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A majority of the presence of key players in the global market for aerostat systems is located in North America and Europe. These regions have consistently shown a high interest in surveillance strategies and the implementation of effective and long-term defensive tactics.
The presence of players such as Lockheed Martin Corporation, Aerostar International, Inc., and RosAeroSystems International has had a tremendous effect in boosting the demand for aerostat systems in these regions while simultaneously creating a high rate of product and material development for the same.
As per a research publication released by Transparency Market Research, the global market for aerostat systems is extremely consolidated with only a handful players taking up large chunks of the market value. Most of these companies directly cater to the defense sectors of various regions, which is the leading consumer of aerostat systems.
Most of the demand for aerostat systems by the defense sector is issued in tenders and handled by the more prominent players.
The global market for aerostat systems is expected to be valued at US$4.64 bn by the end of 2016 and US$10.10 bn by the end of 2023. This revenue is expected to expand at a CAGR of 13.8% within a forecast period from 2015 to 2022.
By the end of 2022, the military sector is expected to generate a demand for aerostat systems valued at US$7.01 bn, making it the dominant application segment of aerostat systems till then. The military sector is also the leading application segment in terms of demand expansion, showing a CAGR of 14.0% from 2015 to 2022.
North America, owing to its strong demand for aerostat systems from the defense sectors of the U.S. and Canada, is currently the dominant region in the usage of aerostat systems. This region is expected to remain the dominant one till 2022, at which time it is expected to reach US$2.73 bn in aerostat systems revenue.
On the other hand, Asia Pacific is expected to show the faster CAGR of 16.2% from 2015 to 2022, owing to growing border control efforts and surging investments in national defense agencies.
“The inherent advantages that aerostat systems possess over conventional surveillance aircraft systems are enough to drive this market towards a satisfactory progress rate. The key advantage of using aerostat systems at the moment is their cost in comparison to aircraft and drone surveillance systems. That is because using aerostat systems reduces fuel consumption to such an extent that the over difference in expenses is massive,” states a TMR analyst.
Additionally, the lesser number of mechanical parts within an aerostat system also reduce the maintenance expenses of a user. This perfectly complements the lesser time taken to assemble and deploy an aerostat system as compared to drones.
Despite all its benefits, aerostat systems face a stern competition from alternative systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and airships. Airships for instance are quite similar to aerostat systems, except for the fact that they possess propellant engines and can therefore give better mobility.
On the other hand, users are beginning to prefer UAVs despite their cost, due to their high level of accuracy in surveillance and their ability to cover diverse proportions of areas.
“The future of aerostat systems lies in the use of next-gen materials. For example, high performance laminates are being tested that can drastically improve the ability of aerostat systems to operate under harsh weathers. Other developments include materials that can significantly reduce the weight of an aerostat system. These developments can considerably improve the standing of aerostat systems over their alternatives, thus increasing the demand for them,” adds the analyst.

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What a great day! Last Tuesday we held the 3rd annual CENGN Summit. The success of this event continues to grow each year as we had record attendance with over 300 people present. This year’s theme – Prosperity Through Connectivity – was focused on exploring the link between next generation networks and prosperity by looking into the state of the ICT industry in Canada and establishing why this sector is so important to the strength of Canada’s economy. Attendees had the opportunity to hear from ICT leaders across Canada who discussed the positive economic and social impacts that next generation networks are having on our country. The event truly brought the innovation ecosystem together with representatives from multinationals, SMEs, academia, government, venture capital, and other supporting organizations.
The CENGN Summit is an important event for Canada’s ICT sector as it creates a forum for dialogue on topics of critical importance to our industry. By bringing together decision-makers from all corners of CENGN’s ecosystem, the Summit enables conversation on successes, areas for improvement, and potential solutions to specific problems that organizations in Canada are facing. Common themes discussed throughout the day included how today’s tech organizations need to adapt to the rapid pace of innovation; the importance of broadband internet access for all including northern and rural communities; and how next generation network advancements are transforming businesses and organizations in all sectors, including health, mining, and manufacturing among others, and driving the economic strength of Canada.
The crowd was also treated to outstanding keynote presentations on the use cases of next generation networks. Jacob Glick of North Inc. showed how next generation networks enable different applications for consumers, as exemplified by his organization’s smart glasses. Robert Bauer of AIG articulated how advanced networking and related technologies are equipping us to know more than ever before and with greater certainty.
The event also facilitated several partnership opportunities for attendees as the foyer was consistently packed at the breaks. Several times during the day I was able to witness our multinational member companies talking with SMEs who have completed a project at CENGN. This was something significant to see as these types of connections and partnership opportunities are what CENGN aims to create.
I would like to sincerely thank all of our sponsors, speakers, attendees, the CENGN team, and everyone who made the day an incredible success. The ongoing support CENGN receives from our funders, members, and partners is critical to our organization and contributes to the success of our SME customers and the Canadian economy.
It was great to reconnect with so many of you at the Summit. There is substantial opportunity for the Canadian ICT community to develop our country’s competitiveness on a global scale. Whether it is scaling our innovative SMEs, training industry professionals and students, or partnering on other technology initiatives, CENGN looks forward to collaborating with you for the benefit of the Canadian ICT sector.

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“In an Army infantry unit packed with tough combat veterans, are sergeant major was the toughest. Built like a slab of concrete, he had completed multiple deployments with the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. As officers, my colleagues and I technically I ranked him. But if he had told us to jump, we would not have hesitated to ask how high – and how soft we should land. The most impressive thing about the stuff later is how much he cared. When he first came to our battalion, he gathered all the officers together for leadership development session. Then he played a video of the children’s classic story The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. The Giving Tree describes an enduring relationship of unconditional and self-sacrificing love between a tree and a little boy. In the silence after the video ended, he uttered a simple command before dismissing cost: ‘be the giving tree for your soldiers’”.
The most effective leaders, in military or business, make heart-to-heart connections. In Iraq the soldiers knew first that the sergeant major had a heart for them by risking sharing a children’s story. Only then are they willing to transfer that caring leadership to their units. The key: assertiveness to mission and love of the troops ( employees ).

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History Completed in June 1930 for Rederi A/B Activ (Joh. Gorthon), Helsingborg.
At 03.36 hours on 20 June 1940, U-38 missed the unescorted and neutral Tilia Gorthon (Master J.F. Günther) with a G7a torpedo and then stopped the vessel by gunfire about 45 miles west of the Scilly Islands. At 04.12 hours, she was hit in the engine room by a G7e torpedo after the crew had abandoned ship in two lifeboats and sank. The survivors were picked up by HMS Leith (U 36) (Cdr G.R. Waymouth, RN).
The Tilia Gorthon had been on voyage from Bahia to Gothenburg, but was stopped by a British warship and sent to Liverpool and then to Nantes, but near Loires a new order sent her to Quiberon Bay and finally ordered the ship back to Liverpool. A man from this ship was repatriated on the Atos which was sunk by U-57 (Topp) on 3 August.


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text: Learn the basics of hand papermaking as we explore basic techniques and experiment with different botanical ingredients. No experience necessary. Papermaking is a perfect medium for beginners, and for experienced artists it is unlike any other medium! We will learn the basic history of papermaking, the fundamental materials and tools, and then we will literally dive into sheet formation as we use beautiful flowers and other botanical items to design and enhance each sheet. Items may be gathered outdoors for use in paper designs. Students will leave with their "wet leafs" and be offered ideas for further exploration and development. Each paper can become a framed work of art, an item of stationery for personal use, or a card to offer for upcoming Mother's Day! Be prepared to get wet and messy and to learn this exciting renewable technique.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


text: Join FACT’s IT Business Analyst on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, at 12:00 PM ET for training on completing an annual or renewal report in the new FACT Accreditation Portal. Alisa Forsythe will discuss the navigation and features within the portal as well as the process for completing the application, the director approval process, and application submission. Webinar participants will have a chance to ask questions at the end of the presentation.


text: In this paper, we present characterizations of multi-antenna systems in two opposite edge environments, i.e., rich isotropic multipath (RIMP) and random line-of-sight (LOS) environments. We use the detection probability of the single or multiple bit streams (for diversity and multiplexing cases, respectively) over an ensemble of users as the characterizing quantity. The relationship between the detection probability and the throughput in RIMP is given. An wideband compact multi-port antenna is used as an example to show characterizations in both RIMP and random-LOS environment.

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Day 2 & 3 of the workshop gave us more time to paint and be outside as the weather continued to improve. I really wished that I didn’t have to drive 1.5 hours home as I would have loved to paint in the magic hour of the evenings.
Here’s my painting from Day 2. The same rock/setting the Aaron did as a demo the previous day. My challenge was to get some hard edges. I like the soft edges, trying to get too much detail too quickly!
Julie Marr found a great little spot overlooking the scene and we had a great time painting for a couple of hours. She lent me a piece of pastelmat to try and I have to say, I really liked it! The tooth is much softer and finer than UArt paper and yet gentler than pastelboard. I might just have to order a pack or two to try further.
Here’s my version of the same view. I love how each person sees the same place so differently. We were up on a hill, looking down with a rock formation in front, unlike Aaron who was further down the valley looking up at the formation.
I was struggling to get the right combinations of greens to create the blues of the trees and the yellows of the grass. (Once I got back to Terry’s studio, I found some perfect greens!) Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to finish before breaking for lunch. The light was changing so quickly, that it would have been nice to go back the next morning.
We had a little more time after lunch before we needed to go back to the studio to wrap up. I was able to do this quick little painting. It forced me to focus on value and shape, getting in the basic forms quickly – especially as the sweat began to pour down my back!
I’m excited to get out and do some more plein air work. Thanks Aaron for the instruction and Julie and the other painters for the inspiration and tips!
Last weekend is a blur. I spent three days in Highlands Ranch (just south of Denver) at a Plein Air workshop taught by Aaron Schuerr. The workshop was hosted by Terry Ludwig Pastels. Not only did we get a tour of the studio, but I picked up some new greens for these brilliant grasses and landscapes that we did.
Our first day was a bit sketchy as the clouds rolled in and threatened to rain on us.
We started with value studies in charcoal. Unfortunately, I didn’t have fixative, so my drawing got pretty smudged. Here’s the demo that Aaron did – a great lesson in value and composition.
In the afternoon we watched a demo by Aaron. He walked us through his composition, what to pick, what to leave out, how to create distance, and how to deal with the quickly changing sky.
We finished just before the rain began to pour down. It’s so unusual for us to have such heavy, humid air in Colorado. It was nice to see a demonstration for dealing with atmosphere in the sky.
Day two, we painted at South Valley Park near Ken Caryl. I was excited to paint the red rocks.Aaron demonstrating a backlit rock painting.
Again, the clouds rolled in during the afternoon so we headed back to Terry Ludwig’s studio and got a tour of the facility as well as a group discussion and cloud demo.
Terry gave a great tour, explaining the pigments, binder and molding techniques. What a process! It was like combining shop, home ec, and chemistry class all together.
Do you remember the joy of discovery as a child? Do you remember being awed and amazed by the world? Last summer, I had the privilege of spending some time with my niece, a budding artist. One morning, we took a walk and discovered this field full of freshly rolled hay bales. Ava immediately ran into the field. She wanted to touch them and could hardly contain her excitement.
I caught a quick photo of the moment and turned it into this painting. I wanted to capture that moment of joy and awe with the red barn sitting in the distance and low, humid clouds along the horizon. There is a sense of timelessness to the piece. A little girl in a big world.
There’s a little island in the Caribbean that rises up from the sea, Cayman Brac. Landing in a little prop plane, the island seems to slumber as the world spins faster and faster. I have been lucky to be able to visit this island several times and each time the magic of the morning light, the call of the birds, the crash of the surf and the silence creates a sense of magic and peace.
I had been thinking about painting this spot long before we arrived. One morning, I woke up in inky darkness, grabbed my pack and a bottle of water, and headed for the southeast end of the island. Just as I completed my hike along the craggy, limestone karst shore, the sun was beginning to rise out of the sea.
I wanted to capture the light glistening on the rock, the dew on the leaves, and the crash of the surf as the giant rock continues it’s precarious balance.
I’m working on a piece that requires some really dark values. Deep, rich, earthy, aged, and vibrant are words that come to mind. I ordered a complete set of Terry Ludwig Intense Darks after trying out a few during a class.
They arrived yesterday and Intense they are!
Not only are the intense, but they are dark. Perfect for deep shadows, layering, blending and developing form in objects and landscape. I’m not sure how often I’ll use the super bright reds and oranges on the left, but the purples, greens blues and earth tones will be perfect for strong Colorado Landscapes.
They are powdery, yet firm. Intense and dark and vibrant. I played with them for a few minutes, mostly gazing at the intensity and looking for the subtle variations in some of the blues and greys.
This little pond is on the way to one of my favorite hiking spots. In the fall, the golden leaves of the trees glow, especially against the backdrop of a crisp, blue sky. I can almost smell the dirt and water. Last fall, I planned to create this painting. I started it several weeks ago and then set it aside while I searched for the right yellow. I finally picked up some bright yellow, pastel that makes the trees shine.
My goal was to capture the crisp feeling of fall in Colorado as the trees blaze orange and yellow against the bright blue sky.


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One essential part of a category manager’s job is to be flexible, always be on top of everything and to keep an eye on the competition. He/she knows the merchandise intimately and is acutely aware of who offers products where and at what cost. The category manager immediately responds to these developments with price or assortment adjustments.
Category management becomes increasingly important for the grocery sector since more and more products are brought to the market – in a response to the growing demands of customers, it also presents the biggest challenge for retailers not to overwhelm customers with a multitude of products but to support selected items instead.
Due to this development, the demand for new talent in this occupational field has grown significantly in companies over the past few years. One of many reasons why businesses are looking for potential top talent right where it is being trained. At the University of Duisburg-Essen for example. At the end of April, retail companies met with business science and information management students of Professor Hendrik Schröder during the one-day event “Retail Business Meets University Students” (German: Handel trifft Hochschule).
This year, Obi, IRi, Rewe, Christ and Lekkerland presented the very different ways category management is used in their respective companies.
The presentation by wholesaler Lekkerland, for example, showed how comprehensive knowledge about the market and the regional and even local conditions about a location should affect the product placement in specific stores to optimally address customer demands. This is one of the key goals of any retailer.
REWE/Penny gave a detailed account of the weekly planning processes in the produce department from a category manager’s perspective. Each product group needs to be accurately planned and placed. Sales promotions are jointly planned with the marketing department and implemented in collaboration with the entire team. A category manager needs to be flexible.
The market research company IRi explained how market basket analysis solutions allow conclusions on the purchase behavior of customers to improve product planning. A tool retailers are vaguely familiar with – but one that is rarely utilized to the fullest extent of its possibilities.
The lecture by jewelry retailer Christ focused on linking distribution channels, store pickup, and cross-channel marketing campaigns to increase sales and support customers in their increasing affinity for mobile devices anywhere with the right service.
Obi showcased future projects in category management. With a “special unit” armed with a startup mentality, the home improvement store wants to tap into new customer groups for the DIY market and compete with supermarket giants like Lidl and Aldi who always appeal to do-it-yourselfers: primarily by bundling services and products and offering them as complete packages. Pilot projects are already underway.
Between the retail lectures that were geared towards very practical experiences, the students took the chance to ask the responsible company representatives questions about possible internship programs or their requirements.
The latter were excited about the numerous requests and the highly suitable target audience for their new talent search in category management. Piles of job applications received extra notes and were carefully put away – some of them already sure prospects of receiving an internship.
The event was promising not just from the perspective of the retailers, but also from the students’ point of view. ”It is good to know that companies highly emphasize previous practical experience in a company. I already wondered whether it makes sense to possibly extend my studies and complete a half year internship. Until now, I was worried that more time spent studying might later have a negative impact on my job applications. Now I think differently about it,“ explains student Rieke Zimmermann, after having her first conversations with the retailers at the event.
Professor Schröder also confirmed in his introductory speech that retail companies value personality and practical experiences over good final grades.
The practical examples showed students the many different facets of a job in category management. Teamwork with other departments is just as much a part of this career field as is the right pricing at the store. In this case, dealing with current methods and technical solutions available on the market means staying one step ahead of your competition.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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Digital Cognition Technologies has a patented, breakthrough technology that recognizes early signs of cognitive impairment before symptoms become visible. With over 10 years of research and 4,500 client tests in their database, DCT’s non-invasive, cost-effective technology enables earlier intervention for those with cognitive impairment, ultimately, increasing diagnostic accuracy and treatment to slow cognitive decline. Backed by F-Prime and Crosslink Capital, as well as select individual medical device and life sciences investors, DCT has released its technology to the researcher/pharma markets and is anticipating a release to the clinical/general practitioner market in early 2018 (following 501(k) clearance).
We work with DCT in a search capacity, leveraging our network and healthcare industry expertise to find and place the best executives on their leadership team. Our work includes a search for their Chief Executive Officer.

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- to access, use, preserve or disclose the Customer’s personal information to satisfy any applicable law, rule, regulation, legal process or governmental request and/or to protect the rights, property and safety of the Company, its users or the public as required or permitted by law. The Company has no duty to notify the Customer on the above circumstances.
- to promote the Company’s products and services with testimonials, feedback and opinions provided by the Customer, as further described in the Terms and Conditions.
The Company may share the Customer’s information with its affiliates and with third parties for the limited purposes as set forth above. The Company does not otherwise rent, sell or distribute the Customer’s personal information to third parties without the Customer’s consent.
The Company stores the Customer’s personal information only for as long as it is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. The Company may purge the Customer’s contact data from its system within 18 months of the Customer’s account inactivity. The Company will purge the Customer’s personal data if the Customer cancels his/her account. Should the Customer want his/her personal data deleted at any time, please contact us via email at: support@mimiwito.com. Where required by law, the Company will store transactional data, even when the account is cancelled, or closed due to inactivity.
The Website uses industry standard technology as security measures for protection against loss, misuse, or modification of the Customer’s personal information. The Company maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection and storage of the Customer’s personal information. Contact and financial information, such as credit card number, is submitted through a secure (HTTPS) connection and stored in the Company’s database, protected by a firewall.


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Kick Start Your Savings is the summer program for Central Iowa Saves. To learn more, go to http://www.centraliowasaves.org.
For beginning and more advanced savers, nothing is more important than the emergency fund. As the cornerstone of your savings plan, an emergency fund is your protection against unexpected, but inevitable, expenses.
Step 1- Figure out your goal & a place to save. Having an emergency savings fund may be the most important difference between those who manage to stay afloat and those who are sinking financially. That’s because maintaining emergency savings of $500 to $1,000 allows you to easily meet unexpected financial challenges such as a car repair or medical bill and avoid high interest, short-term loans. With your emergency fund goal in mind, decide where you want to save it. Do you need to open a savings account? Do you want to add to a savings account you already have? Determine your goal and where to keep your emergency savings.
Step 2 – Save automatically. Have a portion of your paycheck, as little as $50 a month, transferred automatically from your checking to savings account. Individuals who save automatically are more than six times more likely to be successful long-term.
Step 3 – Track your progress. By enrolling as an American Saver, you can utilize the America Saves Savings Tracker for free to record deposits and monitor your progress. If you’re not sure where to find the money to start saving, cutting down expenses can be easier than you think. Institute a “no-spend day” and for each dollar you don’t spend, add to your emergency fun. Stay tuned for more ways to save!

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Kenai crossed the rainbow bridge unexpectedly, and we are devastated. Three weeks ago he collapsed and was conscious but unresponsive. We took him to the emergency vet (WVRC-Waukesha) and they found he had fluid in the sac around his heart, putting pressure on his heart. They were able to aspirate it and he was back to his normal self. The vet there said that there was almost a 90% chance it was a tumor on his heart that was leaking and that it would happen again, soon. We took him home and took him to his vet for further testing. The original diagnosis was confirmed with an ultra sound and the time line given was within 10 days.The treatments available were invasive and wouldn't prolong his life more that a month if we were lucky. The following Sunday he again collapsed, and we took him back to WVRC, this time the fluid was leaking into his lungs. There was nothing they could do, if they tried to aspirate his lungs would collapse. So we took him home again and tried to keep him comfortable. He passed early Monday morning, I fell asleep at 12amand he was gone when I woke again at 3am. We had him cremated. I cannot put into words how much I loved him. He was the perfect dog for Tim and I, and such a blessing to our family. He had so much personality, sassy, gentle, patient, and a love bug, I cry everyday for him. I miss him so much.
Thank you for the opportunity to have him in our family, even for such a short time.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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The next 30 days are dedicated to writing about the industrial internet of things. I’m sharing my experiences in manufacturing, machine building and test & measurement. I’ve built machines for giant fortune 50s and tiny mom and pop shops that make window treatments. Every project had some sort of connectivity to a computer, the industrial internet.
The rules for writing about the Industrial Internet of Things for these 30 days are simple: text only. No pictures, no diagrams, nothing outside of standard markdown. This will be an exercise in clearly articulating my technical knowledge in English. Starting in January I’ll share code, diagrams and video. During the month of December I’m limited to text.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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Using a semicolon and transition word lets you how ideas relate contrast "however" or adding "moreover". If your thesis and the body of your essay do not seem to go together, one of them has to change. To make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you must procure the ingredients, find a knife, and spread the condiments.
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Every argument has a counterargument.
This is also why a well-planned outline is essential. For a longer essay, you need a thesis statement that is more versatile. Just make sure you examine all viewpoints before investing your valuable time in a well-written piece.
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It also may spark a defensive reaction from readers sympathetic to communism. Every paper you write should have a main point, a main idea, or central message.
A thesis statement should be one step problem solving addition product of your own critical thinking after you have done some research.
Of course, for the essay itself to be successful, you must now present evidence from the novel that will convince the reader of your interpretation. Although the timber wolf is actually a timid and gentle animal, it is being systematically exterminated because people wrongfully believe it to be a fierce and cold-blooded killer.
Socialism is the best form of government for Kenya.
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When in doubt, ask your instructor if the assignment requires a thesis statement. A thesis statement is powerful on two fronts. In this way you will tell your reader why your take on the issue matters. Crafting cover letter marketing director position original, insightful, and memorable thesis makes a distinct impression on a reader. The opposite of a focused, narrow, crisp thesis is a broad, sprawling, superficial thesis.
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This case in the Court of Appeal of ‘s-Hertogenbosch concerned the use of a photograph of a photo model by two rappers in one of their music videos. The video was uploaded to YouTube after which it was disseminated via their own website’s homepage and their YouTube Channel. Although the rappers were authorised to do so by the photo model in question, they did not have the consent of the photographer, i.e. the rightholder. Consequently, the photographer brought suit against the two rappers on the basis of copyright infringement.
In order to estimate her damages, the photographer provided the Court with an indicative rates list for photography assignments. Although the Court found the list was incomplete and the source and status of the document were unclear, it ended up using the list to assess damages anyway. The Court also attempted to offer objective measures to calculate damages in online photography copyright infringement cases.

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Making decisions about an over-hyped, under-delivering technology amid today's unrelenting economic pressures certainly isn't easy. So to help uncloud your thinking, we looked into exactly how several companies across various industries are experimenting with cloud computing.
A recent academic study identified at least 22 definitions of "cloud computing" in common use, from the broad notion of using the internet to access any sort of managed technology services (a.k.a. SaaS or software as a service) to the wide-eyed optimist's view that a diverse, powerful lineup of cloud services will be delivered in real time by crash-proof distributed servers "without complicated deployment worries." The sorry economy is prompting more CIOs to explore cloud computing and its cost-cutting promise, says Doug Tracy, former global CTO for Rolls-Royce. "But it's still an idea that a lot of people don't know a whole lot about."
The core attraction of cloud is that companies can avoid buying and running hardware, software and other equipment by contracting with a services vendor to run selected systems or applications on its own infrastructure of virtualised servers. The "services" you purchase are delivered in a standardized, multi- tenancy fashion that observers say will save one-third to one-half of your current costs.
That's certainly appealing as this recession forces CIOs to seek ever-greater efficiencies from IT infrastructures already as lean as starving wolves.
"We're under tremendous pressure to provide flexibility and agility and to be driving cost models down," says Charles Soto, vice president of IT at Motorola's Broadband Mobility Solutions business, which recently tested cloud computing services for four different applications. But thinking that cloud computing will release an instant reservoir of savings is a mistake, he adds.
To Arthur Winn, head of pricing at BT Group, "cloud" is nothing but a marketing term. The US$41 billion London telecommunications company has been doing what could be considered cloud computing for several years, he says. That is, handing over BT customer calling data to a third party to analyze and then let BT access via the Internet. "As long as we are getting more service for less money each year, we're happy," he says.
What we found is that cloud is an umbrella term for many services, including SaaS and virtualisation - anything but traditional computing behind the walls of your own data center. If you're worried about being behind the cloud curve, don't be.
CIOs recognise this latest hype cycle all too well. When client-server computing was all the early-90s' rage, every vendor slapped the term onto its marketing pitch whether it fit or not. Then it was data warehousing lining up to provide a single view of all your customers at the touch of a button. Next came ERP systems intended to replace the disparate best-of-breed software across business operations.
All of these hype-cycled technologies eventually had a significant impact on corporate computing environments, but invariably at much greater complexity and expense than initially promised.
First, a definition of cloud that makes sense to most CIOs: You don't own the software or hardware and, unlike outsourcing, no specific equipment is dedicated only to you. You access the vendor's systems over the Internet in some secured way. For that access, you pay a subscription fee that rises or falls with how much or how often you draw on the vendor's systems.
Google, for example, offers office basics such as e-mail and word processing, with password protection and a per-user fee. Amazon offers substantial systems such as complete e-commerce or storage facilities, and charges per hour or per gigabyte for various configurations. From a newcomer such as Seattle-based Skytap, which provides virtual data center services, you get access to application development and testing environments for a monthly base charge and pay extra for virtual-machine, storage and data-transfer options. Cloud permutations range from network plumbing to business applications.
But using a cloud of someone else's technologies isn't as simple as telling Amazon to open its doors to accept your data, then writing a check every month, cautions Motorola's Soto.
He would love to rejigger Motorola's IT to match computing power and cost-to-user demand, whether it falls during a bad economy or rises during a good one. "How do we find a consumption-based model to pay for what we use, to be able to spin them up quickly or shut down without having to be burdened with depreciation schedules in the normal IT process?" he asks.
That idea appeals to many IT leaders considering cloud computing, says Tom Pettibone, managing partner of consulting firm Transition Partners. CIOs have had to design their data centers to take peak loads. But during off-peak times, that capacity sits unused and idling at great expense, Pettibone says. "That costs you every day."
In the Skytap experiment, Motorola put four applications on Skytap servers: a project management tracker, a Web design application, an IT asset management database and a Microsoft Active Directory application. For US$1000, a small group of Motorola employees could test how those applications worked on Skytap's cloud for 30 days.
Motorola is used to getting IT from outside its own walls, with 33 SaaS applications in production, including Salesforce .com. But what the cloud experiments showed, Soto says, is that agility and cost savings come with trade-offs. While he estimates the cost at one-third to one-half of what Motorola normally spends on those applications, Skytap's security needs work, he explains. Motorola's people could see each other's data, he says. "That's very significant."
Plus, adds Sujit Sinha, senior director of IT strategy and architecture at Motorola, complying with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations about segregation of duties in the cloud appears difficult. "We didn't see a way to segregate who has rights to do what," Sinha says. That raises concerns about failing a Sox audit, which requires clear evidence of employee assignments that present no conflicts of interest when handling company financial data.
Skytap is learning from its customers, says Ian Knox, the vendor's director of product management. Security settings can be changed to protect data from the eyes of others, he says. A few weeks after Motorola's test ended, Skytap added several reporting and role-based access features to address Sox concerns, Knox adds. In cloud computing in general, Sinha notes, other issues also need to be worked out, such as who has rights to your data. With no universally accepted terms of what a cloud vendor can and cannot do, he says, "you have to work it out in your contracts."
Despite the obstacles, Motorola is moving forward with its cloud initiatives. Next, they will pilot cloud services from a bigger player and, within the next quarter, they hope to have a small cloud application in production. Says Soto: "We'd do it yesterday if we could."
At BT, what Winn considers cloud began years ago. Winn's group, which sets rates and deals for cell phone calling plans, had to compete with other departments for time on BT's internal, massively parallel servers. The group couldn't get enough time to run many queries to test new pricing ideas, Winn says, so they looked outside the company for computing power.
BT contracted with Kognitio for "data warehousing as a service," done on the vendor's servers on data BT ships via the Internet. Each month, BT sends the vendor hundreds of millions of call center records, or about 3.6TB of data. Kognitio then performs regression analysis so BT can study customer churn, for example, and what-if scenarios to discover how new price plans would play out.
BT pricing specialists can log in to Kognitio's machines through a Citrix server to play around with the data, making queries using Business Objects tools. "The concept of interested people sharing a common resource has been around forever," Winn says. "It's the model of the combine harvester."
Augmenting its computing resources this way has allowed BT to launch ground-breaking cell phone plans. A few years back, cell phone competition was a race to the lowest per-minute rate.
BT wanted to know whether capped pricing would be profitable. That is, no call would ever cost more than, say, five pence. By applying that theoretical pricing package to a month's worth of real calling data from every BT customer, the company determined that such a scheme would be profitable. So BT went ahead with it. "BT is never going to be the lowest per minute," Winn says. "We needed to change the game."
Winn's group might have done such modeling with Excel spreadsheets on a subset of BT data. But aggregates and averages are a risky way to model, he says. Abstractions can distort results. Working out pricing problems on Kognitio's servers lets BT use actual customer data-and lots of it. "When the answer comes out, it has a lot more credibility," he says. "This isn't a few assumptions in a spreadsheet. It is truly penny perfect."
Jim Swartz, CIO of Sybase, sees potential in cloud computing but isn't ready to give up his company's data to a third-party host. Instead, he has virtualised Sybase's servers-essentially creating his own private cloud-so he can study the best way to use the architecture.
At Sybase, a private cloud of virtual servers inside its data center has saved nearly $2 million annually since 2006, Swartz says, because the company can share computing power and storage resources across servers. The virtual setup also lets Sybase move data electronically from one physical site to another, for a more agile disaster recovery program.
Whenever you hear the term "private cloud," understand that it's "nothing more than virtualisation," notes David Linthicum, principal of Linthicum Group, a consulting firm that specializes in enterprise architecture and Web technologies. Virtualisation lets CIOs take advantage of the economics of cloud computing, he says, but within their own walls and under their own control.
Virtualisation has certainly saved money for Norton Healthcare, a nonprofit hospital system in Louisville, Ky., although CIO Joe DeVenuto declines to cite exact figures. Norton recently revamped its data center with vendor Emerson Network Power, installing 160 virtual servers. The goal was to milk every drop of computing power and storage capacity from its machines. Virtual servers scale up and down fast, and new ones can be added in less time than it takes to configure a traditional server, DeVenuto notes.
Cloud vendors might be even more efficient than he is, De-Venuto says, but that extra oomph isn't worth the risk of letting go of patient data from Norton's four hospitals, 10 urgent care facilities and 60 doctor's offices. He would consider cloud for disaster recovery, he says, but not for primary computing. "I'm fairly conservative. It's a struggle for me to put patient information in the public cloud."
One organisation more willing to farm out some of its data is the United States Golf Association, which governs the rules of golf and runs 13 championships every year. Daily operations at the USGA rely heavily on their own email system because they are in continual contact with their constituencies, such as state and regional golf associations, USGA members, championship host clubs and the general golfing community. Even an hour of downtime would cause major disruption to this workflow, says Jessica Carroll, managing director of IT.
Carroll wanted to revise an existing e-mail backup plan that would take hours or days to recover. Under that plan, the IT department would handle the entire recovery process, including ordering new hardware to start from scratch. To take the weight off her team's shoulders and to make sure the company wouldn't lose data or productivity, she signed a deal last year with IBM to host a replication of USGA's e-mail system in IBM's data centers.
If a USGA server hits a problem, Carroll can click a button to switch to the replicated version that IBM maintains for her, she says, without USGA users noticing a thing. Then her IT department can fix the internal issues. The e-mail system carries USGA's most critical data, such as membership information and correspondences between the constituents.
Before Carroll could feel comfortable with the deal, however, she extracted stringent service-level promises from IBM. For example, in the event of a short-term outage such as a hardware failure, IBM must immediately provide a year's worth of backed-up e-mails for senior management of the USGA staff so they can continue e-mailing without waiting for repair. In the event of a full-blown crash, IBM would provide multiple years' worth of messages. The hardware and software for this kind of backup and recovery system would have cost the USGA too much to do on its own, Carroll says.
Hamilton Beach Brands also dipped a toe into cloud computing via e-mail. When the time came to upgrade Lotus Notes last year, the appliance company hesitated. Hamilton Beach hadn't refreshed Notes in three years and Jerry Hodge, senior director of information services, knew jumping from Notes 6.53 to version 8 would force him to upgrade his IBM iSeries servers and retrain the 500 users on the system. A lot of expensive work just for e-mail, he thought.
Hodge asked his staff to look into Google's Gmail service, among other alternatives. E-mail hasn't been a competitive differentiator for years, he reasoned. By subscribing to Gmail for a monthly per-user fee, Hamilton Beach would avoid the expense of new hardware, software licenses and training. Because Google provides archiving and retrieval, Hodge also figured he'd save on items such as backup tapes and disks and the IT labor to support electronic discovery for lawsuits or audits. "Over five years, the cost would be half," he says, looking at a spreadsheet comparing the Notes upgrade to Gmail. Such savings in capital and ongoing operating expenses were too compelling to pass up, he says. "Let someone in the cloud run e-mail and free up my guys' time to work on stuff that does make a difference."
It's one thing to put a basic, almost self-contained system like email into the hands of an outside service provider. Quite another to off-load more complicated, interdependent applications filled with sensitive customer or competitive data, says Tracy, who recently left Rolls-Royce to become CIO of Dana Corp. "I don't think there's a mad rush for people to put their ERP systems in the clouds," he says.
For Tracy and other skeptics, security and reliability issues raise serious questions. Outages of Gmail for several hours in February and April frustrated a mass of customers. Amazon, too, has experienced outages due to authentication overloads and other problems.
How much these issues matter will vary depending on the criticality of the system and the risk tolerance of the CIO, Tracy says.
Security is especially important at Rolls-Royce, which makes such items as jet engines for military aircraft and power systems for Navy ships. (The fancy cars are made by BMW.) As a defense contractor, the company is bound by strict federal technology and physical security regulations. He contemplated cloud computing but not with Amazon or Google partly because, he says, they won't let customers inspect their data centers-and that's a show-stopper for Tracy. "You say you want to try cloud computing, but it's only a few hundred bucks a month to them and they say it's not cost effective to allow this tour," he says.
Google, for one, has heard this criticism before. Its response is that customers can feel comfortable with Google Apps because its systems and processes have passed a SAS 70 Type II audit of controls in place to protect data. Google has also published on its enterprise blog some of the ways it manages customer information.
That helps a little, Tracy says, but it's far from enough when he worries about exporting sensitive data. "That requires us to understand where the data is hosted and who has access, [even] the nationality of everyone who is a system administrator," he explains. "That's not feasible in cloud computing, where processing could be in any data center around the country at any given moment."
Adopting cloud whole hog could cut IT staff by 10 percent to 15 percent, according to McKinsey. That's just what no one below the CIO wants to hear. At Hamilton Beach, which simply handed over e-mail to Google, Hodge says he saw fear. "My team was apprehensive about cloud. Thought it would put them out of a job." But no one has lost his job because of cloud computing, he adds. Instead, he's been able to reassign duties to let staffers do more productive work in areas such as business continuity.
At a recent gathering of IT leaders in New York, the enthusiasm about cloud computing's potential was tempered by sobering worries about early-stage hurdles. Still, the group estimated that within five years, as much as 25 per cent to 30 per cent of most companies' IT strategies will include services from the cloud.
"The will to experiment is there," notes Shiva Swamy, executive vice president of IT services firm ZSL and one of the attendees. "Surely the bad economy provides the impetus, but there are many unknowns that we all have to figure out together."


text: Attention: music festival season is among us! Stagecoach, Bonnaroo, CMA Fest, Oh My! If you've never planned a trip to Nashville during CMA Fest (or at all for that matter - see my previous post about My ULTIMATE Nashville Guide) then pay close attention - cause you're gonna wanna plan a get-away after I tell you all about CMA Fest and why it's AWESOME!

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Very nice village house with lovely location and superb terrace overlooking the village of Magalas.
The total living space is about 47 m2 and under the house there is a basement of about 15 m2.
Ground floor: Entrance, bedroom 10 m2 with adjacent shower room 3.5 m2.
2nd floor: Kitchen / living room 15 m2 with exit to a terrace of 7.5 m2 with a south facing orientation and a lovely view!
Miscellaneous: Heating Electric radaiators + Annual Property Tax Approx. 350 EUR + Sold Furnished!

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text: Individuals or organizations that have demonstrated capability in the aviation security problem area may submit a Proposal in response to a PARAS RFP. Information regarding proposal requirements can be found in Guidance for Preparing Proposals. Open RFPs are listed below.


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Romper met lange mouw Carrot Crunch van Raspberry Republic.
Raspberry Republic Romper met Lange Mouw Carrot Crunch.	Materiaal: 95% organic cotton, 5% elastan. Geproduceerd in Polen.


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Literary Journal, published in New York and featuring poetry, fiction, novels, translations, visual art, and interviews. One can order a print directly from the site of Stosvet Press or by sending an e-mail by clicking here.
Cardinal Points is a part of Stosvet project, which also includes the Russian version of the journal ("Стороны Света"/Storony Sveta), the Stosvet Press publishing house, and the Compass Translation Award.
Starting with volume 6, the Cardinal Points Journal is published under the auspices of Brown University’s Slavic Studies Department.


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While the UK remains in the EU, the UK based clients of life insurers based in other EU countries and which are authorised to operate in the UK (for example, offshore bond providers) benefit from the same FSCS protection as customers of UK based life insurers. Once the UK leaves the EU this protection may no longer be available.
Where you have clients with investment or insurance products issued from outside the UK but within the European Economic Area* you will need to identify whether there are any changes to consumer protection arrangements (in the event of the provider becoming insolvent) as a result of Brexit.


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Delta Kappa Epsilon is one of the oldest fraternities with 52 active chapters in the United States and Canada. It was founded at Yale College in 1844. The fraternity has produced five presidents of the United States, has had its flag flown at the North Pole and on a landing on the moon.
The fraternity is privileged with having founded a fraternity that has brothers who have served in top government positions along with legislation and judicial services. Make your graduation very memorable with high quality custom designed sashes.
Wear the sash and make your day more memorable and show everyone that you are proud of your fraternity.


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WHAT DOES THE PEACE PROCESS AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MEAN FOR COLOMBIAN LAWYERS AND DEFENDERS?
What does this mean for justice for the millions of victims and survivors of the 50 year-old civil war?
What can UK lawyers do? Would you like to join this year’s delegation to Colombia?
The Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group is a group of international lawyers that monitor the human rights abuses faced by legal professionals in Colombia. There are preparing a new mission for this August 2016 and they need your support. Donations, knowledge in human rights law, peace process, journalism, communication, interpreters and more.
After the first International Caravana of Lawyers mission, a number of the delegates returned to the UK and established the Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group. The organisation was incorporated as a company in 2010 and achieved charity status in 2011.


text: An 11-year-old ice-hockey player should watch and listen, listen and watch — and dare to try out some bold moves. Isn’t that what it’s all about? And the adults in the young player’s club should set a good example by winning. That’s exactly what’s happened here. These Gagarin Cup finalists also find the time to check in with their young club mates training for the Gazprom Neft Cup. That’s how it should be. They’re one team, after all.

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1. What is your policy for dealing with political discussions?
2. Has your workplace experienced problems with disruptive political discussions?
3. Is HR in your workplace neutral regarding political discussions?
4. In your opinion, has HR's lack of neutrality created more workplace disruption in the workplace?
4. In your opinion, has HR's neutrality helped control potential disruption in the workplace?
4. Do you think HR neutrality in political discussions would be beneficial to your workplace?
4. Please let me know what you think of Hard Hat HR with 0 being terrible and 10 being outstanding!


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The White Crested Black Polish is one of the proudest birds you are going to find anywhere. They have their bonnets on and are ready to go dancing.
We obtained ours from the Superior Farms dispersal. We have added birds from Joel Henning in New York. I believe that all of Superior Farms White Crested Black Polish also came from Joel Henning. Joels White Crested Black Polish continue to dominate wherever he shows.
They lay a large chalk white egg. They are very good layers. I have never had one set.
If you want to set yourself apart from the crowd at this years fair try some of these. They are sure to please.

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I wish to congratulate Solomon Airlines for the launching of your new website. Now we are in business.
You really do us proud of this excellent and professional service available for international travelers. Cmon you guys! Visit our beautiful SOLO. Gud Tumas.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this letter are those of Kaliki and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Solomon Times Online.

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A: Yes, a good balanced diet is important for healthy sperm.
Do you think your diet has affected your sperm health?
One in six couples have difficulty becoming pregnant, and around half the time it's because of a problem with the man's sperm, says Dr Anne Clark, medical director of Fertility First in Sydney.
And yes, Clark says, sometimes sperm problems are linked to what a man eats or drinks.
While the number of sperm a man produces is not associated with diet, the health of those sperm can be.
Sperm count is actually predetermined by how many germ cells  which become sperm cells  migrate into a man's testes before he is born, Clark explains.
What a man eats or drinks however can influence how well a sperm performs as well as the chance of any fertilised egg growing successfully in the mother's womb.
How well a sperm swims is known as motility. In a fertile man, at least 25 per cent of sperm cells should be 'rapidly progressive'  moving fast enough and in the right direction to reach the egg.
Some DNA fragmentation is fairly common, says Clark, but at higher rates it begins to affect fertility.
"If more than 20 per cent of the sperm have got evidence of DNA damage, then that couple's chances of getting pregnant is significantly reduced and the risk of miscarriage is three to four times higher," she says. Genetic problems can also be passed on to children.
While diet is not the only factor influencing DNA fragmentation  a man's age is another  it is an important one. Fifty three per cent of men visiting Clark's clinic have at least one form of nutritional deficiency that impacts on sperm function and fertility potential.
Clark says everyone who is trying to conceive should think about diet, not just those people who are having difficulty.
Foods such as fruit, vegetables and wholegrains are important because they are rich in antioxidants, which inhibit the free radicals that can damage sperm DNA.
But it's not so much about eating specific foods as having a healthy diet overall.
Lots of vitamins and minerals, such as vitamins C and E, and zinc and selenium are needed for healthy sperm.
"Having the right nutrient mix is important. If you have a normal balanced diet you'll be getting all the important nutrients."
But there are occasions when a healthy diet isn't enough.
One in eight people have an enzyme variant called MTHFR that means they have difficulties absorbing the vitamin folate from their diet, however healthy it is.
Deficiencies in folate, along with low levels of vitamin B6 and vitamin B12, are linked with DNA damage in sperm through raised levels of a chemical called homocysteine (a building block for proteins).
But if a man is unable to absorb folate from foods such as green leafy vegetables , a supplement will do the job.
But remember a bad diet can also be linked with obesity which can contribute to infertility on its own. Fifty to 70 per cent of Australian men in the reproductive age group are overweight or obese. There are a variety of reasons this might make these men less fertile but a poor nutrient balance from eating higher amounts of manufactured food is probably one of them, says Clark.
Of course food isn't the only thing we put in our bodies. Alcohol and smoking are known to play a role in infertility too.
"If a man is drinking more than about ten glasses of alcohol a week, particularly if he's binge drinking, then he's potentially affecting his sperm quality," says Clark.
Alcohol may affect sperm quality by increasing oestrogen production in the liver, as well as poisoning cells in the testes. While we tend not to think of alcohol as a poison, it can be toxic at high doses.
Smoking is thought to cause around 13 per cent of infertility. "Wherever blood goes, the toxic things in cigarettes goes. So as the sperm grow and develop, they do so in a toxic swamp. In particular this links back to DNA fragmentation, which also increases the risks of the resulting child developing diseases early in life, particularly a four times increased risk of cancer in childhood " says Clark.
The bottom line is that a healthy balanced diet and keeping bad habits to a minimum is key to optimising fertility, says Clark.
And when it comes to diet and sperm health, men are in luck.
"The good thing for a man is that because he makes sperm continuously, by making dietary and other lifestyle changes he can significantly improve his and the couple's chance of an ongoing healthy pregnancy," says Clark.
Dr Anne Clark is a fertility specialist and gynaecologist, and the medical director of the Fertility First Centre for Reproductive Health in Sydney. She spoke to Katherine Nightingale.


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Music makes everything better, even exercise that leaves you totally spent and drenched in sweat.
Music makes everything better, even exercise that leaves you totally spent and drenched in sweat, according to a study published last week in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. Researchers had 20 moderately active adult men and women do an interval workout: four, 30-second "all-out" cycling sprints with four minutes of rest in between.
They did the workout on two separate occasions, with and without their treasured playlists. As expected, people found those heart-pumping sprints more enjoyable when they had their tunes—and they could push harder, too. The participants had higher peak and average power output when their headphones were in.
Other studies show that interval training's signature—alternating short bursts of intensity followed by periods of rest—offer far more health benefits than exercising steadily for longer periods of time. It's just that a long walk in the park is, you know, a walk in the park versus working as hard as you possibly can, even for just a few minutes.
That's why, despite this study's semi-obvious takeaway, we love to hear there's something out there that can help us stick with it. Also, it's a good excuse to try a fresh playlist! So we made you one, below.
Follow our "Power Through" playlist on Spotify.


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Lincoln Currency Exchange — South Beach and Miami Beach.
Lincoln Currency Exchange aims to create a worry free currency service for all of your foreign currency needs. We buy and sell foreign currency from over 80 countries.
Lincoln Currency Exchange offers exchange rates that are better than local banks and far better than the airports. Plus Lincoln offers convenient seven days a week service.
Lincoln Currency Exchange is known for better rates than the local banks for the same product and service on same day and time of the exchange. This way you know you are always getting a great exchange value.
With years experience of the foreign exchange market, Our passionate, caring, 'hands–on' management style is at the heart of business, driving long term benefits for the international traveller. It is our commitment to exceptional customer service that has helped us become one of the most successful foreign exchange company on Miami Beach.
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Holly Long is a Atlanta,Ga area photographer specializing in warm, whimsical, and light infused Maternity, Newborn/Fresh48, Children, and Family Photography | Atlanta-Maternity-Newborn-Children-Family-photography. I am open to travel.
I am so lucky and I praise GOD that I was able to find a second passion in my life! My style is warm,whimsical, and light infused. It's my goal to capture magical moments through my lens that will provide you with memories that will last a lifetime. I love capturing little ones running through pretty light, mommies holding their babies, couples in love and families cuddled up together. I want to capture the in-between moments,the real moments that tell the story! YOUR STORY! Come and dream with me and we can capture the magic together! I can't wait to meet you and tell your story.


text: Jacqueline Wilson (Author) Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain's bestselling and most beloved children's authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold. As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children's Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children's Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings. Find out more about Jacqueline and her books at JacquelineWilson.co.ukNick Sharratt (Illustrator) Nick Sharratt has written and illustrated many books for children and won numerous awards for his picture books, including the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the 2001 Children's Book Award. He has also enjoyed great success illustrating Jacqueline Wilson books. Nick lives in Edinburgh.


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Université de Montréal researcher Diana Matheoud has identified the way cells respond to infection or stress as a potential indicator of the onset of Parkinson’s disease. Genetic mutations associated with this neurodegenerative condition also affect this immune system process. More specifically, the effects extend to mitochondria, key structures within cells that provide vital energy for their functioning, which are directly compromised by Parkinson’s.
Among the highest priorities of Parkinson’s disease research has been the development of a diagnostic test to indicate the onset of this condition, so that people could begin treatment as soon as possible. This goal depends on finding a specific biological marker for neurodegeneration, something that Diana Matheoud is attempting to pin down, thanks to a New Investigator Award in the amount of $90,000 over two years.


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Author: Christopher Rengers, O.F.M. Cap.
The apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Tepeyac Hill northeast of Mexico City on December 12, 1531, when she left her image imprinted on the cloak of an Aztec Indian named Juan Diego, continue to fascinate believers and nonbelievers alike the world over. She came from heaven with the tenderness of a mother to invite all those who, even in the centuries to come, would dwell on the American continent, to a life of holiness, prayer and peace by following Jesus, her divine Son. Details of the apparitions, the miracle of the roses, the amazing discoveries regarding Mary's image on the tilma, and the import of her message for the world today are set forth with uncommon clarity and devotion in this highly readable and fully illustrated book. This revised and updated edition includes a detailed account of Pope John Paul II’s canonization of Juan Diego in Mexico City on July 31, 2002.
About the Author: The director of The Work of St. Joseph and the organizer of the Capuchin Troupe, a choral-dramatic group which gained fame in the 1960s and early 1970s for its presentation of various religious pageants, Father Christopher Rengers, OFM Cap, has long promoted interest in and devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Ordained in 1942, he spent his early years in the ministry teaching at St. Joseph College in Hays, Kansas and serving in mission parishes in Ohio and Missouri, with a lengthy stay in St. Louis. He presently resides in Washington, DC, from which he conducts frequent pilgrimages to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. He is the author of The Youngest Prophet, a biography of Jacinta Marto, also published by Alba House.


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What are the key points and tips I need to know to get the best out of DesignSpark PCB?
Is there a book about DesignSpark PCB?
How can I get my tool bars back?
How can I create a board outline?
What can I do within a project window?
How can I pan and zoom the design?
To add an existing PCB, Schematic design or any file to a project, first make the project window your current window, and select Add Files to Project from the Project menu or use the Add Files button on the toolbar. A Windows standard Open browser window is displayed to allow you to find and add the required file.
If you have selected a schematic design to add to the project it will be cross sheet checked for duplicate component and net names.
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Charge 10-12hrs Before first use.
When the weather gets too hot and the ordinary fan begins to emit hot air. The Andrakk Rechargeable Mist fan provides an air cooling effect through its automatic water atomization function. It cools the air by drawing water from the in-built 2.1ltrs water can to provide the much needed humidity in the home. It is sleek and beautifully designed, providing more aesthetics for the home.

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Previously only a rumor, the Supreme x Comme des Garçons x Nike Air Force 1 Low has now been confirmed by Supreme and will be releasing this Fall.
The three-way collaborative Air Force 1 sports a clean and simple black and white colorway as the shoe features a black tumbled leather upper that is highlighted by misaligned Swooshes on the sides. Other details include three-way branding on the heel and insole, a white midsole and black rubber outsole to complete the design.
Look for the Supreme x Comme des Garçons x Nike Air Force 1 Low to release in November. There will also be an apparel collection that will release on September 13th.


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If you buy or sell real estate in New York, you need to be aware of the potential tax implications. Normally, the “capital gain” on the sale of real property is subject to federal and state income tax. In other words, if you buy a house for $100,000 and sell it 10 years later for $250,000, you need to pay income tax on the capital gain of $150,000.
But federal tax law allows real estate owners to defer capital gains taxes in situations where the proceeds from the sale of one property are used to purchase another, similar property. This is known as a 1031 exchange–a reference to the appropriate section of the Internal Revenue Code–and as of 2018, it only applies to real property, whether improved or unimproved. Prior to January 1, 2018, taxpayers could also conduct 1031 exchanges of certain qualifying personal property, such as machinery used in a business.
There are strict time limits to complete a 1031 exchange. The clock starts to run when the property being sold is transferred to the buyer, or the date the new deed is recorded, whichever occurs first. From that point, the seller must purchase the like-kind property within 180 days, or before filing their tax return for the tax year when the first property was sold, whichever occurs first. The party making the exchange must also “identify” the like-kind property within 45 days of transferring the first property. “Most clients are concerned about the timing of 1031 exchanges, because if the deadline for identifying replacement property or closing on that replacement property falls on a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, the deadline does not roll over to the next business day,” adds Schwartz.
Both the relinquished and exchanged properties must be held for investment or “productive use in a trade or business.” In other words, neither property can be your personal residence.
You need to consider both the state and federal tax implications of a 1031 exchange. New York State imposes its own income tax on capital gains. But New York also grants exemptions for qualified 1031 exchanges, which requires filing separate forms with the state.
A 1031 exchange is only valid for an exchange of “real property of like kind.” Fortunately, all real property in the U.S. is considered of a like kind. This means you can sell an office building in Albany and use the proceeds to buy a piece of farmland in Oswego County, and it would qualify as a 1031 exchange.


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“If I run your boat aground, I’ll buy you a 30 pack,” I said quietly but confidently. I knew I was going to run us aground. I just didn’t know exactly when and where.
“Sounds good….(pause) Left. Left! Rocks on the right,” Nick said loud and clear, but with zero hostility. Slight left turn, and we were back in the uncharted channel. Moving forward at a slow 0.8 knots.
Location: Secret spot in the Bahamas. Not telling.
Characters: Katie, Reggie, Nick, Tara, and myself. Who is Nick, and who is Tara? Nick is a very good friend of ours whom we met and traveled with in the Bahamas last summer. Tara is Nick’s house. A stunning 31 foot Bristol born in 1982.
Setting: Pitch black. Too many stars to comprehend. Phosphorescence bouncing around Tara’s wake, like swimming lightning bugs. The FM radio is tuned to rock ‘n roll. Steady 12 knot breeze. Pleasantly warm. Sometime around 23:00.
Mood: Exhausted but equally as excited. Adrenaline comes with night time navigation over the shallow water. Loony. Slightly delirious, yet self assured. Carefree. Nothing matters. Tail end of a 20 hour crossing, and suddenly I don’t even care if we get there anymore… I could keep going.
Situation: Katie and I are on a mission to an anchorage we had visited a year ago. A narrow deep channel, leading to a big hole, perfectly sized for one boat to swing 360 degrees. This specific anchorage is not charted. Maybe a quarter mile, we navigate the uncharted channel in the darkness. Nick is on the bow, with nothing but a dim light to read the bottom of the sea. Katie is keeping an eye on the depth sounder, and translating Nick’s instructions from the bow, since the dodger gets in the way of communication. I am at the helm, eyes fixed on the GPS, doing what I can to keep us centered in the channel that none of us can see. We are now uncertain when the channel takes its’ 90 degree right turn.
My night vision is shot from focusing on the chart plotter’s backlight. The only reason I have any kind of confidence driving someone else’s boat in this sort of situation is the trust that Nick initially has in Katie and me. It’s his boat, and he seems to have no worries. If he is worrying, he is hiding it well. He has complete confidence in Katie and me to run the show. So we are. My forward movement is completely based on listening to Katie, Nick and Tara. We find the 90 degree turn in the channel that we remembered, and find ourselves in the deep hole we are searching for. But just before we find the right spot to drop the hook, inertia knocked us forward. I hit bottom. I owe Nick a thirty pack. Damnit.
Rewind: Why are we in the Bahamas with Nick, aboard Tara, and not Louise? Let’s just say… sometimes things just work out. Sometimes by not having a plan, the best decisions are made. Our decision to cross to the Bahamas was made on a Friday night around 20:00, as the three of us were on the way to the bar in Fort Lauderdale. We all had a rough day following a late outing the night prior, and spent hours joking about crossing to the Bahamas for the weekend. On the way to the bar, Katie humorlessly said it first , “Let’s go to the Bahamas”. I was right on board with the idea, and pulled up the weather forecast. Nick was thrilled. Decision made. We weren’t joking anymore. Why would we go spend more money at the bar when we all would rather be in the Bahamas? We turned the car around, ran back to Louise to pick up Reggie, packed a bag, and slept for 3 hours that night. Long before the sun rose we were out on the mother ocean. South-east bound. Nick had to be back in Lauderdale Tuesday morning to catch a flight to St. Martin. This decision the three of us made was the definition of Rash. Or maybe, it was the definition of freedom?
Fast forward: I don’t know what time it is. I don’t know how long I slept or if I slept at all. It’s morning. On the bow. French press. Light breeze. Crispy skin. Breakfast sandwich. Unfinished sentences. Unfinished thoughts. Love them. My sister hates them. Oh well. Here we sit, smack dab in the middle of this deep hole we somehow navigated ourselves into. I am in a tropical world surrounded by hues of blue my vocabulary cannot express. The water even more stunning than I remember. The gullies squawking, also as obnoxious as I remember, but it doesn’t matter because the scenery drowns out their conversation. I wonder what they are squawking about. I wonder if they realize how beautiful it is here. Twenty four more hours before we have to turn around. The twenty hours it took us to get here is all worth sitting right here, right now. But I don’t want to turn around. I don’t want to go home. Suddenly, I am confused as to why Katie and I are northbound after this. If we had taken Louise here instead of Tara, we would be sending Nick back to the states on a plane, and continue another Bahamian journey. But I am here now. With some of my best friends. It would take some kind of crazy vice grip contraption to take the smile off of my face.
Fast forward again, to later in the day when as adults we feel like children. The tide is low. The sand banks are above the water creating miles of land to walk. So we walk. We talk. We explore. We laugh. “What ifs” and “Would you rathers” keep us entertained. More questions are raised than answers. We walk in a line and pretend we are elephants. We take turns balancing a large water jug on our heads. Reggie digs up conch and moves them to new places. There is one thing confirmed… Katie is obsessed with birds, Nick with trees, and me with clouds. The difference being that they are actually knowledgeable in their categories, and I am just curious about mine.
By sunset a current of rum gravitates towards our bellies. Conversation gets even better. We pick apart Katie, because she is funny and we know she can handle it. Chuckle about all of our discombobulated relationships, why we can’t maintain them, and why they have never worked. We wonder why more people can’t seem to find happiness in the simplicity of being broke, unattached, unpredictable, and nomadic. We ponder the appeal of stability, income, and safety. Amongst our obvious differences, the three of us are exactly the same.
Suddenly, buzzed Nick realizes that his flight to St. Martin is on the 30th. The 30th is not Tuesday, it is Wednesday. We have another day to run free here in the Bahamas. We don’t have to leave before the sun rises. We thought he was playing a joke on us. He wasn’t. Soon, there was no rum left in the bottle. It was this night, we all finally slept.
The next 24 hours are spent moseying, and leisurely re-anchoring in a new location. Although right around the corner, it felt like a whole new kind of paradise. While snorkeling to shore, Katie and I confirm in our masks and snorkels that there is no where else in the world we would rather be. Nick and Reggie are rowing around in the distance. Maybe we could swim back and steal Tara, leave Nick and Reggie on this here rock. They would survive. They are smart men.
Katie and I look at each other, too scared to put our faces back in the water. If there are sharks swimming beneath us, I don’t think I want to look.
“I’m going to come get you.” Nick casually heads our way.
Katie and I start doggy paddling the opposite direction. Our faces are nervously laughing, but our eyes are terrified. Every shadow I see I’m convinced is going to eat me. We both hop in the dinghy. Sure enough, the predators are visible in every direction.
Just before the sun says its goodbye for the day, we decide that a night time operation back to America is suitable. Nick raises the sail, hauls up the anchor, and off we go, into the darkness. Westbound. By the time the light from the sun setting disappears, the glow from city lights take it’s place, giving the helmsman/woman an easy indication for steering the right direction through this blackness. Lightning relentlessly strikes in the distance to the south. The wind is behind us. The gulf stream working in our favor. Wide awake the entire night, I try to close my eyes, but unsuccessfully. I don’t want to miss anything. I don’t want to go home. None of us do. The lightning never catches up to us. The boom whips across the cockpit a handful of times, bringing those laying down instantly upright. The FM radio switches from rock ‘n roll to country. The amount of wishes I have aren’t enough to keep up with the shooting stars. I realize that there isn’t that much I have to wish for. Nick makes coffee around 2am. The first boiling batch flies into the air simultaneously with a wave. French press down. Coffee grounds fill every corner and crack of Tara. Try, try again.
Twelve hours later, twilight welcomes us into the city of Fort Lauderdale. I finally close my eyes. I don’t want to see the city. Two full days disappear to rest after returning to Louise. Okay, now… it is time to go. There is no more schedule. There are no more plans. Only the last minute ones. We must keep it this way. A peculiar lifestyle to accept, but necessary. Katie and I have been so anxious to get to Michigan… to get home… to complete The Great Loop. Something changed. No longer do we care. We will get there when we get there. Hell, let’s go back to the Bahamas… we will finish this loop next year. The End.
You are officially a damned good writer as well as a damned good photographer. I’m so glad you’re archiving and sharing these experiences. Sail on!
DAVE. Thanks for being a source of encouragement and inspiration!
Some one once said “if you want to make God laugh, just make a plan” . Why would you wand to make for Michigan when your hearts and boat want to head to the Virgin Islands. If you head that way now, you can rendezvous with us when we relaunch Fille de Joie in January 2015. You can always get jobs in the USVI.
This is true. Making plans is never a good plan. As much as we would enjoy the BVI’s… we have become “loopers” at heart. Gotta finish the circle. The BVI’s will await our arrival in later years. Miss you guys.
This is my favorite post so far. The story. The pictures. All of it. I think it sums up the whole idea behind your journey. No plans. As I’m reading, all I keep thinking about is that I hope ya’ll get back to Louise, turn around, and head back to the Bahamas.
You may want to save some of this for a future book. It is certainly well written, photographed, and entertaining enough to make a splash in the media. The nautical equivalent of the TV show “Two Broke Girls” only much more fun.
“We wonder why more people can’t seem to find happiness in the simplicity of being broke, unattached, unpredictable, and nomadic.” I like this. Keep going girls.
Great photos!!! Thank you for sharing. We’re thinking about you here in FLL . . . wondering where your next port may be.
Does part of the carefree life style mean not checking in with customs and immigration?
I can not add anything more to the excellent writing and the beautiful photographs. Pardey’s made a life at sea writing and I believe you girls could too.
I am getting to where I look forward to seeing you next post and worry about you guys when they are too far apart. I took my first great Bahamas trip on a sailboat in my twenties with several friends. Like you, I did not want to come back to the real world. Take your time, the world will wait for you! And, you do have the makings of a great book.
Awesome spur of the moment trip! Great photos as always. Maybe we’ll bump into (not literally) you in the Bahamas.
LOVE the pic with Reggie’s toes in the air!! That is a classic!!
Your blog continues to be a great read and the pics are amazing. Keep living the dream!
Reading your posts always puts a smile on my face. This was your most entertaining one so far. The photos are excellent and the one of you, Katie and Reggie on your backs showing your feet gave me a belly laugh. I’ll keep reading as long as you keep posting. Thanks for sharing your adventure with us.
We know where your secret spot was. Wish we were there with you again.
Great post, great photos. Keep following the “Loop”, you will find great places, people and adventures.

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MELBOURNE, June 18 (Reuters) - ExxonMobil Corp, southeastern Australia’s biggest gas supplier, is considering importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help plug a looming gas shortage from 2021 and protect its market share.
The move would compete with plans by both Australia’s no.2 energy retailer AGL Energy to start importing LNG by 2021 and a consortium involving Japan’s JERA to start imports from 2020.
“Combined with the existing Gippsland resource and infrastructure, an LNG import facility could ensure ExxonMobil can continue to meet our customers’ needs,” the company said.
Australia’s energy market operator warned in March that Victoria, the country’s biggest gas consuming state, could face shortages from mid-2021 due to a rapid drop in supply from the the Gippsland Basin Joint Venture, owned by ExxonMobil and BHP Billiton.
Output from the Gippsland Basin, the state’s mainstay supplier over the past 50 years, is expected to fall to just half of 2018 levels by 2022, it said.
Even though Australia is set to challenge Qatar as the world’s top LNG exporter, local gas supplies are under threat due to field declines and long-term export contracts.
“If we saw some new supply come to market that fundamentally changed that market dynamic, we would revisit the business case, but we haven’t seen that to date,” AGL General Manager Phaedra Deckart told Reuters in an interview last week.


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So today is the last weekday of our week long vacation. The weather has finally started to cool from upper 80s to a comfortable mid-70s. Plus, there's rain in the forecast! Who doesn't love rain and thunderstorms?
Of course, it wasn't raining around lunch time, which meant grilling!
And enjoying some tasty lunch out on the deck. Weather be damned!
I even finally made some cinnamon rolls for tomorrow morning that I'd been dragging my feet on all week.
Plus, it didn't start to rain until the evening, which is certainly my favorite time for rain. No thunderstorms though. Oh well. Maybe next time.