Hi guys. I would like to improve my slow waltz. Can you give me some useful tips. I would appreciate that

I've seen on a couple travel Belize websites as well as a notice from the Belize Press Office that state international travelers are required to stay at an "approved hotel or tourist accommodation”, defined as a hotel or tourist accommodation that certified as Gold Standard. Is this something that is enforced? We are currently booked at an Airbnb that I'm not seeing on any of the Gold Standard lists.

I am working on an idea I had concerning SI cartridges or converters. Is there anywhere I can go to find this standard/the measurements that go into the standard?

N95, KF94, and FFP2 are international respirator standards that are enforced . The root problem with the KN95 standard is that it's a self enforced standard, meaning there is no oversight and it's up to the manufacture to determine if they are following the standards of the KN95.

The KN95 standard itself doesn't require any government or 3rd party validation. Any manufacturer of KN95 respirators can self-certify and slap a KN95 stamp on their products.

The N95 standard requires testing and certification by NIOSH.

The KF94 standard requires testing and certification by the KMFDS.

The FFP2 standard requires testing and certification by an accredited 3rd party lab with oversight from notified bodies.

The FFP2 is a bit more complicated so here is a good summary

Notified Bodies and testing labs

A Notified Body is an organization that is designated by an EU member state (or a state that has a Mutual Recognition Agreement with the EU) to assess product conformity with EU legislation, i.e. ensure that the products meet the criteria they need to, in order to be allowed in the market. This often involves issuing a certificate.

A testing laboratory, on the other hand, carries out the required tests on products, often on behalf of a Notified Body. Sometimes a testing lab and a Notified Body can coexist under the same roof, even though they are two different entities. There are also Notified Bodies that do not organize testing themselves, but ask applicants for a test report from an accredited laboratory.

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/01/20/those-kn95-masks-you-just-bought-might-not-meet-testing-standards/ I suggest everyone listen (or read) this interview with Aaron Collins explaining it

• https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/n95list1-a.html
• https://nedrug.mfds.go.kr/pbp/CCBCC01/getList?totalPages=493&page=1&limit=10&sort=&sortOrder=&searchYn=&itemSeq=&itemName=&maskModelName=&entpName=&grade=&classNo=
• [https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/nando/index.cfm?fu

In 1865, a Monetary Convention established what came to be be known as the Latin Monetary Union ("LMU"), initially including France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Italy. It was not a political union, but rather a limited agreement to standardize gold and silver coinage. The United States was interested in the idea, but its interest never came to fruition. What follows is the story of how and why. I was unable to find an academic paper on this specific topic. So this is based on original sources whereever possible and will be updated as more are uncovered.

U.S. Interest in an International Standardized Coinage (1867-1868)

In 1867, 19 nations with a combined population of 320 million were invited to an international monetary conference in Paris that was a follow-up to the 1865 convention that established the LMU. The United States was keen on the idea of standardized coinage. In a letter to the U.S. delegation, William Seward (the U.S. Secretary of State) said of the conference:

>... this government, both in its legislative and executive departments, has repeatedly manifested its interest in the question of international unification of monetary standards; that the importance of a standard unit of equal value in all commercial countries for the uses of account and currency is fully recognized and appreciated

In 1867, the U.S. delegation reported that the French Emperor (Napoleon III) was eager to find ways to accommodate the U.S. so that they might join the international monetary standard. A sub-committee of the conference proposed that " a gold piece of twenty-five francs, and that the government of the United States, in its future issues, shall reduce the weight of the gold dollar to the value of five francs, and shall bring its other gold coinage to the same standard." (May 1867 here. And later in July 1867.) The U.S. delegation to the 1857 conference recommended that the U.S. half eagle ($5) be modified to correspond to the LMU standard. France would, in turn, mint a 25 francs coin (a g

Hey guys,

I started noticing 2 options for my amazon packages.

For example, ordering a laptop:

1. $16.43 - Standard Shipping

2. $18.54- Standard Intl. Shipping - No Tracking.

Why is the "No Tracking" option more expensive when offering no tracking? Is it faster when shipped to Guam, since it's "international?"

Anybody have a clue?

Hello :)

Hope you're well and had a good rest over christmas. I posted a letter to Morocco on the friday that just passed so the 7th of Jan and it was by standard shipping. I wonder how long it will take because the woman said they cant exactly say how long it be. It was a small card so nothing much

Just wondering if anyone has a rough idea? I suspect maybe upto 2 weeks at this rate haha for some reason because i dont have any expectations for it to arrive there anytime sooner but who knows

Thank you and enjoy your week

I want to stick with cartridges for now. I left off this hobby for a while and now am purchasing my first fountain in about ...13 years?. Before venturing back into bottles, I want to see the directions for the converter that will supposedly come with my Pilot Explorer.

I like the colors of Diamine and Jacques Herbin cartridges, assuming they are rendered accurately online. They are described as "long international standard" and "international standard short."

Also I am new to reddit and might not know the best way to search for answers.

Thank you for your help with cartridge sizes, and if you would like to mention favorite cartridges that would be compatible with my new pen, please speak up.

Thank you.

So, an employer has been recently pressing me about these so-called international standards of writing or whatever on a payment matter. They told me that payment is based on the final word count in the final draft of the article, and not what the writer initially produced. So, if I produce 2500 words but it gets trickled down to just 2000 in the edits then would I be liable for the payment based on the initial 2500 word count or the final draft based on 2000 words?

I understand the general need for standards organization, but I just can't get a sense, even from their own information available online, as to what their daily work actually consists of. Obviously mostly meetings, calls, and spreadsheets like everyone else, but what about exactly? Are they calling countries and organizations up and telling them "You better not call it chocolate if it doesn't have this amount of cocoa!" or "You better make sure your hair dryer components use this type of aluminum!"? Why is there so much standard proliferation then? (Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/).