, not easy to be found out by others.
3. JT701 is with 6000mAh battery inside, it can work constantly 2-3 years being charged indirectly from tractor time by time.


Gathering every year to celebrate the gift of life, the gift of each other – friends, family and others. The miracle of living in this moment right now with all these special people.
Gatherings are changing, children have grown up, my friends are all old, perhaps I am old too. But I don't feel old I just feel wise. Such wisdom would have been nice when I was younger though!
What a blessing to have such wonderful friends and family all over the world.
WIshing you and yours all the warmth and joy of the Christmas season!
Thank you, blessings to you and your family as well.


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Lucien de Montigny, né le  à Mayenne (Mayenne) et mort le  à Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), est un homme politique français.

Biographie
La famille de Montigny est issue de la bourgeoisie du Berry et se fixe ensuite en Bretagne. Lucien de Montigny est orphelin de père décédé dès premiers combats de la Première Guerre mondiale. Il étudie au Lycée de l'Immaculée-Conception de Laval.

Il devient ensuite docteur en droit. Il effectue son service militaire de 1931 à 1932. Avocat à Mayenne dès 1936, il adhère au Parti social français. Mobilisé lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, comme lieutenant d'administration du service de santé, il est rendu à la vie civile en .

Après la seconde guerre mondiale, il devient bâtonnier de l'ordre et s'intéresse à la politique. Il est élu maire de Mayenne en 1947. Il conserve se poste jusqu'en 1971, date qui est marquée par des dissensions entre ses adjoints, qui l'empêchent de se représenter. Il est élu conseiller général du Canton de Mayenne-Est en .

Son mandat est marqué par une reconstruction générale.  Son activité est marquée par de nombreuses décorations : chevalier du Mérite social en 1955, des Palmes académiques en 1956, de la Santé publique en 1957, de la Légion d'honneur en 1958, du Mérite agricole en 1962, médaillé de l'Éducation physique et des sports en 1957.

Candidat de l'Entente républicaine en , il ne peut entrer à la première Assemblée constituante. De tendance démocrate chrétienne, il échoue aux élections sénatoriales en 1959. Il est élu en 1965, où il s'inscrit au groupe des Républicains populaires et du centre démocratique qui devient, le , l'Union centriste des démocrates de progrès. Il soutient les orientations gaullistes.

À partir du , il devient juge titulaire à la Haute Cour de justice. Le soutien à la candidature présidentielle de Valéry Giscard d'Estaing en  est le dernier acte de sa vie politique. Epuisé par son dernier mandat municipal et n'ayant pas obtenu l'investiture du Centre démocratie et progrès pour les sénatoriales de 1974, il décède quelques mois plus tard.

Un boulevard de Mayenne porte son nom.

Détail des fonctions et des mandats

 Mandat parlementaire

  -  : Sénateur de la Mayenne

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes

 Canton de Mayenne-Est
 Conseil général de la Mayenne
 Conseil régional des Pays de la Loire
 Liste des maires de Mayenne
 Liste des sénateurs de la Mayenne
 Mayenne

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Conseiller général de la Mayenne
Conseiller régional des Pays de la Loire
Maire de la Mayenne
Sénateur de la Cinquième République française
Sénateur de la Mayenne
Décès à Rennes
Décès en juillet 1975
Naissance à Mayenne
Naissance en avril 1909
Décès à 66 ans


Yesterday we are celebrated Gracie's 9th birthday! Gracie got to come to work with me and get groomed and spoiled with tons of treats. She also wore her special birthday bandana. Gracie had fun being the center of attention on her special day. She picked out several treats and got frosted cookies. Echo might have been a little jealous, but his turn will be coming up in January! Be sure to stop by our Facebook page and Youtube account to see Gracie's birthday tribute video.
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Our second tournament, the Freeblade Cup, wrapped up yesterday!
The tournament was a special team-doubles style. Overall we had sixteen competitors forming eight teams to battle for supremacy.
Here are some shots of the action! Stayed tuned for a follow-up post of the winning lists!
The Sisters of Battle advance towards the chaos lines!
The Death Korp of Krieg attempt to defend their last piece of artillery!
Space Marine bikers race across the battlefield to do battle with the treacherous Eldar!
For bikes, open ground can be both a blessing and a curse.
The infantry of the Flatlanders' Brigade hold their position in the wasteland.
Haha only two bikes of mine in this post. I need to die less.
Good to see so many painted models. That Drop Pod sure does look sharp! Really caught my eye. Good mix of terrain, too. Congratulations on a successful tournament.


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