. The fun begins at the 21:23 mark!
So *That's* How You Do Science...
Congrats to Tony Jones for being a classy guy! You were both great about not taking the bait when the host wanted you to fight it out. Honest but not confrontational—this is the kind of conversation I like to hear.
What? A rational voice AND a Christian? How unique.Manufacturing, processing and exporting enterprises are making efforts to restore after months of stagnation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, they are facing the challenge of scarcity of empty containers and skyrocketing freight rates, which greatly affects business expenditures.
High freight charges and a lack of vacant containers have harmed production, processing, and exporting businesses. This not only negatively affects businesses but also prices of goods in the target market.
This situation can put manufacturing, processing and exporting enterprises in Vietnam facing the loss of foreign customers.
High freight charges and a lack of vacant containers have harmed production, processing, and exporting businesses. This not only negatively affects businesses but also the prices of goods in the target market.
To export goods in December 2021, many businesses had to order containers 1 to 2 months in advance. Furthermore, there is a situation that shipping lines automatically cancel reservations because other businesses agree to pay higher fees to replace them, putting many businesses in a difficult position.
From October 2021 to now, the price per 40-feet container of shipping lines such as CMC, Yang Ming, OOCL, Wan Hai, Maersk Line, Cosco, ZIM has grown by 2,000 – 5,000 for service routes from Vietnam to the United States, Europe, Australia, and Russia.
The cost of shipping a 40-feet container to the United States has surpassed the $20,000 threshold. The freight charge at certain Russian seaports has risen to $15,000 per 40-foot container. Refrigerated container prices have nearly doubled, reaching $13,000-14,000 per 40-feet container.
Mr. Thai Nhu Hiep, Director of Vinh Hiep coffee production and export firm in Gia Lai, told Tien Phong newspaper that shipping rates had increased 10 times compared to the beginning of the year, beyond the tolerance of businesses, freight per 40-feet container to Europe currently ranges from 8,000-10,000 USD.
According to Ms. Tran Thuy Que Phuong, Chief of VASEP Office, input cost such as raw materials, energy, water, gasoline, and so on are constantly rising. Along with that is the cost incurred for COVID-19 prevention and control activities at businesses.
According to the Import-Export Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade), the reason for the high fluctuations in freight rates is a sharp increase in demand when the world economy is gradually recovering from COVID-19.
According to Mr. Hiep, there is a scarcity of empty containers in the pre-and post-recovery of production. China is now returning empty containers to their country, and many multinational carriers’ ships are stranded at ports throughout the world. Furthermore, COVID-19 in the southern area forced shipping companies to decrease flights and limit voyages to Vietnam, making container supplies increasingly scarce.
Furthermore, Vietnam Logistics Business Association reports that foreign shipping lines convey around 88 percent of the entire volume of commodities imported and exported from Vietnam to overseas destinations. As a result, international carriers make the choice on freight charges. This also means that Vietnamese exporters do not have the right to decide on freight rates and must depend on international shipping lines.
Strata XI
From WikiFur, the furry encyclopedia.
Strata XI is an on-going furry web comic, written and illustrated by KrazyHorse.
Premise[edit]
Strata XI is a basic sci-fi thriller which involves space battles and giant bugs.
Genre[edit]
Strata XI is a sci-fi/adventure story set in a distant future in an alternate universe.
Art style[edit]
The style in which Strata XI is drawn and colored is cartoony. Every element is encased in a thin black line and the colors are rich and dark.
Characters[edit]
- Syliva Abraxis - A gray lynx with a long tail. She is the brazen captain of a star fighter.
- Raul Groza - A one eyed lion. He is the commander of a star cruiser.
- Juy-Tian Kroakus - An amphibious frog-like alien. He is a newly graduated pilot and becomes Sylvia's co-pilot.When the need for sound arise the subwoofers is the only source to build custom devices with the fabricated woofers. When you think about the subwoofers you can fabricate it with different materials. Most relevantly used materials for subwoofer custom are fiberglass and wood. You can get the differences of custom the woofers with the materials from the below lines.
Subwoofers are considered as the source to produce the crisp and clear musical effect accompanied by the tunes. There are considerable differences on custom the subwoofer with fiberglass speaker box vs wood that is mentioned below.
When you plan to build subwoofer with the material of fiberglass it is better to build within the available space. But building the subwoofer with the wood it can’t be fit to space it is better to use on the home or recording studios which has high space. The Flexible and supple characteristic of the fiberglass material will utilize the maximum space and fits with the mobility vehicle.
When comparing the fiberglass with the wood subwoofers it buying the fiberglass is a better choice for your vehicle. The material fiberglass will be available in any shape and fits on the desired location without any damages. It helps you to get ample space on the vehicle to carry other things. The difference between fiberglass speaker box vs wood speaker box on the subwoofers will provide the different experience on music.
The pros of fiberglass speaker are it can be molded in any shape and size as per the model of the devices. A huge distinctive credit for the fiberglass material against the subwoofers will build with the unique designs.
You might be in confusion to know the better material for the subwoofer, advocate the characteristic of the materials and then pick the one. Raise the question of is fiberglass better than MDF? To know the better differences in the quality of music and the enclosure box sizes. Remove the unnecessary filled areas in subwoofers and modify it with a better look and flexible to move.
You may get clear about the importance of covering the subwoofer with fiberglass and wood. Hope that you can verify the huge benefits of fabricating the subwoofers with the right material to enjoy the quality of music in the safe investment idea.This is a follow on from Part 1 – found here.
In this post I am going to walk through the process of creating the Elastix server and the configuration of the Elastix PBX to speak to the SipGate Basic sip trunk and the configuration to speak to Skype for Business.
Access via your IP of the PBX using your preferred browser – accept the website’s security certificate.
Administrative access is gained using the admin username.
On the system bar of Elastix select the PBX button.
Select trunks, and then Add SIP Trunk.
First trunk we will configure is the Elastix to and from SIP connection to Skype for Business.
For you to cut and paste – just amend with your required IP addresses.
Next is the creation of the SipGate trunk. I have anonymised the number, but you will want the full DDI in non E164 format.
An important note around Skype for Business and SipGate SIP routing: If your username has a letter in it, for example mine originally had a random e towards the end, your username will be all characters before the letter. Skype for Business has difficulty trying to normalise any numbers with a letter in the dialled number.
When an inbound call occurs on the SipGate trunk and is passed to Skype for Business it will use the SipGate trunk to pass this call over. If the SipGate trunk name has a SIP ID with a letter within it will fail normalisation on the Skype for Business side.
Once this complete the next step is to configure two outbound routes.
For SipGate we use a Match dial pattern of N. and this will pass to the SipGate trunk only.
All inbound calling from the PSTN is going to be at least 11 digits long. For most of my lab requirements, this will be more than enough as I don’t anticipate any long distance or shorter 6 digit UK dialing to occur as part of my testing. All calls that have 11 digits will be passed to the Lync Trunk.
No DID number, no CallerID and have this go to a set destination of Trunks, and select your Lync Trunk.
We are going to do some fine tuning on the SIP Trunks now. From the PBX menu, select the downward arrow on the top bar. This will provide us the option to select Security.
While in Security Settings choose Advanced Settings.
Within this menu we are going to hard code some options onto the SIP trunks. Some of these may not be required by you however I found that I noticed one way media traffic and without some of the latter configuration of the Advanced General Settings it simply was only one way media.
To configure the S