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not ridiculous - 20 mill

[in support of 3 seemingly ridiculous ideas: a ginormous/infinitesimal narrative; a c(k)iller app; and a $20mill bet]

not ridiculous point #1:

a narrative for 100

..may sound ridiculous.

perhaps it’s not..

be cause

it’s about you rewriting/choosing/creating/singing/remixing/changing that narrative.

 every day.

not ridiculous point #2:

c app as ciller

..may sound ridiculous.

from even a very positive man, (Clive Thompson):

realistically, I suspect there’s no killer app to end distraction. The downsides of being highly networked are constitutionally tied to the benefits. The only way we can reduce the negative side effects is by changing our relationship to the digital environment, both as a society and as individuals.

You’ve got to make the systems so that they help people pay attention to the world in front of them.

perhaps it’s not..

be cause

    1. it’s function is to help you pay attention to what matters.
    2. you create/design/prototype/personally fabricate it. every day.
    3. and it’s funded/time sourced/sustained (one way or another) via what we currently call public ed. we reallocate the trillions of dollars and 7 hours a day by literally redefining it.. to suit us.. every day.

not ridiculous point #3:

betting 20 mill

..may sound ridiculous.

perhaps it’s not..

be cause

  1. maybe this is an experiment not yet tried. bits of it yes – ie: Pam Dorr in Greensboro is mind-blowing; Mike Zuckerman‘s [freespace] is exhilirating; Tony Hsieh‘s city experiment is happily refreshing; et al… but perhaps there’s a way to get to equity (everyone getting a go at spaces like these) today, not in 5, 10, 20 yrs.
  2. if #1 is true – it’s too doable and too urgent to not.
  3. the outcome would be that in a year-ish, no more buffer funds would be needed. this is all based on sustainability born out of self/grit and community/trust conversations. reallocating the quadrillions we’re spending on things we don’t really want/need.

(things we’ve been referred as .. crazyridiculousesotericabstract, idiosyncratic jargonites, ..  just a few)

wilde unpractical law

miller extreme focus law

this page ..

via slidedeck:

via issuu:

and a not ridiculous personal point:

[taken from out from out start with why slidedeck, slide 28]

For 20 some years, I stood in front of various groups of kids, with a geeky joy about school math, and an unsettled soul about why. I would entertainingly and enthusiastically say to them such things as…

Today we’re going to rationalize denominators. This is something you are going to need to know how to do, in your future, ie: if you want to be successful in calc, and college, (which are/were obvious goals for everyone, no?)

That was my job. And, what I was sharing with all these kids, was/is deemed as rational, reliable. It was a service I provided.., helping kids learn school math.

Because many kids didn’t/don’t resonate with school math, it was/is the cause of much distress. This made me feel I was providing a service. By making school math fun, and by helping everyone get the grade they wanted, I felt I was alleviating a little stress. For many, this involved a ton of past pain/fear/shame.

Today, I stand before you, literally/figuratively, with a geeky joy about life, and incredible soul peace about why.

And with great humility and love, I say to you…

Today we’re going to be about freeing people up. This is something you need to know how to do. This is something the world needs from you.

be you be us

That’s what I do now. And it’s the most rational (lucid, sensible, balanced, sane, ridiculous, ..) thing I have to offer you.

Freeing people up to be themselves. Social good happening.

Creating mental/physical spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove.

You come too.

the most rational thing

ridiculous the new remarkable

things supposedly impossible

seth on opp to leap

adding virus noticings from bottom of virus page – a lot have to do with things we’ve said are ridiculous/impossible ie:

what i’m learning – things can change overnight.. (expo ness)

let’s leap to a nother way .. for (blank)’s sake

hoping we (finally) are brave enough to say.. good bye cycle.. as things supposedly impossible.. are staring us in the face..

let’s go deep enough.. to get to the root of healing.. virus/us ness et al

no more same song

interesting what ‘non-essential’ gatherings are disbanded: schools, work-places, (supposed to’s.. of school/work et al), mega-gatherings, gyms (people have time to go outside more.. natural movement), airports, restaurants, ..

and that (hopefully) more are getting a wak-up call.. zoom out view.. to the big monopoly game we keep perpetuating.. when they see ‘impossibilities‘ happen ie: debt/rent/mortgage suspended/dismissed, reset of the game – everyone getting new money – no strings, people bypassing money exchange just to get resources to people in need

quarantine ness:

10 people or less – missing piece #2 – be w fam – 7ish people – 30 min/day

shelter in place – missing piece #1 – be w self – time/space to talk to self – first 3 min/day – bachelard oikos law

this is ridiculous


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Adaptive Reuse of Historic Richmondville Mill Approved for Condo Development

Last week, Westport’s Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) unanimously approved text amendment 774 and the site plan for 32 two- and three-bedroom condo units, 20% of them affordable, at the 1880s-built riverfront building known as the Historic Richmondville Mill.  Adaptive resuse preserves what’s best about a building, but develops it in a way that is more modern and usable while conserving resources and historic value.

Redniss & Mead’s Principal Planner, Rick Redniss, submitted the text amendment and site plan for clients Sam Gault and Joe Feinleib of Coastal Construction.  Redniss enthusiastically commented, “We are proud to have helped balance the complex issues that led to this unanimous approval with zero opposition. The keys to this result included extensive neighborhood outreach, supportive town staff, developers who listened,  a cooperative development team, a sensitive design, and a PZC who appreciated it all”.

Link to the WestportNow article here.

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Overdraft fee cuts threaten Bank/Credit Union profitability

During the summer of 2021 alone three credit unions (Alliant, Weokie and UW Credit Union) eliminated or drastically cut overdraft fees. They are joining digital players like Chime, Ally and Capital One and in the process, potentially upsetting the profit model for many banks and credit unions.

According to industry benchmarks the average checking account accrues around $55 of “punitive” fees per year. Extracting this to a fictional bank with $2B in assets, this could put $4.0 million a year is at risk. Assuming our fictional bank has and RoA of 100bps, this potential lost revenue equates to 20% of net income.

Importantly, if this trend holds true traditional acquisition tactics like Chase’s famous $600 payment for affluent customer checking relationships will be financially compromised. From the vendor side, solutions like Velocity Solution’s Intelligent Limit System that in effect underwrites overdrafts will become irrelevant.

We are advising our clients to watch this trend closely. If NSF and Courtesy Pay fees become competitively unsustainable, traditional banks and credit unions will need to think carefully about how they will replace the lost income and sustain their RoA’s. Getting to a place where you can lose millions in revenue takes careful planning – planning that should be taking place in all banks and credit unions now. (Of course we have some ideas – give us a call!)

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For those looking for an adventurous way to celebrate Leap Day on Wednesday, Febuary 29th, The Woodland Zoo has got you covered with their Amphibian Conservation. This is the perfect event for those little ones with a more scientific inclination. And, it’s great for those who just love everything slithery. Mention the poison dart frogs and the kids may be putting on their rain jackets and boots themselves to head out for a day at the zoo.

Get the kids out of the house early to take in the other zoo attractions starting at 9:30 am. The amphibian fun starts at 11:30 am at the Day Exhibit with a talk about the Oregon spotted frogs in Zoomazium. Then curator Jenny Pramuk talks at 12:00 pm about the amphibians. If the kids are up for it, there is a talk at 1:00 pm about axolotis and their conservation, a 2:00 pm talk about amphibians and a 3:00pm talk about poison dart frogs.

This will surely educate and excite little ones interested in learning everything about their amphibian friends. It might also stop you from having to actually house any amphibians in your own house if go and visit them at the zoo. Imagine little tree frogs scaling your dining room table and then plan your next visit to the zoo. This event is free with zoo admission or membership.

pssst: If you can’t make the actual event on Leap Day don’t worry. The Zoo is hosting another day of Amphibian Conservation on March 3.

Woodland Park Zoo

— Katie Ludin

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If you need to sell bulk products or items, you may get rid of answering questions repeatedly from customers who like to purchase your product. It will be great if your client sees the price of each product so he can compare this to other products being sold.

Therefore, you need to have barcode labels sticker so let your client identify the price the certain product so he can make a decision. It may be a simple thing, but you also need to pay attention to its importance because it could help both the business owner and the client save their time.

Art Paper Label Sticker is a high-quality material used as a label sticker in Malaysia. It is able to provide a clean and good-looking barcode label so clients will not doubt buying your product thinking they are old. To be easily recognized by the clients, the Art Paper Label Sticker is used to let the clients identify your product.

The sticker is made of a high-quality material so they are not easily worn off when they bump with other products that may cause friction. Thousands of products are being produced daily and they are all gathered in one container. There are also unavoidable instances wherein products need a durable paper label like moisture.

Some products that should be stored in the fridge often encounters moisture. Art Paper Label Sticker is made to not to detach itself from the bottle of a product where it has been attached to. It can also accommodate any type of ink which means you can just use a pen to label the items.

Art Paper Label Sticker is sold in rolls making it best to use to accommodate thousands of items. You can just keep the remaining stickers for future use to avoid waste of material. .it is mostly used by shopping malls and supermarkets that have bulk items sold per day.

This type of barcode tag Malaysia is known to have a good quality. It does not fade for longer use to make it easier for barcode scanners to read the codes easily. It will make staffs strain whenever it is difficult for the barcode scanner to read the codes on the product which would surely eat their time checking on the correct code on it.

Art Paper Label Sticker can have writings that do not fade no matter it is embedded for a longer time to make your customers clearly see the price of the certain product. It would make your customers aggravated seeing a label that already faints and some numbers are missing which could confuse them at the same time. This is why choosing Art Paper Label Sticker is a smart way to make sure that stickers perfectly shows the accurate amount of your product.

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HP is well-known in the business world for its computers and printers. To make the job of a business owner a little easier, there is now the HP GST point of sale software and devices. This GST POS system Malaysia was designed with people in mind, and to make use of cutting edge technology. The software can be used with both touchscreen devices and mouse and keyboard computers.

HP GST POS System Terminal

GST started to be implemented in April 2015and businesses that make over RM500, 000 annually need to register and pay GST. Without having the proper information, your business will not be able to claim the GST tax deductions. You can also be fined if you are unable to provide this information to the government within a timely manner. This is one of the reasons why adding a GST POS Malaysia is important for your business. However, this is not the only reason that you should upgrade to GST point of sale software.

Benefits of Using GST Point of Sale Software

The F&B POS system Malaysia makes it very easy to track if an item is available or not, which can speed up the order taking process. This can also help businesses know what items that they are low on and if they are losing any inventory to theft. A GST POS system Malaysia also makes it easier to change prices at one or more locations. There is no need to worry about prices being entered wrong because the system does all the work for you or your employees.

The HP GST point of sale software is very quick and easy to connect with other software and devices. You can easily create your own GST POS system Malaysia, so you get the equipment that works the best for your business, without having to worry about if it is going to work together. There are also GST POS systems that come with all the equipment that is required, so you can easily order your system. This is the best option for new businesses that do not have any equipment.

Why Should You Buy GST Point of Sales Software From Redzone?

Buying a GST point of sale software and system can be confusing at times. There are so many options that it can be overwhelming. Even though it can be tempting to buy all your business equipment from different online stores, you are wasting both your time and money when you do this.

RedZone makes it easy to find all the equipment and software that you need for a GST POS system Malaysia. This means that you only need to pay one shipping charge and all of your equipment arrives at the same time. HP is known for building great computers and printers. They are now entering the business world with their line of POS equipment. This includes their own unique point of sale software, which can be connected to many of their other devices. This makes it easy to connect to your computer system, and you can update the system within just a few seconds.

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Tetro Student Village

Location: San Antonio, TX

Client: Carter Development

Cost: $25 million

Tetro Student Village takes the college living experience to a whole new level with ‘Town Center’ style living. This new standard of living centers townhomes and flat-style homes around a central community hub.
  • 16-acre community planning project.
  • 198 units with 590 beds, including 121 flat-style apartments and 77 townhomes built around a town center.
  • Features include a resort-style pool,volleyball, basketball and bocce ball courts, a soccer field, a grilling area,a fire pit, a study room, an arcade, a dog park, a tanning room, a coffee shop,a sports bar, a state of the art fitness center, and a media room.


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Faculty Artist Concert Series continues with “Heroes and Villains”

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“Heroes and Villains” visited the University of Indianapolis as part of the Faculty Artist Concert Series on Feb. 29 in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall of the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center. The recital featured pieces by Franz Schubert, Charles Ives, Jacques Ibert, Leonard Bernstein and many others. Music Lessons Adjunct faculty member Daniel Narducci sang baritone while Staff Accompanist Greg Martin played the piano.

The performance was broken into six sets, each with a different theme in the heroes and villains categories, from a wide range of composers and inspirations.

“Mythology, literature and motion pictures are filled with examples of heroes, villains and the good or evil that they bring upon mankind,” according to the event program. “[‘Heroes and Villains’] represents a look at some of the diverse personalities that we recognize as heroes or villains, coming into our awareness through myth, literature or true life.”

Daniel Narducci, music lesson adjunct faculy member, performs at the "Heroes and Villians" concert in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall on Feb. 29. Photo by Madison Hays

Daniel Narducci, music lesson adjunct faculy member, performs at the “Heroes and Villians” concert in the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall on Feb. 29. Photo by Madison Hays

The performance began by focusing on heroes, with the first set featuring “Bois épais” by Jean-Baptiste Lully, from “Amadis,” a French opera focusing on love and chivalry. This set also included “Ô Richard, ô mon roi!” from “Richard Coeur-de-lion,” by André Grétry.

The second set was by Franz Schubert. “Die Götter Griechenlands,” “Der Enthsühnte Orest” and “An die Leier” were performed.

“Franz Schubert found inspiration in ancient Greek myths and legends for many of his songs,” according to the event program, “and this group of songs presents settings of poems based on Greek mythology.”

The next set of songs was from “Chansons de Don Quichotte,” by Jacques Ibert. Ibert contributed four songs for the film “Don Quixote.”

“The original scoring was for various forces, from small ensemble to full orchestra, but Ilbert also arranged them for voice and piano,” according to the program. “This is the arrangement presented today … “Chanson du départ” is by Pierre de Ronsard, and the other three are by Alexandre Arnoux.”

The four pieces were originally poems in which Ibert composed the accompanying music.

Freshman elementary education major Liz Van Allen attended the performance for Lecture/Performance credit and to be able to write a paper for her Introduction to Music class. She enjoyed the set that focused on Don Quixote.

“I like the whole piece on Don Quixote,” Van Allen said. “I had to read it in high school so it was cool to see performed.”

The fourth set featured songs inspired by Native Americans. It included “Song of the Deathless Voice,” by Arthur Farwell, and was from the tribe on the Omaha plains and incorporated their language into the song. Charles Ives’s “The Indians” also was performed. According to the program, the song focuses on tragic events that affected Native American culture. The set was rounded out with “From Land of the Sky-Blue Water,” by Charles Wakefield Cadman, which also focuses on the Omaha tribe.

The set of villainous songs began with “The Listeners,” by Norman Dello Joio. It is about a traveler trying to be heard while traveling through a quiet night. Next “Song of Black Max,” by William Bolcom was performed.

“William Bolcom’s ‘Song of Black Max’ is composed in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill,” according to the program. “It is reminiscent of one of their most well-known songs, ‘Mack the Knife.’”

To end the set of villainous songs was “Captain Hook’s Soliloquy” from “Peter Pan,” by Leonard Bernstein. It is sung by the character of Captain Hook, who believes that he has just killed Peter Pan.

Freshman music education major Brenden Everett was particularly impressed with “Captain Hook’s Soliloquy.”

“What was really cool is when he sang the Captain Hook song … and he [Narducci] was in character,” Everett said. “It was refreshing to watch him perform.”

The final set of the night celebrated the heroism of those who served in the World Wars. “He is There!” by Charles Ives, was performed first. According to the program, it includes quotations from at least 14 different patriotic songs, such as “The Battle Cry of Freedom,” “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The next two songs performed were by Gene Scheer, “Holding Each Other” and “At Howard Hawks’ House.”

The final song was sung by British soldiers as they enlisted and was later sung to help heal them from the shock of the war. It was “Roses of Picardy,” by Haydn Wood, and was his most successful song, according to the program.

Following the performance, Narducci and Martin returned to the stage and performed another song from “Don Quixote.” Everett said this was his favorite song of the night.

Van Allen said that she enjoyed the performance.

“I was surprised,” she said. “I didn’t know what to expect. [I] liked it.”

Everett, who attended the performance because Narducci is his professor, said that he learned a lot.

“There was a lot of stuff he did in terms of vocal technique,” he said. “I won’t get into the specifics but there was a lot of stuff with his stance.”

Everett was impressed with the way Narducci was in character for many of the songs and sang in French and German, as well as English.

The next performance in Ruth Lilly Performance Hall is the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Chamber Orchestra on March 10 at 7:30 p.m.

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• Pelican Point

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    • $695,000 ANNUAL
    • 874 POPULATION

    Are you interested in buying, renting or investing in Pelican Point? Here at REIWA, we recognise that choosing the right suburb is not an easy choice.

    To provide an understanding of the kind of lifestyle Pelican Point offers, we've collated all the relevant market information, key facts, demographics and statistics to help you make a confident and informed decision.

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    Postcode 6230
    Local Government Bunbury
    Primary schools Eaton Primary School, Clifton Park Primary School, Grace Christian School, Picton Primary School, Glen Huon Primary School, Djidi Djidi Aboriginal School, Cooinda Primary School, Leschenault Catholic Primary School, Carey Park Primary School, St Mary's Catholic Primary School
    Secondary schools Grace Christian School, Eaton Community College, Bunbury Catholic College, Bunbury Regional Community College, Bunbury Senior High School, Australind Senior High School, Manea Senior College, College Row School, Newton Moore Education Support Centre, Newton Moore Senior High School

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    2016 Census Summary Pelican Point Bunbury
    Population - usually resident 874 176,330
    Median age of residents (years) 48 41
    Average household size (persons) 3.00 3.00
    Number of occupied dwellings * 319 63,149
    Number of unoccupied dwellings 39 14,807
    Median weekly household income $1,968 $1,319
    Median monthly mortgage repayment $2,110 $1,733
    Total private dwellings 358 77,952
    Area (sqkm) 2 24,802
    * Excludes visitor only households

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Chromecast Ultra vs Chromecast with Google TV

Chromecast Ultra vs Chromecast with Google TV
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Are you in confusion about buying a Chromecast dongle, which one to choose? Here let us consider the two most trending Chromecast devices that are the Chromecast Ultra VS Chromecast with Google TV.

Between these two which one is better?

Let us discuss in the article about the Chromecast devices. So, you can choose according to your choice or suitability but before opting for any of them let me know about them.

In 2013, Google introduced a new gadget that is the Chromecast TV Dongle. It was specially designed for casting smartphone apps, video streaming apps to a bigger screen.

As the market changed and introduced streaming TV apps, finally in 2020 google officially launched its Chromecast With Google TV. It takes a long time to introduce the Chromecast with Google TV.

Chromecast is always being a great streaming dongle. With the evolution of technology, it gets updated from time to time. Google is one of the leading companies to give a big hand towards a better overall user experience.

The previous Google Chromecast Ultra dongle supports 4K, which was the first to introduce the feature.

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Chromecast Ultra vs Chromecast with Google TV

Let us discuss some of the key features that will act as a clearing line between the Chromecast with Google TV and the Chromecast Ultra.

You will know that Chromecast Ultra is a previous device whereas the Chromecast with Google TV is a newer one. This article will surely help you to pick the better Chromecast dongle that is suitable for you.

1. Physical design, shape, and material used

As the Chromecast with Google TV is a newer one, so the first change google will replace its physical appearance with a new design.

Google Chromecast Ultra has scratch-able plastic at its surface while the Chromecast with Google TV has replaced it with a new and attractive matte finish.

In addition, the power supply is slightly different from the Ultra’s getting Ethernet. Moreover, previously it is circular-shaped now the newly introduced Chromecast with Google TV comes in an oval-shaped design.

The one minor addition that comes in Chromecast with Google TV is the color choices. It offers more color options compared to the Chromecast Ultra. The new color variations are snow, sunrise, and sky colors.

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2. With Remote or Without Remote

Google has taken a page from the Amazon Fire TV Stick’s book and built the new Chromecast with Google TV with a new physical remote. This is surely taking a big advantage of the Chromecast with Google TV over the other versions of Chromecast.

It makes the Chromecast with Google TV a different device. Moreover, it is still able to cast smartphone apps to the TV.

In addition, it has an inbuilt Android TV, which enables you to watch the streaming TV and apps directly without any smartphone.

For controlling those apps and other controls, it has its own hardware that is the Remote. The remote comes with the Google Assistant feature that enables you to control the apps with your voice.

Read More: Why Is My Vizio Tv Smartcast Not Working

3. Display and streaming Features

Google TV has the feature to pull out the content from every subscription service in which you have signed up and is easy to navigate.

It is reported on the papers that with Google TV you will be able to search, and play the content from Google Play, Netflix, Disney Plus, and with numerous types of other services into one place.

So, this feature can be said as one of the key upgrades in Ultra. It will enable you to stream the content from the apps on the phone or tablet.

The current Chromecast of third-generation streamed the smartphone content at 1080 pixels resolution.

Whereas the Chromecast Ultra was the first which increased the streaming resolution to 4K. It supports the HDR10 and Dolby Vision Video Formats and Ethernet port.

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4. Google Stadia game streaming Service

Chromecast with Google TV is no doubt up to date but it lacks its place when it comes to gaming. Whereas the Chromecast Ultra is compatible in this area.

The new Chromecast with Google TV will not support Google’s Stadia streaming service. It is supposed that this feature is added to the Chromecast with google tv in the near future.

But if you want to play Stadia gaming on the big TV screen now, you must have the Chromecast Ultra or purchase the Stadia Premiere edition in which Chromecast Ultra comes along with the Stadia Controller.

The Chromecast Ultra allows the users to stream high-end PC and Console games to the Smart TV via the Google Stadia Service.

5. Pricing

The Chromecast with Google Tv is available on sale in the US at the cost of $49.99. Whereas the Chromecast Ultra is no longer available for sale.

You can get it along with the purchase of Stadia Premiere Edition for $99.99, but that’s a little bit expensive. The current third-generation Chromecast starts with a price of $29.99.

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The Chromecast was introduced to making televisions Smart. It allows the users to cast the smartphone apps directly to the TV by just connecting the dongle to the TV’s HDMI Port.

With time it evolves and enhances the user experience by allowing them to play games, watch movies, and many more.

The later version of the Chromecast introduced is doing the same thing as the original. But it always adds more features to this gadget. The third-generation Chromecast streamed the content at 1080p Resolution.

The more expensive Chromecast Ultra increased this resolution to 4K which was launched in 2016. So, we can say that it makes it difficult for the user which one to choose as the gadgets are always upgrading from time to time.

In this article, we try to compare Chromecast Ultra with Chromecast With Google TV. As it is one of the most searched queries of the users which one to choose from them.

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8 Best Sites That Let You Watch Free Cartoons 2021

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Peoples love to watch cartoons as they give them a lot of memories of their childhood. It doesn’t matter if you are an adult or old and not a kid anymore. We all have a kid alive inside us forever and these cartoons help to relive all these beautiful past memories. So would also you like to Watch Free Cartoons or anime, I know you are a big big big anime Fan! What else you can ask for, A good site to watch your favorite cartoons for free.

Here I’m gonna share these best free cartoons sites that will let you allow you to watch your favorite for free. That dream of cartoon land makes it a bit easier to wander in the real land.

Anime is fun, energetic, entertaining, and most importantly heart touching. If you are a 90’s kid it will be an amazing nostalgic ride for you.

There are a number of websites that allow you to stream cartoons online, choosing the one that serves you well is quite a painstaking task and when you are in the mood of enjoying the best cartoon you don’t want to take stress in finding the good and free online cartoon websites.

So let’s get started to:

Live your childhood again with these 8 best sites to watch free cartoons online

Here, I have made you a list of my favorite and free cartoon streaming websites:

  1. Kisscartoon
  2. Gogoanime
  3. Animeultima
  4. Watchcartoon
  5. Cartoon Network
  6. Disney Junior
  7. Toonjet
  8. Nick

Let’s take a closer look at these free cartoons streaming websites to an amazing weekend watch:

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A Smithsonian conservator displays the cover page from Thomas Jefferson's Bible.
January 11th, 2012
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My Take: How Thomas Jefferson’s secret Bible might have changed history

Editor's note: Mitch Horowitz is editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin and editor of Penguin’s new reissue of The Jefferson Bible.

By Mitch Horowitz, Special to CNN

(CNN) - Imagine the following scenario: A U.S. president is discovered to be spending his spare time taking a razor to the New Testament, cutting up and re-pasting those passages of the Gospels that he considered authentic and morally true and discarding all the rest.

Gone are the virgin birth, divine healings, exorcisms and the resurrection of the dead, all of which the chief executive dismissed as “superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications.”

Such an episode occurred, although the revised version of Scripture remained unseen for nearly seven decades after its abridger’s death. Thomas Jefferson intended it that way.

During most of his two terms in the White House, from 1801 to 1809, and for more than a decade afterward, Jefferson - the third U.S. president and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence - committed himself to a radical reinterpretation of the Gospels.

With a razor and glue brush at this side, Jefferson lined up English, French, Greek and Latin editions of Scripture and proceeded to cut up and reassemble the four Gospels into an exquisitely well-crafted, multilingual chronology of Christ’s life.

Jefferson lined up different editions of Scripture.

In Jefferson’s view, this revision represented a faithful record of Christ’s moral code, minus the miracles that the Enlightenment-era founder dismissed as historical mythmaking.

The book eventually became known as The Jefferson Bible and is now being rediscovered in new editions, including one published this month by Tarcher/Penguin, and as the focus of a Smithsonian exhibit.

Ask most people today if they have heard of Jefferson’s Bible and you will receive blank stares. Indeed, for much of American history, The Jefferson Bible was entirely unknown. Jefferson intended it as a work of private reflection, not a public statement.

As contemporary readers discover the work, it is tempting to wonder how American history might look different had Jefferson’s radical document come to light closer to its completion.

Jefferson was still working on his Bible during his presidency, so its theoretical publication wouldn’t have compromised his electability. But if the book had been made public after its final completion in 1820, when Jefferson had only six more years to live, it likely would have become one of the most controversial and influential religious works of early American history.

A curator handles a "source" Bible from which Jefferson cut out passages.

That was a scenario Jefferson took pains to avoid. After being called an “infidel” during his 1800 presidential race, Jefferson knew the calumny he could bring on himself if word spread of his “little book.” Although he had his work professionally bound, he mentioned it only to a select group of friends. Its discovery after his death came as a surprise to his family.

Jefferson’s wish for confidentiality held sway until 1895 when the Smithsonian in Washington made public his original pages, purchased from a great-granddaughter. In 1904, Congress issued a photolithograph edition and presented it for decades as a gift to new legislators, a gesture that would likely cause uproar in today’s climate of political piety.

Because of the book’s long dormancy following Jefferson’s death, and its limited availability for generations after - arguably the first truly accessible edition didn’t appear until 1940 - The Jefferson Bible has remained a curio of American history.

So how would the earlier publication of The Jefferson Bible have changed American history? It's impossible to know for sure, but the 1820s inaugurated a period of tremendous spiritual experiment in America: It was the age of Mormonism, Unitarian Universalism and Shakerism, among other new faiths.

There’s little doubt that many Americans, who were already fiercely independent in matters of religion, would have seen The Jefferson Bible as the manifesto of a reformist movement - call it “Jeffersonian Christianity” - focused not on repentance and salvation but on earthly ethics. Such a movement could have swept America, and also have spread to Europe, where Jefferson was esteemed.

A broad awareness of Jefferson’s work would have surely engendered a more complex view of the religious identity of Jefferson and other founders. Indeed, one of Jefferson’s most trusted correspondents while he was producing his Bible was his White House predecessor, John Adams, who in turn confided to Jefferson his distrust of all religious orthodoxy. These men were impossible to pin pat religious labels on.

Because Jefferson published relatively little during his lifetime, the appearance of The Jefferson Bible would have created a different, and more confounding, public image of the statesman as someone struggling deeply with his own religious beliefs. The Jefferson that appears behind his reconstruction of Scripture is someone who brushed aside notions of miraculous intervention and canonical faith.

As The Jefferson Bible conveys, however, Jefferson considered Jesus’ moral philosophy the most finely developed in history, surpassing the ethics of both the ancient Greeks and the Hebrews. He insisted that Christ’s authentic doctrine was marked by a stark, ascetic tone that clashed with the supernatural powers attributed to him.

“In extracting the pure principles which he taught,” Jefferson wrote in 1813, “we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms. ... There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.”

Jefferson’s minimalist approach to the Gospels reveals an attitude that he disclosed only privately, just months before his death: “I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know."

In that sense, Jefferson the politician wouldn’t have stood a chance in the current presidential race, where faith and piety are on constant display. The political process might be more open today to candidates of varying degrees and types of belief if The Jefferson Bible were more central to the nation’s history.

The Jefferson Bible opens a window on Jefferson’s struggle to find a faith with which he could finally come to terms. It was this kind of intimate, inner search - not the outward pronouncement and establishment of religious doctrine - that the man who helped shape modern religious liberty sought to protect in America.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Mitch Horowitz.

- CNN Belief Blog

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Deep brain stimulation of pallidal versus subthalamic for patients with Parkinson's disease : a meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials

F. Xu, W. Ma, Y. Huang, Z. Qiu, Lei Sun

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Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder that affects many people every year. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective nonpharmacological method to treat PD motor symptoms. This meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of subthalamic nucleus (STN)-DBS versus globus pallidus internus (GPi)-DBS in treating advanced PD.||Methods: Controlled clinical trials that compared STN-DBS to GPi-DBS for short-term treatment of PD in adults were researched up to November 2015. The primary outcomes were the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Section (UPDRS) III score and the levodopa-equivalent dosage (LED) after DBS. The secondary outcomes were the UPDRS II score and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) score.||Results: Totally, 13 studies containing 1,148 PD patients were included in this meta-analysis to compare STN-DBS versus GPi-DBS. During the off-medication state, the pooled weighted mean difference (WMD) of UPDRS III and II scores were -2.18 (95% CI =-5.11 to 0.74) and -1.96 (95% CI =-3.84 to -0.08), respectively. During the on-medication state, the pooled WMD of UPDRS III and II scores were 0.15 (95% CI =-1.14 to 1.44) and 1.01 (95% CI = 0.12 to 1.89), respectively. After DBS, the pooled WMD of LED and BDI were -254.48 (95% CI =-341.66) and 2.29 (95% CI = 0.83 to 3.75), respectively.||Conclusion: These results indicate that during the off-medication state, the STN-DBS might be superior to GPi-DBS in improving the motor function and activities of daily living for PD patients; but during the on-medication state, the opposite result is observed. Meanwhile, the STN-DBS is superior at reducing the LED, whereas the GPi-DBS shows a significantly greater reduction in BDI score after DBS.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1435-1444
Number of pages10
JournalNeuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
Publication statusPublished - 2016

  • Parkinson disease
  • Deep brain stimulation
  • Subthalamic nucleus
  • Globus pallidus internus

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  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Biological Psychiatry

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The conductivity of a poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) film is enhanced by more than 100-folds on adding some organic compounds into PEDOT:PSS aqueous solutions or by treating the PEDOT:PSS film with organic solvents, such as ethylene glycol (EG), 2-nitroethanol, methyl sulfoxide or 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone. The mechanism for this conductivity enhancement was studied through various chemical and physical characterizations. The PEDOT:PSS film which is soluble in water becomes insoluble after treatment with EG. This strongly suggests an increased interchain interaction among the PEDOT chains. Raman spectroscopy indicates that this increased interchain interaction results from conformational changes of the PEDOT chains, which change from a coil to linear or expanded-coil structure. The increased interchain interaction and conformation changes are further confirmed by the temperature dependence of conductivity and the electron spin resonance (ESR). It is found that EG treatment lowers the energy barrier for charge hopping among the PEDOT chains, lowers the polaron concentration in the PEDOT:PSS film by ∼50%, and increases the electrochemical activity of the PEDOT:PSS film in NaCl aqueous solution by ∼100%. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and contact angle measurements show that the surface morphology of the PEDOT:PSS film changes as well after the EG treatment. Conductivity enhancement was also observed when other organic compounds were used, but it was strongly dependent on the chemical structure of the organic compounds, and observed only with organic compound with two or more polar groups. These experimental results support our proposal that the conductivity enhancement is due to the conformational change of the PEDOT chains and the driving force is the interaction between the dipoles of the organic compound and dipoles or charges on the PEDOT chains.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8443-8450
Number of pages8
Issue number25
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2004
Externally publishedYes

  • Conductivity
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Techniques used to reduce render times in Blender's Cycles engine without significantly sacrificing render quality

Written by Tinos Psomadakis

As part of my A-Level Graphic Design course, I created a housing estate with ten floors; each floor has different rooms, which act as a vertical timeline. The top floor is the hospital corridor that the protagonist was born in and the bottom floor is the current day. The camera will slowly pan down the building, momentarily stopping on each floor to allow viewers to see the room in all of its glory.

To help create each floor, I used the BlenderKit plugin for materials and models, some of which I created myself.

* Values rounded to 2 significant figures

The issues

Errors and proposed solutions

During the creation of the project, I had completely ignored the focus on memory management and optimization. This would come back to haunt me when the Video RAM (VRAM) needed by Cycles would begin to surpass the amount of VRAM available on my GPU. I noticed that the issue would usually arise when the render's memory would approach 12GB of usage, which is interesting considering my GPU only has 8GB of VRAM available. Once I had passed the 12GB mark, I began noticing frequent crashes during rendering, often followed by errors such as the following:

Failed to create CUDA context (Illegal address) and Out of memory in cuMemAlloc(&device_pointer, size)

Both errors appear to stem from using the OptiX denoiser and a lack of available VRAM. User cgslav at the Blender Stack Exchange wrote the following solution to this post:

" Your scene render is bigger then your GTX 960 memory.

Change render to CPU."

While this solution would probably work, switching to CPU based rendering would likely result in drastically slower render times which is not ideal when working under timed pressure. User Richard_Marklew wrote the following under this post:

" You need a graphics card with more memory, use cpu rendering, simplify your scene or a combination off all. Reduce the size of textures If you have subsurf modifiers do you need them at the level being rendered Split the scene down into multiple renders and composite together etc etc"

The first issue that Marklew highlights is that "You need a graphics card with more memory". I'm confident that purchasing a GPU with more VRAM would solve this problem, however because of a tight budget, a lack of online stock and the fact that this is a one-time project that I won't need to do again once my A-levels are complete, this was definitely an unreasonable option to consider. The next solution he proposes is using CPU rendering, which as I mentioned earlier is fairly bothersome when working under timed pressure. Then, he says "simplify your scene" which may come across as quite a difficult task to achieve when dealing with upwards of 3000 objects in a scene. He lists some potential methods of going about handling this such as reducing the size of textures, simplifying subsurface modifiers and splitting the scene into multiple scenes and to stitch them together in post.

I think it is really important to highlight the fact that I am using the BlenderKit plugin to import models and materials for each floor of the building. The plugin has some incredibly detailed models, some reaching upwards of 1,000,000 faces on a single model. The materials on BlenderKit can also include extremely high quality textures which can sometimes reach upwards of 11,000x11,000 in resolution. This is where I made my mistake. When I started working on this project, I would freely use whichever material and model that I deemed fit for the room. This meant that I had used some models with 100,000+ faces and multiple materials with 8k textures. Having realised this fatal flaw with the scene roughly 80% through the building process, I looked for ways to ensure this doesn't happen again.

The solutions

Texture Resizing

While this is not the first approach I took to fixing this issue, it is certainly the most effective. As mentioned in the issues section, one of my major oversights was the texture size of the materials that I was importing from BlenderKit and my own designs. I initially realised that this was part of the problem when I noticed that during the Updating Images phase of the render, the text would get stuck on a certain images such as GWC_SciFi_Panel_06_base_color.png. The first thing I did to investigate this was to go to the BlenderKit menu and find the material which was using this texture that appeared to be "clogging up" the render pipeline.

BlenderKit material preview showing SciFi Wall Panel with texture in question GWC_SciFi_Panel_06_base_color
Fig.1 - BlenderKit material preview with material using the GWC_SciFi_Panel_06_base_color.png texture

Figure 1 shows a screenshot from the BlenderKit material preview with the material that appeared to be slowing down the render times and using up roughly 200MB-500MB of VRAM. The main thing to note is the texture resolution: 4096 which shows that the textures used by the material are all 4k. Just as Richard_Marklew had predicted, the textures appear to be taking up a great deal of VRAM which would cause the CUDA errors. The way to fix this is the way he had suggested, resizing. Blender's image editor has a built-in resize button which would do the job, however, the scene has over 200 images so having to manually go through and resize each texture one by one would be an incredibly time-consuming and dull task for any human to complete. This is where Blenderpy comes in handy.

I quickly wrote a Python script that would iterate through each image texture in the scene and output the image's size. This was to get an idea of how many of the image textures were larger than 1600 pixels (The render resolution I decided to use).

import bpy

image_sizes = []
for img in
    image_sizes.append(max(img.size[0], img.size[1]))
CMD Output of list of texture sizes from high to low being used in the Blender scene.
Fig.2 - Output from the code ran above

If we take a quick look at the list that the code outputted, we can see that there is one 11k texture, four 8k textures, two 6k textures and around fifty 4k textures. The results really reinforce the importance of having appropriately sized image textures. The next step is to iterate through each texture and resize it to be a MAXIMUM of 1600px.

import bpy

for img in
width, height = img.size

if width > 1600 or height > 1600:
    scale_factor = width / height
    if width == height:
        new_width = 1600
        new_height = 1600
    elif width > height:
        new_width = 1600
        new_height = int(1600 / scale_factor)
    elif height > width:
        new_height = 1600
        new_width = int(1600 / (1/scale_factor))
    img.scale(new_width, new_height)
    print(f"\n{width}, {height} => {new_width}, {new_height}")
GIF Showing the results of the resizing algorithm I ran to reduce the image size of the textures used by the materials in the Blender scene.
Fig.3 - GIF showing output from above code

Figure 3 shows us that the code was successfully run and has now resized all of the textures (above 1600px) to a maximum of 1600px. The VRAM usage went from ~12000MB to an incredible ~4000MB which has managed to shave off at least 30 seconds of render time per frame, roughly 12.5 hours of total time saved.

BlenderKit Models and Materials

The most important numbers to consider when adding models to your scene are the face counts for models and the texture resolutions for materials. With the fix above, the texture resolution can be adjusted fairly easily, however, there is no simple fix for the face count of the models. It is very important that you keep your eyes on the render face count rather than the viewport face count since the model might be using subsurface modifiers which have a large impact on render times.

Material replacing

When you import a new model with BlenderKit, it will create all the materials that the model uses. This means that every time you place a new object, even if the materials already exist, you will end up with the same materials being generated twice, which takes up memory and increases file size. I found that the best way of tackling this issue was to look at objects that had similar textures and to create one texture for those objects. For example, I noticed that I had many black plastic objects in my scene so I created a new material, called it Black_MAIN and used the Data API Display Mode under the outliner to see all of the materials in the scene. I would then select each black plastic material and replace the materials of the linked objects with the Black_MAIN material I had created.

The Data API in Blender that provides a list of all elements in a blender scene such as the materials, textures and objects.
Fig.4 - The Data API showing all of the materials in the scene

The next thing to do is to go through each material and check to see if there are any duplicates. These can easily be spotted as they will end in a number, usually with two trailing zeros (example.001, example.002, example.020). Once you've found a duplicate material, right-click the material and click on Select Linked to select the object(s) using the material. Click on the highlighted object(s) and head over to the Material Properties. Click on the material drop-down menu and select the original material (The material which does not have the .000 numbering). Once you've done this for all the duplicate materials in the scene, it is critical that you ensure that the materials and textures are completely deleted from the scene. This can be done by navigating back to the Outliner's Display Mode options and selecting the Orphan Data option instead. This will display all the pieces of data that aren't being used in the scene but are still being saved in the .blend file. I've found that you need to click the Purge button multiple times to completely delete both the materials and the textures assigned to them. Once this is done, you will have a smaller file size and depending on the material you replaced the duplicates with, a faster render time.


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As an Ammunition Technician, you are in charge of keeping the Defence Force armed. You will be responsible for the inspection, bulk storage, field storage, maintenance and disposal of all ammunition and explosives used by the Navy, Army and Air Force.

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About the role

As an Ammunition Technician, you are the Army’s subject matter expert in all things relating to ammunition and explosives. Your core role will be keeping the Defence Force armed. You will be responsible for the inspection, bulk storage, field storage, safety assurance, maintenance and disposal of all ammunition and explosives used by the Navy, Army and Air Force.

You will also conduct investigations into ammunition accidents, and dispose of unserviceable ammunition or ammunition which has become unserviceable. Ammunition Technicians are also responsible for keeping Defence Force training areas free from unexploded ordnance (UXO’s), by safely removing and disposing of malfunctioning ammunition.

Ammunition Technicians are also responsible for ensuring the NZDF is compliant with New Zealand and international regulations for the storage and transport of ammunition and explosives in accordance with New Zealand Transport Authority (NZTA), International Air Transport Association (IATA) and International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) regulations.

Job on base

The core capability of an Ammunition Technician is to ensure ammunition arrives in the correct quantity, type, place and time. As you are dealing with explosives it is critical the ammunition is safe and reliable for our personnel to use.

You will be trained in the safe and effective storage, inspection, maintenance and disposal of all the different explosive ordnance used by the Defence Force and other allied agencies and be able to conduct trials on ammunition. You will assist in the disposal of UXO’s and of unserviceable ammunition stocks, either by burning or detonation. You will learn to operate the different vehicles the NZDF utilise and be trained to operate within a Combat Services Support Team (CSST) in support of combat task groups.

As you become more experienced, you will assist in training other Defence Force personnel in ammunition safe handling, movement and disposal. You will receive exposure to more advanced technical training across the Ammunition Technician spectrum such as breakdown of ammunition, explosive ordnance engineering principles, advanced disposal techniques and weapons technical intelligence.

Job on deployment

Ammunition Technicians also deploy overseas in support of exercises and operations. Recent deployments include Iraq, Afghanistan and various NZDF exercises in New Zealand and the south pacific.

As our Defence Force increases the amount and variety of training it conducts with other nations, there is an increasing demand for qualified Ammunition Technicians to provide technical advice across the entire explosive ordnance spectrum, and to ensure our ammunition and explosives remain in a safe and usable condition.

I have a passion for explosives and ammunition.

Some of the bulk demolitions that we do in Waiouru definitely get up in scale.

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Career progression and training

Career Progression

Basic Training

Job Training

Ongoing Training

Early in your career you will be posted to the 2nd Combat Services Support Battalion (2CSSB) located in Linton (near Palmerston North) where you will gain a broad experience in ammunition and logistics matters before being posted to a Defence Ammunition Depot in Christchurch or Waiouru to further your technical knowledge.

Later on in your career you can be posted as an instructor at the Defence Explosive Ordnance School (DEOS) in Trentham Camp (near Upper Hutt) or to the Defence Munitions Management Group headquarters to advise the defence force on ammunition and explosive matters.

As you are promoted in rank and gain more technical experience and knowledge in the trade, there are a variety of different job opportunities and training courses you can take up within NZ Army and wider Defence Force. These include operational deployments overseas, participation in major international exercises or military exchanges, regimental postings to help train new recruits or junior leaders and all arms training courses which will broaden your employability and enhance your soldier skillsets.

Upon successful enlistment into the Army you will be posted to Waiouru Army base. Here you will do 16 weeks of basic military training to find out if you have what it takes to be in the Army, and learn various subjects including:

  • Organisation and Administration
  • Army Customs and Protocol
  • Drill and Parades
  • Military Field Skills and Weapon Training
  • First Aid
  • Physical Fitness

(2 Weeks) Location: Trentham Military Camp (near Upper Hutt)
You will attend the Royal NZ Army Logistics Regiment (RNZALR) Basic Course with all other logistics trades. Here you will learn:

  • Understanding operational Combat Service Support concepts
  • Learning to operate as a logistics specialist in a camp environment
  • Learning to deploy and operate as a logistics specialist in a field environment
  • Learning about military vehicles and their functions
  • Operating communications and other military equipment
  • Corps history

(1 Week) Location: Trentham Military Camp
On this course you will learn about how to handle, store and transport different types of ammunition.

(7 Weeks) Location: Trentham Military Camp
On completion of your RNZALR Basic Course you will begin your trade training. The Primary Course teaches you the basic technical theory and mechanical and scientific functioning within all natures of ammunition, including Navy and Air Force ammunition and explosives. You will be trained to certify ammunition and explosives, to ensure they are safe to move by road, rail, sea and air.

You will also learn how to safely make up basic explosive charges, and gain experience in warehousing, occupational safety and health, movement of hazardous goods, and other essential logistical functions.

On successful completion of this course you will be posted to the Defence Ammunition Depot in Waiouru to consolidate your knowledge with practical, hands on continuation training.

(6 weeks) Location: Trentham Military Camp
After 3-4 years in your trade, you will attend this advanced course to train you to conduct specific technical tasks in an explosive area and Unit Explosive Ordnance (EO) facility. Successful completion will qualify you to:

  • conduct technical inspections,
  • produce surveillance instructions,
  • investigate EO incidents or accidents,
  • handle in-service guided weapons and
  • conduct logistics disposal of EO.

(8 weeks) Location: Trentham Military Camp
If you are selected, this course will train you to manage a NZDF Explosive area and a Unit Explosive Ordnance Facility. Additionally, you will train in how to supervise technical tasks in an ammunition depot, or in a field setting supporting Defence Force training, exercises or operations.

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Salary and benefits

Careers in the Army are well-rewarded, diverse and exciting. As you become more experienced and move up through the ranks, gaining additional skills and qualifications, your salary will rise accordingly.

Starting Salary

Higher Rank

Benefits and allowances

There are many additional benefits to being in the Defence Force, that will make your money go further.

For example, on top of your basic salary you can expect ‘Military Factor’. This provides you with significant extra financial rewards because of the commitment you’ve made to serve your country.

Free medical and dental

Access to subsidised equipment on base

Subsidised food on base

Competitive superannuation, up to 4% with KiwiSaver

Sponsored tertiary study programmes at all levels

Entry requirements

Fitness and Medical

Period of Service

  • You must be at least 17 years of age.
  • Meet the citizenship and security requirements to gain CV security clearance for this trade.
  • No decreased colour perception.

You must have achieved NCEA Level 1 with a minimum of 12 credits in Level 1 Science.

Find out more about the NCEA levels and certificate requirements

  • You must be medically fit for service.
  • Colour perception restrictions may apply.

There are strict citizenship and security requirements to gain the required CV security clearance for this trade.

Find out if you’re eligible here.

There may be a return of service period for this trade.

Please contact our 0800 number or talk to your Candidate Experience Facilitator for more information.

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Lava Tubes

This picture is of William visiting a lava tube on his school field trip. Lava tubes are long conduits that carry molten rock away from an eruption. They often exist far beneath the surface.

There is a current in the world, running beneath the surface, where the Gospel is being taken to places you wouldn’t even believe. Some of these places cannot even be mentioned for fear of endangering the missionaries and the churches they serve.

I have been surprised since the time I arrived at the University of the Nations in Kona by how little I have known as an American Christian about the struggles and the triumphs of the church all over the world. How universal our need for the Gospel is. It’s as if most of us in the U.S. have been lulled into a state of contentment with less while believing that our lives are full.

I met a man from Kosovo today. He shared a little about the story of his fledgling country and how western countries brought many good ideas, and with them … corruption. We talked about our own American system and how far we have fallen, how far we are now from the wonderful ideals we were founded on. Although we agreed on almost very topic we spoke about, the one that stood out and offered hope was the one that was more than an idea. It was the living and breathing Christ.

I wish everyone of you could be here to meet the many people I have been afforded the opportunity to meet: from Kosovo, China, and Indonesia, from Malawi and New Zealand and Australia, from Germany, Japan, and the Congo, from Turkey, Norway, and Korea. The list is three times as long and it keeps growing every day. In fact, I fully expect to be changed almost daily by what I hear. But the one thread that ties each and every story together is the Gospel.

The fact that the Word of God is living and active could not be more apparent than it is here in Kona. Better said, it has never been as apparent to me as it has been over the last few weeks. We do not serve a dead God. He is moving in Arabia and Northeast Asia. He is making a difference in Africa and Central America. He has remembered the foundations that were built in North America and Western Europe and he’s drawing the nations to himself.

Sometimes when the eruption cools, lava tubes are formed and you can see where the flow may have slowed and eventually stopped. And sometimes, these lava tubes provide an easy conduit for new eruptions to drain. There are places where the gospel has been preached over the centuries before a cooling period took place. Pray for fires of revival to erupt and send streams of lit up missionaries down these tubes again.

I look around at the people, especially the young people, who populate this campus and are committing their lives to the spread of the gospel and I am heartened. The fields are ripe, and there are workers, and we need more workers, but we serve a mighty God. He won’t be cooled much longer.

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  1. THanks so much for continuing to share your heart, and what the Lord is doing within you. It speaks to our hearts and awakens a Loud AMEN! We love you and hold you close to our hearts. You are being made pliable in His hands, for His purposes.

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IRMA’s 2nd Audit Report released: Anglo American’s Unki Mine

Today the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) is pleased to publish the results from Unki Mine’s independent, third-party assessment. The platinum group metals mine, located in Zimbabwe, is the first of Anglo American’s portfolio of mines to be assessed against the IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining – the most rigorous and high-bar set of metrics currently available for measuring responsible practices at mine sites globally.

The audit report details results from an independent assessment carried out by SCS Global Services. SCS awarded Unki an achievement level of IRMA 75, a first in the IRMA system and a representation of both Anglo American’s leadership in the sector and the improvements made at the site over the last few years to align with IRMA’s high-bar expectations. The achievement level of IRMA 75 means that a mine has met at least 75% of the requirements in each of the four principle areas of the Standard (Business Integrity, Planning for Positive Legacies, Social Responsibility and Environmental Responsibility), as well as a set of 40 critical requirements.

The audit report is now available for public review. Those reviewing the report should note that some requirements were not scored as part of the audit process. These requirements were identified as needing additional guidance to enable a more accurate and consistent rating of them. In order to be responsive to these challenges, IRMA will update its auditor guidance in 2021 and the Unki mine will have these requirements assessed during its surveillance audit, a process which will occur within 18 months of today’s release. Such learning and adjustment was expected in the first years of assessing mines against the IRMA Standard, and those mines that have stepped into the process during this early phase have allowed IRMA to learn and improve for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Anglo American has long been engaged with IRMA, and for close to a decade has served on IRMA’s Board of Directors and has helped inform and support the creation of IRMA’s Standard for Responsible Mining. The Unki mine was also the site of a field test of an early draft of the IRMA Standard.

“Anglo American’s leadership has been pivotal to the success of IRMA,” said Aimee Boulanger, IRMA’s Executive Director. “During the ten-year process of crafting IRMA’s Standard, they did not shy away from difficult conversations about how to best measure responsible mining in a way that is at once practicable for the industry and meets the expectations of civil society. Now, they are sharing the results of their own operations as measured against the world’s most robust definition of responsible mining. We commend their continued leadership in advancing IRMA’s vision.”

Unki Mine Site Assessment Announcement

The Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) is pleased to announce the commencement of a third-party independent assessment of the Unki platinum group metals (PGM) mine against the IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining. The Unki mine, located in Zimbabwe, is operated by Anglo American Platinum.

SCS Global Services (SCS), an IRMA-approved certification body, will be carrying out the assessment, which includes a desk review (stage 1) followed by an onsite audit (stage 2).

Stakeholder Engagement in the Assessment

Interested stakeholders and members of the public can sign up to receive updates about the Unki mine assessment (e.g., the timing of the stage 2 onsite visit, link to pubic summary of audit results). The Mines Under Assessment page of IRMA’s website will also provide up-to-date information on all assessments.

Mine site stakeholders are invited to submit comments to SCS on the social and environmental performance of the Unki mine (in particular, how the mine measures against the IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining).

Unki mine stakeholders may also contact SCS if they are interested in being interviewed as part of the assessment process.

Stakeholder comments and expressions of interest in being interviewed as part of the audit process should be submitted by email or mail to:

SCS Global Services
2000 Powell St. #600
Emeryville, California, USA 94608

Email: visit the SCS website for this information and more on the audit.

Please forward this announcement, and feel free to contact SCS directly to provide names and contact information for other mine site stakeholders who may be interested in knowing about and participating in the mine site assessment process.

For more information on the Unki Mine Site Assessment, contact IRMA’s Director of Standards and Assurance:

For general information on the IRMA mine site assessment and certification process, visit the IRMA website.


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