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He is resigning from the post of a high official! Czech football player Pavel Nedvěd (50) is known in Turin as a Juventus player, where he worked for eight years. After the end of his career, he was lured into management and recently worked as the vice president of the black and white club.
However, that is now in the past and he resigned from his position. This happened after the management of the club, together with Pavlo, became the target of an investigation for falsifying accounting. Darin's beloved is out of work, but according to the singer, they are definitely not afraid of anything and they want to finish their plans with a villa by the lake in Italy.
Nedvěd worked in Juventus Turin in the years 2001 – 2009. Then he moved from the field to "behind the scenes" and spent the last years basking in the position of vice president of the club. A few months ago, its management was wanted by the police, which prosecuted him for fraud related to the falsification of accounting when the officials were supposed to pay themselves high commissions. Despite the fact that they were acquitted in April of this year, they have been targeted again since October. After club president Andrea Agnelli said goodbye to Turin, he was followed by Nedvěd himself and executive director Maurizio Arrivabene.
Plans don't change
Dara stands by her chosen one in all circumstances. "From the point of view of his partner, I can only conclude that it is not a surprising or unexpected decision. When a boss steps down, his army naturally follows him. It's a sign of loyalty. And, as they say, when something ends, something else begins, or everything bad is good for something. It's not a tragedy, just a natural development of things," she told Nové Čas.
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The Olofin of the source, Isheri Olofin in Ogun state, HRM Oba Nurudueen Adekanmbi today clocked 15 years on the throne of his ancestors.
Oba Adekanmbi, who became the 19th Olofin of Isheri, ascended the throne in 2014 and today makes it exactly 15 years since his ascension.
been shifted till later in the year in order to accommodate the birthday of the revered monarch in the coronation anniversary.


Sat on an outside table of a Lower East Side restaurant, Jack, Alex, Sean, and Dom from Colouring seem well acquainted with the city and area just hours before their first headline show in New York City, which they'll play while on the final stretch of an almost two month-long tour supporting The 1975.
Though their success and positive reception seems to come as a surprise to them, it definitely does not surprise anyone who has heard Colouring's music. Having released their debut EP Symmetry back in December (Interscope Records), Colouring sound like the future and the present at the same time, conveying the elusive feeling of youth on every track and effortlessly floating through genres to create a refreshing, impressive, and genuine portfolio. Their fearlessness in tackling such a wide spectrum of genres is a perfect demonstration of the band's confidence, talent, and skill, and their live show is electric and passionate. Listening to Colouring is like playing the best game of chance – you never know what you will get, but somehow they never fail to deliver and impress.
Atwood Magazine sat down to talk to Colouring about their journey so far, music, and future plans for this exciting new band. Check out what they had to say below and prepare to fall in love with a new hue: Colouring blue.
Atwood Magazine: You were all in a band together before Colouring. What prompted the name and image change?
Jack: We were in this band OSCA making things and it was really fun, we were really enjoying it but I think we started feeling… The music we were doing just felt quite different. With OSCA we felt like we got a little stuck in one kind of style and one area, and we always felt like this was kind of not really who we were, we listen to so much stuff and, you know, everyone changes their music tastes from one day to the next – particularly when you do it as your job. So we just felt like, why not start again and build this thing that doesn't have those boundaries and restrictions with genre or music or instruments and stuff. I think with Colouring it was just this idea, the name particularly, of freedom and expression and no kind of limits, exploring, and things like that. We now feel like we're in a place where we don't feel very restricted, we can do what we want and hopefully make it work within this band.
Your songs range from electronic and dance to emotional, piano-driven ballads. I can't seem to find a genre for you - where on the music or genre spectrum do you think Colouring stands?
Jack: Going back to doing lots of things, we we've always been inspired my mixtapes and things like that as kids and stuff. My brothers would make me tapes of Jimi Hendrix and then it would have jazz on it, and Michael Jackson, and I know the guys are the same. Many people have said it before, but there's not really the restrictions, you don't have the mods or the emos anymore, it's this kind of playlist world where everyone listens from Beyoncé to Mozart. And we feel like why not have an electronic, dance tune right next to a folk song or a piano ballad? Cause it's all just music at the end of the day, and if it's good, it's good and if it's not, it's not.
As we've talked about, your songs are very different to one another. What do you think is Colouring's trademark, what makes these starkly different songs identifiable as a Colouring song?
Sean: I think what drives a lot of our songs are Jack's vocals and his storytelling. I'm speaking for Jack here, but he's very effective in putting across emotions and stories and that's what translates across all our songs, whether it's the electronic ones or the ballads as well.
Jack: We just love music with soul to it. And I don't mean just kind of Motown soul, just a soul of some sort. I think there's various kinds of soul music, I would say, whether it's electronic soul or folk soul. I think that's the goal – as long as it has some soul, or some sort of heart to it, then that's where we should live otherwise it won't feel right.
What about 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' made you want to cover it?
'Everything Has Grown' was the first song of yours I heard, and it really touched me. Could you tell me a bit more what the song is about?
Jack: It was kind of a song that I'd wanted to write for a long time, it's about a moment in my life which was a defining moment like growing up and looking back on my childhood, relationships with people and things like that. I think we all feel like it's the best thing we've done yet, it's the most complete song and message. I think it's the one we're the most proud of deep down – we like all the other stuff but this is the song that in 10 years time we'll still feel like "Oh, we can play this song", it won't lose it's charm, it'll always have a place in the band.
Your EP title song, Symmetry, seems to me to be an anthem to the band, your rebirth, and the journey you're now on. Is this what you wanted the song to convey?
Jack: Yeah. That was the first song that came about, it was the one that defined the first EP, really, we knew that this was going to be the title and had the elements of the other songs on it. It was written at a time where we were sort of starting this new thing, we were very excited, we'd just signed with a record label in America, it was a very exciting time. We didn't think "Oh, this is what we need to go out and write", it just unconsciously was a celebration of a time where we were feeling kind of weightless and free and excited about what's to come, everything was falling into place. This doesn't always happen, so when it does, I'm glad we captured that and put it out.
'Heathen' is a song that is different to everything we've heard from you before. I love the strings in the song, it's very different from anything we'd heard from you. What about the song made you want to arrange it in this way?
Alex: We'd wanted strings for a long time, hadn't we? It was always something we wanted to do but wanted to go about it in the right way. We had some strings players that we knew and we got them over to your (Jack's) home studio. It's just such a beautiful way to convey emotion in a song.
Jack: In all the music we always try to combine "real" sounds – I don't know what that really means, sounds that are more familiar to people and us – with maybe more electronic things, create our own tones and textures and songs. The song really started with that string arrangement, before anything, and we kind of felt like we've never done that before, can we get away with that? It just felt right to follow it through and it makes the song breathe. We were really proud. Credits to the string players on that, it's just really beautiful.
Alex: Jack said over the first edit, that afternoon when they recorded, we were all just like "Woah, we were not expecting it to sound like this" and got really excited from that point, like we couldn't wait to hear what it was going to become, it was just amazing.
Could you tell me a bit about the music video for "Heathen"?
Alex: We just had this amazing director, Shaun. We were going to do a video for a different song, and that just changed overnight. He sent over the treatment for the "Heathen" video and we were like "That's really cool, we'll go with that" and he just brought on this amazing artistic vision with the dancer and how we're all just motionless around. It's all him, really, he brought something that complemented the song so nicely and wasn't distracting from Jack's singing.
Sean: He had so much belief in that narrative that he just saw instantly. Watching him work was incredible because he had this vision so strongly in his mind, and obviously it's quite hard to put that across to people. So seeing the finished product after an amazing day of filming was really beautiful, and we're so proud to have worked with him.
'The Wave' is very similar to 'Heathen' - it also has strings and the both artworks follow the same pattern. Are these songs related in any way?
Jack: I mean, they were written in a similar time. They're all part of the second EP, and we have two more songs coming for it. The first EP, it wasn't DIY, but we were doing a lot of it in our bedroom, electronic, and just really exploring and trying to work out what we wanted to do with this new thing. With the second one we didn't want to regurgitate the same sonic textures and stuff, so we felt let's use string players, we have a song with a choir on it, and more kind of live recordings in a lot of places. So this one it was kind of recorded in a similar recording session so it has a feel, we got to work with an amazing producer called Mikko Gordon who really brought the songs to life, and another guy Luca Buccellatti who we worked with on the first EP as well, and both of them helped put their stamp on it. We just wanted to give it a little more depth in the recordings, and those guys definitely brought it to us.
You released your first EP, Symmetry, just at the end of last year. What's phase two on Colouring's journey?
Jack: We have two more songs on this second EP that we're really excited about. The next one is a bit… I don't think we've done anything like that. We're kind of going down a bit more of an electronic route with the next one as we've put two songs which are quite sort of organic-sounding out. The next one is a bit rougher. We actually go to work with George from The 1975 and he helped us with this next song. I think it was the first thing we ever did for Colouring and it's taken two years to finish. I was just at loose ends, didn't know what to do with it, we were playing it live but it never felt right. He just said "Any time you want anything, just send it to me" and he sent it back in an hour going "I'm really sorry mate, I've only been able to spend an hour on it but I put some drums down and some bass and stuff" and I was just laughing because it sounded so cool. So I just chopped it all up and put it in the right places and sent it back and he was like "This is great." He really is the guy who finished it for us, so we're really grateful. And we're also hoping to tour in the fall out here again, we're just working out what to do but that'll definitely be the next thing, and some festivals over the summer. Exciting!
All your artwork show fragments of something - a remote control, a hand, a plant, a mouth, an eye. Are we, in a way, seeing little fragments of who Colouring is so we can eventually piece them together and see the bigger picture?
Why did you choose the colour blue to represent the band on the artwork?
Jack: It felt so natural.
Sean: It's really hard to explain, but I think we've all just always felt that especially what we're doing at the moment is the colour blue.
Dom: It did come from Grace as well, when we did one of our first ever photoshoots with Grace, she'd been going around the country all the time and she just noticed that blue colour everywhere. She said it felt just like a very British kind of thing, and we are a British band over in America so it feels like it makes sense to have that blue colour.
Jack: We first thought it would just be for the first EP and then we would change it, but we also like the contrast of being called colouring and just being one colour, we like that irony. It just kind of stuck and we started wearing it on our clothes and instruments and people recognize it now, so it's quite nice.
Your songs have the power to equally make people laugh, dance, and cry. What's the message you want to send with your music?
Jack: It sounds kind of cheesy but our lives are all about connecting with humans and fellow men. If we can achieve that in any way musically or performing or anything like that, that's the goal for us. We like that moment – on this tour it's been amazing, you catch someone's eye and they look at you and you have a moment and then you go on to the next person and they're singing – that electricity between other people is what makes us really excited about playing and making music. Obviously it's really important to us and it makes us feel alive when we get to do that, it gives us purpose. Realistically, if we can have a connection with other people, if we can have these moments, that's what we ultimately would love to do.


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Theoretical analysis of quantum random walks with stress-engineered optics
Kevin Liang, University of Rochester Institute of Optics
Ashan Ariyawansa, University of Rochester Institute of Optics
Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, Louisiana State University
Thomas G. Brown, University of Rochester Institute of Optics
Quantum random walks (QRWs) are random processes in which the resulting probability density of the "walker" state, whose movement is governed by a "coin" state, is described in a nonclassical manner. Previously, Q-plates have been used to demonstrate QRWs with polarization and orbital angular momentum playing the roles of coin and walker states, respectively. In this theoretical analysis, we show how stress-engineered optics can be used to develop new platforms for complex QRWs through relatively simple optical elements. Our work opens up new paths to speed up classical-to-quantum transitions in robust photonic networks.
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
Liang, K., Ariyawansa, A., Magaña-Loaiza, O., & Brown, T. (2020). Theoretical analysis of quantum random walks with stress-engineered optics. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision, 37 (1), 135-141. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.37.000135

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There is a belief by the people of Mexico that you die three times. The first is when your heart stops beating. The second is when you can no longer be seen – the point where you're buried or cremated. The third, and perhaps this is the saddest, is when there is no one left alive who can remember you or your story.
It's for this reason that one of the biggest holidays of the year in Mexico is Día de Muertos, better known in English as the Day of the Dead. It is held each year between October 31 and November 2 and is a celebration of friends and family members who have passed away. Many set up altars in their homes with are adorned with photos of the deceased as well as food, flowers and candles which serve as an offering.
Coco is centred on this Mexican tradition and writer-director Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3) admitted to being nervous given he is not of Mexican or Latino descent. It's why he engaged a wide range of consultants to make sure it is culturally accurate and epitomises everything that the iconic holiday stands for.
The protagonist is Miguel (Gonzalez) – a 12-year-old loves music and yearns to be a great guitar player. Unfortunately, his family have a much narrower view of the world. All forms of music are banned in the household because of silly grudge that's been passed down from generation to generation. Rather than follow his dreams, it's strongly expected that Miguel will follow his parents' footsteps and become a shoemaker. It's the last thing he wants.
Miguel runs away from home and in the process, is magically transported into the Land of the Dead. It may sound morbid but it's a sophisticated, fun place where the deceased (who take the form of skeletons) live similar lives as they did previously. There's a catch though. Once the last person who remembers you passes away in the Land of the Living, you disappear from the Land of the Dead and are never seen again.
Miguel's brief foray into the afterlife puts him on a journey to locate and meet Ernesto de la Cruz (Bratt), a very famous musician who he believes is his great-great grandfather. He is guided by Héctor (Bernal), a not-so-well known skeleton who knows that he's almost been forgotten on Earth and that his days are numbered. In return for his help, Miguel agrees to place a photo of Héctor on an altar when he returns back home to ensure his memory remains.
As we've seen with films such as Inside Out, Up, WALL-E and Toy Story, the brilliant writers at Pixar Animation Studios keep coming up with fresh, wonderful original stories. They don't follow the mould of other animated features and they don't flog the same themes again and again. This is a beautifully touching tale that has a lot of say about celebrating the past and why me must remember those who have come before us. It's a creative family film with a strong emotional core.
Unkrich and his animation team also deserve praise for the way they have brought the Land of the Dead to "life". This is the first time we've seen walking, talking skeletons in a Pixar film and they look really cool (as opposed to creepy). They make such a distinctive sound as they move around their bones bump up against each other. The backgrounds are bright, colourful and there's a great film score from Michael Giacchino (Up) that tugs on the heartstrings when the time is right.
I was struggling to pick my favourite animated feature of 2017 but with Coco sneaking into Australian cinemas just before the end of the year, the choice has become simple.


Sorry for late response. I will try it, but Monday, after all the feast past.
Did you already found some time to look at my version?
So I made time to finish the table. Why would you want to combine the size function with the position function? I want to say that updateWidgetPosition() is pretty frequently called and would be useless, only if somehow check if the size changed. What I need to resolve? I will also add comments in order to explain what I do.
The updateWidgetPosition will only be called when widgets are changed, which isn't that frequent. I only care about performance when something is called almost every frame, but this function is only called a lot while creating the table (while adding the rows). The setPosition and setSize functions of widgets will become very light operations in the near future so the function won't be that heavy.
The Table class on my bitbucket looks finished at first sight. So you don't really have to resolve anything unless you find things that are still missing. It juststill has to be extensively tested.


Japan's broadcasters have been refusing to advertise Panasonic Corp.'s new TV sets because the new product line, Panasonic's Smart Viera series, displays websites and online video clips at the same time as TV programs.
The TV networks are demanding Panasonic change the way the online information is shown on the TV.
Do you think Panasonic will listen?
People want more online content in their living rooms and companies are doing all they can to control the space. Microsoft has been trying to do it for over a decade with their media center and now the newest version of x-box, which tries to be an all-in-one entertainment behemoth.


Cowgirl Up has great styles for every cowgirl! Show off your cowgirl style while you're out working or on the road in this Rhinestone Horseshoe Ball Cap. With adjustable Velcro back and stylish rhinestone detailing, this hat is both functional for outdoor fun and full of style!


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Four Guatemalan nationals charged in alien smuggling event at Vermont border
Briana Bocelli / September 25, 2018
Four Guatemalan nationals were apprehended and charged with illegal alien smuggling near the Newport area, according to the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont.
Carlos Jose Cordova-Sanabria, Lester Ariel Morales-Moran, Elmer Estuardo Juarez-Franco and Daniel Garcia-Cruz appeared in federal court in Burlington on Sept. 14 and pleaded not guilty to federal charges.
The court, under U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy, ordered Cordova-Sanabria, Morales-Moran and Juarez-Franco be detained pending trial, while Garcia-Cruz appeared in a detention hearing that took place on Sept. 19.
Federal agents have to police the Vermont-Canadian border without help from Vermont due to sanctuary-style immigration enforcement policies signed into law by Gov. Phil Scott in March 2017.
The criminal complaint stated that on the morning of Sept. 13, U.S. Border Patrol agents were notified of possible suspicious illegal activity taking place to the east of the Beebe Plain border in Newport.
Upon further investigation, U.S. Border Patrol agents observed individuals traveling through a wooded part of the area and later witnessed a vehicle arrive near the same location. At that time, the three individuals entered the suspicious vehicle and soon after were stopped by the agents.
The driver, identified as Garcia-Cruz, as well as the three passengers, Cordova-Sanabria, Morales-Moran and Juarez-Franco, were confirmed to be illegal aliens without any proof of documentation.
United States Attorney Christina Nolan praised the efforts of law enforcement on both sides of the northern border to address international human smuggling.
"I commend our partners in the U.S. Border Patrol for their outstanding work in stemming the flow of smuggled individuals into Vermont," Nolan said. "Preserving the integrity of the border will continue to be a top priority for the U.S. Attorney's Office, and we will continue working with our partners at all levels of law enforcement in Vermont and Canada to dismantle criminal organizations that operate across our border."
The U.S. Attorney emphasizes that the charges against the four Guatemalan citizens are merely accusations and all parties are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Kraig LaPorte, law enforcement coordinator for the District of Vermont U.S. Attorney's Office, said each individual will be charged criminally, but it's the court's final decision whether they will serve time or not.
"The deportation process is a civil process," he said. "The U.S. Attorney's Office is only involved in the criminal process."
LaPorte said the three individuals who were picked up near the border will only be charged with misdemeanors, while the man who picked them up, Garcia-Cruz, will face felony charges.
"I can not speak to the consequences specifically," LaPorte said. "There are a lot of factors that are considered by the court, such as first time offenders, criminal history, etc."
Recently, Vermont has been resisting federal immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump and his administration.
At the start of 2017, Gov. Phil Scott said Vermont would not go along with an executive order signed by Trump that calls on state and local law enforcement to aid in immigration enforcement. In an interview with Vermont Public Radio, Scott called the executive orders "overreach" and said they extend beyond just a public safety concern.
"We all have a great fear of terrorists … entering our country," Scott told VPR, "but I think this is the wrong way to go about it."
In July, Vermont Technical College received criticism for its contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following national protests over Trump's "zero tolerance" policy.
The school has received nearly $50,000 from the agency for training courses for ICE employees, and their relationship has sparked a petition from the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a student from within the Vermont State Colleges system.
The Department of Homeland Security contracted Vermont Technical College for leadership training for ICE supervisors and non-supervisors over a five-week period, resulting in a sum of $46,940 to the school from the agency.
"Many Vermonters don't want their local institutions involved with ICE and Border Patrol, for good reason," ACLU-VT executive director James Lyall said in a statement.
But school officials disagree, saying the services provided to the agency fall in line with VTC's goal to stimulate workforce development in Vermont.
Briana Bocelli is a freelance reporter for True North Reports.
Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Bill Morrow and U.S Department of Homeland Security
September 25, 2018 in TNR News. Tags: Immigration, Sanctuary Policies
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Gerald Moriarty says:
Our dairy/ farming system depends on these illegals for labor.Vermont has a $10/hr. minimum wage.These people get paid $5/hr. at the several farms my family owns in the area.The cost of equipment is already astronomical,now you want to make labor the same.If we had to pay our labor minimum wage and overtime after 40 hrs. we'd be out of business.
Raoul P says:
You can't be doing too bad if your family owns several farms. I know that it is tough for farmers right now due to low milk prices but do you have to hire illegals. You should be able to get the same help through work visa's. Just because you want to hire cheap labor doesn't mean that the rest of us should pay their way with the free benefits..
We need to stop being so nice to these people that are crossing our borders illegally. If they get caught and are illegal, they should immediately be sent back to their home country. We shouldn't have to pay to house them, feed them, give them a hearing or provide medical services on our dime. There has to be a deterrent that they will pay attention too. This crap has to stop, period.
They are illegal opportunists trying to get a free ride in the US.
Put them on a plane back to Guatemala.
Don't waste a penny housing them in a US jail.


There are 4 reviews of Iris.
To my nose this one comes off as a bit of a fruit salad, to be honest. The fruit notes are listed as blackcurrant & bergamot, but l get a distinct impression of tinned pears here. ln the beginning there's also something like rubber or vinyl running through it. The iris doesn't make an appearance until around thirty minutes in, & even then it plays second fiddle to the fruity notes, which dominate right to the end. There's a touch of sandalwood along the way, but, like the iris, it doesn't stick around for long. The projection is low, & seven hours in it's fading fast.
As far as a good, rooty iris goes, this one does just doesn't deliver for me. ln fact, l'd say it's an iris for people who don't particularly like iris.
I got to know this Iris at the recent Excense expo in Milan. I always liked C and E packaging as it reminds me of old British drowings and pictures. Nice watercolors for the new (just a little modernized but still beautifully traditional) collection. I liked that in this composition the iris note is not associated with talk notes, as in too many others iris-based parfumes. Sharp and green I appreciated this scent. But even if I used it in combination with the body lotion it didn't last. Too shy for my taste. Otherwise a good product.
This is a beautiful scent. I was doing holiday shopping and fell in love at first sniff at the C&E store at a mall, but walked away--then bought it at another C&E store at an outlet mall the same day. :) It's soft and almost dusty, both rooty and a dash floral, but not sweet or green. Ethereal, sensual, but aloof. It doesn't have power-sillage, but it lasts several hours near the skin and on my clothes. The price point is excellent too. One of my favorites.
CRABTREE & EVELYN IRIS EAU DE TOILETTE 1 oz / 30 ml Spray DISCONTINUED!


If you sing, or play this forum is for you to sit back and chat with others who share your interests. Maybe even convert some others to pick up an instrument or open their mouths.
Here's a new guitar I added to the arsenal over the weekend. Bluesman Vintage is a boutique builder in TN. They specialize in building faithful reproductions of vintage instruments. This particular guitar is based of the Gibson Les Paul Jr from the 50's.
I've been horsing around with this guitar Saturday night and most of the day Sunday. It plays a bit differently than my Fenders, as the scale is shorter and the neck just a bit wider. Still, nice action, and the hand-wound pickup really barks.
Still got this baby. It battles the Gibson for #1 slot. Since we've been doing a lot of Rolling Stones songs lately I keep a guitar in open G tuning, so every gig I get to play both.
Fun fact: This guitar was originally built for Derek St. Holmes, who played in Ted Nugent's band in the early 70s. He came to pick it up and the color was not quite what he wanted, so he left it and grabbed another guitar off the wall. To this date it remains the only single cut, single pickup Nomad that Bluesman Vintage has built.


Stag Do's are now a big milestone in the road to getting married. With so many different activities available for stag do's it can be difficult to find the right one for your party. We have picked our top 5 alternative stag do experiences for those looking to do something a bit different but still have a truly memorable time.
If your looking for a Bear Grillsesque stag do experience then a day of gorge scrambling is for you. The activities that you do depend on the company that take you out but expect waterfall jumping and climbing, rock climbing, boulder hopping, cave exploring and raging rapids. It is a physically demanding day out so ensure that all the lads are up for the challenge before you book, but once you are out in the wilderness it's amazing fun and a great team building and bonding activity.
Derived from snowboarding, this off-road activity will see you riding down dirt tracks and grassy hills strapped to a plank of wood on wheels. With popularity growing, mountain boarding centres are springing up all over the place and although it takes a bit of getting used to, once you have the hang it gets very addictive. A great stag do experience if you are looking at trying something new and are keen to see your friends falling left right and centre!
Underground Zip lining courses are a great activity, and have the added benefit of being inside so it can be done whatever the weather. Usually held in caverns and caves these courses have an underground maze that you must make your way though with zip lines, rope bridges, tunnels and obstacles. The darkness of the caverns give the experience an eerie feel and gets your heart racing as you traverse the course.
Goggle football is essentially a game of football but all players must wear goggles whilst on the pitch. A new activity that has been gaining popularity amongst stag do and team building experiences, the goggles disorientate the players which can often result in some hilarious football. Take a look at the video to see what we mean!
This year saw the first cave trampolining centre open in Wales, the centre is made up of a number of giant trampolines suspended underground covered in nettling. Imagine a giant underground bouncy castle for adults, if you are after a completely new experience then this place is worth checking out. This centre has gained a tremendous amount of popularity and we are sure to see more opening now that the first one has been a success.
If you are in charge of a stag do and liked the look of any of these amazing activities, or if you are planning something completely different then head over to Shareagift and create a stag do collection page today to ensure that everyone gets their money in on time. Shareagift provides you with an easy to use platform to collect money online for anything from stag do collections to wedding gift list pages, honeymoon funds and charitable collections. If you are involved in wedding planning then head over to our website and see how we can make your life a whole lot easier.
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Wal-Mart has relentlessly pursued the Every Day Low Price (EDLP) focal point in its quest to become the world's largest retailer.9 Process digitization based on the cornerstone EDLP focal point is a core part of its strategy.
Wal-Mart—A Brief History
Wal-Mart was born in 1945 when Sam Walton opened a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas. In 1946, his brother, James Walton, opened a similar store in Versailles, Missouri. In 1962, the first Wal-Mart Discount City, a no-frills discount store, opened its doors. In 1984, Wal-Mart created the first three SAM'S CLUBs, and in 1988, the first Wal-Mart Supercenter, a format that combines a supermarket with a general merchandise discount store, was unveiled.
Due to its aggressive acquisition strategy, customers from many countries can now appreciate the benefits of Wal-Mart's relentless focus on ELDP. In 1992, Wal-Mart went global with a joint venture (50 percent interest) in Mexico with Cifra. Since 1992, Wal-Mart's international presence has continued to thrive.10
In 1996, Wal-Mart entered China with a Supercenter and a SAM'S CLUB in Shenzhen. By 2003, Wal-Mart had opened 20 units and employed more than 10,000 associates.
To enter Germany, Wal-Mart bought the 21-store Wertkauf hypermarket chain in 1997. In 1999, Wal-Mart bought 74 Interspar hypermarkets from Spar Handels AG, a unit of the French retailing conglomerate Intermarche.
In 2000, Wal-Mart purchased ASDA Group PLC, the third-largest retailer in the United Kingdom (229 U.K. stores) for $11 billion.
In 2002, Wal-Mart bought 6.1 percent of The Seiyu Ltd., a Japanese chain, for $46 million.
The company has changed considerably and now forms almost 2 percent of the U.S. economy. Each week over 100 million customers, tempted by rock-bottom prices, traipse through the stores where they can buy diverse products and services, do their banking, get their eyes checked, or have the oil changed in their car—truly a one-stop shopping experience.
Wal-Mart's Blueprint for Digitization
Wal-Mart's blueprint for process digitization is illustrated in Figure 1.4. This blueprint captures four different layers:
Figure 1.4: Blueprint for Wal-Mart's Digitization
Customer—the Every Day Low Price strategy for creating sustainable value and differentiation from the customer's perspective.
Business Services—the strategic priorities for various business processes, which enable low cost leadership, differentiation, and execution focus. They include expertise in store management, logistics, and supply chain management. Sales are primarily on a self-service, cash-and-carry basis, with the objective of maximizing sales volume and inventory turnover while minimizing expenses.
Enterprise Application Infrastructure—the layer that helps digitize and integrate business processes tasks into streamlined information flows.
Technology Infrastructure—the foundation that supports the various applications across diversified store formats and geographic locations.
Of these, the customer's perspective is the most important. The ability to offer value and service continuously to customers largely determines Wal-Mart's top position within the retail industry. Wal-Mart employs many programs designed to meet the competitive pressures within the industry. These include Every Day Low Price, Low Price—Always, Item Merchandising, Store-Within-a-Store, Price Rollbacks, and Store of the Community.
Wal-Mart has core competencies and size advantages that allow it to fulfill the promise of Every Day Low Price. They include expertise in store management, logistics, and information technology. Let's look at each in detail.
Wal-Mart Differentiator—Effective Localized Store Management
Wal-Mart discount stores are mammoth. Many Supercenters, the larger cousins of the discount stores, have 500 associates and more than $100 million in annual sales, almost the size of a midsize business. A wide range of merchandise is sold and is grouped under 40 different departments.
Although Wal-Mart stores are ubiquitous, each one is different. Every Wal-Mart store is tailored for its community, which is no easy task. To keep customer-service levels high and sales increasing, Wal-Mart encourages associates to think creatively about how they merchandise and stock products.
One way that associates hone their merchant skills is through the VPI (Volume Producing Item) contest. VPI provides a store-level opportunity for associates to showcase their ability to promote items they think can be top sellers. Associates choose the VPI item, order it, design an eye-catching display, conduct promotional activities, and track and report sales progress. The goal of VPI: finding creative ways to turn products with potential into big sellers.11
Given the size of Wal-Mart, decentralized store management is extremely important. The managers who are closest to the action know what is important in their locale.
Wal-Mart Differentiator—Logistics Management
The processes for which Wal-Mart has set the best-practices standard are distribution and supply chain management (see Figure 1.5).
Figure 1.5: Wal-Mart's Process Expertise
The company's distribution network spans the globe. A total of 84 percent of Wal-Mart Discount Stores' and Supercenters' purchased merchandise was shipped from Wal-Mart's 72 distribution centers. Of these, 32 are general merchandise distribution centers, 20 are grocery distribution centers, eight are clothing distribution centers, and nine are specialty distribution centers. The specialty distribution centers ship items such as jewelry, tires, and optical supplies. The balance of merchandise purchased is shipped directly to the stores from suppliers.12
A key part of supply chain management is "global sourcing." Over the last few years, Wal-Mart has improved the quality of its goods—as well as its supply logistics and retail prices—by acquiring certain products for all of its stores around the world from a single source. To support global sourcing, Wal-Mart operates three import distribution centers in the United States and a total of 35 international distribution facilities.
Wal-Mart also controls logistics costs by having its own private fleet of trucks. This enables customized, cost-efficient delivery to stores, accommodation for peak seasonal periods, night deliveries, and accelerated delivery.
Wal-Mart Differentiator—Information Technology Execution
Using technology to simplify processes, eliminate waste, and analyze and react to more meaningful information has been the execution focus of Wal-Mart. Thus far, technology has aided in Wal-Mart reducing its operating and SG&A expenses as a percentage of sales to less than 15 percent.
Technology is the catalyst that enabled Wal-Mart to wring efficiencies out of processes that are unmatched by leading companies in other industries. Take, for instance, the replenishment problem. At any given moment, a typical Wal-Mart Discount Store has more than 70,000 standard items in stock. Every one of them has to be identified, ordered, inventoried, and replenished. A typical Supercenter is even tougher to stock since it carries more than 20,000 additional grocery items, many perishable. These have to be reordered frequently, sometimes even daily.
How does technology enable this? Since 1996, Wal-Mart has been using handheld computers linked to in-store servers by a radio-frequency network. It's a high-tech conduit to an internal inventory system. These handhelds help keep track of real-time information for the inventory on hand, deliveries, and back-up merchandise in stock at distribution centers. Mobile computing has enabled Wal-Mart to have higher quality sales and inventory information. As a result, suggested ordering quantities on many items are available to associates in real time to assist them in the task of keeping stores replenished and items in stock.
Across all of its formats, Wal-Mart is one of the most effective users of technology. Some other impressive technological feats include:
In the 1980s, using satellite communications to link stores to headquarters for Just-In-Time inventory management (the first major retailer to do so).
In the early 1990s, building the Retail Link system, which provides sales data—by item, store, and day—to vendor partners. This information saves suppliers time and expense in planning their production and distribution, which translates to lower merchandise costs.
In the mid-1990s, utilizing an item locator system that allows associates to scan an item and electronically check on its availability in other area stores.
In the late 1990s, creating the New Retail Link Private Hub, which allows more than 10,000 Wal-Mart suppliers to log into a Web portal, peruse databases, and find out which store sold how much of its products. With a latency of a mere six hours from transaction to analysis, Wal-Mart is using the Web to provide real-time information not only to stores and corporate managers, but to vendors as well.
The value of technology shows up in a crisis. An article in the Wall Street Journal on September 18, 2001, described how Wal-Mart used its Data Warehouse (built on NCR's Teradata technology) to understand its customers' changing buying patterns the week after the World Trade Center attacks. On the morning of the attacks, stores were desolate. By that Tuesday evening, customers stockpiled guns, ammunition, bottled water, and gasoline containers. On Wednesday, sales of flags shot up, causing a shortage and triggering orders to restock the flag inventory. By Friday, the number of customers in the stores returned to normal, but the average number of purchases declined. Based on predictive analysis, some stores were able to foresee a sharp increase in sales by the fifth day. As a result, they increased staffing by 20 percent for the weekend and stocked up on items that customers normally buy. This paid off as sales increased by 25 percent that weekend compared with the same weekend a year earlier.
Data-driven merchandising means that Wal-Mart shelves are hardly ever empty. The financial result: some of the highest sales per square foot of floor space in the retail world.
Other retailers, such as Lowe's (a home improvement store for the do-it-yourself consumer) are copying Wal-Mart's model. LowesLink gives vendors secure access to daily sales data—down to the SKU level—on the products they supply. The system also allows vendors to add item information to the database. Ultimately, Lowe's wants its vendors to control inventory levels in individual stores based on what's selling. Long-range purchasing forecasts (90 days to six months) will be e-mailed to vendors who can use the data to improve fill rates, lead times, and production efficiency.
So, if Lowe's could copy Wal-Mart's Retail Link, why couldn't Kmart?
Wal-Mart versus Kmart—A Blueprint Comparison
For more than three decades, Wal-Mart has demonstrated the willingness to embrace technology both in-house and with its suppliers. Competitors did not follow until it was too late.
Let's contrast Wal-Mart to Kmart. Kmart sprang from a pair of five-and-ten-cent stores, called Kresge's, in Memphis and Detroit, established in 1897 by Sebastian Kresge, a traveling hardware salesman. In 1962, Kresge's entered the large-scale discount retail market with the construction of the first Kmart outside Detroit. With success, the company expanded aggressively and began selling home improvement supplies, office supplies, and sporting goods.
When Charles C. Conaway became Kmart's CEO in May 2000, he announced a massive $1.4 billion investment in technology in an attempt to make up for past neglect. The subsequent supply chain troubles were well documented. Lack of supply chain integration resulted in expensive advertising snafus where consumers could not buy the advertised specials because they were not on store shelves. Kmart could not effectively fix the supply chain problems, and it took a $195 million write-off in 2000.13 Why the mismatch between effort and result?
In the long run, every business at its core is an information business. Wal-Mart embraced this trend in the late 1970s, while Kmart tried half-heartedly. The difference between Wal-Mart and Kmart was technology savvy and a pragmatic supply chain blueprint that took years to polish. In 1997, Wal-Mart had an annual technology and communication budget of $500 million and an information systems staff of 1,200. Kmart, on the other hand, had four CIOs in four years—no stability, no consistent strategy.
The Kmart example illustrates the challenges of execution. Blueprints— focal point, processes, applications, and technology—need to evolve in tandem with the corporate vision. Modern business is a study in perpetual motion—expansion, cost-cutting, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, turnarounds, and bankruptcy. Organizations are in a constant state of flux as they reshape themselves to meet the demands of investors and customers. The companies that are built to last are those that change on all fronts: customer, data, and process.


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Advocates await US Supreme Court arguments in abortion cases
The nation's highest court is considering cases that challenge laws in Mississippi and Texas that broadly prohibit abortion, and both supporters and opponents of access to the procedure anticipate their potential impacts on the Roe v. Wade decision.
By Kim Leadholm | Here & Now
Transcript coming soon.
On Dec. 1, the U.S Supreme Court hears oral arguments in what's described as the most influential abortion case in nearly 50 years. The high court's action on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health could over-turn Roe v. Wade and criminalize abortions across the county, including in Wisconsin.
"It's important to to really underscore that we're facing the most serious threat to abortion access in this country in 50 years and and certainly in the state of Wisconsin," said Tanya Atkinson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, which supports abortion access.
Gracie Skogman, legislative director of Wisconsin Right to Life, does not.
They weighed in on the high court case.
"It would change everything here in Wisconsin, and we believe that it would put this back into the state's control," said Skogman.
The case to be heard before the high court is a challenge to a Mississippi law that bans almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. The case could overrule Roe v. Wade and allow states to restrict pre-viability abortions.
Wisconsin has had a law on the books since 1849 criminalizing abortion. It's not being enforced because of Roe v. Wade. However, if Roe is overturned, abortion could once again become a crime in the state of Wisconsin.
The state of Wisconsin has had a law on the books since shortly after it became a state that criminalizes abortion. (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)
"What we believe at Wisconsin Right to Life and in the pro-life movement is that there is no constitutional right to an abortion," said Skogman. 'There's also no federal law that enshrines that right. So we believe that Roe v. Wade decision was judicial overreach."
"We're going to do everything that we can to make sure that patients need an abortion in Wisconsin can still turn to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, and that we can that we can help make sure that they are connecting to places where they can have a legal abortion and that they're connecting safely," Atkinson said.
Tanya Atkinson is CEO and president of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, and describes a pending case in the U.S. Supreme Court as "the most serious threat to abortion access in this country in 50 years." (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)
In Texas, there is a "heartbeat" law making abortion illegal after 6 weeks. This law is being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court in Whole Women's Health v. Jackson and United States v. Texas, and could hint at what the Supreme Court may decide in the Dobbs case.
"The heartbeat case in Texas does not directly challenge Roe in the same way that Dobbs does. But I believe it will be very insightful," Skogman said. "I certainly hope that we see an overturning of Roe v. Wade, but I don't know if I can go so far as to say that I expect that."
Gracie Skogman, legislative director for Wisconsin Right to Life, says a pending abortion case before the U.S. Supreme Court could "would put this back into the state's control." (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)
"I do think that people across the state of Wisconsin are very concerned about what's happening. And I do anticipate as the elections grow closer and people are looking at who their elected officials are, they're going to be very in tune to where the different candidates stand on accessing safe and legal abortion in Wisconsin," said Atkinson.
A decision in the case that directly challenges Roe v. Wade and possibly Wisconsin abortion law is expected by the end of June 2022.
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PB opened up a fair trade cafe within the PB office located in Hiroshima City. Cafe was opened to promote the concept of "fair trade," develop potential supporters interested in the international cooperation, exchange information, fundraise, and to support coffee farmers. Cafe can also be used as a community space.
Cafe was able to make 900,000 Japanese Yen between September to March, which is actually a deficit considering the cost needed to open up the cafe, however. Considering high media attention, warm support from people, and also numerous opportunities for people to be exposed to issues ranging from fair trade, international cooperation, peacebuilding. and Africa, its first year was rather successful.
Cooperating with other NGOs based in Hiroshima who do not have store on their own to sell products and also People Tree (a fair trade company), PB is using a part of the fair trade cafe to sell fair trade goods. PB also exchanges information and conduct exchange of people with other organization.
To bring back some revenues of the fair trade cafe ran by PB, PB staff paid a courtesy visit to the cooperative in Rwanda to seek possibilities of this cooperation. After consultation, PB has decided to promote Cafe Maraba in order to meet their needs.


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N.C. State Chancellor, Dr. Randy Woodson
N.C. State Chancellor, Dr. Randy…
Hickory Rotary Club welcomed Dr. Randy Woodson, Chancellor of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, as the featured speaker for Thursday's club meeting. Dr. Woodson is the 14th chancellor of North Carolina State University. In this capacity, he oversees North Carolina's largest university, with more than 34,000 students and a budget exceeding $1.3 billion. Since coming to NC State in 2010, Chancellor Woodson also has led NC State through difficult budget challenges, realigning the university for greater efficiency and effectiveness in order to ensure its continued success.
A nationally recognized leader in bridging the gap between vision and action, he has led the development and implementation of the university's strategic plan to improve student success, faculty excellence, and engagement and economic development. In addition to this transformative plan, Woodson has led a strategic realignment to mold the university for greater efficiency and effectiveness in the face of decreasing resources. His reputation for consensus-building has given voice to a diverse university community, creating opportunities for multi-disciplinary collaboration and unifying university constituents to focus on enhancing student success and the value of an NC State degree. These shifts will continue to guide the university as it unites and adapts a cherished tradition with the constantly evolving landscape of higher education.
During his tenure Woodson has overseen the largest private gift in university history. Through the creation of the Faculty Excellence Fund Woodson has inspired inventive faculty research rewarding creativity and entrepreneurship. Under his leadership, NC State remains the 3rd best value among public universities in the U.S. and, according to a Wall Street Journal study, ranks 19th overall by recruiters for nearly 500 public and private corporations, non-profits and federal agencies across the nation.
Woodson arrived at NC State from Purdue University, where he served as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost. He took on the role of provost in 2008, after serving nearly four years as the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture. Prior to that, Woodson was the associate dean of agriculture and director of the Office of Agricultural Research Programs at Purdue from 1998 to 2004.
Woodson's career has been shaped by the land-grant university system, receiving a B.S. in Horticulture from the University of Arkansas and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from Cornell University. He joined the Purdue faculty in 1985 as an assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture. Prior to his administrative appointments, Woodson also served as head of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Purdue and was a visiting scholar at the École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse in France.
Over his decades-long career in higher education, Dr. Woodson has contributed a substantial body of knowledge to the field of plant science, which has been published in over 100 journal articles and book chapters. His research has covered topics such as plant genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology and sustainable bioproducts development, spanning the gap between the detailed science of plant physiology and the practical application of this knowledge in the field of horticulture. His research has been featured in stories published in BusinessWeek, The Futurist, and Discover.
Woodson has received a number of professional honors during his career, including the Purdue University Agriculture Research Award, the American Society for Horticultural Science Outstanding Researcher Career Award and the Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest award presented by the governor of Indiana for service. He is a fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science.
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 Rischio mortale (Shelter) – film del 1998 diretto da Scott Paulin
 Shelter – film del 2007 diretto da Jonah Markowitz
 Shelter – film del 2008 diretto da Chris Elston
 Shelter - Identità paranormali (Shelter) – film del 2010 diretto da Måns Mårlind e Björn Stein
 Shelter – film del 2014 diretto da Paul Bettany

Musica
 Shelter – gruppo musicale statunitense
 Shelter Records – etichetta discografica
 Shelter – album dei Lone Justice del 1986
 Shelter – album dei Brand New Heavies del 1997
 Shelter – album dei Rasa del 2003
 Shelter – album degli Alcest del 2014

Altro
 Shelter – cabina adibita al contenimento apparati di trasmissione e ricezione di segnali televisivi, radiofonici e telefonici
 Shelter – city car sperimentale olandese degli anni cinquanta
 Shelter – in agricoltura è un sistema (solitamente una rete metallica plastificata e grigliata) utilizzato per proteggere dagli animali le piante e la vegetazione durante la delicata fase iniziale dello sviluppo

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We had a ridiculously lazy Saturday yesterday. Usually, I go to yoga, and come home all energetic and ready to take on the world. Yesterday, I came home, made some breakfast and crawled into the basement and watched TV, like, alllll day. I had two breaks: one, for a shower, and two, to go get dinner. But, otherwise, I was an absolute bum.
Today, I have to pack, then we're going to my parents' for Easter brunch/my dad's birthday celebration. After that, a friend and I are headed out of town to a conference. We'll be in the car for a couple hours, then the evening will be getting dinner and sitting in the hotel hot tub. Yay!


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BHEC stands for the Texas Behavioral Executive Council. During the last Texas Legislative 86th Session, the government action side of TAMFT helped to pass this important and strategic bill that allowed for the creation of a new government agency, the BHEC.
BHEC is a functionally aligned umbrella agency to provide administrative services and support to the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (TSBEMFT), the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (TSBEPC), the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners (TSBSWE), and the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (TSBEP).
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Currently all mental health licenses are housed inside Heath and Human Service Commission and have to rely on their staff for help in processing applications, handling renewals and disciplinary actions. Let's not forget, what courses make up getting a license and the CEUs licensees have to take to keep the license. While all of the fees generated by the LMFT, LPC, social workers, and psychology are handed over, WE DIDN'T GET TO KEEP THE MONEY. That's right, there has never been a line item in the Texas state budget for mental health.
Like we said, with no line item on the budget, other agency budgets had to find some money from their budgets to help staff our licenses, which got us those helpful items like the LICENSE!
Why Is the BHEC Such a Big Deal?
The BHEC was five years in the making created out of a process called Sunset. It was determined that all mental health licenses, MFT, LPC, social workers, and psychologists could no longer be housed within HHSC. After many years of discussions and meeting with legislators over multiple sessions, the idea of a new agency was agreed upon with one provision. The new agency had to recognize and keep intact the independent rule making authority of each mental health board. Each step of the way TAMFT Legislative Committee was instrumental in accomplishing this goal.
You need to. Do you want the social workers telling you how your license should be handled or the psychologists setting the requirements for our MFT license? NO. We know how our license needs to be regulated according to our individual stances on approaches to mental health care. Each board feels the same way.
So BHEC was created as the first such agency of its kind in America. That's right; BHEC is the first of its kind in America and TEXAS IS FIRST. This can set the stage for all mental health to receive the same government help and attention that physical health does. Other states have put mental health boards into one agency but took away the individual boards ability to still regulate and set the rules for the license. BHEC ensured the boards are still in power.
What this all means is that we as MFTs still have power over our license. With your TAMFT Board's help, and with your voice, we will still govern our own license and profession. BHEC is here to help us implement rules and laws pertaining to our license as we see fit. We will continue bringing you updates and information pertaining to BHEC and answer any questions you may have.
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Q: Firebase Storage bucket fills up gradually as I don't upload anything I am working on a new project and the problem is my firebase storage is filling gradually up even as I dont use it, right now its 4,1 GB big.
I did not have a bucket created and it was filling up.
One thing I tried to do was to look at the files in the cloud console but all of them are of a weird format that I can not manage to open up.
Until now I was not even working with media that could take up that space.
I would appreciate ideas how to backtrack the usage.

this is how my 3 GB bucket (I never uploaded something to it) looks like, any idea how I can open these files?

A: A change to how firebase are deploying functions from node 10 onwards means they automatically add container image files to your cloud storage with every deployment. This counts towards your "Bytes stored" and "Bandwidth" limits in firebase.
To save costs you can delete all these files, and only deploy individual functions with firebase deploy --only functions:myFunctionName instead of deploying them all at once.
The following is a screenshot from firebase support:

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