In the past recent years, Amazon has begun to expand and create new methods of e-commerce. Amazon has now opened up their first AmazonGo store in Chicago on 113 S. Franklin St — a cashierless grocery store designed so customers do not have to wait in line in order to check out their items. This will be the first AmazonGo store outside of Seattle, WA. The concept of the AmazonGo store is to integrate machine learning, computer vision, sensor fusion, and AI into the very fabric of the store, to create a convenient shopping experience.
The "Just Walk Out" method uses technology to automatically detect when products are removed or returned from shelves, and automatically tracks products in a digital shopping cart. When the customer is done shopping they can simply leave the store. The products are automatically charged to your Amazon account with an included receipt. The AmazonGo store offers a line of grocery essentials, meal kits, and ready-to-eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Hot prepared foods and two-person meal kits are locally shipped and produced by chefs who work to ensure that customers receive expeditious fresh foods. The location of the AmazonGo store is perfect for busy professionals working in the Chicago downtown area who wouldn't normally have the time for the bricks and mortars of a conventional grocery store.
AmazonGo store is smaller in size, compared to the size of a traditional market. The food options, however, remain largely different. You will not find the large supply of conventional chips or candies here; instead, the Go store provides jar salads, health-conscious sandwiches, and meal kits. "The food is not very expensive and they have a majority of healthy food, I feel as if I need to eat unhealthy when I want to save some money. Amazon did a great job!" said a local Chicago resident Susanna Loera.
Amazon has previously reported additional Go store to open in Chicago's Willis Tower. The company has prospects of opening up stores in New York and San Francisco and is considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new AmazonGo cashierless stores in the next few years, according to inside sources familiar with this matter.
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Safe betting strategy "Smart Express».
Among the modern bettors there is a large category of those who prefer to make Express bets, including several sports events. This type of betting gives you the opportunity to spend a modest amount of money to become the owner of a large win. Sometimes only one match Express is a losing making losing our entire stake. For such situations, a strategy called "Smart Express". Thanks to it, the player has the opportunity to bet with insurance and make a profit regardless of the result of the last game.
In order to use the described strategy, take the Express, the matches of which begin at different times. If all but the most recent events have passed, the player bets on it on the outcome opposite to that in the Express. Thus, he reinsures himself against possible failure.
1st event 15: 00: Opponent 1-Opponent 2 (P1, KEF. 1.8).
2nd event 18: 00: Opponent 1-Opponent 2 (P2, KEF. 1.65).
3rd event 21: 00: Opponent 1-Opponent 2 (P1, KEF. 1.6).
Make a bet of 100 rubles with a total coefficient of 4.75.
If you correctly guess the first two events, then the bettor has time to put on the 3rd event on the opposite outcome. In this case, the opposite outcome is a variant of x2 with KEF 2,2. The bet amount is also equal to one hundred rubles. As a result, we make a profit regardless of what the result will be in the event number 3. If the opponent wins first, then goes all the Express and net income is equal to 275 rubles. In case of a victory the second opponent the Express will play, but the profit (even at 20 rubles) is still obtained.
Thanks to this strategy, we reduce the risk and extract a profit, if the Express rate is to guess one event. The disadvantage of this method is considered to reduce the potential income. After all, the bettor is spent on an additional bet. But if the player has no doubt that the last event will take place, you can not make an additional bet and then the winnings will be greater.
For the Smart Express strategy, it is recommended that the coefficient of the last event be low. Thus, the amount of the additional rate will be small due to high quotations. Thanks to this, it is possible to save money and make a large profit.
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This is interesting information for those who bet on the sport probably. Sports bets are the most popular bets in the world. Someone plays on the field, and someone behind the bookmaker. Tell me, are you familiar with the statistics? How many winnings have stakes on this category made? Did the players manage to rise and were there many losses?
laya wrote: Safe betting strategy "Smart Express».
laya thank you for the betting information. For me, she is not familiar. I'm certainly not a super player. But I like to make sports betting on football. Stakes made guided by predictions of bookmakers. If I use your strategy, what percentage of the winnings can be?
I was already interested in this system, so I read the topic with pleasure. Like all systems, it has its own characteristics as well as pros and cons. You can get a guaranteed profit if the first bets on the express are winning. The strategy is quite simple and clear even for beginners. The point is that after the first bets in the express have played, make an ordinary one for the opposite outcome of the last event from the express which has not yet begun. The efficiency of the system is difficult to assess adequately since almost everything depends on what bets are made. Thank!


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New Renderings Released for Salt Lake Temple Renovation
byNewsroom.ChurchofJesusChrist.org | Dec. 04, 2019
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Additional renderings showing the planned renovation of the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been released.
In advance of the temple's closure at the end of December, Church representatives briefed members of the media Wednesday, December 4, 2019, about the initial phase of construction and enhanced offerings for guests who visit Temple Square during the project.
"We are working hard to prepare for the beginning of construction in a few short weeks," said Brent Roberts, managing director of the Church's Special Projects Department. "The four additional renderings released today indicate the careful and elegant approach we are taking in the renovation of this house of the Lord. We also look forward to welcoming many visitors to Temple Square during the next few years to witness this historic renovation."
The Creation Room rendering of the Salt Lake Temple
The Garden Room rendering of the Salt Lake Temple
The World Room rendering of the Salt Lake Temple
The Grand Hall rendering of the Salt Lake Temple
Initial Phase of Construction
After the temple closes December 29, 2019, crews will work to secure the construction area with a fence. In the middle of January 2020, the South Visitors' Center and portions of the south Temple Square wall will be demolished. Statues, trees and fountains on the temple's south side will also be removed. In the springtime, demolition of the temple's north addition will take place. The renovation of the Church Office Building plaza is scheduled to begin in late 2020.
The temple renovation will involve replacing the historic building's aging mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, as well as a significant seismic upgrade to help the building withstand a large-magnitude earthquake. Other details and project renderings were previously shared at a news conference in April 2019. Additional interior and exterior renderings will be released later.
"The temple is the most holy and sacred space in our religious worship, and we have high standards for construction," said Andy Kirby, director of historic temple renovations. "We will also make every effort to be responsible stewards of our environment by using repurposing and recycling efforts in this construction project."
Renovating the Salt Lake Temple also requires careful historical considerations. The building, which took 40 years to construct and was first dedicated in 1893, will be preserved and, in some cases, restored to its original design and feel.
"Preserving and restoring the temple requires a combination of the newest technologies and historic construction techniques," said Emily Utt, Church History curator. "This project will highlight and honor the work of past craftsmen while making the temple safe, functional, accessible and beautiful for future generations. Experts in preserving historic stone, murals, plaster, wood and metal have been consulted in every stage of design and will complete much of the work required in the historic building."
The renovation is expected to be complete in 2024 and followed by a public open house and rededication.
New Visitor Experience
Temple Square will remain open to visitors during the renovation. Beginning January 1, 2020, the Conference Center will become the primary venue for the Temple Square guest experience. It will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. daily. The new experience will feature both unguided and guided tours in more than 40 languages, a statue of Jesus Christ, a cutaway model of the Salt Lake Temple, exhibitions of various temple artifacts and an orientation film about the history of the temple.
Visitors will also be able to view the temple renovation from the Conference Center balcony level and roof, in addition to viewpoints near the construction site. Visitors will interact with volunteer hosts and full-time missionaries as part of the new guest experience.
Additionally, the annual Christmas lights on Temple Square will continue during construction, although on a reduced scale.
"Temple Square will remain open 365 days a year," said Tanner Kay, Temple Square guest experience manager. "The experiences available for guests will transition and change over the course of the project in exciting ways. Our goal is to help guests feel welcome and to speak to their interests about the temple renovation or the Church when they visit."
Other Temples Open During Renovation
Latter-day Saints consider temples to be the "house of the Lord" and the most sacred places of worship on the earth. Temples differ from the Church's meetinghouses (chapels). All are welcome to attend Sunday worship services and other weekday activities at local meetinghouses. The primary purpose of temples, however, is for faithful members of the Church to participate in sacred ceremonies such as marriages, which unite families forever, and proxy baptisms on behalf of deceased ancestors who did not have the opportunity while living.
Church members who previously attended the Salt Lake Temple will have the option to attend other temples in the area, including Bountiful, Draper, Jordan River and Oquirrh Mountain. Those individuals who worked as volunteers in the Salt Lake Temple will be released from their duties or, in some cases, reassigned to work in other temples.
"We know the Salt Lake Temple holds a special place in the hearts of many members of the Church, as well as the broader community," said Rich Sutton, temple area director. "We hope people will feel welcome to come and see the construction as it progresses and look forward with anticipation to the day that this beautiful, sacred structure will again open its doors for generations to come."
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By Steven Johnson Super Bowl XXV started off like most championship football games, but this one would have a very different ending. The Friday before the big game, it was my chance to place a bet. Why I chose the Buffalo Bills, I have no clue, but I went ahead and did it. The bet was with an…
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GBPAUD Forecast as UK Welcomes New Prime Minister
The Reserve Bank of Australia will meet again on Tuesday to announce their latest monetary policy plans.
GBPAUD has rallied after the Reserve Bank of Australia hiked interest rates by 50 basis points as expected. The bank's governor, Philip Lowe, did not provide much of a forecast in his accompanying speech, and the Australian dollar sold off.
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As we see on the weekly charts, the Australian dollar was probing some new lows versus the British Pound, but Sterling is trading at 1.70 and will want to secure that level with a strong trendline.
Traders are a little unsure of the bank's next path, but the RBA expects inflation to peak below 8% before the end of the year, with a drop to 3% by 2023. The Australian economy is in decent health with a strong labour market. However, property prices will be a focus point after a recent slide.
The market will now await an update on Australian GDP growth on Wednesday. Economists are expecting a 3.5% print for GDP in Q2, which would follow a 3.3% gain from Q1. These numbers are much stronger than what is presently observed in the UK and Europe, and the dollar has the upper hand.
The pound sterling is looking to secure a low with the announcement of a new Prime Minister in Liz Truss. The country's new leader will have to tackle a list of problems from her first day in the job, which includes soaring inflation, slowing wages, and high energy bills.
The UK is already on the brink of a recession, which will make the job more difficult as any action taken to help families will increase the UK's already bloated debt levels. Truss is expected to spend up to £90 billion on plans to cap soaring energy prices and provide help for households and businesses.
With these points in mind, it may be hard for the British currency to see a sustained rally, and we should watch how the pound reacts to headlines from the new government around the key 1.70 level. The pound failed to find buyers at the 1.775 and 1.750 levels, but the economic outlook has since deteriorated.
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Q: Setup apache fop for oracle apex Does anybody have steps to set up Apache fop to use with oracle apex for report Printing purposes?
or anyone have another solution for Generating pdf and excel as per personalized format with oracle apex please suggest(Except Apex Office Print (AOP)).
Thanks

A: Since version 20.2 APEX includes native PDF and Excel export. If you want to have pixel-perfect reporting and you don't want to use AOP you can also have a look at Dietmar Aust's Jasper Report APEX Integration which should fulfill your requirement.
Apache FOP isn't supported anymore by ORDS/APEX.

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and named after the celebrated baseball player) is a neurological disease that targets the nerve cells (or neurons) which are responsible for controlling voluntary muscles in the limbs and face, among other organs. It is a rapidly progressive disease and was first identified by the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot in 1869.
It however only came to both national and international prominence when it prematurely ended the baseball career of Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankee's Hall of Fame first baseman, in 1939. Not surprisingly the United States government provides the largest proportion of funding in the research of this disease. Although federal support has been consistent sustained advocacy ensures that more funding is forthcoming in the effort to find a cure for ALS.
Scientists whose work involves research on ALS have access to the National ALS Registry which is congressionally mandated to catalogue information on persons in the U.S. living with ALS. About 30, 000 patients in the country are living with the disease with 5,000 new diagnoses every year.
ALS Early Warning Signs
The early warning signs of ALS include general clumsiness which is characterised by tripping and falling, difficulty in walking and performing normal chores and hand weakness. Muscle cramps in the arms, shoulders and tongue are also among the early symptoms associated with ALS. Difficulty in swallowing and slurred speech may also indicate the onset of ALS. The inability to maintain good posture and to hold one's head up are typical early warning signs of ALS. Weakness in the legs, feet and ankles may also be an indication of the presence of ALS.
It is important to note that ALS will invariably start in the limbs and progressively spread to other parts of the body. This advance is what eventually affects speaking, breathing, swallowing and chewing. One positive characteristic of ALS is that it very rarely infringes on bladder and bowel control and thinking ability.
Up to 10 per cent of all known cases of ALS are inherited. The remaining 90% have no known origin although scientists are following up on several leads that they believe will eventually yield results.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurological disease which impacts motor neurons that are involved in muscle movement throughout the body.
ALS Risk Factors
Risk factors generally associated with ALS include age, with the common age bracket under threat being the 40 to 60 years. Heredity is another established risk factor with up to 10 % of reported cases displaying this feature. Other risk factors include smoking and exposure to lead and other harmful substances. Persons who have seen military service appear to be more predisposed to acquiring ALS. Studies have yet to pinpoint what it is in the military that triggers the onset of ALS. This may be one or more of the various activities associated with the armed forces which include intense exertion, traumatic injuries and exposure to certain metals or chemicals among other factors.
An absolute cure for ALS is yet to be found. What are currently available are treatments to control the symptoms while preventing unnecessary complications and easing the lives of those living with the disease.
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The math behind why you cannot be effective about growing food indoors without either a nuclear reactor or the light of the sun.
The most efficient light bulbs will only convert approximately 15 percent of the input electricity to light. Of this light, you will be lucky if you manage to get more than 75 percent of it to your plants. This means, in an ideal setup, you will get about 12 percent of your input power to the plants in a usable form.
So 1000 watts in, equals 120 watts out.
From there, the plants will convert that light into energy to grow with at a rate of approxiately 5 percent. So just from a biomass perspective, that 120 watts will then become 6.
But there is another step – a large portion of the total biomass will not be edible. The edible portion, in a best case scenario will be somewhere around 50 percent, which takes your total energy available for you to eat at about 3 watts out of an original thousand.
Average people need approximately 100 watts continuous, day in and day out, to survive. Active people will need about 200.
So to get enough light into an indoor setup, you will need, just to stay docile, 100/3 = 33.3 x 1000, or 33,000 watts worth of spent electricity going 24/7 to get enough light to cause the plants alone to feed ONE man or woman.
The sun is enormously powerful, and in the central united states, during the summer, the sun will typically put 1,100 watts worth of energy into each square meter of land during the day, an amount of energy that would take 10,000 watts of input power to cause even an efficient light source to produce. That is why plants can support us. The process of photosynthesis can be enormously inefficient, and it will not matter because the sun can really deliver.
Bottom line? If you want to feed yourself with a hydroponic setup, you have to use a standard greenhouse.
This math is not exact because I went off of memory. But the overall answer is an accurate one.


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Kovtun decides not to testify by video link in London court
Russian businessman Dmitry Kovtun has said he will be unable to give evidence by video link at a hearing in London's Royal Courts of Justice as part of the public inquiry into the death of a former FSB (Federal Security Service) officer, Alexander Litvinenko.
"I will not be able to give evidence either today or tomorrow or after tomorrow. This is not my fault. It is not me who is organizing these processes. This had to be done by the competent British authorities jointly with Russia's, this was not done, so there will be no video link," Kovtun told Interfax on July 27.
"I am grateful to Judge Robert Owen for having granted me the status of a core participant and taken into consideration a number of circumstances which I pointed out and require further investigation. But the situation is such as to make me unable to testify by video link," Kovtun said.
It was reported that Owen gave Kovtun until Monday noon to finally decide whether or not he would testify.
Initially it was expected that Kovtun would testify from Moscow by video link on July 27-29. In March 2015, he announced his consent to speak in court.
The businessman stressed that he resides in Russia and must abide by Russian laws.
In this context, Kovtun said that he had sent a number of letters to the London court, asking for "a guarantee that by giving evidence by video link from Russia I will not violate the Russian laws," i.e. whether all the necessary procedures were agreed upon.
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The British authorities replied they could provide no guarantee and do not know how lawful this would be, Kovtun said.
"Then I asked my lawyer, who said that I will violate (the Russian laws) if I give evidence not in accordance with Article 457 of the Russian Criminal Code (the execution of a request for legal assistance in Russia). Besides, I could be in breach of Article 310 of the Russian Criminal Code (divulging information pertaining to a preliminary inquiry), since the Russian inquiry into the death of Litvinenko is still ongoing," Kovtun said.
The businessman dismissed several media reports stating that he had sought the status of a core participant in order to gain access to the case files.
"I am not familiar with these files. At first I did not even try to enter this program because a system failure had occurred. I did not receive new passwords for system entry until last Friday. But I will not enter this program unless Sir Owen, having taken into account the new circumstances in the case and my non-participation in the trial, agrees to me receiving these files," Kovtun said.
The businessman reiterated that he does not consider himself responsible for the death of Litvinenko.
"The most important thing is to establish when and where Litvinenko was poisoned. Proving that he had vomited and had been poisoned earlier, three days before meeting with us (Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi) would clarify many things. This should be further investigated," Kovtun said.
In June 2015, Kovtun told Interfax that he had been assigned the status of "a core participant" in the trial ofthe Litvinenko case and would give evidence in a London court by video link from Moscow on July 27-29, 2015.
Kovtun said Litvinenko's death was "an inadvertent suicide."
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There's a lot of snow in Minneapolis this year. Here's a picture of the amount of snow that fell when the top of the metro dome fell in.
Here's a picture of the outside of the house on Christmas Eve. Lot of snow.
Here's what I'm having for Christmas Eve, also Christmas Day and the day after. Its a really big Prime Rib with the bone in and took 6 hours in the over to cook. Accompanied with mushrooms and onions and asparagus and its wonderful.
Here's the Prime Rib sliced. Click on the picture for a close up. I think it looks awesome.
And here is the first plate. BTW its really big piece of meat.
And here's my Christmas Gifts for 2010. Actually its what I purchased in the month of December. There's a lot less books than I usually get but that because I download almost all my books into my Kindle nowadays.
See these photos? There's currently a Blizzard in Minneapolis, supposed to last 24-36 hours. The snow level is so so but, the winds are very very strong about 20-30 mph and the temperature? About 6 degrees F, and will go down to -7 tonight. Not many people will venture out this weekend.
And here's me keeping warm at home. With Seafood stuffed mushrooms from Costco.
And Also playing World of Warcraft: Cataclysm which just came out this week!


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Australian Cricketer Andrew Symonds dies in Car Accident
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Former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds passed away in Car Accident on Sunday in Queensland. He was 46 years old.
Symonds played on Australia's victorious World Cup teams in 2003 and 2007 and competed in 198 one-day internationals as well as 26 tests from 2004 to 2008.
Authorities said that the accident occurred in Hervey Range, 50km south of Townsville. The car accident that Symonds was driving left the road and rolled, as stated by a police report.
"Australian cricket has lost another of its very best," said Cricket Australia chairman Lachlan Henderson in a statement.
Vale Andrew Symonds.
We are shocked and saddened by the loss of the loveable Queenslander, who has tragically passed away at the age of 46. pic.twitter.com/ZAn8lllskK
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) May 15, 2022
A deadly trip occurred just months after the deaths of fellow Australian Shane Warne and Rod Marsh, who all died in heart complications.
The large-hitting Symonds was well known not only for his formidable approach to the game but additionally for his easygoing personality.
Famed for his swashbuckling batting exhibitions, he was a splendid all-rounder who bowled off-spin and medium pace equally well.
"Everyone had him earmarked as a white ball player," former team mate Mark Taylor said. He wanted to prove to the world he could play test cricket and he did that way.
As we mourn the loss of former Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds, we take a look back to his tremendous 143* against Pakistan at the 2003 World Cup.#RIPRoy pic.twitter.com/oyoH7idzkb
Devastated to hear about Andrew Symonds passing away in a car crash in Australia. We shared a great relationship on & off the field. Thoughts & prayers with the family. #AndrewSymonds pic.twitter.com/QMZMCwLdZs
— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) May 14, 2022
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Sometimes we're too busy, too consumed with everything we fill our lives with. It's okay to take a moment to stop, breathe, and let go. You don't have to wait for huge milestones to celebrate, but be thankful for the little steps along the way.
Don't forget to live, laugh, and enjoy each day.


I'm sick today, but finally getting some entries up. [Albert] designed this board which can be either a low voltage PIC programmer or, if you lack a programmer to get the initial flash data on the PIC, the through hole components make a logic probe. He rounded out the board with a silk screened logo and a prototyping area. He was also kind enough to provide an eagle library with the Hack-A-Day logo.
Our second featured entry of the day: [Pablo] put together a simple Hack-A-Day 2.4ghz antenna. He built and tested it – It functions nicely as a directional 2db antenna. His proposed use: limit your neighbors access to your AP by aiming the unetched backside at them.


This is a story written by new Xp 55 owners, Julie & John Applegate; Julie & John left Denmark after a hand-over process at the X-Yachts yard in Haderslev in April 2018.
The boat was loaded on a Yacht Transport Ship Sunday, 29th April 2018 in Lillebælt, close to the yard in Haderslev.
The latest chapter is from 4th March 2019. Top image on this page shows the unloading of the boat in Newport, USA.
Last blog Julie and I talked about the successful voyage from the Chesapeake Bay to the BVIs (approx 1500 miles offshore) where we put Serenity to the test. About 90% of that passage was upwind…and as we all know Gentlemen do not go upwind….well sometimes Gentlemen have no choice…..Serenity handled the high winds and high seas like a champ and it was through that process that we have an even higher level of confidence around her stability and ability to take on way more then we can.
It is now the first of March and since we arrived in the BVIs we have totally switched modes…..from offshore passage to pure cruising mode. Please remember that we are part time sailers and full time workers….so we leave Serenity and fly back to the US to work for several weeks then fly back to her for a long weekend or sometimes more….My job dictates international travel so it is easier for us to fly back to the Caribbean then someone who works from a single spot.
We left Serenity in the BVIs at the end of November and went back to work for several weeks till the Christmas and New Year holiday period….so we quickly changed from a mindset of offshore emergency preparedness to Caribbean sailing mindset (proper bikinis, dive tanks, right mix of rum and juices, …..). We had about 3 weeks on Serenity during this timeframe and our only focus was to end up in Antigua as that is where we had our Winter berth (Falmouth Harbor). We had an additional crew of two join us and that was Heather and her daughter Samantha. Heather is a captain of a X-482 based out of Newport and we met her in Haderslev when we did the handover for Serenity. Heather was getting her boat repaired at the same time and we quickly became friends.
During those 3 weeks we went to Antigua, St Barts, Guadalupe , Dominica and finally Antigua…..due to the closeness of the islands we were able to sail to each island during the day and we got to pick our days, and I am glad to report that we even had a few passages of a beam reach and one was actually slightly downwind……how great that was compared to the 1500 miles of upwind sailing…..
-BVIs: Awesome cruising area but when you are there with your own boat…those charters seem to be aiming for your boat each time they come in to attempt to pick up a ball.
-Anguilla: Prettiest beaches and waterline. Not easy to sail to from the BVIs as it is straight into the trade winds…..we went close-haul at 32 degrees apparent then one tack to bring us inline with Anguilla. We saved a lot if time by being able to point so high into the wind.
-St Barts: The quick sail from the top of Anguilla to St Barts was one of the best passages of the trip. Sun was out, wind was manageable and tans were being worked on! If you want to visit St Barts around Christmas time then please show up in nothing smaller then a 200 foot yacht…..or you will be ignored….We stayed in a great bay on the north side of the island away from all the busyness of the spots around Gustavia.
-Dominica: Big difference between Dominica and St Barts…..almost a culture shock for us…..Dominica's inland spots are to die for…drop dead gorgeous waterfalls and other natural wonders. Worth a visit but be prepared to 'camp' a bit more than other places.
-Antigua: Sailing capital of the Caribbean. Great mix of private boats that spend the season there along with all the industry to help maintain the boats. People are super nice and the place is deep in history. We like it so much that we are looking into keeping Serenity there for the summer season and placing her in a hurricane pit on the land during September and October (high months for hurricanes). We are still weighing our options so will keep you updated.
One cool event occurred in Antigua when we arrived….we were in our slip and Samantha noticed a large dingy going by and closer inspection it turned out to the the entire sv Delos crew – she notified Julie then Julie quickly moved to the front of Serenity to wave her arms to get their attention…it worked …they stayed for the evening enjoying our special Serenity Painkillers (Heather created a new recipe that is awesome!). Delos is one of the largest YouTube channel focused on the cruising lifestyle with over 300,000 subscribers. We mentioned them in our first blog as they were very influential in us moving forward purchasing Serenity as we wanted their lifestyle!!! We will attach a pic of the Delos crew inside Serenity with this blog. The two great pics of Serenity sailing were actually taken by Brian from Delos as they helped us out when we needed quality sailing pics of her. We spent a lot of time getting to know the Delos crew as they were also based in Falmouth harbor for January & February and can now call them friends.
Given the past few months we have put about 2,500 miles on her she was needing a bit of maintenance. Once we arrived in Antigua I worked with Stan at Antigua Rigging and he collaborated with X-Yachts on the repairs and maintenance schedules for the big items. All was done as I flew back to work.
Looking forward we have another couple of weeks on Serenity as a cruising boat then at the end of April we will be participating in the Antigua Sailing Week event…so once again we will be altering Serenity to a different mode….this time pure racing!!!! We are so pleased that the DNA of this X-Yacht Xp Xp 55 allows us to change her 'outfits' to reflect the type of dinner parties we attend….so time to loose some weight and strip down the unnecessary canvas….Race Time!!!!!!!
The big regatta was finally here... our months of planning, configuring, troubleshooting, and improving were about to pay off. Julie and I were days from pushing away from the docks and starting our first big offshore voyage. It seems that the real heavy lifting was not in getting the boat (X-Yachts XP55) ready, as we knew that sv Serenity would take care of us, but rather it was our mental readiness that took the longest to prepare.
There were five of us onboard for this journey and all were there for a specific purpose: of course Julie and I were onboard as boat owners, and we also had Heather with us as she is a Captain of sv Foxtrot (X-Yachts 482 based in Newport, USA) and has years of offshore experience. Walt was the fixer as he knows how to fix everything, and Nate was sail trimmer, an expert who came to us from Warrior Sailing (wounded warriors that now focus on sailing).
With the help of X-Yachts, we had to fully transform her from 'boat show dress,' as she was on full display at the Annapolis Boat show (and Sailing and Cruising World magazines), to full on cruising attire. All systems were checked and tweaked, jack lines installed on the deck, tent encloser attached to the dodger, inner-forestay attached to the foredeck with matching storm sail (just in case). Twenty-five extra gallons of fuel were tucked away in the dingy garage and 10 extra gallons of water were tucked in all over the boat. The watermaker was checked and ready to go, all tanks topped up, safety gear out and offshore life jackets on .... we were finally ready.
We all woke up super early that fine Sunday morning, anxious to get going .... but wait ... the weather report from two independent professional services were both saying that today would not be a good day to depart. The rest of the fleet (World Cruising Club Caribbean 1500 rally) consisted of 22 other boats making the 1500 mile journey from Portsmouth, Virginia, USA to the British Virgin Islands all decided to head out on that Sunday morning as originally planned. The fleet was a mix of catamarans, trimaran, and monohulls of different types - Gunboat 60 all the way down to 42 foot monohull. It was extremely touchy to sit on the dock and see everyone else depart .... makes you ponder the notion of how you could be wrong and they are all right. At the end of the day, it is up to each captain to decide when to depart and with the help of the weather experts and Heather it was agreed we would delay 24 hours and depart Monday morning. Later we realized that the hardest part of this journey was sitting on the dock watching all the other boats head out.
I am writing this blog on Monday morning exactly one week after we started and we are 50 nm from our finish line in the BVIs. Almost there .... it looks like we will finish about two hours after the Gunboat 60 (elapsed time) and in front of all others. There is this Amel 54 that will cross the finish line before us but we did give them a 24-hour head start. All other boats are behind us - not bad for our first offshore rally.
This trip has taught me a few things about sv Serenity and the people she is protecting ... she is much stronger than we are. The first three days were not the most pleasant sail as we had high winds, weird sea state and a Gulfstream that was just starting to settle down. Once we had our course established to cross the stream, we then focused on getting the right sail plan and getting everything balanced ... so for those two days she was double reefed and only a small patch of jib was out. Winds were 35 degrees apparent and blowing 20-25 with gusts above 30. Serenity was balanced and stayed that way for two days just riding the waves and making speed through water of 9 to 10 knots. The last two days have been steady wind speed of 18-22 knots apparent with the wind angle fluxing from 40-65. Most of the seven days of sailing was upwind as well as no wind. We did not really find that perfect 12 knots of beamreach trade winds but we all still had a blast. Getting back to my original point in this paragraph, we could have pushed Serenity a lot harder but it was the comfort of the crew that took priority. It is nice to know that when needed, our X-Yacht could deliver up the goods and raise her skirt and go a lot faster if needed.
This last point almost become a necessity for us as a few days before our arrival we got notification of a tropical storm coming close to the BVIs and all ships needed to get into the BVIs before Tuesday or divert to Bermuda or Turks & Caicos. Due to Serenity's speed and riding comfort we were already way head of the main pack (did I mention that we started 24 hours after them?), so this news did not impact us given our arrival time at the BVIs was Monday.
Once again it was awesome to have speed on our side given we elected to delay our departure due to weather and we then needed to hurry up and get to our destination before a big storm came blowing past. Even with the tight weather window, we made it. I cannot say that for 50 percent of the fleet. Unfortunately, only half the fleet arrived in the BVIs. The other half were beaten up pretty badly at the start and had to head-in for repairs or were not fast enough to get in before the tropical storm and now have diverted to other islands to wait for this tropical storm to pass through.
At the end of the day, we all had a great time, learned lots, experienced way different weather situations and gained huge amounts of confidence in the boat and ourselves.
At that time Serenity was just being placed on top of a big ship (along with 6 other X-Yacht littermates) and heading to Newport USA.
We picked her up in Newport and made our way to Mystic CT USA where she is spending the summer months - right next to the US X-Yachts office!!!! Our plan was to use this summer as our 'training wheel' time period as we want to get use to the boat and have the comfort of having X-Yachts right next to us. Well turns out that plan was spot on.
-Reading the manuals.... all of them!!!!
-Getting familiar on how to move a 55 ft boat around tight quarters with wind and tide... need to learn now and no sense putting this off.
-Adhering to US safety, tax and registration issues. Big big task but the folks at X-Yachts USA made this much easier.
-Getting use to putting a dingy in the garage. You look at the pics on the brochure but actually getting that dingy in that garage takes some getting use to. But once you get the process down it takes no time at all.
But having said all that ... the past couple of months of getting Serenity cruising ready has been a blast. It is nice to transition from spreadsheet planning to prepping your own boat.
One last thing we would like to mention is that the more and more we get to know Serenity, we appreciate the level to detail that X-Yachts have built into the boat - especially the insides of the boat. The level of neatness, labelling and attention to detail is impressive. And for anyone that has ever tried to trace a cable or pipe from one end of the boat to the other will also appreciate this aspect.
In our last post we provided a bit of background on our journey from "defining our joint passion" to the arctic-cold handover of SV Serenity in Denmark. That process took about two years and that time was filled with many choices and options as we spec'd out our dream boat.
While the boat was still on paper, we came up with a lot of wonderful ideas like the Newport-Bermuda race, Caribbean 600, Antigua sailing week, World Cruising Club's ARC and Caribbean 1500, Fastnet Race, anchored next to an empty white beach, moored next to a great wreck dive, spending a weekend inside as it rains hard outside, Marion to Bermuda Race, BVI Spring Regatta… Then you apply reality to the situation and remember that you still need to actually work and some of these events are far from each other and are not run every year.
Before the November 2018 Caribbean 1500 we will spend time in New England close to X-Yachts' USA base as we think it would be good to have them nearby while we get comfortable with Serenity. We have not spent much time in New England so we are anxious to explore that part of the US (Mystic, Newport, Block Island, Cuttyhunk, and Martha's Vineyard), so we are looking forward to spending the first summer there before we head to Annapolis in early October. After that we will participate in the Caribbean 1500 to get her down south before winter settles in. We have committed to the Caribbean 1500 as we want to do offshore passages and prefer to do our first one with many other cruisers, a "strength in numbers" type of thing. Plus, we have participated in a few offshore seminars (World Cruising Club) to expand our knowledge. She will spend the early part of winter in the British Virgin Islands then, depending on the status of the BVI infrastructure, we may cruise down to Antigua during the Christmas break.
One of the big unknowns after that is where to place Serenity after June 2019. Given the hurricane season we need to be outside of the hurricane belt as we prefer not to play dodge the hurricane with our boat. The answer depends on how much we enjoyed New England and if the long journey back to the US is worth it. Other options would be Bermuda, Grenada, Bonaire. It is good to have choices, but we will leave that choice for a later date.
Just to remind everyone that our plans are to work-cruise Serenity for the next six years, so we have to be careful that we don't try to cram too much in early on. Maybe this first year we will focus on getting her bedded down in New England, stretch her legs in the Caribbean 1500 and nice anchorages in the Virgin Islands / Antigua then head back to the US in June. In year two we will probably do more "Regattas" as we have heard the Marion-Bermuda regatta is fun.
This is why we love the concept of owning a moving apartment, we can go anywhere we want to go (as long it will be deeper than 9.5 feet / 2.85 meters given the draft).
Thinking of our next post, we will get into more detail about our choice of a monohull vs a catamaran and why an X-Yacht. To have an effective conversation about those topics we need to better define our main purpose for the boat (short and medium term) as those purposes drive priorities which transform into selection criteria. We will leave you this time by sharing with you what those purposes are.
-We want a place to spend our time together (along with friends and family) that is flexible and fits the way we want to live. Meaning comfort, not being cramped, and very secure at sea.
-We want to spend our time moving her place to place with at least two big offshore trips a year. We love to do things ourselves while we take our sailing education and apply that to our adventures. Adventure to us is more than sitting at the harbor or a pretty anchorage – we need to get out and push ourselves.
-We want to experience more of the cruising life when we are not working. That entails taking it down a notch and just flowing with surroundings. Sometimes our lives are just too much go-go-go and this is our space to slow down.
-Last priority would be to dabble in fun racing once our confidence level increases as we are both very competitive and we know that this would fire our jets.
They say that it is all about the journey, not the destination. For us, Julie and John, that sums up our core value in life. With regards to obtaining an X-Yacht, we would have to throw in a few more words besides "journey" to tell the whole story, words like "passion," "goals" and "focus," as those four words added together enable us to be standing on the deck of our new XP 55 (Serenity).
A bit of background: John has been sailing for a long time and at one time had an X-Yacht X-46, but there was a 13-year gap during which he did not sail at all. Julie was new to sailing but she was the one who actually brought up the possibility of getting a sailboat. So this was not one of those typical stories of husbands trying to convince the wives to get a boat! It all started a few years ago when we found some great videos on YouTube that were focused on the cruising lifestyle (Delos, HappyTogether, Out Chasing Stars, Sailing Britican, and Chase the Story in particular). Those videos were fun to watch and we fantasized about living in that "other world;" we talked forever about living in that "final destination" (meaning retirement). While we were both avid SCUBA divers, we had not focused on sailing until we started watching these videos. They brought both worlds together and that planted a seed in Julie's mind.
There were a couple of events that took place that caused us to shift from a fantasy to reality. We knew that we would not sell all of our possessions and purchase a used Amel and just head south then west as Delos had done. We had jobs and other commitments that kept us firmly planted in the real world. The first event for us was watching Sailing SV Happy Together on YouTube as their postings resonated with us more than the others given they both still worked full time jobs. They would focus on their work and once a month(ish) would fly to wherever their boat was and take her to the next port. They very much enjoyed the journey rather than focusing on each destination. Over two years that journey has taken them from Florida all the way to San Francisco, all while maintaining full time jobs - very impressive! They would drop the boat off at a new marina at the end of each trip till they came back next month to continue the journey to the next location. For us that brought to our attention that one can enjoy cruising while working and, if you are willing to spread that journey out over time, the two worlds (cruising and working) can commingle.
The other key event was a discussion that we had regarding our long term plans. We wanted to work on our journey as we had not really defined what we both wanted and how we were going to mix that with our passions and our goals. It was Julie who first brought all those elements together and suggested that we take the Happy Together concept and apply their journey to ours. We had talked for some time about getting a boat and cruising around the world once we retired. It was in this conversation that we decided to take that high-level generic statement and begin to convert it into obtainable goals.
•	Retirement was too far off and there are too many unknowns between now and then (e.g., health). So we focused on early retirement (2025) and worked our plan back from there.
•	We wanted to head west from the Caribbean in 2025 as we did not want to take early retirement then spend a couple of years in the Caribbean. We are taking the Happy Together example and "work-cruising" New England and the Caribbean from 2018 - 2025. That will give us plenty of time to explore those two regions given work and family commitments are still top priorities.
•	We decided on New England and the Caribbean as those two locations are relatively close to home (Dallas) and are easy flights. Plus keeping Serenity in New England for the summers and the winters in the Caribbean will enable us to dodge the hurricanes.
•	From the time we agreed the plan we created what our short term goals needed to be and those included education, experience, boat selection, budget consolidation (i.e., stop wasting money on items that do not allow us to achieve our plan).
Our handover process in early April 2018 in Denmark was the achievement of our first major milestone. We are now well under way on our journey and all it took was us defining our goals, applying a sensible plan and remaining focused through all the ups and downs.


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Lac dans le parc national du Lake District

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Matthew5:8 says the pure in heart will see God. The Father is a spirit, so this iseeing is not about Him.. but His Wife, who is effeminate, (feminine) I believe.
Yes, but God also has a body. If he didn't he couldn't have written the first ten commandments with his own finger. You can't have a finger if you don't have a body.
Jesus always did have a body, albeit a spiritual one until he became a man.. also a spirit may have a finger. Semantics!
Asherah perhaps? I don't know for sure though.
Known only as Good God.
Still no notifications when someone comments on a reply. I was hoping that the elusive admin would have fixed this by now.
No, he is the very essence of love and purity. No need of a woman for him, he is not wired that way!
Yes, the Bible proclaims there is but one body or Church into which Jesus calls His end-time people: the bride of Christ. Revelation 19:7-9 Let us rejoice and exult and give Him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and [his Bride has made herself ready]; 8 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. 9 And the angel said to me, Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God." When the word feminine comes to mind, men and women are created equally in the image of God.
Does having more and more choices make our lives better?
Does your father have a full head of hair?


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Figularia pulcherrima is een mosdiertjessoort uit de familie van de Cribrilinidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 2001 door Tilbrook, Hayward & Gordon.

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Review: The Rising of the Moon by Gladys Mitchell
This is a sweet mystery published in Britain shortly after the second world war. The moon creates an emotional backdrop as a serial killer claims young female victims under its surreal brightness.
The full moon is celebrated by lovers, poets, and Witches for its divine beneficence, but in folklore it is known as a maleficence, inciting violence, insanity, disturbing dreams, emotional disturbance, and general bad luck. The novel captures the contradictory nature of lunar energy by telling the story through the eyes of two boys, juxtaposing the innocence of childhood with the evil nature of the killings.
Simon and Keith are orphans living with a married brother, and their life circumstances make them closer than most brothers, while ensuring they are less closely supervised than most boys their age. Brother Jack and his wife are viewed by the boys as interfering, authoritarian, and No Fun, though the couple are young themselves to be saddled with responsibility for boys of this age in addition to their new baby. Probably Simon and Keith's own parents would have paid closer attention to their activities, but the story also evokes a bygone age that emerged around World War II and continued until the nineties, when most children spent large amounts of time outdoors unsupervised, unshackled by extra-curricular activities scheduled by conscientious parents or onerous duties in farms, households, or industries. The imaginative, marginally acceptable, and faintly dangerous escapades of the boys are charming. Seen from their perspective, a dirty canal becomes a mystical landscape; a jumble of rejected items becomes a treasure trove. While adults in the story are sickened and horrified by the murders, the boys see them as high adventure. They do much of their sleuthing in the daytime after school and on holidays, when no one seems to be keeping track of their whereabouts, but they also sneak outside under the full moon to frighten themselves with dangers real and imagined. Childhood cannot discriminate.
The narrator Simon is the older brother, and at thirteen (the lunar number!) he is on the cusp of adulthood. We can expect that solving this mystery will pull him to the other side and make him an adult. The loss of childhood is something that is universally mourned, despite its near-inevitability, but most of us either grow up or die young. The moon emerges out of fantasy and horror as catalyst of maturity.
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Baltic Security Foundation
Defending the Suwałki Gap
At the end of last month, Lithuania and Poland announced that the two countries would each assign a brigade to NATO Headquarters in Poland to "train and act together" for the defense of the Suwałki Gap. According to the signed act of affiliation, Lithuania's Iron Wolf Mechanized Brigade and Poland's 15th Mechanized Brigade will train jointly to prepare for operations in the Gap, though they will remain under their own national command. The framework for this cooperation has its origins just over a year ago with the creation of the Polish-Lithuanian Defense Council, and this is its first concrete act. This agreement will allow for greater cooperation on defense and security related matters, such as coordination of defense plans and joint exercises. Grand comparisons to 15th and 16th Century battles against the Teutonic Order and the Grand Duchy of Moscow and even to the Cold War era Fulda Gap aside, this new development in Polish-Lithuanian cooperation is quite welcome in a region widely considered to be a weak spot for NATO.
The Suwałki Gap is the narrow Polish-Lithuanian border region sandwiched between Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and Belarus. This area is of critical logistical importance to NATO, seeing as it is the only land border between the three Baltic States and the rest of the alliance. Presently, it contains only two minor highways running in a general north-south direction, as well as some smaller local roads and roads used by the logging industry and forest services. As such, it could serve as a tactical chokepoint, wherein Russian forces could stymie troop and supply movements north. Maintaining control over the Suwałki Gap, therefore, is critical in the event of war in the Baltic Theater with Russia.
The Suwałki region, however, presents major advantages for defense and significant obstacles for offensive operations. If NATO can deny Russia access, it will be that much more difficult for Russian troops to launch an offensive campaign there. If, on the other hand, NATO does not deny Russia access, and Russia gains control in the region, it will be extraordinarily difficult for NATO to reopen the critical corridor from Suwałki to Kaunas in order to supply operations in the Baltics.
The terrain is heavily forested and hilly, and is dotted with lakes, rivers, and marshes. Forests and lakes comprise approximately 50 percent of the land area, while swamps form another 11 percent. The hills run latitudinally and are intersected by rivers and lakes. Moraine dammed lakes are generally shallow, widely dispersed, and have soft embankments, while step, high banks and irregular bottoms characterize local ribbon lakes. Rivers in the region flow northward, and are generally narrow and winding, with steep and heavily forested banks. Many of the coniferous forests in the region are practically impassible, and most are inaccessible (or at least foolhardy) terrain. Clay and sandy clay soils in the region make for impassible conditions in rainy weather with deep, dense, and soggy mud. And indeed, rainy weather is typical for much of the year from the spring thaws all the way to autumn. In the wintertime, snow and frost inhibit movement. Snow covers the ground an average of 90 days per year, heavy frost an average of 50 days, and 30 days see ground frost temperatures. Soils are frozen approximately 120 centimeters deep in the winter, but frozen lakes and rivers may be crossable. Furthermore, the limited road system in the region is poor, and many bridges can only sustain a weight of about 50 tons, which will support a Russian tank, but not an American or British tank, as these average about 70 tons. Though there are pontoon bridges, these are few in number and not suitable for the local rivers. Besides weight limitations, these roads will not sustain movements of larger military vehicles in formation, meaning such equipment would either be forced to find alternate routes or would be "canalized" into long, slow lines or short caravans with limited numbers, nullifying any numerical advantage offensive forces might have.
Map of the Suwałki region and its physical characteristics. Source: Col. Leszek Elak and Col. Śliwa, Zdzisław (ret.) "The Suwałki Gap – NATO's Fragile Hotspot," published in Zeszyty Naukowe AON nr 2. (103), 2016.
The regional terrain and climate are atypical, and local operations will require specialized training and equipment. These conditions readily benefit defensive operations by creating natural defensive lines and allowing armies to restrict movement with limited force, especially if road infrastructure is destroyed. Defenders in the region can further limit maneuverability in a number of ways, including creating engineering obstacles, developing camouflage and deception components to inhibit air and land reconnaissance, and establishing combat support and combat service assets locally. Further, the terrain itself limits the ability to reorganize combat units and restricts logistical support to react to changes in the tactical situation. On the other hand, the terrain supports covert operations. As a result of limited lines of sight and likely robust covert scouting operations, artillery is also limited in its usefulness for offensive operations in the Suwałki region.
Typical forest wetland landscape near Augustów. Source: augustow.pl
Two key considerations must be brought up here: first, NATO can gain a serious tactical advantage by investing in early warning capabilities, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, and facilitating information sharing in the region; second, Russia cannot close the Suwałki Gap without involving Belarus somehow. Regarding the first, it is blatantly obvious that NATO can better secure the region by investing in capabilities which enhance situational awareness, but the result of that investment is the key here: greater awareness allows greater time to surge forces into the theater, putting NATO in position to take advantage of a defensive posture in a local environment wholly suited for defense. The second is a little less obvious, as Kaliningrad is itself heavily militarized, while Belarus is less so. But, in order to effectively close the Suwałki Gap, Russia must deploy missiles over or from Belarus, or must deploy troops through Belarus, or less likely, coerce Belarus into joining the fight. Otherwise, a Belarusian route around the Gap remains open in a conventional war scenario. Such moves would escalate the situation to a point where strikes on Kaliningrad, Russian forces in Belarus, or even to the main part of Russia itself would be justified. Belarus, especially as relations currently stand, will be reasonably reluctant to allow any of the above scenarios, and NATO forces could theoretically hold local Russian assets at risk, turning the anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) balance in the region on its head against Moscow.
The Suwałki Gap presents both strategic challenges and strategic opportunities. If NATO can secure the Gap, it can maintain the vital overland supply line from Poland to the Baltics. Further, it can use the Gap to hamper Russian activities and capabilities around Kaliningrad and Belarus. From Polish acquisition of F-35 jets and Lithuanian acquisition of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTVs), to cooperation on the joint Polish-Lithuanian brigade to defend the Suwałki Gap, we have seen many positive measures for improving regional defense. But there is certainly more work to be done. It would be reasonable to expand the number of joint brigades; one probably is not enough. Secondly, infrastructural improvements are needed to ensure NATO tanks can cross bridges safely. NATO should invest in air defense and surveillance systems, and should seek to improve situational awareness locally in the Suwałki region. Finally, NATO needs to train and prepare for operations in the unique conditions the terrain, soil, climate, and infrastructure provide in order to improve overall readiness. As the only land route between the Baltics and the rest of NATO, this small piece of territory bears outsized significance for military operations in the Baltic theater. NATO must maintain it.
By Matthew Thomas
Cover photo: Polish-Lithuanian border
Photo credit: Stratfor Worldview, worldview.stratfor.com
Col. Leszek Elak and Col. Śliwa, Zdzisław, "The Suwałki Gap – NATO's Fragile Hotspot," Zeszyty Naukowe AON, nr 2 (103), 2016.
Globalsecurity.org, "Suwałki Gap," https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/suwalki-gap.htm
Michael A. Hunzeker and Lanoszka, Alexander, "Threading the Needle Through the Suwałki Gap," EastWest Institute, 26 March 2019. https://www.eastwest.ngo/idea/threading-needle-through-suwa%C5%82ki-gap
LRT English, "Poland and Lithuania to plan joint Suwałki Gap defence," 29 January 2020. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1137647/poland-and-lithuania-to-plan-joint-suwalki-gap-defence
Viljar Veebel and Col. Śliwa, Zdzisław, "The Suwałki Gap, Kaliningrad and Russia's Baltic Ambitions," Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 21 August 2019. https://sjms.nu/articles/10.31374/sjms.21/
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The high time for witchcraft trials in Estonia occurred in the second quarter of the 17th century. There are not much data about their occurrence in Saaremaa as the court archives of that time have not been preserved. The author of the article, M. A. candidate of the history department at Tartu University P. Pedakmäe, has found interesting documents in the Danish State Archives which provide evidence about the existence of "witches" in Saaremaa in the Danish Period (1559 - 1645).
These pertain to the process which took place in the Royal Danish Supreme Court in 1639. The brothers Lohmann of Kuressaare lodged a complaint against Lord Lieutenant Anders Bille, who was said to have unfairly accused and punished their mother Reimerske of witchery.
In the court protocol one can also find data about other witches of Saaremaa.
Interestingly, these facts are about men: while in almost the whole of Europe witchcraft was a women's crime, but in Estonia, Iceland and Eastern Finland men were often considered to be witches.
In Saaremaa, as elsewhere, healers who used simple, traditional methods were most commonly suspected of witchcraft. It bears mention that in the Reimerske court case the water ordeal was never mentioned. In other parts of Estonia the test was a wide - spread method to ascertain witches.
The author agrees with the theory of English scientists, cited in the article, that the hight of the witch - hunt has been linked to the efforts of the Church to Christianize the society completely. It was also connected with the beginning of the transition from a closely integrated village community to individualized society. Psychologically the reason for accusing somebody of witchcraft was primarily to project an accuser's own guilt on the "witch".
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Q: micro service design business and user RestAPI We are trying to design use case where privilege user can create business (privilege use is business owner). Each Business can have multiple users. For addressing this requirement we are thinking to create three services UserAPI, BusinessAPI and SubscriptionAPI. UserAPI responsible for user creation, deletion, updating and find likewise business and subscription api will do similar operation.

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For the scenario where we want to create new user for business we are thinking of SubscriptionAPI to be used
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*Is business exist "Business API client" will be used to check.

*Is user already exist for given mobile number "user API client" will be used to check.

*If above to condition passed, "user API client" will be called for user creation.

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UserVO is repeated in SubscriptionAPI – Is this correct?
Also please share view on described service designing, what improvement can be done.

A: If you are trying to have 3 different microservices then you can use Zuul proxy.
Have the Zuul as the API gateway for your services. It act as a gate keeper for all your services. You can define your custom zuul filters like pre, post etc.
What I would recommend according to your specification to use zuul pre-filter and before routing the request to Subscription service, request other two services to get desired inputs.
Here is a link for reference:
https://spring.io/guides/gs/routing-and-filtering/
Use this config to route the request:
zuul:
 prefix: /api/v1
 stripPrefix: false
proxy:
 stripMapping: false
 mapping: /api/v1
 addProxyHeaders: true
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Business-API:
 path: /business/**
 url: http://localhost:8213
 stripPrefix: false
user-service:
path: /user/**
url: http://localhost:8212
stripPrefix: false

Regarding the request payload, you can have whatever payload you need to have. Just keep in mind that all the services must be independently deployable. That means if you are deleting your business, you need to decide what you have to do with your subscription. Cascading could lead you into problems. It's better to invest more time and think through over the domain. If your service has too much dependency on each other better to cluster them as one domain.
I have explained about how to define your domain here:
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As we all know that blast freezers and chillers represent as a single largest electric load of entire store. Other than that these types of appliances can become the reason of increasing the operating costs by 10%. That happens when you will keep on using the damaged appliances without repairing and maintenance it will automatically increase the energy bills. So make sure that you don't have any type of fouled tubes, myriad and other type of leaking in the refrigerant unit. While on the other hand, if you will operate the commercial blast chillers and freezers at their peak performance. Then it will enable you to save energy and maintenance costs. That's why keep in mind that you have to do regular maintenance of these type of chillers and commercial blast freezers. Here in this article we are discussing about tips that will allow you to maintain it properly.
The first thing that you have to do while maintaining chillers and commercial blast freezers is to keep a daily log. Actually, that will be your first basic step for improving the efficiency of these blast freezers. So yes with the help of this log you can actually build history of all the operating conditions that include flow rates, temperatures, pressures and also the fluid levels. Actually, these appliances use to have remote monitoring technologies that will enable you to regularly inspect the unit to improve its efficiency.
Another thing that you have to do while maintaining the vehicle on a regular basis is to treat condenser water from the unit. That will help you to prevent having any type of corrosion. Actually, you should know that all types of condenser water loops utilize open cooling sources. That basically requires to have a regular water treatment that will enable you to eliminate the risk of having corrosion, scale or other type of biological growth in the unit. So for avoiding these type of issues you have to regularly get rid of condenser water that will enable you to increase the unit efficiency.
The next thing that you have to do while maintaining chillers and a commercial blast freezer is to keep its tubes neat and clean to increase the efficiency of heat transfer. Actually, you should know that improving the quality of heat transfer will enable you to improve the overall performance of blast freezer. So while maintaining the freezer never forget to clean the tubes. As there are chances that it contain greasy minerals, thick scale, fungus, algae, mud and other type of impurities. That can result in increasing the thermal resistance and also reducing the performance level of the unit.
Actually, you should know that it is very important that you maintain the standard level of chilled water flow rate that will enable you to enhance the overall performance level of commercial blast freezer. Actually the lower flow rate might become the reason of decreasing the overall efficiency of the blast freezer that's why prefer to maintain its level between the range of 3 to 12 ft per second.


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Porsche Panamera Gets V6 Engine With 330 HP and a Long-Wheelbase Version
Published: November 30, 20169:48 am
Author Daniel Zevedei
At the Los Angeles Auto Show (November 18 – 27, 2016), Porsche presented the basic version of the Panamera, offering a V6 Turbo engine, rated at 330 hp. Instead, the customers who want superior comfort and want to ride with a driver can now count on the Executive option that comes with a longer wheelbase.
After Porsche officially unveiled the new generation Panamera in its Panamera S (440 hp, optional all-wheel drive), Panamera Turbo (550 hp, all-wheel drive standard), Panamera E-Hybrid (462 hp, four-wheel drive standard) and Panamera diesel (422 hp) variants, the German manufacturer comes with an version with entry-level motorization and longer wheelbase versions, available with all engines.
Therefore, the most accessible version of the Porsche will be V6 Turbo engine, running on gasoline and which develops some 330 hp. It does not have a special name, being called simply Panamera, and its price tag has not yet been communicated by the manufacturer from Stuttgart.
The basic version of the Panamera gets a 20 hp increases compared to the older generation. However, the official fuel consumption announced for the German model decreases with one liter per 100 km compared to the previous version. Now, the official figures stand at 7.5 liters / 100 km for the basic option in the Panamera range.
Like in most other versions of the German model, this version can be ordered with a four-wheel drive too. This is recognized by the official name Panamera 4. The official fuel consumption announced by Porsche for this variant is 7.7 liters / 100 km.
The other big novelty which makes its appearance in the case of the Panamera is the long wheelbase version dedicated to those who want more space in the back. Built specially for clients who prefer the comfort of a limousine driven by a dedicated driver the Executive version can be ordered with all-wheel drive versions of the Panamera, which means it is available on the Panamera 4 Executive (330 hp), the Panamera 4S Executive (440 hp), the Panamera E-Hybrid Executive (462 hp) and the Panamera Turbo Executive (550 hp).
It is built around the right back place, which should enjoy the whole comfort that is offered by Porsche's model. The Panamera Executive offers a number of additional elements compared to the classic versions of the German model.
With its basic equipment, the Executive versions of the Panamera comes with a large panoramic roof with active suspension package, PASM (Porsche Active Suspension Management), and heated seats with multidirectional adjustment. Moreover, the higher power versions, Panamera 4S Executive and Panamera Turbo Executive, provide direction on all four wheels and soft-close doors. In addition, the Turbo variant benefits exclusively from four air conditioning areas, LED headlights with dynamic automatic adjustment and ambient lighting.
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