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Shaper: Rhydian Lewis
That was Mel Torme with All That Jazz. Good morning, this is Jazz Shapers with me, Elliot Moss every Saturday morning here on Jazz FM. Thank you very much for joining me. What is Jazz Shapers, I hear you ask if you haven't caught it before. Jazz Shapers is the place where you can hear the very best of the people who are shaping the world of jazz, blues and soul alongside their equivalents in the world of business; a Business Shaper, and my Business Shaper today I am very pleased to say is Rhydian Lewis. He is the co-founder and chief executive of Rate Setter, they are officially in the last 12 months the largest peer-to-peer lending platform in the UK; how about that for a fact? You'll be hearing lots from him about the wild and wonderful new world of alternative finance. Lots coming up from Rhydian very shortly. In addition to hearing from Rhydian you'll be hearing from our programme partners at Mishcon De Reya some words of advice for your business. And, as well as all that of course, a carefully assembled mix of music from the shapers of jazz, blues and soul including new music from Jerry Alexander, classic Miles Davis, and this from Dionne Warwick.
That was the lovely Dionne Warwick with Walk On By. This is Jazz Shapers and Rhydian Lewis is my Business Shaper today, he is the co-founder as I said earlier, of Rate Setter, and indeed the chief executive, and Rate Setter is a peer-to-peer lending platform. Rhydian, thank you very much for joining me and I also should add as I said, one of them, the best, the biggest! And you've grown very fast. Tell me, in a nutshell, what is it, because many people may not know, what is a peer-to-peer business, what does it do?
Rhydian Lewis
We are a website that allows savers to lend directly to borrowers so in that way you cut out the bank, and the proposition is that there's greater value to be shared out between the savers and the borrowers and we're just the people that make it all work in the middle.
Sounds remarkably simple, and I remember reading something where you said "I was shockingly naïve in my approach to this thing", but what you've just described is of course that your Rate Setter is big, I think that some other business, Oprah, is one of them, there's a few, I forget the names, they've all got these natty names and indeed I've interviewed slightly different side the Crowd Cube Fund founder as well, a while back. It is a brave new world that has such things in it, but it sounds so obvious, take the banks out and people can lend to each other. Why, and you set up this business how long ago, Rhydian?
And why hadn't the world of peer-to-peer existed in the form that it did? Was it because of the lack of technology do you think?
Yeah, I think it first started in 2005 and I think the first three or four years of it were very quiet, partly because I think people were still fearful of the internet, I mean it wasn't that long ago that people were still worried about the safety of buying a book on Amazon. In 2007/8/9 they were still thinking, is that dangerous to be buying a book on Amazon, it much safer to buy on the High Street. Obviously, that seems an absurd concept now, everyone's very comfortable with doing all their banking online, doing all their e-commerce online and I think that peer-to-peer lending is just a reflection of that actually.
And how much did you lend last year, go on, give me the number, the big number!
Last year, in 2014, three hundred million.
That's a lot of money isn't it? I mean that is, I know it's about a two point three billion pound market roughly, but that's a significant slug of that. Let me cast back, I want to go back a little bit, obviously – you're a Modern Languages graduate from Bristol University, a fine place indeed! How did you end up here? You're an entrepreneur, you were in the proper world of banking, I mean, you know, the serious world of banking, where the names have been around for hundreds of years. Surely your family when you said I'm going to set my own business up, they thought you were crazy, Rhydian!
No, they did, they did and I was so determined to do it that I think there was no way round it. They were not going persuade me otherwise. How did I come to it? I fiddled around a little bit after University with various jobs then I did move into the world of banking and I went to work for a bank that is 160 years old and is a very storied name, but it is a…it's an advisor, it doesn't actually deal with, it advises big companies, it's not a consumer business in anyway it doesn't have a banking licence. But during that period I got to understand how banks work in excruciating detail, and I always had in the back of my mind the idea of whether the peer-to-peer revolution had gone on at other industries and it's not just in lending, you know, you see it in Ebay, Ebay is a peer-to-peer business. There's a company called Betfair which has changed betting, which is a peer-to-peer exchange. So I'd always wondered, and actually first of all back in 2002, whether it could ever be applied to money, and at that time I wrote a couple of pages on the concept of whether you could use an Ebay like model for money. Unfortunately I didn't keep those two pages, because I'd love to look back at them now and I should think they are all incredibly naïve, and it took me effectively eight years to get round to doing it, but the kind of catalyst was obviously the banking crisis, where it was just evident to anybody who understood what was going on, that that is a model that is still under question and you know, are they the right way to inter-mediate money, and then also you obviously have for the first time, a major shake-up of consumer trust in the old establishment, so it seemed a fantastic opportunity to put forward something new, because people are going to be more open to adopting that. I still think it's actually early days for what we do you know, it takes time to build trust but it's certainly heading in the right direction.
Find out where that direction is going and how actually Rhydian Lewis, my Business Shaper, has mapped it out over the last few years. Time for some music, this is I Mean You from Joey Alexander, the eleven year old piano sensation recently signed, for those of you who would like to know, to Motema Records.
That was the extraordinary Joey Alexander, eleven years old, yes eleven, with I Mean You. Rhydian Lewis is my Business Shaper. Rhydian, we've been talking about where you got the idea from and it was indeed a confluence of things as you said, the excruciating detail of looking at the banking world, the failure of the financial system, or the pseudo-collapse of it, the rise of technology and your own sense of, and this is the bit I want to explore, the way you could actually make something happen. Why you? Because other people would have had the same thoughts, but not everyone else went on to set up their own business. You don't look like the obvious sort of entrepreneurial type in the sense that, you know, you went to University, you did a proper Degree, you went and worked for these big 160 year old companies and things…what drove you to go 'I'm gonna do that?'
I think it's interesting, the subject of entrepreneurism, because I think there are some people who are born entrepreneurs and then they will turn their hand to anything and they tend to be the serial entrepreneurs, you set one thing up and then go on to another and so forth, and then I think there are some people who just see a big opportunity and have the guts to go for it and know enough about it to be absolutely convinced it's going to work. So I would class myself as somebody in the latter camp, I'm not necessarily someone who would have gone and set up a game-changing restaurant or something like that. I don't know, maybe actually after this, you know, that there might be another escapade but I…
Well I was going to say, the thing is, it's probably addictive isn't it, a little a bit, because I imagine if you cast your mind back to as you set up, the lunacy of that I imagine from a funding perspective, from an operations perspective, from an is it going to work, from a compliance – all the things that you were thinking about, did you at any point go, 'look I've got the guts, I've done it, I've got the idea, I know it's going to work, I believe', and I think belief is critical as you…
Absolutely critical.
But did you ever think, 'ah, let me off?'
No, I think it's interesting to look back at one's state of mind actually, and it's kind of unrecognisable, I mean in that, the sheer bloody mindedness and determination, and you know you have to believe because it's all about getting other people to believe because then you get that kind of ripple effect and you know that if you falter for one moment, then you can be sure that everyone else will.
But you faltered, you must have, we're all human, when you're on your own or talking to your other half, you know, your other, loved and closest and nearest and dearest, did you falter and go 'I'm not sure' or you even to them private going 'It's going to be ok.'
Yeah, no, there have been periods of serious doubt, there's no doubt about it, and real wobbles, but, never…that's inevitable, and you know, you have good days and bad days. I would be lying if I said that I didn't think there was an over-arching kind of belief that it made enough sense and that there was enough support with regards to kind of, social change as much as anything else as well as you know, the change in technology and the banking crisis and so forth, that kept pushing me forward, but there's absolutely been periods when you just think 'this is not going to work', or 'What have I got into here?' but overall there was always a strong sense that it made sense what we were doing.
More coming up from my steely Business Shaper Rhydian Lewis, he's the co-founder and CO of Rate Setter. Latest travel in a couple of minutes and before that some words of wisdom from our programme partners Mishcon De Reya for your business.
You're listening to Jazz Shapers with me, Elliot Moss, every Saturday morning. I'm very lucky because I get to meet someone who has shaped and is shaping the world of business, a Business Shaper. If you've missed any of the 175 plus or so of the last four years, I believe you can catch quite a lot of them in iTunes, put in the words 'jazz' and 'shapers'. If you're on a British Airways flight in the future then you can go over there and have a look at the latest one who we will be featuring, and CityAM.com is another destination for you. Rhydian Lewis is my Business Shaper today, he's the co-founder of Rate Setter, they are a ten million plus turnover business who lent over three hundred million pounds, that's three hundred million pounds, to lots of people, peers, basically, people borrowing and people lending from each other, and he's part of a revolution that's happening right in front of our eyes in the world of finance. Rhydian, we're talking about your steeliness and that sense of determination, and that, you know, of course everyone doubts but in reality you believed right the way through. Who do you think you've taken greatest stock from and the greatest source of advice and comfort from over these last few years as you've set up, is it the very closest people around you?
Yeah, well I actually think I'm very fortunate enough to have a co-founder and you can share a lot of the burden and you know, make better decisions by talking with each other, and you know, there are many times when we disagree on something but the kind of consensus seems to be arriving to the right decision, so I mean, he's called Peter, he was a lawyer, so he came from a pretty traditional world as well and I admire him enormously because he is even braver than I was, because he had three young children at the time that we set up the business, which really was a brave decision. So, but having a co-founder I think is absolutely crucial and I have spoken to other people who have set up businesses that don't have a co-founder and I think they envy that because it can be a lonely existence and you can doubt yourself, but if there is somebody…
And were you friends before, or did you become friends through work, because sometimes people say I don't work with friends or family, but how did that relationship evolve?
Yeah funnily enough, we were, well we were at school together and we didn't know each other particularly well but that shared experience gave us mutual, you know, trust, a sense of trust, so it was a good combination I always say to him, of being, we trusted each other without being friends, there wasn't a friendship to ruin or to get in the way or muddle things up, but there was kind of underlying trust and so it was quite a good combination I think.
And are your values, because obviously business is predicated on having a great idea, having the guts to go for it, but also being driven by a sense of principle and integrity, it all being well. Do you find those are very closely aligned with each other?
Yes. I think that it's completely unspoken and that was just pot luck to find somebody that…where our instincts are, you know, if there's a decision to do with a…particularly on the sort of customer side, we just seem to have the same instincts as to what the right decision is, so that's good fortune.
And do you ever disagree on any fundamentals and if so how do you resolve those?
We have a …
…he's now thinking 'how honest should I be?'
….no exactly…
I can see him whirring around, what will Rhydian Lewis reveal right now?
…Yeah. No, you know, well maybe there's a time for, one has to pull rank maybe and say, that, you know, it's important to…yeah there are certain decisions where I say…I will make them but never without kind of consulting and…
It's okay to disagree, you can say, 'listen I hear what you're saying on this one, I think we're going to do that', and that happens, is what you're saying?
…yeah, and I think everyone finds that incredibly helpful because there's nothing worse than indecision in a business, it saps people's sort of confidence and enthusiasm, is when things go round and round in circles, I think that's what happens in a lot of big businesses is that you just don't get decisions made, so everybody appreciates having quite a clear decision maker and at this stage that's quite helpful, and so we seem to have managed to navigate that without falling out and it works well.
You see, they can be friends, and they are now, not just trust but friendship too. Time for some music, this is Miles Davis with Time After Time.
That was Miles Davis with Time After Time. I've been talking to Rhydian Lewis, he's my Business Shaper today, and he's the co-founder of Rate Setter. As you look forward now, you've got this business that's sort of working, you're growing exponentially, can a business like yours, and I think you've grown like 177% in the last twelve months…can you do that again? I mean, is there, is because of technology, because people are understanding how to do it, because there's less fear, because the banks don't seem to have arrested their own decline – is that kind of growth sustainable?
Well obviously it gets harder but I think that the outlook for peer-to-peer lending is very good because I think we're still a rounding error in the system despite all the excitement around peer-to-peer lending and it's getting a lot of attention, as it deserves, because it is probably the biggest change in lending and borrowing for hundreds of years, so it's very exciting. But we're still pretty small in the overall picture, there's a huge growth to go for, and so I think that's entirely possible that it can double every year. It's actually… the key thing is to manage that well and people, you know, it's a sensitive industry, there's no doubt about it, and the key is to invest properly and get the right people and the right processes. We're regulated now, so we get, we have somebody, to sort of oversee the industry which is very helpful I think, and gives people more confidence that it's been done well, but I think the growth outlook is very very good.
I believe that not one investor has lost their money, is that right, that's kind of been your, the thing that you say, is that right?
That's right, I mean we weren't the first peer-to-peer lender but we came into the market with something completely different and that's what sort of gave us a right to exist if you like, is that we didn't just copy, we actually innovated ourselves. So when we launched in 2010, we launched with something called a provision fund which is just a sort of central pot of money, funded by all the borrowers that's there to protect the investors and so it effectively means that the investors, their risk is spread over the whole loan book and there is a buffer and what it's meant is that we've been going five years and lent nearly seven hundred million pounds, and investors have received every single penny.
Now that's brilliant, and that's kind of almost your entry level for you, because you've redefined what the market should be doing.
You look forward now, the next five, ten years, creating a vision based on what you think may or may not happen, either in the banking world or the technology world, that's tricky. How do you find a space for you and Peter to go, 'Right, what might it look like?' or do you not work like that?
No, I think we're definitely looking…that's the next stage, so the first stage is just to get up and running and you know, you're a start-up, and you need to keep your head above water and get enough trust in your system and reach a level of structure that the day-to-day works and I think we've reached that, and… but the next stage is how do we keep ahead of any new trends or how do we actually really disrupt and scale traditional systems. And for that, myself and others need to spend more time thinking as opposed to doing and we're going through that process right now, which is just to delegate, get a good trust in people, better people than us at certain areas, and give them all the responsibility, allowing you to think about the strategy, because it's not going to be one-way traffic, I mean we are trying to disrupt the most powerful and the biggest industry there is and luckily we have a lot of support from Government, who recognise that what we're doing is a force for good and they're desperately keen to introduce competition in banking. Something that's just been woeful in the last twenty years or so. So there's a lot of support for what we do, but we don't underestimate the challenge of breaking through, beyond where we are today and that's going to require, you know, careful strategy.
Final chat coming up with Rhydian, plus we're going to play a track from Jamie Cullum and Gregory Porter, that's after the latest traffic and travel here on Jazz FM.
That was Jamie Cullum and Gregory Porter with Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, big band sound, how good was that? Rhydian Lewis has been my Business Shaper just for a few more precious minutes and we've talked about all sorts of things, we touched on the future, and you're saying now is the time for strategy to kick in and for other people to begin, as you humbly said, I'm sure it's partly true but not completely, that better people can do the jobs that you've been doing. Are you fearful that you're going to miss the hurley-burley of this crazy thing called the start-up, because you are moving to phase two aren't you? Are you kind of going 'well I want it, I need it', but there's a guilt of not being heavily involved and stressed in the way that you have been in probably in the last few years?
Yeah, I think it's important to get over that, I mean, because otherwise you can tinker in other people's job the whole time and it just slightly undermines their sense of authority.
How do you stop yourself tinkering?
I dunno, that's a good question, you have to lock your door. No, you have to consciously think about it and go, you know 'you can't', it's very important to step away from things and…
But it's not being done the way you want it to be done, you want to fiddle, what do you say to yourself, 'Rhydian no, leave it, I've got more important things to do'.
Well, one thing I've really learnt is not to…you know, the expression 'perfect can't be the enemy of good', you know? There are a few things that we need to do absolutely but fantastically, but most businesses are… have to compromise on certain things, and if it's good and it's working that's fine, and you know, I think a lot of entrepreneurs are perfectionists about their product on every little element, and I think I'm a perfectionist in certain areas, and certain areas I realise it's just as long as it works, that's fine, and otherwise I think you can over-engineer a lot of things, and I think another pitfall is that we're trying to change something very dramatic in the world you know, of lending and borrowing, but we mustn't kid ourselves that we need to change other processes. So what I've seen in a lot of start-ups is that they want to do everything different, not just their kind of breakthrough product being different, but they also want to do recruitment in a different way or they want to do their management style in a different way, or whatever, everything has to be unconventional, and I think that's a… is terrific in some respects but I do think you've got to focus on your core strengths basically and not worry about if certain things are done in quite a normal way.
Now, you mentioned Government, and the support obviously is there because the Government is competition, the Government wants to have a more mixed economy and all the other reasons why. What's it like working… I imagine you work closely with its various members, what's it been like for you as an experience?
Well, they… we initially went to them in 2011 and it was a kind of traumatic age, wasn't it, after the crisis, there was a real sense of kind of, you know, where are things going so it was quite a good time to be talking to Government because we were coming with a solution, when they were just surrounded by problems. But they first… they found it very confusing initially because why would a bunch of sort of thrusting entrepreneurs be knocking on their door, talking about a sensible regulatory framework for this industry, and I think their initial response was no. I don't think they had a regulating instinct for the coalition, you know, just putting in a regulation for the hell of it. So their initial response was no and then we explained how and they thought it was too small, too niche, too small, too much of a headache to think about a regulatory framework for peer-to-peer lending and we explained how we did think it would become quite relevant and quite big quite quickly, and also that it was a true… this was competition, this really had a… if it was well nurtured, this could be a true competition in banking and it could get funds flowing to individuals and small businesses and so this really interested Government and I think that the penny dropped and they said, 'Yeah I think it makes absolute sense to try and get a good regulatory framework around peer-to- peer lending' and that's what going on at the moment.
Well, listen, I appreciate you being my revolutionary today, you've been great, and I'd love to know just before I let you go, what your song choice is and why you've chosen it.
Yes, it's Sinner Man by Nina Simone, and I've chosen that because I enjoy listening to loads of songs by Sinner Man, err by Nina Simone and I thought that this one was, I like the mood and the sense of sort of impending danger in the song and I don't know, it was an instinctive choice, I didn't think about it an enormous amount, which I think is probably the way to go about things like that.
Here it is just for you, thank you so much.
That was Sinner Man from Nina Simone, the song choice of my Business Shaper today, Rhydian Lewis – a clear-headed individual, absolute clarity about what the problem was and what the opportunity was and he's gone and approached it brilliantly. Real guts, you have to have determination to believe that what you're going to do is going to work and boy has he had that. And someone who understands now at the phase that they are at in their business that there are better people than him to do some of those day-to-day management jobs. Really brilliant stuff. Do join me again, same time same place, that's next Saturday morning here on Jazz FM at 9.00am. In the meantime, stay with us because coming up next, it's Nigel Williams.
Rhydian Lewis is CEO and co-founder of RateSetter, the UK's leading peer-to-peer lending platform. RateSetter launched in 2010 and the platform has originated loans worth over £600m to date – it is the largest platform in terms of monthly lending volumes. RateSetter was the first peer-to-peer lender to introduce a provision fund, which absorbs credit exposure and effectively spreads investors' risk across the whole loan portfolio as opposed to individual loans. The provision fund reduces the risk of loss so well that no individual RateSetter lender has ever lost a penny.
Prior to founding RateSetter, Rhydian spent six years at investment management firm Lazard, and before that, he worked at Betfair, the world's largest internet betting exchange.
It wasn't that long ago that people were still worried about the safety of buying a book on Amazon.
I was so determined to do it that I think there was no way around it.
There's a company called Betfair which has changed betting, which is a peer-to-peer exchange. So I'd always wondered if it could be applied to money.
The catalyst was the banking crisis. You have, for the first time, a major shake-up of consumer trust in the old establishment, so it seemed a fantastic opportunity to put forward something new.
Some people are born entrepreneurs and can turn their hand to anything and some people just see a big opportunity and have the guts to go for it.
You have to believe because it's all about getting other people to believe. If you falter for one moment, then you can be sure that everyone else will.
Having a co-founder is absolutely crucial – you can share a lot of the burden and make better decisions by talking to each other.
There's nothing worse than indecision in a business, it saps people's confidence and enthusiasm.
Peer-to-peer lending is probably the biggest change in lending and borrowing for hundreds of years, so it's very exciting.
I think you can over-engineer a lot of things: I'm a perfectionist, but with certain things I realise just as long as it works, that's fine.


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This screen of both machines uses an IPS LCD panel, Full HD + resolution, and refresh rate of up to 144Hz, it is compatible with AdaptiveSync and MEMC technology that allows high-end content with low frame rates. Furthermore, the Mi 10T / 10T Pro's display also supports the HDR10 standard and the DCI-P3 color gamut. On the back, Xiaomi equips its product with 3 cameras. This will also be the most notable difference between the two versions. The characteristics of the camera are the same, as both are capable of recording 8K video at 30 frames and simultaneously recording front and rear cameras.
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Xiaomi ADB Driver is compatible with different versions of Windows. Such as Windows 10 (32-bit), Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 8.1 (32-bit), Windows 8.1 (64-bit), Windows 8 (32-bit), Windows 8 (64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit), Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit), Windows Vista (64-bit), and Windows XP (32-bit).
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Connect your Xiaomi Mi 10T to the USB port of your computer.
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Click Next to install the driver.
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La maîtrise de lhydraulique par les Étrusques est attestée dès le colmatage et le drainage de la Maremme et Rome leur doit l'assèchement du marais où s'éleva ultérieurement le forum et la réalisation de la Cloaca Maxima (dû aux travaux de Tarquin l'Ancien).

Ce sont les haruspices qui pratiquaient leurs rites de divination pour déterminer le tracé des canaux d'évacuation (cuniculi), l'emplacement des nappes phréatiques et du perçage des puits.

En Étrurie
 Puits verticaux reliés à des canaux souterrains drainant les eaux vers les rivières voisines.
 Irrigation des terrains arides.
 Assainissement (« bonification ») des terres marécageuses (Maremme).
 Canaux marins entre avant-port, zone portuaire et le reste de la côte, à Gravisca, Pyrgi et Castrum Novum.
 À Pérouse : le « puits étrusque », pozzo Etrusco, sur la piazza di Danti ( de profondeur, d'un diamètre de ).
 Cisterna romana delle Camerelle (Chianciano Terme).
 Le rio Vicano, un ruisseau artificiel réalisé par les Étrusques qui percèrent le tuf de la montagne par un forage d'une longueur d'environ  pour atteindre le bassin d'eau en dessous de son niveau original du lac de Vico afin de bonifier la zone.

Plaine du Pô
 Régularisation du cours du fleuve par dérivation du cours de la Sagis, et canal d'accès au port, vers Spina et Adria, avec forçage du courant et digue brise-lames.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie
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  F. Oarelli, « Gli emissari dei laghi laziali, tra mito e storia » in Gli Etruschi maestri di idraulica, Perugia, Electa Editori Umbri, 1992.
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Our democracy is confusing. And our state is muddying the waters even more by altering the way it 'normally' works. We break it all down for you in this post.
We hope this information helps you assess whether or not the General Assembly is adequately fulfilling their duty to protect your health and the health of your environment. Read on to decide for yourself.
The North Carolina General Assembly approved budget alterations to the second year of the two-year, $23.9 billion state budget last week, passing on near party-line votes in the Senate on Thursday and the House on Friday.
The bill sets the spending for our entire state – and it passed pretty quickly – does that mean our legislature has learned to compromise? Not so much.
This bill was crafted by a handful of the majority behind closed doors and they required an "up or down vote" meaning there was no discussion or opportunities to introduce amendments by representatives of either party.
Governor Cooper now has 10 days to sign it, veto it or let it become law without his signature.
How does this affect the GenX bills that were introduced in the House and Senate a couple of weeks ago?
In short, the budget bill alters the language, and the appropriated funding, and if passed into law, the budget bill supersedes the other bills.
If Gov. Cooper vetoes the bill (as he did with last year's budget bill), it will likely be overridden by the super-majority and made law.
If this budget bill becomes law, what's in store in terms of GenX spending?
Scientists have shared with Clean Water Matters that this type of mass spectrometer will NOT identify emerging contaminants in our water; it will only quantify those contaminants already identified. In talks with the General Assembly, DEQ specifically requested a high-resolution mass spectrometer; they were ignored.
Scientists have shared with Clean Water Matters that specialized staff needs to be trained and assigned to work this type of equipment; one scientists called working with this type of equipment 'an art form.' This does not sound like work for "time-limited" staff.
$200,000 to the Division of Water Resources for time-limited positions and operations support to address permitting backlogs.
Not nearly enough; seven years of funding reductions to DEQ have resulted in the loss of 70 positions and a 41 percent reduction in staff devoted to monitoring and enforcing water quality regulations.
(i) to cover costs associated with air, water, soil sampling, well-monitoring, (ii) for acquisition or modification of essential scientific instruments, or (iii) for payments of costs for sample collection and analysis, training or hiring of research staff and other personnel, method development activities, and data management, including dissemination of relevant data to stakeholders.
This is work traditionally handled by state environmental regulatory bodies like the DEQ, the only body with regulatory power over corporate polluters.
$450,000 for sampling and treatment related to PFAS.
The DEQ is the ONLY body in our state with the legal authority to regulate corporate polluters.
Do you think that providing just about $1.86 million (mostly in re-allocated funds) to our DEQ is a fulfillment of our elected officials' duties to ensure public health and the health of our environment?
It is likely that Gov. Cooper will veto this bill. Once that happens, call your elected officials and urge them to SUSTAIN THE VETO.
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Author: Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943 - February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. Raskin was born in New York City to a secular Jewish family. He received degrees in mathematics (B.S. 1964) and philosophy (B.A. 1965) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1967 he earned a master's degree in computer science at Pennsylvania State University. His first computer program, a music program, was part of his master's thesis.
Raskin later enrolled in a graduate music program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), but stopped to teach art, photography and computer science there, working as an assistant professor in the Visual Arts dept from 1968 until 1974. He was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to establish a Computer and Humanities center which used a 16 bit Data General Nova computer and graphic display terminals rather than the teletypes which were in use at that time. Along with his undergraduate student Jonathan (Jon) Collins, Jef developed the Flow Programming Language for use in teaching programming to the art and humanities students. The language was first used at the Humanities Summer Training Institute held in 1970 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The language had only 6 instructions (get it, print it, print "text", jump to, if it is ' ' then & stop) and could not manipulate numbers. The language utilized "typing amplification" in which only the first letter was typed and the computer provided the balance of the instruction eliminating typing errors. It was also the basis for programming classes taught by Jef and Jon in the UCSD Visual Arts Dept. He curated several art shows including one featuring his collection of unusual toys. It was during this period that Jef changed the spelling of his name from Jeff to Jef after meeting Jon and liking the lack of extraneous letters.
He occasionally wrote for computer publications, such as Dr. Dobb's Journal.
Raskin, Jef (1999): The User Interface in Text Retrieval Systems Revisited, A Letter to the Editor. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 31 (1) pp. 37. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/bulletin/1999.1/raskin.pdf
Raskin, Jef (1997): What's NeXT for Apple?. In Interactions, 4 (3) pp. 12-16.
Raskin, Jef (1997): Looking for a Humane Interface: Will Computers Ever Become Easy to Use?. In Communications of the ACM, 40 (2) pp. 98-101.
Raskin, Jef (1996): Wanted for Crimes Against the Interface: Thoughts on an HCI Poster. In Interactions, 3 (6) pp. 70-76. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/interactions/1996-3-6/p70-raskin/p70-raskin.pdf
Raskin, Jef (1994): Holes in History. In Interactions, 1 (3) pp. 11-16. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/interactions/1994-1-3/p11-raskin/p11-raskin.pdf
Raskin, Jef (1994): Viewpoint: Intuitive equals familiar. In Communications of the ACM, 37 (9) pp. 17-18. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=584629
Raskin, Jef (1991): A Concern about the Samuelson-Glushko Survey. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 23 (3) pp. 12-14.
Raskin, Jef (1989): Systemic Implications of Leap and an Improved Two-Part Cursor: A Case Study. In: Bice, Ken, Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 167-170.
Raskin, Jef (1987): The Hype in Hypertext: A Critique. In: Weiss, Stephen, Schwartz, Mayer (eds.) Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 87 Conference November 13-15, 1987, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. pp. 325-330.
Raskin, Jef (2001): Turning the Art of Interface Design into Engineering. In: Little, Murray Reed, Nigay, Laurence (eds.) EHCI 2001 - Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction, 8th IFIP International Conference May 11-13, 2001, Toronto, Canada. pp. 5-6. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2254/22540005.htm
Raskin, Jef (2004): We Are All Blind: Cognetics and the Designing of Interfaces for Accessibility: Introductio. In: Klaus, Joachim, Miesenberger, Klaus, Zagler, Wolfgang L., Burger, Dominique (eds.) ICCHP 2004 - Computers Helping People with Special Needs - 9th International Conference July 7-9, 2004, Paris, France. pp. 1-5. https://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/3118/31180001.htm


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Elaine L. Chao, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, awaits in front of an art project during a meeting in Leipzig main station in the context of the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany, May 22, 2019.
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Yet another Trump cabinet secretary faces ethics questions
Donald Trump and much of his cabinet have faced all kinds of investigations and controversies, but there's one area that's been especially problematic: officials with divestment troubles.
Obviously, the president's private-sector holdings are a point of ongoing concern (and litigation). There's also Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who falsely told the federal Office of Government Ethics that he'd divested from a series of investments. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin promised to divest from his film company, though he sold his interests to his wife.
Today, the Wall Street Journal put the spotlight on Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who appears to be facing related concerns.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has retained shares in a construction-materials company more than a year after the date she promised to relinquish them, federal disclosure forms show.
Shares of the company, Vulcan Materials Co. , the country's largest supplier of the crushed stone, sand and gravel used in road-paving and building, have risen nearly 13% since April 2018, the month in which Ms. Chao said she would be cashed out of the stock, netting her a more than $40,000 gain, corporate and government filings show.
The shares, now worth nearly $400,000, were paid out to Ms. Chao in April 2018, as deferred compensation for the roughly two years she served on Vulcan's board of directors before being confirmed as secretary of transportation, the company said.
Chao, one of the original members of Trump's cabinet, signed an ethics agreement two years ago recusing herself from matters related to Vulcan Materials, despite maintaining a financial stake in the company.
From the cabinet secretary's perspective, she effectively had no choice: Chao served on the company's board and this is how its members are compensated. As the argument goes, the fact that a Transportation secretary benefited financially from her stake in a transportation company – during her tenure – is an unfortunate coincidence, addressed through her recusal.
That said, as the WSJ report added, Chao's approach "stands in contrast to the way previous transportation secretaries have handled potential conflicts of interest."
For instance, former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who served under President Barack Obama, sold stakes in Caterpillar Inc. and Ford Motor Co. upon being confirmed to lead the department.
"I basically sold everything," Mr. LaHood said. "The ethics police told me to do it, so I did it."
Jeffrey Rosen, who was Ms. Chao's top deputy before becoming deputy attorney general, sold stakes in 16 companies upon joining the DOT, including Chevron Corp. , United Technologies Corp. and Home Depot Inc., according to ethics filings.
Federal Railroad Administrator Ronald Batory canceled stock awards from Consolidated Rail Corp., his previous employer, and sold his shares in Norfolk Southern Corp. and Union Pacific Corp. upon his confirmation to the job.
Walter Shaub, who headed the Office of Government Ethics until July 2017, told the newspaper that Chao's approach was apparently legal, though it didn't "send a message to employees of DOT that she is making ethics a priority."
It's part of a larger pattern in which leading Trump administration officials have faced an avalanche of ethics controversies over a fairly brief period of time.
Historian Kevin M. Kruse joked this morning, "If you'd told me in January 2017 that the Trump Cabinet member who'd have the least controversial tenure would be Rick Perry, I'd never have believed you."
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Q: How to display a View in Full Size on screen in Xamarin Android? I am unable to set the View Size matching the Display Size, below is the code, it is a Transparent View
 TestView testView;

    protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);

        testView = new TestView(this);
        SetContentView(testView);

    }

The Default Height of the View when the app runs is height=1206
but the Display Height is 1280, i have used the following methods to set the View Size match the Screen Size, but none works
Does not work
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);

    testView = new TestView(this);
    IWindowManager window = null;
        window = this.Application.GetSystemService(Context.WindowService).JavaCast<IWindowManager>();
        Display defaultDisplay = window.DefaultDisplay;
        DisplayMetrics display = new DisplayMetrics();
        defaultDisplay.GetRealMetrics(display);
        int width = display.WidthPixels;
        int height = display.HeightPixels;
        RelativeLayout.LayoutParams parms = new
                       RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(width, height);
        testView.LayoutParameters = parms;
    SetContentView(testView);

}

Result:

Doesn not work:
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);

    testView = new TestView(this);
    SetContentView(testView);
    if (Build.VERSION.SdkInt >= BuildVersionCodes.Kitkat)
        {

            Window.SetFlags(WindowManagerFlags.LayoutNoLimits,
                              WindowManagerFlags.LayoutNoLimits);
        }

}

<item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>

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How to set the Display height to the View?

A: You need to declare it in your manifest file that your activity should be of full screen:
<activity android:name=".ActivityName"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"/>

And if you want to get it through code just use these lines in your activity's onCreate method:
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

Or Add the below line to the style.xml file
 //your theme
 <style name="Theme.AppCompat.Transparent.NoActionBar" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
      //XML lines for full screen
      <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
      <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
 </style>

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In this paper, we present a probabilistic numerical algorithm combining dynamic programming, Monte Carlo simulations and local basis regressions to solve non-stationary optimal multiple switching problems in infinite horizon. We provide the rate of convergence of the method in terms of the time step used to discretize the problem, of the size of the local hypercubes involved in the regressions, and of the truncating time horizon. To make the method viable for problems in high dimension and long time horizon, we extend a memory reduction method to the general Euler scheme, so that, when performing the numerical resolution, the storage of the Monte Carlo simulation paths is not needed. Then, we apply this algorithm to a model of optimal investment in power plants. This model takes into account electricity demand, cointegrated fuel prices, carbon price and random outages of power plants. It computes the optimal level of investment in each generation technology, considered as a whole, w.r.t. the electricity spot price. This electricity price is itself built according to a new extended structural model. In particular, it is a function of several factors, among which the installed capacities. The evolution of the optimal generation mix is illustrated on a realistic numerical problem in dimension eight, i.e. with two different technologies and six random factors.


The Riverside Company has completed the add-on acquisition of Chilton Consulting Group (Chilton) to its Alchemy Systems (Alchemy) platform. Chilton is a food safety and quality consulting services firm that helps customers develop, verify and implement systems to comply with global industry standards and help customers improve safety, quality, yield and productivity. Alchemy is the global leader that provides innovative solutions that help food companies engage with their workforces to drive safety and productivity and protect people, profits and brands.
The addition of Chilton will allow Alchemy to offer customers an even more comprehensive set of services.
Riverside has extensive experience in both software and technology and training and education. With specialized teams focused on these sectors, the firm has acquired almost 50 education and training companies and more than 50 software companies.
Working with Schlachet and Sauer on the transaction for Riverside were Vice President Stephen Rice, Associate Tony Trevino, Operating Partner Rex Niles and Finance Director Jeff Elmer.
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International Energy Agency releases emergency oil on market for only third time in 36 years.
Around 60 million barrels of oil are to be placed into the oil market from emergency stockpiles, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has announced.
It is only the third time since 1974, that the use of emergency oil stocks has been co-ordinated by IEA.
The UK will be contributing 3 million barrels to the total in the aim of reducing volatility in the oil market.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne said: "This co-ordinated global action shows that both producer and consumer nations around the world are taking decisive steps to ensure enough oil is available. That's why we strongly welcome Saudi Energy Minister al-Naimi's statement earlier this month that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries will increase oil production to supply whatever the market needs.
In a statement, the Department for Energy and Climate Change said that it expects disruption to supply of oil from Libya to last for some time.
The UK's contribution will be to reduce the obligations on the oil industry to make 3 million barrels of oil available to the market over the next month.


Believe it or not, it would be your last chance to take final pictures with Mickey's iconic sorcerer's hat at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. In October 2014, Disney revealed that the structure will be removed by early 2015, and then on January 2, 2015, the company confirmed that the deconstruction of Hollywood Studios' big hat begins on January 7th.
For almost 14 years Mickey Sorcerer's Hat has been the icon of Disney Hollywood Studios, the third of four theme parks built at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Built in front of The Great Movie Ride, the giant 122-foot-tall Mickey Sorcerer hat was added in 2001 as part of the 100 Years of Magic celebration at the Walt Disney World Resort. The structure was inspired by the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment in Walt Disney's 1940 animated film "Fantasia".
Since its opening on September, 2001, the giant hat has replaced the Earful Tower as the park's icon in marketing material. It has been used as a venue for pin trading and sales, and also served as a backdrop to a great number of special events and shows. Disney has not revealed how long it will take for the structure to be completely removed. There's no information whether the hat is scheduled to be replaced elsewhere on Disney World property.


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Mueller Team DISPUTES BuzzFeed Report Claiming Trump Told Cohen to LIE!!!
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office on Friday issued a rare statement disputing a bombshell news report claiming President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow.


A practice lockdown drill held yesterday at the HEM High School ran smoothly, according to the school's principal. Overall the lockdown and evacuation plan are solid with the only a few minor items that need changes.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol is still investigating the motor vehicle crash that killed a Rawlins businessman earlier this month.
In Saratoga, after local officials fielded several inquiries on where to obtain potable water in town, the water and sewer board discussed the possibility of placing a water station in place.
The population of wild horses in the Red Desert Complex has grown to more than three times established federal goals. The Bureau of Land Management Rawlins and Lander Field Offices have issued a decision to curb the herd's growth.


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Welcome to Gangtok
Roadtrip From Araria Under Rs 2500 by bike
The capital of Sikkim state is nestled at the foothills of the Himalayas at an elevation of 1,650 m. Recorded history dates back to the early 18th century when it just a small village. By the mid-19thcentury, it became a centre of pilgrimage for Buddhist monks. It was an important stopover point on the famous Silk Route connecting to various countries in Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. In 1975, the Sikkim monarchy came to an end and it merged with the India Union.
A majority of the population of Gangtok is ethnic Nepalese settlers who came here during the British reign. The natives are Lepchas while the Bhutias of Tibetan ancestries are also found in substantial numbers.
Known as the 'land of monasteries' there are quite a few other things to do in Gangtok. The Himalayan Zoological Park is a fun place for families, kids, and wildlife lovers. It is the first park of its kind in the northeastern part of the country and is home to various animals like the Red Panda, Tibetan Wolf, and Himalayan Civet. Another of the Gangtok attractions is the holy Tsomgo Lake which is situated on the highway to Nathula. There is a temple of Lord Shiva near this glacial lake.
The best time to visit the destination is from October to February.
Attraction in Gangtok
Enchay Monastery
Tsongmo Lake
Rumtek Monastery
Hanuman Tok
State: Sikkim
Distance From Araria: 254 Km.
Min Temp: 16.3℃
Weather: POSSIBLE LIGHT RAIN IN THE MORNING.
Altitude : 1509 Meters
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This statement seemed slightly incongruous, given my baby had not yet made her way into the world. I couldn't imagine how she was going to get out of my uterus, let alone how she might one day walk down the aisle.
But fast forward six or so years, and I see he has a point.


Are you tired of handing over hundreds of dollars each month to your local coffeehouse barista? Start putting your money into other guilty pleasures, because with the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System you can bring all of that coffee goodness right in your own kitchen!
If you aren't familiar with the Ninja line of blenders and food mixers, they are known for their power-packed products. Let's dive in to see if the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System lives up to the Ninja reputation.
The key feature of the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System is the Auto IQ, which regulates the flow and temperature of the water, but most importantly, stops in the middle of a brew to allow the grounds to saturate at different rates for the various brew choices. Additional features include an auto-regulating heating plate, an iced-coffee setting, and pre-measure scoop that provides accurate measuring for the perfect brew.
The design of the Ninja Coffee Bar itself is pretty standard for this type of coffee system, but keep in mind that you will also need a place for all of the parts that come with it.
To brew one cup or a travel mug's worth of coffee, the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System provides a handy shelf that pulls down when you remove the carafe, keeping the cup/mug closer to the drip mechanism, and above the heating plate. The metal, reusable filter pulls out easily for adding coffee grounds. Ninja provides a measuring scoop with one end measuring for a cup or travel mug and the other for a half or full carafe.
This unit covers all of these bases; let's see how.
The Ninja Coffee Bar main feature is its Auto-iQ One-Touch Intelligence function. The "one-touch" is self-explanatory: just touch once, and your coffee starts brewing.
Then the magic begins. Ninja's Auto-IQ pulls the ideal amount of water for the brew you've chosen, then sets the water temperature between 195-205 degrees for a perfect cup. The water draws from the reservoir to the brew basket, then showers over all of the grounds for even saturation.
Where Ninja differs from other coffee systems is that after the initial saturation of the grounds, the flow pauses to allow the coffee to "bloom" and saturate all of the beans for a fuller flavor. Then Auto-iQ starts the water flow again, delivering the precise amount of water for the brew you've chosen.
With grounds fully open and evenly saturated and evenly brewing, Auto-iQ starts up again to finish the brew. Traditional coffee makers pour right through the center without pausing, which over extracts those grounds causing bitterness, and under extracts the outside of the grounds, which creates a sour taste. The Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System Auto-iQ allows for that resting period to allow the full flavor to come out.
Don't be surprised by that resting period; it's not just stopping, it's allowing the flavor to come out of the coffee grounds fully.
You can see and smell the difference! Every single note of the coffee comes through.
Unlike other coffee makers, you don't need to guess the amount of coffee, having to add more for a richer brew. With Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System's Auto-iQ, the Rich Brew setting uses thermal flavor extraction technology to take the right amount of water out of the reservoir and takes the exact amount of time to allow the grounds to be saturated more than the classic brew.
The Rich Brew setting creates a slightly smaller amount of coffee, leaving more room for cream or other additions without losing the fullness of flavor.
The Ninja Coffee Bar brew basket pulls out versus opening from the top, allowing you to have the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System on your counter under the cabinets without having to pull the machine out to use it.
There is a permanent gold-tone filter that is eco-friendly and easy to clean. But if you prefer paper filters, you can use them too. When using paper filters, take the permanent filter out, and then fold the seams of a number 4-size filter so that when you place the filter into the brew basket, it lays nice and flat in the basket without it folding over on itself. Then brew as you would normally.
There is a drip-stop feature, but it is not automatic. The mechanism to shut the drip off before removing the carafe is just under the brew basket. Make sure it's off or closed when you want to pour a cup, then open it again when you put the carafe back to finish a brew cycle.
Like the brew basket, the water reservoir can be removed to fill, or you can access it from the top. It has a measuring scale on the side of it clear sides, so you can fill it up to the level you want, then allow the Auto-iQ to use what's necessary.
The Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System has both an auto-on timer and an auto-shutoff control. Set the timer and choose "delay brew" to set a specific time to prepare your coffee. The time can be adjusted to the minute. The auto-off feature shuts the machine off after two hours of inactivity.
The smart heating plate heats up when you start brewing a half or full carafe. But here's where it shines; it calculates how much coffee is in the carafe and will adjust the temperature accordingly. With a full carafe, the heating plate will be hotter and will go down in temperature as you use more coffee and the carafe empties. With the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System, you will have delicious hot coffee until the last cup.
With the iced coffee setting, the Ninja Coffee Bar creates an even richer brew over a glass of ice, allowing the ice to melt without losing the flavor. With this setting, you're able to brew hot coffee over ice immediately, releasing the freshness right into the glass. The coffee isn't stronger; it's richer. And you don't have to use stale coffee that's been sitting in the refrigerator.
The Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System comes with a milk frother for specialty drinks. Pour the milk into the frother and froth it to the consistency you want. Pour the foam right into the glass or cup, then place it on the brew shelf. The Auto-iQ takes even longer to brew, to get the most of your coffee beans. The specialty brew is more like a coffee extract, for drinks like cappuccinos, lattes, etc.
The entire brew basket and water reservoir come out for easy cleaning as well.
Occasionally the Ninja Coffee Bar will brew at a slightly higher temperature of 208 degrees, which is a bit too high for the best cup of coffee. The Rich Brew can also sometimes over brew, resulting in bitterness, so you might want to use the Rich Brew mode less.
Both the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System and the Keurig 2.0 can make a single cup or a full carafe, and both allow you to adjust the strength of the coffee, but the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System is much more precise. With the Keurig refillable K-cup filter you can use your own grounds and cut expenses, and you can brew other drinks like hot chocolate or tea, while the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System is designed for coffee drinks only.
If you are looking for a more personalized experience, including size and type of brew, the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System is your better option.
The closest brew system to the Ninja Coffee Bar is the Bonavita Brewer 8-Cup. Both have processes that replicate a pour-over method and pre-infusion to saturate the grounds fully for an even brew. Their reservoir sizes are similar, and they both have manual and automatic settings. However, the Bonavita Brewer 8-cup doesn't have brew size options, limiting you to a full pot of 8 cups. The latter also does not have an auto-start.
Try our Cold Brew Coffee Guide and know the difference with Ice Brews!
For its features, look, and the Auto-iQ system, the Ninja Coffee Bar Brewing System brews a consistent cup of coffee in many varieties at a good price point. Touted as a do-it-all system that brews hot and iced coffee and specialty beverages (not espresso, but close), it will please even the most discriminating coffee drinkers.


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Q: ComboBox c# outside form I have a winform that contain a comboBox. My question is : how i can use the comboBox outside that form, inside of a class ?
Here s some picture maybe it s easier to understand

A: You could pass the reference to the ComboBox in the constructor of the class:
public MyClass{

   private Combobox cbox;

   public MyClass(Combobox box){
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}

Although, I would refrain from doing this. It is definitely not the right way to handle your problem. You are creating unnecessary dependencies.

A: Don't do that. You would create a needless dependency of class1 to form1. Think about your architecture!
If you absolutely want to, you should provide a reference of your form to the class and access it via the form.


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Six Latin American stars took part in the One World: Together at Home concert
Latin American pop stars were among more than 100 artists who performed songs or even just sent out messages from their living rooms, due to the coronavirus lockdown, in the One World: Together at Home, a concert in celebration and support of health care workers and the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization (WHO).
The eight-hour broadcast featured Colombia's reggaeton stars J Balvin and Maluma, pop singer Sebastián Yatra and singer-songriter Juanes; Brazilian "Queen of Funk" Anitta; as well as Puerto Rican Luis Fonsi.
During the digital live streaming part of the show, Yatra sang "Un Año", while Juanes played two songs: "Mas Futuro Que Pasado" and "Es Por Ti", and Fonsi played his mega hit "Despacito". Maluma was the only Latin American artist singing in the main broadcast section, with the upbeat "Carnaval". Balvin and Anitta did not perform songs, but gave their support to the initiative by sharing stories and serving as presenters.
The show also featured real-life experiences from those on the front line of the fight against Covid-19.
Lady Gaga, who curated the line-up, called the event "a love letter to the world".


Tim Karkowski, 24, from Albion Park, NSW, enjoys his work as a bricklayer. But who wouldn't take a shot at fame with a voice and looks like his.
After a long term interest in singing, including plenty of singing on the job, some lessons and playing in a band, Tim decided late last year that he was ready to put in his application to appear on Channel 9's The Voice. His blind audition aired Sunday April 20 and with great panache he had the audience on their feet with his take on Sheppard's pop hit 'Coming Home'.
Delta Goodrem, one of the four judges on The Voice, snapped him up as coach for the next stage where artists go head-to-head in groups of three as they perform a song their coach has chosen within a theme. Unfortunately Tim couldn't make it to the finals.
Tim told the Illawarra Mercury that when he's not on site working he's surfing, skating, at the gym, or gigging with his band Turning Tides. "We're just a covers band at the moment but we're pushing originals now," he said. Find Your Freedom!
You can catch Karkowski and his bandmates around Wollongong at venues like The Brewery and Town Hall Chambers.
It wasn't just vocal tones Karkowski scored praise for. Both Goodrem and fellow coach Kelly Rowland commented on the blonde-haired, tattooed brickie's visual appeal, making him feel "very flattered".
Good luck Tim and to all aspiring talent, a Bricklaying Apprenticeship could be your start!
Check out What Makes a Good Bricklayer.


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Halifax council kicks in $20M for stadium, political football game continues
Dan Barnes, Postmedia
Updated: December 10, 2019 4:58 PM CST
HALIFAX — A "no" vote from council would have killed the Atlantic Schooners on the spot, but a "yes" vote and the accompanying $20 million it will deliver from the Halifax Regional Municipality keeps them in this game of political football.
It does not yet ensure victory, or entry into the Canadian Football League. But Tuesday's decision, which went 10-7 in favour of the $20 million, one-time contribution from HRM to stadium construction, payable only upon substantial completion, sure beats the alternative.
So the celebration will be real. And real short.
"There is significant light at the end of the tunnel," said Anthony LeBlanc of Schooner Sports and Entertainment, the company behind the Schooners. "We feel very confident … This could have gone very much the other way where we would be pretty much dead in our tracks. So we are very excited that the process is moving forward and now there are some teeth into this thing. There is some real commitment from HRM and based off conditions that we feel very comfortable that we'll be able to manage."
Indeed, SSE is a significant step closer to securing the stadium that would transform their conditional CFL franchise into an actual entity, selling tickets and hiring staff, holding training camp and losing games to the Calgary Stampeders. And the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. And maybe even the Ottawa Redblacks. Or not.
CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie called the vote a "giant step forward" for the stadium and therefore, for the launch of a new franchise.
But there is so much more to be done, and quickly if the stadium is to be finished by 2022 or more likely 2023. So LeBlanc and his SSE partners have to stay on the offence. In the shortest order, they need to secure and purchase land for a new stadium site, because HRM staff gave the thumbs down to Shannon Park, for reasons of infrastructure needs and the attendant massive costs. Councillors agreed with that assessment, and the $20 million pledge is tied directly to a site that meets HRM approval. Ipso facto, no Shannon Park.
"That is something I think that can happen very quickly. Obviously it's a process that we've been working on for years, before we chose Shannon Park as our preferred site," said LeBlanc, whose phone began to ring last Friday once the staff recommendation against Shannon Park went public on the HRM website.
"I became a very popular person for people who owned land in the HRM. So we're working with a number of groups right now," he said with a smile.
So check that box soon enough.
They need to hammer out the details of the contribution agreement with HRM. That's going to happen quickly, as chief administrative officer Jacques Dube and LeBlanc made it clear both sides are ready and willing to move forward on the agreement. LeBlanc said SSE is thrilled with the terms.
"We're very comfortable. This is a very real contribution from HRM and it works very well with our plans."
Those plans have changed dramatically over time, from a larger stadium that would have cost up to $190 million, including the price of the land, to one that is expandable to 24,000 seats and could come in lower than a projected $110 million. That's because LeBlanc expects a new site to cost less than Shannon Park.
Once the land is in hand, they will also need to approach the Nova Scotia government for a significant contribution to stadium construction. That might be a tougher box to check off, though SSE's case will be stronger when they come to the province with $20 million from HRM.
"The province has been involved in discussions for the better part of the last two years, but they made it very clear throughout those discussions that we needed to get past this hurdle so to speak with HRM before they would take this as an actionable item," said LeBlanc.
So that's a partially checked box, filled in only when the province commits to a hotel tax increase or a car rental tax, or something entirely different.
"I think it's now over to the province to how they make their decisions, if and how they will participate," said LeBlanc. "The concept of hotel tax levy increases and rental car taxes are simply that, they're ideas that have been put out there. But we are very open to working with the province in a manner that makes the most sense for the province."
You have to give SSE some credit for a willingness to adapt and adjust. Even the $20 million lump sum was $2 million less than their most recent ask, and they still went away very happy indeed.
"We are listening. We are being very collaborative about the process. We are being nimble and changing. What we originally put on the table a year ago is drastically different than what was just approved here today," said LeBlanc.
It couldn't get done without HRM. It still can't get done without the province. And it surely can't get done without about $80 million from a lending institution to fund construction.
"Now obviously we have been working very closely with a number of financial partners so again, this isn't something starting from a zero," said LeBlanc.
The vote is over, and the game continues.
dbarnes@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/sportsdanbarnes
The top three prospects held onto their positions when the Canadian Football League issued its winter rankings on Tuesday.
Oklahoma defensive tackle Neville Gallimore, receiver Chase Claypool of Notre Dame and Ohio quarterback Nathan Rourke are again listed one, two and three by the CFL's central scouting bureau. A third and final ranking will come out just prior to the annual CFL draft, which takes place on April 30, 2020.
There was plenty of jockeying for position behind the top three, however. Most notably, University of Alberta offensive lineman Carter O'Donnell moved from No. 11 to four, and Buffalo offensive lineman Tomas Jack-Kurdyla jumped from No. 13 to five, in part because three players in the top 10 — Sage Doxtater, Patrice Rene and Daniel Joseph — had to be moved to the 2021 class after changes to their NCAA eligibility.
The list of the top-20 prospects includes five offensive linemen, five receivers, four defensive linemen, two linebackers, two quarterbacks, a defensive back and kicker J.J. Molson of UCLA, who dropped in the rankings from 12th in the fall edition to 19th on Tuesday.


• Legal settlement to result in Q4 expense of $1.25 billion.
• Spending (R&D plus MG&A) now expected to be approximately $4.2 billion.
• Tax rate expected to decline to about 20 percent.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 12, 2009 - As a result of the legal settlement announced today with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel Corporation adjusted its fourth-quarter financial expectations to reflect the impact of the $1.25 billion settlement payment. Intel now expects spending (R&D plus MG&A) in the fourth quarter to be approximately $4.2 billion, up from $2.9 billion. In addition, the effective tax rate is expected to be approximately 20 percent, down from 26 percent. All other expectations are unchanged.
Under terms of the agreement, the parties will end all outstanding litigation including antitrust and patent cross license disputes. AMD will withdraw all of its regulatory complaints against Intel worldwide and both parties will enter into a new 5-year patent cross license agreement. In addition, Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion.
Intel's fourth-quarter Business Outlook was originally published in the company's third-quarter earnings release, available at https://www.intc.com. The company is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter financial results on Jan. 14.
Through Nov. 25, Intel's corporate representatives may reiterate the Business Outlook during private meetings with investors, investment analysts, media and others. From the close of business on Nov. 25 until publication of the company's fourth-quarter earnings release, Intel will observe a "Quiet Period" during which the Business Outlook disclosed in the company's news releases and filings with the SEC should be considered to be historical, speaking as of prior to the Quiet Period only and not subject to an update by the company.
The above statements and any others in this document are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Many factors could affect Intel's actual results, and variances from Intel's current expectations regarding such factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Intel presently considers the following to be the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the corporation's expectations.
• Demand could be different from Intel's expectations due to factors including changes in business and economic conditions; customer acceptance of Intel's and competitors' products; changes in customer order patterns including order cancellations; and changes in the level of inventory at customers.
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• The gross margin percentage could vary significantly from expectations based on changes in revenue levels; capacity utilization; start-up costs, including costs associated with the new 32nm process technology; variations in inventory valuation, including variations related to the timing of qualifying products for sale; excess or obsolete inventory; product mix and pricing; manufacturing yields; changes in unit costs; impairments of long-lived assets, including manufacturing, assembly/test and intangible assets; and the timing and execution of the manufacturing ramp and associated costs.
• Expenses, particularly certain marketing and compensation expenses, as well as restructuring and asset impairment charges, vary depending on the level of demand for Intel's products and the level of revenue and profits.
• The tax rate expectation is based on current tax law and current expected income. The tax rate may be affected by the jurisdictions in which profits are determined to be earned and taxed; changes in the estimates of credits, benefits and deductions; the resolution of issues arising from tax audits with various tax authorities, including payment of interest and penalties; and the ability to realize deferred tax assets.
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