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2021,From the Heart: Our Future, Our Beliefs, and our Aspirations
Recently, Cao Yi, CEO and Founding Partner of Source Code Capital, shared his "Reflections from Six Years of Entrepreneurship and Investment at Source Code Capital" with the guests present at the 2020 Code Class Investor Conference and Smart Manufacturing Summit.
Realizing the Value of Robotics in the Industrial Internet by Jason Wu from Source Code Capital
On October 13, 2020, Jason Wu, partner at Source Code Capital, was invited to the "3rd China Digital Summit" and delivered a keynote speech entitled " Realizing the value of robots in the Industrial Internet ".
Cao Yi Delivers Speech on "The Four Pillars of Youth — Good Companies in the Second Half of the Industrial Internet" at alma mater Tsinghua University
On January 12, 2020, at the invitation of Tsinghua PBCSF, Cao Yi, Managing Partner and Founder of Source Code Capital, participated in this year's "Tsinghua PBCSF EMBA & EE 2020 New Year Thoughts" as an alumnus. During this event, he delivered a speech entitled "The Four Pillars of Youth — Good Companies in the Second Half of the Industrial Internet." He shared the potential and capabilities that a good company should possess in this age in order to attract investors.
Yi Cao Delivers Keynote Speech at the 2nd Digital China Summit on China's Industrial Internet
On May 7, 2019, Cao Yi (Charlie), Founding Partner of Source Code Capital, was invited to the "2nd Digital China Summit" as a Keynote Speaker. He delivered a keynote speech entitled, "Value Discovery and Value Creation in China's industrial Internet." The theme of this year's Digital China Summit is: "New Dynamics, New Development, New Achievements Empowered by Informatization." It is about fostering new momentum through information technology, promoting new developments through digitization, and achieving brilliance through technological advancements. The Summit serves as both an exhibition and a platform demonstrating China's newly found technological prowess, and showcasing China's digital economy, related policies, e-government, smart society, and breakthroughs in the Internet of Things. It provides an experiential forum regarding digitization, and by bringing global resources together, serves as a center for practical technology and business exchange to promote the construction of a collaborative digital China platform. Image source: The 2nd Digital China Summit China Network Photo The following is the full transcript of Charlie Cao's speech: I am honored to have this opportunity to exchange and learn together at the 2nd Digital China Summit today. Since this morning until just now, I have gotten a lot of inspiration, excitement, and new motivations – whether from the thoughtful and diverse viewpoints of academicians He Hezhen and Li Ying, or from the heads of Haier, XCMG, Inspur and Foxconn, who represent deep industry insights from four leading industrial Internet enterprises. Today, I would like to stand from the perspective of venture capital institutions and share some thoughts on entrepreneurship in the industrial Internet, innovation, and investments, and perhaps bring a new take on the subject. Is the industrial Internet attractive? How is its value creation understood and discovered? The "Inverted Pyramid" and the "Three Fundamental Drivers" Over the past 15 years, I have dedicated myself to making early and growth stage investments as empowered by the Information Revolution. I can summarize the investment logic of these past 15 years with two images. The first image is an industry perspective from the "Inverted Pyramid," which has "Moore's Law" at its core. The economic world has been driven by digitalization, "online-isation," and intellectualization, which create and transform businesses, thus twining the digital world from one layer to the next. The digital world constantly delivers an enormous amount of energy every day, just like how the sun spreads its energy, which by doing so, fuels photosynthesis, metabolism, species evolution, socialization, and so on. The second image is this "Three Fundamental Drivers" (3x9) investment map, which falls on the application layer of the Pyramid. How do these three forces of "Internet+," "AI+," and "Global+," promote 2C (to consumer) and 2B (to industry)? How do they create value through optimizing production and inventory, and activating incremental value-addition? In the first 10 years of that 15-years period, most of the energy was spent on consumer Internet, whereas in the past five years, industrial Internet has gradually caught-up to the level of consumer Internet. My experience is mainly based on a reference that basically reflects a change in the industry, from 2C, to 2C and 2B. I think this is also a microcosm of accurate and timely adjustment of capital. Over the past 5 years, the rapid development of this "second" Internet, as well as the evolution of the New Economy, and even the "new normal" of the national economy, are manifestations of more mature, advanced, and prosperous and development. Figure 1 (top): An Industry Perspective through the Lens of the "Inverted Pyramid" Figure 2 (below): Source Code's "Three Fundamental Drivers" (3x9) Investment Map The Second Half of the Internet: From Consumption to Circulation to Production I divided the industrial Internet into the "circulating Internet," and the "industrial Internet." I think the circulating Internet is the prelude to the industrial Internet. For the time being, let's temporarily define the "circulating Internet" as going from industry to consumption, going between industry to industry, or from industry to the distribution sequence. This covers the flow of business, logistics, capital, data, digitalization, and online "intelligentization." Over the past five years, this process has experienced accelerated development in various sectors, including FMCG, agricultural products, pharmaceuticals, clothing, building materials, auto parts, industrial MRO, construction machinery, 2B logistics, 2B finance, and so on. This accelerated development has led to a creation of leading enterprises that rely heavily on information technology to form large-scale and more efficient enterprises. What might have been perceived as "too large, scattered and chaotic" yesterday, has now become much more centralized and efficient. We believe that from this process, dozens of companies valued at over multi-billions (in U.S. dollar) will emerge. With an already very developed consumer Internet and a fast-growing circulating Internet as the foundation and driving force, we believe that the budding industrial Internet will very soon take its place on the main stage. The Circulation-driven industrial Internet will Become more Powerful Whether a concept or a technology can be industrialized and sustained depends on the quality of the model, which directly affects whether it can achieve PMF (Product Market Fit) from 0 to 1. Therefore, in the early stage of the current industrial Internet, as an investor, we are constantly wondering: What value does the Industrial Internet create for companies of different sizes? Why do companies promote manufacturing and production online? If we look into the financial statements of those businesses, perhaps we are able to find the answer. As we dig into their income statement, we ask: How can we help them increase their income (sales radius, sales efficiency, smart pricing, etc.), or reduce costs and expenses (purchase radius, procurement efficiency, improve human efficiency, adopt cloud services, reduce financing costs, etc.)? From their balance sheet, we look at how we can optimize their inventory (inventory turnover, virtual inventory, obsolete goods risk, etc.), optimize liabilities (funding method and cost, etc.), optimize fixed assets (cloud assets, or switch to light assets), and optimize receivables? Based on the needs of these enterprises, we have seen models such as "cloud computing," "cloud factory,"...
Yi Cao of Source Code Capital Named to The Forbes Midas List 2019
On April 2, 2019, Forbes unveiled its annual Forbes Midas List, ranking top venture investors in the world. Charlie Cao Yi, Founder and Managing Partner of Source Code Capital, was once again awarded with this prestigious distinction, after his initial appearance on The Midas List in 2018. The name "Midas List" (Forbes' annual ranking of the most prominent deal-makers in the venture industry) is an allusion to the mythological King Midas, renowned for his ability to turn anything he touched into gold. It is also known as the "Golden Touch" list. It is the apex of "the most astute venture capitalists who can earn the best-in-class returns." In 2018, 17 Chinese investors, including Charlie Cao, were listed; in 2019, 21 Chinese investors were named to the Midas List. This is reflective of the increased recognition that Chinese investors have in the global venture capital field, as well as the growing influence of China's innovation and New Economy start-ups in the world. In addition to being named to the esteemed Forbes "Midas List" for two consecutive years (2018 and 2019), Charlie Cao was also named a "Top 100 Venture Capitalist" by CB Insights in 2019. In 2018, he was featured as "China's 30 Most Influential Investors" by Fortune China, and in 2017, he was on Sina's "China Top Investors Ranking TOP25." In 2016, he was chosen as "40 Business Elites Under 40" by Fortune China and "Angel Investor of the Year" by Chuangyebang. A 2C and 2B Portfolio Mr. Cao is a seasoned investor with over 15 years of experience in venture capital, investment management and business innovation. Under his leadership, he led the Source Code team to invest along the "Big 3" Fundamental Drivers (Internet+, AI+, and Global+) investment map, providing continuous support to entrepreneurs in the "Information Revolution" across various sub-sectors. Over the past five years, Source Code Capital led investments in nearly 150 enterprises focusing on Internet+, AI+, and Global+ (China-angle companies in the international arena). This is comprised of different sectors such as media and entertainment, consumer services, enterprise, finance, retail, transportation, housing, education, and healthcare. In addition to ByteDance, Meituan Dianping (3690.HK), Homelink, Ziroom, Qudian (NYSE: QD), RELX Technology, CHJ Automotive, Pagoda and other well-known 2C Internet+ Consumer investment examples, since 2014, Source Code Capital has also led investments in Baibu, YunQuNa, Yijiupi, Yimidida, XiaoYaoYao, Edianzu, Zhongneng United and other outstanding 2B enterprises, and supported their growth from the early stages onwards through later rounds. Patience and Dedication to Post-Investment Value Creation After five years of development, Source Code Capital has expanded its organization across three distinct functions (investment, post-investment, and operations), and nutured a team of around 60 professionals. Over the last two years, special attention was paid to deepening the organization's post-investment capabilities. In 2018 alone, 426 post-investment actions were completed across different functions including Human Capital, Public Relations, Financial Advisory, and Policy, providing much appreciated help and insights to entrepreneurs. In 2018, Source Code Capital further released a new initiative called "Code Brain," a platform exchange for entrepreneurs. The monthly "Code Brain" gathering brings dozens of CEOs together to improve knowledge sharing, algorithms and decision-making, as well as to share experiences and feedback. Charlie Cao calls it "systematic learning." About Source Code Capital Source Code Capital was founded in the Spring of 2014, and since then it has devoted to becoming the partner of choice for leading entrepreneurs in today's "Information Revolution" era with over $900 million and RMB 3 billion under management. The funds managed by trusteeship mainly come from prestigious SWFs, endowments and foundations, pensions, fund of funds, PRC central government guidance funds and state-owned enterprises. Source Code Capital insists on the significance of research and independent thinking to motivate its investments. It is focused on investing its "Big 3" fundamental drivers, which are Internet+, AI+, and Global+ (China-angle companies in the international arena), and invests along diversified sectors such as finance, enterprise, media and entertainment, consumer services, retail, transportation, housing, education, and healthcare. To date, the Source Code team has led investments in both early and growth stages in close to 150 companies. Its set of portfolio companies include: ByteDance, Meituan Dianping (3690.HK), Homelink, Qudian (NYSE: QD), Asset360, Smart Finance Group, Insnail Hospital, Magnet Finance, ABC FinTech; Yijiupi, Yimidida, XiaoYaoYao, Edianzu, Baibu, Zhongneng United, YunQuNa, Ruigushop; Pagoda, RELX Technology, Meili Inc. (Mogujie) (NYSE:MOGU), XinChao Media, Ziroom, Julive, Huizhaofang, CHJ Automotive, Che300, NIU Technologies (NASDAQ: NIU), Haifeng Education, KnowBox, Walnut Coding, Weimai, Huishoubao, Linlinyi, Linji Convenience Store; Krazybee, Zenjoy and BluePay. Source Code Capital has created "Code Class," a strategic alliance composed of 30+ New Economy leaders in China and connected to Source Code portfolio of 150 companies. Within this inner circle, Code Class members can openly exchange and network. In addition, the Code Class ecosystem provides differentiated networks and value-adding resources to its portfolio companies.
Samuel Huang Gives Motivational Speech at his alma mater Zhejiang University: A Dialogue with Future Entrepreneurs
The theme of his speech was "A Dialogue with Future Entrepreneurs." Zhejiang University is known for its strong entrepreneurial and innovative spirit. Huang Yungang is also known as "the investor who has invested the most from Zhejiang University entrepreneurs" and "the investor who knows entrepreneurs the best."
Dr. Hongjiang Zhang: Talent Shortage in the AI Sector is a Global Challenge (Dialogue with Yang Rui)
Dr. Hongjiang Zhang recently appeared on CGTN English Channel's "Dialogue with Yang Rui." Dr. Zhang engaged in a fascinating discussion with host Yang Rui on the topic of "issues that have emerged during the course of the development in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector."
Source Code 2017: The Year Where We Have Found Our Foothold
Three years into this prosperous and dynamic world of the new economy, we have just got ourselves a foothold to start. 2017 was the year of what the company called "The Year of Prominence." It was at this third anniversary that the company achieved the success of Phase III of RMB and USD fundraising. While the Phase III RMB fund continued to attract more leading enterprises (entrepreneurs), it also received investments from national guide funds, top-grade FOFs, and mega state-owned enterprises. Like its RMB counterpart, the Phase III USD fund acquired abundant investments from many sovereign wealth funds, charity funds, pension funds, FOFs, and family foundations. A successful Phase III fundraising has always been considered a significant sign of "prominence" by a portfolio management company. We are fortunate that our diligent work helped to establish such a firm foundation.
Yi Cao of Source Code Capital: Nine Snapshots of Technological Innovation
On August 17th, Huaxing Alpha hosted the Impact Investment Summit of 2017 in Beijing with the theme, "Tear Apart the Opportunistic Theory and See the Truth". The summit included expert investors from renowned institutions as well as elite entrepreneurs from technology and new consumption industries for in-depth discussions. The summit attracted the interest and attendance of nearly 2,000 industry entrepreneurs and investors. This year's summit, from August 17th to August 18th, offers two full days of discussions on frontier topics surrounding "the era of technological scenarios" and "the rise of new consumption". The aim is to discuss "hot topics", uncover the truth and analyze the essence of business.
Dr. Zhang Hongjiang: AI is the Next Big Opportunity for Chinese Start-ups
"The world is experiencing the third wave of artificial intelligence (AI), and this AI wave is very different from the Internet wave. The focus of the Internet wave was driven by business models, while this AI wave is driven by technology." At the 2017 New Business Summit, Dr. Hongjiang Zhang, Venture Partner at Source Code Capital, shared his thoughts on the essence of this AI wave, as well as the challenges and opportunities that it will bring. Dr. Zhang believes that the machine learning, which forms the core of AI, has already shifted from traditional mathematical modeling to relying on big data. This wave of AI will bring more possibilities. By leveraging troves of big data from various industries and the reserves of AI talent, it is possible for China to lead the world in AI technology, which is an opportunity for Chinese start-ups. As for how AI will affect people's lives, Dr. Zhang believes that we should be ready for AI to not only assist humans in the future, but also replace or surpass some functions, as some new AI algorithms are already equipped with "god's view." AI has already surpassed humans in the capabilities relating to perception, such as speech and image recognition. In cognitive capabilities, however, AI still has a long way to go. In his speech, Dr. Zhang also reminded founders and investors that as any company can brand itself as an AI company these days, it presents the risk of creating a bubble. If the company only has algorithms and a few experts, but does not own, or has difficulties obtaining data, and lacks application scenarios, then it will not grow in scale. The full transcript of Dr. Zhang's speech is as follows: Mr. Feng, distinguished guests, good morning. It is my pleasure to be here at the Forum organized by 36Kr. I would like to spend some time today talking about the essence of the current wave of artificial intelligence, as well as the challenges and opportunities it will bring. 1. Data as the new religion If we look at the development of AI over the past 60 years, the core of the AI we talk about today is really a branch of AI – machine learning. More specifically, it is the technology of using neural networks to conduct machine learning, which is the technology of deep learning. What are the differences between this wave of AI and previous ones? I believe that the AI wave hitting China today is more aggressive than the ones hitting anywhere else in the world. The reason may be that AlphaGo has defeated humans for the first time and that has led us to gain a newfound respect for AI. The second wave of AI was from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, but it disappeared so quickly that for a long time, people like me were embarrassed to say that we studied artificial intelligence. An important reason behind its quick disappearance is that although its neural network was very popular, it also died down quickly. There were two reasons: one was that the neural networks back then did not have the support of big data, and two was the lack of support for computational resources. Today, we not only have new deep learning algorithms, but more importantly, we are equipped with high quality, categorized big data and extremely strong computational resources. From a technology perspective, today's deep learning is fundamentally different from previous AI methods, especially when comparing to the expert system methods. Today's algorithms are in fact driven by data, and not solely reliant on the rules of thumb. Let us take a look at the two drivers of the current AI wave. First, Computational resources have grown by leaps and bounds in the past 30 years. In the development over the past few decades, we saw exponential growth in the performance of supercomputers and an exponential reduction in their unit price. Second, data, another important support for AI, has begun to explode. According to research by IDC, the data created by the entire human race will increase tenfold between 2013 and 2020, equivalent to an annual growth rate of around 40%. The data we generate every day has exceeded tens to the 19th power (or ten quintillion bytes). A large amount of today's data is created by the Internet. This data is not only large in quantity, but has also been labeled. For example, your phone will record the time, location, and other information about a photo that you took. It is thanks to the explosive growth of this type of data that we can provide better training data for artificial intelligence. I want to share some of my own experiences. Today's smartphones can take photos, recognize faces, and not only beautify these faces, but also tell you how many people are in the photo and who they are. That was my dream 20 years ago – to have a mobile device that can recognize the people in a photo. After 20 years of development, this was finally realized in smartphones. Why it took so long to achieve this is mainly due to the two drivers previously mentioned: computational resources and big data, plus the newest machine learning algorithms. When we first started to work on this problem in the 1990s, we only had a few hundred photos and a little over 100 people in our entire database. Only when industry giants like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft started to use hundreds of millions of photos to train deep neural networks, and use the method of deep learning to conduct the recognition (around five years ago), did we see an increase in the recognition rate and become able to recognize people in hundreds of millions of photos. So what I want to stress is, when the scale of your training data begins to increase, the accuracy of your learning should start to experience great growth as well. The more resources and data used in training, the...
Yi Cao: Inclusive Financing has Entered into the Era of Synergy Between "Internet+" and "AI+"
According to 01Caijing's "2016 Annual China Consumer Finance Development Report", peer-to-peer consumer finance capital reached 99.1 billion RMB that year, an increase of 90.9% compared to same period last year. Conservative estimates of the 2017 figure stand at 200 billion RMB. The securitization of consumer finance capital is also accelerating. 2016 saw the issuance of 51 asset-backed security products for consumer financing, totaling 93.632 billion RMB, 6.76 times the amount in 2015.
Source Code Capital's Yi Cao: Venture Capitalists Must Always Keep Learning and Maintain a Deep Sense of Mission
It's only been a little over ten years since the beginning of China's venture capitalist industry to today's hyper-competitive environment. How did the industry become so hot? How can one excel as a venture capitalist? Many young people are eager to find answers.
Source Code Capital's co-founder, Cao Yi, is qualified to answer these questions. Even before graduating from college, Cao Yi had already stepped into the venture capitalist industry. He was part of China's first wave of domestic venture capitalists and witnessed the industry's entire journey from birth until now.
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Watch Marshawn Lynch Drop F-Bomb On ESPN & Immediately Regret It
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If there's one athlete you should fear on live television, it's Marshawn Lynch.
The retired NFL running back is known for his hilarious stunts, but sometimes they're a bit inappropriate to a broader audience.
An ESPN broadcast fell victim to one of Lynch's slip-ups while interviewing him during a college football game between the Washington Huskies and California Golden Bears when he accidentally swore on live TV.
ESPN's Tiffany Blackmon asked the Super Bowl champ about former teammate Justin Forsett, who was being inducted into the California Golden Bears Atheltic Hall of Fame.
Ironically Lynch dropped an f-bomb while telling a story revealing that Forsett didn't swear while on campus.
"I remember that he never said a curse word. To this day, I don't think I've ever heard him say a curse word," he says before speaking on the stadium's vibe.
"I'm from the Bay Area, but when I look around the stands, and I see that these motherf-ckers…," he said, catching himself dropping the profanity and immediately covering his mouth while giving a stunned look to the camera.
Lynch continued speaking and then freely dropped another swear word, "I mean, these stands weren't full like when we were here; that sh-t kind of have me on tilt. I ain't feeling that. So, if this is California Golden Bear football, they need to start packing out this stadium."
He retired a few years ago but is ensuring his big personality is still being felt around the league by joining Amazon Prime Video's Thursday Night Football coverage.
Despite getting arrested and charged with a DUI back in August, his new four-minute feature segment with Amazon called "'N Yo' City" is still in play. Marie Donoghue, Amazon's vice president of Global Sports Video, recently addressed Lynch jumping into NFL coverage five weeks deep on the Marchand & Ourand Sports Media Podcast and said it's got nothing to do with his legal happenings.
"I think Marshawn wanted to work through some things," Donoghue said on the podcast. "We were already working with him. We never walked away. We just worked through some things with him, and we're excited. We can't wait for him to join."
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Video Interview: Tom Felton On Growing Up As Draco Malfoy In The Harry Potter Universe
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After serving as the snot-nosed villain throughout much of the Harry Potter story, Draco Malfoy finally got a little bit of redemption in the sixth film, unable to murder Dumbledore as Voldemort commanded him and fleeing instead. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 he's still an obnoxious prig, believe me, but one who's developed a soul over the last few years, and as played by Tom Felton you only have to look in his eyes at key moments to know he doesn't have the evil mettle required to be one of the Death Eaters fighting on Voldemort's side. Along with all the other kid actors in the Harry Potter films, Felton has grown immensely as an actor over the course of the last ten years, developing his emotional range in time with the development of his character onscreen.
It's just in time, too, as Felton has signed on a slew of other projects now that Potter has wrapped, including a role in this summer's Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I caught up with him in the middle of a whirlwind publicity tour for the latest movie to talk about developing Draco as a character, when he learned his character was more than just a bad guy, watching his 11-year-old self on the screen, and what it's been like to ditch Draco's signature platinum blond hair. He also explained why it wasn't Crabbe and Goyle, but Crabbe and Blaise Zabini, who went with Draco into the Room of Requirement in one key scene. It's a short 8 minute interview, and you can watch it all happen below.
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Ventana Research analysts recently published our research agendas for 2017. As we put together these plans we think about the forces that are shaping the markets that we cover and then craft agendas that study these issues to provide insights for our community. I've been working in the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market for nearly 25 years, and throughout that time the industry has been trying to make analytics useful to increasingly wider audiences. That focus continues to today. Better search and presentation methods, including visual discovery and natural-language processing, are promising ways to engage more users. We also see organizations supporting their users in specific functional roles with relevant and accessible analytics. My colleagues examine these issues as part of their agendas in the Office of Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, Operations and Supply Chain, and Human Capital Management. While their agendas include analytics within specific domains, my own research focuses on a range of analytics issues across domains including cloud computing, mobility, collaboration, data science and the Internet of Things.
The business intelligence market is bounded on one side by big data and on the other side by data preparation. That is, to maximize their performance in using information, organizations have to collect and analyze ever increasing volumes of data while the tools available are constantly evolving in the big data ecosystem that I have written about. In our benchmark research on big data analytics, half (51%) of organizations said they want to access big data using their existing BI tools. At the same time, as I have noted, end users are demanding self-service access to data preparation capabilities to facilitate their analyses.
The big data market continues to evolve, as I have written previously. Vendors are attempting to differentiate their offerings as they seek to encourage customers to pay for technology that they could potentially download for free.


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SD-LAD Game 1 lineups, FAQ (FS1, 9:30 ET)
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The Dodgers were 6-4 against San Diego this year, meaning the upstart Padres played them about as tough as anybody. Ironically, one of the Padres' wins was one of the most important games of the season for the Dodgers.
It was Sept. 14 when Trent Grisham slugged a home run that spoiled a Clayton Kershaw shutout. Grisham's long look, spinning bat flip and animated trot offended the Dodgers as disrespectful of Kershaw. Several players, most notably Mookie Betts, acknowledged that the 7-2 loss served as a wakeup call for the rest of the season.
"That was kind of a punch in the mouth," said Betts. "We responded well."
The Dodgers have never played the Padres in the postseason. Their first playoff matchup comes in the best-of-five National League Division Series at Globe Life Field in Arlington, where they're scheduled for five games in five days, if necessary, beginning Tuesday.
When is the game and how can I watch it?
The game will be shown on FOX Sports 1 at 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT on Tuesday. It is also available to stream on MLB.TV with authentication.
Padres: Jurickson Profar will make his first start in left field since Game 1 of the NL Wild Card Series, with Tommy Pham, not Mitch Moreland, at designated hitter against right-hander Walker Buehler. Jake Cronenworth also jumps up to the seventh spot in the order after batting ninth in the final two games of the series against the Cardinals.
Trent Grisham, CF
Fernando Tatis Jr., SS
Manny Machado, 3B
Eric Hosmer, 1B
Tommy Pham, DH
Wil Myers, RF
Jake Cronenworth, 2B
Austin Nola, C
Jurickson Profar, LF
Dodgers: Manager Dave Roberts kept the slumping Max Muncy at cleanup and used Joc Pederson at DH with Will Smith behind the plate.
Mookie Betts, RF
Corey Seager, SS
Justin Turner, 3B
Max Muncy, 1B
Will Smith, C
Cody Bellinger, CF
AJ Pollock, LF
Joc Pederson, DH
Chris Taylor, 2B
Who are the starting pitchers?
Padres: Mike Clevinger, who dealt with a right elbow impingement and wasn't on the NL Wild Card Series roster, will make his Padres postseason debut in Game 1. The righty has never faced the Dodgers, and he notched a 2.84 ERA in four starts for the Padres after arriving from Cleveland at the Trade Deadline.
Dodgers: As in the Wild Card Series, the first two games are going to Buehler and Kershaw in that order, with some combination of Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May and Julio Urías to follow, depending on how long the NLDS goes. Don't rule out the possibility of one or more games with an opener, which the Dodgers deployed six times.
How will the bullpens line up after the starter?
Padres: Emilio Pagán for the seventh, Drew Pomeranz for the eighth, Trevor Rosenthal for the ninth -- that formula worked down the stretch, and it worked against St. Louis. In the middle innings, longtime starter Garrett Richards has become a weapon, but it's worth wondering whether he might be better served in the rotation. Matt Strahm and Pierce Johnson were also ultra-reliable against the Cardinals.
Dodgers: Manager Dave Roberts has reiterated that Kenley Jansen is still the Dodgers' closer despite recent struggles -- and despite Brusdar Graterol getting the save in Game 2 of the Wild Card Series while Jansen watched from the bullpen. Dylan Floro, who was left off the Wild Card Series roster, could be added back to the mix. Blake Treinen, Joe Kelly, Pedro Báez, Victor González, Adam Kolarek and Jake McGee should all be back.
Are there any relievers who are unavailable?
Padres: No.
Dodgers: No.
Any injuries of note?
Padres: Right-hander Dinelson Lamet (right biceps tightness) was left off the roster for the second consecutive series. Strahm has been battling a balky right knee, but he has thus far been able to pitch through it.
Who is hot and who is not?
Padres: After a brief slump in late September, Fernando Tatis Jr. is scorching again. He went 5-for-11 with two homers, a double and three walks in the Wild Card Series. His double-play partner, Jake Cronenworth, was also excellent, going 5-for-8 with two walks, a triple and a homer. On the flip side, Grisham went hitless against St. Louis.
Dodgers: Betts had three doubles and three RBIs in the Wild Card Series, while Corey Seager hit the only home run. Chris Taylor went 3-for-6. Muncy's season-long slump continued against the Brewers, as he went 0-for-5 with four strikeouts. Justin Turner, an all-time clutch postseason performer, went 0-for-8. Will Smith went 0-for-6 and is 1-for-19 in two postseasons.
Anything else fans want to know?
Padres: The Padres' return to Arlington is symbolic. Tatis launched his infamous 3-0 grand slam against the Rangers at Globe Life Field on Aug. 17. The Padres were 11-12 when he hit it. They're 28-12 since.
Dodgers: The Dodgers flew to Texas on Friday and will get at least one day off before working out.


hey guys im stuck at the parth in the white abyss where you get sucked in by the ancient sith box and i dont know how to get out please help.
Qutoing a reply in a ducplicate thread of yours.
The CrusaderBrotherhood of Shadow has mad bugs. The best thing to do is start over from a save point that starts you before you begin the mod, start over again, and then save in different slots as you go. Also make sure that you have the most updated version of Brotherhood of Shadow.
And what is the white abyss?
Hmm, I don't reckon entering any 'white abyss'. However, don't you mean the box of the Rakata, which is on the Ebon Hawk after accepting the trade quest? If it comes to the Brotherhood of Shadow, I really can't remember if there was any white abyss at all.


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Ric Miller serves as the Director of Development & Communications, with the full support of the Leadership Team at Crossroads of Western Iowa.
Our board represents a cross-section of several communities and has a passion for our organization and those we serve. The members work hard to ensure long-term sustainability of the organization and oversee that the funds raised directly affect those in need.
Brent Dillinger, Crossroads' CEO, serves as President of the Foundation Board. Matt Zima, Crossroads' CFO, serves as Treasurer of the Foundation Board.
Board Members include: Tom Hanafan (Council Bluffs), Nicole Steier (Omaha), Colleen Brabec (Council Bluffs), Rhonda Capron (Sioux City) and Justin Connealy (Omaha).


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How To Apologize In French
What's your l'excuse?
The first thing you need to learn about saying "sorry" in French is that you probably won't say it nearly as much as you might be inclined to as an over-eager American apology fanatic. In fact, if you want your apology to come through as sincere, you're better off not over-apologizing. Limit your "sorries" to occasions that truly merit them, and keep them short and to the point, and you'll fly right in French society.
Of course, there's a difference between landing at just the right amount of "sorry" and neglecting to acknowledge when you've stepped on someone else's toes. The whole point of learning etiquette is to avoid being rude, you know?
In many cases, you'll want to have a couple alternatives to "I'm sorry" on hand — something to the effect of "excuse me," or "pardon my reach." Here are a few different ways to say "sorry" in French, fit for all the various situations you'll encounter as a person who makes mistakes.
How To Say Sorry In French
A Standard Sorry
The most direct translation of "sorry" in French is the verb être désolé, which means "to be sorry." If you want to say "I'm sorry," that would be Je suis désolé in the masculine form and Je suis désolée in the feminine.
If you're going to keep any term in your back pocket, this would probably be it, as you can use it to address anyone ranging from your best friend to your boss. It can also work in a pretty wide range of situations, including sympathy and situations that are, to some degree, your fault.
In certain cases, you don't have to say the whole phrase — sometimes, the "Je suis" can come across as overly formal. To take it down a notch, you can simply say Désolé(e) ("Sorry").
Here are examples of how you might hear this word in context.
Désolé, je n'ai pas envie de sortir aujourd'hui. — Sorry, I don't feel like going out today.
Je suis désolé, je ne suis pas libre ce soir. — I'm sorry, I don't have any time tonight.
Désolé, je n'ai pas de montre. — Sorry, I don't have a watch.
Ah, désolée, je n'ai pas fait attention. — Ah, sorry, I wasn't paying attention.
Je suis désolé. Je suis vraiment un mauvais conducteur. — I'm sorry. I am truly a bad driver.
Je suis désolée… Je ne voulais pas te faire de la peine ! — I'm sorry… I didn't want to hurt you!
Je suis désolée pour ta perte. — I'm sorry for your loss.
When It Was Just An Accident
There are many cases where désolé(e) might sound a little unnatural or excessive. If you're apologizing to someone for bumping into them on the street, that's a pretty good case for using a word like pardon instead.
Pardon in French is pretty close in meaning to its English counterpart. However, pardon still implies a certain level of culpability. In other words, you wouldn't use pardon to simply get someone's attention. It's more for when you accidentally get in someone's way or have to ask someone to repeat themselves.
Here's how that might sound in real life:
Pardon, je t'ai raté hier, j'étais en réunion. — Sorry I missed you yesterday, I was in a meeting.
Pardon, quel est votre nom ? — Sorry, what's your name?
Pardon ? Combien ? — Sorry? How much?
Pardon, je n'ai pas compris. — Excuse me, I did not understand that.
Pardon, madame. — Excuse me, ma'am.
When You're Signaling For Attention
You're probably also familiar with various forms of l'excuse, which literally translates to "the apology." Most often, you'll hear people say excusez-moi, or "excuse me," when they'd like to politely get someone's attention or make your way past someone in a crowded spot. In essence, this is the preemptive apology before you actually bump into them — a small apology for the interruption, but also a nice way of saying "get out of my way."
You can also use it in certain "telephone faux pas" contexts (like calling the wrong number), or in situations where you're about to conceptually interrupt someone's train of thought (by disagreeing with them, for instance).
Excusez-moi, j'ai fait un faux numéro. — Sorry, I've called the wrong number.
Excuse-moi, je dois raccrocher maintenant. — Sorry, I have to hang up now.
Tu dormais quand j'ai appelé ? Excuse-moi ! — Were you sleeping when I called? Sorry!
Excuse-moi, Hercule… Mais dans les romans policiers, le coupable est toujours le meilleur ami ou le collègue... — Sorry, Hercule… But in crime novels, the culprit is always the best friend or colleague…
Excusez-moi, est-ce que je peux passer ? — Excuse me, could you let me pass please?
More Buttoned-Up Alternatives
Sometimes, you might hear apologies that are more formal or official-sounding than Je suis désolé(e).
Je regrette — I'm sorry (lit. "I regret it")
Veuillez m'excuser — Please excuse me/Please accept my apologies
Je vous demande pardon — I beg your pardon
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Dustmeters
About Heubach
HEUBACH DUSTMETER
Small particles that fly through the air, known as airborne dust, can pose a serious threat to human and animal life.
Many industrial processes create and release such particles in an uncontrolled manner, and research is gaining increasingly alarming information about the consequences of harmful particles being inhaled, due to their potential to cause occupational diseases such as lung cancer, baker's asthma and other respiratory illnesses.
The Heubach Dustmeters offer solutions to measure the dustiness of powders, granules, seeds and pellets, allowing to quantify and control dust release properties and improve on material characteristics
Our Dustmeters have the ability to simulate different handling scenarios such as filling/emptying, transport, bagging, mixing & processing by using different measuring methods, like the rotating drum, continuous drop method, and the Type III active agitation method.
Dangerous dusts can include:
Mineral dusts, metallic dusts, chemical dusts, organic & vegetable dusts and biohazards
Regulatory systems (REACH, ESA, EEC 85/157, EN 15051, DIN 55992) are trying to standardize dust exposure limits and measuring methods to solve these issues.
With over 30 years of dust measuring expertise, Heubach has developed Dustmeters to cater precisely to these regulatory systems and various application fields.
Our new product line includes methods originally developed by the German Institute for Hazardous Goods, which to this day has classified over 800 materials in respect to their dustiness.
We have close ties to this institution, as well as to other leading researchers and Universities in the field.
As a family business in the 20th generation, it is our tradition to meet the highest quality standards. Every Dustmeter is made with state of the art CNC technology, and assembled by hand in Germany.
The Heubach Dustmeter was developed by Heubach around 1985 to help create and formulate less dusting pigments, especially because in these times some pigments contained hazardous substances, such as lead. For us it was of importance to minimize the exposure to these materials to the absolute minimum possible, by finding a way to eliminate the dustiness of these powders, using the Dustmeter as a feedback device.
Originally developed for in-house use only, we began to discover that many companies were in search of a device to identify the dust properties of bulk materials.
Soon we started to produce and sell the machines commercially as Type I and Type II. The faculty of DIN (German Industry Norm) has recognized and accepted the Heubach Dustmeter at an early stage (DIN 55992), and it has become perhaps the most often mentioned dust measuring method in subject literature.
Prof. Eberhard Schmidt, one of the leading researchers in the dust measuring field with a number of publications had the idea to couple the Dustmeter with particle size selective filters, allowing the dust to be qualified by it's particle size: The respirative and the thoracle fractions. These are the fractions of interest when examing the potential of airborne particles to harm human lungs. Due to the physical nature of these filters however, these versions are tied to certain airflow speeds and cannot be varied: The Dustmeter Type I AE. This version is part of our customised Dustmeter program "CustoMeter".
As we were approached by a leading chemical group further down the line to join powers and develop a new version of the Dustmeter, we knew that we had a valuable technology and market niche at hand. The new model, Type III, was initially developed to measure enzymes from washing powders and similar chemicals. The special design of Type III applies more mechanical stress to the test material, in turn giving reproducible results especially for the stability of granulated materials. Since then most washing powders are no longer sold in powder form, but as granules. This is an example to display the impact the Dustmeter can have on a product. Our Type III model was also accepted by the DIN faculty and published as a DIN standard (DIN 55992).
Our newest development to the family is the Dustmeter XL. In the past we have been approached by several customers, asking if we also produce a larger drum according to the European standard EN 15051, which has often been referred to in subject literature. Since ...... as the DIN or EN standards are the best way for companies and researchers to communicate internationally, we . Besides the standadisations created through our own Dustmeter (DIN 55992-1 & DIN 33897-4) there is another important standardization that includes a large rotating drum (Dustmeter XL), and a continuous drop dust measuring device (see: DusTower). After extensive research, we came to the conclusion that noone is producing the large drum quoted in the EN 15051 anymore. Since our Dustmeter is based on a modular system, using 1 drive unit which is suited to various modules, we decided to revive the drum reffered to in the EN 15051 standardization and offer it as one of our modular options. The Dustmeter now allows you to use create an array of handling scenarios using 1 base unit. The kit can be expanded as needed without having to invest into many different devices. Simply buy the modules as needed.
The Dustmeters Type I, II, III, and XL can all be operated and driven by the same basic drive and control unit, making it a one of a kind device, operating 4 distinct measuring methods within 1 modular system. The accessories for the different Types can be purchased individually. Not only is Heubach the only company offering this array of devices, but there are also significant financial advantages through the modular system, offering 4 machines in 1.
While the rotating drum of Type I/II/XL and the more abrasive impellor of Type III cover most imaginable scenarios that can arise for dust testing, there is a method that one could call equally suited, but for other scenarios and durations of material handling. The Heubach DusTower, developed by Dr. Dirk Dahmann of the German IGF, part of the Ruhr University of Bochum, was designed to create an even flow of material, providing fresh material to constantly enter the dust chamber, instead of moving the same batch for a given period of time. The advantage over the rotating drum is that the Dustower can be combined with an array of analysis devices. Since we are now covering the EN 15051 standards as well, we are proud to be in a position to cater to any dust measuring standardisation.


Pots of Dreams make a fantastic gift for anybody and almost any occasion.
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Pots of Dreams are hand decorated, many of them with sparkles, gems and glitter and each design has it's own special message on the back.
These size pots measure approximately 6 inches x 5.5 inches and can hold up to £1000 in £2 coins.
Ceramic money pots are ideal for saving because you can't take any money out without breaking them open, eliminating any temptation to "borrow" a few coins now and then.


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Tubarões Futebol Clube dos Bijagós (tubarões being Portuguese for "sharks", Bidyogo: Futebol Klube Bidyogo) is a Guinea-Bissauan football club based in Bubaque. They currently play in the top domestic Campeonato Nacional da Guiné-Bissau.  It is one of two chief clubs of the Bijagos Archipelago, the other is EN Bolama.

The club entered the First Division in late 2002 and finished 10th with 18 points, Bijagós did not play in the following season as they withdrew and immediately relegated to the Second Division, not for a couple of years they return to the First Division Again for the 2015 season and was immediately relegated after being 12th inside the relegation zone.

References

Bijagos
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The Walking Tour
Reviewed by Stacy Bush, Fri., Feb. 25, 2000
by Kathryn Davis
Houghton Mifflin, 288 pp., $23
Kathryn Davis's new novel The Walking Tour defies any easy summary but here's the basic narrative: Late in the 20th century, two couples, Bobby Rose and Carole Ridingham and Coleman Snow and Ruth Farr, join a group of tourists for a pleasantly bucolic walking tour through the Welsh countryside. Both wives are artistic and unstable. Carole is a renowned, talented painter, tactfully considered a "borderline" schizophrenic. Ruth is a novelist subject to grandiose hallucinations. Their husbands are partners in a computer software company named SnowWrite & RoseRead and the creators of a program that allows a user to insert his or her own text into another author's existing work.
Joining the two couples are tour guides Brenda and David, who advertise their tour as a New Age Wordsworthian jaunt; another couple, Tadeusz and Magtil; and Naomi and Paula, who adamantly insist that they are not a couple. Completing this cast of characters is the single loner of the group, Mr. Hsia, an Asian businessman, who has a particularly keen interest in Bobby and Coleman's business and may or may not be plotting a hostile takeover. Like any other group of strangers quickly thrown into proximity, alliances and tensions stress and strain the group. But unlike most groups of hapless, quarreling tourists, this walking tour culminates in tragedy -- two of its members die.
Nearly 30 years later, Susan, the daughter of Bobby and Carole, studies the court transcripts, her mother's letters, and Ruth's diary, as she tries to understand what led to this catastrophe. At this point in the future, Susan is looking back at a world that literally no longer exists. Nobody now has the opportunity to visit a lush, pastoral country. This 21st century is a dark, barren world ruled by a violent gang called the Strags. Susan soon finds she has two daunting tasks at hand: What caused that fatal accident 30 years ago, and how did it also manage to precipitate the nightmare world that Susan now inhabits?
Davis' fragmented narrative is demanding but exhilarating. Few writers are confident enough to attempt such a complex plot and fewer still are skilled enough to bring it off. There are subtle homages to Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Sylvia Plath within The Walking Tour, which seems completely appropriate. At the end of the novel, it doesn't matter so much that Davis has provided a tidy solution for her mysteries but that she is able to convince you that every individual and event in the novel was in some way responsible for both disasters. In Davis' world, questions are more valuable than solutions -- and ultimately, more risky, too.
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These 11 prints were purchased as part of the Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography.
This is an Art Fund initiative for the British Museum and V&A to acquire a collection of 20th century and contemporary photography and digital images by artists from the Middle East (whether living in their countries of origin or outside). The Art Fund has given the two museums grants over £150,000 for the collection and additional support for the tour of the collection. Touma's photography looks at the presence of government, everyday life and religious ceremony in Syria. For the last ten years he has photographed the Sufi procession of the Rifa'i brotherhood, 'the day of al-Ziyara', made in honour of the Sufi teacher Al-Sheikh Abou Bakr Al-Huwari. Sufism is a mystical order of Islam. Pilgrims visit the shrine of the Holy Marabout, and perform music, dance, song and mystical rituals. The culmination of the procession is the spectacle of the mortification of the flesh; a self-inflicted wounding which is seen as an extreme act of faith. While this Sufi meeting is on the margins of mainstream Islamic religious traditions, it nevertheless remains popular. As he became accepted by the group, Touma's photographs reflected increased intimacy, and he placed himself at the heart of the activity in the procession. His images demonstrate familiarity and ease with his subjects, often showing them at close-range. The images selected here have been chosen to show various stages in the sequence of the procession.


Gingerbread Napkin Holders for Christmas - Try This Recipe!
Have a go at these easy delicious gingerbread napkin holders and impress your guests.
What is more Christmassy than gingerbread? The smell of gingerbread wafting through the house on Christmas eve is almost a right of passage into Christmas day. That sweet, warm, spiced ginger smell is Christmas encapsulated! These gingerbread napkin holders were an idea I used last year at Christmas time and they were a complete success. I made so many little gingerbread stars I had enough for every gathering I held or went to. They've been highly anticipated again this year, I'm told.
Gingerbread has a very ancient history. In 992 CE, an Armenian Monk, Gregory of Nicopolis, left Greece to live in France where he stayed for 7 years teaching the art of gingerbread making. Gingerbread then spread across Europe. German immigrants took gingerbread to Sweden in the 13th century, and Swedish nuns would bake gingerbread to ease indigestion and painted them white to hang as window decorations. Gingerbread recipes eventually spread to England in the 17th century and Queen Elizabeth would serve them to visiting dignitaries to showcase the latest spices from around the world.
Fast forward to now, and gingerbread is still baked in more or less the same way today, usually around Christmas time.
There aren't many gingerbread recipes out there that totally satisfy my ginger appetite. These do not hold back on the spice! I should warn you, these gingerbread napkin holders are extremely moreish so some may not make it to the table. I have been making gingerbread for many years now, so this gingerbread recipe has been tweaked more times than I care to admit.
This recipe will make a lot of gingerbread! I chop the dough in half and stick the rest in the freezer whenever my nieces are over.
Preheat an oven to 150 degrees, line 2 large baking sheets with some grease-proof paper.
Add in the butter and blend it all together until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs in the processor or with the tips of your fingers and thumbs.
Now for the wet ingredients: crack the egg into a bowl with the treacle and golden syrup and whisk it all well. Then add it to the breadcrumb mixture you've just made and whizz it all together until it forms a ball of dough.
Cut the dough in half and save one half in the freezer (unless you have 40 guests). Roll the dough out to the thickness of a pound coin, and with a star cutter, cut as many stars as you can, and re-roll the scraps out 3 times (I did this until I had no dough left, but be careful not to overwork the dough as it'll go tough) and put them nice and spaced out on the baking sheets.
Then poke two holes for the ribbons with a cocktail stick - quite a bit bigger than you need.
Bake them on the baking sheets (10 per sheet) for 10-13 minutes, careful not to let them burn as they'll be lovely and dark.
Whilst they're still warm, gently re-poke the holes. Store them until you want to use them, and then when you do, hold the back of the biscuit towards you and thread the ribbon through one hole to the front and back through the other, and tie them around each napkin. You can write the names of your guests on each biscuit if you like or you can keep them plain with a piece of rosemary or pine through each.


Sirakoss received CE mark approval for its Osteo3, a new nano-synthetic bone graft substitute designed for use in bone fracture repair.
1. Based on Sirakoss' proprietary nano-porous technology, Osteo3 consists of an inorganic matrix designed to be completely reabsorbed into the bone.
2. Osteo3 is intended for use as a bone graft material for filling skeletal system voids or gaps. It can be used alone or in combination with autograft or allograft.
3. Sirakoss is a nano-synthetic bone graft substitute developer.


Dr. Richman has many specialties. By speaking with her clients, not just focusing on their symptoms, she achieves insight and builds trust towards psychological and emotional well being.
With Dr. Richman's help, each client has a unique opportunity to view him/herself more accurately. The client can make connections between past and present that illuminate the way he or she relates to self and to others. Clients are encouraged to talk about thoughts and feelings that arise in therapy with Dr. Richman. Therapy is expensive, but it is a commitment to yourself. If the relationship to yourself isn't the most important, than how can you be the best you can be in all of your relationships?
If you are struggling with something mentioned below, give Dr. Richman a call. She may be able to help!


Italian designers and engineers have prepared hatchback Alfa Romeo Giulietta 2014. Get introduced to Juliet updated first visitors were able to auto show in Frankfurt, Germany in the fall of 2013. Sales restyled Alfa Romeo Giulietta 2014 in Europe started in the beginning of October this year.
New Alfa Romeo Giulietta 2014 outwardly distinguished from the pre-reform model produced since 2010 and sold for three years in an amount exceeding the mark of 215,000 copies, is very difficult, just change the details of decor – just a false radiator grille has become compact in the shape of a shield, and miniature eyes gained chrome bezels.
It is clear that such changes are in no way affected the external dimensions of the body of Juliet: 4351 mm long, 1798 mm wide, 1465 mm high, 2634 mm wheelbase, 150 mm ground clearance (increased to Russia by 30 mm compared with the European version). Even in the color palette, new enamel paint – Moonlight Pearl (moonlight), Anodizzato Blue (bright blue) and Bronze (bronze). Also, changed the design of alloy wheels 16, 17 and 18 of the radius. The standard equipment means the use of tires 205/55 R16, but you can order a larger wheels 215/45 R17 or 225/40 R18.
In the rest to us all the same Italian beauty, Spine-Chilling its unique body design. Drop-stylish headlamps with LED daytime running lights, beak grille, sophisticated design of the front fairing, the charismatic hood with bright edges of the letter V, powerfully swollen wheel arches, high window-sill line, perfect dome roof and delicious food with the original marker lamps with LEDs. We can not help it, just – Alfa Romeo Giulietta 2014.
The cabin has experienced restyling Giulietta changes and innovations much more. Master, responsible for interior design, Italian hatchback equipped with updated maps and new door handles, expanded color gamut offered to trim seats, front panel, and all interior parts.
Taking into account the installation of new multimedia systems upgraded Uconnect touch screen diagonal of 6.5 inches or 5 changed the center console. Modern multimedia devices with connectors for USB and AUX, media players, Ipod and iPhone, as well as all known smart phones, navigation and Bluetooth protocol (picture displayed on the screen with a 3D effect, providing a view of the countryside with bird's-eye view).
Once behind the wheel of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta 2014 felt caring embrace perfectly contoured seat, you do not want to leave the interior of the vehicle in which the spirit lives the sport, passion and drive. These seemingly small details and elements such as the speedometer and tachometer, looking down with the ignition off (shoots up and doing a lap of honor around the radius, we need only touch the start button), control key vehicle operation – Alfa Romeo DNA (three modes Dynamic Sport, Normal for everyday driving and All Weather for winter conditions or slippery roads), a perfect ball on a stick transmission, paddle shifters change gears (for the version with a gun), grip the steering wheel as if asking the driver to start the engine faster and begin to enjoy driving.
And the pleasure of steering meet modern specifications Alfa Romeo Giulietta 2014. Fully independent suspension with McPherson struts at the front and rear ventilated disc brakes in both axles, brakes, Dynamic Stability Control, Electronic Differential Lock imitation Q2, active steering with electrodynamic power steering, 6 speed manual or robotized gearbox TCT with 6 steps and a two-disc clutch.


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Q: A function of bounded variation in a regular set has bounded variation in $\mathbb R^N$ and a formula for its variation Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N$ be an open set. The total variation of a function $u \in L^1(\Omega)$ in $\Omega$ is given by
$$
|Du|(\Omega) := \sup\left\{\int_\Omega u \ \text{div}\varphi \ dx \ : \ \varphi \in C_c^1(\Omega; \mathbb R^N), \|\varphi\|_\infty \leq 1 \right\},
$$
and $u$ is said to have bounded variation in $\Omega$ if $|Du|(\Omega) < \infty$. In these notes on the Cheeger problem, Parini states that if $\Omega$ has Lipschitz boundary and $u$ has bounded variation in $\Omega$, then $u$ has bounded variation in $\mathbb R^N$ and
$$
|Du|(\mathbb R^N) = |Du|(\Omega) + \int_{\partial \Omega}|u| d \mathcal H^{N - 1},
$$
where $\mathcal H^{N - 1}$ denotes the Hausdorff measure.

How to prove this identity?

First I thought about approximating by smooth subsets (see Proposition 3.4 in the notes), and later I tried to work directly with the definition, but didn't accomplish much with neither approaches.
Thanks in advance and kind regards.

A: Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain with smooth boundary.
If $u$ is smooth, then $|Du|(\Omega) = \lVert \nabla u\rVert_{L^1(\Omega)}$. In fact, $\int_{\Omega} u\,\text{div}\varphi = -\int_{\Omega} \nabla u\cdot\varphi \le \lVert \nabla u\rVert_{L^1(\Omega)}$, so $|Du(\Omega)|\le \lVert \nabla u\rVert_{L^1(\Omega)}$. The other inequality follows taking $\varphi = -\zeta\,\nabla u/(|\nabla u|^2+\varepsilon)^{1/2}$, where $\zeta \in C_c^\infty(\Omega)$, $|\zeta|\le 1$ and $\zeta = 1$ in a compact subset $K\subset\Omega$; let $K$ approach $\Omega$.
Now, in $\mathbb{R}^N$, notice that $\int_{\mathbb{R}^N} u\,\text{div}\varphi = \int_{\Omega} u\,\text{div}\varphi = -\int_{\Omega} \nabla u\cdot \varphi + \int_{\partial\Omega}u\nu\cdot\varphi\,d\mathcal{H}^{N-1}$, where $\nu$ is the outward normal vector. Hence, $|Du(\mathbb{R}^N)| \le |Du(\Omega)| + \int_{\partial\Omega}|u|\,d\mathcal{H}^{N-1}$. In the other direction, take $\varphi = \varphi_1 + \varphi_2$ with $\varphi_1$ supported in $K\subset \Omega$ and such that $|Du(\Omega)| - \varepsilon < \int_{\mathbb{R}^N} u\,\text{div}\varphi_1$. Take $\varphi_2$ with support outside $K$ and in a neighborhood of $\partial\Omega$ such that $\int_{\partial\Omega}u\nu\cdot\varphi_2\,d\mathcal{H}^{N-1} = \int_{\partial\Omega}|u|\,d\mathcal{H}^{N-1}$.
When neither $\Omega$ nor $u$ satisfy the above properties of regularity, then I suppose that you can approach them by a sequence of smooth objects.

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Committee advances medical marijuana bill in Kentucky
by: AP
Posted: Mar 7, 2019 / 02:00 AM CST / Updated: Mar 7, 2019 / 02:00 AM CST
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bill to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky has won initial committee approval after lawmakers heard emotional testimony from people battling chronic pain and disease.
The bill, which would make marijuana legal in Kentucky for medical purposes only, cleared the House Judiciary Committee with bipartisan support after a two-hour hearing.
With only a few days left in this year's legislative session, the measure faces tough odds of becoming law. The bill now heads to the Republican-led House.
Its supporters say there's still enough time if legislative leaders want it to happen.
The bill includes regulations for growers, processers and dispensers. It would prohibit the smoking of marijuana for medical purposes, but it could be dispensed in other form including pills and oils.
(This story was originally published on March 06, 2019)
USI's Romain College of Business offers free federal and state income tax preparation
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT)- Through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA), the University of Southern Indiana students in the Romain College of Business will provide free federal and state income tax preparation on Mondays, February 4 through March 16.
"We have 27 students enrolled in the program this year," said Dr. Brett Bueltel, assistant professor of accounting. "Our students are excited for the opportunity to serve our community and gain real -world experience preparing tax returns."
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The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) has updated the notice Minimizing Lighting Impacts from Oil and Gas Activities to advise oil and gas operators of new, recommended lighting practices to preserve the dark skies necessary for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of West Texas. These recommended practices are the result of a collaborative effort by the McDonald Observatory, Permian Basin Petroleum Association, Texas Oil and Gas Association and the American Petroleum Institute.
To view the full notice, visit the RRC website at https://rrc.texas.gov/media/50349/notice-to-operators-dark-skies-2-11-2019.pdf.


Energy is a commodity traded in global markets. Lack of access to affordable energy sources, disruptions in energy flows, high import dependency and wild fluctuations in prices are all seen as potential weaknesses, impacting the economy and, consequently, the economic and social wellbeing of the communities affected. Can boosting the renewable energy capacity across Europe and the world change the rules of global energy politics? How does the EU's Energy Union contribute?
A reliable and affordable supply of energy is essential for our quality of life. Many of the goods and services we use every day entail using energy — a home-cooked meal, a pleasant ambient temperature at home, hot showers, television and radio programmes, delivery of parcels bought online, flights, a bus ride, a phone call, medical interventions, etc. A disruption in the energy supply can bring many activities to a total standstill.
The European Union (EU) currently imports a little over half of its inland energy consumption, while a smaller fraction of the energy produced in the EU is exported. Despite their decreasing share in the overall energy mix and the overall decline in their use, fossil fuels continue to be by far the main source of energy, meeting approximately three quarters of energy consumption in the EU in 2015. Moreover, the EU's dependence on fossil fuel imports has increased. In 2005, 2 tonnes of fossil fuels were imported for each tonne produced in the EU and, in 2015, the EU imported 3 tonnes of fossil fuels for each tonne produced.
Russia and Norway are the two largest crude oil and natural gas exporters to the EU. In 2015, Russia supplied 29 % of crude oil imports and 37 % of natural gas imports, followed by Norway with 12 % for crude oil and 32 % for natural gas. Between 2004 and 2015, Russia also became a key exporter of solid fuels, such as coal and lignite, and supplied 29 % of imports in 2015, followed by Colombia and the United States.
The dependency rate on energy imports varies significantly among EU Member States. Denmark and Estonia meet their energy needs almost entirely from national production, while Malta, Luxembourg and Cyprus import almost all their energy. Import dependency, be it for a Member State or the EU as a whole, could constitute an economic and geopolitical risk. If international energy flows stop, the impacts could extend well beyond the exporting and the importing countries.
Like many other resources, oil and natural gas are traded commodities sold on international markets. Fluctuations in the price can be seen every day as responses to market signals, political statements or even pure market speculation. In the last seven decades, crude oil prices varied from below USD 20 to over USD 150 per barrel (). Some of these fluctuations consisted of major price shocks triggered by political turbulence in oil producing regions, shortages of supply in global markets due to limited production capacity or disruptions in energy trading.
Ukraine is not only an importer but also a major energy transit country, transporting gas produced in Russia and the Central Asian republics to eastern and south-eastern Europe. On 1 January 2009, following a pricing dispute, Russia halted natural gas flows to Ukraine. Within days, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Turkey reported drops in pipeline pressure. Key industrial plants halted production in Bulgaria, while Slovakia declared a state of emergency. Homes could not be heated during the particularly cold winter of 2009.
By controlling the amounts of energy available in global markets, large producers can also influence prices. For example, following the Yom Kippur war in the Middle East in 1973-1974, crude oil prices went up from USD 20 to over USD 50 () in a matter of weeks. This 'first oil crisis' was triggered by, among other things, a decision by a number of oil exporting countries to increase oil export prices by 70 % and to block exports to certain countries. The impacts on the global economy were felt immediately.
Given the magnitude of the potential socio-economic impacts, governments often see high import dependency on key resources (e.g. oil, gas and electricity in some cases) and dependency on a limited number of providers as a vulnerability. To this end, many countries have put in place measures to address disruptions by increasing their energy storage capacity or diversifying their sources. Some countries have made additional investments in renewable energy generation within their territories. Others have connected their countries to transboundary energy networks and electricity grids. Similarly, energy consumption patterns and behaviours have changed in some countries. Some communities have had to go back to burning wood for heating homes, which, in turn, has affected local air quality. In other countries, such as Denmark, the shortage of petrol in the 1970s induced the public to cycle more and the public authorities to facilitate this by building extensive bicycle paths.
Import dependency is not the only risk linked to the supply of energy. Energy poverty, defined as not having access to sufficient amounts of energy at affordable prices, is another. It might be due to not being connected to main energy grids. Large production facilities, providing jobs to local communities, often rely on access to an uninterrupted energy supply and to transport networks.
Global energy consumption is expected to grow in the coming decades. In its World energy outlook 2016 report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) considers that there will be a 30 % increase in global energy demand by 2040 and anticipates an increase in consumption of all modern fuels. The fastest growth is expected in renewable energy. Oil consumption is also expected to grow but at a slower rate than that of natural gas, while coal consumption is expected to cease, despite its rapid expansion in recent years. The IEA also points out that in 2040 hundreds of millions of people across the world will still not have electricity at home or will have to rely on biomass to cook food. The IEA growth scenario also reflects a geographical shift in energy demand towards industrialising and urbanising countries in Asia, Africa and South America.
The growth in energy demand mobilises countries and energy companies alike to explore alternative sources. These may consist of exploring oil and gas reserves in areas and regions that until recently have been largely untouched or unexploited, such as the Arctic or tar sands in Canada. They may also involve new technologies (e.g. those used in shale oil and gas exploitation) to extract known reserves that were not previously reachable and profitable. The decrease in oil production in the Middle East might be offset by an increase in shale oil production in the United States. Exploration and extraction can cause pollution, oil spills and other environmental damage, not only at the site but also along the transport routes.
Similarly, the prospective growth in energy demand might stimulate investments in clean renewable energy. China, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, has met its growing energy needs largely by investing in large dams and coal-fuelled power plants. In January 2017, however, China's National Energy Administration announced the cancellation of plans for over 100 coal-fired power plants. These cancellations come on top of those announced in 2016, which were for power plants already under construction. Growing public concerns over poor air quality and a quicker-than-expected uptake of renewables appear to have facilitated the decision to move away from coal. This type of decision will not only result in improvements in air quality but also contribute to the efforts to limit climate change.
When addressing the issue of a secure, uninterrupted supply of affordable energy, the questions are how much energy is available and where is it available from. Relying on local and renewable energy sources might be the best option in terms of both environmental impacts and import dependency. In addition, energy efficiency — broadly defined as getting more out of the fuel at hand — is vital.
Energy production capacity varies from one region and country to another. Depending on their location, natural resources, topography and available technologies, countries and regions can optimise their energy sources. Some countries might have a higher solar power generation potential, whereas others might rely more on wind, hydropower, tidal energy or local biomass.
A combination of several sources is one of the keys to ensuring a steady supply of energy until it is possible to store and transport clean renewable energy in sufficient quantities, allowing it to be used at a later time and at any location. Energy security concerns can induce even countries that export energy to invest in local renewable energy sources.
If current extraction rates are maintained, known conventional fossil fuel reserves will be depleted within decades. The demand for energy will remain even after these reserves are depleted. Given this, there are two basic approaches to determining how the future demand for energy can be met. In the first approach, energy producers might opt to explore and exploit other forms of fossil fuels, such as tar sands or shale gas, or might expand their activities to new regions that have been relatively unexploited until now. The second approach might entail meeting the future demand by using only renewables, replacing the existing infrastructure and leaving fossil fuel reserves intact in the ground.
Some countries, including the Unites States, have opted for exploiting shale oil and tar sands, while others, including some coal- and oil-dependent countries, such as Saudi Arabia and China, have recently expressed interest in and commitment to renewables. Saudi Arabia — the largest crude oil producer and exporter in the world — is predisposed equally to solar and wind energy. In fact, as part of its renewable energy push, in February 2017, Saudi Arabia announced investments of USD 50 billion by 2023 to build a 700 megawatt solar and wind power generation capacity.
The choice of fuel type, however, is not always determined by topography, markets or global demand. Such choices might be based on jobs and, ultimately, the economic wellbeing of the communities concerned. The economy of some countries and regions may be heavily dependent on a locally abundant type of fossil fuel, such as coal or oil. Diversifying the energy mix and moving towards renewables might affect the local economy and, more concretely, might imply a loss of jobs. Given this, a successful transition often requires an understanding of the social context and offering alternative employment opportunities to the local workforce.
In this context, export dependency can be as much of a weakness as import dependency. What if your country has invested and continues to invest in an energy source without a future? What if the economy depends heavily on energy exports but buyers prefer cleaner alternatives? Diversifying energy sources and investing in renewable energy are equally relevant and essential for a country's economic future.
Better connected energy networks and markets within the EU can actually help to boost diversity in energy sources and facilitate access to cleaner energy, while ensuring a reliable supply. They can even serve, to some extent, as a buffer to global energy shocks and severe price fluctuations. A more decentralised power generation capacity (e.g. solar panels installed on roofs feeding the electricity grid) and a better management of demand and supply (e.g. through smart meters) could also help. The EU's Energy Union strategy aims to address, among others, these core issues, such as energy security and energy efficiency, and give consumers a more prominent role in a fully integrated energy market to ensure a regular supply of climate-friendly energy at affordable prices for all energy users.
() West Texas Intermediate in 2015 real prices.
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In this assignment you will read three articles and determine the pros and cons of Windows Vista, Windows XP, MAC OS X, and Linux. Please include all the information in the assignment from this rubric.
Open the following articles in a new browser window. Each of them make a case for the use of a particular operating system. Review each article and find points for pros and cons of each OS.


Want to use Appointments + for a day rental - it only shows hours as duration - please help.
I posted a Q - though not sure it went through.
I am using Appointments+ and want to rent a product by the day. The plugin only lists Hours as a duration. Can I change that to by the day? or can I remove it from the post when listing to clients?
I'm afraid appointments+ currently only handles hours and not day/days, you could hide the time of the appointment if this would help?
But your other clients could still book within the timebase defined, is this for say daily car rentals for example?
That's exactly it. It's a desk for a day scenario. I set the service 'duration' to 480 hours, ie and 8 hour day.
I could make the Capacity 1, and have each desk be a new 'Service' for an 8 hour day.
Do you think that would work? any other suggestions?
Can I use something like this function - and if so, where do I ad it?
I don't believe that the function will work for what you require.
On the 480 hour setup, what box would be the 480 part in the appointments+ settings?


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Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport is located around 15 miles east of the centre of the city of Tel Aviv in a small city called Lod. The airport has a reputation for being one of the most security conscious places in the world, and as such, the arrivals process can be slightly longer than at other airports, however thanks to the friendly staff, the experience of arriving into Tel Aviv is pleasant, and the efficiency that has been achieved means that you are able to pass through the airport fairly effortlessly if you arrive during quieter periods. The airport is modern and airy, and has 4 main Terminal buildings that handle a total of around 14 million passengers each year.
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Israel is one of the most historic countries on the planet, and having the freedom to explore its different attractions is essential if you want to get the most out of your visit. While there are a lot of organised tours that can show you the main attractions, it is only through private exploration of the country that you will give yourself the opportunity to meet the locals and get to see the real Israel. There is a single road in Israel that has a toll ? Highway 6, and this cannot be used by hire cars.
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All of the car hire companies at Tel Aviv Airport are located in the greeters hall next to Exit 13 of Terminal 1. This is just after passing through the security control area of the building after baggage claim area. A number of different car hire companies operate in Tel Aviv Airport, including Budget , Avis, Sixt , Avital, and Hertz.
Driving Directions to Tel Aviv Airport
The route from the centre of Tel Aviv to Ben Gurion Airport is fairly straightforward. From the city centre orbital road, Route 20 or Ayalon North, you head east along Route 1 towards Ganot and follow the signs for the airport. The road heads straight into the area between the Terminal s where you enter the airport.
Tel Aviv Airport Contact Details
Most information that you could need about Tel Aviv Airport can be found on the management website for the Israeli Airport Authority, iaa.gov.il. You can also telephone for information or customer services to the main airport switchboard, which is available 24 hours a day on (972).98616470.
Israel Airports Authority
Po Box 137, Ben-Gurion
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70100, Israel.
Ph: (0)3 975 5555 or visit: www.iaa.gov.il/rashat/en-us/airport/bengurion.
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Best Buy customers often prefer the following products when searching for Christmas Gifts For Girls.
Browse the top-ranked list of Christmas Gifts For Girls below along with associated reviews and opinions.
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"Highly recommended for girl or boy."
"Makes a great Christmas gift....Talk about thrilling a little girl!!!...All in all, the Echo Dot is worth the $29.95 that paid for it and I would give it a 4.5/5.0, and recommend that you buy one for your home if you can envision current uses, such as listening to news reports, music and a variety of podcasts, asking Alexa to look things up in Wikipedia for you, or have Alexa tell you corny jokes and words of inspiration or for future uses, such as controlling the lights (smart bulbs), alarms, smart thermostat, etc"
"But I was lucky enough to get a gift card for Christmas which covered most of the cost so I gave them a chance and sure glad I did....This product is perfect for my two girls!...This is by far the best headphones I have ever owned in my life I highly recommend him I have on them for about one month and I have zero complaints whatsoever I'm thinking about getting a second pair that's horribl this is by far the best headphones I have ever owned in my life I highly recommend him I have on them for about one month and I have zero complaints whatsoever I'm thinking about getting a second pair"
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"Good gift for the holidays...She is a smart girl....I purchased the Amazon Fire stick because of all the hype that was going on I must say I am really impressed for it to be such a small device There is almost no limit to the things that you can stream on your television very small compact device that really gets the job done well if you don't already have a fire stick I suggest you get one is great for TV shows and movies"
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"Sought after Christmas gift- great Black Friday deal...The 12-13 year old girls love this camera....This Christmas I bought the 7 mini I was happy with it and thought it was a fine camera but after seeing this one at best buy I thought to myself maybe ive made the wrong decision so I picked this guy up the very same day and I dont regret it, I returned the 7 mini after seeing the improvements this has made from it, the button as opposed to puilling the camera out to turn it on the light meter to show the recommended lighting setting"
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Expect two years of accusations, lawsuits, investigations and impeachment proceedings with little regard for the facts. Those now heading powerful committees in Congress are either Trump haters, publicity-grabbing incompetents, or both.
Eliot Engel, new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wants to dissolve the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade and divert the resources to a new committee investigating the president. Myriad progressive bills the president won't sign will pass the House to satisfy their base, blame him for Washington gridlock and nullify the election. Those who no longer respect their opponent's honest election results show their moral turpitude and fascist goals.
The Senate can, of course, act independently of the House in some areas, such as appointing judges. But with the House holding the purse strings, Trump's ability to go forward will be greatly diminished by political shenanigans.
Yes, America, it was a big deal.
A recent contributor concludes that President Donald Trump's "attacks" on federal courts reveal Constitutional "ignorance." The writer is uninformed.
Disagreeing with judicial decisions is not ignorance; note that many are reversed. Nor is it unique. Recall President Barack Obama's graceless State of the Union attack on the justices, sitting before him with the entire Congress and a national television audience, because he differed with the Citizens United decision. Indeed, Obama, purportedly a Constitutional scholar, incorrectly claimed the decision permits foreign governments to finance political-campaign speech. Recall also, FDR's threat to pack the Supreme Court over his anger with its decisions.
The separation of powers ensures disagreement among coequal branches, which is forcefully illustrated by Democratic leadership's constant attacks on presidential decisions?
Trump's reference to "my" DOJ angers the writer. Obama did the same. The fact is, both presidents are correct. The Department of Justice is an executive branch cabinet office answerable to the president. The ignorance is not Trump's.
The writer's description of The Federalist Society is also wrong. It is neither "extremely partisan" nor a "think tank." It is a nonpartisan lawyer society with a bias for literal statutory and constitutional interpretation, i.e. rule of law. One concerned with Constitutional order should know and accept the president's right, even obligation, to appoint jurists who reflect his and his supporters' judicial philosophy rather than that of his opposition. As Obama explained, elections do have consequences.
The writer is correct on one point. These are dangerous times when citizens remain uninformed.
We all have been seeing Dominion Energy's full-page newspaper ads or TV spots about "being excited to be your partner," yada, yada, yada, since purchasing SCANA/SCE&G.
How about taking all that advertising money and using it to reduce our electric rates instead of advertising to make yourselves feel good?
We, as electric utility consumers, have absolutely no choice on who we can use to get our electricity, so save the self-congratulations in your ads and just reduce our rates.
It has always amazed me why a monopoly has to advertise anyway. What a waste of our money.
How to prove SC gas tax paid?
You say to keep your gas receipts to save money on your tax return. Have you looked at a gas receipt lately? On all of our receipts that we have we don't see any tax shown on any of them. How can you use this if it is not posted on the receipt?


An Indie Record Label from London, UK.
An indpendent record label with a small but strong roster of artists. This website uses their excellent branding and presents a thoroughly professional initial impression.
Mi7 Records is an independent record label based in London that represents artists such as Trampoline, James Baxter and The Dead Freights. The team boasts years of music industry experience across management, composing and performing as well as A&R and production. The acts on their roster represent the cutting edge of independent music in the UK today.
The purpose of the website was to provide a strong online presence for the label where PR companies, distributors and industry professionals could see their roster, learn about the team and link into the social media presence. The company has striking branding and the focus was to make sure the look of the site made use of the excellent graphics. Music content was of an excellent standard and the site shows the quality of the work the label is doing without getting in the way of the user experience with too much animation or choices.


This funeral card design offers a lovely floral border design. The back offers a text box and soft coordinating solid background color. The main colors for this background are soft pink hues. This template layout is 4up or 4 cards per sheet of letter size paper and can be easily customized. Cut to separate the cards and distribute! Change the front cover title by using your own wording and fonts! We do not recommend adding pages to this layout.


The UK Department of Health has appointed Alan Croxford senior reward and employee relations manager.
He has spent the past two years as interim reward manager at the government department.
Croxford's other roles in the industry include head of reward and employment relations at the Civil Aviation Authority, head office HR manager and HR strategy manager at Balfour Beatty Rail Maintenance, and personnel and administration manager at British Rail.


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Madras (T)
Start-up's fuel cells generate power from textile waste waterfuel
A start-up founded by an Indian Institute of Technology-Madras alumni has developed microbial fuel cells that can generate electricity by treating textile wastewater. JSP Enviro, which ventured into the
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT)
Nationwide drive to find TB, malaria drugs
New Delhi: Giving crowd sourcing a whole new meaning, scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have initiated a countrywide venture to build a chemical library with diverse
Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR)
Chennaiites looking up to solar energy
There has been nearly 10 per cent increase in sale of solar devices in the city in the past one year Rising fuel prices, frequent power cuts and the overall costs that accompany the use of electrical devices have forced many households and institutions in the city to look beyond conventional sources of energy, especially at solar power. Suppliers point to a nearly-ten per cent-increase in th
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Chennai (T)
Prison Department proposes to install solar power system
CHENNAI: As part of efforts to minimise power consumption and promote renewable energy sources in government buildings, the Prison Department is proposing to install solar power system in high-security prisons.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL)
Wastewater Recycling
In Court
No humans in manholes: On June 23, the Madras High Court asked the state to nominate members to a committee to oversee implementation of the court order banning human entry into sewer lines and septic tanks. The committee would comprise members from the water supply and sewerage board and Chennai Corporation. The court also asked the government to invite voluntary and technical organizations
Court order on public auction for leasing out the public tanks in Kanyakumari Dist.for the purpose of cultivation of lotus plant
Court order on public auction for leasing out the public tanks in Kanyakumari District for the purpose of cultivation of lotus plants. See also http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/newsletter/Kanya_Kumari.htm
High Court of Madras
Lake Pollution
PIL on public auction for leasing out the public tanks in Kanyakumari District for the purpose of cultivation of lotus plants
PIL on public auction for leasing out the public tanks in Kanyakumari District for the purpose of cultivation of lotus plants. See also http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/newsletter/Kanya_Kumari.htm
Public Interest Litigation (PIL)


by establishing two intercom connections simultaneously.
Please refer to "Intercom Pairing" for pairing instructions.
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Martha Roby & Bill Keating
Compare the voting records of Martha Roby and Bill Keating in 2017-18.
Martha Roby
Represented Alabama's 2nd Congressional District. This is her 4th term in the House.
Bill Keating
Represented Massachusetts's 9th Congressional District. This is his 4th term in the House.
Martha Roby and Bill Keating are from different parties and disagreed on 70 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
May 19, 2017 — Probation Officer Protection Act of 2017
April 4, 2017 — Encouraging Employee Ownership Act
Jan. 10, 2017 — Helping Angels Lead Our Startups (HALOS) Act
July 18, 2018 — Jody B. Hice of Georgia Amendment No. 69
May 17, 2018 — McClintock of California Amendment No. 3
Sept. 12, 2017 — Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act
Sept. 7, 2017 — Yoho of Florida Part B Amendment No. 110
Sept. 6, 2017 — Babin of Texas Part B Amendment No. 58
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May 1, 2017 — Follow the Rules Act
May 1, 2017 — Small Business Capital Formation Enhancement Act
May 1, 2017 — Fair Access to Investment Research Act of 2017