![]() If Pitney Bowes’ recommended director nominees are elected, 88.9% of the Board will be independent, 66.7% of the Board will be diverse, and the average director tenure of the Board will be approximately 5.1 years. This continues the path of Board refreshment that the Company has undertaken the last few years. Dutkowsky as Non-Executive Chair of the Board, along with announcing that three current directors will not stand for re-election. Brill to the Board, supported the election of Hestia nominee Katie May at the upcoming Annual Meeting, elected Robert M. In line with its commitment to regular and ongoing Board refreshment, Pitney Bowes recently appointed Darrell Thomas and Steven D. The Pitney Bowes Board is comprised of a strong, engaged, and diverse set of directors, with a balanced mix of experience, skills, leadership expertise, and new perspectives. GEC’s current purpose-built strategy for B2C ecommerce logistics is the right one and departing from this strategy – as Hestia proposes – would be value destructive and unravel the significant network build-out, ecommerce logistics foothold, and strong client relationships we have established. Improved unit gross profit by $0.34 YoY in 2022.Įnhanced consumer tracking event speed from 12 – 24 hours at the time of the former Newgistics acquisition to now being within seconds. Reduced revenue churn from 17% in 2021 to 8% in 2022.Īdded 90+ new domestic parcel contract signings in 2022. Improved customer loyalty, measured by Net Promoter Score (NPS), by 23 points year-over-year ("YoY") in 2022. Improved average domestic delivery time by two days in 2022 vs. Improved on time delivery from 78% in March 2022 to over 90% currently. Supported by a series of strategic investments, GEC has grown at a ~23% CAGR between 20, and has recently made vast improvements in our operating and financial KPIs, including: Lautenbach has also improved the Company’s revenue CAGR from -8.6% from 2007 – 2012, the years prior to his joining the Company, to 4.9% from 2017 – 2022.įollowing the acquisition of Newgistics and other strategic investments, Pitney Bowes has built GEC into a leading, integrated ecommerce logistics player capable of leveraging USPS final mile delivery for nationwide coverage, and the business is well positioned for continued growth and margin expansion as volumes increase. Lautenbach’s leadership has helped reduce debt by $1.7 billion, eliminate several hundred million dollars of expenses, return $1.5 billion of capital to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, invest $2.6 billion in our businesses, and divest $2.1 billion of strategically incoherent, slower-growth businesses. Investments in GEC have significantly enhanced Pitney Bowes’ domestic parcel operations and capabilities, while investments in modernizing product portfolio and technology infrastructure have boosted growth potential for both SendTech and Presort.Īt the time of Marc Lautenbach’s appointment as CEO in December 2012, Pitney Bowes was a portfolio of disjointed businesses in decline, several of which were suffering from a lack of investment in their product lines. Pitney Bowes’ transformation strategy has laid a strong foundation for sustainable profitable growth and shareholder value creation. GEC – Built a new growth segment delivering $1.6 billion of revenue as of 2022, which is on the path to being profitable. Presort – Invested through acquisitions and technology to enable growth in a declining environment. SendTech – Reinvested to create a comprehensive letter mailing and parcel shipping solution. This includes simplifying the business into three synergistic segments focused on reducing the complexity of mailing and shipping for clients – Sending Technologies ("SendTech"), Presort, and Global Ecommerce ("GEC") – and we have taken targeted steps to optimize these segments to the current business climate through the following: The Board and management team have overseen the Company’s significant transformation to address structural business challenges and reposition Pitney Bowes as a shipping and logistics business comprised of a balanced and coherent portfolio of steady revenue and high-growth segments. Over the past 10 years, the Pitney Bowes Board and its management team have taken decisive actions to create sustainable value for shareholders by transforming the Company from a position of secular decline to growth. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in connection with the Company’s 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") to be held on May 9, 2023. STAMFORD, Conn., April 13, 2023-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Pitney Bowes (the "Company") (NYSE:PBI), a global shipping and mailing company that provides technology, logistics, and financial services, today announced that it has filed an investor presentation with the U.S. ![]() ![]() Urges Shareholders to Vote FOR Pitney Bowes’ Nominees and Katie May on the GOLD Proxy Card
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![]() In any case, to directly answer your question, I don't know of any simple library that does what you're looking for. Turns out it's quite different, and not what I meant at all. Okay, I made a bad assumption - I assumed that marching squares would be more similar to marching cubes. If you're trying to cut a polygon into little pieces, you could implement some kind of marching squares. cv::distTransform is still maintained but operates on pixels and generates pixel output, not vertices and edge polygon data structures, but may be sufficient for my needs if not yours.Ī bit more detail on your desired input and output might be helpful.įor example, if you're just trying to get the polygons into triangles, a triangle fan would probably work. It looks like OpenCV used to support do something along these lines, but it has been deprecated (but the c-api still works?). The other package that looks to be a lot better than a random academic homepage orphan project is. Voro++ is 3D oriented but it is suggested elsewhere that approximately 2d structure will work, but be much slower than software oriented towards 2D voronoi. The next step is creating the voronoi polygons. All the sharp triangle points become blunted: The voronoi edges are the dotted lines in this picture, and are sort of the complement of the delaunay triangulation. So the first thing is to be able to generate those cell center points- generating them over the bounding box of the source polygon and a interior/exterior test shouldn't be too hard. The original polygon will get a scattering of semi random points that will be the centers of the voronoi cells, the more evenly distributed they are the more regularly sized the cells will be, but they shouldn't be in a perfect grid otherwise the interior polygons will all look the same. I've just begun looking into this same problem and I'm considering voronoi tessellation. It might not be the simplest to install but you get the most used and robust computational geometry library there is out there, and the cgal mailing list is very helpful to answer questions. To install cgal, if you are on windows you can use the installer to get the precompiled library, and there are installations guides for every platform on this page. at this point partition_polys contains the partition of the input polygons Typedef CGAL::Random_points_in_square_2 Point_generator ĬGAL::random_polygon_2(50, std::back_inserter(polygon),ĬGAL::y_monotone_partition_2(polygon.vertices_begin(), In terms of ease of use this is a small example code generating a random polygon and partitioning it (based on this manual example): typedef CGAL::Exact_predicates_inexact_constructions_kernel K For example you could generate y-monotone partition of a polygon (works for non-convex polygons, as well) and you would get something like this: The best would be probably to use the 2D Polygon Partitioning package. You should see 6 square sides and 12 seamlessly connected fish.CGAL has packages to solve this problem. You should end up with a solid-looking 6-sided paper sculpture that looks like a box.At first, it'll look like two 3-sided pyramids then you'll fit the two pyramids together to make a box with 6 sides. Press the tabless sides onto the gray tab areas of neighboring squares.These tabs will all go under the sides that don't have tabs. Put double-sided tape or paste or glue on the top of the gray tab areas (except the big tab, if we're making a gift box).Those gray tabs go under the squares, in the next step. Fold the 2 big L shapes into 6 equal squares (3 per L shape) with their gray tabs bent down.In the other way, you make a gift box that can be opened and closed: for that version, notice that 2 particular tabs must be cut off, and one specific tab will be larger than all the others & have no glue or tape on it. Notice that there are two ways to do this: in one way, you make a solid cube and leave all the small gray tabs attached. The scissors icons show you where to cut. Basically, cut along the outermost lines. Be sure that the decorated fish parts and the gray tab areas remain attached. These are coloring book style versions, so it's up to YOU to color and decorate all 12 of the goldfish (6 sides x 2 fish per side = 12 fish).If possible, print onto thick, stiff paper or light cardboard. Make sure that the printing hasn't changed the heigh-to-width proportions: all the squares must have equal sizes, and all their sides must be equal in length. Download one of the patterns, in JPEG or PDF format. ![]() (That means "outlines only"- you paint or draw the interior) How to Make an Asian Chop (stone stamp). However, most of the personnel had a tendency to forget what the specific frequency key was for each door, so they often wrote it on a wall or a glass window.Īlthough technically applying to multiple different keys, a master key is a particular type of key that is specially designed to access more than one lock. The only ones to freely access these rooms without a radio were high-level personnel such as the base's subcommander, Major Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov, due to implants on his uniform.ĭuring the 1970s, the Soviet missile silo on the San Hieronymo Peninsula utilized frequency based locks to guard against intruders trying to infiltrate the base in case they managed to get through the impenetrable electromagnetic door, as well as to guard sensitive documents relating to their weapons systems. They usually require someone utilizing a radio to open the door, although a high-ranking officer wearing a uniform that allows clearance via implants on the uniform is not unheard of.ĭuring the 1960s, the Soviet GRU fortress of Groznyj Grad utilized a frequency-based lock system for various rooms such as pantries, weapons cabinets, and prison cells. Liquid Snake was also implied to have kept the keys to the other Jeep on his person.įrequency keys are a type of key that utilizes a specific radio frequency to unlock a door. It activates by having grooved edges that match with the car's design and then moving it to activate a mechanism that, depending on where the lock is located, either unlocks the door, or ignites the engine of the vehicle.ĭuring the San Hieronymo Incident, Roy Campbell and Naked Snake stole a set of keys for a truck and used them to steal one of the base's trucks when escaping the prison.Ĭampbell's niece/birth daughter, Meryl Silverburgh, utilized keys for a Jeep during the Shadow Moses Incident when trying to escape from an impending bombing raid on Shadow Moses Island. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ReviewĬar keys are used to operate or gain access to a vehicle. Like the real Big Boss, Venom Snake easily bypassed this security feature via a lockpick. ![]() ![]() In 1984, both the Soviets and various PFs in Afghanistan and the Angola-Zaire border region of Africa, respectively, utilized cut key locks for various buildings and storage units. Big Boss, however, during his various infiltrations in the camp, was able to utilize a lockpick to easily bypass the lock. The Marines stationed at the United States Naval Prison Facility in Cuba were shown to utilize cut key locks for their armories, despite it being dangerously low security, largely because the armories were located in the middle of the base and thus had a moderately low risk of an enemy intruder accessing the armories undetected. Non-"Metal Gear Saga" information ends here. ![]() The Soviets also utilized this type of key at the radio communication base at the San Hieronymo Peninsula's ravine during the 1970s. Warning: The following information is from outside Hideo Kojima's core "Metal Gear Saga." Its canonicity within the continuity is disputed, therefore reader discretion is advised. ![]() The locks used for these keys have a horseshoe-like appendage as well as a bolt.ĭuring the 1960s, the Soviets utilized this type of key for the Groznyj Grad weapons lab's main hangar's maintenance door. They often come in two types: flat teeth for old gates, and sharp teeth for wafer-tumbler locks. Cut keys, sometimes known as house keys, are the most common type of key. ![]() Emilee - ‘ily (i love you baby)’ TikTok songs with viral dances: Coldplay x Savage - 'Viva La Swing' Millie B - 'Sophie Aspin Send' ("M to the B") Years & Years - 'Breathe' (Cover of Blu Cantrell) Stromae - 'Alors On Danse' ("I know you're obsessed with me" remix)Ĭookiee Kawaii - 'Vibe (If I Back It Up)' Jazmine Sullivan - ‘Bust Your Windows’ (Glee Cast Version) Wendy Williams - 'Native New Yorker' (From The Masked Singer ) Ritt Momney - 'Put Your Records On' (Corrine Bailey Rae cover)īee Gees - 'More Than A Woman' ( Clueless remix - "I'm totally buggin'")Īshnikko - ‘Daisy (I'm Crazy But You Like That)’ Grouplove - 'Tongue Tied' ("Take me to your best friend's house") Meghan Trainor - ‘Better When I’m Dancing’ ![]() Viral TikTok songs that have no dance challenge or trend: The soothing bop is also used on painting videos, redecorating videos, videos featuring throwback photos alongside an adorable story told through captions. If you've ever watched a wholesome TikTok video, you'll know exactly what song this is. While a few dance trends have popped up using this track, the song is mostly just used as a popular sound for a variety of TikToks. While there's a little choreo involved, a live version of Shakira's iconic 2005 track is featured in a trend that sees people strike performance poses in public places before screaming the lyrics to chorus at full volume. There's no particular trend to this one, but users tend to choose the sound when using the Noodle Dance filter. Users add pictures of iconic TV characters, celebrities or cartoons alongside captions of the chorus lyrics, and act like they're in the club, being enticed over by everyone that pops up on screen. In an ironic twist, TikTok is truly bringing 'Sexy Back'. TikTokers use this sound in comedy lip-sync videos where they create captions specifying. ![]() To successfully attempt this challenge, you'll need to use the big head filter and learn the lyrics so you can lip-sync the now famous 'hold up, waiting a minute. When the chorus drops, the throwback photo will flash up showing the same visuals, except everyone looks a lot younger. This song is used for the throwback challenge where users recreate their childhood pictures as adults. The original sound, created by Curtis Roach, went viral during quarantine after rapper Tyga hopped on and lip synced to the track. This song is used on a variation of TikTok trends, but most frequently features on TikToks memes that use footage from Cole Walliser's GlamBot videos. The 'posh' remix of Unknown T's drill track and Estelle ft Kanye West's 'American Boy' is mostly used by people either pretending to be a posh, or by rich kids. The theme song to Disney Junior’s cartoon is used in videos where TikTokers share their weirdest celebrity crushes, and duellers have to sing along with the ones they agree with. Sofia the First theme song (“I was a girl in the village doing alright…”) This track is used for the #HurtMyFeelings challenge. Come take a lick 'pon the lolly" lyrics in outfit and makeup transformation videos. TikTokers use the "Right, left, drip, splash. Jason Derulo x Puri x Jhorrmountain - 'Coño' This track is used for outfit montages and TikToks with the caption 'What I'd Wear If I Was In.' A remix of Bea's song with Labrinth's Euphoria track is used as the music. If you've ever ended up on Euphoria TikTok, you would have seen these incredible makeup transformation videos. You'll know this track from the lyrics "And it went like."īea Miller - 'Feel Something' and Labrinth - 'Still Don't Know My Name' There's multiple remixes of this song, including the original and one that features a recorder version of Darude's 'Sandstorm'. This track is often used alongside the Freeze Frame Pop Up filter, where people try to prove how photogenic they are by not posing for pictures. There's also a hilarious John Cena trend attached to it too.ĬHROMANCE & Marcus Layton - 'Wrap Me In Plastic' This song was used in an explicit scene in 365 DNI (365 Days) and it's inspired a ton of NSFW and suggestive TikToks. The "I'm sorry for drippin', but drip is what I do" song took off amongst TikTokers showing off their outfits. Thanks to a misheard lyric ("I want yo' body, need yo' body"), T.I.'s 2008 hit became a Pro-Joe Biden song during the 2020 US election. ![]() "Shorty a lil' baddie, she my lil boo thing". ![]() By clicking on an animal, fun facts become visible. There is a map of the aquarium where students can pick if they want to take a peek in at the alligators or sea turtles, the Amazon River or the Channel Islands. The National Aquarium Virtual Tours website is easy for students to self-guide themselves through. The National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD, is an exciting virtual field trip perfect for third graders. Students are sure to get lost in the engaging and exciting lives of zoo animals. The website, geared toward kids, also includes behind-the-scenes videos and stories of life in a zoo, as well as printable activities and online games. The website has live cams and videos of some of their most popular animals including apes, elephants, and tigers. One particularly great one is the San Diego Zoo. Whether students are researching an animal for a paper or working on skills such as comparing and contrasting various animals, the zoo is an excellent virtual field trip for second graders. This field trip is one any elementary student would be happy to go along for. Additionally, Google Cardboard can be used to experience life in a farm in a virtual, 3D-reality component. Young learners can watch the production of milk and cheese as well as learn about a day in an apple orchard. Students can learn what life is like on a dairy farm, on a grain farm, a sheep farm, or even a mink farm (just to name a few). One virtual field trip called Farm Fresh 360 takes students on a Canandian farm tour. Whether students are growing up in a small rural community or a city, the farm has much to offer. In kindergarten and first grade, a popular field trip is going to a farm. Below are some great virtual field trips for every grade level, kindergarten through high school. And the best part? No permission slip is needed. Virtual field trips take students to places such as museums, national monuments, and events without the students ever leaving their seat. When field trips get cancelled or particular places are too far away to venture to, there is another option that teachers are turning to in order to be able to provide students with these educational experiences. There, they learn many things through hands-on experiences and experts in their field. Oftentimes these trips take students to places or events they have never had the opportunity to go to. Some of the biggest days students look forward to in their school year are the field trips. ![]() ![]() In their hands The Master and Margarita becomes a visually spectacular story, which is arrestingly performed by a large cast of outstanding actors and puppeteers. Laika has a wealth of experience in adapting the classics and Theater FroeFroe excels in the magic of the puppet theatre. His choice to sanction Yeshua Ha-Nozris execution in the city of Yershalaim is at the. De Meester en Margarita is another dream cooperation project. The masters book is about Pontius Pilate, the fifth procurator of Judea. From Review : Cristof is a master bartender of The Mercer Kitchen. Laika and Theater FroeFroe demonstrated their complementary strengths in Little Sophie ( Kleine Sofie, 2010) and Pentamerone (2015). The Mercer Kitchen, New York City Picture: Margarita - Check out Tripadvisor members. Going to János Szászs uneven but inspiring production of The Master and Margarita at Bard College was, for me, like going home. ![]() The abnormal and the absurd triumph, as does love, for the novel is essentially a gripping love story. The leaders lose their authority the last become the first and vice versa figments of the imagination become truth. For Laika and Theater FroeFroe it is first and foremost a liberating fantasy which denounces drabness and dreary sobriety. The Master and Margarita is an awesome story. In fact, with his help she goes looking for her lost lover, the Master, author of an ‘inflammatory’ manuscript banished by the regime … Woland’s punitive expedition – involving black magic, mirages, abduction and counterfeiting – turns the whole city upside down and scares the living daylights out of everyone. The early contender for the song of summer is a TikTok-fueled remix of a sexually explicit Evangelical sermon about margaritas. They prove to be demonic in origin and have come to literally denude artists, bureaucrats and other self-satisfied citizens who go along with the regime. Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 10pm Sunday 11am - 9pm. The city is rendered unsafe by a certain Professor Woland and his henchmen. ![]() These dry squares of concentrated detergents are free of plastics, both in the product itself and in their packaging. Relatively new to the market, and (as yet) often available only in specialty stores or online, are laundry sheets. While it’s a slight improvement, many of these products still come in sturdy plastic jugs that may or may not be recyclable, potentially adding to the waste stream. ![]() A growing number of companies are offering eco-friendly laundry detergent options that are biodegradable and often made without petroleum-based chemicals. The products you use to clean your clothing are another factor to consider. (And if you wash a lot of synthetic clothing, equipping both your washing machine and dryer with a filter to capture microplastics can help reduce the plastic pollution entering the water supply.) Choosing detergent Some synthetic fabrics are easier to wash in warmer water, too. According to General Electric, a hot water wash is called for when you need to sanitize clothing or if tap water drops below 40 ° F during winter months. One household can cut 800 pounds of carbon pollution every year by washing four out of five loads of their laundry in cold water, which is sufficient for most laundry loads. Heating water for the wash is another energy draw. Some newer washing machines are equipped with a sensor that gauges how much water each load needs this saves water, but still requires electricity to operate the machine more frequently than necessary. It’s a washĪ simple way to reduce the amount of water used is to make sure you’re only washing full loads rather than just a couple of items. Changing your laundry habits is one of the easiest ways to make your home more environmentally friendly. And a single cycle in the washing machine can use as many as 40 gallons of water.īut laundry doesn’t have to be such a burden on the environment. Scientists recently estimated that microplastics released by laundering synthetic clothes are responsible for more than a third of the microplastic found in the world’s oceans, for instance. But keeping our attire clean has surprising environmental impacts. Whether you’re lucky enough to have an in-house washer and dryer set, or you trudge to the local laundromat, there’s no getting away from that never-ending pile of laundry. ![]() The game shares a thematic connection with Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy, a subseries of games linked by a common mythos which includes Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy Type-0. He later learns his full role as the "True King", destined to use the Crystal's powers to save Eos from eternal darkness. Noctis Lucis Caelum, heir to the Lucian throne, goes on a quest to rescue the Crystal and defeat Niflheim. On the eve of peace negotiations, Niflheim attacks the capital and steals the Crystal. The base campaign was later expanded with downloadable content (DLC), adding further gameplay options such as additional playable characters and multiplayer.įinal Fantasy XV takes place on the fictional world of Eos aside from Insomnia, the capital of Lucis, all the world is dominated by the empire of Niflheim, who seek control of the magical Crystal protected by the Lucian royal family. The game features an open world environment and action-based battle system, incorporating quick-switching weapons, elemental magic, and other features such as vehicle travel and camping. The fifteenth main installment of the Final Fantasy series, it was released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2016, Windows in 2018, and as a launch title for Stadia in 2019. A new data extraction object, designed to centralize all of Grooper's extraction functionality into a single object, including its pattern-based, OMR, and zonal types of extraction.įor more information on these and other improvements, visit the What's New in Grooper 2021 article.Final Fantasy XV is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix.Integration of a new RESTful document ingestion API provides the ability to create and populate batches, and the ability to monitor the status of batch processes, and retrieve results. ![]() This "Rules Engine" drives complex data validation and calculations never before possible in Grooper.
![]() So, kindly take a seat and allow us to take you on a whimsical journey through time.įashion is a constantly fluctuating element, persistently evolving and altering with the passage of time. In this informative blog post, we aim to delve deeper into the transformative world of men’s fashion and its impact on current fashion tendencies. So come along with us, discover the rich history of men’s fashion, and perhaps find inspiration to incorporate into your own wardrobe. You realize that the grunge style has taken hold, prioritizing comfort and an air of nonchalance in fashion.Īnd as you journey on, you witness the ever-evolving styles of men’s fashion, each era shaped by cultural and social influences, but all ultimately leading to the unique and personal styles we see today. Suddenly, a young man approaches you, dressed in a cozy flannel shirt, torn jeans, and classic Converse sneakers. This new era of fashion and music is a far cry from what you experienced in the previous decade.Īs you continue your journey through time, you reach the early 1990s in Seattle, surrounded by the sounds of grunge music and the scent of cigarette smoke. Jumping ahead to the early 1980s in London, you are surrounded by the sounds of new wave and post-punk music and the smell of hairspray. ![]() This sight reminds you of just how much fashion has changed over the years. You can’t help but notice a young man approaching you, dressed in a vibrant shirt, flared bell-bottom pants, and a wide-brimmed hat. So, buckle up and get ready for an enlightening journey through the ages of men’s fashion.Īs you wander the streets of 1970s New York City, the air is filled with the sounds of funky soul and the aroma of patchouli oil. Learn how you can infuse elements from the past into your contemporary wardrobe, creating a unique and stylish look that reflects your personal flair. Immerse yourself in the fascinating story of how men’s fashion has transformed over the years and get ready to be amazed and inspired. Discover how cultural and social influences have shaped the styles that we see today. Join us on a captivating journey through time as we delve into the evolution of men’s fashion. Have you ever imagined how the evolution of men’s fashion through the years?įrom the bright colors and bold patterns of the 1970s to the sleek and sophisticated power dressing of the 1980s to the relaxed and nonchalant grunge fashion of the 1990s, men’s fashion has undergone significant transformations throughout the decades. ![]()
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