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	m_font = new Font("./font/consolas.ttf", 32);
	m_audio = new Audio("./audio/powerup.wav");

	// Create instance of Player and the map
	player = new Player("LargeShip");
	map = new Map();

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Information about the American Longrifle Association.
NOTE: These guidelines are not part of the ALRA Bylaws and can be updated with a unanimous vote by the members of the National Standing Committee on Authenticity (NSCA). They are compiled by the NSCA to help expedite the bibliography submission and approval process for you, your sponsor, and the NSCA committee members.
The purposes of the bibliography are to enable the National Standing Committee on Authenticity (NSCA) to ensure that high standards of authenticity are met within the ranks of the ALRA, and to instill a desired perspective toward research and documentation of the clothing and equipment you use.
Your name, mailing & physical address, telephone number, & email address.
Your Sponsor's name, ALRA Patriot number, telephone number, & email address.
Full-sized front and rear photographs (at a minimum) of you wearing your clothing and the equipment you normally carry. (As shown in this drawing by David Wright - Thank you to David for drawing this specially for our bib guidelines).
The ALRA bylaws list a number of items that are REQUIRED BY EVERY MEMBER TO HAVE, REGARDLESS OF PERSONA (listed below), and each item must be documented and color photographed.
The simplest and most efficient way to present documentation and photos to the NSCA is to list your items in the same order as the required list, and to show the documentation and photos with each item (see example A below).
You will need two sources for each item. At least one citation must be from a PRIMARY source as defined by the NSCA. The other may be an additional primary or an authoritative SECONDARY source (see definitions at end of Guidelines).
The source must substantiate the time period being portrayed (the date of the source must be before the time period). Cite the author, book or document name, page and plate number, etc.
Photos of each item are required (the full-persona photos alone will not suffice). Please show as much detail and use as close-up of a shot as possible.
Multiple items (for example, shooting pouch contents) may be photographed together as long as photos are clear and show relevant details (see example B below). If photos are unclear, your approval could be delayed until clearer photos are received.
If you are printing out photos separate from text, they will be accepted. Ideally, the photo would be attached (stapled) to the corresponding page. If the pictures are not attached to the page where the description is located, please label them well so they can be matched up with the item.
An accouterment need not be an exact copy of an original; a reasonable extrapolation is acceptable.
DO NOT PHOTOGRAPH ANY ITEM THAT YOU DO NOT DOCUMENT. Items pictured but not documented may cause delays in your approval.
NOTE: You will notice in the list of items in the bylaws (see below) that there are several items that are not required but recommended for shooting and thus do not need to be documented.
While documentation is not needed, please photograph these items as well so that the NSCA members may confirm period correctness etc.
All primary and secondary sources need to be cited. You may cite them in the documentation of each individual item, or you can make a list of all sources at the end of your bibliography. Cite the author or editor, source name, page and plate/table number, publisher, etc. Sources obtained from the Internet must include their URL. You may want to look over the ALRA Recommended Reading List for sources.
Proof of current dues may be in the form of a copy of a processed check or a letter (or email) from the current Natl. Factor stating that dues are paid up.
Bibliographies may be submitted in printed copy or digitized*.
Keep one copy for your records (if the NSCA has questions, they may need to refer to certain pages, etc.).
Four copies are sent to your sponsor, along with a check for $13 made out to the current chairperson of the NSCA for postage and handling. Send the four copies and the check to your sponsor.
Your sponsor will attach a cover sheet showing that the sponsor has seen the bibliography, is pleased with it, and recommends its approval. The sponsor will forward three copies and the check to the chairperson of the NSCA.
* Digitized versions may be in the form of cds (3 copies still required & mailed to NSCA) or may be cloud-based (such as a drop-box or Google-doc). Funds will still need to be mailed to NSCA chairman before review can take place.
The chairperson will forward copies of the bibliography to the other two members of the NSCA.
All will review the bibliography and vote to accept it or not. Two of the three members must vote for approval if it is to be approved.
If the bibliography is approved a copy will be forwarded to the ALRA National Historian.
If it is not approved, the NSCA chairman will contact your sponsor with information about why the bibliography was not accepted and what needs to be done to improve it so it will pass.
Once the bibliography is approved, the new Patriot will be notified of the approval, assigned a permanent Patriot number, and awarded an ALRA gorget.
Due to the amount of shipping, reviewing of documentation, and correspondence that must take place, this process can take several weeks.
Men and women's clothing should be described in detail. Descriptions should include the type of material of construction, leather, cloth, wood, etc. and types of buttons or closures, cloth patterns and style, etc. Clothing should adhere to documented patterns.
All equipment used should match the character and time period being portrayed.
Possible bag or haversack. Accepted alternatives would be a wallet, knapsack, snap-sack, etc.
Tomahawk or belt ax, hand forged or cast, brass or iron.
Fire set - bow drill or flint and steel.
Period eating utensils, such as a bowl, spoon, or fork.
Water vessel, such as cup, canteen, jug, or wood barrel.
Salt and seasonings in period-correct containers.
Sewing equipment: needles, linen thread or sinew, bee's wax, and awl.
Candles (Bee's wax, tallow, or other period-correct material).
A period flintlock. The gun cannot be of a later period than the character chosen.
Powder horn or other documented powder container. Describe the powder container's features such as length, material and engraving.
Hunting pouch or cartridge box. Describe its features.
A whisk brush, vent pick, and powder measure. These are often suspended from the hunting pouch.
Bullet bag, Rolled cartridges, Priming horn.
Cloth patching, Lock cover "cow's knee".
Bullet mold, Flints, Screw-driver, Knapping hammer.
Again, these items are not required. It is only necessary that a member be able to load, shoot, and properly maintain the flintlock, from the bag, with efficiency. When attending ALRA events one should be prepared to shoot at least 25 rounds.
As you research your persona you will determine what clothing and accoutrements are needed. If you have a question that your sponsor cannot answer, have your sponsor contact the NSCA Chairman for clarification.
Primary source. A contemporary account of, or the description of, an item or article of clothing. These may be official documents, diaries, first hand written accounts, newspapers, or paintings or engravings of the time period. Books and published articles that describe equipment and clothing that are in museums and are presented by authoritative sources are acceptable as a primary source. An archaeological recovery and the reports of that discovery giving dates, locations, etc., are to be considered a primary source.
Secondary source. Sources that review and interpret primary sources. Secondary sources may provide more information about an item because they review more than one primary source. Secondary sources may include reproductions of original pieces as examples. Secondary sources should be scholarly and by recognized authorities. They are used when a second primary source cannot be found.
PLEASE NOTE THE GUIDELINES BELOW ARE THE OLD GUIDELINES AND ARE LEFT HERE FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES.
Note: These are not part of the ALRA By-laws and do not require the amendment process to change. The NSCA may change these in accordance with amendment four.
The purpose of the bibliography is to assist the National Standing Committee on Authenticity to insure that high standards of authenticity are met within the ranks of the ALRA.
It also instills a desired perspective toward research and documentation of equipment used.
To assist the prospective; member in an enjoyable and cost effective experience, the guidelines must be followed and the candidate must:.
Include proof of payment of dues.
Include a description of the chosen character and include his or her occupation, the geographic location, the date of his or her sojourn, and other information deemed important about the character portrayed.
Clothing and accouterments detailed in the bibliography must be tied to this date and character.
Two sources must be listed for each item. One source must be a PRIMARY source as defined by the NSCA. The second may be an additional primary or an authoritative secondary source. Cite the author, book or document name, page and plate number, etc. The source should substantiate the date of use of the item. In some instances the date of use may be implied by the source.
Include color photographs of the front and rear of the candidate. He/she should be dressed, including his/her equipment. Additional photographs of all documented clothing, equipment, and firelock should be included. Please show as much detail and use as close-up a shot as possible.
All members are free to portray any authentic character of the period. Men and women's clothing should be described in detail. Descriptions should include the type of material of construction, leather, cloth, wood, etc. and types of buttons or closures, cloth patterns and style, etc. Clothing should adhere to documented patterns.
Accouterments: The equipment used should match the character being portrayed.
Knife with properly attached handle of period materials.
It is not required the knife be hand forged; and hi carbon steel is acceptable, but stainless steel and aluminum are not acceptable.
Fire set, bow drill or flint and steel.
Salt and seasonings in period containers.
Gun oil and cleaning equipment.
Sewing equipment: needles, linen thread or sinew, bees wax, and awl.
Powder horn or other documented powder container. Describe the powder container's features such as length, material and engraving.
The following are recommended, but a specific source of documentation need not be given. However documentation you provide will be recorded and used to aid others in their research, therefore will be appreciated.
Gun oil or grease in a period container. Traditional cleaning with clear water is expected at ALRA events.
The following items are common and must be of period design and materials:.
Cloth patching, Lock cover "cow's knee".
Bullet mold, Flints, Screw driver, Knapping hammer.
These items are not required. It is only necessary that a member be able to load, shoot, and properly maintain the flintlock, from the bag, with efficiency. When attending ALRA events one should be prepared to shoot at least 25 rounds.
Other historically correct items may be carried in the hunting pouch according to the individual's character portrayal.
Clothing should adhere to known and documented period patterns.
It is the responsibility of the member to incur the cost of postage and handling of the bibliography.
Make four copies of your bibliography.
Keep one copy for your records.
Three copies are to be sent to the NSCA via your sponsor.
Include a check for $13.00 made out to the chairperson of the NSCA for postage and handling.
Include proof of current dues paid membership status, your sponsors name and Patriot Number.
Give all of your bibliography materials along with the necessary shipping and handling fees to your sponsor. Your sponsor will then review your bibliography and submit it to the chairperson of the NSCA.
Include your twentieth century name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and any other personal information needed by the committee to contact you and your sponsor.
The chairperson will forward it to the other committee members for their review and vote. When all of the ballots are returned and the bibliography has been approved it will be forwarded to the ALRA National Historian. If the candidates bibliography is not approved the bibliography will be returned to the candidate's sponsor with information about why the bibliography was not passed and what items require re-documentation.
The new Patriot will be notified of the approval of his/her bibliography, assigned a permanent Patriot Number, awarded an ALRA gorget, and sent information about how to receive their ALRA gorget.
Due to the amount of shipping, reviewing of documentation and correspondence that must take place, this process can take several weeks. Your patience is appreciated.
A primary source is a contemporary account of or the description of an item or article of clothing. (Events are not included, as we are not discussing events here.) These may be official documents, diaries, or first hand written accounts. The use of contemporary newspapers should be included. An archaeological recovery and the reports of that discovery giving dates, locations, etc. are for our purposes to be considered a primary source. Books and published articles that describe equipment and clothing that are in museums and are presented by authoritative sources should be acceptable as a primary source. In this case the items provenance must be known and the information must not rely on other primary sources for proof.
Secondary sources are those sources that review and interpret primary sources. Secondary sources may provide more information about an item because they review more than one primary source. Secondary sources may include reproductions of original pieces as examples. Secondary sources should be scholarly and by recognized authorities. They should be used when a second primary source cannot be found. The guidelines are now going to require two sources for every item. One source must be a primary source.


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The importance of inkjet inks in direct to container applications
The inkjet inks used for direct to container applications arguably have the greatest responsibility in the final products' supply chain. This presentation takes a cradle to grave approach and aims to look at how the inks need to interact with the print heads and print systems but also heavily influences the image quality that is formed upon the containers. Additional requirements are often called for in food, beverage and cosmetics applications as the inks must be formulated with list compliant materials and are able to deliver a low migration capable solution on the final printed item. Finally, it is an increasing requirement to recycle many polymers used as containers and the ink must therefore be compatible with those processes wherever possible.
UV print as a tool for prototype printing and industrial production
Did you know how UV-printing can enrich your production? Mimaki provides various choice of LED UV printers in combination with various print sizes, ink types and colors. This means that Mimaki's UV-print technology can be used for a wide range of products – also for cylindrical objects to print 360 degrees! But it is important to know what kind of machine, ink, pre/after-process your product needs and this makes the UV-print so challenging and outstanding.
KEYNOTE: Global trends and how they shape the packaging requirements of the brand owner
NVC (founded in 1953) is the association of companies addressing the activity of packaging throughout the supply chain of packaged products. Through contact with this large variety of member companies, including retail, manufacturing of packaged products, supply of packaging, machinery, services and raw material suppliers, we gain insight in global trends and how they affect packaging. In this presentation, Ger Standhardt will share these trends with you and how they express themselves in packaging and packaging print. This will help you to understand the future requirements set by consumers and brand owners.
The importance of inkjet inks in direct to container applications (2)
Label and Safety Data Sheet: Important information for workers' safety
REACH and CLP are the EU main chemical legislations. CLP requires manufacturers of chemical substances and mixtures to classify their products with regard to hazardous properties and to assign the relevant information to the product's label. The hazard symbols and the wording shown on the label give a first short overview on the identified hazards and the most essential precautionary measures. REACH regulation additionally requires a Safety Data Sheet for each product classified as hazardous to be provided to the customers concerned. Information contained in the Safety Data Sheet is much more detailed compared to the label. As most printing inks and related materials are classified as hazardous under CLP, correct application of the recommendations related to safe use provided on the label and in the relevant chapters of the Safety Data Sheet is the basis to ensure protection of workers' health in the print shops and also of the environment.
KEYNOTE: Direct container decoration: Business cases regarding current technologies, applications and challenges
Brand colour management: Meeting customer requirements and expectations
Late stage customisation: Zero lead time, zero material waste and mass customisation
KEYNOTE: Direct Digital Print: Threat or Opportunity for the Label Industry?
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Roland Drach
Roland Drach, I've been working more than 17 years at Sefar AG, Switzerland as an Area Sales Manger. Commercially I am responsible for Germany, Nederlands, Skandinavia, and the CIS area. Beside the commercial business I have a wide skill in the technical field of the textil and screen printing applications. Overlapping projects (technical as well as commercial) together with worldwide operating key account customer is one of my speciality.
Debbie Thorp
Debbie has worked in digital printing for over 20 years, including 10 years in senior positions at specialist digital printing consultancy companies such as BIS Strategic Decisions, IT Strategies and CAP Ventures. Debbie joined Xaar as Head of Group Marketing in the late 90's and then moved on to be Director of Business Development at AIP Ltd, a liquid toner technology JV between RLA and TTP. More recently Debbie was VP EMEA Operations at iTi - an inkjet integrator and materials deposition device manufacturer. In early 2010, Debbie was appointed Business Development Director at Global Inkjet Systems Ltd, a leading developer of software drivers and electronics. Debbie has a BA degree in Modern Languages from Manchester University and an MBA from Durham University Business School.
Dirk Exner
Dirk Exner, born in 1964, is with Phoseon since 2010. He has an engineering degree from University of Applied Sciences Cologne, is married and has two children. Before joining Phoseon, he worked for color management specialist X-Rite in various positions, and print head manufacturer Xaar.
Phil Jackman
Phil has been in the printing industry with SunChemical for almost 20 years and has always specialised in niche sectors, emerging markets and industrial applications. He has a wealth of experience across all print disciplines and has successfully delivered many projects to fruition.
Previous roles in security printing and brand protection saw him spending several years living in Asia as Business Development Manager. He is currently Product Manager - Industrial Inkjet - for SunJet in the UK.
Phil holds a BSc (Hons) in Industrial Management from Nottingham Trent University
Pascal Iffland
Pascal Iffland is the product manager for container printing inks at Marabu, a world‐leading manufacturer of screen, digital and pad printing inks. His responsibilities include primarily the development of products for the packaging market, especially UV screen printing processes on containers, and the supervision of key and international accounts. The focuses of the product development are UV inks for the food packaging regulation and the UV LED curing process.
After completing the master school in screen printing, he obtained a master certificate of Technical Management. Thanks to his huge experience in the printing industry he is a competent and experienced specialist in this sector.
John Corrall
John has 27 years experience of the industrial inkjet market. He has held senior roles in many well known inkjet companies.
In 2006 he formed Industrial Inkjet Ltd to provide technical and design support to customers of Konica Minolta Inkjet Technology outside of Asia. Industrial Inkjet now has total sales of approximately US$22million.
IIJ has developed its own range of high speed colour single-pass inkjet print engines.
IIJ works with many major companies worldwide to develop inkjet for new applications.
John has a BSc in Electronics from Aston University in UK.
Harald Gavin
Harald graduated with a BSc in Electronics and Mathematics from Hamburg University, Germany and with an MSc in Control Engineering from Cranfield Institute of Technology, England.
He worked as technical manager for Baker Perkins in England, a manufacturer of web-offset printing presses for commercial printing. He joined AUCOTEC, a German software company, in 1994 and established the North American sales company, AUCOTEC, Inc.
He returned to England in 1998, where he founded Path 2 Print Ltd as a sales company for ISIMAT's screen printing machines in the UK and Ireland. Harald joined ISIMAT in Germany as Sales & Marketing Director in autumn 2007. He moved to Scotland for private reasons in March 2015 and is now working as ISIMAT's agent in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Roland Visotschnig
Already been shaped by engineering in early childhood, Roland Visotschnig decided to pursue a technical education. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Stuttgart. During his studies he first came in contact with additive manufacturing, especially with polyjet or multijet
technology. After finishing his diploma thesis he started as research fellow at Fraunhofer IPA. While working on machine and process developments based on piezo‐inkjet technology the focus changed from additive manufacturing towards industrial printing. Since 2014 Roland Visotschnig works at Marabu as Product Manager for Digital UV inks.

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Meet the AI museum guide who can screen for COVID-19 (Updated May 2021)
The Ontario Regiment Museum contains the largest collection of operational historical military vehicles in North America, some of which are loaned out for TV and film productions, reenactments, and parades. To maintain these living historical artifacts, they must be regularly driven and repaired by a small army of volunteers, who continue to support the museum throughout the pandemic.
One of the newer 'volunteers' to support the museum is Master Corporal Lana, an artificially intelligent character who can welcome visitors, check people in and provide useful information such as directions or event specific messages. She can perform a number of functions such as counting visitors and providing crowd control or checking tickets. Master Corporal Lana is based on the Animated Virtual Agent (AVA™) designed by CloudConstable as a touchless virtual concierge or greeting host.
MCpl Lana is designed to allow for natural interaction and incorporates a number of Intel® technologies to help make that happen. An Intel NUC 9 Pro mini PC provides the performance the system needs to operate as a smart kiosk and Intel vPro® technology enables secure remote management. Natural language processing is used to allow Lana to hold a conversation and both ask and answer questions from visitors and volunteers, and the Intel distribution of the OpenVINO™ toolkit helps with AI inference acceleration.
An Intel RealSense depth camera D415 is an important part of the solution – if MCpl Lana asks a question, she can both recognize a verbal answer or a non-verbal nod or headshake. Gesture controls like this allow the solution to be touch free while feeling natural. In addition to these gestures, the depth camera assists with authenticating registered users like the 100 plus volunteers who help maintain the fleet of historical military vehicles. These are the people that make sure the fuel doesn't go bad, keep vehicle seals in good shape, and keep impossible-to-replace parts from breaking down. They drive tanks in a nearby field, keeping them operational so history buffs can experience them live, or see them on TV.
The Intel RealSense depth camera is also used to enable a kind of 'virtual privacy shield.' The system has a privacy limit parameter, usually set to about 2 m. This is done so that only when a subject approaches Lana's station within the defined distance does Lana begin to interact with the subject — which starts by trying to recognize the subject's face so she can greet the subject by name. In optimal conditions the system could recognize a subject who has previously opted in from a distance of 4 or 5 meters away, but by using the depth camera to set a privacy limit, passers by are ignored and Lana has a more natural conversation only with those users who approach her.
Safety screening
With so many volunteers and an important reason to require them to still be able to enter the museum, health became MCpl Lana's new priority. CloudConstable worked with The Ontario Regiment Museum to take Lana from her initially designated role as a new way to engage with visitors and expand her role to COVID-19 safety screening.
MCpl Lana, a customized animated virtual assistant, screens Ontario Regiment (RCAC) Museum volunteers for COVID-19 with temperature scanning and questions.
Now, MCpl Lana is in a new vestibule by the employee entrance. Volunteers can check in and then answer questions about their health and possible contact with the virus. The Intel RealSense depth camera, as well as assisting with the gesture control in the system is part of a new custom sensor array that also includes a touchless LWIR thermal scanner. The two sensors together help to detect potentially elevated body temperatures. Since the reading from the thermal scanner can be affected by how far the person is from the sensor, calibrating the thermal sensor and the depth camera together ensures more accurate temperature readings, where higher temperatures could be a warning sign of potential COVID-19 or flu.
Users that present a risk to others based on their question answers and/or temperature reading can then be sent home to rest. And since the system is checking the volunteers in and out, in the eventuality that a volunteer does become infected, there's a record of potential contacts who were in the building at the same time.
MCpl Lana is just one character made possible by the AVA™ system. As an animated character, it is completely customizable in terms of language, gender, culture and branding. AVA can give custom greetings and visitor instructions, as well as answer location specific questions. CloudConstable anticipates that these customizable AI assistants can help other high-foot-traffic environments like retail or healthcare locations. Using an AVA as a concierge or check-in can give businesses a way to increase customer safety without putting a human employee at risk, but still give visitors a more human way to interact with the technology keeping them safe.
Jeremy Blowers, the Executive Director of The Ontario Regiment Museum, was impressed to see that people of all backgrounds and ages were intrigued by MCpl Lana, and most were eager to sign up for her facial authentication functionality.
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Restaurants would be required to subscribe to compost- and recycling-pickup services under a City of Palo Alto program to ensure as little organic material as possible is being sent to the landfill. Weekly file photo.
In a city where good enough is rarely good enough, a plan is afoot to make it mandatory for Palo Alto's apartment dwellers, restaurants and other businesses to stop tossing their leftover food into the trash and instead to put it in composting bins for pickup.
The proposal for required recycling and composting would reduce the amount of garbage sent to the landfill from 20 percent of all city waste collected down toward Palo Alto's long-desired yet elusive goal of nearly zero.
The City Council on Monday night is scheduled to consider the Recycling and Composting Ordinance, which would amend the sanitation and zoning sections of Palo Alto's municipal code. If the council's past vote on the issue is any indication -- it unanimously approved the concept of increasing commercial recycling and composting with almost no discussion in March -- the program will be adopted and launched next April 1.
Already, about 30 percent of the city's commercial businesses voluntarily subscribe to waste-hauler GreenWaste of Palo Alto's recycling and composting services. Their participation has diverted 11,000 tons of food scraps and food-contaminated paper from the dump annually, a staff report from the Public Works Department states.
However, some 1,000 commercial customers don't use the services, meaning another 7,000 tons of organic waste ends up buried in a Morgan Hill landfill each year. As of one year ago, only 62 percent of food-service establishments composted, according to a March staff report.
The expanded recycling and composting program would prevent the emission an estimated 22,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year, the new Public Works report states.
In dropping the carrot and bringing out the stick, the city is redoubling its efforts to get to zero waste by its self-imposed deadline of 2021, following a waste-reduction roadmap that the council adopted in 2007. That plan initially saw success, with the tonnage of landfill-bound trash shrinking from 38 percent to 20 percent of all waste collected.
However, that rate hasn't changed much since 2010, and a 2012 study found that there was still 70 percent of the stuff Palo Altans put in garbage cans that could be composted or recycled. Leftover food and food-soiled paper made up the largest part of that tonnage, the Public Works report states.
In pitching a fuller implementation of composting in March to the council's Finance Committee, which vetted the program, city zero-waste program manager Ron Arp explained the targeting of those carrot peels, fish tails and half-eaten meals.
"We view as the largest diversion is to go after the city's commercial and residential compostable materials," Arp said on March 3. "This is what the plan will be centered around."
The proposed commercial composting requirement is actually the other shoe to drop this year when it comes to renewed zero-waste efforts: On July 1, the city launched curbside collection of residential food scraps, a program that included distribution of food-scrap buckets to some 18,000 households for use in residents' kitchen. The new program gives people in single-family homes the ability to throw their leftovers in with their yard clippings for pickup each week.
The change in residential composting will divert 3,000 tons of material from the landfill, according to staff.
But just how eager are businesses, and for that matter owners of apartment complexes (the ordinance would apply to buildings with five or more units), to sign up?
The city's collection system requires customers to sort their waste into three bins – green for compostables, blue for recyclables and black for garbage – and there would be penalties for putting materials into the wrong bins.
According to a survey conducted in September, business customers expressed several main concerns about participating in the GreenWaste services: the need for education on how to properly sort, other people putting waste in customers' bins, keeping the waste areas clean, and who will be held responsible for errors in sorting and for fees, particularly in the case of apartment complexes.
To address these concerns, GreenWaste is conducting outreach and training, including sharing best practices for keeping discarded food scraps from creating odors and attracting vermin.
Those businesses that do not sort properly would face escalating consequences: a tag on the container, a training session by GreenWaste, a warning letter, a fee of at least $77 and finally penalties as spelled out in the city municipal code.
The program, as recommended by city staff, would roll out in three phases: Multifamily properties, all food-service establishments (which include grocery stores, take-out places and restaurants, among others) and commercial customers producing 8 cubic yards of compost a week or more would need to subscribe by April 1, 2016. That group constitutes about 150 customers, the city report states.
In the second phase, the approximately 220 commercial customers who generate 2 cubic yards or more of waste a week would be required to sign up for the services by Jan. 1, 2017. The remaining customers, about 600, would have to sign up by Jan. 1, 2018.
The pursuit of greater participation in recycling and composting isn't being prompted by Palo Alto's goals alone, staff note: The state is requiring all municipalities to start collecting compostable material from organizations that produce 10 cubic yards or more each week by April 1, 2016.
Other cities have already taken the lead in mandatory recycling and composting, including Cupertino, San Francisco and East Bay cities, according to Public Works staff. Those programs have reduced waste going to their respective landfills.
In other business Monday night, the council is scheduled to discuss the Land Use & Community Design Element of the city's Comprehensive Plan as part of the guiding document's update. Among the key issues is the potential adoption of a citywide limit on new office development, possibly similar to a restriction adopted in September that currently only applies temporarily to the downtown, California Avenue and El Camino Real areas.
The council's input will inform the work of the Comprehensive Plan Citizens Advisory Committee, which is scheduled to discuss the chapter in December.
The council meeting will start at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Ave. View the agenda here.
Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner contributed to this report.
We already are diligent composers for our own use; however, It is still quite unclear to me what exactly to put into the blue "recycling/composting" bins and what to put into the green "composting" bins.
1. Invest in and distribute a blue and green laminated card with a magnet that educates the Palo Alto population on what goes where. People can put this on their refrigerators, and it will function as a quick and easy reference. Also, put a website address on it for further questions.
2. Work with Costco, Ace, or The Container Store, to supply a realistic and functional compost bin for food scraps. The one distributed several months ago was really not well thought out, although it was a good start. We bought one at one of the stores above; it is large enough, we keep it outside, it works well, and it keeps critters away.
The easier you make it, the quicker it will get adopted!
This article is about commercial and apartment composting, and I agree with Anneke that the residential "bins" we were provided are not the solution for single family dwellings.
I do not put out my green bin every week, since it depends on the time of year, when leaves drop, etc. Besides, it is huge.
I tried the little bin we were provided, and it was full of mold in no time flat. So I stopped using it.
I want to be part of the solution here, but the "human factor" considerations for single family dwelling residences need more thorough analysis and planning, based on my experience.
Time to rethink the zero waste thing. When there is compliance the city will lose money so rates go up again.
It is complicated and expensive now. Zero waste is not the answer.
Save closeable take home food containers for composting wet food scraps.
Coordinate with your neighbors to take turns putting the green bin at the curb. Fill it there.
Apartment renters are similar to homeowners, but without the value of property. I somehow believe that homeowners tend to be more involved in what is going on with regard to responsibilities to issues such as composting. People in apartments tend to move more often and may have less interest in wanting to do what the city wants them to do. I believe that apartment owners would hesitate to put penalties on their renters, as that would influence the renters to move out more easily. Renters have that flexibility.
In general, I believe in the goodwill of human beings, and especially if we know what we need to do.
I want to compost, but I do not know exactly what to do. If I as a committed person and homeowner do not know, do you think that apartment renters do?
I would like everyone to come up with possible ideas for making this composting goal successful.
Would focusing on the cost savings for businesses and tenants be enough to increase the amount of composting from these factions?
Thanks Anneke. I too find it so much more complicated as the years go by. And then when you travel outside of the city they have different recycling rules. Would love it if the containers/products had green, blue and black recycling logos. So can food scrapes go down the garbage disposal? Or does that flow to bay? With the drought, I never have lawn clippings and no way will I fill up that green bin with food scraps without my house SMELLING really bad. It would take a year. So I haven't found a way yet to accommodate though I would really like to be green. So for now, I'm just sticking to the old way.
I would like to see residential composting brought to apartment dwellers. Palo Alto Housing Corporation could probably be compelled to do this. Surely the amount of garbage produced by my 12-unit complex could be reduced significantly under such a program--currently, we have a commercial sized dumpster and it fills up every week. I know I would definitely make use of a compost bin if it were provided, and I think most of my neighbors would too.
To Paul Losch and others wondering how to keep the little compost bucket clean: We buy compostable food waste bags at Piazza's Market. A compostable bag keeps the little bucket from getting too messy from the food scraps and keeps the food scraps contained when we put it in the outside bin. A quick wipe of the inside of the bucket with some Windex after we toss the bag into the compost bin and there is no mold and no smell at all.
Any information on how the schools are doing? My kids have been bringing leftover food home rather than dumping it, but I can't find out if this is now as a result of complicated school policy or my student just changing lunch routines. I keep getting conflicting information when I ask.
Thanks for the tip about the compostable bags at Piazza's. It is not s place I shop, and other grocers and drug/variety stores in town can offer this as well. Awareness is needed.
Jeez, how about the City Council tackle some bigger issues first?
Say, for example, out-of-control commercial development downtown accompanied by an endless series of exceptions for builders that are gradually destroying the character of our downtown (not to mention single-handedly creating the parking nightmare that necessitated the parking permit pilot program)? Or enforcing traffic regulations in our neighborhoods to cut down on people speeding and running stop signs everywhere?
Furthermore, if you're going to make composting mandatory, how about making some information about the program available to residents -- and I mean actively, not just burying it on the city website somewhere. Our condo complex was given the little countertop compost bins months ago, but we don't have any larger compost bins in the complex, so they go completely unused. Talk about a waste of money!
Stay out of my kitchen until you get your act together!
Costco carries those green compostable bags also.
Our complex has 38 bins that are squished together on the short space in front of our gate, the only areas not marked for public parking. So now 57 bins out front?
Maybe organize having larger shared bins that zero waste picks up inside the gates so that exiting the single driveway is less hazardous and less congested? They come in to pick up some people's bins for a monthly fee, but do not bill to the complex, which would be helpful.
Regarding fines, in the downtown area, sometimes are bins are refilled by passers by and businesses whilst they sit on the curb, before or after zero waste comes by. So fines are not practical in our area.
I tried the small compostable bin, but i can't fill it fast enough since as a single person i don't cook or eat enough at home, so the bin got very smelly and developed disgusting maggots. I threw out everything and went back to the old way.
The fruit flies those things attract are gross.
Apartments, businesses and especially restaurant SHOULD be recycling and composting.
When I worked at Stanford, I was shocked and disappointed that none of their on-campus building recycled or composted--especially since they had a plant for both at that time.
The recycling and compost materials that restaurants put out is enormous in amount compared to other businesses or residents. What other business or resident cooks and eats all day?
Lots of good food for the rats, skunks, and racoons. Way to go critters!!!!
@Paul Losch, Costco in Mt. View sells the 3 gallon compostable bags in packs of 125. They do make composting easier and you don't need to deal with rodents, ants or smells as much. We only had an ant invasion once into the the big green bin. We put the big green bin out weekly even when not full. Also, if using the bio bags, you don't need to wash the green bin as often or barely ever.
The standard green compost bin provided by the city is huge and quite impractical to put out every week unless it is at least half full. I called Greenwaste to ask if they had a smaller size and lo and behold a 20 gallon green compost was dropped off this week. Since I can always find a few leaves and prunings to line the bottom this is going to be much more convenient and increase my compliance hugely.
I have nothing to compost. I m a senior who lives alone with her husband. I only cook a few dYs a week. All food scraps go into the garbage disposal. Easy.
I'm afraid that when I put my organic material in the green composting bin, it is going to make a mess. Can I use plastic bags in these carts?
No, the only cart that can be lined with a plastic bag is the black one for garbage. We CANNOT accept recyclables or compostable material in plastic bags. Plastic bags are a big problem for the equipment that processes this material. However, you can line your green and blue carts with newspaper, paper bags, or cardboard.
There are special Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI)-certified bags available to line the composting cart and kitchen pail. Cole Hardware, Rainbow Grocery, Albertsons, Wal-Mart and dozens of other stores carry these BPI certified bags.
Find locations selling "compostable" bags.
Visit the Biodegradable Products Institute for more information about compostable products such as garbage bags.
TIP: A neat and convenient alternative for kitchen waste collection is an empty paper milk carton. Just open the top, fill it with food, fold the top closed when full, and drop it into your green cart for collection.
I hope that multifamily buildings will include condos and not just apartments.
>I do not put out my green bin every week, since it depends on the time of year, when leaves drop, etc. Besides, it is huge.
@ Paul Losch: I know you to be an intelligent guy. So, why are entertaining this fiasco of 'composting' our organic waste? Not only are you (and many others) frustrated by this food scrap nonsense, but the entire approach is flawed. The correct solution, IMO, is to thermally gasify all the waste stream stuff in one step (e.g. plasma arc)...and use the resulting syngas to combust in generators to make electricity. Such a process will destroy (or trap) all the organic toxins; the inorganic material is melted into slag which is useful for a variety of basic materials. In terms of us citizens, we can just put everything in a single bin, and forget about it...problem solved.
I thought paper milk cartons go to recycling ... Are you sure they are biodegradable?
I got the compostable bags that fit the little composting buckets the city gave us. I also live alone and thus don't produce that much garbage. If it seems too nasty, I just put it in the outdoor, big green bin and insert another bag.
"Once my house was full of fruit flies I needed a way to get rid of them. Google is my friend and a jar mostly full of water with some vinegar and sugar and, very important, some dish detergent. The flies are attracted to fermenting fruit and that smells a lot like vinegar so they will go there. They are used to being able to walk on water as they are so light but the detergent breaks the surface tension and they go right to the bottom."
Everything I have fits into about 1/4 of the mini black can which is I can handle alright.
I also got a 20 gallon green bin as the large ones are too cumbersome to put out every week. I use the biobags or milk carton if I have one. I keep the compost (mostly paper contaminated with food waste) in the refrigerator until the night before the garbage is picked up which keeps the flies down.
I also throw most of my vegetable and fruit compost (peelings and the like) under my bushes in the back - they decompose in just a few weeks. And as a bonus, I've gotten volunteer pepper plants and scallions from time to time.
Whether this is the best bang for our buck seems unlikely to me. I hope the anaerobic digester works out. I think any system that requires 3 separate trucks to pick up all the garbage, causes an a lot of unneeded air pollution.
Please provide dimensions and photos of your various composting curb size containers. Please post this information explicitly on both the Zero Waste PALO Alto web site, as well as the Greenwaste website.
Please provide (post explicitly) the dimensions of the various tote containers that the city provides via Greenwaste. Pictures would also be helpful. Please post on Both the Zerowaste website and the Greenwaste website. We have been asking about this information for months.
For example, I found this on another vendor's website. Are the PALO Alto carts the same dimensions as these?
"What are the dimensions of the of 32, 64, and 96 gallon toter carts?
32 gallon	24.50"	19.00"	38.25"
64 gallon	31.50"	24.00"	41.50"
96 gallon	35.00"	27.25"	44.50"
20 gallon	same as 32 gallon with the lid 2 inches taller to accommodate a special 20 gallon insert."
Milk cartons previously were garbage; not recycling. Now they can go into composting. I called Green Waste to find out, because one of their flyers showed milk cartons going in garbage and another showed them going into composting. They still confuse: a recent mailing showed milk cartons going into composting and the soup, or nut milk containers going into garbage. BUT they are all asceptic material plus Green Waste told me those go in composting too. The City has a lot of nerve talking about fines for mistakes; it is sooo confusing. AND why isn't it mandatory for home owners ? Why are they targeting apartment dwellers? @Anneke: in my eight-unit apt building, there are only three tenants here less than 10 years; the rest of us average about 20. So stop your generalizations about renters.@end. PLUS it's not fair to restaurants. Some have separate receptacles for the three, but who can figure it out? Not I before i had to do it at home. So then they have to pay people to sort it. HEY City, why don't you make restaurants donate their leftover food to charity? They don't do it because they have to pay someone to wrap it. So, composting over feeding people?
I line our small bin with compostable bags. They can be bought on Amazon in bulk for lower cost. Then I throw the bag (knotted) into the green cart on top of either leaves, or food-stained paper like pizza box.
We live in a condo community where we take the trash, recyling and compost bin to the curb on Monday night. That's 75 residents times 2 bins ( a lot of my neighbors did not request the green bins). I love the idea of composting and between composting and recycling my trash generation is now down to one bag from 3-4 per week. That said, composting for us is a pain because we do not have adequate room in our garage to store three bins ( our HOA requires us to park in our garages), we have no backyards or external water faucets to clean the compost bin out. I am not surprised that many of my neighbors do not compost because in addition to not having room to store the bins, there is the added task of cleaning out a stinky bin. Mandating composting while noble will actually be extremely inconvenient and cumbersome for those in multi home neighborhoods. I wish the city had thought this through and would have a differentiated approach for those in townhome/cond communities rather than dump a one size fits all approach.
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People living in apartments are of all kinds:many are owners. Your arguments make no sense whatsoever because you assume wrongly that those living in apartments are renters. Around where I live the great majority of aartment dwellers are owners.


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Emma is a freelance travel writer currently based in Sri Lanka. She reviews villas and hotels for high-end travel companies, creates bespoke destination guides and writes travel features for a range of magazines. Emma also updates travel guidebooks, and has just finished work on The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka.
Food Guide: Sri Lankan Cuisine
Published on June 26, 2017 in Dining by Emma Boyle
Sri Lankan cuisine isn't particularly well known on the international stage. Although it is often misunderstood or taken to be an extension of Indian food, it is a very unique cuisine. For many who do visit Sri Lanka it's love at first taste!
Sri Lankan cuisine consists mainly of fragrant curries and starchy accompaniments, which include hoppers (crispy bowl-shaped fermented rice flour pancakes), string hoppers (steamed rice flour vermicelli 'nests') and rotis (flatbreads). A cross between Thai and Indian cuisine, traditional Sri Lankan curries are cooked using a fresh spice paste, comprising ginger, garlic, fresh chilli and sun dried spices, with flavours influenced by region and the cook's ethnicity.
Almost any fruit or vegetable can be used to make a curry or an accompanying dish such as a sambol (usually hot and fiery), mallung (shredded greens), or chutney, and a typical meal includes a meat or fish dish, a few vegetable dishes and a lentil curry (dhal). Coconut milk is used in some curries to add creaminess while others are left 'dry', and the result is a really healthy balanced cuisine.
SRI LANKAN CURRY FROM jamieoliver.com
Rice and curry is typically eaten for lunch whereas hoppers and string hoppers are often on breakfast and dinner menus, usually served with a fish and/or dhal curry, a fiery kata sambol (tomato, onion and dried chilli) or a sweet onion relish. Sri Lankans aren't big on desserts, and usually end a meal with fresh tropical fruit, ice cream or an adopted Malay crème caramel-like dish, watalappan.
Sri Lankan New Year takes place in April, and this is a time of celebration for the island's Buddhists and Hindus who prepare special sweets and sweetmeats for sharing. Thanks to the island's Muslims, biryani is another popular 'borrowed' dish as is fried rice or fried noodles, a favourite quasi-Chinese dish adapted by the Sri Lankans that you'll see in many guises on numerous restaurant menus.
You'll be able to try an endless number of delicious Sri Lankan curries when you book a stay at one of our villas in Sri Lanka. The villas come with a full complement of staff, including a chef or a cook, and they can introduce you to the flavours of Sri Lankan cuisine. They will also be happy to teach you how to make your favourite dishes for recreating with your friends and family back home.
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Where in the World? The Biggest Asian Elephant Gathering
Published on May 4, 2017 in Recreation by Emma Boyle
Elephants are amazing. There's something about their grey leathery hides, their tiny soulful eyes, their wispy mop-like tails and their playful trunks. Oh, and I love it when they run!
Given my penchant for Pachyderms I couldn't be living in a better place than Sri Lanka, land of the Asian Elephant. There are thought to be around 2,500-3,500 wild elephants on this 65,000-square-kilometre island, mostly living in protected national parks and reserves, which are connected via 'elephant corridors' – forested passageways.
One of the world's most significant elephant phenomena happens in Minneriya National Park – a protected 8,890-hectare reserve within Sri Lanka's famed Cultural Triangle. Every year, from the beginning of the dry season – usually late August – groups of elephants start to congregate around the receding waters of the Minneriya Tank, a vast and ancient waterbody spanning some 4670 acres, which was built by the 'tank-building' King Mahasena in the 3rd century. This tank at the centre of the reserve never empties so when other drinking sources become scarce, elephants find their way here to drink, bathe and feast on the young shoots of grass that flourish on the edges of the tank as the water recedes.
This phenomenon, which usually lasts until the monsoon begins in October, is known as The Gathering. The term was coined less than a decade ago by renowned Sri Lankan naturalist Gehan de Silva Wijerathne, and since then crowds of visitors have come to observe these majestic creatures in their natural setting. As many as 300 elephants have been recorded at the tank at any one time; it's thought to be the biggest gathering of Asian elephants in the world. Minneriya forms part of an elephant corridor that links Kaudulla and Wasgamuwa national parks, all located in Sri Lanka's North Central region.
Last September I was lucky enough to witness this natural spectacle for myself. The afternoon is the best time of day to observe the elephants, so I was at the park by 2.30pm to meet up with my driver and tracker. Jeep drivers double up as safari guides, though trackers (some are former poachers) are often more experienced at sighting wildlife. Luckily, mine spoke English.
We drove slowly, taking in the park's scenery as our guide scanned the forest for any signs of movement.
Favourite Family Beaches on Sri Lanka's South Coast
Published on March 21, 2017 in Families by Emma Boyle
Sri Lanka has a LOT of beaches. Almost its entire 1,300-kilometre coastline is sandy and palm-fringed, but not all beaches are swimmable.
Sri Lanka's popularity as a surfing destination says a lot about the character of the sea. For the most part, gentle rollers wash its beaches, but there are offshore currents and some stretches of coastline are just plain wild, with foaming waves crashing onto the seashore. The Galle coast offers some of Sri Lanka's best beaches and is a great destination for a family holiday. Read on to learn more about the most suitable (and safest) beaches in Galle for kids and families.
Best for toddlers
If you're travelling with a baby or toddler, you'll be after the calmest sea. A favourite beach with local expat families is Dalawella, around nine kilometres east of Galle. The sea here filters into a shallow lagoon, protected by offshore rocks, and washes onto a sandy beach.
Wijaya Beach Restaurant is a well-known spot for great food and drinks, though it's neighbour, Beaches, which opened in late 2016, is a better option for families. Set in spacious grounds, there are a lawn and volleyball court, a selection of inflatables for using in the sea and a paddling pool for the tiniest family members.
They also have big daybeds for hire at a very competitive daily rate, which make the perfect rest-stop for exhausted babies and toddlers. Their café-style menu is kid friendly (as well as delicious Asian tapas, expect freshly made burgers, wraps and fish and chips), and from the sunbathing deck, you have a clear view of the beach and sea. There's also a fun vintage truck converted to a bar.
If learning to surf is on your kids' holiday wish list, Dewata Beach, close to Galle, is a convenient spot. The surfing vibe here has really taken off in the last couple of years, and this narrow strip of sand is dotted with surfers' haunts. At the unassuming Shack café, you'll find great food and you can organise surf lessons.
Weligama Bay – a 40-minute drive from Galle – is the south coast's most well-known place for beginner surfers. Just before you reach Weligama beaches, the sleepy beachfront of Midigama is a hidden gem for beginner and intermediate surfers who want maximum exclusivity.
Galle's Outdoor Activities
Published on March 10, 2017 in Recreation by Emma Boyle
Located on the south coast of Sri Lanka, Galle is a destination in its own right. Stay in a luxury villa in Galle, such as the superb No. 39 Galle Fort, Ambassador's House or Villa Pooja Kanda, and you'll be blessed by having a wealth of attractions and activities on your doorstep.
Galle's golden beaches are washed by a warm sea where snorkelling, diving, deep sea fishing and surfing are all possible, as well as whale and dolphin watching from November to April. The coastal interior is characterised by paddy fields and palms, and this setting is ripe for explorations on foot, by bicycle, or by canoe, travelling upriver to seek out birds and wildlife.
Snorkelling and diving
IMAGE CREDIT: MY TOUR IN SRI LANKA
Sri Lanka's marine life and coral reefs don't quite live up to other parts of Asia, however it's still an enjoyable experience nonetheless and easy to organise from Galle. Experienced divers can explore a handful of wrecks lying in deeper water. Marine life in the region includes turtles, reef sharks and coral fish, though the coral around Sri Lanka is generally in a poor condition. Dive sites are better towards Hikkaduwa, where there's a marine sanctuary. There are a few spots for snorkelling, such as at Unawatuna, Jungle Beach and Hikkaduwa.
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Surfing in Sri Lanka has really taken off in the last couple of years. Many beaches close to Galle, such as Devata, Ahangama and Midigama particularly, as well as Weligama, 45-minutes' drive east, and Hikkaduwa, 45-minutes' drive west, are well set up for surfers of all abilities. Devata is the closest beach to Galle, and has emerged recently as a place to learn to surf; its sliver of sand is sprinkled with surf outfits. Weligama has many more surf operators and its wide sandy arc of bay is a much more picturesque setting for beginners. Many of the other locations mentioned, such as Midigama and Ahangama, suit more experienced surfers.
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Sri Lanka is one of the world's best places to see the planet's biggest fish – the blue whale.
Serenity in the Land of Serendipity
Published on January 9, 2017 in Wellness by Emma Boyle
With its gentle coastline, swaying coconut palms and serene rural interior flavoured by paddy fields, rainforest, melodious temples and hills, Sri Lanka is a superb destination to relax and unwind. Indeed, the word 'serendipity', meaning "to discover that you're where you need to be", comes from an ancient name for Sri Lanka (Serendib). Need we say more?
The island's south coast is particularly tranquil, and historic Galle Fort, famed for its magnificently preserved 17th century Dutch fortress and surrounding sandy beaches, is a prime location for a serene Sri Lankan holiday. Stay at Ambassador's House or No. 39 Galle Fort, two luxury private villas that lie within the fort itself, or choose peaceful Villa Pooja Kanda, which is set in rural environs well away from the tourist crowds.
Staying in your own private villa in Sri Lanka has many advantages, not least that you have such luxurious surrounds all to yourself. Wake early and practise yoga on your terrace as the sun rises, or curl up on your veranda with a book and enjoy a dawn chorus of birdsong. Arrange for an in-villa massage from a spa therapist, or a private lesson with a yoga teacher. Fitness instructors can also come to the villa for personal training sessions. Your villa stay is enhanced by a staff team, including a chef, leaving you free to focus all of your energy on the important things in life: socialising, resting, rejuvenating and relaxing.
The ancient Indian healing system of Ayurveda is practised widely in Sri Lanka. It is one of the world's oldest forms of medical science, which works at balancing the energies of mind, body and spirit and strengthening the immune system. Many of the spas in and around Galle offer Ayurvedic treatments. Although single treatments, such as herbal steam baths,
Many of the spas in and around Galle offer Ayurvedic treatments. Although single treatments, such as herbal steam baths, abhyanga (massages) and shirodhana (flow of oil onto the forehead) are all possible, Ayurveda works best however if treatments are combined into a personalised plan. Both Amangalla, in the Fort, and Jetwing Lighthouse hotel, a two-kilometre drive north of Galle, have resident Ayurvedic doctors offering consultations, packages and complete facilities.
For more familiar international spa and beauty treatments you could head to the Galle Fort Spa (great value) or the Z Spa at The Fort Bazaar hotel.


Enter your Bluetooth settings in the phone/tablet settings, and pair the sensor by selecting it form your Bluetooth device list.
Once paired in Bluetooth, enter the Zepp app and go to the 3D Swing screen by tapping the icon second from the left along the bottom, and then "3D Swing Analysis."
Tap the sensor icon near the top left corner of the 3D Swing screen to go to the My Sensor screen.
On the "My Sensor" menu you can tap the icon in the top right corner to Manage your sensors.
On the Manage Sensor screen, you should see your sensor appear in the list of nearby sensors. Tap on it, and it should say "Connected" afterward.
The app will automatically connect to the sensor (if you paired it as shown in step 5) and you'll see a sensor icon blink on the top of the home screen indicating the sensor is connecting.
Go to your 3D swing analysis screen to start recording swings. *Please note that in Zepp Baseball you are required to hit a ball to generate results in the app*.
Once a bat is selected, swing and hit a ball! All swing information will automatically download into the app and the avatar will replay your swing in 3D.


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Mixed Organization Penalty Option
Post subject: Mixed Organization Penalty Option
Just wanted to touch base with everyone to see if they've had good or bad experiences with the JTS/HPS Mixed Organization Penalty Option. That option states the following:
Select Mixed Organization Penalty to have a -1 morale modifier applied to units in the same hex with units from different brigades.
The rule became available within all of those games (2.0) released at the JTS site and updated on the HPS site about one year ago, time to have reached some thoughts about both its intent and effectiveness. I'd like to hear whether you think the rule should be used and why or why not. And if you believe the rule to be appropriate, is it effective enough? Is the penalty too soft or too hard?
Do you believe that the rule is unbiased to each side.
John Ferry
Post subject: Re: Mixed Organization Penalty Option
General Meyer--
I think it is a very good rule. There should be a penalty for using a mix of units, and a reward for attacking with units all from the same brigade. I have not seen a situation where, say, I attacked with a mixed bag and failed, and it jumped out at me that it failed because of my sloppy deployment. Nor have I noted that I haver been rewarded for making a proper attack. Which leads me to think the rewards and penalties should be greater than they are. But all of these pluses and minuses seem to be very subtle, such as attacking a flank, or not fighting shoulder to shoulder. A combination of all the right measures should allow an attack to roll right through, even at attack at 1-1 odds.
LTC 2/20th A/C
It isn't obvious how much effect it is having unless you turn on the detail battle reports and look through the numbers. I like the idea though and usually try hard not to mix my regiments when the option is on. Since it is a morale modifier rather than a combat modifier (like 10% reduction in combat) it doesn't occur except when units are at the bottom of their grouping for morale (Morale of B or D) or when a morale check is called for. Probably would work better if it was both a morale and combat modifier.
The only type case where it might cause a balance problem in the game is in battles like Antietam where the Rebel units are so small you have to sometimes make large stacks for them to even be able to fight requiring multiple brigades to get enough strength.
A combination of all the right measures should allow an attack to roll right through, even at attack at 1-1 odds.
John, am I to assume that you qualify your last statement within the parameters of each side occupying equal ground?
And Kennon, I would certainly agree that the rule's application in actions such as Antietam might prove to be unfairly debilitating for the CSA player. Yet, of what are we actually speaking? Historical accounts of inadvertent mixing of infantry brigades for both sides almost always speak of the disruption and confusion that ensued. And it was apparently a common bane for each side, right on through to the final year of the war.
Would the automatic disruption of all units in a mixed stack be a more appropriate penalty?
You have to remember the scale and size of regiments. When regiments are less than 50 men strong having regiments from two different brigades in the same hex which is 120 yards wide doesn't mean they are really mixed. In those sizes they could be fully deployed in line with proper alignment. It just means one brigade is adjacent to the next. As opposed to two 300-400 man regiments in the same hex which implies one is behind the other. If these were from different brigades there would be intermingling which deserves a penalty.
The ideal rule would take into account stacking as well as organization. Antietam is just one of the few battles where a large number of the regiments on one side were little more than companies.
mihalik
The nice thing about optional rules is that they are optional. Just don't use it for Antietam if it skews the game.
The downside of optional rules is that it makes it impossible to balance a single scenario for every optional rule combination.
For the mixed organizational penalty, I think it has some historical validity, but I would think much more for the offense than the defense.
Yet as I write this, I am trying to think of situations in the war where mixing units from different brigades affected results, and am drawing a blank.
MG Mike Mihalik
Forrest's Cavalry Corps
AoWest/CSA
Probably you can't think of any because --for instance:
"Rodes--take a regiment from each brigade in Second Corps and attack those Yankees at Chancellorsville" just hardly ever happened.
Stonewall took the time to organize his three divisions in three successive waves for his assault on Howard. Not many of us would do the same.
(Beware the amateur--he is more dangerous than the professional.)
Disorganized, piecemeal attacks by rallied survivors of unsuccessful attacks almost always failed, because the god of War used the rule.
LTC 2/20th Corps
I think it is a good rule, but the implications are more from a defensive standpoint. What would make it an even BETTER arrangement, in addition to what exists, would be the following: Any attacking unit stacked with a unit from a different brigade suffers a -10% reduction in any offensive fire and a 1-level temporary drop in Morale prior to any Melee. This, of course, would require changes to the game engine, but it could be added as an optional rule.
MG Robert Frost
Army of Cumberland
Trooper Al
Allow me a late entry, please.
Seems to me if the mixed units each had its own officer and they were under command control little change would result in the function of said units. Being of the gray tilt of course I am prejudice towards mixed small units.
With Highest Regards;
Allan Hovey
Army of Tennessee, CSA


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Now employees can file PF withdrawal claims without employers' attestation
Claiming Provident Fund will become easier now as employees can now directly submit forms to their respective regional office without having to seek employer's signatures. Employees' Provident Fund Organisation has also come out with new forms – 19UAN, 10CUAN and 31UAN
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Aadhaar-seeded Universal Account Number (UAN) holders will, with immediate effect, no longer require employer attestation to make provident fund claims.
Employees whose details like Aadhaar Number and Bank Account Number have been seeded in their UAN and whose UAN have been activated, may submit claims in Form-19, Form-lOC and Form 31 directly to the Commissioner without attestation of their employers, in such form and manner as may be specified by the Central Provident Fund Commissioner for fast settlement of claims.
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No need to deposit in Cap Gain Scheme if house is purchased within time limit of sec. 54F
Whether exemption under Section 54F could be denied to assessee who had purchased a new residential house within 2 years from the date of transfer of original asset on ground that he had not deposited the amount in capital gain account scheme before the due date of filing of return under section 139(1)
The tribunal held in favour of assessee as under-
1. A combined reading of sections 54F(1) and 54F(4), makes it clear that the assessee would be entitled to exemption under section 54F in the event he purchases new asset within two years from the date of transfer of original asset or the amount is utilized before the date of furnishing the return under section 139. In a case it is not utilized for the purpose of aforesaid and within the period aforementioned, section 54F(4) mandates the assessee to deposit such amount in capital gain account scheme before due date of filing of return under section 139(1).
2. Therefore, there is no ambiguity in the provision; so far deposit of the unutilized amount is concerned, it has to be deposited in a specified capital gain account before the due date of filing of return under section 139(1).
3. In the instant case, the return was filed by assessee in response to a notice issued under Section 148 and not under section 139(1). Therefore, the contention of the assessee was that he should be allowed exemption under section 54F even if had not deposited the amount in capital account scheme.
4. The Karnataka High Court in the case of CIT v. K. Ramachandra Rao [2015] 56 taxmann.com 163 held that when the assessee had invested the entire sale consideration in construction of a residential house within the three years from the date of transfer, he could not be denied exemption under section 54F on the ground that he did not deposit the said amount in capital gain account scheme before the due date prescribed under section 139(1).
5. Under section 54F (1), the exemption would be available if the assessee purchased the residential house within two years after the date when transfer took place. Hence, as per judgment of Karnataka High Court, the provisions of section 54F(4) would not be attracted if assessee has purchased or constructed the residential house within period prescribed under section 54F(1).
6. In the instant case, there was no dispute with regard to the fact that the assessee had purchased a new asset within two years from the date of transfer of the original asset. Therefore, following the ratio laid down by the Karnataka High Court in the case of K. Ramachandra Rao (supra), the court directed Assessing Officer to re-compute the assessed income after granting the benefit of section 54F to the assessee- Ashok Kapasiawala v. ITO [2015] 63 taxmann.com 284 (Ahmedabad - Trib.)
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Bankers, under the auspices of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), have given their commitments to work with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in strengthening best practices in the Nigerian financial markets.
Banks represent more than 20 per cent of the market capitalisation of the NSE and they are the most active sector driving transactions at the stock market.
President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Dr. Segun Aina, yesterday during an official visit to the management of the NSE in Lagos, said the banking sector is closely linked with the stock market, thus the need for the bankers and the NSE to work together to provide proactive measures that would stimulate corporate governance and forestall malpractices.
According to him, the partnership would help to further deepen the relationship between the NSE, CIBN and the banking industry with the common objective of developing the economy of Nigeria and ensuring capital market growth.
He noted that the economic crisis and capital market recession witnessed in the recent past would not have happened if proactive steps were taken before then.
He pointed out that the CIBN has been making efforts to strengthen regulatory framework noting that it recently launched a new code of conduct for the banking industry which strengthens the requirement for the ethical standard.
He outlined that the objective of the code was to instill discipline in the banking profession noting that the provisions in the code govern the behaviours of both individual and corporate bodies in the banking industry.
According to him, the code applies to all strata and cadres of employee in the industry, including executive directors, managers, officers and supervisors, whether full-time or part-time while it alos enunciates the guidelines on the handling of reported cases, petitions and complaints.
"Crisis will always come but we have seen countries that were not affected by the last global financial crisis. We will come out with rule, regulation and requirement that will prepare the country for any upcoming global crisis," Aina said.
He cautioned bankers against involving in fraudulent practices warning that any member that engaged in malpractices would be made to face disciplinary procedures.
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Does Playing the Same Lottery Numbers Every Week Work?
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Does playing the same lottery numbers week after week work? Or do you need to change them every time to have a better chance of winning?
You might want to rethink how you choose numbers in the future when you read these success stories of people who have struck it lucky by playing the same lottery draw time and again.
Kevin Blake played the same Mega Millions lottery numbers at the same grocery store for as long as he can remember. But this year, on a Friday the 13th, something finally clicked. The numbers he picked were: 2, 7, 18, 26, 31, and a Mega Ball of 12.
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It had become a regular routine for Mr. Blake and for years he'd just simply put the same numbers on constantly, without really thinking about it anymore. On the night of Friday 13th October 2017, something changed. After the Mega Millions draw had been made that evening, Blake's wife Stephanie decided to check their numbers and it was then she made the discovery. For years, Kevin played those numbers; it had become second nature. In fact, he had gotten so used to the routine that, after he got his tickets, Kevin put them in his pocket and just went about his day.
Later that night, it was Kevin's wife, Stephanie, who ultimately made the discovery. "I was watching the news Saturday night after Kevin had gone to bed, and they ran a story about a Mega Millions jackpot winner being sold in Waterford," she said. "I thought, 'How neat that someone from our town won!'". On checking their tickets she discovered that it was them that had won – and not only that, the prize was a cool $21 million! The couple is still said to be stunned by their win and trying to take it all in – but ultimately very happy!
Over in Australia, a newly retired couple from the town of Rutherglen is celebrating after winning $15 million in Tuesday, October 3rd's Oz Lotto Draw. The wife of the unnamed couple said they were sure they had won but didn't want to celebrate until they had had it confirmed by an official source.
The couple – who have decided to remain anonymous have said they intentionally played the same numbers for years but said there was no real significance to any of them. "We play the same numbers every week, we chose them at random a long time ago, but we've just kept playing them," she said, adding: "They are definitely significant now!"
The retired twosome is planning to rest, relax and travel with some of their winnings, planning a long overseas trip and see as much of the world as they can. Who can blame them?
Our next story really is unbelievable. Imagine playing the same numbers every week, but then having them come up not once, but twice!
Way back in June 2002, electrician Mike McDermott played their regular numbers 15, 16, 18, 28, 36, and 49 and was ecstatic when five of them came up plus the bonus ball, scooping them a lovely £194,501. Even though they'd won, McDermott carried on playing with the same set – not really thinking they'd even win anything again. Fast forward 3 months to October of the same year and the National Lottery draw for the Saturday evening. On checking the family's numbers, it was discovered they'd yet again matched five balls plus the bonus. This time scooping £121,157!
The odds of the first win were 2,330,636 to one. But the second time, the odds became an unfathomable 5,400,000, 000,000 (that's trillion!) to one. The reason for this is that you are six times more likely to match five numbers and the bonus ball, than you are of getting the first six numbers correct because statistically there is one more chance, so the odds are fourteen million divided by six!
The couple, who have two grown-up children wanted to realize their dream of retiring to the dream island of Kerkenah in Tunisia. "Thinking of something that is as unlikely as this is almost impossible," said Professor Simon Cox, of the University of Southampton. "It is such an unlikely event that I can think of nothing else that is as unlikely – other than winning the lottery twice"
When Thomas Grimme, a resident of British Columbia took a real chance by playing the same numbers he's always used for lottery draws, not once, not twice, but forty times in a row on a single draw, he didn't expect it to pay off. And got the shock of his life when it did!
The win, which still defies logic happened in December last year and Grimme picked up $400,000 from a lottery game that usually only pays winners a maximum of $10,000. He bought forty tickets at the Cost Cutter Grocery store in his hometown of Blaine and picked the same four numbers on all of them. When the draw was made, his numbers came up and officials had to pay out the $400,000 prize!
A professor from Washington University's Math Department said: "I don't understand why you would do that," and that using the same numbers in the same draw repeatedly "doesn't really make much sense."
An investigation was carried out into the win with Grimme explaining that he'd simply picked the numbers (4, 8, 17, and 24) as they were his children's birthdays. He'd been playing them for several months after inheriting some money from a family member. It turned out that in the previous three months, he had spent well over $8,000 on Match 4 tickets with those four numbers, often buying many tickets for a single game.
The investigation found there was no suspicious or unusual activity associated with the draw or with the win and it was legitimate. When Grimme was contacted for comment, it was found that he had moved away from the area he was living in and had left no forwarding address.
That was a wise thing to do, and I am starting to do it from now on while playing the lottery.


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Capex spending to support Ghana's oil output, but headwinds remain – Fitch
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Inject $300m into TOR or privatize it- Alex Mould
SOURCE: citibusinessnews.com | Citi FM
Former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Alex Mould has stated that the Tema Oil Refinery(TOR) will need a capital injection of about $300 million to be able to operate efficiently.
The country's only refinery in recent times has not been able to operate at its maximum capacity due to production losses, frequent breakdowns, as well as mismanagement of the facility.
The development of the company has been a national discussion with some experts asking government to consider privatizing it.
In an interview with Citi Business News on the sidelines of the Ghana International Petroleum Conference, GhIPCON, Former Chief Executive of the GNPC, Alex Mould said government should either eject some funds into the company or sell it.
"So government would have to decide how it is going to raise the money. Either it is going to bring in a strategic investor or not. Or sell the refinery totally to an investor," he observed.
Developing TOR was one of the key issues discussed at the 2018 GhIPCON with some experts advising government to channel its attention to upgrading the facility into an international standard rather than building four new refineries as proposed for the Petroleum hub project.
Making some proposals, Mr. Mould suggested that one of the best option for government is to look for a private investor.
"Government would have to decide whether it wants to operate TOR in its current state as a hundred percent government owned entity or sell some of the company's share to a strategic investor to raise the funds needed to upgrade the company".
According to the former GNPC boss, privatizing the company will also address mismanagement of the facility, adding that $300 million can boost the company's production as well as maintain its plants.
Meanwhile government is seeking to woo private investors for its $50 billion Petroleum Hub projects.
It has given indication that the project will be driven by the private sector.
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