text:
This Summer's Tokyo Olympics could lead to billions of dollars in losses for Japan as costs continue to rise.
Funding the stadium renovations, athlete accommodations and event marketing has run up more than $20 billion in estimated costs for hosting the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, making it one of the most expensive Games in history.
But it doesn't take the gold.
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi were the most expensive, followed by this year's Tokyo Summer Games, according to an Oxford University paper. Of course, the total cost associated with this year's Games is still an estimate, per The Wall Street Journal, and a clearer picture of Japan's spending will be available in the coming weeks once the international competition wraps up.
It's important to note that the expenditures for the Olympics listed here are "sports-related costs." These include things such as stadium construction, ceremonies and other operational costs, like workforce and catering.
Non-sports related activity by the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) is not included in official spending. These "non-OCOG indirect costs" include constructing roads, rails, airport infrastructure and hotel upgrades, which are also related to the staging of the Games.
See also: How to watch the Tokyo Olympics for (mostly) free
And these costs often dwarf the official sports-related expenses of the Games — but the benefits can be reaped years down the road.
Get Breaking Stock Alerts
For example, the 2008 Beijing Olympics had a sports-related cost of $6.8 billion, but China's total spending was around $42 billion due to outside costs. These costs ranged from a $3 billion airport terminal to $30 million spent on trees and flowers, according to WSJ.
Host governments will tout that beyond the revenue shortfalls of the Games, having the Olympics lifts the economy by creating jobs, boosting tourism and adding much needed infrastructure. These measures are harder to quantify, and some studies have found these claims about employment and tourism to be more ambiguous.
In fact, it took Montreal decades to pay off the money borrowed to build an Olympic stadium for the 1976 games — which ended up being dubbed the Big Owe. And the cost of the 2004 Athens Olympics has been associated with the Greek debt crisis.
See also: Medical chief says 83% of U.S. athletes at the Tokyo Olympics have been vaccinated
The OCOG has budgeted for a projected revenue of $6.7 billion for the Tokyo Games, which is much lower than its estimated $20 billion in costs.
The Tokyo Olympics officially begin on Friday, even as dozens of cases of COVID-19 have infected some athletes and dozens of "games-concerned personnel."
But if the Olympic Games were canceled, the International Olympic Committee would have to refund nearly $4 billion to its broadcast partners.


text:
Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
This policy outlines our commitment to protecting the privacy of our future and current students who visit our websites and who register their details with us. For the purpose of this policy, the term "websites" shall refer to all websites owned by The Career Academy.
We encourage our future and current students to read our privacy policy to understand how your personal information is treated.
2. Scope of the policy
In this policy, personal information refers to information which is collected about and relating to an identifiable natural person.
3. How we collect information
The Career Academy collects personal information via forms on our websites and learning platform, during telephone calls with staff, or through direct referrals through consent of the individuals.
The Career Academy also purchases information from third parties who obtain contact details of potential students through social media and online or print advertising.
We may also collect personal information when you complete surveys, contests or promotions, request support or otherwise communicate with our staff.
Call records are also stored for a limited amount of time securely and is not available for any third parties other than the phone companies to access. Information collected from our phone providers include phone numbers of students, time duration of the call and call quality.
4. Information that we collect from our websites
We use tracking cookies to see where the most interaction is on our websites so we can improve our product offering and services that we provide. We collect information predominantly through Google services such as Google Analytics. These services provide information about website users such as their general location, estimated age, what devices are used and which pages are accessed. This information is generalised and does not provide us with personal information about users.
We may partner with third parties to manage our content based advertising based on your browsing activity and searching via cookies from other sites you have visited. You may opt out from this by clicking the link below.
We partner with other websites to collect information specific to providing a better website experience such as call tracking statistics.
5. How we use your information
We may use personal information collected about you for the following purposes: providing a good quality of service; enabling you to access the services, process and complete transactions; sending transactional messages such as promotions, surveys or updates in regards to your learning; contacting you in cases of missed payments on a payment plan; or to contact you regarding specific learning content.
We also engage other education providers who offer services that we do not provide. Your personal information may be passed on to these providers to enable your course to be delivered. Where we use a third party provider, this is explicitly stated on our websites.
If you sign up with a payment plan with The Career Academy, we may provide our financial services partner companies with personal information such as your name, date of birth, contact details and payment information. The companies that we partner with are clearly labelled on our site on our check out page.
Where we rely on your consent to process the personal information, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time. Please note that this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
6. Sharing of information
Third party service providers
To maintain our promotional information, provide services for our learning platform, backup information or upgrade our services, we may need to provide third parties access to personal information.
Compliance with law
In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal information to comply with regulatory or law enforcement requirements. We may disclose personal information to comply with subpoenas, court orders, legal processes or investigations, or to defend ourselves in legal claims. We may also use the information to protect ourselves in the case of fraud, or claims brought against us. We may also share such information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
Defaulting on payments
If you enter into a contract with The Career Academy, you consent to us sharing your personal information with a debt collection agency if you default on payments.
We may request our students who are happy with our services to leave a review on our products. Content from such reviews may be posted on our website, including the student's name and their testimonial. If you would like this removed, please email email@example.com.
If you decide to refer a friend to us, we will store their personal information in our database. You should tell your friend that you have provided their information to us. If your friend does not wish us to retain their personal information, they can have it removed by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Community forums
Our learning platform may offer publicly accessible blogs, community forums, comments sections, discussion forums, or other interactive features. You should be aware that any information that you post in an interactive area might be read, collected, and used by others who access it.
With your consent to share
With your specific consent, we may share your information with third parties.
7. Storage of data
The data that we collect from students is securely stored on our cloud-based server with the latest firewall technology. It is only available for a select few employees to access and is backed up and encrypted.
8. Communication preferences
When you provide us with your contact details you are automatically subscribed to The Career Academy's communications. We offer an unsubscribe function allowing you to unsubscribe from all marketing communication. This can be achieved by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject line containing the word 'unsubscribe'.
9. Retention of personal information
We will retain your personal information for as long as it is being used to provide services or information to you, or for the length of time necessary to comply with any regulatory requirements. After this length of time we will either delete or anonymize the information. If personal information cannot be deleted because it has been stored in our backups, we will make sure it is securely archived and isolated in those backups.
Your privacy rights
Upon request we will provide you with access to personal information we hold about you. To request this information please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com. You may update or correct your personal information in your online learning platform profile or by contacting firstname.lastname@example.com . To make a request to have personal information held by us returned to you or deleted, please email email@example.com. Requests to access, change, or remove your information will be handled within 20 working days.
We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

subset: commoncrawl


text:
XSeed Games sent over an official e-mail announcing Victorious Boxers Revolution and its fall 2007 release window. There are three ways you can play Victorious Boxers Revolution on the Wii:
Classic Controller Mode where you press buttons to punch.
Pointer Mode lets you use the remote only and smaller movements to deal blows.
Swing Mode has players execute punches as if they were wearing boxing gloves.
I'm eagerly anticipating swing mode, but it's good to know there are other options when you want to relax on your couch while following Ippo Makunouchi's story.


text:
This page provides links to publications about PIRLS 2016 and PIRLS (and TIMSS) 2011. For each study cycle, publications are divided into those that are specific to Ireland, and those from the International Study Center.
National publications
Eivers, E. & Delaney, M. (2018). PIRLS and ePIRLS 2016: Test content and Irish pupils' performance. Educational Research Centre.
Eivers, E., Gilleece, L., & Delaney, E. (2017). PIRLS 2016: Initial results. Dublin: Educational Research Centre.
Eivers, E., Gilleece, L., & Delaney, E. (2017). Reading achievement in PIRLS 2016: Initial report for Ireland. Dublin: Educational Research Centre.
International publications
All reports below are available from the International Study Center website: https://timssandpirls.bc.edu/pirls2016
Mullis, I.V.S., & Martin, M.O. (Eds.) (2015). PIRLS 2016 assessment framework (2nd ed.). Chestnut Hill, MA: TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center, Boston College.
Mullis, I. V. S., Martin, M. O., Foy, P., & Hooper, M. (2017a). PIRLS 2016 international results in reading.
Mullis, I. V. S., Martin, M. O., Foy, P., & Hooper, M. (2017b). ePIRLS 2016 international results in online informational reading.
Mullis, I. V. S., Martin, M. O., Goh, S., & Prendergast, C. (Eds.). (2017). PIRLS 2016 encyclopedia: education policy and curriculum in reading.
PIRLS and TIMSS 2011
National publications
An edited volume of thematic reports on PIRLS and TIMSS in Ireland – "National Schools, international contexts: Beyond the PIRLS and TIMSS test results" – was published in June 2013.
Click here to access the report in its entirety, or select from the links below to access chapters individually.
1. PIRLS and TIMSS 2011: Overview (Eivers & Clerkin)
2. Features of policy and provision (Lewis & Archer)
3. Pupil engagement (Clerkin & Creaven)
4. Pupils' languages (Eivers)
5. Teachers and teaching practices (Clerkin)
6. Home-school interaction (Eivers & Creaven)
7. Reading literacy in PIRLS 2011 (Concannon-Gibney & Shiel)
8. Mathematics items: Context and curriculum (Close)
9. Science items: Context and curriculum (Murphy)
10. Understanding achievement in PIRLS and TIMSS 2011 (Cosgrove & Creaven)
Click here to see a brochure summarising some of the main information in these thematic reports.
Click the links below to access:
- the PIRLS 2011 initial national report on the reading, mathematics and science achievement of Irish Fourth class pupils (published in December 2012).
- a selection of the questions used in the real-life tests, and information on how Irish pupils performed on each question.
- a short flyer outlining the initial findings.
- a Technical Report, describing (for Ireland) sampling and administration procedures, participation rates, and quality control measures.
International publications
The PIRLS and TIMSS International Study Center website can be accessed at http://timssandpirls.bc.edu/
From this site, you can download or purchase:
- The international PIRLS report for 2011
- The PIRLS encyclopaediae, including a chapter on Ireland
- The PIRLS assessment framework
- A report examining the relationships between reading, maths and science achievement among Fourth grade pupils who took all three tests in 2011.


text:
Git tells me that I put my first Oracle database inside a docker container in early 2016. The issue was simple - we were working with a large, old, legacy database and we wanted to be able to run our integration tests against the database. Our solution was to use a Docker image based on … Continue reading Ephemeral Oracle Databases inside docker containers
Category: Devops
Devops: multidisciplinary teams, not individuals
Most developers I know want to be more agile, and these days want to be more "devopsy". This will be about what are the more attractive bits of Devops to me and how they relate to a problem I'm having on my current project. My first experience with Devops was to read The Phoenix Project. … Continue reading Devops: multidisciplinary teams, not individuals


text:
Menagerie Manor
Gerald Durrell
Most children at the tender age of six or so are generally full of the most impractical schemes for becoming policemen, firemen or engine drivers when they grow up . . . I knew exactly what I was going to do: I was going to have my own zoo.
Menagerie Manor is the hugely entertaining account of how the much-loved conservationist and author Gerald Durrell fulfilled his lifelong ambition by founding his own private sanctuary for endangered species in Jersey with the help of an enduring wife, a selfless staff and a reluctant bank manager. With a foreword by Lee Durrell, Honorary Director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, this book about the trials and wonders of living in the middle of a zoo is a classic that will continue to bring pleasure to those who grew up reading Durrell, and deserves a whole new readership.
You can't deny that there are some species that now exist because of him
Craig Bennett, Friends of the Earth


text:
The 20 Richest NFL Players of the 2019-2020 Season
The National Football League, otherwise known as the NFL is a multi billion dollar industry, and the players who are out on the field are putting their physical health in jeopardy with every practice and each game they play. Injuries are common in the NFL, but the glory for the best players is immense. The most successful players in the sport can also practically write their own paycheck when it's negotiation time and some of them move on to another team if they don't feel that their contract provides enough financial compensation and benefits. You might be shocked to find out what the highest paid football players make. Here are the 20 richest NFL players for the 2019-20 season.
20. Joe Flacco, Denver Broncos – $18.5 million
Joe Flacco is the quarterback for the Denver Broncos who received a $24 million signing bonus in the extension that will be divided into three payements of $8 million over 2018, 2019 and 2020. His base salary for 2019 is $18.5 million and when you add the extra $8 million for the delayed payment of the signing bonus, he would have been bringing in $26.5 million, however, not this year according to sources.
19. DeMarcus Lawrence, Dallas Cowboys – $21.5 million
Lawrence is the Defensive End for the Dallas Cowboys. DeMarcus signed a five year contract for $105 million. For 2019 his base salary is $1.5 million with a $4.6 million roster bonus and a $25 million signing bonus. He'll bring in $21.5 million for 2010 with a $16.9 million guaranteed base for 2021, a $17 million base in 2021 and in 2022 a $19 million base.
18. Eli Manning, New York Giants – $21.7 million
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning signed a five year contract that guarantees a base salary of $11.5 million for 2019. It's enriched with additional bonuses in the amount o $6.2 million for the prorated bonus, , another for $5 million for the roster bonus and $500K for workout. The total amount he's expected to bring in for the 2019-2020 football season will be $23,200,000.
17. Nick Foles, Jacksonville Jaguars – $22 million
Nick Foles, quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars signed a mega for year $88 million contact as a free agent along with the stipulation of a $50 million guarantee. Throughout the contract there is also another $14 million he could acquire through the various incentives that are offered based upon performance, merit and ranking, especially if he makes it to the level of the elite top positions within the incentives categories. It's definitely an incentive to get out there and do your best.
16. Aaron Donald, Los Angeles Rams – $22.5 million
Defensive End Aaron Donald signed a contract that brings in a base salary of $9.01 million for 2019 with an increase to a $17 million base in 2020 and the following year, a whopping $19.892 million for 2022. He's guaranteed an average total salary of $22,500,000 per year and by 2022, he'll qualify for an additional $5 million per year in roster bonuses.
15. Philip Rivers, Los Angeles Chargers – $23 million
Rivers is the quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers who signed a 4 year contract. His base salary for 2019 is $11 million with a bonus of $5 million for roster and a cap of $23 million. His prorated bonus is $4.5 million for 2019 for a total contract value of $23 million.
14. Cam Newton, Carolina Panthers – $23.2 million
Cam Newton will enter the fourth year of a five year contract that he signed to play for the Carolina panthers. As a part of the contract for the 2019-2020 football season, the quarterback will receive a base pay of $16,200,000 in salary. His prorated bonus will be $6,500,000 and his workout pay will be $500,000 with a $23,200,000 cap, according to OTC. For the 2020-2021 season his contract stipulates that he will receive an $18.6 million dollar base salary, a $2 million dollar prorated bonus with the same workout for a total of $21.1 million.
13. Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh Steelers – 23.2 million
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger signed a contract for 2019 and beyond that gives him a base salary of $12 million for 2019 along with a $5 million roster bonus with a prorated signing bonus of $6.2 million.
12. Alex Smith, Washington Redskins – $23.5 million
Alex smith is the Washington Redskins quarterback who just received an extension on his contract. For 2019, his base salary which is fully guaranteed is at $15 million with $16 million for 2020. The extension gave him an average annual salary of $22.5 million per year and with bonuses, the 2019-2020 season should bring in $23.5 million for Smith.
11. Khalil Mack, Chicago Bears – $23.5 million
The Chicago Bears Offensive Line Backer Khalil Mack signed a six year contract in 2018 for $141 million over the course of the agreement. At the signing, $60 million was guaranteed. For 2019 he will receive a $2.3 with a $200k roster bonus and a restructuring bonus to the tune of $13 million. million base salary. The contract also gave him a $34 million signing bonus an an average annual salary of $23.5 million.
10. Andrew Luck, Indianapolis Colts – $24.5 million
Quarterback Andrew Luck signed a contract with the Indianapolis Colts in June of 2016 that guaranteed $47 million of a contract for $122,970,000. The average for his annual salary is $24.594 million. This makes him one of the top ten paid players in the NFL.
9. Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints – $25 million
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is back for the 2019-2020 season with a contract that was negotiated for $22.7 million and with bonuses, it is estimated that the total annual salary he'll bring in will be a cool $25 million. If makes the choice to put off retirement and stay on with the New Orleans Saints for a few more years after the upcoming 2019-2020 season, his salary cap is set for $15.9 million for 2020 and $5.4 million for 2021 and should he decide to retire, he'll be leaving the Saints with these salary cap figures.
8. Derek Carr, Oakland Raiders – $25 million +
The Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr is getting a bump in his pay for the 2019-2020 football season. According to a report issued by Field Yates of ESPN, Carr's 2019 salary for the full amount of $19 million is guaranteed. This was good news since it was rumored that John Gruden was considering Carr's relocation to another team, but it's official and he'll be back in the fall for yet another season of NFL action and a nice base salary with bonuses that put his annual income in the neighborhood of $25,005,000.
7. Tom Brady, New England Patriots – $27 million
Tom Brady is the New England Patriots Quarterback. According to heavy.com sports, his contract for the upcoming season includes a base pay of $14 million along with bonuses in the amount of $13,000. Here's the real kicker though. There are five major categories where players can excel and for each one that Brady comes in as one of the top five, he gets an extra $1 million in incentive pay, so he has the opportunity to add up to an extra $5 million.
6. Matthew Stafford, Detroit Lions – $27 million
Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is going to bring in a base salary of $13.5 million for the 2019-2020 NFL football season. He's getting a signing bonus of $10 million along with a roster bonus of $6 million with a cap hit of $29.5 million with an average annual salary of $27 million. In 2020 base will be $15 million with a signing bonus of $10 million, a roster bonus of $6 million and a $500K workout bonus with a cap hit of $31.5 million. His contract also extends through 2022 with a $30 million cap hit for 2021 and a $23 million figure for 2022.
5. Jimmy Garoppolo, San Francisco 49ers – $27.5 million
Jimmy Garoppolo is again the San Francisco 49ers quarterback and he signed a contract with an extension on his 2018 agreement that gives him $137.5 million over a five year period with a $29 million roster bonus and a $7 million signing bonus. After all of the negotiations were completed, his cap it dropped to $19.35 million for the 2019-2020 season with bonuses he's standing at $27.5 million for the season.
4. Kirk Cousins, Minnesota Vikings – $28 million
The Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins signed a contract in 2018 that gave him a $3 million dollar signing bonus with the traditional five hundred grand in workout bonuses. In 2018 his base salary was $22.5 million and for the 2019-2020 season, it is going to be $27.5 million and with the workout bonuses, he'll get a tidy $28 million for the season. In 2020 his total is expected to be 2020.
3. Matt Ryan, Atlanta Falcons – $30 million
The Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan is going to bring in an amazing $30,000 for the 2019-2020 football season with a salary cap charge of $15.8 million and a cash payout of $21.5 million. The total value of the contract that he signed for the season is $150 million with a full guarantee of $94.5 million and an annual contract value of $30 million.
2. Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers – $33.5 million
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the second richest NFL player in the world today. He just signed a new contract that granted a four year extension valued at $134 million. With the new deal that he agreed to for the upcoming season, he will bring in a total of $33.5 million for each season of the next four years. He'll bring in a $20 million base salary for 2019 and when all was said and done, he ended up with a signing bonus of $57.5 million and a guarantee of $100 million.
1. Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks – $35 million
The distinction of being the richest NFL player in the world goes to none other than Russell Wilson, quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. There were a few tense weeks for fans of Wilson when negotiations were taking place as the rumor mills were alive and well. He signed with the Hawks with a 4 year contract for $140 million with a signing bonus of $65 million. His average salary will be $35 million a year. This makes the super bowl winning quarterback the highest paid football player in the National Football League. Wilson is known to donate much of his time to children's hospitals with regular visits. He's also philanthropic in his philosophy and he and his wife are generous with their donations to charity.


text:
I get asked this a lot, and all the answers I've given come from this source:
Unfortunately he hasn't worked up numbers for BLM or any of the healers, but all the other jobs are there.
To figure out what materia to meld, look under your job listing on Dervy's linked page, find the stat with the largest value that your gear isn't capped in, and meld that until you hit cap (if you do), then move down to the next highest stat. So for Warrior, go for Vitality first, then Strength, then Critical Hit, then Determination, then Spell Speed if you have to.
If you're not clear on what a "gear cap" is, it's this: Each piece of gear has a maximum value it can take in every stat which is NOT visibly listed on the gear. If you try to meld past that cap, you will see a red number (usually +0) when you set up the meld, and if you go through with the meld, you will get no bonus and waste the materia. Bummer. The only way to find out if your gear is capped at a particular stat is to set up the meld, although you can also try checking at Ariyala's site as I think she lists the stat caps on gear in there somewhere. (Just don't ask me where; I've never really gotten the hang of that site. Poke around and see if you can find it, and if you do, leave a comment here explaining what you did!!) Note that endgame gear is almost ALWAYS capped in your job's primary stat, so don't plan on melding Vitality to tank gear or Strength to Dragoon or Monk — it will almost certainly not work.
If you meld the wrong materia, you may be in trouble: you can get it removed but you need a crafter class at level 25 (currently) in order to get Mutamix Bubblypots to talk to you and remove materia for you. (He's at Central Thanalan ( 23.8 , 13.8 ), in the place called "The Bonfire." Teleport to Black Brush to get to him.) Yes, this is stupid and it sucks. No there isn't any help for it. Another thing that's stupid is that if he removes materia for you, he takes out all the materia on the piece at once — so if you melded two materia and only one is wrong, too bad! You lose both! And you don't get any materia back from this. So be careful with your melds or you could lose a lot of gil.


text:
« Previous — Back to all testimonials — Next »
The Ride Begins....
We met up at Highway 4, not really knowing what we were about to sign ourselves up for, but excited never the less! Together we planned our five day trip around what we wanted to see and what was suggested to us!
Unfortunately with SARS scaring many people, the other couple pulled out, so Dan's brother, Aidan, Joined us. WE HAD THE BEST TIME. Sarah & I felt like we'd been on the road with our best mates from day one.
Exceptionaly fantastic !!Amazing Scenery that you cannot describe!
Everyday our trip was a new beginging!
Amazing Limestone peaks - to Hill passes, open fields, and Volcanic plateaus - hidden Villages. Another stop......Bia Hoi, Water....What a fantastic experience, the opportunity to interac with the locals at every opportunity! - That's what really makes the difference!
TOTAL interaction with the locals.
Everyday we experienced someone and something different, we made new friends everywhere we stopped. There is no way someone could experience this without a guide , even if YOU could speak fluent Vietnamese!!
The BEST five days of your lives - and then you make it back to Hanoi, to Highway 4 !!.........Another experience no one can forget!
You too will be coming back for more!
Just like us!
You've gotta GO!!
PS Don't worry if you can't ride yourself - I was a passenger, now have my own bike in Australia, ready to go back for more! And the bike was great with two people!
Team Leader Mt Pleasant Flight Centre
Next holiday - North West Vietnam
James and Sarah Beale from New Zealand and Australia
April, 2003


text:
Oregon became the fifth state to raise the age for buying tobacco products to 21.
Under a bill signed by Gov. Kate Brown this week, store clerks who sell traditional tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigars as well as those who sell vapes to people under 21 will face fines ranging from $50 up to $1,000 for multiple offenses.
The state joins neighboring California as well as Hawaii, New Jersey and Maine on the list of those that have recently raised their smoking age to 21, part of a nationwide movement to reduce tobacco use among younger Americans.
Rob Crane, President of Tobacco21, which advocates for raising the smoking age to 21, said that stopping people from trying tobacco early may help prevent addiction down the road. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 90 percent of adult smokers began smoking before the age of 20.
"We are programmed as adolescents to try new things, which is a perfect recipe for dangerous things," he said.
Advocates argue that raising the age to buy tobacco will help reduce smoking. One study published in the journal Tobacco Control found that after the Boston suburb of Needham raised its sales age to 21, teen smoking was cut in half.
A 2015 Institute of Medicine report found that increasing the minimum legal age for smoking would help stop younger teens from starting because they would not be as likely to be in the same social networks as adults over the age of 21, so it would be harder for them to obtain tobacco. Researchers estimated that if the tobacco sales age was raised to 21 nationwide, it would lead to a 12% decrease in adult smoking by the time today's teens have grown up.
But not everyone is sold on the idea.
Alex Clark, the Executive Director of the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association, which advocates for users of smoke-free tobacco products including e-cigarettes, argued that raising the smoking age would lead to more "black market activity" as people under the age of 21 seek out alternative sources of tobacco.
Still, at least one vaping company backed the age restrictions.
JUUL Labs, which sells vaporizers, has raised the minimum age to buy its products online to 21. In a statement to TIME, CEO Tyler Goldman emphasized that his company sells products "designed for existing adult smokers to switch."
- Here's How Effective the Original Vaccines Are Against Omicron
- The Promise—And Possible Perils—of Editing What We Say Online
- How Trump Survived Decades of Legal Trouble: Deny, Deflect, Delay, and Don't Put Anything in Writing
- Flint Is Still Shaken by its Water Crisis—and Residents Are Experiencing Long-Term Mental-Health Issues
- A Beer Shortage Is Brewing. A Volcano Is Partly to Blame
- How Fasting Can—and Can't—Improve Gut Health
- Cities Keep Enforcing Curfews for Teens, Despite Evidence They Don't Stop Crime
- Joe Manchin's Red Tape Reform Could Supercharge Renewable Energy in the U.S.
- Column: We Should Talk More About What a Brilliant Actor Marilyn Monroe Was


text:
Project Description
One Angel Square
Customer: Northampton County Council
Location: Northampton
Contractor: Galliford Try
Architect: BDP
Komfort Products:
*Polar Single Glazed
*For our new, enhanced single glazed system please see Polar 30
One Angel Square Project
One Angel Square serves as new headquarters for Northamptonshire County Council. The new design enabled the County Council's employees to relocate from 12 separate properties into one BREEAM Excellent building.
The Building
One Angel Square covers 22,000 sqm of office space to accommodate 2,000 employees. In addition to acting as new headquarters for the council, the new building is integral to the urban regeneration plans for Northampton.
The Brief in Brief
The brief was to provide an environment for the council that encourages collaborative working, improved productivity and also wider urban regeneration.
The design and build included a central courtyard, office space, informal meeting areas, touchdown areas and other collaborative spaces grouped around it. It was crucial for both staff and visitors to experience a sense of wellbeing by maximising the use of natural daylight.
Komfort's Solution
The Polar System is one of Komfort's most sought-after designs with its virtually frameless system and impressive acoustic capabilities, it is a partitioning solution which allows for a combination of contemporary aesthetics and elegance, without compromising on function.
Komfort's Polar system was specified and installed throughout One Angel Square, including all the meeting rooms. With the integration of such high-performance interior elements, this former derelict site has now been developed into an exemplar sustainable building.
Beyond sustainability and wellbeing standards, the use of Komfort's bespoke Polar System enabled technology to be seamlessly integrated into the design, with the use of a booking system wired through the doorframe.
The end result
One Angel Square has been named as one of the most significant regeneration developments in the town, has been awarded the RIBA East Midlands Award 2018 and has achieved BREEAM's Excellent standard.
Komfort Products Used
Please note that Polar 30 is our new, enhanced single glazed frameless system


text:
Meet the first 6TB hard disk drive, one launched by HGST, a Western Digital Company, and designed to tackle the red hot hyperscale market where the demand for capacity storage rather than performance is exploding. The new drive is the first one to use helium rather than air as the medium in which the platters spindle.
Speaking to TechRadar Pro, Nicholas Frapard, Director of Sales in EMEA at HGST, said that the company expects a 30% annual growth in areal density for a foreseeable future with the company's helium-based Helioseal technology being the underpinning foundation on which other technologies, namely SMR and HAMR, can be added in 2014 and beyond.
A revolutionary hole-less design
The new hard disk drive offers a 50 per cent capacity increase with a 23 per cent reduction in power consumption which translates in a drop of nearly half in the power consumption per unit storage. The He6, which will be widely available from next year, will come with SATA and SAS interfaces.
It achieves its 6TB storage capacity thanks to a seven-platter design (we've asked HGST to indicate what platter capacity the He6 uses). Replacing air by helium reduces drag which in turn allow designers to reduce the space between the platters, allowing them to cram more platters and make these thinner.
Higher storage = Lower TCO
The knock-off effects include a reduction in power consumption (because less power is required from the motor), a drop in heat dissipation (up to 4 degrees cooler) and less noise. Also, the He6 doesn't have a breather hole, which means that unlike traditional drives, it is suitable for immersion cooling.
Being able to increase storage density which translates into fewer servers, less networking infrastructure, less space, less power and less cooling. Altogether, it slashes almost a third off the TCO thanks to a reduction both in CAPEX and OPEX.
HGST's case study, which looks at a 11PB deployment, lists eight racks, 160 enclosures, 1,920 drives consuming 14KW, occupying a surface area of 128 square feet and needing only 350 cables.
What's next?
Nicholas couldn't confirm whether WD will license Helioseal for its own hard disk drives. The HGST spokesperson also told us that there's no reason why 10K and 15K hard disk drives, part of the company's performance range, would not benefit from Helioseal. We suspect that smaller drives (2.5in models) will also use the technology.


text:
FIPP is the network for global media, representing content-rich companies or individuals involved in the creation, publishing or sharing of quality content to audiences of interest. FIPP has more than 500 member companies, which includes 30 national associations, more than 350 media owners and more than 80 service providers to the industry and associated organisations, in more than 60 countries.
Magazine Networks Australia has won Insight Award Gold Winner for its Passion Response Study which looked at general data on who reads magazines online and offline, the overlap between online and offline, time spent and other metrics, but it also delved deeper by title genre to look at the data across fashion, home, health, food, lifestyle and weekly titles online and offline. In addition, the ad recall section covered the implications on the path to purchase.
The judges said: "The concept was simple but applicable to all magazine publishers. Although there was perhaps a lost opportunity to involve advertisers. It provided strong evidence for magazine media.
The 8th FIPP Insight Awards publicly acknowledge outstanding research, spread knowledge about successful studies, and stimulate ideas for further projects.
The FIPP Insight Awards will be presented at the FIPP World Congress in London, 9-11 October 2017.


text:
Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resort
Boasting spectacular views of the twin-peak Piton mountains and the Caribbean Sea the luxurious Sugar Beach, A Viceroy Resort, offers world-class 5* facilities and provides guests with a quintessential St Lucia holiday experience. Set amid 100 acres of lush rainforest on the site of a former sugar mill, this contemporary resort is the ideal choice…
Viceroy Riviera Maya
A small and intimate luxury resort that blends seamlessly into its stunning natural environment. Set amid lush primitive Maya tropical forest edged by white sand beaches of the Caribbean, the Viceroy Riviera Maya strikes the perfect balance between simplicity and indulgence to create a laid-back yet luxurious romantic hideaway.
Our team negotiate savings and upgrades for our clients every day. Whilst a selection of our best special offers are highlighted here, we would recommend contacting one of our experts should you have a particular holiday or hotel in mind:


text:
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
IEEE Explore
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School of Computer and Information Science
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Maxville, V. R., Lam, C. P., & Armarego, J. (2008). Supporting Component Selection with a Suite of Classifiers. Proceedings of IEEE World Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2008. CEC 2008. (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence). (pp. 3946-3953). Hong Kong. IEEE Explore. Available here
© 2008 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Software selection involves the assimilation of information and results for each candidate to enable a comparison for decisions to be made. The processes and tools developed assist with software selection to enhance quality, documentation and repeatability. The CdCE process aims to retain and document the information used in selection to assist decisions and to document them for reference as the system evolves. This paper describes the CdCE process and our approach to assist the shortlisting of candidates through a suite of classifiers. The application of the suite is illustrated using a selection and evaluation case study. Applying this approach helps retain the multidimensional nature of the selection process and enhances user awareness in the decision making process.
Access Rights


text:
Agrium Inc. has announced that it successfully completed construction of the urea plant at its nitrogen facility in Borger, Texas, within the previously disclosed revised time line and cost parameters.
Commissioning of the new 610 000 t urea facility, of which 100 000 t of urea t equivalent will be Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF), is underway and production is expected to commence in 1Q17. DEF is used to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in diesel vehicles and this product will help further diversify Agrium's end-markets.
"Achieving this critical milestone in our Borger nitrogen expansion project, on-time and on-budget, is another example of our commitment to operational excellence at Agrium. The project creates shareholder value by refreshing the asset to ensure its future longevity, provides improved supply chain integration as well as product diversification and availability in this important agricultural region," commented Agrium's President and CEO, Chuck Magro.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldfertilizer.com/nitrogen/12012017/agrium-successfully-completes-construction-of-borger-expansion/


text:
Rather than SVGSVGElement.checkIntersection(element, rect) and SVGSVGElement.getIntersectionList(rect, referenceElement) (which I would only find moderately useful in any UA that supported them) I would really like to see ================================== SVGLocatable.intersects(element) element - A SVGLocatable element to check against the current element returns - true if the source element intersects the parameter element, false otherwise ================================== SVGLocatable.intersectsElements(parentElement) parentElement - the SVGLocatable container element to which the search should be constrained. If null, the entire document is searched. returns - a dom::NodeList of all elements which intersect the calling element ================================== Restricting the intersection check to simply a SVGRect may make it a little easier for the UA developers, but fails to address a large number of programming needs necessary for SVG to be a rich interface to programming. I have never written an SVG UA before, but I (naively?) imagine that implementing these arbitrary intersection checks would be only a trifle more difficult for the UA developers. I would think that they would already have such algorithms written for the optimization of drawing, anyhow. (Having them overlap on the screen, to screen-px precision, would likely be sufficient for the majority of applications.) If backwards compatibility is important enough, the spec could persist in its current not-very-oop design of calling these methods off of the SVGSVGElement, and simply expand the type for the current 'rect' parameter to be SVGLocatableElement. (Aside: should the 'element' and 'referenceElement' parameters above really be SVGElement, as the ECMAScript binding currently specifies, or should they be SVGLocatable (or even SVGTransformable)?) -- Gavin Kistner @ Refinery, Inc. email@example.com work: +1.303.444.1777 cell: +1.303.641.1521Received on Wednesday, 1 October 2003 16:39:44 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Friday, 17 January 2020 22:53:59 UTC


text:
It's been a while since we've had a Rambler update. Small little developments, all adding up… a bathroom fan finally installed, the beginning of the hammock colony, the slow and steady weed invasion taking over the backyard…
Oh who am I kidding. All I really want to talk about is NEW COUCH NEW COUCH NEW COUCH.
You see, friends, we've had this one couch for 4 years. This one couch? I hate this couch. It is green and it is leather and the stuffing keeps trying to come out and the cushions NEVER stay put (in fact, they actively slide out as you are sitting on the couch). Anyone who has ever come to our house and sat on this couch has also hated it. And sleeping on it? Remember those sliding-out cushions? HAHAHA YOUR CUSHIONS CAME OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. Joke's on you. In fact, the only GOOD thing about this couch is our cat likes to sleep on the cushions. So, green-leather couch = cat-approved, NOT human-approved.
But it was also a FREE couch. So for 4 years we made it work.
LOOK AT THAT! LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL BEAST OF A COUCH! An amazing Craigslist find by my internet-scouring husband. It is so long that there is 25 feet* between man and cat (*may be a slight exaggeration). It has cushions that stay put and it is not GREEN LEATHER.
It probably seems silly and materialist, but getting a couch that we actually like — that was not a hand-me-down — seems like such a great step forward towards feeling like an actual functioning adult.
I also fear New Couch may be a huge step backwards on the sloth-like tendencies. But I don't even care. I am gonna lounge so hard on this thing.


text:
QPR boss Harry Redknapp has dropped a big hint he expects Loic Remy to move to Arsenal or Liverpool. The France striker is also interesting Tottenham and Liverpool.
"I think he really wants to play Champions League football next year somewhere," he told talkSPORT.
"We gave him time off after the World Cup but I think he's really looking to move. I would be surprised if he was at QPR at the start of the year.
"If he goes to the right team, he's capable of scoring 15 to 20 Premier League goals next season."
For the big stories and the banter follow us on Twitter: @tribalfootball