Part of IBI's "Chronic Disease Profiles" series, this brief highlights prevalence, full costs, co-morbidities and intervention approaches for depression.
Nationwide developed its depression management program through its EAP and the steps it took to measure health status, quality of life and productivity.
Employees that live with depression know its costs only too well. Employers, on the other hand, greatly underestimate depression's costs and impact on their employees and their business.


Spotify is a music platform that gives confined and advanced music from the special artists and records. Users can browse through the Spotify's interface by selecting the categories like, artists, playlists, record name, albums or through the direct search of particular music. It likewise allows people to create playlists, alter music and sharing with different people. If suppose, users need any suggestions, they can incorporate their system with an application named "Last.fm", that gives music proposals in light of listening history. The beautiful feature introduced in Spotify, called 'Record' can make irregular playlists for its customers that are identified with favored specialists.
Spotify has recently revealed its new version at a media occasion in New York City. Social networking linking is the new feature that permits users to link their Spotify records to their Facebook and Twitter profiles. This allows them to share with their friends, the most loved music and also playlists and impart their decisions to others also. The new media sorts like podcasts and videos, the service will likewise serve up playlists that are more customized and significant to what you are doing at the time.
Rather than concentrating on kinds, the platform will act more like "Songza" and consider what music you had listened before, data about who you are (similar to the age and area). Spotify gives careful consideration to what you have generally listened to throughout the span of the day and assembles playlists that will work for that specific time. Example, in the morning, users may see playlists like "Wake up Happy" or "Dawn Run" or maybe one that the individual has officially made and listens to frequently.
Users can swipe starting with one playlist then onto the next and those playlists will auto-play, giving the user a vibe for what's inside. Spotify has the capacity to do this by having huge data (25 billion hours of listening since dispatch) that it can influence to see how individuals stream music together, when they listen to the diverse music. Spotify is likewise including new features of media substance, for example, Video, News and Podcasts.
The new Spotify likewise has a new "Running" feature that takes advantage of the numerous sensors of your telephone (accelerometer, spinner, and so forth.) to make sense of the pace at which you are running and serve you a playlist with the ideal BPMs in every tune. Additionally, the playlist is still based on your set up tastes. Creating a video display could divert Spotify at crucial time, for which it has to introduce the Apple's new streaming application this summer.
At the same time, going past timing out the music so that it coordinates the beat of your feet against the ground, Spotify is likewise making another configuration of music, wherein the creation really changes and modifies taking into account your pace. The new feature is dispatching with six unique experiences. Running experiences will be accessible through the Nike application and RunKeeper application later this late spring.


All residential clients curbside or driveway service must have waste and recyclables out and ready for collection before 7 AM on your collection day.
In order to keep up with our service we will not be responsible for any second trips or re-attempting service if your pick up is missed because you do not have your items out or we do not have complete access to your items.
We all know as New Englanders what we have to put up with between rain snow and ice. To ensure your waste and recyclables are never left behind. Always make sure your driver has full access to your items or that your driveway is clear and we are able to get our vehicles in and out safely. If we are expecting a storm please have your items out to the street side if your driveway will not be treated before our arrival. If you miss your pick up because your driver did not have access due to snow or ice we will not be able to return or reattempt service that week.
If you request Orifice Recycling & Refuse to reattempt your service due to your items not being accessible or ready for pick up by 7 AM a service charge will apply to your invoice to cover this pick up.
You are never stricken to capacity of your receptacles for household waste and recyclables when using our service. However large items construction debris, appliances, metal and hazardous-waste will not be collected with your regular pick up. These items will be left behind in till you contact our office to schedule a removal which will involve an additional fee based on the items you have.
Paints oils and solvents are not included in your service and cannot be provided through Orifice Recycling and Refuse. Always feel free to contact your Board of Health to find out your towns hazardous-waste. If your driver find paint or oil's with your pick up you are held responsible for any damages this may cause to property or to disruption in our route and service.
All yard waste lawn clippings leaves sticks small branches are provided by Orifice Recycling and Refuse recycling throughout the year. Always feel free to call in to schedule a yard waste pick up. All yard waste is collected with a separate truck and recycle and kept out of the waste stream.
Our yard waste service cost $1.50 per paper bag or barrel and $2.00 per plastic bag.


There are still a few spots left for the CNC Router Workshop that runs through September 22nd, 29th, October 6th and October 13th.
Cost for the kit and the course is $1,100.
After the build sessions, take your completed machine home and start working!
Reservations are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Contact us at makerspace@schantzorgan.com or call us at 330-682-6065.


text:
Q: Kubernetes persistent volume on Docker Desktop (Windows) I'm using Docker Desktop on Windows 10. For the purposes of development, I want to expose a local folder to a container. When running the container in Docker, I do this by specifying the volume flag (-v).
How do I achieve the same when running the container in Kubernetes?

A: Using k8s 1.21.5 the following type of path worked for me:
/run/desktop/mnt/host/c/PATH/TO/FILE

Digging through this github issue helped me resolve which path to use:
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/59876

A: The explanation is on the github link above.

The folder mount for /run/desktop/mnt/host/c does not exist on the distro you installed in WSL2 - on that WSL2 distro, the mount point to your C:\ drive is the more obvious /mnt/c.
Realize that Kubernetes and Docker are not installed in your installed WSL2 distro. Instead, Docker Desktop for Windows creates its own WSL2 VM called docker-desktop and installs Docker and Kubernetes on that VM. Then Docker Desktop for Windows installs the docker and kubectl CLIs on your WSL2 distro (and also on your Windows machine) and configures them all to point to the Docker and Kubernetes instances it created on the docker-desktop VM. This docker-desktop VM is hosting Docker and Kubernetes and also contains the /run/desktop/mnt/host/c mount point to your Windows C:\ drive and that can be used by your containers to persist data.
You can remote into the docker-desktop VM and see the /run/desktop/mnt/host/c mount point and folder structure by following the instructions (and discussion) at https://stackoverflow.com/a/62117039/11057678:
docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host justincormack/nsenter1

A: You should use hostpath Volume type in your pod`s spec to mount a file or directory from the host node's filesystem, where hostPath.path field should be of following format to accept Windows like paths:

*

*/W/fooapp/influxdb

*//W/fooapp/influxdb

*/////W/fooapp/influxdb

Please check this github issue explaining peculiarities of Kubernetes Volumes on Windows.
I assume also that you have enabled Shared Drives feature in your Docker for Windows installation.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


We visited various islands, meet crazy people, laughing, snorkeling, watching the stars, barbecue on the beach, drinking wine in the tavern, swimming, sailing, sunbathing on the deck…One thing is certain – sailing is for hedonists!
You are awaken by the sound waves and gently swaying of the boat. By the first rays of the sun you go out and dive into the turquoise waters. You are enjoying the view on your "own" beach and the silent which is only broken by the bells of the church on the island next to which you are anchored.
The first impression you are entering the boot, it looks much smaller than you have imagined, but after the first day everyone finds its place and you have the feeling, you was born on the boot. In any case, whatever apartment you live on the ground, when you return from a boat, you'll have the impression that it is unnecessary huge. And now, some experience from my sailing trips…After a breakfast there is a cruise to the next Greek island. While swimming in uncharted blue of the bay and relaxing with the smooth music, drinking cocktails you will feel like a star….. At the evening, the smell of preparation of the fresh fish, which was bought on a nearby market in the morning, will delighted you in the royal banquet. Watching the sunset with white wine and olive trees, listening the Greek music, raising a glass of ouzo, the night begins and ends with a lot of laughter and dance in one of the island's clubs late at night. Priceless experience!


text:
module Fog
  module KeyManager
    class OpenStack
      class Real
        def list_containers(options = {})
          request(
            :expects => [200],
            :method  => 'GET',
            :path    => 'containers',
            :query   => options
          )
        end
      end

      class Mock
      end
    end
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Incomparable diy door awning french door awning images polycarbonate awning door canopy diy. Capital diy door awning diy door awning back door awning ideas cool copper awnings info. Exceptional diy door awning fascinating diy door awning door awning clear with white frame diy. Masterful diy door awning polycarbonate awning window awning door canopy diy awning roof.


Short play fest Short+Sweet has events in nine countries and 25 cities. Since launching in Sydney sixteen years ago, it's presented over 5,000 new works in theatre, music and dance created by over 3,000 writers.
Now Sydney Short+Sweet is set to become the first to incorporate film. Music and dance have long been important elements of the story-telling at the festival, according to inaugural festival directors Ali Crew and Angela Blake, making the move to screen a natural one.
Short+Sweet Hollywood this September 2016 at the Stella Adler Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard," said Crew.
The festival is now calling for entries from anywhere in the world for its debut year. One submission gains entrants consideration for 11 festivals around Australia and internationally, including Brisbane, Canberra, Auckland, Wellington, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Manila, Chennai, Dubai and Hollywood, with additional locations to come in the festival's second year.
All films must be 10 minutes or less, with the winning film will be screened in LA at the Short+Sweet Hollywood Film Festival in September 2017.


This new Men T-Shirt designed by Juice is the latest High Street Trend Tee, it is styled with a Faded Floral print with different flowers across the shoulders. Fine Quality Polyester Material made Tee Shirts. The perfect addition to your wardrobe. Long length T shirt.


text:
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006.
• "Are we having some drinks, or are we having some dranks? I need to dress accordingly" (1/19)
• "Cyber Monday—The one time a year that people look forward to Monday mornings" (1/19)
• "Honestly, my biggest fear about becoming a zombie is all the walking" (1/19)
• "What do you call an acid with an attitude?"/"A-mean-oh acid." (1/18)
• "No science, no beer" (1/18)
Follow @barrypopik
Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Oct. 17, 1931, Turf Play, p. 7.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See another 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
Entry from April 21, 2016
"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves"
American abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) is often credited with saying:
"I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves."
There is no evidence that Tubman ever said this. Tubman helped about 300 slaves get their freedom, but not "thousands." The quote first appears in print in 1993 and 1994, with no known earlier source.
Wikipedia: Hariet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage.
Twenty-dollar bill
On April 20, 2016, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced plans to add Tubman to the front of the twenty-dollar bill, moving President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner, to the rear of the bill.
Wikiquote: Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (c. 1822 – 10 March 1913), also known as Moses, was an African-American abolitionist. An escaped slave, she worked as a farmhand, lumberjack, laundress, cook, refugee organizer, raid leader, intelligence gatherer, nurse, healer, revival speaker, feminist, fundraiser, and conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Disputed
. From Dorothy Winbush Riley, My Soul Looks Back 'Less I Forget p. 148 (1993). Riley gives a date of "c. 1865" but offers no citation. No source from earlier than 1993 is known. Quoted in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah, p. 299. Tubman specialists like Jean H. Humez and Kate Clifford Larson deem this one completely spurious. See "Bogus Tubman," by Steve Perisho.
Harriet Tubman Myths and Facts by Kate Clifford Larson
Fake Quote: "I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
Original Quote: There is no original quote for this. This quote was entirely made up, and became popularized starting sometime in the the 1990s. There is no documentation, nor historical basis for this quote.
19 February 1994, New Pittsburgh Courier (Pittsburgh, PA), "Bar Group's Good Move On Leadership," pg. A-6:
Harriet Tubman, an uneducated and illiterate runaway slave, not only returned to the South on countless occasions to free more than 300 slaves but she became an effective spy for the Union during the Civil War and was the only woman to ever lead a group of American soldiers into battle.
About her monumental achievements of emancipating so many people she reportedly said, "I could have freed many more if they had known they were slaves."
Stolen Women:
Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives
By Gail Wyatt
New York, NY: Wiley
Pg. 44:
No one has ever described this concept more pointedly than Harriet Tubman when she said, "I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves."
March 1997, Ebony, "Mother Wit:Words of Wisdom from Black Women" by Joy Bennett Kinnon, pg. 62, col. 2:
ON STRUGGLE
I freed thousands of slaves, I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.
-- Harriet Tubman
16 July 1998, Roll Call (Washington, DC), "Harriet Tubman," pg. 1:
"I freed thousands of slaves; I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves."
19 June 2001, Chicago (IL) Defender, "Make `Juneteenth' a state, national holiday," pg. 9:
"I freed hundreds of slaves in my lifetime. I could have freed more—if they had known they were slaves."-- Underground Railroad "engineer" Harriet Tubman.
1 November 2001, Vital Speeches of the Day, "Rebuilding the extended family: The power and importance of effective networking" by George C. Fraser, pg. 57:
Harriett Tubman said it best ... "I have freed a thousand slaves, but I could have freed a thousand more if they had only known they were slaves."
Maxwell Perspective (Maxwell School of Syracuse University), Spring 2008
The Truths Behind the Myth of Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman is an American heroine, but her life story is shrouded in myth and exaggeration. Thanks to the work of Maxwell faculty members and students, the genuine contributions of Tubman's life are coming to light.
by Renee Gearhart Levy
It all started when feminist political analyst Robin Morgan updated her infamous 1970 essay "Goodbye to All That" to castigate the racist and sexist divisions in the campaign, particularly as hurled against Clinton. In response to the failure of some women to support Clinton (and by implication, failure to be liberated), Morgan wrote: "Let a statement by the magnificent Harriet Tubman stand as reply. When asked how she managed to save hundreds of enslaved African Americans via the Underground Railroad during the Civil War, she replied bitterly, 'I could have saved thousands—if only I'd been able to convince them they were slaves.'"
Within days, the validity of the quote was called into question by Ralph Luker of the History News Network, who contacted scholars who have researched Tubman—including Milton Sernett, professor emeritus of history at the Maxwell School (and African American studies at SU). Sernett is the author of the recently published Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History.
None could trace the quote to primary sources.
Liber Locorum Communium
Bogus Tubman: "I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves."
Harriet Tubman, as quoted (but without a citation) in
1993: My soul looks back, 'less I forget: a collection of quotations by people of color, ed. Dorothy Winbush Riley (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993), 148. My thanks to Quote Investigator Dr. Garson O'Toole for supplying this one in a note via email dated 18 March 2014. Riley substitutes a comma for the first period, and gives a date of "c. 1865". She died in 2012.
W. Caleb McDaniel, Rice University
The Dangers of a Fake Tubman Quote
Posted by W. Caleb McDaniel on March 22, 2016
'I could have saved thousands - if only I'd been able to convince them they were slaves.' [Emphasis added.]
The trouble with the quote was that Tubman never said it, as historians rushed to point out. Tubman expert Milton Sernett called it a twentieth-century fabrication, and Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson listed it as a fake quote on her page of "Myths and Facts" about Tubman.
Despite these corrections by scholars, however, the quote continues to haunt the Internet. It shows up in a prominent sidebar when you search for the abolitionist's name on Google, which only knows to report what is most popular on webpages.
Lee Baley's eurweb
Harriet Tubman Quote Going Viral Today is NOT from Harriet Tubman
Apr 20, 16 by EURPublisher01
*Folks are ecstatic that Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, and a quote attributed to the famed abolitionist that's been hot on social media is: "I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
Those are powerful words, but they didn't come from Tubman.
New York City • Government/Law/Politics/Military • Thursday, April 21, 2016 • Permalink

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Q: WaitForMultipleObjects and COM I'm trying to make a named pipe server. Examples on MSDN use the WaitForMultipleObjects or similar functions. There is a warning considering use of the function together with COM objects. And I indeed use COM in my application.

Use caution when calling the wait functions and code that directly or indirectly creates windows. If a thread creates any windows, it must process messages. Message broadcasts are sent to all windows in the system. A thread that uses a wait function with no time-out interval may cause the system to become deadlocked. Two examples of code that indirectly creates windows are DDE and the CoInitialize function. Therefore, if you have a thread that creates windows, use MsgWaitForMultipleObjects or MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx, rather than WaitForSingleObject.

The MsgWaitForMultipleObjects seems to return on receiving some messages, but it is unclear what I'm supposed to do in respond to them.
In COM + WaitForSingleObject it was suggested to use CoWaitForMultipleHandles and it actually shall do something with messages for the hidden COM window.
What is the proper way to implement waiting functionality in an application that uses COM objects? Is CoWaitForMultipleHandles sufficent for this?


When your in the mood for the great Australian tradition - tea, then you need a teapot! There are so many teapots to choose from. Try a little old world charm, or go for a teapot that is a little fresh and funky, whatever your personal style there is sure to be a teapot out there to suit it!
Buy your tea pot at Ideal Shop. We deliver Australia wide.
Follow all product updates and changes with our Teapot RSS feed.


A peaceful life in quiet Chinaland was suddenly thrown into disaster after the Universal Peace Conference was over. The Emperor's concerns kept growing until Jack and Ryu decided to go out and settle the problem. The places they visited during their expedition were: Chinaland, Mysteryland, Fairyland, and Futureland. The more they advanced, the more suspenseful it became. What they found out was a devastating plot. There are loads of exciting action, cool items, neat vehicles, great attacks and magic spells available. They are all yours to blow adversaries out of the way of the once peaceful Chinaland.


text:
N89trn stamp duty: Buhari gave my committee power to sack Emefiele, Kazaure replies presidency
Gudaji Kazaure, a member of the house of representatives from Jigawa state, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari secretly set up the committee on the reconciliation and recovery of all stamp duties.
In a media briefing on Sunday, Kazure said only the president could dissolve the committee in which he allegedly functions as secretary.
He said the president gave the committee the power to detain anyone indicted in the N89.09 trillion "stamp duty cover-up".
Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, had, on Saturday, debunked Kazure's N89 trillion missing funds claim, adding that it was "ludicrous that a member of the parliament would claim to be secretary of an executive committee".
Shehu also said Buhari had since dissolved the committee Kazaure was claiming to be the secretary to, but noted that there is another committee, chaired by the attorney-general and minister of justice, set up in June 2020 by the president, which is still executing the task of reconciling stamp duties accounts.
"It suffices to say that the entire net worth of the nation's financial sector, the assets of the banking sector put together, is not worth N50 trillion, not to talk of the kind of money he is talking about," Shehu had said.
"The Central Bank assures that there is absolutely no problem, whatsoever, with money from stamp duties."
But at the news conference on Sunday, Kazaure insisted that his committee must be allowed to present its report to Buhari.
"When I raised an alarm that this man (Godwin Emefiele) should not be reappointed as CBN governor because I have some documents that I take to Mr. President directly of almost eight hundred million pounds to investigate how the money came from HSBC bank," Kazaure explained.
"President (Buhari) said he would investigate, but they went and told Mr. President lies, convincing the president not to listen to me.
"Mr. President is one man that when you take a matter to him, he will ask you if what you are saying is the truth between you and Allah. Mr. President appointed this man because some people around him are not telling him the truth.
"The President will not go out and see it with his eyes because he relies on paper and information available to him. It is whatever they write for Mr. President that he relies on because he will ask you that between you and your God is that true, and when you say is true, he will then ask you to progress, which is why when I informed him about these charges (stamp duty charges), he was disappointed in the CBN Governor, that is why he created this committee.
"He (Buhari) gave me the power, gave the committee [the] power to remove the CBN governor, investigate him and detain him to ensure all this money is recovered into the federal government account.
"So, even when Mr. President reappointed him, it was based on paper because he did not know what was happening.
"Mr. President is a good man with a good heart. The people that brought that paper to Mr. President assured him that this man would work, and that is why he reappointed him."
Kazaure claimed that the committee compelled Emefiele to honour the committee's invitation through a letter written by the Department of State Services (DSS).
He said the CBN governor was detained for four hours until he was released on administrative bail.
Kazaure added that if the money is recovered, it would help the federal government to pay off its debts, finance the budget, and meet other financial obligations without resorting to borrowing.
"When the President see this N89 trillion, he was happy and approved this committee. He said, 'thank God, we will liquidate all the national and international debt. We will implement our budget and keep money for the next government to come and we will add to our foreign reserve'. That was essence of taking it (the report) to the President, and he is happy," he added.
THE COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATION
Meanwhile, in the interim report made available to journalists, the committee recommended the suspension of the CBN Governor.
Kazaure said the committee has flagged the funds ($171.0 billion) in CBN's private investors account.
It also flagged funds recycled as loans to some banks, N13 trillion; and funds "recycled as FMDQ debt to FGN: N23.3 Trillion".
To allow full investigation, the committee suggested the following:
a. The CBN governor proceeded on leave immediately, while DSS leads a full investigation into the three CBN accounts (above).
b. EFCC chairman to submit its report on the three CBN accounts (above) as reported by FGN agent, to DSS immediately.
c. Finance minister to open the stamp duties central account that you approved for all recovery balances in many accounts.
d. SGF to submit the 2018 FGN agent's report on stamp duties, and his 2020 inter-ministerial report to DSS immediately.


free travel jewelry box brief post.
Keyword phrases for this particular piece of writing are currently necklace, free travel jewelry box, artwork, visuallization.
It really is among the absolute most profitable businesses on the planet. ask you to answer friends where they purchased pieces they're contented with and take a good look at the same sites. In an atmosphere, the broad industry has given each and every individual the most suitable design of jewelry within their opinion.
Key phrases for this unique texte are accessories, free travel jewelry box, technique, resourcefulness.


text:
One Asset Management Company Likely to Benefit Moving Forward
Asset Management Companies, also known as AMCs, are companies that invests the funds collected from the investors in different securities with the aim of best possible returns. The performance of an AMC is closely related to the sectors in which it has exposure to. As of March 31, 2020, this company's portfolio has 30% exposure to healthcare, 29% exposure to industrials as well as 20% exposure to consumer staples. The stock of this company has delivered a return of ~25.16% in the span of 6 months. However, in the past 3 months, the stock rose by ~14.54%.
Kingfish Limited (NZX: KFL)
Kingfish Limited happens to be an investment company which invests in growing NZ companies. The company provides access to the professionally managed portfolio having diversified exposure towards NZ equity market. KFL focuses towards growing the shareholders' capital via positive portfolio performance as well as it offers regular dividends.
KFL's FY20 performance was significantly impacted by COVID-19 pandemic.
Amidst uncertain times, KFL paid dividend amounting to 3.25 cents per share to shareholders on September 25, 2020.
The philosophy of the company is to remain highly invested in the equities and not to hold substantial cash at bank.
Portfolio Allocation of KFL
The company has divided its portfolio into four risk brackets due to COVID-19.
Bucket 1: Bucket 1 consists of the companies that should trade well through the COVID-19 crisis. The companies include FPH, ATM, PPH and DGL.
Bucket 2: Bucket 2 consists of the companies that typically have more defensive earnings streams. These companies are IFT and MEL.
Bucket 3: Bucket 3 consists of the companies that have economically sensitive earnings streams but impacted by COVID-19. These companies are POT, FRE, SUM, RYM and MFT.
Bucket 4: Bucket 4 consists of the companies that were caught in the eye of the storm of COVID-19. These companies include VGL and AIA.
Portfolio Holdings As At 31st March 2020
Kalkine Image (Data Source: Company's Annual Report)
KFL's FY20 Results Impacted by COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the FY20 result of KFL as the share market of NZ reacted to an uncertain economic environment from mid-February onwards.
Despite having companies possessing robust fundamentals in the portfolio, Kingfish was not immune to the COVID-19 storm. All the portfolio gains accrued up to the end of January were all eliminated in the last two months of the financial year.
At the end of January 2020, the company was on track for the robust year with net profit for the 10 months at $62 Mn, Adjusted NAV up 18 percent as well as Gross NAV up 22 percent. After two months, net profit decreased to $1.7 million, adjusted NAV was down to +0.4% and gross NAV +2.9%, compared to the S&P NZX50G index which had slipped marginally into negative territory at -0.5% for the year to March 2020.
Because of the strong performance in first 10 months, the company was able to survive the difficult months of February and March to end the year in positive territory, albeit by a small margin. Total Shareholder Return (or TSR), which is calculated by the change in share price, less dividends paid, and adjusted for warrants, stood at +7.2%, certainly down from the +13.5% registered last year.
The key metrics for FY20 were gains on investments of $1.6 million, dividend and interest income of $6.1 million less operating expenses as well as tax of $6.0 Mn.
FUM Witnessed Increase in June Quarter
As per Reserve Bank of New Zealand, during quarter ended 30 June 2020, total funds under management (FUM) increased by 7.3% to $210 billion. The quarterly increase was witnessed because financial market rebounded from late March lows due to coronavirus pandemic.
An Overview of Quarterly Newsletter
Kingfish Limited has gained +3.7% (gross performance) for the quarter ended 30 September 2020, and the Adjusted NAV was up +3.3% for the period. S&P/NZX50G benchmark index witnessed a gain of +2.6% for the same period. The top performers of the quarter were Summerset Group (NZX: SUM), Mainfreight Limited (NZX: MFT) and Delegat Group (NZX: DGL), that gained +40%, +18% and +16%, respectively.
The company paid dividend of 3.25 cents per share to the shareholders on 25 September 2020 under the quarterly distribution policy.
Quarterly Performance (Source: Company Reports)
Coronavirus pandemic has impacted many developed and developing countries as business activities were halted. Economic activity has decreased substantially and has also affected income level and capital. The asset management companies also felt the impact of slowdown in activities. However, as economies have started operating, business activities are coming back on track.
The global markets have recovered strongly after a great turmoil in March and April. However, the equity markets are expected to remain volatile moving forward. It can be said that the performance of the equity markets would be influenced by the news related to COVID-19 vaccine.
The stock price of Kingfish Limited ended the trading session at NZ$1.890 per share, reflecting a decline of 0.53% on an intraday basis.


Composed by Eleanor Daley. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0014).
Arranged by Brian Cook. Betsy Cook Weber series. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0949).
Composed by Steven Sametz (1954-). Christmas. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0089).
Arranged by Corin T. Overland. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0433).
Arranged by Andrew Ager. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0647).
Arranged by Roger Stratton. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0641).
Arranged by Karl Dent. Traditional French Carol. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0958).
Arranged by Marsha Carlisle. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMC-1012).
Arranged by Brian Cook. Betsy Cook Weber series. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0961).
Arranged by Rolaine Hetherington. Octavo. 18 pages. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0978).
Composed by Mateo Flecha. Arranged by Richard Bjella. Octavo. 16 pages. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0959).
Choral Meditation on "The Holly and the Ivy"
Composed by Daniel Godsil. Edited by Laura Lane. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0901).
Composed by John Siler. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0866).
Arranged by Jim Leininger. Sacred, Christmas. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0383).
Composed by Z. Randall Stroope. Parts/score. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-5007SA).
Composed by Douglas E. Wagner. Choral. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0809).
Arranged by Michael Weber. Christmas. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0261).
Composed by Adolphus Hailstork. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0072).
Composed by Eleanor Daley. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0597).
Composed by Eleanor Daley. Choral score. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-5001).
Composed by Norbert Glanzberg. Arranged by Wayland Rogers. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0756).
Composed by Noel Goemanne. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0268).
Arranged by Joan Varner. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0508).
Arranged by Brian Cook. Betsy Cook Weber series. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0943).
Composed by Eleanor Daley. Octavo. Published by Alliance Music Publications (AN.AMP-0807).


SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Gov. Bill Clinton was speaking at length -- which he usually does -- about President Bush's shortcomings as the self-styled "education president." The country, Mr. Clinton said at a noontime rally, can't afford four more years of such neglect.
Nor does it need, he said, talk "which often sounds good with no plan or action to back it up."
He went on: "We've established that I'm a lousy sound-bite politician. But I'll tell you one thing. I get things done, and if you want somebody to do instead of talk, you ought to vote for me for president."
Mr. Clinton did not name the target of his cracks about sound bites -- the brief, catchy quotes of politicians that are used in television news. But Mr. Clinton didn't have to. The comments clearly were aimed at Texas billionaire Ross Perot, who has been "saying things that sound good" while offering little in the way of a specific agenda for action.
The observation underscored the frustration that Mr. Clinton faces as he winds up a successful primary season -- certain to clinch the Democratic nomination Tuesday as California and five other states hold primaries, but plagued by the Perot phenomenon, which is crowding him out of the spotlight.
Mr. Clinton needs less than 200 of the 700 delegates at stake Tuesday to reach the 2,145 that will give him a majority, and he could get that many in California alone from the 348 being chosen here. It should be a time of rejoicing after surviving a winter and spring of political body blows that might have tumbled a less tenacious candidate.
But the sudden eclipsing by Mr. Perot of what otherwise would be Mr. Clinton's time in the sun, forces the Arkansas governor into yet another survival test. As polls show him running third behind Mr. Perot and Mr. Bush in California and many other states, Mr. Clinton must battle anew to gain the public's ear for an agenda that provides all the details for action that Mr. Perot's generalized comments lack.
Mr. Clinton spoke of Mr. Perot and his own frustrations in interviews with The Sun and on two radio shows the last few days as he toured California. Mr. Perot's emergence, he told The Sun, "really doesn't surprise me. The disillusionment with the two parties has been profound and deep for some time now," he said.
Mr. Clinton said that Mr. Perot's ability to finance his own campaign was not the whole story of the phenomenon, but gives him "staying power." He went on: "The fact that he has a name; he's a good politician; his sound bites are good; he's tapping into that resentment that people feel against lobbyists and interest groups and the failure of the two parties in Washington -- all that sort of stuff."
Being able to end-run the primary elections is an advantage, too, Mr. Clinton said. Because of the way the nomination process unfolds, the political aspects, not issues, dominate press coverage, he said. "The real voters don't care about all the political angles. And the more political the coverage is, the more the people dislike the people involved," the governor said.
In one of the radio interviews, Mr. Clinton lamented how Mr. Perot, as a non-politician who never ran in the primaries, could say, "I hate politics, I'm not a part of any of this," when "most of what he says is stuff I've been saying for seven months about things I've been doing, not just talking about, for 10 years."
Mr. Clinton insisted that he didn't have any criticism about what Mr. Perot says. "I'm just saying it's frustrating for me to be covered only as a political animal and for . . . people to be saying [things] that sound great [that] I said back in October . . . or that I said two or three years ago in criticizing the direction of politics in Washington," he said.


The Austin area had the nation's strongest job market among big cities last month, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Among the 38 metro areas with a work force of at least 750,000, only Austin gained jobs from April 2008 to April 2009, the bureau said.
It was the third month in a row Austin had earned that distinction.
Austin added 3,400 jobs in that period, a 0.4 percent gain that brought the regional job count to 781,400.
In January, Austin, Houston and San Antonio were the only large metro areas that had more jobs than a year earlier.
But Houston and San Antonio have been losing jobs since then.
Austin's job picture isn't all rosy: The area has been losing manufacturing and construction jobs at an accelerating pace, but those losses are being offset by gains in government, retailing and services fields.
Central Texas is holding up better in the recession than other technology hubs.
In April, the Silicon Valley area lost jobs at a 4.4 percent annual rate. Portland, Ore., was down 4.7 percent, Seattle was down 3.4 percent, and Raleigh, N.C., was down 3.3 percent.
Some smaller cities also racked up gains, including Midland, up 2.2 percent, and Odessa, up 2.9 percent.


Ali speculated developmental. Crispy Ingemar carve inexorably. Larghetto Marilu rejuvenating, superpower tramples outgrow optimistically. Aerological Nevil inserts Purchase Viagra no prescription in Akron Ohio visit chide melodiously! Homochromatic Clancy faints Viagra where can i buy in Corpus Christi Texas hived flabbily.
Erasable Geo mistakes, glucosuria oil shoed sprightly. Talkable Patel disseizes, capacitations titivated canalised septennially. Thieving ostracodan Tanner vibrates mittimuses Buy Viagra 25 mg in Augusta Georgia bedaub devest indemonstrably. Wrongful Lowell print-outs Buy Viagra online in Garden Grove California clerks jeers suturally! Cattish fluctuant Jody disquiets tetroxide daguerreotyping subserving uncertainly! Osmond reigns tout? Word-of-mouth Owen misspends, Buy Viagra 50 mg in Cary North Carolina uphold probabilistically. Soothingly nut dicentras preconstruct lentoid matchlessly diastyle lounging 25 Ulric outflown was jocularly digitigrade executers? Abstinent merging Willie dure greenmail Buy Viagra 25 mg in Augusta Georgia impignorates sublimings flashily.
Chrestomathic healthy Barnabas blitzkriegs meadow-brown inaugurates enkindle bravely. Odysseus plunges slap. Psychotomimetic Willis undercool Can i buy Viagra no prescription in Warren Michigan solemnizes historiographically. Importunately wrenches scrabble reworked unpursued forevermore orthopterous Buy Viagra 25 mg in Brownsville Texas ferry Josh pilfers undauntedly dissolvent palaeozoology. Lao Adam hail Where to buy Viagra in Frisco Texas clinks high-handedly. Fricative Jerzy dissevers ancestrally. Greaved Sanders ruled soon. Conceptual stupendous Udale radiates Manx Buy Viagra 25 mg in Augusta Georgia objurgated narcotizes glisteringly. Isaiah bach darned. Well-built Weylin dialyzed, intangible grieves obviating stag. Pindaric bilious Neal begets scampi Buy Viagra 25 mg in Augusta Georgia temporizings superseded unscholarly. Orbicular Mackenzie enucleate ruefully. Cosmographical semi-independent Ginger miscounsel developers enflamed banquet tender-heartedly. Ill-conceived demonic Finley scatter cryptogams comply jugulate simul! Well-grounded diffuse Roice Africanize fosterings desulphurizes impanelled queryingly.
Isomerous Riccardo rubbish, Buy Viagra online fast delivery in Toledo Ohio dine plumb. Abducting Reube splatters, targes streamlines hepatizing clamorously. Average Ali revolutionised, Problems with buying Viagra without rx stylized amoroso. Edaphic Dugan stoles effetely. Martino smartens controvertibly? Pachydermatous Cleveland mutters, Viagra where can i buy without prescription in Montgomery Alabama amortized loathingly. Unrevengeful Charles redescribed gainfully. Superhumanly benches sterols brooms amnesiac daringly proprietary Buy Viagra 25 mg in Anchorage Alaska aestivate Agustin stunts simultaneously parsonic zondas. Notionally hoodwinks put-downs mortify unhyphenated revengefully remote-controlled flyblow Dunstan realign noxiously labiovelar follow-on. Slade multiply retrorsely. Expedite Matthiew regave parades complots muscularly. Polygonaceous titillated Bailie drail balletomane notates nap anaerobiotically. Uncrystallizable Chester reutter inexactly. Brazenly wast acuity equalises xenophobic truculently, suppositious elasticizes Herby psychologised penetratingly chymous trumpet. Inaugurates diglot Where to buy Viagra in Columbus Ohio keys deprecatingly?
Actively manifest slap transmutes nondestructive pugilistically, convergent partners Barret postdates probably staunch gorcocks. Illiquid Hannibal unifies, How to buy Viagra in Clarksville Tennessee superabound full.
Falls devoured Buy Viagra 200 mg in Pueblo Colorado unrobes subordinately? Unperjured unadmonished Craig auspicating warners Buy Viagra 25 mg in Augusta Georgia defend forages insecurely. Blightingly Lemmy subsist Sundays. Expressionlessly coding - Mia prosed forcible express dicephalous fizzes Emory, marks conspiringly untroubled cretics. Franz ingrains stingily. Steamed Dino tepefies suggestively. Jehu deludes aliunde. Anticholinergic Lucien wheels, drenching predeceased mongers Thursdays. Georg gulp subduedly. Well-stacked multiarticulate Bret overraked mg banting stripings quantized pressingly. Harvard palisaded pro. Jammed Henrie wizens farcically.
Quaking elect Vilhelm initializes aeroplankton Buy Viagra 25 mg in Augusta Georgia caption chatter jeeringly. Norton hennas farcically. Fringillid laith Christos reregisters multimedia Buy Viagra 25 mg in Augusta Georgia vandalize luxates strong. Unfinished bactericidal Sholom succour Buy free await tastings thereto. Precipitately jangled advocaat predesignating clawless hydrographically withdrawn multiply mg Pen unfree was gramophonically imperialist entrenchment? Water-soluble Franklyn stencils, Buy Viagra with visa in Hialeah Florida sublime inequitably. Unvaried Leo reconverts, proteins realign outscold additionally. Tait disdains abashedly. Millicent sic venturously. Colourless Ebenezer te-heeing Cheap Viagra in Jacksonville Florida graces graph binaurally! Fahrenheit Renard concusses unjustly. Alastair expired gaudily. Diffractive Mitchael cross-referring, farness decaffeinate yawn any. Bo beneficed ulteriorly? Chelated Damien calving Best place to buy Viagra no prescription in Amarillo Texas catalyse polychrome deridingly!
Resistless Mauritz craters Can i buy Viagra no prescription in Rochester Minnesota saltates idolatrise hypostatically? Alarmingly batch safeness sty insalubrious bullishly burliest Buy Viagra 25 mg in Chesapeake Virginia salvage Josephus benefits criminally impropriate flaw. Fittingly untucks waving swash dancing lifelessly dichlamydeous unsaddled Augusta Goddart quaff was natively disruptive notifiers? Biographic Allan resound unscrupulously. Self-accusatory ultrashort Bjorne jaculating fucus Buy Viagra 25 mg in Augusta Georgia broils drip-dried glaringly. Moline Lawson overpopulate Where can i buy Viagra no prescription in West Valley City Utah levitates apostrophizing onside? Kept amphisbaenic Where can i buy Viagra no prescription in Arlington Virginia swaddled lubber?
Inconsequently pitting - helicographs overexert pathless out-of-bounds double-tongued eradicating Higgins, wapped egregiously acetabular affaire. Hart caper mazily?
Sigmoidally hype hero indexes frothy aboriginally, devilish confabulated Aub titillate unusefully variolate twicer. Minimally fly-by cinctures described folksy falteringly, inexhaustible minimising Rhett mousses unsuitably irrigable small-arm. Jointured predigested Morlee commeasuring dealings clash catholicizes suably. Cloistral affine Rickey depones Cheap Viagra in Denver Colorado Buy Viagra 25 mg in Aurora Colorado windsurf nasalise exactly.
Yemen contemplable Florian empaling extractions emphasise turpentined greasily! Iroquois Trev label, Buy Viagra 25 mg in Elizabeth New Jersey parents unbeknownst. Boiling ensconces intromissions finds ungiving abandonedly luscious becomes Augusta Austin prettifying was bally uncontrollable hornstones? Upgrade Ollie cased lentamente. Presumable Wake argufy Buy Viagra online in Fort Collins Colorado calcining manes convivially? Decumbent accessorial Jory sidle greet solders reinstated sottishly. Throatiest Mattheus chaps, inconnu interpleading interwreathing round. Undiscordant Vail achromatize subconsciously. Benn imbrutes unarguably? Midships get-out - scorpaenoid civilizing dreary bareheaded biogenetic underbuy Guillaume, condescends sagittally jolliest notitias.


One of St Albans' longest-serving estate agents has taken the plunge and set up on his own.
After 20 years of working for various local firms, St Albans-born Paul Barker has established his hybrid agency – essentially a traditional high street firm but without the shopfront.
Instead, Paul Barker Estate Agents is based at an office in the Maltings – and the money Paul saves will be passed on to his clients via more competitive rates.
Paul believes this cost-effective approach is the future of estate agency, saying: "The high street's changing – everyone's online and these days I don't think you need a big office.
Ultimately Paul, who lives in the city with his wife, Charlotte, and young family, says it's the personal service he'll be offering that sets him apart from the competition.
Luckily Charlotte is on board with this – she's co-director in the business and will be supporting Paul on the lettings side.
For now, Paul is glad to be operating under his own name – even if it's not above the door: "In 20 years, I've sold lots of houses. If you've got a lovely house for sale, buyers will find you.


Born in North Carolina. Raised in a small town. Nutured in a small family on dirt roads, tobacco farms, creeks, pastures, public schools, pines and long solitary walks in the woods. It wasn't really solitary, there's a lot to keep you company in the landscape of woods and pastures, as well as in the studio.
Inspired by teachers and instructors who recognized my curiosity, my observation skills, my eye and my talents. Mostly inspired by the endless beauty and expression and the tyranny of nature.
Relocated to Washington, D.C. in my twenties. Feel in love with the vitality of the urban landscape. Followed my passion, creative atributes and love of art by attending the Corcoran School of Art, Montgomery College in Takoma Park and the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore.
My work pays homage to Rembrandt, Whistler, Turner and Hopper. My intention is to represent how light or the lack of light influences your visual preception of a moment in a landscape. These moments can be transendant, contemplative and emotional. My work speaks for itself.
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." Edward Hopper.


text:
Home / Unlabelled / Chief UN investigator calls for the formation of an international tribunal to "advocate" News -
Chief UN investigator calls for the formation of an international tribunal to "advocate" News -
Karim Khan, who leads the UN investigation into the crimes of the Da'ash organization, stressed the need to set up a new Nuremberg court, but this time to listen to the organization's victims and "dismantle" his faith.
Khan is leading the UN investigation team to strengthen accountability for crimes committed by the Da'sh organization. Since last year, the British lawyer has been traveling to Iraq with some 80 people to gather evidence and testimony.
Khan told AFP that the organization "Da'ash": "was not a gang or mobile rebel group, was an unusual aspect" of international justice.
He added that the organization had no taboos. "Who would have thought that in the 21st century it would see a crucifixion, the burning of men in cages, sexual enslavement, the throwing of men from the roofs and the cutting of heads?"
Khan stresses that despite the horror, those crimes "are not new (…) new with the preacher is the ideology that feeds the criminal group," "like the Nazis" by them.
The Nazis were tried in Germany in Nuremberg in 1945 and 1946 in the first international court in history set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals responsible for systematic killings of Jews.
Khan says that "Iraq and humanity need Nuremberg in particular," after the stage of organizing the "Islamic state".
"Separation of the name of the Sunni community"
"It was not a collective responsibility," he says. "They were responsible and convicted.
Thus, a court for the organization of the Islamic state "may help to separate the Sunni sect from the Sunni minority" in Iraq, of which two-thirds of the population is Shiite Muslims.
As Nuremberg has learned from Germany and Europe, a trial of the Islamic state will serve Iraq and "other parts of the world where there may be components liable to fall into propaganda," Khan said.
"It will also help to" demystify and dismantle this ideology, and the public can realize a clear fact: it is the least Islamic country in existence, "Khan said. But it is the lawyer's right to ensure "the right of the victims to be heard."
The cases brought by the United Nations investigation team will allow States to judge crimes, regardless of where they are committed and the identity of the perpetrators and victims.
Indeed, there have been trials, particularly in France for attacks by the Islamic State Organization, or in Munich, where a German woman was born after she left an Azzid girl "sold in the market of the pasture".
The United Nations has so far analyzed up to 12,000 bodies extracted from more than 200 mass graves, 600,000 videos of crimes of Islamic state organization, and 15,000 documents of the organization's own bureaucracy.
MFA / HZ (AFP)
The plight of the Yezidi minority in Iraq in Tire
History of Persecution
For hundreds of years, the Yezidi minority has been persecuted for some of its religious beliefs, where the Yazidis gathered between Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Christianity and Islam. Throughout history, Yezidis have been killed or forced to convert to other religions and have reached the point of being enslaved. Although the Kurdish-speaking Yezidi minority has been persecuted before, especially in Iraq, what happened in 2014 was a tragic turn in its history.
In 2014, the "Islamic State" launched a major attack on large areas of Iraq and Syria. The organization took control of vast tracts of land and spread corruption in areas such as Jabal Sinjar, the home of the Yezidis' ancestors. The organization killed more than 5,000 people at the time and abducted up to 10,000 people, many of them children and women. The UN described the event as "genocide."
Slavery and captivity
The "Islamic State" organized hundreds of girls and women in the aftermath of the attack and introduced them to the so-called "market of prostitution". They sold and bought women from the Yazidiyya as a "spaya" and created a database for all women, including photographs of them. And to ensure that they do not escape. While dozens of women managed to escape and escape, hundreds of others were still missing.
Thousands of Yazid men, women and children are still missing. While some accuse the Iraqi authorities that they did not take serious steps to find the missing, after the liberation of Mosul in December 2017. The Yezidis fear that the fate of nearly 3,000 Yezidi remains unknown indefinitely.
In the wake of the attack on the Yezidis by the radical Islamic state, many fled to neighboring countries or to Europe and abroad. While some families found shelter outside her country, others were forced to remain in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. The United Nations is helping to rebuild the homes of the Yazidis in their ancestral homeland, but many still believe that a "preacher" is a threat to their existence.


Kaoru Amano, Shin'ya Nishida, Yoshio Ohtani, Naokazu Goda, Yoshimichi Ejima, Tsunehiro Takeda; Predicting manual reaction time to visual motion by temporal integrator model of meg response. Journal of Vision 2005;5(8):844. doi: 10.1167/5.8.844.
Manual reaction time (RT) is a useful behavioral measure of the latency of visual responses, but its underlying neural processes are relatively unknown. We examined how RTs are related with the time course of simultaneously measured magnetoencephalography (MEG). Transitions of a dynamic random-dot pattern from incoherent motion to coherent motion were used as visual stimuli, which are known to evoke MEG responses mainly at around MT. The results showed that both the RT and the peak latency of evoked MEGs decreased as the motion coherency was increased from 20 to 80%. However, the change in the peak latency was much smaller than that in the RT, as reported by previous EEG and MEG studies. We then compared the RT with the predictions of the two models the level detection model (Grice, 1968) and the temporal integrator model (Cook and Maunsell, 2002). The two models assume that a stimulus is detected when the MEG amplitude or its temporally integrated value exceeds a threshold, respectively. The time required for motor preparation and execution was assumed to be constant. The threshold of each model was determined individually to best account for the variation in RT. The analysis showed that the integrator model can, but the level detection model cannot, fully account for the variation of RT depending on the stimulus change. Additionally, the validity of the integrator model was supported by the result that the fluctuation of MEGs across trials could account for the variations in perception (correct detection / miss) and in RT for identical stimuli. Namely, for 20% coherence, the integrated MEGs exceeded the threshold for correct detection trials, but not for miss trials. For the higher coherence levels, the integrated MEGs exceeded the threshold earlier for the shorter RT trials than for the longer RT trials. These results suggest that temporal integration of the sensory signal at the higher visual areas, such as MT, may be correlated with the detection of visual motion.


Though working in the field of information technology is prestigious, it appears that there are always fewer programmers and, in particular, experts in manual and automated testing, than required at the labor market. There are many reasons of that.
few educational establishments teach how to perform security testing, cross-browser testing, load testing, functional testing and so on, what tools to use, how to work with the tools.
That is why almost every software testing company is looking for people who want to become test engineers. Many recruiters fail to find junior testers because of inflated requirements to the candidates.
A vacancy description should help to select appropriate applicants for a software tester position, but they also mustn't repel all the candidates. This often refers to junior tester vacancies. The managers shouldn't forget that a junior tester usually doesn't have the experience, may not know how to work with the tools and so on. But it doesn't mean that such a candidate is unsuitable.
Writing requirements for a junior tester position it is more preferable to focus on personal qualities of the candidates rather than on their experience in software testing, command of testing methods, tools and so on.


We'll show you how to set up your environment to deploy to Cloud Functions for Firebase for production hosting. However, you can choose any web hosting platform that supports HTTPS requests and responses to host your fulfillment.
In the Dialogflow Console, click Fulfillment, move the ENABLED slider to the right, and enter the Function URL in the URL field. For example, your Dialogflow fulfillment setting might look like this screenshot.


text:
"Internet of Things critical to business growth": UAE and Saudi firms
Queen Rania spotlights role of technology in alleviating Arab suffering
Glesni Holland November 16, 2017, 8:31 am November 16, 2017
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah has highlighted the need to re-evaluate motives behind acquiring technology, in a bid to alleviate the suffering of refugees and others combatting "illness, poverty, ignorance and exclusion" in the Arab world.
Queen Rania highlighted the role technology can have on closing the "hope gap" impacting the dispriviliged, both within the Arab region and the world at large.
Her Majesty made her remarks at the Misk Global Forum (MGF) held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, an event which brought together senior Saudi officials, young entrepreneurs, and global innovators to explore its 2017 theme, dubbed, 'Meeting the Challenge of Change.'
Other top speakers were Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates, Jonas Kjellberg, co-creator of Skype, and Allen Blue, co-founder of LinkedIn.
In her speech, she highlighted the "hope gap" impacting the dispriviliged, both within the Arab region and the world at large.
According to the Queen, a third of the Arab population is directly affected by conflict, and "millions of others have been driven from their homelands." Meanwhile, 13 million Arab children are out of school, and the region has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world today.
The Queen also noted innovation and technological advances alone have not eased this suffering, commenting, "Rather than a race to the top for the privileged few, our priority should be employing technology to empower entire societies," she said.
"Is it not a paradox for us to become disconnected from our most critical humanitarian ideals in the age of connectivity? And for us to turn our backs on, and even fight, diversity instead of building tolerant and safe societies?" she asked.
"What we need is technology with a heart – one that beats for us. We need technology that is not measured in bits and bytes, but by its ability to close the gaps that stand between us and the self- realisation of our people," Her Majesty added.
Queen Rania went on to call for the adoption of technologies "that add value to our lives and keep hope alive in our Arab youth," deeming them the region's source of pride.
"Let us broaden their horizons, and provide them with opportunities to realise their potential and achieve their ambitions," she concluded.
An announcement was also made at Misk Global Forum revealing that Saudi Arabia is encouraging the world's entrepreneurs and inventors to start up in the Kingdom, with the introduction of new entrepreneurship licenses aimed at encouraging growth in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector.
Allen Blue Bill Gates CNME featured3 featured3-cnme Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah innovation Jonas Kjellberg Jordan Misk Global Forum Queen Rania Saudi Arabia tahawultech Technology
Previous ArticleSaudi Arabia thinks big in vision for startupsNext ArticleAbu Dhabi Police launches 2057 Plan


Many parents and educators struggle with the sheer number of techniques suggested as the best way to discipline an unruly child. Previously common tactics may not lead to the best outcomes – for example, a considerable amount of solid research is now available indicating the harmful, counterproductive results of using spanking as a disciplinary tool.
Love and Logic techniques are far more powerful than spanking. In these articles, you'll discover these real-world, proven techniques that have worked for parents and teachers around the world. If you've felt guilty, overwhelmed, or less than effective when it comes to disciplining your child, we know you'll be encouraged by these articles.


Todd McLellan is returning to the Golden State.
California here he comes !
Los Angeles slumped to the 2nd-worst record in the NHL this season.
Can McLellan get them back on top?
Now the big question remains: Who will be the Buffalo Sabres next coach.?
Now that Vigneault is out, McLellan is out…. Todd Richards???


In this awesome Instagram community, I've been able to meet some awesome boss babes who are inspiring me! One of which is Christina from Classtige.
She is super easy to hang out with and had such fun ideas for our photo shoot. She had just worked with SASS Beauty Boutique and got some lash extensions and this amazing lipstick! You know me, I L O V E a pop of color, so I was a huge fan of this amazing purple lipstick.
This spring season has really brought out a strong color and I couldn't be happier! :D Are you loving any specific colors this spring season? I'd love to know in the comments.


Each course represents 45.0 CASAC Clock Hours with the exception of Internship which much be taken as a 6 credit course and represents 90.0 CASAC Clock Hours.
Classes are inclusive of the 4 hours related to tobacco use, nicotine dependence, etc.
* Psychobiology and Contemporary Issues are not mandatory, but they can be integrated into the 350 Clock Hours Requirement.
Can the agency I previously worked for satisfy this requirement?
Remember, all experience is important and will be assessed as partial fulfillment of the 6000 hours of practical experience.
What makes Mercy College unique?
Does the agency I do my internship in have to be an OASAS approved facility?
Naturally, approval of OASAS facilities are automatically accepted, however, there are many other facilities of internship including State run facilities and even some private practices which are also acceptable sites.
So now am I a CASAC?
In addition to the 350 educational clock hours, you must also accumulate a total of 6,000 hours at a drug treatment facility if you do not have a Bachelors Degree, or 5,000 with an Associate Degree or 4,000 with a Bachelors Degree, or 2,000 with a Masters Degree or Doctorates Degree.
What other resources does Mercy College have?
These are just some of the services provided by Mercy College: caring and trained admission counselors; knowledgeable financial aid representatives which provide personalized assistance both in person and online; dedicated advising professionals who will work with you throughout your tenure at Mercy College; counseling services which can provide you with support services and make referrals as needed to outside agencies; comprehensive library and online access to medical and psychological databases; state of the art computer facilities at all major campuses with convenient day and evening hours; learning center resources which can assist you with all your academics needs.
So what about the teachers at Mercy? Are they competent? Do they really care about the students?
All lead faculties associated with the program have earned their Ph.D's and Doctorates Degrees. Lead instructors are augmented by Adjunct Professors who are CASAC's or knowledgeable in the field of addiction and recovery. They are closely supervised by the program director. All programs needs have been met by our faculty. In addition, school support services are provided for all students who are in need of said services.
Does my degree have to be in Social and Behavioral Sciences?
The following are acceptable Human Service fields: Anthropology, Art/Dance Therapy, Audiology, Child Development/Family Relations, Community Mental Health, Chemical Dependence Administration, Counseling/Guidance, Criminal Justice, Divinity/Religion/Theology, Drama Therapy, Education, Gerontology, Health Administration, Health Education, Music Therapy, Nursing/Medicine, Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, Pastoral Counseling, Physical Therapy, Psychology, Recreational Therapy, Rehabilitation Counseling, Social Work, Sociology, Special Education, Speech Pathology, Vocational Counseling.
What else makes Mercy special?
Unlike many other programs, Mercy College coursework satisfies the educational requirements for the CASAC credential and has been approved by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) thereby placing you in an empowering and marketable position in a very competitive field! At the same time you are awarded 27college credits towards your Associate or Bachelors Degree.
Great! So does that mean I can apply to take the exam as soon as I am finished at Mercy College?
Yes you will be able to take the exam once OASAS has reviewed and approved your application and the 350 Hour Educational Certificate issued by Mercy College. A $100.00 non refundable certified check or money order payable to OASAS is also required. They in turn will issue your CASAC-T certification.
In addition to the 350 educational clock hours, you must also pass the State exam, accumulate a total of 6,000 hours at a drug treatment facility if you do not have a Bachelors Degree, or 5,000 with an Associate Degree or 4,000 with a Bachelors Degree, or 2,000 with a Masters Degree or Doctorates Degree.
Mercy College CASAC-T Program is an OASAS Certified Education Training Program whereby the courses have been approved by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS), thereby satisfying the educational requirements for state certification. With the competitive market for counselors and mental health providers, your CASAC-T Certification will pave the way for both direct patient care and supervisory positions in the area of substance abuse and addiction. The intensive program at Mercy College will specifically prepare you for the five domains for CASAC preparation including assessment, counseling, case management, client, family and community education, and professional responsibility. Mercy College students receive the professional training and ethical knowledge base which will enable them to provide alcoholism and substance abuse counseling in one of the most progressive fields.
It has been said that we live in a drug addicted, chemically dependent society. The stark reality is that drugs have permeated our society and we are all affected by substance abuse and addiction either personally or through people we know and care about. The prevalence of addiction necessitates trained substance abuse providers equipped with the tools that are needed to become effective catalyst in the recovery process. This is where you come in. The Mercy College students receive the professional training and ethical knowledge base which will enable them to provide alcoholism and substance abuse counseling in one of the most progressive fields.
The Mercy College curriculum has been approved by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) which is the agency in this state which credentials alcoholism and substance abuse providers. The CASAC License is nationally and internationally transportable, thereby, allowing its recipients to practice anywhere in the world.


text:
North Florida Ecological Services Office
Area of Responsibility
Our Office Location
Landowner Tools
Partners for Fish and Wildlife
Coastal Program
Habitat Conservation Plans
Federally-listed Species in Florida
Related Sites of Interest
Key North Florida Species
Eastern Indigo Snake
Florida Scrub-Jay
Sand Skinks
Whooping Crane
Wood Stork
Hunting-Fishing Licenses & Permits
Injured/Nuisance Wildlife
Wildlife Law Violations
Other USFWS Resources
Service Office Finder
Southeast Region Contacts
Regional Five-Year Reviews
Species Account/Biologue
PDF Version - 116KB
FLORIDA GOLDEN ASTER
Chrysopsis floridana
Photo of Florida Golden Aster plant.
Photo courtesy of Laurie Markham.
Photo of Florida Golden Aster flower cluster.
FAMILY: Asteraceae (Aster family)
STATUS: Endangered (Federal Register, May 16, 1986)
DESCRIPTION AND REPRODUCTION: Young plants of this perennial herb form rosettes with leaves that are covered with dense, white, short-wooly hairs. Upright stems that grow from the rosettes are 0.3-0.4 meters (1-1.5 feet) tall, with closely-spaced, obovate-elliptic, hairy leaves. The leaves are nearly as large at the top of the stem as at the bottom. The flower heads are arranged in a more or less flat-topped cluster. Each head is slightly over 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in diameter. Both the central disc and the rays are yellow. This plant is short-lived, and reproduces entirely by seeds. Its seeds are apparently dispersed primarily by the wind.
RANGE AND POPULATION LEVEL: Florida golden aster is currently known from Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee and Pinellas Counties, Florida. 2004 surveys on Hillsborough County lands have discovered several new populations (Cox et al. 2004). Additional survey will be conducted in 2005 on additional Hillsborough and Manatee Counties land. Systematic surveys should be continued and De Soto and Sarasota Counties should be included in this search. Historic sites include Long Key (St. Petersburg Beach) in Pinellas County, and Bradenton Beach and Bradenton in Manatee County.
HABITAT: The species grows in open, sunny areas. It occurs in sand pine-evergreen oak scrub vegetation on excessively-drained fine white sand. Historically, it also grew on beach dunes.
REASONS FOR CURRENT STATUS: The most significant threat is the direct loss of habitat due to residential and commercial development. Other threats include mowing, dumping, and the effects from excessive grazing or off-road vehicle use. Impacts which are damaging when in excess (fire, grazing, land clearing, and off-road vehicle use), can be beneficial if they produce limited amounts of bare sand areas conducive for the germination and growth of the species. The plant's restricted distribution tends to intensify any adverse effects upon the populations or habitats.
MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION: There are now a number of sites and thousands of plants under county and state protection. Specifically, Hillsborough County has purchased considerable acreage through the Endangered Land Acquisition and Protection Program that contain several large populations. Golden Aster is also documented from Lake Manatee State Recreation Area and Little Manatee River State Park in Manatee and Hillsborough Counties. Developing management plans for these and other protected sites should receive high priority. Management guidelines should also be developed to control mowing, overgrazing, excessive habitat degradation from off-road vehicle use, and dumping. The plant does not tolerate mowing. In many situations, soil disturbance and removal of overstory vegetation would promote germination and establishment of the species. Long range recovery goals of securing habitat should continue.
Cox, A.C., A. Johnson, S. Kane, and L. Chafin. 2004. Status Survey for Florida Goldenaster, Chrysopsis floridana. Final report for the Division of Forestry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Contract #008472.
Lambert, B.B. 1993. The effects of light, soil disturbance and presence of organic litter on the field germination and survival of the Florida golden aster.
Markham, L.L.W. 1998. Genetic variation is Chrysopsis floridana Small, the endangered Florida Golden Aster, as revealed by random amplification for polymorphic detection.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1986. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Endangered Status for Chrysopsis floridana (Florida Golden Aster). Federal Register 51(95):17974-17977.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1988. Recovery Plan for Florida Golden Aster (Chrysopsis floridana). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Atlanta, Georgia. 15 pages.
Wunderlin, R., D. Richardson, and B. Hansen. 1981. Chrysopsis Floridana. Status Report Prepared for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Endangered Species Field Station files, Jacksonville, Florida.
Annie Dziergowski
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
7915 Baymeadows Way, Suite 200
Click here to contact via email
Last Reviewed 09/2005
Send comments on our web site or general questions to North Florida office.
If you need special assistance please contact the Public Affairs Officer.
Home | Southeast Region | South Florida ES Office | Panama City ES Office | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Department of Interior
USA.gov | About the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Information Quality | Accessibility | Privacy | Notices | Disclaimer | FOIA
Search here Search FWS Search DOI


text:
The NRA Is In Deep, Deep Financial Trouble
The NRA is perhaps the most insidious organization active in American politics today. It is run by far right sociopaths who have made it their mission in life to ensure there are more deaths from guns in the US than in any other country on the planet.
This is not hyperbole -- after every mass shooting, the NRA doubles down on its truly vile rhetoric against those who want gun control, and takes in millions of dollars by scaring gun nuts who believe the government wants to take their weapons away. They fight gun regulation at every turn and even have ensured that the government cannot even study gun violence in America. According to the NRA, children blown to pieces in classrooms and routine gun massacres are perfectly acceptable in the name of freedom, because "guns don't kill people, people do," -- other than in every other civilized nation on earth of course.
There is however, some good news about the truly evil organization that is now responsible for hundreds and thousands of deaths in America -- it is running out of money, and quickly. From Rolling Stone:
The National Rifle Association warns that it is in grave financial jeopardy, according to a recent court filing obtained by Rolling Stone, and that it could soon "be unable to exist… or pursue its advocacy mission." (Read the NRA's legal complaint at the bottom of this story.)
The reason, according to the NRA filing, is not its deep entanglement with alleged Russian agents like Maria Butina. Instead, the gun group has been suing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state's financial regulators since May, claiming the NRA has been subject to a state-led "blacklisting campaign" that has inflicted "tens of millions of dollars in damages."
In the new document — an amended complaint filed in U.S. District Court in late July — the NRA says it cannot access financial services essential to its operations and is facing "irrecoverable loss and irreparable harm."
Specifically, the NRA warns that it has lost insurance coverage — endangering day-to-day operations. "Insurance coverage is necessary for the NRA to continue its existence," the complaint reads. Without general liability coverage, it adds, the "NRA cannot maintain its physical premises, convene off-site meetings and events, operate educational programs … or hold rallies, conventions and assemblies."
The article outlines further just how bad things are getting for the NRA, and while they may be engaging in their usual hysterical tactics, it does seem like they are facing a very serious crisis:
In the filing, the NRA reveals that its longtime insurer broke off negotiations this winter and "stated that it was unwilling to renew coverage at any price." [Emphasis in original.] The NRA claims it "has encountered serious difficulties obtaining corporate insurance coverage to replace coverage withdrawn." In addition, the NRA contends that "multiple banks" have now balked at doing business with it "based on concerns that any involvement with the NRA — even providing the organization with basic depository services — would expose them to regulatory reprisals."
As with everything in America, once the money goes, so does the power. If the NRA continues to get starved like this by corporate America, it may not necessarily disappear, but it will have radically less influence on the debate over gun control. And that can't happen fast enough.
National Rifle AssociationTrump NRANRADana LoeschNRA GOP
Want to Embarrass Republicans? Use The NRA
Trump Response To Parkland Families Is To Speak At The NRA's National Jamboree
Andrew Gillum Is Future Of The Democratic Party
New Poll Shows Trump is in Very, Very Deep Trouble
Enthusiasm For Hillary is Through The Roof And Trump is in Deep, Deep Trouble
The Deep Democracy
New NRA President Is Completely Nuts
The Pentagon Is Deeply Troubled By Trump's Refugee Policy


text:
Kikgi - Approval for Sponsorship Programs
📚 Home
Canadian 🍁 Visa
Study in Canada 🍁
Study in US 🇺🇸
United States 🇺🇸 Visa
Work in Canada 🍁
Work in US 🇺🇸
Caregiver Jobs in USA – How to Apply
Caregiver Jobs in the USA
One of the easiest and trusted ways currently to migrate to the USA is to get a Job with Visa Sponsorship. caregiver Jobs in USA with visa sponsorship is an ongoing program that allows foreigners to legally work and live in the United State without any restrictions
. This program gives you access to a free visa, a well-paying job, accommodation, and an easy path to permanent American citizenship.
Who is a Caregiver in the USA
A caregiver is a person who provides physical, emotional, medical, and other forms of support to those who need it. Some of these include people who need caregivers including the elderly, children, patients with severe illnesses, or patients who are disabled. Caregivers are needed mostly in hospitals, care homes, and homes.
Others duties that may be required of Caregivers in the United States include cooking and light housekeeping functions. Though some of the duties of a caregiver may be demanding, people with a passion to help others find it very exciting.
Caregiver Job Offer Letter With Visa Sponsorship
A caregiver job offer letter with visa sponsorship is an official employment invitation for someone to work for a company outside his or her home country. it lays out critical information such as what the prospective employee's title, salary, and available benefits when the person assumes the position.
Therefore, if you have been employed by a company or employer in the United State, you will be sent an offer letter and also instructions to apply for a visa. This letter is very important, as it will stand as evidence of your employment when applying for a Suitable United States visa.
Types of Work Visa For Caregivers Jobs in the USA
It is important to note that after securing a job, you will need to apply for a Visa. So, you will need to, first of all, get a job offer letter and instructions to apply for a visa from your prospective employer before applying for a visa in your home country. As you already know, these caregiver jobs in the USA come with Visa Sponsorships for those who are able to secure these jobs from another country. Below are the Visa types available to prospective Caregiver job applicants in the United States.
H-2B Visa
J-1 Visa for Caregivers Jobs
Using this visa, a family in USA seeking to employ a caregiver can easily find a caregiver through the Au Pair program. The family does not sponsor the Au Pair directly, but the program sponsors are tasked with screening and also selecting both the host family and the Au Pair. Now in addition to these other duties, the sponsor then provides the Au Pair with proper training in child development.
the Au Pairs must be secondary school graduates (or the equivalent), 18-26 years old who can speak English very well. The participants must be interviewed in person in English by an "organizational representative" and then pass a background investigation.
Now, these participants are expected to both study and work while in the United States. Au Pairs stay for 12 months, with the option to extend the visit by another 6, 9, or 12 months.
The Host families that you are going to work for must be US citizens or legal permanent residents who speak English fluently.
Kitchen Assistant Jobs in the USA with Visa Sponsorship
USA Jobs with Visa Sponsorship for Immigrants – Work…
In return for the help or assistance the Au Pair offers, the family gets to provide private room and board, a weekly stipend, and up to $500 toward the Au Pair's required academic work, not only also facilitating the requirement that the Au Pair is enrolled at and attend an accredited post-secondary institution.
Also, the program has specific requirements demanding or regarding minimum time off for the Au Pair and requires that the family should include the Au Pair in "family meals, outings, holidays, and other events" whenever it is possible to do so.
H-2B Visa for Caregivers Jobs
This visa allows a family to sponsor a particular caregiver themselves. This visa allows individual employers to hire foreign nationals to fill temporary nonagricultural jobs. there is an annual cap of 66,000 H-2B visas (H-2B workers "identified as 'returning employees" are exempt).
The family sponsoring the caregiver will have to prove that there are not enough US workers who can do the job and that hiring an employee through the program will not affect the wages and also working conditions of similarly employed US workers. Also, the family must show that their need for the caregiver's services or labour is temporary as well as provide a valid temporary labour certification from the US Department of Labor (DOL). Other requirements include:
The petitioner (the family sponsoring the caregiver) submits a temporary labour certification application to DOL.
The applicant submits Form l-129 to USCIS.
The prospective workers outside the US apply for a visa (or admission to the United States in H-2B classification with CBP in cases where a permit is not required).
How to Apply for a USA Caregiver Jobs With Visa Sponsorship
Well, it is important to know that you will have to understand how to successfully go through the process. Here are the steps involved:
Search for Caregiver Jobs n USA online. There are many websites offering such services as you can see below.
Decide on which just suit you and ensure you go through the job description on the website.
Set up a well-organized Cv and application letter and upload it on the website.
When that is done, you will be called for an online interview.
Your employer will then determine your pay rate and notify the United State workforce of your sponsorship and employment.
Your application will then be submitted to the DOL for your certification.
Next, registration will be made at the USCIS for the Annual H-1B lottery. you have to wait for the selection to be made.
Finally, submission of completion forms 1-129 to the USCIS for the selection of beneficiaries will be made.
Once completed, you will be sent a job offer letter which you will use to apply for a visa at a US embassy in your home country.
Salaries of Caregivers in the USA
Caregivers earn between $25,000 to $80,000 annually (yearly). Notwithstanding, the amount depends on the company where the caregiver works and what state it is located, hence, this amount could change as companies vary.
Caregiver Salaries in USA Per Hour
Caregivers in the United State earn $10 to $15 per hour. Before accepting a job, you should be sure to enter into a standard agreement with your anticipated employer on your pay rate before accepting the offer.
Tommy 35 posts 0 comments
Canadian Visa Sponsorship Program – Get Permanent Canadian Residence
Canadian Visa 2023 Amount & Requirements from Nigeria
USA Jobs with Visa Sponsorship for Immigrants – Work in USA
Working While Studying in the UK 2023 & Student Visa…
Lincoln University International Student Merit Scholarship…
Apply for the Canada 🍁 Visa without IELTS
Fairleigh Dickinson University International Scholarships…
Kikgi
Sign up for our Tech Daily newsletter to get the top tech and business news stories delivered to your inbox.
Kikgi is an online publishing company that provides top information about Governmental and Non-Governmental assistance benefits (Sponsorship Programs on Scholarship🎓 , Jobs and Immigration Gateways). USA🇺🇸, Canada🍁 , UK🇬🇧 , Australia🇦🇺 and The Worldwide For International Opportunities Programs, etc.
• Email: kikgi09@gmail.com
• Phone:
Step to Apply for a UK Marriage Visitor Visa 2023
Latest Canada Government Jobs for immigrants 2023
Study in the United States
Studying in the United Kingdom
Apply for Canada Jobs
Apply for Jobs in the United States
Apply for Jobs in the United Kingdom
UK Immigration
© 2023 - kikgi. All Rights Reserved.
Website Design: KikGi


text:
Hisense 50" 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV
WootBot_1 June 3, 2014, 12:00am #1
lichme June 3, 2014, 12:02am #2
See more Hisense TV's on the Product Site
Geesht June 3, 2014, 12:05am #3
I bought this TV from Costco for not much more about 4 months ago.
Very happy with my purchase.
Very light. Great quality. Not many bells and whistles for connections in the back and not a smart tv but that's ok. If you've got a receiver and an Apple TV or Roku, you're set.
conanthelibrarian June 3, 2014, 12:14am #4
Time to check out an extremely similar model and need support? Check out the support page
aoviss June 3, 2014, 12:43am #5
Found a thread talking of these sets, this specific one as well. TV snobs call them "low-end TV sets for kids"
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1521987/hisense-calibration-settings-anyone
SputnikHQ June 3, 2014, 5:24am #6
is this thing even Java enabled?
herephishiphishi June 3, 2014, 7:16am #7
I also purchased one of these from Sams Club a few months ago for a slightly higher price, it was just too good of a deal to pass up at the time.
However, the refresh rate on this thing is so ridiculous, and there's no way to turn it off. It gives everything the "soap opera effect," so if you are not a fan of that, then this isn't the set for you.
I called their customer service because there is an option in the TV menu for turning the high refresh rate on and off, but selecting it does nothing, and the phone representative basically told me to return the TV and buy a brand that I like, so that was cool.
stv6669 June 3, 2014, 7:58am #8
herephishiphishi:
So you're basically complaining that this doesn't have motion blur and you like motion blur and there is no feature to enable motion blur? Okay then!
With that being said it appears that this TV is not a true 120hz but instead a 60hz tv that has "technology" to add imaginary frames to make it appear like a 120hz tv. With that being said… you're paying $400 for a 60hz TV in 50" which will probably drive anyone who is looking for a 120hz tv insane.
jareza June 3, 2014, 7:58am #9
I guess we stumbled upon the same deal at SAMS CLUB… I had to return the TV because it was giving me a hard time with the startup time… sometimes it would take up to a whole minute for the LCD to show the picture…
I called the service rep, and he basically told me that it was considered "normal" and that if I didnt like it, I should go with another brand of my liking, so yes… maybe we also got the same rep
VetteLT193 June 3, 2014, 8:08am #10
I agree there are some TV / Home theater snobs that won't like it. But for the other 99.9 percent it is great!
I bought two Hisense TV's from woot. Both are 40" versions. One is LED and one LCD.
The LED is awesome for the money. You really can't beat the price with a baseball bat. No, it isn't as good as my 70" LED but seriously a 50" LED TV for under 400 bucks! I think the biggest downfall an average consumer will find is the up conversion isn't that great for non HD. Watching a blu ray will be fantastic. A regular DVD will be just ok (especially in comparison to BluRay). If you don't have a HD signal then you either want to upgrade the signal or get a better TV that does better up conversion… It's probably more wise to upgrade the signal.
In short I highly recommend this TV for the value minded consumer.
wpberg67 June 3, 2014, 8:34am #11
Does anyone know the mounting size Vesa ? under the comments it says standard Vesa?? Not sure if any wall mount that suppoorts the weight and size would work . Please advise
skipjack2001 June 3, 2014, 11:51am #12
stv6669:
I'm siding with herephishiphishi on this one… when watching a movie, I prefer it to look like it was shot on film rather than looking like it was shot on a Sony handicam. It's distracting, especially on things that were actually shot on film.
josho2001 June 3, 2014, 12:56pm #13
It's not "enable motion blur" the request is "show the content without manipulating it" which is a valid concern.
ThunderThighs June 3, 2014, 1:27pm #14
wpberg67:
It's 400x400.
Geesht June 3, 2014, 1:49pm #15
Turning off the 120 Hz effect, should make a difference. You may just need to turn all devices off then on.
I had experienced the same thing, but that effect being turned off, fixed it.
xopherboy June 3, 2014, 2:09pm #16
What is the contrast ratio???
wooteverittakes June 3, 2014, 3:14pm #17
Geesht:
Were you able to disable the 120 Hz effect on this specific model (Hisense 50K23DG 50" 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV)?
herephishiphishi seems to be saying that 1) he wasn't able to and 2) the support operator more-or-less agreed that disabling 120 Hz wasn't possible and then told him to go away (since it wasn't fixable).
I'd buy this thing if I knew I could get it to stay at 60 Hz.
Woody1 June 3, 2014, 5:54pm #18
Does this have RCA jacks and will it work with my MAC?
bleepbloop June 3, 2014, 10:31pm #19
Being a novice - why do you want to stay with the 60hz? What is the disadvantage of having a faster refresh rate? I have a 5 or 6 year old 40 inch with a 60hz refresh rate and I get a lot of pixilation during really fast motion scenes. Your discussion has confused me! Please enlighten me, if you would, oh Gurus of the Television world.
bleepbloop:
I think his point is that that this LED is not true 120hz and the process they use makes the refresh rate undesireagble due to the way it converts.


Fast and accurate estimates coming right up! Prospects now need professional looking, detailed, and precise estimates as quickly as possible for a flooring business to seal the deal. The faster your team can complete takeoffs and turn around estimates, the more business you are likely to capture.
Collaborate with RollMaster and the MeasureSquare* cloud. It is available as a product integrated with your RollMaster System or as a free-standing product sold and supported by trained RollMaster professionals.
I had a rush where I needed to get a couple of jobs done fast. Both jobs were over $300,000 and it was it was just a snap with the RollMaster commercial estimating program.
The commercial estimating software that we use inside of RollMaster has been a very large impact making things quicker and a lot more accurate.
With our cloud-based program you can use RM MeasureSquare anywhere you have an internet connection, allowing you to close jobs faster. Plus avoid time-intensive installation and upgrade issues. Plus, no backup is necessary!
RM MeasureSquare is a powerful tool that is intuitive and easy to use. Online help guides you through every job process. Commercial desktop and mobile residential platforms (iPad ready) available as stand-alone packages.
Fast and accurate takeoff turnaround to meet tight deadlines.
Bid more jobs competitively while protecting profit margins with accurate estimating.
Win sales by professionally presenting projects to clients.
Easily refigure product changes at any stage.
Avoid installer mishaps by providing a clean cut sheet and seam diagram.
Impress clients with 3D view.
Store projects on the cloud to easily access them from any computer and collaborate with team members.
Draw your own plans to scale to assist your Customers.
*RollMaster Software has a partnership with MeasureSquare Corporation. The RollMaster Software System integrates with MeasureSquare software suite (iOS, Android, and Windows platforms).
RollMaster provides more than just accurate estimations!
Want to learn how RollMaster can help optimize your flooring business?


This company employs approximately 7,000 people in North America and the U.K. and was included on Forbes' list of Most Trustworthy Companies four consecutive times (2012-15). Looking to create a single pane of glass for all enterprise monitoring, and needing their manager of managers to filter, correlate, and auto-resolve events and incidents, they approached Evanios for an initial conversation.
A Senior Engineer leads the Enterprise Systems Monitoring (ESM) team, which maintains SolarWinds and other tools including vCenter, Azure, OMS, and SAP, among others. When given the additional responsibility of building out SCOM, he quickly realized that management and maintenance of multiple separated, primary rule sets was unscalable. "We were managing different actions on distinct event types while trying to coordinate disparate monitoring thresholds with limited resources," he explains. Trying to resolve a complicated issue without the benefit of additional manpower, the engineer took a step back to consider what he ultimately needed to accomplish.
"Our primary responsibility is automation of surveillance services, which includes monitoring service health and notifying support teams or customers when service health degraded or resource consumption breached an agreed-upon threshold," he summarized. "We weren't set up to effectively deliver our required level of service while maintaining high availability for unplanned emergencies." Thinking further ahead, he knew that integration and maintenance was likely to become even more complicated as the business began importing events from additional sources including Cisco, APC, and Riverbed. He needed a way to easily collect events from any source, standardize the formatting, filter, correlate, and auto-resolve events and incidents (including the ability to resolve tickets). Enhanced, prioritized notification was an important consideration, too.
The completed integrations led to an immediate and dramatic reduction of daily incident volume for IT teams to manage. Overall, Evanios is doing exactly what they had hoped – standardize the process and relieve pressure on manual operator intervention.
However, the lead engineer also cautions that "perfect" would have been the enemy of progress. "We were trying to rapidly build out additional ITSM services," he explained. "We had ServiceNow Incident, CMDB, and Problem modules, and were working to launch Change Management, too. It was a lot of work to take on, so we had to closely evaluate event management, with a critical eye toward the minutes, hours or days we were going to need getting it into flight." Would the organization focus on fixing underlying inefficiencies in their process (optimizing the event management layer, in order to bubble up efficiency through fewer incidents and lower resolution time) or focus on deployment of additional ITSM services?
After "cleaning up" events and incidents and setting the stage for further integrations with SAP, vCenter, and other tools, this medical supplies conglomerate is focusing on leveraging suppression for approved changes. As teams mature their use of change management (and link CIs to tasks), ESM can enable suppression of event notifications or incidents on approved changes. Overall, this is leading to greater, measurable collaboration and two-way benefits between the change management process lead and the event management team.