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If you crack your old ceramic crown in half and swallow one of the pieces, you may expect your dentist to make a new replacement crown right away. However, replacing a damaged tooth crown isn't as simple as you may think. A dental provider needs to spend some time fabricating your replacement crown so that it doesn't crack or damage in the future. Until you receive the new crown, a dentist will cover your tooth with a temporary crown, or provisional crown. Here's why you need a temporary crown.
Cosmetic dental crowns protect your natural tooth from bacteria and decay. When a crown breaks or falls off, your tooth loses this protection. A dentist must remove the damaged crown and replace it with a temporary cap. A temporary crown also protects your original dental work, such as a root canal, from secondary infection. Although root canal treatments rebuild teeth from the inside out, the tooth's natural enamel may still be too weak to withstand direct pressure when you chew food.
The temporary cap must have the strength and durability to withstand chewing foods with different textures, such as meat and vegetables. To ensure that the provisional crown stays on, your dentist uses a white dental cement to secure it over the tooth.
To meet the needs mentioned above, a dentist or their dental assistant makes the temporary restoration out of acrylic, metal or polyvinyl siloxane. All three materials have the ability to bond to the surfaces of the natural tooth in order to seal out food particles and germs.
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Once a dental laboratory transfers your replacement crown to the office, a dentist will remove the temporary crown. A dentist will gently need to use special solutions that dissolve dental cement to remove the temporary cap safely. If you feel some discomfort during this step, a dentist can apply anesthetic to your gums to make the pain go away. After the temporary cap comes off, a dentist will clean and smooth out your tooth's enamel, then apply the new crown.
You may need to bite down on a thick piece of paper to secure the crown in place. However, it may take some time for the new crown to sit securely over your natural tooth. The new crown may last for 5-15 years, depending on how well you care for it and protect it from injury.
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Capsule Review: Demon's Crest shows how uncreative most game developers are. What are the usual settings in an RPG? Castle, town, futuristic lab, tower, maybe a forest, some kind of ice stage, some kind of fire stage, and so on. Nothing to write home about, really, but we eat it up nonetheless. Demon's Crest, on the other hand, successfully creates another world. A rather frightening one, too.
As in the case of Super Metroid, the definition of "RPG" gets really stretched here, but there is the same element of exploration and returning back to previous areas that characterizes many RPGs; there's the same hunting for items, and there's even nonlinearity, as one doesn't have to complete the stages of Demon's Crest in any order. The story is pretty simple - you are Firebrand, you must collect all the sacred Crests and defeat the enemy - but man oh man, does this game have imagery and mood. Lots of it. The images are horrific at times - that dragon you have to fight at the beginning of the game is a classic "Whoa!" moment - and subdued at others, but it's always effective. Not once is there a letdown - the makers have managed to make even the conventional castles, caves and towers unique and memorable.
The mood is helped greatly by the very fine soundtrack. If not for the limitations of the console, it might have been amazing. As it is, it only blows away most of the competition, and still gives new games a run for their money. For the most part, the makers discovered the perfect sounds to match their moody images - the game's perfect moment comes when one wanders through the sombre, mountainous first stage to some truly stately sounds. So that covers the soundtrack and the incredible ambience of the game; what about everything else? Well, there's enough variety to sate most people a couple of times through - there are several different Gargoyles you can turn into, plenty of Urns, Talismans and Vellums to discover hidden away, secret areas in every stage, and even an optional final boss. After one has found everything, there won't be much to bring one back, unless it's to listen to the music; one gets a sort of vaguely dissatisfied feeling, as if, good as this game is, the makers could still have done more - added more stages, enhanced the story, what-have-you. That might be unfair, given all that they did do, but that's how it is. Thus, Demon's Crest isn't the best game ever made, but it's more than worth one's time.
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Personalised photo booth frames are a great way to liven up a party or get together. Made from durable corriboard, these frames are strong enough to withstand multiple celebrations. Perfect for family reunions, birthdays, or hen or stag nights.
Corriboard's light weight makes it easily held by the user and an excellent choice for Photobooth frames. At Reads we value durability and quality and, although lightweight, our corriboard frames are built to last. We print onto high grade vinyl which is placed straight onto 5mm corriboard.


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Keeping track of Cork's changes
As we saw in the recent article about Dublin's kits, in Gaelic games the suitability of goalkeeper jerseys can sometimes be an afterthought.
Therefore, it's not a complete surprise that, in four championship games across Gaelic football and hurling so far this summer, Cork's goalkeepers have worn four different kits.
The Rebel County launched a new jersey for 2019, following the same design of so many other counties over the past two years. The goalkeeper top has often been hooped over the years, but the new one was weighed more towards white.
In recent times, when a change has been required, often it has been the same style as the goalkeeper shirt, but when the Cork football team played Armagh in their final Division 2 league game, they were in a brand-new style, white with a red shoulder yoke.
However, for Cork's first Munster hurling championship game against Tipperary in May, goalkeeper Anthony Nash was wearing one of these tops rather than the designated GK jersey.
A week later, Nash was back in the 'normal' shirt for the game away to Limerick, while a week after that, when the football team played Limerick in their first Munster championship game, custodian Mark White wore the change shirt with red shorts.
The hurling team's most recent game was against Waterford last Sunday. Waterford play in white shirts with blue shorts and, while it hasn't always been dealt with over the years, Cork tend to avoid having their goalkeepers wearing white against the Déise.
In the minor (U17) game played before the senior match, Cork goalkeeper Brion Saunderson wore the hooped version with no issues, but Nash was decked out in the blue jersey which had been used by the football team against Armagh.
Cork hurlers play their final Munster round-robin game against Clare this weekend. It's unlikely that there will be another new goalkeeping kit combination, but you never know.
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In today's readings, Jesus offers us several practical points for Christian living and challenges us to use our words as he used his in his preaching and healing ministry.
Our first reading from the Book of Ecclesiasticus teaches that a person's true character is revealed through their speech and so we should listen carefully to what they say before we praise them. It tells us that the quality of the fruit from the tree in the orchard will depend on the care it has had. So, to become a good tree in God's garden we must produce the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
In today's gospel Jesus asks the disciples if one blind man can lead another safely. Surely, they will both fall into the pit together he declares. Or what about the man with log in his eye trying to remove a tiny speck from another's eye. Surely, he won't have much success?
We all find it so easy to point out each other's faults and failings and neglect to see our own. Just how dangerous it is to pass judgement on others stands at the heart of the gospel message. Jesus was never judgemental but always used words to heal, restore and bring back life, joy and hope to people. When we try to imitate Jesus' example of good living, we are often hampered by the judgemental attitudes that can take root in our lives.
We should always remember that when we point the finger at someone there are three fingers pointing towards ourselves!
This year's Novena of Grace in honour of St. Francis Xavier takes place from Monday 4th March to Tuesday 12th March in Holy Trinity Church.
Around this time each year we have a lot of final preparations for the Sacrament of Confirmation in the weeks ahead. The candidates are instructed in the meaning of the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit which they will receive on Confirmation Day. They are helped to understand the important role that the Holy Spirit plays in helping them to always make the right choices that lead us to God, and avoid the wrong ones which break our relationship with him and with one another.
Our readings today are all linked together by one main theme: the true power of Christian love, when it is practised in unconditional forgiveness. They also teach us about the right and wrong choices we all make. In our first reading we see how David made the right choice by respecting the King and forgiving him his failures. St. Paul refers in the second reading to Jesus' correct choice of fulfilling his Father's saving plan.
Today's gospel challenges us to love our enemies and do good to those who hate us. If someone should strike us Jesus tells us to offer the other cheek. Here he is simply challenging us not to seek vengeance but rather to love everyone, even our enemies. It is of course morally legitimate to defend ourselves from an unjust aggressor. Jesus tells us to forgive others as we have been forgiven so that others will know we are his disciples.
We can't attain this level of love and forgiveness by ourselves. We need the power of God working through us by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit within us.
Today the core message in our readings is that our true happiness lies in the awareness that we are all children of a loving Father in heaven and that our happiness will only grow when we share our blessings with our Sisters and Brothers. Another word for 'beatitude' could be 'blessedness' in that we enjoy both God's favour and true happiness as a result of all our actions done in his name.
In Luke's account in today's gospel what Jesus was trying to do is contradict the idea of real happiness found in Jewish culture at that time and indeed in our modern society, where wealth, health, power and influence are seen by many as the true beatitudes. The trouble with this reliance on such material resources to bring happiness is that, in the final analysis, it does not work. Jesus warns that putting our trust in material comforts alone will lead to a misplaced confidence.
The message of hope today is that despite the failure of society to share the good things of this world more fairly, God loves each one equally and cares for each uniquely. We are all created to share God's joy with others by responding to their needs as best we can in a variety of situations each day.
Of course, all of this requires courage on our part. Today, and every Sunday we pray that it will be nourished by listening to God's word and by receiving the Eucharist.
The Archdiocese of Dublin is seeking the views of parents, teachers, priests, parish personnel, and the wider faith community on how we might improve the way we prepare for and celebrate the Sacraments of Baptism, Reconciliation, Communion and Confirmation. The survey will be open until 24th February. Everyone is invited to participate.
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Hobart's Craig Osika is the 2019 Post-Tribune Football Coach of the Year
By Mike Hutton
Post-Tribune |
Hobart coach Craig Osika says "the town got behind us" as the Brickies marched through the state tournament this fall. Hobart won its first regional title since 1996. (Mike Hutton/Post-Tribune / Post-Tribune)
A deep run in the state tournament was one of the experiences that Hobart coach Craig Osika wanted to replicate 11 years ago when he was sitting on his deck in Valparaiso with his wife, Stefanie, discussing a career move.
The Brickies' football mystique — unique, insular and steeped in a deep sense of community pride ― can't be replicated anywhere else.
Only experienced.
Osika, the Post-Tribune Football Coach of the Year, helped Hobart win its first regional title since 1996. The Brickies finished 11-3 this season.
Yes, it was just like the good old days for a week in Hobart.
Everybody in town was giddy.
For the youngsters, who weren't born when Hobart was the football standard, the Brickies won state titles in 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993. Hobart was state runner-up six times.
Craig Osika, a 1997 Hobart graduate who played in the NFL, became the Brickies' coach in 2018. (John Smierciak / Post-Tribune)
The kids that play now had only heard about what it meant to be a state champion-level Brickie.
Some have experienced it now.
East Noble defeated Hobart 29-24 in a Class 4A semistate game. Hobart was a play away from getting to Lucas Oil Field, finishing on East Noble's 39-yard line with time running out.
Osika, a 1997 Hobart graduate who played on the offensive line, is old enough to know.
"The town got behind us," Osika said. "Not that they ever left. But it's a different feeling when you get on that run. Seeing this through my players' eyes and helping them navigate the year after an 0-2 start was pretty special."
Osika's journey to the Hobart sideline was unconventional.
He played at Indiana and then spent three years in the NFL with the Browns and 49ers, securing a pension.
After his playing career ended, Osika took a year off and returned home, taking a job as a production supervisor at U.S. Steel.
He hated it.
Then he worked in medical sales for a few years.
Hated that too.
In 2008, with his first child on the way, Osika had a moment.
He told his wife on their deck in Valparaiso one night, probably over a "few drinks," that he couldn't take it anymore. He needed to get back into football.
"I had spent almost all my life playing team sports," he said. "I just had to figure out a way to get back to it."
The closest he could come was coaching.
Osika already was working part time as a coach at Hobart.
So he quit his job, the couple moved in with his parents and he enrolled at St. Joseph's in Rensselaer.
For 18 months, Osika made the long commute to get his degree and certification in education.
Osika laughs when he recalls his first day of class.
"Here was a 30-year-old man as big as me, who walks into class with these 18- and 19-year-old kids," he said. "People got mad because I was actually studying. I blew the curve."
Osika took over as Hobart's coach in 2018 after Ryan Turley resigned. Osika had been the offensive coordinator.
He was overwhelmed by the camaraderie and love this team generated.
Girls basketball notes: Munster clinches a share of its first conference title since 2009 with its first win against Kankakee Valley in eight years
Post-Tribune girls basketball rankings and player of the week for Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020
Wrestling notes: Undefeated Chesterton junior Evan Bates enjoys 'not having to worry about my weight' after jumping from 182 pounds to 220 this season
Post-Tribune wrestling rankings and wrestler of the week for Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020
VU men's basketball notes: Javon Freeman-Liberty bounces back after an injury scare as Valparaiso pulls out a win against Indiana State
"They created a culture that I've never been a part of," he said. "I've been a part of a lot of teams at every level — high school, college and the NFL. I've never felt that love before. It's a testament to them. They 100% bought in."
The Brickies have a chance to replicate their success next year.
Hobart's lockdown defense, which gave up just over 10 points per game and had five shutouts, returns eight starters.
"If we can stay healthy, we can play at a high level," Osika said.


Like most of my instances of parenting genius, this one was pure dumb luck, too. Not to mention laziness.
It was a Sunday night at the end of a hectic weekend, and I just did not feel like making the guys read. Neither did I feel like reading to them, though I would have if this hadn't worked.
Sounds great? That wasn't what I'd expected. I'd envisioned a five-minute debate, followed by 10 minutes spent selecting books. Instead, he went straight to the corner beside the bed known as Mount Library and began rummaging through volumes.
"What would you like to hear?" he asked Boots. I hadn't expected that one either.
"I want to hear the mouse book! The one where you take him to the movies!" he replied, smiling and clapping. Careful there, kid, I thought. You're going to blow it if your brother figures out that this is making you happy.
He grabbed both books and stretched out in the middle of the bed. Boots settled in next to him. Apparently the "he's touching me" cooties they'd both suffered earlier that day were gone.
And then Big Guy read. For a half hour. That's 10 minutes more than his required nightly reading for those of you who are scoring at home. It's also in addition to his "homework" reading, which he fusses and growls through when he does it each afternoon.
Part of the reason: The books Boots selects are at least a grade-level below Big Guy's abilities, but that's OK. He's reading with inflection, and there's been a noticeable carry over to his ability-level reading. He actually notices exclamation points and question marks now.
The rest is because Big Guy is picking the topic on the second book. Snakes, motorcycles, World War II. It's stuff he's far more interested in than his "homework" reading, though I don't quite get that since he picks the book for his homework reading, too.
Of course, it's also a way to stall sleep. He'll usually work an extra 10 minutes of "lights on" time each night, and he knows it, too.
I'm not sure how long this will last, but I do know that Santa has reserved a "Magic School Bus" boxed set for Boots for Christmas. That should keep us rolling for a while, as long as I don't make the mistake of telling them that they have to read.
And you never thought they'd love reading to mom. =) Pure genius!!!
Honestly, I didn't! I've been doing buddy reading with Big Guy for about a year, and it worked great at first but he's been balking for the past few months. "Reading out loud is for babies!" he'd tell me.


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Pelling is a small hill town of western Sikkim perched at an altitude of 6,800 feet with magnificent views of Mt. Kanchenjunga. This town has a rich history, natural scenic beauty, and local culture. Pelling is a town where tourists come to get a close view of the snow-capped mountains and that is the reason why it is becoming a rich tourist destination in Sikkim. Due to its beautiful location, there are many hotels and lodges emerging in and around Pelling.
To reach from Siliguri to Pelling you can get bus, train, car, flight but the easiest way is to reach by car which takes 4 hours 58 minutes with a Siliguri to Pelling distance of 132.5 kilometers to reach Pelling by car or taxi.
If you are going with your family, hiring a car or taxi is the best idea. There are many service providers to offer you with the best taxi or car service but among them, Disha Tours offers you the affordable car rental in Siliguri to Pelling with all the services for you to reach safely.
Different car hire services in Siliguri has different fares to meet your needs. To avail, the affordable and the most reasonable Siliguri to Pelling taxi fare contact us to make your journey a perfect one.
The road of Pelling is well connected to the major towns like Siliguri, Gangtok, and Darjeeling. They have well maintained and metalled roads. Siliguri to Pelling road condition is also good but it is steep so it is a must for you to either take a taxi or a car to travel other than a bus.
If you really want to experience the wonderful destinations of Pelling from NJP then get connected to Disha Tours New Jalpaiguri Junction railway station for a rental car. NJP to Pelling distance by car is only 4 h 57 min (137 km) which is not a barrier to witness this beautiful destination.
Google always gives the route map distance from NJP to Pelling. For your ease, we are sharing the distance from NJP to Pelling, hence no need to go by shared car from NJP to Pelling, hire car from Disha tour and Travels at best fare.
A town rich in monasteries and temples which will offer you many activities like monastery visit, rock climbing and many other things. It is also a point for trekking with the sightseeing of many waterfalls around the town of Yuksom.
This monastery is an important Buddhist shrine in Pelling. Built in 1705, this monastery had beautiful architectures and gives you peace and serenity as you enter the monastery. Many paintings and sculptures can be seen on the walls of the monastery which make you know about the cultures and traditions of Buddhist.
This is one of the major attractions for the tourists. You can have the chance to observe this monastery. It was constructed in 1697 and it was considered as the most crucial Buddhist shrine in the region. The wonderful view surrounded the monastery will add an extra attraction for you.
This magnificent waterfall is one of the famous places in Pelling. This waterfall amidst the snow-clad peaks of the Himalayas is an amazing thing to your eyes. You can go for a picnic or for clicking photographs as it the best photogenic place to capture and keep it with you.
This place was the second capital of Sikkim but now it has turned into ruins. These ruins have become a major attraction. There is nothing much to see but the old building standing will make you know about the history of Sikkim. The mountain of Kanchendzonga gives spectacular scenery to the place with all its beauty.
Singshore Bridge is the bridge of major tourist attraction. The bridge itself holds the beauty of the surroundings. It is a long bridge which connects two green mountains and no cars are allowed on the bridge. So, you can easily enjoy the whole bridge and the location by walking. Spending some time and exploring the jungles gives you the best experiences.
Laying between Pelling and Gangtok it is the best tourist place in Pelling. The best time to visit the place is in the months from April to July. Hosts of exotic birds, forests of Rhododendrons and the adventure activities like rock climbing, trekking and the view of the mountains gives this place a major attraction for the tourists. You can visit this town and enjoy leisure time.
Due to these beautiful places, Pelling is becoming a fully fledged tourist town. A visit to this town gives you the overview of the historic, culture and the natural environment. The outdoor activities and the fascinating trekking trails open a completely new door for the tourists.


MIDLOTHIAN, VA (WWBT) - A Chesterfield parent is concerned after he was told students would not be singing any Christmas songs with the word "Jesus" in them at upcoming concerts.
"It just seems like... everywhere you look everyone's afraid of stepping on someone's toes or everything is being so sensitive," Allen said.
"They were unable to [sing this song] because the word Jesus was in there and apparently someone assumed it was of a sacred nature," Allen said.
He provided NBC12 with a copy of the email exchange where the teacher responded to Allen's concerns writing in part, "We had a few students who weren't comfortable singing a piece I have done many times in the past, but it is of a sacred nature and does mention Jesus."
"At the same time that I had gotten this information I had got a diversity notice from Robious Middle School regarding a club they have or a meeting," Allen said.
However, Allen said that statement confuses him.
"I'm trying to rationalize how you can encourage diversity and yet be exclusionary in one specific area," he said.
Allen admits he doesn't know which Christmas song referencing Jesus was excluded, given the number of songs that mention him.
The Robious Middle parent adds he has nothing against the teacher or the school, but is hoping to have more of a conversation with them about opening the student's minds.
"They all can get a feel of each individual religion, ethnicity and nationality have to offer," Allen said. "It's a school, it's a learning educational experience… I wouldn't object to my children singing a Hindu songs during their celebratory period of time."


Elizabeth Lesser is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Elizabeth's first book, The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life A Spiritual Adventure, chronicles her years at Omega and distills lessons learned into a potent guide for growth and healing. Her New York Times bestselling book, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow has sold more than 300,000 copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Her latest book, Marrow: Love, Loss and What Matters Most is a memoir about Elizabeth and her younger sister, Maggie, and the process they went through when Elizabeth was the donor for Maggie's bone marrow transplant.
Our guest this week on Pathways is Rachel Davey, executive director of The Haven: A Center for Growth, host-site for the 2014 International Holistic Centers Gathering.
Rachel worked internationally in education management and consultancy for more than 15 years, for organizations including the British Council and the United Nations. She first came to The Haven in 2001, traveled to Canada from Cyprus every summer to take Haven programs, and began working at The Haven in 2006.


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Chat with Dr. Mary Lacity, Director of Blockchain Center of Excellence
Lacity, Professor of Information Systems at University of Arkansas, talks with Aera Technology Chief Data Officer Pascal Bornet
Pascal Bornet: Hello everyone. Welcome to our new episode of our automation communities fire chat. Today, it's my pleasure to welcome Dr. Mary Lacity as our distinguished guest. Mary, how are you today?
Dr. Mary Lacity: I'm great, Pascal, and when you said a fireside chat, I wanted to deliver a fireside chat.
Pascal Bornet: Thank you. I see your ... I can feel your energy. We are super happy and honored to have you with us today, Mary. So over the coming minutes, I will try to introduce you, which is quite of a challenge to summarize such an amazing career in such a short amount of time, but here is a tentative. You're a Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Blockchain, Center of Excellence in the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. Your recent research is focused on improving business services using robotic process automation, cognitive automation, and blockchain technologies. A Lot of great things that we will talk about. Your service automation book series with the Leslie Wilcox won the 2019 Outreach Practice Publication awarded by the Association of Information Systems. It's a series of four books that I strongly recommend to our audience today.
You have published over 30 books and most recently the "Blockchain Foundations: For the Internet of Value", and just before that, "Becoming Strategic with Robotic Process Automation." Your publication have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, IEE Computer and many other outlets. So very, very honored to have you with us today. Let me start with our first question. As an expert in business services and information systems, you focused over the last decades on business outsourcing and cognitive automation. But then over the last few years, you've started to focus on blockchain. I'm very eager to know more about this. Does that have a meaning as to where the levers for business efficiency are evolving today? Can you explain this transition?
Dr. Mary Lacity: Yes. Well, first of all, it's an honor to be with you Pascal. You are one of the leaders in understanding intelligent automation, and I love that you have your book cover behind you. I highly recommend your book to people, and I want to congratulate you on the content.
Pascal Bornet: Thank you.
Dr. Mary Lacity: One of the things I loved about your book was it's so accessible. I mean, you could sit down in about two hours and really digest it. It's beautifully written. It's got lots of images and pictures. I really enjoyed your book, so thank you for that contribution.
Pascal Bornet: Thank you so much, Mary.
Dr. Mary Lacity: Hopefully, in this conversation, we can maybe help connect the audience to service automation technologies that they're probably familiar with, like RPA and what we call cognitive automation, what you call intelligent automation and blockchain.
So how did I get interested in this? You mentioned we had studied outsourcing and for a long time, that was really a labor arbitrage model, right? We were globally sourcing. It was still a lot of human labor performing the services. Probably in around 2014, we really saw that automation was going to change the landscape of services. That the first set of tools, RPA, as you well know, was very good at coming in and taking those excruciatingly robotic tasks out of a humans job, and so we saw a lot of uptake with that. Then the next evolution was cognitive automation. Both of those tools that we studied adoptions really take place within the boundaries of the firm, right? They're making adoption decisions. Do I buy Blue Prism? Do I buy Watson within the boundaries of the firm?
What completely blows my mind about blockchains is we're now talking about automations of ecosystems. So it's like a whole nother level of a unit of analysis of automation possibilities, which could really explode business value for entire ecosystems. I love it because the challenge to to actually get there are stickier and even more complicated than the ones you ... we're mostly familiar with inside the boundaries of the firm.
Pascal Bornet: Amazing, very interesting. So it's about getting from the inside, the business efficiency thing from the inside of the company with cognitive automation and RPA from automating ecosystem of companies with an external view to the company with blockchain. That's amazing. Can you tell us more about what you're currently working on in the domain of blockchain, and what you've been researching on the topic?
Dr. Mary Lacity: Sure, absolutely. I primarily study how traditional enterprises are working with their ecosystem partners to develop blockchain solutions that are shared. So I'm very much focused on traditional enterprises. I'm not focused on the cryptocurrency market, or the NFTs, or a lot of what you're seeing in the popular press, so really looking at traditional enterprises. What we do is we study first-generation adoptions, so technology solutions that are already out there. Because from our perspective as academics, I think really business people want to know how do I get business value out of this? The best way to do that is to highlight early success stories. we just published a great article. I'm going to do my own product placement here, Pascal, in Sloan management review with my coauthor Remko Van Hoek. We talked about first-generation solutions that are already out there. Many of our examples are in supply chains, and we can talk and do some storytelling and share some examples if we get into that part of the discussion.
Pascal Bornet: I would love to, yes, yes.
Dr. Mary Lacity: Okay, so why don't we start? Why don't we tell three different stories? Because I think this will give the audience a good idea of how enterprises approach this.
The common theme across these three stories is how do you build a minimal viable ecosystem? So what's the minimum number of partners you have to engage with to develop a minimum viable product, right? That's our initial journey and our initial goal. One of my favorite case studies we just finished was in Wal-Mart Canada with DLT Labs they created a solution called DL Freight. This is going to give your audience a great idea of the potential business value. Before the blockchain enabled solution, Walmart Canada was in dispute. 70% of their invoices with their carriers would be in dispute. So Walmart is expecting an invoice to look one way, the cost, and because the accessorial charges are higher, they have to go hire a BPO provider to go investigate this.
It was taking a long time to reconcile these invoices. The carriers are unhappy because they're not getting paid. Okay, so now we're looking at DL Freight, which is a blockchain enabled digital ecosystem. What is happening is that the invoice now gets built along the supply chain. So now instead of waiting at the end to get this invoice from the carrier, Walmart starts the invoice with the tendering process. As the shipments move through the supply chain, IOT devices update the GPS locations and temperature locations. You can upload digital documents. By the time the final delivery is done, the invoice has pretty much been agreed upon. Now they are at under 2% of invoices that require any kind of investigation. So the business value delivered is tremendous. Walmart Canada no longer needs that trusted third party to do the reconciliations. The carriers are getting ... the cash flow is so much better for these carriers because they're getting paid a lot quicker, and there's all other kinds of business value we can talk about. So do you have any questions about that particular example?
Pascal Bornet: That's just amazing. So we talked about invoice dispute improvement. Do you see other use cases using blockchain?
Dr. Mary Lacity: Yes. Remember I said the ... We're talking about minimal viable products, right? So what we're looking at is the first thing that gets delivered. The minimum viable products, you have to go through all the things like agree on the data standards.
All the things agree on the data standards, you have to agree on your business rules for how you automatically execute transactions with your smart contracts, that's layer one. The other thing is you can think of these blockchain solutions in enterprises as a thin pipeline that connects all your trading partners. They're all still connecting to their back-office systems of records. They're all still connecting to their ERP systems and their transportation management systems and their RFID, but now what you have is just you can think of it as a thin rail that connects everybody that says we all agree to this version of the truth. That's layer one.
Once that's done, you can think about how you can add predictive and descriptive analytics. Now you can do things like maybe look at weather patterns and say, "Oh, I see that this freight is likely going to be delayed because we've got a thunderstorm," and that can be integrated in the supply chain. Then you could see how RPA could be used, because if you're talking about connecting back and forth between the blockchain and your systems of record, you're going to have to do extract transforms and loads. Wouldn't an RPA be sweet for that? You're talking structured data, following rules.
Then I can envision where cognitive would come in. Now, imagine a truck driver who says, "Oh, there's an accident ahead," and they take a picture with their cell phone. You have the ability, if you've trained your automation tool, to interpret pictures. Or maybe there's a text message saying, "I need to take an alternative route because there's a lot of traffic on it," and a cognitive automation tool could process the natural language text to talk to a smart contract.
We're just at the beginning days. The possibility of integrating all of these automation tools to really develop seamless, fast, efficient services is just so exciting to me.
Pascal Bornet: It's really amazing. Does that mean as well, as a side effect in terms of improvement of business, that those people that used to reconcile those invoices, reconcile those different transactions in different points in time, with all the hardware that is behind, all this doesn't need to be done anymore?
Dr. Mary Lacity: That's correct, that's absolutely correct. Walmart Canada didn't need that trusted third-party to do those agonizing reconciliations, and then their internal people are focused on more strategic things. They're looking at this application and seeing what else can we do with it, what other business value can we get? They're developing new business models. Before this application, they did not have the data to offer financing services to their carriers. Now, they feel more confident to do that. The business value, once you get the data standards and those business rules set, you can see how you can continue to add value to the network and next iterations of the product.
Pascal Bornet: Just to make sure I understood well, am I right to say that, in the past, we used to have those activities of reconciliation, checking transactions, authentication, that used to take a lot of time from people and we used to have armies of people working on that. What we've done is we've automated those activities using automation technology. Now with blockchain, what happened is that those automated processes even don't need [inaudible 00:13:49] anymore. Am I right to say that, that we are just-
Dr. Mary Lacity: You are absolutely right, and the title of our paper is called Requiem for Reconciliations. We hear a requiem, a death mass, for reconciliations. Now, of course, there still are people doing things, but I mean, you still have reconciliations, we even have the 2%, but the difference is they happen in real time, because now instead of waiting at the end of delivery to process an invoice, we say, "Oh, we've got an excursion from what we expected in our smart contract, let's ask the driver what happened." They're reconciling things quickly and along the way. But yes, you need many fewer of those low-level EPO jobs dealing with this tracking down paperwork for events that happened along the supply chain. Good instincts, that's absolutely correct.
Pascal Bornet: Okay. I'm a bit provocative here, does it mean that all the work we've done automating those processes over the last decade is a waste today because we won't use them anymore?
Dr. Mary Lacity: Well, no, what I mean, all the automations and things that we still have seen done that's typically done in the back offices, connecting ERPs to your spreadsheets or whatever, those don't go away. I mean, if you've become more efficient inside the boundaries of the firm, then all that still works. Again, we're just talking about whatever you've done inside the boundaries of the firm, now you're touching a shared blockchain platform with your trading partners. You don't necessarily have to obliterate all the good work you've done, we see this more as an additive technology.
Pascal Bornet: Okay, okay. No, I would have thought it would be a good thing. I mean, why not bringing to the next level those processes that we have automated and not having to automate them anymore. I mean, I would have thought it would have been a good thing. It makes me think of other use cases, like especially in banking or insurance or [inaudible 00:16:12], where we need to onboard clients, check the client's solvency for example, check the client's good worth in the sense of those processes of anti-money laundering for example, or KYC, know your customer. All those processes that are really the bread and butter of automation use cases today, I mean, we wouldn't need to automate them anymore because all these would be doing, I would say, natively using blockchain. [crosstalk 00:16:53].
Dr. Mary Lacity: Okay, yes. No, You are on par. What I was assuming you were talking about was things ... We're looking at things that hadn't been automated before. There were armies of human beings doing the reconciliations, they were not automated. It's hard to automate things like reconciliations when you have to be talking to different trading partners that have their own versions of the truth. Still today, we have a lot of human beings doing that kind of work. When you talk about inter-firm reconciliations.
All right, I'm going to give you my second story, Pascal, because I promised your audience.
This is a different use case. The first use case on Walmart Canada was built on a private permission blockchain, so the carriers have to have permission to join, it's a very closed, tight system. Now I'm going to take you to another enterprise adoption, a completely different use case, that I absolutely love. It's called ANSAcheck. You might know ANSA, since I know you're French. ANSA is one of the largest news media outlets in Italy.
We all know one of the big problems in the world, especially during elections, is fake news, fake news is a huge problem. ANSA was having problems with what they call imposter news stories. It would be people that were stealing the ANSA brand and saying this story came from ANSA. That really could hurt the brand and the proliferation of these imposter news stories is just terrible.
They partnered with Ernst and Young and they're using the blockchain to authenticate I guarantee you, this story came from ANSA. This solution is deployed on the public blockchain, Ethereum. If you're looking at the ANSA, you can always click on the story, there's a little ANSAcheck, so you, as a reader, can click on the story and it can tell you the authenticity of the story, it could tell you when it was written. In the future, they'll be able to tell where it's been reposted to, if it's been edited, or whatnot.
It's a first step. Again, we're talking about a minimum viable ecosystem developing a minimal viable product. The first step is not to prevent all fake news, but to prevent imposters. I just love the example. My students love that case study too.
Pascal Bornet: Yes. Here, I mean, I'm trying to make the same analogy as we did from the previous example, I mean, we didn't use to automate this activity before. That's a new capability, an augmentation I would say, compared to what we used to do in the past.
Dr. Mary Lacity: Yes, and I think one of the strengths of blockchain is it creates a really tamper-resistant record of events that have happened, an event is that we published this story. I think it's very interesting, this example is really to reach out to the reader base, so that's why they chose a public blockchain. And so, we're seeing use cases all over. But that's a live deployment they've got. The last time I checked, they had over half a million stories that are verified and secured on public Ethereum. So it's another really interesting live application out there.
As a professor, I have to at least mention a little bit about theory. So now we talked about Walmart Canada, and we talked about ANSA. These are traditional enterprises. They're adopting these technologies and what Clayton Christensen, the great father of disruptive innovation theory would call sustaining innovation. So they're not blowing up their business models. They're making their products and services better for their existing customers. They're improving their efficiencies.
Now, what Clayton Christensen says, we're going to see disruption coming from startup communities. So I'm going to tell you a story of one of my favorite startups.
So I'd become very good friends with Colonel James Regenor. And he has a couple of companies. One of them is called Veritex. One of them is called Rapid Medical Parts. Now what's interesting about the Colonel is he was working for Moog Aircraft. And since he was a Colonel in the air force, he remembers the days when he would be on an aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and his plane can't take off because they don't have a part. And he completely re-envisioned how we need to do parts from centralized manufacturing where you ship things, to 3D additive manufacturing. What if we had a 3D printer on the aircraft carrier that I could print the parts when we need them, how we need them, when we need them.
And so he did go launch this application, and because it's a startup, they're very nimble. So being the Colonel who jumps in on everything, I guess it was about this time last year, you'll remember, Pascal, our big concern and around the world was the lack of ventilators. Do you remember that? We were worried that there were not enough ventilators in the hospitals.
Pascal Bornet: Yes. Correct.
Dr. Mary Lacity: And so the Colonel figured out, we have an abundance of sleep apnea machines. So he figured out if you 3D print a couple of parts, you can turn a sleep apnea machine into a hospital-grade ventilator very easily. And he got a contract with the Department of Defense and he delivered on that first contract. The end of the story, it turned out we didn't have the big shortage that we thought we were going to have. But that is all enabled by blockchain technologies because his concern is if you're 3D printing, how do you guarantee that the printing instructions hadn't been tampered with? Especially if you're talking about things like on the Department of Defense and printing things on an aircraft carrier.
So our message is, we call these blockchain systems. Really they're blockchain enabled digital ecosystems. Blockchain is just one component of the technology. And it's really we're at the stage where we're learning how to work with our trading partners to develop these minimal viable products.
Pascal Bornet: Amazing. Mary, that's really impressive. Would it mean we could almost print parts of the plane while flying it?
Dr. Mary Lacity: It wasn't a critical part. So, one of his pilots that he did to show that this was all feasible, is he had a first class seat that had something that was broken on the seat, and then they could send messages in the air, print the part on the plane. I mean, I'm sorry, print the part on the ground so when the plane landed, it could be fixed for the next flight. So, that was the first step to reduce turn around times. And the play there is that if a commercial airline loses that first-class seat ticket, that's lost revenue. So that was one of his... But then you could see once we get through regulations, where you could have a 3D printer on the plane for some of the minor parts, not necessarily engine parts, but yes, you can really just envision what these technologies can do.
Pascal Bornet: Impressive, and a great view of the future. And when we see your first use case, and this use case, we can really envision the future of supply chain, where consequence would be... I mean, I don't know if you can say automated, but would be made by itself. And the supply chain of some products would even not exist anymore because you wouldn't need to transport them anymore. You would just share blockchain of the design of the [inaudible 00:25:26] and print them somewhere else in the world.
Dr. Mary Lacity: That's right. Right? Yes, yes.
Pascal Bornet: That's amazing. The future of supply chain with the support of blockchain is going to be considerably changed in the future.
Dr. Mary Lacity: Well, the technology is here today and the technology is easy. But as you know, it's all the change management. It's learning how to work with your trading partners. I mean, there is so much managerial challenges to actually getting to this end state. But it's there.
Pascal Bornet: Let's talk about this. That's a very good point. So from those examples, and from what you explained around blockchain, is that we need this, we need this right now. Companies need this to improve, to get to the next stage of efficiency. Why are we not yet there? What's happening there?
Dr. Mary Lacity: Well, I think we do see good momentum. I mean, I'm just looking, today, we just had some studies done by IDC that there's about a 40% increase in enterprise adoptions in the last year. I think COVID did two things. In some ecosystems, it pushed working with your trading partners to get better supply chains up the agenda. And again, I'm not pushing blockchain technologies. It's just one enabling technology. I need more nimble supply chains. We saw that explosion happen last year. And in other instances, blockchains fell down the priority list, and companies had other urgent needs that they had to do. So we saw different effects on different firms and different industries.
There are a lot of challenges to working with your partners. We don't like to go into the C-suite and even say the word blockchain, because the first thing they think of is Bitcoin and crypto and it's hype, and don't come sell a technology to me. So really what you have to go into the C-suite, is give them a vision for if we could work with our ecosystem partners to remove our common pain points, what business value would not only we get, but can we uplift the entire industry? So you have to go in with compelling storytelling, backed up with a good business case that... It still at the end of the day comes down to a good business case. And that's really what needs to happen in the C-suite.
Pascal Bornet: Okay. Okay. Well, what would you say is the level of adoption of blockchain currently in companies, if such statistic exists?
Dr. Mary Lacity: Yes. I don't have a statistic. If I had to quote somebody, it's our good friends from HFS. So Phil Fersht and Saurabh Gupta, I love the work that they do. And I think the last time they did a survey, there's a proliferation of proof of concepts. I mean, you'll find thousands of proof of concepts. And very few of them ever make it to a live production system. So I think the last time I saw, I think it was about 14% of things we'll ever get out of a sandbox and go live. Because there are so many challenges. You've got to make sure that you've got enough of your ecosystem that can overcome the inertia within their own organizations. You have to figure out things like intellectual property rights sharing, and shared governance over the application. So there's a lot to work through before you really get that aha moment.
I'm only really talking... I mean, I'm giving you such a small slice, Pascal, so you really actually need to bring another person in here that can talk more about the impact of blockchain on financial services. We have a great supply chain expertise at the University of Arkansas. My coauthor is as a supply chain management. But I'm not even discussing because I don't study it, a whole world of how this is changing automation and financial services. So I just want your audience to know I'm focusing on supply chains because that's my particular research focus.
Pascal Bornet: And I think definitely that it's those services are used to work with information and data, and trust between the different actors on the ecosystem is so important that I guess they might get a lot of benefits from using blockchain. Yeah. I heard about you working on digital health passports.
Dr. Mary Lacity: Oh, that's my care and passion. Yes.
Pascal Bornet: Okay. Can you tell us more about that?
Dr. Mary Lacity: Yes. Yes. So, and this, I really got into with another one of my beloved coauthors and longtime friends, Professor Erran Carmel from American University. And we were just kind of so disappointed then when we finally got our COVID vaccination here in America, we were handed this little card from the CDC, this little flimsy card. It doesn't look like a credential that's very... I could have picked up a stack of those cards while I was standing there getting my shot because they were sitting there and sold them, you know? So how are we going to get back to flying, get back to work, get back to school? And so there's a lot of push to have an electronic version of digital passports that be downloaded on your phone. And we've started doing interviews and looking at different solutions. There's tons of good technical solutions out there already, but again, the common problem is going to be building the ecosystem that supports it.
So for example, it works best when you have a national government policy. We don't have that here in the United States, right? It works best when you can connect the credentialing organizations, which would be like the labs that process a test or the pharmacy that gives you a shot, and put that in a secure digital wallet that happens to be secured by blockchain. But a lot of the uses are still self reported, so they look like a digital health passport, it says green, but when you look at the data underneath it, it was triggered by the question, do you have a fever today? Have you been in contact with anyone with COVID? That's not a secure credential. So anyway, that's what we're looking at right now.
Pascal Bornet: Very exciting. It's going to be maybe my last question. We try to keep the format quite crunchy and [inaudible 00:32:46]. What do you think a company should do if they want to start their journey with blockchain? I understand we could not say blockchain to a CEO, as you just mentioned. So we are in an ecosystem. What are the next steps? What are the first steps, basically, for those companies to get into it?
Dr. Mary Lacity: Okay, well, it'd be the same thing that you would answer for RPA or cognitive automation. The ones that actually made it live were not coming from the IT department. They weren't going, "Here's a blockchain, let's find an application." They really were business-led projects that were trying to solve a pain point, and then when they brought the IT department in or their technology provider, they saw that, for what we're trying to do, blockchains are the best selection of all the technology options. So it's always solving a business case first.
Now, I know you wanted to end on something snappy, so I was going to tell you seven things that blockchains are not. This is developed with my co-author, right? And it's a good thing to remember. Blockchain is not about the technology, right? The technology works. It's about developing that minimal viable ecosystem to develop a minimal viable product. And here's the second most important point. It is not all data for all. It is not all data for all. A company is still in charge of their data, who is allowed to have access to it. Protecting data confidentiality is absolutely key to these solutions, so your competitors don't see anything. Only the people that are authorized to see your data will see it or have access to it. And I think that's another common misconception that the C-suite might have, is, "I'm not putting all my data on a blockchain." No, you're not. You're putting proof of events that happened on a blockchain. Your data is still within the boundaries of the firm.
Okay, number two. It doesn't have to be expensive, right? So there's platforms that are out there that can be configurable. It doesn't have to be long. The Walmart Canada one, now think how complicated Walmart Canada is. They went from idea to live implementation in eight months, and that includes going through like 19 of Walmart Canada's compliance walkthroughs and checkthroughs, so it doesn't have to be long.
Okay, let's see if we have another goodie. It doesn't necessarily eliminate all trusted third parties. That's kind of the promise of it, but that's not necessarily what happens. We oftentimes see trusted third parties taking in new roles or even new trusted third parties coming about. Typically you need some kind of a benevolent operator of these networks. Who's operating the nodes? And so we see services from EY or IBM or DLT Labs, so we still do see trusted third parties. But anyway, so the big question is, I truly believe this is a foundational technology, as foundational as the internet. So we had the internet, and how did that change and touch every business? Blockchains enable an internet of value so that can exchange value with the same ease that we exchange information on the internet.
If you want to know more, go to blockchain.uark.edu. Maybe we can post it when you do this, or I wrote this for business folks, right? So if they want to understand blockchain foundations for the internet of value, and it's very accessible and it's meant to assume you know nothing about blockchains and that you're a businessperson understanding what this technology enables.


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2023: INEC Chairman Speaks At Chatham House
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, is addressing an audience at Chatham House, London.
Yakubu will speak on the topic, 'Nigeria's 2023 Elections: Preparations and Priorities for Electoral Integrity and Inclusion' as well as respond to questions with regard to the Commission's plans for the conduct of next month's general elections.
"Nigeria is scheduled to hold presidential and national assembly elections on 25 February as well as governorship and other subnational elections on 11 March."
"The elections end President Muhammadu Buhari's two terms in office since his election in 2015 and mark the first time he is not a candidate in a presidential election in 20 years – an important marker in Nigeria's trajectory of democratic consolidation.
"Nigeria's Electoral Act, enacted in February 2022, has contributed to improved hope around the election process, reflected in the addition of 12.29 million new voters, 9.51 million of which were then validated, in Nigeria's voter registration exercise, bringing the total number of registered voters to more than 93 million.
"Nigeria stands at a critical juncture, having suffered from two recessions in the past six years, unprecedented levels of physical and food insecurity, persistent fuel scarcity, and high levels of crude oil theft.
"Civic fatigue also remains an important challenge and Buhari's three main policy pillars of security, economy, and corruption continue to be defining issues for citizens.
"Professor Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), discusses preparations and priorities for ensuring electoral integrity and inclusivity.
"He also discusses key challenges and plans for the conduct of the elections, including election security and the use of new technological systems.
"This event is a members and Africa programme event and is part of a series of events and outputs examining Nigeria's 2023 elections and political developments.
"As with all Chatham House members' events, questions from members drive the conversation," Chatham House said in a release.
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FTS February, 2019: Hey Reefers! Super excited to be sharing my new build here at Nano-Reef. I'm a long-time follower of this community and have been a saltwater and reef hobbyist for over 30 years. With family, life, and career, I have been waiting for the right time to start a new tank build. My last tank was way back in 2005, with a JBJ NanoCube 12dx, from NanoTuners. Here's a pic of 12 gallons of Softy Glory, all that it was: Fast forward to 2018. I've been fighting the reef bug for 3 years, and I just couldn't shake it. Work relocated me and the fam to the great state of Minnesota, and I visited some of the LFS's in the area. I walked into a reef mecca in Plymouth, MN and was immediately hooked. I knew I had to have a tank. My supporting wife says, "You work so hard, you deserve this!" That's all I needed to hear. So, what does a recovering reefer 13 years sober do? Scour the forums, learn what's hot 'n not, and then shoot on over to BRS and pickup a car full of reefing gear. BRS is 20 minutes from my house, and that's just too darn convenient. Enough with the backstory blah blah, here's my build: Tank: Innovative Marine Nuvo Fusion 20 Stand: Bush Furniture computer armoire matching my office furniture Lights: (2) Aqua Illumination AI Prime HDs with rigid mounts, running BRS AB+ spectrum Return Pump: Innovative Marine MightyJet AIO Pump 538gph Heater: Cobalt 75w NeoTherm Control: Ink Bird ITC-308 ATO: AutoAqua AWC Auto Water Changer Plus ATO ATO Reservoir: Innovative Marine 5 Gallon Hydrofill Flow: (2) EcoTech Marine Vortech MP10WQD paired in Tidal Swell Mode (TSM) Filtration: (2) InTank Media Baskets, filter pads, and a bag of MarinePure Gems for biological Export: AquaMaxx Media Reactor converted into DIY Cheato reactor Testing: Hanna, Red Sea, Salifert Livestock: Two Black Ocellaris Clowns - "Ace & Gary" Tail Spot Blenny - "P-Blenny" Royal Gramma - "RG" Two Gold Ring Cowries Two Banded Trochus Snails Two Cerith Snails History: The tank was assembled over Christmas, 2018. Water was added 01/01/2019, all gear tested and configured. Water was brought to temp (78F), specific gravity set at 35ppt. Live rock was added 01/03/2019, and the tank was fishless cycled with Dr Tim's One and Only and ammonium chloride. The cycle finished in two weeks, which I attribute to the rock and the bottled bacteria. Once the tank could process 2ppm of ammonia in 24 hours, it was time for a 75% water change. Nitrates were floating around 50ppm at this point, so I was happy to oblige. Knowing I was a day or so from adding my first occupants to the tank fueled the water change excitement. Future: My plan moving forward is patience. There are lessons I learned on my own, and from those who post journals here. My hope is to avoid failures, mistakes, or overlooking something obvious. I'm targeting mostly SPS in this build, but I'm sure Acans and Zoas will work their way into the tank along this journey. Current water parameters: 2019-02-24 Temp: 77.2F Specific Gravity: 35ppt Ammonia: 0ppm Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate: 0ppm Phosphate: .07ppm Alkalinity: 8.6 DKH Calcium: 470ppm Magnesium: 1440ppm FTS January, 2019: Setup: Live rock added and start of cycle: AquaMaxx Chaeto Reactor: Water Station & RODI: There's a lot I've learned from this community. I want to start by saying thank you, seriously. Without your commitment to this hobby, and sharing information or lessons learned, there would not be this database of knowledge one can so easily tap into to build their vision of a perfect reef. Until next time!
October 2018 FTS Well, here goes! After having been out of the reefing world since 2007, this past December I decided to start up a simple 10g tank... a few fish, some corals, nothing fancy. Of course I underestimated how much I love this hobby and couldn't resist the urge for something just a little bigger with a few more bells and whistles. Enter the IM 20 Fusion... the box was bigger than expected upon arrival, pretty sure the UPS man was cursing me while hauling it out of the truck at 830pm. Equipment - 20 gallon Innovative Marine Fusion (Actual volume ~14 gallons) - Stock return pump Since 1.5 Return Pump - Hydor Koralia 240 Powerhead x2 - Aqamai KPS powerhead - Finnex HMO 50W Heater - Smart Micro ATO - Nanobox Duo Plus - Apex Jr. - 2x BRS 1.1mL/min dosing pumps - Dosing BRS 2-part Filtration - Innovative Marine 200 micron filter sock (left chamber) - IM media caddy with filter floss and chemipure blue - Chaeto reactor - ~15lbs live rock - ~20lbs aragalive live sand Stocking - True Percula Clown x2 - Sixline Wrasse - High Fin Red-Banded Goby - Yellow watchman goby - Jawfish - tailspot blenny - Randalli Goby Not gonna fit down the hallway like this BRS did a great job with the exterior packaging and the tank itself was well secured within the interior box. Looks great on the stand I debated doing a full tank switch in one day, but opted for patience and decided to allow the 20g to cycle using water from the 10g and some of the established sandbed. The 20g is going where the 10 is currently sitting, going to have to perform some delicate moving to make room... With some help from the fiance' we got both tanks moved, now I just have to level up the stand and get some water in this thing, then going hunting for some additional live rock! Right now, everything is still stock on the IM20, debating upgrading the return pump for a little more flow any and all suggestions are welcome!
Hello all! I was just wondering what all you IM fusion owners run as filter media on your tanks. I am currently cycling my IM10, and am currently only running poly filter in my media basket. Anybody run carbon? Also am thinking about buying the refugium and adding cheato.
Thinking about getting an IM Nuvo 10 gallon and am debating between 3 lights. The aquamaxx nemolight (here) , a single par30 led 18k bulb (here) , and the Hipargero 30W light (here). They are all in the same ballpark cost wise, I want to keep it budget friendly and under $100. Each seems to have advantages, the nemolight being the most controllable and easy to use, but the most money and least amount of power. I do like its programmability and the thunderstorm feature. The other two seem to be similar in power and cost (minus the cost of the fixture for the bulb) but lack control and need to be manually dimmed (or not dimmed at all) and therefore are pretty much either on or off. It would be nice for them to ramp up and down during the day but I guess its not a dealbreaker. Also, how long until the single bulb would need to be replaced? I want to be able to have some SPS if it is at all possible. Anyone have any thoughts? Or other recommendations staying in the <$100 range? Thanks for any replies.
Chuck's catty-corner, counter top nano reef!
Just wanted to share my Innovative Marine Fusion 40. Been up for a couple months now. Radion Xr30w Pro with diffuser, Mighty jet return pump, 2xmp10s, Hydrofill Ato.
New fusion 10 build updates!
Hi everyone! I am going to be starting an official journal for our new fusion 10 build Quick background on us, we had a 75 gallon for about 4 years, bought a house and when the tank moved we lost almost everything over about 6 months and realized with the new house we didn't have the time. Now that we've settled we have decided to try a nano tank and hope to re set up our 75 in the future. We started the tank cycling the end the end of December 2017. Cycle is complete and water parameters are good. Had a short stage of cyanoalgae but rearranged the rocks and added a powerhead for more flow and have not had any issues since. What we have as of now: im fusion 10 tank upgraded media basket caddy with filter floss and chemipure nano ghostmate desktop skimmer hydor nano powerhead 4 pounds of live rock with 1 large dry rock that has since been seeded 7lbs of Carib sea bahama oolite sand AI prime hydra light with flex arm mount LIVESTOCK 1 firefish 4 nasarius snails 2 turbo snails looking to add a black clown goby and a citron goby and some more cleanup crew We had a massive bloom of copepods which have since dwindled to a smaller amount. One morning I came out and the entire tank was full of them ? Will be slowly adding corals to the tank as well. We currently have one little favia frag that was pretty cheap and basically our test piece to see how it does. Thinking of doing mostly lps corals, but not really sure exactly at this point. We are looking into auto top off systems please give your recommendations! Also what other parameters should we be testing testing regularly besides ph, sg, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite? Thank you!!
Hello Fellow Nano-Reefers, So I came across an amazing deal today on both of these tanks, convinced my wife I can "Upgrade" from my JBJ Nanocube 28. I am seeking out opinions on both of these tanks. I currently have an IM Nuvo 20 in my classroom, so I am fairly familiar with how they work. Why am I "Upgrading," really it's a personal liking of a "shallower" tank, I have a hard time with Maintenance in my JBJ Nanocube 28 because of how deep it is. And I really want a little larger footprint, I really don't think I would feel good having larger than a 30 gallon in my house, we live in a house that is 125 years old and I'm not sure I trust the floor with that much concentrated weight on it :-) I am also probably going to need at some point some help on lighting, I have a few in mind already (I won't be doing much SPS except lower light things like Birdsnest and Stylaphora.) But I will cross that bridge when it comes. For now help me out... What do you like about both of these tanks if you have them, if you have had both even better! Dimensions: IM 25 Lagoon - 24in X 20in X 12in(H) IM 30L - 36in X 15in X 13in(H) I realize I will lose 4in in Depth on each one for the AIO filtration, but again I am used to that in the 20 in my classroom. Help me out! TIA!
Hey everyone. This tank has been running just over a year and is doing pretty well, seems like the right time to do a build thread. Innovative Marine Nuvo Fusion 20 Ecotech Radion XR30 (Gen1) Ecotech Vortech MP10 Digital Aquatics RK Lite DA SL2 w/ Temp/PH/Salinity Probes IM Desktop Ghost Skimmer IM Hydrofill Ti ATO w/ Aqualifter Eheim Jager 50W Heater I have IM custom caddy's on both sides with floss, bags of carbon, and Seachem Matrix in that order. I've started dosing Red Sea Foundation A,B,C by hand Pics! 2/25/17 3/29/17 built a conduit light mount 04/13/17 05/13/17 I moved over the summer and it was pretty rough on the tank. I ended up battling high Nitrate and Phosphate and lots of algae for a few months afterwards. 09/08/17 10/31/17 I changed up stands PEAK ALGAE 02/23/18 Tank seems like it's back on autopilot now, Nitrates undetectable using Red Sea kits, Phosphate hovers between .05 and .10 You can see my two fish in this last one, a Tailspot Blenny in the middle and a Rainfords Goby hiding in the bottom left Thanks for looking!


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'91% Of Brits Adopting Flexitarian Diets' – Making Vegan Food Sales Surge
By Maria Chiorando
A staggering 91 percent of Brits have adopted a flexitarian diet, according to UK supermarket giant Sainsbury's – leading to a surge in interest in its vegan food range.
The retail giant revealed that it's seen a 65 percent increase in sales of plant-based products year-on-year, and an 82 percent increase in customers searching for vegan products online.
As a result, the store has launched a trial – creating a new meat-alternative section in its meat, fish, and poultry aisle across 20 stores nationwide. The products in the new section include Sainsbury's Love Veg! Vegan Chorizo Shroomdogs, Sainsbury's Love Veg! Jackfruit Quarter Pounders, Vivera Veggie Fish Burgers, and Fry's Vegan Smoked Hot Dogs.
Vegan surge
The 26 meat alternatives were moved from their regular meat-free location within the ready meals aisle, to the new section within meat, fish, and poultry during the trial period, in 20 stores on January 27.
"We're seeing increasing demand for plant-based products, and with the unstoppable rise of 'flexitarianism' in the UK, we are exploring further ways to make popular meat-free options more accessible," Rosie Bambaji, plant-based buyer at Sainsbury's, said in a statement.
"We hope that this trial will make our customer's shopping experience even more seamless, and we're looking forward to hearing their feedback."
Vegan in the meat aisle
The new move follows a trial launched by Sainsbury's last year, when it became the first major UK retailer to sell vegan meat next to animal meat, launching burgers and mince from Naturli' Foods.
Speaking about the launch, James Hamilton, Meat-Free and Ready Meals Buyer at Sainsbury's, spoke about how more people are opting for meat-free.
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Randi Weingarten—the union boss of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)—took her criticism of school choice to a new low in a fiery speech she gave at AFT's annual convention in Washington, D.C.
Decades ago, the term "choice" was used to cloak overt racism by segregationist politicians like Harry Byrd, who launched the massive opposition to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
But Prince Edward County is not the normative today. Educational choice doesn't focus on removing white students from integrated schools. It focuses on giving minority students the opportunity to break free from a school system that has a history of failing them.
This is why school choice is overwhelmingly supported and used by racial minorities.
What about the nearly 400 families at this school who chose a learning environment that would best meet the needs of their child? Are they equivalent to segregationists?
Of course not. Weingarten is linking supporters of the school choice movement to viewpoints they never expressed and fails to mention her public school system still struggles with segregation more than 60 years after the Supreme Court struck it down.
Disparities in public education persist for students of color and poor students. School choice empowers these students and their families. But it threatens the teachers' union and Ms. Weingarten's power.


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package com.zheng.shop.rpc.service.impl;

import com.zheng.common.annotation.BaseService;
import com.zheng.common.base.BaseServiceImpl;
import com.zheng.shop.dao.mapper.ShopBrandMapper;
import com.zheng.shop.dao.model.ShopBrand;
import com.zheng.shop.dao.model.ShopBrandExample;
import com.zheng.shop.rpc.api.ShopBrandService;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

/**
* ShopBrandService实现
* Created by shuzheng on 2017/6/17.
*/
@Service
@Transactional
@BaseService
public class ShopBrandServiceImpl extends BaseServiceImpl<ShopBrandMapper, ShopBrand, ShopBrandExample> implements ShopBrandService {

    private static Logger _log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ShopBrandServiceImpl.class);

    @Autowired
    ShopBrandMapper shopBrandMapper;

}


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Q: Get Webpage HTML in network restricted with PROXY Server I am using following function to get the HTML string of the webpage with URL url.
   function GetWebPageHTML() {
       $.ajax({
           url: webpageURL,
           type: "GET",
           success: function (data) {
               alert('success');
           },
           error: function (xhr, status, errorThrown) {
               alert(errorThrown + '\n' + status + '\n' + xhr.statusText);
           }
       });
   }

The code gets executed when it runs on my personal internet but the same code throw error when this code runs in my office internet environment. The reason may be that in my office we use Proxy Server. Am I right? If I am right , then how can I use Proxy Server URL in my code so that I can get the webpage HTML in all environment?

A: If the browser is configured to use a proxy server, then it will use it automatically and you don't need to do anything special with JS to make it so.
If you don't like the browser's configuration, then there is no way for JavaScript (running in a webpage) to reconfigure the user's browser to use a proxy server (or a different proxy server or no proxy server).

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When did the first motor yacht appear?
A short excursion into the history of yacht building - from the first yacht to the present day
Text by: Kseniya Kalinina
The year 2021 marks the 135th anniversary of the launch of the first ever motor yacht.
The first motorboat was built in 1886 at the German shipyard Lurssen by order of inventor Gottlieb Daimler, who wanted to test his new gasoline engine. A year earlier, Daimler had patented the technology for forcing air into an internal combustion engine using a gear pump.
Daimler's engine was single-cylinder, weighed 60 kg and produced only 1.5 hp at 700 rpm. It was carried by 11 people to a lake in Stuttgart, where it was to be tested.
The locals protested against the launching of the Rems - the name of the first motorboat in history. They heard that the boat is set in motion by explosions and considered the experiment deadly. However, Daimler still managed to convince the locals in Stuttgart that his boat would not kill anyone.
In 1887 Daimler tested a motor boat with an improved engine: he equipped the invention with a second cylinder, placing it at an angle of 15 degrees to the first. The new motor from Daimler had a power of 4 hp. Thus a V-shaped engine was born.
Lurssen continued to cooperate with Daimler, and in 1896 their joint effort launched a 12-meter Daimler motor yacht.
The first motor yachts
While Daimler was trying automobile gasoline internal combustion engines on boats, another German, Rudolf Diesel, was inventingand testing the first diesel engine. Diesel's know-how was that it was not fuel itself that was compressed inside the engine pistons but air and in the course of air compression heat was generated which helped fuel to ignite itself. The first working diesel engine was assembled - under the supervision of Diesel - by the company MAN.
Diesel engines turned out to be much more effective than steam engines used at that time in commercial and military fleets. Already in 1903 the first ship with diesel engine was built. It was a river tanker Vandal.
The first diesel engines were huge and very heavy - this prevented their application on pleasure boats. Diesel engines started to spread in the yachting world only since the second half of the 20th century.
Powerboats were developed in several countries simultaneously. In 1888, inEngland , the Priestman Brothers company tested the first motor yacht. Its engine was powered by kerosene and used an innovative high-voltage ignition system. Priestman Brothers was the first to begin mass production of motor boats, and by 1890 Priestman's boats were being used successfully to tow cargo on canals.
In 1903 the first ever powerboat races were held in CorkHarbour in Ireland . British newspaper magnate Alfred Charles William Harmsworth was the founder of the races. He was slightly ahead of Prince Albert I of Monaco, who also dreamed of organizing such a race in 1903,but the idea failed.
The winner of the first powerboat race was....woman.
Dorothy Levitt, in a 12-meter,75-horsepower Napier-built steel motor yacht, set the first-ever speed record at 19.3 mph (31.1 km). The engine on this yacht was already a 4-cylinder .
Prince Albert managed to catch up with the nimble newspaperman in 1904.Monaco hosted a powerboat race in which teams from Italy,Germany, France, Sweden and England took part. Competed in two classes: cruising (cabin boats) and racing (open boats).
In 1906, Baglietto Shipyard in Italy launched the largest motor yacht with internal combustion engine - 22.6-meter Giuseppina. The Giuseppina was still equipped with a sail, which had an auxiliary role.
In 1907, Ole Evinrud had invented the first outboard engine. This momentous yacht-building invention had a very interesting story to tell: Ole was out rowing a boat to get ice-cream for his wife but the ice-cream melted while he was rowing.
This is when he had the idea of mounting compact engines on ordinary rowing boats. As early as 1909, outboard boat motors went on sale.
The motorboat market after the war
Two world wars led to the main recreational boat manufacturers working for government contracts. After the World War II, a ban on yacht building was imposed in a number of countries . The situation normalized only by the middle of the century.
In 1949, after a long break, the Feadship yard launched the 13-metre motor yacht Ibis with Perkins diesel engines. In the 1950s Perkins diesels were used in the Thames river police fleet .
In 1952, the company Yanmar managed to create the first small diesel engine. To solve the weight problem, Japanese developed high-strength cast iron with spheroidal graphite and increased engine speed by reducing the stroke of the piston.
The first «small» diesel engine still weighed 125 kg, but over the years the technology has been improved and refined.
The result was a series of engines under the K (from the German Klein) designation. These diesel engines with output from 1 to 7 hp weighed a little more than 50 kg. By the mid 50's, Yanmar was producing compact marine diesel engines, which could be equipped with yachts. This is how diesels came to boats.
In 1958, Jim Wynne in his garage in Miamiassembled the first turntable. Volvo Penta bought the technology. Volvo improved on Wynne's idea by turning the propeller on the nose. This type of tilt-turn propeller started to be fitted on wakesurfing boats. Mercury Marine joined the production of tilt-up propellers, and they quickly captured the market for small powerboats and supplanted the outboard engines.
In 1961, Correct Craft launched the first fiberglass yacht on the market.
This was the 5.5-meter long Ski Nautique, a water ski tow boat designed by Leo Benz. It was Benz's idea to build fiberglass boats, though at first it was dismissed as a ridiculous fantasy. Today a vast majority of not only motor but also sailing yachts are built in GRP (glass reinforced plastic).
Motor yacht market today
By the 1960s the motoryacht market had acquired a modern face. The Fort Lauderdale Boat Show (FLIBS), the largest boat show in the world, was organized in 1959 by local yacht builders and dealers and had only 13 boats. In 1969 the first Boot Dusseldorf Boat Show, now the largest pavilion-based boat show in the world, was held in Dusseldorf, Germany. The first year 116 companies (mostly local, with only 7 shipyards from other countries) participated in the show. In a year the number of participants grew to 183from 25 countries. In 1977 Cannes Yachting Festival was held in France for the first time.
Today, powerboats up to 10m are dominant in the market with planinghulls used for fishing, short walks, or water sports such as water skiing and wakeboarding. Such boats are fitted with outboard engines or swashbucklers.
Motor yachts, unlike motor boats, are more habitable and seaworthy. Compact motor yachts with length of 10 to 15 metres have from 1 to 3 cabins, a small galley and a bathroom. They can be planing, displacement or transitional semidisplacement type, completed with slewing columns or traditional shaft-mounted engines. In the medium size motor yachts 15 to 20m segment the leading position is taken by the planing yachts with flybridge - open cockpit deck with additional control station. Only stationary diesel engines are used here.
The leading countries in production of motor yachts are USA, Italy, Germany, UK, France and Holland. Italy, Germany and Holland are leading in the super and megayacht segment. According to Boat International, the Italian Azimut-Benetti group is the leader in the superyacht market in 2020. Italian Sanlorenzo comes second.» Dutch Feadship is finishing the top three. Germany in the list of top manufacturers of luxury yachts «is represented by Lurssen (number 5), Amels-Damen (6) and Heesen( 8).
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