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The National Business Travel Association is reaching out to Homeland Security and other federal agencies to lend its expertise to the Adminstration's proposed $7.1 billion plan to save us all from bird flu, should it jump from fowl to human. From the NBTA's Web site:
Following the delivery of the President's remarks, NBTA reached out to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael Leavitt; Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff; and Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, recommending the development of a working group to involve the travel industry in the national preparation for a possible avian flu outbreak.
Given the mass hysteria over SARS not so long ago, I think it's a great idea to get some travel professionals involved in the planning. But there's not two ways about it: If avian flu does become a human-to-human transmissible disease, the meetings, travel, and hospitality business are scrod, at least for the duration. Nobody'll be going out of their houses, much less to meetings. I can't even begin to get my mind around all the implications, so I'm just really, really hoping it doesn't happen, or it is quickly contained if it does. | <urn:uuid:2e2a0ad9-8db0-4960-84c3-1930843c4522> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://meetingsnet.com/print/blog/nbta-help-feds-bird-flu-plan | 2014-11-26T18:31:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931007324.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155647-00071-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947842 | 252 |
Edinburgh Council accused of 'staggering hypocrisy' as petition launched calling for cap on private hire licences
Cab drivers in the Capital are calling on the council to cap the number of private hire licences given out in order to help reduce congestion and reduce harmful emissions.
The petition from the Edinburgh Cab Section of the Unite union accuses Edinburgh Council's of "staggering" hypocrisy as numbers of private hire licences given out continues to increase.
It also calls for an over-provision survey to take place in order to ascertain whether there are too many private hire licences.
There are around 2,500 private hire vehicles and around 1,500 traditional black cabs.
Glasgow City Council were the first local authority to introduce a cap on private hire licences in April this year with the aim to ensure work was not spread too thinly across the city.
Council bosses in the Capital state they are waiting for guidelines from the government as to whether they can act.
Cab section chairman Scott Blair said the union's concerns were about rising congestion in the city which they believe can only be tackled effectively if private hire numbers are reduced or capped.
He said: "There are at least 1,800 cars added to the streets of Edinburgh which is a huge amount when we are already have over-congestion.
"We do want a cap but we are not asking the council to set a cap at whatever level we want, it has to be independent but we do want it looked at. The council are wanting to clean up the air and we want to help them with that as well.
"It is for our health benefit to keep emissions down as well. The streets are our office."
Licensing convener Catherine Fullerton said there was not a way of calculating the maximum or minimum number of private hire vehicles and until that changed, a decision will not be made.
She said: "Our Licensing Service is responsible for the licensing of both taxi and private hire vehicles. All vehicles are tested annually for mechanical road worthiness, pollutants and safety standards in accordance with our Licence conditions and Emissions and Age Policy.
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I'm wondering if I am the only one that edit 99.99% of all the photos that I print and scrap?
I've been doing that for years now and can't imagine not changing the lighting a bit or just pump up the colors.
I have always used Photoshop Elements and have no complaints about it, besides that it's not free.
I heard about this one website that offers FREE photo editing and I had to try it immediately.
The website is called www.picmonkey.com and not only is it FREE, but also EASY and FUN, FUN, FUN!!!
Here are some collages I made that took me minutes to create. The photos are from Halloween and our Halloween party (or Pinterest party as my son named it).
Then I made a collage with some of my favorite layouts:
Of course you can do so much more than just collages. There is one tab for example where you can do your Facebook cover.
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“Ready?” Michael said as he opened the door to my bedroom. His voice roused my from my slumber.
“Ready? For what? Huh?”
“We’re driving to a new beach today. Remember?” Oh. Yeah. That. I’d been naturally waking up at 6:20 each morning, not too long after the sun lights up the ocean outside my window. But now that I’m out of quarantine I’m back to living with someone else whose schedule I have to work with. I’ve learned that, by 6 a.m., Michael has already put in two hours of work, talking to his colleagues in Greece and Belarus . By 6 a.m., he’s ready for his first break of the day. Which these days entails a walk on a beach–preferably one we haven’t yet been to.
There is a beach here at our resort, but it is littered with sea grass. In any other year, the staff would clean it each morning, but this isn’t any other year. So instead of walking the beach here, we hop in the car Michael rented and take off for the Beach of the Day.
“Why so early?” you ask. Well, during the National Pause here on Barbados, we can only be on the beaches from 6-9 a.m. and from 3-6 p.m. Michael and I are both working from here, so the afternoon isn’t always an option. Thankfully, we are early birds. One of us more than the other. . .
And so it is that on Monday we went to Carlisle Bay. Michael, thankfully, rented a car a couple weeks ago when he was here on his own and learned to drive on the left side of the road at a time when there wasn’t anyone on the roads due to the lockdown. So by the time he drove me to Carlisle Bay, he was proficient at the skill, but I wasn’t proficient at sitting on the left side without having any control over the vehicle. By the time we pulled into a parking spot, my stomach was screaming, “Get out! MUST. GET. OUT.” Michael was doing a good job driving, but my mind and body were having a lot of trouble adjusting . . .
“Look. A lobster place!” Michael said as we got out of the car. I saw the boarded up restaurant. “No lobster today,” said a man standing under the sign. We chatted with him about the state of affairs and he assured us that this would all pass. “Patient man ride donkey,” he said with a laugh.
“What?” I asked.
“Patient man ride donkey. You haven’t heard of that yet? It’s a Barbadian phrase.” I took a few seconds to process the meaning.
“Ohhh. . . because donkeys go so slow,” I said. He laughed. “Yes, that’s right.”
“There’s a couple cruise ships out there,” Michael said to me.
“They’ve been there for a year,” lobster man told us. “The captain isn’t getting Covid out there!”
“So there are people on them?” I asked.
“Oh, yes. It takes a lot to keep up those boats,” he said. Hmph. I hadn’t thought about this. . .
Michael and I walked out onto the beach. “I’m going to go back and ask that guy if there’s a bathroom around here,” Michael said. I stood taking in the scene: a calm bay, a handful of people strolling past, a couple runners, some floating heads out in the ocean. “. . .if you’re going to be Barbadian,” I heard Mr. Lobsterman say. Michael returned to me.
“So what did you learn?” I asked him.
“No bathrooms,” he said.
“But what was he saying about being a Barbadian?”
“Oh. That. He told me to ‘pee in the sea or pee on a tree.’ That if I wanted to be a real Barbadian, I need to pee on a tree.” We both laughed. “I think I’ll take the sea option instead,” Michael said.
As we sunk our bare feet into the sand I wondered about Lobsterman. What was he doing there, standing beside the open doors of his van at 6:30 in the morning? A little coffee overlooking the ocean before going to work? Is he there every day? Or did he have work in the area? What other wisdom might we have gleaned from him had we forgone our walk to chat with him a little longer?
I’m not sure how many beaches there are on this island. . . but maybe next week I can persuade Michael that it might be worth returning to this one. I think I have more to learn from Lobsterman. . .
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I love reading your blogs! Sounds like an amazing time. We are headed to HHI tomorrow. It’s an easy getaway and of course work is going crazy now that we are almost ready to go… Have so much fun!
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:16 PM RenaissanceRebecca wrote:
> renaissancerebecca posted: ” “Ready?” Michael said as he opened the door > to my bedroom. His voice roused my from my slumber. “Ready? For what? Huh?” > “We’re driving to a new beach today. Remember?” Oh. Yeah. That. I’d been > naturally waking up at 6:20 each morning, not too lon” >
I really LOVE reading your stories, don’t ever stop writing. I’m hoping some day to do what you’re doing. Yes, writing, of course, (although I’ll never reach your level), but now I’m talking about living in an other country for an extended length of time. This has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember. I’ve visited a lot of places, but never stayed for as long as I would have liked…some day. I hope. Keep the “slice of life” stories coming.
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1/5/20 - 1/19/20 Weekly Session Recap
On January 7, 2020, the Mississippi State Legislature began the first session of the new four-year term. Per the Constitution of the State of Mississippi, the first session of every term is scheduled to last 125 days, as opposed to 90 days. This is done to accommodate inaugurations, new committee chairmanships and procedural matters like choosing parking spaces and offices.
House members took the oath of office on the first day before the election of Speaker of the House and Speaker Pro Tempore. As part of the House Rules, both of these positions and the House Clerk are elected by the members and are sworn into office the first day of session. Speaker of the House Philip Gunn was elected to his third term as Speaker. Jason White was elected as the Pro Tempore after previously serving as Chairman of the Rules committee. Andrew Ketchings was also re-elected as House Clerk for the third time.
Although it is early in the session, the House has already taken up one bill. On Wednesday, January 8, House Bill 1 passed with a vote of 121-1 and has since passed the Senate floor. The bill would fully fund last year’s teacher pay raise after a miscalculation in the number of teachers led to a deficit. By appropriating an extra $18.4 million of the General Fund, teachers will now receive the $1,500 pay raise as promised last session.
On Thursday, January 9, six of the statewide elected officials were sworn into office by Chief Justice Michael Randolph before a joint session of the House and the Senate. The joint session also re-elected Steven Parks as state librarian.
Speaker Philip Gunn announced leadership of two important House committees. Representative John Read (R – Jackson) will return as the Chairman of Appropriations, while Representative Trey Lamar (R – Tate) is the new Chairman of Ways and Means. Representative Karl Oliver (R – Montgomery) was named the new Vice Chairman of Appropriations, and Representative Jody Steverson (R – Tippah) will be the new Vice Chairman of Ways and Means.
House members also had to elect fellow representatives to serve on the both the Management and Rules committees. All members split into the four Mississippi Congressional districts and nominate members to serve on these committees. Both committees are comprised of two members from each of the four Congressional districts, as well as the Speaker and the Pro Tempore.
On Tuesday, January 14, the inauguration ceremony of Governor Tate Reeves was held in the House Chamber due to the inclement weather outside. A packed chamber filled with legislators, statewide officials, Mississippi Supreme Court justices and other important personnel watched as he took the oath of office.
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LONDON (AP) - A British Airways (BA) jet that made an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport last week lost panels from both its engines after they were left unlatched during maintenance, accident investigators said on Friday.
In an initial report on the incident, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said the unlatched fan cowl doors were not noticed before the Airbus A319-131 took off.
The covers detached as the plane climbed, damaging the airframe and some aircraft systems and rupturing a fuel pipe on the plane's right engine, which developed an external fire. The pilots managed to land the plane on one engine.
Britain's Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the report contained "serious findings" and called on the industry to act to ensure safety.
"Airline passengers have the right to expect to travel safely and it is the responsibility of all involved in aviation to make sure that happens," he said.
Britain's busiest airport was briefly closed on May 24 after the Oslo-bound flight made the emergency landing.
TV footage showed smoke streaming from one of the engines. The 80 passengers and crew were evacuated without serious injuries, and fire crews quickly put out the blaze.
The report said that in 2012, Airbus reported 32 cases in which fan cowl doors became detached, usually during take-off, but none of the incidents up to that point had caused an engine fire.
Investigators said the BA incident "has shown that the consequences of fan cowl door detachment are unpredictable and can present a greater risk to flight safety than previously experienced". The report recommended Airbus stress to airlines the importance of ensuring doors are latched before take-off.
BA said it had already acted to implement the recommendation.
It said it could not comment further on the incident while the investigation continued.
"We commend the professionalism of the flight crew for the safe landing of the plane and the cabin crew and pilots for its safe evacuation," said BA chief executive Keith Williams.
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We would like to explain that our websites are only available in the german language. All the same, we would like to give you some information about the union:
Historically, the roots of the DPolG were various police-associations which were founded after 1871. Against all the odds the "Reichsverband Deutscher Polizeibeamter" was founded on 13th of May 1919 in Berlin as the predecessor organisation of DPolG.
In 1928 the name changed to "Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Polizeibeamter" and to "Reichsgewerkschaft Deutscher Polizeibeamter" in 1931 before the organisation was dissolved by National Socialists in 1933.
On the 18th of August 1951, the union re-established itself as the "Bund Deutscher Po-lizeibeamter" (BDP). In 1966 it was renamed the "Polizeigewerkschaft im Deutschen Be-amtenbund" (PDB). Since 1987 our organisation trades under the name of "DPolG".
Since then everyone dealing with police business (police-officers, civil servants and wage-earning employees) has been eligible to join the DPolG in its function as a vocational representation. The DPolG has around 80.000 members.
The DPolG represents the vocational, social, economical and financial interests of German police employees also those who are retired. The main aim is to achieve better working and living conditions as well as improvement of German official and vocational rights. As thus, we are in contact with governments, parliaments and parties on federal and state level.
The headquarters of the DPolG is located in Berlin, but you will find DPolG representation in each of Germany´s 16 states representing the special needs of its members. Further more the DPolG represents two special associations for colleagues in Federal Border Guard (BPOL) and Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BKA). You will find the ad-dresses under the link "Landes-/Fachverbände" .
The DPolG has a "Bundeskongress" which sits in session every four years. The admini-stration of the DPolG is selected and also trade union guidelines are discussed and agreed upon.
The DPolG is also member of the "European Police Union" (EPU) .
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With the NHL Expansion Draft looming, the New York Islanders could lose two defensemen. The core of any hockey team needs top-flight d-men and the Isles have a talented group. With Ryan Pulock and Devon Toews in the AHL as well, the Islanders have organizational depth.
Islanders Forced to Make Decisions on Defence
With the need to acquire a legitimate number two center and winger for John Tavares, the Isles may subtract from their defense. With Nick Leddy and Johnny Boychuk locked up, Thomas Hickey, Calvin de Haan and Travis Hamonic are all in danger of finding a new zip code for next season. The Vegas Golden Knights are all but guaranteed to take Hickey, de Haan or Hamonic. As a result, the Islanders may attempt to move one so they can get a return.
Luckily for the Islanders, Adam Pelech and Scott Mayfield have proven they can be solid NHL defensemen too. Although they don’t have the skating or offensive abilities of Hickey or de Haan and lack the grit of Hamonic they bring their own set of skills to the table that could help the Islanders get back to the playoffs.
Pelech: Stay-at-Home Specialist in Training
There’s nothing sexy about what Pelech does. Like former Islanders captain Kenny Jonsson, Pelech opts to make the smart play. Although a minus-5 this season, his play got progressively better. While he possesses a solid shot from the point, don’t expect to see him on the power play much either.
Regardless, Pelech is one of those players that is dependable in his own end. With just six penalty minutes in 44 games this season, he’s not going to take dumb penalties. Considering how many goals the Islanders gave up last season, Pelech’s presence in a bottom defense pairing may be a blessing. With 10 points in 44 games as well, he might have more offensive potential than anyone thinks.
Scott Mayfield – Snarl Personified
Mayfield is tailor-suited for the team that plays in Brooklyn. He’s rough, he’s rash, but he plays with heart. With Hamonic out for parts of this season, someone had to support the finesse players on the team. Mayfield was that guy.
At the same time, Mayfield’s nine points in 25 games and tough play make him a guy that can do a lot of the things Hamonic does but he lacks the poise and skating ability. If he’s paired with someone like Dennis Seidenberg however, Mayfield will develop into an excellent bottom-pairing defenseman in the NHL.
Islanders Have Options
The Islanders are going to lose players this off-season. While the offense needs more of an overhaul than the defense, the Isles will have to subtract from their strengths to develop new ones. With Pelech and Mayfield ready, the Isles can afford to move or lose prized possessions like de Haan and Hamonic.
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Science is changing. The widespread reach of the internet means we can access more papers and connect with more researchers than ever before. With the growing adoption of open access policies around the world this trend is only set to increase. As a result, scientists’ ability to collaborate effectively over long distances is now a key challenge for scientists at all stages of their career.
Nearly six years ago, I left academia to start working on an amazing driverless taxi project with Ultra PRT, now fully in operation at London’s Heathrow airport and soon to be in cities around the world.
We were conducting cutting-edge research into control systems for the large-scale deployment of driverless vehicles. Due to the background in science and academia of Martin Lowson, the then company president, we were encouraged to publish and present of our findings widely.
This policy posed a challenge. Previously, all my academic collaborations had been with people in the same department. We were all mathematicians and physicists familiar with the same tools, such as LaTeX, for writing scientific papers.
I now found myself involved in long-distance collaboration. As a team, we found a great tool called Etherpad which made it easy to quickly compose text together. However, it had no support for anything that required typesetting or referencing, such as the ability to introduce formulae, images, etc.
So, one weekend, my then colleague and now co-founder built a solution, which became writeLaTeX. This is an online collaborative writing platform, which enabled us to work on a typeset version of the document together in the cloud. Because it was cloud-based, we always knew we were working on the latest version, and we could access our work from any computer. We used it to collaborate with co-authors on most—if not all—of our papers.
Fast-forward to today and writeLaTeX has over 50,000 authors who have created over 500,000 documents. It is being used by academics, students and professionals in universities and businesses worldwide.
But what is really exciting is that it has the potential to go far beyond this.
We have built a tool which enables authors to easily collaborate on a paper, all in the cloud, and always on the right version.
What if we don’t stop at authors? What if the editors can access a version to provide comments, or to make tracked changes? What if they could invite reviewers to do the same? Through our work with open access publishers, this is what we’re aiming for in 2014 with the launch of Overleaf: to create a document-centric hub for collaboration, between authors, editors, reviewers and readers.
In this model, a scientific paper is not simply the final PDF. It includes all the comments and feedback that have shaped that document. In other words, the whole collaborative scientific process has been brought into the cloud, from idea to writing to review to publication.
This approach also ties in with reproductibility initiatives in open science. By having a live version of the document in the cloud, figures and tables no longer need to be static. They can be backed by the data used to generate them; any attempts to replicate these data can thus be documented. This encourages engagement with the science and scientists behind the paper, increasing openness and transparency, and strengthening follow-up research.
The benefits also go far beyond science.
We are in a world where society increasingly looks to science for solutions to today’s most pressing social challenges. Science is also expected to address real life problems such as complex health issues, an ageing population, and the digital transformation of the world. To meet these expectations, we need science that is faster, more open, more trustworthy, and more meaningful to people.
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[STRASBOURG, FRANCE] The proposed deal to keep Britain in the European Union and avoid a "Brexit" after a referendum is "fair" for Britain and its 27 partners, European Commission Chief Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday.
Juncker spoke a day after EU Council President Donald Tusk unveiled a series of proposals to help persuade Britons to stay in the European Union.
The commission, the executive of the 28-nation bloc, firmly supported the proposals, Juncker told members of the European Parliament who will need to approve several of the plan's most controversial points.
"The settlement that has been proposed is fair for the United Kingdom and fair for the other 27 members states," Juncker said..
"It is also fair for the European parliament," he added.
The proposals include a four-year "emergency brake" on welfare payments for EU migrant workers, protection for countries that do not use the euro currency and a "red card" system giving national parliaments more power.
"We have addressed the prime minister's concerns while respecting the (EU) treaties," he said.
"I've always said I wanted the UK to remain a member of the European Union on the basis of the fair deal," Juncker told the MEPs including members of the UK Independence Party that back an exit by Britain from the EU.
UKIP head Nigel Farage ridiculed the proposals that were "hardly worth the wait" and said Cameron would now "parade in front" of EU leaders for more concessions at a summit in two weeks.
"I find it rather humiliating that a British prime minister has to do this. But I'm certain of one thing: he won't get another thing," Farage told MEPs.
Former Belgian premier Guy Verhofstadt urged his fellow MEPs to avoid giving too many concessions to Cameron.
"We should not add emergency brakes every time a European leader faces a problem with his public opinion," Verhofstadt said.
Manfred Weber, the head of the right-of-centre European People's Party (EPP) party also warned of conceding too much to Britain: "We don't want only a British Europe, we want a Europe for all," he said.
His party "wants the UK to stay in the EU and for the people of UK to be convinced it is better to stay," he added.
The unveiling of Tusk's plan launched two weeks of intense negotiations to reach a deal at an EU summit later this month.
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday said Tusk's plans showed "real progress" and made it likely that he would campaign to stay in the EU in a referendum expected in June.
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The mission of DSA Pays It Forward is to empower South African women and children. We are committed to improving the lives of those suffering from poverty, malnutrition, and disease by implementing affordable, sustainable ideas.
DSA Pays It Forward started with the initial vision of empowering African women, whose plight was the societal role of leaving them completely uninvolved in supplying for themselves or their families.
Our solution was to develop a sustainable way to create the means to both feed and eventually develop economical security. We found community gardens were the most efficient way to introduce lasting change. Not only was it relatively easy to introduce, it could be maintained without large amounts of foreign aid continually steaming in.
Women began supplying food and feeding their neighbors and surrounding communities. Soon an abundance of fresh produce was available for purchase throughout our supported regions and began changing the economic climate to produce better living conditions.
DSA Pays It Forward soon after introduced plans to move into HIV/AIDS relief for babies as well as create much needed orphanages for children. If we were to help create sustainable food and economical resources, we found that the next logical step was providing shelter and education. Our passion and ambition to create real solutions soon generated over $100,000 in generously donated revenue. We are proud to say our goals became reality near the end of 2009. | <urn:uuid:961c2359-eeda-438f-8925-a7d896adc845> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://dsavacations.com/about/social-responsibility/ | 2021-05-07T12:20:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988793.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20210507120655-20210507150655-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.971791 | 269 |
Things got a little heated when Beanie Sigel went onto The Breakfast Club on Tuesday morning. The hip hop legend has been involved in a lot of controversy lately. From helping Meek Mill write a diss track for The Game, to him being knocked out by Meek's goons, to him
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Mac Miller is on his way to South Africa so it only makes sense that we post the interview. They talk about his relationship with Ariana Grande, Big Sean, being sober and the his new album The Divine Feminine.
It's been 15 years since Fabo dropped his debut album Ghetto Fabolous and he reflects with the Breakfast Club team on what their "Fab firsts" were, while he shares his favourite memories of when he started popping. Do people even still use the word "groupie"? Hahah, in 2016 you'll get
You have to be very woke to listen To Vince Staples music. He deals with so many issues and is often unapologetic. Prima Donna dropped last week x its one of those EP that needs a quiet sit down. Talking about sit downs Vince visited The BreakfastClub to talk about
Finally the Lil Yachty 2016 Freshmen 2016 is dropped x its everything i expected. If you still hating on Yachty its cool, you will soon catch the wave. But to be honest though dude is really something different x we need to welcome that. Okay maybe I'm over selling Yachty.
Every time Folarin pays the Breakfast Club peeps a visit he goes into a long rant on music x state of the game x his fav sneakers. Well dude is back again x stopped by the Breakfast Club to talk about his new album x his on and off relationship
One of the dopest emcees Royce Da 5 '9' on the Breakfast Club. He just dropped his album Layers and he talks about the album and his addiction and Eminem.
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Following on from the success of the first film, Hanne, short history, and Klaasje, given Q3, a new feature film: K 3 – Dance of the pharaohs. The shooting of the new movie this summer, start by making a few creative adjustments, all the coronamaatregelen can be observed. K 3 – Dance of the pharaohs will appear at the end of this year and into the room. The original film, Q3, Love to Cruise, and could count on more than 300.000 people from Flanders and the Netherlands.
The campaign of the new film, made at the start of the show, a lot of controversy. Well on Instagram as on Twitter, we read the compliments, but there are a lot of people who take offense because of the new campaign. Q3-as an Egyptian beauty, to really do it?”
“Oh, I thought that it was 2020 and the cultural appropriation of finally being’ out of fashion’ it was. But I could be wrong, have to hear,” said someone on Instagram from the Studio 100.
And it doesn’t stop there. Elsjepelsje is called Q3, and the ” Black Lives Matter, in the same sentence. “In an era of” Black Lives Matter, and we have decided that it’s cultural appropriation, not more, it Q3 by 2020, with this, with the advertising poster of the film in post.
That the K3 is in a few hours, for a whole bunch of retweets and hundreds of responses, it would ensure that they were in the Studio, the 100 may not have seen it coming. A lot of people resent the remarks made on Twitter.
“So I was normal, and there is nothing wrong with that. If you were in films such as Night at the museum”, and the song is by ‘The Bangles’ are also banned. Long life to the weakened society, where everything has to be politically correct, “should of”, reacts to Robin van Nooij. | <urn:uuid:e090dfd2-2207-4067-9f74-9039ce45645d> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.firstorderhistorians.com/2020/06/29/q3-is-now-under-fire-because-of-a-new-campaign/ | 2021-01-23T01:51:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703531702.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20210123001629-20210123031629-00717.warc.gz | en | 0.972069 | 443 |
Serviced Office Market: South West 2011
Workstation prices increased across the region
While fewer firms were shown to have chosen serviced offices in 2011, the workstation requirements of those firms that did make the move remained largely unchanged ΓÇô with the 4.4 workstation average recorded in 2011 remaining in line with the 4.5 average seen in 2010.
Despite decreased demand, the cost of serviced office space across the South West increased, rising from £200 per workstation per month in 2010 to £219 in 2011. While not published in the report, internal data from officebroker.com reveals that this overall increase was driven by average workstation prices of £253 in Plymouth and £247 in Bath.
Commitment levels also increased in the South West, with the initial licence length of 8 months recorded in 2010 increasing to 9 months during 2011.
Download Report | Serviced Office Review: South West Q4 2011
Bristol City Centre
In contrast, the number of enquiries for serviced office space increased by 16% in central Bristol during 2011 ΓÇô while the take-up of serviced space was 19% higher when compared to the same 12 month period in 2010.
Reflecting the trend recorded across the wider region, workstation prices in central Bristol also increased – rising by £37 on 2010 prices to reach an average of £231 per workstation per month between January – December 2011.
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Denon RC-7000CI Remote
As a complement to its Blu-Ray players, Denon today also launched a new remote control system it hopes will be truly useful for multi-room home theater setups. The RC-7000CI (shown) is said to have one of the largest electronics databases of any home theater device and can be programmed over a USB connection for most any AV hardware in a given room. The 7000CI also chooses RF over infrared to eliminate the line of sight issues that plague most other remotes; owners don't need to be in the same room, Denon claims. Newer gear from the company will also display digital track information, such as iPod track data or the current music on an XM satellite radio station.
More complex arrangements are possible with the RC-7001CI base station that serves as a companion, the company points out. The hub both amplifies the range of the remote beyond that of the immediate equipment and potentially creates a network of remote control around a house. Up to 16 remotes and stations can mix together without interference, the company claims. Each hub also offers six IR blasters to translate controls to legacy devices.
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WOLF - Winterized Area Gas Detection by ElectrogasLogo Design
Electrogas Monitors and I sat down when they learned that a new product they were working on would be open to having its own branding attached to it. The new product was the first Winterized Area Gas Detector in the industry.
We approach the design process as an extension of their current branding strategy while developing a new identity for the product. The end result was a single branding logo using the same typefaces and colours are their current brand.
As product development continued, the need for supplementary logos arose. Again, using similar typefaces and the trends in logo design I was able to create the ‘Lone Wolf’ and ‘Wolf Pack’ designs.
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There’s a city inside the City of Macon.
It’s made of tents strung along the banks of the Ocmulgee River downtown. Homeless people have been bedding down here, largely hidden from view, for years.
But this year, with the movement of people back to the nation’s downtown centers happening alongside the first increase in the nation’s homeless population in seven years, Macon-Bibb government says the tent city has to be pushed back, at least from inside Macon’s Central City Park.
If you want to find a piece of the tent city, walk on top of the river levee in Central City Park. Jennifer Morrow lives on the river side of the levee with her dog, Blue, at the end of a little footpath that ends at a river bluff, not far from new athletic fields and a new skatepark. She hasn’t lived there long.
“My boyfriend's the one who committed suicide by train. Back in September,” she said. “Me and Blue had been homeless ever since.”
Homeless, and she explained, in advanced heart failure. Morrow has a daughter nearby she doesn’t want to burden, so for now it’s sleeping on the river. But Morrow and everyone else here have to clear out by next Monday, December 18. It’s a firm deadline from Macon-Bibb government.
“It sucks because it's right before Christmas,” Morrow said. “And there's not a lot of other places to go that are safe. That's my concern. I don't want to get raped out here.”
Meanwhile, on the day Morrow said she was packing up to leave, Macon-Bibb Mayor Robert Reichert and others were celebrating at nearby Luther Williams Field, one of the country’s oldest baseball parks.
“It is pretty easy to get excited about baseball coming back to Luther Williams Field,” Reichert said at the announcement of county funds allocated for the renovation of the aging ballpark. The money is for a new minor league team, the Macon Bacon.
Macon-Bibb County is pumping $2.5 million of Special Local Options Sales Tax money into renovations. It’s part of more than $15 million being spent on big ticket renovations in surrounding Central City Park. As the new amenities draw people back to the park, Reichert said some aren’t comfortable with the homeless living there. There are peewee football games at the foot of the levee, for instance. And there’s the Ocmulgee Heritage trail, the city’s greenway.
“People are having a hard time even using the heritage trail because of the sanitation issues where the homeless don't have facilities to use for the bathroom at all,” he said. “That provides a public health hazard for them and for us.”
Reichert is working with a task force of service providers like the Salvation Army, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and others for a long term solution to the homelessness problem at the park. So far there’s not one, there’s just a deadline.
“On the 18th of Monday, we're going to pick all of your stuff up,” he said.
So where should people go?
“They can endure more cold weather,” Reichert said of the homeless. “They will find a way to find some shelter and they are able to manage to get by in a lot of circumstances where you and I probably couldn't.”
In her office at the Daybreak Center right outside Central City Park, Sister Theresa Sullivan was not so sure.
“Well I would say I'm a nurse, and we all have neurons,” Sullivan said with a laugh. “So we all feel the cold.”
At Daybreak Sister Sullivan and others help people do laundry, get a shower, maybe get a Band-Aid. She said she understands Reichert’s drive to make the park seem safer.
“I have crazy days here, so I go to the park,” she said. “And by walking on that path, and by the water, it calms me down and it helps me to pray, to be close to God.”
But Sister Sullivan also doesn’t want the homeless run out of the park without another option for housing. She is on Reichert’s homelessness task force and they have something new they are ready to try.
“Actually January 25th, we're launching this coordinated housing program with all of us working together with an assessment to try to get people housed,” she said.
It will be one big database of Macon’s homeless population that the agencies on the Mayor’s task force can use together to quickly house people - including the people by the river. But, again, that launches January 25, a full month after the tent city comes down. Sister Theresa said that’s frustrating.
“Yes, so my frustration is not...I understand the mayor's wanting public parks belong to the public,” she said.
That’s not the issue, ultimately.
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This week at Fine Dining Lovers we kicked things off with a fascinating look at tea.
Did you know that after water, tea is the most popular and widely consumed beverage in the world? Or that 3,200,000 tons of black tea are produced worldwide every year?
Azores Islands: Tasting Tour
Also this week we embarked on a tasting tour of the Azores Islands, one of Portugal's best kept secrets.
From outstanding seafood dishes to meats cooked underground, the islands are full of tasty surprises.
Amanda Cohen's Take on Veggies
This week also included a wonderful Q&A with famed New York City chef Amanda Cohen.
Cohen runs Dirt Candy, a restaurant that specializes in vegetable dishes that are out of this world. | <urn:uuid:393976ae-3419-4d3e-bbea-a03199498baf> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://www.finedininglovers.com/stories/the-week-in-bites-br-19-march-2017/ | 2019-04-23T12:37:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578602767.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20190423114901-20190423140901-00497.warc.gz | en | 0.931217 | 162 |
Imbabura Province - Ecuador
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The Province of Imbabura is one of the 24 provinces that make up the Republic of Ecuador, located in the north of the country, in the geographical area known as the interandean region or sierra, mainly on the Chota basin in the east and on the external flanks of the western mountain range in the west. Its administrative capital is the city of Ibarra, which is also its largest and most populated city. It occupies a territory of about 4,599 km², being the eighth province of the country by extension. It borders on the north with Carchi, on the south with Pichincha, on the west with Esmeraldas and on the east with Sucumbíos.
In the imbabureño territory they inhabit 398.244 people, according to the last national census (2010), being the thirteenth most populous province of the country. The Province of Imbabura is constituted by 6 cantons, with their respective urban and rural parishes. According to the last territorial order, the province of Imbabura will belong to a region also included by the provinces of Carchi, Esmeraldas and Sucumbíos, although it is not officially formed, called North.
It is one of the most important administrative, economic, financial and commercial centers of the north of Ecuador. The development of the industry in the province, in general, was based on the manual skills of its inhabitants. It has a very unique importance for the history of the north of Ecuador, because it is a midpoint between the coast and the Amazon, since ancestral time it was constituted as a meeting zone between cultures, merchants and events of religious connotation.
He had different migratory periods from the mountains such as the caranquis, otavalos and natabuelas. Later on it was conquered by the Incas under the command of Huayna Cápac. The Spanish colonization occurred in December 1534 with the founding of the city of Otavalo, during that period the maximum entities and precursors of the province would be the Corregimientos de Otavalo and San Antonio de Ibarra. After the independence war and the annexation of Ecuador to the Gran Colombia, the Province of Imbabura was created on June 25, 1824, which makes it one of the 7 first provinces of Ecuador.
Typical Gastronomy Imbabura Province
The red meats of Cotacachi
Ibarra morocho empanadas
Roasted corncobs with Ibarra cheese
The guinea pigs of Chaltura and Natabuela
Ibarra ice cream
La chicha de jora in Cotacachi
The chicha del Yamor in Otavalo
The fry of Atuntaqui
The wheat flour chicha and the corn tortillas of Atuntaqui
The nickname with pork rinds
Ibarra chicharrón choclos
The clothing of Mora and Uvilla, in Ibarra
Las nogadas and cassava rolls, in Ibarra
Caranqui milk bread
Fish in Yahuarcocha
Locro and blood broth of Ibarra
The stilt and llapingachos of Ibarra
Customs Imbabura Province
Fiesta de San Luís, in Otavalo: This is celebrated with Mass, troupes and Popular Dances. The towns and villages of Ecuador are identified by entertaining their traditional festivities with great care.
Theodorist Festivities, in Ibarra: intervention in the artistic-cultural-pedagogical festival, where the spectators are pointed out, the developments obtained in the cultural, through music.
Feast of the Patron Archangel San Miguel, in Ibarra: Every year, at the time of September, a ceremony is held in honor of Patron Archangel San Miguel, to pay tribute to protect these lands. On this holiday you can enjoy bullfights, motorcycle and car races, fireworks, musical bands, typical dances, good food, among other things.
Fiesta del Yamor, in Otavalo: This celebration was originated before the Inca conquest, united with the religious beliefs of the population. It is a party that brings the people together and reminds them that despite their differences, they are strengthened like corn kernels on the cob.
Fiesta de La Candelaria, in Ibarra: It is a popular celebration celebrated by Christians, in homage to the Virgin of the Candelaria.
The Hunt of the Fox (Fiesta Brava), in Ibarra: The Hunt of the Fox is considered a traditional activity that is celebrated in great part of the territory of Ibarra. This holiday takes place in the most important places of the territory. This event consists of a horse race that begins in the area of the Return, passing through different places, such as the José Domingo Albuja Stadium, Loma de Guayabillas, until reaching the goal that remains in the territory of the José Tobar Tobar Autodrome.
Inti Raymi, in Otavalo and Cotachachi: The Inti Raymi, festival of the Sun, is made in honor and gratitude to Mother Earth for the fruits collected, for the summer solstice. Of all the Kichwas celebrations, the Inti raymi composes one of the current cultural monuments that has managed to modernize methods such as irruption.
April Fool's Day and the Holy Kings, in Ibarra: The traditional Feast of the Holy Innocents in Cuenca, symbolizes a custom in which many people participate, on January 6 goes out to the streets with all kinds of costumes and perform parades in a parade in which the most important national and international events and actors of the previous year are usually having fun.
Carnival and Fashion Fair, in Atuntaqui and Ibarra: It is an event that takes place every year where these locations bring the best costumes at a very attractive price for tourists and people in the area who are attracted by the merchandise that is found for sale.
Tourist Attractions Imbabura Province
The province of Imbabura has a large number of tourist attractions of which the following places can be highlighted:
Imbabura Province Craft Fair
In the province of Imbabura it is the headquarters of the Otavalo Handicrafts Fair, which is considered one of the most visited and famous in the entire Ecuadorian territory. In this fair you can get from the ponchos used by the ancient population to hats made of toquilla straw. This place offers handicrafts from all Ecuadorian areas, such as the territories of Montecristi, Jipijapa and Cuenca.
It also exposes the ancient clothes of the nearby towns such as Otavalo, San Pablo, Esperanza and Cotacachi. You can also see the crafts made by the people of Salasaca, such as their kitchen materials and shoes.
The Peguche Waterfall Imbabura Province
The Peguche Waterfall is another tourist site, considered within the most beautiful places in the province of Imbabura. This waterfall was a spiritual place for Aboriginal people. Being a place where you can enjoy a beautiful waterfall that is the central point of this entire territory. It is also a tourist center with respect to its handicrafts and handmade products.
Lake San Pablo Imbabura Province
Lake San Pablo is the largest lake in the province of Imbabura. In this lake the natives usually fish early in the day, sailing on their canoes made of straw, they also use the lake to shower and wash their clothes. The lake is in the center of many hostels, farms and restaurants, being a center of entertainment and fun for tourists. They also have canoe services that offer tours of the spacious lake.
Imbabura Province Water Park
In the territory of Araque one of the most spectacular works of Ecuador is located. The water park is the favorite place of many residents, comprising more than 100 visitors every weekend, making this number much higher during the holiday season when tourists arrive. This attraction seeks to increase tourism in this area, for higher incomes, so there are already people who sell weekends, food inside the water park, mainly tilapia.
Condor Park Imbabura Province
The Condor Park is located on the summit of Curiloma, considered a magical place for the beauty of its landscapes. It is one of the most important places in the Andes area that belongs to Ecuador, being home to many species both animal and vegetable, becoming a large educational park. It is also the natural habitat of the famous condor of Los Andes and other species of vultures.
The park contains 30 acres and is run by a foundation that is responsible for protecting the safety and survival of large birds such as hawks, eagles, vultures and owls. This park is distinguished from the rest for many reasons, such as because it is located on top of a hill, which bears the name of "Pukara Alto", being an important place until before the arrival of the Spaniards, where one of the temples was previously religious prior to the Incas.
Chota Province of Imbabura
Chota is a city in the province, which is located in a valley with warm temperatures and a desert environment, which differs from the rest of the province of Imbabura. It is located in the northern part of the territory of Imbabura, limiting to the south of the province of Carchi. The population of this city is generally dark skinned, descendants of Africans, for this reason many of the customs remind of the African culture in Ecuador. | <urn:uuid:fe1fb607-77b9-407a-a0aa-27f9693952be> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://goecuador.net/province/imbabura-ecuador | 2019-11-21T01:56:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670643.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121000300-20191121024300-00233.warc.gz | en | 0.941317 | 2,070 |
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A single secure system for handling fee payments from international students via agents has been launched by leading global transactions firm Uni-Pay.
The new service aims to cut costs and bureaucracy for universities and English language colleges, as well as students and agents themselves.
It is also designed to make the fee paying process via agents more transparent, amid concerns over the activities of some rogue operators who look to take advantage of what is now a multi-billion dollar global industry.
For the first time, agents across the world will be able to use the Uni-Pay service to manage payments from students – whether they pay via the agent or direct to the institution. All parties will have visibility of the payment trail, which brings much more transparency than has ever been available before to this important stage of recruiting international students.
Sitting at their desks in Bangalore, Beijing, or any other part of the world, agents will be able to log on to an easy-to-use platform and track payments made for multiple students to hundreds of languages colleges and universities. Not only does it speed up the process and make it more secure, Uni-Pay also provides same-day proof of payment that assists with visa applications.
Operating in 26 currencies across 33 countries, Uni-Pay uses a network of local bank accounts and credit card platforms, saving millions of pounds a year on the usual transaction fees of £25 or more. Students and agents pay a flat fee of around £7 for each payment they make, and will make further savings in competitive exchange rates.
More than 30 English language colleges like Bell and St Giles and many universities, including Durham University and the University of East Anglia, have already signed up to Uni-Pay’s service.
Simon Read, Managing Director of Uni-Pay, says the new service for agents will provide greater clarity for all parties; managing payments from students as well as commission payments back to agents from their institutions. Agents have been making payments through Uni-Pay for some time but the difference now is that they will have a dedicated portal that meets their specific needs and reflects their position in the overall recruitment chain.
“A few cases of rogue agents highlighted by the media have produced a negative stigma and fear among students and institutions alike.
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Several high-profile Wallabies are set for short-term moves to the Gallagher Premiership next season, according to the Sydney Morning Herald report.
Rugby Australia has stood down 75 per cent of its workforce and is to impose salary reductions on its Wallabies after forecasting losses of up £60m because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pay cut arrangements for players are finally set to be confirmed by Rugby Australia on Monday following lengthy discussions.
According to the report, to compensate for the loss of earnings, Rugby Australia are believed to have agreed that a half-dozen of its top stars will be permitted to seek out six-month contracts overseas outside of the international Test window.
Therefore Captain Hooper, along with Tevita Kuridrani, Matt Toomua and Dane Haylett-Petty will be given the green light to take up short term contracts.
The report suggests that only the Gallagher Premiership and the Japanese Top League are viable options for them before returning in time for the July 2021 Test schedule.
Top 15 Rugby Players Who Have Hilarious Lookalikes
This is a collection of the best of the best, the most-commonly associated individuals, and a few deserving folks who have flown under the radar in regard to resemblances.
This is the Top 15 Rugby Players Who Have Celebrity Lookalikes.
15. Maxime Medard and Hugh Jackman
The French fullback could definitely be the next Wolverine.
14. James O’Connor & Justin Bieber
13. Brian O’Driscoll & Mark Wahlberg
12. Wayne Barnes & Tin Tin
11. Tony Daly & John Candy
Was actually nicknames ‘Uncle Buk’ who is a character played by Candy. | <urn:uuid:10f376a9-688d-421f-99a6-e7cf3bb1dae8> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.ruck.co.uk/reports-michael-hooper-heading-to-the-gallagher-premiership/ | 2021-10-19T17:25:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585280.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019171139-20211019201139-00049.warc.gz | en | 0.92004 | 358 |
The MiniBooNE neutrino detector was designed and built to look for νμ → νe oscillations in the (sin2 2 θ, Δ m2) parameter space region where the LSND experiment reported a signal. The MiniBooNE experiment used a beam energy and baseline that were an order of magnitude larger than those of LSND so that the backgrounds and systematic errors would be completely different. This paper provides a detailed description of the design, function, and performance of the MiniBooNE detector.
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|Number of pages||19|
|Journal||Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment|
|State||Published - Feb 1 2009|
- Neutrino oscillation
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|Reviews for Coming Home|
| Lt. Olivia Benson-Stabler chapter 9 . 2/17/2012
great story but I hated what happen to olivia and what she went thru glad in the end that elliot and elliot got together
| sunkissedsummer4 chapter 1 . 4/11/2008
I love it. Can't wait to read more but I have to go to school right now. Sucks!
| BrittanyLS chapter 9 . 7/3/2006
I loved this! Great job!
| tanya2byour21 chapter 9 . 6/26/2006
I so loved this story I am a huge SUV fan and have alway want Elliot and Olivia together and I am glad you did and gave them a baby. Keep up the good work and I look forward to reading more of your work.
| TruLuv chapter 9 . 6/24/2006
I really love your story. Please write another again soon!
| Svu Cutie chapter 9 . 6/24/2006
i'm really sorry to hear you life isn't very happy i hope it works out in the end! besided in the delay in update i don't think it altered your writing that much. You gave us the background of there life and how things came to be. Plus you gave us the happy ending with everyone happy with each other and elliot and olivia delirously in love.
| obsessedwithstabler chapter 9 . 6/23/2006
AW! SO CUTE! Very original. Kudos! Looking forward to more of your works...
Fault airs 6-23-o6 at 11pm on USA
Need I say more?...
| CrazyHouse chapter 7 . 3/17/2006
Hey grgeat story. Ireally love it. I do not get what you were trying to say in this sentence. " The one man in the world that she couldn’t have loved her".
| Lazy-Hazy-Crazy-Dayz chapter 8 . 3/7/2006
okay well i really like your story, but you haven't updated for a few weeks, if you still need an idea maybe work on slowly letting people know about how Elliot is Abby's father.
| Svu Cutie chapter 8 . 2/20/2006
I think they need to confront their feelings again and elliot might need to start thinking a black box with a shiny piece of jewerly. I'm also curious to find out what elliot thinks of her friends that are bringing her stuff down.
| CynthiaB chapter 8 . 2/15/2006
Hey, it was a nice chapter!
Keep up the good work.
| BrittanyLS chapter 7 . 2/10/2006
This was a great chapter!
| CynthiaB chapter 7 . 2/6/2006
Loved the talks.
Keep up the good work.
| Svu Cutie chapter 7 . 2/5/2006
That chapter was really informative and very deep. their relationship is growing so slightly and i can't wait to find out what Cragen has to tell her hopefully its a job but i'm not sure el and liv could work together i hope the will liv with any other partner wouldn't work out besides munch and fin need each other
| SerenaFelicity chapter 7 . 2/4/2006
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Metric Halo’s ChannelStrip for has been an integral part of the sound of myriad Grammy-award winning, Gold and Platinum records, hit TV shows and blockbuster movies. The first plug-in to bring classic large format console-style ChannelStrip processing to Pro Tools TDM, ChannelStrip has been the critical tool for getting “the sound” for thousands of professional recording engineers, composers and musicans world-wide.
ChannelStrip 2 is a plug-in that's been used on countless hits and soundtracks with a fourteen year pedigree. Now Metric Halo made it better, incorporating user feedback. Welcome to ChannelStrip 3 for Pro Tools 10.
ChannelStrip includes over 100 professionally constructed presets that are automatically installed with the plug-in that provide a wide variety of fix-its and starting points for optimizing the sound of your individual channels and mixes.
ChannelStrip includes the following critical signal processors integrated together in one easy-to-use interface:
- EQ (48-bit — the first on the platform!)
The integrated delay is useful for adjusting the relative timing of tracks; this is great if you are recording sources (like a guitar amp) with multiple microphones. While this feature can be critical in a professional environment, it is a bit on the technical side, and you may find that you never need to utilize it. But it is there if you need it!
The Compressor is the primary dynamics processing element in ChannelStrip. Similar to the Expander/Gate, it provides an automatic gain-riding feature, but instead of the gain changing when the signal is low, the compressor changes the gain when the signal level is high. By lowering the gain when the signal level is high, the compressor can even out the dynamics of a performance, pull low-level detail out of the sound, and even radically change the nature of the sound passing through it. The compressor has been compared (favorably!) with the bus compressor in the SSL mega-bucks mixing console — a processor that is much coveted for its ability to “fatten up” everything that passes through it.
- PT10 or above for Pro Tools Users
- All versions of Logic supported
- iLok account
- New look for the user interface
- Resizable - small, medium and large sizes to fit different screen resolutions, make CS 3 easier to use
- Added "MIO Comp" character from our hardware MIOStrip
- Now includes a limiter, making ChannelStrip 3 a single plug-in master bus solution
- SpectraFoo™ spectrum analysis on the EQ and sidechain graphs
- Sidechain listens for the gate and compressor
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The manufacturer of AK-47, Kalashnikov’s ambition for modern electric vehicles is nothing new. The Russian gun giant has now revealed its latest electric motorcycle Izh-49, which is a limited edition model for motorcycle collectors in the Russian Federation.
Kalashnikov has not revealed the pricing of the motorcycle but claims that most of these are already sold and only a few remain in stock. According to what we gather from Russian reports, the electric motorcycle is priced at around $20,000.
Kalashnikov’s press secretary Mark Reznikov has informed that the company has made only 49 models and doesn’t plan to make more at the moment.
The Izh-49 electric motorcycle is themed around the Soviet-era motorcycle with the same name. It was displayed at the Army-2020 military exhibition in Moscow in August. The retro-themed electric motorcycle looks like what the Terminator would save the world on if the sequel was set in 2021. The motorcycle carries the typical visual features of the original Soviet-era model’s design.
The Kalashnikov Izh-49 has a brushless air-cooled motor and stopping power comes from disc brakes. The bike can charged through a household 220V power socket. The 130 kg electric vehicle can run at a top speed of 90 kmph and it has a range of 80 km on a single charge, as claimed by the manufacturer.
In early 2018 Kalashnikov Concern made 30 units of ‘Izh Pulsar’ motorcycles for Moscow’s Police, which were used during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. These were the electric motorcycles suitable for off-roading. A cruiser motorcycle with the name Izh was also developed by the company for the Russian President’s motorcade in 2018.
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|Top speed||90 km/h|
|Max output||15 kW (20.1 hp)|
|Peak Torque||60 Nm|
|Braking system||Ventilated hydraulic disc brakes|
At the end of 2019 as well, Kalashnikov showcased an Izh model with a cafe racer design, which was developed for fast rides, as the company claimed. This was designed to run at a top speed of 100 kmph, similar to the latest model.
Not only motorcycles, but Kalashnikov also tried its hands in electric cars. In 2018, the Russian company showcased an all-electric Kalashnikov CV-1 at an event in Moscow, which was touted as Russia’s answer to the Tesla electric car. This EV was claimed to have a range of 350 km on a single charge from a 90 kWh battery pack. It was then said that the EV was capable of accelerating 0-100 km/h in around 6 seconds, but little has been reported on the car since.
Andrew Agapoff checks out the Russian electric bike
ElectricVehicleWeb reader Andrew Agapoff has sent in his thoughts and couple of photos of the bike from his visit to the Russian exhibition. Here’s what Andrew wrote in his email:
Hello everyone! In the summer of 2020, I was able to participate in the international exhibition in Moscow – ARMY 2020. There I visited the Kalashnikov pavilion, where the IZH-49 electric motorcycle was presented . The bike looks in the style of retro-futurism. It is beautiful, brutal and elegant at the same time. Despite the fact that the seat on a motorcycle of the 1950s, it is very comfortable. One battery charge is enough for 80 kilometers of range. Its maximum speed is 95 km/h . It can be charged from a regular 220-volt outlet. The manufacturer claims that the IZH-49 is a collector’s item for fans. Unfortunately, there will be no mass production, only 49 motorcycles will be produced. | <urn:uuid:68263100-a93d-4ffe-8aaa-389a959bc9ca> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://electricvehicleweb.com/kalashnikov-electric-motorcycle-bike-2020/ | 2021-10-20T07:51:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585302.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020055136-20211020085136-00016.warc.gz | en | 0.968275 | 805 |
AutoPlay Media Studio 8 Personal Edition is a free software development tool for programming interactive multimedia software, database applications, games, Internet tools and more. Learn to create Windows software applications using a visual development environment. The Lua scripting language and...
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Windows 7 Autoplay Disabler is a small, simple application specially designed to help you disable your autoplay function in Windows 7.
The application is as easy to use as possible: you just start the program and select the action to perform.
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Disable Autorun/Autoplay is a handy application designed to enable you to turn on or turn off the Autorun feature. for WindowsXP, Vista, 2008, Vista64, 7, 7x64
Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, 2008, 7, 7x64
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CD Front End allows you to create an autorun / autoplay / autostart CD. A catalog, a software collection, PDF files, or any stuff. The user simply inserts the CD, then in a full screen window an HTML-like presentation will be shown. Inside it you can include any button you want to launch files...
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The CD Front End allows you to create an autorun / autoplay / autostart / autoinstall CD. A catalog, a software collection, Acrobat PDF files, MP3, PowerPoint PPT, Word DOC, AutoCAD, Corel, any stuff. The user simply inserts the CD, then in a full screen window a Web-like presentation is shown....
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CD Front End, the professional autoplay/autorun CD - DVD maker software: make Web-like pages, create presentations, build product catalogs, menus, catalogues, CD business cards, brochures, slide shows, show menus, run files and programs, show popup windows... all with this all-in-one versatile...
Platforms: Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server, Other
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Create, modify, delete and organize your Windows XP Autoplay Handlers. After uninstall some media players leave nasty parts of their autoplay handlers in the registry, this utility can remove them. With Autoplay Repair it is possible to remove invalid entries and even create new or modify...
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SamLogic CD-Menu Creator is a powerful application which helps you create impressive autoplay/autorun multimedia menu interfaces for CD, DVD and USB flash drives.
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RUNick is a helping software that runs different commands on plugging in an USB device and using the added AutoPlay option. The commandlines can contain variables. Additionally it can be defined that a commandline is specific for a single computer.
|License: Freeware||Size: 207 KB||Download (44): RUNick Download|
XML Dock Image Menu / XML Dock Photo Menu & XML Dock AutoPlay Menu.Features * Fully customizable XML driven content * Unlimited number of images / swf support * Customizable width, height, position and item size * Easy to use XML file for images / tooltips / titles / descriptions and links *...
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AutoPlay Mobile Studio for iOS AutoPlay Studio for iOS is designed for AutoPlay customers to provide a quick and easy way to manage listings, leads, upload images, build videos and record audio for your automotive and real-estate listings. Login with your AutoPlay account details to: - View and...
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CDInterface Studio is a free tool to create autorun/autoplay CD menus for your software collection. Will organize your softwares and have all the information you want - title, description, serial number, updates, etc. Will autostart any file you want. An easy to use interface, no programming...
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eMoviX is a package that allows you to create bootable CDs able to boot & autoplay your multimedia files. It is intended mainly to play video files but if you want it can be used to play also audio files. I plan to release eventually a distro similar to eMoviX but aimed at audio only, so stay...
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jQuery Slideshow Gallery Maker is an excellent picture slideshow creator. Jquery slideshow menu is easy to create beautiful effect jquery slideshow banner, jquery slideshow wordpress or jquery slideshow joomla with pictures and songs fast. No particular skill needed, no complicated settings,...
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Rizonesoft CD-DVD Icon Repair is a small and easy-to-use tool that will repair Windows if your CD or DVD drive icon is missing from My Computer when your drive is not recognized. It will also help if you have issues reading or burning media. CD-DVD Icon Repair can also repair (reset) your...
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AutoRun Design Specialty is a useful and powerful visual tool that can create professional autorun (autoplay) interfaces and presentations for your CD/DVDs. It is the easiest way to create, edit professional autorun (autoplay) interface and generate autorun files for CD/DVDs in a WYSIWYG...
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4 Menu Basic is a simple set of files: it allows you to create an autoplay / autorun CD where you can put any kind of file. The user simply inserts the CD, then a menu window will be shown with simple buttons: a click on one of the button starts your file.
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FREE fading XML Banner Image / picture / photo rotator & slideshow using clickable numbers and autoPlay, previous, next buttons and scrollable text description box.Key Features: Easy to use XML file for images / titles / descriptions and links Scroll Bar component support for the text description...
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MP3 TinyPlayer free Applet is based on JavaLayer 0.2 open source project. To play any MP3 file (e.g. : 44Khz, 128Kbps) , you need a browser JavaSound 1.0 compliant : Netscape 6 or IE 4.x Javad-OC?D? Plugin 1.3 or higher.Parameters:- audioURL : Name of the MP3 file to play.- skin : Directory...
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OIPlayer 'attaches' itself to all video and/or audio tags it encounters. Besides the general configuration of the plugin itself, it uses for each individual tag the attributes the respective tag has like poster, width, controls, autoplay etc.
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They concluded that the effects of increasing shear span on the shear strength of I-joists with rectangular holes appear to be minimal and that a web stiffener is effective in shifting the critical stress from the web hole to the bottom flange at the point of maximum moment.
Web stiffeners were installed at the reaction and load points.
Column web stiffeners do not affect characteristics of the connection area.
Subsequent to calculations, it may be noted that the transverse column web stiffeners increase the initial rotational stiffness and the design moment resistance of the joints.
(2) Parametric case of the web stiffening using web stiffeners shows a simple possibility to increase the web and joint stiffness and strength.
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Alex Feltmate, of the Valley Maple Leafs, was named the Rookie of the Year in the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League.
The coaching staff of the Valley Maple Leafs are singing the team's praises after the local hockey squad received two awards from the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League.
Alex Feltmate received Rookie of the Year, while the executive behind the Leafs were honoured with Executive of the Year.
Rookie of the Year
In 28 regular season games, Feltmate scored 19 times and offered 22 assists and led the Leafs in points.
Head coach Josh Dill and assistant coach Rob Lindsay both felt Feltmate was deserving of the Rookie of the Year title.
“Skill-wise, I'm sure he's one of the best players in the league,” said Dill, noting Feltmate is a playmaker.
“Even though he did miss close to 10 games, it shows the skill he has and the type of player he is to still get awarded Rookie of the Year,” Dill noted.
Lindsay shared a similar sentiment when describing Feltmate.
“He brings a special talent to the rink every night. It speaks volumes to his commitment and play,” said Lindsay.
“He certainly wears his heart on his sleeve and gives his best every night,” Lindsay added.
Dill said they hope Feltmate will return to the lineup next season but said if he wants to play at a higher level of hockey, the coaching staff will do everything they can to make it happen.
“It's not a surprise to us when we saw he got Rookie of the Year. I think we all figured he was going to get it,” said Dill.
Executive of the Year
The hard work going on behind the scenes of the Valley Maple Leafs was recognized this year.
Dill credits all of the volunteers who helped from the very start to bring the Junior B team to fruition.
“It's a lot of work. They did a great job. It's only Year 2,” said Dill.
The Valley Maple Leafs formed in time for the 2012-13 season in response to the Windsor Royals announcing a one-year hiatus from the NSJHL. The Royals folded before the start of the following season.
“Our group, the executive group, work very hard to give the kids a place to play. If it wasn't for them, there wouldn't be Junior B hockey in Windsor and the Valley, and these kids wouldn't have a place to play,” said Dill. “Hopefully everyone realizes how hard it is and how much work these people put in to make sure there is a team.”
Lindsay said it was an honour to have the executive win the award this year in light of the blood, sweat and tears the volunteers have put in.
“There's a lot of time, effort, and money that is spent doing that and it's just nice to be recognized amongst other organizations and the community,” said Lindsay.
The assistant coach noted that thanks to their dedicated volunteers, the organization went from being an idea to being able to ice a competitive hockey team in short order.
“I'm a little biased but I certainly agree that it's warranted,” said Lindsay. “It takes a big budget to run this team and a lot of hours that the volunteers are doing. There's not one person that is compensated to be involved in this organization. It's simply just for the love of the sport and providing kids with a place to play hockey to keep them out of trouble, and help them in society a little bit.”
Lindsay noted that hockey provides a “great foundation for any business or personal-type relationship” that the players will have in the future.
Dill said the executive meets almost weekly to discuss fundraising initiatives to try to give the young men a first-place Junior B organization to play for.
“I think everyone in the group that puts their time in should be applauded,” said Dill.
Aside from the coaching staff, the main volunteers on the executive include Andy Woolaver, Dani Rippey, Randy Graham, Dale Evans, Jeff Redden, Harry Ullock, Bobby Dill, Dave Hunter, Laurie Young, Harold Fisher, and Lloyd and Judy Rideout. | <urn:uuid:4f1d9447-e6d8-417f-b1fe-9e0966a4623e> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.novanewsnow.com/Sports/Hockey/2014-03-25/article-3662692/Leafs-organization-wins-two-NSJHL-awards/1 | 2015-01-25T14:16:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122087108.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175447-00061-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97845 | 899 |
With two weeks remaining in the regular season, two men sit atop the hit board for the Hornets. Senior Kyle Gaines and and Junior Grant Lorenzen have been neck and neck all season long.
Gaines currently leads Lorenzen by four hits, but this has been a race that has gone back and forth.
In Friday’s barn burner victory against the Chrisman Bears, both players had huge games at the plate. Both players had two triples in the game with Gaines getting three hits and two RBI and Lorenzen having a four-hit, 2 RBI game.
It should be a great last two weeks of the regular season leading into districts watching these two players compete against their competition, but also working to stand atop of the leaderboard for hits.
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For decades, movie studios had no clue how to promote themselves. Movie trailers and posters were cookie-cutter affairs, and film title sequences were bland. Enter Saul Bass. At this point, you’re probably wondering who I’m talking about.
Saul Bass was a graphic designer. His designs, particularly his early work in the 1950s and 1960s, revolutionized film posters, movie title sequences, and the way movies were marketed. His designs were iconic, clean, and simple. Bass used typography and concept to convey moods rather than the previously tried-and-true method of film stills and paintings of film stills. He brought minimalism to the movie-going masses. If you’ve seen a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, or Stanley Kubrick, then you’re probably familiar with the work of Saul Bass. He even worked on a handful of Scorsese films, including Goodfellas (1990) and Cape Fear (1991). And his style has enjoyed quite a renaissance in recent years thanks to film posters like this one for Burn After Reading (2008) and the title credits to Mad Men.
Here are some examples of his legendary work.
Here are some examples of his title sequences.
More film posters:
He created a poster for Schindler’s List (1993), although it was undistributed.
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Society for Neuronal Regulation
caudateman at aol.com
Thu Feb 16 19:55:13 EST 1995
I was a founding member of this group and I assure it is a serious group.
The SSNR was formed by a Neuro-chemist, a medical psychologist and a
psychophysiologist from UCLA and the Sepulveda V.A. Hospital. Its
intention is to explore the basis of behavioral neuro-regulatory processes
and to present a forum for clinicians and researchers to discuss these
ideas and present their research. The founding president is Kenneth
Tachiki, Ph.D. who recently published a paper in The International Journal
of Neuroscience with Michael Tansey, Ph.D. on some research they presented
last year at the annual SSNR meeting. Our inaugural meeting was three
years ago on Catalina Island.
No manufacturer was involved in the formation of the society. They are
based in Culver City, CA and their phone number is 310-836-0764 if you are
interested in further information.
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by Dr. Charles Stanley
Jesus—God’s Perfect Gift
Jesus is God’s precious and perfect gift to us. Heaven sent, the present was willingly given at great cost because we were in desperate need. God fashioned a gift that is:
Universal and Personal. The Father offers salvation through Jesus to the whole world, one person at a time (John 3:16). Whoever receives Him discovers His unlimited worth.
Preventive. When Jesus becomes our personal Savior, we are granted forgiveness and are set free from condemnation for our sin (Romans 8:1). This divine gift prevents us from having to face eternal death, which would mean permanent separation from God.
Eternal. What Jesus brings us lasts forever. From the day of salvation, Christ’s Spirit indwells us and remains with us. As permanent members of God’s family, we have an inheritance in heaven that can neither spoil nor perish (1 Peter 1:3-5).
Full of Love. Unconditional love motivated the Father to sacrifice His Son in our place. Not a single one of us deserved it. At some point, we have all sinned (Romans ) — that is, we have turned away from God to follow our own desires. In spite of who we are, God set His affection on us and proved it through the life and death of His Son Jesus. His love rescues us from bondage to sin and transforms us into the people He designed us to be.
If you have not accepted God’s offer of salvation through Jesus, today can become your spiritual birthday. If you already belong to God’s family, you know the value of the present. Won’t you tell someone today about this marvelous gift?
Pathways to His Presence
from Dr. Charles Stanley
Dr. Stanley’s new daily devotional, Pathways to His Presence, focuses on 12 spiritual pathways each month — including forgiveness, prayer, victory, and peace — that will guide you confidently into the presence of God. As you journey along, you will join a long list of biblical heroes who chose to place their lives in the hands of God and obey His call. By doing so, they came to know the Lord more intimately and accomplish great and mighty things in His name. Spending time with the Father each day will not only provide guidance for your life, but will make you more like Him! Order here now!
How to Let God Solve Your Problems
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Legendz Sports, which was accused by prosecutors of offering online and telephone gambling services almost exclusively to US gamblers, will now forfeit earnings in a controversial ‘equitable sharing’ payout to law enforcement.
Legendz Sports’ unlawful activities just aided police force agencies’ main point here in brand New York and Florida.
That’s because various agencies in the Empire and Sunshine states are to benefit from $9.6 million in forfeited criminal assets for their roles in breaking up the online gambling that is illegal ring.
Forty people were arrested in April 2013 for activities linked to Legendz Sports, a company that handled over $1 billion in bets and managed a large system of offshore sports wagering websites.
Charges included racketeering, money-laundering, and wire fraudulence.
The case began in Albany County, NY, with regional authorities investigating two prison guards who had been suspected of acting as bookies for prisoners. From there, the research quickly distribute throughout the US, as FBI offices in Miami, Oklahoma, and Boston coordinated with the Albany County Sheriff’s office to intercept thousands of phone calls and emails that would lead to the eventually arrests.
The founder of Legendz Sports founder, Bartice ‘Luke’ King, from Oklahoma, is currently dealing with trial in Oklahoma City.
US Gamblers Targeted
Legendz sports, that has been initially based in Costa Rica before relocating to Panama, and ended up being accused by investigators of offering online and telephone gambling services almost exclusively to gamblers in america.
The business allegedly used bookmakers located in the usa to ‘illegally solicit and accept activities wagers along with settle gambling debts,’ prosecutors said.
The lion’s share associated with the confiscated funds, some $4.66 million, will go to the Albany County Sheriff’s Department, utilizing the other $5 million to be split between three other local law enforcement agencies, also the FBI and the IRS, according to the policy of ‘equitable sharing.’
‘ In illegal gambling, cash is both the way the crime is committed and the reason for committing it,’ said US Attorney Richard Hartunian. ‘Equitable sharing redirects these unlawful proceeds toward the local law enforcement agencies whom make use of their federal counterparts and United States attorneys to dismantle large-scale unlawful enterprises like that one.’
Equitable Sharing Controversies
Equitable sharing just isn’t without its critics, and is frequently used to confiscate money from gamblers and from poker home games. A system that was open to abuse until very recently, it allowed state and local police to seize cash and property from detainees without the need for a warrant or criminal charge, and give the proceeds to federal agencies.
In 2013, poker players William ‘Bart’ Davis and John Newmerzhycky were stopped by a traffic cop in Iowa, ostensibly for failing to stop at a signal, although video surveillance in the patrol car later showed that this was not the case april.
Police seized $100,000 in cash they based in the cars’ trunk, which represented the majority of the players’ poker bankrolls, and also a amount that is tiny of. Even though the set eventually received $90,000 back regarding the $100,000 confiscated, they were forced to spend several thousand bucks in legal fees clearing their names.
Sheldon Adelson Wrongful Termination Lawsuit To Be Heard In US Court
Sheldon Adelson may face accusations of bribery and links to organized crime in a termination suit that is wrongful. (Image: Julie Jacobson/Associated Press)
Sheldon Adelson happens to be fighting tooth and nail to possess a wrongful termination suit dismissed.
It was brought by a former employee and heard in Macau’s court system, since the case included allegations against the Sands’ operations in the enclave that is chinese.
But a judge has ruled that the case will instead be heard in Nevada, opening the chance that Adelson and other Las Vegas Sands executives may have to answer questions about allegations involving bribery and ties to organized crime in front of a judge that is american.
District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez ruled on Friday that the case is heard in Nevada, citing the legal maneuvering in the situation had all taken place in america, making it just natural that the remainder of the situation should be handled there, too.
‘This matter has been pending in Nevada courts for nearly five years,’ Gonzalez said whenever issuing her ruling. ‘Judicial economy will be served by continuing this litigation in Nevada.’
Macau Courts Preferred by Sands
Solicitors for Las Vegas Sands had hoped that the full case could be heard in Macau, where they thought that courts might limit what could be mentioned in the way it is within an effort to guard the casino industry.
The business continues to be anticipated to allure the ruling in the hopes of changing the venue.
It might be surprising to see this much posturing over a wrongful termination instance.
Nonetheless, the individual bringing the suit is Steven Jacobs, the former executive that is chief of Sands’ operations in Macau, and the reason he says he was let go could potentially cause serious issues for the business.
In accordance with Jacobs, Adelson himself authorized a payment of $700,000 in legal fees to Leonel Alves, a legislator and lawyer in Macau. Lawyers for the Sands stated that the payments had been well above standard rates, and that such a payment could break US anti-bribery laws.
On that advice, Jacobs ended the company’s dealings with Alves, blocking the payments. However, he alleges that Adelson then brought Alves back on.
Jacobs Alleges Ties to Triads
Other allegations paint an image of a business which had ties to crime that is organized Macau. According to Jacobs, he attempted to distance the Sands from Macau’s triads, but could not get Adelson to go along with it.
In particular, Adelson has said in early court appearances that his Macau casinos have actually ‘no direct relationship with Cheung Chi Tai,’ a leader of the Wo Hop To triad.
However, documents from the business show that Cheung was part of contracts associated with junkets, the operations that help bring VIP consumers to casinos.
Jacobs alleges that Adelson knew that Cheung had ties to organized crime, while Sands officials have stated as they found out about his links to the triad that they stopped doing business with Cheung as soon.
Gonzalez’s ruling follows several days of hearings in late April and May that is early which Adelson himself testified.
Adelson’s testimony was especially combative, as he attempted to avoid responding to questions and sometimes contradicted testimony off their Sands executives.
At one point during his testimony, Adelson referred to Jacobs as ‘delusional,’ and said which he was dismissed for incompetence.
In another instance, Adelson continued to argue with Judge Gonzalez after she ordered him to answer a question about a 2009 email.
‘Sir, you aren’t getting to argue with me,’ Gonzalez said to Adelson. ‘You recognize that?’
Operating Profits Up for Surviving Atlantic City Casinos
Atlantic City’s staying casinos are posting much greater profits so far in 2015. (Image: AtlanticCityNJ.com)
Atlantic City can be bringing in less gambling income than ever before, but that doesn’t mean that the casinos there are suffering.
The eight staying casinos into the city stated that operating profits more than doubled in the quarter that is first of, suggesting that the consolidation of the industry there might just be working out.
Being a whole, the eight surviving casinos made operating profits of $81.3 million in the very first three months of 2015.
That has been more than double the $38.8 million they made in profits over that exact same period in 2014.
Casinos Healthy in Smaller Market
New Jersey Casino Control Commission Chairman Matthew Levinson touted the true numbers as proof that the Atlantic City casino industry isn’t in almost as bad shape as some observers claim.
‘ The key indicators show that the current operators continue to improve,’ said Levinson. ‘Gaming revenue is up, total income is up, net income is up, gross running profits are up, resort occupancy rate is up and the average room price is up.’
Overall, six of the eight casinos currently running in Atlantic City showed a revenue on the quarter that is first. The 2 exceptions were the Trump Taj Mahal, which had been regarding the verge of shutting down later last year, and Resorts Casino Hotel.
That compares favorably to last 12 months, when 12 gambling enterprises operated for at part that is least of the quarter (the Atlantic Club shut straight down very early in 2014).
In that more crowded market, seven casinos posted losses, including the Atlantic Club, Revel, and Trump Plaza, all of that have since been closed.
The profit numbers are a reminder it’s still not easy to measure the Atlantic City casino market by looking at revenues alone, https://myfreepokies.com particularly provided the quickly changing number of casinos in the city.
In April, profits were really down for the remaining casinos (even after factoring in Internet gaming), mainly because Caesars had a month that is particularly good April 2014 and could not duplicate that success.
Borgata, Others Show Big Gains
But operating profits may offer a better indicator of a individual casino’s overall health, and many would argue so it is exactly what ultimately counts for the city as a whole, too.
The figure represents just how money that is much casinos made both gaming and non-gaming revenue, along with the actual costs of running those businesses, but usually do not factor in interest, taxes or depreciation of assets.
It comes because little surprise that the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, the most effective casino in contemporary Atlantic City, was the big winner when it found the quarterly report. The Borgata made $38.5 million on the very first quarter, an 83 percent increase over last year.
Based on Borgata’s senior vice president of operations Joe Lupo, the Borgata was able to successfully grab a number that is large of gamblers who were previously patronizing the casinos that are now closed.
‘We aggressively reached away and the customer base found Borgata to be described as a home that is nice’ he told the Press of Atlantic City.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Clerk killed in convenience store robbery identified
At about 5 a.m. yesterday, Dec. 28, police were called to the 5900 block of Swope Parkway (Inner City Oil) in regard to a shooting. Upon arrival, officers found the business's employee dead inside. The victim has been identified as 25-year-old Sujendra Amarasingham. A customer found him and called police. Police are looking for the men captured in these photos. If you know who they are or have any other information, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477). | <urn:uuid:fc0607bc-5d2f-4e91-b874-2777b3d80990> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://kcpdchief.blogspot.com/2010/12/clerk-killed-in-convenience-store.html | 2017-03-29T22:55:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218191405.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212951-00595-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971296 | 133 |
For those who remember Mike Milken and the junk bond scandals of the 1980s, the mortgage crisis has a familiar ring. Although the general public thinks of Milken as an "insider trader," the bigger racket, as Ben Stein pointed out in the fantastically educational License to Steal, was more about creating a market for junk bonds and not being accurate about their default rates.
Milken said that his junk bonds had a default rate of only about 1%. That sounds fantastic. Imagine: normally you have to take a higher risk to get a higher return. Milken basically told people that they could have both low risk and high return by charging companies high-risk rates. Magically these companies that were willing to pay the higher rates wouldn't really be a higher risk of default.
In reality, the default rate became much higher because Milken was lending to companies that weren't that strong.The default rate went up to at least three, maybe 5%. That's why Milken's junk bond world fell apart. The same thing has happened with subprime mortgages. Only this time there isn't a Milken-like figure to blame. There's no one person that was hyping this market. There are just the rating agencies.Sure, there were many industries involved. Financial houses selling CDOs, mortgage brokers pushing risky loans, real estate agents urging everyone to buy -- all of them played some role. But I still have to lay a big hunk of the blame on the ratings agencies. They're the ones that got the default rate wrong. And it was their job to get it right. If they'd gotten it right, none of this would have happened.
The subprime CDOs held a collection of subprime mortgages. Again, the banks were charging these people higher rates because they were higher risk. (Or, in some cases, because they were sold a crappy mortgage by a broker.)
Yet rating agencies gave lots of subprime CDOs an AAA rating. That corresponds to a default rate of 0.1%. Instead, right now about 3% of all homes with mortgages are in foreclosure. Another 7% are a month late. For subprime loans, the Fed recently calculated that by mid-2008 (before the fall's crisis), 10% of fixed rate subprime loans were seriously delinquent and 30% of variable rate mortgages were. The Fed predicts subprime defaults could go as high as 25% if housing prices really fall. Loans made in later years will probably be worse -- like 50%.
So, the rating agencies said one in 1,000 subprime loans would fail. Common sense tells you the default rate would be higher -- but they were using complex formulas instead of common sense. The reality might be that one in four or one in two of these mortgages go bad. That's quite a difference.
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- PAM® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 2 thin cut bone-in pork chops (2 chops = 1/2 lb)
- Dash ground black pepper
- 1-1/2 tablespoons La Choy® Lite Soy Sauce
- 1-1/2 teaspoons honey
- 1-1/2 teaspoons Gulden's® Spicy Brown Mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
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- Spray 10-inch skillet with cooking spray; heat over medium-high heat. Sprinkle both sides of pork with pepper. Place in skillet; cook 3 to 4 minutes or until lightly browned. Turn pork over; cook 2 to 3 minutes more or until slightly pink in centers (160°F). Remove from skillet; keep warm.
- Place all remaining ingredients in same skillet. Cook over medium-high heat 1 minute or until mixture come to a boil, stirring frequently. Serve pork chops drizzled with honey-mustard sauce.
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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR Actress Up For BOND 24?
We know Skyfall director Sam Mendes will return with Daniel Craig for the 24th James Bond flick, and now The Schmoes have heard that beautiful Blue Is The Warmest Color actress Lea Seydoux is the "top choice" to accompany them.
We haven't heard much on the latest Bond front in some time, but now the lads over at The Schmoes Know.com claim a "very trusted source" has informed them that Lea Seydoux, star of the controversial 2013 Palme d'Or winner Blue is the Warmest Color, may be joining the project. They reckon she is the top choice to star opposite Daniel Craig in the still untitled 24th James Bond film, but they have no idea what role she'd play -- Bond girl? Villain? fellow MI6 Agent? One thing is for sure; Seydoux has actually been a fan-favorite choice for the female lead in the next installment in this series for quite a while now, so if this pans out, there will be a lot of happy Bond fans. Click the link below for more.
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Pat Benatar and husband, Neil Giraldo, to play Tulalip on July 31
Benatar, a rock music living legend, remains as active as she was in the 1980s when she was blazing the trail for other female rock stars. Songs such as “Hit Me with Your Best Shot,” “Heartbreaker,” and “We Belong” stick in your head as much as they did a few decades ago.
Benatar had her start in the clubs of Long Island and Manhattan. She and guitarist Giraldo, a Cleveland native, met in 1979, and he became instrumental in forming the signature Benatar sound.
During the 1980s, the couple racked up Grammy awards and American Music awards, along with platinum sales of their albums. Married in 1982, they have two daughters.
Giraldo’s catalog includes the more than 100 songs written and produced for Benatar, along with work on hits for John Waite, Kenny Loggins and his longtime friend Rick Springfield, whose Grammy-winning “Jessie’s Girl” might be performed at the concert on Thursday.
Springfield, an actor and songwriter, has said he’s wanted to tour with Benatar and Giraldo since his hit was released in the early 1980s.
Next up at Tulalip is Michael McDonald and the band Toto on Aug. 3.
Benatar at Tulalip
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, along with Rick Springfield, perform July 31 as part of the 2014 Tulalip Summer Series. Doors open at 6 p.m. Show starts at 7 p.m. at 10200 Quil Ceda Blvd. Those who attend must be at least 21. Tickets start at $35. Call Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000 or go to www.ticketmaster.com.
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JAB 8 The Journal Of Artists’ Books
Freeman, Brad (Ed.)
Regular price €25,00
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Professional constructors who got used to using plumb bobs, chalk lines, and bubble spirit levels for many years find it very difficult to shop and decide which laser model is the best. With the wide range of construction lasers available, choosing one that fits your needs can be a daunting adventure.
As you walk from one store to another, you will probably be trying to figure out which beam color will help you do your job. Should I pick a red beam laser or the green one?
In this post, we will try to help you find the laser color beam that best fits your needs. The first thing to do is to know what jobs you plan to do with your laser. Will you use it for indoor, outdoor jobs, or both? This is the question that will help you identify the features that you will need to look for before you purchase a beam laser level.
Regardless of the task you intend to complete, this post will help you make the right decision by presenting to you the factors that will help you understand the application of these two beam lasers and make a verdict on which one is better.
What are Laser Levels?
If you have worked in a construction site, then you should be familiar with laser levels. However, for people who are new in the construction industry, laser levels simply project a colored beam of light that can be used as a visual chalk-line. This can be done when you require a straight and level reference point. Laser Levels are a replacement of the popular bubble spirit levels that were or are still used in constructions.
The scope of the beam of light is dependent on the size of the diode; the smaller the beam the more precise it will be. With a wider beam, accuracy is not achieved because the accurate level will lie anywhere within the width of the beam.
Initially, laser levels were only limited to indoor use because the beam light was not bright enough for outdoor applications. That is not the case today because designs that are more powerful have been made to cater for both indoor and outdoor applications. Moreover, other devices have been designed to be used with light detectors to read the laser’s beam light.
Although most lasers project red beam light, some manufacturers are now building green lasers that are up to 4 times brighter than the red lasers. With these brighter beams, it has become easier to use the laser while working on outdoor projects.
Indoor Applications of Laser Levels
- Leveling floors
- Installing drop ceilings
- Aligning cabinets, trims, and shelves
- Aligning and plumbing the walls
Outdoor Application of Laser Levels
- All types of surveys
- Aligning posts, fences, and decks
- Checking land elevations
- Site layout
- Masonry alignment
- Establishing grades
- Contour drainage or farming
What are the Differences between the Red and the Green Laser Levels?
Typically, the differences between the red and the green laser levels go beyond their beam colors. Nevertheless, the color of the beam impacts the lasers brightness, visibility, and the price. That being said, potential buyers should review their specific features closely before settling on a particular color laser for their job. Below are some of the aspects that distinguish green laser beams from the red ones.
The Green Laser is brighter than the Red Laser
The green beam lasers are said to be more than 4 times brighter than the red beams, making them the best for visibility even in the bright ambient light environments. Even though the older versions of green lasers used a laser color conversion technology that generated a green laser light from the red laser beam, today we have true green lasers.
The green beam lasers function at a light frequency that is different to that of the red laser beams. Basically, it has a greater class of 3r output wattage of 5mW as compared to class 2 red beams that operates below 1mW. Although you can get a class 3r red beam with a sub 5mW output, the green beam will still appear clearer and visible in low light conditions. Moreover, the human eye is more sensitive to green compared to red color.
Cost of Production
In terms of cost, the green laser beam is a bit expensive compared to the red beam. To manufacture a green laser beam, a green laser diode is required, which comes at an extra cost. For instance, you will need up to 6 diodes to make a multiline green laser. This bloats the overall cost significantly when compared to making a red laser version.
The green laser diodes are also more susceptible to heat effects since it gets too hot when in use. This makes the intensity of the beam light to dim down more than red diodes at lower temperatures. However, once the ambient temperature subsides, the diode turns to its initial intensity.
The green laser has been said to use more power compared to the red laser. However, the power consumption of different green laser beams varies from one manufacturer to another.
Are They each Suited to Different Jobs?
There is a common assumption that a green beam laser is more efficient compared to a red laser when working in bright environments or when working outdoors. This is because you can see the green light more clearly than the red one. Nevertheless, it is recommendable to use a laser detector in case you are working in very bright ambient conditions and at a distance of more than 30 feet.
In case you are working on an outdoor project where the green laser is efficient but you cannot afford its cost, you can consider purchasing a red laser that comes with a laser detector.
It is important to understand that the distance you will want to observe is highly influenced by factors such as:
- Ambient light
- The type of surface you are projecting the laser
- The strength of the battery
In case you are working on interior metal rivet edges, you may need to use a good range with any PLS laser level. An inflamed PLS track can be observable up to 30 feet but the green PLS laser beam can still be seen up to 60 feet when fitted with a fresh set of batteries. As such, you will not need to move your green laser as much as you would a red one if most of your work is indoors and you want to see the laser clearer. This is because in indoor working conditions, a green laser level will most likely outdo a red laser level.
While there is an increased cost for the green laser level and the frequent change of batteries, the time saved when using a brighter laser will, in the long run, make up for the difference in the cost. Considering that the red laser levels are still popular, you will be able to differentiate your green laser level from the other laser users at the same work site.
Undoubtedly, the red laser level continues to play a significant role at various work site, especially in the indoor projects and when working in large spaces. The green laser level, on the other hand, is extending its popularity within the construction sites as well as in the electrical industry.
Moreover, the PLS provides several green laser levels to supplement the full lines of red lasers levels. The PLS also give better visibility particularly when you need to relocate plumb spots during site layout or fitting. It also gives one of the biggest straight and upright fan angles with bright and hard green lines, even near the edges. When working with PLS green laser level, you will require laser detectors to extend your range or for long-range outdoor use.
What are the Pros and Cons of Red and Green Laser Level?
Advantages of Red Laser Level
The red laser levels are the most common because they are the least expensive to make. The red diodes are the cheapest to produces since they are semiconductors when electrically pumped.
The red laser level has a very low light frequency thus not very visible. This makes it a better laser for you if you are planning to work indoors. The indoor environment is not brightly lit making the red laser a better pick to meet your requirements.
Since there is additional light outdoors, the red laser level might not be the best choice to serve your needs. However, if you are willing to invest in a light detector, you will be sure to mark your area accurately using the red laser.
The red laser belongs to a lower class 2 that requires a little amount of power to generate a beam. Since it needs less power, it is fairly safe to use. The stronger the beam generated, the higher the chances of blinding your assistant.
Disadvantages of Red Laser Level
The frequency of the red laser level is not as bright as the green laser. As such, it cannot be visible when used outdoors or in brightly lit areas.
Due to its low light frequency, the red laser level cannot be effectively used in outdoor job sites. Regardless, you can seek the help of a light detector to mark your areas with precision. You, however, need to note that this will come at an extra cost and might not be viable if you are working on a tight budget.
Advantages of Green Laser Level
High Light Frequency
The green laser level is four times more visible to the human eye compared to the red laser. Since the green light is more receptive to the human eye, this makes the green laser a great option to work with when working in brightly lit areas and outdoors.
The green laser level comes in handy when working on outdoor projects. If you prefer not to spend more money on laser detectors, then the green laser is the best choice you got.
When it comes to deciding the type of laser to use for your indoor layout, you may want to have a laser that will work anywhere without the help of a detector.
Disadvantages of Green Laser Light
The green laser level belongs to a higher class 3 that requires a high amount of power to generate a beam. The beam produced thereafter is very strong and can be dangerous to your eye. As such, it requires more care to avoid blinding your assistant.
When deciding on what type of laser to use for your indoor layout, you will most likely pick one that is just fine without a detector. The green laser level is very bright, implying that it will not require the use of a detector. However, the brightness emitted might be extreme to your eye thus difficult to adjust.
The green laser level requires more diodes to build as compared to the red laser. This makes them a bit expensive compared to the red laser level.
Depending on your job assignment or objective, you need a laser level that is best at serving your needs. The red and the green laser levels are common in various construction sites, although the former is the most common.
After reviewing the differences, advantages, and disadvantages of the two laser levels, we believe that you can now identify the laser level best suited for your particular site. Although the green laser level is quickly gaining popularity, the services of the red laser level cannot be underestimated. As such, you will need to factor in your working environment before you choose the laser level to buy.
Evidently, the green laser level is a bit expensive, which means that many constructors will prefer buying its alternative. However, if you want a laser level that can handle different outdoor projects, it could be your best bet. | <urn:uuid:09f25bec-5005-4ce2-829c-37e418ea5553> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://laserlevels.org/green-vs-red-beam-laser-level/ | 2019-12-07T13:53:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540499439.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20191207132817-20191207160817-00408.warc.gz | en | 0.94247 | 2,312 |
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New Federally Funded Research Program Aims to Improve Survival from Cardiac Arrest and Severe Trauma
A young mother is unconscious and bleeding from internal injuries caused by a highway accident. A soldier is severely injured in a roadside explosion. A 50-year-old man suffers a cardiac arrest as he gets ready for work. For the “real” counterparts of these made-up case histories, the chance of survival from life-threatening injury and cardiac arrest is dismally low. Many more could survive if only they could be sustained long enough to reach a hospital alive. However, most cardiac arrest victims die before they reach the hospital, and traumatic injury is a top killer in North America. With the launch of a massive research program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal and Canadian agencies, scientists hope to learn the best ways to improve survival chances from cardiac arrest and severe trauma.
“This international collaboration represents the efforts of hundreds of investigators and thousands of EMS personnel working together to improve patient outcomes from arrest and severe injury,” said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.
The “Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium” (ROC) will conduct collaborative clinical trials of promising new treatments for cardiac arrest (the stopping of the heartbeat) and severe traumatic injury. Along with Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies, ROC will involve public safety agencies, regional hospitals, community healthcare institutions and medical centers in 11 regions in the United States and Canada and as many as 15,000 patients over a 3-year period. Communities involved in ROC will learn about the study in a comprehensive community education effort to be conducted over the next 6 months to a year.
“Surviving traumatic injury and cardiac arrest is a serious public health issue. Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from sudden cardiac arrest and trauma. The good news is that there is a growing body of research — basic research and small studies — that suggests a significant number of these people can be saved,” said Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D., director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the NIH, the lead federal sponsor of the research effort.
Other funding agencies include the U.S. Department of Defense, the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Defence Research and Development Canada, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the American Heart Association. The initial funding commitment to the Consortium is $50 million.
“This is the first time we have used large-scale clinical trials to improve the treatment of patients with traumatic injury and cardiac arrest. Similar studies in patients with heart attack and heart failure have answered questions about the best treatments. As a result, we’ve seen greatly improved survival for these disorders. That’s what we want to do with cardiac arrest and traumatic injury,” said Myron Weisfeldt, M.D., professor and chair of internal medicine at Johns Hopkins University and chair of the steering committee for the research effort.
All of the interventions to be tested in the new program will have been shown in smaller, single center studies to be safe and to potentially have a life-saving effect. According to Weisfeldt, the Consortium’s testing of new techniques will provide the large-scale proof of effectiveness needed to support widespread adoption and use.
An important goal of the ROC will be the evaluation of interventions in terms of benefit to cognitive outcomes, as the ultimate goal of resuscitation is to return victims to their prior functional capacity.
The first treatments to be tested will be highly concentrated forms of a saline solution similar to the body’s own fluids. Typically, in the crucial early minutes before blood transfusions can be safely administered in hospital, trauma patients receive normal saline solution intravenously in the field to compensate for blood loss and buy time. In the new trial, trauma patients with either signs of blood loss or severe brain injury will receive one of three saline solutions — standard normal saline, high concentration saline, or high concentration saline with dextran, a circulation-enhancing substance. The two concentrated solutions are designed to compensate for blood loss more effectively, lessen excessive inflammatory responses and prevent brain swelling. These effects in turn could potentially lead to a reduction in organ failure for patients with major blood loss and improved function for patients with brain injury.
The second study will test a device to enhance blood flow during CPR. This device is a one-way valve that fits between the airbag used to introduce air into a person in cardiac arrest and the flexible plastic tube that goes through the nose or mouth and into the lungs to help with breathing. The valve can also be used with a facemask that goes over the patient’s nose and mouth. During CPR, the one-way valve creates a small vacuum inside the patient’s chest, which increases the return flow of blood to the heart.
Other possible future studies include testing of new drug approaches to aid resuscitation from cardiac arrest and evaluation of novel strategies to control hemorrhage.
There are an estimated 330,000 out-of-hospital cardiac deaths each year in the United States. Most of these are from sudden cardiac arrest, although the exact numbers are not known. In cardiac arrest, the heart stops beating effectively, blood does not circulate and no pulse can be felt. The victim collapses suddenly into unconsciousness. Heart attacks, which are caused by a blockage of a coronary artery, can sometimes lead to cardiac arrest. A common underlying cause of sudden cardiac arrest is an abrupt disorganization of the heart’s rhythm called ventricular fibrillation, which can be triggered by a heart attack or can just represent a catastrophic rhythm disturbance. Unless cardiac arrest victims are treated within minutes (by defibrillation to shock an abnormally beating heart back into normal rhythm or CPR followed by or in conjunction with other procedures), they will die.
Severe injury is also a major public health problem. It is the number one killer of both children and young adults up to age 44. As a disease of young people, it is also the leading cause of life years lost. In 2002, there were over 161,000 fatal injuries in the United States. The leading causes of death following injury are brain injury, blood loss, and organ failure from excessive inflammation.
In addition to rigorous review by an NHLBI-convened independent review group, the clinical trials of the new Consortium will be conducted under strict FDA guidelines that allow for patients in life- threatening situations to participate in research without individual consent at enrollment. The guidelines specify criteria that must be followed for a study to have an exception from informed consent. These include:
- Approval by an institutional review board (IRB), a committee of experts and lay people established to review research.
- Consultation with the community.
- Public disclosure of the study’s design before the study begins and when the study is over to share results.
- Notification of patients who were involved in the research.
- Oversight by an independent group of experts charged with monitoring the research for safety.
Each site’s IRB will decide how best to inform the community, recommending approaches that might include town meetings, newspaper notices, random digit dialing surveys, and meetings with groups at high risk of either cardiac arrest or trauma — such as local motorcycle clubs. In order to inform future studies involving exceptions from informed consent, the community consultation process used in ROC will be evaluated in at least one ancillary study.
“There is a high probability of benefit for patients participating in these trials,” said Joseph Ornato, M.D., the Consortium’s co-chair for cardiac arrest and chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, VA. “Not only have these therapies been shown to be potentially life-saving, but also EMS personnel involved in the research will be trained in the most up-to-date and effective methods of emergency treatment.”
According to Tracey Hoke, M.D., Sc.M., NHLBI project officer for the ROC, “A federal exception of informed consent can only be granted when patients are in a life-threatening situation, when obtaining individual informed consent is impossible, and when current therapy is unproven or unsatisfactory. The most critical stipulation of the exception is that there must be the potential for direct benefit to the patients enrolled. In the case of ROC, this means that preliminary evidence of direct survival benefit must be shown prior to the development of any trial.”
“These initial studies, and those that follow, will change the way all providers of trauma care, military and civilian, care for the most critically injured,” said COL John Holcomb, MD, the consortium co-chair for trauma, and the Commander of the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX. “For the first time we will know, based on large and well designed studies, what interventions really make a difference.”
In a typical study scenario, a first responder will arrive at the scene of the cardiac arrest or trauma and confirm the patient’s diagnosis. The emergency medical technician (EMT) will then assess whether the patient meets the entrance criteria for the study and if so, treat the patient with the study intervention.
Since the studies will be blinded, the EMTs in the field will not know which treatment the patient receives. For example, in the first consortium study testing the concentrated saline solutions, all solutions of saline to be administered to patients will look alike, although they will be numbered for later identification and analysis by the study’s scientists.
In addition to the clinical trials, the Consortium is also currently enrolling patients into a database of all cardiac arrest and trauma events. “This is the first multi-city comprehensive database with information about how field treatment leads to patient survival,” said George Sopko, M.D., deputy project officer on the study and a medical officer with NHLBI.
The study is coordinated by investigators at the University of Washington, Seattle, Principal Investigator: Al Hallstrom, Ph.D.
The participating cities include:
- Birmingham, AL: The Alabama Resuscitation Center is coordinated through the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Central and possibly Northern Alabama). Principal Investigator: Tom Terndrup, M.D.
- Dallas, TX: The Dallas Center for Resuscitation Research is coordinated through the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas and surrounding cities to participate). Principal Investigator: Ahamed Idris, M.D.
- Iowa City, IA: The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine-Iowa Resuscitation Network is coordinated through the University of Iowa (includes 10 cities throughout Iowa). Principal Investigator: Richard Kerber, M.D.
- Milwaukee, WI: The Milwaukee Resuscitation Research Center is coordinated through the Medical College of Wisconsin. Principal Investigator: Tom Aufderheide, M.D.
- Ottawa, Ontario/Vancouver, BC (counts as two regions): The University of Ottawa/University of British Columbia Collaborative RCC is coordinated through the Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ontario and St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia (includes additional 20 cities). Principal Investigator: Ian Stiell, M.D., Co-Principal Investigator: Jim Christenson, M.D.
- Pittsburgh, PA: The Pittsburgh Resuscitation Network is coordinated through the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (includes several suburbs). Principal Investigator: Clif Callaway, M.D., Ph.D.
- Portland, OR: The Portland Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium is coordinated through the Oregon Health and Science University (includes 4 counties). Principal Investigator: Jerris R. Hedges, M.D., MS.
- San Diego, CA: The UCSD-San Diego Resuscitation Research Center is coordinated through the University of California, San Diego (entire county). Principal Investigator: David Hoyt, M.D.
- Seattle and King County, WA: Seattle-King County Center for Resuscitation Research at the University of Washington. Principal investigator: Peter Kudenchuk, M.D.
- Toronto, Ontario: The Toronto Regional Resuscitation Research out of hospital Network is coordinated through the University of Toronto (includes areas surrounding Toronto). Principal Investigator: Arthur Slutsky, M.D., Co-Principal Investigators: Laurie Morrison, M.D. and Paul Dorian, M.D.
To interview NHLBI’s Dr. Tracey Hoke, ROC project officer or NHLBI’s Dr. George Sopko, ROC deputy project officer, contact the NHLBI Communications Office at 301-496-4236. To interview Dr. Weisfeldt or Dr. Jeremy Sugarman, ROC ethicist and Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine with the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute and Department of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, call David March, Media Relations and Public Affairs, Johns Hopkins Medicine at 410-955-1534. To interview Dr. Ornato, call 804-828-7184. To interview COL Holcomb, call 210-916-2720.
Part of the National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) plans, conducts, and supports research related to the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disorders. The Institute also administers national health education campaigns on women and heart disease, healthy weight for children, and other topics. NHLBI press releases and other materials are available online at: www.nhlbi.nih.gov.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
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[Video] NC Sheriff Urges Constituents to Arm Themselves After “Explosion” in Violent Crime
It sounds like Harnett County, NC Sheriff Larry Rollins has the right idea.
A town hall meeting was held in Lillington, NC following what is being described as an “explosion of violence and crime” by local media. Sheriff Rollins didn’t mince words. According to ABC11,
Sheriff Larry Rollins told the crowd that the violence is fueled by gangs and drugs. He urged everyone to protect themselves, saying he doesn’t go anywhere without a gun.
“When I am out with my family, even though I am a cop, I don’t go anywhere without a gun,” Rollins told the crowd. “I mean it’s sad we have to have that attitude, but I am going to protect myself and my family.
“I want my deputies at your house just as fast as they can when you got a problem, but you better be able to take care of business until we get there if you have to protect your family.”
Of course, those of us who already carry know that law enforcement cannot possibly protect everyone at all times. During violent encounters, seconds are often the difference between life and death, while a great police response time would be a couple of minutes.
This particular area of North Carolina, once a rural area, is experiencing a population increase. With rising populations the usual problems surface including gangs, drugs and violent crime.
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TellTable is a multi-platform, open source application
framework which provides a secure and auditable multi-user system
for managing, reviewing and analyzing spreadsheet changes.
The following links lead to reports or presentations made about TellTable.
- European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group 2004 -- paper
- European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group 2004 -- slides
- European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group 2003 -- paper
- European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group 2003 -- slides
- GTEC Week 2003 poster
- Open Source Business Resource, July 2009 pp. 44-51 paper
- Spreadsheets in Education paper
- Challenges in
Collaborative Authoring Software, submitted to Expanding
the Boundaries of E-Collaboration, A Special Issue of the
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.
This issue does not seem to have been published. See also
TellTable and the content of these web
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I know I dont post enough these days. NoSkillz has been harping on me lately about it -- I think he's just bored at work or something. Did I mention how good he is at golf yet?
It was a good weekend in general. Saturday Matty booked us into the East Aurora CC reciprocal with our golf club. We arrived around 12, played one of the most enjoyable golf courses i've ever had the opportunity to play, and had an overall great time. I'll let him post course details since he has pictures and scorecards and all that junk though. I'm hitting my driver and long stuff like a champ but am faltering around the greens these days ... a total transition from the beginning of this year where I couldnt hit a ball but could putt the lights out. I had a whopping 40 putts on Saturday on the slickest, craziest greens ever. At least it was fun!
My crap putting continued at the regular Sunday game where I made a total of 1 one-putt for birdie. Of course that skin got cut up and I ended up -$15 for yet another week shooting 82. Really getting frustrated with my golf as I've now got the swing back in order but the short game went to hell.
I missed the PokerStars tourney this weekend as I was too busy drinking with my girlfriend's sister. We both decided that a family get together was too much to handle so we started early. I drank enough to be happy, not enough to be drunk... a good day.
The Toastman will be heading to the club after work to try and find his putting stroke (probably a new putter too). I'm liking the look of a few different models right now but will have to give them the usual tests. If i buy one, you'll definately see the rolling report up here right afterwards. | <urn:uuid:e2913a93-701d-4c05-b2a2-95a241c5e40c> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://golfandpoker.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-dont-post-enough.html | 2013-12-12T07:47:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164568332/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204134248-00003-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984216 | 382 |
The company is very business focused
SYSTEM OPERATOR (Ex-Funcionário) – São Paulo – 30 de Agosto de 2019
The company is very business focused, demanding a lot of time from its employees, sometimes extending 12-14 hours a day.
A company with its widespread technology, always keeping an eye on new technologies.
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If you had to pick one prospect that you really want, and will realistically be there at 19 when the giants pick, who would it be? In my case, Alec Ogletree should be the pick. If he gains a few pounds of muscle I think he can be an Elite ILB or Weakside LB at the next level. Combine a few extra pounds with the speed and athleticism he has, and he could be up there with the Patrick Willis's of the league (based on potential). Willis was a better tackler coming out of college, but I think Ogletree is a little bit more athletic. Anyway who is your prospect? | <urn:uuid:feb4769f-b761-4219-af94-7d2632319321> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://boards.giants.com/showthread.php?30117-Your-1-prospect-you-want-in-the-draft&p=743591&viewfull=1 | 2015-05-22T16:57:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207925696.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113205-00305-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982551 | 130 |
The Lord is my light and my salvation — whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life — of whom shall I be afraid?… Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then will I be confident.
Does God sleep? Seems so. Christ’s disciples found themselves in a boat, in the middle of a furious storm — and Jesus was sleeping.
Jesus often seems to be sleeping. Facing trouble in my ministry —I can’t get an answer to prayer to save my life! The prophet Isaiah had such a hard time finding any sign of God that he called him the “God who hides himself” (Isaiah 45:15). Sometimes it seems God is willing for us to just fail, suffer, even die.
Why? The 18th century biblical scholar Matthew Henry put it this way: God sleeps “with a design to be awaked.” He sleeps in order to teach us the proper way to wake him.
The disciples didn’t get this. Mark 4:38 says they woke him and demanded, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”
We do this. We don’t see any way for God to meet our need, and we feel that because he’s not meeting it the way we think he ought to be meeting it, and he’s not meeting it on our timetable, he doesn’t care.
But that’s only our perspective on our situation — not God’s perspective. Matthew Henry goes on to say that Christ may sleep, but he will not oversleep. Jesus responded to the disciples’ panic. In Matthew 8:26 he replied, “‘You of little faith, why are you so afraid?’ Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.”
He didn’t solve the problem first; he taught the lesson first. Three of the four gospel writers recount this experience, but Matthew makes a point of the sequence of Jesus’ remarks. He says Jesus “replied” to them before he ever got out of his bunk — he says “then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves.”
Jesus is more interested in what we learn — how we grow — than he is in solving the problem that we’re so fixated on!
Olympic skaters could feel good, they could get lots of applause, doing double-axles. And they would never fall down. But Olympic skaters fall down all the time — because they keep pushing themselves to do triple-axles. They don’t just want to feel good; they want to win. So they “make” problems for themselves to solve. They sail into the storm. They want to grow. Growth is more important to them than avoiding the trial of the moment.
Is God sleeping during my trouble? No. The bad times are growth times. I’m learning to skate … learning to sail … as I grow into Christlikeness. Timing is everything!
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Many, many people seated in Ballroom 20 at 11:15 on Friday were simply waiting for the Firefly 10-year reunion panel that was to follow. But they are missing out. Avatar: The Last Airbender is America’s entry into the world’s greatest animes, and the sequel series The Legend of Korra proved to be a fine follow-up that may sit right next to Airbender on the submission list. Make no mistake, though: the Korra fans also came out in droves, and I saw dozens of great-looking Korras in the audience.
The panel featured creators Bryan Konietzko and Mike DiMartino; voice actors Janet Varney (Korra), David Faustino (Mako), P. J. Byrne (Bolin) and Seychelle Gabriel (Asami); producer Joaquim Dos Santos and voice director Andrea Romano. Hit the jump for a panel recap, including a tease of Book 2: Spirits. .
The panel started off with a highlight reel from season 1, and it must be said, The Legend of Korra looks amazing in clip reel form. (Beifong tears the roof off the airship! Korra masters airbending!)
The panel made great use of director Romano. Her first task was to run through a table read of selected scenes from season 1:
- Scene 1: Korra meets Bolin and Mako.
- Scene 2: Mako meets (i.e. is run over by) Asami
- Scene 3: Asami brings uniforms to Korra, Mako, and Bolin at a Fire Ferrets practice
- Scene 4: Mako and Bolin talk about the prospect of Korra as a girlfriend
- Scene 5: Mako carries the girlfriend conversation over to Korra
- Scene 6, Korra, Mako, Bolin, and Asami form Team Avatar
- Scene 7, Mako and Asami get in a fight over Korra
- Scene 8, Mako and Korra have a moment, but walk away from it before things get too heavy
I love watching table reads, and seeing the actors perform the characters outside the typical environment. It was fun to see all the character combinations above interact live. I’m bummed I was too far away to see them emote clearly. Whether you could see him or not, P.J. Byrne gets all the laughs. That said, this section probably went on a tad too long.
The panel quickly recovered by diving into the next season with plot hints and concept art. Nickelodeon recently picked up The Legend of Korra for 52 total episodes split up into four books. (For the uninitiated, a “book” is the Avatar word for “season.”) The creators revealed that the title for Book 2 is Spirits: “We’re going to take a little journey into the spirit world.” In fact, there will be “two very special episodes” in the middle of next season that will be “unique” in the series. The show will explore the mythology of the spirit world and how the Avatar line began. That is very exciting, but the creators warn there will be “no shortage of spirits. You will be spirit-ed out.” Try me, guys.
Republic City will still be a main location, but the universe of the show will be explored more next season. The concept art showed a colorful, snowy festival in the southern water tribe, a grand banquet hall made of ice, a scary tundra desert, and (of course) glimpses of the spirit world. As we visit the southern water tribe, we will become much better acquainted with Korra’s family, and specifically “how Korra’s fate ties into her whole family.” Korra’s uncle is a chief of the northern tribe, which provides the opportunity to explore both the relationship between Korra’s father and uncle as well as the relationship between the northern and southern water tribes.
The writing for Book 2 is done and the voices are recorded. The production team is animating as we speak, so they have just enough material to show us a clip of animatics:
- Bolin gives a rousing speech to the Fire Ferrets, who are on a losing streak. Then we see that he’s talking to two new Fire Ferrets that we don’t know. Where are Mako and Korra?
- Well, Mako is a cop now. Cut to him chasing a criminal on his bike. He takes a ramp to jump over the truck, turn around in mid-air, and throw fire at the windshield to stop them before tossing off a one-line and sending them to jail.
- Asami lands a plane wearing and hops out wearing these great Amelia Earhart duds. Her new mission: “putting Future Industries back on top.”
- Korra races the airbender kids on Aang’s patented whirling orb of air. They are neck and neck until Korra goes into the Avatar state and speeds ahead. Tenzin properly scolds her: “The Avatar state is not to be used as a booster rocket.”
- The best sequence showed the “first of many” spirits rising out of the ground. The ethereal spirit pins Korra against the wall, so she goes into the Avatar state, kicking off a great fight. I can’t wait for more of the spirit world.
The time at the end that might have been reserved for fan questions instead went to a much cooler idea that again made great use of Romano. Romano can only fit five people into her recording booth, and so wanted to make use of the crowd of 4,000+ people in front of her. I don’t know if they’ll ever use it, but Romano directed us to record different crowd reactions. She requested crowd chatter, a gasp, an “aww”, a big laugh—first with just the men, then with just the women. Romano tried to get a laugh with just the under-16 age group, but there was a pitiful response. DiMartino pointed out, “They were only four years old when Firefly came out.”
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OEN was down for about 36 hours because a hard drive on the server failed. Before that, over the course of about three days, there were multiple problems because of the malfunctioning hard drive. At first, a DDS (denial of service )attack was presumed. Now, we think it was just the failing hard drive, not anything malicious.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.
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Gunman sprayed bullets inside religious school classroom
A gunman who opened fire at a small religious college in Oakland on Monday, killing seven people and wounding several others, sprayed gunfire in one classroom.
Witnesses described a heavy-set Asian man in his 40s calmly opening fire at the college in an industrial area near Oakland International Airport, which has a largely Korean student body of about 100.
The San Francisco Chronicle, citing law enforcement sources, reported that the gunman used a .45-caliber handgun and sprayed one classroom with bullets. The paper said the suspect arrested in the case had been a student in the class and apparently got into some type of dispute.
The suspect was arrested at an Alameda shopping center a few miles from Oikos University. He is being questioned by police.
The gunfire rang out after 10 a.m., sending students and faculty diving for cover and running for their lives.
Timothy Yi, pastor at the Hayward Korean Baptist Church, arrived at the scene in search of information about a member of his flock, Lydia Sim, 21, who was enrolled at the college. “We tried to call her and she didn’t answer,” Yi told The Times. He added, “I’m kind of shocked.”
Police officers held up a large white tarp to shield the work of coroner's officials as they moved the bodies of victims from a wide grassy median into a van. Strips of bright yellow crime-scene tape cordoned off the area, keeping onlookers a block away.
Larry Reid, Oakland’s City Council president who represents the part of the city where the college is located, expressed deep sorrow over the day’s “senseless violence … by an individual who has a gun and isn’t afraid to use it.”
“It’s just another sad day in my city,” Reid said.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said city officials spent the day reaching out to community members with support services. But she said, “There are still a lot of questions remaining.”
Authorities have not released any information about the gunman or a possible motive. School officials told local media that the suspect taken into custody may have been a former student who was expelled or had dropped out.
According to its website, Oikos University is a Christian university "established specifically to serve the community of Northern California in general and San Francisco and Oakland areas in particular." The school is not far from Oakland International Airport and the Oakland Coliseum.
--Maria L. LaGanga in Oakland and Matt Stevens in Los Angeles
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Allstars Indoor Playland Toddler Time (50% of Admission Price )
May 21, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Allstars Indoor Playland is Edmonton’s largest indoor playground, offering a unique venue for child development, both physical and social. A safe place for parents and children with the focus on adventure and fun. Watch your children climb, slide, jump and most importantly, smile. Allstars Indoor Playland also offers classes and programming, as well as birthday party packages.
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A community in Amazonian Ecuador has saved 82 square miles of rainforest by building an eco-tourism lodge. Reacting to the rampant deforestation in the region, these Ecuadorians realized the innate value of their intact rainforests and the importance of preserving their traditions and way of life for themselves and the world. "Napo Wildlife Center" lets us participate in the challenge.
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Belief: confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof.
It’s a pretty straightforward definition, but how does it apply to our general manager, Paul Holmgren? As we’ve learned over the last few weeks, we should never, ever believe in what he says. He told us he liked the team, then proceeded to completely change everything. But, most of the time, he’s proven we should believe in his vision and the moves that he makes.
I’m not on board with all the reshaping that’s gone on lately, as evidenced here, here, here, here, and here. But, there have been plenty of times I didn’t agree with certain decisions and they ended up paying off. Looking back over the past few season’s since he’s been in charge, only one trade comes to mind that I still don’t really like: Upshall for Carcillo. But really, I’m upset about an exciting 3rd liner, not a huge difference maker. He’s brought in plenty of players that I had questions about, and they turned out fine. Briere is pretty much living up to what we expected. Carle isn’t great, but with a good defensive partner he’s pretty valuable. As much as I don’t like Hartnell’s skill level (low), he still manages to score at a decent pace, and he usually puts forth an honest effort.
Homer traded Forsberg at the right time, as well as Zhamnov. He didn’t let us fall in love with some aging vets that didn’t have too much left. He brought in Pronger when I thought he was over the hill, and we know see how valuable he still is. How about when he brought along Ville Leino for pretty much nothing? That worked out too damn well. Leino played so well that he outpriced himself for us. Homer brought us Andrej Meszaros, who was arguably out best defenseman last year. Nobody expected much from him when we brought him along, after 2 other franchises had given up on him.
Let’s not forget that we almost got Ryan Kesler for peanuts. Everyone wanted to rip Homer to shreds because he made an offer to Kesler when he was a restricted free agent. At the time, he’d barely played any NHL games, and nobody knew who he was. The Flyers offered him “an obscene” $1.9M, after a season in which he’d only had 23 points in 82 games. Homer wasn’t the GM for this one, but he was highly involved in that decision. Looking at what Kesler has become, it seems as though the Flyers eye for developing talent was pretty keen.
There have been a slew of other moves made that haven’t really affected the team one way or the other. These are most of the major moves, the results of which we can fairly judge now. While we haven’t won a Cup, we’ve been damn close. That’s the ultimate goal, and in that aspect we have failed. But the best you can hope for is to build a team that has a real chance. Maybe the cards fall into place and you get what you really want. And we’ve been in that position over the last few seasons. As fans, we can’t really control the fate of the team, no matter how much we bitch and moan. So maybe we are a better team than I expect. so far, Homer’s track record is pretty good, and he’s proven us wrong before. I guess we just have to believe…
I’d like to give a big thanks to Flyers History for helping jog my memory of all the trades.
It was Zhitnik who was traded at an opportune time, not Zhamnov. Also, Homer was the assitant GM during the Kesler RFA saga.
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During this week’s Lake Butler Rotary Club meeting, the members enjoyed a presentation about honey bees. Lindsey Androlevich, the Union County Future Farmers of America Advisor and Ag Teacher, provided an FFA Team consisting of Ashley Harris, Tori Wilkins, and Kasey Rhodes. The project about bees and their affect upon our county, our state and upon our world was enlightening. The honey industry is worth 20 billion dollars a year and pollination is critical to the production of plants that our livestock consumes. Fear of bee stings and loss of cell phone because of their adverse effect on honey production are a couple of reasons people are complacent about the 30% annual loss of honey producing bees each year from pesticides and disease. The FFA group project was very informative and appreciated by the Lake Butler Rotary Club.
As a community update, Ted Barber thanked Nancy Griffis and the Interact Club for gathering the names of former County military men and women for the UC Times and for Kaitlyn Reed to read at the May 29, 2017 Memorial Day Ceremony. Dan Sikes, Veteran, former member of the FLANG, and local attorney, will be the guest speaker. The Ceremony will be held at 325 West Main Street (across Main Street from TD Bank) at 9:30 AM on Monday, May 29, 2017. Upcoming Rotary Program Chairpersons include Phillip Pritchett/ Billy McGill introducing Ben Campen April 25, 2017, Billy Ray Foister on May 2, 2017, Jennie Reed May 9, Scott Roberts May 16 and Zack Smith May 23. | <urn:uuid:10876e8a-20e7-4ffc-8817-556bb9bad021> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://lakebutlercommunity.com/newstidbits/2017/04/19/lake-butler-rotarians-learn-about-bees-at-their-weekly-meeting-on-april-18th/ | 2017-06-27T18:58:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321536.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627185115-20170627205115-00213.warc.gz | en | 0.942764 | 335 |
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Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have hit two military targets in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern regions of Asir and Jizan with domestically-manufactured ballistic missiles in retaliation for the regime's campaign of military aggression against the impoverished nation, a report says.
Yemen's official Saba news agency, citing unnamed military officials, reported on Tuesday that a Zelzal-1 (Earthquake-1) missile successfully hit a gathering of Saudi-led mercenaries off Qais Mountain in Jizan and another missile of the same type hit a gathering of mercenaries in Wawa area of Asir with precision.
It added that both projectiles left an unspecified number of Saudi-led forces either killed or wounded.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported that the Yemeni forces also hit another gathering of Saudi-led mercenaries and militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the Helm military base near the city of Qa'atabah in the central province of Dali' with another Zelzal-1 missile.
Additionally on Tuesday, Yemeni soldiers, backed by fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement, launched an attack against positions held by Saudi-led forces in the southwestern province of Ta'izz, inflicting casualties on them.
Leading a coalition of its allies, most prominently the UAE, Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall Hadi, who had resigned amid popular discontent and fled to the Arab kingdom.
The aggression initially consisted of a bombing campaign but was later coupled with a naval blockade and the deployment of ground forces to Yemen.
Since the onset of the imposed war, the Yemeni army, backed by fighters of the country’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, has been defending the impoverished nation against the brutal aggression. The coalition is also resolute to crush the movement as another goal in its war on Yemen, which is teetering on the edge of famine.
More than three and a half years into the war, Saudi Arabia has achieved neither of its objectives. Riyadh had declared at the start of the invasion that the war would take no more than a couple of weeks.
Back in June, the Emirati forces, backed by armed militia loyal to Hadi, launched a full-scale offensive against the Houthi-held Hudaydah, which is currently under a tight siege imposed by the invaders. The so-called liberation operation, however, failed to achieve its objective, which is overrunning the vital port and defeating Houthi fighters, backed by those from the Popular Committees.
Over the past several months, humanitarian organizations have warned that military operations against Hudaydah threaten to cut off essential supplies to millions of Yemeni people. More than 70 percent of Yemen's imports pass through Hudaydah’s docks.
The coalition claims Houthis are using Hudaydah for weapons delivery, an allegation rejected by Ansarullah fighters.
The Saudi-led war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The UN has already said that a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in dire need of food, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger. According to the world body, Yemen is suffering from the most severe famine in more than 100 years.
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August 15th, 2005, 09:52
I have Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition. It Has 1.50 Firmware on it. I have 2.00 Firmware. Is there a hack to downgrade like this?
August 16th, 2005, 01:01
Sorry man not that i know of..... anyone?
August 16th, 2005, 04:00
Of course not! In your dreams wahahahah....(aka this has been answered several times...so the answer is no)
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
So this happened like a month ago but it was the turning point of journey here in Kansas City. I came to an Awakening service one night feeling so heavy physically, spiritually, and mentally and was SO ready to receive from the Lord. I was so anxious for the Lord to make a change in my heart that particular night. I had been feeling like my time in Kansas City has been a waste because my heart wasn't right and I had been letting myself become distracted. I had at some point fell back into watching drama series which I had once given up to consecrate myself and guard my eyes. It's funny how the enemy can sneak in to take an opportunity to attack when you don't keep your guard up and stay in the word. Truth is, we as a Bride really are just not rooted and grounded at all and this is why it is so common for us to fall back into the same old sin we were once trapped in. What we don't realize is that some of the things we let our eyes see are not as clean as we think. We bombard our mind with trash from the things we watch and listen to. They are usually full of sexual immorality, slander, gossip, murder, impurity, witchcraft, and so much more! They are NOT just entertainment or beats to stir up your emotions or feed on the emotions you have at that moment! As Corey Russell has said, "Our senses are DULL!" Anyways! lol I began to flood my head with these shows, watching episode after episode after episode just because I wanted to know what happened next! And the next thing you knew, I had been sitting there for 6+ hours just watching them! I would stay up to a ridiculous time in the morning like 4am and be exhausted the next day and not even wanna go to the prayer room! I know right!? What is that!!?? It's like a veil was over my eyes during that period! It wore me out not only physically but spiritually. My spirit became weak, dull, lazy, bored, weary, confused, and just BLAH! I missed getting sweet revelations from the Lord, I missed hearing his voice during the day, I missed being able to receive and encounter Him. And it was that night at the Awakening when I finally have had enough of it and wanted out!! Now don't think that if in the future or even now have felt this exact way and wanted a change that you would need to come to Kansas City for an Awakening service because all the Lord wants you to do for it is repent and declare that you wanna turn from your ways and start anew. Your desire for change and more of the Lord is enough to move His heart and give you the desire of your heart. So Wes called a word of knowledge for those who are ready to seriously get serious and lay it all down and live a consecrated lifestyle and of course I stood up on the bleachers but didn't go to the front (while anxious for change, still hesitant and scared). An older lady came up to me to pray for me and she lead me through a prayer basically guarding my eyes and ears and using my imagination for the things of God and nothing else. I felt a little lighter but still knew I needed more prayer. Then Allen Hood got on the mi and spoke on the love of the Father and it being poured out on us and I realized that I really never fully received it. I knew I'd experienced a taste here and there of His love for me but never had I fully received it and felt it. So I definitely rushed up to the front this time. I wanted it and I NEEDED it. So I went up there, Allen praying over us, and just cried and cried and cried and let it all out at His feet. In the midst of the cry-fest, some people came up to me and prayed and prophesied over me. There was this one particular girl (her name is Christa) who stayed with me the WHOLE time and kept repeating this phrase "You're adored" in my ear and it was like one of Susan's analogy of a hammer hitting a rock over and over again until it breaks kind of thing lol where after a while, I was like WHOA! I'm adored!!! :) She also said that I had been speaking words of condemnation and shame and just lies over myself and that I needed to stop and literally speak what the Lord says I am over myself! She lastly said I was like a mountain but I could not for the life of me remember why she said that and her explanation! lol There was also another man who prayed and prophesied over me. One of the things he discerned was that I was an artsy person and that I saw beauty in things that most people do not and that the Lord loved this characteristic of me. He also mentioned my necklace shaped in like eye glasses (which was mentioned in the prophecy rooms at OHOP as well) and again, it was said that the Lord's eye was still on me and that He wanted me to see myself as He saw me. He also prayed over me a lot and just read my mail! He said exactly what I felt like my longing for change and wanting to get it finished that night and finally surrounding it all and he prophesied that I would be a new person after that night. He prayed that the love of the Father would go from my head to my heart, that God would brand me again and place that fire and burning desire I once had back in me. It was just SO good that night. The Lord really shifted something in me, woke me up, and brought a great change in me. He even gave me a little surprise after all of that (of course after I made a trip to the restroom to make sure my face wasn't covered in black from my mascara and eyeliner lol) and while I was dancing freely and jumping around, a cute little girl was walking by and she turned and looked at me and started to dance with me and jump with me! Children give me such great joy and that totally ended my night so well! God is so good and His ways are like no other! Be watchful because the enemy will try to attack frequently and try to speak lies in your ear. He will try to tell you that you weren't delivered from something, you really weren't healed (and even cause your body to hurt as it once did), that your fire won't last, that you'll go back to how you were before, etc.. Have no doubt and renounce and rebuke him and his lies. And you may fall and stumble at times but don't let the enemy fill you with shame and condemnation, just repent, get back up and start anew. His mercies are new every morning!! Praise Jesus! This is long, sorry! :)
15 more days!!!
Love you all,
Thursday, September 9, 2010
by -- Sept. 6, 2010
"I am bringing you into alignment on every level. It is My will to position you properly so that My purposes can be accomplished and My kingdom established. You may not think that you, as an individual, have much to do with destiny. But, everything you think, say, or do is vitally important to the spiritual condition of your sphere of influence. Be diligent to demonstrate the kingdom."
"You have been repositioned as you have had to let go of many things that once meant everything too you. This has been for the purpose of establishing you in greater spiritual reality with renewed strength and vitality. You have stepped into a time of being reconnected to your spiritual roots yet with refreshing revelation."
"The days ahead will be filled with My glory in the practical and commonplace things of life as you maintain awareness and see My manifest presence in unexpected ways. Walk in the Spirit and be available."
"Events that left you reeling and trying to find stability and balance will now truly become a thing of the past as you begin to realize how insignificant it all was as compared with eternity and destiny. The power of My healing and restoration will become evident as you are able to release those who caused you pain. Forgiveness is essential to redemption."
"I have established an altar in the heavenlies, in the realm of the Spirit, where you can bring all that concerns you, things you can do nothing about, and things you have absolutely no control over. Leave them with Me and release your fear and anxiety. Nothing is impossible with Me. Come into that place of peace and rest, trusting Me in all things."
"You feel like you've been cut off, but this cutting off has only been from those things that needed to be put aside at this time. You are like a tree that has been cut off and banded so that your spiritual roots could go deeper and you could become stronger. Let your roots go deeper in the Word, in revelation, and relationship to Me. The day of release will come in due season."
"There are times when you feel totally disconnected and alone. This is because the enemy of your soul has lied to you and tried to isolate and weaken you. But, that is not My design or plan for you. Now is the time to reconnect spiritually, first to Me, and then to those who are Mine. Take the time and make the effort to re-establish yourself in divine connections and kingdom purpose."
"Allow Me to take you forward inch by inch, step by step, without fear or worry. I am with you and will open doors that no man can shut and to shut doors that no man can open. Trust Me with your future. I have already proven to you over and over again that I alone am your place of security, says the Lord."
Wow I know its been a while since I've posted a blog, and this is gonna be a short one for the sake of time but I have a couple more blogs to post in the next couple days..no worries.. :)
But I thought this prophecy here totally just read my mail, and is basically all that the Lord has been and excitingly will be doing! He is just SO good! Love you all!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Weeks went by, and still I was feeling uneasy about life here for the next 3 months. Then I went to Higher Grounds Café to just browse on the laptop and ended up staying there for about 4 hours or so and just didn’t wanna leave? I was intrigued as I sat in the café and observed the people who would come in and out. At times it felt as though I got a glimpse into their lives because I honestly tuned into some of their conversations (yes, call me nosey, call me weird, whatever! Lol) and just observed their mannerisms. As I sat there and thought of how life would be living here, it was almost like wow, I could actually see myself living this kind of lifestyle and one day being one of these people. I knew it was reassurance from the Father to just trust Him and to know that I’m on the right track and everything would be okay. Thereafter, I felt a lot better about being here in Kansas City but I knew there was still a lot I would have to get used to.
Then the next thing I know, He began to reveal things in me that needed to change so I could draw closer to Him and receive more from Him. He began to show me all of the hindrances in the way of me receiving all He had for me. He first began by showing me that I had a spirit of anger and bitterness. Not bitterness necessarily for one person but for everyone at certain times! I would get into random moods where I just got aggravated, and not even because someone did something to me but just because I was jus annoyed! Someone would ask me a simple question and I’d reply with a sarcastic rude answer! The Lord even showed me that I did this to my parents frequently and it horrified me just remembering how I spoke to them on an everyday basis when all they really wanted to know was how my day was or what my plans were for the day. It disgusted me. Our fellowship with God is diminished by clinging to anger and bitterness! Like Ian Rutherford said in my Commission class, “Anger, in simple terms, is the willingness to assert your will over another person to the point you are ready to murder them. Anger reinforces self-centeredness and self exaltation to the level that taking the life of the other person in our heart of hearts seems reasonable. We evaluate others around us as less than human when we walk in anger. Our “vindication” in anger is simply doing to others what has been done to us: dehumanization. Bitterness is unfulfilled revenge” Here’s another good thing he said, “Our anger is not put there by the person who wronged us. Our anger is the latent energy of our depravity that is aroused when we feel wronged or slighted. Our hardship is used to reveal what already exists in our inner man. (wow, yeah that one struck me so much it actually made me say WOW out loud) The anger of our heart is aroused and fed as we agree with darkness; this begins with meditation thought, mostly focused on our self and our plight.”
The day Ian spoke this message made me want to NEVER go back to how I used to be even more! Since the Lord gave me a revelation of how unrighteous it was to have anger and bitterness, He has just given me so much grace and has been teaching me how to count it ALL as joy. No matter what I’m feeling that day, He’s still good to me, no matter what horrible situation I’m in at that moment, He’s STILL good to me, no matter what horrible thing someone has done to me, He’s STILL good to me, no matter WHAT, He is good! So why not count it all as joy knowing that you are blessed, knowing that He loves you, and knowing that He is ALWAYS good? :) We’ve got a good good God and a good good Father! Here’s an awesome verse on this whole topic, let it encourage you!
James 1:2-27 (New International Reader’s Version)
Facing All Kinds of Trouble
2 My brothers and sisters, you will face all kinds of trouble. When you do, think of it as pure joy. 3 Your faith will be put to the test. You know that when that happens it will produce in you the strength to continue. 4 The strength to keep going must be allowed to finish its work. Then you will be all you should be. You will have everything you need.
5 If any of you need wisdom, ask God for it. He will give it to you. God gives freely to everyone. He doesn't find fault.
6 But when you ask, you must believe. You must not doubt. People who doubt are like waves of the sea. The wind blows and tosses them around. 7 A man like that shouldn't expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 He can't make up his mind. He can never decide what to do.
9 A believer who finds himself in a low position in life should be proud that God has given him a high position. 10 But someone who is rich should take pride in his low position. That's because he will fade away like a wild flower.
11 The sun rises. Its burning heat dries up the plants. Their blossoms fall. Their beauty is destroyed. In the same way, a rich person will fade away even as he goes about his business.
12 Blessed is the man who keeps on going when times are hard. After he has come through them, he will receive a crown. The crown is life itself. God has promised it to those who love him.
13 When you are tempted, you shouldn't say, "God is tempting me." God can't be tempted by evil. And he doesn't tempt anyone.
14 But your own evil longings tempt you. They lead you on and drag you away. 15 When they are allowed to grow, they give birth to sin. When sin has grown up, it gives birth to death.
16 My dear brothers and sisters, don't let anyone fool you. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from God. It comes down from the Father. He created the heavenly lights. He does not change like shadows that move.
18 God chose to give us new birth through the message of truth. He wanted us to be the first and best of everything he created.
Listen to the Word and Do What It Says
19 My dear brothers and sisters, pay attention to what I say. Everyone should be quick to listen. But they should be slow to speak. They should be slow to get angry. 20 A man's anger doesn't produce the kind of life God wants.
21 So get rid of everything that is dirty and sinful. Get rid of the evil that is all around us. Don't be too proud to accept the word that is planted in you. It can save you.
22 Don't just listen to the word. You fool yourselves if you do that. You must do what it says.
23 Suppose you listen to the word but don't do what it says. Then you are like a man who looks at his face in a mirror. 24 After looking at himself, he leaves. Right away he forgets what he looks like.
25 But suppose you take a good look at the perfect law that gives freedom. You keep looking at it. You don't forget what you've heard, but you do what the law says. Then you will be blessed in what you do.
26 Suppose you think your beliefs are right because of how you live. But you don't control what you say. Then you are fooling yourselves. Your beliefs are not worth anything at all.
27 Here are the kinds of beliefs that God our Father accepts as pure and without fault. When widows and children who have no parents are in trouble, take care of them. And keep yourselves from being polluted by the world.
Love you all :)
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
"Every time you photograph someone, you tell them, 'You're important enough to remember'" -Cheryl Jacobs-Nicolai
"Vision is given freely to those who ask to see"
I love photography. :)
Monday, July 20, 2009
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What Does the FTC Have to Do With Your App?
If app developers want to avoid the risk of prosecution, they have to make sure they follow the 11 guidelines on mobile app marketing published by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in September 2012. The good news is that these guidelines simply describe honest, careful business practices, so an app developer who cares about producing a high-quality product will probably already have these bases covered. Here’s an overview of the FTC rules, as well as a couple cautionary tales about what happens if developers ignore them:
Two of the eleven guidelines center on being honest. You must “tell the truth about what your app can do,” and “disclose key information clearly and conspicuously.” This is essential to building trust with customers, and it’s unlikely that responsible app developers would willfully violate this rule, but the FTC publication points out that “once you start distributing your app, you become an advertiser.” With the boom in app development startups, many entrepreneurs are naively tossing product descriptions into the marketplace without first becoming familiar with laws pertaining to truth in advertising.
The remaining nine guidelines focus on aspects of consumer privacy. These include building privacy protections into the default settings of your product, so that customers have to clearly “opt in” in order to allow their information to be accessed. The guidelines also stipulate that all privacy protections have to be clearly spelled out, that sensitive user data can be collected only with active consent and must be stored securely. Finally, there are some detailed rules specific to protecting the privacy of children.
Despite the fact that the these truthfulness and privacy rules appear to define good basic business practices, it’s possible for app developers to get so caught up in flash and dazzle that they forget to construct basic security architecture. PC Mag reported in March 2014 that Fandango and Credit Karma were both charged by the FTC with violations in the area of app privacy. User credit card information was not protected by SSL (secure socket-layer encryption) even though both apps explicitly promised users that this protection was in place. Furthermore, the two companies had no established processes for vulnerability testing, so the security holes continued for years. Part of the FTC’s ruling in the case requires both companies to undergo independent security testing every other year for the next twenty years, and FTC Chair Edith Ramirez commented, “Our cases against Fandango and Credit Karma should remind app developers of the need to make data security central to how they design their apps.”
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Going-to- the-Sun Road will reopen to Avalanche from the West Entrance by 12 pm on October 21. Going-to- the-Sun Road access from the St. Mary entrance is currently to Rising Sun.
Logan Pass vehicle access from both the east and west park entrances has ended for the season.
The Going-to- the-Sun Road had previously been closed at Apgar on the west side of the park due to Sprague Fire activity, and then due to a large culvert replacement project several miles up the lake.
A significant amount of construction will still be occurring simultaneously with this road opening, some of which was delayed during the Sprague Fire and now must occur before winter.
Visitors can expect intermittent one-lane traffic and delays between Apgar and Avalanche. Pullout rehabilitation continues, and many pullouts are closed as a result.
A portion of the Trail of the Cedars boardwalk has been removed to allow equipment access to the pedestrian footbridge currently under construction. The bridge is being modified to fully comply with ABA/ADA standards. Walking the Trail of the Cedars loop is not currently possible. In addition, a tree has fallen across the boardwalk portion breaking it, so the boardwalk portion of the trail is also temporarily closed. Visitors should obey signs and not enter construction zones.
Avalanche Lake Trail will be open, though hikers can expect to see trail crew conducting routine maintenance activities. In addition, a wind storm from earlier in the week has knocked down approximately 140 trees across the trail. The trail may close intermittently for tree clearing activities. Hikers should expect a much more difficult hiking experience than is typical due to trail condition.
Trails within the Sprague Fire burn area remain closed, including the trail to Sperry Chalet. The park estimates that nearly 2,000 trees have fallen over trail systems within the burn area. Hundreds more are expected to fall this winter with heavy snow. Significant tree fall hazards currently exist. The area closure is to protect human life and safety and violations carry federal penalties.
Trail crews will assess and begin clearing trails within the burn area in the spring when the threat to human safety is lower.
In the coming weeks, previously scheduled construction work on the entrance road to Avalanche Campground will begin. This will involve significant road excavation. Parking access in the campground once this construction begins will not be possible, even on weekends, due to the level of excavation that will occur. Visitors to the Avalanche area should park in the picnic area once campground road construction is underway.
A waterline will be installed between Sprague Creek Campground and Lake McDonald Lodge along the side of the Going-to- the-Sun Road. Traffic delays will occur around this operation as one lane will be utilized for construction.
The Lake McDonald Lodge parking area and pedestrian areas around the lodge will be closed for a period of time while the park completes flood risk mitigation activities following the Sprague Fire. Those activities include cleaning out culverts, pedestrian bridge modifications, and installing creek bank reinforcements in the Sprague and Snyder drainages.
Late-season hiker and biker access is currently to The Loop on the west side (beginning October 21) and Jackson Glacier Overlook on the east side. The full road is not available to hikers and bikers right now because of excessive rock fall and treefall following this week’s wind storm. Hiker and biker access changes regularly in the late fall, and will shift to ski access as winter progresses.
Hikers, bikers, and vehicles may see more wildlife right now because the Avalanche area has been closed to the public in recent weeks. Bears are especially active at this time of year as they enter hyperphagia, a period when they seek large amounts of food before they den for the winter. All park visitors should carry bear spray in a readily accessible location, should know how to use it, and should remember required safe wildlife viewing distances. Those distances are 300 feet for bears and wolves, and 75 feet for all other wildlife.
Due to the scope of construction activities in the road corridor, delays experienced due to the Sprague Fire, and approaching winter, it is possible that the Going-to- the-Sun Road could re-close at one of the lower gates (Apgar, Lake McDonald Lodge, North McDonald Road, etc.) to facilitate more rapid construction. Typically the road closes at Lake McDonald Lodge on the west side on or before December 15, weather dependent.
Visitors entering the Going-to- the-Sun Road corridor through the West Glacier entrance should be mindful that the Sprague Fire continues to smolder to the east of the road, and is relatively close to the road in some areas. The entire fire area remains closed, and threats to human life and safety exist. Visitors should remain in the road corridor or on open trails and abide by area closures at all times. | <urn:uuid:3699eb7d-7489-4989-b772-026ec75bc903> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/news/media17-57.htm | 2019-02-19T17:16:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247490806.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190219162843-20190219184843-00550.warc.gz | en | 0.948463 | 1,024 |
From the OK Corral to the Nome Gold Rush
Among the gold-fevered stampeders who tried to cash in on the Gold Rush was a professional gunfighter named Wyatt Earp. Yep! The same man who was once the Sheriff of Dodge City. The same guy who carved his name in the history books with his celebrated role in the epic gunfight at the OK Corral. Wyatt Earp! Of all the American gun-slinging legends, that name ranks atop the list. Television shows, movies, books and music have all strengthened the allure surrounding the fabled lawman.
Yet, the Marshall Earp of legend accounts for just five years of Wyatt's long and momentous life. For most of his eighty years, he was a hard-working, gold-seeking, gun-toting gambler who, like others of the day, was obsessed with discovering a golden mecca.
Wyatt Berry Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois on a blustery spring day in March, 1848. In 1864, he moved with his parents to California, near San Bernardino, where he got a job as a teamster, driving horse-drawn wagons that carried supplies for prospectors. He married in 1870, but, after the sudden death of his new bride, he became a drifter, working as a buffalo hunter and stagecoach driver in the American southwest, often in the company of his four brothers - Virgil, Morgan, James and Warren.
In 1875, he moved to Wichita, Kansas, where he joined the frontier police force. A year later, he moved to Dodge City, Kansas, where he became a dealer at the famous Long Branch Saloon. Here he met and became lifelong friends with Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday, as well as establishing his reputation as a notable lawman and gambler. He left Dodge City with his second wife in 1878 and moved to California, where he worked for a time as a Wells Fargo agent. In 1879, Wyatt, his four brothers and their wives met up in the new silver mining town of Tombstone, Arizona.
Wyatt wanted to establish a stage line, but since there were already two in town, he instead bought the gambling concession at the Oriental Saloon. His brother Virgil became town marshal, while Morgan took a job with the police department. In Tombstone, Wyatt met his third wife, Josie, who remained with him until his death.
On the fateful day of October 26, 1881, a feud that had been going on for some time between the Earp brothers and a gang led by Ike Clanton culminated in the most celebrated shootout in western folklore - the Gunfight at the OK Corral. The famous gunfight was not in the O.K. Corral. It actually took place in Harwood's lumberyard, down the street from the rear entrance to the corral.
The showdown began as Morgan, Virgil and Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, on one side of the lot, faced Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne. It's not certain who drew first, but the fight was swift. It lasted 30 seconds. When the gun smoke cleared, Frank and Tom McLaury lay dead, and Billy Clanton died later from chest wounds.
Morgan Earp suffered a shoulder wound, Virgil, a leg wound, and Doc Holliday, a grazed left hip. Wyatt Earp wasn't hit. The Earps and Doc Holliday were arrested for murder. At the trial, it was decided that the Earps acted within the law, but Virgil was later fired as marshal for his role in the battle. In March, 1882, Morgan Earp was gunned down by unknown gunmen. Wyatt, along with his brother Warren, launched a feud during which all four suspects were eventually killed.
After being accused of these murders, Earp fled from Arizona to Colorado, taking odd jobs in mining camps over the next few years. In 1886, Wyatt and Josie settled in booming San Diego. Wyatt bought real estate and saloons, and continued his passion for gambling.
By the spring of 1897, all of California was buzzing with the news of the richest gold strike in the world. This was music to the ears of the aging gambler, gunfighter and gold-seeker. Wyatt and Josie packed up and headed north with thousands of others in 1897. The first part of the voyage to the gold-fields ended in Wrangell, Alaska, as rough a town as Wyatt Earp had ever seen. He stayed there that winter and in the spring of 1898, set out for Dawson City via the coastal route and the
By the time they reached the town of Rampart on the
Yukon River, freeze-up has set in. There the Earps spent the frigid winter of 1898-1899. Earp became friends with
Tex Rickard, the gambling fight-promoter, who would later build Madison Square Garden in New York City. In the spring of 1899, Earp worked as the manager of a small store in St. Michael, the Bering Sea center for river travel to the Yukon interior. By this time,
Rickard had joined the new rush to the goldfields of Nome.
Earp was determined to reach Dawson City, but
Rickard convinced him that the Klondike was over, and that he should join him in the new Nome gold camp instead. So the Earps settled in Nome. Now fifty-one, Earp opened a fancy emporium called the Dexter Saloon. Before long, he was collecting more gold nuggets from the sale of booze and gambling than most of the miners were digging up on the sand beaches of Nome.
One day, the famous lawman had a run-in with the law. During a street brawl in front of the Dexter, two brawlers were hauled off to the hoosegow. Earp, the former Marshal, decided to take the law into his own hands and tried to free one of the prisoners. "Wyatt Earp was also taken into custody", reported the Nome Daily News.
In his defense, Earp said he was just trying to help the Sheriff. The charge was dropped. After two years in Nome, the Earps were ready to move again. They returned to the southern states in 1901 with a sizeable nest-egg, and headed for yet another gold-strike in Tonopah, Nevada, where they opened another saloon, continued to gamble, and made another small fortune. Yet he still had the prospectors nose for gold, staking claims just outside Death Valley in the Mojave Desert. He and Josie spent their summers in Los Angeles where they became pals with early day Hollywood heroes.
On January 13, 1929, Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles. He was eighty years old. Famous cowboy actors Tom Mix and William Hart were among his pallbearers.
A CKRW Yukon Nugget by Les McLaughlin
Many years ago, on a journey down the Yukon River in the company of
Cam Cameron and Charlie Taylor, I heard first-hand many of the stories lived by these two unforgettable Yukoners. Both are gone now, but their memories live on.
It was hard to find a Yukoner like Charlie Taylor. The Yukon was his life. It ran in his blood like the Yukon rivers he knew so well. Born in Whitehorse, he was one of three sons of Isaac Taylor, the merchant who came to the Yukon in 1898. One day, on the trip down the Yukon river in 1980, Charlie, Cam and I sat in Cam's 18-foot, flat-bottomed home-built river boat. We were in the middle of
Lake Laberge. On that sunny, calm afternoon, Charlie Taylor told me the story of the Taylor and Drury riverboat, the Thistle.
She was the third riverboat freighter owned by these pioneering merchandisers. The first was a little gas-powered vessel called the Christine. The second, called the SS Kluane, was built by T and D's, in the shipywards in Whitehorse, in 1905. The Thistle was built by the White Pass company in Whitehorse and purchased by T and Ds when they expanded their operations to many river communities in 1919. She was the perfect little riverboat. She could navigate the Yukon River, and all the sidestreams, carrying goods to the company's stores throughout the territory. She delivered
George Johnson's brand-new Chevrolet from Whitehorse to Teslin in 1928. By pushing a barge in front, the Thistle could carry 90 tons to waiting customers throughout the Yukon.
As we sat, almost motionless in the middle of Lake Laberge, back in 1980, Charlie told me about the Thistle's last day on the job. One day in the summer of 1929, as she was pushing a fully loaded barge on the way to Mayo, a big storm blew up on
Lake Laberge. The post that held the barge chain broke. Instead of circling around, the pilot was trying to refasten the barge to the boat. As he backed up, water rushed in through the Pitman arms, flooding the Thistle and snapping her in half. The entire crew jumped on the barge just as the riverboat went down.
Charlie told me that he had to call his father and tell him the news...the Thistle was lost. On hearing this, Isaac Taylor asked Charlie if any of the crew had been lost. When Charlie said no - all hands were safe - his father, a teatotaler, said, "Good, let's get drunk".
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The Buffalo Sabres are hoping the past will pave the way for the future.
The question is, though, will the past end up out-selling the future?
That's a question that won't be answered until later this year when both sets of the "new" Buffalo Sabres jerseys are out on the street.
In late July, the Sabres announced they are bringing back the original blue and gold road jerseys for 15 home games in the 2006-07 season, beginning with an Oct. 14 game against the New York Rangers.
At the same time, the team will introduce a new home and away set of jerseys during the week of Sept. 24 that pays homage to the original colors and design but is updated in a 21st century motif.
Sabres fans have been clamoring for the team to return to its original blue and gold colors almost from the very day officials introduced the black, red and white jerseys a decade ago, complete with a revamped logo.
That reached new heights in early July as the team's new design was leaked via the Internet.
"All in all, there's lot of passion about the Sabres, which is a good thing," said Larry Quinn, Sabres managing partner. "We thought it was important to get this much out of the way."
Quinn said the decision to go back to the original road jersey was fueled in part by fans' outrage over what they saw via the Internet. In the best of both worlds, the Sabres would have introduced both jerseys in September, but the groundswell dictated the team take the first step.
One Internet site, fixthelogo.com, has nearly 24,000 signatures opposing the new logo and uniform design.
"Give it a chance and take it from there," Quinn said. "Personally, I hope they get 30,000 signatures. I expect nothing less from our fans. I know they are very passionate about the Sabres."
Some say that attitude may prove to be a faux pas for the Sabres, however.
Robert Carr, president of Carr Marketing Communications Inc., said the Sabres should have given the fans what they wanted: the original uniforms.
"This sounds kind of trite, but maybe the Sabres are trying have their cake and eat it too," Carr said. "Fans have a very emotional tie to the old uniforms."
The irony is that the Sabres don't have blue and gold road jerseys to sell. They won't be in stores until mid-August.
"Honestly, we don't have a single jersey to sell, I wish we did," Quinn said. "This announcement was taken way out of order."
Quinn admits that having to sell two new sets of jerseys is risky for the team.
"Most marketing people will tell you not to do that," he said.
Carr is one of those people.
"Two jerseys is going to confuse the market," he predicted. "It will lead to some confusion and probably cannibalize the market for the Sabres. They are forcing people to chose between the old and new."
The Sabres have already petitioned the league to use its original white home jersey for two games this season. The NHL mandates the home team must wear dark jerseys.
That the Sabres were going back to their original blue and gold color scheme was hardly a surprise. Team officials confirmed that had been in the works for the better part of two years and might have actually happened last summer, except the focus was on re-branding the National Hockey League and its 30 teams following the year-long labor dispute that shut down the NHL.
"We are really trying to create a new, progressive look for the new century," Quinn said. "I think this a great balance."
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The Fitness And State Of Mind Of A Royal Marines Commando
Approach the impossible with steely grit and intense inner belief by training and thinking like a Royal Marines Commando.
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The Royal Marines are the Royal Navy's amphibious infantry on permanent readiness to deploy across the globe, and is a core component of the UK's Joint Rapid Reaction Force. In short, they're badass and the best of the best at what they do.
Much like the U.S Marine Corps, the Royal Marines are a flexible infantry force. To achieve their goals Marines need a very high level of all around fitness, as well as a positive and determined state of mind.
When I think of a Royal Marine, I see a man who approaches the impossible with steely grit and intense inner belief. These attributes are, in my opinion, applicable to anybody looking to better their life. Be it through self-improvement in your job, your physical fitness or your finances and lifestyle.
Whatever your goals, a positive mental attitude will get you a long way to achieving them. In particular, your determination to succeed. Royal Marines have determination in bucketloads. For a Royal Marines Commando, their state of mind is the driving force. It reminds them that the mind powers the muscles and that they are not special because they are Marines. They are special because of what they do and how they do it. As Aristotle said:
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
This is the ethos of the Royal Marines. Their state of mind can be broken down into 4 elements - known as The Commando Spirit.
The Commando Spirit
- Cheerfulness in the face of adversity
On paper, these attributes seem simple and anybody looking to put together a quick list of ways to improve themselves could recite them. However in practice, it is much more difficult to apply this Commando Spirit to your everyday life. Many people simply don't have the determination to achieve their goals. I've been as guilty as anyone for merely coasting along and doing the minimum amount of effort to get by. But for a Royal Marine, these are drilled into their minds so deeply that it's no longer a conscious decision. It is part of who they are and I can only imagine the level of clarity and focus that having these attributes drilled into your subconscious will bring.
So how do we achieve this Marine-like mental focus to improve ourselves?
It's actually quite simple. You need to know what you want. It can be difficult to figure this out - but once you know what you want, the only thing left to do is focus yourself absolutely and completely to achieving it. Force out all the negative thoughts. The last thing you should be thinking is "I can't do this!". Of course you can. If you focused all of your mental efforts on how you're going to achieve your goals rather than worrying that you can't achieve them, you'll have a lot more success. Other attributes for you to focus on include:
- Unity - Whether it's uniting you mind, body and soul or something less clich? like unity with your work colleagues
- Adaptability - You need to be able to adapt through new workouts or new life approaches based on what has worked and hasn't worked for you in the past
- Humility - You can't push yourself forward with a pat on the back. When you succeed, be humble and focus on further improvement. Don't gloat!
- Fortitude - You need the physical and mental strength to endure adversity with courage
If you're still unsure of how to achieve the focused, Royal Marine state-of-mind, here is a list of tips to improve your clarity and give you the steely determination you need to succeed:
- From the moment you wake up each day, focus on what you want to achieve and get motivated to succeed.
- Cut out (or at least down on) bad habits such as smoking, drinking and eating bad foods. Nothing ruins clarity like impurities in your body.
- Focus on your short term goals. Your long term goals will materialise as an effect of the short term goals.
- Be as self sufficient and reliant as possible. There won't always be people around to push you so you'll need to learn to push yourself further.
- Never be satisfied. Always strive to achieve more.
- Don't focus on limitations. Focus instead on what you want to achieve and the steps you need to take to get there.
- Believe in yourself. If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
- If you struggle or falter, ask for help or advice. I'm happy to help out wherever I can.
The mental stamina of a Royal Marine, coupled with a high level of physical fitness, is what separates them from the mere mortals. They are both core components to the puzzle. Without fitness, all the mental stamina in the world won't help if every muscle in your body is fully exhausted. Without mental stamina, all the fitness in the world won't be enough when everything in your being is telling you to stop. Things like gun fire, bombs, endless walking across the Falkland Islands, the altitude of Afghanistan or the blistering heat of Iraq.
So, besides mental strength, what physical attributes do the Royal Marines have - and how did they get them?
The Royal Marines Training Schedule
Royal Marines are typically more lean that U.S. Marines. Regular cardio exercise and interval/fartlek training are a staple in the training arsenal.
Marines often workout twice a day. In the morning this will usually be 30-45 minutes of cardiovascular exercise such as swimming, running or biking. In the afternoon that's when the fun begins.
Royal Marines Circuit Training
For a Royal Marine, there is a high focus on muscular endurance. They need to be able to give a high level of exertion for prolonged periods of time. The best way to achieve this is through circuit training. As you'd expect, the majority of exercises a Royal Marine performs are based on bodyweight. This allows them to workout wherever they are in the world and can give a fantastic workout in a short amount of time. Here is an example of a Royal Marine workout:
1st SET | 2nd SET | 3rd SET
15 Press-ups | 20 Press-ups | 15 Press-ups
20 Vertical Jumps | 25 Vertical Jumps | 20 Vertical Jumps
20 Squats | 30 Squats | 20 Squats
4 Pull-ups | 6 Pull-ups | 4 Pull-ups
10 Hanging Leg Raises | 15 Hanging Leg Raises | 10 Hanging Leg Raises
15 Box Jumps | 20 Box Jumps | 15 Box Jumps
4 Dips | 6 Dips | 4 Dips
20 Sit-ups | 30 Sit-ups | 20 Sit-ups
10 Lunges | 20 Lunges | 10 Lunges
This circuit should be completed as quickly as possible with no rest in between exercises or sets. You can rest only as long as it takes to get your breathe back to continue.
When performing this routine, Royal Marines ensure that their posture and form is perfect on each exercise. They don't rush to get through them by arching their backs on press-ups or swinging their legs to complete a pull-up.
In addition to circuit training, Royal Marines also perform regular progressive shuttleruns - also known as The Bleep Test.
The Bleep Test
The objective of the bleep test is to run for as long as possible between two points which are placed 20 metres apart; keeping to the speed indicated by the bleeps on the bleep test.
The test is maximal and progressive. It starts out slowly and the speed increases each minute. A single bleep indicates the end of a shuttle run, which means you should be at the 20 metre line when you hear it. As the test continues, the amount of time between beeps shortens. This means that you need to increase your speed to reach the end of each shuttle in time. When you hear three beeps, this indicates the end of a minute, at which point the speed will increase.
Make sure that you start each shuttle with at least one foot behind the 20 metre line and ensure you turn properly by pushing away with one foot or the other to avoid injury.
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Once you feel like you've achieved a good level of physical fitness and your mental strength and clarity is steely, gritty, determined etc and so on, you can - if you'd like to - apply to join the Royal Marines. For many people, performing the exercises and gaining the mental strength of a Royal Marine is enough. But if you're one of the select few that strive to achieve more than this, then you're exactly what they're looking for!
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There might be a possibility that a mysterious landscape of layered bands of rocks are hidden beneath the ice sheets of the Antarctic. This could reportedly be the world's largest, extending up to over a thousand kilometre long and 1 km deep.
Through utilizing satellite data, researchers have uncovered some evidences of a chain of winding and linear features existing under the largely unexplored area known as Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica. "We have traced these faint lineations from the centre of Princess Elizabeth Land all the way to the coast, off to the north. It's a pretty substantial system," Durham University's Dr. Stewart Jamieson said.
Some suggested that this could be connected with a previously unveiled subglacial lake. If this is proven true, the lake would cover about 1250 square km that is 80 times as big as England's biggest lake, Windermere.
The preliminary interpretation of the data gathered by the team in several reference points was from the radar, which can see past through the ice sheets to the rockbed beneath. Satellite imagery detected faint hints, while small sections were found by radio-echo sounding data.
Although most areas of Antarctica have been under complete geophysical surveys, there are still two "Poles of Ignorance" in East Antarctica, namely, Princess Elizabeth Land and Recovery Basin, that needs exploration but are now under intense investigation instead.
The international team composed of scientists from US, UK, Australia, China and India is studying the possible landscape to help scientists understand how ice sheets are responding with climate change. Furthermore, they are trying to determine whether the newly discovered feature is something ancient, if it existed even before the ice sheets began growing or it was a result of the water flowing and eroding under the ice.
Team member Prof. Martin Siegert from Imperial College London claims that the finding is consistent. Currently, geoscientists from Antarctica are performing studies to validate the initial data claimed.
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Morelli achieves dean's list at Ohio Northern Univ.
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PLANO, Texas, Aug. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nuvectra Corporation (NASDAQ: NVTR), a neurostimulation medical device company, announced today financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2018.
Scott Drees, CEO, said, “The second quarter represented another record quarter for our Algovita business, which benefited from new accounts, as well as from increased penetration in existing accounts. Our growth was further accelerated through the continued expansion of our U.S. commercial team, which now approximates 60 active territories. We look forward to further advancing our commercial momentum through 2018 and beginning to prepare for 2019.”
Mr. Drees continued, “With respect to Virtis, we have recently filed our response to FDA's requests, which we received late in the second quarter. FDA now has 180 days from our submission to review our response. Our focus remains on gaining U.S. approval as soon as possible, and we are working proactively with FDA to this end.”
Second Quarter Financial Results
Total revenue in the second quarter of 2018 was $13.1 million, an 82% increase from $7.2 million in the second quarter of 2017. Total Algovita sales were $11.5 million, a 110% increase from $5.5 million in the second quarter of 2017. Gross profit in the second quarter of 2018 was $6.9 million, or 53% gross margin, an increase from $3.7 million, or 51% gross margin, in the second quarter of 2017.
Operating expenses in the second quarter of 2018 were $17.7 million, a 23% increase from $14.4 million in the second quarter of 2017. The increase was primarily the result of an increase in sales personnel-related expenses as we have continued to increase sales of our Algovita product, as well as an increase in research, development and engineering personnel-related expenses and the timing of research project-related expenses.
Net loss for the second quarter of 2018 was $(11.8) million or $(0.83) per share, compared with a net loss of $(11.2) million, or $(1.07) per share, for the second quarter of 2017.
Total cash and cash equivalents were $43.7 million as of June 30, 2018.
Conference Call Information
Nuvectra will hold a conference call today, Tuesday, August 7, 2018, at 4:30pm ET to discuss the results. The dial-in numbers are (844) 882-7830 for domestic callers and (574) 990-9704 for international callers. The conference ID is 2980358. A live webcast of the conference call will be available on the investor relations section of the Company’s website at http://investors.nuvectramed.com/.
A replay of the call will be available starting on August 7, 2018 through August 14, 2018. To access the replay, dial (855) 859-2056 for domestic callers and (404) 537-3406 for international callers and enter access code 2980358. The webcast will be available in the investor relations section of the Company’s website for 90 days following the completion of the call.
About Nuvectra Corporation
NuvectraTM is a neurostimulation company committed to helping physicians improve the lives of people with chronic conditions. The Algovita® Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) System is our first commercial offering and is CE marked and FDA approved for the treatment of chronic intractable pain of the trunk and/or limbs. Our innovative technology platform also has capabilities under development to support other indications such as sacral neuromodulation (SNM) for the treatment of overactive bladder, and deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease. In addition, our NeuroNexus subsidiary designs, manufactures and markets leading-edge neural-interface technologies for the neuroscience clinical research market. Visit the Nuvectra website at www.nuvectramed.com
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements," including statements we make regarding the outlook for Nuvectra as an independent publicly-traded company. Forward-looking statements are based only on our current beliefs, expectations and assumptions regarding the future of our business, future plans and strategies, projections, anticipated events and trends, the economy and other future conditions, and therefore they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict and may be outside of our control. Our actual performance may differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Therefore, you should not rely on any of these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement made by us is based only on information currently available to us and speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements include: (i) our ability to successfully commercialize Algovita and to develop, complete and commercialize enhancements or improvements to Algovita; (ii) our ability to successfully compete with our current SCS competitors and the ability of our U.S. sales representatives to successfully establish market share and acceptance of Algovita, (iii) the uncertainty and timing of obtaining regulatory approvals in the United States and Europe for our Virtis SNM system, (iv) our ability to successfully launch and commercialize the Virtis SNM system if and when it receives regulatory approval (v) our ability to demonstrate the features, perceived benefits and capabilities of Algovita to physicians and patients in competition with similar products already well established and sold in the SCS market; (vi) our ability to anticipate and satisfy customer needs and preferences and to develop, introduce and commercialize new products or advancements and improvements to Algovita in order to successfully meet our customers’ expectations; (vii) the outcome of our development plans for our neurostimulation technology platform, including our ability to identify additional indications or conditions for which we may develop neurostimulation medical devices or therapies and seek regulatory approval thereof; (viii) our ability to identify business development and growth opportunities and to successfully execute on our strategy, including our ability to seek and develop strategic partnerships with third parties to, among other things, fund clinical and development costs for new product offerings; (ix) the performance by our development partners, including Aleva Neurotherapeutics, S.A., of their obligations under their agreements with us; (x) the scope of protection for our intellectual property rights covering Algovita and other products using our neurostimulation technology platform, along with any product enhancements or improvements; (xi) our ability to successfully build, attract and maintain an effective commercial infrastructure and qualified sales force in the United States; (xii) our compliance with all regulatory and legal requirements regarding implantable medical devices and interactions with healthcare professionals; (xiii) our reliance on each of Integer, our exclusive and sole manufacturer and supplier of parts and components for Algovita, and Minnetronix, Inc., our sole-source supplier of external peripheral devices; (xiv) any supplier shortages related to Algovita or its components and any manufacturing disruptions which may impact our inventory supply as we expand our business; (xv) any product recalls, or the receipt of any warning letters, mandatory corrections or fines from any governmental or regulatory agency; (xvi) our ability to satisfy the conditions and covenants, including trailing six month revenue milestones, of our Credit Facility; and (xvii) our ability to raise capital through means other than or in addition to the Credit Facility should it become necessary to do so, through another public offering of our common stock, private equity or debt financings, strategic partnerships, or other sources. Please see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in Nuvectra’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our other quarterly and periodic filings for a description of these and other risks and uncertainties. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS — Unaudited
(IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
|Three Months Ended||Six Months Ended|
|June 30, 2018||June 30, 2017||June 30, 2018||June 30, 2017|
|Cost of sales:|
|Total cost of sales||6,236||3,539||11,044||5,950|
|Selling, general and administrative expenses||13,460||11,186||25,593||21,991|
|Research, development and engineering costs, net||4,226||3,221||7,506||7,594|
|Total operating expenses||17,686||14,407||33,099||29,585|
|Interest expense, net||936||398||1,786||768|
|Other expense, net||54||117||77||320|
|Loss before provision for income taxes||(11,763||)||(11,238||)||(22,283||)||(24,360||)|
|Provision for income taxes||15||—||28||—|
|Other comprehensive gain:|
|Unrealized holding gain on investments arising during period||—||2||1||2|
|Other comprehensive gain||—||2||1||2|
|Basic and diluted net loss per share||$||(0.83||)||$||(1.07||)||$||(2.04||)||$||(2.34||)|
|Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding||14,209||10,458||10,922||10,396|
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS—Unaudited
(IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT SHARE AND PER SHARE DATA)
|Cash and cash equivalents||$||43,694||$||28,165|
|Trade accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $539 and $417 in 2018 and 2017, respectively||10,037||10,875|
|Prepaid expenses and other current assets||1,792||1,011|
|Total current assets||60,240||45,029|
|Property, plant and equipment, net||5,873||6,219|
|Intangible assets, net||1,278||1,428|
|Other long-term assets||109||245|
|LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY|
|Total current liabilities||14,713||16,051|
|Other long-term liabilities||692||993|
|Long-term debt, net||38,674||25,886|
|Commitments and contingencies|
|Common stock, $0.001 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized; 14,254,086 and 10,849,385 shares issued and outstanding in 2018 and 2017, respectively||14||11|
|Additional paid-in capital||151,736||125,999|
|Accumulated other comprehensive loss||—||(1||)|
|Total stockholders’ equity||51,603||48,173|
|Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity||$||105,682||$||91,103|
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|Walter Berger, COO & CFO||Tram Bui / Brian Johnston|
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We have had the opportunity to reflect on our administrative and clinical operations during this situation and have discovered there are different ways in which we can both operate our non-profit and deliver care. This includes telework and telehealth. We are now routinely offering telehealth appointments as an option for eligibility screenings, as well as for medical and counseling appointments when appropriate.
We closed our medical clinic to in-person visits on March 16. However, our staff and volunteers continue to come to the office every day to answer the phones, talk with patients, and keep our administrative and clinical operations running. Our staff and volunteer medical providers talked with patients about their health problems, refilled over 500 prescriptions, and eased their worries about the virus. Our volunteer social worker provided virtual counseling—critical in these stressful times. For patients who receive their medications directly from our dispensary at the clinic, volunteer nurses and doctors came to the clinic to count out pills and label bottles, while staff met patients in the parking lot (socially distant of course!) to make sure that they had the critical prescriptions they needed. We continued to provide MaineCare navigation over the telephone as well as connecting patients with pharmaceutical companies’ free care programs. We called all of our patients to check in with them (over 600 calls) and to let them know that we were here for them if they needed help.
We closed our dental clinic on March 18. Because of the aerosolized nature of dentistry, it remained closed until September 8. Our dental director, Dr. Rick Elsaesser, spent months talking with local dentists, researching latest guidelines, and following national organizations to identify the safest way for us to re-open. We have renovated the dental suites, adding air scrubbers to remove aerosolized particles, purchased sufficient personal protective equipment, and created a respiratory protection plan to assure the health and safety of our staff, volunteers and patients. For the first month, our newly hired staff dentist will be our only provider. We intend to bring back volunteers one day each week in early October, assuming the COVID-19 rates remain stable. In January, we will bring back our 8 hour/week staff hygienist and resume our biweekly evening clinics with volunteer dentists.
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HAVING REGARD to Principle 10 of the Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development of 3-14 June 1992 (Agenda 21) to which all OECD Member countries have subscribed, and which states that "each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities, and the opportunity to participate in decision-making processes and that countries shall encourage public awareness and participation by making information widely available";
HAVING REGARD to Chapter 19 of Agenda 21 which states, inter alia, that governments with the cooperation of industry should improve data bases and information systems on toxic chemicals, such as emission inventory programmes and that the broadest possible awareness of chemical risks is a prerequisite for chemical safety;
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Chennai: The suspense over David Warner's availability for the first Test against India has not yet ended but Australian coach Mickey Arthur is "pretty sure" that the explosive opener will come through fit for the match starting here on Friday.
Warner did not play any of the two practice matches that concluded here due to a thumb injury and there are significant concerns about whether he would play in the opening Test. "We just want to see how Davey Warner comes up over the next day or two," the Australia coach said.
"It's critical that he trains well over the next day or two to play. I'm pretty sure and confident he'll come through but he hasn't faced any quicks yet," Arthur said ahead of Australia's training session here on Tuesday. "He's been doing a lot of batting against spin which has been fantastic. He hasn't faced pace bowling - that's the only concern - but he ticks that box today," he added.
If Warner fails the fitness test, all-rounder Shane Watson is likely to be promoted to the opener's slot to partner Ed Cowan.
Arthur was all praise for Cowan, who made scores of 58, 40 and 53 in the two practice games. "Ed has come out of these practice games with his head held high. He's had a good method against the spin and he's played exceptionally well. [Opening with Watson and Warner] would be a tough call but that's something we have to only weigh up once Davey Warner is fit or not fit," he said.
Arthur said being a seasoned campaigner, Watson would be needed in the middle-order, which is relatively inexperienced. "I think Watto's a class player, so wherever Watto fits in I think he adds value," Arthur said. "Potentially through the middle is going to be a real tough time to bat, so you want your most seasoned campaigners in that area. We've got to look again and see what we think is going to be the best possible way of winning."
Arthur was reluctant to divulge details of Australia's possible line-up for the match. "That's the primary focus for us, how are we going to beat India in India. We've got to look at our best possible combination to do that," he said.
"I do think though that we've just come off a series where we've beaten Sri Lanka 3-0 - do those players get first opportunity? I don't know. That's something that we'll have sorted out by the end of today," he added.
He, however, said that seamer Moises Henriques has a better chance of being picked than off-spinning allrounder Glenn Maxwell, who was the only million-dollar buy of this year's IPL players' auction. Henriques made his case with a haul of 4 for 12 in the first of the two warm-up games.
"Moises has done everything right to possibly get a Test match here," Arthur said. "We've chatted at length about it. We'll consider everything before we get the team out. But Moises has certainly done very well in these games. He's bowled exceptionally well, I thought. The way he batted the other day was exactly as we want our batters to play. You've got to play with that intent here," he explained.
But Arthur said the dilemma over seam or spin is not entirely over as of now. "We've got to look at what our best opportunity is to take 20 wickets. Maxie has worked extremely hard. I think Maxie has got a huge future. We have to weigh that up," he said.
"There's probably one allrounder position in our team that's up for grabs. We've got to then determine is it the allrounder that can give us reverse swing or is it the allrounder that can give us a little bit of handy off-spin?" he wondered. | <urn:uuid:2da22d03-5455-458c-b1ef-080f13e619a8> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://ibnlive.in.com/news/australia-sweat-over-david-warners-fitness-ahead-of-chennai-test/373866-78.html | 2015-03-27T08:55:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131295993.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172135-00197-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987855 | 828 |
Would you believe McCain is proud of his Health Care proposal which would decrease benefits and increase costs? Would you believe the Bush Administration's Pentagon is sending 44,000 US jobs overseas? Would you believe plans are underway to link ports in Mexico with a central super-port in Kansas City that will be the hub for Chinese imports? Would you believe nuclear power will be paid for twice by consumers? And there's more!
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This last 7 days has witnessed one of the most packed weeks for political news and activity I have ever seen. From a rash of Republican retirement announcements to a rash of new information about Iraq, on balance, it appears many wrongs and ills are being set right, and a few not. Following is a recap.
Pres. Bush wants our soldiers to fight Iraq's civil war with them. Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has a vested interest in seeing the numbers of our soldiers fighting his battles grow, not decrease. A very large number of Iraqi's believe a lot of the violence is due to America's presence in Iraq. If, however, our presence is reduced, then al-Maliki becomes the person to blame for violence, not the Americans.
This is why the Prime Minister is quoted in the NY Times as saying: "The security plan has been a dazzling success during its first days." But this "success" which Bush and al-Maliki refer to, is anything but success. When the police launch a raid on a criminal gang only to find the gang has left the premises to whereabouts unknown, do we call that a successful raid?
When does a blogger cease to be a blogger and become a political special interest lobbyist or action group? In a bill being hotly debated, Democrats say it is when a blogger is making a living at politics.
As ZDNet reports:
Much of the bill's wording is obtuse. But one section says that certain political bloggers who make or spend $25,000 per quarter and who encourage readers to contact their elected representatives would be forced to register as lobbyists--or face up to 10 years in prison.
Courts and States are battling towns and counties across America who have enacted ordinances to restrict illegal aliens from everything from jobs to housing. So far, the towns and counties are losing. But, this issue is beginning to get folks really riled, especially toward the federal government whose abrogation of responsibility is breeding a growing dissent. Civil unrest may be just around the corner...
The L.A. Galaxy has hired a foreign soccer star for $50 million a year for five years. That should raise the mean income level a bit, so Americans can relax about wages and the economy. Capitalists are rejoicing at a new Dow Jones Industrial Average record, sparked by a higher than expected employment report. One has to begin asking how many illegal aliens are being included in those reported new hires statistics? The Bureau of Labor and Statistics will never tell.
Democrats ran on cleaning up ethics violations and corruption in government. Now, some are back stepping, and an internal feud is building. At the center of the looming conflict, Sen. Barack Obama is calling for an independent ethics commission, and in opposition, is Sen. Diane Feinstein who says this can be handled in a bi-partisan way by the recipients of obscene sums of legal bribes for their reelection by special interests and lobbyists.
The NY Time's David D. Kirkpatrick has an excellent article written yesterday, providing a lot of information on the players and background of this looming inter-, and intra-party fight which is going to scare the bejeesus out of a number of politicians both Republican and Democratic, whose own affairs and actions in the Congress may not stand up to independent scrutiny.
This incident with the Rep. Foley's solicitations toward a teenage page volunteering his time in support of our government, in and of itself, is simply a crime, likely a misdemeanor, perhaps a lower category felony using the internet for solicitation of a minor. The Justice Dept. should handle that like any other crime of its nature.
The bigger story here is the cover-up. Incidents such as these should be reported to the House Ethics Committee and oversight personnel for the page's supervision. The cover-up is manifest in that the only Democratic member to have been notified of this ethics breach and potential danger to pages, was never informed. This incident was kept under wraps by the Republican leadership, hiding truth in order to protect themselves and their party from scandal.
Politics is all about appearance - forget substance; that comes later, if ever! This last week has seen all manner of political actors mugging for the media attention. Election season is officially open. Following are a number of stories highlighting the mugging for cameras and print news. A few even hold out the promise of substance later on, but, don't hold your breath.
President Bush presided over a citizenship ceremony on Monday for three soldiers injured in Iraq, calling them "men who knew the cost of freedom and were willing to pay that cost so others could live free."
Bush also used his visit to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to promote his stalled proposal for overhauling the nation's immigration laws.
Pres. Bush said yesterday, that we are making real progress on the deficit. "We" in this context meant Republicans under his leadership, and "progress": well, I will get to the meaning of progress in a moment. First, here are some facts: some of which, were stretched and absent in Republican's touting their great economy and deficit reduction yesterday.
One fact was straightforward and honest. Our economy is seeing job growth. This fact is not surprising in light of the fact that we have been rebounding from a worldwide recession, and job growth has been rebounding across the globe. That is not to say that corporate tax cuts which, lowered the cost of doing business, did not help create jobs. They did. Whenever businesses see increased consumer demand, as when we are coming out of a recession, and lowered costs of doing business, jobs will be created.
Sen. Joe Lieberman is willing to run anyway he can. And he is willing to reject the voter's choice at the Democratic primary in Connecticut, if necessary, to preserve his incumbency. He says he is doing it for the good of the people.
If the voters choose Liberman's challenger in the primary, Ned Lamont, Sen. Lieberman announced he will reject the voter's choice and run in November as an independent. This is precisely the kind of behavior that demonstrates how little respect far too many incumbents have for our political system, our democracy, and our government. Winning is everything, and everyone else's concerns are secondary.
In a somewhat biased article, Paul Rogat Loeb, writes about Lieberman's loyalties. Loeb's article misses the mark though, pointing to Lieberman's loyalty to the Republican leadership, when reality appears to reflect Lieberman's loyalty to the preservation of his own power, regardless of which party's voters he must pander to. | <urn:uuid:19d641de-40da-4c73-9683-74d7f3cec09e> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://poliwatch.org/current-political-events/ | 2016-05-30T12:35:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051002346.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005002-00151-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970137 | 1,439 |
|Project by langski93||posted 10-21-2009 05:05 AM||3285 views||8 times favorited||18 comments|
This workbench replaces my first one, built with 2×4s and plywood then mounted on wheels for a small shop. I got a lot of use out of my original, but the minute I got into hand planning, I realized I could not have a bench that did a hula dance when I applied the smallest amount of elbow grease. This is a step up.
So, here it is. 80”x 31” (#4.5 and #7 Bailey’s shown) top made from 1.25” x 2.75” laminated strips of soft maple set on edge. Each end of the top is 1.75”x 3.5” hard maple, breadboarded with pins. The front three courses are 1.75”x 3.5” hard maple to accomodate the wagon vice and I figured this area will get the most wear. All perimeter edges are beveled save a 17” area to the left front left square in anticipation of a face vice. I am concerned I will lose my nice long runway for planing with a vice there. Any thoughts or comments?
The top is mounted on 3.75”x 3.75” legs and bases. All mortise and tenoned, including the 1.75”x 6” stretchers with hardware. I am able to knock it down in case I get crazy enough to move it.
The top was laminated in small sections, using 10 K Besseys, assorted quick, pipe & Jorgensen wooden clamps for alignment. I built it up in small sections until I had two sections that had become too wide to run through the power planer. Finished it with the handplanes, the two Baileys and a Lie Nielsen #5.5 (sweet). Three coats of tunge oil gave it a nice patina.
The vice hardware is pretty straight forward, though I reverse mounted the flange on the right, the one closest to the handle, so as the resistence on the end of the bench increased it would not strip out the screws that held the flange. Now the flange and the screws move in the same direction as the load, with the pressure against the end piece. I am not sure how clear that will be in the photo.
All in all a worthwhile project that I must admit took longer than I thought, but a project I should have done 8 years ago. Thanks for looking.
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Fried chicken is a serious business these days. It wasn't always so, of course, once being a food stuff confined to the grimier end of the high street, to be visited only by those with the empty confidence of six pints of lager and a raging desire for the salt and grease that only a late-night Chicken Cottage could supply. And who hasn't at some point, perhaps in younger days, succumbed and ordered a bucketful of browned, battered, grease-covered chicken – with the full knowledge that only indigestion and regret lies ahead?
Today, though, fried chicken comes with no regrets – it has become a spotless thing, a gourmet lunch as much as a chucking- out-time filler. Something to be enjoyed alongside those other foods from humble backgrounds who've done good and moved up in the world: the gourmet burger and the newly middle-class hot dog.
It is the birds, though, which are the biggest news. Just ask the people queuing patiently for their fried chicken and wet wipe at the Roost or Spit and Roast food vans. Or at new Korean joint Bibigo, where fried chicken has become a surprise bestseller. Something probably noted by Meat Liquor founder, Scott Collins, and chef William Leigh, who are soon to open Wishbone, a 40-seat fried-chicken restaurant in London food hub, Brixton Village.
"It is one of life's great joys and my favourite thing in the world," say TV chef and food writer Gizzi Erskine, "but fried chicken hasn't, to put it mildly, always been done well over here."
One place it is done very well indeed is at Rita's Dining in Dalston, east London. Jackson Boxer, the man behind the well-regarded Brunswick House Café, opened Rita's in the summer, to near universally good reviews. "My grandmother [the food writer] Arabella Boxer used to make fried chicken for me as a child. And I wanted to do it justice at Rita's. So we spent six months at the fryer, trying to figure out what was the best cut of meat to use, what to brine it with, how much sauce to use, whether to batter or dredge," says Boxer.
Six months at a fryer? Brining? Batter or dredge? Fast food at this level seems to be anything but. So my task, to cook home-fried chicken for five friends on Friday evening, seems suddenly quite daunting. My confident "How hard can this be?" uttered when given the challenge, is now repeated with a plaintive, wavering air. I perhaps need a steadying hand, a guide.
As Boxer makes the best chicken in town, he seems like the man to ask. Meeting him at Rita's on a sunny Thursday, he gives me both a recipe and the benefit of his knowledge – all six greasy months of it. He has three top tips for me.
The first and most important: "Fry hot, fry hard, fry quick". The trick is to get the oil to 180C and keep it that way. How? By adding only two or three chunks of chicken at a time, so as not to destabilise the oil temperature. A drop in temperature means an increased risk of a soggy piece of bird. And soggy batter on the bird would be an offence against fried chicken's history. Skillet fried chicken, which is Jackson's inspiration, was originally the Cornish pasty of the American South. The batter on the outside would be cooled to form a hard outer shell around the chicken, which meant it could be doled out to those working in the fields, and they could slip it into their pocket, to be removed at lunchtime.
What of the batter, then? How do you get the perfect deep crunch? At Rita's they don't actually use batter – this is his second tip – they use a "multi-stage dredging process" instead. f It may sound like something you do to the river Dee, but actually just means you dip it in flour, then buttermilk, then some more flour.
His final tip is perhaps the most important taste-wise. All the pieces of chicken at Rita's – some 120-an-hour when they are busy – are brined for several hours before cooking. "We put all our chicken in a 10 per cent brine for six to eight hours. This makes the protein firm up and adds an extra dimension of flavour," says Boxer. "Oh," he adds as an afterthought, "buy lots of kitchen roll, too."
This is all academic, because I have not yet taken the first step a home fryer must take: acquire a deep-fat fryer. It is this step that I am most ambivalent about. I like fried chicken. But I do not like fryers. I have seen those episodes of TV's 999 in which hapless people in bedsits are engulfed in flames after a false move with the De'Longhi Quick Fry.
I also do not like them because they smell. The stench of hot oil meeting chipped potato or fish having been an intermittent part of my childhood. The smell of a fryer having so suffused an aged relative's house that to visit, as I often did, was to risk leaving smelling like you had done a shift at the 'Happy Fisherman', despite the actual device having been sent some years before to the shed. I come to home-frying with these prejudices, then. And yet I enjoy the end product, enjoy it lots, in fact; so gluttony being the great driver it is, I settle for a Magimix Pro fryer (with safety lid) and get started.
Armed with a simplified recipe, the limbs of several organic chickens, and the notes gleaned from an afternoon spent at Rita's, I settle in for an afternoon in the kitchen. It is 2pm and my friends arrive at 7pm. So I figure I have ample time for some experimentation. First, though, I debone the thighs with a sharp knife, cleaving hard to the bone. It's fiddly, but worth the trouble: the hardworking thigh being texturally more interesting than breast.
Then I check my notes and I'm pulled up short. There it is in extra big letters: BRINING. Big letters, in the world of my notepad, implying importance. I am supposed to have brined the chicken for at least six hours. But five, in the circumstances, will have to do.
I toss the chicken into a large bowl of salted water, to which I've added lemon, thyme and a couple of bay leaves and some garlic for flavour. And then go off in search of lunch and the vacuum cleaner to spruce the lounge before the photographer arrives.
Cleaning done and a few hours whiled away, I turn my attention to preparing the dredges. Two large Pyrex dishes fill in for the buckets Boxer suggested. The first I fill with plain flour and a generous helping of salt. To the second goes a mixture of flours and spices.
Colonel Sanders famously bragged that he used 11 spices at KFC but I make do with three: cayenne pepper, ground mace and paprika. These are mixed with rice flour, cornmeal and the plain flour ("The starch in each browns at different points, so you get that deep golden colour," according to Boxer).
It's now time to remove the chicken from the brine. Each piece is patted dry; then the thighs go into the first flour mix, then into the buttermilk, and then across into the spice-and-flour concoction. The kitchen roll has already paid its way by this point.
Now it is time to face up to the thing I've been wimpishly trying to ignore: the fryer itself. I set it to maximum heat and we are off. My Thermapen, purchased on Boxer's advice, confirms the pool of molten vegetable oil is soon at the requisite 180C. It almost seems a shame to add my triple-coated, flour-massaged chicken, but in a pair go like sinners into one of Dante's circles of hell. Out, immediately comes that smell, that all-pervasive smell.
Eight minutes later we are almost done. My house smells like a chippy but I can see two pieces of golden poultry in my fryer and everything seems just fine. A quick prod with the Thermapen confirms they are over the magic salmonella-killing 73C, so out they come on to yet more kitchen roll. I quickly repeat with another half dozen pieces; my guests have now arrived and are clamouring for dinner.
And there we have it. A small hillock of chicken thighs, piled on top of one another, in a golden, browned tower of deliciousness. A fitting monument to my day at the fryer – and one that practically evaporates when I put it on the dining room table.
The verdicts come quick, fast and unflinching: "Nice crunch," is the first offering, followed by a reassuring agreement that they are "virtually greaseless" and then comes the ambivalent sounding, "aggressively seasoned – and quite umami-y". They might also have said: "preternaturally juicy", too, but hey, who's keeping score? The last word goes to my housemate, a connoisseur of all things fried and a fast-food gourmand: "It tastes," he says sagely, "better than KFC."
JACKSON BOXER'S FRIED CHICKEN
Serves 4/Makes 8 pieces
8 chicken thighs
1 bay leaf
100g rice flour
500g plain flour
100g sea salt
1tsp cayenne pepper
1tsp ground mace
1tsp smoked paprika
Debone chicken thighs with sharp knife. Soak for 6-8 hours in a 10 per cent salt solution (100g of salt per 900ml water), to which has been added juice of one lemon and a bay leaf.
Take chicken thighs (at room temperature), dredge in 300g of flour seasoned generously with salt.
Submerge in buttermilk, remove and let excess drip away.
Make final dredge of 100g cornmeal, 100g rice flour and 200g white flour, with the addition of 2tsp of salt, one of cayenne pepper, ground mace and smoked paprika.
Add thigh to final dredge.
Submerge thigh in vegetable oil heated to a temp of 180C.
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Changes since Usermin version 1.100
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- When installing or upgrading Usermin, password timeouts are now enabled by default. This protects against brute-force password guessing attacks.
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- If the vacation program is installed, a forwarding alias can be created to deliver mail to the vacation program which then sends an automatic reply. The options which control how the vacation command behaves can be edited using the module.
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- Added a preference option and field on the advanced search form for limiting the number of messages to search. Useful for users who have massive mailboxes and don't need to search way back into the past.
Added support for requesting, sending and handling disposition status notifications. This is mostly disabled by default, but can be activated on the Preferences page.
Added support for handling delivery status notifications.
Created a new type of folder - the composite, which can combine multiple other folders into one. Useful if you have several separate mail files and want to make them appear as one folder.
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Tasting notes from our sommelier
Beneath the deep, ruby red colour of this full-bodied wine is a perfect assemblage of some of the best grapes from our North of Spain vineyard. Well-constructed, it is the fresh climate of the region that provides this wine with its bold colour and an aromatic nose of spices, mint, ripe plums and blackcurrant. On the palate, this wine showcases ripe tannins and a refreshing but balanced acidity. Its texture precedes a long finish featuring subtle notes of toasty oak and chocolate.
- Grape variety(ies) 100% selected Cabernet Sauvignon
- Colour Deep red
- Degree of alcohol less than 0.5%
- Sugar content 4%
- Calories 60 calories/250ml compared to 193 calories/250ml for an alcoholized version
OriginsNorth of Spain
Acidity: Lively and refreshing – a perfect balance between malic and tartaric acids (6g)
Sugar perception: Delicately sweet
Tannins: Remarkably soft
Suggested pairings include lamb, bison, duck and beef skewers. The St. Regis Cabernet Sauvignon also pairs perfectly with cheeses.
Best served cold between 10°C/50°F and 12°C/54°F. Once open, keep refrigerated and consume within 48 hours. | <urn:uuid:ef1c6e3d-c233-4550-b7c5-d662803a1b74> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://stregiswines.com/product/cabernet-sauvignon/ | 2017-07-26T06:42:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549426050.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170726062224-20170726082224-00290.warc.gz | en | 0.900761 | 294 |
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David Klein, MD ’75, interim director of the Virginia B. Andes Volunteer Community Clinic, was featured on the front page of the Charlotte Sun for his humanitarian efforts. Drs. Klein and Mark Asperilla have been an active public health team in Charlotte County, Florida, particularly in the battle against hepatitis C.
“Still going strong after all these years,” said Dr. Klein, a 2005 Babbott Award winner. “Downstate gave me my start.” | <urn:uuid:f1a10cf6-f1ec-4b7b-8de6-9bb7c0ee082c> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | https://downstatemedicalalumni.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/david-klein-md-75-humanitarian/ | 2017-09-22T20:30:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689192.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922202048-20170922222048-00693.warc.gz | en | 0.948224 | 103 |
Hospitality is a rapidly growing business sector and so, gaining deep insights on financial status of your business keeps you on the right track. Accounting in hospitality industry is essential to keep track of the transactions. Properly organized accounting system will prevent mismanagement and inefficient tracking.
Importance of accounting in the hospitality industry analyzes the basic expenses, revenue, profit, loss, assets or liabilities. Hospitality industry or any business sectors dealing with cash flow should have a systematic accounting facility to record all transactions. With basic accounting principles, improve every aspect of the industry and focus on profit generation.
Why accounting is important in hospitality industry in UAE?
Accounting for hospitality is extremely important for recording the financial transactions. Without this accounting, it’s not easy to estimate the financial health of your business. It ensures smoother business operations. Medieval times reflected accounting as growth or development of ecommerce and travel, but today it’s a mandatory requirement in all industries.
Especially, hospitality accounting involves around various facets and compilations of the financial statements. Hotels practicing a systematic maintenance of financial records will enable the hotelier to plan on budgets and save money for business expansions. Hospitality industry in Dubai considers accounting as a direction to estimate profits and keep up the right direction of growth. If the hotel accounting system is well maintained and consolidated at a single place, then the bottom line will grow and flourish.
Hospitality Dubai refers to a personalized way of providing service to guests, or tourists. Hospitality includes both travel and tourism connecting all the hotels, restaurants, assembly, and other related services. In general hotel accounting keeps track of the amount spent or earned in your business, similarly accounting checks for revenue, equity, and liabilities.
Accounting services are essential in case of any financial assistance required from banks or stakeholders. The industry should submit all the records of costs, expenses, company’s assets, and liabilities. It’s possible with the help of a proper accounting system. With the support of accounting software’s, companies can estimate the profitability, financial soundness, and current performance of the business. Also, understand the price of services rendered, profitable department, and more.
Hospitality sector in UAE automate the accounting process with modern accounting software, this brings a relief to hotel management,
Some of the benefits of having an accounting outsourcing in UAE,
- Automation and accuracy – find great accuracy in hotel management with the help of accounting softwares. Hotel accounting system makes it easy to generate invoice, pay slips, account statements, and much more. Eliminate errors in manual tasks and find great accuracy in mathematical calculations.
- Access – It’s easy to access your hotel accounting system from anywhere, anytime or from any device
- Real-time information – accounting in hospitality industry provides financial data with a real-time view of the cash flow, accounts receivable, accounts payable, etc.
- Easy to use – Data entry process is simple and easy to update online. Ample data storage makes it easy for specific users to share information.
- Efficiency and Speed – accounting software makes it easy and works at a faster speed compared to manual methods. Increase the efficiency of tasks as well!
Objectives of accounting in hospitality industry
- Identify and record transactions
- Keep accounts of cash
- Control over assets and liabilities
- Provide economic data on business
- Help tax fixation
- Accuracy of accounts
What is the effect of pandemic on hospitality industry?
Due to several restrictions laid down by the authorities, covid-19 has a major blow in the hospitality industry. To avoid the vigorous spread of corona virus, several protocols and rules were introduced in many countries which made traveling a distant dream; this obviously reduced the occupancy of hotels and restaurants. It was an unpredicted challenge that affected the revenue and cash flow of the organizations.
How does accounting services cope up the current pandemic?
Covid-19 has drastically affected international tourism as well as domestic travel, as an overall result the business turned out to be dull. To face this challenge, every organization is focusing on reducing costs and maintaining adequate cash flow. Here comes the importance of accounting in the hospitality industry, accounting services allows industries to identify the costs and eliminate unnecessary expenses.
Automated accounting software will take over the job of an accountant; it simply records the transactions in a professionalized manner with minimum errors. There are many countries following social distancing and other protocols by appointing less staff and reduced payment. In such situation accounting helps to determine the reduction in payment and calculate wages or salaries accurately. If you’re not capable of handling the appropriate accounting software, you can use accounting outsourcing for efficient service.
Industries can opt for part-time accounting company for reduced cost and enhanced services. While considering the hospitality industry in Dubai, due to the pandemic, the city had a very less number of tourists and visitors. The hotel industry had to cut off number of staff members due to restrictions and social distancing. The protocols have reduced salaries, but accounting still plays a significant role in maintaining the salary and record tracking of current employees.
There were few customers who visited during the pandemic, but the hospitality industry in Dubai made them comfortable with online invoice and other services to avoid physical contact. To evaluate the working of hotel management, hire part-time accounting services to assist the strategies in facing the pandemic.
How A & A associates support hospitality accounting?
A & A associates understand the importance of accounting in the hospitality industry and provide great benefits on professional accounting. The benefits of proper accounting will support our clients to achieve,
- Total sales cost
- Revenue utilized
- Future planning
- Tracking cash flow
- Capital expenditure
- Budget preparation
- Payroll functions
We provide the above mentioned accounting services in the hospitality sector. These services would gain deep insight into the financial status of your business. Our automated accounting software will serve our clients with proper planning and future forecast to enhance your returns.
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Qantas Refutes Engineering Union Claims
Sydney, 13 March 2007
Qantas today totally refuted claims made by the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association - ALAEA that prisoners were used to work on Qantas aircraft in Singapore.
The Executive General Manager of Qantas Engineering, Mr David Cox said: "Qantas categorically denies the union's outrageous claim regarding prisoners. No prisoners have access to any Qantas aircraft undergoing maintenance - in Singapore or anywhere else.
"This is part of an industrially motivated campaign by the ALAEA aimed at protecting uncompetitive work practices in Australia."
Mr Cox said other statements made by the union in its submission to the inquiry into aspects of the Qantas Sale Act, and at today's hearing in Canberra were also incorrect.
- heavy maintenance work previously undertaken in Sydney had NOT been transferred overseas. Qantas announced in March 2006 that it would keep wide body aircraft heavy maintenance in Australia and work that was previously undertaken at Sydney was now done at Qantas Engineering’s facility at Avalon in Victoria.
- the vast majority – 90 per cent – of Qantas’ heavy maintenance work was undertaken in Australia, as had been the case for many years. Around 10 per cent of work was outsourced when it could not be accommodated in Australia or where it involved new aircraft types where work volumes were very low;
- all maintenance providers used by Qantas, which also do work for other leading airlines, met CASA regulatory requirements. Additionally, their employees underwent specific training to meet Qantas’ requirements.
Mr Cox said that regardless of ownership, safety would remain Qantas’ number one priority.
"Qantas will never compromise on safety, and the ALAEA knows this," he said.
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Group thinking has been a popular topic in behavioral research for a long time, particularly so in the last couple of decades. The judgment of one person can be called into question for a hundred different reasons – everything from preexisting beliefs to confirmation bias and beyond.
But if you add another mind to the mix, then theoretically a buffer against some of those biases has been introduced, and better judgments should result.
Or so the theory goes.
A recent study published in the journal Psychological Science flips this idea on its head by asking if two people may actually produce worse judgments, not because together they aren’t capable of making a good decision – but precisely because they are so confident that they can.
Researchers tested this hypothesis with 252 subjects, dividing them into a group of individual decision-makers and a group of partners (referred to as dyads). They were given a set of questions that required estimated answers, (i.e. “What percentage of Americans own pets?”). For each question, they were also asked to rank their level of confidence in their answer on a scale of 1 to 5. To make things more interesting, subjects earned $30 for making estimates, but lost $1 for each percentage point their answer deviated from correct.
Each individual or dyad was then given a “peer advisor” opinion on their responses and told they could choose to revise their answers, if they wished, based on the new information.
The results showed that the dyads were more confident in their responses than individuals, and also chose to ignore advisor input more often than individuals. But they were also statistically no better than individuals in making correct estimates.
While notable, that isn’t the key finding of this study. The most interesting statistic is revealed between the subjects’ initial estimates and revised estimates. Individuals who chose to revise their answers based on the advisors’ opinions reduced their error rate by about 10 percentage points. Dyads that revised their answers only improved by about 5 percentage points.
The reason why has everything to do with the confidence-buttressing effect of two people working together. Individuals were willing to make larger revisions in their estimates based on new information, while the dyads made relatively small revisions, if any. The research team dubs this the “cost of collaboration.” If the dyads were more willing to integrate new information into their judgments, then they could potentially produce better results than individuals; but their reluctance to consider new information added no value to the end result.
Psychologist Julie Minson, co-lead of the study, says these findings don’t negate the value of group decision-making, but they do highlight a need for caution. “If people become aware that collaboration leads to an increase in overconfidence, you can set up ways to mitigate it. Teams could be urged to consider and process each others’ inputs more thoroughly.”
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