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"When a project like this begins, you are given a few artists you ask for, for their particular expertise," explains Shepherd. "One half, you've worked with before the other half you haven't, and there are the usual moves and shifts as we get to know those who are doing the best work. Some are better hard body modelers than others. One guy in particular was responsible for just the alien antennae lookdev and building," explains Shepherd.
Somewhere in the world there is a 'crack team' that goes from projects like 'Alien v Predator', to 'District 9', from 'Skyline' to 'Battle: LA', then to the next one. The team brought together for the latest shoot'em up science fiction from space is one such A-team. Enter the crew of 'World Battle: Los Angeles.'
Jon Liebesman didn't want to go with making this a 3D stereo production. Especially since the budget wasn't geared up for a stereo creative, the only option would be to convert it after production. "We're glad to say he wasn't interested in converting this to 3D," says Shepherd. "It is so hard to pull keys from loads of smoke, dust and clouds of ash."
Live action for the production of Battle: LA was just under a year, peaking thru August 2010. There was quite a break between set work and work back in the studio in London.
"There's one shot where the entire length of the beach is revealed," Ben describes. "There are 15 or so meteorites falling, with the smoke rings and water splashes. We really threw the kitchen sink at the scene here." There was a time when Shepherd had to ask another of the supervisors if he was overdoing it. "Tell me, is this awesome or is this just ridiculous, I can't quite put my finger on it!"
"No, mate, it's awesome," was the reply.
Ben Shepherd on IMDB
Battle Los Angeles
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Zero Drop running shoes have long been hailed as a game changer by running experts, which is why we’ve gone one step further: all Altra running shoes feature a fully-cushioned Zero Drop platform. Every single one. This innovative platform places your heel and forefoot at the same distance from the ground, helping to align your feet and promote a low-impact running technique. Zero Drop running shoes also help to strengthen your Achilles and lower-calf muscles, which can get weakened by running on elevated heels.
If you’re a seasoned runner, you’ve probably heard the term 'zero drop’ before. And if not, pull up a pew – you’ve come to the right place. Our Zero Drop running shoes allow your feet to remain in a natural position throughout your run. Without the excessive cushioning and elevated heels of most running shoes, Zero Drop styles help improve your performance and reduce the risk of injury.
Altra provide a huge variety of women’s Zero Drop running shoes, with every style following our Fit4Her design. The first brand to introduce gender-specific designs, Altra shoes are engineered to support the narrower heel and higher instep of women’s feet, giving you more comfort and a better-fitting shoe. We’ve got styles to suit every kind of running, including tough terrains, long-distance runs and everyday workouts. | <urn:uuid:5b7f9f00-bc68-45fc-8b75-a8d633e6d25e> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | https://www.altrafootwear.co.uk/womens-zero-drop-running-shoes | 2019-10-22T17:11:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987822458.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20191022155241-20191022182741-00128.warc.gz | en | 0.927591 | 292 |
As reported by ENgadget:
Apple has admitted that at least some of the newest machines do have an issue. Reportedly, an Apple spokesperson stated that a "small number of iMac users have made us aware that a recent software update can sometimes cause their iMacs to freeze, requiring them to restart." Apparently, the machines become "unusable, requiring a hard reset in order to recover," and Cupertino is currently "tracking down the root cause of the bug." ... a software update with [a fix] should be coming "later this month."
This is one reason I usually only sell Apple refurbs to my customers instead of first generation Macs. I've had two customers who bought new iMacs since they came out ... one has had this issue ... the other has had a lot of problems with their keyboard. | <urn:uuid:3d1c5dfa-da86-4770-8e33-7dddea19f39c> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.fixyourthinking.com/2007/10/apple-admits-to-aluminum-imac-problem.html | 2021-01-22T23:18:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703531429.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20210122210653-20210123000653-00123.warc.gz | en | 0.978937 | 173 |
So, it's my guess that they'll release a third big box expansion, and another little box.
I came up with an idea that it would be nice if the next little box expansion was geared toward those who play with all expansions at once.
I sort of get the feeling, from a design point of view, that the expansions are mostly tested in isolation (might be wrong on that, but it's the impression from the sometimes less than eloquent way they go together, and the fact that the small and big boxes are made by different teams).
So, it would be neat to do something along the lines of "Munchkin Blender." A small box expansion that would help the game run better when playing with it all.
Ideas might be to:
introduce a different Ally-setup mechanic, so that you aren't having everyone but 11 of your over 22 allies leave town at the beginning of the game (actually, I think something like the Dark Pharaoh's rule might work)
add more Act Cards, so that they are actually a threat if you have a skyscraper mythos deck
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Majer Home Supply
With permanence, stability and honesty in mind, Majer Home Supply creates architectural metal, furniture and accessories with a sleek and polished finish. The passion put into each design piece, from bike racks to credenzas, steel coat hooks and custom aluminum bar signs, exudes exactly what this company promises: perfection. From the home to the office, you can fill your rooms with quality furniture that's sure to make a professional impression. For an industrial yet pristine look, choose Majer Home Supply. | <urn:uuid:e1445b85-8be6-4fc4-a703-77573c5a8785> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://www.switchmodern.com/manufacturers/majer-metal-works.html | 2019-01-17T14:19:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583658981.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20190117123059-20190117145059-00054.warc.gz | en | 0.915891 | 106 |
Manufacturer: Weaver 849976
Whether it's putting repeated rounds into the same hole or picking off small varmints at hundreds of yards, Weaver's T-Series fixed riflescopes give you the eighth MOA accuracy you need to be dead on, shot after shot. Each T-Series scope features the incredibly accurate Micro Trac adjustment system that gives you more accurate, completely independent windage and elevation control. An adjustable objective provides parallax free shooting so no matter how off center your eyepiece to eye alignment is, your point of impact won't be affected. Fully multi coated optics increase brightness to 94% at 550mm. These superior optics punch up the contrast, eliminate glare and deliver unparalleled clarity. Every T-Series scope comes with traditional eyepiece focus, a sunshade, screw in metal lens caps and an extra pair of oversized benchrest adjustment knobs.
Specifications and features:
Fully multicoated lenses
Adjustable Objective adjustment for parallax free shooting
Micro trac system for precise windage and elevation control
1/8 MOA accuracy
Exit Pupil: 1.67mm
Field of View at 100 Yards: 1.57'
Eye Relief: 2.99"
Click Value at 100 Yards: 0.125"
Adjustment Range at 100 Yards: 41.89"
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Diet Risks in Resource Rich Countries
Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran, Visiting Scholar, SFU, Canada.
Please cite the paper as:
Morteza Asadi, (2016), Diet Risks in Resource Rich Countries, World Economics Association (WEA) Conferences, No. 2 2016, Food and Justice, 5th November to 15th December 2016
Following contribution of A.K. Sen on Hunger and Public Action (1989) and G. Otero on Neo Liberal Diet Risk (2015), it makes sense to examine their applications for resource rich countries with special consideration to oil based economies. A modified index is introduced to compare diet risk index (DRI) ranking of countries with current risk indices published by EIU, FAO, WHO. The main objective of the extended risk indices is to find out the sources of food insecurity in higher income countries in developing and developed countries and introduce a basic diet risk categorization. It would pave the way for public actions by policy makers in these countries. The methodology used in this paper is based on descriptive statistical analysis and quantitative indexing method as well .The macro cross section data provided by FAO is utilized for statistical analysis and indexation tool. This study examined the correlation of components of risk factors. It shows a positive correlation of diet risk with obesity, export and import dependency and urbanization in resource rich countries. | <urn:uuid:7c19cc85-dc79-43d9-beab-4333727bc880> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://foodandjustice2016.weaconferences.net/papers/diet-risks-in-resource-rich-countries/ | 2018-05-26T07:57:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867374.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526073410-20180526093410-00403.warc.gz | en | 0.915772 | 285 |
Data professionals and IT leaders are desperate to do more with data this year, but for many organizations, that is a tall order. The problems often fall with the growing complexity of data, and data analytics tools.
According to Jon Bock, vice president at Snowflake Computing, these challenges are forcing many organizations to reassess their data analytics strategies, available skill sets, and project goals. Information Management caught up with Bock at the Strata & Hadoop World conference in San Jose, CA, recently and asked him what these trends all mean.
Information Management: What are the most common themes that you heard among conference attendees and how do those themes align with what you expected?
Jon Bock: We heard a big shift from a focus just on the technology to a focus on getting projects delivered. In past years we heard people talk a lot about some new technology, feature or component—what was the new announcement, new Apache project, new framework, new management tool, etc.
Although those conversations are still happening, as people work to take technology that they’d been experimenting with or deployed for a small number of experts and now apply it to solutions that a much larger group relies on, their focus has shifted to the more pragmatic concerns about how to complete projects.
This shift in focus, from experimentation to broader deployment and integration, leads people to ask the tough questions that they need to ask—questions about how much effort it’s going to take to tune and manage their solution, questions about how they’re going to scale their solution, questions about the suitability of the technology and it’s features to their data questions, and more.
IM: What are the most common data challenges that attendees are facing?
JB: They’re finding themselves forced to do a lot of custom, manual work to get everything working together. That’s making it extremely difficult for them to figure out how to integrate and scale data analytics to support more of the company.
The other thing we saw was people pushing the boundaries of the technologies they’re using for storing and analyzing data and hitting challenges that are forcing them to step back and assess what each technology is and is not good for. We first saw that happen with Hadoop, and we’re seeing the same with Spark—people started trying to use them in places beyond what they were designed for and maybe not the best fit for.
IM: What are the most surprising things that you heard from attendees regarding their data management initiatives?
JB: That they’re willing to make significant changes to the technologies they’re using. The conventional wisdom is that once a platform for data processing was deployed, it took at least years and maybe even decades to change it. Instead, we heard a lot of people talk about looking at new options and being willing to make a change if it would help them meet their goals.
It’s clear that the amount of innovation in data analytics that we’ve seen over the last decade has encouraged people to think more aggressively about trying new technologies, while cloud and SaaS have made it easier to do that.
IM: How do these themes and challenges relate to your company’s market strategy this year?
JB: Snowflake is focusing on giving people a solution that addresses the limitations people are seeing in both traditional and new database and data platform offerings while eliminating the complexity that’s getting in the way of expanding data analytics initiatives.
One part of that means helping people realize that they don’t have to be forced to use platforms like Hadoop and Spark for things they weren’t designed to handle. Another part means taking manual complexity and replacing it with intelligent self-managing software, and finally making it easy for people to leverage their existing skills, tools, and process with our disruptively innovative data platform.
IM: What does your company view as the top issues or challenges with regard to data?
JB: We’re at a tipping point where all of the different technologies that have emerged over the last decade have added so much sprawling complexity that now as people look to expand their data analytics projects, they’re finding that it’s difficult or impossible to do that because of the complexity.
You can see the impact of that in multiple ways—in the heavy demand for specialized data science programming and operations skills; in the number of new management tools that are popping up; and more. The reality of this complexity is forcing a reckoning for customers—what technologies are worth the complexity, and what can customers do to minimize the complexity.
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Fly Slaps Brotherhood of Fishy Motherfuckers Rooster
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Add to your quiver with a top-of-the-line rod from R.L. Winston, Hardy, and more.
Shop by species to find the right gear for your best saltwater fishing trip yet.
Shops fly reels on sale from Hardy, Bauer, and other top reel makers. | <urn:uuid:81fc58f2-4a05-47b0-a823-a0bf0077e1cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.mrfc.com/products/2022-fly-slaps-brotherhood-of-fishy-mofos-rooster | 2022-01-19T11:17:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301309.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119094810-20220119124810-00349.warc.gz | en | 0.860251 | 96 |
Men don t like tall women dating
There are a lot of things that tall women have to struggle with, such as finding pants of dresses long enough.Nonetheless, they also have some perks, since there are numerous men who like big women.For some, they rarely wear heels – even if they like doing so; for others, they may make self-deprecating comments about their height in a defensive effort to fit in with what men want.In no way should tall women apologize for their height.Or guys can also be completely dismissive once they see me in person and say, "You seem much taller in your photos" or "I didn't realize how short you were until you got off that stool." I recently had one guy actually look over my head to see if the person he was meeting was someone else besides me. But of course in a completely contradictory way, I'm usually attracted to men who are much, much taller than I am.So I guess opposites attract, or I just enjoy the awkward interactions/comical antics of doing activities with someone much taller than I? Standing out (physically) my whole life has led me to be much more confident and fearless of being different. There are definitely a lot of great guys who only see six feet as one small part of who I am.Yes, focusing on what's inside is more important — but that's easier said than done.It's hard to ignore something as obvious as height, especially if it makes a person stand out.
Short women find it easy to blend in with the crowd, but tall women cannot hide: they will be noticed. This is because modeling companies usually chose very tall women.Tall women who experience romantic discrimination the most are approximately 5’10” and taller. | <urn:uuid:f28adf84-5695-457a-8e76-50e6f0828d7e> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://s-easy.ru/men-don-t-like-tall-women-dating-2284.html | 2018-04-24T22:54:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947421.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20180424221730-20180425001730-00601.warc.gz | en | 0.985502 | 360 |
The HPE Flex Fabric 5700 Switch Series is a family of high-performance, high-density, ultra-low-latency, top-of-rack (ToR) switches that is part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) FlexNetwork architecture's HPE FlexFabric solution.
Ideally suited for deployment at the server access layer of large enterprise data centers, the HPE 5700 Switch Series is positioned to provide a cost-effective solution that is still powerful enough to handle the increase in virtualized applications and server-toserver traffic, customers now require ToR switch innovations that will meet their needs for higher-performance server connectivity, convergence of Ethernet and storage traffic, the capability to handle virtual environments, and ultra-low-latency all in a single device.
- Cut-through with low latency and wire speed
- HPE Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) for virtualization and two-tier architectures
- High 1 GbE/10GbE ToR port density with 40 GbE uplinks
- Layer 2 and Light Layer 3 features with Static Routing and RIP
- Convergence-ready with DCB, FCoE, and TRILL | <urn:uuid:fa67b1c8-ceaf-457b-8e0a-3e89cb0c7b51> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://www.corporatearmor.com/product_info.php?products_id=14641 | 2017-07-27T14:51:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549428300.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20170727142514-20170727162514-00493.warc.gz | en | 0.874539 | 249 |
Thursday, September 10, we’re kicking off Blast with our Etix Live workshops and panels. From system navigation for beginners to advanced reporting, our variety of workshops has a class for everyone. In addition to our group-training sessions, this year’s Live will also feature industry leading panels, a client case study, and networking opportunities.
Workshops and Training Sessions:
- Show Me the Numbers: Our Top Essential Etix Reports
- Using Etix to Improve Your Marketing Strategy
- Did you know?: Best practices for Your Box Office
- From Pre-Sale to Thank-You: Tactics to Help Effectively Manage Your Event Life Cycle
- All Systems Go: A Closer Look at the Etix Platform
- 5 Ways to Drive ROI: Building Your Business with Rockhouse
- Welcome to Etix: 5 Reasons Making the Switch is Easy
- What’s Next for Etix (A Spotlight on Product)
Have a specific question for one of our training specialists? Join us in one of this year’s learning labs.
New Panels and Client Case Study Presentations:
- Panel: Smaller Sends, Bigger Returns: The Art of Sending Targeted Emails
- Panel: How to Identify You Unknown Ticket Holders
- Client Case Study Presentation (See Details Below)
Want to go to Blast on us?
We’re giving one lucky winner the chance to present their case study at one of our Etix Live Workshops during this year’s Etix Blast!
To win, submit your best system use case study to us by July 20. For example: Did you start using the Flex With Group Package feature and see an increase in your season subscribers? Do your group leaders praise the individual employee sales links generated by our campaigns feature? We want to hear your Etix stories!
This year’s winner will be selected on July 29 and will receive an all-expense paid trip to the 2015 Etix Blast.Submit Your Case Study | <urn:uuid:5be5492f-d5d7-4e1d-ab32-6f4ed5ee650e> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://hello.etix.com/blog/announcing-our-2015-etix-live-workshops-and-panels/ | 2017-12-18T08:57:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948612570.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20171218083356-20171218105356-00312.warc.gz | en | 0.89691 | 419 |
There is an abundance of trash that comes out year after year – terrible films with poor stories and questionable choices. What have been dubbed as “B-movies” occupy a very odd but solid place in cinema. Whereas B-movies started out as being earnestly-made films that failed to be of quality, they have evolved into films that are intentionally bad, mainly for the camp value. Films like Sharknado and Piranhaconda and Mongolian Death Worm and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel are made to be intentionally bad, and all of them owe a great deal of debt to one man, who went out of his way to make some of the most incredibly strange and often endearingly trashy B-movies of all time, Roger Corman.
Corman is a cinematic icon, despite the fact that his entire career is based on the idea of making bad films. However, none of his films are actually intentionally bad, and a good number of them are pretty excellent overall, if only for their value as ridiculous, off-the-wall thrillers and horrors, with a very special touch added to them. As a director, Corman has made many classic films that stand as amongst the most iconic in their genre (in fact, I’d say Corman’s film occupy an entire genre of their own) – but he is also a film producer that has nourished so many young careers and given many of the most acclaimed filmmakers their starts through working with them as a producer or co-writer, or just mentoring them. If you don’t believe me, just look up the metaphorical Roger Corman Film School, and you’ll see many highly recognizable filmmakers that went on to become legends in their own right. Even when he isn’t at the helm, Corman is making film history. The most recent production that Corman put his name on in the role of producer is Death Race 2050, a film I was hesitant to see – it is direct-to-video, and just seemed…bad. Yet Corman’s involvement and the fact that it appeared to be brainless fun motivated me to actually watch it. Full disclosure: it isn’t a masterpiece. Yet it is incredibly fun and an exhilarating, albeit utterly stupid, experience.
Serving as a sequel to Paul Bartel’s Death Race 2000, this film is set in the not-too-distant future. Overpopulation plagues the world, and the USA has come to be known as the United Corporations of America and is a consumerist wasteland. The leader of the fragmented nation is The Chairman (Malcolm McDowell), who runs an annual competition, where a group of drivers race across the country, along the way earning points for killing pedestrians. The winner is crowned the Death Race champion – and for the previous four contests, Frankenstein (Manu Bennett) has been the reigning champion. This year, however, his title is threatened as several other racers have their eyes on the prize. What follows is ninety minutes of non-stop action and strange romance as the racers try to earn the championship, while being pursued by rebels with the highly original name of The Resistance (I never said this was a good film).
Unlike most B-movie, Death Race 2050 serves to have at least some self-awareness, and through this, it manages to garner some performances that aren’t particularly excellent but aren’t outright terrible. In fact, there are some very memorable performances in Death Race 2050, mainly courtesy of Manu Bennett and Marci Miller, playing the protagonists, who actually show quite a bit of talent in front of the camera, and have good chemistry. Personally, I was a huge fan of Anessa Ramsey’s unhinged and hilarious performance as Tammy the Terrorist, with her unbridled eccentricities being a constant source of humor for the film. We can’t avoid talking about Malcolm McDowell, who falls into the trap of being an actor who simply cannot say no to roles. He has worked with some of the finest directors of all time, and he can get absolutely any role he desires – and he chooses to be in Death Race 2050. However, once you’ve made something like A Clockwork Orange, you get to choose anything you want to make. McDowell is good, but that really isn’t an excuse for the fact that he is in this film – the difference is, I assume he chose this role, not for a lack of opportunities, but because The Chairman in Death Race 2050 is a role that would allow McDowell to simply have fun. Death Race 2050 won’t be remembered for its performances, but the good thing is that none of the performances are that bad enough to be notable and distract from the film as a whole, which is odd because it seemed like they were striving to have some seriously bad performances in this film.
Death Race 2050 isn’t a film made for the sake of being made – which is a lot more than can be said about most of the films along these lines. Rather, it came out as a response to the way the world was starting to look. Conceived during the US elections last year, Death Race 2050 is about the way society is starting to trend towards being far too consumer-driven. The country is run by a demagogue businessman with a bad haircut who has no self-control or restraint, and who enjoys himself in luxury while his nation struggles and turns into a consumerist wasteland – and then there is The Chairman in Death Race 2050. I went in expecting something fun and mindlessly entertaining, but it turns out that Death Race 2050 is actually incredibly resonant with a lot of society’s issues. It is far more satirical than I thought it would be, and what I expected to be something stupid was actually very smart. It is made even more hilarious when you consider how the filmmakers intentionally made some very direct attacks on the current state of the world, and certain political leaders – it may date this film, but I really doubt anyone involved in this film went in with the intention of creating a film that would stand the test of time.
I wish I could say more about Death Race 2050 – but other than its surprisingly keen sense of satire, and its scathing commentary on life as it is, it is just another B-movie. It is superior to the intentionally trashy films that come out year after year, and it is actually pretty well-made. The performances are also solid, and the film displays a lot of interesting characters. The sight-gags and place names are delightful as well and make Death Race 2050 worth your time. It may be an unbelievably stupid film, but it is fun escapism. It may not make a difference to cinema, and you’ll probably never think about it again, but it is definitely an entertaining film and one that I don’t regret watching in the least. I’d just suggest people watch this film relatively soon if they intend to at all because in a few years, the topics of this film could be terribly dated – or Death Race 2050 could be revealed to be a prophetic documentary, who knows? | <urn:uuid:cf6d9fd7-7d87-4dbd-b6f0-5043d46e8291> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://moviesunchained.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/death-race-2050-2017/ | 2017-07-25T16:41:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549425339.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170725162520-20170725182520-00709.warc.gz | en | 0.980383 | 1,487 |
Faculty and Student Research and Scholarship Follow
Rollins Scholarship Online (RSO) collects and organizes the research and scholarly output of Rollins faculty and students, and makes their work accessible to scholars and researchers worldwide. RSO also hosts journals, conferences, and other collections. If you are interested in RSO hosting your content, please contact Rollins College Archive. RSO is administered by the Olin Library and serves as a permanent digital archive for these materials. | <urn:uuid:9583c469-de61-4b32-a349-89b70781fdfa> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://scholarship.rollins.edu/ | 2021-01-18T20:08:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703515235.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20210118185230-20210118215230-00498.warc.gz | en | 0.943087 | 92 |
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Accesibilidad y adecuación
Pileta y spa
Sistema de entretenimiento
Zona de trabajo
Salud y seguridad
Desventajas:More sound proof rooms, more hooks to hang things on
Desventajas:Comfort in the room.
Desventajas:Mucho olor a lejía cuando limpiaban las habitaciones te dolía. Asta los ojos
Desventajas:Harder for solo traveller to meet other travellers, very large hotel.
Desventajas:The staff was very unfriendly and rude, not helpful at all. Part of the hotel does not have elevator service. The first room they tried to stick me in was a 3rd floor noisy walk-up. The room looked old and unkept. I tried to get another room but the receptionist claimed all rooms were booked, (she was not professional at all). I decided I wanted my money back, but she said I had to pay for one full night if I canceled. I asked to speak to the manager who wasn't there. She called the manager and I told her I wasn't happy with the current situation. They finally found a small pint size room on the 5th floor with an elevator, but I still found the room to be old and tired looking (AC didn't work properly). I stayed the night and put up with lots of noise due to the bad acoustics in the hallway, and bathrooms that vent into the hallway which cause more noise, stink, and humidity. (I didn't get any type of compensation for moving into a smaller 1/4 of the size room) The next morning (2nd night) they moved me into a large room on the other side of the building, which I found clean. AC, TV worked fine. Unfortunately again the hallways were very noisy, other guests were loud. I would skip this place if your looking for a good nights sleep. Your definitely not going to get it unless you drink a case of beer. Cheers!
|Check-in después de las 14:00 - Check-out antes de las 12:00|
|Las condiciones de cancelación/prepago pueden variar según el tipo de habitación y el proveedor.|
Rambuttri Village Inn & Plaza está situado en 95 Soi Ram Buttri en Phra Nakhon, a 3,9 km del centro de Bangkok. Carretera de Khaosan es el punto de interés más cercano a Rambuttri Village Inn & Plaza.
La hora del check-in es a las 14:00 y el check-out es a las 12:00 en Rambuttri Village Inn & Plaza.
Sí, Rambuttri Village Inn & Plaza ofrece wifi gratis.
No, Rambuttri Village Inn & Plaza no ofrece estacionamiento gratis.
No, Rambuttri Village Inn & Plaza no ofrece traslado gratis del/al aeropuerto.
Rambuttri Village Inn & Plaza está a 20,7 km de Bangkok Aeropuerto Internacional Don Mueang. Rambuttri Village Inn & Plaza está a 28,6 km de Bangkok Suvarnabhumi.
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Mike V: Skateboard Party HD Full v1.02 Apk | 50 MB | HowFile
Requires Android:2.0.1 and up
The only 3D skateboarding game available on the Android Platform! Complete achievements, gain experience and upgrade your skaters. Customize your outfits, shoes, board, trucks, wheels and bearings. Challenge skaters from all over the world using Game Center leaderboards.
Fixes: Improvements & optimization
Complete over 25 achievements to unlock new items and locations. Gain experience to upgrade your favorite skater’s attributes to perform better and achieve higher scores.
Practice and improve your skateboarding skills without any constraints.
Select between 8 characters and customize each of them to your preference. From outfits to shoes, choose your favorite gear. A massive collection of boards, trucks, wheels and bearings are available including items from Airwalk, Powell & Peralta, Bones, Tork Trux and Iron Fist Clothing.
LEARN TO SKATE
Over 40 unique tricks to master and hundreds of combinations. Follow the tutorial to get started and progress as you go. Execute the craziest combos and trick sequences to rack up some impressive high scores, gain experience and make a name for yourself.
New fully customizable control system; configure your own buttons layout and adjust the opacity. Use the right or left handed control mode, select a control preset or create your own. Use the analog stick or accelerometer option as you wish. Adjust your truck tightness to change your steering sensitivity.
• The only HD Skateboarding game available on the market.
• New, fully customizable control system.
• Learn over 40 tricks, create hundreds of combinations.
• Massive skateboard locations to ride including a community center, motel, downtown plaza, junkyard and indoor skatepark.
• Customize your skater or board with tons of exclusive content including outfits, shoes, boards, trucks, wheels and bearings. Select from your favorite brands including Airwalk, Powell & Peralta, Tork Trux and Iron Fist Clothing.
• Gain experience and upgrade your skater’s attributes.
• Achievements & leaderboards.
• Share your results with your friends on Facebook or Twitter.
• Soundtrack by Conditions & Revolution Mother.
• Universal version for Android phones and tablets
No other skateboarding game is available in HD. Mike V: Skateboard Party includes next generation graphics specially optimized for your mobile hardware to provide you with the best skateboarding experience on Android phone or tablet.
MIN HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
• 800x480 / 854x480 display or larger
• Android Tablet compatible
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Different sizes, shapes, materials - perforated or smooth, different head and handle sizes. Large launching peels for - you guessed it! - launching your pizza into your oven; small turning peels for turning your pizza while baking, and removing it from the oven when cooked to perfection.
Gi Metal offer a wide range of peels to suit the needs of each and every pizza maker. Different styles and sizes to suit:
A complete line which is characterised by lightness, extreme strength and flexibility. The Azzurra line is able to satisfy any need of the professional pizza maker, and is our most popular selling line by Gi Metal. A wide range of accessories - peels, turning peels, brushes, pizza-by-the-metre peels... Azzurra has something for every professional kitchen.
Evoluzione is enriched with the characteristics of the Azzurra Line - lightness and flexibility - combined with a brand new and improved perforation design. The new arrangement of the holes increase performance in terms of smoothness and draining of the flour. The new aesthetic details offer style and elegance. The Special Hard Anodising gives maximum performance in terms of heat resistance, smoothness and durability.
A line designed to meet the needs of pizza makers who make pizza in the traditional Neapolitan style - in ovens at very high temperatures and at the maximum frequency of use. Enhanced material, special circular perforation and laser engraving make this tool unique. AVPN Approved to make true Neapolitan Pizza.
A complete range for residential use - designed for private users who use their pizza oven only occasionally, or as a hobby. A range of lightweight, quality and handy tools.
A line dedicated for pizza makers who make gluten-free pizza for their coeliac customers. This range maintains the characteristics of the Azzurra line, but distinguishes it with the green colour and easily identifiable Gluten Free logo. Exclusive use, differentiated tools designed specially to make your kitchen a safer place. Tools that are instantly recognisable in the working environment.
Within all of the above ranges by Gi Metal you will be able to find a peel head size that is right for you and the pizza you are creating. Standard sizes include the following: 33x33cm, 36x36cm, 41x41cm, 45x45cm or 50x50cm.
The Azzurra Line has a pizza peel head which is only 30x30cm - this is perfect for most home ovens and small professional electric ovens, placed inside or in your own outdoor space, garden or terrace. The Amica line also has smaller peels which are more competitively priced, such as the 32x30cm designed for occasional use.
We also have a wide range of peels for Pizza-by-the-Metre - peels as large as 110cm x 40cm. Alternatively, we have a range of peels to suit non-standard shaped pizza, or peels for bakeries and Romana pizza.
The length of the handle depends mainly on 3 variables:
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OVEN
In general we can say that the handle must be long enough to avoid burns. Therefore the type of oven (electric / wood / gas / tunnel), its opening and the depth of the oven mouth are the 3 characteristics that influence the choice of the peel. The shorter handle is recommended for tunnel ovens and small bar ovens. A mid-length handle is suggested for professional electric ovens, while the long handles are suitable for large artisan ovens.
We stock all peels in a standard handle length - we cut the handles down free of charge for all of our customers - both launching peels and turning peels. Just give us a call or place a note in the NOTES section when ordering online stating the total length you would like the peel - from head to end of handle.
TYPE OF PIZZA
Gi Metal peels can be used for all types of pizza, but some are designed to be used with particular types of pizza. For the classic standard pizza we recommend the heads 33 and 36 cm, while for the maxi sizes we recommend the heads from 41 to 50 cm. For special pizza formats (by the meter, in pala, Roman) Gi Metal offers specific peels and perforated boards.
THE SPACE AROUND THE OVEN
If the movement space outside the oven is very limited, we recommend a peel/ small peel with a short handle. If, on the other hand, there are no space problems, the standard length is 150cm, which we keep stock of as standard. The maximum length available is 200cm, recommended for deep ovens and no limits or constraints for the exit manoeuvre - we can order this specially for you with an average lead time of 6 weeks, however, the standard handles suit the majority of professional kitchens.
If you need any further help choosing the peel that's right for you, your oven and your pizza, please don't hesitate to get in touch! One of our team will be happy to help: 01527 528841. | <urn:uuid:33b982a3-ad0d-4f83-8dd0-da1c63188b5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://whites-foodequip.co.uk/which-peel-is-right-for-me/ | 2022-07-03T23:48:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104277498.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703225409-20220704015409-00506.warc.gz | en | 0.921733 | 1,094 |
The Value of Accurate Land Information
When the U.S. Department of Defense embarked on a project in 2007 to standardize and update the department’s land records using GIS across each of the nation’s most significant military installations, few of those involved in the project understood just how valuable the resulting geodatabase would be. “We immediately began realizing increased efficiencies through easier access to real property information, and we quickly saw how that could lead to substantial cost savings over time,” says Frances Railey, information officer for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Installations and Logistics department.
The initial project, which was managed by Photo Science, involved recreating, georeferencing and standardizing property records for 17 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers districts and more than 100 individual Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps installations. The vast amount of information gathered during the process filled a substantial need within the DoD. But it also highlighted additional areas for improvement. “There was a determination in the pilot project to only go down so deep, maybe not within individual parcels in all cases,” Railey says. “The Marine Corps recognized that the information created from that project was very valuable, but drilling down into the data also led to a lot of questions. We saw that there was more data out there to be created, and on a more granular level. We wanted to go down into the individual parcel level wherever we could find records that would support that effort. In some cases, we needed to further subdivide the information that was gathered in the pilot.”
In 2011, the USMC contracted Photo Science to dig deeper and pull even more data into the geodatabase, with the ultimate goal of having 100 percent confidence in all of its land records. Although Railey admits this goal isn’t achievable with the current level of funding, she’s optimistic about how far they’ll be able to go. “We’re already reaping some of the benefits of having easier access to the information,” she says. “With the records we’re gathering through this project, and the GIS data that’s coming out of it, we have a better shot at having our real property records correct to support a real property audit in 2014. We’ll also be able to make the information readily available in a digital format and online through existing business systems.”
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Why 5 stars? Both clans power comes from their 2s, 3s and 4s. Seeing lv 17, I assume clintz lite?
Jessie or Stacey
If you got the clintz/cards Malmoth to Rowdy, Dreen to Gil and Alexei to Striker.
For Daily Tournament i would put Striker/Marina (if can afford) on Randy's place so u hav a solid deck with 26 stars (T2) and as so often facing higher stars decks and getting nice points. | <urn:uuid:787ac439-e8e2-47cf-8502-d67ce8c9fb1c> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://www.urban-rivals.com/en/community/forum/?mode=viewsubject&forum_page=42&id_subject=1513222&subject_page=0 | 2017-04-27T15:10:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122174.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00371-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895532 | 114 |
Ethological Studies - Marine & Terrestrial
We are no longer accepting applicants to this program. Please check back to see when the next course will be offered, and remember to sign up early to avoid disappointment.
Full course dates: 20 May - 11 June 2012
Field dates: 20 - 31 May 2012
$2,450 per person (USD) (fee does not include airfare to Fort Lauderdale)
Field course location: Bimini & Blue Lagoon Island, Nassau, The Bahamas
Course Description & Objectives
Students will be introduced to the study of animal behavior using a combination of lectures, readings, discussion, and hands-on research with both a wild dolphin group and a captive dolphin population. Lectures will focus on understanding animal behavior from an ecological and evolutionary perspective. Readings and discussion will focus on current research and methodology. Fieldwork will allow students to develop the skills necessary to conduct animal behavior research and to demonstrate these skills by participating in independent research with senior scientists at the field location.
Dolphin Communication Project
The Dolphin Communication Project (DCP) is focused on the dual goals of scientific research and education: we take results from research projects and disseminate them into educational programs for students of all ages. DCP has a team of researchers (graduated professionals, graduate students, undergraduate interns and volunteers) who work together to examine how dolphins communicate in order to shed more light on the meaning of the interactions between individuals and groups. We have 3 active field sites that include wild and captive dolphins of 3 species. DCP collaborates with vessel operators from Bimini and Dolphin Encounters to study dolphins ranging in age from a few months to more than 30 years old. Please contact us for more details.
Class Format & Attendance
The class takes place at two field locations and attendance at all lectures, activities, and training sessions is mandatory. The format of the classroom meetings will be discussion-oriented. Questions and class participation are strongly encouraged. Training sessions (at Dolphin Encounters) and research hours are also mandatory for the safety of the student and the animals.
Non-travel portions of this course will be completed remotely, via the free internet communication program, Skype. Exact dates and times are to be determined. Contact us for a copy of the tentative syllabus.
Daily Activities in the Field
Daily lectures and field observations will be completed. The exact schedule each day is dependent on weather and other logistics. Students will also be divided into teams which will rotate in assisting with data collection for DCP's long-term, longitudinal study on the Bimini and DE dolphins.
Lodging in the Field
On Bimini, lodging will be at Sea Crest Hotel & Marina. Lodging in Nassau is yet to be determined.
Travel to the Field
Students are responsible for their own travel to and from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Travel to Bimini from Florida and return to Fort Lauderdale from Nassau is included in the course fee. Please check with your airline at the time of booking for baggage allowances and other restrictions. US Citizens are required to travel with a valid passport. Students with other citizenship should check with their native country.
Food in the Field
3 meals a day are included in your course fee. Most meals are served family style in association with our lodging. Typical meals include fresh fruits and vegetables, rice or pasta, and a rotation of beef, chicken or fish. You must inform us of special dietary restrictions at the time of registration. Snacks or other treats are your responsibility.
Weather Conditions in the Field
The Bahamas is a tropical island with temperatures into the mid-high 80's F in thespring/summer months.
Money in the Field
The US dollar is accepted in The Bahamas. Major credit cards, traveler's checks and cash can be used to purchase incidentals.
- 10 nights’ accommodation (triple or quad occupancy)
- 3 meals/day
- 4 dolphin boat trips from Bimini for research
- Lectures & instruction by Drs. Kathleen Dudzinski and Rebecca Singer (Georgetown College, KY)
- Gratuity on Bimini (hotel, cook, boat crew)
- Airport/hotel transfers in The Bahamas
- Certificate of completion (upon request)
Total: $2,450* per person course fee which includes round trip flight between FL and The Bahamas.
*air travel to Florida is NOT included
*mask, fins, snorkel and wetsuit can be rented on Bimini. Associated fees are not included in the course fee.
We require a minimum of 8 students, maximum of 16 students. You must be at least 18 years old to participate.
Who can participate?
Anyone fluent in English and over 18 years old can participate. However, students currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program are given first-priority. Registration for non-matriculated students will open, space available, 1 January 2012.
Payment options include PayPal or U.S. currency check issued by a U.S. bank. A non-refundable deposit of 20% is required at the time of booking. Full payment is required by 28 February 2012. Contact DCP for details on our refund policy.
DCP’s Director, Dr. Kathleen Dudzinski via our contact page.
Dolphin Communication Project
P.O. Box 711
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We had a lot of fun watching the guesses come in for our recent mystery photo contest. Exactly two weeks ago, we challenged you to tell us if you know the guy in this picture…
The contest rules were simple: Correctly guess the place where I took the photo and, if you could also share the guy’s name, you’d be entered in our drawing twice. It was a little bit of an experiment and I was excited to see that dozens of people guessed it right!
I was standing inside The Bread Basket restaurant in downtown Barrington when I snapped the picture. And most guessers also knew that the man in the picture is the restaurant’s owner, Sam Nikolaidis. A few of them went a little further, offering Sam a few words of praise with their answers.
“It is SAM at the Bread Basket. He’s a mind reader. When I walk in, he tells me what I want before I even look at the daily specials board. And he’s usually right!” – Eric Hochstein
“It’s Sam from the Bread Basket! My earliest memory is sitting in one of those booths as a 3 year old having a Bread Basket breakfast.” – Nick Sauer
“It’s Sam Nikolaidis from the Bread Basket! He’s my go-to Sunday lunch guy and has been for a long, long time.” – Karen McBride
The Bread Basket has been a downtown Barrington staple since it opened in the 1920’s. We’re going to be sharing more about the restaurant’s history and its menu in the coming weeks here at 365Barrington.com so stay tuned.
We received dozens of submissions in this contest, Sam is buying lunch for the winner, we just drew a name and it is…
Congratulations and thanks for guessing, Priscilla! We’ll be in touch this week with details on how you can claim your prize, which is a meal at the Bread Basket, on Sam. CLICK HERE to see all of the guesses from this contest and stay tuned for another fun contest COMING TOMORROW right here at 365Barrington.com. | <urn:uuid:a7619311-301d-4539-b70c-3008adb603af> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://365barrington.com/2012/08/08/213-say-hi-to-sam-at-the-bread-basket/ | 2015-04-21T11:43:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246641393.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045721-00230-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957725 | 468 |
A day after missing the NCAA Tournament by a hair, Will Cummings didn’t think about it – not only to refocus on Bucknell, but to ensure Josh Brown wouldn’t put up big numbers against him in practice.
“If I don’t come out hard in practice, [Josh] is going to put buckets on me,” Cummings said after his team’s 73-67 win against eighth-seeded Bucknell. “I just really wanted to refocus. … I can’t be thinking about the NCAA Tournament still and expect [my teammates] to be thinking about Bucknell.”
Amid national attention for the Owls’ tournament exclusion, Dunphy said the squad’s practice sessions didn’t change much.
“They were pretty spirited [in practice],” Owls coach Fran Dunphy said. “We talked about [the NCAA tournament] enough, I think there are a lot of teams out there that are very envious of us still getting a chance to play.”
“I thought our guys played really hard,” Dunphy added. “I thought it was a hard fought first round NIT game and we were very proud to be in it.”
Cummings netted a season-high 30 points, one point shy of his career high against Central Florida last season on Jan. 4. The Jacksonville, Florida native was the lone Owl in double figures for the first 36 minutes of the contest.
“Will was outstanding,” Dunphy said. “It was an unbelievable performance, really. He made a statement. … He shot the ball really well from the perimeter. He was ready to go, I’m very happy for him.”
Cummings led the Owls with 13 points in the first half, and also chipped in three rebounds and an assist through the game’s first 15 minutes.
“Knowing that my days are numbered with my teammates in practice and in games, any given game I can be done,” Cummings said of the motivation headed into the game.
Did the Owls prove they deserved a tournament bid Wednesday night?
“Not yet, we’re still playing basketball,” Cummings said. “When we get to Madison Square Garden … we’ll decide that we proved a point.”
Out of the gate, the Owls fell into a 6-0 hole to the Bison, and following a Dunphy timeout, recovered by reeling off a 14-0 run of their own.
Junior forward Jaylen Bond saw limited minutes due to a lingering leg injury in addition to foul trouble. The minutes lost for the 6-foot-8 forward, who averaged a team-high eight rebounds per game headed into the game, led to the Owls being outrebounded by the Bison, 51-41, led by a 10-rebound effort by Bucknell freshman center Nana Foulland.
Bucknell guard Chris Hass led Bucknell scorers, finishing with 15 points on 43 percent shooting, including a 2-for-7 performance from beyond the arc.
Junior guard Quenton DeCosey pitched in 13 points, and sophomore guard Josh Brown added 11 to go along with 3 rebounds and two assists.
Bucknell coach Dave Paulsen noticed the defensive effort from the Owls, and didn’t sense any reservations about the tournament.
“Early on they got some transition baskets,” Paulsen said. “To come in here as an eight seed trying to beat a one seed you have to hit some of [big] shots. … We went toe-to-toe with a bigger, stronger and more athletic team.”
“I thought [they got] snubbed, too,” Paulsen added. “This is an elite defensive team, just watching them and their body of work. I thought they should have been included. Of course I’m not in the committee, I’d put us in if I was in the committee.”
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The SUNY College at Old Westbury baseball team saw two of its players earn Skyline Conference weekly honors when league officials announced Monday evening that junior righty Arismendy Nunez garnered pitcher of the week laurels and junior center fielder Jonathan Pagan earned a spot on the weekly honor roll. In total, Old Westbury has generated 13 conference weekly honors on the season.
Nunez, a native of Bronx, struck out four and walked just one batter in a seven inning no-hitter against Stevens on April 17 at home. The no-hitter gave Nunez his fourth victory and third complete game outing of the season. The pitcher of the week selection is Nunez’s second of the season.
Entering the week, Nunez ranked among the conference leaders in strikeouts (47, 1st), innings pitched (54.2, 1st), wins (4, T-1st), games started (8, T-1st), opponents’ batting average (.197, 3rd) and earned run average (2.30, 4th).
Pagan, a native of Westbury, hit .500 (4-8) on the week with two multi-hit games, three runs scored, two stolen bases and two walks for the Panthers. Pagan’s week included a 2-for-3 effort to go along with two runs scored and a stolen base in the opener against Stevens on April 17. Pagan collected hits in all but one game last week to boost his average to .309 (34-110) on the season.
Pagan has now been named to the weekly honor roll three times on the season and ranks amongst conference leaders in home runs (3, T-1st), total bases (53, 2nd), runs scored (25, T-2nd), hits (34, T-5th), triples (3, T-5th), slugging percentage (.482, 6th) and runs batted in (20, 7th).
Valdes, Jean Collect Skyline
Softball Weekly Honors
The SUNY College at Old Westbury freshman left fielder Gabriella Valdes claimed Skyline Conference Softball Rookie of the Week honors and senior center fielder Jennifer Jean collected her fifth consecutive spot on the Weekly Honor Roll, released Monday evening by league officials.
Valdes, a native of Queens, picked up her first career weekly honor by hitting .500 (8-16) including four multi-hit games, six runs scored , three RBIs and two stolen bases. In the opening game against Baruch on April 16, Valdes drove in one and scored the game-winning run while tying a career-high with three runs scored to go with a 2-for-4 game at the plate. Valdes followed in game two with two hits, two runs scored and one RBI. Valdes closed out the week on April 18 against Sage with two hits in the opener and in the finale produced two hits, an RBI double and a run scored.
On the season, Valdes is hitting .301 (22-73) at the plate with 23 runs scored and leads the conference with 18 walks.
Jean, a native of Levittown, hit .400 (6-15) at the plate with two home runs, five runs scored and five RBIs. Jean stroked a pair of home runs in game two against Baruch, including three runs scored in a 2-for-5 game at the plate. Jean scored two runs in the opener against Baruch. Against Sage, Jean banged out an RBI single to drive in Old Westbury’s lone run in the opener. Jean closed out the series with an RBI double in the first inning to extend her hitting streak to seven games (tied career-high) to go along with her team-leading 12th multi-hit game of the season.
Jean ranks among the conference leaders in triples (7, 1st), slugging percentage (.838, 2nd), on base percentage (.533, 3rd), batting average (.488, 3rd), runs batted in (28, 5th), total bases (67, T-5th), hits (39, T-8th) and runs scored (29, 9th).
Bey named to Skyline Conference
Women’s Lacrosse Honor Roll
The SUNY College at Old Westbury freshman midfielder Sara Bey has been named to the Skyline Conference Women’s Lacrosse Weekly Honor Roll, released Monday afternoon by league officials. The weekly honor is Bey’s third of the season, after previously earning Rookie of the Week laurels on March 10 and March 31.
Bey a native of Merrick, scored seven goals in addition to recording eight ground balls, six caused turnovers and four draw controls in Old Westbury’s final two games of the season last week.
Bey opened with two goals, four ground balls, three draw controls and tied a career-high with four caused turnovers on April 14 against Wilkes. In her final game of the season, Bey tallied five goals, four ground balls, three draw controls and two caused turnovers against Maritime on April 16. Bey’s hat trick was her program leading sixth on the season and concluded the year with program records of 37 goals, 38 points and 51 draw controls.
Bey ranked among the conference leaders in goals per game (2.31, 7th), points per game (2.38, 11th) and game-winning goals (2, T-5th).
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A single headphone or a pair of headphones, with a clamping strap or wires holding them in position.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
A combination of speakers and a microphone worn by pilot over his head for communicating on the radio or over the intercom and, in the case of combat aircraft, to receive a missile lock on an RWR (radar-warning receiver) and other such signals.
An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved
headsetA head-worn unit for making telephone calls that contains a microphone and one or two speakers. The difference between a headset and headphones is that the headset has a microphone. Contrast with handset.
Employed in call centers and offices with phone-intensive jobs, headsets allow people to have a comfortable phone conversation while using the computer. Cellphone users employ Bluetooth headsets and wired headsets to keep the phone's radiation away from their brain (see Bluetooth headset and air tube headset).
Wired headsets that plug into a desk phone may have a quick release that lets users walk away without taking the unit off their head. See earphones, headphones and mini-phone connector.
Virtual Reality Headsets
A different breed, headsets for virtual reality (VR) are goggles that immerse the user in a 3D environment. See VR headset and AR/VR headset.
|The typical wired headset combines a microphone and speaker in one head-worn unit. Workers can talk and work comfortably on the computer at the same time.|
|Unlike Bluetooth headsets that transmit only a short distance between cellphone and earpiece, wireless office headsets let people make and answer calls far away from their desks. The range on this Leitner LH270 headset is an amazing 350 feet. (Image courtesy of Amazon.com.)|
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The first UK law firm to gain the Diversity in Business Accreditation (Excellence).
Our Diversity in Business Accreditation process involved an audit of the firm’s equality and corporate social responsibility policies, as well as its entire office manual. Simpson Millar had to provide evidence that it supports equality and diversity through all its procurement policies, recruitment procedures, and staff training and development programmes. By way of an example, of the firm’s 31 partners at the time, 17 were women.
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Microsoft: 'iLoo' Internet Project a Hoax
Published 8:00 pm, Sunday, May 11, 2003
Microsoft Corp. said a company news release that it was developing a portable toilet with Internet access, called an "iLoo," was a hoax perpetrated by its British division.
The April 30 release, issued by the company's MSN Internet division in the United Kingdom, said Microsoft was developing a portable toilet with a wireless keyboard and an extending height-adjustable plasma screen in front of the seat. The iLoo was to debut at festivals this summer in Britain.
"This iLoo release came out of the UK office and was not a Microsoft sanctioned communication and we apologize for any confusion or offense it may have caused," Microsoft spokeswoman Bridgitt Arnold said late Monday.
The fake release generated coverage by The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and Reuters.
The Associated Press received confirmation of the project from both Microsoft Corp.'s Waggener Edstrom public relations firm and London-based Red Consultancy, which handles such work for the software giant in England.
In an e-mail sent last week to The Associated Press, Red Consultancy's Ben Philipson wrote "MSN is really working on building a prototype for the Summer festivals, perhaps Glastonbury … This is very much a 'toe in the water' experiment to gauge interest so we'll have to see how it goes, although judging from response so far it's really captured people's imagination!"
Malina Bragg, who helps with MSN's account for Waggener Edstrom, also verified last week that the project was true.
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- Sales of $2.2 billion, down 20 percent year-on-year
- May sales negatively impacted by two fewer business days – 20 days this year vs. 22 days last year – or minus 9 percent year-on-year impact
ST. PAUL, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
3M (NYSE: MMM) today reported sales information for the month of May 2020.
Total sales for May declined 20 percent year-on-year to $2.2 billion. Organic local-currency sales (which includes organic volume impacts and selling price changes) declined 21 percent while acquisitions, net of divestitures, increased sales by 2 percent. Foreign currency translation reduced sales by 1 percent year-on-year.
Total sales declined 11 percent in Health Care, 12 percent in Consumer, 17 percent in Safety and Industrial, and 30 percent in Transportation and Electronics. Organic local-currency sales declined 11 percent in Consumer, 15 percent in Safety and Industrial, 22 percent in Health Care, and 28 percent in Transportation and Electronics.
On a geographic basis, total sales declined 15 percent in Asia Pacific, 21 percent in the Americas, and 26 percent in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Organic local-currency sales declined 15 percent in Asia Pacific (including China down 6 percent and Japan down 18 percent), the Americas declined 24 percent (including the U.S. down 22 percent), and EMEA declined 25 percent.
The above sales information for May 2020 was impacted by two fewer business days – 20 days this year versus 22 days last year – or a minus 9 percent year-on-year impact. The company will have two additional business days in June 2020 versus June 2019. As a result, there will be no year-on-year business day impact for the second quarter.
3M will host its second-quarter 2020 earnings conference call on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, at 8 a.m. CDT. The event will be webcast live, and a replay will be available on 3M’s Investor Relations website at http://investors.3M.com.
This news release contains forward-looking information about 3M’s financial results and estimates and business prospects that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. You can identify these statements by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “aim,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “target,” “forecast” and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance or business plans or prospects. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, regulatory, capital markets and other external conditions and other factors beyond the Company’s control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) risks related to public health crises such as the global pandemic associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19); (3) liabilities related to certain fluorochemicals, including lawsuits concerning various PFAS-related products and chemistries, and claims and governmental regulatory proceedings and inquiries related to PFAS in a variety of jurisdictions; (4) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2019, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (the “Reports”); (5) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (6) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (7) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (8) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company’s information technology infrastructure; (10) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (11) operational execution, including scenarios where the Company generates fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (12) financial market risks that may affect the Company’s funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (13) the Company’s credit ratings and its cost of capital. Changes in such assumptions or factors could produce significantly different results. A further description of these factors is located in the Reports under “Cautionary Note Concerning Factors That May Affect Future Results” and “Risk Factors” in Part I, Items 1 and 1A (Annual Report) and in Part I, Item 2 and Part II, Item 1A (Quarterly Reports), as updated by applicable Current Reports on Form 8-K. The information contained in this news release is as of the date indicated. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this news release as a result of new information or future events or developments.
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The Houdini software is a series of interactive game-play developed from the early 1970’s to the mid 1990’s by John Houdini as a way for the Houdini Boys to interact with each other and have interactive experiences. The software was developed for the Atari 2600 and was originally distributed by Nintendo as a game packaged with the NES version of the Super Mario Bros. game.
Today we unveil the nine Houdini (software) secrets that have been exposed on the web in a series of articles written by our friends from the Houdini Boys and their friends, the Houdini Girls, and published by The Houdini School.
For many in the business of software development there is little to no difference from those in the movie industry that use a script, shoot, and film the actual movie. Those people are truly an exception.
It is not only the amount of money that you can save by investing in the Houdini system that is important. In addition to the game, the Houdini system includes training, consulting, workshops, software tutorials, and much more. Not only that you can work part-time, you can work online with the Houdini software. Even if your workstation is not Houdini enabled, you can still work online with the Houdini software.
The Houdini Girls tell you what the Houdini System is all about. This blog series was created to bring Houdini knowledge to our audience, as well as to encourage them to play more with the new Houdini software system. Old blog: Now you can download your favorite version of Houdini software on your computer, or make it a part of your exercise routine. | <urn:uuid:0a1a1393-34e8-4b40-bf8a-8cd53777cb4e> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://macright.org/9-houdini-software-secrets-exposed-heres-the-juicy-details/ | 2021-09-24T16:18:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057558.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20210924140738-20210924170738-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.958853 | 352 |
One in 25 people from India and other South Asian countries carries a mutated gene that causes heart failure, according to a new study.
Studying this gene, and the protein it encodes, could lead to new treatments for heart failure, according to Loyola University Health System (LUHS) researcher Sakthivel Sadayappan, who has studied the gene and protein for 15 years.
Investigating the protein could provide “a better understanding of the mechanics of heart function during health and disease,” Mr. Sadayappan and study co—author David Barefield wrote.
Mr. Barefield is a graduate student and Mr. Sadayappan is an assistant professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Previous studies by Mr. Sadayappan and other researchers found that about four percent of people who live in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia carry the mutation.
Carriers have about a 90 percent chance of developing heart failure after age 45. About 60 million people worldwide, including about 40 million Indians, carry the mutation.
Mr. Sadayappan said the mutation likely arose in a single person roughly 33,000 years ago, and spread throughout South Asia.
The gene encodes for a protein, called cardiac myosin binding protein—C (cMyBP—C), that is critical for the normal functioning of the heart.
In the mutated gene, 25 base pairs (DNA letters) are missing. As a result, the tail end of the protein is altered.
Due to this modification, the protein is not properly incorporated into the functioning unit of cardiac muscle called sarcomere. Consequently, the heart does not contract properly.
In younger carriers, the heart can compensate for this defect. But as the person ages, his or her heart is no longer able to compensate.
Heart muscle becomes inflamed and does not work well, a condition called cardiomyopathy. The most common manifestation of cardiomyopathy is heart failure —— the heart can’t pump enough blood to the rest of the body.
There is no current treatment to prevent heart failure in people who carry the mutated gene. However, a heart—healthy diet and exercise can delay the onset of heart failure, and heart failure drugs can manage symptoms.
Mr. Sadayappan said stem cell therapy could be a possible treatment. Stem cells would be taken from a patient’s heart, genetically engineered to replace the mutated gene with a healthy gene, and then injected back in the patient’s heart.
But such stem cell therapy has not been tested. Nor is there a commercial test for the gene, Mr. Sadayappan said, according to a LUHS release.
These findings appeared in the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.
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I just finished watching “Soylent Green” (SPOILER ALERT: link to watch the movie at the bottom of this post) to the end. A dystopian futuristic sci-fi flick.
The OS is Activity
Everyone, especially Thorn, a cop & the MC, is trying to either solve the murder of Richard Simonson or keep them from solving it to hide a horrible secret.
Simonson’s death was an assassination. He was murdered by the rich, powerful, and absolutely corrupt people that manufacture Soylent Green: a square, green type of nutrition bar fed to the starving masses that don’t even know what a cow or the shore looks like.
Thorn is a steadfast, logical, DO-ER who wins in the end and finds out they are liquifying all of the deceased corpses and putting the liquified remains in the Soylent Green to feed to the masses who have nothing else to eat besides Soylent red and so on. The rich eat very scarce but real food. A small jar of Strawberry jam costs $150.00, called “150 D’s”
Thorn sneaks into one of the garbage trucks they use to take the dead to a “waste disposal” into the manufacturing plant of Soylent Green, and watches, while descending floor by floor, the process. He barely makes it out alive where he tells his boss at the end, “I’ve seen it, I’ve got proof…soylent green is people…you gotta tell them, you gotta tell them!”
After talking to his boss for a moment
Thorn is taken away to the hospital on a stretcher, shot at least twice and bloody.
He reaches his arm straight up in the air, his bloody hand toward his boss as they are wheeling him away, and says,
“You gotta tell them! You gotta tell them! They have to be stopped!”
The movie turned out to be a lot better than the slow moving way that it started out as it introduced the primary characters and murder of the director of Soylent green.
The reason he was killed?
Simonson became of no more use to the other big wigs in the corporation after he found out the dead were the main ingredient. He stopped doing a thorough job, and was occasionally was seen crying by his girlfriend“,
a pretty whore that came with his
penthouse rental called “furniture”;
who he could no longer make love to knowing the great evil that was going on in this dystopian society set in 2022 in New York City (population 40,000,000).
Great writing and acting, the camera man and director weren’t great but didn’t ruin the movie either. As I learn Dramatica theory there will be a lot more theory than storytelling from me in a post/comment like this.
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - November 26, 2011, New Braunfels, Texas
ADVENT VESPERS CONCERT SLATED FOR SUNDAY LOCAL NEWS, 2A
SERVING NEW BRAUNFELS SINCE 1852
Ptiotos by LAURA McKENZIE) Herald-Zeitung
Kyleigh langbein, 10, left, and her mom, Tiffany, are assisted by Kotil's employees Lilia Matuska and Kinnan Dailey as they make itieir puictiases early Friday,
Black Friday busy here
Shoppers find bargains at big boxes, local merchants
By Draw stone
Black frirlay liiacl-ness svv('[)f through New Brauntel^ yesterday, and the tlood ot shoppi'rs is expected to continue tor weeks to come, f rom ma)or retailers to locally owned downtown shops, ( on-sLimers swarnted the (rty looking tor d(*als.
The shopping (‘xtrava-ganza startt*d al the stroke* ot midnight as a number of ma|or retailers opc'ru'd
thcvir doors to hundreds of eager shopfiers lined up outside' including some who camped out ahead of time. While all were out to lake advantage of thc' deals, many were out simf)ly IxH ausc' they enjoy being part of the hectic testivities.
"This yt\ir. I'm mostly |ust out here for the ('venl," Tyler Haas, 18, said. "For me, it's an adventure. It's tun coming out here' at midnight witii
See SHOPPERS. Page 9A
Suzanne Zaccaro, left, and Bess Seward check out several tops while shopping Friday at Dancing Pony in downtown New Braunfels.
First day of shopping season brings scuffles
NEW YORK (AP)
A sho[)per in i os Angeles pep-[)er'Sprayc*d her cc)mpc‘tition tor an Xbox and sc ufflt's broke' out else'where around the U.S. as bar-gain-hunters crowdt'd malls and megastorc's in an earlier-than-usu-al start to the madness known as Black Friday, the* day that marks
the start ot holiday shopping.
For the' first time, chains such as Target, Best Buy and Kohl's o[)e'ned their doors at midnight on the most antic ipitted shofiping day of th(' year. T(>ys R Us openc'd tor the second straight yc'ar on Thanksgiving itself, the traditional harvest holiday. And some
shoppers arrived with sharp elbows.
In Michig.in, a ten'nage'girl was knocked down and steppc'd on sevc'ral timers after getting c aught in the' rush to a sale in the' elc'c-tronics department at a W.ilmart. She suffered minor injuries.
On Thanksgiving night, a Wal
mart in los Angeles brought out a crate ot discounted Xboxes, and <is a c rowd waited for the video game' players to be unwrapped, a woman fired pc'pper spray at the other sho|)pc'rs "in order to get an advantage," [)olice said.
See BLACK FRIDAY, Page 9ARecord drought puts damper on Texas tree farmers’ Christmas
Dry, brow n grass c runches undertcM)t as David Barfield walks through his 4.S-acre (Tiristmas tren." farm pointing at evergreens cov-ereHii with brittle, rust-colored nc'e-dles.
"Dead tree, deael tre'i^, dead tree," he says, shaking his head at dry timber he hope'cl would be chopped down by parents with excited children.
Instead, Mother Nature deliv-c'reHi the Grinch in the fc)rm of a historic drought that has killed thcjusandsof trees ac ross Texas and Oklahoma. Some died of thirst. Others were eiestroyt'd by wildfires,whos^ breadth and intensity were magnified when wind swept the f ames acrc)ss [)arched landscape.
Most farmers plan to import trees froin North Carolina to supplement any they have left, said
Marshall C'àthey, president of the Texas Christmas Tree Growers Association. They say they aren't planning to raise prices because consumers are reluctant to pay more than $40 or $.S0 for a Christ-mas tree, espec ially in the poor economy.
But families hoping for a homegrown tree to cut down will have a harder time finding one, and dozens of farmers are struggling. Possibly most painful for the'se growers art^ the deaths of the youngest saplings, which guarantee the drought's effect will be felt lor years to come.
"It's depressing, it really is," said Barfield, 51; "This was going to lie our retirement."
He and his wife, Karen, 4^), bought the farm about six years
See TREES, Page 9AHeritage Society plans tree lightii^
Family event is 4-6 p.m. today at Heritage Village
By Betty Taylor
Ttie Herald-Zeitung Finding a Christmas tree was probably not the tirst thing on the German settlers' minds whc^n they arrived on the Texas coast and camped at Carl-shoien at Indi-anola.
"There was no traditional Tan-nenbaum, or Christmas treses, so Prince Carl So Inis-Braunfels had a liveoak tree I it with can-dleii and hung bagsof candy for the children," said Katliy Nichols, executive director of Heritage Society ot New Braunfels, in a news release.
In kee[)ing with that spirit, Nt^v
Scan this QR code to visit New Braunfels Heritage Village or go to nbheritage village.com
Braunleis FHeritage Village is hosting its first "Die Beleucntung cier Fichc'," or "I ighting the Live Oak Tree'," from 4-(> p.m. today at FTer-itage'Village, 1170 Church F^ill l>ivc',
Nic hols is hoping to make the tree lighting an annual event.
"This Civent is a wonderful celebration of our history, particularly the exf)eric'nce of the German immigrants who celebrated their first Texas ( hristmas in 1844," Nic hols said.
She added that the settlers arrived bedraggli'd, hungry and destitute, but they still had a Christmas.
"I think that is vc'ry worthy of commemorating," she said.
The tree lighting is an official Pr i n c e So I m s 2 00th B i rt hday event. The anniversary is in 2012,
► MARK CLARK
Former attorney was convicted of attempted sexual performance of child
Attorneys for former New Braunfels attorney Mark (Tark recently took the next step in their appeals case lor the lawyer convicted of attempted sexual performance' of a child.
According to the Third Court of A p p e a I s w e I) s i t e ,
Clark's attorneys tiled a re>quire'd bric'f this week explaining why h e deserves his conviction overturned.
The document basic ally outlines how the detense believc's the court mishandled the trial, Third (ourt of Appeals Clerk leffrey Kyle has said.
Now, the state is on the clock. Sammy Mc( rary, Comal (k)unty chiet felony prosecutor, who tried the case against Clark, will file' a ref)lv brief responding to what ('lark's attorneys claimc'd.
Neither McCrarv nor Clark's counsel could be reache'd for comment Friday during the start of the holiday weekend.
Clark v\as sentenced in February to seven years in prison and a $10,000 fine for attempted sexual performance of a child in a lune 2010 incieient involving a client's 12-year-old daughter.
Fie could have received 20 years for the offense.
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During 2012, NHS Brighton and Hove and Brighton and Hove City Council consulted on proposals to redesign community mental health support services via the Commissioning Prospectus and have commissioned a new range of services to start in April 2013 including employment support, and targeted out-reach support for the most vulnerable and at risk groups in Brighton & Hove and an information and advice service.
A programme of mental health promotion services is commissioned from the voluntary and community sector. A small grants scheme to support local mental health promotion projects was established in 2012 and ran again in 2013. Approximately 20 projects have been funded each year, ranging from allotment groups to art and photography.
World Mental Health Day and World Suicide Prevention Day are both celebrated annually.
Children’s centres and parenting programmes (e.g. Triple P) promote resilience and early help.
Right Here project for young people 16 – 25 focuses on resilience building and prevention of the escalation of mental health issues.
A new Wellbeing Service has been developed to provide access to psychological therapies in a range of primary care and community settings. Access to the service has been widened through a new option of self-referral.
The supported accommodation pathway has been redesigned – making more flexible use of resources and targeting resources more effectively to those with the most complex needs.
A single point of access to tiers 2 and 3 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) has been established. A 14-25 service has been developed to bridge the gap between CAMHS and adult services. A strategy is in development to promote effective liaison between social care team and CAMHS when young people present at A&E with self harming behaviours.
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Mumford and Sons cancel festival performances
The UK band have had to pull out of a couple of European festival shows this weekend after the injury was sustained.
OpenAir St.Gallen tickets on sale now
Tickets for the 36th OpenAir St.Gallen in Switzerland are on sale now for a reduced early bird price.
Die Toten Hosen top Open Air St. Gallen 2012
Die Toten Hosen will be one of the headliners at Open Air St. Gallen 2012.
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Good Shepherd Prairie Place Condo
Good Shepherd Inc. is adding a $6.8 million condominium complex to its range of care services and facilities in Mason City. Prairie Place will be a three story, Prairie School-style influenced building consisting of 32 living units with an underground parking garage. It is scheduled for completion late next summer. Good Shepherd has returned to longtime partner Henkel Construction to build the structure. Skott & Anderson Architects is the designer.
Once the 73,028 square foot building is complete tenants will also have access to several amenities including a large gathering room, club room and exercise area. Prairie Place will become another part of Good Shepherd’s continuum of care. Individuals purchasing a unit will have priority access, if needed, to Kentucky Ridge and Cornerstone Assisted Living as well as Good Shepherd Health Center for any skilled and rehabilitative services.
Henkel Construction has completed many projects at Good Shepherd including a renovation and 21,000 square foot vertical addition in 2013. Henkel also completed a renovation project at The Manor and previously constructed a 28,677 square foot addition under the main portion of the building containing 33 beds and administrative offices.
"Henkel Construction has done a fantastic job at Good Shepherd spanning many years of projects. From the Project Manager to the Superintendent, each worker on the project has always been very professional. The quality of workmanship they provide cannot be surpassed. Everyone that was involved in the last project bent over backward to ensure we were happy and satisfied with the end result," said Mike Svejda, CEO. "On past projects Henkel made sure we were always informed of safety issues with our residents. They had our residents in mind first and foremost. They strive to please us, the residents, and the residents' families. I would recommend Henkel to anyone." | <urn:uuid:1a21947b-aeef-4293-9096-0175eee6ebe4> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://henkelconstruction.com/project/good-shepherd-prairie-place-condo-2 | 2019-03-20T21:39:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202471.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190320210433-20190320232433-00166.warc.gz | en | 0.96242 | 367 |
RxCelerate, one of the leading out-sourced drug discovery and development platforms in the United Kingdom, announced today it has hired Nick Tait as group Chief Financial Officer and also completed the acquisition of the biotech-specialised accounting and back-office services company, The Cambridge Partnership Ltd.
“I am very excited at the opportunity to join a rapidly-expanding business, with a growing client base on both sides of the Atlantic” said Nick Tait, who has extensive experience in high-growth environments, most recently as Finance Director at Metrion Biosciences, Non-Executive Director at Cambridge Healthcare Research, and advisor to DefiniGEN Ltd.
The Cambridge Partnership was founded in 2013, on the Babraham Research Campus, and provides financial control, accountancy, company secretarial and back-office services to the biotechnology industry.
“The Cambridge Partnership remains the only back-office services company exclusively focused on the biotechnology sector” said Dr Jill Reckless, CEO of RxCelerate. “The demands of early-stage biotech companies, investing their equity capital heavily in R&D often in the absence of revenues, requires a unique understanding of the opportunities and challenges that represents. We are delighted to now be able to support The Cambridge Partnership, as part of RxCelerate group, in providing that service to an even larger number of biotech companies in the UK.”
Dr Elaine McKilligin, Founder and Chief Executive at The Cambridge Partnership, said “The rapid growth in demand for our services is exciting. Becoming part of the RxCelerate group will allow us to scale up more rapidly to meet that demand.”
The Cambridge Partnership Ltd will remain as a separate company and brand. Existing clients will be contacted directly, but will see no changes in the services they receive as a result of the change in ownership. RxCelerate will pay up to £1.45million, including an upfront payment of £1.35million to acquire full ownership of the business. No further financial details have been disclosed.
“The RxCelerate vision has always been to provide everything needed to create and run a virtual biotech company” said Founder and Chairman, Dr David Grainger. “These young start-ups need tailored back-office services to free up founders to focus their attention on developing their drug candidates, knowing the administration is being handled properly. The Cambridge Partnership is the only service provider exclusively focused on these biotech start-ups, and we are delighted to have found the next piece of the RxCelerate jigsaw puzzle.”
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The Utility Regulator is today publishing our latest Cost and Performance Report for NI Water. The report assesses performance to the end of the second year of the company’s third regulatory price control PC15. PC15 covers the six year period from 2015-2016 to 2020-2021.
The report outlines our independent assessment of how the company performed against the efficiency targets and key performance indicators outlined in the PC15 Final Determination and associated Monitoring Plans.
We are pleased to report that NI Water has largely delivered on their Monitoring Plan performance targets in the first two years of the PC15 price control period. The company outperformed its operational expenditure efficiency target, while at the same time continuing to deliver an improved overall level of service to consumers.
Our key findings are summarised below:
- NI Water’s operating expenditure was £200.6m in 2016-2017. This compares favourably to our regulatory allowance of £201.1m (in current prices), a difference of only £0.5m.
- The company invested £154.3m of capital expenditure in 2016-2017, contributing to a total investment of £298m in the first two years of the PC15 price control period. This was £19m lower than the nominal figure of £317m included in the PC15 final determination due to reductions in public expenditure budgets. This constrained NI Water’s ability to deliver the PC15 outputs in real terms even after the benefits of lower than anticipated inflation is taken into account. We have worked with NI Water, the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) and other key stakeholders to ensure that the company delivers the best possible package of outputs within the funding available. We will continue to assess cumulative delivery over the medium term taking account of changes in budget, inflation and the delivery of capital efficiency.
- NI Water met our PC15 Overall Performance Assessment (OPA) target in 2016-2017. his is a composite performance score used to assess NI Water’s overall delivery of service to customers.
- The company met or exceeded planned delivery in all but three of the 45 outputs in the Monitoring Plan. This includes 14 out of 15 consumer service measures and all of the water and sewerage quality outputs. NI Water delivered all of the nominated output targets and maintained stable serviceability.
- Delivery of development objectives to improve planning capability in time to inform the business plan submission for PC21 is a key requirement for NI Water in PC15. In our PC15 mid-term review we considered progress on these outputs and expressed concerns about whether NI Water could deliver them in time. In response, the company stated it still anticipated completing them in time to inform the PC21 business plan and we will assess delivery when reviewing PC15 outcomes in the PC21 price control determination process. | <urn:uuid:ebb6e768-1a75-4227-8fd5-1763c40eb1cf> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.uregni.gov.uk/news-centre/ni-water-cost-and-performance-2016-2017-published | 2019-05-26T08:00:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258862.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526065059-20190526091059-00142.warc.gz | en | 0.928355 | 567 |
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Step 1: Start with total points
Start by figuring out your total points for each day — begin with 2 points if you’re a woman, 8 points if you’re a man.
Step 2: Factor in age
Factor in your age by adding 4 points if you are between 17 to 26, 3 points for ages 27 to 37, 2 points for 38 to 47, and 1 point if you’re 48 to 58.
Step 3: Add in height and weight
Hop on the scale and add 1 point per 10 pounds of body weight. Add an additional point if you’re between 5-foot-1 and 5-foot-10; 2 points if you’re over 5-foot-10.
Step 4: Add in activity
Add 6 points for a labor-intensive job, add 2 points for a moderate level of activity, and if you’re sedentary don’t add any points. Add everything up to see the total number of points you’re allowed to consume each day.
Recalculate your total points every 2 to 4 weeks to account for any weight loss.
Step 5: Calculate a meal’s points
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Search online for help calculating the total calories and fiber of non-packaged foods like fruits and vegetables or talk to a nutritionist for guidance.
Step 6: Divide fiber
Divide the total amount of dietary fiber by 5 and subtract this number from the number you got in step 5. This represents the total points of the food item.
Use Weight Watchers’ brand meals or recipes to easily calculate the points instead of using this formula each time.
Step 7: Deduct meal points from daily points
Deduct each meal from your total allowance of daily points. Plan each meal ahead of time as you work toward your weight loss goal.
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The Campbell River Hospital Foundation is the latest recipient of the RBC Foundation’s charitable considerations.
The Foundation has written a cheque for $20,000 to support the purchase of an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Kit at Campbell River Hospital.
ACLS is an advanced, instructor-led classroom course that highlights the management of patients in cardiac arrest, with unstable heart rhythms, or suffering acute heart attacks or strokes.
Team dynamics and communication, systems of care and immediate post cardiac arrest are highlighted.
Specific skills in airway management and related pharmacology are also featured.
Skills are taught through group discussion and hands-on learning through case-based scenarios using simulators.
Matthijs Bruining, RBC branch manager, says this cause is important to the institution.
“As always our organizations have a great history of working together for the collective good of our community,” Bruining says. “RBC’s approach in ensuring a broad base of support to create a foundation for a wide range of community and social causes ensures that we have a vibrant community today and in the future.”
Stacey Marsh, executive director of the Campbell River Hospital Foundation, says RBC’s donation will go a long way.
“Supporting staff in their continued education is a vital part of health care. Ongoing training and education opportunities help health care professionals keep current with today’s ever changing advancements and technologies, allowing them to provide the best care possible to patients and clients,” Marsh says. “The RBC Foundation has continued to show their commitment to our hospital and community, they have given more than $143,000 since 2005. The RBC Foundation and their local staff understand that healthcare is about giving and we are extremely grateful for their support and partnership.”
RBC believes in the power of communities and the people who live in them.
By fostering employee engagement and good corporate citizenship, RBC has created a culture of giving and pride in the communities that they live and do business in.
RBC is one of Canada’s largest corporate donors, with a tradition of philanthropy dating back to 1891.
Recently named as one of the “Best 50 Corporate Citizens” in Canada, RBC supports a broad range of community initiatives through donations, sponsorships, and employee volunteer activities.
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Notable Nanty Glo native retires; news and updates
Letter No. 123 | June 27, 1999
A cover story appeared in a recent issue of the Johnstown daily newspaper about a Nanty Glo native retiring from his job. What's so unusual about this? It's a little different if a worker retires at the age of 89 after 62 years of service as was the case of Mr. Joe Casale who left Nanty Glo in 1937 to work for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Employment Security. He started as a clerk in Harrisburg for $100 a month and was transferred later that year to Johnstown where he has worked ever since. Mr. Casale recently ended his career as manager, since 1955, of the Cambria County Job Center in Johnstown. As reported, he's giving in to family pressure and is hanging it up. Mr. Casale oversaw the Johnstown office during good times when coal and steel were king, and depressing times when the 1977 Johnstown flood inundated the Bethlehem Steel mills and resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs. He called the flood his biggest challenge. He wishes the area could attract some sort of assembly plant that would create 400 to 500 semiskilled jobs. Mr. Casale was No. 2 in terms of service with the state. A 90-year-old female clerk/ typist exceeds him with 64 years of service. One fellow employee says, "He is a legend in his own time. There will never be another Joe Casale." (It must be that strong Nanty Glo character building!)
Here's a story about coincidences. I was remarking to an Alexandria, Virginia, neighbor who I just recently met that my wife and I were soon going to the Johnstown vicinity to visit. He asked if I had ever heard of a town with the strange name of Nanty Glo. The neighbor is presently retired after years of service with the Federal Aviation Administration, but his long time secretary was from Nanty Glo. She would relate to him colorful stories about hometown sites like Shoemaker Street, once referred to as the "Barbary Coast" with its hotels and bar rooms. He must have pictured a "Wild West" town.
The Nanty Glo Journal and Mainline newspapers have been publishing a series of weekly articles on the early history of the many towns in Cambria County like Nanty Glo, Colver, Revloc, and Ebensburg. The series also discusses the establishment at the turn of the twentieth century of the mines and railroads in the area. Mr. Charles Edwards, responsible for these articles, has researched the diary of a Mr. S.H. Jencks (Sterry Henry Jencks) who chronicled the history of this era. Mr. Jencks did a remarkable job of detailing this fascinating period, but who was he? He was born on March 25, 1867 in Argentina, but his family migrated to the state of Rhode Island. Mr. Jencks attended Lehigh University and began a long career as an industrial engineer. His work included the opening of coal mines, building of rail lines, and the laying out of new towns. He came into personal contact with men like Mr. Coleman and Mr. Weaver, the builders of towns like Revloc and Colver. His writings paint the history of Cambria County from 1885 to his retirement in 1936. Mr. Jencks, who served as president of Ebensburg Borough Council, died on January 12, 1948. He was buried at Mahaffey cemetery, leaving a few thousand dollars cash, some shares of stock and a 1940 Packard worth $800. It didn't look like much for a long time of hard work.
To Paul Simendinger...Shortly after questioning you about the whereabouts of Paul Batulis, your old theater partner, I saw in the paper that his sister had passed away and that Paul resided in Southfield, Michigan. On my most recent visit to Revloc, I encountered Larry Sedor, who recently suffered a heart ailment and will be taking a break from his constant chores of painting and house repairs. Larry is a friend and handyman who often helps me.
Again thanks, Jon, for providing this electronic platform to exchange stories about the old hometown "Glory Days." On a past topic about Mr. Abe Book, you are correct in recalling him being struck by a car. He passed away several days later from the injuries. I too recall the incident that occurred on Route 422 near Bethel, and it was strange to hear of his death in this fashion. Mr. Book either owned or leased a farm near Bethel where he had livestock and raised potatoes. Later in life, Mr. Book married a store employee who worked for him and had a child, Israel (Buddy) Book, who would be in his fifties now. On a recent visit to Nanty Glo, I asked my Uncle Mike Bzdyl what ever happened to Buddy. Mike stated that the son settled in the Johnstown vicinity.
Webmaster's note: It's my great pleasure, Frank. I always learn something from your posts. I knew Penn Traffic (the department store; the name lives on in a now-New York State-based grocery company) died (by bits and pieces) as a result of the 1977 flood, but didn't realize that that flood "did in" the last of the Bethlehem Steel mills in the "Flood-free City." I assumed they just faded away to the economic advantages of the new processes introduced about that time in mills far away (and the decline of "rust belt" industry in general).
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When people think of McLaren they think of Formula One where we have been competing since 1966. What makes us unique today is our diversification into three different businesses including a global, high-performance sports car business, McLaren Automotive, and a game-changing technology and innovation business, McLaren Applied Technologies as well as McLaren Formula One team. While our first goal is to win World Championships, we also strive to be a sustainable ongoing business and today we are recognised as one of the world’s most illustrious high-technology brands.
The biggest challenge we face is supporting the growth and speed of innovation across these businesses. IT is fundamental not only to the building of infrastructure and communications technology but also to our high performance culture. Within Formula One our main focus is on improving our performance on the track. Formula One doesn’t operate like a normal business, there are 700 people focused on a getting a car to go around a track as quickly as possible.
The way the car is designed has changed significantly over the last few years. Today much more is done using simulation, modelling and data analysis and the concept of a digital twin for every component of the car is now really important to the Formula One team. We have a huge requirement to drive continuous development through virtual, digital twin versions of our components to make sure that everything we design and engineer at the factory leads to a true on track performance when it reaches the car itself.
A new component is manufactured every 17 minutes, 24 hours a day, and 7 days a week, that’s just the pace of innovation, optimization and iteration of every single component on the car that a company needs to operate at to excel in Formula One. From the start of the season to the end of the season around 80% of the components of the car will change. The Formula One car never reaches production status, it’s a continuous-running prototype and all this is underpinned by great technology.
Data is the foundation of making the car go faster and IT is there to support this. At trackside, data is critical as decisions are made at the point of knowledge. There are around 300 sensors on a Formula One car and McLaren will collect around 100 gigabytes of data per car during a race weekend. That data needs to be accessed in real-time by the engineers, both trackside and mission control, in order to be able to make decisions on with the car. Using machine learning and analytics we can dig down into what’s important.
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Approximately 20,000 portable surface-to-air missile and Russian made anti-tank missiles as well as rifle and anti aircraft ammunition have gone missing in Libya. A couple of those weapons are explained in the graphic above. (Click on to enlarge).
After a 6 month civil war that ended Qaddafi’s 42-year rule and sent him into hiding allowed the regime’s extensive armories to be fully exposed and available to looters, former rebel fighters or anyone with a truck to carry weapons away.
Weapons that could be used to knock down military planes, helicopters or drones as well as cause destruction and damage to innocent civilians.
With the US govt unsure as to who is leading the rebels in Libya and Defense Secretary Robert Gates stating that its “very possible that Al Qaeda is leading the rebellion” and the significance impact of Hamas and Hezbollah in the area makes this matter gravely serious not only for America’s security but also for Israel’s security.
Today, the White House released a press statement saying it will boost efforts to find and destroy the weapons stockpile and last week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Libya’s new leaders to secure the chemical weapons and convention weapons supply.
Yet at the same time, visits by The Associated Press to weapons caches around Tripoli (the capital of Libya) show that many remain poorly guarded and have already been heavily looted.
AP reported that 12 rebels wandered around one site where a large hangar was strewn with the boxes of missing weapons. Rebels at another site were leaving with a load of tank shells they said they were taking to a safe place for storage. They acknowledged, however, that they’d found the site unguarded.
At one unguarded site, Bouckaert said he found 100,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines. Elsewhere, he found weapons caches hidden under fruit trees.
On a positive note, the U.N. chief weapons watchdog said Wednesday that Libya’s remaining chemical weapon stockpiles are believed to be secure but we must remain ever viligent.
Let’s pray that we find them and confiscate the weapons before they are used against us and/or our allies.
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Hello all, thank you for visiting my blog. First of all, remember that May is American Stroke Awareness Month. There’s a website called You’re the Cure and it is an advocacy website by the American Stroke and Heart Associations. There are so many little ways you can get involved in heart attack and stroke prevention and advocacy by joining this site. I highly recommend you check them out, especially if you or a loved one have ever dealt with the heartache of losing someone to stroke, brain hemorrhage or heart attack, or witnessed the struggles of stroke and heart attack survivors trying to be as close to where they ‘once were’ as they can. I know I’m trying.
It’s a long and often times lonely struggle for me and I’ve lost one too many people I cared about to brain hemorrhages over the last year and a half. Of five people that have had one, three were younger than me, one was older. There is one MAJOR difference. I am the only survivor.
So, please, I promise not to bore you with daily nonsensical posts, but I would like to make a difference in someone’s life. I’m setting a fairly conservative goal while I start the blog up; perhaps two or three posts per month to start. I’ve already subscribed to various pertinent journals, magazines and newsletters devoted to the subjects.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
This isn't how I imagined this piece turning out at all... But it's so awesome, I love it! Very different from my norm, which is why I called it, "Learning a new language."
I started off with a Blick canvas panel which I primed with Blick black gesso. I then applied what I had intended to be thinly layered blue blocks but I got impatient with my lack of patience for mixing the appropriate colors and also for not applying the paint in thinner layers. At this point I wanted to paint over the whole thing.
But instead I pushed on, growing frustrated at how I was wasting paint on this inevitable disaster. I had stopped here and showed it to my husband. I told him I didn't know what to do with it. As I was yammering on and on about my frustration over the piece, a tiny voice inside my head said the word, "Symbols" and fortunate for me, I was focused enough to catch it and that was that.
First came the dividing lines, then the random symbols. (All made up on the spot.) I could have left it alone but I knew there was more I could do.
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Podcast: Why Virgin Orbit Went Bankrupt
Richard Branson’s launch venture Virgin Orbit ran out of cash. Could a buyer pick up the valuable pieces? Aviation Week editors are joined by veteran space journalist Warren Ferster to discuss.
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Joe Anselmo: Welcome to this week's Check 6 podcast. I'm Joe Anselmo, Aviation Week's editorial director and editor-in-chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine.
The space sector has attracted a lot of investment from the private sector, but there's no guarantee of success -- even if you're a world-famous billionaire.
Virgin Orbit, a space launch company founded six years ago by UK entrepreneur Richard Branson, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is looking for a buyer. The California company's air-launched rocket had placed 33 satellites in orbit during the last two years, but a launch failure in January proved devastating to its already challenging business plan. So, what are the odds that a buyer will rescue the company and what does its bankruptcy mean for other space startups looking to attract capital?
Joining me to break it all down is Aviation Week editor Guy Norris, who has closely followed Virgin Orbit since its inception. We're also joined by a special guest, Warren Ferster, who has more than three decades of experience covering the space industry as a reporter, editor and consultant. So Guy, why don't you kick us off, tell our listeners a little bit about what Virgin Orbit was and what happened.
Guy Norris: Thanks, Joe. For those that perhaps are not so familiar with it, the nugget really that gave birth to the idea for Virgin Orbit was from Virgin Galactic, when they looked to do more uses with the launch capability they had with White Knight Two, which is the aircraft they used to take the SpaceShipOne to drop altitude for the human-carrying missions.
So, they just decided that there was a potential market there. They could spin off all the work they were doing with rocket propulsion and that airlift system, and then it became abundantly clear to them during their research in the mid-2015, 2014 period, that they didn't have enough capability with that system. So, they decided to develop a much more powerful LauncherOne rocket system, which would inevitably have to be carried by something larger to launch altitude, which was of course the 747, which was acquired from sister company Virgin Atlantic and on its retirement in 2015 was ferried over to Texas for initial modification.
So, this idea was essentially, let's build on a plan that Orbital Sciences first came up with, which was really to air launch a payload from underneath a large vehicle and Orbital, of course, used the :-1011 TriStar and Virgin Galactic which then spun off Virgin Orbit two years later in 2017, was wanting to take this idea much further.
So, that was the basic concept and that's where it all began. I know that we're going to hear from Warren perhaps more detail about what went wrong, but essentially right from the start, Virgin had these ambitious plans. As I say, it spun off a dedicated company in 2017, really the Virgin Orbit side of it, but they were forever always lagging behind their ambition. So, for example, in 2015 when I went down to see the aircraft in San Antonio, brand new, delivered from London, the plan then was to do the first drop in 2017.
As we know, that didn't happen until 2019. So, it set the seal really for how this program was going to be done. Everything they did was excellently executed, but it always took a lot longer than anybody seemed to have thought. It was always at least two or three years behind where they expected to go. So anyway, we can get into all of that later on, but that's just to give you a quick snapshot of where the company came from.
Joe Anselmo: Warren Ferster, you just heard Guy’s set up. Were you surprised that the company ran into financial difficulty?
Warren Ferster: Thanks, Joe. No, not really. There's a lot of stuff to unpack here. Guy made a point about their accomplishments lagging behind their ambitions and that that's true, but it's also true of just about every space venture. Nothing in space happens when people say it's going to happen. That's true of every company, every venture I've ever covered in my career in the space industry. So, there's nothing new.
What was unfortunate for Virgin Galactic was that they lagged at a time when the financial markets turned against them. If you look at when they started launching and what was that? That was 2021, that was a time of peak availability of capital. Capital was very cheap and perhaps, had they really gotten up and running by then they would've been okay.
The problem was that they were behind schedule and when they needed another tranche of financing the capital markets soured on them. I think you'll recall they did their SPAC merger in 2021 and already there were some warning signs there because they intended to raise ... I've seen two different figures.
One was $480-something million dollars and I saw another figure of $300 and something, but they didn't come anywhere near that. They raised $228, I think. So, that was a blinking yellow light right there. Interest rates have, in the meantime, skyrocketed and if you look at their stock value, their share value, it's just plummeted throughout 2023. They had, I guess, a kind of rescue financing plan in place, but that unraveled and there's some reports about this gentleman that are less than favorable.
So yeah they lagged behind and then they had that launch failure, it just came ... Everybody falls behind, but they unfortunately, could not get going before the financial conditions turned against them. So, that's what happened here.
Joe Anselmo: Warren, you point out this is partially a sign of the times, of the easy money and low interest rates going away. What does it mean for the rest of the space sector? There's still plenty of money pouring into space ventures isn't there?
Warren Ferster: I think you have to consider Virgin Orbit separately from a lot of the other ventures, well actually not Virgin Orbit, but launch. The experts I've spoken to over the past couple of years have been warning for some time that launch is ... A, it's saturated. There are too many providers and not enough business. The small launch vehicle companies especially, they cannot compete against the operators of medium- to heavy-lift rockets who do these ride-share deals. They cannot compete on a cost per kilogram basis with these companies, SpaceX, the Indian rockets. It's just a really, really tough business to be in.
A lot of the other companies are going to start running into the same challenges of getting capital, that Virgin Orbit ran into. I mean, these are market conditions that don't just affect one industry sector or another. Interest rates are high no matter what. The SPAC craze seems to have lost some of its luster, and so I think money's just going to be a little bit harder to come by. Having said that, there's still a lot of money coming into this sector. It surprises me.
Guy Norris: Following up from what Warren was saying there, I think it's worth reminding everybody that one of the unique selling points really, as Virgin Orbit liked to say about itself, was that it had this responsive space capability that other launch ... even small launch systems, couldn't necessarily provide. That was the ideal plan that really Orbital Sciences had as well of getting out there. Anywhere you could find a runway big enough to park a 747 was basically ... or use a 747 from, was essentially a new launch site.
And to that point, that was a new element of the market that was really underserved and remains underserved in many ways. So, Virgin did have that unique idea, this plan, to really go there. What of course happened, was one of the great users of that market is the military and not necessarily just the U.S. Space Force for example, but the U.S. Space Force is where the immediate market is.
And very strangely, a lot of people thought, there was a tactically responsive space program launch contract that was awarded not to Virgin Orbit last year in October, but to Firefly Aerospace, another competing company, to fly Space Force satellites. So, even there, where there was a potential niche that Virgin should have really honed in on, they didn't necessarily make the most of it. So, that was I think, another warning sign maybe that there was this bubble in the small launch vehicles that was about to burst.
And just one last thing, I love this quote, David Thompson, who was founder of Orbital, always famously said to Antonio Elias, who came up with this idea of air launching with the Pegasus. He said, "Antonio, the battlefield of small launches is littered with corpses." So, he wasn't necessarily talking about vertical launch there, but horizontal launch. So anyway, back to you.
Warren Ferster: That's a good point, Guy. A couple of things about the whole responsive launch capability. It looks better on paper than it actually plays out in reality. We've been talking about responsive launch and responsive space for 20 years. The U.S. government started to get serious about it, or it sounded like it was getting serious about it when it created the Operationally Responsive Space Office and program. That really struggled to get funding and it never really got off the ground.
I think one of the problems with responsive space is that it assumes that you have satellites laying around in a warehouse somewhere, ready to be launched on a moment's notice, but that's not the reality. Satellites, in spite of the fact that we can crank these things out at a pretty good clip these days, they're still pretty much built to order. They're not something that can just pluck off a shelf and have it ready to launch in a week's time. That was the vision for this and maybe it will become a reality, but it's not a reality yet.
I think another thing to point out, and this gets back to the David Thompson quote, the field may well have been littered with corpses, the small launch vehicle business and the launch vehicle business in general, littered with corpses. That's as true today as it was back when David Thompson said it. But I think you have to look at these horizontal launch capabilities with the carrier aircraft.
One the issues that Orbital Sciences ran into with Pegasus was it cost a lot of money to maintain that L-1011 carrier aircraft. It was a huge expense. And so, when you looked at Pegasus, when you looked at the whole setup, it looked really good. You've got this aircraft that acts as the first stage of the rocket. It's reusable, you land it, so it looks like an economically viable proposition, but it turns out that it costs so much money to maintain that capability, that aircraft capability that flies once every few months or so, that that just undermines the economic case.
I remember in back in the heyday of Pegasus, that was launching for ... I think they publicized one launch price, it was $35 million. That's for a capability to put what? About a thousand pounds into lower Earth orbit. At the same time, you had the McDonnell Douglass/Boeing Delta II rocket, which was capable of putting many, many times that into lower Earth orbit and its cost was about $40-$50 million. So, the costs are really disproportionate there, and I think it could be that Virgin Orbit ran into some of the same troubles.
Guy Norris: And just to follow up Warren, I think I was lucky enough to fly with Northrop Grumman, who now own the Orbital system and the Pegasus team, well the Stargazer last year, and it's interesting that they now, having really gone away from Pegasus, are focusing the aircraft use on hypersonic tests, using it as a test vehicle or a dropping platform for hypersonic tests.
What's happening now though, it's interesting to me, is what could happen in the future with the assets of Virgin Orbit. Because yes, everything took longer. They had their two failures, the last one, ironically, for a $100 piece of kit, a fuel filter. So, I mean, this whole thing could have collapsed because of a $100 piece of component, which is such a tragedy.
But anyway, the point is that they were at the point where everything was working. They knew what the problems were with the two launch failures, they'd got over them, they'd done four successful missions, the aircraft is working fine. They were even halfway through developments of a launcher, 1.1, an upgraded version, and they've got six or seven rockets under assembly at Long Beach.
So, all the hard yards are done here. They're just primed to go and they just faulted at this because of the finances, obviously. So, what's going to happen with those assets? You've got this ready-made ... your state-of-the-art factory in Long Beach. I think the big problem really is that everybody's going, they've got to find work. So, the human element here is probably a very fragile part of the equation.
Naturally, people will need to find work and they'll disappear. So the talent is a huge part of this. But the infrastructure is there and it's a very valuable asset, in my view, that somebody could bring this together as a system, get back in the launch business, or they could strip it and separate it. That aircraft, for example, could be a very useful asset for somebody like Northrop or maybe Stratolaunch could acquire it as a backup to the Roc. I mean, there's all sorts of interesting elements here.
Joe Anselmo: So, it sounds like you're saying Guy, that there could be more to unfold in this story.
Guy Norris: Yeah, absolutely Joe, yeah. I think because of the fact that they had got to that ... They were on the verge, as it were, of really doing what they'd always promised to do, and they did have a backlog of customers and they did have this international aspect, with all of these plans for bases in ... operations in Brazil, in the Middle East and the UK. So, it wasn't as if there weren't customers out there. There was a lot of interest and a lot of momentum about to start rolling for this program.
Warren Ferster: So, if you look at the history of bankruptcies in the space industry, the biggest one that comes to mind is Iridium. In the case of Iridium, they did the hard work, the same as you pointed out in the case of Virgin Orbit, they've done all the hard work here and now they're in bankruptcy protection, right?
Well, in the case of Iridium, they did all the hard work. They got their initial constellation up and they were forced into bankruptcy and a group came in there and purchased all of those assets for pennies on the dollar, and they wound up with a full operational satellite constellation, pretty much debt-free and an anchor contract with the U.S. Army. And Iridium has now since launched a second generation constellation, and they're considered to be a very successful company. I'm not saying that that is going to happen in the case of Virgin Orbit, but it is certainly a possibility to consider.
Now, the international aspect is interesting. I don't see an international, a non-U.S., company coming in and buying the assets because that would never pass muster with the U.S. government. The CIFIUS process would never let that happen. But still, it's a nice way to market the system. You've got countries that want to do a launch from their territory, but they don't have their own capability. Here, you can fly this system. In fact, Pegasus – Orbital Sciences used to do this with Pegasus -- you fly this to another country, they launch a satellite from ... I think they did it in the case with Spain. You launch a satellite from the territory of another country. That country waves the flag, "We launched the satellite from our own territory," lots of fanfare and it's a nice little asset to be able to have.
So, I do think that there is value here. And also to your point about hypersonics, excellent point. Stratolaunch, as you you'll recall, was intent on doing an orbital capability with their massive aircraft. And they have since pivoted to the hypersonic test market. I could potentially see that happening as well. Once you wipe all the debt out, that changes the whole game.
Guy Norris: And we shouldn't forget the technical achievements of what the team did because they've ... The NewtonThree and the NewtonFour rocket systems. I mean, this was all done from the ground up. Another reason, obviously why things took so long in the end. But the capability that they developed, it's combining with this ... And also it's a different launch system, the L-1011 that Northrop Grumman has, it just simply drops the launch vehicle and off it goes.
With the Virgin system, they go into a 33 or 30 degree climb. The trajectory is much more energetic and that's part of the higher payload capability that they've got with that. But anyway, to develop that entire launch capability and have an aircraft and a rocket system in parallel, and then meet up somewhere in the middle, that's a hell of an achievement. So, I think when you look at what they did, very worthy and it's got to be worth something to somebody.
Warren Ferster: Just to follow up on that really quick, it doesn't change the dynamics of the small launch market, which again, is incredibly tough. And if you look at almost every company that's gotten into the small launch vehicle, they've either diversified into other markets, or they've moved up to a bigger vehicle. I can't think of a better example than SpaceX, which started off with a small launch vehicle, moved up to the Falcon 9 vehicle and basically abandoned a small launch vehicle program because it's just a really, really tough market.
Joe Anselmo: Well guys, we're just about out of time, but Guy, I wanted to circle back to underscore a point you made at the very beginning. Virgin Orbit is separate from Virgin Galactic, which is Richard Branson's space tourism venture, to take people to the edge of space on rides. You and I were at Space Symposium in Colorado Springs about a year ago, and he was there, he was a rockstar. So, Richard Branson is not going away, right? In terms of space. He's still going strong?
Guy Norris: Well yeah, I mean obviously Virgin Galactic, which yeah, you're quite right, was the originator of this entire thing, has had its own struggles, of course. It's well behind schedule. The big difference is that Virgin Galactic built up its cash reserves to over a billion dollars through stock and debt sales after it went public in 2019. But Virgin Orbit never did that. It didn't build its cash coffers, and I think that was really a danger signal right there. They should have known at that point that they needed to lean and do the right things to streamline and survive. But Virgin Galactic, it's pressing on. They just recently transferred the White Knight Two. And refurbished Spaceship Two is back in New Mexico at Spaceport America. And I think imminently, all things being equal, we should be seeing the first signs of that getting back into the air in the next few weeks and months.
Joe Anselmo: Guy Norris, Warren Ferster, thanks to both of you for an informative conversation and for taking the time to show your insights with our listeners today. That is a wrap for this week's Check 6 podcast. Special thanks to our podcast editor in London, Guy Ferneyhough. Don't miss the next episode by subscribing to Check 6 in your podcast app of choice. And one final request of our listeners, if you're listening to us in Apple Podcasts and want to support this podcast, please leave us a star rating or a review. Thank you for your time and have a great week. | <urn:uuid:a579afba-616c-42f8-b5d8-181e02fde006> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://aviationweek.com/podcasts/check-6/podcast-why-virgin-orbit-went-bankrupt | 2023-06-09T10:51:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656675.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609100535-20230609130535-00494.warc.gz | en | 0.985282 | 4,310 |
What do you use to apply your blush?
What do you use to apply your blush? Do you use different tools for powder/cream blushes?
I apply powder blushes with MAC’s 116 brush. For creams, I apply using MAC’s 188.
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Hello everyone, wow I can’t believe how quickly the weeks are going. I seen a few shops with all the Christmas presents and gift out so that has giving me the push to start making my personal Christmas card. I’m normally so rubbish and end up buying cards but not this year that’s the plan anyway!
So I just happened to see this stunning snow globe die on the Hobby Art website and I just had to get it. The die itself is huge and the snowman you can make with is super cute but I wanted it to stamp in the globe.
I decided to use one of my favourite stamps Bertie the snowmanand stamp him in the globe, the great thing with this die is the size it can easily fit full size stamps onto it and that’s just great for us stampers.
As the snow man had a hat on and there’s some snow on the fence I had to use Fluffy stuff and after applying while it’s still wet sprinkle with fine flitter and then heat it with a heat gun the fluffy stuff will then fluff up with glitter on it. | <urn:uuid:bf15aff0-6d40-4bae-9a92-4bda910c64ba> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://www.hobbyartstamps.com/blog/snow-globe-and-bertie/ | 2018-05-20T23:08:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863811.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20180520224904-20180521004904-00296.warc.gz | en | 0.961232 | 234 |
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We are seeking to appoint Staff Nurses & Senior Staff Nurses for our independent hospital in Glasgow.
We work a flexible rota to meet the needs of our service users, including days, evenings, nights, weekends and public holidays.
You will work alongside our in-house clinical team to provide support to our service users appropriate to their individual needs, ensuring that they lead a full and valued life.
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Composition: 4x bedroom, 4x bathroom, living room
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Buzzbike is a high-concept implementation of ad-subsidised cyclesharing, but with a contemporary technologically-facilitated twist.
The project is noteworthy because it doesn’t depend on the establishment of city-wide collective bike stations. Rather, riders apply for the program and receive a free individual bike for their own unlimited use.
From the perspective of an advertiser, an investment in a cyclesharing program only begins to pay adequate returns if the bike is ridden regularly, and visibly.
Traditionally, this ‘minimum-ridership’ was assured through collective cyclesharing programs like citibike, where the public visibility of the stations, and constant communal use of bikes, guaranteed minimum-ridership. There are significant support costs baked into the collective cyclesharing model, including theft-proofing bikes, balancing networks, achieving minimum-scale, and general network-maintenance, but if 25 riders / day ride each bike, the overall exposure balances things out.
Buzzbike’s model approaches the challenge from the opposite direction. Notably, it’s only on the basis of the universal adoption of smartphones that their approach is possible.
The New Model
Buzzbike leverages the data-collection of smartphones to track and monitor high-frequency riders.
Obviously there have always been prolific (high visibility) cyclists in cities, but there haven’t been any convenient ways to track and quantify the extent of their activity. Quantifiable high-frequency ridership is the condition of possibility of ad-subsidized cyclesharing networks. Thanks to smartphones, we can get this in a wholly different way than through communal cyclesharing systems.
According to the Buzzbike product page (buzzbike.london) all Buzzbike riders must agree to three conditions:
Connect the rider app to your bike so we can track your progress
Ride to work a minimum of 12 days a month
Park your bike securely on the street
The maintenance costs of a traditional cycle-sharing program are transferred from the system to the individual, and visibility is guaranteed not by bulk statistical ridership, but through individual quantification.
Buzzbike’s implementation removes all the baked-in costs of conventional cycle-sharing networks (network balancing, maintenance, minimum network-effect scale), giving it leaner early-stage scalability. Where conventional cycle-sharing systems require significant upfront investment before the cascade of network-effects start revealing themselves, Buzzbike works equally well with one or 100 riders.
The critical question is whether it’s a sensible model for 1000 or 100,000 riders.
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A period of adverse sentiment towards emerging markets could create opportunities for investors to get on board at attractive valuations, the author of this article says.
Investors should be able to see that the risks, both macroeconomic and geopolitical, facing emerging market stocks are priced in, thus valuations already take account of such potential hazards as the “normalisation” of US monetary policy, the chances of a further slowing of the Chinese economy and the downward trend in commodity prices.
But because too many investors do not appear to see this, emerging market stocks overall trade at a substantial discount to where history suggests they ought to be. This should not, however, be taken as a signal to pile indiscriminately into this market. Yes, there are early signs of improvements in earnings and profitability, which ought to support valuations, but just as there are some stock markets in this sector offering significantly better returns than others, so there is a wide gap between the expensive and the cheap when it comes to individual shares.
Successful investment requires identifying those companies whose shares have been mispriced and investing accordingly.
Different sectors, too, have seen their performances diverge. For example, in the eight months to August, consumer goods companies, financial services firms and materials businesses did well while telecommunications companies and utilities did less so.
Overall, however, we firmly believe that the backdrop for emerging market equities has improved and is continuing to do so, and that this will drive a change in investor sentiment.
The developed world economies are gathering pace, led by the US, and while good news from the eurozone is harder to come by, Germany and Spain, to take two examples, are leading the way for the single-currency bloc.
This adds up to a more positive climate for emerging market equities, as does the tenacity of the Chinese authorities both in stimulating activity through loose credit conditions and in sticking to their programme of rebalancing the economy away from over-reliance on exports and investment and towards a greater emphasis on domestic consumption.
As we saw earlier, the Chinese market rallied in August.
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Helena gave the general weekly news; a lovely letter from Adrienne, obviously settling very comfortably into her new home, new Templates now in the library and shopping for Stepping Stone House will be completed by Grace and team on Tuesday. So Grace will be looking for volunteer 'wrappers' next week,
Anna from Hunters Hill and Ryde Community Services (HHRCS) visited to collect two quilt donations. We have been supporting this group for a few years now and it was very interesting to hear from Anna, just how many various support groups operate out of the HHRCS.
One of the quilts will be given to one of the many volunteers who generously give of their time, and the other will be raffled to raise funds for the Brain Injury Support Program.
'All Stars' by Marie G.
'Diamonds are forever' by Pamela R.
We also selected seven quilts to be delivered to Stepping Stone House with their Christmas parcels and hamper.
Impressive 'pile' - check out the Community Page to see pictures of all seven quilts.
Christmas Party time: 10th December
12 noon, with plate of finger food, a glass for some bubbles, raffle blocks and if you wish a donation for the Christmas hamper for Stepping Stone House.
Remember, as a condition of membership, every member has a responsibility to be 'Morning Tea Hostess' two mornings each year. Helpful instructions on 'what to do' are available - chat with any committee member if you are unsure of what is expected and would like a copy.
We missed out on a Christmas shopping day with Colleen: an oversight ! However, next weekend Colleen and many others will be at the Vienna Cottage Christmas Boutique.
2016 Quilt Show:
An update from the Quilt Show committee meeting confirmed that all is progressing according to schedule. A suggestion to everyone from Suzie, who is coordinating the 'Stage Quilts for sale', that if you would like to sell a quilt at the show, the most needed will be larger quilts.
Show and Tell:
Two cute cot quilts for the Grace Centre: both by Susan D.
and Val has finished another cot quilt ...
Robyn S. has been working on six of these beautiful blocks for Adrienne's William Morris quilt: Only one shown here, but six were completed. The finest machine applique - just like Adrienne's.
And, not shown at Show and Tell, but I spied this quilt, which needed to be shared. Recently finished by Marie G. - quote, 'Just using up my florals'.
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NETGEAR, Inc.’s latest version of its Remote Cloud management solution, NETGEAR Insight is now available.
With this latest version 6.0 release network visibility is enhanced, whilst topology maps and graphs offer a clear visual view of wired and wireless networks. Additionally, with the new Insight Topology function, it is possible to organise wired and wireless networks in a network map to gain visibility and troubleshooting capabilities into the structure and status of the networks.
“Businesses, large and small, have had to change the way they conduct their business; work-at-home employees and digital engagement with customers are the new normal. And therefore, the IT network of a business is now ever more important” said Patrick Lo, Chairman and CEO of NETGEAR. “NETGEAR Insight version 6.0, dramatically simplifies the job of a network administrator and allows them to maximise network uptime while optimising performance.”
The new Insight Topology viewer provides a holistic network view while enabling quick drill-down to areas that need further troubleshooting or configuration modification. The Insight Topology viewer tool scales as the organisation’s network grows and is customisable to meet the administrator’s needs. It is built for speed, responsiveness and to enable shortened network debugging cycles.
Insight Topology is available in three predefined layouts: Tree View, Abstract View and, SSID View (for wireless deployments only).
Insight version 6.0 also comes with a set of tools to manage larger WiFi networks, including the ability to implement high-density wireless deployments by providing a single console to centrally install and configure more complex networks. This new offering is ideal for 50-250 employee companies, schools with multiple floors and local government organisations, among others.
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Greetings from las vegas,
i regret that i have to go in again today. yet, those who already have
BP's ear, can at least get the info. they need. NOLA will receive a copy
of the transmission so that they can show the powerpoint diagram to
BP representatives, and or push it along the pipeline.
we are racing against the clock folks.
there was two errors in the prior post and the ones prior, in reference
to the need of the next gen. recovery methodology. the cyclonic separation
is what the centrifuges do. according to IonTek, the oil industry has used
centrifuges for many years. the problem with cyclonic separation is that
it can not process mass quantities of water, nor can it touch oil at the
subsurface level where most of the contamination now floats.
yet, we are talking about a huge recovery effort that hasn't been moving
along, based on the error messages from the NOAA report, the press
conclusions, and faulty assessment protocols and math. equations.
so, we have a diagram of the hydrodynamic cavitation, and the phone
number of the Chief Technology Officer of Ion Tek, who is Gary Powell
is 617-953-2647- who can best explain the system. Otherwise, the direct
line for P.Barros is correct. Pedro Barros- 305.586.2265, of Ion Tek
there is plenty to be worried about. i was not happy about the projection
from my psi tool last night as to infer that in fact, even with the next
gen. recovery process- the hope for the gulf recovery is only 40%.
that of course, would entail continued use of the centrifuges and their
repositioning in critical areas where their own capability would be most
appropriate- as in the wetlands and around the spawning and fishing
areas. re: the cyclonic separators....
Thus, a comprehensive and continued recovery and clean up process
depends on use of a shared systems management such as BIRT,
re: www.birt-exchange.com, and potentially the Lucent/Acatel My Team
Work LMRCC, in order to coordinate mapping of contamination recovery,
the targets, and the parcelling of different areas to be assigned to
certain groups and their postings of progress, etc.
the diagram of the hydrodynamic cavitation will be embedded in the
upcoming www.jjlnradio.info PSA Public Service Announcement,
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In the meantime, a funny little bit to whet the appetite...
I feel that my fiction does not excerpt well, there is never a self-contained episode that can be extracted (and a blog post is not a good way of posting an extract, either!), but I wrote this partly because my former student Julia (whose novel Willow will be out in the very near future) rightly observed that all of the food in The Explosionist is extremely off-putting and asked whether I couldn't write about something delicious for a change!
I was laughing as I wrote this scene, because in fact it is followed only a few minutes later by someone throwing a canister of gas (complete with biological warfare agent) through the conservatory windows, the building being evacuated and everyone present being put into quarantine - but I was kind enough to let Sophie and Mikael eat something delicious first...
Here is the sequence, anyway (the occasion is alternate-universe Niels Bohr's birthday party at the Carlsberg Mansion in alternate 1938 Copenhagen):
The spectacle inside was grand and glittering and glorious. Sophie found herself amidst a throng of new arrivals in the great vaulted hallway, which was painted cream and rose and gold, with enormous vases of flowers everywhere one turned. A servant was taking everyone’s coats and Marguerite Bohr stood welcoming guests; Bohr himself could be seen through the open doorway at the bottom of the mansion’s central staircase, engaged in a passionate conversation with a gentleman whom Mikael identified for Sophie as the German cultural attaché.
“Spy?” Sophie whispered.
“Spy!” Mikael assented, and Fru Petersen gave them a stern look.
There would be no formal dinner this evening. It was more the sort of party where people stood around drinking champagne in flutes; because of the Carlsberg sponsorship, it was also possible to have a glass of beer, and Sophie and Mikael were served little cut-glass mugs of a delicious citrus punch ladled from a crystal bowl with slices of oranges and lemons floating in it alongside the bergs of ice.
She and Mikael had gravitated to the dining room, which held the most astonishing and delicious array of food that Sophie had ever seen. The boards were almost groaning with hams and whole sides of smoked salmon and the most delicious thin slices of brown bread and mounds of fresh salted butter and platters of cheese—in short, everything that Sophie, who liked food to be plain rather than mixed together, found utterly delicious. She and Mikael gorged themselves; Pauli was there, too, eating plateful after plateful of smoked salmon, and several of the young men from the Institute managed to put away more food than one would have quite thought possible. The ‘spies’ were not doing so badly either, Sophie noticed; a whole group of them had congregated near the food and installed themselves around a small table where they could stand and eat and drink without worrying about a servitor potentially whisking away a momentarily-put-down-but-not-yet-emptied glass.
Sophie’s secret plan, and perhaps Mikael’s as well, had been to glutton herself on the savories quickly enough to digest before the true pinnacle of the evening (of course there would be speeches and toasts, but they would be very dull) on the utterly glorious table of sweets that had been set up in the conservatory.
“Let’s just go and look at them,” Sophie said to Mikael, feeling sick to the stomach from having already rather over-eaten and yet with the yen for something divinely sugary still strong in her mouth.
“Oh, yes, let’s,” Mikael agreed. “Even if we’re not quite ready to eat anything else, there’s no reason we shouldn’t contemplate our choices….”
It seemed excessively greedy (though the main point of grown-up parties, if one was not yet a grown-up, was surely the twin benefit of having delicious things to eat and being allowed to stay up past one’s bedtime) to make a beeline for the dessert table. The conservatory was a feast for the eyes in its own right: an enormous vaulted greenhouse with walls of glass and iron, including a glass wall through which one could see the dining room.
“This must be where that macaw hailed from,” Sophie exclaimed, “the one who let out all Hevesy’s cats!”
“Yes,” said Mikael; “I believe it was exiled from Eden because it wouldn’t stop fighting with the other birds….”
Most of the birds she could see now were lorikeets, their bright plumage matched by the lush green of tropical plants and the brilliant pinks and reds and yellows of the flowers. Every plant had a label, but the mildly improving aura of the scientific-cum-educational was thoroughly mitigated by the lovely profusion of the plants themselves.
“Lavish!” Sophie said fervently, touching the leaf of an especially flourishing specimen and feeling her cheeks crinkle up into a huge smile as one of the birds in the enclosed aviary came right up to the screen and looked inquisitively into her face to see whether she might be going to give it something delicious to eat.
The jewel-colored jungle, with its damp earth-smelling air and tropical warmth, was made extraordinarily more striking by the fact that outside it continued to snow heavily enough that even a few feet away from the glass was only a thick blanket of dull whiteness. Just then the headmistress of Sophie’s school hove into view, in intent conversation with Niels Bohr’s sister, so Mikael and Sophie hastily made their way to the darkest corner of the room and took up residence behind a massive rubber plant—it must have been fifteen feet tall—to lie low and digest.
They could hear snippets of this and that—Robert Otto Frisch and Hilde Levi were having a lively argument about the notion of quantum entanglement, Hevesy was rhapsodizing in strongly accented Danish about the Hungarian nursery rhymes of his childhood (his homeland now doubly lost to him, since the Austro-Hungarian Empire of yore had been thoroughly engulfed by Europe), two ‘spies’ chattered in a high-speed Russian of which Sophie could understand just enough to be almost certain they were comparing notes on what laundry did the best job starching shirts for the least amount of money.
“How’s your stomach doing, Sophie?” Mikael asked.
“Surely it couldn’t hurt just to go and look at the sweets,” she said longingly.
They slipped through the dense clusters of partygoers until they were right by the table. There were platters divided into sections with dried apricots and cherries and cashews and candied ginger, and one plate after another of perfect little round chocolate truffles, each in an individual fluted paper cup and with all sorts of different decorations on top. The plainest ones were simply rolled in cocoa, giving them an appealingly Ugly Ducklingesque drabness (but Sophie would not waste her limited remaining stomach capacity on something so plain-looking and densely chocolaty); others were decorated with little caps of white chocolate with a light dusting of cinnamon or with a star-shaped pattern of silver or gold dragées.
There were heaping platters of hothouse fruit: green and purple seedless grapes with the blush still upon them, apricots and peaches and plums, strawberries whose strong scent cut through the competing aromas of chocolate and almond and vanilla and cigars and cognac and women’s perfume and the rich, almost rotting scent of the tropical flowers and earth.
The true glory of the dessert table, though, was the enormous multi-tiered silver cake stand, which was absolutely stuffed full of the most beautiful little cakes and pastries imaginable. They were almost too pretty to eat. There were miniature éclairs, piped full of whipped cream and covered with shiny chocolate icing, with a perfect little squiggle of white icing to adorn them. There were pink macaroons sandwiched together with a light green cream and white ones dusted in coconut. There were tiny fairy cakes iced in the most perfect pale blues and greens and pinks and lavenders like a very beautiful sunset. There were Lilliputian fruit tarts, their delicate custard filling topped with a few raspberries or miniature orange segments or strawberries and glistening with a sugar glaze. There were heart-shaped linzer torte and almond crescents and hazelnut tuiles and black-and-white checkerboard sablés and perfect little rosette butter cookies decorated with glacé cherries.
Sophie agonized over what to have first, but after a long hesitation, she chose a tiny cake iced in robin’s-egg blue and covered with green and yellow sugar confetti. She ate it in two bites, relishing the airy taste of the butter-cream icing and the almost fantastically light sponge base. | <urn:uuid:bedbdced-c973-4fe6-86f7-900103423c58> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://jennydavidson.blogspot.com/2009/02/icing-on-cake.html | 2015-04-18T20:48:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246636213.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045716-00040-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971085 | 1,963 |
SHOT SHOW 2011
Left to right: The Rhino on the range. Diamondback Tactical released their 380 pistol in a new frame color. And Diamondbacks new 9mm pistol which was just released to the public today Jan 17th 2011.
Lasermax is the first one to the market with a rechargeable laser called the Genesis. We will have a review of the Genesis laser to follow latter on in the year.
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Several streets in downtown Pismo Beach will be closed to through traffic on Saturday for the annual Classic at Pismo Beach Car Show.
Traffic is likely to be congested on southbound Highway 101 through Pismo Beach, according to a news release from Pismo Beach police. Price Street will be closed to through traffic between Bay Street and Hinds Avenue starting at 6 a.m.
Pomeroy Avenue from Price Street west to the pier parking lot will also be closed to traffic, as will Cypress Street at Main Street south to Stimson Avenue, and the 100 and 200 blocks of Hinds Avenue.
Some streets will likely be closed Sunday, particularly the 100 and 200 blocks of Pomeroy Avenue, the 600 block of Cypress Street and the pier parking lot.
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Since our start in 1964, the cattle industry has changed a lot since then and so have we. You need to understand approximately free pokie games.
We are currently operating a tilt hydraulic chute, 25 foot adjustable hydraulic alley way, and a double alley way entry with a 12 foot tub. Additionally, we have a portable hydraulic chute that allows us to work large groups of cattle at the producer’s ranch. So whether it’s at our state of the art facility or at your ranch, we have the equipment to handle your stock safely, efficiently, and with the least amount of injury and stress. | <urn:uuid:b9d78d73-cbbf-428b-b553-3b975cd0cd04> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://cvacvets.com/services/cattle-processing/ | 2021-10-16T01:47:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323583408.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016013436-20211016043436-00574.warc.gz | en | 0.958086 | 127 |
In this YouTube video by Clownfish TV, the host Kneon reports on the BBC’s struggles to find a new CEO. The British people are turning away from the public tv network over several factors. “Doctor Who” is its flagship entertainment program, but has alienated fans over the same far left politics that plague “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” Marvel and DC comics, and entertainment in general. Not mentioned in this video is BBC’s news division, which has run afoul of the Brexit movement and other populist sentiments.
Cutting the cord isn’t as simple in Britain as it is in the United States. The BBC is not directly run by the government, but it does charge semi-mandatory license fees from viewers. However, audiences are finding creative ways of getting out if them. Faced with this, no qualified media executive wants the job of running the organization. | <urn:uuid:f6653813-1a2e-4cd8-95ac-ddd4caada12a> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.natehoustman.net/2021/01/17/bbc-news-bbc-cant-find-a-ceo-as-audiences-turn-away/?add-to-cart=3133 | 2022-07-07T01:35:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104683020.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707002618-20220707032618-00056.warc.gz | en | 0.959394 | 192 |
Rapid Fire 2011-03-24: F-22s Sit Libya Out
- Why no F-22As over Libya?
- If you have complaints about low-flying RAF aircraft, there’s one country that seems to be missing from the official complaints page.
- Want a Type 42 air defense destroyer? Or just an SAS combat smock? Britain’s Disposal Services Authority may be the place for you.
- Germany upgrades Afghan contingent with more protected vehicles, other supplies – to include Marder 1A5 IFVs.
- Russian naval strike aircraft will be reassigned to Russian Air Force by the end of 2011. Naval strike aircraft include Tu-22M3 Backfire long-range bombers, MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors, Su-27 Flanker fighter jets, and Su-24 Fencer attack aircraft.
- ATK snags $49 million US Navy contract to produce 5.56mm and 7.62mm ammunition for use in the MK16 and MK17 Special Operations Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR).
- Sikorsky’s X2 compound helicopter wins the 2010 (100th) Collier Trophy for aviation achievement.
- USAF Air Combat Command’s new HC-130J combat search and rescue plane completes developmental testing, will begin deliveries in August 2011 alongside AFSOC’s MC-130J Combat Shadow IIs. Both are part of the C-130J Super Hercules family.
- BAE Systems gets GBP 22.5 million contract to provide training support to the Royal Navy’s submarine and mine warfare command team.
- Philippine commission finds a “staggering amount” of fraud in military procurement (and pretends to be surprised). Department of National Defense finalizes measures to prevent further fraud. Color us skeptical.
- The UAE is increasing pensions for military personnel by 70%, and giving bonuses to ministry of defense and armed forces staff, in a move seen as an effort to shore up loyalty.
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Build-up and production of a new 1-3-year course offer. As a partner project of the renowned Scuola Internazionale di Comics (Italy & USA), we developed new topics and design with the latest trends education in comics, illustration, concept art, animation, game design and – last but not least – storytelling and VR for adults. The goal was to convey the “art of visual storytelling” through events and social channels, promoting inspiring dialogue in all disciplines. For students who have just finished school, but also young professionals who want to get inspiration and energy to better cope with the pressures of the new digital world. | <urn:uuid:97531eca-1541-4014-89e9-aac512dae45f> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | http://www.normalum.com/portfolio/college-of-x/ | 2019-10-17T07:51:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986673250.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20191017073050-20191017100550-00331.warc.gz | en | 0.942305 | 135 |
60-something female client kick-ass boot camp workout with sandbells, ropes, trx, kettlebell, and bosu. This awesome boot camp fitness workout by fitness pro Michael Seril is fun, effective, and can be done by anybody with the desire to get fit! Below are a few ways that I would use this type of bootcamp workout at home or with clients:
Kick-Ass Bootcamp Workout Instructions: Warmup with mobility exercises for 5 minutes. Perform each exercise listed below for 45 seconds going from one exercise to the next with about 5-15 seconds to transition between exercises. Continue repeating the circuit for 30 minutes. Add in 5 minutes of your favorite core exercises then cool down with 10 minutes of mobility and stretches for the entire body. That's a 50 minute full body workout that's great for weight loss, fatloss, endurance, and strength.
Modifications: Make this more challenging by going 50 seconds on each exercise and taking no rest between exercises (continous work circuit). Make it easier by doing 30 seconds of each exercise and eliminating all chopping motions, bosu, and/or traveling portion of squat if you (or your clients) do not have the core stability for all that. Also the one thing I would change about this workout is I would set up the lebert bars higher so a person with less upper body strength can just do incline pushups from a standing position.
2 More Workout Options: Another cool way to do this workout is to break it up into two types of circuits, strength/endurance circuits or fatloss/sculpting circuits. The first option would be better for beginner to intermediates who need to lose weight and boost metabolism and the second would be ideal for the more advanced looking to burn extra fat and zone in on trouble zones (legs, butt, arms).
Strength/Endurance Circuits: Same instructions as above but work on circuit one for 15 min. then circuit two for 15 min.
Bosu lateral step ups w/sandbell chop TRX bodyweight rows Traveling squats w/andbell press Rolling ropes
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Publix, Kroger’s Atlanta division and HEB’s Central Market banner in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, have signed on to promote Florida seafood products this month and the next through an advertising partnership with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Through Aug. 16, the retailers will advertise Florida seafood products in newspaper ads and in-store promotions featuring “Fresh from Florida Seafood” logos and the “Florida Gulf Safe” logo. The promotion coincides with the height of the summertime grilling season, as well as Independence Day observations.
“The extensive news coverage of the Gulf oil spill has left some consumers with the mistaken impression that Florida seafood is unavailable or in limited supply,” explained Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles H. Bronson. “This promotion will help get out the message that Florida seafood is safe, plentiful and available.”
The department also offers consumers daily updates about Florida’s ongoing commercial seafood harvest through the toll-free Florida Seafood Hotline at 1-800-357-4273 or online at www.FL-Seafood.com. These resources offer current information on the status of the state’s open and closed fishing harvest areas, the availability of seafood varieties, and general pricing information. | <urn:uuid:d00703e3-e796-43fa-ba22-dbcb34c66a3c> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.progressivegrocer.com/grocers-helping-fla-seafood-ad-partnership-0 | 2017-03-26T20:58:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189252.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00104-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898315 | 268 |
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ITEM 116-1006-R0902 Approval of Proposal to create a Minor in African American Studies; The University of Montana-Missoula
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EXPLANATION: The University of Montana has offered courses in African American Studies for the past three decades. In fact, it is among the earliest institutions in the United States to offer such courses. The creation of a Minor is a logical progression. It will enrich the multicultural contents of the institution's curricula. | <urn:uuid:e246320c-1d7e-49f8-8c13-142383611fb7> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://mus.edu/board/meetings/Archives/ITEM116-1006-R0902.htm | 2015-04-18T15:08:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246635547.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045715-00264-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888175 | 130 |
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Ok here goes I have lots of ideas and really want this platform to succeed they may or may not have been suggested or are already in progress and I may be a little rude as I am not the best with words but lets give it a shot.
You need to get onto changelly and shapeshift to get Music on the fast exchange for any of the other coins and tokens they offer.
They had a simple vote based system before to add new coins so have a look into that as people need a way to fast exchange there coins without getting confused by signing up to confusing places like cryptopia and bittrex.
We can then set up a community forum post asking everyone to come and vote so they now have Music straight on there phone and can trade with lots of other coins they may be more interested in or have much lower fees than btc.
I also cannot find on Jaxx so it would be good to give them a shout and added to there mobile app to.
It would also be a great idea to get added to barterdex for the experienced traders who do not want to use a middle man or get charged more fees.
Plus I can only see music is paired with btc at present and that is a huge problem in itself.
Second idea :
Mobileness the player needs to work fast on mobile devices before you even think about releasing the app in todays world people want things there and then and if they cannot quickly have music autoplay at them they will not want to jump through hoops signing up for accounts and installing apps until they really get used to the idea of crypto plus crypto being paired with music it is very confusing for the average person or music professional to deal with.
The player again you need to set up a way to fast skip I think this has been suggested but maybe only start the payment contract once the song has been played for around 45 seconds.
For instance I go to my new favourite artists page play a few songs and I really like them and then this one song i’m not to keen on and the next one isnt my kinda thing either if I skip at present I will be greeted with whiteness and nothing will work for ages so I loose interest and do not recommenced using this again as I am used to soundcloud etc.
Playlists this is also a problem with the above
I know we can make our own makeshift playlists but there needs to be a way on site you currenty have one for every artist can this not be combined with checkbox’s next to each track to be added to the already built in playlist?
Track only playing on focused tab so if you are trying to check your email or anything else you need to do you currently switch tab and the musicplayer breaks trying to load the song.I can already hear complaints about this and I can see this is also a way of anticheat but same as I said up there people have no patience any more and with all the new competition incoming you really need to think about this.
There needs to be a way to see all your followers and also a way to unfollow people fast this is what people are used to now and is a great way for artists to engage and follow there followers back if they are also musicians etc.
Notifications of replies to replies I really like the system at present it would also be great like on the forum here to have a little notification when somebody posts something on your page or track but currently there is no way of knowing if someone has replied to your reply unless you go the the conversation itself and expand it all or I think they may also come up on your main feed but that goes so fast sometimes it often gets missed.This needs to be looked at because if you do not reply it could come across as rude and then you lose a fan etc.
Maybe for now just add to the email notif like we already get but for replies of replies too if that makes sense
What else was there
I want to thank you for adding the classified section to the forum and I am not sure many people have noticed it yet but this also needs a kind of feedback main post on there so sellers and buyer can get rated and build trust for future sales.
Also would be a good idea if people offer small things for sale to start like signed stuff and digital things that can be quickly transferred online to build reputation for the big items they would like to sell.
There is a few more things I wanted to mention and also wanted to say sorry if I have come across rude but you have competition now and already have things in the pipeline brewing so I would hate to see all your efforts be unnoticed by many now the competition has seen the way and no doubt trying to improve on things that are not in place here already.
I have lots of experience with trading etc and do not care about money or anything like that as you can see from my previous as I have given away more than I earned and I am not bothered if music is worth a fraction of a penny or several pounds per coin but 99% of everyone else is so I base my ideas on that. I am happy to give my advice for free and hope it does help some I know the devs have been very busy but on this side all we have noticed its a new landing page and a change of colour on the embedded player with multiple disruptions again not many people will tell you this either but I am me and honest and do not care for money fame or popularity so again i really hope this helps as you can tell me about the roadmap and whitepaper etc but I have seen all that so many times as they say the proof is in the pudding.
Also another thing that has been overlooked is you already have very big names in the industry on the platform that have gone unnoticed by many so it would also be very cool if we can get this ball rolling faster so they stay here and support more instead of moving on to the next platform that pops up and supporting someone else.
Feel free to delete this post ban me or anything but I had to get this off my chest as I really do support you guys and want everything to succeed I have spent a lot of time and energy here and would really like to still be part of the future of musicoin but my current situation means I cannot give much time or energy into really helping out plus you already have the skills, manpower and capital to make this work.
Thanks again and all the best for the future I hope this post is alot more positive than it comes across and helps at least a tiny bit
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New Delhi: The annual inflation rate accelerated to a two-year high of 6.58% in late January, triggering fears of another rate hike by the Reserve Bank of India.
Any increase in rates at this point could threaten the growth trajectory of the economy, currently projected to expand at 9.2%. Alternatively, if these high inflationary pressures persist, they could squeeze the profit margins of companies by pushing up their cost of production, economists said.
Bulk of the increase in inflation, as measured in wholesale prices, in the period ended 27 January, has been brought about by the surge in prices of food items including cereals, pulses and oilseeds, all of which have seen hikes of more than 10%. Meanwhile, speculative pressure on prices of food products is likely to only grow with the government saying that it expected foodgrain production to be below targets. Added to that, low levels of international food stocks have made it difficult for the government to tackle inflationary pressures through imports.
The inflation issue is proving to be politically piquant for the ruling party with three states poised to go to polls and another critical state, Uttar Pradesh, likely to go to the polls later in the year. With price increases in double-digits in several parts of rural India, incumbent politicians are under pressure to explain away the problem.
Meanwhile, the Left parties, which currently support the ruling United Progressive Alliance, are threatening to “take to the streets” if the government is unable to control inflation and expand the public distribution system to help the poor.
And in a statement reacting to the data, business chamber Ficci noted that “the speed and effectiveness of a correction in inflation would critically hinge on the agriculture sector’s ability to scale up to meet the huge demand for primary goods and the removal of supply side rigidities.”
The central bank said it was monitoring the data but didn’t give out any other signals. Some experts however caution against a rate hike at this stage.
“That is no solution,” says Ashok Gulati, director in Asia for International Food Policy Research Institute. “Global prices of most commodities are at a peak. We should have read the signals way ahead through the futures market. ”
“What we have done is too little, too late,” said Gulati. “We cut oilseeds import duty only by 10%, when the actual levels are 60-70%. Similarly, wheat import was opened up very late, and even corn was after poultry farmers had tired of requesting it. We should learn to dovetail the tariff policy with the policy for our domestic markets through the futures trade. Instead, by banning forward trade, the government is killing the messenger.”
Others suggest that by trying to battle inflation through rate hikes, the central bank might be choking off growth. “The rise in agro products is also a seasonal phenomenon,” insists Bibek Debroy, an independent economist.
“Once seasonality is over and the reduction in petroleum product prices are factored in inflation should drop. One shouldn’t press panic buttons, raise interest rates and squeeze both consumption and investment expenditure.”
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Fans of the retired U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis have been holding their collective breath all weekend, hoping there might be a way to prevent the scrapping of the ship in Mexico. Documents were forwarded to members of the Storis Museum Saturday morning indicating the ship might contain too much hazardous material to be exported under the federal Toxic Substances Control Act.
Jon Ottman is a historic preservation consultant and marine historian based in Michigan. He authored the successful application to place the Storis on the National Register of Historic Places.
He says that while some PCBs were removed from the ship, more may be contained in parts of the ship that would only be exposed and made dangerous if the Storis were broken up.
“The information that we have received indicated that the report that was used to clear the vessel for export for scrapping was flawed in that while the report had indicated the un-encapsulated PCBs on-board the vessel was removed the report does not indicate the other PCBs that would have been contained on the vessel in various locations throughout the ship, such as paint, gasket material, rubber insulation and various types of wire insulation aboard the vessel, that’s all still on board the ship.”
Because of that, Ottman says the Storis should not be exported to another country that might not have as strict environmental laws as the U.S.
“It’s an unfortunate situation but it would appear the EPA, the Unite States Coast Guard, the U.S. Maritime Administration and the U.S. General Services Administration should have been aware of all this, and they’re basically complicit in releasing a ship that should not be going to a foreign ship breaker. They let her go.”
PCBs, or poly-chlorinated biphenyls, were once widely used in electrical systems, paint and heat shielding until being banned in 1979 because of their persistent environmental toxicity and link to cancer.
Ottman says supporters of the Storis have contacted Alaska Senator Mark Begich for assistance.
“At this point, Senator Begich’s staff are trying to reach out to the EPA to see where the process went wrong and what the situation is from that perspective. They’re also reaching out to the Mexican authorities through the Mexican Embassy to let them know the vessel is actually en route at this point so that they can be aware that there is a contaminated vessel that is en route to their country. They may have the opportunity, the Mexican authorities, to turn the ship away because of what she contains on board.”
Ottman says if the Storis can be kept from leaving the country and the federal government can be convinced that the disposal was flawed, the process could go back to square one:
“Because the GSA listed the vessel as a repairable ship and did not indicate in their original listing for her on the GSA auction site that she contained hazardous materials that would have to be handled in a special fashion, or that should she be desired by someone for ship-breaking, that it would have to be done domestically. Those are all very serious shortcomings in the original General Services auction listing.”
The current owners of the Storis are Mark Jurisich and John Bryan, co-owners of US Metals Recovery of San Diego. They bought the 71-year-old ship at auction this summer for $70,100. The Storis was taken under tow late Friday near San Francisco.
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.
- v. To grumble, complain.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To grumble; mutter; complain.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Sound on 18 Doughty Street is mainly some sentences by one person and then cluck chunter chunter squak cluck cluk "so I think..." chunter, "But not withstanding" chunter,chunter.
It allowed them to chunter on about tapping-up and betrayal.
He has never bored of it, messing around apparently endlessly with tyres, rejigging qualification over and over again, fiddling on with aerodynamics and banning everything from launch controls to automatic gearboxes all with the express intention of making the sport more exciting and getting people like myself to chunter: Bloody typical: just when I finally worked out what data downlink telemetry does, they get rid of it.
I cannot manage to find any substance on the UKIP website about what they have actually done in the last five years, other than chunter away about why the EU is always wrong.
Particularly if you have access to Sky Sports News, the home of Transfer Deadline Day and a rolling source of sports chunter that for one day only becomes suddenly vital, the centre of its own frantically compelling universe.
"Ah, but will they?" asks fearless interrogator Keys, as the pair chunter on about Spurs in Europe, and then Arsenal, for hour after unending hour.
Sorry, just my opinion. chunter said at 10am on Apr 7th # |
For those of you who think this is an important element of the county blog, Yorkshire are 69 for one, rattling along at about 10 runs per chunter.
In any event, he decided that we should go on a barge holiday to Alsace and Lorraine, taking a week to chunter along a canal to Strasbourg.
Given what the consequences might be for everybody else's jobs of what was unfolding at the other end of the dial, and in light of the fact that anybody who takes the post of Manchester Citymanager looking for job security has been seriously misinformed, I flipped to the grown-up channels just in time to hear Dame Kelly Holmes chunter on for 15 desultory seconds about the effect of spending cuts on the 2012 Olympics.
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A Miami-Dade judge ordered Derrick Brown, 38, held on no bond Monday after police said they arrested him on numerous charges in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in West Perrine.
Brown was arrested early Sunday for his involvement in the crash that killed Monica Patterson at Southwest 105th Avenue and 176th Street in south Miami-Dade County last Monday, according to Miami-Dade Police.
Brown was a fugitive wanted by the state of Georgia for trafficking methamphetamines – and after the crash, he made several recorded phone calls to the Gwinnett County Jail in that state in which he admitted to driving the black 2002 GMC Yukon Denali involved when the crash occurred and to fleeing the scene, police said in his arrest affidavit.
Brown also confessed to a witness through cell phone voice calls and text messages, according to the affidavit.
He appeared in court with a swollen and bruised right eye, but how he received the injury was not mentioned.
The affidavit said that Brown was arrested in a room at 2305 Northeast 123rd St., which is the White House Inn on the Bay.
“He was arrested by the federal fugitive task force. We were working on a surrender, and they found him before he was able to surrender,” his attorney told Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Rodney Smith.
He faces one count each of vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a crash with death, leaving the scene of a crash with injuries and leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, and two counts each of aggravated fleeing and eluding with death or injury and driving with a suspended driver license with death or serious injury, police said.
Police said that Robbery Intervention Detail detectives tried to stop the Denali because it looked suspicious, but the driver fled and they lost sight of it.
The truck was heading south on Southwest 105th Avenue at a high speed and ran a stop sign before it struck a red 2006 Ford Taurus – which was heading west on Southwest 176th Street – on its passenger side, police said. The suspect and an unknown passenger got away on foot, according to the affidavit.
Patterson was pronounced dead on the scene, while the driver of the Taurus, 56-year-old Eloise Lewis, was taken to Kendall Regional Trauma Center in critical condition with serious injuries that included a broken clavicle, police said.
Brown’s record includes just over 10 years that he served in prison for a federal conviction for cocaine trafficking followed by five years of supervised release, a prosecutor said.
“That supervised release was violated. So it’s the state’s position that he’s an extreme danger to the community and a flight risk,” she said.
Judge Smith ordered Brown held on no bond on the crash-related charges, and set his bond at $6,000 for the drug charges from Georgia, which include a charge possession of 20 grams or less of marijuana. Brown also faces a civil writ from Broward County, police said.
Brown’s attorney said they would object to no bond being set on charges “that are fully bondable.” Smith replied that she could take it up with the next judge to handle the case, but said that based on the death charges and Brown’s history, he was leaving Brown with no bond.
Smith did agree with the attorney’s request for the corrections department to give Brown the medical attention he needs. She said he has a broken jaw, and has some damage to his eyes.
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Last night, I joined the masses of people reading (and tweeting and Facebooking about) Ann-Marie Slaughter’s essay for The Atlantic, Why Women Still Can’t Have It All and am so thankful I chose to spend my Saturday night doing so. While not necessarily ground-breaking, it nonetheless pacified my pregnancy hormone-infused brain, which has recently kept me awake at night obsessing over my choice to start a family before jump-starting a new career path in human rights.
While I deeply believe the “better late than never” motto, I still chastise myself for not figuring out what I wanted to do with my life until my late 20s. If only I’d known out of the starting gate that my passion was human rights work, I could have gotten my Master’s and forged a beloved career much sooner, rather than spending seven miserable years in corporate America. In other words, I’d already be well established before popping out my first baby just shy of turning 31 and I wouldn’t feel tortured over how and when I can possibly “have it all.”
But, as Slaughter points out, things don’t always follow a linear path, and regardless of which path you choose, you face trade-offs. For example, while having a baby now inevitably pushes back my dream of starting a new, very much desired career (cue my latest fear: who’s going to jump at the chance to hire a 30-something new mother in an entry level position?), at least I don’t have to worry about missing my window of fertility and struggling to get pregnant later on. The bottom line is, either way I’d be lying awake at night obsessing over something: starting a family or starting a career.
Which is infuriating, and very much to the point of Slaughter’s essay. Why should I have to lose sleep and feel compelled to choose between two of life’s greatest achievements? And, for shits and giggles, let’s say I do get to “have it all” and land my dream job soon after giving birth. Since when has juggling sleep deprivation, the needs of a new baby, long commutes and even longer work days — thus entrusting some stranger to raise my kid — become the new dream, the new unquestioned standard? Sounds sort of nightmarish if you ask me, which is why I applaud Slaughter’s suggestions on making the work-family balance for ALL members of the workforce — not just women — more achievable. A shift in our society’s consciousness and work culture is absolutely mandatory for any progress to be made, in order for women (and men) to avoid developing ulcers worrying about moving up the professional ladder at the expense of family or vice-versa.
But as frustrating as I find this predicament — not only for me personally, but for working parents in general — I don’t feel mislead by the feminist understanding I grew up with: that I could have it all, that with hard work and determination, I could be and do anything I set my mind to. While I’m (finally) seeing the holes in this mantra and realizing its imperfections, I still owe it credit. Believing it for so long has propelled me to do, see and say lots of shit I might not otherwise have done, seen or said. Which is why I will be passing it onto my daughter, not as an absolute truth, but as inspiration to achieve everything she possibly can and to fight the barriers that stand in her way of having it all. | <urn:uuid:55f9bf8f-46de-4914-9623-1add697eaa86> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://sherights.com/2012/06/24/on-not-having-it-all/ | 2019-07-19T18:55:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526337.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190719182214-20190719204214-00177.warc.gz | en | 0.945773 | 752 |
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Unless you are an avid watch collector you may not have noticed that most watches that display Roman Numerals use the symbol ‘IIII’ instead of ‘IV’ on the watch face. But why?
Do you frequently find yourself trying to think of a present for that one person who already has everything? Buy them a wristwatch.
When it comes to smartwatches, there are plenty to choose from these days, and as technology changes and adapts almost constantly, companies are releasing smartwatches to keep up with these trends.
From changing how we navigate the planet, to how we actually tell the time, these are just three of the watches that changed the world.
When it comes to choosing a brand-new watch, people tend to generally go for aesthetics rather than practicality, focusing on the face of the watch, […]
If you’re in any way interested in clocks, watches and the study of horology, you may have come across a few funny sounding watchmaking words and terms along the way.
Everything from clocks, watches, sundials, hourglasses, timers, chronometers and clepsydras falls under the category of horology and there are many museums and associations devoted to this noble study.
Watches can be a bit samey. Sometimes a black-bezelled diver watch or Rolex Datejust-alike just won’t cut the mustard. Here are a selection of unique watches to suit every budget.
Whether it’s a fitness watch for training at the gym, a dive watch for deep sea diving, or just something to help you find your way home from a run, your watch is now much more than just a timepiece.
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In this instance, I had an adult recreational hockey player in to see me for treatment. He had a history of shoulder injuries, some shoulder pain, and ongoing neck tension and headaches following his weekly hockey game. He exercises regularly, but doesn't often workout his upper body at the gym due to his lifestyle demands not requiring it.
In short, my plan of attack was to do some moderate soft-tissue release through his traps and neck, give him some self-mobility exercises to do before hockey, and some stabilization movements to strengthen his scapular and deep neck muscles. From the rehab side of the world, basic basic.
We tried this approach for two sessions in a row, a week apart. In both cases, my client felt great all week.
Oh wait, except for the two days after his weekly hockey games. Then the pain was like none other.
What Went Wrong?
I'll tell you what went wrong. My client was very responsive to the stabilization exercises and could feel himself standing taller and his shoulder sitting back much better all the way through. However, by increasing his shoulder and thoracic mobility (both through the treatment and through his home exercises), we inadvertently created instability that his muscles weren't yet ready to fully compensate for.
He described the pain after the second hockey game as "piercing straight from the back to the front" of his thorax. Essentially, after we freed up his joints and increased the movement happening through his thoracic spine and ribs, we created a need for the muscles in the area to work harder to maintain stability, Unfortunately, the strength and endurance in those muscles weren't yet there, and pain resulted for the days after the demand was placed upon them.
So after puzzling this one out, our third session was spent exclusively on strengthening exercises. We purposely avoided doing any hands-on soft-tissue release or joint mobilizations (aside from his self-mobility drills) to try and create a better foundation for stability first. After that treatment, he went to his hockey game and reported, finally, a relief in pain in the days following.
This is a great reminder to be cautious with the amount of mobility and soft-tissue release that we're providing to our clients (whether you're an Athletic Therapist, a chiropractor, or personal trainer) or even to yourself. Rapidly releasing muscles and freeing up joints does not automatically translate to good health. It must be balanced with proper strengthening to allow the muscle to compensate for the increase joint movement, and those muscles will continue to need further conditioning in order to endure any extended workload demands. Even the best of us will still overshoot when it comes to these principles, but all's good as long as we can take care to reevaluate and not try to maximize range of motion in too short of time. | <urn:uuid:156b84a4-60e4-42af-ad74-1b3693445dc4> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://cainexerciserehab.blogspot.com/2016/10/case-study-why-not-to-over-mobilize.html | 2020-05-27T12:02:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347394074.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200527110649-20200527140649-00418.warc.gz | en | 0.981884 | 580 |
John Morley 4 octave Clavichord in Mahogany on trestle stand (P)
4 octaves C to D
No.1086 c1965 second-hand
Made in London, England
Rent this clavichord on our home rental scheme for only £35.00 per month with an initial payment of £305.00 before delivery to a ground floor location in London (this includes delivery, collection, first months rental and setup/admin charge).
Value on rental agreement £3,488.00
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Dimensions : 112.cm wide 76.5cm high 39.00cm deep
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Want to know Gila Community College’s dropout rate? You’ll have to ask the college’s attorney.
Senior Dean Stephen Cullen told supervisors early this week that the college has a lower drop out rate than others statewide. He spoke in response to a report by the Goldwater Institute calling the institutions “dropout factories” with an average three-year graduation rate of about 18 percent.
The Roundup asked GCC Public Relations Coordinator Trena Grantham for the rate since Cullen didn’t specify.
She told a reporter to file a public records request, and that she would “forward it on.”
The next day, the Roundup received an e-mail from Lynne Adams, GCC’s attorney.
“GCC is determining whether any responsive documents exist. If they do, GCC will produce them to you promptly.”
GCC has a history of involving its attorney in routine records requests, including requests for budget information.
Meanwhile, the college is paying its attorney to handle these matters while staff remains on furloughs four days each month and students pay 30 percent higher tuition.
Traditionally, a reporter could call someone at the college and have them provide the rate over the phone.
Arizona Ombudsman Citizens’ Aide Pat Shannahan said, “It’s not at all common for public bodies to go and ask an attorney about a public records request.”
He added, “it would be legitimate if it were a potential issue of confidentiality.”
However, the information requested simply involved the dropout rate. If the school served K-12, the Department of Education would post the information on the Internet. Community colleges, however, have no overseeing agency.
“It’s legal for them to do,” said Shannahan.
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Brut 2006 Henriot, is a beautiful vintage champagne which spent 6 years in the cellar before to the day. It is made from more than 15 wines mainly from the Côte des Blancs (Mesnil-Sur-Oger, Avize, Chouilly) and the Montagne de Reims.
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Light yellow color accompanied by beautiful golden highlights. Very fine bubbles forming a beautiful strip of foam.
The latter is greedy and mineral and leaves apparître red fruit aromas (raspberries and strawberries) and fresh hazelnuts.
The attack Champagne Henriot 2006 is lively and fresh and has a fine structure. Notes of dried fruits (hazelnut) followed by spice aromas appear. The finish is long and tasty notes of beurées pastries.
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This expedition education module focuses on the Chile Margin 2012 Expedition, NOAA-OER.
Ocean Explorer Expedition Education Modules (EEM) are designed to reach out in new ways to teachers, students, and the general public, and share the excitement of daily at-sea discoveries and the science behind NOAA's major ocean exploration initiatives with people around the world. The INSPIRE: Chile Margin 2012 Expedition offers a unique opportunity to engage explorers of all ages as we continue our journeys to parts of our ocean planet that few have seen - deep-sea habitats at the only place on Earth where an actively spreading ridge between two tectonic plates is being subducted under a continental margin (INSPIRE stands for INternational Southeast Pacific Investigation of Reducing Environments). This EEM contains the following components:
A summary of why scientists and educators are interested in exploring this area and what we might learn from our efforts in this region as we strive to further understand the 95% of our planet that is virtually unexplored.Learn more
Lesson plans for students in Grades 5-12 have been specifically designed for this expedition and have been correlated to:
Interactive multimedia presentations and Learning Activities on Plate Tectonics, Mid-Ocean Ridges, Subduction Zones, and Chemosynthesis and Hydrothermal Vent Life.
Ocean Careers to Inspire Another Generation of Explorers, or OceanAGE Careers, invites students to learn about the talented people who explore our ocean planet.
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The ability of an endangered whale species to recover is jeopardized by increasing rates of entanglement in fishing gear and a resultant drop in birth rates, according to scientists who study the animal.
The population of North Atlantic right whales has slowly crept up from about 300 in 1992 to about 500 in 2010. But a study that appeared this month in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science said the number of baby right whales born every year has declined by nearly 40 percent since 2010.
Study author and Georgetown resident Scott Kraus, a scientist with the New England Aquarium in Boston who worked on the study, said the whales’ population suffers even when they survive entanglements in fishing gear. He said data suggest those “” on them.
“They are carrying heavy gear around, and they can’t move as fast or they can’t feed as effectively,” Kraus told The Associated Press in an interview. “And it looks like it affects their ability to reproduce because it means they can’t put on enough fat to have a baby.”
Entanglements have surpassed ship strikes as a leading danger to right whales in recent years. Forty-four percent of diagnosed right whale deaths were due to ship strikes and 35 percent were due to entanglements from 1970 to 2009, the study said. From 2010 to 2015, 15 percent of diagnosed deaths were due to ship strikes and 85 percent were due to entanglements, it said.
There is reason to believe the entanglements could harm conservation efforts despite recent positive signs on the whales’ recovery, Kraus said. Researchers said earlier this year that they were beginning to see more of the whales in Cape Cod Bay, and that was a good sign.
Right now, Atlantic right whales are in Canada waters off the Maritime Provinces and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
“When entangled whales are spotted, they are not necessarily trailing gear from the year,” said the aquarium’s Tony Lacasse. “They can trail gear for more than year.”
“Most of these whales, unless caught in anchored gear, die when the ropes cut into the animal, and they die from systemic infection,” he said.
Charles “Stormy” Mayo, a senior scientist at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, said the drive to make fishing gear safer for the whales could be key to saving them.
“There’s a great deal of work being done to try to change the configurations of various kinds of fishing gear or the methods of fishing to reduce entanglement,” he told the AP.
NOAA Fisheries has implemented rule changes to reduce the risk of large whale entanglements associated with the buoy lines from trap and pot gear. That rule impacted all trap/pot fisheries along the Atlantic coast as well as a large closure area for all trap/pot fisheries in Cape Cod Bay and the outer Cape during February through April. Those rules went into effect in February 2015.
In May, Foggy the humpback whale was found entangled in fishing gear about 4 miles off the coast of Gloucester and Rockport. The 29-year-old whale was freed after a more than nine-hour rescue effort.
In January, the federal government added more than 18,000 nautical square miles of critical habitat of right whale feeding grounds off New England. The area now includes the entire Gulf of Maine, which stretches from Cape Cod to the southwest end of Nova Scotia, to southeast of Cape Cod.
North Atlantic right whales are among the most endangered species of whales. They spend the warm months feeding in areas off the Northeastern states and Canada and spend the winter off Southern states, where they give birth.
The leviathans may grow as large as 53 feet long and weigh as much as 70 tons. They may live to be 100 years old and tend to inhabit temperate waters in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
There are estimated to be only 450 to 500 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, Kraus has said. Two of the 14 calves born last winter have died.
They are called right whales because they were hunted relentlessly during the whaling era, when they were considered the “right” whale to hunt because they were slow and floated when killed.
Mariners are urged to report any entanglement sightings of whales, sea-turtles and other marine animals to the Marine Animal Entanglement Response Hotline at 1-800-900-3622 or the US Coast Guard, and to stand by the animal at a safe distance until trained responders arrive.
Material from Patrick Whittle of the Associated Press was used in this report.
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The Olabisi Olabanjo University has received full accreditation of the 4 programmes presented by the university to the National Universities Commission, NUC, during the October/November 2019 Accreditation of Academic Programmes. The four programmes are Transport Management, Physiology, Fine and Applied Arts, and Applied Zoology
This has brought the total number of Full accredited courses in the university to 72. 70. Anatomy and Architecture programmes have Interim and Denied status, respectively
According to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, the deficiencies identified in the accreditation status of these two programmes were largely due to inadequacy in space and are being addressed by the on-going construction of Departmental building for the Anatomy and Morbid Anatomy Department in Sagamu Campus and the construction of six modern studios for the Architecture programme at the lbogun Campus.
He mentioned that with this development, the University has moved from 76% FULL accreditation status of the academic programmes offered in the university as at the time he assumed office in 2017 to 97.2%.
While appreciating the entire University community, the VC said, “This is arguably one of the best in the Nigerian University System and it has been achieved with the support of all staff and that of Council, and goodwill of the State Government. It is my prayer that this momentum will be sustained during the upcoming accreditation of 44 academic programmes that are due in November 2020. I have no doubt that with your usual support and our ‘CAN DO’ spirit, and the anticipated release of funds and goodwill of the State Government, we shall also record successful outcomes.”
Both for those of us back to our duties and those still working from home, in line with the recent directives of the State Government, I enjoin you to continue to observe strictly the guidelines of the National Centre for Disease Control on the prevention measures against the Coronavirus disease including use of face masks, frequent hand washing, use of sanitizers, and social and physical distancing, among others. Whether at home or at work, we should strive to be safe at all times.
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The main field of Enrawell Consulting is policy and economic analysis, consulting. Our clients are mostly central government institutions and agencies, local governments, employers’ NGOs, trade unions and institutions of higher education. Our team has been working in this market for more than ten years.
We rely on both our academic scientific background and real-life experience in our work. The advantage of our firm is that it combines the national, macro level perspective with micro level knowledge. The latter is of paramount importance because implementation of policy decisions and projects always happens at this micro level. Successful policy proposals, development strategies, project plans can come to life only if decision makers pay attention to the way they are realized in practice by the project teams, public administration actors, towns and cities.
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Växjö with the European Green Leaf Award 2018
Växjö Municipality, together with Belgian city of Leuven, won the European Green Leaf Award 2018. The European Green Capital Award for 2019 went to the city of Oslo. The awarding ceremony took place in Essen, Germany, on 2 June 2017.
The jury appreciated Växjö’s strong leadership in sustainable development. In 1996 Växjö made a commitment to be fossil fuel free. It was also the first Swedish city to use biomass for district heating and one of the first to start implementing Agenda 2030.
“It is fantastic that the EU Commission has drawn attention to Växjö and given us this award as an evidence that the environmental work we have done so far and the ambitions we have for the future makes Växjö the Greenest City in Europe”, said Anna Tenje, Mayor of Växjö.
The European Green Capital Award and the European Green Leaf Award recognise a city's commitment to a better urban environment. Cities with populations over 100,000 inhabitants are eligible to apply for the European Green Capital Award. The European Green Leaf is open to cities of between 20,000 and up to 100,000 inhabitants.
Winners demonstrate well-established records of high environmental standards and a commitment to setting ambitious goals for future environmental progress, underpinned by the practical application of sustainable development.
The European Green Capital Award (EGCA) and the European Green Leaf Award (EGLA) saw a very high number of applicants this year, with 28 cities across Europe competing for the Awards. The five EGCA finalists of Ghent (Belgium), Lahti (Finland), Lisbon (Portugal), Oslo (Norway) and Tallinn (Estonia) and three EGLA finalists of Ludwigsburg (Germany), Leuven (Belgium) and Växjö (Sweden) were chosen by an international panel of experts. | <urn:uuid:9052b6bc-fe65-4aa5-ac86-5402c55d2f4f> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | http://ubc.net/content/vaxjo-european-green-leaf-award-2018 | 2018-10-20T02:05:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512501.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20181020013721-20181020035221-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.928524 | 413 |
Ashima is a staff journalist reporting on the global energy sector, with interests spanning across human rights, geopolitics, technology and climate resilience.
The pipeline was closed by Main Pass Oil Gathering Company (MPOG) last Thursday after crude oil was spotted around 19 miles offshore of the Mississippi River Delta.
This is the first-ever gas deal between Africa’s largest oil producer and Europe’s biggest gas consumer, signed at the G20 Compact with Africa conference in Berlin.
Since China reopened its economy after the zero-Covid policy, the world has reeled under two major energy shocks, from Russia-Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine wars. Ashima Sharma asks if oil markets can rely on China to steer consumption.
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The recovery in Shell’s share price is driven by higher commodity prices and changes in business strategy.
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Marcel Abeke was an executive of Eramet, the world’s largest producer of high-grade manganese ore, mined at the Moanda mine in Gabon.
The Yemen oil tanker crisis serves as a grim reminder of the environmental risks associated with oil spills in war-torn and disturbed regions. Ashima Sharma reports.
A report by the OCCRP reveals how the law in India was bypassed to loosen environmental regulations that benefit corporates.
The rise in yuan payments has given China an edge to internationalise its currency against the US dollar.
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Classes begin at 9:00am and typically end at 5:00pm. You may arrive anytime after 8:30am.
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Implementing and Administering DNS
Terms you'll need to understand:
Domain Name System (DNS)
Fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
Relative distinguished name
Active Directory (AD) integrated zone
Resource records (RR)
Techniques you'll need to master:
Installing and configuring DNS for AD
Integrating AD DNS zones with non-AD DNS zones
Configuring zones for dynamic update
Managing replication of DNS data
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a name-resolution database most commonly associated with the Internet. It was first defined as a way to replace the aging HOSTS file system, which is explained in the next section. With Windows 2000, Microsoft has made DNS the primary method of name resolution for Active Directory (AD) networks. In fact, DNS is a required element for installing ADso much so that the process of upgrading a member or standalone server to an AD domain controller (DC) automatically installs the DNS server service if you do not have a valid DNS server for AD to use.
We'll briefly touch on how and why DNS was created, because without that background, troubleshooting DNS by testing with alternative name-resolution methods won't fully make sense.
You will need to know how to install, configure, and troubleshoot the DNS server service.
Brief History of DNS
As mentioned previously, DNS has its origins in the Internet. When the Internet was small, every single TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) host on the Internet had a file called HOSTS that contained mappings of every other host on the Internet and its IP address (hence, the name). Whenever a new host (such as a workstation or server) was added to the Internet, a new master HOSTS file was created and posted, and everyone on the Internet would download the updated file. This was fine when the Internet was small and changes were infrequent. However, as the Internet grew, the process of updating HOSTS files on every system became increasingly unmanageable. Enter DNS. DNS was conceived as a hierarchical namespace that allows the management of the Internet namespace to be partitioned and distributed. As such, not every system needs to know the name and IP address of every other system on the Internet. Conceptually, the DNS hierarchy looks like a tree. At the very top is what is known as the root domain, which is represented by a period (.). Below the root domain are the top-level domains, which are the .com, .net, .edu, .org, and so on that we are all familiar with.
Below the top-level domains are the second-level domains, which are what we work with every day when sending email or visiting a Web site. Microsoft.com is a second-level domain, as is Army.mil and Harvard.edu. When you visit http://www.Inside-Corner.com, you are accessing a host computer called www in the Inside-Corner.com second-level domain.
Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs)
With DNS, another important term to understand is the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). This refers to the complete, unambiguous name of a host. The FQDN contains everything from the host name through the root domain. An example is the http://www.microsoft.com. FQDN. In this example, www is the host, microsoft.com is the second-level domain, com is the top-level domain, and the trailing period represents the root domain. This FQDN is said to be "unambiguous" because it uniquely defines a single host on the Internet.
Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs)
Unlike an FQDN, a relative distinguished name (RDN) is just the part of the host name that represents the host system. In the previous example, www would be the RDN. These types of names are not used on the Internet because of the likelihood the name would be ambiguous and unable to be resolved to an IP address. However, RDNs are common on internal networks, because corporate DNS servers check their local zones first to resolve a name (more on zones later).
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Yesterday I decided to take a break from the smoothies. I don’t know if my body was reacting poorly to the weekend of fun and not eating normally, or if it was reacting because I had two smoothies on Sunday. One way or the other, it wasn’t very happy. Since I had to be at work yesterday, I thought it would be a good idea to stick with the basics.
Delicious basics. Cream of Wheat with cinnamon, banana, and stevia in an almost empty peanut butter jar. The hot cereal makes the peanut butter melt off the sides. It is so so good. I scraped this bad boy clean.
The protein, fat, and carb combo did a great job of holding me over until lunch time. At lunch I came home and made myself a PB2 banana sandwich and served it on possibly the cutest plate I have ever laid my eyes on. Target boutique really knows how to make me happy. 😉 This plate was $1.79 I think; well worth it. I have another one to show you soon too!
I also ate some pretzels and cheesy crackers with hummus and a piece of dark chocolate. Then back to work. After work I headed straight to the gym even though all I wanted to do was lay outside on the deck under the beautiful sun. I brought an issue of Fitness magazine and read it from front to back while movin’ it on the elliptical. It felt great to move yet I kept it a fairly relaxing workout. I was still sweating through it! I think I have decided that Fitness magazine is currently my favorite magazine. I love reading all of their recipe ideas, workouts, and tips on healthy living.
Anyway, I headed home to hang out with the boyeeze. On the menu for dinner: lettuce wraps with pulled chicken, apple, avocado, and Newman’s Own Lite Honey Mustard.
I loved all of the different textures and the sweetness from the apple and honey mustard with the slightly salty chicken. After the lettuce wraps I got into the peanut butter again. Yup, you read it right, peanut butter for the third time, this time with pretzels (Hales I thought of you while snacking on this one). I just couldn’t keep my paws off the peanut butter yesterday. And since I’m being totally honest, I’ll go ahead and tell you I also had a few bites of rainbow sherbet and a lemon cookie.
After dinner I still had quite a bit of energy to burn, so made my way down to the treadmill and walked my way through the Bachelorette. Well, part of it at least. I am such a huge Sean fan still. I am really hoping that Emily falls for him and they can live happily ever after.
Once again I got roped into watching this season. They always get me somehow.
I am off to tackle some To-Do’s. Catch up with all ya’ll later! Have a great day.
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Hi, my name is John Croyle. I’m the founder of W9manager. In today’s video we’re going to talk about the reason to always get a W-9 form before paying your vendors. Getting a W-9 form before you make the first payment to a new vendor or independent contractor is critical and will save tremendous time at year-end and reduce potential IRS penalties. A W-9 form provides you with the vendor’s legal name, TIN number, text classification, address and exemption and FATCA statuses. This information is then used to process a 1099 form at year end, if required. Getting a W-9 form up front will help you avoid many headaches and streamline your year-end W-9/1099 process.
First, getting a W-9 form helps you avoid IRS backup withholding requirements. Backup withholding can be very onerous and time-consuming. The IRS requires companies to withhold 24% of all reportable amounts paid to the vendor and remit the funds collected to them. You then have to follow a very specific deposit schedule outlined by the IRS with potential penalties for missing payment deadlines. You then have to make sure to file form 945 timely at year-end and getting a W-9 up front eliminates the requirements to backup withhold anything, in most cases.
Secondly, getting a W-9 form will help you avoid IRS annual solicitation requirements. Part of the backup withholding process requires that companies show they have initially requested the W-9 form upon the first transaction and then at each of the following two calendar year ends. If the company cannot show that they followed the annual solicitation requirements, they may be subject to additional IRS penalties. Again, getting a W-9 form up front will eliminate this requirement. See our video on annual solicitation requirements.
Next, getting a W-9 will help you have less 1099 forms to file. When you deduct money from a vendor or independent contractor due to backup withholding requirements you will always be required to issue a 1099 form. In many cases the initial payments made to the vendor or independent contractor are not reportable and the only reason you now have to issue a 1099 form is to report the backup withholding itself.
In addition to the extra work, this also exposes you to the risk of additional penalties and interest due to the increased number of 1099s issued if not done right. There will be less B notices to work. As you increase the number of 1099s that are issued you will also increase the likelihood of receiving B notices from the IRS, or error notices. When submitting a 1099 form to the IRS without a TIN number or with a TIN number that doesn’t match the legal name of the W-9 you will likely receive a CP2100 notice from the IRS. This is an error notice from the IRS saying that the 1099 form you submitted was not correct. This notice will have specific requirements that you will have to follow which likely includes sending out B notices to your vendor. This also exposes you to the risk of additional penalties and interest if you don’t get the B notice process done right.
The next reason I’m going to talk about is that it’s always easier to get a W-9 up front. It’s much easier and more efficient to get a W-9 form from a vendor when they are eager to get paid than at a later point time in the year when they have already been paid. Companies that manage this process well require vendors to submit a W-9 form prior to purchasing any goods or authorizing any services. Or they require the vendor to submit a W-9 form to them before payment is made. If you wait until year-end you may not be able to find the vendor or they may be reluctant to provide a W-9 form to you since they’ve already been paid.
Finally, you will have a reduced risk of penalties. If you wait until the end of the year to get all of your W-9s from your vendors, you run the risk that you can’t get the W-9 form from the vendor at all. The vendor or independent contractor may be out of business or they may just not want to respond knowing you can’t report the payments to the IRS without their legal name and TIN number. At this point you can no longer go back and withhold 24% of all the payments to the vendor and follow annual solicitation requirements. Your company now runs the risk of owing the entire 24% that was not backup withheld as well as significant IRS penalties. For context that would be a $2.4 million penalty on $10 million paid to a vendor. The risk here is massive and really not understood by many companies. For more information see our blog on potential IRS penalties.
So, to conclude, don’t issue purchase orders or authorize work until a W-9 form is received. And if you end up receiving a bill from a vendor, don’t make any payment to the vendor until a W-9 is received. If they are unable or unwilling to provide a W-9, make sure you comply with backup withholding requirements starting with the final payment. For more content like this check out the W9manager Academy at w9manager.com/academy. Thanks for watching our video today. I appreciate it. | <urn:uuid:f9d132fb-7f42-45c4-9cbd-09c07324a894> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.w9manager.com/video/always-get-a-w-9-before-paying-your-vendors/ | 2022-06-25T00:52:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103033925.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220625004242-20220625034242-00250.warc.gz | en | 0.953594 | 1,109 |
Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth desperately try to stop Lazmet Noavek, a tyrant who may be Cyra’s father, regardless of the inescapable fates spoken by the oracles at their births.
This book was amazing!!!! I loved it and I can’t wait to see what Mrs. Roth does next. The link to the review of the first book in the duology, Carve the Mark, is right here. I was engrossed in the book from page one and I couldn’t put the book down until the very end. I loved the characters, I got invested in the plot, and the setting was just beautiful. I loved it so much and I am so sad that the series is over. If you want to hear more of my thoughts then you should read the rest of my post.
The characters were realistic. I loved them all to pieces, which meant that I was crying buckets for some parts of the book. I really loved how resilient the characters were. They were all beautiful in their own way. They also changed a lot over the course of the book, which meant that their relationships did too. The characters were really realistic and acted like people. They were also really detailed and had amazing backstories. I really enjoyed reading about them and learning about them, I’m really sorry that I can’t read another book from their perspective.
My favorite character was Teka. She was talented and funny, but that’s not why she’s my favorite. Teza is my favorite because she was Cyra’s first girlfriend. She was there for Cyra when Askos wasn’t. She was also the first person to touch Cyra of her own free will, to give her a hug. Teka was just an amazing person altogether and I love her with all of my heart.
The plot was very well done, if not a bit predictable. Not very predictable but I knew some things were going to happen. The thing that I am most curious about is whether there will be a sequel. It was set up so that it could be either a sequel or the end of a duology. The plot was very action-packed, but there was a fair amount of planning there as well. I loved how Mrs. Roth was able to leave me with a plot twist or cliffhanger that had my jaw still dropped in shock a few chapters later. The plot was also really even paced. I think that the plot could have been a little better, but I wouldn’t have made it that good.
The setting was very well done. I enjoyed exploring Orga and everything on it. I also loved learning about the cultures of a lot of planets and learning more about Thuve/Urek. The way that everything worked was amazing and I loved learning about it. Mrs. Roth made sure that there always something new to learn and that I would find amazing and wonder how I hadn’t known that before. I loved learning about the setting and I hope that you love this book as much as I did.
I really loved this book and I hope that you do as well. I highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys fantasy or sci-fi, as this book is a combination of both. Please remember to fill out my survey. You can find the link on my about page. Thanks for Reading!!!! Have a Great Day!!!! -Annalee and Buttons | <urn:uuid:898b54c3-641d-405b-bdfd-bffeb0469d27> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://bookreviews507.com/2018/06/15/the-fates-divide-by-veronica-roth/ | 2018-10-20T15:38:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512836.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20181020142647-20181020164147-00516.warc.gz | en | 0.991875 | 715 |
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