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![]() Available colors, sizes, finishes, and processors may vary by store, market, and configuration. Colors available on selected models only.Microsoft reserves the right to modify or discontinue offers at any time..Microsoft reserves the right to modify or discontinue offers at any time. Cannot be transferred or otherwise redeemed for cash or gift cards, or credit towards other devices or products. Customer must mail in the qualifying trade-in device to be eligible for the reimbursements. Device cannot be password protected, and must include original chargers/accessories, and must contain hard drive. To be eligible for trade in, you must own the qualifying device, device must power on, battery must hold charge and not be required to be plugged in to operate, and be in fully-functional, working condition without broken/missing components, cracked display/housing, liquid damage, modification(s) or have device warranty seal broken. Recycled devices are not eligible for cash back. Offer valid for reimbursements after trade in of qualifying devices (PC, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, video game console). Trade-In: Available only through the Microsoft Store online in the United States (including Puerto Rico).Microsoft reserves the right to modify or discontinue offers at any time. For purchases made at a Microsoft Experience Center, see receipt for more information. For purchases made at Microsoft Store, see applicable Microsoft Terms of Sale for more information. ![]() Excludes Surface Hub, HoloLens, and Windows DevKit. Limit 5 product returns per eligible customer purchase. Return process must be started within 60 days after customer receives the product. Returns: Available with eligible physical products purchased from Microsoft Store online and Microsoft Experience Centers in select markets.See here for full terms and full list of eligible retailers. Limit 1 price adjustment total per product. For purchases from a Microsoft Experience Center, you must return to the location with your receipt. For purchases from Microsoft Store, contact Microsoft Store Sales and Support with your Microsoft Account information and any other information requested by a representative. Customer must contact Microsoft to request the adjustment. Customer is eligible only if the product is in stock for purchase at Microsoft Store or a Microsoft Experience Center. Both price adjustments: Price Adjustment must be requested within 60 days after the customer receives the product and cannot be completed at time of purchase. The product sold by the eligible retailer must be identical to the product sold by Microsoft and must be in stock for purchase at the eligible retailer at the reduced price. Microsoft reserves the right to verify an eligible retailer’s advertised price and availability of the product. An Eligible Retailer Price Adjustment cannot be requested at time of purchase. Excludes commercial and refurbished products. Eligible Retailer Price Adjustment: Valid on purchases of qualifying new consumer physical products from Microsoft Store and Microsoft Experience Centers in select markets for 60 days from the date product is received. Price protection: Microsoft Store Price Adjustment: Valid on purchases of qualifying new or refurbished consumer and commercial physical products made at Microsoft Store and Microsoft Experience Centers in select markets for 60 days from the date product is received.Citizens Pay Line of Credit Account offered by Citizens Bank, N.A. See the Citizens Pay Line of Credit Agreement for full terms and conditions. Flexible payments: With approval of Citizens Pay Line of Credit at 0% APR and 12- or 18-month term.
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Free daily online crosswords4/16/2024 ![]() ![]() You need to select the particular square in the word box on the upper right side of the keyboard. Second and almost as needed as the screen rotating is when you are and your want to select a particular square to either put in or change a letter, intuitively you will want to click on that square on highlighted word of the main display to select it. If you’ve got to charge your iPad while doing the crosswords, you can forget about turning your iPad over so the charging cable is on the top, because tha app’s screen will not rotate with the iPad, so you’ll be balancing the iPad on one corner to keep from damaging your cord. You’re probably sprawled out on a Lazy-Boy, a couch or in bed with your iPad propped up. Great app, but needs a few tweak’s, still 5 stars though!įirst and foremost, I love using this app but it could use a few modifications to be awesome.įirst and foremost the screen needs to rotate! If you’re anything like me you don’t just use your iPad sitting at a desk/table. The included crossword puzzles are designed to be solved in a single solving session and all puzzles include free Hints and the option to Show Errors, at any time, for free. These all-new puzzles arrive each month and range from Easy to Hard difficulty. Ad-Free Crossword Puzzle Collections include 150 of the best Penny Press & Dell Magazines crossword puzzles.Unlock all 5 bonus crossword puzzles as quick as you can! More crossword sets to download every month. Complete any 6 of these crossword puzzles and unlock one of the themed bonus crossword puzzles. Fun Sets and Deluxe Sets offer 35 crossword puzzles with no ads, including 5 bonus themed crossword puzzles.Robust App Tour, User Tips and Helpful Hints enhance your solving experience.Make it your own! Multiple settings options are available.Easy to solve using the crossword puzzle grid or the convenient text entry boxes.Show puzzle Errors at the touch of a button. Use the Pen when your confidence is high and Pencil when you’re just not sure. Optional Smart Step navigation advances you effortlessly from one entry to the next, helping you solve even faster. Want a little more help? Hints are available to show the current letter and the current word in each puzzle. Choose your challenge of Easy, Medium, or Hard crosswords, or play them all! Get three brand-new, free crosswords puzzles every day. This fun & easy to use crossword puzzle app features Easy, Medium & Hard puzzles plus Free Daily crosswords for your mobile device! Free Daily Crosswords Puzzles are ad-supported to help cover the cost of bringing you the best crosswords puzzle app. Penny Dell Crosswords features the best puzzles from Dell Magazines and Penny Press, the #1 crossword puzzle magazine publisher. All-New Deluxe Crossword Puzzle Sets, now available!įree Daily Crossword Puzzles- Easy, Medium, and Hard- EVERY DAY! Also includes Free Sampler Collection containing twelve crossword puzzles to help get you started, plus thousands of all-new, ad-free Easy, Medium & Hard puzzle collections! Free to download, free to play!
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Example of penetration pricing product4/16/2024 After March 2022, the price was increased to RM2.30. In the above example, when the Slurpee lemon lychee drink was introduced in February ’22 at 7Eleven stores, in Malaysia, the introductory price offer of RM1.50 was offered for a month. To fulfill this goal, there are instances when companies extend the strategy for more than a year. Whereas, brands using penetration pricing intend to gain a large market share by selling more volume of products at low prices. The introductory trial price runs from one month to a year, thereafter it goes full price. In both these strategies, low prices act as a stimulus to attract customers to buy a newly launched product. There is a very subtle difference between introductory pricing and penetration pricing. The brand sold its mechanical razor below cost price to stimulate customers to buy higher profit-generating replacement blades. ![]() This strategy of killing two birds with one stone was very cleverly implemented by Gillette. In this strategy, they sell one of the items at a loss and entice customers to buy their highly-priced complementary product. Loss leader pricing is used at any phase in a product’s lifecycle but only brands that have two complementary products can use this pricing. The intention of loss leader pricing and penetration pricing is the same – to expand the market share. When a product is launched, it is priced much below its competitors, and over time the price is increased. The penetration pricing strategy is exactly the opposite. It shows the price reduction of 9 different models of Samsung phones over 41 months since their launch. This line graph is a classic example of price skimming. Therefore, skimming is a commonly used pricing strategy. As soon as a product launches, competitors introduce products with similar features. Car brands and tech-related products are highly competitive sectors. Unlike prestige pricing, in skimming, the price is reduced a few months after its launch. In both strategies, products are launched with a high price tag. The price skimming strategy is similar to prestige pricing. In one of our earlier articles, we explored prestige pricing, a strategy in which a premium price is set for a product to give an impression of high quality and desirability. If your business goal aims to achieve any of the following or a combination, then a penetration pricing strategy may work for you. ![]() Such products are sensitive to price variation and have high mass appeal and aspiration value. Penetration pricing suits products that are price-elastic. The ultimate goal of such brands is to develop long-term loyalty among customers. After capturing a sizeable market share, the price is then steadily increased. By offering the lowest price in its category, the product intents to sell maximum volume. ‘Penetration Pricing’ is a short-term marketing strategy, that brands try in the initial phase to increase market share. Industry Examples of Penetration Pricing Strategy.
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100 sight words for 1st grade4/16/2024 ![]() These 10 online games to teach sight words are FREE and super interactive. We read them in sentences, practice them with music and movement, do art projects, and more! 10 Interactive Online Games to Teach Sight Words to Beginning Readers I tackle sight word instruction from all sides. It requires so much repetition and practice, yet all of our students need those things in different ways. Sight word instruction can be really challenging in the classroom because you have a classroom filled with students who learn different things in different ways at different paces. I love using these online games to teach sight words in my classroom. ![]() These words have to be memorized, which means they require a lot of repetition and practice. Food fun - many snacks have letter options (Cheez Its and pretzels to name a couple)- let your child "play" with their food and make their words.Sight words and high frequency words are an important part of teaching new readers.Sensory fun - put some shaving cream on a counter or area that can be easily cleaned and allow your child to make their words this way.Word Detective - have your child be a word detective and go on a scavenger hunt for their sight words- they can be all around- in letters, newspapers, books you read together, in stores, on menus or food labels- be creative for where you look and have fun!.Tic-Tac-Toe - take turns playing tic-tac-toe with your child, but you each use a sight words instead of x's and o's!.Go Fish - print off two copies of the flashcards and play the game with your child's sight words!.Memory Match or Concentration- print off two copies of the flashcards and play the game with words instead of pictures!.Then read off the words and have your child find them on the board and see if they can get "BINGO!". BINGO - make a bingo board and fill in the board with your child's sight words (depending on their age, your child could do this for additional practice writing their words, or you can fill in a board for them).Magnetic letters - have your child use magnetic letters to make their words.Stamps - if you have alphabet stamps your child can stamp their words out!. ![]() Playdoh - have your child practice making their words in Playdoh.Sidewalk Chalk - have your child practice writing their words on the driveway or sidewalk in chalk.Skywriting - have your child make the letters of their words by putting their arm straight out and having two pointing fingers make large movements to form each letter in the word, saying them aloud as they "write" them.Some games you can play or activities that you can do at home to help your child learn sight words include: You can also play several games with the words to help your child learn the sight words! You can use the flashcard files to print off for additional practice for your child. ![]() The attached files have the sight words that can be downloaded for your child to practice at home! These files include the words that are expected to be learned in kindergarten, first and second grade. Beginning in kindergarten students will be working to learn to read and write sight words. When your child comes to a sight word in their reading they should not attempt to sound them out (many cannot be sounded out, for example the words "the" or "was"). Sight words are words that should be able to be recalled quickly as they will help your child's reading to remain fluent and will help to maintain comprehension of what has been read. Sight word recognition is a very important skill in order to help ensure reading success.
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![]() It was 24-6 at halftime, with the Cowboys in firm control. Unfortunately, they fell behind 10-0 after the first quarter. Congrats, Mountain time.The Eagles fell 33-13 to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday Night Football in Week 15. Other than that, I would rather watch my primetime TV shows at the same time as the East Coast, because I will get FOMO so bad. MH: I will give the Pacific time zone credit for being the proper area to be in to watch the current best team in the NBA, and being an alright place for watching sports in general. Honestly, I have a hard time coming up with a single reason why Pacific is better though. Man, Hawaiian time fell for me, but you’re right. But also that can be fun sometimes because everyone is tired the next day with you. JD: I have no specific problem with Eastern time other than late-night NBA. Then you just feel anxious about staying up so late to watch the Warriors. MH: Eastern time zone is fine, until you get to the 10 p.m. This is feeling like a battle between East and West for which is worst, to be honest. JD: But you get to be a West Coast fan and basically keep Central time. So it's a bit like Pacific Time Zone Jr., but connected by Seahawks fandom. I'm going to assume most Alaskans are Seahawks fans due to its proximity to Seattle. MH: Alaskan time zone is weird, because you can only be in Alaska for it. It splits the difference between being too early and still giving you a full day. JD: I’m willing to give Central a solid two seed here. Sorry, most of the midwest - two extra hours away from the East Coast sounds nicer than one hour. Premier League isn't outside the realm of possibility.West coast NBA finishes early enough to get sleep.East coast NBA starts when you get home from work. ![]() At the same time, I don't want to split the difference and say Mountain time. I can't imagine one hour making all the difference to me. their time than I do at 7 in the morning. I got up at 7 for an NFL London game and it felt weird, like there's a whole group of people in another part of the world that is more energetic at 1 p.m. But I also think you have to consider energy into this. MH: I would credit Hawaii time for making it easier to get through Warriors games. FIVE extra hours lets you convert standard hours you'd be at home anyway into sports hours. You finish the entire dang football day by 7 p.m., meaning you still have time for an evening swim or going out to dinner. I just don't feel like deviating one hour from standard makes THAT much of a difference. JD: Premier League is a big problem with Hawaii, but it's an acceptable sacrifice. NBA and NHL have similar setups, but West Coast games tend to end after midnight.ĭownside to Central Time Zone: Not getting up early enough to watch Premier League games, and NFL London games are a little too early. This is also fitting for most college football games. ![]() Should you choose to watch all your locally televised games from start to finish, you can get a good night's rest after Sunday Night Football. You get a whole morning to set things up, and then from noon to 10, you get an entire slate of football that finishes just before a reasonable bedtime. It makes NFL Sundays easy to compartmentalize, schedule-wise. MH: My reasoning for central time zone as No. You get morning NFL, west Coast NBA starts as soon as you get home from work. James Dator: Hold up, what? Hawaii is definitely No. Mark Hinog: I have Central No.1 (obviously). What follows is a discussion of how we reached these rankings. Here are our final rankings after much discussion: time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Western, Hawaii, and Alaska. Each region had its own pros and cons, which means it’s time to finally settle the argument: Which time zone is the best for watching sports?įor the purposes of this argument, we’re going to be focusing on the six U.S. Fast-forward 138 years and this is a serious concern. When Sir Sandford Fleming proposed worldwide time zones in 1879, the Scottish-Canadian inventor probably wasn’t thinking of sports.
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Kink list checklist template sex4/15/2024 "It’s the unexpected that keeps things interesting," she says. If you want to make things more spontaneous, try initiating foreplay in the kitchen, office, garage, or anywhere else where you don't typically do it, says sex and relationship coach Claudia Six, Ph.D., a board-certified clinical sexologist. Start off outside the bedroom.Īnother hallmark of those hot early hookups is that they don't necessarily happen in the bedroom. Then, later in the night, break out a move you used to do in bed that really turned you both on. This can start before sex-for example, going to one of your old date-night spots or wearing the same clothes you wore during a hot moment at the beginning of your relationship. Next time you and your partner are getting intimate, use those early hookups as inspiration to re-create one of your past encounters, says sexologist Barbara Winter, Ph.D., a certified sex therapist and fellow and clinical supervisor of the American Board of Sexology. But that doesn't mean you can't still capture that gotta-have-you-now passion. Relationship fact: The early days of your romance tend to be the hottest and heaviest. You're going to want to have this list handy the next time you get frisky. We asked sex therapists and experts to weigh in on how to foreplay while keeping things interesting. But foreplay doesn't have to be quite so paint-by-the-numbers. Part of the reason? It's easy for foreplay tips to feel a little contrived: Start by making out, move on to some over-the-bra action, make your way below the belt. ![]() Whether you're in a long-term relationship or having first-time hookup, foreplay tends to get overlooked. Done right, the buildup to sex can be just as good as the main event-especially with these foreplay ideas.
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Lvl i beam span tables4/15/2024 ![]() One final load to consider is Self Weight.Alternatively, use our 'Import from Design Code' function to automatically assign the loads you created to the specific load combinations prescribed by your region's Design Code!.Open the 'Load Combinations' menu to apply different factors for each Load Case. ![]()
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Childrens bmi calculation4/15/2024 ![]() Z-scores have been recommended for research, and percentiles for clinical settings as they may be easier to understand. These rounded percentiles correspond to exact Z-scores of − 1.88, 1.04, 1.88 and 3.09, in comparison to the WHO recommended cut-points of − 2.0, 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, respectively. Rounded percentiles of the 3rd, 85th, 97th and 99.9th are commonly used in clinical practice and recommended for monitoring child growth in Canada. Z-scores can be converted directly to percentiles, although when converted the percentiles are often rounded. In contrast, percentiles rank a child’s position in comparison to a reference population. Z-scores are on a linear scale, with the same interval between values across the distribution this allows for calculation of the mean and standard deviation. Several advantages of the Z-score for population-based assessment of child growth have been described. For example, body mass index (BMI)-for-age Z-score cut-points of 1.0, > 2.0 and > 3.0 are recommended by the WHO to classify children 0–5 years of age as wasted, risk-of-overweight, overweight, and obese, respectively. Z-scores, or standard deviation scores, describe where an observation falls within a number of standard deviations of the mean. The WHO Child Growth Standards provide child growth measures standardized by age and sex using Z-scores. ![]() These cut-points for age and sex standardized growth measures are defined using either Z-scores or percentiles. ![]() Regardless of which reference standard is used, cut-point definitions are required for clinicians and researchers to classify children’s growth status. The WHO Growth Standards were developed following children from 6 countries under optimal growth conditions. The World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards charts are recommended as a reference standard for the growth monitoring of children 0–5 years of age and have been endorsed by many countries. Monitoring of child growth, including classification of both underweight and overweight categories, is important for population health, and routine child growth monitoring is recommended. Misclassification of child growth results from the use of cut-points defined by rounded percentiles instead of Z-scores and limits comparability between studies. Overall, 117 (2%) children were misclassified when using percentiles instead of Z-scores however, 13% (33/245) of children who were wasted and 14% (8/57) of children who were obese were misclassified. ![]() Using rounded percentiles, the proportion of children who were wasted, at risk of overweight, overweight, and obese was 4.2, 12.5, 4.3 and 0.8%, whereas the distribution using Z-scores was: 3.6, 13.8, 3.4 and 1.0%, respectively. Misclassification was calculated comparing the frequency distributions for BMI categories defined by rounded percentiles and Z-score cut-points. However, rounded percentiles of the 3rd, 85th, 97th, and 99.9th are commonly used. Using data from the TARGet Kids primary care network we conducted a cross-sectional study among 5836 children 1.0, > 2.0, > 3.0 are recommended to define wasted, at risk of overweight, overweight and obese. To evaluate the misclassification resulting from the use of body mass index (BMI) cut-points defined by rounded percentiles instead of Z-scores in early childhood.
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Asa 8.4 files and image for gns34/15/2024 ![]() This is a major change in Cisco delivery policy for Packet Tracer as previous versions were only available for Netacad students and instructors.įile : CiscoPacketTracer_821_Windows_64bit.exe Self learners are able to download Cisco Packet Tracer after registering on Cisco Netacad website. It is distributed as a debian package (.deb) for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.Ĭisco Packet Tracer 8.2 is created by Cisco Systems TM and is provided for free to everyone. The main new feature of Packet Tracer 8.x is the addition a new SDN Network Controller allowing emulated network programming through API exposed by Packet Tracer to the host. ![]() Packet tracer 8.2 adds a new OSPF command ( show ip ospf interface brief) to the Packet Tracer 8.x serie, which added a new Packet Tracer Tutored Activities (PTTA) engine, as well as bug fixing and improvements on accessibility, usability, and security. ![]() This new GNS3 v3.0.0 beta 1 fixes several GNS3 3.0.0 issues, allow disabling hardware virtualization check, make images executable after importing a project, fix bug when listing endpoints for opened project, and disable IOS hostname check for Dynamips ghost instances Download Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2.1 Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2.1 release infoĬisco Packet Tracer 8.2 has been released in summer 2022 and is now available for download on Netacad website. GNS3 v3.0.0 beta 1 has been released a few weeks ago on November 27, 2023. Starting with v2.2.37, only macOS 11 and above is supported. Update : GNS3 v2.2.45 has been released today ! This version a dds missing console_type values in appliance_v8.json as well as custom executable paths on Windows and fixes mouse offset issues with VNC in Qemu. Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2 introduced a new command as well as bug fixing regarding incompatible DLLs that caused Packet Tracer crashes. This is a bugfix release fixing several bugs on accessibility, usability, and security of Packet Tracer 8.2. I could vividly picture the veiled eye that taunted him.Update : A new Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2.1 version has been released for download on Netacad website. Spark! Pro Series - January 19th 2024 Water Coolerįrom an early age, my choice in reading was influenced by very early exposure to a short story titled "The Tell Tale Heart" So artfully written, that I could feel the fear that the protagonist felt.I didn't see how sophisticated the security overall had to be. I did notice that WPA-3 encryption was one requirement. HI guys,I was looking through some hippa guidelines a customer gave me for their small accounting office. Small business router that is HIPPA compliant for an accounting office? Security.Hi all,I'm after some help from any Simplivity experts out there.TL:DR - what is the HPE recommended location for vCenter and how do you do a *full* shutdown of all nodes in the cluster with vCenter in that location.Details:We have some customers who want. Best Practise for full shutdown of all nodes in a Simplivity Cluster Hardware.I assume suggestions like Ebay and Facebook Marketplace will pop u. They bought some nice Surface Books and a Dell PowerEdge server last year and would like to know fair market value and best places to sell this gear. Company closing - suggestions for liquidating laptops and server Hardware.
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Horizon zero dawn turn off map icons4/15/2024 ![]() The Ravager can swivel this weapon to aim it. The Ravager is quadrupedal, with clawed feet and a head with a toothy snout. Additionally, instead of the metallic longitudinal crest of yellow-tipped spines seen on the backs of Sawtooths, Ravagers have a rapid-fire energy pulse cannon, dubbed a Ravager Cannon. However a Ravager’s chassis is leaner, and more closely resembles that of a large dog, although not as canine in appearance as that of the Scorcher. Ravagers have a similar appearance to Sawtooths: heavyset at the front, with a large, broad chest, neck, and shoulders, powerful legs and no tail. The Ravagers as one pounced on and began dismembering the Corruptors, which were unable to control them due to their overridden state. When Aloy was captured by the Eclipse leader Helis and condemned to die in the Sun Ring, the wandering maverick researcher Sylens rescued her, using three overridden Ravagers to prevent pursuit by the two Corruptors Helis had ordered to kill her. However the Nora hunter Aloy killed the Ravager and Watchers upon encountering them when she arrived at the estate. His father managed to lock Daradi in a room to save her life before being cut down by the Ravager’s cannon it also killed all of the servants and guards. The Carja criminal Ranaman used a machine lure to call a Ravager and two Watchers to his father’s estate to kill his father and sister Daradi so that he could inherit the estate as the only surviving family member. ![]() It then began producing Ravagers and other combat machines as the next logical step in protection. Hostile toward humans for their predations on the terraforming machines for parts and resources, HEPHAESTUS made the machines hostile to humans, a phenomenon the tribes call the Derangement. When GAIA self-destructed, HEPHAESTUS gained absolute control over machine design and management as well as the manufacture of at least five of Zero Dawn‘s machine manufacturing cauldrons. If you have suggestions for improvements or extensions please note them on the talk page.Unlike the Zero Dawn terraforming machines, which were designed and controlled by Zero Dawn’s governing AI GAIA, the Ravager was designed by HEPHAESTUS, which had previously manufactured the machines under GAIA’s direction. This template is protected due to high traffic. Images for modifier icons should preferably be modified to add a black circle background, but I've been unable to get anyone who makes these images to locate or upload the template to do so.If the icon image is taller that it is wide, set the height with x24px instead.The default width for most icons is 24px, although certain categories are at 52px (buildings, modules, technology, avatars).Images for icons can be found in Category:Icons on the wiki, and in Stellaris/gfx/interface/icons/ in the game files.Due to this please use caution when adding new icons. If they are being loaded with one-time use icons it means they become more "expensive" to use and lead to slower page loads. The reasoning is the that templates are being called as a whole each time they are used. If an icon is going to be used only a couple of times, and in a specific page, it is best to directly link the file. ![]()
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