Quenita (aka Que) is a Digital Media & Data Analytics Strategist making the unknown world of data make sense for individuals, leadership teams and brands in being more effective in their strategic outcomes, revenue targets and resource spends. The Colombian fashion start-up paving the sustainability path in LATAM is certified by Bcome Tech (a 5% best for the planet Bcorp), CO2Cero and Climate NeutraL and has been featured in Vogue, HOLA, Solstice and Glamour. Since its inception, DELLA TERRA has grown steadily, tripling its size year to year, all while creating pieces that consume 60%+ less environmental resources (water, CO2, PO4 3 and energy) than its regular counterparts. ![]() Having experienced first-hand the disregard large fashion companies have for both people and planet she decided to shift gears toward impact driven start-ups, eventually finding her way to her own venture. Isabella moved to NYC to pursue a career in fashion where she grew increasingly disappointed by the catastrophically negative impact the industry has on the environment. As a #1 fan of mother earth, and having been raised surrounded by nature in the outskirts of Cali, Colombia in a family of clothing manufacturers, she grew to be a lover of both fashion and nature. Isabella Spataro is the founder & CEO of Della Terra Apparel a radically sustainable fashion brand leveraging technology to trace and measure the social & environmental impacts of its entire supply chain. Palmer holds a BS from Indiana University and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Palmer currently serves or has previously served on the boards of numerous private companies and charitable organizations including Save the Children, Education Development Center, the Kelley School of Business, the Millennium Development Goals Health Alliance and the Maritime Aquarium. Wolfensohn, Inc., an investment banking firm where he worked for Jim Wolfensohn and Paul Volcker on strategy and acquisitions for Fortune 100 clients. ![]() Palmer was a Senior Associate with James D. Palmer also serves currently as Board Chair of Projectĭrawdown, the most comprehensive plan proposed to reverse climate change using the 100 most substantive, existing market-based solutions. To learn more about what Tjada is up to as CEO of Mercy Corps, she can be followed on her Twitter handle Chairman, Palm Ventures, and Chair, Board of Directors, Project Drawdownīradley Palmer is Executive Chair of Palm Ventures, a family investment company which he founded in 1992. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security in Washington, D.C. government’s global hunger and food security initiative, and the Assistant to the Administrator of the U.S. During the Obama administration, Tjada served as the Deputy Coordinator of Development for Feed the Future, the U.S. Tjada spent more than a decade working to end world hunger in roles with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Previously, Tjada served as Chief Operating Officer of CARE, where she oversaw the organization’s programming and global operations. She is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Montgomery County Green Bank which brings renewable energy and energy efficiency to small businesses and moderate- and low-income households in Maryland.Īs Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Corps, Tjada leads a global team of more than 5,600 humanitarians, who provide immediate relief and help communities forge new paths to prosperity in the face of disaster, poverty, and the impacts of climate change, reaching 37 million people in more than 40 countries. ![]() In addition to her work internationally, Marcene has been part of Green Bank initiatives in the United States, which scale climate finance by leveraging public sector funds with private investment. Marcene previously served as the Global Head of Climate Strategy and Business Development at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank. Marcene’s role is crosscutting because addressing the climate crisis cuts across all aspects of work at WWF. Marcene is advancing WWF's important climate agenda in the US and globally and building greater synergies across WWF's climate change mitigation and resilience initiatives-with a particular focus on nature-based climate solutions. Marcene Mitchell is the Senior Vice President of Climate Change at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
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![]() Whereas Anthony Pagden tries to define the meaning of empire for Europeans ( Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France ca. By the fifteenth century, Darwin reckons, that homogenized East “stagnated” and fell behind. For instance, in After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire (2007), John Darwin depicts the post-Tamerlane imperial experience as marked by a powerful East that served as both example and foil for Europe still recovering from the fall of Rome. Burbank and Cooper have thus delivered a valuable and important single-volume political history of empire, useful for both undergraduates and early graduate students engaged in imperial or colonial history.Įmpires in World History offers a broader chronological and geographic scope than any comparable work, particularly in light of the focus on the European overseas/colonial experience found in most comparative studies of empire. Ultimately, Burbank and Cooper’s study is a superb example of the analytical potential of world and transnational history, as it manages to trace the great sweep of world political development while emphasizing the role of intermediaries and borders in shaping empires based on “contingent accommodation” (p. 1000 ) on the rise of the West as contingent and hardly predetermined (p. The emphasis on “connections and contacts” of empires as critical to their formation hearkens back to the sweeping work of William McNeill ( The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, Plagues and Peoples, and The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. While they agree that conflict has been central to the course of European history, Burbank and Cooper argue that much of world history has been shaped more decisively by transcendent, but still locally produced, devices of imperial control that included, most importantly, the management of difference. ![]() The authors seek not only to describe the rise and fall of often immense territorial polities over the last 2,500 years, but also to correct the prevailing view that ties the development of the “modern” world to the arrival of the nation-state in Europe in the seventeenth century.īurbank and Cooper propose that imperial constructions, influences, and intersections have been vastly undervalued by scholars studying the history of “political economy.” They set out to “widen perspectives on the political history of the world” by working against the teleology of European nation-state development and the rise of the West set forth powerfully in the histories of, for example, Geoffrey Parker ( The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 ) and Charles Tilly ( Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990 ) (p. Instead, they posit that empires have taken many different shapes and have been the most influential form of political rule over the last two millennia. Alternately, Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper hold that while “empires” are often seen now as haunting specters of tyranny and oppression, it has not always been so. ![]() Their work served, perhaps unintentionally, as a call to arms for the antiglobalization movement that gained in strength in the early part of that decade. Most famously, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri described the pernicious influence of a Gramsci-style, intrusive, hegemonic state-based power in their landmark book, Empire (2000). Reviewed by Doug Leonard (Duke University)Įmpire, it seems, is everywhere, an important topic of historical scholarship since the late 1990s. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. 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To make things simpler, you need to pay close attention to how much money is in your bank account at any given time. If you surpass this amount, they will require you to switch to a different type of checking account. For example, Chase only allows you to do this six times in any given month. Some banks have a limit on how many ODP transfers you can make per month. If you do not have enough money in your savings account to cover the cost of your purchase, then you will be charged the full overdraft coverage fee. This makes the overdraft protection transfer a little bit less expensive. However, you must have enough money in your savings account to cover the charge. This often means that the money you owe will be pulled from a savings account over to your checking account. In many cases, your deficit will be pulled from another account. That is because this line item on your account is for overdraft protection transfers. Many people see that their bank account is in the negative when this charge occurs. When you see this TOT ODP/SWP CR MEMO on your account, you might start to panic at first. Here is the full breakdown you should know. If you need to learn more about what this means, limits, getting money back, or even preventing you from being forced to degrade your checking account. It means they pulled money from your savings account to help cover the cost of going over your bank account balance. The TOT ODP/SWP CR MEMO is the abbreviation for your bank letting you know that your account went into overdraft protection. What does this really mean and what should you do about it? As a line item, it says TOT ODP/SWP CR MEMO. It reads with just a bunch of letters which makes it hard to pinpoint exactly where this charge is coming from. ![]() ![]() You are scanning your bank account statement and you come across a line item that you don’t recognize. ![]() Full support for Wacom and other graphics tablets, including pressure, tilt and shortcut buttons.Combine multiple brushes together and paint in a single stroke.Create custom brushes and nozzles with full control over advanced dynamics.Huge library of painting, drawing, textures and professional DAUB® Brushes included.Dedicated Liquify persona and non-destructive filter version gives freehand control over warps, twirls, pinch, punch and turbulence. ![]()
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![]() Here's the performance data that an appliance collects for a server running on VMware and sends to Azure: DataĬalculation for disk size, storage cost, server size Value generated using disk.UnitNumber, disk.Key, Vm.().FindAll(x => is VirtualEthernet).count Here's the full list of server metadata that the appliance collects and sends to Azure: DATA The appliance collects configuration, performance metadata, data about installed applications, roles and features (software inventory) and dependency data (if agentless dependency analysis is enabled) from servers running in your VMware environment. Microsoft doesn't use this data in any license compliance audit. Metadata discovered by the Azure Migrate appliance helps you to assess server readiness for migration to Azure, right-size servers and plans costs. ![]() The Azure Migrate appliance is a lightweight appliance that the Azure Migrate: Discovery and assessment tool uses to discover servers running in your environment and send server configuration and performance metadata to Azure. Needless to say I'm a bit confused right now.This article provides details of the metadata discovered by Azure Migrate appliance. Model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 2.40GHzįlags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat epb dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpidĪddress sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual ![]() At least that's what I see when looking at the CPUID flags reported by /proc/cpuinfo on two identical servers, one with CentOS 6 installed on bare metal and one with a virtualized CentOS 6 running atop of VMware ESX 5.5: Also, VMware doesn't pass through every single flag but only a limited subset thereof. My understanding is that the old operating systems are obviously not going to support the latest features and most likely ignore unknown CPUID flags but should still run just fine given their x86/x86_64 compatibility. I don't really expect any problems due to the fact that VMware has that entire virtual layer between the OS and the hardware, and the PowerEdge R7425 servers are fully supported and certified by VMware. On the other hand, our 32-bit SuSE 9 servers were once running on Pentium 4 based servers, virtualized a couple of years ago, and are now doing perfectly fine on Sandy Bridge with an old 2.6.19 kernel. In my understanding, the VMware hypervisor layer should take care of the hardware incompatibility issue, but there's that little bit of uncertainty in the back of my head mainly because VMware seems to be passing through most of the CPUID flags to the virtual operating system (as in: the virtual machines can see what exact CPU type and architecture the host has installed) which could cause potential problems with older kernels. The latest Xeon processors (Skylake-SP) are on the other hand supported but will require at least RHEL 6.9: Īs far as I was able to find out this only applies to RHEL installed directly on bare metal without any virtualization layers in-between the OS and the hardware. What worries me most are our production servers running CentOS 6 - according to RedHat, EPYC is not and will not be supported on RHEL6. Those aren't mission critical and we might be able to either replace them or keep one or two Westmere-Hosts around for these specific machines until we can get rid of them for good. We have several virtualized Linux servers running on these VMware clusters, among others some CentOS 5 and even SuSE 9 legacy servers. We need to replace our current VMware Servers with new ones, and are currently seriously considering switching from our current Xeon servers (Sandy Bridge and even Westmere) to Dell PowerEdge R7425 AMD EPYC-based servers that will be running VMware ESXi 6.5U1 due to their higher core count and support for up to 1 TB RAM per CPU (compared to only 768 GB for Intel's current line-up). ![]() Unfortunately, the Video Watermark Remove is not suitable for any watermark that sits right at the center of the video. For all of these methods, you will be able to adjust the level of blurring and mosaic that you will apply to the video. Once you apply it to the marked spot, it will look like a pixelated mosaic. The M osaic has a much different look than the other methods. Gaussian Blur works in pretty much the same way except the blur is horizontal. In Delogo, the part where the user has indicated a watermark will have a vertical blur on it that makes the watermark unreadable. The three methods are Delogo, Mosaic, and Gaussian Blur. Once the watermark has been covered, the user can now choose one of the three methods for removing watermarks. The user can drag and resize the box to cover the watermark. A box that can be resized will appear on the video preview. To remove a watermark, just click on the remove watermark button. The user can choose based on how they prefer the removed watermark should look. The process is the same for all of them, but the results are different. Thundersoft’s Video Watermark Remove has three methods for removing watermarks. That said, the button is rather easy to find as it’s located just at the bottom of the preview window. However, one minor caveat is that the watermark removal options are hidden until you click the watermark removal icon. The interface is also pretty simple and easy to understand. You only need to follow standard installations steps, and you won’t be required to install any other software before you can get this program running. Installing the program is both quick and easy. Is it actually good at its one job? Installation and Interface Thankfully, there are tools like the Video Watermark Remove by Thundersoft to help users remove watermarks from videos. Sometimes, however, watermarks are just plain annoying, so it’s no surprise that people would want to have it removed. It might be to prevent people from stealing their multimedia content, or it could be to make sure watchers know that they are the ones who made the video. If (event.data = YT.PlayerState.There are many reasons why people would add a watermark to their videos. the player should play for six seconds and then stop. ![]() ![]() The function indicates that when playing a video (state=1), The API calls this function when the player's state changes. The API will call this function when the video player is ready. This function creates an (and YouTube player) Var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script') į(tag, firstScriptTag) Var tag = document.createElement('script') This code loads the IFrame Player API code asynchronously. (and video player) will replace this tag. The numbered comments in the HTML are explained in the list below the example. The sample HTML page below creates an embedded player that will load a video, play it for six seconds, and then stop the playback. Thus, this function might create the player objects that you want to display when the page loads. OnYouTubeIframeAPIReady – The API will call this function when the page has finished downloading the JavaScript for the player API, which enables you to then use the API on your page. We recommend 16:9 players be at least 480 pixels wide and 270 pixels tall.Īny web page that uses the IFrame API must also implement the following JavaScript function: If the player displays controls, it must be large enough to fully display the controls without shrinking the viewport below the minimum size. Most modern browsers support postMessage.Įmbedded players must have a viewport that is at least 200px by 200px. The user's browser must support the HTML5 postMessage feature. It also details the different JavaScript functions that you can call to control the video player as well as the player parameters you can use to further customize the player. It identifies the different types of events that the API can send and explains how to write event listeners to respond to those events. This guide explains how to use the IFrame API. You can also add event listeners that will execute in response to certain player events, such as a player state change. Using the API's JavaScript functions, you can queue videos for playback play, pause, or stop those videos adjust the player volume or retrieve information about the video being played. The IFrame player API lets you embed a YouTube video player on your website and control the player using JavaScript. ![]() I found it really easy to maneuver around my home, and find it to be of the best indoor drones for beginners.Ĭlick Here to See Best Price! 2. The Falcon drone is an excellent indoor quadcopter and is especially great for new pilots. No other drone company we’ve spoken to has displayed such dedication to making sure their customers are happy. The price is right at under $130.00 Amazon, and you can be sure you’ll get great customer service if you purchase an Altair drone. The HD 720p camera takes great video and pictures, and the autonomous hovering and positioning system helps you keep the drone stable in place which is great for indoor flights. Overall you can’t go wrong if you’re looking for a compact drone to fly indoors. The following is a list of the specifications:Īutonomous Hovering & Positioning System – GREAT Feature for indoor flight!!ĭouble the flight time – free extra battery included Here’s a video from the company explaining what AHP is, you can see it really adds value to this drone! Plus, its features and specs are sure to impress you, particularly the AHP system or autonomous hover & positioning system. The Falcon is a great product, that is perfect for beginner pilots. Altair is an awesome company known for their outstanding customer service and affordable drones. Altair Falcon with AHPĬlick here to See it On Amazon! or you can get fast and free shipping from the manufacturer’s website at .Īltair Aerial has just released the Falcon drone and in my opinion, it is one of the best new drones on the market and is filled with some awesome features. Here is our list of the Best Indoor Drones available today! 1. If you’re learning to fly-and aren’t fond of damage-those are priority number one. So I did what any red-blooded gadget lover would do: I nabbed a crapload of drones with propeller guards and flew my heart out. You know what they don’t all have? Propeller guards. Whether big or small, I found that most cheap miniature quadcopters have the same battery life of roughly 6 to 8 minutes, have roughly the same long range thanks to 2.4GHz transmitters, are nice and stable due to internal gyroscopes, and charge over USB in about an hour. But go online, and you can find practically as many flying objects as you’d need to blot out the sun. So I set out to find the perfect beginner drone: easy to learn, durable, cheap, and safe to fly indoors.Ĭheap drones are still relatively new, and they’re hard to find even in hobby shops. The second put scratches on my walls, and another one in my palm. It lost its tiny propellers whenever it crashed into objects, and my puppy nearly swallowed one. ![]() ![]() When I realized how cheap and easy it would be to get started, I bought the first drone I laid my eyes on. ![]() The hard part, I found, is picking the right one. It uses a camera inside the drone facing downward to recognize the terrain and keep the drone from flying off course!Ĭheck out this video of the Altair Falcon: It works like gps in that it doesn’t allow the drone to sway side to side or forward or backward, but it doesn’t require being connected to a gps satellite. We recommend you choose the Altair Falcon, our #1 choice because of it’s optical autonomous hover & positioning system which keeps the drone in place when flying indoors. This is one of the reasons we like Altair drones, they’re a small business out of Lincoln, Nebraska and it’s always smart when shopping only to keep your purchses limited to businesses within the USA. Many drones for sale now are quite similar so we really take a look at the customer service and the quality of the company selling the drone. We analyze and review the best indoor drones on the market today. It’s great to fly drones outside but there are many people who live in a climate where indoors is the only option. ![]() ![]() This model has alarms for predicted high or low blood sugar levels. There is only one flash glucose monitor that is available to buy in the UK at the moment, the Freestyle Libre 2. It’s expensive so if it’s something you’re thinking of doing, it’s worth speaking to your healthcare team first to see if they think it’s something that would suit you. If you don’t qualify for a flash glucose monitor or CGM, your main option is to self-fund a device. Margaret, 73, who has type 2 diabetes and uses insulin. “Using a Freestyle Libre helps me prevent hypos and it’s much more sociable because when I'm out, I don’t have to find somewhere convenient and clean to do a finger prick check. It’s also worth knowing that sensors only work for individual products, so sensors for a Freestyle Libre won’t work for a Freestyle Libre 2 or another CGM. If you get a Freestyle Libre or a CGM on the NHS, you should also get the other things you need like sensors and replacement parts. Getting free Flash sensors and CGM sensors Generally people with type 1 diabetes should be offered a CGM or flash glucose monitor and some people with type 2 diabetes may also be offered a CGM or flash glucose monitor to help manage diabetes. If you’re in Northern Ireland, you’ll need to check with your healthcare team. If you’re in England, Wales or Scotland, check the latest guidelines on who should be offered a flash glucose monitor or CGM on the NHS. How do I get a flash glucose monitor or CGM? Your diabetes healthcare team should be able to support you to make the decision on which device will be best for you. ![]() But unlike Flash, some CGMs can ‘talk’ to an insulin pump, which is important if you want to use a closed loop system. Reasons can include not liking the alarms. Some people prefer to use Flash (Freestyle Libre) over CGM. With a flash glucose monitor, it’s only when you wave (scan) your device over your sensor that you get your sugar readings. With a CGM your latest sugar levels show up on device or mobile automatically, transmitted by Bluetooth. Getting the free mobile phone app to use with the Freestyle Libre 1 and 2 sensors Difference between a flash glucose monitor and a CGM Help and tutorials from the Freestyle Libre manufacturer Abbott. Watch Matt's video about his experience of using a Freestyle Libre 2Ī description of what happens on screen in the video can be downloaded (Word, 12KB) How finger prick checks differ to CGM/Flash readingsĭevices that work with a flash glucose monitor (Abbott website)ĭevices that work wth a CGM (Dexcom website) They can also suggest things to help increase time in range – which is shown every day on your device. Time in rangeĪs you can share your data online with your healthcare team, they can adjust your treatment. "It's a real mental health break knowing what your blood sugar levels are doing at any one time." Mattįreestyle Libre 1 sensors are being phased out - see the next steps if this affects you.Ībbott issues freestyle libre apps safety notice for android 13 users - if this affects you see our news story.įind out about using a smartwatch to track your blood sugar levels. With the charts and graphs, you can start to see and understand how food, activity, and other things affect your sugar levels. One of the other main benefits of a flash glucose monitor and CGM is being able to review what your sugar levels do every minute of the day and night. This can also be set up to sound on someone else’s mobile, for example, a parent or carer’s. With a CGM and the latest flash glucose monitor (Freestyle Libre 2), you can also set an alarm to sound if your sugar levels go too low or too high. If someone helps you look after your diabetes, their mobile can be linked up too. You wear a small sensor on your body day and night that reads your sugar levels so you can see the information on your mobile, or other device. How does a flash glucose monitor and CGM work?įlash glucose monitors and continuous glucose monitors let you check your sugar levels without you having to prick your fingers. |