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Colorado contractors see tougher year ahead as…
Retail, office, lodging projects the most likely to drop off
PUBLISHED: January 7, 2021 at 4:36 p.m. | UPDATED: January 10, 2021 at 6:47 p.m.
A backlog of work helped Colorado's construction industry stay afloat through 2020, but that surplus is drying up and contractors are expecting there will be far fewer projects for them to bid on this year because of disruptions from the pandemic.
"Most contractors expect demand for many types of projects to shrink during 2021. Most firms believe recovery is many months away," said Stephen Sandherr, CEO of the Associated General Contractors of America, on a video call.
Retail, office, lodging and higher education are the four areas where Colorado contractors expect the dollar value of projects to be less this year than in 2020, according to a survey of 64 Colorado contractors included in a larger national survey conducted by the AGC.
About three-quarters of Colorado contractors expect fewer retail projects this year compared to last, while two-thirds expect fewer office projects to come to bid. The outlook was also dour for lodging, higher education, highway and transportation projects, and public buildings in general, aside from federal work.
Contractors held out the most hope for other health care projects, which includes clinics and screening facilities; water and sewer projects; warehouses; apartments and manufacturing. Residential contractors, other than multi-family, were not included in the survey.
Ken Simonson, chief economist with the AGC, said the pandemic has delayed completion times and driven up costs across the board. Contractors have largely avoided the wide-scale outbreaks seen in some industries, but that required staggering and spreading out work crews rather than having them work on top of each other. Factory closures in March and April have also disrupted supply chains, lifting costs for an array of items, especially lumber.
Businesses and governments, faced with a more uncertain economic outlook, have also pushed back projects scheduled for 2020 into 2021, or dropped them entirely. In Colorado, 72% of contractors surveyed said they had a 2020 project pushed into 2021, while 55% said they had 2020 projects canceled and not rescheduled.
That trend is continuing into 2021, with 26% of contractors reporting that a project scheduled to start in the first half of the year was pushed back, and 14% saying a first-half 2021 project has been canceled.
Even though they are under financial duress, a majority of construction firms don't plan to reduce their workforce this year. About 37% expect to add staff, while 32% plan to hold steady and 31% are looking at reductions.
One concern firms have is that they may not get those workers back if they let them go. Nearly six in 10 contractors report they are still having a hard time filling openings for skilled craft positions, such as plumbers and electricians, despite the state's still elevated unemployment rate.
Sandherr said the industry needs to get more proactive about winning over displaced restaurant and hospitality workers to its side, where the pay and opportunities for advancement are better. The construction industry will also lobby the incoming Biden administration to push through more funding for infrastructure projects.
"Our objective is to make sure contractors end the year on a far better footing than where they started it," he said on the call.
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We used this as a stopover campsite, we were asked to go in one of the motorhome pitches on the side, these are narrow pitches between trees. No access issues but we couldn't get our awning out. They had had rain and so over half the pitches were very wet with puddles of water and soft mud. Ok sanitary facilities but Luke warm water in the evening and No hot water in the morning. The staff were friendly but the Italians with annual pitches no so much. Pool looked but nice didn't use as only stopover. No where to take the dog for toilet requirements. Would not use again.
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To complete your Bond arsenal
Heny makes the AR-7 rifle that Sean Connery used in "From Russia With Love".
A very neat little rifle, I owned one a while back and wish I never sold it. They now have a teflon coating on the receiver, which makes it even better. You can get magazines up to 16 round and a scope too!!!
http://www.henryrepeating.com/h002_survival.cfm
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photohause
Ah, yes he did have one...it was also, I believe, a .25 cal.
Regards to all~photo
What new gun my Dear, this old thing?
photohause said:
I don't think so. The AR-7 was a .22LR. Bond's Beretta was the .25ACP.
David the Gnome
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There are also anti-fan clubs based on that rifle. This is the first time in all my wanderings through the internet that I've ever seen someone say something good about one lol.
TNwaltherman
Actually, in "From Russia With Love", Q describes it as an AR7 folding sniper's rifle, caliber .25. In reallity, I don't think the AR7 was ever offered in anything other than .22.
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That could very well be. I sure haven't seen it offered in anything but .22LR.
Dave: The ones I've fired and owned were all 100% reliable and surprisingly accurate. My only complaint was the small magazines that came with them. You could suck down an 8-round mag in no time. They have 16 round mags available now, so that helps a lot. Perhaps the anti-AR7 crowd thought Bond actually shot down the HELICOPTER with it instead of killing the pilot. Most Bond forums I've seen are a wealth of misinformation
Sadly every AR7 I have come across was unreliable, but that could have been due to a number of factors. The original model has been made by a least a half dozen outfits, sometimes quality was not always "job one".
oo7 had a very early version of the rifle, love that "burl" plastic stock which matches the plastic in the brown PPK stocks.
Best part about Bond's rifle was the advanced "infra-red lens", pretty hot stuff for 1963!
"The beggar who is sitting in the marketplace is completely deaf in so much as far as listening to the song that is coming from the Mockingbird is concerned."
Bond's Walther PPK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SimIUgsMQQk
Bond's Beretta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5BcvbSzCzI&feature=youtu.be
The Henry version got a thumbs up from Gun Tests. I forget which one I had, but it was the one before the Henry version.
http://www.henryrepeating.com/survival_guntests.cfm
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The basic layout was derived from an earlier Armalite bolt-action rifle in .22 Hornet, intended as a survival gun for downed AF pilots. Gene Stoner designed both of them, the .22 semi-auto almost on a lark; he thought it would be a neat idea, and it was. The design was very well thought out, has the simplest trigger/sear mechanism for a semi-auto that I've ever seen, and the originals made by Armalite were very reliable.
I have a Survival Arms AR-7 in .22LR purchased about 10 years ago.
Yes, in the FRWL movie they say it is a 25 caliber "folding snipers rifle" instead of a "take-down survival rifle". It is surprisingly accurate with its rudimentary sights although it is limited to a specific Remington Hi-Velocity load.
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Ahh yes...that's the company that made the one I had. It worked fine for me and never had any malfunctions. Hollyweird takes some extreme liberties with descriptions of guns among other inaccuracies. Note that in "Dr. No" Bond is required to turn in his "ladies psitol" for the PPK. But take a close look at the Beretta. It's not the small pipsqueak .25 auto that we all picture. It's fully as big as the PPK he is getting.
That scene in "Dr. No" is infamous!
Bond actually turns in a Beretta 1934 in .32, and is given in return a Walther PP in .380!
In the next film "From Russia with Love", Bond finally has a PPK, evidently like the Walther PP in the previous film, it too is a .380!!!
Nothing in movies is what it seems!!!!
Ogie
Really? In the book the Beretta is .25 caliber.
I am going out today to rent "Die Another Day" with Pierce Brosnan. BTW...I found this in his bio at Wikipedia...
"Brosnan supported John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election and is a vocal supporter of gun control and same-sex marriage."
Excuse me while I
Ogie,
Bond in the books carried the .25 Beretta model 418. Bond was quite a gunsmith, he removed the grips, wrapped the butt with tape, sawed off the front sight and shortened the barrel .... a gun that would make a real gunslinger shiver!!
For the movies, as in Dr No, the prop men must have figured a Beretta is a Beretta is a Beretta, and likewise with the Walther PP standing in for a PPK.
Nowdays with blue-ray and DVDs they pay alot more attention to props!!!!
Dep,
Don't waste your time or money on "Die Another Day", it is crap. Rent "Casino Royale", a first class Bond film. Since Daniel Craig is a Brit, his opinion on US politics is really nothing more than his opinion - who cares?
Pierce Brosnan was a worthless "candy store" oo7, who now admits to "walking through" the part. Not a big surprise given the quality of his Bond films.
153: Too late. I got Die Another Day and it's tonight's entertainment
Actually, I just bought it to see the P99 in action. As to Casino Royale, I was watching TV this afternoon and drinking a Diet Pepsi. The first Tomb Raider movie was on and my wife and I were watching it. We'd both seen it before a million times, but it was the only thing worth watching until tonight. Lara Croft was talking with some old geezer about the weird device she found inside a clock, when she is interrupted by some geeky-looking goofus walking up the stairs. I recognized the guy as Lara Croft's competitor in the hunt for artifacts. My wife blurts out "hey, there's the new James Bond!!" I snotted my Diet Pepsi right out my nose and yelled "no freaking way!!". But sure enough, this sissy-boy-looking twerp was the new James Bond. Good grief.
No way I will watch that Bond movie. I'd rather be strapped down and be forced to watch the 1967 Peter Sellers/David Niven/Woody Allen version (which TRULY SUCKED), than watch the new Casino Royale. BTW...Casino Royale was the first Bond book. Bond SHOULD be carrying a Beretta, not a P99 or PPK. I suppose the plot and storyline have absolutely nothing to do with the original. I'll never forget in the book where they were torturing Bond in that "special chair". Yikes!!!
they monkeyed with the story line. Being a serious Bond Fan, and prepared to completely detest Daniel Craig, I give the film a real big Thumbs Up. It has all the makings of early Sean Connery. Craig did a splendid job (gee that hurt) for guy who can't drive a stick and hates guns.
As for the AR-7, I have an original Armalite w/suppressor. Wicked looking but really sucks in the dependability department.
I even rebuilt most of the internals with parts from Henry -- nada. FTF, stove pipe, FTE, ....
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DAD? Bad? I could watch that sword fight again and again and again. Brosnan was tough in that scene. Certainly didn't look old at all. If you watch the DVD with the commentary on, he mentions that he kicked the sword away as an ad lib and it dang near killed a camerman and broke the camera!
"From now on, you'll carry the Walther." ("M" in Doctor No)
Well my luck with all things related to Bond sure is consistent. I buy a PPK and the grips fall apart. Now I rent a DVD and just as I am 2 minutes into the movie it LOCKS UP!!!
<sigh>...tomorrow we will try another video place and hopefully it will be available. The movie started out pretty cool and I was really loooking forward to Halle (Dingle) Berry's large butt, when the dang thing seized up. Oh well.
This time I'm on Murphy's side, he did you a favor locking up that DVD!
Since Pierce and I are the same age ( I am often mistaken for him ) I am glad people think he still looks good!!!
For sword fights, I'll take Erroll Flynn.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Fumbles and other failings put favored Georgia in a big hole in the Sugar Bowl.
"Georgia didn't play our best game today and that's something we have to accept as a group and a ballclub," Georgia middle linebacker Natrez Patrick, a senior, said after what was his disappointing final game as a Bulldog. "It happens, man. It happens. Those guys came in a played a great game and we made mistakes."
Swift fumbled twice in the first half. The first gave No. 14 Texas the ball on the Bulldogs 12, leading to a touchdown. The second was recovered by Georgia on a drive that ended with a punt.
"I know DeAndre is as disappointed as anybody," Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. "We didn't play with the same energy level and that's a lot of credit to Texas because they were in our backfield several times. They penetrated, we weren't able to handle the penetration and that's how you cause fumbles."
The punt that never was - punter Jake Camarda's knee touched the turf as he scooped up a low snap - resulted in a turnover on downs at the Bulldogs' 27. That miscue led to a Texas field goal.
Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger ducked under what looked like an impending blindside sack by outside linebacker Azeez Ojulari in the second quarter. Right after Ojulari slid over Ehlinger's back, the Texas QB rose out of his crouch and scrambled 17 yards for a first down to help sustain the Longhorns' second touchdown drive.
By halftime, Georgia was down 20-7, and it only got worse when the Bulldogs opened the third quarter with the ball.
Jake Fromm was intercepted on a downfield throw by P.J. Locke III on the Longhorns 17.
It was an uncharacteristic rash of untimely errors for Georgia, which less than a month ago went toe-to-toe with No. 1 Alabama in the Southeastern Conference title game.
"If you prepare right and you go out there and play your best football game, you don't have those errors," Smart said. "You've got to be able to overcome those sometimes. If you think about this year, we didn't have a start of a game similar to like that really all year. We've got to do a better job preparing our players for that and go out and execute."
The loss to the Crimson Tide ended Georgia's hope of qualifying for the College Football Playoff, so their invitation to the Sugar Bowl might have seemed more like focus-sapping relegation than a coveted bid to a big game in the Big Easy. And several Georgia players had manifested their bitterness over being left out of the national semifinals when they took to Twitter to mock Notre Dame and Oklahoma for their double-digit losses.
"Just because they tweet something emotional during that time, that doesn't matter," Smart contended. "It gives the other team motivation. But our team was motivated to play Texas. Texas outplayed us, outcompeted us. They outcoached us. They out-physicaled us. They did a lot of things better than us."
Whatever the case, Georgia was not at its best until it was too late, scoring its final touchdown in the final minutes. By then, Georgia was left needing to convert an onside kick just for a chance to tie the game. And like much of the night, the ball didn't bounce favorably for the Bulldogs on that play, either.
"I guess Texas treated this game bigger than we did maybe," Georgia receiver Mecole Hardman said.


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Q: Does matrix multiplication work inside of tensors? I have the matrix M
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M=\begin{bmatrix}
a&-b&0&0 \\
b&a&0&0 \\
0&0&a&b \\
0&0&-b&a
\end{bmatrix}
$$
which I would like to split into the tensor product of two 2x2 matrices. So far, I have constructed
$$
M=\begin{bmatrix}a & -b \\
b&a\end{bmatrix}\otimes
\begin{bmatrix}1&0 \\ 0&\begin{bmatrix}0&1 \\ 1&0\end{bmatrix}\end{bmatrix}
$$
My main concern is the matrix I have placed inside the other matrix. I believe this itself is valid, but not so much the operation of tensoring the two together in order to receive M. I ask, is this math valid, and if not, are there any other approaches I could take in order to create a tensor product resulting in M?
Edit:
This is the generalized version of a problem I am working on involving quantum circuits, and the tensor operator is used to combine the gates (2x2 matrices), so I must use it here. Essentially, I am trying to work backwards

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Taking snapshots is a way to turn everyday into a celebration. When you are free you come to yourself, depart from everyday rituals, stray from the usual tempo and enter the state of idleness, rest, and sometimes inspiration, because free time and inspiration are inseparable. You're trying to fixate all around you to be able to look at it later, but not because you like to fixate or look at things, but because you like to remember the state in which you were at the time of taking the snapshot - free and inspired.
Almost everyone loves to look through their family albums and photos, live and on the Internet, because most photographs happened at a time of idleness. "I love taking photos on vacation, in the journey" = "I love myself on vacation, traveling." You fixate almost everything that you see - food, a cup of coffee, yourself in the mirror, yourself on any kind of a background. It is important to conserve everything as it was - it's a kind of canned goods. Winter will be long.
Photographing is a way to create a holiday. Even if you are in a bad mood, you shoot and preserve to create the appearance of a holiday, even if it is deferred until later.
The zine is dedicated to the fading culture of a family photographic album.


Part of the classic 19th century's Haussmann building, this fully furnished one bedroom has all the vantages of the central location without the inconvenient noisy avenue. Located Between Etoile and place des Ternes two steps away from the famous Champs Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe it is perfect for a long term rental Paris. Indeed you cross a nicely flowered courtyard to get to the internal building, and go to the 5th floor with the lift. Then take a few stairs with red carpet to get to the 6th in this charming 45 sqm (485 sq ft) fully renovated apartment. The original beams are all over the ceilings, the fireplace invites you in the salon, three big windows are facing the typical Parisian rooftops. The fully equipped kitchen with its sparkling orange wallpart, helps you preapring charming dinnerparties, as it includes micro-wave convection oven, a dishwasher, a dining area for 4, plus all the utensils required to cook-in French gourmet meals if you so desire. The bathroom has plenty of cabinet space for storing toiletries, a good supply of linens and items like hairdryer and basics to get you started your first days, as well as the washer with dryer. Take a shower in the evening with its blue led lamps, and enjoy the Spa feeling. The living room with a fireplace has a sofa bed (that can sleep 2 pers.), the bedroom next to it (separated with a wall) has 2 extra long twin beds and hotel quality bedding. You have the use of internet, WiFi service and TV, which includes a wide selection of international channels.
Enjoy your stay, you deserved it!
1900's Building, 6 rd floor, with Lift, entry code security system, 1 bedroom Appartement, furnished, Approx: 47m² / 505 Sq.Ft.


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Legacy Content
From 2014 to 2018, SMWorks was based around releasing content for Trainz Railroad Simulator, a train sim game that allowed for players to make their own trains to drive, routes to drive on, and objects to make those routes feel real.
As of 2019, SMWorks is completely abandoning active support for the old Trainz content - but it will still be available for download under Legacy. The download pages and links are unchanged, though navigation links will have changed. No new content is to be added nor is active and available support on solving any possible issues.
The Trainz content downloads will be available for some time, but will not be a permanent part of SMWorks. In the future, all content will be removed and rehosted on another website. You can expect this change sometime in 2020.
The Legacy page contains everything related to the original Trainz-based website, including Downloads, Licensing/Content Policies, railroad biographies, creator/website acknowledgements, and a few other odds and ends. All remain identical to how you may have once known them. Some of them have been hidden from public view since around 2015, meaning they may not be up to par with other content or pages, but they're all available now.
To access old Trainz content downloads, use the dropdown menu above or visit the old Downloads splash page.
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Le municipalità del Vietnam (in vietnamita thành phố trực thuộc trung ương) rappresentano, amministrativamente parlando e insieme alle province, le entità amministrative di primo livello in cui è diviso lo Stato del sud-est asiatico.

Le municipalità, in numero pari a cinque, sono città controllate centralmente aventi status pari a quello delle province. Godono dello status di municipalità le maggiori città del Paese: la capitale Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Cần Thơ, Da Nang e Haiphong.

Lista delle municipalità

Voci correlate
 Province del Vietnam

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Thanks so much, Yvette for your bright, bold words! Go check out Yvette's blog, Bold Souls!
What do you 'specially enjoy doing whilst wearing your shirt?
I wear this shirt to yoga class, as well as out and about on my days off.
Which design did you get? Why did you choose that one?
Rainbow Lady – she spoke to me as soon as I saw her! And I was so happy to get her on an orange shirt – I hate white tshirts.
How did you find the print after seeing it on screen?
It was so true to the image!
Yes, better than many tshirts. It holds its shape really well.
Would you like to comment about Red Bubbles service or mine?
What's your favourite compliment you've received while wearing it?
Why are you a bold soul? And how does the shirt reflect that?
I believe life is too short to be black and white. I surround myself with colour and this includes my clothing. I think the colours around us affect our mood and if everyone is wearing dark colours, it sets a dark mood across the community. I try to break that up and it always brings a smile from strangers.
I am exploring my artistic self and Tangerine Meg's artworks inspire me. Wearable art means mobile inspiration!


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University of the Basque Country, the Departamento de Educaci\'on del Gobierno Vasco, MCyT (Grant No. MAT
2001-0946) and the European FP6 Network of Excellence (FP6-NoE NANOQUANTA (500198-2)).

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You've likely heard of the exciting arrival of Janome's AT2000D Professional serger; Janome's first award winning serger featuring the amazing air delivery system for quick and easy threading.
Here's a quick little sneak peak of what's creating all the buzz.
There! Lower Looper threaded. DONE! No opening the side cover, no craning my neck around trying to position the thread and looper just right to find the right thread guide; none of that! What you heard was me lowering the Looper Threader Lever and Ta-Da! The lower looper is threaded in literally a second.
Now for the Upper Looper.
DONE! Again, you hear me raise and lower the Looper Threader Lever which activates the air delivery system to "whoosh" the thread into place. Amazing! Visit your Janome Dealer for more information and be sure to ask if they're hosting our fun and informative "Dynamic Duo" Janome Education presentation, where you'll find out all about the Janome AT2000D serger, the fabulous Janome CoverPro 2000CPX and more!
As if the amazing air delivery system weren't enough, there's a ton of other fabulous features which make the Janome AT2000D serger stand above the rest.
Needle Threader. Janome is known for their fabulous, easy to use needle threaders, and finally there's a serger with built-in needle threader! Yes, it accommodates BOTH the left and right needles.
Safety. The machine won't start with the looper cover or side cover open, or with the presser foot raised. In my haste to multi-task and rush to complete my projects with-in deadlines, I love a machine which does some thinking for me!
Simplicity. Instead of the usual two separate dials on the right side of most sergers, the Janome AT2000D has integrated the Stitch Length dial and Differential Feed dial into one.
Easy Conversion. The Janome AT2000D has a built-in Spreader which quickly and easily converts your serger from 4 threads to 2 threads; use the right needle and lower looper. My stiletto is pointing to the pin on the Spreader which "plugs" the hole in the upper looper. It's great having the Spreader attached to the machine so you don't have to worry about loosing it! When not in use it just swings back out of the way. Brilliant!
Continuing with that ease of conversion, it's literally an easy flick of the switch to convert from regular serging to a Rolled Hem. The photo below shows my thumb on the switch and my index finger pointing to the chaining finger. When I flick the switch to R, for Rolled Hem, the chaining finger retracts. Note, I took the presser foot off and opened the looper cover for better visibility for the photo, but there's no need to do either to convert to a Rolled Hem. This is by far the easiest set-up for Rolled Hem I've ever seen on any serger.
Speaking of easy, if you'd like to lower the Upper Knife when doing that Rolled Hem, for example, no problem! Again, no need to open any covers, (I did for better visibility for the photo) just turn the Upper Knife Release Knob, (the lower one in the photo below) and you're done! I love that there's helpful illustrations showing exactly what to do, although included with the machine is an informative DVD and instruction manual which explains everything in full detail.
8 Point Feeding System. Yes! 8 Feed Dogs! Janome is known for their superior 7 Point, Box Feed Feeding System in many of the higher range of sewing machines, including the TOL Janome Horizon Memory Craft 15000 Quiltmaker, and now they've gone one step further to create an 8 Point Feeding System which means the Janome AT2000D serger will take any fabric with ease!
There are many more features I could list, but I'll save those for future posts. Let's see what the Janome Canada Educators come up with for quick, easy, and fun projects we produce while putting it this serger through it's paces.
Visit your Janome Dealer for a test drive and easy threading lesson. You'll be amazed and excited as we were – Happy Serging!
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Hello, Does this machine do a Top Cover stitch as well as a underneath cover stitch ….Like the Janome 1200D Serger ??? Thanks pat.
No it does not as it is a four thread serger. Top cover and Cover stitch is done on the (now discontinued in Canada) 1200D serger. Alternatively coverstitch can be done on our coverhem models 900CP 1000CP and 2000CPX.
Hello, I had come to that conclusion, Thanks so much for confirming that, Plus you call the stitching in the right format , Which many people do not ..( IE, Cover stitch or Top cover Stitch). Thanks so much for all you info past & present Pat..
You are most welcome, Pat. I try to stick to correct terminology otherwise it can sometimes confuse people. And I don't like doing that!
Sorry, we do not quote pricing on this forum at all. Pricing is always to be obtained from your local Janome dealer. We are in Canada and it looks like you may require a US$ price.


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This means that you can use the wireless Room Thermostat as a convenient remote control for all radiators connected via the devolo Home Control Radiator Thermostat. From now on, you can control the temperature in a room or on an entire floor centrally at the touch of a button. That's how energy saving is made even simpler with devolo Home Control!
When combined, the devolo Home Control Room Thermostat and devolo Home Control Radiator Thermostats ensure a consistent temperature throughout your home. With this smart thermostat, you no longer have to have cold feet when sitting on the sofa, at the dining room table or at your desk because the central temperature control specifically prevents temperature differences between the radiators and your location.
The wireless Thermostat measures the temperature at the chosen location. If the values are too low, it reports them to the devolo Home Control Central Unit using standardised Z-Wave® wireless technology. Using this method, the temperature is adjusted automatically at the Radiator Thermostat until your comfortable temperature has been reached throughout the room. The wireless Room Thermostat also functions as a handy control switch that can be used to centrally control all radiators connected via the devolo Home Control Radiator Thermostat from your sofa or desk.
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Top Advisor Says South Korean President Will Deregulate and Reform Economy
The top economic advisor to South Korea's newly elected president Lee Myung-bak, who is currently in Washington, says the new government is committed to an ambitious economic agenda or deregulation and privatization. VOA's Barry Wood reports.
Il SaKong, special economic advisor to President Lee, told an audience at the Peterson Institute Friday that South Korea wants faster economic growth and increased foreign investment. He said that the new conservative leader, who began his five-year term in February, is determined to be a business-friendly president. Korea's complicated tax structure, he said, will be simplified and corporate taxes reduced.
"We are set to simplify major tax laws. At the same time, for foreign investors in particular, all new and existing relevant tax laws will be available in English. We didn't have that before," he said.
In addition, said Sakong, there will be far-reaching education reform that stresses competition and school autonomy. More work opportunities will be made available to women. Contentious relations between business and labor will be changed. The rule of law, he said, will be strictly enforced.
Economic relations with North Korea, emphasized during the past five years, are not a priority for President Lee. Sakong did express worry about food shortages in the north and the impact of sharply higher world rice prices.
"Since agricultural product prices went up, I suppose the food assistance programs going to the north will be affected by it. I suppose each (donor)country has certain budgets for giving foods, but as the rice price goes up the quantity has to be reduced," he said.
Rice prices have doubled in just the past few months.
Jeffrey Schott, a researcher at the Peterson Institute, says Sakong is right to focus on boosting Korean productivity to compete with other Asian exporters. "You can't stand still. You've got to continue to improve and improve your productivity in order to remain competitive. And that is particularly true in his own neighborhood when you've got China on one side and Japan on the other," he said.
Sakong advocates closer economic ties with the United States as well as with East Asia. He said he particularly wants to reverse the trend of South Korea attracting relatively low levels of foreign investment.
Bush, Lee Hopeful of North Korea Nuclear Declaration
President Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak say they are still hopeful that North Korea will disclose the details of its nuclear weapons program, as required under a 2007 six-party accord. Pyongyang is more than three months late in disclosing the details of that program. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the U.S. and South Korean leaders met at the presidential retreat at Camp David. President Lee said the international…
Opponents of US-South Korea Trade Deal Mobilize against Ratification
The United States and South Korea are each gearing up for a crucial vote to ratify a major trade liberalization deal. In South Korea, opponents of the pact are trying to block a separate compromise to open up the country to American beef imports - a crucial step in getting the free trade deal passed in Washington. VOA Seoul correspondent Kurt Achin has more. South Korean cattle farmers and their supporters came out in force, Thursday, one day before a…
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Co-Blogger Dale found this recent article (below) about "RealTime Talent," as featured in a recent issue of the Minneapolis StarTribune.
RE@L has its own RE@Ltime virtual learning experiences built into its STEM software products! Learning resources are at the ready!
Our RE@L founders, who started MECC back in the 1970′s, were a part of the call for "fully staffing a growing economy." MECC made that happen, and now RE@L will make it happen. Our RE@L software products will help change tomorrow's K12 learners to better serve our Minnesota economy and their career options.
50 years ago, MECC brought hundreds of software products, including Oregon Trail™, all of which blazed a new trail for better K12 learning and students who could later "staff" the growing economy we now know.
Now, RE@L is addressing these same issues again! RE@L's key leaders already know how to "staff a growing economy." Why? Because we've done it before and we are doing it again.
Deb Broberg of RealTime Talent™ says developers, registered nurses, welders, engineers and mechanics are critical for sustaining the state's economy.
Executive Director Deb Broberg of RealTime Talent researches and helps Minnesota employers, educators and nonprofit trainers align workforce needs with the emerging workforce in an economy that threatens to fall short of its potential for lack of workers within a few years.
Broberg was a veteran operations and human resource executive at Northwest Airlines and Wells Fargo, and had her own HR business, before joining RealTime Talent, a public-private collaboration. This conversation was edited from written remarks and an interview.
Q: What is the purpose of RealTime Talent?
A: RealTime Talent helps create more informed, market-oriented decisions throughout the Minnesota workforce and education ecosystem to ensure the state's economy has the talent it needs to help Minnesotans prepare for successful, well-paying careers.
Q: What is the challenge, given baby boomers aging out of the workforce, of producing enough trained and trainable workers to fill the job openings today and over the next decade?
A: Over the next few years, Minnesota's population will grow at about one-fourth the rate it grew in the 1990s. By the year 2022 the state of Minnesota faces a 239,000-worker shortage — impacting all industries. We have employers struggling to fill jobs and people who want to work. We lack alignment.
This will further exacerbate the challenges employers have in filling job vacancies. For example, we estimate that by next year there will be a shortage of at least 62,250 workers in the seven-county metro. RTT has analyzed the workforce needs of six high-demand industry sectors with career paths that lead toward high-paying jobs. Each have occupations that [lack] enough supply coming from education and training programs. Jobs such as developers, registered nurses, welders, engineers and mechanics represent a few … that employers have identified as critical to sustain and grow the state's economy.
Q: We have one of the widest education, employment and income gaps in the country between whites and minorities. What is the challenge and opportunity?
A: Racial inequities must be addressed to solve the demand for workers and provide economic stability for all people. It is not just a moral imperative, but an economic one. Currently, about 20 percent of people in our state are racial or ethnic minorities, compared to 25 percent by 2035. If we are successful in eliminating labor-force participation and employment disparities by race and ethnicity by 2022, we could add about 57,000 additional workers to Minnesota companies beyond what we would expect under our current conditions, closing about 24 percent of our estimated talent shortage.
Also, without a substantial increase in migration, the Minnesota labor force will grow much slower than it has in the past. Foreign-born residents of Minnesota have been critical … in recent years, contributing [about two-thirds] of labor-force growth between 2010 and 2016. Immigrants are younger on average and participate in the labor force at higher rates than the native-born population.
Q: Employers say they don't need a four-year computer science degree for every IT position and that high school graduates with training can succeed in a variety of manufacturing, technology, health care and other careers. Are the community colleges and nonprofit trainers and others who provide certifications starting to produce sufficient numbers to start closing the job openings for bus mechanics, IT support workers, health aides and otherwise?
A: Changing the narrative to ensure students and parents recognize the income potential and longer-term career pathways of jobs that do not require a four-year degree is another opportunity that will help to decrease student debt and increase earning potential of young people. In the midst of tightening enrollment, higher education is beginning to explore creative options for students to earn and learn simultaneously, participate in boot camp models, or further their education in smaller steps. This re-imagining of education is taking place across the nation — it's a very exciting time.
Health care, in particular, is making great progress in both meeting the significant talent shortage and diversifying the nursing pipeline in the metro, building on success getting people trained, credentialed and employed in the industry using strong partnerships between employers, community-based organizations and community colleges. However, greater focus on youth, disabled, [minority] and displaced workers is needed as the supply of talent is still not adequate to meet demand today or in the near future. There is some evidence that's working.
Q: What is the risk to the Minnesota economy if we fail to produce enough qualified workers?
A: The economic impact is compelling, particularly if we hope to maintain previous growth rates. We have already begun to see signs of slowing growth. By 2022, this slowed growth combined with our anticipated 239,000-worker shortage could mean up to $33 billion of state [economic output] not realized annually. Approximately $12 billion in personal income lost, and around $2.2 billion in local taxes not collected annually.
In closing, RE@L fully supports RealTime Talent's Deb Broberg's call to action to bring a stronger commitment to "fully staffing a growing economy" here in the Minnesota and beyond. We at RE@L join RealTime Talents call-to-action!
RE@L software products address the growing need of STEM-educated graduates who can ably enter the job market and continue growing our economic community.
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Regardless, Besson now has three big directorial projects lined up. One is an action thriller in which Angelina Jolie will star; that will shoot in early 2013 after Maleficent is done. Another is an adaptation of the late '60s French comic series Valerian, which Besson will write and direct.
And then there is Malavita, the "darkly comedic crime thriller" that already has been set to star Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, and which just added Tommy Lee Jones.
Variety insists that the Angelina Jolie movie will happen early next year, and it seems like the push on that one gives Besson time to make Malavita.
Jones will play an FBI agent in the film, which features De Niro and Pfieffer as a married couple tied to the Mafia. They move to France through the efforts of the Witness Protection Program, but once they're set up in their new home they can't quite leave the old mob ways in the past. Jones will be the FBI guy who has to wrangle the couple into shape in order to keep their low profile overseas.
The film is based on Tonino Benacquista's book Badfellas, and Relativity is co-producing and co-financing with Besson's EuropaCorp, with an August shoot set on the calendar.
And then there is Valerian, which (assuming it happens) will presumably come after the Jolie film. It is currently untitled, but the comics, created by Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mezieres, follow "the adventures of space- and time-traveling agent Valerian and femme sidekick Laureline." The comic is far more well-known in Europe than it is in the US, though series sci-fi readers here likely know some of the installments. Valerian ran from 1967 to 2010.


Fadi Dawood, is a Senior Research Fellow, NATO Association of Canada, and Sessional Lecturer, Lakehead University Orillia Campus. He is a historian of the modern Middle East, with a particular interest in minority communities of Iraq and Syria. His doctoral dissertation at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, examines the political and social lives of Iraq's Assyrian community during the period of the British mandate. He is also the co-editor on a forthcoming book project that examines state-society relations in Iraq entitled "State-Society Relations in Iraq: Citizenship Under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratization" to be published by I.B Tauris in the spring of 2017.
Conversation about a topical issue every week. Short, pithy, and hopefully informative.
'Minorityhood': What is a Minority Anyway?


TOKYO -- A coordination council comprising organizations involved in the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics has decided that the torch relay for the 2020 Games will depart from Fukushima Prefecture on March 26, 2020, as part of efforts to encourage residents affected by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters.
According to the Fukushima Prefectural Government, 44,878 residents still remained evacuated within and outside Fukushima Prefecture as of July 5, 2018. At a meeting of the coordination council held in Tokyo on July 12, top officials from the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the central government and other organizations agreed to pick Fukushima as the starting point.
The organizing committee had thus far given equal consideration to Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures -- which were hit hardest by the March 11, 2011 disasters -- in line with the banner of the "disaster recovery Olympics" it raised during its bid to invite the games to Tokyo. However, as the number of evacuees from Fukushima stands highest among the three prefectures, and the fact that the prefecture continues to face difficulties emanating from the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant catastrophe, the officials decided to choose the prefecture to symbolize disaster relief efforts.
"We wanted to respect the original starting point of our bidding campaigns," said former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who chairs the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee.
The council also announced the schedule for the 121-day torch relay, including seven days for the torch to travel between relay courses. Such travel between different prefectures will largely take place by car, while that to Okinawa Prefecture and Hokkaido will be carried out via ferry.
After spending three days being passed from runner to runner through Fukushima Prefecture, the torch will move to Tochigi Prefecture, then travel south to Gunma and Nagano prefectures, before heading to the Tokai and Kinki regions and the islands of Shikoku and Kyushu. After reaching the southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa, the torch relay will start heading north on May 2, 2020, moving to the Chugoku, Hokuriku and Tohoku regions mainly along the Sea of Japan coast, before reaching the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on June 14. From there, the torch relay will once again move southward, covering Iwate and Miyagi prefectures for three days each. As of late June 2018, some 5,022 Iwate Prefecture residents and 3,556 Miyagi Prefecture residents remained evacuated due to the 2011 disasters.
From Miyagi, the torch will then be transported to Shizuoka Prefecture using expressways. After a three-day leg each in Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama prefectures near Tokyo, and a two-day leg each in Yamanashi and Ibaraki prefectures, the Olympic flame will finally arrive in Tokyo on July 10. The torch will then be passed between all of the capital's 62 wards, cities, towns and villages, including those on islands south of Tokyo's city center, for a period of up to 15 days.
During the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the torch relay departed from Okinawa, then still under control of the United States, covering a total of four different routes. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) currently does not allow splitting courses.
The respective organizing committees set up in all of Japan's 47 prefectures will draw up detailed route maps by the end of the year, while the Fukushima Prefectural Government will select the departure point. After the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee compiles the route plans, they will be finalized upon gaining the green light from the IOC by the summer of 2019. After the routes and the number of runners are decided, each prefecture will start selecting torch bearers.


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First All-Female Space Walk Just Happened—Here's What It Means For Our Daughters
By Jessica Watson October 18, 2019
Photo: NASA
There are collective cheers going up all over the world from parents and educators of girls. The all-female space walk, originally scheduled for late March, is back on. Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir completed this monumental walk in space early this morning.
Two talented astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station later this week to replace a faulty power unit. Super stoked for this historic collaboration — a lot of young fans will be looking up to them and dreaming big! #womeninspace https://t.co/YIj7lWnIhw pic.twitter.com/lS3KBFod9A
— Natalie Panek (@nmpanek) October 15, 2019
Koch and Meir's space walk was postponed in March because of the lack of medium-sized space suits to fit both women. The STEM-loving women of the world were disappointed to say the least, but NASA assured the public that they were working to correct the issue and the walk would still happen.
True to their word, NASA announced on Tuesday that all systems were a go for the first all-female space walk. Koch and Meir exited the spaceship just before 8 a.m. Eastern time to repair a battery charge-discharge unit that was having difficulty supporting power to the International Space Station.
While the U.S. has had female astronauts since Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983, space endeavors have always been a male dominated field. The most qualified astronauts are selected to complete each mission. We have finally reached a point in time where the world recognizes that the two who fit this description are female.
The spacewalk this morning was Koch's fourth and Meir's first, and was live streamed by NASA.
Witnessing an all-female space walk does amazing things for this generation.
Liz Warren, Ph.D., communications coordinator for the International Space Station Program Science Office offered this regarding the significance of these women in space:
"In space exploration and in science, we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. These women pushed the boundaries and continue to expand the limits of our knowledge. What an incredible heritage for the girls of today who will become the scientists, engineers, leaders and explorers of tomorrow."
The spacewalk was originally scheduled for October 21st, but the timeline was pushed up when a power controller failed. Earlier this month, NASA TV interviewed Kock and Meir, asking if they were bothered that their accomplishments have often been framed in terms of their gender.
"That is something I've done a lot of thinking and reflecting on," Koch replied. "And in the end, I do think it's important. And I think it's important because of the historical nature of what we're doing and that in the past women haven't always been at the table."
.@Astro_Christina and @Astro_Jessica are scheduled for a spacewalk together on Oct. 21. They recently talked about how their accomplishments are viewed in terms of being female astronauts. pic.twitter.com/yTJ0kVH40f
— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) October 4, 2019
If you know or love girls interested in space exploration and are looking for reading material to encourage them, or to expand the horizons of other young readers, here are a few books to check out.
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