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I started with a Hamilton Beach machine and preground Illy coffee. Added a Baratza Virtuoso and it was surprisingly not crappy. A thermoblock and large aluminum unpressurized portafilter made for pretty drinkable shots paired with freshly roasted and ground coffee.

Today, Portland City Council is voting to pass its annual budget, a document that still includes a hefty allocation for the Portland Police Bureau (PPB). Yesterday, hundreds of members of the public called to defund and diminish the police budget during a council hearing, and several more will speak today before the afternoon vote. Here, get up to speed!.

First, as we have written about before, our unemployment tax laws are designed to be self sufficient: if our unemployment trust fund is running dry, the tax rate ramps up to make employers refill the pot more quickly. Because our fund hit the “empty” mark at the end of last year, the unemployment tax on businesses is supposed to go up to the highest statutory rate. The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii has calculated that unemployment tax will triple in 2021 unless lawmakers change the system.

Our areas of focus are considered dull and unsexy by many, but nothing could be further from the truth. As we outline in this letter, the ongoing transition to a low carbon economy runs directly through the businesses and industries we focus on, and as such, investors will return to them with a renewed enthusiasm as their importance to the global economy once again takes center stage. Disruption has long been the domain of the digital world, but disruption is on the horizon for the physical world as well, and we are ready to take advantage of it..

A better method would be to use the same symbol tags to place the AR objects right into your home, from the camera connected to your PC. And that just what one student creative team has proposed as an IKEA entry for their Future Lions submission at this years Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. A quite sophisticated version of this same concept has also been developed by Seac02 of Italy..

“If people have just got the sniffles then I think our job is done,” Prof Pollard told MPs on Tuesday as he looked ahead to the coming years during an event hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus. With scientists increasingly talking about an annual Covid jab and warning that the virus will not disappear entirely, MPs are considering how to balance the long term needs of protecting people and rebuilding the economy. Conservative backbenchers eager to see restrictions loosened as soon as is realistically possible have told they want Government ministers to make assurances that nationwide lockdowns will not be repeated.