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Uncrowded and unspoiled are the perfect words to describe the nine Virginia Lakes. Strung along Virginia Creek in California's High Sierras, most of the lakes require a bit of a hike to get to. Virginia Creek isn't navigable so no boats ever intrude on six of these alpine lakes. The three accessible lakes are limited to canoes, kayaks, row boats and trolling motors. And, since the largest lake only covers about 100 acres, no major horsepower is actually needed. Wildlife, beautiful mountain scenery, a riot of wildflowers in season, and lake trout greet arriving visitors. Indeed, it's a rare hiker who doesn't take the time to cast a line or wet a fly in at least one of these lakes as they pass by.
The entire Virginia Lakes Basin lies within the Toiyabe National Forest. Dunderberg Peak and Black Mountain tower over the high valley, and those serious about backcountry hiking can access Yosemite National Park from the far reaches of the local trails. Backcountry camping is available along the trails with the appropriate National Forest permit, which is available at the Ranger's Station in Bridgeport. The six upper lakes are within the Hoover Wilderness Area and require a permit to hike. Backpacking permits are issued on a quota basis from the last Friday in June until September 15th to assure the trails are not overused. There are no sanitary facilities or drinking water available along the trail and bears are quite common, so rangers regularly warn hikers to make preparations for both unexpected inclement weather and unwanted visitors prowling for food near the campsites. The trailhead is at an elevation of 9,600 feet and the elevation rises 1,270 feet along the 6.6-mile trail. Groves of aspens and lodgepole pines dot the slopes and offer contrasts of color in autumn.
The three lower lakes get far more visitors than do those up the trail. A US Forest Service campground operated by a private firm shelters campers beneath the lodgepole pines at Trumbull Lake, the farthest east of the nine lakes. The 45 campsites here are so popular that reservations are suggested on peak weekends. Only half can be reserved, with the rest rented on a first-come, first-served basis. The Trumbull Lake Campground has grills, picnic tables, vault toilets, drinking water and campfire rings. Firewood may be purchased nearby. Food storage lockers are available, and campground hosts are on duty. Trumbull Lake's 100 acres welcome canoeing and fishing, although proper fishing licenses must be carried and all regulations observed. The campground is not open in winter.
A hundred yards south of the campground, a long-lived resort holds to the shore of Little Virginia Lake. In business since the 1920s, the resort is a popular haven for hikers, hunters, fly fishermen and vacationers. Backpacker parking is available near the lodge, providing access to both Little Virginia Lake and Big Virginia Lake. From the trail and the access road, adventurous hikers can reach Trumbull Lake, Red Lake, Blue Lake, Big Virginia Lake, Little Virginia Lake, Cooney Lake, Moat Lake and the two little Frog Lakes. The hike along the creekside trail is strenuous but beautiful. The lakes are filled with brown trout, rainbow trout, and eastern brook trout. Moat Lake still holds a few golden trout, the last remaining in the watershed. The trout are stocked regularly by the Bridgeport Fish Enhancement Program. Funded by local businesses and citizens to enhance tourism in the area, the group stocks brown trout weekly during the summer season and trophy-size trout once a month. The effort pays dividends during the two annual fishing tournaments promoted by the group, as contestants are allowed to fish these lakes along with several more in the area.
There is no town of Virginia Lakes, although a small community has grown up east of Trumbull Lake that is often referred to by that name. Several 'subdivisions' of private RV sites have been developed in the community although not on the lake itself. A few small businesses offer supplies and food, and an outfitter provides backpacking supplies and guided hikes. The Virginia Lakes area is properly considered attached to the town of Bridgeport, the Mono County seat 20 miles to the north. Although small, Bridgeport is the focal point of tourism and outdoor activities for this portion of the county. Formerly known as Blue Meadow, Bridgeport has over 500 miles of cross country skiing, snowshoeing, dog-sledding, snowmobiling and multiple-use trails around the town, including Bodie Hills, Virginia Lakes Road, Buckeye, the Sweetwater Range and Summers Meadows.
The area around Virginia Lakes and Mono County is popular in both winter and summer. The Bridgeport Reservoir is a great fishing destination. An old-fashioned Fourth of July Festival, rodeos, marathons, Bodie State Historic Park (original gold rush ghost town), Mono Lake, Mammoty Lakes, and nearby Yosemite National Park keep the entire family entertained. A full complement of lodgings such as private cabins, bed and breakfast inns, resorts and motels join many local restaurants and tourism services. Bridgeport is a good alternative to camping if one doesn't choose the resort at Little Virginia Lake or one of the local campgrounds. The ranger post at Bridgeport is the best place to get maps, permits, and advice on exploring the millions of acres of surrounding national forest lands.
Real estate at Virginia Lakes is not available, but some housing may be for sale in the community east of Trumbull Lake. A few sections of land along US 395 are not owned by the State or Federal governments, and real estate shoppers often find property or existing vacation cabins in these areas. Virginia Lakes is the perfect place for a weekend hike. The beautiful small lakes and majestic peaks will fill your vacation album with photographs to be envied. So, come prepared to catch a few trout and commune with nature on the Virginia Lakes Trail.
*No statistics are available for lake size, depth or other information.
this Virginia Lakes Chain of Lakes page.
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School of Celtic Studies / Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh catalog › Details for: From bishop to witch : the system of the sacred in early modern Terra d'Otranto.
Details for: From bishop to witch : the system of the sacred in early modern Terra d'Otranto.
From bishop to witch : the system of the sacred in early modern Terra d'Otranto.
Published by : Manchester University Press, 1992 (Manchester) Physical details: xii, 292 p. 24 cm. ISBN:0719036402.
291.094 J A history of pagan Europe. 291.1 Myth, cosmos, and society : Indo-European themes of creation and destruction 291.1 F The meaning of Aphrodite 291.1 G From bishop to witch : the system of the sacred in early modern Terra d'Otranto. 291.13 D Fêtes romaines d'été et d'automne : suivi de dix questions romaines. 291.13 D La courtisane et les seigneurs colorés : et autre essais ... 291.13 D Le Mahabarat et le Bhagavat du colonel de Polier /présentés par Georges Dumézil.
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Cycle or walk for shorter journeys. If you have to drive, do it ecologically–look ahead to avoid sudden breaking and accelerating. Buy green–hybrid or “flex fuel” cars.
Plant a tree. One tree of average size absorbs about 6 kg of CO2 per year, so over 40 years it soaks up about 250 kg.
Turn your thermostat down by 2 deg. F and install a programmable thermostat to automatically change thermostat settings at certain times of the day. This saves about 10% of your heating bill.
During winter when airing your house, open the windows a few minutes only, instead of letting the heat escape over a long period. If you leave a small opening all the day long, the energy needed to keep it warm during six cold months (10 deg. C less outside temperature) would result in almost 1 ton of CO2 emissions.
Heat only as much water as you need for your tea or coffee. Heating a whole kettle of water uses about as much energy as lighting your living room for the night. Use instant “tankless” heaters for your showers. You can save 16,000 gallons of water per household and it uses less energy than a 25 watt light bulb.
Use weather stripping for your home around windows and doors. Make sure your home is well insulated, since 50% of the heat escapes via the walls. Insulation is good for the environment and makes financial sense in the long run. In building a home use double walls with installation (R-38) between them (Cf. See specs for example, for the Award-winning Colorado Dream Homes, Pagosa Springs, CO, which are energy efficient and low-maintenance). Also consider electro-chromic windows which remain darker in sunlight and transparent in winter.
Recycle all you can. Better yet, reduce your consumption where possible. Buy goods with less packaging and switch from disposable to reusable goods.
Clean or replace furnace and air-conditioner filters regularly. Keep refrigerators and freezers clean and away from ovens and cookers. They work more efficiently that way.
Switch off lights and appliances you are not using. Do not leave anything on stand-by mode.
Switch to energy-saving light bulbs but please recycle them. They last ten times longer than ordinary light bulbs while generating up to 400 kg fewer emissions and cutting up to $60 (USD) off your electricity bill during their lifetime.
Install shades or awnings on windows facing south and/or west to block sunlight. In winter, open shades on sunny days to help warm rooms. Then at night, close the drapes to retain the heat.
Fix defective plumbing or facets. A single defective facet can waste over 200 gallons of water per month.
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Prime Brownstone 2 Bedroom & Roof Deck!
JUST SOLD- ABOVE ASKING! JUST LISTED EXCLUSIVE! Prime! Brownstone 2 bedroom and roof deck! Sunny and beautiful co-op has space for home office, high ceilings, big windows, nice modern kitchen and bathroom and skyline views from the roof deck. P.S. 321 school district and steps to all!
Carroll Street-1 Bedroom Plus Den!
JUST SOLD! 4 rooms of design perfection! Impeccable, renovated 1 bedroom plus windowed den in doorman/elevator building- super prime locale. Custom kitchen/bathroom, delightful built-ins and cabinetry. Spacious rooms, skyline views (den), light and airy with 3 exposures, parquet floors and more! The den is approximately 8′ x 12′ and has many possible uses. Monthly maintenance $825. Our just listed exclusive!
Third Street Fabulous Limestone Townhouse!
JUST SOLD! Third Street! Park Slope’s most beautiful tree lined Street- unusual gem- limestone townhouse is better than the rest! Single family, 4 story, all original, lovingly maintained. Spacious rooms, gas fireplaces, deck, south garden and special 4th floor with outdoor space and skyline views! 4+ bedrooms, double parlor, graceful center stairs, paneled formal dining room, and a great English basement with super high ceilings. P.S. 321 School district. Our exclusive listing!
2nd Street Brownstone Garden Duplex Condo!
Sold! Brownstone condo garden duplex! Custom renovated and spacious 2 bedroom, 1.5 bathrooms and private, full size backyard. A rare find in the P.S. 321 school district and steps to all! Features include a beautiful kitchen with TOL stainless steel appliances, tasteful bathrooms, a wood burning fireplace (LR), oak hardwood floors throughout, excellent closets and a large recreation room with many possible uses! Great attention to detail was lavished upon this unit and it shows! Our exclusive listing! Low monthly cc $413.
Large Single Family in Prime Midwood!
JUST SOLD! Beautiful 1 family with garage on 40′ x 100′ lot! 5 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, lovely screened front porch. Our just listed exclusive!
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Liquid Pool Covers - Would You Like Media Attention on Your Facility?
Would You Like Media Attention on Your Facility?
Have you heard about the aquatics facility in the UK that is being heated thanks to a nearby Crematorium?
Probably. It has been all over the news, internet and social scene for months now. Everyone from the BBC to groups on LinkedIn have been discussing this topic, over and over again.
I first came across the story back in January of this year, and it still leads many of the pool industry news feeds. The funny thing is, this is not the first or only pool to transfer the heat a crematorium generates to warm up their pool water. Its not even the only industry that does it! Funeral homes recycle the heat within their facility; towns around the world recycle the heat to reduce their cities CO2 emissions; and now, swimming pools are using this type of heat as well.
It is a great idea, and obviously very newsworthy. But if the practice of recycling heat has been used before, why is this one swimming pool getting so much press!? And wouldn't you love to have that sort of media attention poured all over your facility?
They publicized the "weirdness" factor and put a positive spin on it. Anything with enough "Huh!?" to it can catch attention like wildfire and, with the right tools, will spread just as fast.
What's weird about your facility? How can you spin it? Who can you tell?
Alternatively, what's normal about your facility that you can spin to sound a bit crazy and exciting?
You can take just about any story and make it incredible. That's the fun part!
From there, you have to start telling people. Write a letter to your local newspaper. Spread the news via Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. Get the community to make a video. Create an event around the news. Make it into an "Urban Myth" that everyone is whispering about.
And you can be just like them. Go green like a famous Hollywood director, and save money while you're at it. You can also save a tonne of water and make life a lot easier on your staff, but the really exciting piece of news here is that there are famous people doing this exact thing. Do you want in?
Now, obviously that is a sales pitch. But you can do the very same thing for your facility! Why is your center different, better, more unique and forward thinking than anyone else's facility? Why would it be REALLY cool to come to your center? Figure it out, and start talking about it. Media loves a story.
I get a lot of neat ideas from a site called "Help a Reporter Out." If you become a source, you will receive a daily email listing all the reporters in North America and the stories they are looking for. Not only is this a great "thinking cap" but it also gives you a built-in audience to send a pitch to if you have an idea that would work for them.
Its time your facility started making the news. Good luck and have fun!
If you would like to grow the idea bank to ensure some great ideas, please share this post.
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Wouldn’t you love to enjoy year-round, resort-style amenities just steps from your brand new home? Make this dream a reality with a brand new single-family home from Miller & Smith at Aspen North at Lake Linganore! Let us take you through everything you need to know about the community, amenities, and features of the Aspen North community!
Spring, Summer, Winter, or Fall, the four lakes around Aspen North certainly have it all! Lake Linganore, Lake Merle, Lake Anita Louise, and Lake Marian make up the four historic lakes surrounding our new neighborhood here in New Market, MD. Lake Linganore is the largest of the four, boasting miles of shoreline and two sand beaches, while the smaller lakes are perfect for fishing. Lake Linganore also allows for boats and other watercraft during the warmer months, with storage locations scattered around the lake.
Over 30 miles of scenic trails connect around Lake Linganore, overlooking the water and creating access points to all of the other resort-style amenities in the community. The marked trails at Lake Linganore are one of a kind, featuring natural twists and turns, paved and wooded trails, and even an esplanade!
Living at Aspen North at Lake Linganore gives you exclusive access to the three pools and six tennis courts located in the community and run by the Lake Linganore Association. The pools are open from Memorial Day through Labor Day, while the tennis courts are open year-round (weather permitting) on a reservation basis.
With over a dozen park areas throughout the Lake Linganore community, there is no shortage of open space to enjoy! These open spaces include picnic tables, grills, playgrounds and tot lots, open fields, basketball courts, and more!
Like any great community, Lake Linganore offers monthly community events throughout the year hosted by the Lake Linganore Association and even offer some in Historic New Market and Downtown Frederick! Check out some of the events happening throughout the holiday season below!
12/9 – Toys for Tots: The Lake Linganore Association is collecting new and unwrapped toys for the Toys for Tots organization through 12/9.
12/9 to 12/10 – Christmas in New Market: Enjoy a holiday parade, tree lighting, carolers, a silent auction and more!
12/10 & 12/11 – New Market Christmas Craft Show: Get some holiday shopping done early with crafted items from local businesses.
Along with all of the established features and amenities that are found at Lake Linganore, our new home designs lend beautifully to modern lake living. With indoor/outdoor living spaces, walls of windows, and dramatic open floor plans, the modern design and natural materials work together to create the home of your dreams!
For more information on resort living at Aspen North at Lake Linganore and new Miller & Smith homes available now, including immediate deliveries, visit millerandsmith.com!
Whether you want to downsize the amount of junk in your home or you’re looking to clear through some clutter, now is a great time to start! Doing this before the holidays will make more room for any gifts that make their way into your new Miller & Smith home, and it will also give you a refresh for the New Year. Check out our list of tips below for sorting through items in your home. Toss or keep? – You decide!
Set a plan: Even though your goal now is to clear out things in your home, you still need a plan of attack. Our suggestion would be to move from room to room and try to stick to one room at a time. It’s easy to get distracted or avoid making decisions in the moment.
Let go of the old: We all have those few (or many) heirloom pieces that sit in the basement for years and years without attention. If you think you can bear it, get rid of anything that has no purpose or sentimental value to you – even if it is “antique”. There are plenty of consignment shops that have space for all of your interesting items from the past, and those items can find a new home!
Do you love it?: Especially with clothes, we tend to hold on to items just to have them. If you are choosing whether or not to get rid of something or keep it, think to yourself, “do I really love it?” If the answer is no, toss it to make room for more things in your home, like a new sweater or an antique lamp you decided to finally recover from storage.
Multiples or maybes: Multiples are never very practical, especially if you use one and not the other. Get rid of anything you have two of, especially if they take up a lot of space, like vacuums or strollers. There may also be some items that you are wary about, so if you have a “maybe” pile, keep it hidden away for about 2 months. If you do not miss anything in the pile, out it goes!
Bring some assistance: Sorting through things in your home can be difficult to do all on your own. If you have help from a friend or family member, it will go much faster and they can talk you through the always-tough decision of “toss or keep”. Make a game out of it and have a goal to eliminate 50%, or more of the clutter that is taking up space in your home.
Remember that downsizing clutter takes time and that’s okay! If you allot about 20 minutes or more every day, your entire home will be refreshed before you know it. Downsizing is a great way to start the moving process to your brand new Miller & Smith home, so let us help you find your dream home here.
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Wandering Free. Introducing the Proximity Button.
Why build a cafe for people with Dementia?
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged aconcagua fit, Argentina, Brazil, Compressport, fernanda, fernandamaciel, Maciel, Red Bull, summit of aconacgua, The North Face, tif, white flow by talkultra. Bookmark the permalink.
Hello Ian Do you know if the course and certification is ok ? 14h and 20’ is the demonstration the the women are very strong at altitude and,,, the Kilian performance is a Non-record ..
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Surrounded by the Castle Park is this fortress of Arab origin which still preserves its Keep, gate and the moat. Beside it stands the tower and dome of the Cathedral of Zamora, which are undoubtedly its most characteristic elements.
On your way to the Plaza Mayor, through narrow cobbled streets, you can admire a fine set of Romanesque churches, like those of San Ildefonso, La Magdalena or San Cipriano. Vaults with Gothic arches, apses and doorways decorated with plant motifs and the oldest reliefs in the city are some of the jewels that you will encounter in this lovely walk among the monuments.
In civil architecture, we should point out some emblematic buildings of Renaissance design: the Hospital de la Encarnación, seat of the Provincial Council; the Old City Hall, ordered to be built by the Catholic Monarchs; the Palace of the Momos, nowadays the seat of the Provincial Courts; and the Cordón Palace, which houses the Museum of Zamora. Another jewel of Renaissance architecture is the Palace of the Counts of Alba de Aliste (15th C.), nowadays a Parador de Turismo. In it you can relax on a canopied bed, admire its courtyards and try the region's culinary specialities. Zamora-style rice, stuffed hake and custard with almonds are some of the suggested of a varied menu centred on products of Castile and León.
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The Knox County Merit Commission has announced changes to the Merit Rules. The link below will take you to the updated rules. You can also find this information on our website in the Employment section as well as the Information and Alerts Section.
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Osteria 832 offers a wide array of pizza and other Italian favorites.
Atlanta’s culinary scene recognizes that parents are looking for delicious eats, in an environment that works for kids. Happy meals and plastic slides no longer make the cut. Here are 10 restaurants in Atlanta that promise a family-friendly experience with dishes that satisfy a sophisticated palate.
Mary Mac’s Tea Room (Midtown) Mary Mac’s harkens from the 1940s, when it was frowned upon for women to open a restaurant. Businesswomen used a more “acceptable” term- Tea Room. Just like now, the original menu at Mary Mac’s included a meat and two sides such as collards, fried okra or sweet potato casserole. It’s full-on southern fare here. The kids menu offers that same in smaller portions, each under $5. Lunch or dinner with kids at “Atlanta’s Dining Room” is not complete without taking home a package of their signature cinnamon rolls. Free parking in Midtown rounds out this top-pick.
Mary Mac’s includes a meat and two sides such as collards, fried okra, or sweet potato casserole. The kid’s menu offers that same, in smaller portions, each under $5.
Radial Café (Candler Park) Local, organic fare fills the menu at Radial. Gluten-free pancakes, cheese and bacon grits and pumpkin muffins are brunch favorites. The atmosphere is casual and easy with children. A large patio beckons warm-weather dining. The best part? Kids eat free every weekday!
5 Seasons Brewery (Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, Westside) Great brews, locally-sourced ingredients and a delightful kiddo menu merge for the perfect family outing. Forget typical pub fare; duck, rabbit and salmon whet the adult’s appetite. Younger guests fill up on grilled cheese, French fries or grapes. Kids eat free on Sundays.
Osteria 832 (VaHi) This neighborhood restaurant bustles with children in the early evening, with kids of all ages enjoying dinner, friends and a break between school and homework. Osteria 832 offers a wide array of pizza and other Italian favorites. Spaghetti, linguine, rigatoni with pomodoro sauce, crème sauce or pesto sauce. That’s just the pasta. Other options include pizza, chicken or eggplant parmesan and more. Meals off the kids menu are always $4.
Fickle Pickle (Roswell) There’s nothing fickle about the quality of food at this well-loved establishment on the main drag. Don’t miss the fried dill pickle slices, Brie BLT or the peach sweet tea. Kid’s staples include PB&J, grilled cheese or chicken fingers. Pick fries or orange slices as a side. The back patio is relaxing and inviting, and leads to sweet treats at Sugar Shack in the Back.
Bantam + Biddy (Piedmont Heights, Alpharetta, Buckhead) Regionally-sourced chicken, raised without hormones, organic juice and milk and gluten-free options galore, Bantam + Biddy is made for families. Breakfast is served until 3 p.m. on weekends, and includes options like the Build Your Own Garden Scrambler or Fried Chicken on a Cheddar Waffle. “Little Cluckers” pick from selections including chicken sandwich, chicken pasta and chicken tenders. Kids menu prices are higher than other places, but worth it for organic eats.
Tom + Chee (Alpharetta, Buford, Kennesaw) Grilled cheese and tomato soup: there’s nothing more perfect for kids. Tom + Chee ups the ante, with gourmet options that adults will appreciate, too. Try the Turkey Pesto with Mozzarella, or the BBQ and Bacon with American cheese. Don’t feel like a big bowl of soup? Try the Souper Dipper side, just right for a taste of the day’s special. Kids get half a sandwich, plus a side and drink for $3.50, or visit Monday evenings for $0.99 kid’s meals.
Waikikie Hawaiian BBQ (Druid Hills) Waikikie serves tasty Asian/American fusion with traditional Hawaiian BBQ sides like rice and macaroni salad. A casual ambiance with indoor and outdoor seating makes this ideal for families. Enjoy a pint while the kids play with the myriad puzzles in the seating area. Children’s meals are under $4, with options such as chicken tenders or teriyaki chicken.
Pallookaville Fine Foods (Avondale Estates) Pallookaville serves the best of “circus fare” for kids young and old. Kiddos munch on mini corn dogs and tater tots while watching The Munsters on the overhead TV. Adults should try the behemoth chili cheese dog with kraut and sautéed onions. Leave room for treats from the soda fountain, with options for both local-vores and vegans. Kiddos will beg for syrup sodas, milkshakes or egg-creams.
Dakota Blue (Grant Park) Unassuming from the outside, but the perfect dive inside. It’s a neighborhood pub that understands “neighborhoods” have kids. Bring family-friends on the weekend, hang out with a few beers and let your kids have fun under the corner window. There’s a tub of toys and books, and the tables include oversized checkerboards. When you’re ready to eat, try a Cuban or cheeseburger, both with plenty of fries, or opt for fish tacos with a special jalapeno tarter sauce. Kids can pick from a plethora of suggestions including quesadillas, grilled cheese, pasta or burgers.
Need more? Here are additional kid-friendly restaurants and here's a list of restaurants where kids eat free!
Like "Atlanta Restaurant Scene" on Facebook for more cooking demos.
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In the heart of the jungle, where rays of sun barely seep through the dense crowns of trees, enchanted statues have been hidden of evil pagan gods.
They bring disaster and misfortune to natives living in a nearby village.
Destroy the evil idols with magic fireballs blowing them up next to the statues!
Play this brain teaser totally free!
Download this bomber game for free!
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25B – Sport Science Shorts: Why Can’t We Perceive Acceleration & Does it Matter?
April 18, 2016 Rob PodEpisodes Comments Off on 25B – Sport Science Shorts: Why Can’t We Perceive Acceleration & Does it Matter?
How can we be so good at hitting and catching accelerating objects when we can’t really judge acceleration? Do we use anticipation or just correct errors based on feedback?
How Can People Be so Good at Intercepting Accelerating Objects if They Are so Poor at Visually Judging Acceleration?
Visual timing in hitting an accelerating ball.
Identifying the acceleration of visual targets.
Visual information about moving objects.
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Heated Seats, Rear View Camera, Blind Spot Monitoring, Lane Keep Assist, Apple CarPlay!
The all new 2019 RAV4 is here to help you realize your full potential in every moment.
Introducing the all new 2019 RAV4, a radical redesign of a storied legend. While the all new RAV4 is loaded with modern creature comforts, conveniences, and safety, this new SUV is still true to its roots of capability. Even if you decide to go with the hybrid drivetrain, don't expect this champion of all weather, all road to disappoint. The all new RAV4 is better than ever.
This super white SUV has an automatic transmission and is powered by a Regular Unleaded I-4 2.5 L/152 engine.
Our RAV4's trim level is FWD LE. This base model RAV4 has some impressive features. A 7 inch display with USB and aux inputs, Entune App Suite Connect, GPS subscription service, Apple CarPlay, Bluetooth, and a 6 speaker sound system give you all the connectivity you need in the modern world. A steering wheel with audio controls, heated bucket seats, power windows, rear privacy glass, rear window defroster, acoustic windshield, rear view camera, and keyless entry give you all the comfort you could need. For safety and convenience, you get an impressive array of airbags, LED daytime running lights and rear lamps, foldable heated power mirrors with integrated turn signals and blind spot convex spotters, automatic highbeams, blind spot monitoring with rear cross traffic alert, a pre collision system with pedestrian and bicycle detection, adaptive cruise control, and lane keep assist with lane and road departure warning. This vehicle has been upgraded with the following features: Heated Seats, Rear View Camera, Blind Spot Monitoring, Lane Keep Assist, Apple Carplay, Steering Wheel Audio Control, Collision Warning.
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Fred said he could beat the new man in boxing, but he lost and had to eat crow.
Compare: BACK DOWN, EAT HUMBLE PIE, EAT ONE'S WORDS.
Compare: DROP BACK, GIVE WAY.
To do more than look natural in acting a part; pretend too much; exaggerate.
When Tom told the teacher he was too sick to do homework, he really hammed it up.
The old-fashioned movies are funny to us because the players hammed it up.
To admit the excellence of; give credit or praise to.
You have to hand it to Jim; he is very careful and hard-working in all he does.
The teacher said, "I hand it to Jane for the way she managed the Music Club."
Syn.: TAKE OFF ONE'S HAT TO.
1. To go off rails; go or run the wrong way.
One would have thought that Goliath would defeat David, but it was the other way around.
The school newspaper lashed out at the unfriendly way some students treated the visiting team.
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Undo Tablespace can be chosen individually".
that there is only one way to add or drop undo tablespaces.
must end with the suffix ".ibu".
--innodb-undo-directory is not explicitly set, the datadir is used.
--datadir, --innodb-directories, --innodb-home-directory & --innodb-undo-directory.
--innodb-undo-directory to a relative path. It will be relative to the datadir.
A simple file name in the ADD DATAFILE parameter will be added to that path.
DD will be a relative path.
In order to DROP any existing tablespace it must be empty in the current design.
inactive and empty and can be dropped.
This could be done at any time by the user instead of DROP UNDO TABLESPACE.
WL#10498 changed the default value of innodb_undo_tablespaces to 2.
WL#10583 then changed the minimum value of innodb_undo_tablespaces to 2.
With 2 undo tablespaces, it is possible to use innodb_undo_log_truncate=ON.
So WL#10499 changed the default value of innodb_undo_log_truncate to ON.
undo tablespaces the same so that there will be no filename conflicts.
will not conflict with explicit undo tablespace names.
tablespaces active before these two implicit undo tablespaces can be made inactive.
rolled back, including rollback of the data dictionary.
tablespaces must be discovered and opened before the DD can be used.
the DD is not found at startup.
the current undo tablespaces which were moved.
Implicit undo tablespaces must always be located in the --innodb-undo-directory.
column called "STATE". This worklog will implement this display column.
either 'normal', 'discarded' or 'corrupted'.
active: These rollback segments can be allocated to new transactions.
inactive: These rollback segments are no longer being used by new transactions.
it was set implicitly, or EMPTY if it was set explicitly.
empty: This undo tablespace has been truncated and is no longer active.
normal: A normal active general or file-per-table tablespace.
InnoDB as having been corrupted.
tablespaces implicitly created at startup.
FR3: The ADD DATAFILE filename must use an extension of 'ibu'.
file name like 'undo_003.ibu' or it can be a full absolute file path.
ignored in this worklog and deleted in a future release.
dropped but they can be SET INACTIVE or SET ACTIVE.
to stop being used by new transactions.
tablespaces are active, inactive and ready to be dropped.
tablespace to start being used again.
exist, or is active, or has active undo logs.
different tablespaces but will serialize on the same tablespace name.
dropped. The 2 implicit undo tablespaces cannot be dropped.
picks one tablespace at a time for truncation when innodb_undo_log_truncate=ON.
that purge thread will truncate it.
'ALTER UNDO TABLESPACE `name` SET INACTIVE' can return immediately.
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_TABLESPACES in order to show these states.
one of the last transactions put into that undo tablespace.
is inactive and marked for truncate. It will remain available until it is empty.
TABLESPACE command, will use the DDL_LOG.
TABLESPACE DDL cannot be processed concurrently on the same tablespace.
information_schema.innodb_tablespaces table; active, inactive & empty.
before the truncation has completed.
recovery, so InnoDB consults the truncation log file.
as active. Then the DD is consulted and the persisted states are applied.
truncation log file is used for crash recovery purposes.
The purge thread chooses an undo tablespace to truncate because it is too big.
startup and it will be chosen again.
dd::tablespaces::se_private field is just named 'inactive'.
explicitly create the number of undo tablespaces that they need.
, 'undo002'. etc), are purged of any undo logs, they are deleted.
only be 2 undo tablespaces after upgrade to 8.0.
to locate undo spaces that are too big and truncate them one at a time.
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Oh, can I borrow someones bike by the way?? All the ones I get on have a defect of one type or another, they just keep breaking.
I have two mountain bikes (1 mens, 1 ladies) that i'm going to either give away for free or chuck out. There's nothing wrong with them... I just don't need them anymore.
Come and pick them up. Beechboro.
Fuckheads. I keep seeing this thread and I read it as "Trendy Sluts"
couple more I dug out. I seem to be photographer alot.
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The Miami Dolphins won their game on Sunday against the Tennessee Titans 16-10. The Miami defense had 6 sacks and Jay Cutler’s fourth quarter touchdown pass to Jarvis Landry proved to be the game-winner for the Dolphins.
But it was what happened during a break in the game that may have been the biggest play of the day.
The Dolphins shared on their twitter page, the moment that so many of us love to see.
A mom and her two boys thought they were being honored with a message from Specialist Michael Torres as they stood on the field at Hard Rock Stadium. As they watched the video playing, they had their backs turned and suddenly, Michael comes running up and surprising both his wife and two boys.
Please join us in praying for Specialist Michael Torres and all of our military that continue to serve and protect our freedoms.
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Immediately after the reports were made regarding the leaflets, Secretary of State John Kerry latched on to the issue in order to drum up propaganda against the pro-Russian separatists and implicitly conjure images of Nazi Germany to be associated with Russia, only months after Kerry played the Hitler card against Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government.
Kerry stated, "In the year 2014, after all of the miles traveled and all of the journey of history, this is not just intolerable — it's grotesque. And any of the people who engage in these kinds of activities — from whatever party or whatever ideology or whatever place they crawl out of — there is no place for that."
Zionist organizations have, of course, seized on the leaflets as well for their own purposes.
However, the “chairman of Donetsk’s temporary government,” Denis Pushilin, the individual whose name appears on the leaflets in question, denies that he had anything to do with them.
If the leaflets are real then such affronts against Jewish people are not only reprehensible but they should be condemned and responded to.
Fortunately, evidence now shows that the leaflets were entirely concocted by some other party and are, indeed, fake.
That the flyers were likely fake was not a difficult deduction to make even early on. First, the claims suggesting that Jews were being targeted because of their support for the Kiev “Bendery junta,” a reference to Stephan Bandera is bizarre to say the least since Bandera is known for his pogroms against Jews throughout Ukraine during the Second World War.
Also, the overwhelming majority of anti-semitic rhetoric espoused in Ukraine has come from the Western-backed coup government in Kiev with its connections to fascist cliques such as Svoboda and Right Sector.
Although the source of the leaflets is unknown at the moment, it is most likely that they were simply created for the sole purpose of trashing the reputation of the pro-Russian separatists and creating even further division inside Ukraine. While Kerry’s immediate grasping at straws immediately after reports of the leaflets came to light could suggest that the leaflets were yet another propaganda effort by the State Department/CIA network designed to capitalize on a media and country obsessed with political correctness and conditioned to believe that any all of “America’s enemies” are the “next Hitler, it is also possible that the leaflets were the brainchild of the regime in Kiev.
In the end, this latest propaganda effort is only surprising in the fact that it is largely incoherent in terms of the overall narrative that it attempts to promote.
We can only wait and see what propaganda the geopolitical battle between Russia and NATO has left in store for the masses in the coming days.
Chemical Weapons Use In Syria: More Propaganda?
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What are some typical allergy problems?
Respiratory allergy - usually related to a person who is allergic to inhalant allergens such as tree pollen, grass, animals, dust mites and molds. Hay fever (rhinitis) and asthma are the most common results of a respiratory allergy. Symptoms are usually sneezing, itching, watery eyes and wheezing.
Skin-related allergy - is a reaction to an allergen that you come into contact with such as fragrances, metals, and even latex. Symptoms are usually burning, itching, reddening or blisters in the effected area.
Food allergy - The most common food allergies are: milk, egg, soy, peanuts, and shellfish. The most common symptoms of these allergies are eczema, diarrhea, and in the worse case anaphylaxis.
Stinging insect allergy - the most common insect sting that seem to cause problems are wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, honey bees and fire ants. Some people just have a small reaction at the bite site. The most serious reaction is anaphylaxis which includes exhaustion, dizziness, swelling of the throat, unconsciousness, and even cardiac arrest.
Also known as allergy shots, is a preventative therapy that includes injecting small amounts of the allergic antigens into your body system. The same antigens that cause your problems are the ones to help you. The injections boost our immunity to the allergens that cause your reactions.
How often do you get a shot and how long do you have to get them?
Once you have been allergy tested and know exactly what you are allergic to you then start weekly shots. The number of shots can vary from one to three depending on how many things you are allergic to. The injections get stronger with every dose as long as they are tolerated. At that point you are in a maintenance dose and will be there for the duration of your treatment. Most patients are treated anywhere from three to five years, maybe longer depending on the severity of the allergies.
What are the indications that Immunotherapy may help you?
Symptoms are moderate to severe and occur more than two to three months a year.
Symptomatic medications have been unsuccessful.
Patients prefer shots long term rather that medication.
Allergens are not easily avoided.
Are there side effects to the allergy shots?
twelve hours after the shot. Although these may be uncomfortable they are not serious. The most serious side effect is anaphylaxis which is rare and very unlikely to occur when proper precautions are taken.
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March 01, 2018 13:00 ET | Source: InterDigital, Inc.
WILMINGTON, Del., March 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile technology research and development company, today announced that it has made a binding offer to purchase the patent licensing business of Technicolor (Euronext Paris:TCH) (OTCQX:TCLRY), a worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment sector, for $150 million in cash plus future contingent consideration. The combination of InterDigital’s and Technicolor’s licensing businesses in the increasingly complementary areas of mobile technology and video technology will create a world-leading R&D-based licensing enterprise.
In order to accommodate French labor law, InterDigital has made an irrevocable offer to Technicolor and certain of its subsidiaries to purchase Technicolor’s patent licensing business. After completing the required prior consultation with Technicolor’s works council, the companies expect to execute a definitive acquisition agreement, the terms of which have been negotiated. The transaction is expected to close in mid-2018, subject to conditions relating to consent of Technicolor’s partners, customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.
The transaction would dramatically expand InterDigital’s technology footprint in mobile devices, and also provide a platform for InterDigital to address new markets in home consumer electronic devices, including set-top boxes, displays and video streaming devices. While the current contracted revenue of the acquired business from Technicolor is much lower than its historical levels, InterDigital believes there is substantial unlocked licensing value in the Technicolor portfolio. The company also expects the net impact of the transaction on its core operating expenses to be modest. Consequently, the company expects the transaction to drive significant shareholder value, through the deployment of the acquired assets into both current license discussions and new license discussions in additional markets.
InterDigital will acquire Technicolor’s portfolio of more than 21,000 patents and applications across a broad range of technologies, including over 2,500 worldwide video coding patents, which will complement InterDigital’s existing portfolio of approximately 19,000 patent assets in wireless, video, and other technologies.
InterDigital will deploy the acquired assets into its existing mobile industry licensing efforts, and extend its licensing program to new activities in the consumer electronics field.
InterDigital will assume Technicolor’s role as the exclusive licensing agent for the joint licensing program with Sony related to display technology.
Technicolor’s global team of licensing experts, patent managers and support staff will join InterDigital and work with its existing licensing team to license the expanded patent portfolio.
InterDigital will pay Technicolor $150 million in cash up front. Technicolor will also receive 42.5% of all future cash receipts (net of estimated operating expenses) from InterDigital’s new licensing efforts in the consumer electronics field. There is no revenue sharing associated with InterDigital’s mobile industry licensing efforts.
As part of this transaction, InterDigital would also grant back to Technicolor a perpetual license for patents acquired in the transaction.
InterDigital and Technicolor will also engage in jointly-funded R&D to supplement InterDigital’s portfolio, which the companies plan to evolve and strengthen over time. The R&D collaboration will bring together the efforts of hundreds of engineers in InterDigital Labs and Technicolor Research and Innovation (R&I), and will leverage Technicolor’s recognized leadership in video, media and entertainment, and InterDigital’s recognized leadership in mobile, IoT and video. InterDigital will own the patents related to the joint research, and Technicolor will receive a license back to the assets resulting from the targeted research conducted by R&I.
Evercore is serving as financial advisor, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Jeantet are serving as legal counsel to InterDigital. Macquarie Group is serving as financial advisor, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP is serving as legal counsel to Technicolor.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements include information regarding our current beliefs, plans and expectations, including, without limitation, (i) our plans to acquire Technicolor’s patent licensing business; (ii) our expectation that we will execute a definitive acquisition agreement; (iii) our expectation that the transaction will close in mid-2018; (iv) our belief that the acquisition will result in one of the strongest patent portfolios in the technology industry and create a world-leading R&D-based licensing enterprise; (v) our belief that there is substantial unlocked licensing value in the Technicolor portfolio; (vi) our expectation that the net impact of the transaction on our core operating expenses will be modest; (vii) our expectation that the transaction will drive significant shareholder value; (viii) the anticipated strong results from the collaboration between the two companies; and (ix) our plan to engage in jointly-funded R&D with Technicolor that we plan to evolve and strengthen over time. Words such as "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "plan," "forecast," "goal," “envision” and variations of any such words or similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual outcomes could differ materially from those expressed in or anticipated by such forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation, those identified in this press release, as well as the following: (i) regulatory or other limitations on the ability of the parties to consummate the transaction; (ii) our ability to leverage the acquisition and strategic relationship to extend our current licensing program into new activities; (iii) unexpected delays or difficulties related to the development of the parties’ technologies; (iv) unanticipated delays or difficulties in the execution of patent license agreements; and (v) the finalization of accounting and valuation analyses related to the transaction.
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Tito’s Got Swag! track let’s you all strut and feature your swag.
Got Swag! is a tribute those who have that 'special something' in life and that special coolness radiates in all parts of their being, their walk, talk and everything else. Tito's upcoming R&B/Hip Hop Dance Instrumental track let's you all strut and show off your swag. Who's got swag?! You know you got it. Show me your swag.
Early Bird special on BandCamp.
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MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck Surigao del Sur on Wednesday evening, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
In its initial report, Phivolcs said the temblor hit 21 kilometers (km) east of Cortes, Surigao del Sure at 9:09 p.m.
The tremor of tectonic origin had a depth of 25 km, it added.
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Miscellaneous civil, electrical, instrumentation, etc.
Construction is complete on this $60 million project. This new WWTP was designed by Manchac Consulting Group, Inc. to replace the existing Red River WWTP. The new Red River WWTP has a rated capacity of 12 MGD with a peak flow capacity of 48 MGD. The plant has been up and running since December of 2014.
Manchac was authorized to begin the design of this project in April of 2011, with 480 calendars to fully complete the design and be ready to advertise-for-bids. The design was completed in April of 2012, and we received bids in June of 2012. The NTP was given to the contractor in August of 2012. Manchac’s construction cost estimate for the project was $67 million, and the low bidder was $60 million. In addition to the bid being $7 million lower than our estimate, we worked with the contractor and came up with over $1 million in Value Engineering items that the owner accepted. This state-of-the-art facility will serve the citizens of Bossier City for many years to come.
The City of Bossier City was experiencing failure of a major water transmission main that ran north-south through the heart of the City. The existing 20” reinforced concrete cylinder pipe ruptured numerous times and cost the City over $500K to repair over a two-year period. The City declared an emergency in accordance with Public Bid Laws in order to get the old pipeline replaced in an expeditious manner to avoid a situation of not being able to provide water to a large segment of the city. Manchac was hired in March of 2012 to design the replacement for the pipe and immediately had the route surveyed so plan and profile sheets could be developed. This project was complicated by the mere nature of the pipeline easement being only 10 feet wide. Just to the south of the easement lies the Louisiana-Arkansas railroad, and just to the north of the easement lie wetlands, private property, and businesses. To make matters more complex, the new pipeline had to cross a 20-foot deep by 100-foot wide canal.
It was quickly determined that horizontal directional drilling (HDD) techniques would have to be used to avoid the disturbance of private property and negating the need for the City to acquire ROW. Manchac designed over 11,000 feet of pipe using 36” Ductile Iron Pipe (Class 150) for the open-cut portions (about 8,000 feet) and 36” HDPE pipe (about 3,000 feet) for the HDD portions.
This entire project (beginning with the Notice To Proceed from the City, through design, construction, and closeout) was completed in three months. The project was broken into phases – one for the open cut portion and another for the HDD portion. Design work on the open cut portion was completed in two weeks and let to bidders with bids received in five days under the emergency provisions. The design work on the HDD portion was completed in three weeks and let to bidders, with bids received in seven days. All of the work was substantially complete by the end of June 2012. Numerous regulatory agencies were involved in the project, including the US Army Corps of Engineers for reasons of obtaining permission to clear vegetation in wetland areas. All approvals were obtained and mitigation strategies approved prior to letting the projects to the contractors.
Manchac’s original construction cost-estimate on this project was $10 million due to the fact that we feared HDD would have to be used for the majority of the route. We quickly got to work along with City personnel and obtained right-of-entry agreements from over 20 property owners, negating the need to use HDD. This saved the City $5 million.
In 2010 the City of Lake Charles contracted with Manchac Consulting Group for the design of improvements to WWTP ‘A,’ as part of Phase I of the improvements to the City’s wastewater system. Construction began in the summer of 2011 and was funded by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s State Revolving Fund.
Remove existing grit removal system, and replace with new aerated grit removal system.
Remove existing chain and scraper mechanism from each of the existing nine primary clarifiers, and replace with new chain and scraper mechanism.
Install new electrically actuated telescoping valves on each of the nine existing influent pipelines at the existing primary sludge pit and on each of the six existing influent pipelines at the new final sludge pit.
Remove the three existing primary and three existing final sludge pumps, and replace with three new submersible primary and two new submersible final sludge pumps, each VFD controlled.
Remove existing air diffusers in each of the three aerobic digesters, and replace with new air diffusers in each of the three aerobic digesters.
Remove replace the plant’s main utility transformer and other miscellaneous electrical equipment.
Construction was completed during the summer of 2012.
The City of Lake Charles contracted with Manchac Consulting Group in the fall of 2010 to provide design services for this project.
Work included installing a new waterline on Aster which will connect to the existing parallel waterline on E. Prien Lake Road and Craft Street. Construction was completed in early 2011 and included: 880 linear feet of 8-inch HDPE installed by directional drilling, 70 linear feet of 8-inch HPDE installed via open cut, eighteen new 1-inch service connections, and four new 2-inch service connections were tapped into the new waterline.
Manchac Consulting Group was retained by the City of Lake Charles to design to upgrade and rehabilitation of its Penn Street and 12th Street Lift Stations. This project will ultimately address the existing deficiencies in the Lift Station’s pumping operations. These lift stations are currently not keeping up with in coming flows due to the poor performance of the outdated, existing pumps. As part of this project, all pumps, valves and appurtenances shall be upgraded to provide more efficient performance. Also, all motor controls will be moved above grade to protect them in the event of flooding. This project will replace at each station the three existing centrifugal pumps and respective vertically shafted motors with three new dry pit submersible pumps. The below grade electrical/controls at each station will be relocated and replaced with new electrical/controls in a free standing control panel located on the exterior concrete slab of the stations above the 100-year flood elevation level.
Manchac Consulting Group was retained by the City of Lake Charles to design emergency generators for the City’s George West Water Treatment Plant, and Wastewater Treatment Plants ‘A’ and ‘BC’. The three generators will provide backup power generation for the operation of each facility in the event the primary power feeds are lost.
As part of the Sale Road widening project in Lake Charles, Manchac was retained to relocate a 12” water main. This project included a 2,000 foot directional drill to go under a bayou and avoid wetlands.
Clean, repair, and coat the wet wells.
Manchac Consulting Group worked as a subconsultant, designing a wastewater pump station and forcemain to serve a new park development. Design services also include a new pedestrian / golf cart path, a water line extension and a new boat launch for the park.
A 6-foot wide, approximately 3,500-foot long concrete path for an entryway to the park from the boat launch off Fitzenreiter Road on the Calcasieu River.
Manchac Consulting Group, Inc. was hired by Bossier City to provide engineering services related to the upgrade of their Don and Riverview Lift Stations. These two lift stations are two of the major sewer lift stations in Bossier City, and their reliable operation is critical. The Don Lift Station is located in the parking lot of Pierre Bossier Mall, and the Riverview Lift Station is located near Diamond Jack’s Casino. Reliability of the existing pumping equipment at both pump stations is no longer dependable, and much of the ancillary equipment, including flow meters and variable speed drives, is no longer in use.
Manchac’s scope of work includes selection of replacement pumps, mechanical design, electrical and instrumentation design, structural design, civil/site design, resident inspection and general engineering services during construction. This project consists of dry pit submersible pump design, dry pit ventilation improvement, electrical upgrades and wet well coating.
The engineers at Manchac have assisted clients across the State of Louisiana in obtaining funding of over $220 million through the State Revolving Fund (SRF) program. Louisiana’s Clean Water SRF loan program offers low-interest loans to communities for the construction or upgrade of wastewater treatment works and other water quality improvement projects. No other engineering firm in the State of Louisiana has done more projects with LDEQ’s SRF program than Manchac.
The area north of Bayou Desiard (North Area) in the City of Monroe suffers chronic sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) during heavy rain events. In the 4th Quarter of 2009, a flow monitoring study was conducted to identify and quantify wastewater in the sewer basins of the three major pump stations in the North Area. To alleviate these SSOs, a Sewer System Evaluation Survey, with subsequent basin rehabilitation, is ongoing, and final design is underway to upgrade the three major pump stations.
The three lift stations are Forsythe #2, Highway 165 and River Oaks. The work also consists of the replacement of the River Oaks Forcemain. Upgrade work at the Highway 165 and River Oaks Lift Stations consists of replacement of the existing pumps and installing new instrumentation and controls. The work at Forsythe #2 consists of the construction of a new lift station at the same site.
Manchac Consulting Group, Inc. was hired by Bossier City to provide an analysis of its North Raw Water Pump Station on the Red River. This pump station currently has a capacity of 48 MGD and provides raw water from the Red River to the City’s reservoir. The pump station was originally constructed in 1955 and is in need of rehabilitation or replacement.
Manchac, working with Ranney Collector Wells, provided the City with a design report covering all aspects associated with the three scenarios evaluated. Since it was determined that the soil strata in the area near the North Raw Water Pump Station is not conducive to a collector well, Manchac recommended the construction of a new inland pump station with a screened raw water intake at the existing water treatment plant. The design of the new 50-mgd raw water intake and pump station was complete in 2013 and the project moved to construction in the spring of 2014. The pump station was constructed using a sunken caisson (30 feet diameter and 60 feet deep) and micro-tunneling for the new raw water intake line. The $8 million project was completed in the fall of 2015.
Manchac Consulting Group was retained to provide engineering services for the rehabilitation of the concrete, gate structures and odor control system at the City of Bossier City’s Northeast WWTP. This project also included design of a temporary bypass pumping system while the headworks was taken out of operation during construction.
Manchac was authorized in March of 2010 to prepare plans and specifications for the rehabilitation of the headworks structure at the NE WWTP in Bossier City. The headworks structure had been subjected to high levels of H2 S gases causing extensive corrosion to the structure. Plans and specifications were prepared in accordance with the contract requirements of 180-days. Manchac also assisted Bossier City with procuring a loan through the State Revolving Fund program at LDEQ. Once the loan was closed in late 2010 and the funds for the project were secured, the advertisement-for-bids was released, and the NTP was issued to the contractor February 21, 2011. Construction was completed on this project in August of 2011, with a close-out contract value of just over $1 million (Manchac’s cost estimate on the project was $1.34 million).
The City of Lake Charles retained Manchac Consulting Group, Inc. to evaluate eight wastewater lift stations for mechanical improvements and electrical and control system improvements to prevent future flood damage during flood events associated with natural disasters.
Manchac Consulting Group was retained by Iberville Parish to design the upgrade to the City of St. Gabriel’s WWTP. This project was funded though HMGP funds. It included new effluent pump station and forcemain design over the Mississippi River levee and associated permitting.
Manchac was retained by the city to develop a plan for disposal of the city’s wastewater biosolids. Several alternatives were evaluated and a recommendation was made to the city.
Manchac worked closely with the City of Monroe to evaluate all pertinent city data in order to provide the most complete hydraulic model update. The hydraulic model was updated and used to evaluate system components to determine what infrastructure needs were required to provide additional capacity to outside bulk users. The modeling project was completed within a very limited time frame to provide the City with the information necessary to accommodate the bulk users.
Manchac was retained by the City of Lake Charles to provide a water distribution system model. Current and future demands will be evaluated, and recommendations for system improvements will be made.
Manchac Consulting Group, Inc. served as a sub-consultant providing design services on a number of design/build projects for American Water at Ft. Polk in Leesville, LA. The design work included water and sewer line extension projects and all associated permitting. Inspection services were provided to American Water as a third party service on design/build projects.
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Right now, mother nature seems to be assaulting 3 nuclear sites in the United States, one at Los Alamos and two in the state of Nebraska, all within the same time period. The web, social networks and media are burning up with activity about the news of these events and will certainly put 2011 into the history books. A quick web search turns up thousands upon thousands of results including video, photos and reports.
A first page result on Google showed a series of conferences being held around the world to discuss how we can prevent these nuclear accidents from happening in the future. For example, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently held a five-day Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety in Vienna in late June focused on the events of Fukushima. The purpose of the conference: "To learn lessons from the accident and to strengthen nuclear safety." Conference video and summaries can be found on the IAEA website.
Below are maps of the Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors and Research/Test Reactors that currently reside within the US. The maps were created by The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and their website provides a myriad of additional content that may be of interest.
Three Simultaneous Nuclear Accidents: Is this a fluke, or is there something behind this?
This may indeed be a fluke but there is another theory. At present, the US is experiencing bizarre weather including tornadoes, historic flooding, and even massive forest fires. These floods and fires, in turn, are threatening our nuclear sites. There may be a thread that links all these together. Much of the weather pattern in the US is governed by the collision of cold, arctic air from Alaska and Canada that sweeps down due to the jet stream, with the moist, warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. The boundary where these two large air masses collide forms a corridor which cuts across the US, extending from Texas and the Southwest all the way through the Midwest and onto New England.
Right now, there are two disturbances in this crucial collision. The first is La Nina, which periodically generates cold air in the Pacific. La Nina is apparently distorting the jet stream, causing it to move further over the Midwest. But also, the Gulf of Mexico is heating up by about 2 degrees, carrying more moist air over the Southeast. So the collision of these two large air masses is largely responsible, many scientists believe, for the unusual weather, which is generating monster rain storms, tornadoes, and massive flooding, due to more moisture in the air.
But why are historic levels of tornadoes and floods being recorded? No one knows.
La Nina comes back every few years, so this cannot explain the "100 year floods" and "100 year tornadoes." One possibility is that, on average, the Gulf of Mexico is carrying more moisture over the US, which could signal a historic change in our weather. This means that, on average, we could be experiencing not just "global warming," but more accurately global swings, e.g. flooding in one area and droughts in another. If this is correct (regardless of where this warming is coming from) it means that we might expect more floods to happen simultaneously with forest fires, which in turn can threaten farmland, homes, and nuclear power plants.
If so, there are many lessons.First, we have to factor in the "100 year storm" in all of our large construction projects. Engineers can no longer ignore the 100 year storm just because it will not happen in their life time or children's life time. The 100 year storm seems to be happening sooner than we thought. This will, in turn, make nuclear energy much less attractive. Second, we might have more "unprecedented" nuclear crises due to historically bizarre weather patterns.
This could change our very way of life.... Get used to it.
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After order confirmation, FANTAISIE DESIGN agrees to deliver his carrier all items ordered by the purchaser within a maximum period of 48 working hours. The carrier undertakes by contract with FANTAISIE DESIGN to deliver the order to the buyer's address provided by FANTAISIE DESIGN. In the case of a transport system called against-payment, the customer agrees to pay to the carrier or his representative the full amount specified in the order confirmation.
In addition, for deliveries outside mainland France, the customer agrees to pay all taxes due on the importation of goods, customs duty, value added tax and other taxes payable under the laws of the country receiving the command. FANTAISIE DESIGN disclaims any legal responsibility that if the payment of taxes was not made by the customer. Delivery will be made by La poste Colissimo or Chronopost or following the client's choice of transport in France. Delivery is made within the timeframe agreed with the customer by delivering direct to the addressee, or in his absence, another person authorized by the client. The possible delays do not entitle the buyer to claim damages.
The delivery in the countries of the EEC are carried by La poste Colissimo Europe or following the customer's choice. Deliveries outside the EEC deliveries are made by international postal services or following the customer's choice.
In case of defects, the buyer has the right to return under the conditions provided in this document. Are considered force majeure releasing the seller from its obligation to deliver, war, riot, fire, strikes, accidents and the impossibility of being supplied. The goods always travel at the risk of the recipient. Always check your parcel on arrival. You have 48 hours to file a claim with the carrier in case of missing or damaged.
For reasons of availability, an order can be delivered in several times to the customer. The customer only pays for one delivery. If the customer wishes 2 places of delivery, place 2 orders, with delivery charge.
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2:00 TO 4:00 PM AT EDEL1 FISHING DOCK LOTS OF GREAT PRIZES. DJ Dexter Dagger from 2PM to 4PM. He spins the best Rock and Roll and any requests that you may have.
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Making goals and sticking to them.
Live life to the fullest, eat greens, workout and be happy.
General up dates you might be interested in.
Leave comments below if you have any recommendations/ content you want me to write about and I’ll see what I can do.
Welcome to my blog, I’m Maisie.
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It’s A Titan Comics Doctor Who Sale!
In honour of this last weekend’s Doctor Who Comics Day festivities (launching this summer’s event, Supremacy of the Cybermen), Titan Comics and Comixology are having a Doctor Who sale.
Running until the 18th July, you’ll be able to pick up individual issues or trade paperback editions of the acclaimed Doctor Who comics series including the adventures of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctors written by the likes of Cavan Scott, George Mann, Nick Abadzis, Si Spurrier, Robbie Morrison, and Rob Williams.
In Comixology’s sale, you’ll also be able to nab the smash-hit 2015 Four Doctors event written by Human Nature/The Family of Blood writer Paul Cornell.
Artists on the various series include Warren Pleece, Neil Edwards, Simon Fraser, Alice X. Zhang plus many, many more.
For full details of what’s on offer, head over to Comixology now.
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Speakers examined branding and new-media marketing during the event this week in New Orleans.
“I get really excited about the future growth of our industry,” said Samantha Paxson, looking back on the first two days of Think 14. The vice president of marketing for CO-OP Financial Services kicked off the third day of the conference by reviewing the results of a survey CO-OP sent to CU leaders and employees attending Think 14.
Most respondents felt that the CU movement needed more national awareness. Some ideas for generating mass excitement for the CU brand were a national ad campaign similar to the “Got Milk” ads and creating a product or financial service that was unique to CUs. When asked why these ideas weren’t happening, some of the responses were a lack of courage and a prevailing “old school” mentality.
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A gente can be used as a substitute for nós (‘we’) in informal situations.
It’s extremely common but it’s not often mentioned in Brazilian Portuguese textbooks or grammar books because a gente, grammatically, is not considered a personal pronoun.
** Note that, grammatically, it takes the same conjugation of você, ele, ela.
Check out the video at the end of the post – It’s a very popular song from the Eighties that uses a gente in its lyrics.
A gente is more common in colloquial spoken Portuguese, but when you write it down make sure you write a gente and *not* agente, which means ‘agent’.
Tem gente que não gosta de ir ao cinema. / There are people who don’t like going to the cinema.
Tem pessoas que não gostam de ir ao cinema./ There are people who don’t like going to the cinema.
The inhabitants of a region, country, population.
group of people with same interests, congregation, community.
A minha gente veio de longe. / My folks came from afar.
Gente, vamos se não vamos chegar atrasados! / Guys, let’s go or we’re going to be late!
Gente! What is this? / Gosh! What is this?
Gente! Que complicado! / Gosh! How complicated!
Great and informative post! Thank you! Worst. Song. Ever. But I appreciate it..
Obrigado, Eneida! Se você tiver qualquer sugestão é só entrar em contato!
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Scheme, and if I was doing an implementation.
language, and would like to base a book I am writing on it.
jeopardize the mathematical soundness of the language.
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Let Mary solve all your Christmas troubles with this fabulous collection of her favourite Christmas recipes.
Mary Berry's Christmas Collection combines time-honoured festive favourites with a variety of new and exciting dishes to spice up the season. By taking the traditional Christmas fare and giving it a twist, Mary adds sparkle to every celebration.
Simple yet reliable recipes and Mary's handy hints will take the pressure off entertaining, whether it's for the big day itself, a Boxing Day crowd or an intimate New Year family gathering.
With an invaluable Christmas Day countdown, sample menus, shopping lists and ever-popular tips on preparing ahead and freezing, this is the must-have companion to the festive season.
Mary Berry is the nation's favourite baker and home cook. The much-loved judge of The Great British Bake Off, Mary is the author of more than 70 cookbooks. Mary is loved for her practical and unfussy approach to cooking, but when she is at home, she loves to be with her family and tending her garden - her other great passion.
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Remember to click on the links below the videos if you have problems watching them.Hope you enjoyed My adventure to the secret garden!
So many plants-so much to eat!
What a lovely garden, Speedy! How fun that you got to visit.
WOW Speedy, what a beautiful place!
OMD, that was soooooo cool Speedy!!!! I thinks I could spend furevers there! They are so purty!!!! And,, of course, I LOVED your movies! I watched them twice! (three times for the furst one, cause it was so short..☺) Thanks for letting us tag along!
WOW! Speedy, Mummy's new camera takes some fabulous photos! And that is quite the adventure indeed....such beautiful, bright gardens with a little house for children AND special bunnies like you!!!
What a gorgeous garden you visited. That is a great play hous Speedy, it seemed made for you :) Have a wonderful weekend all!
What a great garden. I love seeing all the wonderful places you explore.
You do have the best adventures, Speedy! It looks like a wonderful place.
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GDB -4.0: YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, VERNON?
The Oilers and Kings have landed in Vernon, BC for a pre-season edition of Kraft Hockeyville. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s game day.
It’s another busy day on the waiver wire. We’ve got a little bit of everything today. Famous prospects, unknown late bloomers, gritty mid-career guys trying to make it as fourth liners, and even a few proven NHL’ers trying to sneak a few more games in on their way down the career curve.
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"Note A standard Xbox 360 wireless controller can be connected to a Windows PC, but you must have an Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver to play games, even if you have an Xbox 360 Play & Charge Kit."
Taken straight off of Xbox's support page.
You might be able to find it cheaper somewhere else that's just the first one I found when googling.
Yes. When you look for adapter, you get an wireless station. But from the description of the cable it looks likr it should also work.
It shouldnt really work, but he was confident when saying that it worked for him!
Yeah sorry man just from what I've looked up it shouldn't work. Mabye ask him if he had one of the wireless connectors or what exactly he did. Is it a Xbox 360 controller or the one made specifically for the PC?
From googling it seems like that cable only transfers power and not data. That's why the inputs aren't being recorded. All the cord does it power the controller or charge the battery. The wireless connector is needed.
Play and charge kit is only for charging. If you want to use the controller you need the wireless adapter.
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Mysterious, beautiful, marvelous, fashionable, charming, and exciting are just a few words that visitors worldwide use to describe the city of Paris. If you are not so fortunate to marry in Paris, you can recreate its splendor at your wedding with the help of SG Wedding Favors. Here is our chic must-have I Love Paris theme ideas worth investing that your guests will surely remember.
The Eiffel Tower is perhaps Paris’s premier tourist destination to the world. For your wedding guests, it will also be a welcome sight since it relates to a Paris themed wedding and décor aesthetic. While you will not have the 1,710 steps or the 312-meter-high tower on site, our Eiffel Tower Glass Frames, gift bags, keychains, bottle opener, salt and pepper shakers, and cardholders will be just the things to bring Paris to your guests.
Our breathtaking vintage Eiffel Tower jewelry boxes also make ideal gifts for the bride and groom’s mothers, your bridal parties, or your loved ones. The velvet lining also adds a touch of class and old-world aesthetic which would add to the Parisian atmosphere.
If you cannot sit in the Square Jean XXIII and enjoy the decadent smell of cherry blossoms then you can at least bring those blooms to your Paris themed wedding. Add in the bright colored tulips, dahlias, lupines, peonies, Japanese anemones, and roses to truly create a vision of Paris when the city is in full bloom.
Palette colors in French include rose (pink), rouge (red), jaune (yellow), vert (green), bleu (blue), or violet (purple). If you plan on buying flowers from Paris, make a note of these colors since roses are pink, jaune, or rouge. Vert is all the rage in 2018, so keep it simple.
Paris is officially known as the City Of Lights for a reason. With nearly three hundred sites illuminated year-round and thirty-three bridges that light up the city from sundown to sunset, it will be easy to duplicate at any venue. Adding chandeliers, string lights, candelabras, candles, votives, and tabletop lighting will recreate any vision in Paris you like. It is also known as the city of romance which a blend of lighting would capture for both the couple and the guests. You can use lighting to create any focal point for guests.
Create a ceiling of lights to set a truly ambient atmosphere.
Intertwine lighting with your trellis and greenery.
Use sheer draperies and lighting to create romantic décor.
Table tapers set a breathtaking scene for that guests will adore.
Lanterns at outdoor weddings let your guests dance the night away.
Use pillar candles for outdoor venues so your guests can come and go.
What do you love about Paris? If you need more tips or want to know more about SW Wedding Favors’ themes, you can visit us here or stop by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.
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Car insurance serves a vital role in most car accident situations. However, even when car insurance is required by law, there will always be people that do not carry it as required. In those circumstances, you may wonder whether you will be able to collect compensation for your damages at all.
Often, the reason people do not carry car insurance is that they cannot afford it. That also, in turn, means that they likely cannot pay for your damages out of their own pocket. Do you have other options?
Many insurance companies offer specialized insurance coverage that applies if a driver hits you who has no car insurance. If the noninsured driver is at fault, then you make a claim against your own insurance company up to a specific limit. The claim usually covers items such as medical expenses and property damage.
Even when someone has insurance coverage, the limitation may not be high enough to completely deal with all of your losses associated with the accident. After maxing out the at-fault driver’s insurance coverage, you can use a specialized policy often referred to as underinsured coverage.
You must often purchase underinsured coverage specifically or add it to your existing plan. This coverage will “kick in” to cover your additional costs after the at-fault driver’s insurance is exhausted. You can only collect once from each source.
You may not realize when the other driver does not have insurance right away. Nonetheless, you should notify your own insurance company of the claim as soon as you suspect that the over driver does not have coverage.
Talking to your insurance carrier earlier rather than later is important because many policies have notice requirements that must be met. The notice period may be just a matter of days. As such, you should tell your insurance company that you intend to file a claim if the other driver does not, for any reason, provide you with insurance information.
An uninsured claim can take effect immediately in many cases. However, an underinsured motorist claim may take longer to develop because the at-fault driver’s insurance company will need to pay out the claim up to the policy limits first. You may not realize that you have an underinsured motorist claim until later. As soon as you realize you may have a claim, you should assert it immediately.
Generally, there will be an investigation regarding the facts of the accident and your related medical treatment. You may end up going through many of the same processes in this type of claim as you would if the claim was against a different insurance company. However, unlike third-party insurance claims, you cannot assert a lawsuit against your own insurance company if you cannot come to a settlement agreement. Many situations involve arbitration proceedings instead of lawsuits. These are hearings in front of an arbitrator and are generally more informal, with few rights to appeal.
Even when you are starting a claim against your insurance company, it is a good idea to have a car accident lawyer on your side. Your insurance company often does not have your best interests in mind, even when they are the ones providing coverage. Contact our team for more information.
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Cold, rainy, dark days also call for warm, comforting food - but also, I'd prefer that comfort food to be the kind that you can just come home to and throw in the oven no defrosting required. The internet / Pinterest is full of freezer-friendly meals, however a lot of them require tons of advance prep, or they require you to defrost before cooking, or they end up lacking in texture and flavour once reheated. You think that at pitch-black, pre-caffeinated 6am, I can remember to defrost something for dinner? Ain't nobody got time for that. I can't even remember to pack my lunch.
I did have some rare free time one weekend, and I wanted to create something that was relatively easy, made little mess, and was a cinch to reheat - without defrosting. Enter the freezer-to-oven twice-baked stuffed sweet potato. This adobo flavoured marvel is just as delicious the day you make it as it is 3 weeks later when you re-heat it.
Line roasting tray with parchment paper.
Slice potatoes in half lengthwise and place face down on roasting tray.
Drizzle with 2 tbsp. olive oil and season with salt.
Roast for 30 to 40 minutes (less time for smaller potatoes), or until fork pierces easily into center.
Remove from oven and allow to cool enough to handle comfortably.
Meanwhile, heat olive oil in pan.
Sautée diced onion until translucent.
Add beans, corn and salsa. Stir until heated.
Once potatoes are cool, flip them over and scoop out most of the flesh, leaving a small border around the peel.
Mash up the removed flesh & combine with bean mixture and chopped cilantro.
Fill potato skins with mash mixture. Serve hot.
IF FREEZING: Allow to cool completely. To freeze, wrap in greased aluminium foil and place on baking tray. Allow to freeze completely before stacking.
To cook from frozen, preheat oven to 425F. Place foil-wrapped potatoes on baking tray. Cook for 35-40 minutes, until potatoes are hot.
Serve with shredded cheese, mashed avocado and extra salsa if desired.
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Pause for a moment to consider how adept the NFL has proven itself at proactively addressing logistics and risk management. Whether we’re talking facilities, security, transportation or emergency services, there’s obviously a lot more behind the curtain than we know about.
Suffice it to say that little imagination is required to accept that the NFL sets an interesting, if not teachable, example — not just in terms of how to pull off a mega-event but how to react to most anything that could possibly go wrong. It expects problems and is prepared for them.
While it may miss chip shots on the reputational front, its Super Bowl planners and risk managers have an enviable track record. They have successfully dealt with everything from power outages to facility safety problems, to security breaches, to a number of weather-related nightmares. And they’ve done it under unforgiving pressure.
While it’s always risky to extrapolate lessons from a single event like the Super Bowl, general insights can be gained. For starters, developing the skills required to evaluate and prioritize risk represents less than half the battle. In fact, devoting too much time to prevention is a mistake. Even when accepting that the best risk avoidance plan may fail requires more than knowing how to respond. It’s about reaction time. To borrow a football analogy, it’s not just about making good reads, it’s about calling the right audible in real time during the course of the game.
We have provided a great deal of coverage to sourcing optimization. Mostly, we talk about its game-changing applications, especially in complex sourcing events. What we don’t talk about is how those same combinatorial algorithms can be applied to supply network design via optimized “what if” scenario-based analysis.
Optimization-based decision models are essential and precisely what supply network designers need, especially when acting as risk managers. And the latest tools make it easy to develop and interrogate decision models. The trick has always been about asking the right questions, because if you don’t, you can be assured of getting precisely the wrong answers.
Learn to think about it more simply. Think in terms of using optimization to allocate resources on networks that are invariably encumbered by constraints and preferences that may be intransigent, intermittent or one-timers.
So, if you’re out there assessing the latest and greatest “risk management solutions,” be sure to investigate the level of combinatorial optimization support they provide. Are the algorithms they use hard-wired to specific non-configurable apps? Is the optimization capability generally/separately accessible? Is it sufficiently flexible to accommodate intelligent, ad hoc curiosities? Is the reporting capability relevant to “what if” scenario-based outputs?
Good optimization tools should be accessible to test hunches. They should be business case builders. Don’t settle for less.
Consider it a tip offered in the wake of 1.5 billion chicken wings and an estimated 325 million gallons of beer consumed just a few days ago. To make that happen seamlessly required more than a lot of broad-based supply planning experience. At a bare minimum — at least in Minneapolis — it required someone who was thinking about bathroom capacities.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-26T08:50:12",
"url": "http://spendmatters.com/2018/02/07/super-bowl-can-teach-risk-management/",
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Campingplatz | Accommodation in Neiden. Fjellstue/Mountain Lodge by the Neiden River consists of 14 wooden huts, two buildings with sauna, showers and toilet, a large outside barbecue with a roof over it and a wood-fired outdoor bathtub.
The lodge also has a cafeteria, which serves food based on local traditions and raw materials. The cafeteria is fully licensed. Up in the mountains we have 6 wilderness cabins with sauna. Perfect for hiking and fishing.
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"Florida Athlete Agent Registration Law"
"Advising the Amateur Athlete to Preserve Eligibility"
"Intermodal Tariffs: A Problem of Conflicting Jurisdictions"
Law and Policy in International Business, Volume 9, Number 2 at 613 (1977).
Course Materials 1. “What is Sports Law and Who is a Sports Lawyer?,” by Matthew J. Mitten, Professor, National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2. “What is Sports Law?,” by Timothy Davis, 11 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 211 (2001). 3. “Sports law,” from Wikipedia free encyclopedia. 4. International Association of Sports Law (IASL), Athens, Greece 5. International Sports Lawyers Association (ISLA), Zurich, Switzerland 6. “UPDATE: International Sports Law,“ by Amy Burchfield 7. The Olympic Charter of the International Olympic Committee. 8. Olympic Oath, Olympic Creed, Olympic Motto and Special Olympics Motto. 9. International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Athletics. 10. United States Olympic Committee,” from Wikipedia free encyclopedia. 11. “Amateur Sports Act of 1978,” from Wikipedia free encyclopedia. 12. “Sports Immigration: Amateurs, College Athletes and Administrative Staff,” by Michael Catalotti 13. “Court of Arbitration for Sport,” from Wikipedia free encyclopedia. 14. “Golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics,” from Wikipedia free encyclopedia. 15. “Use of Participant’s image for advertising purposes during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games,” International Olympic Committee Rule 40. 16. “Advising the Amateur Athlete to Preserve Eligibility," by Gregory J. Tarone, Esq.,The Florida Bar Journal, Volume 62, Number 2 at 23 (l988), reprinted in adapted form as "Amateur Athletes and Eligibility" in Case & Comment, Volume 93, Number 3 at 3 (1988) and in The Sports, Parks & Recreation Law Reporter, Volume 2 Number 4 at 60 (1989). 17. "Sports Law World" outline, by Gregory J. Tarone, Esq. 18. MICLE Bio for Gregory J. Tarone, Esq.
Marquis Who's Who, a division of Reed Reference Publishing.
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Shady, damp areas are often a difficult place to maintain a garden. Coniferous (cone bearing trees) tend to create a rather acid soil environment making plant growth difficult. The soil can be amended with calcium sources. It is better to use decorative mulch, rather than plants under trees. Mulch will prevent root damage to the trees. Under deciduous trees (broad leaf trees) it is not necessarily a desirable place to plant, because of potential root damage to the trees. When you go outside of the drip line (the edge of the branches) the roots are deeper and the soil is less acidic making planting desirable.
Often by looking at a plants foliage, you can tell if it will do well in a damp shady area. Shade plants have large leaves to maximize photosynthesis.
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- A chance to work with the Industry's leading brand in a high visibility role as a part of the management team. The Proposal Manager will be responsible for preparing offers to Clients, contact with Clients in commercial and relational procedures, and in the conclusion of contracts and orders.
Our client is a leading European Oil and Gas Engineering MNC and have been present in the subcontinent for more than a decade. Delivering some of the biggest projects in the country, they have aggressive growth plans for India which will be significantly impacted by their Proposals function. They are looking for a Sr. Proposals Manager to be based out of Mumbai.
- Drafts procedures of the Propositions service and ensures the correct application of all the procedures within his department.
- Organizes the workload of his team and accompanies him in his rise incompetence.
- Depending on the workload and the importance of the proposal, it may be necessary to carry out missions of proposal engineer.
- As part of the pre-project, works in close collaboration with the Process Director and the estimating and planning managers.
- Ensures the basics of the thermal, hydraulic and mechanical design of tube furnaces directly designed and produced by the company in agreement with the Process department.
- Signs receipts for customer tenders and confidentiality agreements.
- If applicable, he requests extensions of deadlines to respond to calls for tenders.
- He communicates with customers during the development phase of the project.
- Checks the consistency of the Proposal Budget Sheet: estimate engineering hours in accordance with the services concerned, as well as costs and profits, with a view to validation with the General Management.
- Attends clarification meetings with clients, and introductory meetings.
- Provides the legal and contractual relay between company and customers.
- Participates in the final negotiation with the clients.
- An ideal candidate will come with at least 12-15 years' experience, with the experience of writing a business proposal/tender response in accordance with the procedures of the consultation. The person must exhibit strong commercial and contractual awareness and excellent negotiation skills. Strong communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills with staff, clients and vendors are essential.
- Willingness to operate with a high degree of ethical standards and trust is very important. This person will be the force of the proposal compared to the need expressed while mobilizing the necessary stakeholders (internal - external).
An excellent opportunity to work with an International player that offers great prospects and competitive pay besides a healthy work-life balance.
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Gucci Mane is back at it yet again, this time with another intriguing project that finds the trapstar challenging his alter-ego and best of all he’s just made it available for stream. 13-tracks with no features. Check out ‘Gucci Vs. Guwop’ below and if you’re digging it, head over to iTunes to support the cause. The project officially drops tomorrow but pre-orders are available.
Hip-hop is the last true folk art so lets make sure we keep it alive.
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Packaging Details: 1. knife sharpener electric ND-013; 2. 1 pc in 1 box, box size: 170*35*65mm, 48pcs in 1 ctn, the CTN size: 370*420*260mm; 3. 20'GP: 32000 pcs knife sharpener electric ; 40'HQ: 64000 pcs knife sharpener electric.
1. This knife sharpeners adopt handle encircled design which make sharpening safer.
2. Tungsten steel ,apply to all kinds of knives.
3. Use one hand hold the handle of sharpener the other hand hold the knife ,put the knife into the "V"slot, pull back several times.
allow for a consistent and reliable supply to our customers.
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• (John 17) Jesus' last teaching to his followers is actually a prayer - a prayer that when his followers are united in him, the world will receive the revelation of the Father's love.
• (Matthew 5:43-48, Genesis 37 & 39) Because we have a favourable relationship with our Heavenly Father, everything we put our hands to can prosper. Are we willing to believe that and serve in that way?
• (Ephesians 5:1-20) Imitating God may seem like an impossible task. But if we intentionally approach it like a child copying their parent, over time we will find ourselves looking a lot more like Jesus.
• (Luke 11:34, Colossians 1:12, 2:6-7, 4:2) Being thankful shouldn't be something we have to discipline ourselves to do. Instead it should naturally flow out of a closer walk with Jesus.
• (Galatians 3:1, Hebrews 12:11, Proverbs 12:15) Accepting and embracing correction has the potential for great benefits, but only when we have the humility to receive it.
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This entry was posted on Sobota, Květen 2nd, 2015 at 4:47 and is filed under Sport. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gasoline prices in the United States posted their second-biggest increase ever in a two-week period, due to the rise in crude oil prices stemming from the turmoil in Libya, an industry analyst said Sunday.
The national average for a gallon of self-serve, regular gas was $3.50 on March 4, according to the Lundberg Survey of about 2,500 gas stations, up 32.7 cents from the previous survey on Feb. 18.
The gross price increase was the biggest since the 38.44 cent-rise that occurred in the Aug. 26-to-Sept. 9, 2005, period following Hurricane Katrina, according to survey editor Trilby Lundberg.
"It is certainly in response to the jump in crude oil prices, which are responding both to the output reduction from Libya and from the shock value of Libya's crude on other crudes," Lundberg said.
Traders are also responding to the "fear factor" caused by continuing turmoil in 15 countries in the Middle East and Africa, several of which are important oil producers, she said.
"The effect ripples to the physical crude oil market around the world," she said.
The current average price is nearly 78 cents above the year-ago level, but is still about 61 cents below the all-time high of $4.1124 on July 11, 2008.
Among the U.S. metropolitan areas in the survey, San Diego has the highest per-gallon average price at $3.87, while Billings, Montana, was the lowest, at $3.15.
Even if crude oil prices do not rise further, Lundberg said she would not be surprised to see the pump prices go higher in the near future, because refiners and retailers have not fully passed through the increase in crude prices.
"In the short-term, we may easily see another 10- to 15-cent rise merely from catch-up in margins of refiners and retailers," she said.
The survey results could provide more ammunition for a U.S. strategic oil reserve release.
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2018-05-04 17:25:04 Error: Cannot obtain a lock on data directory /home/crypto2/.florincoin/. Florincoin Core is probably already running.
Also i can send some payments, i see the money leaving from the wallet, then i don’t see it in the block chain as if i lost the money.
I tried both SEND and SENDMANY.
I tried to reboot, to delete .lock file, to chmod .lock file, nothing. Any idea?
The sad thing is that it worked, i managed to send 50 blocks worth of value last week, this week i don’t know what happened.
Hi, please make sure you’re on the latest version of the codebase, the old version (0.10.X) has been out of date for a long time.
Contribute to flo development by creating an account on GitHub.
Some notes on how to build FLO Core in Unix.
the usage of the absolute path.
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Moto Guzzi Motorcycles | On Yer Bike for your Moto Guzzi Bike.
2018 witnesses the return of the Moto Guzzi franchise to On Yer Bike. This is an exciting opportunity to experience the classic Italian brand. All our Moto Guzzi sales staff and technicians undergo regular training, performed at the factory in Italy and covering the latest technology and latest models. We aim to ensure that you, the customer, receives the best information available.
For the year ahead, we will be stocking the V7 and V9 but customers can order any new model from the Moto Guzzi range. Additionally, our fantastic clothing store stocks Moto Guzzi branded items as well as the leading brands of motorcycle clothing.
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2-channel ABS, Moto Guzzi traction control (MGTC) and six speed gearbox. Motto Guzzi media platform feeds bike information to your smartphone. New 850 twin cylinder engine, can be modified for A2 licence holders.
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Number 29 of 1921. 21 litre fuel tank for extended range. ABS and traction control. Agile, lightweight and low seat height. In the showroom and ready to view now.
Brand New in our showroom now. ABS, traction control and 6 speed gearbox. Blacked-out detail styling.
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February Pet of the Month: Ollee!!
Say Hello to our New Groomers!
February Pet of Month: Yuki AND Nixie!
January Pet of the Month: Bobbi!
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Famously hearty, bold and unpretentious, Greek food is largely categorised by both its use of several recurring ingredients including olive oil, lemon and honey. Lamb, pork and seafood are common, along with aubergines, courgettes, onion, thyme and parsley (among other herbs). Aspects of contemporary cuisine, particularly the use of olive oil in both sweet and savoury recipes, can be traced back to ancient Greece, while a number of dishes synonymous with Greek cuisine have a strong influence from the Ottoman Empire – think tzatziki, baklava and moussaka.
This collection of Greek recipes demonstrates the bold, beautiful flavours of the country's cuisine. Rosanna McPhee's traditional Mpourekakia, mini pies stuffed with aubergine and feta, are a fantastic vegetarian starter idea, while Food Urchin's marrows stuffed with meaty moussaka are a delicious way of dealing with a vegetable glut. His Lamb kleftiko, a glorious roast lamb recipe studded with garlic and herbs, makes an impressive (yet simple to prepare) Sunday lunch showstopper served with a classic Greek salad and roast potatoes. Sticking to the theme, go Greek for dessert with his fragrant semolina cake recipe, an elegant treat based on the traditional Greek revani and drizzled with honey and orange syrup, yoghurt and pistachios.
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Jorge Retamoza is an absolutely personal saxophonist, musician and teacher. His continuous search is today a signature registered in tango world. His stylistic development, his role as a composer and his contribution to the genre not only from the repertoire but also from his instrument, has managed to revitalize the saxophone in Argentina and for those saxophonists who are interested in tango around the world, with phrasings, riffs and designs of every degree of difficulty, which are not applied until the insertion of Retamoza in the current music scene. All these items generate a unique book. In this work, you will find all the necessary elements (with theoretical and practical explanations, including a broad glossary of audios played by the author) that will allow you not only to acquire the ductility and technique to play the instrument with pleasure. Also, for the first time, you will apply the gestures typical of tango through the saxophone with the precision of the style of Salgán, Federico, Troilo, Grela, Marconi, Piazzolla or the author. Bend, glissandos, portamentos, slaps, frullatos, arrangements and transcriptions of the mentioned authors are a tool displayed equally in these pages of this book, and in the audios, allowing you to approach these concepts with dynamism and resources. It is good to point out that Jorge Retamoza’s work is directed to the four saxes but that the development of the chapters will be equally attractive and useful for other wind instruments such as the flute, the clarinet, the oboe, etc. Melos is pleased to welcome Jorge and bring you this new tool that we believe will be of permanent consultation, interest and enjoyment.
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React is a client side scripting language developed by Facebook for handling the view layer of web application and mobile application. It contains simple component based architecture in which components are small unit used in representing data. These UI components are reusable and can be called multiple times.
Declarative Design- React uses a declarative paradigm that makes it easy to describe as application.
Efficient – Through DOM simulation, React minimize its interaction with DOM.
Flexibility – React works well with most of known libraries or frameworks.
Components – Building components in React makes code easier to reuse and well suited for large project development.
Here in above example of simple react component where React.createClass method is used to generate a component class HelloMessage. <HelloMessage /> Instance component class and output information.
Things to know:- Keep your component small because every good developer knows smaller class or module are easy to understand, test and maintain.
React sees component as a State Machine and through this it interacts with the user to achieve a different state, rendering UI, user interface and data consistency.
The above example creates a LikeButton component, the getInitialState method is used to define initial state, i.e. an object that can be read via this state property. When user clicks on the component, it results in status changes, this.setState method modifies the status value, on each modification it automatically calls this render method, rendering the component again.
The main difference between state and props is that props are immutable and state can change based on user interaction. This is why some container components need to define state to update and modify data. Subcomponents can only pass data through props.
componentWillMount, componentDidMount, componentWillReceiveProps, shouldComponentUpdate, componentWillUpdate etc.
Following is a complete example of component life cycle methods.
In this example, simple increment button is created to increment number count. For a detailed description of these methods, you can refer to the react official doc.
Left side shows the simple helloWorld component and right is showing stateless component.
Now let’s see what’s going on in these two piece of code. Let’s look at left example first, in this simple react component in which name property is showing on click event of link. Here everything looks like simple view component of react as we discussed earlier.
Now if we look at right side of example, what’s going on there??
No class is needed:- Eliminating the class in stateless component results removes stuff like extends, something and constructor. It behaves like normal functional programing which reduces lots of code.
No lifecycle methods:- Functional component does not have its own state and lifecycle methods in a common component. Functional wording determines its rendering which is determined only by its attributes.
Where to use? :- As we know stateless component are function components so basically they can be used for presenting UI. Presentation component focus on UI rather than behaviour. That’s why it’s important to avoid State. In this case, State should be managed by higher level of component or main component.
Easily readable:- As we can see stateless component only function based component, this reduces lots of code due to elimination of classes. It only contains some piece of markup language and returns function.
Easy to maintain and test.
Performance :- Performance of stateless components are quite good since there is no state or lifecycle methods.
Any disadvantage of using stateless components?
If we make <TextInput as a stateless component then we can’t pass refs in it. The idea of stateless is that there isn’t an instance created for it (state). As such, you can’t attach a ref, since there’s no state to attach the ref with.
This piece of code will throw warning.
Stateless function components cannot be given refs. Attempts to access this ref will fail.
Lifecycle approach:- As we have discussed earlier that functional (stateless) components do not have life cycle methods.
Unable to control component’s rendition, because the shouldComponentUpdate method cannot be used and will be re-rendered when the component accepts the new property.
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Trinity Western University’s new music group, Trinity Worship Project is up for Praise and Worship Album of the Year tonight at the 40thAnnual Covenant Awards presented by the Gospel Music Association of Canada (GMA Canada) in Edmonton, AB.
Trinity Worship Project is one of six music groups nominated in this category that recognizes the best in original praise and worship music in Canada.
The Trinity Worship Project band was formed out of TWU’s Worship Arts program. Band members are TWU students and many are Worship Arts majors in the new Worship Arts program that launched in September 2017.
Music producer and worship leader Johnny Markin is an instructor at TWU’s Worship Arts program as well as the Worship Pastor at Northview Community Church. He is also a Covenant Awards nominee (2005) for Praise and Worship Song of the Year.
In May 2018 Trinity Worship Project went on tour as the opening band for chart topping UK-based Christian music group Rend Collective on the band’s The Good News Tour: United Kingdom Part 2. The tour included some sold out shows as they performed in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Inverness, Glasgow, Belfast, and Dublin.
The Worship Arts program has already been recognized as one of the top worship studies programs in North America by Worship Leader magazine. Bart Millard, award-winning lead singer and songwriter with Mercy Me, serves as the program’s Senior Advisor lending his expertise to encourage emerging leaders in Christian music.
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To feed the pension beast, state and local governments are starving education and infrastructure. But yes, something can be done.
With a GDP of $19 trillion, America is the richest country in the world. However, the IMD World Competitiveness Center recently ranked our education system as 24th out of 61 countries, and the American Society of Civil Engineers recently rated our infrastructure—the roads, bridges, and water systems that were once the envy of the world—as a D+.
These failings are so often cited that we have become numb to them. If our education and infrastructure systems, which are largely managed and paid for by state and local governments, were improving, these poor ratings would be easier to tolerate. But the opposite is true.
We all know that the federal budget is under tremendous pressure, but the budgets of states, cities, and other local governments (SLGs) are under even greater pressure. This pressure will not ease for a generation, if then. The inescapable consequence is that the funding of education and infrastructure will continue to be under immense pressure for as far into the future as we can realistically see.
The issue is this—for years SLGs’ expenses have been relatively constant as a percent of GDP, yet their pension and Medicaid costs have been skyrocketing, crowding out investment in education and infrastructure. It will take a radical, perhaps even heretical, new approach to these expenses to restore our ability to properly invest in these two areas.
Federal budget expenses, which are endlessly scrutinized, are currently about $4.2 trillion or 23 percent of GDP. The expenses of SLGs, when added together, come to a half again that amount (net of federal subsidies and pass-throughs)—another $2.1 trillion or 11.5 percent of GDP. This is a massive amount that deserves almost as much scrutiny as federal spending. Together, federal, state, and local governments spend 34 percent of our national income.
Surprisingly, over the last 30 years, SLG budgets have been relatively flat in relation to GDP, at roughly 12 percent. (Federal expenses have ranged, in that period, from highs of 24 percent under President Reagan and 26.5 percent after the 2008 financial crisis under President Obama, toc a low of 19 percent under President Clinton.) Because total SLG spending has been roughly constant compared to GDP, the issues in SLG spending have been issues of mix—increases in relative spending in one area have been offset by decreases in relative spending in another area.
How do SLGs spend their money? Most is spent on education —$890 billion, or 34 percent of all spending. That is followed by $666 billion, or 26 percent spent on social benefits, including Medicaid. Next comes “economic affairs,” mainly highways, transportation, and other infrastructure, at $334 billion, or 13 percent. Chart 1 provides an overview. All these numbers are before the receipt of federal grants or reimbursements of $531 billion—including $340 billion for Medicaid.
Importantly, approximately 75 percent of all spending on infrastructure and education comes from SLGs. If you want to fix schools, roads, bridges, or water systems, the place to go is to SLGs. Even the hopes of the current Administration for an incremental $1 trillion in infrastructure investment places much of that burden onto SLGs.
However, as a practical matter, SLGs are more limited than the federal government in how much they can spend and invest. Many states are required, by their own laws, to maintain a balanced budget, and even if this restriction did not exist, states have a constraint on debt issuance that means they need to stay closer to a balanced budget. That constraint is the lower debt ratings and higher interest costs that too much debt issuance would bring. Currently, all SLG debt totals $3 trillion. That’s about 17 percent of GDP, not that much higher than where it stood in 1970. In that same timeframe, federal debt has skyrocketed from 38 percent to 108 percent of GDP, a whopping $20 trillion total. Yet federal debt has maintained its pristine credit rating. Why are SLGs constrained in how much debt they can issue when the federal government is not? Largely because, through its Treasury and the Federal Reserve, the U.S. government can “print” money, while SLGs can’t and therefore have to live within their means. This makes the pressure on SLG expenditures more immediate, real, and painful.
There is risk in attributing to a single SLG any of the trends observed for the whole, and of course the trends we highlight in this article are not true of all SLGs. But directionally they should be helpful in illuminating trends and issues that are impacting a significant number of them.
This article focuses primarily on the pension expense problem, but will offer a few words on Medicaid as well.
What expenses have been crowded out? What expenses have declined the most as a percent of total SLG spending during this period? The answer is both capital spending, which is primarily infrastructure, and education. (See Chart 3.) On a relative basis in ratio to GDP, education spending is down $40 billion and capital outlays are down $56 billion over this same 15-year period. Notably, these are the very areas where we have regressed so markedly in comparison to our own historical standards and to the rest of the world.
Before I go further, I would point out that education, infrastructure, pensions, and health care for the poor (Medicaid) are as important and as emotionally charged as any government policies I could mention. As I have examined the budgets of SLGs, been confronted by these trends, and then shared these finding with various audiences, I have encountered pushback from those who hope and believe that we should not, and do not, need to curtail spending in any of these areas.
Given this, I must quickly set forth that I am in wholehearted favor of strong investment in education, health care, and infrastructure. And I fully support defined benefit pensions for existing public employees. Our public-sector workers are crucially important, healing, protecting, teaching, and serving all of us. But this article is about finances. It is about what things cost today and what they are almost certain to cost in the future, and what the implications of that are likely to be.
Of course, SLGs can overcome this expense limitation by raising taxes and fees. But there are 50 states and hundreds of cities, almost all of which are constantly and energetically trying to “poach” businesses away from other cities and states. As a result, the strategy of raising taxes is fraught with the risk of driving away businesses and households to those other cities and states. Further, the Republican Party, for which it is a central tenet to keep governments small and taxes low, controls 60 percent of state legislatures. The net of this is that the remedy of significantly higher taxes and fees is currently unlikely, leaving intact the problem of diminishing education and infrastructure investment.
Pension benefits paid have been increasing at 6.3 percent per annum over the last ten years, almost double the rate of economic growth. And the “employer contributions” of SLGs have had to increase as well, rising by 8 percent per annum over the last five years. Pension costs are rising because of increased pension benefits and an aging workforce. In New York’s State Teachers Retirement System, employer contributions have had to increase by $2.6 billion in 2015 versus 2001, as pension benefit payouts have grown by 120 percent. And New York is one of the few states with well-funded pension plans.
For many years, a large number of SLGs have simply not been making the employer contributions they should have been making.
Unlike New York, most SLGs pensions are underfunded, so what was already a budget issue for those few states with well-funded pension plans has become an even more intense problem for those with underfunded plans.
According to data from the Federal Reserve, in aggregate, the SLG pensions funding ratio is only 67 percent, which means they are underfunded by a whopping $1.9 trillion. That’s equal to 10 percent of GDP. This is explained by the fact that, for many years, a large number of SLGs have simply not been making the employer contributions they should have been making.
In one small but representative example of pension underfunding, the city of Philadelphia has a $8 billion annual “all funds” budget and an overall pension obligation of $11 billion, but only $4.5 billion of this obligation has been funded. The numbers make the story painfully clear. There is simply no way to increase employer contributions from a $8 billion general operating budget enough to make up a $6.5 billion deficit without radically impacting other expenses or adding a major new tax burden—even if you have years to do it.
So why haven’t SLGs been required to make the high level of contributions that would have truly kept these pensions fully funded? The short answer is that they have, to a large extent, been able to make their own rules. And in the context of perennial and increasing budget challenges, they and their actuaries have made overly optimistic pension forecasts which have resulted in lower-than-needed pension contributions.
Though exempt from ERISA, there are a number of more recent laws and regulations that have gradually increased the urgency with which SLGs are now trying to address these pension deficits. These include the Pension Protection Act of 2006 and a Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) pronouncement that mandates that SLGs make a more overt disclosure of pension underfunding in their financial statements. This GASB pronouncement makes it much more likely that rating agencies will take these unfunded positions into account when rating the debt of these SLGs, impacting both the rates SLGs pay on their debts and the amount of new debt they are able to issue. There are also state laws, state-level court cases, and pension boards which govern and influence the management of these pensions. Further, there are provisions regarding pension funding in the SLG union contracts themselves.
All this has increased the pressure on SLGs to make larger pension contributions, which simply makes it more likely that other non-pension categories of spending will get less.
To try and keep up with rising pension costs and address pension underfunding, SLGs, in aggregate, have increased “employer contributions” by 8 percent per annum during the last decade—which means they contributed a total of $76 billion more in 2015 as compared to ten years before—for a total employer contribution of $132 billion in 2015. Yet even with this rather massive increase, they continue to lose ground and, in aggregate, the SLG pension funding ratio has plummeted from 92 percent in 2006 to 67 percent in 2016. Even though contributions have been rising, they have not been increasing nearly enough to keep pace with growing pension liabilities.
The numbers for 2015 illustrate the dilemma. In aggregate during 2015, SLGs made employer contributions of $132 billion, up by $45 billion over the same contribution just five years earlier. Add to that employee contributions of another $48 billion, and investment returns which were $169 billion, all against a $286 billion in benefit payouts. So far so good. However, pension liabilities increased by $262 billion, so the overall pension funding gap increased by $200 billion in that period. Indeed, it is a daunting equation.
Going forward, even if SLGs increase employer contribution levels by 8 percent per year, which is far greater than the rate of GDP growth, I estimate that the funded ratio will not improve from the current 67 percent ratio. In fact, it may even decline. I estimate that it will take an additional $100 to $200 billion each year over the next 20 years beyond recent aggregate employer contribution levels to reach the fully funded level. In other words, it’s a fiasco.
How did we get in this mess? Well, it didn’t take long. These pensions were actually more than fully funded as recently as 2000. That happy circumstance came after the extraordinary bull market that accompanied the first Internet boom of the late 1990s. As of January of 1999, stocks had gained an incredible 28 percent per year over the prior four years. The Internet revolution had seemingly ushered in a new era in stock performance—at least in the minds of pension managers and actuaries. To them, the pension investment return projections of 5 to 8 percent that had historically been used in establishing required employer contributions seemed unnecessarily tame, and SLGs aggressively raised these forecasts. The sky was the limit.
In the wake of this heady period, many SLGs significantly increased pension benefits to their employees. Then came the inevitable correction. In the ten-year period through January 2009, stocks declined by 30 percent, decimating the forecasts of pension managers. That, when paired with the large increases in benefits that had been granted, yielded the ugly underfunding we see today. While the investment return assumptions that led to this seem naïve in hindsight, at the time, sweetening pension benefits seemed like a no cost bargaining chip in union negotiations.
Facing this funding challenge, for those cities in the very worst shape, bankruptcy is an option. This was shown in the bankruptcy of Detroit, where the general retirement fund reached a low of 53 percent funded and was a major part of the financial dilemma. But states can’t declare bankruptcy, and state pensions are 82 percent of all SLG pensions.
Why, then, aren’t SLGs renegotiating with employee unions to reduce benefits? Actually, these discussions are occurring widely, but the unions fiercely defend these pension benefit gains and generally have significant political clout, so the modifications have been small.
Can SLGs address this underfunding problem by pursuing higher return investments? They have certainly tried. Historically, pensions have invested conservatively, investing primarily in bonds, stocks, and cash. But large funding deficits have caused many SLG pensions to consider alternative investments that hold the hope of higher returns, including hedge funds. But those alternatives have largely not met these higher return expectations and thus have not reduced the funding deficit.
Stuck between Scylla and Charybdis, many SLGs are doing as much as is politically feasible and, in an already challenging budget environment, battling to modify pension benefits and increase pension contributions. Many of these efforts and attempts are bold and admirable—moving some component of plans to a defined contribution structure, which I’ll discuss below, or introducing some other creative form of risk-sharing and benefit reduction. These SLGs are then coupling these changes with brave assumptions on investment returns, benefit payouts, and increased employer contributions to create new long-term pension forecasts which show funding reaching acceptably high levels. And then they are declaring victory.
We have seen a number of these new forecasts. However, when we have examined them ourselves, we have come to much less optimistic conclusions. As an example, Philadelphia, with a funded ratio of 45 percent, now forecasts that its pension liabilities will be at 93 percent funded by 2035. But to achieve that, it forecasts an investment return of over 7.7 percent per annum, instead of the roughly 5 percent that has actually been achieved by most pension managers over the last decade or the roughly 4 percent return Philadelphia achieved over the last 5 years. If Philadelphia had used 5.5 percent instead of 7.7 percent in its projections, its funded ratio in 2035 would have been 62 percent instead of 93 percent. Add in slightly less positive assumptions about employer contributions and benefit payouts and the funded ratio in 2035 could fall below 50 percent. Philadelphia is not unique as regards this issue.
The Kentucky Teachers Retirement System takes this optimism in reporting a step further and actually publishes two different funded ratios for the same period. The first fulfills their GASB reporting requirement and shows a 35 percent current funding ratio. The second is produced for the Kentucky legislature and shows a 54 percent funding ratio.
These pension changes and optimistic forecasts serve an important related purpose. Credit ratings analysts will be less concerned about the impact of pension underfunding on a given city or state’s overall credit rating if there is a plausible plan to achieve a high level of funding over a 10 to 20 years time horizon. There is an incentive to put forward an optimistic forecast.
So, while the efforts of SLGs to make changes to their contributions and other program aspects have helped, they have not solved the problem. Instead, for the most part, the net impact of these efforts in a given city or state has been to push back the problem by a few years.
The aggregate national numbers for SLG expenses paint a picture that is bleak but clear. If the net annual SLG expense budget is $2.1 trillion, and every bit of that is spoken for every year, how in the world will SLGs ever make up a whopping $1.9 trillion pension funding deficit without compromising spending in key areas, even if they have decades to do it?
Which brings us to the one thing that, ironically, may be the biggest problem of all—almost none of these pension funds will actually run dry any time soon. Even New Jersey, which has been criticized for poor pension funding and management practices, has $84 billion in its collective funds, enough to sustain benefit payouts for as much as 20 years with no additional employer contributions. Because of this, an emergency that would prompt truly radical change to these programs simply doesn’t exist. And so the pattern I have just described will continue to repeat itself.
The house is not on fire, but the foundation is crumbling.
Conventional pension plans, including most SLG pension plans, have almost all been defined benefit (DB) plans. With these, the employer (and often the employee) makes regular contributions to employees’ pensions, and, after retirement, the employee gets a pre-determined monthly payment (e.g. 70 percent of their highest salary level), usually for the rest of their lives. The employee gets this “defined benefit” no matter how successful or unsuccessful the investment of the pension funds has been. Though a highly popular benefit provided by large corporations to their employees in the decades after World War II, the majority of corporations have abandoned this type of plan because it has proven to be difficult to manage financially. A corporation may have made all the required contributions and yet face a crisis in a given year by having to make an unexpected and extraordinarily large pension contribution because of changes in interest rates, changes in projected life expectancy, poor investment performance, or other factors. The long-term nature of pensions means that small changes in trends or key assumptions, when considered over the decades-long timelines of these plans, can result in huge and unwelcome changes in the current required pension contribution.
Further, if, at a given company, the benefits of a pension plan are high relative to the amount contributed, these plans depend on a continually rising employee headcount to remain fully funded, and quickly develop problems with funded levels if hiring slows down or declines.
Given these issues, the vast majority of corporations have replaced these “defined benefit” (DB) pensions with programs such as 401ks that are considered “defined contribution” (DC) plans. With these, the employee, often in conjunction with the employer, makes regular contributions to the plan. The ultimate retirement benefit paid to employees is a function of how much is contributed and the actual investment returns on those funds. The employee assumes the risk of changes in investment performance and other factors. Some have protested that it is unwise to move these risks to the employee, since many are not sophisticated enough to manage their own retirement funds. Yet I am assuming that protections and aids can be legislated to minimize these problems. It should be noted that having the risk reside with the SLGs instead of with the employees has not been without its own downside—the education and infrastructure downside to taxpayers described in this article.
These defined contribution plans have none of the volatility and accounting surprises associated with DB plans, and they have almost none of the employer underfunding problems either. There is no possible mystery or ambiguity as to how much a given employer needs to contribute. They either make these contributions or they don’t.
By and large, however, the employees of SLGs have remained on DB plans and therefore pension liabilities continue to skyrocket, increasing by an average of $232 billion a year over the past five years—and we have the $1.9 trillion pension funding gap to show for it. Further, since they have remained on DB plans, they remain subject to this volatility and the propensity to underfund.
As a first step to fixing the problem and preventing further funding abuses, SLGs should convert to DC plans for any employees they hire in the future. Initiatives to do this have been taken in many cities and states with some initial success, but not without concerted opposition and numerous legal, contractual, and regulatory barriers to its achievement. Make no mistake, these DC plans can be structured to be as generous as a DB plan. Furthermore, when corporations have moved from DB plans to DC plans, they have kept existing employees on DB plans, and that would be done here as well. Unless this—or something very close to it—is done, the already-formidable pension problem will simply compound and the costs will become even more overwhelming.
A recommendation that employees hired in the future be given DC plans instead of DB plans should come as no surprise. The vast majority of corporations have long since concluded that DB plans were not feasible and made that change. The problems related to existing increases in payouts and existing underfunding will not vanish even if new employees are placed on DC plans. But since no new employees will be added to these DB plans, at least the problem will be capped.
Once capped, pension plan liability growth would begin moderating over time. But moving to DC plans is only a first step, since SLGs will still need to increase employer contributions or make other changes to address the benefit obligations already embedded. As mentioned above, by my estimate, these could reach an additional $100 to $200 billion each year above current contribution levels. It will be enormously difficult for SLGs to increase contributions to these levels, so we will need to take additional steps—steps that bridge the funding gap for those employees still in DB plans, but also leave enough room in SLG budgets for increased investment in other SLG priorities.
The federal government could assume responsibility for the unfunded liabilities of those SLGs in need. The federal government has the capacity to do this. In this scenario, the SLGs would continue to make employer contributions for the 67 percent portion of pensions already funded, using the investment income on pension funds to pay benefits, and paying any portion not covered by investment funds out of other funds. The Federal government would then pay the pension benefits on the 33 percent of SLG pensions that are unfunded, an amount we would estimate as roughly $90 billion for 2017. This would free that level of funds in SLG budgets, allowing them to accelerate investment in education and infrastructure, revitalizing our nation’s performance in those areas, and igniting a jobs revolution as well.
Suffice to say, that is an enormous amount of money—which unfortunately reflects the magnitude of the problem. Given that the federal government is wrestling with its own $20 trillion in debt and its own annual deficits, this scenario is highly unlikely. This brings us to the two proposals below, which both provide a solution without the same onerous current expense consequences.
But first a dose of heresy. Why do we need to fully pre-fund our future SLG pension obligations? I ask this question only in light of the $1.9 trillion size of the pension funding deficit and the acuteness of the need in education and infrastructure. I would hasten to note that this particular heresy depends on pensions being converted to DC plans for futures hires and thus capping future liability—I would not dare make these suggestions otherwise. The answer is this: the reason to pre-fund retirement obligations in the form of a pension fund is to guarantee that the funds will be there when the pensioner retires. It’s a credit guarantee. But it isn’t a given that we have to have the credit guarantee for state pensions that a fully funded pension provides. After all, states (which are 82 percent of all SLG pension dollars) can’t declare bankruptcy, and the full taxing authority of the states serves as a guarantee that pensions will be paid.
A fully funded pension is a form of credit guarantee absolutely necessary for private sector pensions that may not be needed for the public sector. Furthermore, a guaranty from the Federal government, which would entail no direct cost to the Federal government, could be employed if further credit assurance were somehow needed. By pre-funding future SLG pension obligations, we have locked up $3.9 trillion in these funds—the 67 percent that is funded—that could instead be used for investment. If future pension obligations don’t need to be fully funded, then SLGs don’t need to try to make the arduous climb back from being 67 percent funded to being 100 percent funded. The annual cost difference between the two is enormous.
In this approach, SLG’s would abandon their attempt to achieve a fully funded ratio, and instead simply maintain their current funded ratio. If, for example, a given SLG was at a 60 percent funded ratio, it would no longer even attempt to return to a 100 percent funded level, but instead would make an iron-clad commitment to stay at a 60 percent funded level (and do this through operations rather than by issuing debt). In our view, for many SLGs, it will be hard enough to simply stay at the current funded ratio. This may very well still require big increases in current employer contributions, but at least that SLG could abandon the even bigger increases required to get the fund back to 100 percent. By our calculation, this would reduce the current annual aggregate SLG employer contribution requirement by over $100 billion each year over the next twenty years from the level truly required to become fully funded. This would free this sum for a tremendous increase in productive, job creating investment. After that 20-year period, since all new employees will have been hired into DC plans, liabilities will be smaller than they otherwise would have been, and therefore benefits paid in the year 2037 forward will likely be readily manageable.
If a state truly doesn’t need full funding as a credit guarantee, why even aim for the 60 percent funding level mentioned above? Thus an even more radical variation on Option 2 above would be to allow the funded ratio to decline through time to some minimum threshold—e.g. 30 percent—over a strictly defined period of time—say 20 years—and then make an iron-clad commitment to stay at that 30 percent thereafter. (Someone more radical than I might even suggest a lower threshold). The 30 percent would serve as a credit reserve. In addition, as suggested above, a federal guarantee could added if required. This more radical version would eliminate the current annual aggregate SLG employer contribution requirement for the next twenty years, freeing an even greater sum for productive, job creating investment in areas like infrastructure and education. Employer contributions should be manageable after that as described for Option 2 above.
Both #2 and #3 face objections and a daunting gauntlet of legal and regulatory obstacles and would require any numbers of changes. I have reviewed the sources of these obstacles briefly above—state law, IRS law, court decisions, GASB pronouncements, union contracts, and more. But because this is a multi-trillion dollar issue, and the alternative is a continued long-term erosion of other needed SLG investment, they are worth considering nonetheless.
Conceptually, both #1 and #2 suffer from an element of unfairness, since states that have been responsible in maintaining high levels of funding would receive no greater benefit than profligate states. Option 3 has the distinct advantage of a greater reward for states that have been responsible, since their reduction in required employer contributions would be far greater than for those that haven’t.
Option 3 could be a radical, era-redefining breakthrough for what has heretofore been an intractable, unsolvable problem.
What Can Be Done About Rising Medicaid Expenses?
The Medicaid cost issue is every bit as difficult. The crucial thing to note is that the CBO is forecasting that the program’s costs will rise at a rate of 5.5 percent per year through 2025 when the economy itself is projected to grow at 3 percent or less per year. If true, it could crowd out an even greater portion of other SLG spending. This cost projection may be optimistic, since these costs were rising an average of 7 percent in the decade before the ACA.
There is an avalanche of activity by insurers, hospitals, and other health-care providers aimed at reducing health-care expenses, and overall, progress is being made in addressing high costs. Further, as I have examined healthcare systems in Europe and Asia, I am increasingly convinced that substantial breakthroughs in healthcare expenses are possible. We have among the highest per capita costs and among the least favorable healthcare outcomes. As the cliché goes, if we put a man on the moon, surely we can make substantial improvements in healthcare costs. We will likely achieve these in ways not currently contemplated by either Republicans or Democrats.
Yet any such progress is hard-pressed to overcome a colossal obstacle—Americans are getting older and the percent living at or under the poverty line remains stubbornly high. An estimated 80 percent of health-care costs are associated with just four disease categories—cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s—and as we age, the frequency of these diseases inevitably increases.
An estimated 80 percent of health-care costs are associated with just four disease categories—cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
We will not be able to make radical, breakthrough reductions in health-care costs until we make substantial progress toward cures in those four areas. It is within our grasp to do so, but only through concerted, well-funded academic medical research. Yet, astonishingly, we have been reducing federal support for this research in real dollars. If we look over any long time horizon, there will be a direct link between federal spending on research for cures and our ability to curb the rising trend in Medicaid and health-care costs.
States will be wrestling with rising Medicaid costs for years to come.
The pension expenses of state, cities, and other local governments, along with that portion of Medicaid expenses borne by those same governments, are growing faster than the economy, and this has been crowding out expenditures in other key areas, most notably education and infrastructure. Absent large tax increases or some other bold strategies, this will continue unabated.
The financial consequences of this are increasingly clear. And while we have grown accustomed to the behavior of our federal government, whereby tough choices among competing expenditures are routinely avoided with the result of huge annual deficits and $20 trillion in accumulated debt, SLGs are much more fiscally limited, and so these hard choices can less readily be escaped.
The infrastructure and education systems of SLGs are slowly being starved of critical investment. Unless SLGs find a way to slow the march of pension and Medicaid expenses, the years will turn into decades and the quality of our infrastructure and education will continue to erode.
Richard Vague is the author of The Next Economic Disaster, managing partner at Gabriel Investments, and chair of The Governor's Woods Foundation. He was formerly CEO of Energy Plus, Juniper Financial, and First USA Bank.
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Deb's Cup of Tea: Another 10-12 feet. It's hard to tell.
Another morning and I'm outside with the shovel at 9:30. I'm going to get as far as I can before cold or aches get to me. The postman lumbered through yesterday afternoon but I've decided my focus is simply to get the drive open. Once that is done, I can work on other things like shoveling to the front.
I've had exactly one neighbor express concern and a wish to help. Zeke's snow blower died. It was old, he said, and it couldn't handle this much snow. He said his back won't let him shovel. He was going to work on the blower last night and if he could get it running, would be over today to help me. There was no sign of him this morning so I'm guessing the machine has gone to the great parts dump in the sky. I appreciate his expression of concern even if I knew, inside, he wasn't going to be over today.
I can only work for an hour and a half now before my back and upper legs start to ache. Today, however, I found a sock combination that keeps my toes warm which, had my muscles not complained, would have allowed me to keep going longer. In fact, I'm a bit overdressed. I had to take off the heavy gloves and unzip the jacket. I'm wearing the same 2 pairs of pants, tee shirt and sweater I've worn since Wednesday. Why continually change? I don't shower until 5.
Temperatures are warming up. It was -4 when I went out and, as noon approaches, it's a balmy 15 degrees. It's to be warmer this weekend, with some snow showers. That will mean melting although there was melting yesterday in the single digit temperatures. That means the lower layer will be heavier as it's more frozen. "You need to get that shoveled before it freezes," a couple people have said to me. "And you're coming over to help, right?" I ask. Then there are excuses or just plain laughter. Yes, I'm a might touchy but don't be telling me I have to get my drive shoveled when I still have roughly 45-50 feet to the street if you're not going to grab a shovel and come help.
The snow is breaking off in great chunks now.
After an hour and a half, the street is closer.
I think I'm through the deepest part of the drift. It appears to be the same depth to the street. I don't know if I will make it out by Monday. I hope so. I have one more vacation day I can use.
I'm almost out of milk but thanks to last weekend and Wednesday, I have pancakes and waffles I can eat for breakfast. There is always oatmeal. I made bacon cheeseburgers and fries for supper last night. I'm good. I changed litter yesterday afternoon which made the girls happy. Pilchard goes to the back door, looks out and meows. I'm tempted to leave the door open so I can reinforce that "my cats don't go outside in this".
The front is going to have to wait.
I'm too tired to attempt that right now. As I'm out there, I'm thinking about the 1967 blizzard everyone compared this one to. Back then, people didn't have snow blowers. This shoveling had to be done by hand. If you lived alone, as I do, well, you hoped people would understand at the office. I kind of feel a sense of kinship with my ancestors for whom moving snow this way was the only way to do it. I go a little at a time, rest, and go back at it. I am not taking for granted that anyone will show up to help with the job. There was one guy who came by yesterday. He would shovel me out for $80. I didn't laugh. I politely declined.
But you know what I'm craving right now? Dr Pepper. I'm trying to cut way back on my soda consumption and, of course, the one thing I'd love is a soda, ice cold.
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Geez, I've known Todd for over 20 years. Back before I started HeadRoom we worked together at a laser company. It's been a long road where both of us have lived life's journey within the other's view; I count Todd amongst my friends. Todd is definitely the genuine article, and he's definitely a top-notch purveyor of fine audio gear. My bias' notwithstanding, I can heartily recommend TTVJ as a knowledgable and ethical etailer and maker of headphone gear --- the wake of satisfied customers he leaves behind himself is ample testimony. He's also a vinyl addict, and if you like vinyl too, I'd advise caution calling him. His stash of LPs for sale is epic.
Pete Millett is ... well ... legend. He's also one of the nicest, laid-back guy you'd ever have the pleasure to meet. Pete's play with audio is a contribution so deep I can't really sum it up in few words.
Pete designed the Millett Hybrid headphone amp DIY project, which is a favorite among enthusiast builders. I have no idea how many have been built, but I'd guess it's likely well over a thousand. HeadRoom sold a commercial version of this amp. Pete also designed, to the best of my knowledge, the world's first portable USB headphone amp, which was subsequently redesigned into the HeadRoom Bithead as the first commercially available device of this type. You can thank Pete for instigating the rash of USB headphone amps found today.
I think it's really cool that Todd and Pete have teamed up in Apex Hi-Fi --- a boutique brand of sweet gear designed by Pete; assembled in the U.S.; and sold exclusively through TTVJ. I was tickled pink when Todd called and asked if I wanted to scoot over there for a listen to his new baby.
I had the similar Apex Peak hybrid tube headphone amp with optional Volcano power supply on my desk for a month a little while ago and enjoyed it tremendously. The new Arête is a solid state headphone amp in the same family, and also uses the Volcano power supply as an optional upgrade from the stock wall-wart switching supply.
Both Pete and I have been hard at work creating new products for the high end headphone listener. Our newest creation is the Arête. The Arête uses a single ended discreet JFET gain stage and the same MOSFET output stage as our Peak. It serves as both a headphone amplifier and a preamplifier. The Arête is $1095 and comes with an external switching power supply and can be upgraded with our Volcano power supply!
You can save $50 if you order the Arête and Volcano together (the switching supply is not provided in this package) or upgrade to the Volcano later for $750. Both power supplies operate 110v - 240v 50Hz to 60Hz.
The Arête is now in production and orders are being taken. The first amps will be shipping in 1-2 weeks. Get in line and order one of these great new amps!
I had a nice little listen with my CD of test tracks and Audez'e LCD-2 headphones. Very clean and nice, I can't wait to get one here at home for and extended audition. I also tested it with some HiFiMAN HE-600 headphones to check out how much umph it had: It was up to ear-bleed levels before I heard it break-up.
Todd also showed me the Butte ($495), a new little desk top amp that will be available shortly, and asked if I wanted a listen. "Sorry," I told him, "I have to split and go write this up. We'll do it next time."
I did, however, snag a little video before I walked out the door. Resource links follow the video!
Apex Hi-Fi page for the Arête.
TTVJ and Apex Hi-Fi websites.
A vast storehouse of audio geek information at Pete Millett's DIY Audio Pages".
TTVJ Head-Fi forum area and Arête thread.
It seems that you have quite an extensive listening to the Apex Peak. Do the Peak and Arete sound similar? From your brief experience with the Arete, which of those two impressed you the most?
I had such a short listen and need to bring it home with a familiar source to say anything more than the Arete sounded fine. The Peak, however, was great fun to have at my desk for a little while, and it struck me as a very transparent sounding amp with a touch of tube lushness, which is pretty much what you'd expect for a tube/FET hybrid. I really enjoyed listening to it.
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Fast-growing, hardy perennials with an erect, branching habit and daisy-like flowers over a long bloom period. May need staking in the landscape. Most are hardy in zone 4, but varieties like Loraine Sunshine (12065) are hardy to zone 3. Native to North America. Plant after the last frost in spring with roots slightly deeper than in the pot.
For full sun to part shade. Best in well-drained soil, but tolerant of heavy clay soils. Deadheading prolongs flowering. Plants can be somewhat short-lived and benefit from division every few years.
Other perennials with daisy-type flowers include Gaillardia, Rudbeckia, and Shasta Daisy.
Heliopsis is a moderate feeder and benefits from regular fertilization. Combines well with other North American native perennials like Butterfly Plant, Coneflower, and Coreopsis.
New Azaguard Insecticide / Repellent (50008) can be used to treat aphid or whitefly problems.
Usually does not suffer significantly from pests or diseases. Aphids, whitefly, leaf spot, and powdery mildew are occasional problems. Sometimes called False Sunflower.
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Pheromone overdose happens when you apply large doses of synthetic pheromones. If you notice people avoiding you, act intimidated by you or becoming aggressive towards you, you are probably using too much of the pheromone product. It is very easy to overdose, especially with unscented pheromone concentrates. These products contain no added fragrances to mask the pheromone smell which can be easily detected with the nose. Pheromone smell is often compared to body odor. Many people cannot smell pheromones, so the nose is not always a reliable guide when deciding how much is too much. Experiment with low doses of pheromones first, and try to stay within the limits described in the pheromone product guide.
Some pheromones are absorbed into the skin and may stay there for a longer period of time. Usually, depending on the biochemical characteristics of your skin, pheromones remain on your skin for about five hours, and up to ten hours on your clothing. Pheromone build-up happens when the skin absorbs so much pheromone content from multiple pheromone applications over a period of time, that you notice a significant drop off in the effectiveness of a pheromone product. If you see no good reactions after you use pheromones or you see better reactions when you don't apply pheromones - you have this problem. To prevent this don't apply products directly to the skin - apply them to your clothing instead. Clothing applications can be more convenient and will last longer.
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The White House says President Donald Trump was "obviously" referring to allegations of collusion between his campaign and Russian agents when he tweeted Sunday about "a big hoax."
Press secretary Sarah Sanders says: "Obviously the president is talking about the collusion with his campaign. He's been very clear that there wasn't any. I think he's said it about 1,000 times."
Trump had tweeted Sunday that President Obama "didn't tell our campaign" about Russia, "Because it is all a big hoax."
That missive came after a week of walk backs and bipartisan criticism over his handling of last week's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump had just days earlier confirmed his acceptance U.S. intelligence conclusions about Russian interference.
President Donald Trump is mischaracterizing documents released by the FBI this weekend related to the agency's wiretapping of Carter Page, a onetime campaign adviser.
Trump is claiming without evidence that the FBI inappropriately used political research by British spy Christopher Steele to mislead the court into granting a wiretap order, then classified the documents to "cover up misconduct." He was quoting a conservative activist on Fox News.
That's not what the documents show. Released online Saturday under the Freedom of Information Act, the documents note the political ties to Steele's work but said it still believed some of his report to be "credible." The FBI said it suspected Page had been "collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government."
Page denies being a foreign agent. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is still investigating potential collusion between Russia and Trump's campaign.
Trump tweeted Monday: "A disgrace to America. They should drop the discredited Mueller Witch Hunt now!"
President Donald Trump is back to referring to the Russia commotion as "a big hoax."
That comes after a week of drama, back tracking, a double negative and blistering statements from allies about his attitude toward Russian election interference.
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With Ireland now a new missionary territory in the eyes of many, Irish historians have been active in the last decade or so in exploring the nature and meaning of missionary activity in the wider modern world.
This book, by a Cork-based historian and archivist of a missionary society (the Society of African Missions), explores a fascinating aspect of the great epic.
The hero of Fr Hogan’s book, Frenchman Jean-Marie Coquard, is a larger than life character – a heroic figure in all senses of the word. He was brought up in Brittany and like so many of his contemporaries went to sea at an early age. But the sense of a religious vocation grew on him. This was frustrated at first but eventually he was sent to Africa under the auspices of the SMA Fathers based in Lyon. His destination was a place called Abeokuta, now to the north of Lagos, but then a more or less independent kingdom outside of the British protectorate along the coast of which Lagos was the capital.
What makes his career exceptional was that he threw himself into the provision of medical care, learning by himself from text books not only how to treat patients but also to undertake quite serious operations. On a visit to France he was able to have some immediate experience in a Lyon hospital but essentially he was self-taught. This seems extraordinary but then he was an extraordinary man.
He was in fact a radical practitioner. He became interested in the use of a Vietnamese herbal treatment for leprosy which had been used by St Damien on Molokai. Even today this would be still considered ‘fringe’ medicine by many. But for him it worked. However, this career was only part of the story that Fr Hogan has to tell. Through the life of Coquard he is able to relate aspects of the development of colonialism in West Africa, the rivalry not only between France and England in the region, but also the ambitions of the local kings and chieftains. This is quite fascinating, but towards the end with the arrival of Frederick, later Lord Lugard the full extent of British rule was extended over the district.
The author remarks early in the book that in Ireland the Church was originally not keen on such missionary work, preferring to use its own priests at home or among the Irish diaspora in England, Australia and the US. However, towards the end of the century, he notes the arrival of Irish missionaries in the area, whom Coquard, patriotic Frenchman though he was, welcomed because of their native command of English and their better understanding of the British imperial mind.
Also of interest is the interaction of Coquard with his own superiors in France, and later when he assumed more senior roles himself with the authorities in the Vatican.
However, nowhere does he lose sight of Coquard as a human being and a priest. Even today there are those who say the role of a missionary should be to preach the Gospel and baptise. They should leave ‘social work’ alone. But that was not Coquard’s view – as it is not the view of many today. The cure of souls goes hand in hand with the care of bodies.
I would have liked a more extended discussion of the limiting effect of neo-Thomist theology on mission work which is alluded to at one point as the more recent theological developments of the notion of ‘the anonymous Christian’ will clearly have consequences here at home.
This is a richly detailed book, finding room also for the details of Coquard’s relations with his own family back in France. But, overall, it is about a hero of missionary work who deserves to be better known. Fr Hogan’s work will help his readers understand not just important aspects of the development of Nigeria -though the Muslim aspect of that country is not alluded to simply because at this date it did not impinge on Coquard’s work. He dealings with were pagans and ‘other denominations’, many of whom were among the crowd at his funeral.
Fr Hogan has added a great deal to a detailed understanding of how the individual life plays out in the larger sociopolitical scheme. This a wonderful comprehensive book which will greatly enlighten all who read it.
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Sisters Network Dallas is a community-based organization made up of African American breast cancer survivors. Founded in June of 2005, we saw an urgent need to unite with other survivors, communities and health care professionals in the fight against breast cancer. The organization’s purpose is to save lives and provide a broader scope of knowledge that addresses the breast cancer survivorship crisis affecting African American women. Sisters Network Dallas is an affiliate of Sisters Network® Inc. a national organization with more than 40 affiliate survivor-run chapters nationwide with a total of over 3,000 members.
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Government surveillance agencies, multi-billion dollar internet companies, digital advertisers, ISPs, as well as hackers are all looking to get their hands on your private data.
And what’s even more worrying is that they don’t want you to be aware of this, they will often offer you valuable ‘free’ products as an attempt to spy on you and collect your data.
It’s simply because your personal data and private information is considered one of the most valuable and expensive commodities on the web.
Sensitive data such as your email address, passwords, credit card details, as well as data related to browsing activities such as your interests, articles you’ve read, posts you have shared, products you have bought, etc — can all be exceptionally valuable for a lot of people.
… And it can be used in many ways, internet companies can sell it to advertisers to show you targeted ads, data brokers and third-party companies are also in the business of data harvesting, hackers and cybercriminals may sell or use your data to ruin your digital life (literally), and so on.
Which is why you should look into ways to protect your personal data at all costs, so here are 5 simple and practical tips that you can use right now to instantly enhance your online security and protect your private data.
Do you think an email address and a strong password is enough to protect and secure your accounts? Think again.
The days of using a strong, hard-to-guess, random password with a series of weird characters to secure your accounts and evade getting hacked are long gone. Nowadays, even the most novice hacker clearly has access to password cracking tools that can be used to brute force their way into your accounts.
Therefore, securing your accounts with two-factor authentication (2FA) is a great way to provide that extra protection to all your accounts that support this feature. You can simply install Google authenticator, a popular 2FA app to secure your accounts from hackers.
According to Statista, there were over 3.7 billion email users in 2017.
Which means most people rely on email for all kinds of purposes, and more often than not, it’s the first thing they look at in the morning. As a result, hackers attempt to spread viruses and scam users through email as it’s relatively an easy way to reach a lot of people.
You should generally avoid visiting your spam inbox, and never click on any suspicious emails. And avoid sharing your sensitive information inside an email. An encrypted email such as ProtonMail may also help secure your information and communication from hackers.
A web browser is your gateway to the internet, it’s a must-have tool used by everyone to access the web, which is why you really need to carefully choose a browser that cares about your privacy and the security of your data.
Related: Which Browser Is the Safest and Most Secure?
As you browse the web, some websites may install numerous tracking cookies on your browser or computer to collect your data and serve you targeted ads. These tracking cookies could learn a lot about you such as your IP address (current location), browsing activities, operating system, and other sensitive information.
If you want to avoid this problem, you can clear cookies each time you use your browser or install a privacy-focused web browser such as the Tor browser to hide your identity and protect your data.
When you want to look up something online, you will most likely end up using some popular search engine like Google or Yahoo to gain access to web content.
But while you’re there, you should realize that those popular search engines are collecting your search history, websites you visit, keyphrases you search for, and other personal data to sell it to advertisers.
A perfect solution to this is to use a privacy-centric web browser that doesn’t track you — DuckDuckGo is the most popular private browser out there that blocks ad trackers, keeps your history private, and doesn’t track you around the web.
Many services and mobile apps nowadays require access to your location before installing or later on when you use the service, avoid using these services or try to keep your location turned off when you’re using them on your mobile device.
Websites or apps can learn a lot about you from your location data, which may result in price discrimination (no discounts), blocked access to region-restricted content (Netflix is known to do this). To effectively avoid this, you can use a VPN software to hide your location data and hide your IP address.
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Vladimir Ćorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Ћоровић; 27 October 1885 – 12 April 1941) was a leading 20th-century Serbian historian and a member of the Serbian Royal Academy, which later became the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). He is best known for his many acclaimed scholarly works on the history of Serbs and Yugoslavia.
Vladimir Ćorović was born in Mostar in Herzegovina, then under Ottoman sovereignty but under Austro-Hungarian administration, to a Serb Orthodox family involved in business.
Ćorović finished primary school and the Gymnasium in Mostar, in which he was one of many future Serb intellectuals, among whom were also his brother, Svetozar Ćorović, a well-known Serb novelist. Ćorović continued his studies at the University of Vienna in 1904, studying Slavic Archaeology, History and Philology. He was active in the Serbian academic group „Zora“. He gained a Ph.D. in 1908 with a thesis on Lukijan Mušicki, a Serbian poet from 18th century. His professors at Vienna were Vatroslav Jagić, Konstantin Jireček, and Milan Rešetar. In 1908 Ćorović went to Munich for specialized studies in Byzantine history and philology with Professor Karl Krumbacher.
Ćorović spent certain time in Bologna and Paris, exploring Old Slavic manuscripts. He moved to Sarajevo in September, 1909, and worked as a curator and later administrator at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this period started his intensive years of working. He was a contributor to many known Serbian journals, such as „Bosanska vila“, „Srpski književni glasnik“ and „Letopis Matice srpske“. Ćorović was also a secretary of the Serbian cultural society „Prosvjeta“ in Sarajevo and organizer of its annual publication (Calendar) of 1911.
After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914, Austro-Hungarian authorities arrested Ćorović. He was indicted in the Banja Luka process (November 3, 1915 - April 22, 1916), along with other Serbs from Austria-Hungary accused of high treason. Ćorović was first sentenced to five years, but the High court increased it to eight years because of his contribution to the Serb cultural progress through Prosvjeta. The new Austro-Hungarian Emperor, Charles I of Austria, after international pressure, released political prisoners in 1917 - granting them amnesty; Ćorović was released from Zenica, where he had spent the most time in prison.
At the end of World War I, Ćorović moved to Zagreb, jubilant with its Croat-Serb coalition in power and the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs in favour of unification with Serbia. With several Yugoslavist poets and writers (Ivo Andrić, Niko Bartulović and Branko Mašić among others) Ćorović had established the Književni Jug, a literary review. In parallel, Ćorović worked closely with other Yugoslav politicians from different provinces within the Austro-Hungarian territories. Čorović was present at the solemn proclamation of the formation of Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in Belgrade on December 1, 1918.
Dissatisfied by the treatment of the Serbian victims after the war, Ćorović wrote the Black Book (Beograd-Sarajevo, 1920), about the merciles, large-scale persecution and murders of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Vladimir Ćorović was a Europe-wide renowned scholar, famous for his unprecedent erudition, working energy and equal competence of various periods of Serb and Balkan history. Ćorović was professor of Serbian history at the University of Belgrade since 1919, and Rector of the Belgrade University in the 1934–35 and 1935–36 academic years. Ćorović in his remarkable scientific career (over 1,000 published works made him the most prolific Serbian historian) rarely touched upon Byzantine themes. Nonetheless, the Byzantine component in his professional education was very significant for the very important support for the personnel changes which, in the 1930s, brought about the advancement of Byzantine studies at the University of Belgrade.
His scholarly works includes critical interpretations of Byzantine and Serbian medieval documents, studies regarding medieval historiography and various monographs devoted to the Serbian monasteries of Bosnia (Tvrdoš, Duži, Zavala) to the relations between the Serbs of Montenegro and Muslims in Albania.
Mount Athos and Hilandar ("Sveta Gora i Hilandar") was published by the Hilandar monastic brotherhood in 1985. Ćorović did not manage to finish the work, which was untitled, due to the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941.
His book on diplomatic and political history, regarding relations between Serbia and Austria-Hungary in the early twentieth century, was prevented from being distributed in 1936, after the ambassador of Nazi Germany intervened at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry, labeling Ćorović detailed scholarly work (based on published diplomatic correspondence and unpublished sources in various languages) as alleged anti-German propaganda. For similar reasons, the first volume of diplomatic correspondence of Serbia, prepared also by Vladimir Ćorović was never officially published, again at the demand of Nazi German representatives for its allegedly anti-German attitudes.
Following the Royal Yugoslav Government on its way to exile during the Invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, he died in a plane crash on 12 April 1941 on Mount Olympus in Greece.
Historija Bosne, vol. I (Srpska kraljevska akademija, Beograd, 1940).
Sveta Gora i Hilandar do XVI veka, (Beograd 1985).
Istorija Srba, vol. I-III (BIGZ, Beograd, 1989).
Bataković, Dušan T., ed. (2005). Histoire du peuple serbe. Lausanne: L’Age d’Homme.
Samardžić, Radovan (1976). "Vladimir Ćorović: Poslednji polihistorik". Pisci srpske istorije. Belgrade: Prosveta: 245–253.
Samardžić, Radovan (2014). "Vladimir Ćorović: The last polyhistor". Balcanica. 45: 435–442.
Dušan T. Bataković, "Skica za portret jednog istoričara", in, Portreti iz novije srpske istorije", SKZ, Beograd 1990, pp. 283–312.
Jeremija D. Mitrović, "Bibliografija Vladimira Ćorovića", Istorijsli glasnik, 1-2, Beograd, 1976, pp. 205–313.
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ALLIANCE PISCINES is launching the latest model of a new generation flat-bottomed swimming pool, 1.45 m deep, available in 3 sizes: 6.60 x 4 m, 7.60 x 4 m, and 8.60 x 4 m. GALAXITE has a resolutely user-friendly design, with its spacious submerged beach!
Its shape allows the little ones to play ball while the bigger ones dive. The safety step at a depth of 70 cm along the perimeter of the pool allows children above 5 years to go around the pool easily.
The Galaxite is accessible by either of its two wide stairs, ideally placed on both sides of the tanning bench.
Its concept and design is that of a pool with walls that are more vertical. As such, they offer a larger bathing area, where the submerged, slatted Easy'cov or Cover in can easily be integrated.
Available since April, and very successful among distributors of the network, it promises to be one of the best-sellers of the brand.
To meet the demand of owners of small plots, Alliance Piscines launched its "urban pools" in June, in three sizes, and a very trendy design. Rectangular and flat-bottomed (1.46 m), Cobalt is available in 8 x 3.5 m / 7 x 3 m and 6 x 3 m.
A sleek design, straight lines and a stair with 4 steps across the width of the pool. It comes with a variable speed pump and an element filter that conforms to the expectations of the pool of tomorrow.
"A pool in record time ... go Krono!" - that is how one could summarise Léa Composites' new offer for small budgets. This new monocoque pool completes the already well-rounded range from Alliance Piscines.
The launch, along with an excellent series of marketing and instructive visuals on a dedicated site, took place in June.
They are available in 3 sizes: 8 x 3.5 m, 7 x 3 m and 6 x 3 m, all with a flat bottom.
With its kit concept the pool can be quickly and easily installed in four days, requiring only two people to do so.
The filtration is factory-installed and comes in the form of a cartridge filter block with an integrated skimmer. In white, blue, sand or grey, the Krono is sleek and streamlined, with a very trendy 4-step ladder along the pool width.
This new offer is technically well studied and is accompanied by a competitive financing formula. It also allows professionals to build pools even when their order books are already well filled.
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Vimpat ® is indicated as monotherapy and adjunctive therapy in the treatment of partial-onset seizures with or without secondary generalisation in adults, adolescents and children from 4 years of age with epilepsy. The Applicant is seeking reimbursement for an extension to the product license to cover children (≥4 years of age) and adolescents (≤ 15 years of age).
Rapid Review outcome A full pharmacoeconomic evaluation is recommended at the submitted price.
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Hands up if you love a good cocktail? I see you, I see them hands raised high, hell if I didn’t have to type this my hands would be right up there with yours. See, I love a good cocktail, and I’ve tried making them at home but it’s never been as successful as my evening with the MicroBar Box - where any night becomes a Friday night and you become the bartender…in your pj's, whilst watching Netflix.
The MicroBar Box could possibly be one of the best subscription service ideas I’ve come across. I was lucky enough to win a MicroBar box at NW Meet 2.0 - after all, I had it on good authority that there was gin inside and well, we all know how much I love a good gin! MicroBar Box is all about bringing that Friday night feelin' to you any night of the week (though, from personal experience a school night might not be the best idea you’ve ever had!). MicroBar offers two different subscription services; the Cocktail tasting club, a collection of cocktails and snacks to really get the party started, and the Gin tasting club, beautifully packaged artisan gins sourced from across the globe, complete with accompanying tonics. My box was one of the cocktail tasting boxes, so let’s dive in shall we?
There was also a card that gave easy to follow cocktail making instruction to make, in total, 6 cocktails. Yup. We’re having a party in this beautiful little box!
I started with the simplest on the menu, 1 full can of Qcumber and half the bottle of Greenalls Gin. Super light, super refreshing, with a very strong cucumber taste that I loved. The Qcumber sparkling water was lovely, and I genuinely preferred it to having tonic as it was way less fizzy!
Now, we’re getting into the fancy pants, bar-like cocktails. I whipped up the martini with half the Raspberry liquor, half the Cawston Press, half Absolut Vanilla, and a splash of the Labar Rhubarber. If you love rhubarb, you’ll love this one. I’m not a huge rhubarb fan but it was nice enough and the vanilla vodka was gorgeous!
WOAH. Ok, so this one pretty much blew my head off. There was so much alcohol in this one that well, it was starting to make me feel a little tipsy. The last half of the Greenalls Gin, with half the limoncello. This needed a lot of ice to make it more drinkable!
Possibly my favourite of the box, and hands down, the strongest drink on offer; half raspberry liquor, half Absolut vanilla vodka. This is so sweet and the vanilla comes through so strong, it was delicious! It could have done with a little more raspberry but at this point, my measurements were slightly off shall we say?
To cleanse the palette! It was extremely sweet and made my face contort in all kinds of weird and wonderful ways, oh the things we do for a blog post!
Half Cawston Press, half Labar Rhubarbar, one final hoorah for the MicroBar Box! Like I said, I’m not a huge rhubarb fan but this was a nice one to finish on, not too strong, but pleasant enough!
I’ve got to say, this was probably the most exciting night I’ve ever had watching Netflix on the couch. Those chilli honey peanuts were more than moorish and didn't last past the first two drinks! I absolutely love the MicroBar Box, it’s such a cool idea and the drinks are ones I would have never have thought to make. I don’t know about you, I mean I’ve made a couple of cocktails at home but usually find I’m missing some vital ingredient, or it never tastes quite right. The MicroBar box takes all the trouble out of it, with 6 exciting new cocktails to try, instruction and nibbles, I mean what more could you ask for?
This would make an ideal gift, hostess gift or something to crack out when the girls come round for pre-drinks before a night on the town! My gin loving heart really wants to try out their Gin box, so that might have to be a little birthday present to myself in the coming weeks!
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, drivers who are distracted while traveling on roadways are far more likely to be involved in a car crash. It is estimated more than 800,000 drivers are distracted by cell phones every minute on our nation’s roadways.
Mobile devices, however, are just one of many distractions while driving. If you were injured in an Ocala car accident involving a distracted driver, contact an experienced automobile accident attorney who can help protect your legal rights.
Distractions caused by visual stimuli – Visual distractions cause car crashes in Ocala by taking drivers’ eyes off the road while driving. Examples could include spotting wildlife on the side of the road, reading road signs/billboards, rubbernecking when passing by an accident.
Distractions that are manual – Manual distractions are to blame in Florida auto accidents when they cause a driver to remove his or her hands from the steering wheel while operating a vehicle. An example of a manual distraction would be a driver who is trying to eat, or attempting to text while steering.
Distractions that are cognitive – Cognitive distractions can result in Ocala car wrecks by taking drivers’ minds off the mental process of driving. A cognitive distraction might include listening to a book on tape, or engaging in heavy conversation with a passenger.
Some types of distractions may even fall into more than one category. Regardless of the type of distraction, the actions that are taken following an accident are crucial to the potential for success in a lawsuit.
Our free guide, Seven Mistakes That Can Wreck Your Florida Accident Case, offers more information about what not to do after you are involved in a crash. To learn more about protecting your legal rights following an accident, contact an experienced Ocala car accident attorney today. Call Jeffrey Meldon & Associates today to schedule a free consultation: (800) 373-8000.
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We previously got a glimpse of Panasonic’s 3D TV range at CES this year, but the company’s Munich convention has revealed more details on the VT20 3D plasma screens.
Best of the bunch is the TX-P65VT20E, a 3D-enabled 65 inch beast of a screen that features a 600Hz frequency range and a 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio.
Active Shutter Glasses are needed to view 3D content, which receive infra-red signals from the TV to time shutter speed depending on the action on screen. Panasonic claim to have isolated the cross-talk issue which causes one frame to outstay its welcome and overlap into the next by placing blank frames into offending areas, invisible to the eye.
There’s a whole host of other features thrown in if the 3D elements aren’t yet selling it to you. You have Panasonic’s Vieralink web-content widgets, the “Infinite Black Pro” contrast tech seen in other Panasonic screens, Wi-Fi and DLNA support, USB ports and support for recording to an external hard-drive.
The set will also be available in a 50 inch model, the TX-P50VT20E. So far only the 50 inch model has been given a confirmed release date of sometime in April. We’ll have to wait a little longer for news on the 65 inch model, as well as pricing information on both.
Panasonic’s convention in Munich is the inauspiciously-named TX-P65VT20E. That string of letters and numbers hides a monster 65-inch 3D-capable plasma television (seen previously at CES ) which offers 600Hz image frequency and a massive five million to one contrast ratio.3D is provided by infra-red synced active shutter glasses. Panasonic reckons its reduced the crosstalk issue – where images stay on screen longer than you want – by cutting them out a little earlier, providing a blank display in between alternate frames.
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Windows probably first developed as simple holes in the walls of dwellings, allowing ventilation and light in, and a view of any approaching danger. It wouldn’t have taken long to work out that to have a fabric of animal hide covering, would allow the window to be open when you wanted it to be, and closed to the elements when it was too hot or cold. Some form of shutter would have been the next improvement, enhancing security, too.
The earliest known representations of windows come from Egypt and Assyria, depicted in Egyptian wall paintings and Assyrian reliefs.
Wikipedia suggests that “The Romans were the first known to use glass for windows, a technology likely first produced in Roman Egypt, in Alexandria around 100 AD.” Within a couple of hundred years, while using windows in their public baths, the Romans developed double glazing, which cut down their heat loss.
2000 years on, one can only wonder why the majority of Australian homes still use inefficient, noisy, energy-wasting, expensive-to-run single-paned windows!
In today’s Australia, there is no excuse not to enjoy the benefits of double glazed windows and doors. With the cost of energy rising rapidly, and the cost of double glazing coming down, the financial case is there. You can even look at the installation of double glazing as a great-ROI, tax-free, indexed income.
Where To Get Double Glazing Service, Advice, And The Right Price?
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Folding Non Woven Tote are a handy sized reusable tote bag that folds into its own pouch. These reusable bags feature a front lower pocket imprint that can be seen on the back of pouch when closed. Contact our friendly sales staff today for pricing on these reusable bags. See some of our other great reusable bags here. We have a wide selection of all types of recycled bags.
Folding Non Woven Tote are a handy sized reusable tote bag that folds into its own pouch. These reusable bags feature a front lower pocket imprint that can be seen on the back of pouch when closed. Contact our friendly sales staff today for pricing on these reusable bags. See some of our other great reusable bags here.
Reusable custom shopping bags are remarkably effective promotional products to use at trade shows and corporate events. All of our products are affordable and sold at wholesale prices. We also offer the wonderful option of ordering through our design center. This allows you to construct your order to meet your exact specs. Visit customgreenpromos.com for all options that we offer.
All of our green reusable bags can be customized to meet your exact specifications. Contact our design center for details and pricing. If you would like a quote on any of our bags ranging from our reusable non woven bags, wine totes, or our recycled plastic bags, give us a call today. Our sales department is ready to take your call. You can reach us at 888-565-2235.
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Works of scholarship. The Press is committed to publishing important new scholarship in the following areas: Atlantic World and American history, American literature, African American studies, American studies, Southern studies, environmental studies, geography, urban studies, international affairs, and security studies. Go here for a full list of our interest areas.
Creative and literary works. This nationally recognized area of the Press’s list includes books published in conjunction with the following literary competitions and series: The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction, and the National Poetry Series. It also includes the series Georgia Review Books, and our newest poetry competition series the Georgia Poetry Prize.
Regional books. The Press has a long history of publishing books about the state and region for general readers. Recent publications have included books about the region’s history and literature, architectural and artistic heritage, field guides to the plants, trees, and wildlife of the southeastern states, nature photography, biographies of major Southern figures, books about southern food traditions, and selected original fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by established Georgia and southern authors.
Digital projects. The Press . . . Go here for full details.
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With Custom Luxury, you can choose from materials and styles designed to complement nearly every project’s architecture and style. All Windows from Murray Millwork are custom made to order to exact specifications at no extra charge or extended lead time. That's just the way we do it. What's more, for the utmost in comfort and energy efficiency, we customize our Windows and their components to the climate of your region. From the glass coating to the frame design, we engineer the perfect Windows for where you live.
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The Brasilian journalist Carol Macário, participant of the Gabo fellowship un cultural journalism, offered a description of the mystic atmosphere that reigns in Arcataca, Gabriel García Marquez’s hometown, an inspiration to the ficcional town of Macondo. Stephen Ferry took these pictures to represent Carol's work published as The ghosts of Aracataca are real.
The Gabo fellowship traveled from the 26th of April to the 3rd of May through all the places that inspired the macondian universe of García Marquez: Aracataca, Barranquilla and Cartagena. During that time, 15 journalists from 11 countries explored the relationship between journalism and fiction, under the guidance of four international masters.
This event was organized by the FNPI and the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, with the support of the Cartago Foundation and ProColombia.
The Gabo fellowship is one of the stops of the Caravana de historias, an FNPI initiative that travels through Iberoamerica in 2017 to make known the legacy of its founder Gabriel García Márquez, celebrate the 50 years of its best known work, and to promote an ethical, creative and innovative journalism.
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It’s Fashion Revolution Week! Not sure why that’s a big deal? Read yesterday’s post about the origins of this week which promotes change in the fashion industry.
One of the ways you can get involved in Fashion Revolution Week is to write a love story.
Choose an garment that you love and tell everyone why! If you’re not sure how to even start, have a look at this.
I wrote a love story, or love letter, last year about a green top that I’ve had for years.
It was interesting to me how long I’ve had this top and it led me to think about other garments I’ve got. Generally speaking I do seem to keep my clothes for a long time and I look after them. However, I haven’t always been able to sew. This means I have far too many garments in my past that have been thrown out rather than mended which makes me sad.
If you haven’t already read all about my green top, you can find that blog post here. I really hope that you feel inspired to dig out an item of clothing you treasure, whether you bought or made it yourself, and have a go at writing your own story. Please share links (or stories) in the comments, I’d love to read them!
It’s almost time for my monthly newsletter to hit your inboxes! There’s still time to sign up.
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Innovation in the Office: How to Increase Productivity Levels.
Office productivity doesn’t refer to the fastest way of completing the daily tasks, but rather completing them in the most efficient manner possible whilst maintaining a positive attitude and atmosphere in the room.
But what can affect our productivity levels?
When citing the most crucial factors – stress, workload, relationship with colleagues and superiors were some of the most commonly highlighted ones, along with office design. In fact, statistics indicate that a strong office design can make employees as much as 33% happier, increasing their productivity and effectiveness as a result.
Being in the industry for so many years, ImpeccaBuild learned which office design elements are the most optimal for a working environment.
Colours have a psychological effect, meaning that they can significantly affect our mood, feelings, and behaviour. Although additional research is still needed to determine to which extent a colour can influence productivity and safety at work, it is evident that the choice cannot be made lightly.
Blue, as an intellectual colour, is incorporated in all rooms, at least in small traces. In a working environment, it can have a calming effect and facilitate focus and methodical thinking.
Red is a physical colour, which is why we almost always use it in a gym and recreational centre design.
Yellow is used to promote creativity, confidence, and optimism, as such being a crucial hue in any corporate environment.
Green can be beneficial in offices known for long working hours, where people frequently need something that will help them restore energy.
Grey has to be carefully incorporated to enrich the space and make it more elegant, without dulling it down. ImpeccaBuild utilised it when we transformed an old factory into a sleek, high-class office space.
Since the 80s, the pomodoro technique has been praised as one of the best time management methods and productivity boosters for the heavy workload days. It emphasises the importance of segmenting your work to intervals, with short breaks in between.
Taking this into consideration, a commercial interior designer’s job is to create an environment in which they will be able to practice this and similar productivity methods. Thus, an office design has to provide enough space to move around, as it will not just benefit their work, but will also elevate health and minimise stress levels.
Innovative offices are no longer static, and furniture pieces incorporated in a commercial interior design can be easily transformed and relocated. In fact, height-adjustable desks have been a popular topic for some time now, as they allow an employee to switch between a sitting and standing position as it suits them at a particular moment.
In addition to standing desks, we advise adding accessories like a laptop screen support, footrest, or keyboard and mouse rests, all intended to elevate comfort and promote ergonomics.
On average, office workers lose more than 85 minutes to distractions, and almost 60% will say they would prefer a quieter work environment. Unfortunately, the amount of noise depends on team sizes and a type of work a particular group of employees needs to complete.
In some situations, noise is unavoidable, especially if teamwork is promoted through company culture. What we advise our clients to install are vinyl floors with a rubber underlay which has insulative properties. Alternatively, you can lay down carpeting which is especially beneficial in multiple-floor office buildings, where bottom floors always get the short end of the stick and hear every chair and person above them move.
Sometimes the most innovative office design elements have been around for ages, we just haven’t discovered their benefits until recently.
Plants, for instance, can contribute to a 15% increase in productivity by simply elevating employees mood and satisfaction with their environment. Colours are also rarely considered, and people often insist on painting the workspace according to their personal preference, not thinking about the effect it may have. An innovative office design is employee-centric. All modern solutions are focused on keeping employees actively engaged and highly concentrated on their work, as it is the only way to maximise their productivity.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A judge overseeing the trial of Ammon Bundy and six others accused in the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge dismissed a juror Wednesday after his impartiality was questioned by a fellow juror.
U.S. District Judge Anna Brown replaced the juror with an alternate, and deliberations were placed on hold until Thursday so the woman could travel from central Oregon.
Jurors who had been deliberating for days must start over, setting aside any conclusions they may have already drawn. The panel is now comprised of nine women and three men.
"It's a new jury, a new day, a new start," Brown said.
Bundy's defense attorney filed a court motion early Wednesday asking the judge to dismiss the juror. Lawyer Marcus Mumford said the court had not adequately investigated concerns about the juror's impartiality that emerged Tuesday in a note sent to the judge by another juror.
Juror No. 4 wrote: "Can a juror, a former employee of the Bureau of Land Management, who opens their remarks in deliberations by stating 'I am very biased ...' be considered an impartial judge in this case?"
The juror in question, Juror No. 11, worked 20 years ago as a firefighter for the BLM.
The occupiers are charged with conspiring to prevent BLM employees from doing their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Oregon.
The group seized the refuge Jan. 2 and held it for 41 days, protesting federal land policy and the imprisonment of two ranchers who clashed with the BLM.
During jury selection, the man said his past employment would not prejudice his views.
Brown questioned the man again Tuesday and ruled that he could remain on the jury after she found that his views had not changed on his ability to remain impartial.
Brown switched her stance overnight, deciding the juror had to go.
She brought the entire jury into the courtroom and broke the news to Juror No. 11, who nodded but had little other reaction.
Mumford, who has repeatedly clashed with the judge during the trial, praised the decision outside the courtroom.
"I know that a lot people think we have our differences, and I guess we do, but I will tell you she wants to get it right every time," Mumford said.
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Use the TOEFL sample questions with prepositional phrases (with answers) to prepare yourself thoroughly to the test.
1. In __________, the crime rate has begun to drop due to neighborhood.
2. Three responsibilities ________ are to search out, identify, and assess patentable inventions and technologies.
3. Disappointingly, many software companies have discovered a limited audience for ________ from the couch.
4. Shooting stars, otherwise known as meteorites, often fall to Earth in a pattern dictated ________ and Earth rotation.
5. Ink stains, commonly regarded __________ difficult stains to remove, will not succumb to the usual array of detergents and cleaners found in supermarkets.
6. Examples of selective use __________ are found in commercial leaf removal prior to harvest in the cotton and sugar beet industries.
7. Ethyl cyanoacetate is derived __________ of an alkali cyanide and chloroacetic ethyl ester.
8. On the second level of mammalian evolution, that __________ mammals or marsupials, the eggs are practially yolkless.
9. Foraging ants make a network __________ around the nest.
10. __________ its richness and varied coloring, Schubert's Symphony in C has enjoyed a deserved reputation among classical music lovers.
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I moved to Georgia from Portland, Oregon and was referred to Tony by my LO in Portland. Tony and his team are quick, efficient and very helpful. I was in a multiple offer situation (11 offers total). My offer was $15k below the highest offer. The sellers still accepted our offer over everyone else’s. Tony took the time to call the seller’s agent and let him know that my loan had already gone through underwriting and is almost as good as cash. What an awesome company. Already recommended Tony to 3 people I’ve encountered who were looking to buy a home. He’s a beast!
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The making of cognac has long been tasked to elder statesmen. So when Olivier Paultes was named master blender of Frapin at just 25 years old, it took the industry by surprise. Two decades later, when he joined the most prestigious tasting panel in France, Hennessy’s Comité de Dégustation, nary an eye was batted. His legacy had already been secured. As director of the distilleries for the world’s largest cognac brand, Olivier is now one of those esteemed personalities in need of no surname, joining other noted eau-de-vie enthusiasts, such as Nas and Beyoncé.
But he’s not letting his ego get the best of him. Fresh off the heels of Hennessy’s newest American release, Master Blender’s Selection Nº2, the soft-spoken craftsman talks about the future of a notoriously traditional category.
Although big booze brands have struggled for years to maintain consistency across their core lineup, it turns out that connoisseurs, more than ever, are valuing the singular nuance that separates one matured cask from the next. Whiskey makers are more than happy to satisfy this growing demand. After all, it requires less work on their part. They can just omit the tedious task of blending, send an individual barrel to bottle, slap a different label on it and call it a special release.
Cognac makers are not so lucky. Producing their spirit requires a complex blend of eaux-de-vie, sometimes sourced from several distilleries, aged in various subregions, with the distillate often transferring between barrels during the maturation. In short: Don’t expect to see a single-barrel cognac any time soon. Recognizing that the American markets were thirsty for something individualized, Paultes was instrumental in steering Hennessy toward a creative workaround.
The initial release debuted in autumn 2016 as a commemoration of the brand’s longstanding history with the United States, its very first export market. Although it was the brainchild of Yann Fillioux—Hennessy’s seventh-generation master blender, who subsequently retired—it took the push of a younger, more experimental mindset to fight for it as a continued release.
Enter Paultes. Comparisons to orchestral music are constant in cognac. And while an X.O. is an exquisite composition of classical symphony, Paultes views the Master Blender series as improvisational jazz.
“Every year, we have to taste about 10,000 samples,” Paultes says of his tasting committee obligations. “We make an inventory for stock, and we have to see the evolution year after year.” During that process, he regularly encounters eau-de-vie with characteristics primed for individual expression. Nonetheless, they must be blended down to fit time-honored flavor profiles. To allow these notes to exist independently would seem like a sensible departure. All it required was a break from 250 years of tradition.
Cognac is rightfully guarded of its heritage. The region has long been synonymous with premium spirits of the world. But to compete in an era of rapid innovation, the category must make some concessions to modernism.
Although he has now been in the game for 30 years, Paultes retains an experimental exuberance. “You will never have another blend like this,” he says of the newest Master Blender release. Whereas generations of cognac makers before him would lament such an admission, Olivier declares it with pride.
Don't lose track of Talking Cognac with Hennessy's Oliver Paultes!
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Atelier 801 is a french indie game studio best known for Transformice. They are now working on Dead Maze, a 2D MMO game set in a destroyed contemporary world, filled with zombies. The players need to explore the world, scavenge and craft as many items as possible in order to survive the hostile environment.
Combat balancing : since Dead Maze had more than one hundred weapons in game, I was in charge of balancing and testing damages, combos, durability, speed of attack.
Combat Design : I also created new weapons and new skills to create diversity in the way players could fight. I designed long distance weapons (guns, grenades) and balanced them.
Survival balancing: in this open world, the players have to survive by looting and crafting food and weapons. My work on this task was to balance loot frequency, its quality. As for the craft system, I balanced recipes, their costs, resources.
Updating GDD : I formalized and wrote a GDD for the team.
Debug and testing: debug was a major task in order to tweak combat and survival mechanics.
Writing : I created content to fill Dead Maze with lore. Through the game, the players can find notes, pictures... Everything had to be written or described. The goal was to tell survivors' stories, or stories about the world just before the apocalypse. I wrote in english and french.
Translation: alongside the creative director, I translated existing dialogues, notes and narrative texts from english to french.
I can provide you a sample of texts I wrote and translated for the game.
I designed, tested, and assisted in scripting secondary quests. These quests were made to make the world of Dead Maze even more believable and add content to the game. As a quest designer, I helped creating guidelines and a pipeline to produce secondary quests quickly and easily. I was also the narrative designer of these quests.
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