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Syrian warplanes attacked Islamist militants near the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, both sides said, as the government tried to push back an insurgent advance in the area.
Dozens of air strikes hit near the town of Khan Touman, which rebels took from forces loyal to the government and its ally Iran late on Thursday, insurgents and state media reported.
Aleppo is one of the biggest strategic prizes in a war now in its sixth year. Through much of the conflict, it has been divided into government and rebel-held zones. Aleppo's surrounding area is also strategically important because it encompasses valuable supply routes into neighboring Turkey.
The Syrian army reported on Sunday that it had hit hard what it described as terrorist groups, but did not give further details about territorial gains.
A mouthpiece for the Iran-backed, Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which is supporting Syrian government forces in the area, reported "heavy fighting" against "hardline Sunni Muslim rebels." Since Syria's main ally, Russia, entered the war in September, regime forces made significant advances in the northern regions surrounding Aleppo.
Footage uploaded by rebels from the Khan Touman area show them targeting regime forces with what appeared to be American TOW guided anti-tank missiles.
The Nusra Front posted on social media that it was advancing further south, towards the town of al-Hader — a stronghold for the Hezbollah forces supporting the Syrian government.
Some fighting continued in Aleppo, despite the shaky US and Russian brokered ceasefire there. It began last Wednesday and was meant to last 48-hours, but according to the Syrian state news agency, it is being extended until Monday.
Rebel groups inside Aleppo reported that the Syrian army shelled and bombed their posts overnight near a frontline in the western part of the city.
"We don't know how to take cover from the intensity of rockets and airstrikes that are showering us," Ahmad al Wawi, a fighter from a rebel coalition group told Reuters.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that rebels fired rockets at residential areas in government-controlled zones. At least seven people were injured — partly due to a building which collapsed after being struck by a missile.
Rebels are seeking to take over the area that would allow them to enter the heart of government-held parts of Aleppo.
The Observatory also reported that an airstrike targeted the rebel-held town of Kafrnaha, in the western Aleppo countryside, killing several people at a hospital.
The attack on the hospital comes after a string of recent attacks on medical facilities in Aleppo including the al Quds hospital where 50 people were killed. Video showed what remained of the alleged hospital, including damaged ambulances.
Separately, the Amaq news agency, which is associated with Islamic State, said the group had destroyed a gas plant in the desert outside the central city of Palmyra on Sunday. IS were driven out of the ancient city two months ago, but continue to be active in the surrounding area.
Overnight, Turkey said its special forces also carried out a counter-terrorism operation in Syria, not far from the southeastern Turkish border city Kilis. According to Yeni Safak, a Turkish news outlet, special forces prepared for ten days ahead of the operation, and were acting on information gleaned by their intelligence teams. They raided rocket positions operated by Islamic State militants who, in recent month, have been driving up to the border, firing rockets and then driving away. The rockets are not guided, but they frequently hit Killis, where several people have been killed in cross-border rocket attacks.
Reuters contributed to this report


May 2, 2009
There is one possibility is who ever put it in there, they pinned it into the barrel. Look in the middle of the sight for any kind of screw or round pin. Its just odd they it rocks around but does not move.
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I am having a hard time understanding why that sight is moving slightly on both ends, and not pushing out. It's hard to tell in the pics if there is possibly a pin or screw in the center holding it in position. Rust or Loctite doesn't seem to be the problem. If you google gun sight pusher, you will see what I mean by "sight vise"
Naturally removing the wood to secure the barrel and then push the sight out. Apparently easier said than done! Good Luck!
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There are plenty of St. John’s, Newfoundland, events happening over the next 14 days. The city is known for its colorful row houses, beautiful coastal views and a thriving cultural and arts community. There are several museums and urban parks to visit, as well as world-class coastal trails, ecological reserves, and historical sites. There are also numerous festivals, concerts, and other events in the city.
One of the most notable events is the annual Newfoundland Winter Carnival. This celebration of the winter holiday is often accompanied by a slew of events celebrating the city’s rich culture. Locals enjoy the city’s many festivals, which are held on a yearly basis. If you’re visiting St. John’s in October, you’ll want to check out the Lion’s Club’s annual fundraiser. On Fridays, you can enjoy free food and drink at the Lion’s Club. This is a fun way to socialize with the community and give thanks for the great things that St. John’s has to offer.
The city is home to two ice hockey teams. The Avalon Harps play in Canadian GAA events, and the city has a twin city relationship with Waterford, Ireland. It is also home to a Portuguese organization called Camara Municipal de Ilhavo, and a sister city relationship with the Newfoundland town of Waterford. If you haven’t been to St. John’s in the last few months, you can check out Wikivoyage’s travel guide for the city.
Whether you’re looking for family entertainment or a fun day out, there are a wide variety of things happening in St. John’s these days. There are festivals, outdoor activities, and events, so there’s something for everyone. Regardless of your interests, you’ll find an event to suit you. If you’re visiting the area, don’t forget to check out the city’s attractions!
The St. John’s Avalon Harps compete in Canadian GAA events. The St. John’s Avalon Harps, a women’s hurling team, competes in the Scott Tournament of Hearts. In addition to this, the city is home to the 2006 Olympic gold medalist men’s curling team. Brad Gushue, the skipper of the men’s team, started a campaign to bring the Brier back to the city. The win made him the next World Championships and earned him a place in the sport.
If you’re traveling to St. John’s, you might want to check out the Lion’s Club on Pitts Memorial Drive. The club is a great place to enjoy local music and food. On Friday evenings in October, there are several festivals and events in the city, including the Moose Ball and a stag and hen night. The city’s largest, most famous, and busiest airport, serves the entire metropolitan area.
The Lion’s Club hosts Friday evenings in October. This is a great time to enjoy live music, delicious food, and local entertainment. There are plenty of things to do in St. John’s, and the city is an ideal destination for tourists. With two curling clubs, you can even try out a game of ice hockey. If you’re planning to see the Lions, don’t miss the other opportunities in the city.
The city also hosts many sporting events throughout the year. The St. John’s Avalon Harps are a popular club for ice hockey and other sports. The Canadian hockey team has its own stadium, so you can catch a game at any time. If you love to watch games, you can also check out the ECHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs. There are many other events in the city.
A visit to the city is a great way to experience the city’s many cultural events. You can attend a concert or a play. A night at the theater is a fun way to spend a weekend in the city. And don’t forget to get some fresh air and a few hours of sleep. If you’re planning a family holiday, a visit to St. John’s museum will help you make the most of your time in the region.

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gave me this commission some time ago. So between finishing up 'The Awesomes' at work and my cinitiq being out for fixing, It's been a slow process. But here it finally is. Everything was done in Toon Boom.
@ the acid: that would have been good though more work, and hadn't been requested by the commissioner. XD @the background: yep. tried to get a decent comp out of it, but it was more important to get good character animation and character focus, so I spent more time on character and rigging.
@Easing, is there a specific movement that troubles you? There is mostly eases on all of the movements, some less than others, but I try to keep timing interesting, and putting everything on super ease is a way to make animation really boring. I appreciate the critiq though.
The acid would have been an animator's quirk as I might call it :3 As for the background, I understand how that is. And the background works fairly well anyway. Well the easing in a few of the throw-behind movements (mostly the last) just seemed like it lacked a bit for me. It looked as if the bottle had no weight. Of course, too much easing is obviously, as would suggest, too much. Nevertheless the animation is pretty darn good and I'm just being nitpicky to find things to improve.

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Intel is introducing a mobile device designed to help people who have difficulty reading printed text.
Intel's Reader device, which is about the size of a paperback book and is powered by Intel's Atom processor, takes printed text, converts it to digital text and then reads it out loud to the reader.
The Intel Reader, introduced Nov. 10, can be used in conjunction with the chip maker's Portable Capture Station, which can take and store large amounts of text-such as the chapter of a book or an entire book-to be read later.
The Reader includes a high-resolution camera that lets users point, shoot and listen to the printed text being read.
The device is aimed at helping those with such reading impairments as dyslexia or who have vision problems, including blindness. There are about 55 million people in the United States with disabilities that make difficult or impossible to read printed text, according to Intel.
The idea for the Intel Reader came from Ben Foss, an Intel researcher who was diagnosed in elementary school as having dyslexia symptoms. According to Intel, he got through high school, college and graduate school by having people read the text to him or by struggling to read himself.
"As someone who is part of this dyslexic community, I am thrilled to be able to help level the playing field for people who, like me, do not have easy access to the printed word," Foss said in a statement. "Feelings of loneliness are often the experience of not being able to read easily. We have to open the doors for people in these communities."
The device was built by Intel's Digital Health Group. It's been endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association, and Intel is working with a host of groups-including the Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs and the Council for Exceptional Children-in developing technologies to help people with reading disabilities.
The Intel Reader will be available through a number of resellers, including CTL, Don Johnson Inc., GTSI, Howard Technology Solutions and HumanWare.

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The self-confessed middleman in the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has admitted to stabbing himself the night before he was due to give evidence at trial, police have said.
Melvin Theuma, who was given a presidential pardon in exchange for revealing details of the plot to kill the investigative journalist, told police and paramedics that his wounds were self-inflicted and that no third party was involved.
He had been found on Tuesday night in the bedroom of his police-protected residence in a pool of his own blood after his lawyer raised the alarm, according to a police statement, which added that he was holding a knife in his right hand.
It said he had suffered “multiple injuries to his neck, kidneys and wrist.”
There was no reason provided for the self-harm.


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Not so fast.
China's national income continues to improve and a series of government policies have greenlit a number of new projects within the nonwovens industry, driving up production levels and improving technology.
According to a recent survey of the China Nonwovens Information Center, nonwovens production in China reached a record 1.3 million tons in 2008, the first time per capita consumption, at 1 kg, exceeded the global average, 0.92 kg. This represented a growth rate of 17%, significantly higher than China's GDP growth of 9% in 2008. Spunmelt was the largest technology in China but all of the main nonwovens technologies are well represented in the country.
This growth is slightly less than the average 20% growth rate the industry achieved between 1978 and 2008 but it is still impressive. (For more on the CNIC report, see page 46.) This month, China is inviting the global nonwovens industry to its country to see where all of this growth is coming from.ANEX09 and SINCE09 will be held May 20-22 in Shanghai, when it is expected to be the largest nonwovens-related trade show ever held on Chinese soil. Featuring a mix of domestic companies and international players, this show can be called China's coming out party to the nonwovens industry, its chance to show the world that it is already a major player when it comes to nonwovens.

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A successfully managed supply chain is based on a single premise — consistently produce more high-quality products in less time for greater profit. During the early 20th century, factory-floor automation revolutionized manufacturing with this same idea. Since then, process automation has taken over as the driving force to generate greater efficiency in every business. Much of this work takes place in the back office.
Over the last 20 years, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have become the cornerstone for back office process management. Given their initial promise, many companies invested heavily in ERPs. However, to add much-needed flexibility and function, most organizations also invested a lot of time and effort in customizing their ERPs. Manufacturers typically spend an average of over $11M annually on ERP implementation and maintenance, typically overrunning their annual budgets by $3M.
Three Options for Improvement
With such large sums of money spent just to keep ERPs running, it’s clear that there’s room for improvement. Gartner predicts that highly customized ERPs will be relegated to “legacy” status by 2016, but there are still options that can be used to energize and revitalize corporate ERP. There are three basic choices.
1. Rip and Replace
The first option is to rip and replace your legacy ERP system in favor of a new on-site implementation. While potentially effective in the long-term, this strategy can come at a very steep price in the form of lost man hours, business disruption and, of course, monetary investment. It’s also risky. You could simply be replacing old problems with new ones.
Alternatively, you could choose the other extreme and replace your physical ERP infrastructure completely in favor of an outsourced service. However, outsourcing ERP functions can be costly and can result in lost process efficiency and control. Sometimes, outsourcing simply relocates challenges rather than solving them. In many situations, outsourcing ERP functions simply isn’t an option.
The third option is a hybrid approach, which leverages your existing legacy ERP infrastructure as a process backbone while it employs automation to integrate and execute process steps across your enterprise. Below are two real examples of how this hybrid approach to process automation has revitalized the legacy ERP systems of some of the world’s leading global manufacturers.
Daikin Europe N.V. is a fully owned subsidiary of Daikin Industries, a global provider of advanced air conditioning solutions for residential, commercial and industrial applications. The company manufactures and sells air conditioning units for over 30 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. To manage its extensive network of supplier and reseller partner relationships throughout the region, the company uses an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system designed to communicate financial data — such as orders, payment notices, shipment verification, etc. — between facilities in Europe and corporate headquarters in Japan.
To ensure mission-critical end-to-end delivery of the supply, production, distribution and logistics related business processes, Daikin developed an IT environment that interfaced with its business partners and IBM System i5-based applications. But this solution came with some challenges of its own.
One of the biggest challenges Daikin’s IT administrators encountered was the need to manually patch its native component content management system (CCMS) tool across the enterprise, since it didn’t provide alert notifications or execute ERP processes in parallel. To recover its systems from any failed tasks, administrators needed to spend additional time performing labor-intensive manual recovery. With more than 33 percent of its daily tasks involving legacy tools and partners, the need to automate these processes was crucial to stay on time.
Using our system-agnostic automation solution together with Daikin’s existing legacy infrastructure and ERP, the company automatically integrated data from both legacy and EDI systems, allowing data in one system to trigger events in another. Today Daikin manages interface tasks in near real-time and uses automated escalation procedures to solve most process errors before they slow down business.
Daikin no longer struggles to manage the mission-critical sales, financial and tracking data from suppliers and partners. By automating its most critical back-office processes, Daikin was able to save significant time and resources, right alongside its existing ERP and infrastructure investments.
Sequential Accuracy Required
A leading manufacturer found that its existing system restricted its ability to properly scale supply chain operations. Each portion of the company's supply chain requires numerous steps to take place. If these don’t run or run incorrectly, they hold up the next business steps. With more than 250,000 complex, sequential tasks taking place daily (more than 8 million per month) the company placed a tremendous process burden on its ERP. In initial attempts to improve scalability, the company’s IT team deployed custom-developed modules to overcome these shortcomings. With five central SAP® ERP systems, 23 additional SAP systems and more than 2,000 servers in the company’s data center, these patches proved expensive to adapt and difficult to maintain. On more than one occasion, production was disrupted and workers didn’t receive the correct information to proceed.
After reviewing its process requirements, we worked with the company to automate and centralize the management and monitoring of the company’s entire supply chain. With automation, the company uses its existing ERP to successfully manage back-office processes faster and more reliably for improved efficiency and overall quality assurance.
These are just two examples of how process automation can profoundly energize “legacy” ERP for the supply chain in manufacturing. With the right automation in place, control, visibility and coordination become more manageable. Process automation scales growing complexity back down to human-size and your existing infrastructure works with significantly fewer limitations.
Jeff Rauscher, Director of Solutions Design for Redwood Software, has more than 31 years of diversified MIS/IT experience working with a wide variety of technologies including SAP, HP, IBM, and many others. Rauscher has worked in operations management, data center relocation, hardware planning, installation and de-installation, production control management, quality assurance, and customer support.
 Panorama Consulting (2014). The 2014 Manufacturing ERP Report. Retrieved from http://panorama-consulting.com/resource-center/erp-industry-reports/the-2014-manufacturing-erp-report/
 Gartner, Inc. (2014) Gartner Says By 2016, the Impact of Cloud and Emergence of Postmodern ERP Will Relegate Highly Customized ERP Systems to ‘Legacy’ Status. Retrieved from https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom


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Wyndham Hotel Group has announced its expansion in India with the signing of agreements to franchise three hotels under its Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Ramada brands. The new properties will be a 154-room Wyndham Grand property in Agra, and two new construction Ramada properties in Alleppey and Ghaziabad. These three new properties will add to the group’s 14 hotels already in operation in India, and other 15 properties that are currently under development.
“With rapidly increasing tourism and business industries, India holds an abundance of growth opportunities for hotel companies. We are delighted to announce the signing of these three new properties, especially in such renowned areas like Agra. We remain committed to developing hotels with distinctive designs and offerings while strengthening our global presence in sought after destinations,” said Ken Greene, President & Managing Director of Asia Pacific for Wyndham Hotel Group.
The 154-room and suite Wyndham Grand Agra, owned by Shekhar Resorts Limited, is schedule to open by the end of 2011. Ramada Alleppey is slated to open in March 2012 with 112 rooms including 24 suites, while the Ramada Ghaziabad, BS Road will be a 100-room property with 20 suites. It is scheduled to commence operations in March 2016. The signings also increase the company’s portfolio of hotels in the Asia Pacific region, which currently consists of 425 properties and more than 61,700 rooms.


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Verbufa is an internationally operating company, based in Amersfoort, Netherlands. The company was established in 1952 and employs around 40 people.
Verbufa develops, provides and implements machine solutions for the food processing industry and as a trading company distributes machines and systems of leading manufacturers from the food processing industry.
Verbufa has been exclusive Handtmann trading partner in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg for over 55 years.
Handtmann Maschinenfabrik develops and produces filling and portioning systems as well as digital solutions for the production of foods.
The acquisition of Verbufa was contractually agreed on 1st April 2021 and generates advantages for both partners.
“The integration of Verbufa into our group of companies marks an important strategic step towards an even stronger positioning in international competition,” comments Thomas Handtmann, Managing Partner of the family-owned business, “because the food processing industry is undergoing profound change towards digitisation, globalisation and individualisation and with it, changing customer needs.”
Harald Suchanka, CEO of the division of filling and portioning systems, emphasises: “Following the acquisition of Inotec this past year, we are now taking the next logical step in providing our customers with holistic solutions. As a long-standing partner, Verbufa can contribute excellent industry insight and expertise in the development of customised customer solutions.”
In addition to direct market development in the top sales markets of the Netherlands and Belgium, the merger of the two companies generates, above all, a high level of innovative strength for process-oriented concepts and solutions in the areas of forming, dosing, co-extruding and process automation. Customer requirements can thus be implemented quickly and purposefully. “I am confident that the overarching interlinking of our development and engineering expertise and the combined knowledge of the market will produce substantial added value for our customers worldwide,” states a convinced Mark Marrink, previous owner of Verbufa and future Operations Manager of the new Handtmann subsidiary.


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Farewell to the Metal Queen of Music Journalism
Gerri Miller was a pioneer of the male-dominated 80s and 90s metal scenes
Back in the good old days before we got all tangled up in the World Wide Web (remember that?), if you wanted to know what was going on in the world of hard rock and glam metal, there really was only two options.
One, you may have gotten little nuggets of information from watching MTV at a time when videos featuring the glitz and glam of bands like Cinderella and Poison dominated the channel. Or you could hit the local newsstand, a 7-11, or a WaldenBooks in your local mall to peruse and get more insight in a music magazine focused on hair metal and hard rock.
There was CREEM. There was Hit Parader. There was Circus. There was Rock Scene. There was NOT Rolling Stone who looked down on heavy metal. But most important of all there was Metal Edge. Much of my youth in the 80’s and 90’s and even after graduating college in 1999 was spent perusing through Metal Edge every month to gain more insight on the bands featured on Dial MTV along with their albums past and future. Hit Parader and Circus might have been geared to a more casual fan, but Metal Edge stood out as way more sophisticated.. Many of the photos on these pages included this gorgeous dark-haired woman who might have even passed as a lead singer of one of these bands as it was hard to tell back then. And on each page of the magazine, there was a featured name whom I assumed was the same woman. That person was Gerri Miller.
From doing some half-ass internet research, I learned that Gerri got her start writing for Tiger Beat. In 1985, she moved over to Metal Edge becoming it’s main writer and eventually editor-in-chief. Because of her sass and ability to get close with teen idols and such, it probably was even easier to get “in” with many of the bands from the Sunset Strip and their publicists. As a legitimate fan of the music, she relished in breaking in new bands while building and sustaining interest in many bands including Warrant, Cinderella, and Skid Row among others. She played her cards right gaining access to the iconic rock bands of the time as seen by the plethora of photos she included of herself with bands in the magazine.
Metal Edge was published until 2008 before it faded away due to the rise of instant access to metal and hard rock news on the internet. Sad to think Metal Edge wasn’t as forward thinking to have a web presence early. Even though Gerri Miller was quick enough to understand the hair metal scene of the 80’s was fading, she was smart enough to jump on-board and feature more grunge, alternative, and thrash metal bands in the magazine along with the usual hard rock staple bands like KISS, Def Leppard, and AC/DC. Once Metal Edge faded for good, it seemed like Gerri did as well. Although she must have had a huge network and also had contributed to other publications such as People, Gerri never really caught on anywhere else. It appears that she contributed arts and entertainment articles for a Jewish publication in Los Angeles, a far cry from the debauchery and craziness of the 80’s glam rock scene.
As a person with a heart full of memories, I can remember vivid details of my childhood and attempt to give praise to many of the lesser-known but impactful people who shaped the music culture. But I have to refrain on this one since it was only a few days ago while scrolling on Twitter did Gerri Miller’s name come back into my consciousness. And it was with the sad news that she had passed away at only 67 years old after a lengthy bout with cancer that got me upset due on her impact not just on the heavy metal world, but personally on me. She was a pioneer and I’m not quite sure why she never caught on with Rolling Stone or contributed to many of great documentaries about the LA music scene that seems to hit HBO or Netflix every week.
Gerri Miller might not be a household name for most rock & roll fans born after 1990, but her impact with promoting bands during a unique time in the music industry should definitely be recognized.
Here’s hoping one day she will be recognized by the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame for her contributions to rock & roll!
VIDEO: Gerri Miller at the Metal Edge 1992 BBQ
- Farewell to the Metal Queen of Music Journalism - March 25, 2021


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S&P cuts Oyster Bay, N.Y. GO rating to A-minus
Oct 25 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said on Friday it cut Oyster Bay, New York's general obligation bond rating to A-minus from A and removed the rating from possible downgrade.
The rating action reflects S&P's new local GO criteria and its view of the town's deficit general fund reserves in fiscal years 2011 and 2012, the rating agency said in a statement.
S&P said the town's outlook is stable reflecting its weak financial position caused by years of structural decline offset by one-time revenues from the executed land sale which has provided at least a temporary boost to reserves and liquidity.
- North Korea says Kim's powerful uncle dismissed for 'criminal acts'
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Normally, there is a gathering commemorating the disaster, but the lock-down in New York City has meant that there will be no gathering to remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire this year:
“Today, we mark the 109th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, a catastrophic event in which 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, were killed as a direct result of abhorrent working conditions and woefully insufficient workplace safety standards. The loss of life was both tragic and avoidable, and sent shockwaves through our city and nation. Outraged Americans demanded that these workers’ deaths not be in vain, and the public outcry that followed brought a renewed sense of urgency to the labor movement and to the fight for stronger workplace protections and fire safety laws,”
—Workers United Secretary-Treasurer Edgar Romney & New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO President Vincent Alvarez, Mar 25, 2020
Normally, we gather at the site of the blaze to mark the anniversary of the Triangle Fire. We assemble at the corner of Washington and Greene Streets to watch the fire truck ladder rise to the 6th floor, which was as far as it could reach in 1911, as workers burned alive or leapt to their deaths from the factory floors above. This year, we express our solidarity by marking the occasion at home, each doing our part to flatten the wave of infections that threatens to overwhelm or city and our country. Even as we stand apart, we stand together.
146 people died, mostly young women working at the factory.
The doors were locked so they could not get out, and the fire truck ladders could not reach their floors, and many of them jumped to their deaths.

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Dave Ratner, the owner of Agawam-based chain Dave's Soda and Pet City, doesn't blame customers who have expressed anger and criticism over his recent attendance at a White House executive order signing -- an event which he said he thought would be focused on helping small businesses, not rolling back the Affordable Care Act.
Ratner, whom the National Retail Federation invited to the Thursday White House ceremony, stressed Saturday that he and other small business owners at the event had no idea President Donald Trump would use the measure, which seeks to allow small businesses to purchase health insurance in groups and across state lines, as a way to undercut the ACA.
Had he known, the Western Massachusetts businessman and Retailers Association of Massachusetts board member said, he never would've attended the executive order's signing.
"If someone says to you, this is what I'm going to do, you go there because you think that's what they're going to do, right? (Trump) just basically dismantled all of Obamacare, but he didn't let that out until we were standing there," he said in an interview. "People think that I went and I'm in favor of dismantling Obamacare, I'm certainly not in favor of all the other stuff -- it's stupid -- and neither is the association. I wasn't duped, I just never would have gone had I known what the true intention was."
Ratner, who said he has long pushed to make it easier for small businesses to compete with larger companies when it comes to purchasing health insurance, stressed that he doesn't support efforts to dismantle the controversial health care law.
He, however, said he was not surprised by people's anger or the swift criticism he received online -- including hundreds of negative business reviews -- following his White House visit.
"I don't blame people for being angry, I just hope that for 42 years I've been a pretty good citizen and take care of everybody in the community. I just would not have gone had I known what he was announcing," Ratner said. "I truly, in my heart of hearts, thought I was going for a really good thing for my employees."
"I apologize, I'm embarrassed and I never in a million, gazillion years would have gone had I known what he was going to announce, because I think it's stupid and I agree with them completely -- it's mean," he added.
Ratner was among more than a dozen people on hand as Trump signed the executive order, which permits an overhaul to federal regulations allowing for health insurance plans that don't have to comply with certain consumer protections and benefit rules included in the controversial health care law -- a policy that some say could deal a major blow to the ACA.
The businessman said Friday that his attendance at the event should not be been seen as a sign of support for the president.
Specifically, the executive order directs Secretary of Labor R. Alexander Acosta to consider expanding access to Association Health Plans, which could allow employers to form groups across state lines.
The measure, which drew pushback from Massachusetts Democrats, further directs the Departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services to consider changes to Health Reimbursement Arrangements "so employers can make better use of them for their employees," according to the White House.
Trump cast the order as a "historic announcement," arguing that it will allow more small businesses to form associations to buy health insurance, therefore opening up additional options for employers to buy plans their workers want.
The president, who has pledged to dismantle the ACA, further argued that the measure represents "the first steps to providing millions of Americans with Obamacare relief."


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Chicken and dumpling stew is a quick and easy weeknight dinner that will warm you up and put a smile on everyone's face.
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Arbitrator T. Andrew Brown said in the ruling that the terms of Trump’s non-disclosure agreement were "highly problematic" because it did not adhere to typical legal standards, describing it as “vague, indefinite, and therefore void and unenforceable."
“The Agreement effectively imposes on [Manigault Newman] an obligation to never say anything remotely critical of Mr. Trump, his family or his or his family members’ businesses for the rest of her life," Brown said in the ruling.
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Oxidized Rope Design Ancient Roman Glass Necklace
Item #: 34214
18" oxidized sterling silver necklace with 18mm x 30mm oval shape rope design pendant. The pendant features a 11mm x 19mm Ancient Roman glass center. Color of Roman glass will vary. Lobster clasp closure on .8mm rounded box chain.
Comes with Certificate of Authenticity.
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Colin MacLeod hunts for the man responsible for the death of his love. He chases the immortal Marcus Octavius across centuries as his quest threatens to take over his life and heart. In his quest, he meets a woman who reminds him of his slain beauty. But it's his final battle with Marcus that will decide not only his fate, but also the fate of everyone in the world.

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We had a very good stay at this condo. At first we ( 3 friends) were very sceptical because of the high price but when arrived and lived there we knew it was really worth. Its clean,very big rooms and its located at the best spot. Its not loud but you can walk to the city in 3min ( yes 3 min) 2 bedrooms with each an bathroom. The pool on the roof was great.
This apartment is great for families. It is close to Bangla Rd as well as the shopping centre and markets.takes about 5-7 minutes to walk to the beach but it is a very easy walk through the main street. I don't recommend swimming at this beach though.the apartment was well stocked with all necessary equipment. I thought the $500 bond was a bit steep but once I got there and saw there was a flat screen and dvd player in every room and modern appliances etc... I could understand why it was in place. The air conditioning in the main bedroom was not as strong as the living room but it was enough to keep the room cool at night. Clive was fantastic to deal with,he organized to get us 2 cots for our twins which was fantastic at no extra cost.The swimming pool is pretty average but it does the job. It is not really designed for kids and it does not have enough under cover shelter. For a large space around the pool you would assume they would make it a little more appealing by adding some plants or something.
We ended up paying approx 2000 baht for electricity which is about $60 odd Australian for 12 nights. We did not overuse the air con and switched everything off when we went out. The Room Stayed Cool Even When We Were Out For The Whole Day.
Overall we loved this accommodation and would definitely look at renting it again.
There were a few minor cosmetic issues to the apartment but nothing that would deter me.
We just had the most amazing stay in this condo. So much so, we can't wait til next year to stay there again! Very reasonably priced and everything you could want. Very clean, stylish and comfortable, and in a great location. The owner was great in corresponding via email and answered any questions very quickly and in detail. Highly recommend this condo.
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New cell technology for Neue Klasse - BMW Group strengthens battery expertise as part of the European Battery Innovation initiative
The BMW Group is accelerating its development for the battery technology of the future, thereby supporting the ramp-up of a European cell and battery value chain. In this context, Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG, today received a grant decision from the Federal Minister of Economics and Energy, Peter Altmaier, as well as from the Bavarian Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, Hubert Aiwanger, in support of the BMW Group's battery projects within the framework of the battery IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Intertest). For the BMW Group, it is clear that high-performance and sustainable energy storage systems are the key success factor for the individual mobility of the future. The development of highly innovative and sustainable battery cells is therefore one key element of a high-performance European cell and battery value chain. This aspiration is reflected in the Neue Klasse, which the BMW Group first presented at its annual conference in March. This new generation of vehicles, which will be launched by the middle of this decade, will be uncompromisingly electric, digital, circular – and clearly focused on all-electric drivetrains.
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Is National Biweekly Administration a Scam?
As a customer for National Biweekly Administration (NBA) for about a year, I attach my invoice here (https://sites.google.com/site/ripoffreportnba/)
Complaint 1. Without telling me, NBA charged me $1258.18 enrollment fee, and purposely delayed this charge for four months from the enrollment so that I didn't notice until recently.
Complaint 2. Without telling me, NBA charged $3.50 biweekly fees.
Complaint 3. NBA is not honest. I clearly remembered when I asked the representative about the fee of the service, her answer was "it is free of charge".
Complaint 4. Even worse, NBA doesn't do his job to minimize my loan! As you can see from the following invoice, NBA sends out the mortgage payment, so-called "APPLY EXTRA TO PRINCIPAL" in their terminology, monthly instead of biweekly. [continued below]....
..... What they do in my case is to simply pay an extra month to my principal. However, just to complete this simple task, they charged me $1258.18 enrollment fee and $3.50 biweekly fees without telling me in person or via email (mail).
How does NBA make money? Very simple: to set up an automatic monthly payment plan with an extra month rent to the principal.The 7-year old kids know how to do so!
Then, why did people like me enroll in NBA? Because I wanted to reduce my monthly payment, and I was not informed with the ridiculous enrollment fee.
Next, should we pay NBA?Does credit card company charge enrollment fee and monthly fees for setting up the automatic payment plan? NO.Does auto loan company charge enrollment fee and monthly fees for setting up the automatic payment plan? NO.Does mortgage bank charge enrollment fee and monthly fees for setting up the automatic payment plan? NO.So, the answer is we should ABSOLUTELY not pay NBA for the automatic payment plan.
Overall, a rip-off experience with NBA (http://www.interestminimizer.com/).
Later on, I googled "national biweekly administration scam", and then I realized I am not the only one...
Stay away from NBA.

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Nurse Practitioner Roles in Multidisciplinary Teams
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3. Include why your role is important to the holistic care of patients.
4. Explain how these experiences will inform your future clinical practice in acute care settings.

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Two-story new construction, decorated to the tee, with gourmet kitchen. Eat in or dine out in nearby restaurants, all current literature at house for area restaurants and activities.
Frisky Oyster, Claudio's, Love Lane Kitchen, etc. Walk to beach for a sunset drink, or bring a picnic lunch and collect shells. Two additional public beaches in biking distance from home.
State-of-the-art sound system in all rooms and outside on all three decks. Upstairs bedroom has its own deck. Screened in porch on back deck. All in view of horse farm across the street. Antique stores and wineries up the block and fabulous farm stands with fresh corn and veggies.
You can have a fun girls' weekend, a boys' sports weekend, or bring the family for Thanksgiving. The 50-inch flat screen TV is awesome above the fireplace. Great house for entertaining or just for a tranquil, quiet getaway. Deer and bunnies live in the woods behind the house, situated down the block from beach. Backyard room to play ball, etc. Bikes and volleyball net, beach rafts available for your use.
Huge windows overlook the property and very sunny during the day.
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For sale is a lightly used Aimpoint T2 2 MOA red dot sight. Installed it on an AR15 & sighted it in. One or two range trips but then decided to change over to a ACOG. Purchased as a 'no Mount' sight but I have added low and riser mounts which will both go with the sight. Works perfectly, I just don't have a use for it now. Accepting Zelle or discreet PayPal gift. U.S. sales only please.


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With the persisting volatility of the COVID-19 pandemic, we understand that partner competitions must prioritize the health and safety of our community and, as a result, may end up cancelling their in-person events. If a partner competition decides to host a virtual event, their rankings will feed into the ELO system, provided that they adhere to the Legends virtual guidelines.
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Sexual Assault Prevention (SAP) has been a focus across the Desi Dance Network for several years. Far too many collegiate dancers enter the circuit without proper education around sustaining healthy relationships, maintaining sexual health and safety, or participating in safe drinking habits; these factors compound, leaving our community at-risk for sexual violence. We are grateful to have a variety of community organizations who have made strides to tackle this issue by improving awareness around the prevalence of sexual assault in the circuit and providing resources to better support survivors.

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- A medicine ball with two handles is known as a double grip medicine ball and allows the user to perform two-handed strength training exercises. Though barbells are commonly used for lunges, the weights can be replaced with double-grip medicine balls.
- Medicine ball training is one of the easier ways to improve your endurance, explosiveness, and core strength. The weighted strength-training ball works well for a wide range of upper- and lower-body workouts
- A thick, reinforced rubber construction allows achieving a solid and sure grip. The interior filling is substantial enough to help the ball keep its shape across repeated use
- Thanks to integrated handles, these medicine balls can be used for both one and two-handed exercises, letting users duplicate swinging motions and rotational movements
- The solid weighted core adds resistance to help build core strength during crunches, rotational twists, and leg raises
- Enhance daily workouts with medicine balls that can improve your training and often used for rehabilitation and strength training.

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Groups like the Zac Brown Band, Rascal Flatts, and Lady Antebellum have triggered a major resurgence in country music. Even those bands started on a local level though – so why not book a Country Band that hails from the Waco, TX area? Check out who’s available here!
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KENYA – A collaborative effort led by the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) has unveiled a remarkable solution to the persistent menace faced by pawpaw farmers in Kenya and Africa.
Researchers have heralded the success of Acerophagus papayae, a small parasitic wasp imported from Ghana, in curbing the devastating impact of the invasive papaya mealybug (PMB), Paracoccus marginatus.
The invasive PMB, native to Mexico and Central America, wreaked havoc on Kenyan crops since its arrival in 2016, causing yield losses ranging from 57 to 91 percent, reports Farmers Review Africa.
With a voracious appetite, PMB attacks over 200 plant species, injecting toxic substances into leaves, stems, and fruits. Heavy infestations produce sticky honeydew and waxy secretions, rendering the affected fruits inedible and unsellable.
However, hope emerged as scientists from CABI, in collaboration with the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), and Kenyatta University (KU), introduced A. papayae into the ecosystem.
The female parasitoids, by either host feeding or oviposition, played a pivotal role in reducing PMB populations.
Through a series of meticulously conducted experiments, the researchers discovered that A. papayae effectively parasitized PMB, demonstrating parasitism rates of 30% or higher at all research sites within a month.
The breakthrough doesn’t merely signal relief for pawpaw farmers. This environmentally friendly solution, integrated into an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan, also signifies a vital step toward reducing reliance on harmful chemical insecticides, safeguarding both agricultural yield and the environment.
Significant differences in host choice were noted when A. papayae was offered several host stages, with third instars being preferred over second instars. Adult females were preferred over third instars.
“The high parasitism rates and female-biased sex ratios obtained with third and adult female host instars indicate that mass rearing of A. papayae should be done with these host instar stages,” said Dr. Selpha Miller, lead author and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Invasive Species Management at CABI
Farmers and agricultural experts alike are optimistic about the future, as the introduction of A. papayae offers a beacon of hope in the battle against invasive pests.
The success of A. papayae marks a significant milestone in the field of pest control. In harnessing the power of natural predators, scientists have struck a balance in nature, ensuring sustainable agriculture while preserving delicate ecosystems.
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Giving Tuesday is all about giving back to the community and making a difference for others. On Tuesday, November 29, 2016, the National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin (NKFW) planned to share the gift of health with men, women and children throughout Wisconsin. Every day, your neighbors are looking for hope, inspiration, and a little kindness to live out healthier lives and turn to NKFW to learn more.
The #KINDneyTuesday campaign emphasized the important role NKFW plays in everyone’s health including those with diabetes, high blood pressure, and chronic kidney disease. Each Giving Tuesday, there are many ways you can spread kindness and show your support to help patients and families right here in Wisconsin.


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With control of Region 5-4A on the line, Irmo made No. 7 Lexington sweat on Friday night.
But in the end, the Wildcats held strong for a 24-17 victory on senior night.
It wasn’t over until an untimed kneeldown after the Yellow Jackets’ last-ditch double pass was intercepted by Eric Ricker, who ran around to drain the clock (the game couldn’t end on a defensive penalty on the return). The win was more harrowing than it had any right to be, as Irmo (3-6, 2-1) cut into a 24-3 led in the late going.
“We told our kids coming into this game, we’re in complete control of what happens to us as a football team,” Lexington coach Josh Stepp said. “We wanted to keep it that way.
“We played a good first half, didn’t play well in the second half, but a win’s a win, “he said. “It’s tough to win at any level.”
Senior tailback Slade Carroll carried the load on the ground, powering through tackles to keep Irmo off the field and surpassing 1,000 yards for the season.
The win put Lexington at 8-1 and, more importantly the lone undefeated team at 3-0 in the region.
When Christian Kinsley’s punt rolled dead inside the Irmo one-yard line, pinning the Yellow Jackets with a minute to go.
Slade Carroll, RB Lexington: The senior carried the ball 25 times in his last regular season home game, posting 210 yards and two touchdowns.
Christian Kinsley, K/P Lexington: One of the best kickers in the area, Kinsley hit a 42-yarder, put every one of his kickoffs in the end zone for touchbacks and pinned the Yellowjackets in the late going.
36: How many passes Irmo’s run-heavy attack had to throw after falling behind.
45.8: Lexington’s completion percentage, which led to an uncharacteristically inefficient offensive day.
THEY SAID IT
“You can’t (miss chances) against a good football team like Lexington. When you get those opportunities, you’ve got to make those plays” – Reggie Kennedy, Irmo coach
“We’ve got a very resilient group. It’s a very mature group. We’ve got great senior leadership. Our kids never feel like they’re out of a game. They play like they’re behind when we’re ahead.” – Josh Stepp, Lexington coach
HOW THEY SCORED
I — Cates 32 FG, 8:53
L — Schadewald 35 pass from Blake (Kinsley kick), 5:50
L — Carrol 4 run (Kinsley kick), 10:41
L — Carrol 4 run (Kinsley kick), 5:58
L — Kinsley 42 FG, 8:39
I — Tharp 33 pass from Smith (Cates kick), 6:51
I — Love 33 pass from Smith (Cates kick), 3:11
Rushing: I: Tharp 10-86, Bradley 8-34, Smith 10-29. Totals: 28-149. L: Carroll 25-210, Green 5-16, Blake 4-(-9) Rucker 1-9, Wells 2-3, TEAM 1-(-2). Totals: 38-227
Passing: I: Smith 21-35-0-190, Jamison 0-1-1-0. Totals: 21-36-1-190. L: Blake 11-24-1-150.
Receiving: I: Heath 10-76, Tharp 3-65, Love 3-34, Dweitt 2-11, Jamison 2-7, Bradley 1-2. L: Hopper 7-86, Schadewald 2-50, Wells 2-14.


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As easy as 1, 2, 3 in Aylesbury!
We’re making things simple in Aylesbury, alongside the great value saver tickets above, short-hop singles are now £1, standard singles are capped at a maxium of £2, and returns are withdrawn and replaced by the £3 day saver ticket. 1,2,3!
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Alongside the above changes, we’re making changes to some single and return fares.
In High Wycombe, we’re withdrawing service 34 tickets and are introducing a maximum single fare of £2.40 and a maximum return of £2.70, available all day.
Following the withdrawal of the Amersham and Chesham zone due to the extension of the High Wycombe Plus zone, we’re introducing a maximum return of £3.70 in the Amersham and Chesham area.
In Oxford, we’re simplifying our singles and returns in the city with a maximum £1.50 single and flat £2.50 return to Thornhill/Park and Ride. Child and student singles are simplified with a flat £1 fare and returns no longer available.
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Global car rental company Avis Budget Group has entered into an agreement to buy New Zealand firm Apex Car Rentals for US$29 million ($NZ36.4m) in cash.
Avis will also pay the book value of Apex's fleet of 4000-plus rental vehicles and potential earn-out payments based on its future performance.
Avis' acquisition is due to be completed next month, subject to conditions. It said the purchase would expand its presence in the Australasian market, where Avis and Budget are already big brands.
Patric Siniscalchi, Avis Budget's president for Latin America/Asia Pacific, said the deal would broaden its portfolio to "meet the vehicle rental needs of all New Zealand and Australia visitors and residents".
Apex, described the country's biggest independently owned car rental company, is based in Christchurch.
It was founded in 1992, aimed at value-oriented leisure travellers and now operates in both New Zealand and Australia with 140 staff.
Founder Phil Lennon will continue to serve in Apex's management team.
"We will continue to operate our business and serve our customers 'the Kiwi way', which has helped us grow and evolve to achieve the success that we've enjoyed," he said.
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This tutorial will walk you and your students through the steps to create an image that is black and white with one part in color. This works with most Photoshops, the tutorials uses CC. I also included the rubric I use for my tutorial projects.
I talk to my students about the Principle of Art: Emphasis and using color and contrast to create emphasis.
**There are many ways to achieve this same effect in Photoshop. This particular way has been a very easy way to make every students successful with minimal experience in Photoshop.


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A group of slimmers have been pounding the streets to help raise money for charity.
Members of the Church of the Good Shepherd Slimming World group were sponsored to take part in Race at Your Place with Cancer Research UK.
They walked to and around the Rising Sun Country Park, raising £210 in the process.
Consultant Brian Bell said “I’m so proud of what the members in the group have achieved. Supporting a worthwhile cause like Cancer Research UK has given everyone a special focus and real commitment to become more active and has helped them achieve their weight loss goals. For many members, being sponsored has been a great way to inspire their weight loss journey.”
The group meets every Monday from 9.30am to 11.30am at The Church of the Good Shepherd, opposite Battle Hill Primary School.
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Here are this week's 10 most intriguing statistics from the digital marketing world, including a trio of basketball-driven data points as the NBA season is upon us. Check them out below.
1. That Matthew McConaughey SNL parody actually helped Lincoln. Amboee looked at the impact of Jim Carrey's merciless skit from last weekend in terms of digital content and social media impressions. According to the company's data, Lincoln saw impressions jump 103 percent from Oct. 25 to Oct. 26. Amobee said the boost represented the car brand's highest peak of online mentions in the last three months, and was 86 percent higher than normal for the marketer.
2. MJ builds buzz. The Charlotte Hornets turned over their Twitter handle to the incomparable hoops legend, Michael Jordan, on Tuesday, attempting to stir up excitement for the new NBA season. Jordan, who played for the Chicago Bulls but is now a Hornets owner, helped lift the team's Twitter following by 25,300, according to team reps. The Hornets exceeded 300,000 followers with the endeavor, celebrating a 9 percent lift in a single day—during which they also won their game versus Milwaukee.
3. King James goes home and provides slam dunks for sponsors. Per 4C's report this week, LeBron James' return to Cleveland has aided his brand immensely. But that's only the beginning. The data company's research shows that, since LeBron revealed he would play for his home state team on July 11, his sponsors have seen huge boosts in before-versus-after positive engagement on Facebook. Here are the brand lifts in terms of consumer interactions on the social platform, according to 4C: Dunkin' Donuts (+ 6,016 percent); Beats by Dre (+ 5,861 percent); Nike (+ 4,736 percent); Coca-Cola (+ 4,128 percent); State Farm (+ 1,280 percent); and Samsung (+ 1,017 percent).
4. AOL's grind toward a programmatic foothold continues. The two-decade-old Web player announced a new cross-device ad targeting system this morning called One. Early test brands such as Citi, T-Mobile and others have seen a 30 percent increase in the effectiveness of their ads, with a $55 cost per action dropping to $35, according to AOL.
5. Even for Taco Bell, this development looks to be on a fast track to success. The quick-serve chain introduced a mobile order app this week, while cleverly promoting it with a "social media blackout." The anti-social strategy apparently worked wonders. The brand self-reported that 75 percent of its locations nationwide got a mobile order in the app's first day.
6. There are at least 204,086 sugar-minded "tweet ghosts" out there. That's how many mentions KitKat has gotten on Twitter from Oct. 1 through Oct. 29, making it the No. 1 Halloween candy brand on the social platform, according to Crimson Hexagon. Snickers was second with 145,836.
7. Instagram hashtags help quite a bit, #thankyouverymuch. Instagram posts with at least a single hashtag average 12.6 percent more engagement, according to Simply Measured.
8. Like speed in sports, location kills in marketing. From the same Simply Measured study (click here to glean more data): just 5 percent of Instagram posts tag a location, but the ones that do use this feature get 79 percent more engagement.
9. Smartphone-based ads continue to anchor Facebook's growth. In fact, mobile represented roughly 66 percent of its ad revenue in the third quarter. Comparatively, mobile accounted for 49 percent of ad sales during 2013's Q3.
10. Psyched for some roundball. Google claimed that searches made for the keywords "NBA season" have increased 400 percent since July.
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Known as the next unit of computing, we spotted this new ultra tiny motherboard at the IDF Tech Showcase. It's a full system as it comes built with an Intel Core i3 processor and it measures no more than 4-inch by 4-inch. But the question is, what will you do with it?
- SanDisk unveils new 200GB microSD card
- Lenovo introduces new Tab 2 A8 and Tab 2 A10-70 tablets at MWC 2015
- Qualcomm announces partnership with F1 team Mercedes AMG Petronas
- Withings' Activité activity-tracking watches are now compatible with Android
- Huawei unveils new wearable devices at MWC 2015
- HTC partners Valve to bring new VR headset into the gaming market
- Motorola's Nexus 6 available in Singapore from 28 February
- Sony to unveil something "slimmer, lighter, brighter" at MWC 2015


i need a routing-link for an event, just like clicking on a “Route me there”-Button, opening a new tab on maps.openrouteservice.org. The destination should be prefilled, the user puts in his startpoint, off we go.
Does this work? (it does on google maps, but i don’t want to use it)
Do i need an api-key for it?
thanks a lot!


No, you do not remove the engine for either of these repairs.
Below are the repair procedures for replacing fuel pump.
Relieve the fuel pressure and disconnect the negative battery cable.
If not already removed, depress the clips on each end of the rear seat cushion and remove the cushion.
If not already done, detach the electrical connector from the fuel pump/sending unit.
Remove the attaching screws from the fuel pump/sending unit access cover and remove the cover.
Disconnect the fuel supply and return hoses from the fuel pump/sending unit.
Remove the attaching screws and the fuel pump/sending unit from the fuel tank.
Detach the sending unit electrical connector, remove the sending unit attaching nuts and remove the sending unit from the fuel pump assembly.
Attach the sending unit to the fuel pump assembly and install the nuts. Attach the sending unit electrical connector.
Install the fuel pump/sending unit into the fuel tank with a new gasket and install the mounting screws.
Connect the fuel supply and return lines.
Install the access cover and the mounting screws.
Attach the sending unit electrical connector.
Position the rear seat cushion over the floor, making sure to align the retaining pins with the clips. Push down firmly until the two retaining pins are locked into the rear seat retaining clips.
Connect the negative battery cable, start the engine and check for proper system operation and for fuel leaks.
The oxygen sensors are located on exhaust system and simply unscrew them and disconnect to replace.
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Before forming their experimental electronic outfit, Deafkid, Christopher Lockington and Florian Sauvaire worked with experimental hip hop artist, Ghostpoet, on his Mercury Prize nominated album 'Peanut Butter Blues And Melancholy Jam', and were also the live band for subsequent Ghostpoet tours from 2009-2012.
The latest release from the duo is the 'Dialects EP' with its lead track 'Rosary'. Watch the video for the ghostly romantic track below.
A second track from the EP 'At Bay' has also emerged in video form. It's a clever little track, easily one of the most effortlessly funky pieces of electronic experimental pop you'll hear this year.
Find out more at www.deafkidband.com


Security firm High-Tech Bridge issued a warning to retailers and shoppers about a critical vulnerability in the Zen Cart Shopping management system.
The security flaw could allow remote attackers to infiltrate web servers and gain access to customer data.
Servers running Zen Cart are also at risk of malware, meaning that hundreds of thousands of ecommerce sites pose a potential danger. That's not good for ecommerce merchants using the platform with the holiday shopping season in full force.
Technical details of the vulnerability are not yet being made public, but having notified Zen Cart of the issue High-Tech Bridge says the date of full public disclosure is 16 December.
Zen Cart was quick to issue a patch that it announced on Twitter.


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For the average Western Cape traveller, Worcester is that town you pass through en-route on a Route 62 road trip. I must sheepishly admit, that we’ve never stayed over in the town of Worcester either. So apart from a pit stop at the then Overhex restaurant, I knew very little about Worcester and that had to be remedied immediately. Cue a Worcester media educational with an itinerary good enough to make you plan a revisit to this little Western Cape town with your family! Worcester is just over an hour’s drive from Cape Town making it the perfect destination if you’re travelling with little children as we all know how cranky kids can get on an overly long trip.
Editors note: This media trip was held in the second week of May. South Africa is currently back on adjusted alert level 4 and as a result many establishments are either closed due to restrictions or operating differently. Please contact the below establishments directly or visit their social media pages for updates.
Worcester Wine and Olive Route
If you’re not familiar with the Worcester Wine Route, you’re in for a real treat a there a many gems located on it. The Worcester Wine and Olive Route comprises of twelve wine cellars and two olive estates centred in the stunning Breede River Valley. The Worcester area is acclaimed for its Cabernet Sauvignon and Chenin Blanc which can be purchased at incredible value for money directly from the wine farms. We visited a few of the estates during our time in Worcester and I was pleasantly surprised by what they had to offer!
Stettyn Family Vineyards
You probably wouldn’t typically pass by Stettyn on your Worcester visit unless you’re traveling via Villiersdorp or Hermanus but it’s definitely well worth the few extra kilometres! The Stettyn Family Vineyards itself was established in 1963, with the vineyards of Stettyn, Jonkersrivier and De Hoek being the primary sources of production and where the tradition of winemaking dates back many years.
On our visit to the farm, we took a 4×4 route (currently not open to the public) through the vineyards and fruit trees to a stunning section of the farm overlooking the dam and wildlife while we popped Balbelki and clinked glasses. The natural beauty is really something special to behold and takes ones’ breath away. Returning to the Tasting room we were welcomed by the bubbly and friendly Sales and Tasting Room manager, Annelien Loubser who prepared a spread for us in true Stettyn family style. The tasting room and deli offers some delicious goodies and the winter cheese platter including a selection of soups, is most certainly one of them!
Please note, the tasting room is currently only open during weekdays for the next few months due to renovations taking place.
www.stettyncellar.co.za | Tel: +27 23 340 4220
Nuy On the Hill Restaurant and Deli
It’s not a Route 62 road trip if you don’t make a pit stop at Nuy on the Hill for a bite to eat! With Nuy Winery being located slightly off the beaten track, the need arose for a specialist venue closer to the popular R60 route and that’s how Nuy on the Hill was conceptualised.
A family-friendly restaurant and deli, Nuy on the Hill is very popular amongst locals and travellers alike and with their spectacular views of the Nuy Valley, it’s easy to see why! The venue boasts a modern design and has both indoor and outdoor seating with a kids play area as well. Dishes range from tapas, wood fired pizzas, steaks and even a selection of banting dishes. If you’re travelling with your pet, you’ll be glad to hear that Nuy on the Hill is pet-friendly and dogs on a leash are most welcome.
Tel: +27 23 347 0272
Lions Creek Estate
Get a first-hand experience of the Nuy Valley’s acclaimed range of olive oils and balsamic vinegar at the Lions Creek tasting room. Lions Creek Estate also offers a beautiful venue for weddings and functions, as well as conference facilities. The Nuy Valley Festival hosted on 12 May was testament to this as the venue was able to comfortably host a small group of people while meeting all Covid protocols and most importantly, adhering to social distancing rules. The event had a selection of four delicious soups along with freshly baked bread paired with award winning wines from Leipzig Winery, Conradie Family Vineyards and Nuy Winery.
www.lionscreekoliveestate.co.za | Tel: +27 23 342 1255
Things to do in Worcester
Now that you’ve supported the local wine industry, let’s check out some more places to see and things to do in Worcester because this little ‘throughfare town’ has a lot more to offer!
Explore the Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden
If you’re talking about hidden gems, this is truly the jewel of Worcester. Tucked away in a residential area you’ll find the entrance to this 154-hectare garden at the foot of the Hex River Mountain range. The garden is home to a large succulent collection which you simply have to see with your own eyes to appreciate. Only 11 hectares are cultivated while the remaining 143 hectares are comprised of natural vegetation and looping trails link the developed garden with a natural veld reserve which features low bushes and succulents. There are also three hiking trails; the Shale trail, Grysbokkie trail and the Heuweltjie trail which makes for the perfect family activity in the great outdoors as you’re also welcome to relax on the large lawns with aa picnic basket.
Alternatively, after you’ve explored the garden, you can sit down to a hearty meal at the family oriented Kokerboom restaurant situated at the lower parking area. The restaurant has a cosy fire place for cold winter days and a lovely covered veranda for sunnier days. There is also a large lawn area with a jungle gym to keep the kids entertained. The menu includes burgers, wraps, desserts and a selection of local wines.
www.sanbi.org/gardens/karoo-desert | Tel: +27 23 342 1298
Experience Bygone Days at Worcester Museum at Kleinplasie
The Worcester Museum is a cultural history museum with a strong emphasis on agriculture offering demonstrations in a lively open-air exhibition area. The grounds have been developed with structures forming a traditional Cape farm yard. Live demonstrations portray the lifestyle of a bygone era and include rolling tobacco, bread baking, soap making, candle making, coffee making, metal work and donkey cart rides. The museum also has a small shop which sells curios and even traditional Witblits! Guided tours are available on request and demonstrations on alternate days – please contact the museum directly before arrival.
www.worcestermuseum.org.za | Tel: +27 23 342 2225 /6
Have Brekkie at Daly Bread
Did someone say they need good coffee? Then you need to take a shot left to Q Square Shopping Centre and pop into Daly Bread. Personally, I cannot function without having had a good cup of coffee to kick-start my day and as soon as we arrived in Worcester we headed straight to the quaint little Daly Bread café. Don’t be fooled by the size though as this little café is stocked with absolutely everything you need for a great breakfast and pit stop. Expect great coffee, fire baked artisanal bread, pastries and I think the delectable pastel de nata deserves a special mention!
Tel: +27 23 347 6757
Check into Nuy Valley Guesthouse
The Nuy Valley turn-off is about 15 kilometres from Worcester en-route to Robertson. The guesthouse is actually a family owned wine farm with a boutiques wine cellar – bonus! The one thing that stands out from this Worcester accommodation is the tranquil garden with towering palm trees, pretty flowers and perfectly manicured lawns set against the backdrop of majestic Langeberg Mountains. Adding to the tranquil environment are the walking trails and cute parrots in the garden. There’s also a small kids play area and nice lawn area to relax on while soaking in all the countryside sights and sounds.
The guesthouse can accommodate 29 guests in 12 luxury rooms equipped with TV, aircon and fans. Our room had a balcony (shared with 2 other rooms) which provided stunning vineyard and valleys views. They also have backpacker facilities in the uniquely renovated wine cellar! The venue is also quite a popular choice for weddings and conferences as it offers almost everything you need.
www.nuyvallei.co.za | Tel: +27 23 342 1258


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Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
Jon Bon Jovi
And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.
You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.
The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important.
I will be the first to admit that getting votes and getting an audience are two different things. For example, a politician really can't be elected if he's hated by half the people. A talk show host, however, can be an overwhelming national phenomenon while being hated by half the people.
Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.
Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
Louis C. K.
The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.
I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.
And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
I love hearing my audience breathe.
Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.
When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.
I have no idea what the audience makes of me.
If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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If you have bought a number of days to spend in the San Francisco Bay Area, that is great information, however in the event you’ve had your fill of the city and want to explore a couple of of the natural wonders of the region, you won’t have to go very far. He was a member of the National Recreation and Park Association, past member of the board of administrators for Virginia Recreation and Park Society, and past officer of the American Parks and Recreation Society, Missouri Parks and Recreation Association, and Ohio Parks and Recreation Association.
This middle is home to The Steam Donkey Restaurant, Pinecrest Sport Shop, Post Office and Pinecrest General Store. Yes, in fact the aged and children are two of the demographic groups that benefit most from public green areas and recreational services. However, probably the most important source of funding problems for parks and recreation facilities is said to upkeep. He graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Community Recreation Administration.
In fact, there are multiple examples where communities voted to extend their taxes to help particular recreation actions equivalent to golf course development and protect conservation lands (which additionally permit for low-impact recreation).
To help meet this need, they’ve instituted a program known as, My Denver, allowing children from ages 5 through 18 to obtain free membership to the recreation centers – including access to the swimming pools, specialised packages, and lunch programs.
Refund Form Please observe: Prior to submitting this way, you need to notify the Recreation workplace through phone or in particular person to withdraw from a class/program. The center is staffed with seashore rangers each weekend in the course of the summer season months and free seaside walks are led by volunteers at daytime low tides on weekends in the course of the summer time months. Dedicated funding is important because when budget cuts are needed, municipal governments usually take funding from parks and recreation slightly than companies corresponding to hearth or police.


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Household Cleaning Products Give Nod To Sustainability
Makers of household cleaning products are making more efforts to reduce their impact on the environment, CSRwire reports.
Seventh Generation has purchased sustainable palm kernel oil certification credits to offset company wide use of the ingredient across its entire product line.
The company says it is the first in its industry in North America to make such purchases. Seventh generation says it is paying a premium to palm kernel oil producers that produce and harvest their products using more environmentally responsible practices.
In February, Greenpeace recommended Seventh Generation’s toilet paper as a greener alternative that doesn’t eliminate ancient forests or use toxic chlorine compounds. Here is Seventh Generation’s Corporate Consciousness Report.
SC Johnson, another maker of household cleaning products, is also becoming more sustainable. The company is working with its supply chain partners to eliminate the use of any phthalates in the fragrances supplied to the company. It is also working to be more transparent about the ingredients used in its products.
SC Johnson has pledged to make its product’s ingredient information available via telephone, online and on product labels that will be phased in for all air care and home cleaning products.
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Good morning, Cincinnati! Here are the five most important things you need to know to help start your busy business day:
TriHealth's big plans
Barrett J. Brunsman (@BarrettCinciBiz) reports that TriHealth will soon begin construction on a 112,000-square-foot medical office building along Interstate 71 in Kenwood. The hospital system will staff it in large part with doctors who specialize in treating heart and cancer patients. The four-story building will sit on Galbraith Road, in the Northcreek Office Park. A medical office for Group Health will be torn down to make way.
Connecting the streetcar dots?
For downtown Cincinnati workers, the streetcar is already a daily reality, because of the relentless road closures. For others, however, it's still just a line on a map. Then there's the dotted line on that same map … showing the route of the proposed second phase of the plan that would run the streetcar up Vine Street from Over-the-Rhine to Uptown, to connect to the University of Cincinnati and Pill Hill. Which, to my eyes, seems like a no-brainer. But, as Chris Wetterich (@ChrisCinciBiz) reports, the just-released Uptown master plan doesn't even mention the streetcar. So he asked why.
The big 10
Fortune magazine recently came out with its annual list of the 500 largest companies in the United States on which Cincinnati is again over-represented for a city of its size. But that list is a bit misleading, or at least incomplete, because it ranks firms on revenue. But how about a ranking based on value? Our man on the financial beat, Steve Watkins, put together a slideshow ranking Cincinnati's companies on just that. On the Fortune list, Kroger is our top company. Can you guess who tops the "most valuable" list? Sure you can. Because it's not even remotely close.
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LANSING – State Sen. John Proos was the first co-sponsor for Senate Bill 1, a measure to repeal the Michigan Business Tax (MBT).
“The MBT and the 22 percent surcharge are not business friendly and must be eliminated for Michigan to recover economically,” said Proos, R-St. Joseph. “I agree with Governor Snyder that this tax is pushing job providers out of Michigan. Jobs are my focus, and that is why I co-sponsored legislation to repeal this punitive tax. It’s time to make Michigan open for business.”
In his State of the State address, the governor called for eliminating the MBT and replacing it with a 6 percent corporate net income tax.
“Ever since the MBT was enacted in 2007 it has proven overly complicated for job providers and has stood as another barrier to job creation,” said Proos. “I look forward to working with Gov. Snyder on scrapping the MBT and surcharge and replacing it with a tax system that is simple and fair for all Michigan businesses.”
Experts believe that repealing the MBT would increase employment in Michigan and increase total investment in the state by billions of dollars.
“The MBT was supposed to be better than the old SBT it replaced. Instead, as Michigan’s unemployment rate continues to be one of the nation’s highest, we have one of the most complex, unfair and burdensome business taxes in the country,” Proos said. “It is key that we reform and reinvent Michigan to make our state more business-friendly, so that we can keep our current job providers and attract new ones.”
Proos added: “We must reform our tax code to be fairer, flatter, and less complicated, giving Michigan businesses certainty to invest in people and jobs. Repealing the MBT and 22 percent surcharge is an important step in this process.”
SB 1 has been referred to the Senate Finance Committee, of which Proos is a member.