1.1 Your use of the LetsIOT service is governed by this agreement (the "Terms"). "LetsIOT" means LetsIOT, Inc., located at #646D HBR layout Bangalore-560043, India, and its subsidiaries or affiliates involved in providing the LetsIOT Services. The "LetsIOT Services" means the services LetsIOT makes available through this website and other channels, including this website, the LetsIOT application platform, the LetsIOT API, LetsIOT software LetsIOT software libraries, and any other software or services offered by LetsIOT.
1.2 In order to use the LetsIOT Services, you must first agree to the Terms. You can agree to the Terms by actually using the LetsIOT Services. You understand and agree that LetsIOT will treat your use of the LetsIOT Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.
1.3 You may not use the LetsIOT Services if you are a person barred from receiving the LetsIOT Services under the laws of the India or other countries, including the country in which you are resident or from which you use the LetsIOT Services, or international laws or treaties. You affirm that you are over the age of 13, as the LetsIOT Services are not intended for children under 13. IF YOU ARE 13 OR OLDER BUT UNDER THE AGE OF 18, OR THE LEGAL AGE OF MAJORITY WHERE YOU RESIDE IF THAT JURISDICTION HAS AN OLDER AGE OF MAJORITY, THEN YOU AGREE TO REVIEW THE TERMS WITH YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN TO MAKE SURE THAT BOTH YOU AND YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE TERMS. YOU AGREE TO HAVE YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN REVIEW AND ACCEPT THE TERMS ON YOUR BEHALF. IF YOU ARE A PARENT OR GUARDIAN AGREEING TO THE TERMS FOR THE BENEFIT OF A CHILD OVER 13, THEN YOU AGREE TO AND ACCEPT FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THAT CHILD'S USE OF THE LETSIOT SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL FINANCIAL CHARGES AND LEGAL LIABILITY THAT HE OR SHE MAY INCUR.
1.4 You agree that your use or purchases of LetsIOT Services are not contingent on the delivery of any future functionality or features or dependent on any oral or written public comments made by LetsIOT or any of its affiliates regarding future functionality or features.
2.1 You must provide accurate and complete registration information any time you register to use the LetsIOT Services. You are responsible for the security of your passwords and for any use of your account. If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify LetsIOT immediately.
2.2 Your use of the LetsIOT Services must comply with all applicable laws, regulations and ordinances, including any laws regarding the export of data or software.
2.3 You agree not to (a) access (or attempt to access) the administrative interface of the LetsIOT Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by LetsIOT in connection with the LetsIOT Services, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with LetsIOT, or (b) engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the LetsIOT Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Service).
2.4 You may use the LetsIOT Services only to develop and run Applications on the LetsIOT infrastructure. You may not access the LetsIOT Services for the purpose of bringing an intellectual property infringement claim against LetsIOT or for the purpose of creating a product or service competitive with the LetsIOT Services.
2.5 Your account may have usage limits, as further explained on the LetsIOT website or other documentation provided by LetsIOT. The LetsIOT Services shall not permit you to exceed the hard usage limits. LetsIOT reserves the right to enforce soft usage limits in its sole discretion, which may result in LetsIOT serving a "quota exceeded" page to you or your end users ("End Users"). Repeated exceeding of the hard or soft usage limits may lead to termination of your account.
3.2 You agree that you will protect the privacy and legal rights of the End Users of your Application. You must provide legally adequate privacy notice and protection for such End Users. If End Users provide you with user names, passwords, or other login information or personal information, you must make the users aware that the information will be available to your Application and to LetsIOT.
(a.) Content that infringes a third party's rights (e.g., copyright) according to applicable law.
(c.) Hate-related or violent content.
(d.) Content advocating racial or ethnic intolerance.
(e.) Content intended to advocate or advance computer hacking or cracking.
(g.) Other illegal activity, including without limitation illegal export of controlled substances or illegal software.
(k.) Other material, products or services that violate or encourage conduct that would violate any criminal laws, any other applicable laws, or any third-party rights.
i. sending email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act or any other applicable anti-spam law.
ii. imitating or impersonating another person or his, her or its email address, or creating false accounts for the purpose of sending spam.
iii. data mining any web property (including LetsIOT) to find email addresses or other user account information.
iv. sending unauthorized mail via open, third-party servers.
v. sending emails to users who have requested to be removed from a mailing list.
vi. selling, exchanging or distributing to a third party the email addresses of any person without such person's knowing and continued consent to such disclosure.
vii. sending unsolicited emails to significant numbers of email addresses belonging to individuals and/or entities with whom you have no preexisting relationship.
(b.) Send, upload, distribute or disseminate or offer to do the same with respect to any unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, infringing, obscene, or otherwise objectionable content.
(c.) Intentionally distribute viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, corrupted files, hoaxes, or any other items of a destructive or deceptive nature.
(d.) Conduct or forward pyramid schemes and the like.
(e.) Transmit content that may be harmful to minors.
(f.) Impersonate another person (via the use of an email address or otherwise) or otherwise misrepresent yourself or the source of any email.
(g.) Illegally transmit another's intellectual property or other proprietary information without such owner's or licensor's permission.
(h.) Use the LetsIOT Services to violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
(i.) Promote or encourage illegal activity.
(j.) Interfere with other users' enjoyment of the LetsIOT Services.
(k.) Sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit the LetsIOT Services for any unauthorized commercial purpose.
(l.) Modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the LetsIOT Services.
(m.) Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the LetsIOT Services.
(n.) Reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the LetsIOT Services' administration display.
(o.) Use the LetsIOT Services in connection with illegal peer-to-peer file sharing.
(p.) Display any content on the LetsIOT Services that contains any hate-related or violent content or contains any other material, products or services that violate or encourage conduct that would violate any criminal laws, any other applicable laws, or any third party rights.
(r.) Use the LetsIOT Services, or any interfaces provided with the LetsIOT Services, to access any LetsIOT product or service in a manner that violates the Terms or other terms and conditions for use of such LetsIOT product or service.
4.1 Subject to the Terms, the LetsIOT Services are provided to you without charge up to certain limits. Usage over this limit requires your purchase of additional resources or services. The pricing for additional resources and services can be found at http:www.LetsIOT.co (or such URL as LetsIOT may provide).
4.2 For all purchased resources and services, we will charge your credit card on a monthly basis or at the interval indicated in LetsIOT fees and payment policies, if different. Late payments may bear interest at the rate of 1.5% per month (or the highest rate permitted by law, if less). Charges are exclusive of taxes. You are responsible for paying all taxes and government charges, and all reasonable expenses and attorneys fees LetsIOT incurs collecting late amounts. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you waive all claims relating to charges unless claimed within 60 days after the charge (this does not affect your credit card issuer rights). Charges are solely based on LetsIOT's measurements of your use of the LetsIOT Services, unless otherwise agreed to in writing. To the fullest extent permitted by law, refunds (if any) are at the discretion of LetsIOT and only in the form of credit for the LetsIOT Services. Nothing in these Terms obligates LetsIOT to extend credit to any party. You acknowledge and agree that any credit card and related billing and payment information that you provide to LetsIOT may be shared by LetsIOT with companies who work on LetsIOT's behalf, such as payment processors and/or credit agencies, solely for the purposes of checking credit, effecting payment to LetsIOT and servicing your account. LetsIOT may also provide information in response to valid legal process, such as subpoenas, search warrants and court orders, or to establish or exercise its legal rights or defend against legal claims. LetsIOT shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of such information by such third parties. LetsIOT reserves the right to discontinue the provision of the LetsIOT Services to you for any late payments.
4.3 LetsIOT may change its fees and payment policies for the LetsIOT Services by notifying you at least fifteen (15) days before the beginning of the billing cycle in which such change will take effect. Changes to the fees or payment policies will be posted on the website (or such other URL LetsIOT may provide from time to time). Any outstanding balance becomes immediately due and payable upon termination of the Terms for any reason.
4.4 You may not develop multiple Applications to simulate or act as a single Application or otherwise access the LetsIOT Services in a manner intended to avoid incurring fees.
5.1 You understand that all information (such as data files, written text, computer software, music, audio files or other sounds, photographs, videos or other images) to which you may have access as part of, or through your use of, the LetsIOT Services are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. All such information is referred to below as the "Content." The term Content shall specifically exclude the web application that you create using the LetsIOT Services and any source code written by you to be used with the LetsIOT Services (collectively, "Applications").
5.2 LetsIOT reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to remove any or all Content from the LetsIOT Services. You agree to immediately take down any Content that violates the Terms, including pursuant to a take-down request from LetsIOT. In the event that you elect not to comply with a request from LetsIOT to take down certain Content, LetsIOT reserves the right to directly take down such Content or to disable Applications.
5.3 In the event that you become aware of any violation of the Terms by an End User of Applications, you shall immediately terminate such End Users' account on your Application. LetsIOT reserves the right to disable Applications in response to a violation or suspected violation of the Terms.
5.4 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that LetsIOT has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) the Application or any Content that you create, transmit or display while using the LetsIOT Services and for the consequences of your actions (including any loss or damage which LetsIOT may suffer) by doing so.
5.5 You agree that LetsIOT has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content and other communications maintained or transmitted through use of the Service. You further acknowledge that you are solely responsible for securing and backing up your Applications and any Content.
6.1 You acknowledge and agree that LetsIOT (or LetsIOT's licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the LetsIOT Services, including any intellectual property rights which relates to or subsists in the LetsIOT Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist).
6.2 Except as provided in Section 8, LetsIOT acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content or Applications that you create, submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the LetsIOT Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content and the Application (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with LetsIOT, you agree that you are responsible for protecting and enforcing those rights and that LetsIOT has no obligation to do so on your behalf.
7.1 LetsIOT gives you a limited, personal, worldwide, revocable, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by LetsIOT as part of the LetsIOT Services as provided to you by LetsIOT. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the LetsIOT Services as provided by LetsIOT, in the manner permitted by the Terms.
7.2 You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to): (a) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the LetsIOT Services or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by LetsIOT, in writing (e.g., through an open source software license); or (b) attempt to disable or circumvent any security mechanisms used by the LetsIOT Services or any Applications running on the LetsIOT Services.
7.3 Open source software licenses for components of the LetsIOT Services released under an open source license constitute separate written agreements. To the limited extent that the open source software licenses expressly supersede these Terms, the open source licenses govern your agreement with LetsIOT for the use of the components of the LetsIOT Services released under an open source license.
7.4 LetsIOT hereby grants you a limited, personal, revocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable license, with no right to sub-license, to display the LetsIOT trademarks and logos expressly provided to you by LetsIOT for the sole purpose of promoting or advertising that you use the LetsIOT Services (the "Marks"). You agree that all goodwill generated through your use of the LetsIOT Marks shall inure to the benefit of LetsIOT. You shall not use any LetsIOT Mark to disparage LetsIOT, its products or services, or in a manner which, in LetsIOT's reasonable judgment, may diminish or damage its goodwill in the Mark or imply endorsement by LetsIOT. You agree to cease all such uses upon written notification by LetsIOT. You agree not to take any action which might lead a third party to think that any LetsIOT's Mark is owned by you, or which might adversely impact LetsIOT's reputation. You shall at all times use the LetsIOT Marks in a manner consistent with trademark laws. You shall notify LetsIOT immediately of any improper, infringing, confusing or unauthorized use of LetsIOT's Marks of which you become aware. You shall not alter the appearance of any LetsIOT Mark or obscure such Mark in any way. Changing the color, font, or proportions of any LetsIOT Mark is prohibited.
8.1 LetsIOT claims no ownership or control over any Content or Application. You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in the Content and/or Application, and you are responsible for protecting those rights, as appropriate. By submitting, posting or displaying the Content on or through the LetsIOT Services you give LetsIOT a worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such Content for the sole purpose of enabling LetsIOT to provide you with the LetsIOT Services. Furthermore, by creating an Application through use of the LetsIOT Services, you give LetsIOT a worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such Application for the sole purpose of enabling LetsIOT to provide you with the LetsIOT Services.
8.2 You may choose to or we may invite you to submit comments or ideas about the LetsIOT Services, including without limitation about how to improve the LetsIOT Services or our products ("Ideas"). By submitting any Idea, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and will not place LetsIOT under any fiduciary or other obligation, and that we are free to use the Idea without any additional compensation to you, and/ or to disclose the Idea on a non-confidential basis or otherwise to anyone.
8.3 You agree that LetsIOT, in its sole discretion, may use your name, trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names and other distinctive brand features in presentations, marketing materials (including case studies and as press references), customer lists, financial reports, the LetsIOT Services, and Web site listings (including links to your website) for the purpose of advertising or publicizing your use of the LetsIOT Services. You agree to act as a customer reference for the LetsIOT Services and agree to respond reasonably to all such reference requests.
9.1 LetsIOT may make available through the LetsIOT Services additional features, functionality, and services offered by its third-party partners ("Add-ons"). Your use of Add-ons is subject to these Terms and to the applicable fees. You acknowledge for each Add-on you subscribe to or purchase through the LetsIOT Services, these Terms constitute a binding agreement between you and the third party licensor of that Add-on ("the Add-on Provider") only. The Add-on Provider of each Add-on is solely responsible for that Add-on, the content therein, and any claims that you or any other party may have relating to that Add-on or your use of that Add-on. You acknowledge that you are purchasing the license to each Add-on from the Add-on Provider of that Add-on; LetsIOT is acting as agent for the Add-on Provider in providing each such Add-on to you; LetsIOT is not a party to the license between you and the Add-on Provider with respect to that Add-on; and LetsIOT is not responsible for that Add-on, the content therein, or any claims that you or any other party may have relating to that Add-on or your use of that Add-on. You acknowledge and agree that LetsIOT and its affiliates are third party beneficiaries of the agreement between you and the Add-on Provider for each Add-on, and that LetsIOT will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce such license against you as a third party beneficiary thereof.
9.2 By subscribing to or purchasing an Add-on, you grant LetsIOT permission to share your Application, Content, and user information with the Add-on Provider as necessary in order to provide you the Add-on.
LetsIOT may, and you grant us permission to, make recommendations via the LetsIOT Services for products or services we think may be of interest to you based on your Application(s), Content, and/or use of the LetsIOT Services. We will never make recommendations directly to your End Users.
11.1 LetsIOT is constantly innovating in order to provide the best possible experience for its users. You acknowledge and agree that the form and nature of the LetsIOT Services which LetsIOT provides may change from time to time without prior notice to you, subject to the terms in Section 4.3. Changes to the form and nature of the LetsIOT Services will be effective with respect to all versions of the LetsIOT Services; examples of changes to the form and nature of the LetsIOT Services include without limitation changes to fee and payment policies, security patches, added functionality, and other enhancements.
11.2 You may terminate these Terms at any time by canceling your account on the LetsIOT Services. You will not receive any refunds if you cancel your account.
11.3 You agree that LetsIOT, in its sole discretion and for any or no reason, may terminate your account or any part thereof. You agree that any termination of your access to the LetsIOT Services may be without prior notice, and you agree that LetsIOT will not be liable to you or any third party for such termination.
11.4 You are solely responsible for exporting your Content and Application(s) from the LetsIOT Services prior to termination of your account for any reason, provided that if we terminate your account, we will provide you a reasonable opportunity to retrieve your Content and Application(s).
11.5 Upon any termination of the LetsIOT Services or your account these Terms will also terminate, but Sections 6.1, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 18 shall continue to be effective after these Terms are terminated.
12.1 NOTHING IN THESE TERMS SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT LETSIOT'S WARRANTY OR LIABILITY FOR LOSSES WHICH MAY NOT BE LAWFULLY EXCLUDED OR LIMITED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
12.2 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE LETSIOT SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE LETSIOT SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE".
12.3 LETSIOT, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS MAKE NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES REGARDING THE LETSIOT SERVICES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, LETSIOT, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT: (A) YOUR USE OF THE LETSIOT SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (B) YOUR USE OF THE LETSIOT SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE FROM ERROR, AND (C) USAGE DATA PROVIDED THROUGH THE LETSIOT SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE.
13.1 SUBJECT TO SECTION 11.1 ABOVE, YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT LETSIOT, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. THIS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY), ANY LOSS OF GOODWILL OR BUSINESS REPUTATION, ANY LOSS OF DATA SUFFERED, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS.
13.2 THE LIMITATIONS ON LETSIOT 'S LIABILITY TO YOU IN SECTION 12.1 ABOVE SHALL APPLY WHETHER OR NOT LETSIOT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH LOSSES ARISING.
You agree to hold harmless and indemnify LetsIOT, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, advertisers, licensors, suppliers or partners (collectively "LetsIOT and Partners") from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to (a) your breach of the Terms, (b) your use of the LetsIOT Services, (c) your violation of applicable laws, rules or regulations in connection with the LetsIOT Services, or (d) your Content or your Application, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs and attorneys' fees, of every kind and nature. In such a case, LetsIOT will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action.
15.1 You agree to set up a process to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the India' Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA notices"). It is LetsIOT's policy to respond to DMCA notices or other applicable copyright laws and to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. We reserve the right to take down content in your Application or, if necessary, the Application itself upon receipt of a valid DMCA notice.
(a.) An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
(b.) Identification of the copyrighted work that you claim is being infringed.
(c.) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the LetsIOT Services.
(d.) Information reasonably sufficient to permit LetsIOT to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, and e-mail address.
(e.) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or law.
(f.) A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
For clarity, only DMCA notices should go to the LetsIOT Designated Copyright Agent. Any other feedback, comments, requests for technical support or other communications should be directed to LetsIOT customer service through [email protected].
16.1 The LetsIOT Services may include hyperlinks to other web sites or content or resources or email content. LetsIOT may have no control over any web sites or resources which are provided by companies or persons other than LetsIOT.
16.2 You acknowledge and agree that LetsIOT is not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources.
16.3 You acknowledge and agree that LetsIOT is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you or your End Users as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from, such web sites or resources.
17.1 LetsIOT may make changes to the Terms from time to time. When such changes are made, LetsIOT will make the updated Terms available on its website.
17.2 You understand and agree that if you use the LetsIOT Services after the date on which the Terms have changed, LetsIOT will treat your use as acceptance of the updated Terms.
18.1 The Terms constitute the whole legal agreement between you and LetsIOT and govern your use of the LetsIOT Services (but excluding any services which LetsIOT may provide to you under a separate written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements between you and LetsIOT in relation to the LetsIOT Services.
18.3 If LetsIOT provides you with a translation of the English language version of these Terms, the English language version of these Terms will control if there is any conflict.
18.4 You agree that LetsIOT may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on the LetsIOT Services. By providing LetsIOT your email address, you consent to our using the email address to send you any notices required by law in lieu of communication by postal mail.
18.5 You agree that if LetsIOT does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms (or which LetsIOT has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of LetsIOT's rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to LetsIOT.
18.6 LetsIOT shall not be liable for failing or delaying performance of its obligations resulting from any condition beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to, governmental action, acts of terrorism, earthquake, fire, flood or other acts of God, labor conditions, power failures, and Internet disturbances.
18.7 The Terms, and your relationship with LetsIOT under the Terms, shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You and LetsIOT agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of India, India to resolve any legal matter arising from the Terms.
18.8 Neither party may assign any of its rights or obligations under these Terms, whether by operation of law or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the other party (not to be unreasonably withheld). Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may assign the entirety of its rights and obligations under these Terms, without consent of the other party, to its affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of its assets not involving a direct competitor of the other party. A party's sole remedy for any purported assignment by the other party in breach of this paragraph shall be, at the non-assigning party's election, termination of your use of the LetsIOT Services upon written notice to the assigning party.


text:
from .ApplicationConfiguration import ApplicationConfiguration
import importlib

class PersistentImageManager(object):
    """ Abstract base class for the Persistence managers  """

    _default_manager = None

    @classmethod
    def default_manager(cls):
        if not cls._default_manager:
            appconfig = ApplicationConfiguration().configuration
            class_name = appconfig['image_manager'].capitalize() + "PersistentImageManager"
            kwargs = appconfig['image_manager_args']
            # The current defaults are 'file' for class name and
            # { "storage_location": "/var/lib/imagefactory/storage" } for the args
            pim_module = importlib.import_module( ".." + class_name, __name__)
            pim_class = getattr(pim_module, class_name)
            cls._default_manager = pim_class(**kwargs)
        return cls._default_manager

    def __init__(self, storage_path = None):
        raise NotImplementedError("PersistentImageManager is an abstract class.  You must instantiate a real manager.")

    def image_with_id(self, image_id):
        """
        TODO: Docstring for image_with_id

        @param image_id TODO

        @return TODO
        """
        raise NotImplementedError("image_with_id() not implemented - cannot continue")

    def images_from_query(self, query):
        """
        TODO: Docstring for images_from_query

        @param image_id TODO

        @return TODO
        """
        raise NotImplementedError("images_from_query() not implemented - cannot continue")

    def add_image(self, image):
        """
        TODO: Docstring for add_image

        @param image TODO

        @return TODO
        """
        raise NotImplementedError("add_image() not implemented - cannot continue")

    def save_image(self, image):
        """
        TODO: Docstring for save_image

        @param image TODO

        @return TODO
        """
        raise NotImplementedError("save_image() not implemented - cannot continue")

    def delete_image_with_id(self, image_id):
        """
        TODO: Docstring for delete_image_with_id

        @param image_id TODO

        @return TODO
        """
        raise NotImplementedError("delete_image_with_id() not implemented - cannot continue")

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The IAS theme for the academic year 2016/17 was Scale and was interpreted spatially, temporally or conceptually. Scale refers both to things measured and how measurement is done. This research theme was predicated on the idea that seeking common aspects to the study of scale and its effects has the potential to unite, compare and/or contrast phenomena and ideas across all disciplines.
The 2016/17 theme intended to generate a dialogue between disciplines, and between academics and research users.
Highlights during the annual programme included: an interdisciplinary workshop comparing the ways in which Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek astrology dealt with the of problem scale; a workshop that interrogated the role of scale in international legal and governance scholarship; a wide ranging programme that considered the work of composer Morton Feldman and included three public concerts, a lecture and study group; a public lecture series on the scale of time; its flow and passage. Could, for example, the passage of time in modernity be understood with concepts such as progress, revolutionary rupture or acceleration? Or do modern societies and cultures find a more 'human' scale of time – that of the present and near future – more conducive to living together? A further series of workshops considered current attempts to make progress understanding complex biological systems, especially by bringing the natural and life sciences communities together; an innovative collaborative reading workshop gathered experts from a wide range of disciplines (from arts, natural and medical sciences) to explore two central elements of pre-modern appreciation of scale and measurement: astronomy and the human eye. The workshop brought together experts in Arabic science and its transmission in the West, western medieval specialists, modern ophthalmic surgeons and vision perception specialists, as well as experts in ancient Greek and modern cosmology. In addition to these activities, the IAS hosted it secondary public lecture series The Scale of Things . Speakers included among others Professor Mark Pagel FRS (University of Reading); Professor Stuart Elden FBA (University of Warwick); Professor Jussi Parrika (University of Southampton); Professor Andres Lepik (Technical University of Munich); and Dr Karen Johnson (Durham University). The visiting IAS Fellows also delivered public lectures during the course of the year. Recordings of this lectures (audio and video) can be found here.


Long-time readers will know that last year around this time I did my first triathlon. I had been training for months, and I was extremely nervous about the open-water swim portion, which almost turned me off the sport before I even finished. But in the end, it was so much fun, and I've been looking forward to doing more of them since last summer.
This morning I competed in the same race, the NE Season Opener in Hopkinton. What a difference a year makes!
Last year I did the 1/4-ish mile of swimming, 10 miles of cycling, and 5K of running in 1:16:34, good enough for 171st of 366. This year: 1:08:57, or 131/438.
As a "newbie" registrant in 2011, we had our own special start time and apologized for bumping into each other during the craziness that was my first open-water swim. This year, in the biggest starting wave, it was all fists and kicks for the first 30 seconds until we got ourselves sorted out. (Next time: start farther out.) I found some feet to draft off through the 58ºF water, did a great job sighting with my optically-corrected goggles, and was surprised at how fast it was over. In fact, it wasn't until I was about halfway through that I realized my form kinda sucked and that I needed to remember what I usually do in the pool. "Ah right! Less flailing more pulling." Still, I was almost three minutes faster this year.
Ah, the bike! After a relatively fast transition, I hopped on Speed Junkie (my Cervélo P2) for my first race on it. I must confess that I was nervous in the days leading up to the race. How would I do around other people? Would I be able to spend most of the time in the aero position? Would I be as fast on the bike as I had hoped, or would it be an expensive ride? Could I hold on over the bumpy roads? Would I have trouble with the tight turns? Would I crash? Etc. Etc. Etc.
Let's remember that last year during my two triathlons as a newbie, I did all of the passing on the bike (and almost all of it during the run, too). I wasn't expecting that this year, since I was starting among faster people, and there were fewer people starting ahead of me. I'm sure I would pass people, and I'm sure others would return the favor.
Turns out, I'm fast on a bike. And the roads were very well controlled. There was very little traffic, and I was able to ride where I wanted on the road. I spent 85-90% of the ride in aero, worked hard, and only got passed by a half-dozen people, including one woman from BU with longer hair than anyone I'd ever seen on a bike and two of my Landry's teammates. (That reminds me: must get a Landry's tri-top so that I can represent . . . unless/until TT1 wants me to wear their colors.) I caught one of the Landry guys when an ambulance was attending to him along the side of the road near a rather rough patch of road. Poor guy.
All things considered, I did very well over the whole course. Small, wiry guys like me do well on hills, and I'm getting better at riding this little bike over open ground. (Almost 5 mph better.) I like passing people.
Finally, the run. I was feeling good today, but I was trying to be smart. I've had some IT band pain recently—which I'm watching closely—and over the last few days my right arch started getting cranky, too. Stretching, ice, the foam-roller on my hip and thigh, and self-massage for my foot should (hopefully) do the trick. I'm happy that this coming week is an easy one in my training plan.
So I decided to run hard but hold back a little, try to hold a good pace throughout the whole run, and not feel (too) bad about being passed. It was what it was, which was consistent but just okay . . . the only part of the event (including transitions) that was slower than last year, actually. Strangely, I'm okay with this. I had enough at the end for a nice finishing sprint.
My diabetes strategy most certainly did not work out well. Not well at all. In fact, I'm mystified by how bad it was. Diabetes is what it is, but I was hoping for something better.
In a perfect world, I would eat some breakfast before leaving the house, take some insulin for it, adjust my insulin before the start, and then take nutrition during the event (almost) like I didn't have diabetes. Unfortunately, I don't know how much insulin to take before a triathlon—because Insulin + water = scary—so I don't really eat much, except a Greek yoghurt right beforehand. I don't even usually need to eat before I swim at 5:45 in the morning, but when starting at 9:15, it seems completely different. It was also different than my normal multi-hour rides and long runs.
Perhaps it was the adrenaline from the anticipation of the event. Perhaps there's something going on with my basal rate. Perhaps it was just sun spots. Who knows? What I do know is that I need to make it better. And I will.
At any rate, I had to take about a half-unit of insulin before the swim, and I didn't come down much when I was in the water. Or during the ride. Or the run. Fortunately, I didn't have much of that high BG pain in my legs that I sometimes get, but I could tell that I was high throughout the run. Next time will be better, I hope.
So, all things considered, it was a major confidence booster with some great experiences and a few obvious things to improve. Onward!
Oh, and Lisa took a bunch of amazing pictures.
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Lisa should be a sports photographer. And you make the best faces. I learned a ton just reading your race report (as usual). Congrats on killing your time from last year, on not crashing Speed Junkie and on knowing your body enough to recognize when to push and when to ease off. Sorry about the bad BGs but that's a learning curve too. You'll get there mon ami.
Congrats on the AMAZING improvement! That's terrific.
The best cure I've found for this is to race A LOT so that you're less keyed up. Of course, that's easier when you're just a runner and there are cheap races going on every week.


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OVO appoints new CEO of retail business
Raman Bhatia, Chief Operating Officer of OVO has been appointed CEO of OVO's retail business from 1st March 2022.
Adrian Letts will be stepping down after three years of leading OVO through the acquisition of SSE Energy Services, the pandemic and the rise of gas prices.
Raman has led the operations of OVO over the last two years including the migration of customers onto the Kaluza platform and the digital transformation of the customer experience which saw OVO Energy move up the charts to 2nd place in the Which? Annual Energy Supplier Ratings.
OVO's VP of Customer Care and former CEO of First Direct Bank Joe Gordon will become COO.
Stephen Fitzpatrick, Founder of OVO said:
"I'd like to thank Adrian for his contribution and leadership during the last three years. Adrian has navigated OVO through the integration of SSE, the pandemic, and more recently through energy market challenges. We wish him the very best for the future."
"Raman is incredibly well qualified to take OVO through the next phase of growth, having driven the transformation of the retail business over the last two years with great success. He is passionate about customer experience, decarbonisation and creating a great place to work and I cannot think of a better person for this role."
Adrian Letts said:
"Being part of OVO for the past three years has been a great privilege and I am very proud of what we have achieved as a company. Raman and I have worked together closely for a number of months to ensure a strong succession plan is in place and I have the utmost confidence in him to drive great success for OVO in the future."
Raman Bhatia said:
"As the COO of OVO I have first-hand experience of this company's drive to deliver a better customer experience through digital solutions and new technology. With ambitious goals to halve our customers' carbon emissions I'm honoured to take OVO forward on the next phase of its journey. I'm looking forward to working closely with Stephen and everyone in the company to get us closer to our zero carbon living goal."
About Raman Bhatia:
Raman joined OVO as Chief Operating Officer in January 2020 and has led the integration of SSE and the migration of millions of customers onto the Kaluza platform. Under Raman's leadership, OVO Energy is driving positive change for customers, most recently recognised by rising from 8th to 2nd in the Which? Annual Energy Supplier Survey. Raman is the co-sponsor of OVO's Inclusion and Diversity initiative: OVO Belonging which aims to build a truly inclusive culture at OVO. The company recently won Diverse Company of the Year at the National Diversity Awards.
Prior to OVO, Raman was the Head of Digital Bank for HSBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management in the UK and Europe. As a member of the Executive Committee, he led innovation, new digital ways of working, risk management and the design, development, deployment and commercialisation of digital platforms, products and channels within the UK and Europe.
Before HSBC, Raman worked in consumer tech as VP at HouseTrip and Director of Strategy at Expedia for EMEA. Earlier in his career Raman worked as a management consultant at Bain as well as an advisor to governments, international development agencies on urban governance and planning.
Raman holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
About OVO Energy
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Q: can't shutdown tomcat service on Mac I installed the Apache Tomcat/7.0.65 on my Mac, then, run the startup.sh. It works great fine and the service is available immediately. But when I run the shutdown.sh to stop the service. It seems that the shell scripts can not aware of the tomcat running. Would someone please help me with this problem?

A: I had a similar problem. In my case, although running <Tomcat Root>/bin>./shutdown.sh was technically working (the tomcat process was being killed), the tomcat service was restarting automatically (after a few seconds).
If you run <Tomcat Root>/bin/catalina.sh stop or <Tomcat Root>/bin/shutdown.sh and you see that after a few seconds tomcat restarts => that basically means that you are not able to shutdown tomcat for good. Thus, if you want to make sure that tomcat does not restart automatically, run brew services stop tomcat.
OBS: If you want to find what is your <Tomcat Root> run brew ls tomcat

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You don't have to be a whiz at bocce, the Italian lawn game, to enjoy Bocce USQ, the new pizza-driven, indoor/outdoor cafe that's taken over the Union Square Pavilion. While a few customers toss balls in a tiny gravel court, many more happily wolf down crowd-pleasing pizza ($16 to $20) and share plates ($12 to $21).
The Pavilion has had its ups and downs in the past, but the new edition — led by managing partner Jason Leeds, executive chef Tim Meyers, pizza consultant Anthony Falco and GM Chris Johnson — looks like a keeper. The 19th-century elevated masonry pavilion with its hexagonal-tiled patio has a new menu, new name and a tastefully redesigned setting.
Shutters have been added to the south-facing side to help muffle breezes that once gave "tossed" salad a new meaning.
Meyers and Falco both worked at Bushwick's pizza-heaven Roberta's. They can't replicate Roberta's wood-burning brick ovens on Bocce's electric grill, but their 12-inchers are still pretty tasty.
Crusts varied on my visits from thin to medium-thick. I especially liked sizzling pepperoni with aged mozzarella, pecorino, oregano and scorching pickled chilies. A highly aromatic, margherita-style combo of three cheeses, tomato and oregano was well above par.
And, of course, they use some Union Square Greenmarket products, such as young spring greens from Lani's and Norwich Meadows, on a tasty "farm" pie. Only a roasted mushroom number, like most I've had anywhere, registered as bland.
The big surprises were "share" dishes led by "bocce bread," which is made from the same dough as the pizzas and puffed up almost like a balloon, with a delightfully blistered, slightly charred outside. A side of whipped ricotta and olive oil elevate it to greatness. Snap pea caesar salad sparkled on plate and palate with Parmigiano cheese, mint and black pepper. Calamari-and-shrimp fritto misto was perfectly battered and succulent.
Beverages are in tune with the "laid-back Italian summer spirit" the place touts — wines by the glass, carafe or affordably priced bottle, summery cocktails (such as "orchard sangria" with rum, fruits, vanilla and prosecco) and bottled beer.
Bocce's summer reopening is especially welcome since the recent closing of longtime Union Square favorite Republic and other places. Unlike its Pavilion predecessors that closed Oct. 1, it'll be open till Halloween — a whole extra month to savor summer's remains.


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Q: How can I change the TopNavigationAction icon size I'm starting to use ui kitten.
I'm trying to change the size of the icon for the TopNavigation  leftControl. I'm using arrow-ios-back-outline for the TopNavigationAction icon but it looks smaller than a normal back arrow on iOS so I tried to change the size by adding a size attribute to my icon
This is my renderLeftControl code:

const renderedIcon = props => {
  return <Icon name="arrow-ios-back-outline" size={200} {...props} />;
};

const renderLeftControl = ({
  onCommand,
  ...iucProps
}): React.ReactElement<TopNavigationActionProps> => {
  return (
    <TopNavigationAction
      style={{ backgroundColor: "magenta" }}
      icon={renderedIcon}
      onPress={onCommand}
    />
  );
};

Unfortunately it appears the prop is being completely ignored because the icon always gets rendered with the same size.
I suppose I'm doing it the wrong way but I'm struggling to find the right way of doing it.
Can anybody help me?
Thank you in advance

A: The Icon you're trying to use relies on react-native-svg elements, so in this case you're able to use width and height properties. Also, see other common properties


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The bottom line is this, success in your work and your life depends on being aware and intentional with how you respond to the external environment of events and people. It also depends on being aware and intentional with how you respond to your internal environment of thoughts and emotions caused by the patterns that have been wired into your brain through repeated experiences of the past.
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Spindles are sensitive and a relatively technical part of your CNC milling machine, so maintenance needs to be performed by qualified and well trained staff or professionals, who have the expertise to properly diagnose and service them. Keep in mind though, that properly trained operators and manufacturers can prevent a lot of damage by operating machinery properly and with sense.
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Guess what? If you sell products or services and want to use Instagram to help with big holiday sales, the time to start planning is now. Not only are we seeing more companies sharing their holiday sales on Instagram already, but we are also seeing these influencers come up with new and interesting strategies to help overcome shoppers fatigue. If you're ready to set yourself up for success for the busiest shopping time of year, I've got you covered.
How do you prepare for the holiday season sales?
But before we dive into the content you'll need to create, don't forget about your most valuable asset: your email list. With an up-to-date email list, you can easily connect with your clients and keep them in the loop on your latest sales and exclusive content, both of which are essential during the holiday rush.
Once you've gotten a handle on your email list, it's time to dive into content creation. Here are the five steps you need to create a smooth holiday campaign from start to finish.
While it might seem like a big time commitment, setting aside time to plan all of your collateral will save you a ton of effort later. You're also more likely to stick to your deadline if you have a confirmed photo shoot day in your calendar. Trust me, the day-long shoot now will save you a lot of time during the holidays.
One of the hardest things about planning a longer visual campaign, especially one that runs during the holiday season, is knowing what kind of photos to take. I suggest making sure you have content for your entire campaign, including your pre-sale, sale and post-sale content. Think about the visual story you want your Instagram content to tell.
When you plan all of your content at once, you also set yourself up to have a more consistent visual theme. You can make the most of your time by gathering all the props and creative visuals you need. Need holiday and winter-themed background ideas? I've got you covered with this blog post.
Pinterest is more than a platform to share your favorite crafts and inspirational quotes. If you and your team are working collaboratively on a visual campaign, it can also be an invaluable tool for brainstorming. Whether it's color schemes or content inspiration, put it all together on a private Pinterest board. Not only does this keep your team to share their unique perspectives, but it's easy to instantly brainstorm – no need for a long chain of emails or IMs.
Once your team has a solid idea of the photos you'll need, it's time to consider the next piece of important content: graphics. Will you need to reach out to a graphic designer? Do it now. Graphic designers are often swamped during the holiday season, and you're more likely to find time on their schedules if you reach out a few months in advance.
Whether you need illustrative graphics or photo edits, make sure you have a scope of work prepared before you reach out to your preferred designer. This will allow the graphic designer enough time to finish the project, and you won't feel crunched to get your visuals back at the last minute.
Now that your content is done, it's time for the next important piece of your campaign: planning your timeline. Again, this is why I suggest planning backward. Consider when you'll want to start building buzz and when you'll need your sale to go live. If you build hype for too long, people might start to grow fatigued with your campaign.
Need some inspiration? Check out Ful Candles. As a small batch soy candle company, Ful Candles knows it's not just about the candles they sell. Laura, the owner, knows that any successful campaign is also dependent on how emotionally connected customers feel to her products. That's why she uses her adorable dog, Toby, to help build visual consistency for the company's campaigns. Whether Toby is lounging in his plaid dog bed or surrounded by seasonal props, people instantly recognize Ful Candles content in their feed. Therefore, her posts don't feel overly salesy or disconnected from the brand's feed aesthetic.
Speaking of overselling, this is one of my biggest pieces of advice: Don't try to sell your products in every single post. I know, it's tempting to make every photo shoppable or talk constantly about your amazing sale. But let's be honest, the best brands are able to meet their sales goals without being overly pushy or seeming desperate to meet their goals. This tactic is a huge turnoff.
Consider a brand like Stella Valle. This jewelry brand is all about empowering women and inspiring community – something I think we can all agree is amazing! But rather than just trying to sell their beautiful necklaces and bracelets, this sister duo tells the visual story of their brand. It's not just about the latest jewelry collection or sale, it's about building the relationship with their clients. This is what allows them to build brand loyalty and make long-term relationships, not just one-time sales.
BlaBla Kids does this too. As a brick and mortar store, this Atlanta-based children's toy store uses the stories behind their artisanal wares to catch the eye of their customers. Whether it's a child curled up with their favorite stuffed animal or a beautiful handmade mobile on display in a nursery, BlaBla Kids inspires their customers to want to learn more about their products.
After the initial rush of the holiday season, shoppers inevitably become tired of the constant sales and chaos. That's why it's even more important that you take the time to think creatively about your content. Don't just to try to copy what the larger companies and influencers are doing; consider what unique niche you fill.
One company that fills their creative space particularly well is PopSockets. Check out this post from their Shark Week collection. Not only is this photo really creative since it looks like a shark in the water, but it also gives customers an incentive to purchase with the promise of a 10 percent donation to a shark conservation charity.
Ready to start selling on Instagram?
Whether you're adding Instagram sales into your marketing plan this year or you need help executing how to sell more, these steps will help you. Remember to start early and to create the visual appeal that you want your followers to come away with. You want your customers to feel good buying your produces and feel confident they are buying something unique.
Drop a comment below letting me know what industry you're in and how you're going to prepare for selling on Instagram. If you're just getting started with the Instagram basics, then download my free Instagram Strategy Guide. It will help you with look more polished and professional as we get closer and closer to holiday time.


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Trump's Pro-Worker Rhetoric: Reality or Ruse?
Donald Trump campaigned on his opposition to free trade agreements, such as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), but his rhetoric should not distract voters' attention away from the ways in which he and many of his business and political allies have undermined workers' rights. Even if Trump's stated intention to withdraw the United States from the TPP is a welcome move, we believe the defeat of the TPP is thanks to national grassroots organizing that forced politicians on both sides of the aisle to back away, and that Trump's global business record and actions to date should give rise to skepticism that he intends to live up to his rhetoric.
Free trade agreements have caused real, measurable hurt to American workers, and their benefits to workers in other signatory countries, such as Mexico, Honduras, or Peru, have also been spotty. However, ending free trade agreements, some of which actually provide leverage for improving labor laws, is not sufficient to stop the global trend of increasing inequality. That will require a broad spectrum of legal and policy reforms that foster transparency, accountability and responsible oversight of global corporate accountability, in addition to stronger labor rights protections and enforcement within each country. Trump's placing the blame on badly negotiated trade agreements conveniently ignores the fact that U.S. employers have actively undermined American workers' rights by lobbying against minimum wage increases and supporting right to work laws.
Despite his rhetoric as the candidate who will help American workers, Trump's business practices and early glimpses into his strategic agenda indicate that he is moving toward policies that would deepen, rather than ease the harms of an unfettered global market place and further weaken labor law protections for American workers.
As a businessman, Trump epitomized many of the worst practices in global trade. His garment line is produced in a sprawling, secretive global supply chain that squeezes profits to the top of the value chain at the expense of producers and, "compel[s] countries to loosen laws governing working conditions, tax policy, and professional licensing across the globe." Though he keeps his production facilities secret, investigative journalists have linked his products to facilities that endanger workers. In his direct operations, he has refused to pay contractors, sometimes forcing small businesses to close in protracted legal battles over sums nominal for a billionaire but vital to the small businesses who complete the work, and has denied hourly workers overtime pay they have earned.
Trump has also shown an antipathy for unionization that illegally violates workers' right to organize, and with President Trump soon able to appoint members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), it may become even more difficult for unions to organize nationwide. The majority of his cabinet selections to date are drawn from wealthy businessmen and Wall Street elite, including Andy Puzder, CEO of the company that owns Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants, for Secretary of Labor. Puzder is a fierce advocate of a franchise model that decreases corporate accountability for workplace conditions; the U.S. Department of Labor found wage and hour violations in 60% of Puzder's restaurants. Additionally, important laws to curb U.S. corporate abuses abroad, such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, may not be as rigorously enforced.
Despite these challenges, organizing at the local level is providing a blueprint for how we can unite to ensure all workers, everywhere, gain improved conditions. Minimum wage is an area where Trump has waffled, but on Election Day, people voted to raise the minimum wage in four states. Already, the movement for a $15 an hour minimum wage has earned a stunning $61 billion in compensation for some of the lowest paid U.S. workers. ILRF continues to work in coalitions to organize actions at the local level that bring to change at multinational companies like H&M, Walmart, Gap, Target and others.
In the next four years, we must hold Donald Trump, and the Republican Congress swept in with his election, accountable for their promises to working Americans. We must also use this time to build coalitions in support of solutions that place global people power above global corporate power. This means we need to continue advocating for better minimum wages across the U.S. and in countries producing goods for the U.S. market, expose labor rights abuses anywhere they appear in Trump enterprises, and work with our global allies to hold the Trump administration to high international standards for workers' rights.


Caching: reduces network bandwidth because web traffic that has been requested before can be retrieved from the proxy cache instead of requesting it again from the Internet.
Filtering: all web traffic goes through the proxy server first so you can filter certain websites.
Monitoring: If you want to know what your users are doing you can track this on the proxy server.
WCCP is used between a Cisco router and a proxy server to communicate. The proxy server will tell the router that it is "alive" and ready to serve webpages. It's also used as a "hello" message so the router knows when the proxy is down. The router is called the WCCP server and the proxy is called the WCCP client.
In this tutorial I will first explain the basics of how WCCP forwards traffic to the proxy and then I will show you the configuration of the Cisco router and the proxy using Squid on Linux.
At the end of this post I also have wireshark captures that show you the exact traffic path from the client to a host on the Internet with the proxy in between. Let's get started shall we?
Once the proxy server has the webpage it will send a TCP SYN ACK to the host that is still waiting for the webpage. The important part here is that the source IP address of this packet is the IP address of the host on the Internet, NOT the proxy server! From the host's perspective, it thinks that it is talking directly to the webserver and it has no idea that there is a proxy server in the network. This is what we call a transparent proxy.
You now have an idea how WCCP and proxying works, let's look at the configuration of the proxy server and the Cisco router. I will use the topology that I just showed you for this demonstration.
Squid is a very popular proxy server that is used by a lot of ISPs. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and of course WCCP. In my example I used Linux CentOS 6.5 but the configuration on Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution is pretty much the same.
If you see some output…good! Your squid version supports WCCP, if not…use another repository or compile it yourself with these options.
Don't worry about this, we will fix it in a minute. This message doesn't cause any errors but it does fill your log.
You can use squidclient to request a webpage. We now know that we can reach a webserver on the Internet and that squid is checking its cache to see if it can serve the webpage. So far so good!
The "TCP_MISS" means that this webpage wasn't served from the cache. Anyway we verified that squid is working with its default settings. It's time to make some changes so it supports WCCP. Make sure to remove the proxy server settings from your computer before you continue!
CentOS has enabled strict RPF (Reverse Path Forwarding) by default. We need to disable this or you will see some packet drops.
That's all you have to configure on the squid proxy server and it's a good moment to reboot the entire server. Let's look at the Cisco router!
Configuring WCCP is pretty straight-forward. I do have to mention that there are some slight differences between IOS 12.4 and IOS 15.x. Configuration-wise it's the same but there are a few more show commands on IOS 15.x. In my example I used a 2811 router running IOS 15.1(4)M6.
When you configure WCCP for use with the Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), you must configure the WAE with the HSRP or the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) virtual router address as its default gateway, and the WAE WCCP router-list with the primary address of the routers in the HSRP group.
This is a nice article but for the life of me I can't see the GRE tunnel come up automatically. My setup is based on a CentOS 6.4 distro and the setup is almost exactly the same as what you have here. I may have some settings on my router config which may perhaps clash with the GRE tunnel. WCCP checks appear to be correct however.
I have used tcpdump on the wccp0 interface and doesn't appear to be any traffic going over it.
If you doubt your router config…please boot up a router in GNS3 with just the minimum configuration required for WCCP, just pick the config that I used. IOS 15 also gives you more show commands for WCCP than 12.4. Did you also check iptables? Making sure it's not blocking any traffic?
We have issues setting this WCCP up with vlan's on a CISCO887VA with Adv IP services IOS and a GNU/Linux machine with squid, is our config correct when applying the ip wccp cmd's to the vlan ?
You don't have to worry about tunnel source and ip unnumbered for the WCCP configuration. When you configure a "normal" GRE tunnel between two routers you have to specify the source + destination of the tunnel yourself, now we don't have to because WCCP does this for us.


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1. First, mark the shape that you would like your puppet theatre to be. I am thinking circus-inspired and went for curves, tracing around dinner plates to make these shapes.
2. Use a utility knife to cut along your marked lines. I cut the front and both sides and left a small lip along the back to stop the box from collapsing.
3. As my design went above the fold at the top of the box, I used an offcut to reinforce the fold, gluing it into place with some craft glue and trimming off the excess cardboard.
5. To fold the book covering neatly over the curved edges, make small cuts every two centimetres or so and then fold each section tightly over.
6. Slit the book covering across the centre opening, trim excess and again make small cuts and fold the book covering tightly back.
7. To make the inside neat and tidy, I covered the stage area with a contrasting coloured book covering.
8. Now for the fun part, decorating! As I was trying for a circus tent look, I used thin, red electrical tape to make stripes. This tape came in a pack, two rolls each of four colours for $2 from the $2 shop.
I finished the top off neatly with a strip of the red tape too.
9. A few more decorative touches – three stars and a flag cut from craft foam. The flag was secured to a popstick with double sided tape. Attach the stars and flag to the box with double sided tape.
And voila, a circus-inspired table top puppet theatre.
– $3.59 TOTAL, that's under $5 for hours and hours of fun!
Puppet shows are a wonderful way to extend a child's communication skills. As children assume different voices and take on the different personas of the puppets, they are experimenting with language without even realising it. With puppets, children often play out what they have seen, heard and learnt, reinforcing their knowledge of the world around them. Their imagination is also put to good use as they make up stories to share.
Puppets help to build social awareness as children learn to take turns and to listen to each other's ideas. They are also great for building self esteem and confidence and when I was teaching I saw more than one very shy, quiet child take on much bigger, louder personality from behind the safe zone of a puppet!
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Christie you are really just amazing. I am so proud to have such a clever granddaughter.
Thank you for stopping by my blog. I love this theatre! THis is definitely a project I'm going to add to my very long to-do list :D thanks for the tutorial!
Thank you for sharing such a great tutorial. My little girl would absolutely love this circus themed puppet theatre. I know what I will be using our next big box for.
My girls want me to make on for them.. despite the fact that they already have a lovely wooden version!
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This looks great Christie. I love how your grandmother has left a comment on you blog - v. cool!
How fun is this?? I've added it to my DIY Theaters and Sock Puppets roundup today. Thanks for sharing!
Your page is so perfect. I love all the how to's and the pictures and everything about it. You are great!!
Hi, what age range would you recommend this activity?


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BARINGS BDC, INC. COMPLETES MERGER WITH SIERRA INCOME CORPORATION
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE: BBDC) ("Barings BDC") announced today the closing of the previously announced merger with Sierra Income Corporation ("Sierra"). The combined company, which will remain externally managed by Barings LLC, is expected to have more than $2.7 billion of assets under management on a pro forma basis.
As a result of the merger, Sierra shareholders will receive the following in exchange for each share of Sierra common stock held at the effective time of the merger: (i) 0.44973 of a share of Barings BDC common stock, and (ii) approximately $0.9783641 of cash as transaction support provided by Barings LLC. Barings BDC will issue approximately 45,996,985 shares of Barings BDC common stock to Sierra shareholders in connection with the merger, resulting in former Sierra stockholders and current Barings BDC stockholders owning 41.3% and 58.7% of the combined company, respectively, at closing.
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GLYNN PICTURE HALL
Silent screen with an orchestra setting the mood.
Glynn Cinema
110 Foregate Street,
Chester, CH1 1HB
Date opened: Saturday 19th June 1911.
Total seating capacity: (stalls & balcony) – 750 seats
Architects: Minshull & Muspratt Partnership
Date closed: Saturday 5th September 1931. Frontage survives.
Few people know the whereabouts of this silent cinema. Amazingly the frontage can still be seen. It is nearly opposite Parker's Buildings in Foregate Street.
Operated and managed by the Glynn Animated Picture Company. The name Glynn was the first name of one of it's founders- Glynn Hill, the other partner of the company was G.E. Bulford.
Present day photograph of the Glynn cinema
The cinema was opened as the Glynn Picture Hall by the deputy mayor, R. C. Davies. The name was changed at a later date to the Glynn Picture House.
A small orchestra called the Hillman & Glynn provided the music for the silent screen. The auditorium was of a basic design having a corrugated tin sheet roof, seating 750 people.It was also the head office of the company. Their other cinemas were the Central Shrewsbury and the Glynn Wrexham. The first manager was Charles Powell.
Fred Rowley The final manager of the Glynn
In 1923 W E and J Taplin ran the hall. 1928 saw General Theatres take over. Eventually it was absorbed into the Gaumont British Theatres circuit.
The final manager Fred Rowley, transferred to the Gaumont Palace in Brook Street, as the Glynn was closed down by it's new owners who had built the Gaumont. The cinema's projectionist, Fred Dickenson, also transferred to the Gaumont Palace for it's opening.
In its heyday, the Glynn was described as "A High Class Entertainment of Animated Pictures". The final film shown was "Lure Of The South Seas" on 5th September 1931.
Just the frontage of this cinema survives.
Local newspaper advert for the Glynn cinema. January 1915
The Glynn cinema in WREXHAM
Go to the history page to read the full account of this silent gem.
If you have any further information on the GLYNN, or know of anyone who was employed there, please contact us.
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