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Even as Japan and the United States need deficit-funded stimulus now to stay on the recovery path, sustained large budget deficits will be a long-term problem that undermines their future growth prospects and must be addressed. But how?
Tax hikes might be one inevitable solution, given that the two countries are near the bottom of the list of advanced economies around the world in terms of tax-to-gross domestic product ratio. U.S. data meanwhile suggest that tax reduction is a much more effective tool than increases in government spending as a tool to turn the economy around.
These were among the views expressed by American experts who took part in the Feb. 19 symposium in Tokyo, organized by Keizai Koho Center under the theme "Revitalization of the Japanese economy — views from U.S. think tank researchers." Tetsuro Sugiura, chief economist at Mizuho Research Institute, served as moderator of discussions.
Over the short term, the huge budget deficits incurred by the U.S. and Japanese governments are "appropriate," said Michael Ettlinger, vice president for economic policy at the Center for American Progress.
"The problem is not this year or not even the next year. We should be running large deficits. We've needed large stimulus to get our economies growing. In fact, for our long-term deficits to come down, we need economic growth, so deficits now to promote economic growth are actually important to achieving the lower deficits that we need in the future," he said.
It is widely believed that the large stimulus introduced by the government in response to the financial crisis "has had a positive impact" in the U.S., Ettlinger said. However, he added, he is not sure yet that the U.S. economy has changed its momentum.
"I view the U.S. economy as teetering and it could still slip back," and this is a concern that is shared by many in Japan about its own economy, he said. "So in my view, it is not the right time to take our foot off the gas pedal. In the U.S., only about a third of the stimulus money went out in 2009 so there is still more to come in 2010, and we will have a very large budget deficit in 2010. But if anything in the U.S., I think we need more deficit-funded stimulus — not less — to ensure that we break out of the downward spiral. (And) it may be called for (in Japan) as well."
The real problem about the fiscal situations in both the U.S. and Japan, he said, is the long-term prospect of running large budget deficits.
"Unless there is a change of course, both of our countries are in a situation where we're going to be running deficits of pretty substantial size for a pretty long period, and these are deficits that are higher than what is widely agreed on as acceptable," he noted.
Running high, sustained budget deficits leads to the risk of sharply higher interest rates, which would increase the debt-servicing expenses and thereby divert resources from government investments necessary to boost the economy, he said. And debt payment "simply dampens future economic growth" in the sense that "we're borrowing from our future," he added.
Ettlinger pointed to similarities and differences between the Japanese and U.S. situations as both countries try to tackle their long-term fiscal problems.
In addition to aging populations and rising health care costs, "we both face political barriers where raising taxes and cutting spending are very difficult," he said. The Democratic Party of Japan-led government has said no to a hike in the consumption tax in the near future, while U.S. President Barack Obama has said there will be no tax increases on those earning less than $250,000 a year, he noted.
"Another similarity is that in both countries the public is likely to blame the deficits on wasteful government spending, even though eliminating waste — although it is an important obligation to taxpayers and politically necessary — is not enough to solve the problem," he said.
Among key differences between the two economies is that Japan's population is set to fall while that of the U.S. is growing; Japan has larger overall debt than the U.S. but much of the debt is owed to its own people while the U.S. relies on funds from abroad; and that Japan's projected economic growth in the coming years is weaker than that of the U.S., he noted.
But one key common factor is that the U.S. and Japan are still rich countries and both are near the bottom of the list of advanced economies in terms of the share of tax revenue in their GDP, Ettlinger said.
Therefore, he said, the difficulty that U.S. and Japanese governments face in trying to raise taxes to address their budget deficits will be "not economic but political" in nature, and it will ultimately be a "question of political will" if they are going to do it.
The 1990s saw a turnaround from a U.S. budget deficit when Bill Clinton became president in 1993 to a surplus later in the decade following robust economic growth. Strong economic growth makes it easier for governments to resolve deficits, "but I think we need a plan that would succeed in reducing the deficits even if we don't get extraordinary economic growth" like the one in the 1990s, Ettlinger said.
Effective policy approaches should be similar for both the U.S. and Japan even though their economies differ in important respects, said Benjamin Zycher, a senior fellow of the Pacific Research Institute. Analysis of U.S. economic data and recent studies by economists show that tax cuts will be a much more effective tool than government spending in stimulating economic growth, he said.
Of the four key components of GDP — consumption, investment, net exports and government spending — U.S. data from 2007 to 2009 indicate that ups and downs in investment account for much of the recession and the recent rebound in GDP growth, Zycher said.
While the fluctuation of personal consumption also moves closely with GDP changes, ups and downs in net U.S. exports appears to have almost no correlation with the GDP growth trend, he noted.
And the U.S. government's non-defense spending has "effectively no effect on GDP growth" during the period, Zycher said. This may not be surprising, given that increases in government spending on some sectors have to be financed with reduced spending on others, and it is "extremely difficult" for the government to target the spending effectively on the shrinking sectors in a timely manner, given that large parts of a stimulus package are actually spent after a substantial time lag, he noted.
These data and other recent studies show that "increased government spending appears to be a very weak tool with which to increase economic growth . . . and that tax reduction is a more powerful tool. Strengthened incentives for investments may be particularly effective," Zycher said.
And tax reduction "allows the market to allocate resources much more efficiently and quickly than government spending programs are able to do," he added.
In the October-December period, Japan's economy grew by an annualized 4.6 percent from the previous quarter partly due to a recovery in exports, prompting government officials to say that the fears of a double-dip recession have become smaller.
However, Marc Levinson, a senior fellow for international business at the Council on Foreign Relations, warned that Japan's reliance on increases in net exports for GDP growth may not be sustainable as a long-term strategy because various new factors in cross-border trade, including non-macroeconomic ones, could change today's patterns of international trade.
The global boom in international trade over the past several decades has been supported by sharp declines in freight costs and cheap oil for much of the 30 years after the oil crises of the 1970s, Levinson noted. These made it practical for manufacturers to have "very long supply chains with very timely delivery," including the many Japanese firms that launched operations in the U.S. while relying on supplies from home, he said.
Environmental regulations in the transport sector have long been quite weak and border controls on cargo remained lax, which also contributed to the low freight cost and timely delivery, he noted.
The problem today, Levinson said, is that many of these factors "no longer continue to exist."
He pointed to emerging signs of "diseconomies of scale" in the maritime transport sector, where shipping lines are ordering "extremely large" cargo vessels that will be more efficient at sea but will take much longer to unload at ports. Serious congestion at ports caused by the arrival of vessels carrying 7,000 to 8,000 containers will raise the costs of international cargo shipping, he said.
The age of cheap oil is now over, which would increase shipping costs over the long term that will be quickly passed on to shippers, Levinson said.
Increased environmental pressures on the carriers in all transport sectors, more stringent controls on aircraft noise and greater difficulty involved in the construction of new airport runways will all add up to higher freight costs, he noted.
And the increased security concerns — fears of terrorism, drug smuggling, illegal immigrants and so forth — are driving border authorities to inspect more cargo shipments, Levinson pointed out.
Increases in cargo transport costs will likely raise the price of imported goods relative to domestic products, Levinson said. But the more important impact would be that reliability of imports would diminish because guaranteed delivery time would become hard to achieve, requiring the importers to have larger inventories, he noted.
"Transport costs and transport reliability will become more important in manufacturers' and retailers' decisions about what to produce where," he said. This may lead to some revival of manufacturing of high-value products in the U.S. and Europe because it would make more sense to produce where the goods are used given the higher cost and reduced reliability of transport — and to the relocation of the production of low-value goods closer to the the end-user markets, he noted.
"This throws into question the strategy of reliance on an export-driven economic model, which will be increasingly difficult to sustain over a long period of time," Levinson noted. "I do not believe the volume of trade is going to decline, but I think that in the years ahead we are going to see trade expand at a much slower rate than has been the case in the past."
The political focus in the U.S. and Japan this year will likely be on domestic issues given that both the Obama administration and Japan's ruling coalition, led by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, face crucial elections in the months ahead.
Still, Japan's position as host to this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meetings and that of the U.S. as APEC chair next year give them good opportunities to work together on the regional and global trade agenda, said Nicholas Szechenyi, deputy director of the Office of the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In Washington, there is an "overwhelming emphasis on the need to recover from the economic crisis, and economic stimulus is certainly the priority," Szechenyi said. "There is also the midterm election this year, and therefore much of the rhetoric on economy that we hear is about boosting the economy and increasing government spending, and not very much on trade."
But while trade is apparently not at the top of the list of the administration's agenda, Obama, in his Asian tour last November, spoke of the need for the United States to be an active participant in Asia as a trading nation, and in his State of the Union address in January, Obama mentioned an initiative to double U.S. exports in five years, Szechenyi noted.
It was probably not a clearly defined initiative, "but I think it's a signal of a shift in the approach and understanding that for the U.S. to have credibility as an economic partner in this region it is going to have to show a lot more detailed ideas and more concrete vision for the future, and I think the U.S.-Japan alliance is a key tool in that process," Szechenyi said.


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We are walking for someone we love very much.
A wife, mother and friend. Nyobie Gordon-Ricks
Why We Walk...
I wish my mom didn't have lupus so we could do all the fun things we used to do.
I walk because my mom has lupus and that makes me sad because she can't do the stuff that she used to do with us anymore. Like go bowling, and to the park to play on the swings.
I walk for my mom because she's in so much pain and it makes me feel bad. She can't do things with us like play video games or play outside because her body gets tried and starts to hurt.
As a lupus patient myself I know firsthand the impact this disease can have on the lives of not only the people living with lupus but also on the family members who are helping care for them.
I was diagnosed with Lupus SLE in 2010, Lupus Nephritis in 2011 and Lupus Cerebritis in 2012. It was a hard time for me and my family. We all had to make adjustments to deal with my new normal. I'm a fighter and I refuse to give up.
I want to do my part in helping bring awareness to a disease that so desperately needs the voice of it's survivors heard. We need better health care, medication, doctor education, diagnostic testing and medical research. Most importantly we need support.
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When Swedish photographer Christian Åslund was commissioned by the sneaker company Jim Rickey to do an ad campaign, he had a novel idea. Instead of hunkering down in a studio with sneaker models, he grabbed a small crew and set off to climb skyscrapers in Hong Kong. His idea was to shoot the streets from above and turn the city into an enormous video game by having his models lay on the ground, pretending to dangle off of curbs and climb crosswalks like ladders.
Because it is Video Game Day and, more importantly, because this project was an awesome stroke of genius, we're revisiting our conversation with Christian. Find out how he pulled this whole thing off below.
What was the Jim Rickey campaign about?
The mission of the campaign was to do a tribute to classic 2-D platformer video games, old-school side-scrolling games like Donkey Kong, and let a person navigate the streets. By shooting from as high above as possible, using a tele lens to make the images more flat, it was possible to create the feeling of the model being the player's alter ego — the character — and the actual image would be the player's perspective.
Where did you get the idea to do this project?
I got the idea for the Honkey Kong project when I was in Hong Kong visiting a friend, who had access to a skyscraper rooftop in Hong Kong. I'm based in Stockholm, Sweden, which is a fairly small city for being a capital, without any major tall rising buildings like they have in the States, China and other crowded cities. Being amazed by the view from up there and seeing daily life from a bird's perspective, I got the idea for the project. A while later I was commissioned by the shoe brand Jim Rickey to shoot an advertising campaign and managed to sell the idea to them.
What was the process like shooting this campaign?
A couple of weeks [after we got the gig] we went back to Hong Kong with a very small production team of three people, me as photographer and creative director, a production manager and an assistant. Instead of bringing professional models with us, we knew it was more about the feeling of the images and that too big of a crew would slow us down. Therefore we decided to shoot it within the team, using ourselves as models, and also found some additional people on the ground that we could use.
What was the biggest challenge you faced for this project?
The most difficult was to get access to the different rooftops and to be able to scout as many locations as possible. The language was also an issue so we needed local fixers who spoke Cantonese. We contacted a local film school and got hold of two students that we hired as fixers. The production schedule was very tight so we only had two days of scouting and doing test shots, then two days of shooting the series of 10 images.
We used walkie-talkies to communicate with the people on the ground, fine-tuning them in the right perspective and also having an overview of incoming traffic since we were actually in the middle of high-traffic streets and did not have the time or budget to close it off.
Why do you think this campaign worked out so well?
I believe the Honkey Kong campaign series worked since it's a bit of a weird and twisted perspective of an ordinary view. We have all been up on a higher point looking down, but perhaps have not thought of it in that way.
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Hi Team,
This is regarding with the Draft report that created by the user. The Draft contents will not be deleted automatically unless the user delete the report manually.
It would be great if you create a clean-up job in order to reduce the no of draft/unused reports from the queue to avoid space consumption from the server.
For example, If we run job to delete the draft reports which is not used more then specific days (ie. 30 days, 60 days, 90 days etc). This patch to be run automatically and periodically.
Thanks Kalaiselvan
Hi Kalaiselvan,
Thank you for the idea. I have raised this as an idea with our dev team. If this is implemented I will advise you accordingly.
Jira Reference : YFN-11667
Do you know if this idea is implemented in any recent release?
Hi Bharath,
There have been notes placed onto this ticket, which reflect that they will be looking at this in the second half of the year. We might have some scripts in the mean time, which might be of use. Would you like me to source these for you?
Hi Paul,
I can use the sql: delete from reportheader where reportstatuscode = 'DRAFT'. If you have any apart from this, please share.
Hi Bharath,
This should be all that is required and there is no specific magic sql script :). I will follow up though on this idea once there is movement on this.
Thank you,


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Côte d'Ivoire is the top-ranked team in Africa, it's anchored by the continent's best player and boosted by a perfect run in qualifying and it's also the favourite to win the African Cup of Nations (Afcon).
The star-studded squad, which has underperformed in the past, now has to prove its number one ranking.
Without an African title for 20 years and following disappointing performances at the last two Cup of Nations and the 2010 World Cup, Côte d'Ivoire is approaching a last chance scenario for some its leading players — especially Chelsea striker Didier Drogba.
The 33-year-old forward who has so often led the Elephants' charge at the African Cup won't have a better chance to claim a continental title with former winners Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria and South Africa all absent.
Drogba leads an impressive forward line for Ivory Coast, alongside Chelsea teammate Salomon Kalou and Arsenal winger Gervinho. Fellow veteran Kolo Toure forms the heart of the defence.
Yet Côte d'Ivoire's success may depend on whether Kolo's younger brother, midfielder Yaya Toure, can take his dominant form for English Premier League team Manchester City onto the fields in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Impressive line-up
Yaya Toure was voted Africa's 2011 player of the year and there's little argument that he is currently the continent's outstanding player. He anchors the impressive line-up, which includes players from the top leagues in England, France and Germany.
But as Côte d'Ivoire has discovered before with its recent failures, culminating in a surprising quarterfinal exit at the 2010 tournament, Africa's championship doesn't always suit the Europe-based stars.
"We hope this year will be our year," Yaya Toure said. "It's always difficult. We fell three times. It is so difficult. We have all the players playing in Europe. We know Africa is different, the weather, the fields.
"We have to fire. Quality is not enough to win the African Cup of Nations. If you speak about quality, the Côte d'Ivoire has fantastic quality. We need the fighting spirit because you know Africa is so difficult, so hard."
Kolo Toure conceded Ivory Coast had undoubtedly "struggled" at the Cup of Nations, despite its talented group of players.
After the failure at the African Cup in Angola and a first-round exit at the 2010 World Cup, Ivory Coast turned to former international Francois Zahoui to coach the squad after a string of foreign managers.
Great expectations
That appeared to be the right decision as under Zahoui the Ivorians produced a perfect qualifying campaign for the African Cup, winning six out of six games to head to the tournament as the form team — as well as the top-ranked team — in Africa.
Warm-up wins over Tunisia and Libya in the final run-in to the African Cup underlined Ivory Coast's status as obvious favourite for a first continental title since its only previous success in 1992. The expectation is great.
"The pressure is normal," Kolo Toure said, denying the favourites tag would weigh down the Ivorians. "Every time Ivory Coast plays a tournament everybody expects us to be the winning the team. For us, the pressure is normal. We are relaxed. We have prepared for the tournament well. We are ready to go there and make a show."
Drogba may not have many more African Cups left, while Kolo Toure is also heading toward the end of his career. They are part of a strong generation for Côte d'Ivoire that has not lived up to its promise yet in international football — another heavy load for the squad to carry.
"I'm 30-years-old and most of the team are 30. For us, we just need to now win this tournament," Kolo Toure said. "That is the only thing missing in our record. We have been in the World Cup twice. We know winning World Cup is difficult. If we don't win [the African Cup] it will bad thing for us."
Côte d'Ivoire will be boosted by their tournament group, which appears easier than that of main title rival Ghana.
Dangerous team
The Elephants would expect to beat Angola, Burkina Faso and Sudan in Group B, while Ghana has to deal with a dangerous Mali team in Group D alongside Botswana and Guinea, another tricky customer which beat out Nigeria in qualifying.
But as the top-ranked team and the favourite — and without big guns Egypt, Cameroon and Nigeria — Côte d'Ivoire also knows that it is the main target for the other teams. Everyone will be going all out to beat Ivory Coast.
"We have to respect everyone and play our best and that is the only way we can win the competition," Kalou said. "We are working. That is reason why we are here. We want to win the competition.
We have to be ready to sacrifice all our energy, our time to go to the end.
"The only way of putting ourselves in trouble is not paying attention to a team."
Côte d'Ivoire opens against Sudan, then faces Burkina Faso and Angola, and will surprise many if it doesn't ultimately make the trip to Libreville for the final on February 12. Another failure would almost certainly be a bigger shock than the previous ones. — Sapa-AP


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The vineyard is 50 hectares and vines are 18 years old on average.


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Social TV, the concept that allows you to engage with TV programs in real-time with a secondary device like a mobile is yet to become common in India unlike it is in the US. Television is a dominant medium in the country and with the influx of social networks especially Twitter, brands are pushing the second screen concept to netizens.
In India, Twitter has gradually become the second screen device. Besides there are a lot of startups which are working in the same space and generating value. Frrole is one such startup which is making sense of Twitter data in real-time by providing it to television; a phenomenon seen during the recently concluded 16th Lok Sabha Elections.
Last year Twitter had partnered with DTH provider Airtel to bring the tweets to the idiot boxes. The move was interesting and was implemented by another Bangalore based startup BrizzTV along with Airtel and Twitter. Today the startup is focusing on the social space and in reducing the space between traditional and online networks by making sense of the social conversations.
Interestingly, BrizzTV was never built for the social media space. The initial idea was to democratize education and take it to the people who remain aloof to technology. The idea was to bring affordable education in front of television sets.
Life of Amarendra Sahu before BrizzTV
The genesis of the idea lies in the childhood of co-founder & CEO Amarendra Sahu who was born in the small remote village of Bhadrak, 150 km from Bhubhaneswar, capital of the state Odisha. Born to a farmer, the only son in the family along with two sisters, Sahu had been always an achiever in studies. After scoring with flying colours in his 10th board, he moved to Bhubhaneswar in 1997 for his higher studies. The good show in studies kept continuing and he was shortlisted for BITS Pilani to pursue his engineering degree.
But nature had some different plans, Sahu couldn't pursue his education at BITS Pilani as it was the same year in 1999 when Odisha was hit by the deadly cyclone. "It was June, our houses were completely flooded and things were really in a bad shape. I couldn't prepare for the IIT that year as I was not aware of it. So I took a break at home and I took the IIT but later dropped the idea because of the expensive engineering fees. I finally decided to opt for the state education and did my electronics engineering," recollects Sahu.
After graduating Sahu joined Bell Labs as his first company. This was also the first time when the guy from Bhadrak saw quite a bit of money in his hands. During this time change of jobs happened and by the time it was Cisco, Sahu was getting restless with the way things were progressing.
"I was not aware what I was doing and at the same time I was not aspiring for money or materialistic pleasures. I never aspired them from my early days. I knew my heart was in technology, I was looking for options and this was the time I wrote CAT and I made my way to IIMB," adds Sahu.
IIMB happened in 2009 and this also gave an opportunity to Sahu to get a break from corporate life and re-look at his life and what he wanted to do in the near future. The MBA course turned out to be lucky for him as this was the time when the idea of BrizzTV came up.
BrizzTV – delivering educational content on TV
"BrizzTV is a pure reflection of my background. Every time I go back home, I don't find any kind of digital progress that people talk about in metro cities. I have always believed that technology can rescue a lot of problems in a very interesting way but somehow it never reaches the needy masses in the society. Besides education was a topic that was always close to my heart, so the idea was to be in digital, in education and it had to reach the poor people. This led to the formation of the idea to distribute educational content over television," informs Sahu who started his startup along with his engineering friend Jitendra Jagadev. He also happens to come from the state of Odisha.
Both friends knew if they could crack the distribution of high quality educational content over television then they could make business out of it. With television being the dominating medium in the country, the co-founders also believed that with this idea they could really reach to the masses of the country and benefit them.
BrizzTV got incubated by IIMB. It made history by becoming one of the startups to be started by a student and also got funded while he was still pursuing his MBA degree. "We got 25 lakhs of seed grant from IIMB since the college was quite excited about the delivery and business model we were trying to crack," recollects Sahu.
The two member co-founding team was later joined by Krishnan Varadarajan who is the CTO now at BrizzTV. Varadarajan happens to be Jagadev's boss at Philips and Sahu knew both of them from a pretty long time so the bond was there, something the startup required for a healthy work relationship.
Work experience with set-top boxes of both Varadarajan and Jagadev helped the startup to build its founding base. This led to the foundation of BrizzTV in 2009.
The startup received a good response from the market. It also got some great television networks to partner along with excellent content but the decision rested in the consumer's response. "The initial response was good, the pricing was nominal and the day we launched we signed up 300 customers. So making high quality educational programs affordable for masses was really cracked by us," informs Sahu.
But with time the consumer response died. One of the reasons at that point of time was that the market was a prepaid one, so the consumers dropped as no one was interested to get the service recharged. The other reason that Sahu thinks, which was a big learning for the startup, was that in India the association of TV and education is not that strong. "UGC never made content that would excite people to consume it on TV. The service quality was low and that brought down the perception. Moreover, India is still not ready for digital education and people still prefer physical teachers."
Pivot to bring social conversations on TV
In a year and half's time, the startup realized that TV is more for entertainment, so the brainstorming was to find out how the existing delivery mechanism can be used. This was the time when social networks were picking up in the country and Twitter was really doing well. The startup also realized that TV users are more interested about sports, news and entertainment.
"We could see that Twitter was enabling conversations related to TV and we thought of marrying both TV and Twitter. This is how BrizzTV started focusing on bringing premium content from Twitter to TV," states Sahu.
The bold move to pivot paid the startup and the Airtel Twitter partnership happened. The service powered by Brizz TV, allowed Airtel Digital TV customers to see what the world is tweeting about popular TV programs, celebrities, sports personalities, etc. on their TV screen itself. At the backend BrizzTV was pulling tweets with the help of Twitter API and was curating the relevant tweets in run time to be broadcast on TV.
Besides making TV understand a tweet was also a challenge. "We were converting the Twitter data in a format that was understood by TV which is accustomed to only video content. We inserted a new layer of data over TV which could be kept open or closed conditionally. We didn't overlay data over video, a normal work mechanism by a lot of TV channels," adds Sahu.
Talking about other use cases of BrizzTV, Sahu shared the recent implementation with Times Now."While we were curating content we also brought in interesting content. During Arnab's news show, we displayed a lot of tweets from parody accounts. The idea was to make content consumption interesting while having a laid back experience on TV."
BrizzTV is doing a similar curation implementation with Star Sports during live matches; similar executions are being carried out at MTV, Colors TV, among others.
However, Sahu feels that curation is a misunderstood job as brands understanding of social media is very shallow. "Most of the content that brands deliver on social networks are marketing and promotional messages. They still don't get the medium."
TV industry and road ahead
Talking about the industry Sahu thinks that the TV business moves slow and is not able to keep up pace with the digital and social world. "I wished that they were little more open for startups like us and bit more fast. They are little slow for the pace; technology is growing and if they don't react then the YouTube's of the world will get consumer attention faster."
Having said that, Sahu adds that the industry is accepting the fact that users are consuming social content while watching TV. Most of the TV channels are not bothered with the ROI right now but there is a set who avoid investing in technology and Brizz TV keeps convincing that chunk that the sooner they do it, the better it will be for them.
TV Analytics built by Brizz TV might convince the set of TV players. The product that is at a very nascent stage is tracking consumer behavior while she is watching TV for a period of time. A data that might excite senior executives of the television industry.
Going further the startup wants to focus on TV distributing networks and consumers. The company wants to be in the B2C space by having distribution partnerships. While Sahu understands that second screen is a laid back experience and integration matters, so rather than having a multiple app strategy, BrizzTV wants to be looked upon as a utility service provider.
The five-year old company is now getting traction from large international TV distribution companies with great help from Twitter. The next six months is quite exciting says Sahu without revealing any more details. "It's hard to predict things in the startup world but hopefully we will have some good news to share in the next six months."
With social and digital space maturing in the country, the 15-member five-year-old startup definitely has a bright road ahead.


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Medical Marijuana Bill Hearing lasts hours due to number of testifiers
After previous attempts to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska, Sen. Anna Wishart says she thinks this time it will pass. Wishart introduced LB110, or the Adopt Medical Cannabis Act and presented the bill to the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday.
It was a packed house at the hearing, with dozens of passionate people on both sides of the debate wanting to testify. So many people showed up that the committee had to make special time for all of them.
The committee set aside one hour for those in favor, one hour for those opposed, time to address three other bills on the docket, and then went back to finish up with testimony.
In total, the hearing lasted nearly eight hours.
LB110 would allow patients with medical conditions that range from cancer to PTSD to seizures and anxiety to have access to medical marijuana, but there are some stipulations.
You can have no more than 3 oz. of marijuana on your person, 8 oz. at home and infused products with no more than 2,400 mg. of THC.
People for the bill say they need relief for their pain as well as the pain of their families.
"I've certainly been prescribed every prescription medication known to man," said Lia Post, who says medical cannabis would provide relief from her Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.
Crista Eggers said she testified in favor of the bill because her son, Colton, suffers from seizures.
"If it was your child, you would stand right here where I am. Fighting for them. Because that's my job as a mom," Eggers said.
Opponents say they don't believe the bill will protect those who suffer, but instead leave the door open for complete, recreational marijuana legalization.
"I see this as putting the sick and the suffering of our state in a giant medical experiment," said Mary Hilton, whose daughter also suffers from seizures.
Joining Hilton in opposition was former Nebraska football head coach Tom Osborne, who says he's seen the impacts of marijuana use on his players.
"This idea that marijuana is not addictive is a myth," Osborne said. "It's not dangerous is a myth, and I think the public needs to be aware of that."
If the bill passes, Sen. Wishart says she would like to see a regulation and distribution system set up by 2021. But first, the committee must decide if it passes and goes to the unicameral floor for full debate.
If it fails there, some senators have said they want it to become a ballot initiative, letting voters decide.


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New York, N.Y. Speaking broadly, we don't appreciate Bollywood because we don't understand it. We fail to grasp it not for any intellectual flaw, but for a major cultural one: we didn't grow up in India. The biggest point to absorb to better get Bollywood is that Indian cinema is both sophisticated and unique. Films began to be made in India in the 1890's, at the same time as film was being created in France.
Indian glamour: Actor Zoran Saher, Sneha Shah, and Kawas Bhasin. Photo: Kabir Chopra.
Bollywood has a bad rap in the U.S., known mostly for exaggerated song and dance. It is so much more, I have learned. Indian films are a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It is an integral part of Indian life. It has been described as a cinema that heals. It is also the largest film industry in the world.
In the past I have interviewed Indian film personalities actor Shah Rukh Khan and directorsMira Nair and Mani Ratnam, as well as reviewed specific Indian films such as Chittagong.
Indian director Anuraadha Tewari with actor Anand Kumar. Photo: Kabir Chopra.
Indian film is based on an iconography deeply rooted in the Indian soil with Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist and Christian references. Indian film is often a melodrama wrapped in joy and hope – celebrating the positivity of life. If an actor appears with a peacock feather, the Indian viewer understands a connection to Vishnu. With a snake around his neck, the native viewer thinks of Shiva. Such visual images and references are understood by Indian audiences.
Zoya Akhtar, Ajay Shrivastav, and Kiren Shrivastav. Photo: Kabir Chopra.
Last fall attended a wonderful two-day educational conference in New York titled Ticket2Bollywood (T2B), sponsored by Molecule Communications. The theme was 'Bollywood: Beyond the Song and Dance.' The event featured some of the most successful Indian filmmakers in the business
The roster of powerhouse Bollywood "household" names included:
Madhur Bhandarkar. National Award-winner for Best Director for and director of National Award-winning movies Chandni Bar (Tabu), Page 3, and Fashion (Priyanka Chopra). Bhandarkar has also released the most-awaited movie of the year, Heroine(Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal).
Imtiaz Ali. Nominated for Best Director for recent super hit Rockstar (Ranbir Kapoor) and 2007's Jab We Met (Shahid Kapur & Kareena Kapoor). Imtiaz also directed Love Aaj Kal and Socha Na Tha. Most recently, Imtiaz wrote the script for Cocktail (Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone).
Zoya Akhtar. FilmFare Award for Best Director for Zindagi Na Milege Dobara (Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif). Also directed Luck by Chance (Konkana Sen Sharma) and writer of soon-to-be-released Taalash (Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee, and Kareena Kapoor). Zoya posited this thought: "Why do certain Indian films not work here in the U.S.? For me, this is very interesting to ponder."
Anuraadha Tewari. Gold Medalist for Direction from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and scriptwriter of Fashion, Jail, and the more recent Heroine.
At event press-conference: Imtiaz Ali, Anuraadha Tewari, Zoya Akhtar. Photo: Kabir Chopra."At a time in our film history when Bollywood and Indian independent movies are in the international media spotlight, whether it is at Cannes, Sundance, or at the Oscars," says Molecule Communications Director Ajay Shrivastav, "we want to educate anyone who is interested in Bollywood about what it takes to make a film a 'hit." He elaborated:
Our films have gone beyond the Bollywood that portrayed couples 'fake' kissing surreptitiously behind trees or having arranged marriages because they had no choice. This young crop of directors and writers is capturing the 'truest' sense of what it means to grow up Indian in a global world, and we are thrilled to be presenting all of them together for the first time in the United States during the 100th year of Indian cinema.
My own growing appreciation for Bollywood is in direct proportion to my understanding. Many of my Asian friends don't get why I laugh listening to Jeff Foxworthy's Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Sure, Bollywood has its share of exaggerated song and dance. 'Redneck' humor can be as homophobic and misogynist as Rap. But all are so much more.I have enjoyed getting to know Shah Rukh Khan, Mira Nair and Mani Ratnam here in the U.S. and look forward to being in India again to learn even more about Indian cinema – and especially Bollywood. To try to better appreciate the rich iconography deeply rooted in the Indian soil. Luckily, as I will never be Indian, Bollywood continues to become more global.
Originally published in The Daily Kos, May 12, 2013.
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Annual investment event yielded five investor leads per startup
The ninth edition of Biotech Umeå's annual partnering event was the first ever to fill up before deadline. Around 30 Swedish and European investors met with 13 startups and early cases. Two weeks after the event participants report an impressive turnout – on average they have retained at least five active leads per company.


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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Stockton and Darlington Railway will be held on Wednesday 4th September 2019 at 7.00 p.m. in the Cleveland Bay, Eaglescliffe, Stockton on Tees, TS16 0JE to transact the business on the agenda which is given in this notice. The Annual General Meeting provides the charity trustees and/or officers the opportunity to explain their management of the charity to the members. It also provides the members…Find out more »
Stockton Bridge House Gardening
Join SIG at Bridge House in Stockton for an evening sprucing up this historic site. Pull on your gardening gloves, grab your tools and meet us there to do some community action work.Find out more »
Stockton Interest Group Social
Our Stockton Interest Group (SIG) is holding a social on Wednesday 11th September at the Hope & Union in Stockton. A perfect chance to meet together, socialise and find out more about the group. If you're peckish the bar does serve food until 8pm.Find out more »
Shildon Heritage Walk
Historical Walk from Brusselton Accomodation Bridge to Hildyard's Bridge along the original route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. This walk is an easygoing 3 mile walk which will take you in the footsteps of railway pioneers George & Robert Stephenson and Timothy Hackworth. Meet at the Locomotion Museum Car Park Pre booking is preferred and can be booked with Jane Hackworth-Young on 01833 627712 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or John Raw at email@example.com out more »
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Please enjoy 300 of the best quotes of all time. These are my favorite ones in all wisdomquotes.com's collection. You'll find topics like life, happiness, success, love, and lots more. Hope you'll love them as much as I do.
Be who you were created to be and you will set the world on fire. Catherine of Siena
Take up the battle, take it up. It's yours. This is your life, this is your world. Maya Angelou
Doctors won't make you healthy. Nutritionists won't make you slim. Teachers won't make you smart. Gurus won't make you calm. Mentors won't make you rich. Trainers won't make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself. Naval Ravikant
You will not get what you want, you will get what you need. Maxime Lagacé
The future belongs to people who can think, hustle, and create. Ed Latimore
The best fighter is never angry. Lao Tzu
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. Alan Watts
Only that you do the right thing, nothing else matters. Marcus Aurelius
All of us are alive because someone took care of us when we were small. Aaron Thier
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us. Leo Tolstoy
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker (Revolutionary Petunias)
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. Fred Rogers
Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process. Robert Greene (Mastery)
The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside. Naval Ravikant
Understand: the future belongs to groups that are fluid, fast, and nonlinear. Robert Greene
See also: positive quotes, change and growth quotes, strength quotes
The Best Quotes Of All Time
The inspired minority triumphs over the inert masses. Napoleon Bonaparte
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou
What you are being challenged by may be the very thing you've been waiting for. Iyanla Vanzant
Extreme people get extreme results. Sam Altman
Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art. Susan Sontag
Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live. Naval Ravikant
One of the main reasons people fall short of their potential is they care more about looking good than getting better. Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego. Adam Grant
Our ambition should not be to win but to play with our full effort. Our intention is not to be thanked or recognized, but to help and to do what we think is right. Our focus is not on what happens to us but on how we respond. In this, we will find contentment and resilience. Ryan Holiday (Daily Stoic)
The only Zen you'll find on mountain tops is the Zen you bring up there with you. Alan Watts
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell
The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain. Seneca
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. Marcus Aurelius
A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season. Marcus Aurelius
It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it. Alice Walker
In the age of instant gratification, those who can endure discomfort are the most free. Alex Sauer
The mediocre man consumes. The ordinary man seeks. The great man creates. The superior man does the right thing. Maxime Lagacé
As soon as we free ourselves from the mirage of hurrying time, we are alive again, as in childhood, to the ecstasies of ordinary life. Alan Watts
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear merely what is necessary, still less conceal it… but love it. Friedrich Nietzsche
He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. G.K. Chesterton (Tremendous Trifles)
Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors. Fred Rogers
Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence… And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives. Fred Rogers
First stop lying, then start speaking the truth. Jordan Peterson
I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free. Charles Dickens
To be calm is the highest achievement of the self. Zen proverb (See also: zen quotes)
Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
Part 2. The Best Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Best Quotes (Nietzsche, Emerson, Keller, etc.)
Love the sinner and hate the sin. Augustine of Hippo
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King Jr
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs
Only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. Steve Jobs
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Immanuel Kant
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. Helen Keller
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me. Helen Keller
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. Buddha
Gossip dies when it reaches the ears of a wise and secure person. Wesley Snipes
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. George Clooney
You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic. Alice in Wonderland
There is no hurry, and in a way there is no future. It is all here – so take it easy, take your time, and get acquainted with it. Alan Watts
The salvation of mankind depends upon independent thinkers directing their thoughts rightly. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I'd followed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere. Marilyn Monroe
You're only given a little spark of madness; you mustn't lose it. Robin Williams
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The Best Short Quotes
One-liners, best short quotes, sayings, thoughts and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, backgrounds.
Be uncommon. Michael Medici
Everything is my fault. Tom Bilyeu
A true man hates no one. Napoleon Bonaparte
Above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stay humble or be humbled. Unknown
It's weird not to be weird. John Lennon
Beauty will save the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Idiot)
Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost
Whatever you feel you become. Osho
Existence wants you to be you. Osho
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it. Epictetus
Only the autodidacts are free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What worries you, masters you. John Locke
Great intellects are skeptical. Friedrich Nietzsche
I am responsible for what I see. Gabby Bernstein
Don't settle, and don't struggle. Naval Ravikant
Solitude is the school of genius. Edward Gibbon
The right time is always right now. Casey Neistat
Inner peace is the ultimate luxury. Carlos Del Valle
To understand is to know what to do. Ludwig Wittgenstein
The soul is awakened through service. Erica Jong
The things you own end up owning you. Chuck Palahniuk
Only the present moment contains life. Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is the goal, life is the journey. Osho
Patience is the greatest of all virtues. Cato the Elder
Things worth having are worth waiting for. Paulo Coelho
The world just wants your authentic truth. Gabby Bernstein
The shadows are as important as the light. Charlotte Brontë
Live the life you want other people to live. Naval Ravikant
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins. Neale Donald Walsch
Conquer yourself and the world lies at your feet. Augustine of Hippo
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. Marcus Aurelius
Getting over yourself offers exponential returns. Shane Parrish (See also: fs.blog if you want to become wiser)
Defensiveness is weakness. Vulnerability is strength. Justin Kan
I'm proud of you. I hope that you are proud of you too. Fred Rogers
Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more. Seneca
Never lose hope, my heart. Miracles dwell in the invisible. Rumi
As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
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The Best And Most Inspirational Quotes
To shut your eyes is to travel. Emily Dickinson
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Jane Goodall
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly. G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy)
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver
There is no strength without adversity and no change without courage. Maya Angelou
A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream. Maya Angelou
Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it. Maya Angelou
Your greatest struggles become your greatest victories. Joe De Sana
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Jack Kerouac
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman
Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things – the people on the edge see them first. Kurt Vonnegut
What if people thought about their life not in terms of what they've accomplished or accumulated or experienced, but in terms of the effects they've had on others. Neil Strauss
Shoot for the top, always. You know you'll never make it, but what's the fun if you don't shoot for the top? Ursula K. Le Guin
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. Alice Walker
Get a move on…Don't worry whether anyone will give you credit for it…Be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant. Marcus Aurelius
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has – or ever will have – something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression. Fred Rogers
From the time you were very little, you've had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. Let's take some time to think of those extra special people. Fred Rogers
If you have the courage to put your intellectual integrity before your reputation, nothing can break you. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A man who really wants to be free has to accept immense responsibilities. He cannot dump his responsibilities on anybody else. Osho
You create yourself moment to moment. You are not born as a fixed entity, but only as a infinite potentiality. Osho
You really can change the world if you care enough. Marian Wright Edelman
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Stephen Hawking
What if everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for. Justin Perry
See also: patience quotes
The Best And Funniest Quotes
If someone says you're weird, say "thank you". Ellen DeGeneres
Rich people plan for three generations. Poor people plan for Saturday night. Gloria Steinem
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. Winston Churchill
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know. Marcus Aurelius
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Oscar Wilde
Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking. The rest is marketing. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it. Edgar Allan Poe (Marginalia)
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Best Deep Quotes (Some Will Make You Think Hard)
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. Ursula K. Le Guin
The fools in life want things fast and easy – money, success, attention. Robert Greene
If you are living for the weekend you are already dead. Bill Masur
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon)
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. C.S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain)
Anything of quality has gone through a distillation process. @AmuseChimp
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. Friedrich Nietzsche
Cling to certainty, if it makes you feel better. Just be aware that what you're clinging to is the opposite of life. Neil Strauss
The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame. Mark Manson (See also: pain quotes)
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. Michel de Montaigne
The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable. Plato
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass. Bruce Lee (See also this article for source)
People are living just to impress. They must be really very poor inside, because only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else. Osho
Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting? Marcus Aurelius
We spend far more time doing what's easy than doing what's right. Shane Parrish
Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever. Shane Parrish
If you are easily provoked you are easily controlled. The Stoic Emperor
Finding information is easier than ever. Filtering information is harder than ever. We are bombarded with irrelevant data and unsolicited stimulation. Choosing what to ignore is as important as choosing what to pay attention to. The Stoic Emperor
We are slaves to distraction, incessantly active, and are ever striving to become. Jiddu Krishnamurti
When the self is not occupied with its own becoming there is an unpremeditated clarity, a deep ecstasy. Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley
Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for. Marian Wright Edelman
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong
The things that we understand, create silence. The things that we do not, create emotion. Kapil Gupta
There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves. Byron Katie
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The Best And Wisest Quotes (Words of Wisdom)
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. Robert Heinlein
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. Maya Angelou
I want to age like sea glass. Smoothed by tides but not broken. I want my hard edges to soften. I want to ride the waves and go with the flow. I want to catch a wave and let it carry me to where I belong. I want to be picked up and held gently by those who delight in my well earned patina and appreciate the changes I went through to achieve that beauty. I want to enjoy the journey and always remember that if you give the ocean something breakable it will turn it into something beautiful. I want to age like sea glass. Unknown
One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)
The most expensive way to pay for anything is with time. Brian Norgard
The person asking the questions is sometimes more valuable than the person providing the answers. Shane Parrish
You have to be willing to look like an idiot in the short term to look like a genius in the long term. Shane Parrish
The stupider you are, the smarter you think you are, and vice versa. Richard Feynman
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance. Naval Ravikant
The amateur avoids boredom, pain, discomfort, loneliness, fear. The wise keep going no matter what. Maxime Lagacé
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Augustine of Hippo
When you go through life with preferences but don't let your happiness depend on any one of them, then you're awake. Anthony de Mello
If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him. John Boyd
If you live according to nature, you will never be poor. If you live according to opinion, you will never be rich. Epicurus
What is rare is not raw talent, skill, or even confidence, but humility, diligence, and self-awareness. Ryan Holiday
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter F. Drucker
For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. Plutarch
He who subdues his temper vanquishes his greatest enemy. Publilius Syrus
Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise. Lin Yutang
He who stands on tiptoe doesn't stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn't go far. Lao Tzu
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Part 3. The Best Quotes About…
The Best Quotes About Life
Life isn't supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim. David Goggins (Can't Hurt Me)
Wherever the past is dropped away and safety abandoned, life is renewed. Alan Watts
The whole point of life is to be fully aware of it as it happens. Alan Watts
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in 10 minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. Terry Pratchett
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. T.S. Eliot
Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short. Paul Graham (See also: focus quotes)
Life can be improved by adding, or by subtracting. The world pushes you to add, because that benefits them. But the secret is to focus on subtracting. Derek Sivers
If you increase your desire for happiness, you'll likely lessen your tolerance for sadness and pain – and become less happy. But if you expand your capacity to tolerate sadness and pain, you'll expand your capacity to enjoy life. Neil Strauss
When building habits, choose consistency over content. The best book is the one you can't put down. The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day. The best health food is the one you find tasty. The best work is the work you'd do for free. Naval Ravikant
The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it. Jon Gordon
The fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them. Cleanthes
The secret to life is to go deep, not wide. Go all in. Maxime Lagacé
Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. Iyanla Vanzant
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is all about 'not knowing' and then doing something anyway. All of life is like this. All of it. Mark Manson
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. Herman Hesse
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much. William Hazlitt
99% of information is noise. 99% of interactions are fake. 99% of opportunities are traps. Life is a search for the 1%. Johnny Uzan
See also: humility quotes, confidence quotes
The Best Quotes About Happiness And Sadness
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Zhuang Zhou
Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. Pema Chödrön
To journey happily may well be better than to arrive successfully. Jordan Peterson
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. Robert J. Sawyer
Enjoy the process along with the proceeds, because the process is where you live. Charlie Munger
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk
If you make where you are going more important than where you are, there may be no point in going. Alan Watts
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana
Happiness is the absence of desire. It's what you feel when you no longer want to change your state. James Clear
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own. Marcus Aurelius
No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus (Enchiridion)
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Epicurus
You don't need to be gifted. You just need to have enough commitment to accept being bad at something for as long as it takes to get good at it. Neil Strauss
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. William Faulkner
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence. Lin Yutang (Pleasures of a Nonconformist)
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. Alan Watts
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. 14th Dalai Lama
Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there". Eckhart Tolle
Everyone is not your assignment. That's why you're drained. Wesley Snipes
The faster you accept reality, the faster you find peace of mind. Maxime Lagacé
Happiness is the process of becoming your ideal self. Mark Manson
More gratitude quotes, sadness quotes
See also: The Key to Finding Happiness: Stop Trying to Be Happy (markmanson.net)
The Best Quotes About Success
The superior man follows nobody else's path. Napoleon Bonaparte
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Frank A. Clark
Competency will make you a living. Creativity will make you rich. Brian Norgard
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true. Naval Ravikant
Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable. Naval Ravikant
Don't strive to be the best. It creates an illusion of an endpoint – and a delusion that the goal is to be superior to others. Strive to be better. The person you're competing with is your past self, and the bar you're setting is for your future self. Adam Grant
Most successful people are people you've never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs. Ryan Holiday
Success isn't about how your life looks to others. It's about how it feels to you. That's what it means to be true to yourself. Michelle Obama
I used to think success meant having no problems. Now I know that it means being capable of handling any. This is a subtle but key difference. The former is a wish for ease. The latter is a privilege of strength. Ed Latimore
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. Warren Buffett
If people around you don't think what you're doing is a bit strange, maybe it's not strange enough. Patrick Collison
We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training. Archilochus
Do the best one can. Do it over again. Then still improve, even if ever so slightly, those retouches. Marguerite Yourcenar
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind. Horace
For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly? Epictetus (Enchiridion)
There are three ingredients for success – aggressiveness, timing and skill. If you show enough aggressiveness at the right time, you don't need that much skill. Howard Marks
Deep down, we know that what matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too. Fred Rogers
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing. Lao Tzu
If you aren't scared of spending time alone, you're already halfway to success. @orangebook_
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self. Albert Einstein
Stop caring what other people think and focus on being the best version of yourself possible. Shane Parrish
If you want exponential returns, replace the need to be proven right with the need to achieve the best outcome possible. Shane Parrish
Amateurs focus on the short term. Professionals focus on the long term. Shane Parrish
Amateurs want to arrive. Pros want to get better. Jeff Goins
Amateurs want to be noticed. Pros want to be remembered. Jeff Goins
More success quotes
The Best Quotes About Leadership And Work
We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves. John C. Maxwell
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways. Robert Greene
Use courage and wisdom, not labor, to make money. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. Samuel Butler
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. Jack Welch
Study as if you know nothing. Work as if you can solve anything. James Clear
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden
It's not what the world holds for you. It is what you bring to it. Lucy Maud Montgomery
There's no tips and tricks […] it's just a lot of focused work. Lilly Singh
Most of the hard work happens in the shadows. Sahil Lavingia
Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens. Jordan Peterson
This is the real secret to life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. Alan Watts
After all work is still the best way of escaping from life. Gustave Flaubert
Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret. Baltasar Gracián
A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
More leadership quotes, hard work quotes
The Best Quotes About Motivation And Change
No one will outwork me, no one. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)
The universe always falls in love with a stubborn heart. Paulo Coelho
The best things are the most difficult. Plutarch
True change is within; leave the outside as it is. 14th Dalai Lama
Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that. Jordan Peterson
If you dare to do the most difficult thing you can conceptualize, your life will work out better than if you do anything else. Jordan Peterson
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men. Friedrich Nietzsche
Today's hot pain is tomorrow's cold wisdom. The Stoic Emperor
The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open. C. JoyBell C.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again … who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Theodore Roosevelt
The best thing to get addicted to is progress. Physical, mental, whatever. Once you get hooked on the feeling of winning, your life will make a dramatic change. Ed Latimore
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. Roger Bannister (First sub-4-minute mile)
Death may be close at hand; death may be far off. Transcend death with no-thought, no-idea. Do what you need to do, with no regret. Awa Kenzô
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. Viktor Frankl
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. Lin Yutang
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Brontë
No matter who you are, who your parents are or were, where you live, what you do for a living, or how much money you have, you're probably living at about 40 percent of your true capability. David Goggins (Can't Hurt Me)
Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you're fucking nuts. David Goggins (Can't Hurt Me)
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care — with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world. David Foster Wallace (The Pale King)
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish. David Foster Wallace (The Pale King)
You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up. James Clear
Pleasure consumes us, work strengthens us. Let us choose. Charles Baudelaire
See also: failure quotes, freedom quotes
See also: Motivation: The Scientific Guide on How to Get and Stay Motivated (jamesclear.com) or The Ultimate Guide to Motivation – How to Achieve Any Goal (zenhabits.net)
The Best Quotes About Love
Better to be without logic than without feeling. Charlotte Brontë
Never chase love. If it isn't given freely, it is worthless. Paulo Coelho
When there is love you have nothing more to do. Then where you are, you have heaven; then all seeking comes to an end. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love makes you rebellious, revolutionary. Love gives you wings to soar high. Osho
If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation. Osho
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. Henry van Dyke
The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention. Richard Warren
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure. Tibetan proverb
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. Emily Dickinson
Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out. Wally Lamb
From understanding comes love. Rumi
See also: spiritual quotes, trust quotes
The Best Quotes About Relationships And Friendship
The moment you think of others, your mind widens. 14th Dalai Lama
The connections we make in the course of a life – maybe that's what heaven is. Fred Rogers
Look after each other. Life is short – the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good. Marcus Aurelius
I have no hopes of meeting a sage. I would be content if I met someone who is a gentlemen. Confucius
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable, wise from experience, calm in action, showing the while much courtesy and consideration in intercourse with others. Seneca
When then a man irritates you, you must know that it is your own opinion which has irritated you. Epictetus (Enchiridion)
I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another… if we care, we can listen. Fred Rogers
When you judge others, you do not define them; you define yourself. Earl Nightingale
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. David Foster Wallace (This Is Water)
No country or people is separate from another; we are all interrelated. We are one. Jiddu Krishnamurti
A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Jack Kornfield
More friendship quotes, kindness quotes
Part 4. Conclusion
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Sigmund Freud
My religion is to live and die without regret. Milarepa
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. Nelson Henderson
Call to action: Read The 10 Most Important Things to Simplify in Your Life
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The F-35 Joint Program Office has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $1.9 billion contract to help manage the global F-35 fleet and increase mission readiness, while continuing to drive cost-reduction initiatives, the company announced on Monday.Read More »
Lockheed, Air Force Start to Install F-35A Collision Avoidance System
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), the U.S. Air Force and the F-35 Joint Program Office have began the integration of an anti-collision technology into the service branch's F-35A conventional takeoff and landing jets.Read More »
General Dynamics Secures $156M F-35 IT Network Support Order; Leigh Palmer Quoted
General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD) information technology business has received a potential $155.6M task order from the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to support a virtual enterprise network for the F-35 Joint Program Office. The company said Thursday it will provide IT, information assurance and cybersecurity services under the task order with …Read More »
Lockheed Martin Continues F-35 Deliveries After DoD Repair Cost Agreement
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 9, 2018 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has reached an agreement with the Defense Department on matters related to the cost of F-35 repairs and has resumed deliveries of the aircraft to the military, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Reuters reported Tuesday that the F-35 Joint Program Office indicated the …Read More »
ACT I named finalist for SECAF 'Govt. Project of the Year' award; Neil Albert comments
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 11, 2018 — Advanced Concepts and Technologies International's flagship program to support the F-35 Joint Program Office is a finalist for the Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum's "Government Project of the Year" award for 2018, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. "This is a significant honor for …Read More »
Lockheed Martin's F-35 to Get AFRL-Built Automatic Anti-Collision System
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 5, 2018 — Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) F-35 fighter aircraft is set to receive an anti-collision system currently installed on F-16s through a partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory and the F-35 Joint Program Office, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The F-35 JPO said the AFRL-developed Automatic Ground Collision …Read More »
BAE-Northrop-DECA Team Gets UK MoD Award for F-35 MRO&U Work
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 28, 2017 — BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and the U.K. defense electronics and components agency have jointly received the top honor during the Minister for Defense Procurement Acquisition Awards ceremony for their work on the F-35 program in the country, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Northrop …Read More »
Vice Adm. Mathias Winter: JPO Eyes Lot 11 F-35 Deal With Lockheed by mid-October
Navy Vice Adm. Mathias Winter, head of the F-35 joint program office, has said he expects JPO to close a deal with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for lot 11 F-35 Lightning II aircraft by Oct. 15, Defense News reported Thursday. Winter told reporters Wednesday after his speech at the Defense News Conference the …Read More »
ACT I Lands Booz Allen Subcontract for F-35 Logistics Support; Michael Niggel Comments
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 4, 2017 — Advanced Concepts and Technologies International will provide logistics and sustainment services to the Naval Air Systems Command on behalf of the F-35 Joint Program Office under a subcontract from Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. ACT I said the subcontract is part of a …Read More »
ACT I Hires William Stranges to Head F-35 Business Financial Mgmt Contract; Michael Niggel Comments
William Stranges, former head of the F-35 Joint Program Office concurrency cost team, has joined Advanced Concepts and Technologies International as program manager for the company's F-35 contract. ACT I said Stranges will lead its business financial management contract with the F-35 JPO under his new role. "Mr. Stranges has over 30 years …Read More »


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Phantoms 2019-2020 Schedule Released
July 18, 2019 - United States Hockey League (USHL) - Youngstown Phantoms News Release
YOUNGSTOWN, OH - The Youngstown Phantoms 2019-2020 United States Hockey League (USHL) regular season schedule was released Monday. The Phantoms will have a busy opening weekend at the DICK's Sporting Goods USHL Fall Classic on September 26th and 27th in Pittsburgh before its home opener at Covelli Center on Saturday, September 28th where they host the Madison Capitols. The Phantoms, who enter their 10th Season, will play 30 home games at Covelli Centre during the course of the 62 game schedule.
The Phantoms are excited to introduce Friday Phamily Fun Night for each of our Friday night games all season where every child 12 and under will be entitled to a $5 ticket, a free Pepsi product, a free popcorn and a free cotton candy. We are equally excited to announce our Saturday night promotion of Drink at the Rink where every Saturday night will feature $1 12-ounce draft beers until the end of the second intermission and $1 dollar hot dogs from the time the doors open until the end of the first intermission.
After our home opener on September 28th, the Phantoms will be home in October for back to back weekends. On October 4th and 5th the Phantoms will battle our rival the Muskegon Lumberjacks. The Chicago Steel then come to Covelli Center on October 13th and 14th. The Phantoms are on the road to face the Lincoln Stars, October 18th and 19th before ending the month on October 25th at Team USA U-17.
The month of November have the Phantoms start on the road against The Chicago Steel, November 1st and at The Muskegon Lumberjacks, November 2nd. We then travel to Sioux City to square off against The Musketeers November 9 th and 10th. The Phantoms are back home for a two weekend stretch. November 16th verses Team USA U18 and November 17th verse The Des Moines Buccaneers and on November 22nd and 23rd against the Clark Cup Champion Sioux Falls Stampede. The Phantoms will go on the road for the last three games of the month, November 27th verses Team USA U18, November 19th verses the Green Bay Gamblers, and November 20th to face The Madison Capitols.
December will be a busy month on the road beginning on December 7th verse Team USA U18, December 13th and 14th at the Madison Capitols, December 28th and 29th at The Chicago Steel and ending the road trip with against the Muskegon Lumberjacks on December 31st. We are looking forward to a packed house for our one home game in December on December 6th against Team USA U18.
January will be a busy month at home for the Phantoms. The Phantoms are scheduled to open 2020 with home weekend games (January 3rd & January 5th) against Madison Capitols at the Covelli Centre followed by games against Team USA U-17, January 11, Tri-City Storm, January 17th and 18th and finally Green Bay Gamblers, January 24th, 25th, and 26th. We are on the road against Team USA January 10th and at Cedar Rapid January 31st.
We begin the month of February on the road to Cedar Rapids on February 1st and Dubuque on February 7th and 8th before returning home to face the Muskegon Lumberjacks February 14th and 15th. The Phantoms are back on the road to battle the Waterloo Black Hawks (February 21st) and the Dubuque Fighting Saints (February 22nd). The Phantoms are home February 26th to face Chicago Steel, back on the road to face Team USA U-18 February 27th and returning home February 29th to play Waterloo Black Hawks.
March begins with The Phantoms hosting a two-game series against Cedar Rapids, March 6th and 7th and a two-game series against Dubuque Fighting Saints March 13th and 14th. The Phantoms are then off on the road for a four-game stretch to The Fargo Force, March 20th and 21st and Green Bay Gamblers, March 27th and 28th.
April features four home games, Omaha Lancers, April 3rd and 4th, being the first set of home games. Closing out the regular season against Team USA U-17, April 17th and 18th. The Phantoms will be on the road for a two-game series against our rival Muskegon Lumberjacks, April 10th and 11th.
This season's playoff format will remain the same as last season, with the top six teams from each Conference qualifying for the playoffs. The 2020 Clark Cup Playoffs are slated to begin April 20, 2020.
Friday and Saturday home games begin at 7:05 p.m. The Phantoms play four Sunday home games, one Monday home game, and one Wednesday home game, all of which time will be to be determined. Preseason games will be announced shortly.
Phantoms Phlex ticket plans for the 2019-2020 season are on sale now starting at just 10 games for $150 including 5 parking pass. Full season tickets start at just $325 for Attaching Zone. All season tickets include a free beer or fountain drink to every game making for an incredible value. The Phantoms are also accepting deposits for groups, suites, birthdays and the Cold Zone for 2019-2020 home games.
Over the coming weeks, the team will release its 2019-2020 Promotional Schedule as well as details on special events and offerings related to the team's 10th Season.
For more information, call 330-747-PUCK or visit YoungstownPhantoms.com.
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Variohm Eurosensor Ltd
Reliable Sensors, Trusted Supplier
Here, at Variohm Eurosensor we have over four decades of experience in supplying a vast range of reliable sensor solutions to a multitude of industries including Medical, Aerospace, Autosport, Motorsport and Agriculture.
We believe that knowledge is key and because of this our sales team regularly meet with our key suppliers and partners to keep up to date with product ranges so that they know our products and our partner's products inside and out. We also have a large ex-stock range of products or products with a stock model which can be available in only 7 days.
Our specialist technical support along with our ability to deliver products quickly and efficiently enables us to provide our customers with first class support when it comes to sensors. So whether you are a small, large, local or international corporation; we want to hear from you.
Position Sensors
Position sensors are one of our most popular product categories; we have supplied many different applications. Position Sensing is a very broad category and there are lots of different types of position sensors which are suitable for different applications and measurements.
Linear Position Sensors and Transducers - common types of position sensor, this range includes our VLP.
Non Contacting Linear Position Sensors - magnetostrictive, inductive and hall effect non contacting linear sensors and transducers.
In-Cylinder Linear Position Sensors - well suited to hydraulic and pneumatic applications, with unlimited mechanical life and absolute output voltage or current.
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Signal Conditioners – DIN rail mounted or inline versions available
Inclinometers - available with analogue or digital output, compact designs, single axis or dual axis.
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Load Cells
Variohm EuroSensor have been the UK re-seller for Revere load cells for over 20 years and are proud that this continues today. Recently, we have been appointed the exclusive UK distributor for the Zemic load cells range, which enables our team of technical sales engineers to provide a load cell solution for your application.
We are pleased to offer Load Cells from both, Zemic and Vishay. We are the exclusive UK distributor for Zemic load cells.
We have been supplying load cells for many years now and have come across some interesting applications. The most common applications we are approached for are; On board weighing (tipper truck weighing) and platform scales.
One of our most interesting and unusual applications we were able to solve was detecting the force of the needle on a record player when playing records, different forces applied to the needle would result in a different sound being produced so a load cell was used to monitor this.
The more value something has the greater care we take in weighing it.
As well as load cells, we can also offer compatible displays.
Pressure Transducer
Variohm Pressure Sensors offer a solution to all pressure applications across many industries. The Variohm Pressure Sensors range include Pressure Transducers and Pressure Switches.
If you require a pressure transducer we would recommend one from our EPT range. EPT stands for Eurosensor Pressure Transducer, these products have been designed by us. Our EPT range also includes combined pressure and temperate transducers which are well suited to Motorsport applications where space is tight and environments are harsh.
Our pressure switches are another popular category – they can be factory pre-set or adjustable on site and they provide a quick, repeatable response. Their mechanical life has been tested to over 20 million cycles.
Over the years we have been a part of many pressure sensor applications, some of which have been very interesting. Pressure sensor applications we have been a part of include;
· Alarms on HVAC and boiler room control systems
· Monitoring oxygen pressure levels in hospitals and on medical devices
· Indicating blocked filters on fans and kitchen extraction units
· Drink dispensing equipment and coffee machines
· Enhancing pump control to reduce energy costs
· Controlling hydraulics
· Activation/alarm inside breathalysers and medical equipment
· Draft Pressure and low pressure Pneumatic systems
Our pressure sensors are also used in many applications on cars, for example the monitoring of; oil, fuel, water and manifold absolute pressure (MAP Sensors) as well as the brake systems on tow-cars.
Temperature Sensors
Variohm Eurosensor is pleased to offer a complete range of Temperature Sensors, from the market leaders within Temperature Measurement. Combining their strengths Variohm are able to meet the unique demands of temperature-sensitive applications.
Temperature sensors are one of our popular product areas, you have probably come across temperature sensors in everyday life – we are surrounded by them. Obvious objects in your home, such as the kettle, toaster or boiler will contain a temperature sensor. Then there are less obvious temperature applications including monitoring the temperature in alcohol breathalysers, the tyre temperature of a Motorsport car and a whole host of patient temperature monitoring in hospitals.
Our range of temperature sensors includes; probes, NTC thermistors, digital temperature sensors, RTDs, Infrared, thermocouples, high precision thermometers and combined pressure and temperature sensors.