With Joe Biden set to become president-elect, each side needs to take stock of where they missed. And I certainly will write about my misses (the Ohio one is terrible) in the weeks ahead.
The lesson of 2020 is that Biden’s voters were correct that Trump’s supporters can’t grasp how much of the country despises Donald Trump. Trump’s loss is built on massive pro-Biden turnout in cities, along with Biden’s gains in the Suburbs. That’s perhaps best encapsulated by Cobb County, Georgia. Hillary Clinton won the county by just over a point. Biden won it by 14.3 points. He won 62,000 more votes there, which will easily surpass his margin in a state that hadn’t gone Democratic since 1996.
The other lesson of 2020 is that Trump’s voters were correct that Biden’s supporters have no idea how many people love Trump. Trump came closer than I thought, and he received way more votes than he did in 2016.
In a period of examination, it’s important to beat back faulty narratives. And “Trafalgar got things right” just won’t die.
That did not happen. Not even close. The exit polls leave a lot to be desired but here is Trump’s Black support in them: 6% (PA), 7% (WI), 9% (MI), 11% (GA). Even if you distrust the exits (which is reasonable), Biden’s winning in most major cities by more than Clinton. From Kansas City to Columbus. From Denver to Atlanta. The story is the same in many other major American metropolitan areas: Biden turned out a ton of people that didn’t vote in 2016, and he won them at high rates. It’s hard to make any convincing case that Trump won over 20% of the Black vote.
The Trafalgar folks would say, in flashing lights, “Well, we barely had Trump up in those states, we were within our margin of error.” But that’s what happens when you basically have every poll as Trump +2 in the states he loses. If he wins, you say, “The liberal media missed again.” And if he wins, then you get to claim nobody understood Trump was as close as you did.
In the 2018 Georgia governor’s race, they had Kemp winning by 12. He won by 1.4. They missed his margin by 10.6 points.
They missed the 2018 Nevada Senate race by eight points, incorrectly predicting a three point Heller win when he lost by five points.
They missed the 2018 Arizona Senate race. They called a McSally win by two points and she lost by 2.3.
Trafalgar missed the 2018 Texas Senate race by 6.4 points. They had Cruz winning by nine points when he won by 2.4.
In their final big miss in 2018, they incorrectly called a two point win for the Republican gubernatorial candidate. Nevada has a Democratic governor—by a 4.1 point margin.
Cahaly really might be on to something with finding different voters. The polls had big misses in places in 2020. Susan Collins trailed in every poll. She’s going to cruise to re-election. Trafalgar has done well in Florida, as they’ve called the last four big races in the state.
But Cahaly won’t release his method. With plenty of big polling misses—including so many in his polls—he should bring his method public. Maybe he’s finding Trump’s white voters or detecting a Cuban shift in Florida. If he has a way to reach those people, then a public dialogue could help him figure out why he’s missed so badly in Georgia and had a map that missed five states. Maybe we’d find out why he thought Minnesota was Kanye dependent.
My fear is that Cahaly will come away from 2020 without anyone looking back at how many races he’s called incorrectly. He proclaimedput Biden over the top. But he shouldn’t proclaim victory. He predicted the wrong candidate would win, and his polls leave a lot to be desired over the two two cycles. Plenty of other pollsters have missed big, but they’re not out there claiming vindication. Cahaly shouldn’t either. Any love for him should be locked down.
Kendall Kaut is a lawyer, the editor-in-chief of Baylor’s SB Nation website and an elections analyst.


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Essentially the agreement afforded the tobacco industry a release from the growing public sentiment and movement towards mass litigation of smokers suing tobacco manufacturers. While the sums agreed are huge, in return the tobacco manufacturers were freed from a number of legal liabilities, the first to acknowledge and apologize for past misconduct, and the second, to disclose secret documents from inside the industry.


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Markets break 5-day winning streak; Midcaps outperform
Markets ended lower on Tuesday as investors booked profits after sharp gains recently which saw both the benchmark indices rising to all-time closing highs.
The market sentiment was also hit adversely after a survey showed that India's vast service sector activity remained weak in the month just gone by.
The 30-share Sensex ended down 265 points at 20,975 after hitting an intra-day low of 20,952 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 64 points at 6,253 after touching an intra-day low of 6,244, Sushil Financial Services, “Benchmark indices may get into a consolidation / correction zone post a stellar show seen in the recent past with Sensex scaling to new life-highs while Nifty missing the same by a whisker. However, individual stock would continue to outperform the benchmarks.
Asian shares sagged on Tuesday after hawkish comments from China's premier ahead of a key Communist Party meeting, though for a while limited losses.
Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs upgrades its view on India to "market weight", with a target for the Nifty of 6,900 points.
At 15:45 PM, the rupee was trading at Rs 61.61 compared with Friday's close of Rs 61.74 per dollar.
Defensive segments like FMCG and Healthcare reeled under maximum selling spell, plunged between 2-3%. Sectors like IT, TECk, Banks, Consumer Durables and Capital Goods slipped between 0.5-1%. However, BSE Realty and PSU indices ended marginally positivegained by nearly 1% each.
The market breadth in BSE ended marginally positive with 1,264 shares advancing and ,1121 shares declining.
From the FMCG and pharma space, ITC, HUL, Sun Pharma and Dr Reddy’s Labs slumped between 2-4%.
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Other notable losers were ICICI Bank, TCS, Sesa Sterlite, ONGC and Bharti Airtel.
On the gaining side, Coal India, Hindalco, Tata Motors, Tata Steel and Tata Power gained between 1-2%.
Shares of Suven Life Sciences were up 3.5% after hitting a 52-week on receipt of two product patents one each from US and Japan corresponding to its New Chemical Entities (NCEs).
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Smart businesses have an approach to risk management which goes beyond compliance And corporate risk management reporting needs to play a key role in supporting both the risk process and the strategic
Recent studies have demonstrated that and regulations is the main driver bThis comes as no surprise, given government initiatives such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US, the Turnbull/Combined Code for corporate governance in the UK and increased London Stock Exchange and SEC mandates for risk management responsibility at board director level.
As a result, many companies are producing central risk management policies and annual risk assessments, detailing their top risks and, in the better cases, providing an overview of what actions have been assigned to the risk committee. While this appears to satisfy the reporting accountants during the annual review, is it going far enough in terms of meeting the interests of good business management and maintaining shareholder value?
Corporate compliance is not enough for business growth
Organisations appear to have identified the fact that if they are found to be non-compliant with corporate governance requirements, shareholders will start to ask uncomfortable questions. If not answered positively, such questions could lead to serious impact on the organisation, with the possible consequences of loss in share value or an increased regulatory reporting regime.
In looking to provide this positive response publicly, a listed organisation requires a management strategy with a high level risk management framework and corporate reporting structure to ensure that it does not fall foul of the new and ever increasing requirements.
This should be encouraging news, as an organisation that is able to demonstrate talent and foresight when dealing with this type of risk through its internal controls and processes, will also be able to deal with all the other risks that an uncertain world throws at the business. Or will it?
History, as well as audits of corporate risk registers of compliantindicate otherwise. Problems in dealing with corporate risks seem to stem from a lack of correlation between the corporate risk register and detailed risk profiles related to underlying business units, assets, functions and programmes.
The top risks identified at board level tend to be highly generic and show no evidence of either being cascaded down to the rest of the business or of having been established following escalation or aggregation of emerging risks within the business. The impression given is that, when confronted with the compliance issue, senior managers gather to brainstorm a set of risks without making reference to the risks the business has already identified.
This same pattern permeates through the exposure assessments against the top risks. In some assessments, risks are scored using a crude qualitative scheme, resulting in an analysis that reveals little more than that the company has some 'red' risks which will soon turn to 'amber' or 'green'.
In other circumstances, detailed quantitative analysis tools are used inappropriately, resulting in Monte Carlo analyses, stating how the company's risk exposure has, for example, been reduced from £213.45m and mitigated down to £98.34m at a 90% confidence level, against a contingency budget of £120m. Such analyses are often based on estimates for individual risks which are rounded to the nearest £10m. This illusory accuracy may provide comfort to the board, but ultimately cannot be relied upon.
In both cases, it is extremely difficult to be assured that the potential impact on theives is well understood at board level. If the board does not truly understand the problems, how can it be expected to solve them?
Audits have also shown that risk executive committee meetings tend to revolve around a superficial review of the generic top risks without much attempt to drill down into the potential problem areas.
These issues are symptomatic of a number of things. Firstly, that an organisation is struggling to communicate its risks between the tiers of management hierarchy. Secondly, and perhaps as a result, the board isrisks and how they will impact upon the objectives of the organisation. Therefore, it would appear that a compliance-driven approach led purely from the board room can result in the attitude that an organisation is healthy so long as the appropriate boxes are ticked.
This implies that there needs to be a change in approach at board level.
Rather than relying solely on their own knowledge to make judgements about impending risks, senior managers need to be aware of risks that are rising up within their organisation.
To be effective, risk information needs to be transparent from executive level, through to the management and operational levels of an organisation (and back up the ladder). It also needs to be open to scrutiny and challenge, as it is only through the transparent communication of risk that the decision-making process can be supported, as it should be, by the risk management process.
This is not to say that the board should be micro-managing risks across the organisation. The board's role is to ensure that the organisation as a whole is managing its risks effectively and to judge when an emerging risk, highlighted for attention by managers within the organisation, has major implications for key business objectives. When managers have identified and prioritised this information for the board, the board must then take this knowledge and use it to develop a risk-informed business strategy to control risk.
The days when risk management could be effectively carried out in a business independently, in silos, are gone. It is not sufficient to identify a set of risks and file them on the risk register.  and mitigation.
The culture of the business should support the need (and ease) for every manager to take responsibility, not only for identifying and managing the risks in their own area, but also for understanding the implications of the risk in the wider context of the business. Having the right people know when a risk needs to be escalated and having the process and the tools to do so is essential to good corporate risk management.
In modern businesses, risk information needs to be transparent and available when people require it. It needs to be easily communicated both up through the management hierarchy and across the business. Using a central data repository for risk information including quantified assessments, mitigation plans and responses allows the instant communication of vital information across the enterprise. Ideally, in addition to an escalation process, a drill-down capability should be available, so that someone reviewing the corporate risk register should be able to access the information underlying and supporting these top risks. Categorisation of risks can help identify where connected risks contribute to a large corporate risk. This sort of analysis is essential in providing the data from the business and communicating it to the board. Members of the board are unlikely to trawl through thousands of risks to understand the threat to a single high level objective, so it is important to be able to filter and search the data for relevant information.
A powerful filtering and prioritisation mechanism, to provide an effective tool for slicing and dicing the data is essential. Using established risk categorisation breakdown structures within the recording and search functions will allow common risk themes to be identified across the organisation.
These themes (or pools of common risks) can then be linked to an existing strategic or corporate risk and at the same time improve the definition andof the risk.
Building the information for corporate risks based on greater detail available within the operational levels of business, means better informed business decisions can be made and , which not only deal with the corporate risk, but address the many connected risks around the business. Under a 'silo' compliance approach, where there is no transparency, these opportunities for shared mitigation plans are often overlooked.
Although the approach described above will improve the definition of high level risks and allow effective mitigation plans to be developed, this alone will still not provide an effective corporate view. It is also essential when assessing corporate risks to consider what exactly will be impacted by the risk. In the case of corporate risks it will be the key objectives of the organisation that are impacted.
To achieve an effective approach, the model needs to be extended to support a relationship between the corporate risk register and higher level objectives (HLOs), related keyis will firmly connect the corporate risks to the business plan, which should detail these objectives and indicators. Such a relationship is detailed in the diagram.
The alignment of good quality, well defined corporate risks to key corporate objectives and performance indicators forms the foundation for a risk-based approach to strategic business planning and aligns corporate risk reporting with the business performance reports.
With this information available, reports can be designed to ensure that executives deal with the real threats and opportunities to the success of the business and when a decision is required, it is supported by clear, concise and accessible information.
Once an initial framework has been set up, risks have been identified, assessed, and plans have been put in place, it falls to the corporate risk report to do two things:
- monitor performance against the planned mitigations
- monitor the performance of the planned mitigations.
The first process translates into the question 'Did we do what we said we would?' - it is vital that mitigation plans are not allowed to slip, because to delay mitigation leaves the company exposed.
The second process is highly important in the context of corporate governance.
It is effectively asking the question, 'Did the controls we put in place work as planned?'
The stewardship of this information, in terms of highlighting which key risks have ineffective controls and strategies, will start to focus attention and form the basis of a proactive process of drilling down and getting a real understanding of the key drivers and the effectiveness of the strategies in place. This in turn will facilitate the definition of more cost effective strategies using real and financial options.
In essence, the risk executive committee agenda should comprise a drill-down process on one or two key risks that will provide confidence to the executive body that the framework in place is achieving results in terms of avoiding surprises and adding to shareholder value.
In summary, corporate risk management reporting, as the communication tool between the wider risk process and the board, planning process.
The reports need to communicate, simply, clearly and concisely, in the language of the business, the true nature and magnitude of the threats and opportunities affecting the business objectives, how these affect the company's position overall and what is being done about it.
Alongside this, reports need to assure the board that the risk management process which underpins this information is working effectively by escalating serious issues, actively managing the risks that are not escalated and can provide any necessary further information needed to assist the business decision-making process.
To be effective, the corporate reporting process must be supported by a data repository, with the right tools to support risk management (and the different user communities) throughout the enterprise.
When corporate risk reporting works well, the board will make the right decisions, when it does not, they will be taking a step into the dark.
Smart businesses are going beyond the regulatory requirements such as Turnbull and Sarbanes-Oxley and are now seeking to derive real value from true enterprise risk management reporting.
Keiran Betteley is a senior consultant within the enterprise risk management division of Strategic Thought Group, Tel: 020 8410 4000, www.strategicthought.com
ERM SYSTEMS
More than a decade ago, the 'balanced scorecard' represented an advance in the field of measuring corporate performance, providing a framework for companies to evaluate both financial and non-financial measures, s. Subsequently, The Conference Board developed its 'dashboard' concept to take the balanced scorecard from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional view of corporate performance measures.
The Conference Board has now adopted a new approach to developing an enterprise risk management (ERM) system. This goes beyond both the scorecard and dashboard concepts to not only identify strategic success measures, but also to link them to risk factors. This system allows companies to assess where earnings may be vulnerable and to prioritise risk mitigation strategies.
The Conference Board's research report, Enterprise Risk Management Systems: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard, published last year describes this approach.
The report, which is written by Carolyn Kay Brancato is available at=971
The price is $295.00 ($75.00 to associates).
IATA CONFERENCE
Enterprise risk management (ERM) is the subject of one of the half-day workshops to be held at the IATA Airline Insurance & Risk Management Conference 2006: Are We There Yet?
The workshop on practical ERM techniques and tools will cover:
- internal environment, objective setting, risk tolerance
- risk identification and assessment techniques (quantitative benchmarking, qualitative)
- risk responses (policies, procedures, etc)
ERM also features in two additional sessions
- 'Enterprise risk management - benchmarking standards', Julia Graham, chief risk officer, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP, will discuss the development of risk management standards by the British Standards Institution.
The committee developing the standards, chaired by this speaker, will contribute its workn.
- 'Compliance, management of risk or both? Has your organisation truly embraced the concept of ERM and put it into practice?' will look at whether ERM has been embedded into the corporate culture or whether it is simply a question of corporate governance and compliance.
The conference will be held on 4-5 April. Further details are available at www.iata.org/NR/rdonlyres/E98697B5-57DD-4825-A12C-F2D8CAB52F47/0/AIR06_BRO_WEB.pdf.
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CAUGHT UNAWARES: Loud thunder, fierce lightning changed the Saturday evening climate. —Photo: Surya Sridhar
Hyderabad: Pre-monsoon showers on Saturday gave the city a fleeting glimpse of what could be in store in the coming days.
Heavy claps of thunder, fierce lightning and a shower that caught many unawares on the streets changed the Saturday evening frame in the city, which was wilting under hot and humid conditions over the last couple of days. In fact, the temperature, which had come down last week after a couple of showers, had shot up to be recorded at 40.4 degrees Celsius on Saturday. Things, however, cooled down after the evening showers.
The showers left many areas in the dark with power supply being disrupted, while the traffic too went for a toss at most major junctions and thoroughfares in the city.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Hyderabad, while stating there would be no major change in the maximum temperatures on Sunday, has indicated that rain or thundershowers could occur towards evening or in the night. The situation could be the same on Monday as well.
Private weather forecast agency Skymet attributed the weather conditions to moist southwesterly winds that were strengthening formation of thunderclouds. Pre-monsoon showers are expected over the area for the next couple of days, it said. Skymet has also said that with the advancement of the monsoon into more parts of South India, the rains would pick up pace over Telangana, including Hyderabad. The arrival of the monsoon, the agency said, could be between June 5 and June 10.
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What is Reddit's opinion of Baseus Monitor Light Bar Monitor Lamp with Touch Control, Dimmable Screen Desk Light Bar with 3 Light Modes, Computer Monitor Light for Home Office, USB Powered LED Desk Lamp Keyboard Light, Black?
79 reviews of this product found across Reddit:
I wanted to get one but just didn't want to spend the money on the BenQ light bar just to find out that I dont like it. But after a year of use on this amazon one, its damn awesome. I start work pretty early and some late nights, its nice to be able to turn on a light a dim it down. also the 3 color temps are awesome. This one is pretty well built bar itself is aluminum and the clamp is heavy plastic. On sale right now for $39
Got mine in Asia, but it's this same model on Amazon. Looks to be on sale at 50% off which ends up to $19. I have no idea how legit this is, but if it's really the same one I have, then that's a pretty solid deal
Im pretty sure its this one, but I could be wrong.
I have this one, and it does everything I need it to. Three hues, and a variable dimmer for each setting
The one I have is this, it has warm, bright white, and a mix of the two. Its brightness is adjustable and is powered by a USB-C connection. The great thing is it's great quality without breaking the bank, hope it helps!
I actually just found the right placement for the light and used double sided tape so it won’t move because I was having issues clamping with the shell of the monitor being too wide.
You could perhaps get a monitor light bar?. Unrelated, but if desk space is an issue, maybe a monitor arm too
Looks it this one, I have the same one.
No they don't cause glare, they adjust slightly to direct the light down onto the desk. I like them a lot. My desk feels dark without them now. A lot of people opt for the more expensive BenQ lights, but I got these:
Yes the lamp is very comfortable for reading, you can adjust the brightness and temperature!
It has QC problems, coil whine on low brightnesses and can go undead (stop working at lower brightnesses but suddenly working again) if rapidly switch light temperature.
A. I don't eat Cheetos at the desk, and wash my hands like we are in a pandemic.
I did ran into an issue with my BASEUS monitor light not working with this monitor due to the round hump on the back was interfering with the overhang of the monitor light. If your webcam have an overhang support design, it might not work. Here's the link to my monitor light.
I only got it yesterday, so I can’t speak to the longevity. The build quality seems excellent as it’s all aluminum. Given that this light is less than half the price of the BenQ model, I was a bit skeptical, but reviews have said it holds up.
CPU - Ryzen 5 3600
Motherboard: Gigabyte A520I AC WiFI (would have gone for an MSI B550i but it's too expensive plus I won't use most of it features anyway).
GPU - Inno3D RTX 2070 Super
PSU - Seasonic SGX 650w 80+ Gold
RAM - Gskill Ripjaws V 16gb (8x2) @ 3200 mhz
Case - Cooler Master NR200P
Cooler - Noctua NH-L9A Chromax Black
SSD - Gigabyte NVME SSD 1TB
HDD - WD Blue 1TB
Monitor - Gigabyte M27Q 1440p 170hz IPS Panel (A very budget 1440p monitor that has a built in KVM. I plug my keyboard and mouse on the monitor.)
Keyboard - Glorious GMMK Pro with KS3 Blacks lubed with Krytox 205g0 and with XDA PBT Ember Keycaps (keycaps will be changed with a GMK White on Black)
Mouse - Corsair Ironclaw RGB Wireless (Heavy mouse)
Speaker - Edifier R1280DB (very budget purchase. Trust me. Quality for the price)
Controller - Red Dragon Harrow
2 Keyboards on the left - Iqunix A80 Explorer, and the IKBC MF87 with Akko Rose Red switches lubed in Krytox 205g0 and GMK Red Samurai Keycaps (keyboard was desoldered and changed into a USB-Type C Port)
Monitor Light - Baseus Light Bar
Lamp - Lamp Body bought at a dept store but the bulb is this
Painting - some old painting. forgot where it was bought. I just found that it wasn't being used so voila I hanged it at my room
Best purchase I've made for my desk setup
Baseus Monitor Light Bar, Monitor... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CXL3YQ8?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
It looks cool and its cheap, not a big issue https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CXL3YQ8/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_asin\_title\_o03\_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Headphones -> Sony XM3 Headphone stand is just monitor stand 😅 Monitor Light -> https://www.amazon.in/dp/B08CXL3YQ8?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Found one that works after trying 3 total.
Source: I've been FT WFH for over a decade.
I find it unpleasant to wear headphones for long periods of time. I wear glasses, and they push the frame into the sides of my skull. I don't like earbuds because they're uncomfortable and don't cancel out noise. Instead, I use my desktop speakers. Just make sure your microphone isn't too close to them, or other callers will hear echoing.
Put your microphone and monitors on adjustable arms for optimal layout and configurability. I've rearranged my office dozens of times, at least; I always feel like I can do better, and it's good to have options.
If you prefer standing, make sure you have somewhere to sit when you get tired, sore, etc., even if it's just to take a break. But don't make it too convenient, or you'll fall back into your old ways.
Even with multiple monitors, take advantage of virtual desktops. At a minimum, one for work and one for play. For more complex tasks you may want to branch out into more than two.
Depending on the windows you keep open, you may benefit from additional monitors or higher-resolution monitors. I have four 4K screens, and even with virtual desktops, I still run out of space.
If you have to run a VPN for work, check whether it reroutes your traffic. If it does, run it inside a virtual machine or on another computer.
You can use programs like Synergy to share keyboard, mouse, and clipboard among multiple computers.
When deciding when to take a break or call it a day, try to aim for the end of a task. It sucks to come back to your desk and have no idea where you left off.
Keep your computers off the floor (due to dust), and away from where your beverages might spill.
Windows I find useful to keep open all the time (see my above points about screen space):
IM buddy list / contact list / list of chat windows
One monitor mostly reserved for referencing technical documents, it's super useful to have them side-by-side vs the thing I need to use them for (coding to a spec, etc).
Additional job-specific and task-specific windows
When arranging your workspace and desktop windows, keep this rule in mind: Things you use most often should be directly in front of you. Things you use less often can be further away; it's okay if those require neck-turning or swiveling, depending on frequency and duration.
Get out of the house at least once a week. Spend time outside when your schedule allows. Go for a walk, drive, etc.
Wired things generally work better than wireless things.
I find it helpful to have a central area for charging things, and a central area for plugging portable things in (docking area). I keep these areas separate so I don't confuse the cables. A powered USB charger charges faster than my computer's USB ports, and I don't plug things into my computer just for power (because I'm paranoid).
Get a quality UPS or two, depending on power usage. Make sure your router and other networking stuff is also on a UPS.
Don't put your phone number in your E-mail signature unless you are absolutely required to do so.
Arrange your desk for easy access (see #12 above). L-shaped desks are better than straight/rectangle desks, U-shaped desks are even better. Ideally I would have a circular desk, but I haven't been able to find an affordable one anywhere.
Focused area lighting for tasks, using such products as this over-monitor light and this clamp light. If you like to have the general room lit, indirect lighting is less harsh on the eyes, and reduces glare.
Have a fridge or mini-fridge nearby enough that you can hear what's going on if you're on a call.
If you're like me, and like to have a cold beverage at all times, this product makes the best ice cubes you'll ever see. Good, solid, 2" ice cubes will last for hours.
Consider a wall AC unit. If you can't install one, at minimum, you should have a fan that you can aim at your face when you need it.
A good, mechanical keyboard, with a mute button and a pause button. Just watch out for the sleep button!
Noted! Thanks, do you have any suggestions about the monitor light?
What do you think about this one? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CXL3YQ8/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_dl_H48048JM6AH8JKAFY2GA?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
They’re these Baseus light bars
It’s this Baseus light bar!
It’s this! Baseus light bar
Hey! I made a post here and linked another user’s post to give you an example of what’s going on. This is the bar I currently own.
I got it on amazon. Link
light bar has been a total game changer for me.
I have 2 29" ultrawide monitors, so I just got 2 of these.
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Monitor/Tv: Samsung series 5
Light-bar: Baseus monitor light
Speaker: Bose SoundLink Mini
Monitor Stand: SuperJare monitor stand
Keyboard: Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
Desk Mat: Aothia Office Desk Pad
Laptop: M1 MacBook Air 8-Core CPU 7-Core GPU 256 GB
Laptop stand: LeeBoom laptop stand
USB-C Hub: Off-brand (no longer on Amazon)
Tablet: M1 iPad Pro 12.9” with Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil Gen 2
Diffuser: Pure Daily Care Diffuser
Triple charging station: Yestan Wireless Charging Station (charges Apple watch, Airpods, and iPhone)
Desk: Better Homes & Garden Desk Espresso
Out of frame items
Power strip: Epicka power strip
USB Outlet: Addtam USB Wall Charger Surge Protector
Headphones: Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 2
Console: PlayStation 4 Slim
Console stand: OIVO PS4 Stand Cooling Fan Station
USB HUB: Sabrent 4-Port 2.0 Data Hub
USB Microphone: TONOR USB Microphone Kit (Q9)
External Storage: WD 5TB My Passport Portable External Hard Drive
Light: Himalayan Salt Lamp
Drink container: YETI Rambler 36 Oz
Drink top: YETI Bottle Straw Cap
Drink handle/sleeve: REUZBL Bottle Bumper Silicone Sleeve
It is a desk light.
baseus light bar here you go
Showing $37.xx USD in the US:
I bought a cheaper one
And honestly it was a game changer for desk work during the evening. I don't know how I worked without it now.
On the desk I use these
Baseus Monitor Light Bar https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CXL3YQ8
Baseus Monitor Light Bar
Baseus Monitor Light Bar, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CXL3YQ8/
Baseus Computer Monitor Light, Screenbar E-Reading USB Powered Monitor Clamp Lamp, Dimmable, Eye Protect Monitor Lamps, Adjustable Brightness/Color Te https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CXL3YQ8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_dBBQTP78nvXRq
Here's the amazon link of the exact same lamp as the pic for reference
This is the light on the monitor.
Baseus Monitor Light Bar, Monitor... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CXL3YQ8
Check this one out too. Damn near identical but cheaper. Same color temp and brightness buttons. Had it for almost a year now. No issues.
I went on Amazon to search for one
i just got mine today, fits my Ultrawide 34" perfectly
(Now can;t figure out what to do with the webcam... I see you are going to have the same problem :D)
Do you mean like those monitor lights, or a lamp?
If the first, I have 2 of these on my monitors. Work great.
Nothing against the BenQ brand, but I picked up 2 of these for the price of one of those and I like them a lot.
Some quick details on where I did MANY things on the cheap.
The planters on the shelves are concrete squares (about $6 ea.) with round pots inside (about $5 each) from Home Depot. I painted them using left over paint from the room.
The clock was dark wood (about $18 at Walmart). I removed the hardware and painted the wood using left over paint to lighten it up some.
The carpet, not my first choice, from a discount bin at Home Depot cut down to size with scissors (about $70)
The floor lamps about $40 at the time. Philips Wiz RGB lights in them ($8).
The drapes are about $18, on $9 shower curtain rings so that they slide easier across the rod.
2-$60 Ikea tables on 3-$20 tressels, and one set of Alex drawers (about $60).
"gaming chair" $150 (I wasn't paying $400 for a chair). Came with lumbar support, I added neck support (not seen) for about $13. Very comfy.
The desk lights are these for $40 (not the $80 ones) : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CXL3YQ8/
The futon was where I knew I would have to spend since I wanted this exact one in this exact color. $500. The next week this size and color was listed at $1400. It has since gone back to its normal price of about $650. The most I've ever spent on a futon, but I thought it was worth it to have a decent background for my video calls, and somewhere to take a break or a nap.
With the Computers and other electronics I saved where I could, but it was all put together over time. My PC is 4 years old, still running great. I’ve done some RAM, fan, and storage upgrades over the years. I added the Mac Mini recently when it went on sale for $50 less.
This is what it looked like before COVID lockdown and restrictions. No futon, brown carpet, mismatched tables, using an old bucket as a trash can. And that was fine for me until I was spending every day, all day in here.https://imgur.com/a/67xCTNt
I'm currently using 2-LG monitors that have 1-Display & 2-HDMI inputs. I have my PC plugged into Display Port, and M1 Mac Mini plugged into the HDMI ports. LG settings toggle is easy as pie. When I need to switch between computers I just change the input of the monitor.
I use a Razer "gaming" keyboard and a Logitech trackball. I use Synergy to share them across OS's ( I also run Ubuntu on the PC and it works across all 3).
You can set up whatever shortcuts you want on just the keyboard, but I also have a Streamdeck and set one of the profiles up as shortcuts for my most used programs.
I use Phillips Wiz RGB lights on floor lamps around the room. On my desktop I have these:
I do both phone calls, and video conference calls. I've invested a little money to up my game for video calls, Mirrorless camera, decent lens, mic, lighting, and background furnishings. I also keep one of these around as a back-up. https://www.amazon.com/Jabra-2400-Mono-Wired-Headset/dp/B01090PEZQ
Wireless peripherals are too unreliable for video calls. For best quality, everything should be plugged in including your computer.
For phone calls I just use a decent Bluetooth earpiece. Works fine.
Other advice? Make your space comfortable. Your home office and equipment that you use for work are the most important of everything you own. It needs to be reliable, productive, efficient, and you need to love working with it. These are the tools that you use to make money...the money that finances EVERYTHING else. Set yourself up with nice tools that you love working with.
I've been looking for a way to read while at my keyboard for a while now. Tried many things that were either not bright enough, or too intrusive. Been looking at monitor lights for months and the prices were around $80-$130 and up. Found these Baseus brand on Amazon for $40. They work!
no worries, found one on amazon https://www.amazon.com/Baseus-Computer-Adjustable-Brightness-Temperature/dp/B08CXL3YQ8/
It’s a custom keyboard I built, details here. and yes that’s a lamp, link.
If you are interested, I can recommend it to you.
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On 2013.07.27 at 9:56 pm MayonaiseBoy wrote:
I don’t have any plans on opening it!
Got it in 1998.
On 2013.07.28 at 8:26 am manillascissor wrote:
i have a sealed copy (purchased in america in ’98 ) that has the replacement sticker (under the wrap) which ends in 7.
no freaking clue what this means, but i think bram may be on to something. barcode needed to be changed for whatever reason, but perhaps not related to selling across seas, as both these differing barcodes were sold in the US.
maybe the adore release with the sticker was a last twitch from caroline, \"hey, this is our release, give it our barcode\"? something like that? and then after that, virgin was like \"you’re part of us anyway, let’s drop the separate barcodes.\"
and 0724384… is owned by Capitol Records/picture Music Internat’L, london, uk.
0017046… is owned by Caroline Records Inc. NY, us..
On 2016.02.21 at 11:21 am Cool As Ice Cream wrote:
maybe they later repressed the adore vinyl, and left out the “printed in the usa”? but then why still use a sticker on the barcode? if you’re changing things on the sleeve, you might as well correct the barcode at the same time, no?
can’t say feltrinelli without saying feltch. hahaha
On 2016.02.25 at 2:37 am manillascissor wrote:
-printed in usa on reverse
-original barcode on spine/hype sticker
(Side A) V1-7243-8-45879-1-8-A MASTERDISK
(Side D) -blank-
pressing with barcode 0 17046 7559 1 7:
-sticker over barcode (original barcode covered)
-blank label on side 4 is red
(Side C) V-1-7243-8-45879-1-8-C MASTERDISK CAR-7559-C
thanks bram and pcorgan! any additional input/theories appreciated 🙂
manillascissor.
On 2016.02.28 at 10:31 am geofolkers wrote:
Can someone show some photos of the differences please? 🙂
On 2016.02.28 at 11:08 pm manillascissor wrote:
still need to check my own copies.
On 2016.03.03 at 6:31 am karabeaner17 wrote:
but i guess the biggest difference is one having an additional matrix code. i dunno man, it’s all confusing
On 2016.03.03 at 5:07 pm Cool As Ice Cream wrote:
my open copy with corrected barcode on the sticker also has the extra CAR-xxx in the matrix code.the label on side D is white though, not black or red.
On 2016.03.04 at 5:15 agoing to be a junior hockey team playing at First Niagara Center on Oct. 22. And while this might seem like a reasonable commentary on the state of the Buffalo Sabres, we’re actually talking about the Niagara IceDogs vs. the Connor McDavids, er, the Erie Otters.


6 Common Mistakes When Seeking a CLM Vendor
by Mark Langsbury
Making new purchases is always hard to do, especially when they can be costly and long term. This is very prominent in businesses and organizations seeking to adopt new technology, software or any type of strategic purchase to benefit the company.
Legal technology has been a popular and upcoming trend that companies are beginning to see a use for, toxample is contract management software systems. When purchasing new products, it’s always important to do your research, and essentially find the best solution for you that gives you what you’re looking for and for maximum cost efficiency. To help you decide the best contract management system for you while doing your research, here are common mistakes people make when seeking a CLM vendor. A CLM system is customized specifically to an organization’s needs and key product initiatives.
1. DON’T CHOOSE A CLM VENDOR THAT CAN’T SUPPLY A FULL END-TO-END SOLUTION.
2. DON’T CHOOSE A CLM VENDOR WITHOUT A CONTRACT AGNOSTIC SYSTEM.
A full end-to-end CLM solution should be able to manage all contract types, both the buy-side and the sale-side of the organization, and both first- and third-party paper (or contracts).
3. DO NOT SELF-SELECT.
4. DO NOT THINK SOLELY ABOUT THE SOFTWARE, BUT ALSO THINK ABOUT WHAT SUPPORT YOU WILL RECEIVE TO IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVELY.
A full end-to-end CLM solution should.
When purchasing new technology, it’s always nice to put it to use right away and get started. But a big issue that comes with advanced technology is the customer not given enough help and support to implement the system or use it properly. Make sure when seeking a vendor that they aid in the implementation process. Not only at the beginning, but throughout your subscription term so your company always has support.
5. DO NOT SOLELY SOLVE FOR “RIGHT NOW.”
Purchasing a new system to solve for present issues only results in having to switch systems down the road as your organization needs change. Or, putting several solutions together – each with their own integration, adoption, support, and maintenance issues. In short, it’s a lot to manage. And will save you from problems that would have been avoidable had you been forward-thinking from the start.
6. DON’T CHOOSE A CLM VENDOR BASED SOLELY ON COST.
That’s easy to say. However, CLM systems that are very large and advanced technology systems aim to solve the majority of organizations’ issues.
A way to do this on investment. Full end to end solutions allow the benefit to stretch far wider than just the legal team alone and can have tremendous gains for departments such as Procurement, Sales, and HR. On top of that, the wider organization is able to make faster and more efficient decisions. Such a wide-reaching ROI means that the cost of the solution versus time on return can make the cost of procurement look very different.
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"Partnering with industry and academia is key to delivering resilient capabilities to the fleet faster and by levehip intermediaries we will improve outcomes for the Navy and the U.S. economy," according to NSWCDD Technical Director John Fiore. "The digital proving grounds will be the foundation of the digital ecosystem and will create opportunities for non-defense industry partners to leverage advanced prototyping and testing capabilities to support their advanced technology portfolios."
"We are excited to see Dahlgren Division's uptick in engagement across the regional ecosystem and the benefits that come with it," saidPresident Curry Robertsincreased economic opportunities this partnership affords our region."
NSWCDD Deputy Technical Director Darren Barnes thanked the intermediaries for attending and detailed the importance the division places on proactive engagement with its collaborators. "Being able to have these discussions is key to advancing our strategic goals and developing warfighting systems for the 21st Century," he said. "The digital proving grounds we are developing here is just one of the tools we can leverage with our partners."
Dahlgren's Chief Technology Officer Jennifer Clift agrees, "In addition to finding opportunities for collaboration with non-defense industry, aligning with our partnership intermediaries helps us find innovative industry and academia partners to develop capabilities for the warfighter at a relevant pace using the digital proving grounds." She added, "…Collaborating on commercialization will supplement Dahlgren Division's licensing efforts yielding positive outcomes for the region."


Categorize this in the “I wish Brad had asked these questions in 2009” file.
The investments in medical infrastructure and workforce–less than $30 billion for 32 million newly insured, less than $1000 for newly insured–seem an order of magnitude low.
Whate–but the extra health-care workforce needed isn’t there, and the lines start to get longer?
A number of his commenters provide some interesting, and sometimes good, answers. One commenter, John B, noted that the last line in the quote above doesn’t quite make sense: if coverage increases and the extra health-care workforce isn’t there, how exactly does quality increase.
Please don’t compare me to him.
Breaking apart the medical school cartel that leaves the US with lowest number of doctors per-capita of any developed country in the world.
I’m not even convinced this is an obvious problem now, much less 3 years ago. I can see how ACA could drive up costs and how that could be a problem. I can see how ACA could reduce welfare by forcing people to make purchases they wouldn’t have otherwise made. But I am struggling to see how the ACA would prevent labor markets from functioning how they normally do, raising wages and drawing more workers into these fields. Neither David nor Brad have made it especially clear to me why this is what we should be worrying about.
The ACA doesn’t prevent this. The restriction on the number of slots in medical schools and nursing schools does. Brad does raise the possibility of immigration and I’m more hopeful about this than he appears to be.
I peeked at Mr. Delong’s blog. Is it supposed to merely be a quote aggregator of Krugman and Keynes, or is it something more?
Shouldn’t it cost just 10% more to treat 97% of the people than 88%, because 97/88 = 1.1?
The lack of supply of doctors is created by the way in which they are renumerated. The ACA uses Medicaid as the the primary vehicle for expanding healthcare coverage, no most! doctors won’t participate.
Right, and we’d ultimately be forcing people into a lower quality program. But that seems like a Medicaid reimbursement problem not a labor market problem.
And the ACA has “promised” to lower costs.
Furthermore, even if the health costs of that 10% were being covered by government programs prior to the Mass mandates, with “insurance” that group would likely consume more health care. Pre-Mass/Romney Care, there would have been some question as to their personal costs associated with health care. After the Mass/Romney Care, it is clear (for now) that the government will pick up the tab for those who cannot. With lower personal costs, I assume this group would consume more.
Rosen- no it is not 10% more- any businessman can tell you that the costs/benefits of customers is not equally weighted across all the customers- a small %age of customers bring most of the profit & a small %age create a disproportionate amount of the cost.
If the political system were ake actionAlong these lines it could recognize the residencies immigrant doctors have already completed in other countries known to have high-quality training. Or, since most residencies are funded by the VA and HHS, it could just fund a lot more of them.


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I didn’t love this book, but am intrigued enough by the characters and the snappy writing that I might read book two. I discovered this series via librarian Nancy Pearl over on NPR, who notes.


01 Jun Sony built an IoT chip with a 60 mile range for e-bikes
It will use Sony’s proprietary low-power wide area (LPWA) network launching this fall.
S’s  “help friends find each other at a ski hill,”.


What in the world was a kitten doing out here all by itself?At the end of November?
Essy's daughter had brought a baby kitten home one day from school. Six weeks old, and little more than a fuzzy black fur ball on spindly legs. "Mommy, can I keep her?
"Come here, sweetheart," Essy said to the sopping wet kitten. "Where's your momma, baby?


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Theme: how to distinguish the two sides
Slightly put the lenses above one finger (usually index finger) with the lens up. The right side displays a “U” shape as the pic shows.
It is not recommended that turning the lenses over on the finger.
Practice makes perfect! Multiple practices can make you easier to tell the two sides!
It will discomfort your eyes , even cause eyes diseases if you put wrong side in!
So much for the third class on telling two sides of contact lenses.
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We kick off with ominous music, that fades into one of those really creepy 1950s carol recordings, and a shot of a bookcase, all in black and white of course (don’t watch the version where colour has been applied, just embrace the fact but every film needs to have lots of pretty colours), and a mysterious hand takes a copy of A Christmas Carol from the shelf, which has the credits inside it. What better way is there to kick off this story? There isn’t one, so there. Hurst (the director) has a real talent for framing a shot, and he loves a crossfade or two or thirty-eight. Plus he occasionally whips out some really interesting nonsense gems, such as representing time travel by showing an hourglass slowly floating away down a tunnel that all too much resembles the interior of an intestinal tract that is undergoing a blizzard. Come on, this is great.
Honourable mention: Jingle All The Way (1996, Brian Levant)
There are two types of film which star Arnold Schwarzenegger: films about wooden action heroes work pun fixations, who shoot everything and everyone, and films where Arnold Schwarzenegger has been miscast. Sometimes the miscasting is purposeful for comic effect, and sometimes it’s actually funny! And this is one of them. The film is absolute nonsense, but it’s a got a really strong nonsense of fun.
Arnie plays a neglectful father trying to make it up to his son (back on well-trod track). He’s been too wrapped up in his work, which I assume is at a research centre dedicated to working out why a man called Howard Langston, who has clearly been written as an American, has such a strong Austrian accent. But he can make amends if he can get his son the present he wants, a Turbo-man action figure. Along the way he has to fend off the overly amorous next door neighbour (played by the tragically late and great Phil Hartman) and a postman (played by nobody’s favourite 90s comedian, Sinbad). Embrace it for the nonsense it is: the film where Arnold Schwarzenegger shouts “Put the cookie down NOW!”
This, ‘A Christmas Carol’ – regarded as arguably the second best Christmas story of all time (after that one about the baby who gets given some bitter perfume for his birthday. I mean what’s he gonna do with that, eh? Use it to help create a mood which is somber, yet fragrant? No, he’ll drink it and get the shits. I’m watching you, King Balthazar – if that’s even your real name). Yes, three of the top five are incarnations of A Christmas Carol. To be fair, it’s really good – so props to you, Mr Dickens. But if you want to improve on something, there’s a very simple way to do it – add Muppets.
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I once heard the late Daniel Schorr describe the difficulty of covering the post-Stalin Soviet Union, a dreamlike mirror world of shadows and symbols where important changes might be signaled by the seating chart at a state dinner or the choice of music on Radio Moscow's evening classical program.


Are you adept at leading multi disciplined teams in the development of iOS & Android applications (Native & Hybrid)?
Are you happy to travel to Europe locations to manage remote teams for around 15% of the month?
Are you experienced in the scale up of local technical teams and happy to be based in central London?


Her debut movie might be loosely described as an action-comedy, but that doesn't mean Captain Marvel is anyone you want to mess with. That's because Carol Danvers will bmember of Earth's Mightiest Heroes once she arrives.
Markus continues on to compare her to Captain America, a character some are worried might bite the dust during Infinity War. This could mean Danvers is the perfect replacement for Steve Rogers, as she's set to step in at a time when the MCU is poised for major changes.
Danvers led one side of Marvel’s second Civil War event in the comics, which means the comparisons to Cap aren’t for nothing, especially if her ultra-powered Binary form is tapped in the ideological battle that is surely to come the supergroup’s way in the future.


Have you ever taken a moment to consider the time and effort, as well as money, your company spends on qualifying welding procedures? If you have, then you may realise, as many companies have, that there`s a better approach to this process-hire a company that specialises in pre-qualified welding procedures to do the work for you! By doing so, you can direct your time and energy towards your base business and what your company does best.
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Who doesn’t love a good magic show? Giving the gospel through sleight of hand is a staple of many fundamentalist children’s outreach programs. Even adults will stop and watch someone perform a gospel presentation via an entertaining act of subterfuge and trickery.
The gospel rope tricks are some of the more popular gimmicks because they are inexpensive, quickly taught and have little risk of a spectator catching on fire. That’s always a something to look for in a magic act. The real risk here is that the trick will go very badly and the whole point will be lost. “Look boys and girls the three ropes are all…uh…well…they should have been the same…you’re all doomed.”
There’s another potential danger to gospel magic acts — they do not translate well into some more superstitious cultures. Missionaries who are a little too good at illusions may meet with charges of witchcraft. In these locations it may be better to stick with handing out Chick Tracts and fake money or run the risk of finding oneself in some very sticky situations indeed.
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3 thoughts on “Gospel Gimmicks: Salvation Rope Tricks”
I’ve never tried the rope tricks, but I’ll admit to using an object lesson for children’s church where you add different food coloring to a bowl of water. The colors turn the water a muddy brown representing sin. Then you add bleach (I think) which is supposed to turn the water clear again, signifying Jesus’ forgiveness. It didn’t clear up as well as the illustration said it would thus ruining my point.
I also did Resurrection Cookies with my kids where you tell the story of the crucifixion as you prepare each step, then put them in the stove and seal the stove with masking tape. In the morning, your pastry is supposed to have risen and be all puffy and empty like the empty tomb. Mine didn’t rise. I should never have attempted to illustrate Scriptural truth via cooking.
Those stories are funny! 😆
I am a professional magician that uses illusion to present the Gospel. (I left my IFB church when the pastor told me that he would only allow us to go to other IFB churches, give him a two week notice and give him veto power over our meetings.) We do an hour program, but only the last 15 minutes is message. I believe in earning the right to be heard. I don’t do many rope tricks,but I levitate my wife, stick swords through pastor’s necks etc…
You are right, it freaks out some fundies–especially levitation and card tricks.


EDINBURGH, Scotland, May 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A ringleader of a pedophile ring unveiled in Scotland was a top advisor to the Scottish Executive on homosexual issues regarding children, reports the Daily Mail.
LifeSiteNews.com reported Monday that James Rennie, the 38-year-old chief executive of LGBT Youth Scotland, was found guilty this month of molesting for four years an infant - beginning when the infant was 3-months-old - whom friends left with Rennie to babysit.
Rennie, who resigned from his position at LGBT Youth following his arrest late last year, lobbied for homosexual issues in the Scottish parliament, and has visited with the Prime Minister of England as "the Executive’s most important and influential adviser on gay issues affecting children," according to the Daily Mail.
Among other issues, the group lobbied for adoption to homosexual couples under Rennie’s leadership.
Rennie and fellow homosexual activist Neil Strachan, who was found guilty of assaulting an 18-month-old boy he was babysitting on New Year’s Eve 2005, are facing maximum sentences of life in prison as the ringleaders of an extensive network of pedophiles.
The two men shared victims and images of the abuse with six other men found guilty in the bust. The group was found guilty last week of over 50 charges, iy.


Remodelling your home allows you to increase the home's resale value and have a fresh look without having to buy a brand new home. However, if you are planning on turning it into a DIY project, there are some important things you need to keep in mind. Try to avoid these common home remodelling mistakes.
You have a budget to stick to, so it is easy to try and reduce costs whenever possible. There is nothing wrong with this, but you also need to remember that some costs are worth it. For example, when it comes to building materials, try to buy the best your budget can afford. Don't assume you can turn this into a low-cost remodelling project just because you found really cheap materials that look like more expensive ones. Also consider the lifespan and quality of these materials when considering the cost. If you pay less for low quality materials, they might need to be replaced sooner, which causes you to actually pay more in the long run.
Failing to Prepare For Waste Removal
One of the benefits of using a professional contractor for home remodelling is that they take care of the waste for you. If you are going to do a lot of the work on your own, then you need to plan ahead and figure out how to get the waste out of your home. A budget-friendly option is skip bin hire. Skip bins of various sizes can be parked in your driveway or in front of your house for the length of the remodelling, allowing you to throw away waste as it is accumulated. The skip bin company will deliver it, then pick it up when you are done with it.
Not Enquiring About Permits
Make sure you are allowed to make the renovations you are planning on before you get started or buy materials. Depending on where your home is located, there might be rules about certain types of home remodelling or renovations, such as whether or not you can add an addition, needing a permit before finishing your basement or having regulations about changing the plumbing or electrical system. Keep in mind also that depending on where a skip bin needs to be placed, you may need council permits. Not receiving the appropriate council permissions may mean large fines.
It is also important that you understand your own skills and hire a professional when necessary. While some remodelling projects are fairly easy to do, things like working with the electrical system should be left to a professional.


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Lumpy and bearish, his clean lines hidden under a jowly beard and 40 pounds of thick middle he put on for the role, George Clooney is an apt visual symbol for his latest film, Syriana, which is a compelling drama partially obscured by excess.
Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, who also penned the script for Steven Soderbergh's drug-trade drama Traffic, Syriana draws on the multiple storylines and jittery camera style of the previous film, but focuses on a new addiction, the ravenous global market for oil.
Syriana's cast does a fine job of humanizing Gaghan's complex material. Alexander Siddig plays the reform-minded Prince Nasir, chafing against U.S. pressure to sell his country's oil at cut-rate prices; Jeffrey Wright portrays a tightly wound lawyer brokering a merger between two oil companies eager to break ground in Kazakhstan; Matt Damon's financial analyst capitalizes on a family tragedy to become an adviser to Nasir; and Mazhar Munir's young Wasim finds relief from discrimination and poverty in the serene halls of a radical madrassa in Nasir's country. Each is an uncertain hero figure, but none more so than Clooney, whose CIA operative Bob Barnes shambles through the film, learning too late what his body already knows -- that his ideals have long been lost, that the country he thought he was serving turned against him years ago.
No. That is Syriana's greatest strength, and will likely become its most-criticized trait. Gaghan wants to force his audience to live through a dramatized state of contemporary being -- one in which there is no omniscient eye/I to explain what is happening in our world, where we are lied to through overt and covert means. The film offers a tantalizing hint at hidden depths. Loosely based on Robert Baer's tellingly titled CIA memoir, See No Evil, it speeds through terrorism and war, torture and missing missiles, and offers up quiet Americans and loud Texans. But the film doesn't cohere to an overarching conspiracy theory or peel back the curtain on Oz. Nor does it offer a real hero; each of the characters has unclear motives and mingles idealism and greed. What's Wright's lawyer really up to? Does Damon's character truly feel the spark of idealism, or is he just cashing in? As for Clooney's character, he's truly a hero for our times: Barnes is an assassin.
Such stark clues are truly the exception, however, the occasional lifeline thrown in as we're about to drown in the conspiracies, the florid excesses, those forty extra pounds. With his unnervingly smart if uneven film, Gaghan obscures to make us look harder, but offers up only glimpses of insight -- an experience that mirrors only too closely our relationship to our political realities today.


[1] – Supreme Court of Canada, 2004
The unanimous decision in the Taku case provided much needed clarification orespect of government decisions, which may impact asserted Aboriginal rights.
Applying Haida Nation, the Court ruled that the Crown owed a duty to consult meaningfullyregarding the decision to re-open the Tulsequah Chief Mine, and to permit Redfern Resources Ltd. (the mine operator) to build a 160 kilometre access road through a portion of their traditional territory. However, the Supreme Court also found that the duty of consultation was met by TRTFN’s extensive involvement in the three and a half year review process conducted under B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Act.
There have been many more cases in the provincial courts across Canada and in the Supreme Court of Canada considering Aboriginal rights and title. This review is of the key Supreme Court rulings on Aboriginal rights and title, going back to Calder. These cases were chosen to illustrate the legal foundation built by the Court outlining the Crown’s duty of consultation, accommodation and negotiation. There is still much discussion and direction to be provided by the court on Aboriginal rights and title. The underlying key message of the Supreme Court in all of these cases has been that these issues are best negotiated rather than litigated.
It may appear that we have a bias towards legal decisions from the West Coast, but that is not the case. Unlike the rest of Canada, where treaties had been entered into between First Nations and Canada, B.C. was relatively untouched. There are a few exceptions in the far north east section of the province and southern Vancouver Island’s Douglas Treaties. It is this significant difference that led First Nations in B.C., and both the federal and provincial governments, to seek clarification from the Supreme Court of Canada as to the parties’ respective rights, title, and obligations. These types of rights, titles, and obligations were generally laid out in the established treaties. Any court action brought by a First Nation under a Treaty would be specific to that Treaty, unlike in B.C., where the disputes, upon reaching the Supreme Court of Canada had country-wide application.
Instead of a bias towards B.C. case law, we have included only those B.C. cases that have significance towards all Aboriginal Peoples. With the legal principles having been established through case law with its origins in B.C., other Aboriginal Peoples began to apply these principles to their historic treaties.
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This is an excerpt from the 3rd edition of our book Working Effectively with Aboriginal Peoples®


Charlie wrote her a lovely birthday poem and then we sang to her! Naturally, I put the phone on speaker and filmed it. mmmemmmmmooorrrrriiiesssss
And if you haven’t gotten your own “Charlie & Lauren Birthday Song”, they’re quite popular and filled with pizazz a🙂


that orbit of the particle has corner at partonic 2-surface. Corner breaks conformal invariance since one cannot say that curve is light-like at the edge. At the corner neutrino transforms from right-handed to left handed one.
In complete analogy with Ψbar;γtAtΨ vertex for the point-like particle with spin in external field, the amplitude describing nuR-νL transition involves matrix elements of form νbarRΓt(CP2)ZtνL at the vertex of the CP2 part of the modified gamma matrix and classical Z0 field.
The following provides as more detailed view.
Let us denote by ΓtCP2(in/out) the CP2 part of the modified gamma matrix at string at at partonic 2-surface and by Z0t the value of Z0 gauge potential along boundary of string world sheet. The direction of string line in imbedding space changes at the partonic 2-surface. The question is what happens to the modified Dirac action at the vertex.
where the modified Dirac operator is D(in/out)=Γt(in/out)Dt, is assumed. νR corresponds to "in" and νR to "out". It implies that lines corresponds to massless M4 Dirac propagator and one obtains something resembling ordinary perturbation theory.
In the vertex D(in/out) could act in Ψ(out/in) and the natural idea is that νR-νL mixing is due to this so that it would be described the classical weak current couplings νbarR ΓtCP2(out)Z0t(in)νL and νbarR ΓtCP2(out)Z0t(in)νL.
To get some idea about orders of magnitude assume that the CP2 projection of string boundary is geodesic circle thus describable as Φ= ω t, where Φ is angle coordinate for the circle and t is Minkowski time coordinate. The contribution of CP2 to the induced metric gtt is Δ gtt =-R2ω2.
In the first approximation string end is a light-like curve in Minkowski space meaning that CP2 contribution to the induced metric vanishes. Neutrino mixing vanishes at this limit.
See also the pdf article What went wrong with symmetries?.
IOne generally accepted correction to the harmonic oscillator model is inspired by the assumption that heavier nuclei can be described as a kind of blob of condensed matter obeying equation of state allowing to introduce notions like acoustic waves and surface waves. The nucleon at the unfilled shell would reside at the surface of this blob. The blob has vibrational excitations characterized by multipolarity (spherical harmonic and the radial part of the oscillation amplitude. These excitations give rise to analogs of surface waves in water. Valence nucleons interact with the oscillations and affect the energy levels of the valence nucleons. The predictions of this model are calculable.
In TGD framework ordinary model of nucleus is replaced with what I call nuclear string model. The basic ideas of the nuclear string model are following.
Nuclei consist of string like objects: protons and neutrons connected by color magnetic flux tubes form string like objects, perhaps separately. The color magnetic flux tubes would would be meson-like objects and could even carry net color. They are either neutral (quark and antiquark at the ends of flux tube have opposite charges) or carry em charge.
This predicts a large number of exotic states. The exotic states cannot be distinguished chemically from the isotopes of the nucleus. The energy scale of the excitations could be in keV range: in this case their existence could explain the annual variation of nuclear decay rates which seems to be caused by X rays from Sun. Second possibility is that the energy scale is in MeV range for nuclear energies.
This would be new nuclear physics and perhaps relevant also to the cold fusion. The energy scale would derive from the string tension of the color magnetic flux tube. The lengths of the color magnetic flux tubes corresponding to keV scale would be rather long and correspond color magnetic bodies of the nucleons. If this is the case then the color magnetic energy of the system would depend only weakly on the positions of the nucleons of string inside nuclear volume. This assumption to


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Lynne Ramsay has the qualities of a good ghost: she swings open doors and pulls back curtains, not to nag or threaten but just to remind the present of the values of the past. In her short career as a director and writer, Ramsay has brought a beautiful, slowed-down sensibility back into contemporary Tags:
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The nominees for the 94th annual Academy Awards were unveiled on Tuesday with The Power of the Dog, Belfast, and West Side Story all vying for Best Picture.
Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch were among British stars receiving Oscar nods for their performances in The Lost Daughter and The Power of the Dog, respectively.
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We live in a world of sickness and pain. A world with disease and death. These things don't have to be in our lives. They can be prayed away. Sounds to easy or too good to be true doesn't it?
Tells us that, "for Gods w or medicine to all their flesh"
"…. Greater is he the healer that is in you, than he the devil and sickness that is in this world."

I know a woman who was diagnosed with hepatitis contracted from her husband who didn't know he had it. Things were looking really scary. What could she do but do the treatment and hope for the best. With lots of prayer and faith she gave it to the Lord. A pond going to her regular appointment the doctor came in the room looking confused. He explained that the test results showed that she didn't have hepatitis and that there was no signs that she ever did. The doctor really didn't understand. The women husband explained that she was healed by God because of faith and prayer the Lord took it away. The doctors response was it is a miracle because he knew for a fact that she had hepatitis. Praise the Lord!"Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything"
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It’s 1:32 am as I post this. This must be something that all parents grapple with but I never know for sure. How do you help your child sleep?Do you let your child drink milk at night and in what container?Sometimes it is another path forward. For context, Collin is 3 years old and is no longer using the pacifier, the bottle or the sippy cup…we are now transitioning to the cup. We don’t drink milk at night after he brushes his teeth and he has been good with it, for the most part. Before I continue though, why does it even matter?
For this post on “Tantrums and Meltdowns?”
Sometimes, I wonder if other parents of neuro-typicial children are going through the same thing. I often hear that, “Oh, my child does the same thing.” But I just have a gut feeling it is a little different…
Last week was filled with mixed emotions for me and Mychi. We celebrated Collin’s 3 years around the sun. There was a beautiful ceremony for him at his pre-school and he did amazing!


Ford's Bridgend engine manufacturing plant will close in 2020 with the loss of 1,700 jobs, according to union officials.
Ford said that the proposed action was a necessary step to "support Ford''".
Stuart Rowley, president, Ford of Europe, said: "
The BBC reported that Ford's i – resulting in concern about the plant's viability as it was set to produce just 125,000 petrol engines a year.
R"This is dire news for the UK automotive industry and will have a knock-on effect across the domestic supply chain. Despite the heavy job losses at the Bridgend engine plant, some jobs have recently been displaced to the Midlands, due to Jaguar Land Rover commencing production of its Ingenium engine family at Wolverhampton.
"To what degree the decision to close the Bridgend plant is down to Brexit is less certain, however. Demand for diesel-engine cars has fallen away significantly across Europe and sales of plug-in EVs have only recently begun to pick up strongly – reaching record levels in March this year.
"For plants producing petrol or diesel engines, there is an urgent need to make adjustments by decreasing production capacity whilst investing in new areas of production such as electric engines, motors and batteries.
Ford's expected withdrawal from the Bridgend plant it opened in 1977 follows Honda's February confirmation that its Swindon plant will close in 2021, with the loss of about 3,500 jobs.
Ford said that it650 million in relation to the proposed closure of Bridgend.
Non-cash charges of approximately $250 million include pension expense and accelerated depreciation and amortization.
2) FCA UK makes senior management changes across all franchises
JLR could 'axe up to 5,000 jobs' in cost-cutting plans


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United Living South's divisional manager Tommy Nightingale stated: 'We are extremely happy to see the installation of the new cladding system begin at Hatfield Close and Gerrard House. We have worked tirelessly since being appointed, back in August 2017, and the beginning of phase three is a key milestone for us all. As well as this, various fire safety improvements to the blocks have also been completed and this is the final stage of making the building a safer environment for residents.'


A new 20mph speed limit has been proposed for a raft of streets in Barton town centre in a bid to further improve road safety.
The plans would see the speed limit reduced on Fleetgate, George Street and more than 20 other roads in the bustling townconstantly exploring new measures to improve our road network and elsewhere 20mph schemes have been shown to be effective in greatly improving safety in communities.
The proposals were first approved in the council’s budget earlier this year.
Reducing traffic speeds has been shown to reduce the number of collisions and lower the risk of serious and fatal injury when they do.
Residents can access further information on the council website.
The plans can be commented on by emailing |||EMAIL_ADDRESS||| by 20 October 2022.


the nature knows no man made borders, you know? well, the beautiful national park saxon switzerland continues after the border as czech switzerland. easy, isn't it? just to show you the difference, you will see the man made borders between germans and czechs below. but you know what? before the WWII lived the czechs and germans in this areas peaceful for few centuries. easy, isn't it?
btw, in my native eastern slovakia also lived slovaks, germans, ukrainians, hungarians beside ech other in peace and kept their respective identities for centuries ...
dittersbach (jetrichovice)
sudetenland (sudety) = the former german settled areas in the czech republic. btw, my grandmohter was born in sternberg which is in the very south of the north-eastern part of sudety (czech sudety, of course. there is an sudety area in poland, too). could you find sternberg, my dears?
btw, the beautiful prebisch arc pictures (prebischtor, pravcicka brana) from our last year's visit to this part of czech switzerland are here


Mentoring is increasingly popular in today's fast business world. So, if you have come to the decision that a mentor may be able to help you with your decisions, you will have one question pressing on your mind. How do you find a mentor or coach?
How do you find a mentor online?Well, the first way we have already covered above. Asides using social media, you can look in local directories online, Google search, or try Linkedin or other social media sites to connect with possible mentors. Searching for a mentor online will bring you a lot of results, perhaps too many. So, how do you narrow down these results?


Flux Factory are having more fun than we are
Man, I wish I could belong to New York art collective Flux Factory. I first heard of them when their president, Morgan Meis, published an article entitled “Devil’s Work” in the April 2004 issue of Harper’s. It detailed the progress of a performance/installation the group did a few years ago in the Queens Museum of Art, in which they were given a room in the museum for 3 months and left to their own devices. At first they just hung out in the room, wearing orange jumpsuits and sticking things to the walls, but then they started to get bored. One of them suggested, “We have to extend the room.” A couple of others agreed…
read the rest.. she rocks!…
Exquisite Contraption featured in ANIMAL New York
Queens International exhibition catalog, Nov 2002
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D–One thing that may help you decide what to design is setting some design objectives. This will help to focus on what you are designing and help you to create the best possible typeface.
For the typeface that I use as an example, I wanted to see what kind of letterforms could be created by using some old engineering circle and square templates that I had hanging around my studio. I took my inspiration from Ed Fella's OutWest typeface that he created with a 15 degree ellipse template (If you're interested in it, it's available from Emigré).
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told news agencies that the chemicals contained in sunless tanning products ""
Well that's just great. We're just trying to get a little tan on. Why does it have to be so difficult …and dangerous?
"The substances in the products are thought to be related to, or actually are, mutagenic and carcinogenic," says Edward Marut, M.D., a fertility doctor with Fertility Centers of Illinois. "That means they can cause fetal anomalies and cancer. No one knows the extent of exposure needed to increase these risks, but since there is no health benefit to tanning at all, stay away!Fifteen minutes in the sun a day maximizes the production of Vitamin D needed for general health."


"Jamal's unique business background will be an asset to our board," said Mark de Souza, CEO of Revolution. "His success running thriving franchise businesses, paired with his knowledge of capital markets and commitment to community service, make him a natural fit for Revolution as the company enters its next chapter."
"Revolution is honored to have an entrepreneur of Jamal's caliber join the team," said Tony Hunter, Chairman of Revolution. "Jamal has always led his businesses with an eye towards innovation, which is key as Revolution expands to new markets."


Nike’s departure from the board of the U.S. Chamber amplifies the already strong signal sent by Exelon, PNM Resources and PG&E in recent days that the Chamber does not represent the mainstream corporate view on climate action. Disgusted over its antics on climate, PNM Resources dropped the Chamber of Commerce altogether, leaving both its position on the board and announcing plans to let its membership in the business lobby expire. PG&E also withdrew completely from the Chamber, and Exelon followed suit yesterday.
Who is next? Toyota, are you listening? How about Johnson & Johnson?


The first spartes a dragon'a hero slew a draconic servant of Arety, and the gods guided him to remove the dragon's teeth and sowth. These first warriors who arose from the dragon's teeth were powerful but belligerent, and all too quickly fell to fighting amongst themselves. But those who survived proved to be loyal to a fault, and served the hero who sowed them well. They were called the spartes, or the "sown men."


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FIRST FROST is available on nook and Kindle for $4.99.
BIANCA SIGHED IN DISMAY.  The vacuum cleaner was broken again.  It was a black and blue monstrosity.  When it did work properly, it pulled Bianca every which way whenever she turned it on.  Sometimes she wondered what her mother would say if she bought a saddle for the vacuum cleaner and just rode it around the museum.  But lately it was giving her problems.  This was the second time this month that it refused to work.  Bianca double-checked to make sure it was plugged into the socket properly, placed a new piece of duct tape on the cord, and then tried to turn it on once more...still nothing.
While FIRST FROST starts off a little slowly, I didn't mind because as I stated in my opening paragraph, I was in complete awe of the fabulous museum.  Once Bianca discovers the truth behind the museum and has her eyes opened, the story really gets rolling.  Bianca isn't in the journey alone, either.  She travels between worlds with her best friend Ming, and the girls come across a travelling Prince Ferdinand and his companion Terrance.  Proper males brought up never to leave a damsel in distress, they quickly accompany the girls on their journey.  Each character is uniquely developed, too.  They may not be deep characters, but they're a lot of fun to be around.  There's the pompous prince who isn't necessarily the dashing hero girls dream of.  Terrance has a mysterious, intriguing background that comes into play later on.  Ming is a true friend despite her fears.  And Bianca is a great example of a true hero: One who is brave in the face of danger despite the fact that she's terrified.  She loves her mother fiercely and will do anything to save her.  She grows so fast and becomes very powerful by the novel's end.  It was a pleasure to watch her blossom.  I enjoyed all of the nods to various fairy tales along the way and really appreciated the way Liz DeJesus turned ordinary fairy tale items into important objects that played a role in Bianca's journey.  I ultimately had a lot of fun reading this and would pick up another book by DeJesus in the future.
I wish the background image wasn't drowned out by everything lying on top of it.  I want to see more of the girl in the pretty dress, please.  I want it to pop out!  I do like the way the white used for the title and author were pulled from the white created from this effect of diluting the background, but I do wish the image stood out more, because it could be so striking.
This sounds like a fun read. I am definitely intrigued by the museum, as you were! Thanks for sharing your review, Bonnie; I hadn't heard of First Frost before!


A new air filter will improve performance and fuel consumption, especially on an old car like the Pop’s 59 Caddy.
Everyone should know if you want more horsepower and you don’t have a huge budget performance air filter. Initially, I wanted the chromed out air cleaner unit and bought one from Original Parts Group. When it arrived in the mail I was super excited I bought a K&N chrome housing air breather. OPG said it would fit a 1959 Cadillac Coupe De Ville but when I went to install it the unit didn’t fit on my carburetor. I had to return the air cleaner to OPG and had no idea what performance air cleaner would work on a 1959 Cadillac Coupe De Ville.
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