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AVgator Studio Update Version 0.40 With each update, AVgator Studio continues to evolve, becoming the ultimate tool for creating HTML5 user interfaces for Crestron systems. Experience the best in precision and efficiency—see why AVgator Studio is the top choice for industry professionals! 1 NEW Element Modes 2 NEW Media upload: support for .svg (color inheritance included!) and .webp 3 NEW Granular Padding & BorderRadius Control 4 NEW Extended Background Size & Position 5 NEW Background Image for Containers 6 NEW Border Radius for Containers 7 NEW Text Wrap Behavior for Button & Text Elements 8 NEW Global Override Theme Design Settings 9 NEW Blur Content behind Subpage or Container 10 NEW Containers are Sortable Again! 11 NEW New Function Creation Modal 12 NEW New DateTime Widget! 13 NEW PreCache External Images 14 NEW Image Lazy Load Option 15 NEW Shades Control Widget Improved https://lnkd.in/ehAdaQnX #avgatorstudio #crestron #avgator

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[𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲] It is a science, but more than that, it is an art of engineering by using creativity and vision for building up a better future. As Albert Einstein has said, "An engineer does not work only with numbers and theory but also with imagination to shape a better future." True engineering is the meeting of science and imagination, thereby fostering innovation in lifestyles and a changing world. #service #quotesengineer #reliability #maintainance #engineering #engineer #reliabilitysolution #tiaravibrasindopratama

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How to Save Money on a VOIP Upgrade If you're looking to save money on a VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) upgrade, there are several strategies you can consider. Here are some tips: Assess your needs and goals: Before choosing a VOIP provider and plan, it's important to assess your needs and goals for using VOIP. This will help you determine the features and services you require, which can help you avoid unnecessary costs. . Consider a cloud-based solution: Cloud-based VOIP systems, such as TrueVoIP and Highbridge Communications, offer cost savings by eliminating the need for expensive on-premise hardware and maintenance. These systems allow you to work from anywhere and can save you up to 80% off your current phone bill. . Take advantage of added features: VOIP business phone systems, like those offered by some providers, often come with added features for less than the cost of traditional phone hardware. These features can enhance productivity and efficiency, providing value for your investment. . Scalability: VOIP phone systems are scalable, meaning you can buy only what you need at the moment and avoid costly hardware upgrades when your business grows. This flexibility can save you money in the long run. . Compare providers: It's important to compare different VOIP providers to find the best pricing and service options for your needs. Consider factors such as call quality, customer support, and pricing plans to ensure you're getting the best value. Skip the hassle, contact Midatlantic B2B to get the best prices according to your budget with 0 consultation fees! 😁 Call us today to learn more! Email: andy.gawai@midatlantic-bps.com Direct Line: 469-949-6226 #voip #consulting #freeservice #budget #upgrade

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Heatwave leaves one in five Americans under warnings as US temperature records shatter: https://ie.social/4O5oP 🚀 Explore more with Interesting Engineering! Check out our YouTube channel and subscribe: https://ie.social/V9yxY

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𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 The U.S. lacks a centralized industrial policy like China or Germany, affecting coordination among academia, government, and industry in robotics development. The 2024 edition of "𝐀 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐚𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬," led by UC San Diego, highlights this challenge. Henrik Christensen, the roadmap’s main editor, stresses the need for better federal coordination, not necessarily more funding, to accelerate U.S. robotics growth. Despite excitement in the robotics startup scene, challenges remain, including high interest rates and limited venture capital. Christensen calls for reshoring, workforce retraining, and strategic investment to reclaim the U.S.’s leadership in robotics innovation. Christensen recently sat down with Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre on The Robot Report podcast to discuss the Roadmap and the Intersection of Politics and Robotics. He addresses the challenges of reshoring manufacturing, the impact of current presidential campaigns on robotics, and the significance of tariffs and immigration reforms. Christensen also highlights the effects of recent legislation, including the Build Back Better Act and the CHIPS Act, on the robotics industry, along with the future of semiconductor manufacturing and the importance of international partnerships. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eRAMpQxa

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#TGIF Everybody! While we may be out of steam after a busy week, I want to discuss how a group of people are working behind the scenes to make humanoids a reality in the future marketplace. In June, IEEE announced the formation of a Humanoid Study Group to look at the current robot standards landscape and develop potential roadmaps for Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) to follow for standards around this type of robot. Humanoids show much promise, but regulatory agencies are asking questions that could prevent them from hitting the marketplace significantly until they are addressed. Regulatory Agencies lean on SDOs for standards on which regulations can be based, so it is key that we have strong, research-based standards ready to go when the regulations start coming. The good news is that the Study Group has hit the ground running an as they approach the halfway point in their self-imposed timeline to getting the report published, we can report some of their early findings and what that could mean. So here is a quick look behind the scenes to what the 70+ person study group is starting come up with. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/ehAn9Bix

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Guizhou Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge: A Marvel of Engineering The Guizhou Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, located in China's Guizhou province, is an impressive feat of modern engineering. Spanning 2,890 meters in length and standing 625 meters above the canyon floor, it will be one of the tallest and longest suspension bridges in the world. Designed to enhance connectivity in the region, the bridge will dramatically reduce travel time, boosting economic development and tourism. Slated for completion and opening in June 2025, the project showcases innovative construction techniques to overcome challenging terrain and extreme heights. Once operational, the bridge will symbolize China's advancements in infrastructure, merging functionality and aesthetics while offering breathtaking views of the Huajiang Grand Canyon. #bridge #bridgeconstruction #construction #marine #engineering #civilengineering #civilconstruction #engenharia #engenhariacivil #ingeniero #ingenierocivil #engenheiro #technology

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🌉 Guizhou Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge: A Modern Engineering Marvel Spanning 2,890 meters and standing 625 meters above the canyon floor, the Guizhou Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in China is a breathtaking feat of engineering. ✅ Connecting Communities – Significantly reduces travel time and links remote areas. ✅ Innovative Design – Built for safety, durability, and efficiency, while harmonizing with the natural landscape. ✅ Economic Impact – A vital transportation link driving growth and development in Guizhou Province. This project showcases how modern engineering conquers extraordinary challenges to create infrastructure that changes lives. 📽️ Unknown All rights reserved to the respective owner. DM for credits. Follow SmartConstruct News for the latest updates. #EngineeringMarvel #BridgeConstruction #GuizhouInnovation #SmartConstruction #StructuralExcellence

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Think about the last time you received truly extraordinary service, i.e. hotel, airline, car dealer, bank, insurance. What made that experience memorable, and did it create a higher sense of loyalty? Did the CEO show up, shake your hand, and ask you questions about your service ... and provide his cell phone number to you? How do you create a beloved brand? See below.

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Researchers at UC San Diego developed 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐋𝐌𝐚, a framework to enhance quadruped robots' loco-manipulation skills in real-world tasks like cleaning or retrieving objects. Using VR-collected demonstrations, Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and Large Language Models (LLMs), robots can break complex tasks into steps (e.g., "pick—navigate—place"). Attention mechanisms improve adaptability, allowing robots to handle chores like tidying or food delivery. While promising, the system's next goal is greater robustness in dynamic environments, aiming for affordable, accessible home assistant robots. 📝 Research Paper: https://lnkd.in/e8HtbUF9 📊 Project Page: https://wildlma.github.io/

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I recently had a discussion with a friend about Trump's environmental platform and what the future may look like if Project2025 went into action. This is a good summary. #sustainability #climateaction

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This video shows a blind man exploring and preparing to skateboard in a skate park in Paris. The skatepark is set up next to the Eiffel Tower and many people have gathered in the stands. He then begins to skate on various ramps and pipes while using his white cane to guide him. The energy in this skate park says it all. Adaptive sports are just as much fun as any other sport. Sports are a great way for kids with disabilities to stay active, have fun, and challenge themselves in ways they might not have thought were possible. We received approval to post this video with the aim of raising awareness about the creator and the important topics they discuss. Video Credit: @asfvision/IG Ablr is a full-service disability inclusion organization, and our mission is to remove barriers for all people with disabilities. We do this by eliminating the digital divide, changing the mindsets of people and organizations, and creating pathways to employment. #Accessibility #Innovation #AssistiveTechnology #Inclusivity

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⏪ In case you missed it, read our latest BPF spotlight featuring our Head of Communications Dominic Curran to find out more about our new Government and the many new faces seen at Parliament: ❓ The new PM has appointed his top team, for our industry, who are the key players? 🗣 There’s been a welcome carry through from Shadow Ministerial roles into Government. The key team for us is of course at MHCLG – a reversion to its previous name and a clear signal that ‘Levelling Up’ as a slogan, if not intent, is being dropped. Angela Rayner and Matthew Pennycook have, as we expected, moved across into the Cabinet and Ministerial roles there, bringing their experience and energy with them. We understand that the PM wants to keep Ministers in place for the long term. This alone would be a positive change from recent Ministerial musical chairs, particularly in housing. ❓ There's also lots of new MPs, how much built environment experience is there amongst the 2024 cohort? 🗣It’s true – something like half of all MPs are newly elected and Labour MPs have less business experience than other parties. However, around 10 have come from housing associations, one from Shelter, and many more from local government roles. So there’s a reasonably large pool of Labour MPs with a good understanding of the key issues. The former head of the Town & Country Planning Association is also a newly elected LibDem MP, and there are others with relevant interests or backgrounds that we’re looking to develop relationships with through meetings and site visits. ❓If we're to look ahead to the Government's first 100 days, what do you think its priorities are going to be, and could there be any surprises in store? 🗣It’s clear that the Government is banking on economic growth to plug the tax gap, and so planning reform, as it supports growth will be key, as evidenced by the Chancellor’s speech only three days after being appointed. The mantra of this Government is change but allied with no surprises. So they’ll be promoting new towns, unblocking planning, setting up GB Energy, unlocking pension fund investment and boosting grid capacity, as promised before the election. I think they will want to give comfort to domestic and international investors that they are a stable, predictable and maybe even boring Government, which I think they would see as a positive thing after the turbulence of recent years. ❓One criticism of Labour is that it is big on ambition, but light on detail. Are we starting to see that detail? 🗣As yet, not so much, but we’re only in week 1. We’ll see what next week’s King’s Speech heralds, and as Bills get published and time goes on we will of course see more detail emerge. I think they haven’t got to the detailed thinking yet on a lot of policies (with the possible exception of planning, and we expect a consultation NPPF reform to be published later this month), not least as there is limited capacity in opposition to develop detailed policies

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Fuel issue to the development of the country Around these 5 years the country of Burundi losing in the terms of economy more than it was before added that it is placed among the first poorest countries in the World because of the issue of the fuel in the country. Comparing to other countries in the East African Community, Burundi is scoring in lack of fuel. Anyway, this lack of fuel should be explained at a certain time by several facts as explained many times by the concerned. In the former years, any vehicle was able to make full-tank at any time, at any place but now it is not the case. You should found half-tank in the previous days at least but now it none exists. Now the vehicles are kept at fuel stations waiting for long time and they are pushed by force of men to leave the place without getting getting fuel. SHAMEFUL! Issue resort The issue of lacking fuel does not affect only one sector but all sectors of activities of the country. Jobs are not executed as well, schools are not attended as it would be, and goods are not exported or imported in a good way. In few words, it becomes calamity in all area but the most terrible is the famine in the country because the country now is affected by famine due to this issue. A food from one province to another is now being done nowadays. Provided that all provinces of the country don’t get the same harvest at the same level they could collaborate and exchange and famine should not affect the country. Note that the more suffering one remains the ordinary people. Why do government's vehicle not stop? The community they would serve is perishing. Was this the same case before? Before most of the fuel stations had the access and authority to import the fuel at their capacity and according to the station owner capital. This was so and the businessmen tried all their best and they served the community as well. After pretending that the fuel stations are generating the fuel in the bad condition, the fuel importation has been assigned to the be controlled by the government. Moreover, it has been said that the tax of OBR was not fulfilled by those businessmen. In the explanations given by the concerned, they highlighted the lack of dollars that disturbs the trade system. Anyway, this doesn’t have the solid explanation because they would give opportunity to the businessmen and do the trade themselves by following OBR obligations. Going deep, all the explanations given are not on the favor of resolving the issue. In this issue, they don’t give the value on the free market and this market is controlled by the committee and institutions of the government. This issue will not be over till the government is limited and give access to the business owner themselves. Recently, on 03/01/2024, the government gathered together the Ministers and reorganizes the committee charged on controlling the fuel market. Will this pass and resolve the problem?

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Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman A buddy turned me on to this book a while back and said if anyone needed to read it, it was me. As with most books I jump into, the timing of Burkeman’s message was perfect. I’d been feeling a strong tug lately to reassess where my priorities stacked up and honestly assess if my time was being appropriately allocated to the endeavors that moved the needle for me. The book’s title is derived from the assumption that if one lives to be 80, they will have about four thousand weeks to live. The author makes the case that despite it being “harder to imagine a crueler arrangement: not only are our four thousand weeks constantly running out, but the fewer we have left, the faster we seem to lose them,” it is liberating because by confronting the certainty of death we can start to become truly present with our lives. Living in the moment has always been a struggle for me. I have always emphasized a future reward instead of basking in the beauty of the now or taking a second to enjoy the accomplishment earned. He also hit me between the eyes by articulating that becoming uber-efficient with our time allows us to take on more things that don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. For example, if you respond to emails at a breakneck pace, the reward is merely more emails (at an even faster cadence). There is no denying that if you want to receive something of significance in the future, you will have to sacrifice in exchange for it today, so the message is not to throw care to the wind and live a life cloaked in hedonism. Rather, it is to find joy in all things, even if they are hard, disappointing, or mundane, because each experience or interaction could be our last. Our problem isn’t limited time but rather how we spend it. The world sells us an image of what it means to be successful or how life is supposed to be lived, but the truth is that those things are different for everyone. “It is impossible to feel as though you are doing well enough. Instead of simply living our lives as they unfold in time, it becomes difficult not to value each moment primarily according to its usefulness for some future goal or some future oasis of relaxation you have to reach once your tasks are finally out of the way.” - Oliver Burkeman In closing, I’d like to leave you with two questions: If you let everything in your life crash to the ground, what pieces would you pick back up? What would it mean to spend the time you have only in a way that makes you feel as though you are making it count? To me, the meaning of life is relationships, experiences, and feeling alive. Every second I spend on one of those equates to a life well lived in my eyes. I want more of that with the weeks I have left. Keep Punching, Nathan Fore more Weekly and Weekend Alignments - subscribe today! https://lnkd.in/e8BuUJfs

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These are the Excel shortcuts we utilize everyday. There are literally hundreds of Excel shortcuts available… but if you learn just these 71, you’ll save a HUGE amount of time Let’s dive in: ➡️ THE EASY ONES These shortcuts are ones you can find in almost any application Ctrl c - copy Ctrl x - cut Ctrl v - paste Ctrl a - select all Ctrl s - save workbook Ctrl n - new workbook Ctrl o - open workbook Ctrl p - print workbook Ctrl f - find Ctrl z - undo Ctrl y - redo Ctrl b - bold Ctrl u - underline Ctrl i - italic ➡️ THE ESSENTIALS These are the ones that will yield massive efficiencies Ctrl arrow - jump to next/last active cell Shift arrow - highlight cells Select row - shift + space Select column - ctrl + space Insert row / column - ctrl + + on numerical keypad Delete row/column - ctrl + - Remove gridlines - alt + w + vg Insert Cut cells - alt + h + i + e Add data validation - alt + a + v + v Freeze panes - alt + w + f + f Autofit cells - alt + h + o + i Create table - ctrl + t Create filter - Alt + H + S + F Change windows - Alt + W + W Group cells - Alt + A + G Ungroup Cells - Alt + A + U Remove Duplicates - Alt + A + M Define name - Alt + M + M Autosum - Alt + = Access dropdown - Alt + ↓ Ctrl + 1 - open cell dialogue box F2 - edit cells F4 - fix references F5 - go to ➡️ BORDERS Borders are a huge part of Excel - and they are really easy to control with your keyboard. Simply hit ALT + H + B and then any of these letters… All - alt + h + b +a None - alt + h + b + n Left - alt + h + b + l Right - alt + h + b + r Top - alt + h + b + p Down - alt + h + b + o Outer edge - alt + h + b +s Change color - alt + h + b + i ➡️ PASTE SPECIAL Pasting is as big part in Excel - but there’s so much more than just pasting with CTRL V. To access these, simply hit ALT + H + V and any of these letters Format - alt + h + v + r Values - alt + h + v + v Transpose - alt + h + v + t Picture - alt - h + v + u Formula - alt + h + v + f ➡️ CELL FORMATTING Need to edit the way one of your cells look? These shortcuts have got you covered Change font color - alt + h + f + c Change background color - alt + h + h Merge and center - alt + h + m + c Wrap text - alt + h + w Indent - alt + h + 6 Decrease indent - alt + h + 5 Make bigger - alt + h + fg Make smaller - alt + h + fk === We couldn’t list all 71 shortcuts due to the character limit… but you can view all of them in the graphic. Which one is your favorite shortcut? and did we miss any? Let us know in the comments below 👇 PS: Looking for help in closing your books each month? We can help you with that, and so much more. Learn more over here: https://bit.ly/47dbyWR

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