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Bitcoin processing firm, BitPay, has lured Carl Stern, the former CEO of Boston Consulting Group, to join its board of directors. Stern, who holds an MBA from Stanford School of Business, worked at Boston Consulting Group from 1998-2011, during which time he was president and CEO, as well as chairman of the board. Stephen Pair, BitPay's CEO said: "As we continue to form partnerships in the financial world, Carl's perspective and insight will add great value in helping guide BitPay in the years ahead." Stern's role will see him advise on investment and hiring decisions, as well as future business partnerships. Stern said: "I'm proud to be joining the company's board as it continues to lead the way in changing how online payments work."
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Toyota enters business and capital alliance with Mazda, investment in PFN
Toyota Motor Corp. and Mazda Motor Corp. signed an agreement to enter a business and capital alliance with the aim of further strengthening their lasting partnership. Today's agreement follows two years of collaborative and deliberate discussions between the two companies. Specifically, the companies agreed to: 1) establish a joint venture that produces vehicles in the US, 2) jointly develop technologies for electric vehicles, 3) jointly develop connected-car technology, 4) collaborate on advanced safety technologies, and 5) expand complementary products.
Along with the aim of advancing and strengthening their long-term collaboration, Toyota and Mazda agreed to a capital alliance arrangement that preserves independence and equality for both companies. In the capital tie-up, the two companies have agreed that Toyota will subscribe for and acquire shares to be newly issued by Mazda through a third-party allotment; simultaneously, Mazda will subscribe for and acquire third-party allocation shares of treasury stock disposed of by Toyota in the equivalent amount in value to the Mazda shares. The value of the shares mutually acquired by both companies will be equivalent (the anticipated date of share acquisition is October 2).
Details of the agreement on business alliance
- Establish a joint venture that produces vehicles in the US
As part of the new alliance, Toyota and Mazda have agreed to explore establishing a joint venture plant in the U.S. with equal funding contributions. The plant would have an estimated annual production capacity of approximately 300,000 units. Pending approvals and authorization by relevant government agencies, the companies will begin to examine detailed plans with the goal to starting operations of the new plant in 2021. The plant will require a total investment of approximately $1.6 billion and will create up to 4,000 jobs. In addition to the collaboration in product and technology areas that the companies have enjoyed thus far, Toyota and Mazda intend to improve competitiveness in manufacturing through this new production collaboration.
- Jointly develop technologies for electric vehicles
With increasing demand and expectations for electric vehicles worldwide, Toyota and Mazda are to explore joint development of technologies for the basic structure of competitive electric vehicles, mobilizing and exchanging expertise freely and actively. These technologies will allow the companies to respond quickly to regulations and market trends in each country. Specific details of the collaboration will be determined as the companies work together going forward.
- Jointly develop connected technology and collaborate on advanced safety technologies
Toyota and Mazda will work together to jointly develop technologies for onboard multimedia infotainment systems in preparation for increased use of in-car information technologies and the increasing demand for connected technologies. In addition, Toyota will cooperate with Mazda in Toyota's vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technologies with the ultimate goal of creating a mobile society devoid of accidents.
- Expand complementary products
Currently, Mazda is supplying a compact sedan to Toyota in North America. In addition, Toyota is to supply a compact commercial "two-box" van to Mazda in Japan. Beyond this, the companies will further explore the possibilities of other complementary products on a global level.
Toyota to make additional investment in Preferred Networks, Inc.
In a separate announcement, Toyota Motor Corporation and Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN) agreed to an additional Toyota investment in PFN for the acceleration of joint research and development of artificial intelligence technologies in mobility-related fields, such as automated driving. The investment will amount to 10.5 billion yen ($95 million), and Toyota will acquire stock in PFN through the allocation of new shares to a third party. PFN's intelligence-related technologies, including machine learning, deep learning, and big data processing, are essential to Toyota, which is actively researching and developing automated driving and other technologies.
Toyota and PFN have been working on joint research and development since October 2014, and for the purpose of strengthening the relationship, Toyota invested approximately 1 billion yen ($9 million) in PFN in December 2015. To date, the joint research and development has focused on object-recognition technology and analysis technology of vehicle information. This additional investment will further enhance the relationship between Toyota and PFN and spur joint research and development.
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The Bürgenstock Hotels & Resort Lake Lucerne has announced that its Alpine Spa opened on November 6, 2017, complete with an infinity pool, private spa suites, treatment rooms, and other facilities.
Offering views of the lake and the Swiss Alps, the spa is constructed of Luserna stone from Italy offset by oak, brass, and glass walls. The 107,000-square foot complex has three levels, with facilities like treatment rooms, three private spa suites, wet areas with hammam, sauna, whirlpools and hydrotherapy, a 24-hour fitness center and a Kids Club.
Heated to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, the 1,383-foot long outdoor infinity pool wraps around the two sides of the spa building, offering panoramic views of the Alps; the 69-foot indoor pool still allows for scenic views as well with windows on three sides. The "Hollywood Pool," used for celebrity parties in the 50's, is located next to the Spa Garden.
In the Relaxation Room, the designated silent zone, guests can unwind in loungers, waterbeds, and sofas in front of an open fire. The room's floor-to-ceiling windows give guests an open view of the Alpine landscape. Right next door in the Spa Lounge, there are rooms for meetings, private conversations, and relaxation. From here, guests can move on to the hot and cold Kneipp baths, a large Alpine Rasul bath with seating niches, a saline bath, and two infra-red cabins and nap shells.
The Alpine Spa also offers a clothing-free spa zone for women and men 16 years and older, plus a women-only Ladies' Spa that is also clothing-free. Both spas have cold and warm water pools, Jacuzzis, herbal steam baths, rock showers, aroma saunas and relaxation rooms.
On the second floor is the spa's 24-hour fitness center, complete with personal trainers, training equipment, weights and a studio for aerobics, yoga, Pilates, dance, boxing and other group fitness classes. Spinning, yoga and other classes are held on the exterior terrace
The Bürgenstock Outdoors activity center can organize hiking, biking, climbing, rafting, canoeing, rowing, waterskiing, sailing, fishing, horseback riding, archery, hot air ballooning, paragliding and more. Plus, in winter, the resort offers curling and ice skating.
On the third level, guests will find the three Private Spa Suites. Each suite has a private lounge area, changing room, showers, sauna, steam, Jacuzzi, and a treatment room for two. The Kids Club provides child care during the day for children 3 to 12 with areas designated for playing, sleeping, and eating.
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Health education improves knowledge of oral health, however, it has proven not to be sufficient in positively influencing oral health behaviors. Recent research shows that motivational interviewing, a person-centered counseling strategy, is more effective in promoting positive change in oral health behaviors and preventing tooth decay.
Dental caries (tooth decay) is an oral disease that affects people worldwide, including a significant proportion (an estimated 60-90%) of school age children. It is a preventable disease that requires individuals to embrace healthy self-care behaviors such as healthy diet and personal hygiene. Health education has been used to provide general knowledge about oral health in order to reduce the burden of the disease in communities, however, in adolescents, such education has not been able to produce a sustained change in oral health behavior.
In a recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, researchers compared the effectiveness of motivational interviewing with prevailing health education for changing the oral health behaviors of adolescents. The study enrolled a total of 512 children aged 12 and 13 with unfavorable oral health behaviors (tooth brushing less than twice a day and/or snacking at least three times a day). The children were randomly assigned to either a prevailing education (PE) group (n = 161), motivational interviewing (MI) group (n = 163) or motivational interviewing with interactive dental caries risk assessment (MI + RA) group (n = 188). Students in the PE group together with the whole school received 30 minutes of oral health education at baseline. Students in the MI group received a 15-30 minutes one-on-one face-to-face session while those in the MI+RA group had an interactive risk assessment included at different stages of the MI. Both MI groups received follow up phone calls at 2 weeks, one month, 2 months, 4 months and 6 months. Data was collected at baseline, 6 months and 12 months.
The study found that participants in both MI groups showed improvements (as evidenced by increase in frequency of tooth brushing and reduction in snacking) in their oral health behaviors leading to reduction in dental caries compared to those in the PE group. Follow up confirmed that improvements were sustained for up to 12 months. The RA component further benefited improvement of the oral hygiene status, but did not significantly impact other study outcomes.
This study shows that MI is a more efficient method for promoting positive changes in the oral health behaviors of adolescents. Although it provides evidence for inclusion of MI in oral health promotional programs, there is need for long term follow-up studies as well as an evaluation of the cost effectiveness of this intervention.
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Problems of NATOThe Spokesman 124
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'Ukraine's precipitate economic decline in recent decades, since it separated itself from the Soviet Union, is charted in this issue of The Spokesman ... Even before those momentous changes, beginning in late 1991, greater influence in the Soviet periphery had long been an objective of Western strategy. Once Ukraine became independent, the chosen methods to achieve such influence combined sponsored developments of Ukrainian 'civil society', much of it courtesy of the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy, with long-term economic, political and military interventions by the European Union and NATO. Instability and conflict in Ukraine may not trouble the Americans much, located as it is on Russia's borders, but it should certainly concern Europeans who, among other considerations, will be asked to pick up much of the tab.'
Tony Simpson,
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Turnstiles provide threefold access solution at Total Oil & Gas facilities in Cameroon.
Total Oil & Gas Cameroon, one of West Africa's largest oil and gas producers, required an upgrade of its overall plant security. A secondary goal was to replace the existing time and attendance configuration with a state-of-the-art monitoring system.
Total's operations are constantly influenced by a number of risks. Firstly, there is always an ever growing risk of terrorism, either by international terrorist organisations or local rebel factions who may wish to destabilise the oil supply and the revenues of the government. Secondly, employee safety is always of prime concern. Thirdly, time and attendance fraud is a cost that any organisation must control and minimise.
Turnstar Systems, established in 1990, is Africa's largest manufacturer of turnstiles and vehicle barriers. Turnstar's products are exported worldwide and were the logical choice for Total Oil & Gas when it came to the company's security upgrade.
Turnstar turnstiles were manufactured and installed at various pedestrian entrances around the Total compound. The Triumph 3 full height double turnstile was chosen for staff entry due to the need for a high level of security and a robust turnstile solution. The turnstile was supplied with a hot dip galvanised finish due to the severe environmental conditions, such as high levels of heat, humidity and moisture. The Triumph 3 is fitted with both the Turnstar ROTALOK rotation locking mechanism and the ROTARUN perpetual base bearing which are guaranteed for a period of five years and are designed to provide maintenance free operation. Industrial plastics are incorporated into the turnstile mechanism due to their self-lubricating characteristics and wearing parts are all case hardened to superior longevity.
The Trident waist-height turnstile was chosen for the reception area of the premises. The turnstile is designed with industrial applications in mind. It is reliable and is not only fitted with the Turnstar ROTALOK rotation locking mechanism, but also with the Turnstar ROTASLO hydraulic damper system which ensure ultra-quiet operation. The turnstile is often installed in reception areas and quiet operation is of prime importance. The turnstiles were manufactured from powder coated 304 grade stainless steel due to the severe environmental conditions.
The Traffic Master vehicle barrier was selected to control vehicular access. It is a heavy-duty industrial vehicle barrier and is designed to operate in extremely harsh environmental conditions. The cabinet of the vehicle barrier is manufactured from powder coated 3Cr12 stainless steel.
Turnstar also manufactured special proximity card reader columns for the seamless mounting and integration of the proximity card system with the Traffic Master vehicle barriers.
The products were sent to Cameroon by airfreight and the installation was carried out by Servitel. The installation and commissioning was carried out over a period of two months.
Servitel Intelec, established in 1982, is West Africa's leading supplier of communication technology, including voice, data and video, and security. Servitel has an indirect sales presence in over 16 West African countries and currently services over 500 clients. Servitel's head office is in Douala, Cameroon and currently employs 60 staff, 20 of which are experts in the electronics field. Technology products supported by Servitel include Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco Systems.
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This report identifies NTP servers that have the potential to be used in amplification attacks by criminals that wish to perform denial of service attacks.
The NTP version command is a Mode 6 query for READVAR. While not as bad as the Mode 7 query for MONLIST, the queries for READVAR will normally provide around 30x amplification.
To manually test if a system is vulnerable to this, you can use the command:
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Date: 13/08/2019
Visual contracts are an emerging format of contract that use images, cartoons and illustrations, rather than slabs of text, to communicate the fundamental terms and concepts of an agreement between parties. Using visuals makes information easier to convey, process, and remember. Visual contracts simplify the language of contract to ensure better communication of the terms of agreement for parties vulnerable to misunderstanding the legal terminology often found in traditional text-based contracts.
In Australia, the binding enforceability of visual contracts remains a moot point, awaiting official judicial pronouncement. However, former Chief Justice French recently said the following at a conference held in December 2017:
"There is no reason in principle why pictorial contracts explained orally or supplemented textually or contextually could not be enforceable in the same way as any other contract."
In South Africa, a country with very high rates of illiteracy, visual contracts have been upheld as valid. Leading pioneer of visual contracts in South Africa, lawyer Robert de Rooy, believes the jurisprudential basis for visual contracts' validity would be applicable in any common law country. Visual contracts have also been upheld as binding in non-common law countries, such as Switzerland.
Back in Australia, global engineering firm Aurecon, supported by leading visual contract expert, Professor Camilla Andersen of University of Western Australia, have implemented visual contracts. This move did raise concern expressed by The Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Industry Group, who cautioned that visual agreements do not offer employers or employees certainty about their respective rights and responsibilities. Additionally, French CJ (retd.) warned that visual contracts may produce difficulty in the negotiation process if "parties are required to draw pictures on the spot to suggest variation of terms."
Focusing on the benefits, the relationship between visual contracts and sports law remains an unexplored area with great potential.
Without stereotyping sportspeople or casting athletes in a negative light, a sports participation agreement and playing contract incorporating visuals to better explain and communicate core legal rights and responsibilities in the sports context could benefit athletes as a group – certainly for young and easily exploitable athletes signing their first professional playing and agent representation agreements.
During an October 2016 episode of ABC Radio National's Law Report, visual contracts expert Robert de Rooy reflected on the value of visual contracts when dealing with parties vulnerable to misunderstanding complex legal language:
"[for employers] it is important for their workers to understand what they are committing too. It's beneficial for both parties to understand their rights and obligations. If [employees] sign agreements and do not understand, then misunderstandings arise."
If adopted, sports and esports organisations could drive better contractual communication with their athlete and player stakeholder group by avoiding complex legal jargon, relying instead on clear imagery to communicate the concepts, obligations and rights of a particular contractual arrangement. In reducing such misunderstandings, visual contracts can help sports organisations avoid the costs – both financial and in terms of valuable reputations – that arise when athletes breach their contract, and incorporated codes, rules, and policies.
If the leap to visual contracts is a leap too far, sporting organisations should look to an interim measure of presenting core contractual terms and conditions in visual learning formats to ensure athletes are aware, understand, and fully consent to what they sign on for.
By making contract law more approachable and clear, visual contracts can reduce conflict. Additionally, visual contracts (or the interim step of providing visual learning programs for core contractual terms and conditions) focus more on driving good behaviour rather than purely focusing on the enforceability of rights in the case of future breach. In so doing, visual contracts present a way forward for sports organisations to better communicate their contracts, reduce the chances and costs of breach, and drive the good behaviour and compliance of their sportspeople.
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Last week the Vietnamese Real Estate Association (VNREA) held its annual forum and Nguyen Tran Nam, Chairman of the VNREA said that during the last three years, the Vietnamese real estate market has been in a period of stable development, that risks have been reduced significantly and that the real estate industry has had a positive influence on the economy that has led to the support of other industries.
Nguyen said in his remarks that 2019 has seen many complicated international and regional fluctuations that have decreased the revenues and profits of listed businesses. At the same time, many small real estate companies that have utilized bank loans have seen the government tighten credit lines, which is creating problems for them. At the same time, there has been recent negative publicity about condotels and officetels and the government needs to create transparent rules and regulations about these segments.
Based upon its current market assessment, the VNREA forecasts difficulties for the real estate market and the market downtrend in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City this year is expected to continue.
Based upon it's analysis, the VNREA sees five trends in the market:
|The market is still stable, thanks to positive macroeconomic signals.
|The demand for housing is still large. As Southeast Asia's third-ranking country, urban areas show the highest demand for housing every segment, including apartments, offices, hotels, and commercial buildings.
|There remains empty room for tourism real estate, resorts, and industrial real estate, which are considered a light spot of the market in the medium and long term. The VNREA forecasts that Vietnam will need thousands of new hotel rooms to meet future domestic and international tourism projections.
Industrial real estate is also developing rapidly because Vietnam has been one of the most attractive destinations in Southeast Asia for manufacturing companies and industrial real estate will develop significantly in the short, medium and long term periods if the government issues more encouraging policies.
|Foreign direct investment (FDI) into real estate is increasing. According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment's Foreign Investment Agency, total registered FDI capital was $29.11 billion, up 4.3% this year, with estate ranked second with total investment of $2.98 billion, 10.2 % of the FDI total.
|Infrastructure has been developing well over the past decade and total infrastructure investment has exceeded 10% of GDP, surpassing most Southeast Asian economies. In the last seven years (2012-2019), the country has built an additional 838km of highways, which is a key motivation for socioeconomic development.


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The Open Group has released ArchiMate® 2.0, the latest version of the open and independent modeling language for Enterprise Architecture. ArchiMate® 2.0 is now more closely aligned with TOGAF® and enables the creation of fully integrated models of an organization's Enterprise Architecture, the motivation behind it, and the programs, projects and migration paths to implement it. ArchiMate already follows terms defined in the TOGAF® framework, and version 2.0 of the specification enables modeling through the TOGAF® Architecture Development Method (ADM).
ArchiMate 2.0 includes the following features and benefits:
- Improved business and IT alignment through Enterprise Architecture modeling aligned with the TOGAF® ADM
- Ability to better support the preparation and management of business change, application rationalization, program and portfolio management and outsourcing scenarios
- Ability to perform cost analysis and business case calculations
- A Motivation extension to model stakeholders, drivers for change, business goals, principles and requirements
- Implementation and Migration extensions to support project portfolio management, gap analysis and transition and migration planning
- Improved consistency and examples, as well as additional clarification updates from the previous version
For more information on ArchiMate 2.0, please visit: http://theopengroup.org/archimate/
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|the original image. Tiger Swallowtail on Azalea flower.
Monday, May 21, 2012
morphing monday (flutterby mosaic)
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oh myReplyDelete
it reminds me of one of those 5000 piece jigsaw puzzles
Interesting look . . . I like the Real Deal the best . . .ReplyDelete
Oh my, both images, rock my world. As does the quote by Marshall McLuhan!ReplyDelete
i like the 2nd one - looks like fabric. :)ReplyDelete
Hi Laura...Crazy the things that can be done to photo ...interesting ,but I like the real thing! ; }ReplyDelete
Love the texture on this. I can feel it when I look at it!ReplyDelete
I was all set to start this as a counted cross stitch project! ;-)ReplyDelete
I always prefer the real photo, but that second one is really cool! :)ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful week, lady!
I like the real photo and I do agree with Texwisgirl, the 2nd photo does look like fabric. Really beautiful.ReplyDelete
Laura, the original is gorgeous...but the manipulated is OUTSTANDING!...:)JPReplyDelete
Lovely images, Laura! I really love the original. Have a great day!ReplyDelete
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pretty, but the real picture is so much more vivid...ReplyDelete
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Why You Should Network Your Electric Vehicle ChargingOctober 10, 2019
So you've decided to install charging stations for electric vehicles in the parking lot or garage you run. It's a forward-thinking trend, and there's a lot of money to be made. When providing these services to your customers, however, at EV Connect we recommend you go a step farther and add EV charging networks to your charging stations.
Why pay for networking your chargers? Because it's impossible to effectively monetize your chargers otherwise. Networks are simply one of the most valuable electric vehicle charging solutions in any EV charging business model, period. Without it, it is difficult to monetize without great hassle, and your ROI optimization is severely limited. A networked (smart) EV charging station lets you conveniently track usage, adjust prices, compile reports, detect errors, and more.
Advantages of EV Charging Networks
Networked charging stations provide a number of data points in real-time, allowing many data points to be measured remotely. Networking also allows you to change charger settings remotely over a secure connection. This gives you tremendous insight into how all your charging stations are operating over time, and tremendous control over many aspects of your entire business.
- Remote Monitoring Instantly access current status and performance statistics reports for every charging station at every facility you run.
- User Accounts Encourage users to create user profiles, allowing you to recognize individual users and track their usage over time. EV Connect offers an app that motorists can install on their smartphones, streamlining their experiences on your lots.
- Pricing Control Vary prices by user identity, user groups, location, groups of stations within a location, time of day, or by other parameters. Charge by the kWh, time connected, time charging, and more.
- Customer App Give customers the convenience and benefits of networked charging.
Why This Matters
EV charging networks provide you with two advantages over non-networked solutions: knowledge and control. Knowledge of what is happening at your charging stations, and control over their operation and your customers' experience.
These capabilities help you better understand how your charging stations are performing, and give you a wide range of options to improve customer experience. EV charging networks make all of these strategies available to you.
Customer Experience
Leverage the charging stations' location awareness and customer accounts, along with the smartphone app, to make your customers' experience as convenient and seamless as possible.
- Let customers locate nearby charging stations.
- Let them reserve a charging station so it's ready when they get there.
- Give them the same seamless experience, no matter what brand of charging station they use.
- Let them pay quickly and conveniently using stored credit card information.
- Notify them when their car is done charging.
- Give them a way to help you by reporting problems with charging stations or other customers using poor charging etiquette.
Pricing Policies
With EV charging networks you can set pricing based on a wide range of parameters.
- Pass on some of the higher electricity cost during peak times of the day or week.
- Charge different rates based on traffic.
- Raise rates after a certain amount of charge time to encourage turnover.
- Offer frequent-user rates to encourage repeat business.
- Offer special event prices or other bonuses.
User Tracking
Even if you offer charging for free, the electric vehicle charging station solutions offered by EV Connect give you user account and usage tracking data that lets you know what customers use which charging stations and when, helping you visualize demand and provide better services. And if you do monetize the chargers, you can see the potential here for revenue growth.
- Know whether a more expensive, higher-voltage charger is getting enough use.
- Know how often a set of charging stations are being used at or near capacity.
- Use historical data to set pricing and access policies, such as limiting charge load during high-traffic times.
- Use historical data to plan future expansions and upgrades.
User Access
Take advantage of EV charging networks to control access to charging.
- Limit charging rate of customers and groups.
- Limit access for user groups, whether to individual charging stations, at certain times of the day, etc.
- Allow guest accounts with their own specific access.
Facility Upkeep
Use your charging stations' network connections to collect detailed performance data. With EV charging networks from EV Connect, such data is as close as any browser or smartphone, without a costly technician visit. It's all accessible through our convenient dashboard!
- Know instantly if a charging station is down.
- Know if a charging station is underperforming.
- Keep detailed performance data on how your charging stations are performing, or if one stops working.
- Your technicians may even be able to diagnose (or even fix) problems remotely, avoiding a field service call.
Plan Ahead Now
Networked charging stations are a forward-thinking investment. EV charging networks unlock the data and control that you need to make your EV charging hardware assets more lucrative.
EV Connect's EVCloud is a software solution that offers all these advantages and more. Designed to work with multiple charging station manufacturers, EVCloud allows you to manage mixed installations of chargers, and—even more importantly—your customers to have the same effortless experience no matter what model charger they use.
See our Frequently Asked Questions page for more. Contact us today to learn more about how our electric vehicle charging solutions can win customer loyalty save you time while generating ROI on your lots.
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After guiding CapU to a PACWEST gold medal in his first season with the program, Alex Elliott will enter his second season at the helm of the Blues men's soccer team in 2019. The Blues went 8-2-2 in the 2018 regular season en route to a first place finish, a PACWEST gold medal, and a fourth place finish at CCAA Nationals in Prince Edward Island.
Elliott came to CapU after four seasons as the head coach at Quest University in Squamish, where he helped turn around their men's soccer program. He led the Kermodes to their first PACWEST medal in his first season, and overall won two PACWEST bronze medals and a silver.
Elliott is well-versed and dedicated towards player development in the local soccer community. Since 2017 he has coached with the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, where he works with the U14 and U15 residency teams. He is also the Co-Director and Founder of the Vancouver Futsal Association, Futsal Club Vancouver, as well as a Board Member for Futsal Canada. In 2018, he co-founded the Urban Soccer Centre in North Vancouver.
As a player, Elliott was a part of the Canada Youth and Adult National Team programs in both soccer and futsal from 2000 through 2012. He also represented Canada at the 2007 FIFA U20 Youth World Cup and the 2012 Futsal FIFA World Cup Qualifications. Elliott got his start coaching with Football Club Kaiserslautern of the German Youth Bundesliga in 2012 after retiring as a player. He has since obtained his UEFA A Diploma and UEFA B Diploma, as well as his CSA National B Coaching License in Canada.
A Vancouver native, Elliott played NCAA Division 1 soccer at the University of Portland – twice leading the West Coast Conference in points and twice earning First Team All-Conference honours. He went on the play internationally in Germany with SportFreunde Siegen 1899 and FSV Mainz 05, and then back home with the Vancouver Whitecaps.


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The Song Tittle "Shout Yahweh" Its a song of worship and appreciation. When i think of what God has done in my life i can't just him thank enough that's is the reason for the lyrics if i should SHOUT YAWEH sing HALLELUJAH i know it's not enough. All my life God has been so faithful to me. moving me with his mighty hands and power "Precious Zion"
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First-summer male COLLARED FLYCATCHER, Southwell, Portland, Dorset, 29 April 2009 (Martin Cade)
The beautiful first-summer male WHITE-COLLARED FLYCATCHER was still present today and showing very well throughout much of the day.
It was still frequenting Pete and Debby Saunders' garden in Southwell and during the warm sunshine, was commuting between the four tall Leylandii conifers at the back of the garden and two Sycamore trees and two flowering Apple trees. Although there is NO ACCESS WHATSOEVER to ANY of the private gardens in Sweethill Lane, the garden can be adequately overlooked from the road and the bird seen at 75 yards as it actively moves about the trees (flycatching on many occasions).
DIRECTIONS: Head as if you are driving to Portland Bill proper but instead of turning down to the Bill by the Eight Kings public house, continue back around into Southwell and just after the bus stop turn into Sweethill Lane. After just a few yards park sensibly and courteously in the road and by number 8 view through the wide gap towards the Bill and the back garden. Please, please consider the local community and respect all privacy of the residents. Actively involve and inform any local that is interested in the event.
White-collared Flycatcher is a very rare vagrant to Britain and a particularly challenging bird to catch up with - Poland is the best place to see them, where they are numerous in the old Oak forests.
1) The first British record concerned an adult male obtained on Whalsay (Shetland) on 11th May 1947 (Scottish Naturalist 1948: 51).
2) A fine adult male was identified in Nant Withy, on Bardsey Island (Caernarfonshire) on 10th May 1957 (British Birds 51: 36).
3) A male was seen at Hunscarth, Harray (Orkney) on 30th May 1963 (Britsin Birds 57: 275; Scottish Birds 2: 478; 3: 174).
4) An adult male was found dead at Eskmeals, near Ravenglass (Cumbria) on 2nd June 1964 (British Birds 58: 367).
5) A male remained in the Trapping Area at Holme NOA Reserve (Norfolk) from 4th-6th May 1969 and was trapped on 4th. This was the first individual to be 'twitched' and was enjoyed by over 75 observers (British Birds 63: 286).
6-7) A male was seen on Out Skerries (Shetland) on 13th May 1975 (Scottish Bird Report 1975: 228) and was followed by a female on the same island on 25th May 1976 (Scottish Bird Report 1976: 112) (British Birds 69: 351 & 70: 436).
8) A male visited a coastal garden at Frinton-on-Sea (Essex) on 6th June 1979 (British Birds 75: 524).
9) A male remained on Bressay (Shetland) from 23rd-24th May 1979 (Scottish Bird Report 1979: 44; British Birds 73: 525)
10) A male was seen on Stronsay (Orkney) on 31st May 1980 (Scottish Bird Report 1980: 48; British Birds 74: 487).
11) An elusive male frequented the churchyard and parkland at Northdown Park, Foreness (Kent) from 24th May until 9th June 1984. It was extremely difficult to see as it moved rapidly between the canopy branches, but was eventually enjoyed by over 825 observers (British Birds 78: 578).
12) A fine male frequented a large pine tree at the entrance to the campsite on St Martin's (Scilly) from 20th-21st May 1984 (British Birds 78: 578).
13) A first-summer male was present at then western end of Holkham Pines (Norfolk) from 12th-13th May 1985 (British Birds 96: 600).
14) A first-summer male frequented the bowling greens and adjacent parkland and private gardens at Sparrow's Nest, Lowestoft (Suffolk) from 13th-14th May 1985. It was an unusual individual in that it spent virtually the whole of its stay feeding on the ground and could be observed dashing around the bowling greens snapping up flies. It disappeared just after midday on 14th, but by then had been enjoyed by up to 85 birders. An account of the occurrence and an excellent photograph of the bird taken by the late Brian Brown was published in British Birds 82: 223-224, plate 151.
15) A stunning adult male frequented the Hawthorn hedge adjacent to the Country Park at Filey (North Yorks) from 21st-22nd May 1985, and was admired by at least 160 fortunate observers (British Birds 78: 416, plate 191; 79: 575).
16) A first-winter was trapped and ringed at the Double Dyke, Fair Isle (Shetland) on 8th October 1986 (British Birds 81: 586; 84: 20-21 [Plates 8 & 10]; Scottish Bird Report 1986: 251; 1987: 49).
17) An adult male visited Hirta, St Kilda (Outer Hebrides) on 24th May 1992 (Scottish Bird Report 1992: 59; British Birds 86: 523)
18) A male visited the East Bank bushes, Cley NWT Reserve (Norfolk), briefly on 5th May 1995 (British Birds 89: 520).
19) A male visited Tresta (Shetland) on 5th June 1995 (Scottish Bird Report 1995: 60; British Birds 89: 520).
20) A superb and rather showy first-summer male was well-twitched at Ethie Mains, near Arbroath (Angus) from 31st May to 1st June 1997 (British Birds 91: 510; Rare Birds 3: 188, plates 23-25).
21) An adult male was on Fair Isle (Shetland) on 28th May 1998 (Rare Birds 4: 272; British Birds 92: 599).
22) A superb male was at Cove Community Woodland, Aberdeen, from 30th April to 1st May 1999 (British Birds 93: 560, plate 340).
23) A female was photographed on North Ronaldsay (Orkney) on 31st May 1999 (British Birds 94: 494).
24) A first-summer male was at Skaw, Unst (Shetland), on 13th June 1999 (British Birds 93: 560).
25) A stunning male performed for at least four hours for up to 170 admirers at Church Norton, Pagham Harbour (West Sussex) on 20th June 2002 (British Birds 96: 600). It was in trees between the harbour entrance and the car park from 1115 and disappeared from view at 1530.
26) A first-summer male was present on Fair Isle (Shetland) from 9th-12th May 2004 (British Birds 98: 682). It was initially discovered in 'Small Trinket Geo'.
27) An adult male at Muness, Unst (Shetland), on 2nd June 2004 (British Birds 98: 682).
28) A fabulous male flycatched from fenceposts adjacent to Brow Marsh (Shetland) from 9th-10th May 2006 (British Birds 100: 744, plate 360 and photographs in 99: plate 164: Birding World 19: 190).
29) A male was on Lundy Island (North Devon) on 12th May 2008.
30) A female was on North Ronaldsay (Orkney) near the Lighthouse on 24th May 2008.


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First week back at a full time job after 3 months off. This week was a typical 9-6 shift and next week will be the same. I woke up at 6:20 am every morning and either walked for an hour or lifted for an hour. The gym is wide open at this time and I love it. Waking up that early definitely takes getting used to though and wasn't easy every day. I will soon have to wake up at 5:20 every day, so 6:20 is a good warm-up to prepare for that. 😉
My typical day looks like this:
- Wake up at 6:20am
- Make coffee and protein shake
- Get to gym by 7:00-:7:10
- Workout and finish by 8:20-8:30
- Drive to work (3 mins away from gym)
- Work til 12pm
- Lunch Break
- Work til 6pm
- Drive home and take shower
- 6:50pm – Make Dinner
- 9:00pm Protein dessert
- Bed by 10:30-11
- Repeat
Again my actual schedule will be different and I will have to be at work by 6am and off at 3pm. So I will obviously workout at 3pm instead of the early morning. Beside a tremendous drop off in free time, it hasn't been too bad. Work is straight training at the moment, which can be stressful because I'm trying to pack in a lot of knowledge (finance) all at once. I had a decent understanding of finance, but nothing this heavy in it.
Increased my 45 deg leg press up to 360lbs this week, squats are at 225lbs, but wasn't able to increase. Bench at 190lbs and I'm very close to increasing that up. Chinups about the same. DB rows at 110s for heavy and 100s for moderate.
This week I subbed in DB Bench press for BB seated press, but I may change that back. I also really like DB rows more than Barbell rows for a lot of reasons, but the main one is I just feel it much better in my back and I can use heavier weight.
Been drinking a protein shake every morning for breakfast after I workout and drinking lots of coffee throughout the morning/day. Lunch was variable this week and I ate out every day, but most of what I ate was pretty low calorie and easy to track. In the afternoon I usually have a quest bar, beef jerky and some pop chips. My office provides a lot of free good and drinks for the employees. Then dinner is usually very high in protein, followed by protein pudding for dessert. I did a higher carb day on Tuesday and ate 4 servings of gluten free pasta for dinner. I plan on making the weekend higher in calories, since I have more time to eat and a bigger appetite in general.


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Drywall is very important in everyone's home or even on commercial structure especially in Calgary. The importance of drywall is to protect the frame of your home from fire and moisture. There are some specific items people need to consider when they are acquiring to hire drywall contractors in Calgary. Hiring the right company for your residential or even commercial for your drywall installation in Calgary make sure that they work professional and can make all kinds of repair for your drywall needs.
Ensure the drywall contractor has a taper on their crew that has at least 5 years of experience. It can take up to 5 years to become a skilled drywall taper or a professional Calgary, drywall contractors. There are many complex skills involve with this trade. It is not something that can be learned overnight. The more experience drywall contractors, the better.
Reputable residential drywall contractors can guarantee their work have an advertisement in the phone book and/or a website online. When you go with someone who has taken the time to advertise, you know that you will always be able to reach them if you ever need any patches done down the line. They will often do these for no extra charge.
A good contractor will come and measure your house before supplying you with a quote. You can take this opportunity to ask them any questions you may have; do they guarantee their work? Are they insured? Do they use random subcontractors or do they have a crew of workers that they have on payroll?
Drywall prices can be competitive, especially in times of recession when many are out of work due to lack of new houses being built. Getting multiple quotes can ensure that you are getting a fair price. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Instead of choosing your contractor solely on price, ask them what their policy is on touch-ups – are they free or do you have to pay for them? What happens if your new house settles and nails pop out of the wall? Do they fix those for free?
Always ask for a few names of recent customers so you can contact them to see if they were satisfied with the work or not. Was the contractor easy to get a hold of during the job?
If possible, stop by a current job site that they are working on unexpectedly to see their work firsthand. Is it clean? Are the workers willing to answer your questions? Once you are armed with the above information, then you can make your final decision on which drywall contractor to hire. It will make all the difference on your stress levels during construction and will ensure your house looks great in the end.
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It's recommended that you visit your dentist twice a year. These appointments are important for getting your teeth clean of the plaque and tartar that has built up since your last dental cleaning and for allowing your dentist to check on the health of your teeth and gums. To make the most of your next appointment, here are a few questions you may want to ask.
For most people, visiting the dentist isn't their favorite way to spend a morning, but they are able to make the necessary trip. If, however, you are one of many patients who experiences high anxiety when the dentist is mentioned, you may be tempted to skip an appointment or two – to the detriment of your oral health. You may benefit from dental sedation, which comes in several forms and can greatly help to ease anxiety. Available in strengths ranging from mild (laughing gas) to strong (IV sedation), sedation can be administered by your qualified dentist to suit your needs.
A missing tooth can be not just inconvenient, but could also affect your oral health, allowing the remaining teeth to move around and change your bite. Dental bridges and dentures are effective at replacing teeth as they will restore function and appearance to your smile, but dental implants will provide more stability and last longer. They offer the added benefit of supporting your bone structure to prevent bone recession. Implants can be used to replace single or multiple teeth. Talk with your dentist to see if the procedure would be beneficial for you.
Like many other illnesses and diseases, oral cancer is most easily and successfully treated when it is detected early. Oral cancer screenings can be the key to preserving your oral health. If any signs of oral cancer are detected during your appointment, we will refer you to the necessary specialists to have the problem treated.
Regular dental appointments are important to maintaining good oral health. It also helps to have a few questions to prepare yourself for your dental visit.


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Betting: Sarri the new sack race favourite
Posted By: Dj Devoskid
on February 11, 2019
Chelsea have lost three of their last four top- flight matches and the 60-year-old apologised for his side's dismal showing at the Etihad Stadium William Hill make Maurizio Sarri just 11/8 (2.38) to be the next Premier League manager to leave their position after a turbulent round of results. Chelsea suffered a humiliating 6-0 thrashing at the hands of Manchester City on Sunday, the heaviest defeat Sarri has overseen in his managerial career. The result was also the Blues' biggest defeat in the Premier League era. According to Opta, you have to go back to a 7-0 defeat against Nottingham Forest in April 1991 for the last time the Londoners were beaten by such an emphatic scoreline. Sarri apologised for Chelsea's display at the Etihad Stadium, which saw them 4-0 down inside half an hour but it's now three defeats in their last four top-flight outings. Since the turn of the year, the club have won just two of six Premier League games, including a 4-0 loss to Bournemouth two weeks ago. In terms of the sack race, the Italian was as big as 14/1 (15.0) in places before Sunday's defeat despite several stuttering displays. Now though, the 60-year-old leads the market having admitted that his job "is always at risk" in the post-match press conference but said any questions regarding his immediate future were to be directed at the club.
Having slipped to sixth in the Premier League table, it's understandable to see questions asked about Sarri's future, despite only a few months in charge. Roman Abramovich has rarely shown patience with managers who fail to perform, even in the short term although Sarri's comments suggested that a lack of contact with the club's owner is not unusual. "If the president calls, I'll be happy, seeing as I never hear from him. To be honest, I don't know what to expect," Sarri told Sky Italia following the latest defeat. Should he remain at Stamford Bridge, there's the opportunity for Sarri to secure his first piece of silverware in English football as Chelsea face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final later this month. The Blues are 2/1 (3.0) underdogs to lift the trophy at Wembley with table-topping City available at 4/11 (1.36) with William Hill. Chelsea are now 5/4 (2.25) to finish in the top four but even if they fail to achieve that milestone, the Europa League could offer a viable alternative route to the Champions League next term. William Hill make the London club 4/1 (5.0) favourites to win the competition ahead of the round of 32 clash with Malmo on Thursday. Elsewhere in the sack race market, Marco Silva is an 11/4 (3.75) chance to leave next. Everton's Premier League form has taken a nosedive in recent months with the Toffees losing nine of their previous 15 matches in the competition, as well as an FA Cup exit at the hands of Millwall. Regular favourite Claude Puel is 7/2 (4.50) with plenty of questions over the future of Leicester City's under-fire boss, but the Frenchman has drifted off the back of results elsewhere over the weekend. Beyond that, it's 9/1 (10.0) that no Premier League boss leaves before the end of the season.
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Tonight while hanging out with a friend, we visited the local Books-a-Million. She also being a fan of the good Doctor, we both bought a couple of the micro figures.
Already having a blue Dalek and getting another, I swapped it with her since she managed to get two Amy minis. I wound up with two red Daleks and Amy Pond outta the deal…and totally loving these figures!
I now have four of these little Daleks…quite cool in and of themselves. But along with the minis, I also have a larger plush talking Dalek, whose home for the foreseeable future is going to be my desk at work.
The large talking Dalek has 3 phrases: "Exterminate! Exterminate!" / "You would make a good Dalek…" / "You are an enemy of the Daleks! You must be destroyed!"
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|Please note that this is the Gundam Wiki's article on a mobile technology Anno Domini technology; if you are looking for the article on the Universal Century variant, the After War variant, or the Cosmic Era variant then you should head to Psycommu System, Flash System, or DRAGOON system.
The Bit Control System is a system in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 that delegates and controls the remote bits/fangs of mobile suits.
Description & Characteristics
The Bit Control System is a combination of hardware and software that remotely controls and manages the bits/fangs for the mobile suit pilot. The system itself can be controlled by a pilot or an AI system. If managed by a pilot, the pilot must be able to coordinate and configure the actions of the bits. Usually a normal human can't successfully manage all the bits as it draws attention from the pilot in combat. The Bit Control System assists in delegation of the bits to allow the pilot to utilize the bits with less difficulty. The Bit Control System is most effective with an Innovade or Innovator pilot; because of their use of quantum brainwaves allow the pilot to mentally direct the bits to make immediate changes in action during combat. While a normal human would have slower reaction time with the system, which is a liability in combat; this is why a Haro or other AI system is usually present for bit controls in combat.
The Haro is a self-contained AI, able to assist the pilot in controlling the bits with advanced abilities to effectively compensate for a human pilot's coordination abilities. Bit control can be delegated to a Haro within Celestial Being; on the other hand, Innovators use their quantum brainwave abilities to control their bits/fangs without the need of a Haro unit. Similar systems have been used by a computer, without the need for a Haro nor quantum brainwaves to help delegate controls. Celestial Being and Innovators have such a system(s) before AD 2307, however the Earth Sphere Federation did not successfully develop such a system until after AD 2312.
Bit Control System Statistics
Note: Please observe chart in photo gallery below
- From top to bottom
- - Sefer Rasiel's GN Proto Bits
- - Gundam Artemie's GN Bits
- - Thrones Zwei/Arche's GN Fangs
- - Alvatore's GN Fangs
- - Cherudim's GN Shield Bits
- - Cherudim GNHW/R Rifle Bit
- - Gaddess' GN Beam Saber Fangs
- - Regnant's GN Fangs
- - Reborns Gundam Large GN Fangs
- - Reborns Gundam Small GN Fangs
- - Zabanya GN Rifle Bit II
- - Zabanya GN Pistol Bit
- - Zabanya GN Holster Bit
- - Harute GN Scissor Bit
- - Gadelaza GN Mother Bit
- - Gadelaza GN Child Bit
- - 00 Qan[T] Sword Bit
- Category Names Top to Bottom (left to right when looking at the direct statistics)
- - Attack
- - Defense
- - Speed
- - Mobility
- - Particle Storage Amount
- - Power
- - Versatility of Control
Sefer Rasiel Trials
In AD 2302, Celestial Being tested the concept of remote offensive weapons system for its future Gundams. The GNR-000 GN Sefer and the GN-XXX Gundam Rasiel were used to test the capabilities of the Sefer's primary armament, the GN Proto Bits. The Raisel could dock with up to five GN Sefers to form the Sefer Raisel. The concept of the bits was later used on the GNY-0042-874 Gundam Artemie developed in the same year.
Throne Fangs Development
Through hacking into the databanks of Veda, Celestial Being's supercomputer, Ribbons Almark was able to gain access to the inner workings of Celestial Being's technology, save for the true workings of the GN Drive. Later, Ribbons contacted Linear Train Industries president Laguna Harvey and had him develop three mobile suits to be piloted by the Team Trinity. Out of the three Throne Gundams, only the GNW-002 Gundam Throne Zwei would use the Bit Control System, giving rise to the GN Fangs, which could be used as remote controlled beam guns or as beam blades.
Cherudim's Bit Development
Innovators Fangs Development
00 Qan[T] GN Sword Bits Development
Zabanya's GN Holster Bits and GN Rifle Bits II / GN Pistol Bits Development
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Bitcoin Could Benefit From Crypto 'Whale' Extinction: Report
Whale Alert co-founder Frank Weert also said that whale transactions can be used to predict price movements.
In a recent interview conducted by crypto trading platform SFOX, Whale Alert co-founder Frank Weert said that the effect of so-called crypto "whales," or individual entities who control large amounts of cryptocurrency, can still have a profound effect on the price of cryptocurrency at this particular moment in time, more than 10 years after Bitcoin was invented.
Indeed, Whale Alert was created specifically to track the movements of cryptocurrency whales and report them to the cryptocurrency community as a whole, a whale transaction, by Whale Alert's definition, is any market movement of more than $50 million in assets at one time.
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— Whale Alert (@whale_alert) November 8, 2019
Weert said that he was "very confident that whale transactions can have a really profound effect on price in the market," and that "knowing where the currency flows is a great way of predicting potential fluctuations."
"Eventually, the distribution of BTC is going to hopefully level out a bit more, and there's going to be, hopefully, fewer whales."
He pointed to EOS's effects on the price of Ethereum as one example of this: "At one point ETH was at $1400, and that was one of the first big whale movements that could explain the actual price fluctuations," he said. "EOS started to sell their ETH on the market, and we actually saw those movements. And so it's not only price prediction, but it's also explaining why the market is behaving in the way it is and who is the cause."
However, Weert also said that fewer whales would be a good thing for the cryptocurrency markets — in particular, Bitcoin.
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"Bitcoin started with a few people. So the biggest chunk of the coins is going to be in the hands of the people who started it," he told SFOX.
"Eventually, those people will have to sell their coins, and more people are interested — more people are buying — and so, eventually, the distribution of BTC is going to hopefully level out a bit more, and there's going to be, hopefully, fewer whales."
A recent report claimed that a single whale was responsible for the 2017 Bitcoin bubble, but the claims have been disputed
Weert's words on the influence of whales in the market come not long after a Bloomberg published the findings of a controversial and highly-disputed revised report by University of Texas Professor John Griffin and Ohio State University's Amin Shams.
In the report, Griffin and Shams claim that a single entity — a "whale" — on cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex was able to push the price of Bitcoin up when it fell below certain thresholds. The study also claimed that the transactions relied on fiat-pegged stablecoin Tether.
"Our results suggest instead of thousands of investors moving the price of Bitcoin, it's just one large one," Griffin said in an interview with Bloomberg. "Years from now, people will be surprised to learn investors handed over billions to people they didn't know and who faced little oversight."
However, Tether has pushed back vehemently against the claims, calling the paper "flawed" and alleging that "the revised paper is a watered-down and embarrassing walk-back of its predecessor that still suffers from the same methodological defects, coupled with the clumsy assertion that one lone whale may be responsible for the rise of bitcoin in 2017."
Tether Response to Flawed Paper by Griffin and Shams https://t.co/7yS3S2vgxs
— Bitfinex (@bitfinex) November 7, 2019
Mati Greenspan, an analyst at social trading platform eToro, told Decrypt that he also believes the findings of the report to be "emphatically false," and pointed to the large number of new registrations on eToro during the 2017 crypto craze as an example of this: "we had so many new clients that we went into emergency reactive mode," he said. eToro saw a 1000 percent surge in registrations during the third and fourth quarters of 2017.


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Monday, 11 September 2017
The Dame received this email from a fuming resident.
It seems Councillor Pascall who rakes in close to £40,000 a year doesn't like to be bothered with irritating residents-or at least that seems to be the inference from the email sent to the Dame.
Mr and Mrs Pascall pull in close to £60,000 a year so he should have the manners to respect those paying him a sizeable wedge.
Dear Dame,
Councillor Pascal has never replied to an e-mail from me or two of my neighbours which I have been informed is in breach of his contractual obligations.
I would be most thankful if you would produce a blog post asking if anyone in the Royal Borough has e-mailed this idle shirker and not received an acknowledgement or reply.
If we can organise a dozen or so people to complain, the Conservative Party whip might take some disciplinary action and RBKC might censor his conduct.
It might even result in Dizzy Lizzie having to find another Deputy.
I am happy for this e-mail address to be published on your blog post, should you deem it worthy.
Yours sincerely,
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Oh, dear Richard: how deluded you are. Why on Earth do you think that a new 'Deputy' is likely to be any better? To treat residence with the greatest of indifference is endemic in the swamp. So do not think that there may be this uncut diamond..ReplyDeleteReplies
- Pest Controller11 September 2017 at 22:50
New Badger cull announced by the Government today. Only a matter of time before Holland Park is added to the list.Delete
- Anonymous12 September 2017 at 10:34
Vermin. Badgers spread TBDelete
- Anonymous12 September 2017 at 22:40
Sad Badger, what you say shows you accept and do not challenge the circumstances of RBKC/KCTMO, there is a chance you may change into a sheep.Delete
Eddie Grenfell a fine campaigner has never given up, we must follow process and show how we are let down time and time again by the councillors who take pay and abuse the trust of government and constituents.
Thank you Richard for trying to make a difference.
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 11:33
Nothing has changed . This lot just want to carry on as if nothings happened .ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 18:10
I think time for complaining is over. We should take action to remove rotten people. Whether you are not happy with the Council or KCTMO, serve them with lawsuits. I certainly will. It would be interesting to know how many people have taken court action.Delete
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 21:53
I also have had my share of complaining. The next s**t to hit the fan will be about Adult Social Care in this Borough, presided over by our dear Ms Baillie, about whom there have been enough comments on here. Remember the poor Ghurka Major. for example?Delete
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 11:47
they are getting a rude awakening. They, the whole lot, must be treated with the same indifference and arrogance, as they have treated us, the peasants of the Borough, and get them out next year.ReplyDelete
- Campden resident11 September 2017 at 12:21
I always found my Ward Councillors in Campden Ward responsive to emails and prepared to listen and, where possible, take up problems/concerns.ReplyDelete
Even if Councillors are useless (and one of the Campden Councillors is useless) it is essential for ALL Ward Councillors to be prepared to engage with residents. Answering an email is not a difficult thing to do.
As for the Leadership, my experience has been:
Cllr Cockell - not prepared to acknowledge emails and generally obstructive
Cllr Paget-Brown - always acknowledged emails, listened, and replied with his point of view
Cllr Campbell - not prepared to acknowledge emails, in spite of follow ups and reminders. This indifference was also mentioned by a number of North Kensington residents at the open Council Meeting to discuss Grenfell
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 14:41
Cllr Pascall is not a people person. He has time on his hands, is short of money and drifted onto the Tory backbenches in Hornton Stret. He was an undistinguished member of the Planning Committee operating at the absolute level of his competence. Painfully slow and no evidence of being able to carry people with him. Good ballast, Royal Borough style.ReplyDelete
Suddenly catapulted to a senior post of Deputy Leader by the hopeless, troubled and challenged social climber Lizzie Dizzie, Pascall plus wife have seen their Hornton street salaries treble in the flash of an eye lid and Mr Pascall is now plotting to take over the Leadership when Lizzie implodes. For him it is a waiting game. Lizzie daily commits hari kari and the Tories have no one else who is prepared to put themselves forward. Pascall thinks he has it stitched up.
Residents, of course, are irrelevant.Replies
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 17:02
oh, don't despair. The hurricane and the following tsunami of 'change' will flush out all these useless toadsDelete
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 18:14
@17.02 You speak of hurricane and tsunami but we don't want another Grenfell to act as a catalyst for 'change'. RBKC has gotten bad name not just nationally but internationally which is staggering considering it is supposed to be the smallest borough in London.Delete
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 19:12
You are all talking to the converted here on the Hornets nest and sharing stories, chasing each others tales. Richard is right, why not follow procedure and do it through the proper channels available and just see where it goes, nothing to lose surely? Ordinary people get nowhere with bureaucracy.ReplyDelete
I have had no involvement with Pascal but can confirm "do nothing " Councillor Warwick (lawyer) did not respond to several emails sent and refused to get involved in a housing issue, pulling every excuse out he could find - serious avoidance and wasted time, we found he always sides with KCTMO in some form or other.
Good post Richard, are you standing as an Independent next time round?
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 20:04
I wrote to this Pascal once about the TMO and he ignored me.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11 September 2017 at 20:32
If Richard has 3 and 20:04 has 1 = 4ReplyDelete
8 to go !Replies
- Anonymous12 September 2017 at 15:38
What do you mean by 8 to go? Do you mean another 8 people who didn't get the help and the above four can take a collective tangible action?Delete
- Anonymous12 September 2017 at 15:41
If above is the case, surely there must be eight people who can email Pascal and see if they'll get a reply? Easy.Delete
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Oh dear - the Dame needs to implement a verification procedure, the spammers are coming.Delete
- Anonymous13 September 2017 at 22:46
Would Dame be kind enough to look into rumours that RBKC will become a subsidiary of WCC following the break up of Triborough.ReplyDelete
Are WCC so much better that they should manage our Communications service, influence our housing department and decisions, lead on our commissioning and staff/lead on our back office functions such as finance, income collection, training, senior management etc
If this is the case should we just surrender and become part of a greater Westminster or has the council just decided that they can't trust themselves to run anything anymore?Replies
I wrote to Pascal when I lived in Elm Park Gardens to seek representation in a matter concerning the TMO. He ignored my correspondence. But there again, Emma Dent Coad ignored my emails when it suited her. What a shower RBKC Councillors are! Doesn't matter whether they are Tory or Labour they are no good and need to start earning their keep.Delete
- Observer14 September 2017 at 08:48
There are continuing rumours that K&C will be taken over by Westminster and Hornton Street will be closed down. A major concern for residents is who will our Ward Councillors be? Elections come up in a few months, in May next year, and the K&C Tories are making selections this month of who will stand. Cllr Campbell (the Dizzie one) is twitching her brain and exercising power. The old stagers are fearful that she will deselect them. Any one over 70 is on the block. And Cllr Julie Mills (Chairman of the Tory group) is on the warpath following the disastrous result at the General Election which saw Labour cruise to victory.Delete
All one big mess with cat Lizzie playing with her mangy mice.
- Anonymous14 September 2017 at 08:53
This is fantastic news for property developers. The Hornton Street site is perfect for "buy to leave" and would fetch £300 million which Westminster could spend on social housing. After all, the Holland Park School playground sold for £100 million to fuel the "buy to leave" brigade - so £300 million for the bunker would be a snitchDelete
- Oh Dear Me14 September 2017 at 09:01
Sounds like Dame Rutherford and the Blessed Freeman are on the block. And the holy B Campbell too. And what about Shuffles Campion?Delete
Oh dear me.
It is going to be the young brigade. Dizzie, Rock, Faulks and Weale. Catastrophic. And the aging rocker, the double barrelled Deputy.......
- Anonymous14 September 2017 at 10:12
'WESTMINTER CITY COUNCIL (INCORPORATING THE BOROUGH FORMALLY KNOWN AS RBKC)'?Delete
RBKC leadership didn't know what it was doing the day it ended the tri-borough arrangement. RBKC press release (split in 2018): https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/press-release/tri-borough-partners-split-2018
There was a sort of balance in the old tri-borough arrangement. The size of WCC, in terms of population and geography, is approx twice either RBKC or H&F (or near equivalent to them added together). Take H&F away (i.e. the new bi-borough arrangement) and there is no balance - a small borough (RBKC) and one twice its size (WCC). Whatever is joined up is very likely to end up being dominated by the bigger party.
Going forward the public are going to ask: 'What is the point of RBKC?' RBKC leadership will then need to justify the continuation of RBKC.
Personally, I do not want RBKC to disappear, so I'd like this question answered: 'What has the RBKC leadership built into the new envisioned bi-borough entity to ensure it isn't a vehicle for RBKC to be gobbled up by far bigger 'partner' (WCC)?'
Or, are the RBKC leadership crossing their fingers and hoping the local elections will make all these difficult issues disappear!
It has become clear in recent weeks that Cllr Spalding, Ward Councillor for Earls Court, is campaigning hard to raise his profile with residents and fellow Councillors in order to make a bid for the Leadership when this becomes vacant. So Cllr Pascall, another contender for the fast approaching vacancy that will occur when Dizzie Lizzie implodes, has competition.Delete
Cllr Spalding is a Tory "outsider". Not part of the current establishment, never a Cabinet Member. He does not disguise his impatience with current processes in the Council, his contempt for the current Leadership, and his belief that the culture and focus of Hornton Street is not appropriate. His campaigning is based on the adoption of popular causes, such as the evils of Air BnB in the Borough, and seeking to mobilise opinion and make noise with reports and working parties.
Cllr Spalding is also a neighbour and protege of disgraced ex Leader, Cllr Cockell. Cockell introduced Spalding to the council and promoted him to be a Councillor.
- The Dames Investigator14 September 2017 at 11:33
The race for the Leadership is hotting up. Deputy Leader Pascall and his Councillor wife are plotting quietly and campaigning with stealth to bring the dosh into the financially challenged family. And outsider Cllr Spalding, wildly ambitious, is stoking the flames.Delete
The Grenfell inquiry kicked off today. At his Press Conference this morning to announce working arrangements and timetables, it is clear that the judge (Sir Martin Ward speaking in the Connaught Rooms) will be ruthless in terms of probing and the timely completion of Part 1 of his work. We can expect the first report before the Local Council election in May next year.
When the shit hits the fan, Dizzie will be dust. Pascall and Spalding need to sharpen their pencils. But residents know that neither of these gents is worthy of the Leadership.
Why is Cllr Mackover not making himself visible?
- Anonymous14 September 2017 at 18:14
Such a shame Shane left RBKCDelete
- Anonymous19 September 2017 at 07:58
It is a shame that Shane has gone. He should have served on the Council.Delete
- Anonymous14 September 2017 at 07:33
Shane's right. They are all useless. Labour, Tory and Lib Dems all in it for themselves.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 September 2017 at 11:40
Grenfell public inquiry already crumbling on the first day. Terrible *smh*ReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 September 2017 at 21:37
The Royal City of Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea?Unbelievably grand!ReplyDelete
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text: As we celebrate sending 100 gift shoeboxes going to children in need, we recognise each one represents a child in poverty. Why doesn't God just remove poverty, and war, and sickness? Does God even care about suffering? We take a look at John 11 where we see an extraordinary event. It seems that Jesus lets a friend die. But it doesn't end there. Listen to this Bible talk to find out if God really cares about our suffering.


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Lisson Gallery artists participate in 2017 edition of the Yokohama Triennale
15 August 2017The six iteration of the Yokohama Triennale, which carries the theme of 'Islands, Constellations and Galapagos', continues in Japan until 5 November 2017. Featuring approximately 40 artists, the exhibition takes place across four venues in the city: the Yokohama Museum of Art, the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1, the Minatomirai subway station and the Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall.
At first glance, the Triennale may appear like an aggregation of small solo exhibitions by a tightly selected group of artists, with many showing multiple works to give visitors a deeper understanding of individual artists' creative worlds, yet upon closer inspection, a common thread can be identified throughout the entire presentation on issues surrounding connectivity and isolation.
Participants include artists who consistently address issues with their own unique methods and carry out activities that transcend existing frameworks and concepts, as well as collaborations among artists and projects that address pressing social issues from an artistic point of view. Ai Weiwei's work Reframe, which was presented at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence last year, will adorn the exterior of the Yokohama Museum of Art, while artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin draw inspiration from Sigmund Freud's iconic couch, from which they, together with a police forensic team, gathered DNA samples, strands of hair and dust particles to create large woven tapestries. Wael Shawky presents the final film in his critically acclaimed trilogy Cabaret Crusades, which recalls accounts of the Crusades from an Arab perspective, and Christian Jankowski debuts a new performance and installation, titled Massage Masters, which invokes relationships between the human body and public sculpture.


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In a crowded elevator, resident DFC Simona Sharoni took command of the elevator buttons and asked SJW victim Richard Ned Lebow which floor he needed. "Ladies lingerie" he said, getting a laugh from everyone except (we are told) Simona Sharoni, who was immediately offended and filed a complaint against Richard. But of course she waited a few hours to compose herself and withdraw to a safe location.
Standard Warning Officially Issued. The following is politically incorrect, socially insensitive, and directly attacks SJWs somewhere. Any micro-aggressions are accidental; all aggressions are meant to be of the macro category. Your mileage may vary, void where prohibited, the sleeves will ride up with wear.
Elevatorgate officially started some days back, so I'm late to the party, but between President Trump and whatever else the moonbat harridans are howling about now, this one got pushed off the main page. And it shouldn't have.
Lingerie Laughs - Not!
Headline: He Makes a Joke. She Isn't Laughing: 'Lingerie' Comment in Elevator Leads to Uproar Among Scholars.
The fuss started when Richard Ned Lebow, a professor of political theory at King's College London, and Simona Sharoni, a professor of women's and gender studies at Merrimack College, ended up in the same crowded elevator during a conference being held at a Hilton Hotel in San Francisco, CA last month. From the article:
She said she offered to press the floor buttons for people in the elevator, whom she described as mostly conference attendees and all, except one other woman, white middle-aged men. Instead of saying a floor, Lebow smiled and asked for the women's lingerie department "and all his buddies laughed," Sharoni wrote in a complaint, the details of which he disputed, to the association later that day.
From Foxnews:
After Lebow was made aware of the complaint, he sent Sharoni an email telling her "I certainly had no desire to insult women or to make you feel uncomfortable." He also suggested she may have "interpreted my remark out of context."Once they heard the accusation and read Lebow's initial response, the fatheads, snowflakes, and faggots running King's College London folded faster than a hammer in a hold 'em game. They demanded a letter of apology from Lebow, which he has wisely declined to write. Although, not having a lot of skin in the game, I might have helped him with this.
"Like you, I am strongly opposed to the exploitation, coercion or humiliation of women," Lebow wrote, according to the Post. "As such evils continue, it seems to me to make sense to direct our attention to real offenses, not those that are imagined or marginal. By making a complaint to ISA that I consider frivolous — and I expect, will be judged this way by the ethics committee — you may be directing time and effort away from the real offenses that trouble us both."
Lebow told colleagues this is "a horrifying and chilling example of political correctness" that "encourages others to censor their remarks for fear of retribution."
Dear Pseudo-Professor Sharoni,I'm being a bit facetious here. I don't really think Sharoni could learn to be a pole dancer, but she might learn to be nice to people. It really doesn't take all that much to get along.
I truly am sorry that you're a dumb fucking cunt who lacks anything resembling a sense of humor, or the wit to develop one. My lighthearted remark made in response to your query was designed to evoke humor among intelligent adults standing in uncomfortably close proximity to each other, and in that I succeeded. You, in your attempt to create hatred and strife, and to damage my professional life and well-being, have failed. Possibly this failure illustrates your professional life, or life in general.
Although you have the IQ of a fence post and the credentials to match, you aren't without certain qualities and natural talents which might be employed to your own benefit. Admittedly you're a bit old, but you've managed to retain your figure, which is a real asset for someone in your position. I suggest you learn to be a pole dancer. Pole dancing will bring you into contact with successful women (have you ever met an ugly, ill-mannered, or splenetic pole dancer? Neither have I.), women of good demeanor, some of which may rub off on you. The other alternatives are not as appealing.
Yours in all truth and honesty,
Richard Ned Lebow, PhD
Attacks like this one must not be allowed to stand without some kind of rebuttal. This is my rebuttal to human hate machine Sharoni and the journalists in name only that gave her baseless complaints ink they didn't deserve.


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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
southern magnolia: from bud, to bloom, to decay, to seed
On my recent trip to Florida, I was lucky to live in a house with a southern magnolia tree, magnolia grandiflora, right out front. I was enamored with the blossoms, the scent is very subtle and sweet.
The tree blooms continuously, the stages of the flowers shown above happening at the same time. Even when decaying, the flowers are stunning.
I wish I could grow one in New England, but alas, it is too cold for this beauty. The New England magnolias bloom and shed their flowers in a span of a week.
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The successful transplantation sheds light on the potential of xenotransplantation – the use of animal donors – as a the future of corneal transplantation. Despite the relative ease of the procedure and its high success rates, the number of procedures remains low; much in part to the lack of scientific literature and established protocols within the medical society.
Number of pig corneal transplantation remains low, despite high success rateAccording to Beijing Youth Daily, the life altering surgery was carried out at a hospital linked to the Central South University in Changsha in the Hunan province. Having suffered from a condition which caused chronic inflammation in an eye leading to severely impaired eyesight, the corneal transplantation surgery was the only viable mode of restoring the young man's vision.
Unfortunately, the number of corneal donors in China remains low. As a result, pig's cornea was chosen as the donor of choice as it was deemed to be the next best option for transplantation. Due to the cornea contains no blood vessels, it is the perfect candidate for xenotransplantation due to the reduced chance of transplant rejection. Moreover, Dr Renhong Tang, the director of cornea transplantation at the hospital, made sure the pig's cornea underwent prior treatment to ensure that it would better fit the man's eye.
Following the successful surgery, the man's corneal transplant was just one of less than ten similar procedures to have been performed in China, including hospitals in Beijing, Wuhan and Hunan provinces—despite the high success rate of over 90% so far.
"The surgery is not complicated—more or less the same as a human cornea transplant," explained Tang. However, he cautioned, "A pig cornea is a temporary substitute, definitely not as good as a human's." Elaborating on the difficulty faced due to the low number of corneal donors, he said "many patients will never have a chance to get a human cornea, they can only use the alternative."
Future outlook: Viability of pig corneas for transplantationsSince 2015, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery has recognised the potential and viability of using pig's corneas in transplantation surgeries.
The worldwide shortage in number of corneal donors has also proven to be a severe medical problem, especially in continents such as Asia and Africa. As such, pig corneal transplantation has the potential to restore the eye sight of thousands—thus, improving both the individual and nation's economy. Meanwhile, from an ethical standpoint, pigs represent a viable and acceptable choice because they are generally commercially available.
From a biological standpoint, a pig's cornea is a perfect candidate for transplantation as it shares many similarities with a human's cornea. With the use of properly treated and grafted pig's cornea in conjunction with new immunosuppressive drugs, the transplant has the potential to prevent rejection—and even allow for long-term implementation in humans.
An expanded research by Dr Hidetaka Hara and Dr David Cooper which carried out actual transplantation studies further corroborated the society's recommendation. Simple corneal transplantation of normal pigs already indicated good and promising results; largely in part due to the similarities of biomechanical properties between humans and pigs.
Where pig corneas are often presumed to be temporary donors due to long-term rejection—the research team believes that genetic manipulation of the donor pigs would prevent immunological rejection, and allow long-term survival of pig corneal grafts in human. While there is much optimism in this field of xenotransplantation, the biggest hurdle remains to be acquiring a viable number of genetically modified pigs for the purpose of corneal transplantation.
The cross-species transplantation may still be in its early days; nonetheless, it shows a great deal of promise especially with endorsements from ophthalmological associations and proven potential from scientific literature. With a shortage of corneal donors worldwide, pig corneal transplantation may appear to be the future of sight restoration surgery. MIMS
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Before starting with the article, I should tell you guys that I am not against vegans. People do make fun of them often, but not because of their diet, but due to the reason they think others are evil for eating meat, and that they are the best people. If you are a vegan and you think you can lead a healthy lifestyle that way, that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that.
Although humans are omnivores, so they can survive on a veg void of meat, the same logic doesn't apply for dogs. And it really makes me angry that some vegans think their dogs shouldn't eat meat as well, even though they are carnivores.
1. One such person posted this picture of her dog on Tumblr. Even though the dog seems unhappy, she was really proud for her vegan meal that has been specially created for the dog.
2. Fortunately, one person with knowledge of biology pointed out why this diet is dangerous for the dog.
3. Another person tried to side with the dog's owner, saying the vegetarian food is equally good for the dog, but then others shut him down soon.
4. You have probably seen dogs eat vegetarian stuff other than meat, but this guy proved that meat is essential to the dog's survival, and his evidence was solid.
5. He kept on mounting evidence after evidence and pleaded that people with such mind-sets shouldn't have pet dogs, since they are endangering their lives.
From his post, it does seem he is really angry, but he has valid reasons as well – he cares about dogs and wants them to lead a happy life rather than becoming an object to prove their owner's lifestyle is the best one.


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"I don't bake much so I don't make sweets like waffles and pancakes and muffins for breakfast either. Too much measuring for me, and I'd rather have champagne than sugar any day. These savory waffles are forgiving and easy to commit to memory and I just eyeball the ingredients. For a fun irregular shape that looks oddly like snowflakes, spoon your waffle batter into the center of your four-square waffle iron cooking one at a time rather than four."
- 2 large or 3 medium Russet potatoes, peeled and shredded
- Salt
- 12 slices meaty bacon
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt, plus seasoning for onions and eggs
- 1 teaspoon white pepper
- 1 teaspoon black pepper, plus seasoning for onions and eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 2 tablespoons melted butter, plus a dab for cooking eggs
- 1 cup yellow sharp cheddar
- Cooking spray
- 1 bunch large scallions, whites and greens, roots trimmed and trim tough ends of tops
- 4 large eggs
Serves: 4
Preheat oven to 375°F and a waffle iron on 5 or to medium-high to high.
Place potatoes in mesh strainer and salt, let drain 10 minutes.
Arrange bacon on slotted broiler pan and bake to crisp.
Press all the excess liquid out of potatoes, transfer to a bowl, and add eggs, flour, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon each of white and black pepper, and the baking powder. Mix to combine, then stir in sour cream, melted butter and cheese.
Spray the waffle iron with cooking spray, mound with the potatoes and cook waffles to deeply brown and golden.
Heat a griddle or cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Spray green onions with cooking spray, season with salt and pepper, and grill to tender and brown at edges; remove and coarsely chop. Wipe pan and cook eggs over-easy to medium.
Top each potato waffle with a star of 3 slices of crossed bacon strips, chopped onions, and an egg.
From Rachael Ray Every Day, March 2018.


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