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Chip Ganassi Racing Drivers Honored on 2008 All-America Auto Racing First Team INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (December 18, 2008) -- Target Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon, and TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates' Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (December 18, 2008) -- Target Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon, and TELMEX Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates' Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas have been voted to the 2008 All-America Auto Racing First Team by the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association (AARWBA). The 17 drivers selected for the First Team are also eligible for the Jerry Titus Award that will be presented to the Driver of the Year on Jan. 10 in Ontario, Calif.
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* The Daytona Prototype champions Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, whose six victories included the Rolex 24 Hours At Daytona were nominated in the Grand-Am category. Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates are the first team owners in history to win the Rolex 24 At Daytona in three consecutive years.
* Pruett, with his 10th First-Team selection and 12th overall, is now tied with drag racing legend Don Garlits for the third-most appearances on the First Team, and behind only Steve Kinser and John Force. He is also just the 15th driver to be voted an All-American as many as 12 times. His teammate Rojas was named to his first All-America team.
* 2008 Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dan Wheldon earned Honorable Mention honors and has now been named to the team for the fourth time in his career.
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President Trump welcomed the leader of the Palestinian Authority to the White House on Wednesday by pledging to accomplish something that many previous USA administrations have tried but never achieved: A lasting peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israelis.
President Donald Trump expressed confidence Wednesday that his administration can help the Israelis and the Palestinians find peace, a goal that has vexed US efforts for decades.
Throughout his campaign, Trump had promised to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and supported Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory - concepts that are both held in high regard by staunch pro-Israel groups. "I'd like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit", Trump told Netanyahu, even though the Israeli leader said he doesn't see settlements as the "core of the problem".
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Barely two and a half months after having received Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the USA president greeted Abbas on the White House lawn, before ushering him into the Oval Office for their talks. U.S. President Donald Trump wants to break that pattern - but if the daylight between his meetings with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas indicates anything, it's going to be an uphill battle.
US Vice President Mike Pence contended ahead of the meeting that the White House is "seriously considering" moving the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
"Palestinian leaders need to speak in a unified voice against incitement to violence and hate", he said.
President Trump emphasized his commitment to end the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying there's a "very good chance" for a peace deal and vowing to do "whatever is necessary to facilitate the agreement".
And in his White House meeting with Netanyahu on February 15, Trump raised another sensitive issue: Israeli settlements on land in dispute with the Palestinians.
The US president, who was expected to be far tougher on the Palestinians than his predecessor Barack Obama, could hardly have been more warm, gracious and welcoming.
Like previous US leaders, Trump faces numerous obstacles in the long-shot bid.
Trump did not publicly press Abbas to end financial payments to the families of suicide bombers and to other Palestinians who attack Israelis and Americans, a practice that Israel and its supporters say amounts to subsidizing terrorism.
Abbas spoke of the importance of providing solutions that would address the situation Palestinian refugees and those imprisoned in Israeli prisons, referring to "the suffering of my people".
Recently, the Hamas unveiled a new policy document that nominally softens its official position on Israel, while still calling for the complete liberation of Palestine.
Abbas told Trump that his goal is a two-state solution with East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, and said the president provides a new opportunity for a peace deal.
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Jean-Luc Picard and his Star Trek: The Next Generation crew will meet the Xenomorphs of the Aliens franchise in a new miniseries from IDW subtitled Acceptable Losses. This is the latest in a string of cross-company comic book crossovers, this time from IDW Publishing and Dark Horse Comics.
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Testifying in the biggest antitrust trial in a quarter century, Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, said Tuesday that there wasn’t “anybody as good’’ as Google at helping phone and computer users search the internet.
The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Google – a company whose very name is synonymous with scouring the web — of smothering competition by paying Apple, Verizon and other tech companies to make its search engine the first users see when they open their devices.
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The antitrust case, the biggest since the Justice Department went after Microsoft and its dominance of internet browsers 25 years ago, was filed in 2020 during the Trump administration. The trial began Sept. 12 in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C.
Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft’s head of advertising and web services, testified Tuesday that Google’s dominance feeds on itself. The more searches Google processes, the more data it collects that can be used to improve future searches.
“The more data you have, the better the results are,’’ he said, echoing one of the government’s arguments.
Dominating the market helps in other ways, Parakhin said. For example, restaurants are more likely to make sure their location and hours are accurate in results on the leading search engine, while they are far less likely to bother correcting information on smaller search engines.
Experience shows, he said, that search engines need 20% market share to survive. Otherwise, “their quality degrades rapidly, and they disappear.’’’
Parakhin also recounted his experience battling Google in his previous job as chief technology officer at the Russian search engine Yandex. After Russian regulators required Android phones to let users choose their search engine – instead of letting Google hold the default position – Yandex’s market share rose from 30% to 55%, he said.
Earlier in the proceedings, the government called a behavioral economist, who testified that Google’s default status discourages users from switching search engines, partly because they are reluctant to change ingrained habits. Last week, the founder of the search engine DuckDuckGo, which has about 2.5% of the search market, testified that his company struggled to compete because of Google’s revenue-sharing agreements with Apple and other companies.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta likely won’t issue a ruling until early next year. If he decides Google broke the law, another trial will determine how to rein in its market power. The Mountain View, California-based company could be stopped from paying Apple and other companies to make Google the default search engine.

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Los Angeles, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/16/2019 -- Laser crystal may refer to:Active laser medium, the source of optical gain within a laser?bubblegram, a 3D image composed of points suspended in a medium, typically a plastic block.
Laser devices are generally divided into solid laser, liquid laser, gas laser, and semiconductor laser. The most common lasers are CO2 laser, ruby laser, He-Ne laser, neodymium glass laser and others. Crystal material is widely used in lasers. Crystals used in laser is laser crystal. Laser crystals are made from mono crystalline material which is used as an active gain medium in solid state laser systems. The laser gain medium is used to amplify the power of light. Such a gain medium is required in the laser to compensate for resonator losses. The optical properties of a given crystal are determined by the crystal's composition which decides the optimal application or laser type for that crystal. Some of the commonly used laser crystals available for integration include Nd: YAG (Neodymium Doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet), GGG Doped, Nd: YVO4 (Neodymium Doped Yttrium Vanadate), Yb: KYW,Yb: KGW (Ytterbium Doped Potassium Gadolinium Tungstate), and Ti: Sapphire..Nd: YAG (Neodymium Doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet). They feature high optical homogeneity, high laser damage thresholds, processing accuracy and excellent stability. Nd: YVO4 (Neodymium Doped Yttrium Vanadate) laser crystals have high damage thresholds, strong mechanical properties, and superior optical properties. Nd: YVO4 laser crystals can lase at 1342 nm, 1064 nm, and 914 nm with associated harmonics in the green and blue wavelengths. Ti: Sapphire laser crystals have large gain and emission bandwidths with high laser damage thresholds and saturation power. Ti:Sapphire laser crystals are ideal for ultra-fast lasers and oscillators. Yb: KGW (Ytterbium Doped Potassium Gadolinium Tungstate) is used to generate high power and ultra-short pulses. They offer a broad laser output at 1020-1060 nm.
The global Laser Crystal market is valued at 130 million US$ in 2018 is expected to reach 160 million US$ by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of 3.1% during 2019-2025.
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New orders for furniture increased 3% in November compared with such activity in November 2017, according to the latest Furniture Insights survey of residential furniture manufacturers and distributors from High Point accounting and consulting firm Smith Leonard.
That came on the heels of 7% and 9% increases, respectively in September and August.
“The smaller percentage increase seemed in line with conversations we had during November and December about business being a little slower,” said Smith Leonard Partner Ken Smith in the survey report. “But when looking at the results for November 2017, new orders were up 11% over November 2016 so the smaller increase was really not that bad.”
Through November, new orders for 2018 remained 6% ahead of the same period of last year, when year-to-date new orders were 5% ahead of the previous year.
Shipments in November increased 8% from November 2017 levels, compared with a 4% increase for the November 2017 comparison to November 2016.
“We had noted that we expect shipments to start catching up with orders since orders had exceeded shipments for several months,” Smith said.
Shipments through November remained 3% ahead of the same point last year, when shipments were up 5%.
Backlogs increased 1% as the dollar value of orders was higher than shipment dollars. Backlogs were only 9% higher than last year compared with double digit increases reported the last couple of months.
Receivable levels increased 7% from November 2017, in line with the monthly increase in shipments of 8%.
“They did increase 5% over October levels in spite of only a 1% increase in shipments for that period, but overall appear in line,” Smith noted.
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“This month’s increase appears to be more in line with somewhat slower business,” Smith said.
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In summary, Smith reiterated that the slower increase in orders in November was a little misleading.
“While we had heard business seemed a little slower for some, the comparison to November 2017 was a tough one as November 2017 orders were up 11% over November 2016,” he said. “So, a 3% increase over the 2017 results was not all bad.”
He added that lower Consumer Confidence reports were not surprising, considering the government shutdown and stock market volatility, and that existing-home sales results were a bit of a concern.
“Overall, though, with orders up 6% year to date and shipments expected to follow, 2018 does appear to be a pretty decent year,” Smith said. “Certainly, not for all, but with almost 70% reporting increases in orders, at least many had a nice year.”
Headwinds on business include another potential government shutdown, severe weather and concerns tariffs on goods made in China.
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I am making use of these with Christmas printables for now but these will last but not least go on the white wall reverse the colorful accent wall in the kids&rsquo area.
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We had been making use of simple white Ikea frames so I resolved to use this option to create fun frames and also use up some scrap plywood in the system. (There is some thing about the fulfillment you get from working with scrap wood&hellip)
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Some of Jaguar’s finest sports and racing cars will be on display at the Heritage Motor Centre from 21 July.
The impressive collection includes a 1938 SS100, a 1951 XK120 that set a number of speed and distance records by being driven continuously for seven days and seven nights at Montlhéry, a 1954 D-type and a 1988 XJR-9 Le Mans car.
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Bell Helicopter, part of American conglomerate Textron, plans to “pull the covers” off its newest attack reconnaissance helicopter at one of the largest land warfare expositions and professional development forums in the world, AUSA Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
For the first time, Bell will showcase a full-scale mockup of the 360 Invictus attack reconnaissance helicopter, which it is offering for the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft-Competitive Prototype (FARA-CP) procurement.
The company’s website said that combining impressive agility and lethality with a modular open systems approach and sustainability innate to its design, the Bell 360 Invictus provides a low-risk path to fulfill the U.S. Army’s requirements for a Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), providing security and battlefield situational awareness until the fight is finished.
With an emphasis on a design that provides impressive capability with reduced complexity for improved affordability and manufacturability, Bell combined mature technologies with innovative processes to achieve next-generation performance in a highly sustainable aircraft.
The Bell 360 high cruise speeds and long-range capability combined with exceptional agility from hover to high speed make it versatile, survivable and lethal.
By meeting or exceeding the U.S. Army’s requirements, the Bell 360 Invictus will exploit terrain, employ lethal effects and develop information to keep soldiers on the ground informed-shaping the tactical environment to outmaneuver our adversaries. Backed by a designed-as-built manufacturing model and digital thread–enabled tools to enhance design collaboration, the Bell 360 Invictus is as practical as it is lethal. Bell’s program-based approach and digital toolkit make adapting and scaling aircraft faster and more streamlined than ever before.
The Bell 360 Invictus continues Bell’s decades-long legacy as the innovator behind U.S. Army’s reconnaissance aircraft, with renewed emphasis not only on capability, but also on low technical risk, affordability, survivability and lethality.


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- A train lost power and got stuck in a Hudson River tunnel a week after a NJ Transit derailment and 3 weeks after an Amtrak derailment
- Gov. Christie blames Amtrak's "failure to maintain its facilities"; Amtrak said a faulty part on the NJ Transit train cause it to break down
- 1,200 passengers were stuck in the train as it sat in the hot tube for hours; no one was seriously injured
Amtrak said Monday that it was a NJ Transit mechanical problem that caused a NJ Transit train to get stuck in a Hudson River tunnel for hours last week, not Amtrak’s infrastructure, as Gov. Chris Christie had said earlier in the day.
In a statement released through spokesman Mike Tolbert on Monday, Amtrak said an issue with the NJ Transit train’s pantograph, or power collector, led to the train becoming disabled in the south tube of the Hudson Tunnel for more than three hours Friday evening with 1,200 passengers aboard.
Amtrak said a rescue locomotive sent to retrieve the train Friday evening was unable to move it initially because of damage to the pantograph. The pantograph was eventually removed and the NJ Transit train moved back to Penn Station using its own power, Amtrak said.
Amtrak’s announcement Monday came shortly after Gov. Christie released a statement through his press secretary blaming the mess on “Amtrak’s failure to adequately maintain its facilities.”
Christie said Amtrak’s “total lack of concern for the commuting public” was also to blame for passengers being “held hostage in an Amtrak tunnel,” waiting hours for EMS personnel to respond.
Amtrak defended its response, saying it was in constant contact with first responders monitoring the conditions on board the train, which was filled with sweaty, frustrated passengers.
Christie released another statement after Amtrak blamed NJ Transit on Monday, blasting the rail company for “two, back-to-back derailments leading up to Friday’s mess.”
Christie said Amtrak is “again trying to divert attention from its failures by suggesting the problem may have been new equipment on the NJ Transit train, before a final determination has been made.”
Calling Amtrak’s conclusion “a diversion,” the governor said the railroad service must work with other rail agencies operating out of Penn Station to avoid future problems.
The loss of power Friday evening caused delays of an hour or more on Amtrak and New Jersey Transit. Some LIRR branches also faced delays.
It happened three weeks after the derailment of an Amtrak train at Penn Station and a week after a New Jersey Transit derailment shut down eight of 21 tracks there and disrupted travel in the region for days.
No injuries were reported in any of the incidents.


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In the King James version the word - froward - appears 21 times (twice in number 4 below) .
Deu 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what the…ir end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. .
2 Sam 22:27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. .
Job 5:13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. .
Psa 18:26 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. .
Psa 101:4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. .
Pro 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; .
Pro 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: .
Pro 3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous. .
Pro 4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. .
Pro 6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. .
Pro 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. .
Pro 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. .
Pro 10:31 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. .
Pro 11:20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight. .
Pro 16:28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. .
Pro 16:30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. .
Pro 17:20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. .
Pro 21:8 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right. .
Pro 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. .
1 Pet 2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. the word - frowardly - appears once .
Isa 57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. the word - frowardness - appears 3 times .
Pro 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; .
Pro 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. .
Pro 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. (MORE)


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Projects That Work: 2016 Winners
The fourth annual Projects That Work forum took place at the 2016 conference of The Network: Towards Unity for Health (TUFH), which was held July 26-30, 2016, in Shenyang, China. The competition showcased projects that had successfully addressed missions related to the 2016 conference theme, Building Trust: A Global Challenge in Health System Reform, for three years or longer. An open worldwide call resulted in 33 submissions from which five projects were selected by an international panel of 12 reviewers. One of the winning projects was deferred for presentation at the 2017 conference. Descriptions of the other four projects follow.
Molding Residents for Preceptorships to Improve Tanzania’s Health Professions Education
The shortage of human resources for health (HRH) crisis is a widely acknowledged problem in developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa such as Tanzania. This project developed a way to create more faculty to help universities teach more students in order to address the national HRH crisis. Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) realized that it had a pool of postgraduate students that could be used to help train others if they were properly trained. An existing 16-member interprofessional faculty development unit known as the health profession educators group (HPEGS) designed, conducted, and assessed a graded mandatory teaching methodology course specifically designed for postgraduate students. To date the program has trained 418 residents. It has been observed that if residents are properly trained they can be effective preceptors for undergraduate students’ learning. The residents exhibit more confidence in teaching and, as a result, many have expressed interest in a career that involves teaching and learning. The interdisciplinary mix of participants in the workshops has also promoted a culture of teamwork at MUHAS. Residents said that after working together they are more comfortable seeking advice from colleagues in other health professions.
Presenter: Doreen Mloka, Director of Continuing Education and Professional Development, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Hygiene and Water Sanitation
This project was developed to address the issue of people in Rwandan villages suffering unnecessarily from cholera, dysentery, diarrhea, and other water borne diseases. These diseases spread because of unhygienic practices, unclean drinking water, and the use of unsanitary toilet facilities. The project was implemented by the Rwanda Village Concept Project (RVCP), a non-governmental, non-political, voluntary organization run by students at the University of Rwanda. Since 2005 the project has provided at least two Ventilated Improved Pit (VIP) Latrines for four vulnerable families each year. To date, 31 of the 125 households in the target village of Mpungwe have access to a VIP latrine and the local primary school has also benefitted from an ECOSAN latrine. RVCP has also conducted house-to-house teaching sessions and youth programs to compliment the provision of latrines. Changes as result of this project include the decrease of diseases from poor hygiene as well as widespread behavioral change towards hygienic measures. There is no longer epidemic diarrhea in the village and community health workers reported a 60% decrease of diseases from poor hygiene in two years. As a result, Mpungwe ranked first in the Southern Province and the governor provided them with electricity as a reward for excellence in hygiene.
Presenter: Eric Rucogoza, Coordinator, Rwanda Village Concept Project, Huye, Rwanda
Primary Healthcare Training for Community Lay-leaders by Building Trusting Partnerships
India, with its population of 1.2 billion, has enormous disparity between medical care in rural and urban settings. However, 80% of the health problems do not need doctors and can be prevented and treated by simple measures at the village level through health education and awareness. The Community Lay-leaders Health Training Certificate Course (CLHTC), was started in 2012 as a one-year blended learning (hybrid training with self-learning modules and hands-on training) course designed and run by the Distance Education Department of Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, India with the motto “Be a Health-change Agent.” The program has been designed to have a “multiplier effect.” Four master nurse trainers from CMC have trained 92 nurse trainers, who facilitate the contact programs in 21 regional rural mission hospitals and have trained more than 1,200 lay leaders who will render basic health care to approximately 12,000 villages, conduct school health programs in 2,400 village schools, and train approximately 6,000 village-level health workers (each one is expected to cover 10 villages and a minimum of three village schools). Interest in replicating the model has arisen in Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Cambodia, Sudan, and Nigeria.
Presenter: Jachin Velavan, Coordinator, Department of Distance Education, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
Community Intervention Projects Integrate Public Health Essential Functions (PHEF) into Curriculum of Medicine
This project integrates public or population health and patient/person health by creating Community Intervention in Health Projects (CHIPs), where small groups of students apply both clinical and public health in the concrete reality of a community or community organization. During the last five years, CHIPs have been developed by more than 60 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Medicine FUSM Sabaneta Campus by partnering with different organizations including two secondary schools, one clinic, two community groups, one NGO, and two Secretaries of Health from two different cities. The community health needs that have been addressed through CHIPS are: increased breastfeeding in mothers with children under one year old; increased knowledge of health rights; increased knowledge, attitudes, and practices in sexual and reproductive health in young scholars; comprehensive and integrated delivery of health care programs for children with asthma in ambulatory clinics; and increased competencies of students of medicine to attend lesbians, gays, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBTI) patients.
Presenter: Marco Sosa, Coordinator, Health Advisory Unit, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Facultad de Medicina, Medellín, Colombia

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Looking for a real food adventure in the Northeast Heights? Several readers have written in to recommend Chihuahua's Mexican Buffet, a recently-opened restaurant located in the former Pacific Pearl building on Osuna just east of San Mateo. Chihuahua, which lies directly south of New Mexico, is the largest state in Mexico and is the provenance of many of Albuquerque's Mexican immigrants. On the day I visited, my party was the only one not speaking Spanish at the table. The other patrons appeared to be homesick Chihuahuans, taking a break from work for some familiar grub. If so, they probably had better luck than we did in figuring out what the dishes in the steam table were—nothing was labeled, not even in Spanish. Sure, we recognized the taquitos, enchiladas, chimichangas and posole, but there were many that stumped us. We tried a little bit of almost everything and for the most part, it was delicious. We used our small corn tortillas to wrap all the different little bits of meat and potato swimming in various flavorful broths and sauces, washing it all down with a tall glass of horchata. A warning, though: This place is not for the unadventurous eater. If you're not comfortable not knowing what you're eating then you'd do best to stick with Applebee's. Adventurous eaters should brush up on their Spanish.
Cow plus herring equals omega-3 milk plus grossed-out consumers. Adding iodine to salt and vitamin D to milk are two of the really good food-fortifying ideas we've had. Making cows eat ground-up herring to produce milk that contains small amounts of DHA (one of the beneficial fatty acids) is just plain dumb but that's exactly what Canada's largest food processor and distributor has done. Cows are supposed to eat grass, not fish. And in order to consume as much DHA as there is in a 3-ounce piece of salmon you'd have to drink 60 glasses of the milk. Is anyone else having flashbacks to the Super Colon Blow Cereal bit on “Saturday Night Live?” The one that parodied Total cereal commercials with a dangerously large tower of cereal bowls?
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Quality assurance (QA) is an indispensable prerequisite of a software’s reliability and robustness, as it allows revealing aberrations in its performance. That is why a growing number of companies go for QA services and allocate large proportions of their IT budgets to it, which is 31% in 2016. This percentage is predicted to run at 40% by 2019.
However, there is a common issue that bothers many customers: “How can a service provider ensure quality and trouble-proof performance of software that it develops?” In this article, we will try to lift the veil on it and describe the development process in our company through an example of one of our customer’s case. Its distinctive feature is that the development blends software creation and concurrent quality assurance.
The Project Objective
A comprehensive quality assurance procedure is especially important in the context of software that manages large volumes of sensitive information, such as that related to the intellectual property (IP) domain.
Our customer is a “one-stop shop” in IP, as it manages the renewal of trademarks and tracks related annuities. It is a leading European company that has partners in more than 150 countries.
The company had an in-house IP service tracking system that was outdated and did not meet all its requirements in full. That is why the customer required to replace it with a new solution based on up-to-date technologies and significantly enhance its functionality.
The customer needed the new management system to perform the following operations:
- To register service requests
- To track and display service statuses and their attributes
- To allocate different service types to appropriate workflows
- To gather statistics in accordance with selected parameters
The company needed the solution, a client-server application that covers certain stages of patent registration, to enhance the management of their services that are related to intellectual property rights. Also, there was a small stand-alone project on the development of a web application with limited functionality to allow external users accessing the system. The software was to use the same database as the main client-server application did.
The Development of the IP Management System
In close cooperation with the customer, our team transformed their extensive requirements into the concept of a new IP management system. It was to be built from scratch by Scrum methodology with the application’s architecture based on Microsoft technologies.
Our team developed a fully-featured management system that automates the filing of applications for IP rights with close consideration of the specifics of IP-related document development.
A special search filter simplifies the identification of an application in an extensive internal database and allows accessing external ones, for instance, those that contain information about EPO patents. Our team customized these filters for the needs of each customer’s department in accordance with various parameters, such as countries, customers, agents, etc.
A web application with limited functionality that the company designated for external users provides those users with information on their IP rights. A geographical map visualizes this information in the following way: it marks the countries where users have IP rights that they have registered through the company.
During the project, SaM Solutions’ team used the following technologies:
- Bug Tracking System: Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Test Case Management Tool: Microsoft Test Manager
- Automation Tool: Сoded UI
- Load Testing Tool: Microsoft Visual Studio
- The Web (Application) Server: MS SQL
- Languages: .NET 4.5
- Control Version System: Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Virtualization Platform: Windows XP, Windows 7
- Other Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio, WPF, PRISM, Unity, WCF, Entity Framework, Telerik Controls, MS SQL Reporting Services, TFS Continuous Integration
|Read also: Four Main Types of Intellectual Property Protection|
The Quality Assurance for the IP Management Software
To provide the highest possible quality of software products that we develop, quality assurance (QA) is always an essential part of the development process. Moreover, we incorporate these processes into every phase of our development projects, whether it is the requirement settlement, design, creation, delivery or production.
Thorough and well-planned testing and QA allow us to be confident of the quality of software that we build and of its high performance. The reason for it is that it enables revealing and addressing possible aberrations in a timely manner, which is the cornerstone of the success of our projects.
Our team followed the same logic in the case of the building of the IP management system. To deliver high-quality software, SaM Solutions’ testing engineers were involved in each stage of the development process.
Before the start of the project, our QA team created a thorough test plan that included smoke, regression testing and the verification of new features as soon as they were implemented. As a test acceptance criterion, they chose a successful passing of all test cases that they prepared in a document form for each specific sprint.
Alongside with the tests developed by our team, the customer also provided acceptance tests. SaM Solution’s test automation engineers automated some of them with MS Coded UI tool.
Because of the project’s complicated business logic and the importance of the software’s failure-proof performance, the company requested the successive QA services for the IP management system as an additional service. That is why our QA team performed comprehensive automated testing with a specially developed framework.
QA as a Basic Premise of Software Reliability
Over several years our customer has been successfully leveraged its business on the IP management system that SaM Solutions’ team developed for them. The solution is not only sensitive to the customer’s business specifics and improves the efficiency of their daily operations, but also performs efficiently and in a fault-tolerant manner. QA services for the intellectual property management system that our team incorporated into the development process and performed as a stand-alone phase allowed to check the software against possible defects.
The new system can carry out the whole workflow, which significantly simplifies the processing of clients’ orders and the tracking of the status of services and documents related to them (invoices, orders, offers, reports, etc.).


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I was examining the tomato vines that seem to be everywhere, and found … my very first tomato worm … EVER! I’ve always planted marigolds and basil with my tomatoes, but this year those plants got overrun with the tomato vines. I was concerned at first, but then noticed that the worm was covered with wasp larvae. They will take care of the worm. Nature taking its course.
At the Dig Deep growers conference in Fort Worth this past weekend, I re-established contact with the organizers of the Community Harvest garden in Plano. I visited on Sunday, and took a tour. Of note was a hugel kultur bed that is about 3 years old, and going strong. My tour guide mentioned that the bed was placed flat on the ground, and that next time they would dig a trench in which to place the wood branches that form the base component of the bed.

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The coaches have taken their seats! While season four of The Voice still has a few months to go before its March 25th premiere, it looks like the new add… Read more…
Yay! I love the new panel.. they finally dropped annoying Christina! I heart Shakira and Usher is damn fine!
Without XTINA ..it will suck !
Shakira sucks. She sounds like a dying cat when she tries to sing. Her lyrics are dumb.
She's gonna kill that baby with all the bleach & dyes she uses on her hair.
how will this work if Shakira is having a baby soon? I don't understand why they would hire someone who is pregnant like that.
a fake blonde latina singer who isn't relevant anymore and a black guy. way to step out of the box and change it up nbc.
Ushit and some irrelevant bleached latina(like Aguilera). At least this bitch has an excuse for being huge like a whale unlike Piguilera. And look how Ushit is copying Adams pose in the chair. When you have to run to Guetta for a hit you know youre finished!
Re: lucks – They already filmed the auditions. They return in march for the live shows. That gives her 4 months or so to give birth and take some time off.
It's a good thing I love Blake and Adam. If it wasn't for them I would not be watching the Voice.
I hope team Adam wins this time!!!
Usher is a great singer but I dont know if he'll be as funny as Ceelo…he seems pretty quiet when I watched the promo
and Shakira she just gave birth to a baby boy…will she be able to give much attention to her team members when the baby himself will be taking so much time out of her!
Shakira? She hasn't had a hit since Hips dont lie. What a terrible mistake!!! please bring back Xtina !!!!
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accurate diagnosis, it helps to bring in a sample.
"Dead-head" (pinch off the spent blooms) on perennials, annuals and
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and more and larger blooms.
- Want some color in a shaded area? Try begonias, impatiens,
coleus, ivy geraniums, fuchsia, or lobelia.
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- Do you live in the foothills or mountains? We grow a crop of flowers
for you late season gardeners.
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- Fertilize your roses regularly for continuous, large and beautiful blooms. We also have rose fertilizer with
a systemic insecticide for continuous
- Too much shade? Echterís has many shade-loving plants. For
perennials try ferns, hosta, forget-me-nots, lamium, astilbe, violas,
columbine, hellebores, bergenia, lily of the valley, and many more.
- Use Mini Nuggets mulch or red cedar mulch in your flower
beds. They will retain moisture and retard
weeds from emerging.
Avoid overhead watering when tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, corn and
other vegetables that need pollination are in flower as the pollen may be washed
away, resulting in fewer fruits.
Remove the Season
Starters from around your tomatoes, peppers, etc.
before the weather turns hot.
your annual flowers and vegetable garden after the soil has warmed. Use Mini Nuggets
for the summer and then till it into the
ground this fall to improve the soil structure.
- All vegetables should be harvested early in the morning when it is cool,
especially lettuce, spinach, herbs, peas, and beans.
- Pick edible pod or sugar pod peas when the seeds are barely visible
for best quality.
fertilizing with a high phosphorus (the second number) fertilizer. Corn is an exception; it prefers
a bit higher nitrogen (the
first number) in the analysis.
- Trellis your vining cucumbers, squash and small gourds to make more
room for other vegetables. Trellising also improves air circulation
and keeps the fruit off the ground.
- Use soaker hoses or drip irrigation systems to get water directly to
the plantsí roots. You can either
the hose on top of the mulch next to the plant or under the
mulch. This is the most efficient way to water your
- Harvest broccoli when the buds are still tight and before any flowers
Those impossible weeds like bindweed, dandelions and thistle in your lawn can
be controlled with
Ferti-lome's Weed Out or Weed Free Zone. These are the most
effective weed killers you can buy.
If you fed your lawn in April, it's time to put on another application of
fertilizer before the summer heat arrives. A slow release
fertilizer is a must for this time of year.
- You can use your grass clippings either as mulch in your garden or in your
compost pile. Clippings have valuable nutrients. If you used a weed killer over your whole lawn,
don't reuse the clippings from the
- The best part of the day to water our lawns is early morning while it
is still cool and use a low-angle sprinkler that puts out large water drops for your lawn
watering. This will reduce water loss due to evaporation. Use a sprinkler that fits the area to be
watered to avoid run-off onto the sidewalk,
driveway or street.
Trees & Shrubs
Container-grown trees, shrubs, roses, and perennials can be planted anytime
during the summer. Planting early in the morning or in the cool of the evening
reduces the stress on both the plant and the planter.
Protect your trees and shrubs from grass trimmers. The best way to
protect these plants is to eliminate
the grass directly around the tree, encircle
it with weed barrier fabric, and cover the fabric with bark or
spring-flowering shrubs and ornamental trees after they have finished
blooming. Prune only
the spent flowers of lilacs. Lilacs set their flower buds for the
next year very soon after flowering, so do not prune into the branches.
- Spray your ash trees for the ash sawfly and aphids. We have sprayers
that reach 30 feet, and can take care of these pesky insects early. Prevent re-infestation for one year by applying Ferti-lome Tree and Shrub Systemic Insect Drench with a watering can.
This will also protect your ash trees from the deadly emerald ash borer
which reached Colorado in 2013.
Once the temperature of your pond reaches 65 degrees, it is safe to set out
tropical water lilies. Place water lily fertilizer tablets into the soil of your
Water hyacinths and water lettuce are nature's floating filters. They help
oxygenate the water and keep algae growth down. Algae can also be controlled by
a floating barley straw bale in the pond.
- If you donít have room or donít want to dig a hole in your ground, you
can still have a water garden. Use
a large non-draining ceramic
pot to create a small water garden. Add
a couple of water plants and you
are all set.
- Aloe plants are
not only decorative, but also practical. They have a wonderful healing sap
cuts, burns and sunburns. Just break a stalk open, squeeze and
apply. Keep an aloe plant among your houseplants.
Change the water in
your birdbaths weekly and clean your bird feeders to prevent diseases.
- Praying mantis eat many different insects.
- To control mosquitoes,
drain all standing
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sheeting, pipes, drains, trash cans, saucers under pots, etc. Change the water and clean your birdbaths and wading pools at least
once a week to keep mosquitoes from laying eggs in stagnant water. Use
Quick Kill Mosquitoes or Mosquito Plunks in your ponds and fountains to
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I remember meeting him, at the Northwest Science Fiction Convention, in 1996. I remember meeting him at a room party I was co-hosting. He tells me we actually met the day before, at a panel discussion. I do remember discussing the cute, shy guy from Missouri with Ray after the party. I remember meeting him again, a year later, at NorWesCon. I remember him showing up for a Red Dwarf Marathon Party Ray and I hosted a couple months later, and because by the time the party ended there were no more buses going back to Tacoma, he crashed at our place and we drove him home the next day. By that point, he and Ray had bonded like they had known each other for years. So we started seeing him a lot more often.
When Ray died suddenly (only days after the doctors had given a cautiously optimistic report on how the second round of chemo had gone), Michael was one of many friends who kept me from falling completely to pieces in the aftermath…
I remember asking him out on a date. I remember nervously telling a friend Michael and I were going on a date, and being so relieved when the friend was excited. I also remember friends and family who were not happy at the news. Most thought that it was simply too soon after Ray’s death (not quite three months).
And then, of course, there were the family members who were all praying and hoping that, with Ray gone, I would suddenly transform into a straight man and bring home a nice Christian girl to introduce to the family.
It is quite possible that I had already fallen in love with Michael by the time I asked him on that first date, but I’m not completely certain. That spring, at NorWesCon, there was a moment that I remember quite clearly: he was grinning at me after I had given him an enormous purple plush Easter Bunny, that I had the distinct conviction that more than anything in the world, I wanted to keep finding ways to make him smile.
So I may not know when it happened, but I know when I realized it.
I remember worrying about him meeting my relatives. Things had not gone well eight years earlier when I had first tried to introduce them to Ray. Even though several of them had eventually warmed to Ray before he died, more than one of them had made it abundantly clear after hearing about Michael that they were disappointed that I was dating a guy.
I remember being nervous as we came in the door at my grandparents’. We were on our way to Mom’s, and had made arrangements to stop in and visit several people along the way. We were expected. There had been the usual comments about how much people were looking forward to meeting him. But I couldn’t tell if the statements were genuine or merely polite.
To say I was nervous was an understatement.
And then he started talking to Grandma. She recognized his accent right away, and seemed genuinely delighted when she found out he’d grown up in the same parts of Missouri and Oklahoma where she had spent part of her young adulthood. It wasn’t long until they were both laughing and exchanging stories about places they both remembered. Occasionally Grandma turned to either me or my step-grandpa to explain some obscure detail of the thing they were both laughing about. At one point my step-grandpa leaned over to me and whispered something to the effect that he thought if the two of us quietly slipped away it might be hours before either Michael or Grandma noticed.
I wasn’t upset at all.
I don’t remember the other stops on our trip that time. I was so incredibly relieved that Michael and Grandma had hit it off, that the rest of the trip just blurred into the relief of that moment. I think the picture above, of Michael and I in the living room of the house my Aunt Silly lived in at the time, was taken on that trip, but it might have been a little later.
That wasn’t the end of the homophobia in the family, but I knew if they gave Michael a chance, if they would see him for who he was, and not just through the filter of “proof that we have a fag in the family” that he would win them over. As I found out when I was visiting without him just this last December, he certainly has. Mom, Aunt Silly, my sister, and my nieces all seemed to independently decide that was a good time to tell me how much they love Michael.
Who wouldn’t love him? He’s smart, sweet, generous, helpful, and the most capable man I know. He’s also genuine. It never ceases to amaze me how honest and forthright he is, while still managing to always be kind and tactful. I really wish I knew how he does it. He’s cheerful, unselfish, and yet extremely practical.
And I will never understand how I could be so amazingly, mind-bogglingly lucky that he loves me. Because there is no way I deserve someone as fantastic as Michael.
One other very important moment I remember. I don’t remember all of the words that we were asked to repeat, because I was too busying crying and being amazed that it was actually happening. But I remember when, finally, in the eyes of the law and in front of many of our loved ones, he married me.
(Yes, I’m crying as I type this. Don’t judge me. Just hand me a kleenex and keep reading!)
I can’t say too many times how grateful I am that he’s in my life—or how lucky I am to have even met him, let alone fall in love with him. He is too good for me, but in the immortal words of Mae West, “Too much of a good thing is wonderful.”


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The role of the immune system is to keep infectious microorganisms, such as certain bacteria, viruses, and fungi, out of the body, and to destroy any infectious microorganisms that do invade the body. Allergies are the result of an inappropriate response to a harmless substance (such as a type of food, pollen etc). In an allergic animal, the immune system overreacts to the substance and mounts an immune response against it.
Food allergies in cats
Also known as cutaneous adverse food reaction, food allergies are the third most common type of allergy in cats (behindflea allergyandinhalant allergy). The most common causes of food allergies are fish, beef, chicken, eggs, and wheat. Cats become allergic to foods they have eaten for a long period of time (usually two years or more). There is no breed, sex or age predilection. Cats with other allergies (such as inhalant) may be at greater risk of developing food allergies. There appears to be a genetic component.
Symptoms of food allergies occur over a period of months and can include:
There is no blood test to diagnose food allergies. Your veterinarian will need to rule out other common disorders which have similar symptoms (such as flea allergy dermatitis, inhalant allergy, ringworm, mange).
Once these have been ruled out, he will place your cat on a food elimination trial. This usually lasts between 8-12 weeks. During this time, you must not give your cat any other foods, treats, vitamins, minerals or chewable medications apart from the prescribed diet. If any other foods or vitamins are given during this trial it will invalidate the results. If the allergy clears up after the specified time then a food allergy is the likely cause. The diet given to your cat during the trial will be food the cat has never had before such as rabbit, duck or venison. The diet may be homemade or a special ‘prescription’ diet.
Hypoallergenic diets contain hydrolyzed protein which involves breaking down the protein into individual amino acids that are too small for the immune system to detect (and react to). Commercial hydrolyzed protein diets include Hills z/d and Royal Canin Hypoallergenic. Food elimination diets must contain only one protein and one carbohydrate.
After the food trial, you will challenge the cat by re-introducing their usual diet to see if the allergy returns. If there is no reduction in symptoms after 2-3 months on the food trial other causes will need to be investigated.
Avoid food that caused allergies, by switching to a homemade diet using novel ingredients (such as kangaroo) or the use of a commercial hypoallergenic one. If you are feeding a homemade diet it is important to ensure that your cat is receiving the correct nutrients in the diet.
Corticosteroids to control itching. Unfortunately, not all cats will respond to this treatment.
Antibiotics to treat skin infections caused by itching.
If you have decided to feed your cat a homemade diet, you may choose at times to introduce novel meat (such as kangaroo or goat) and see how your cat reacts to it. For example, you have your cat on a diet of kangaroo meat and the allergies go away, introduce beef and watch for a reaction. If there are no signs of allergies over a few weeks you know you can feed him this, introduce lamb, watch for signs of allergies returning etc. This way, you can slowly increase the type of food your cat can eat.
Occasionally new food allergies develop over time, if this happens then it will be necessary to re-evaluate the new diet.
Julia Wilson is the founder of Cat-World, and has researched and written over 1,000 articles about cats. She is a cat expert with over 20 years of experience writing about a wide range of cat topics, with a special interest in cat health, welfare and preventative care. Julia lives in Sydney with her family, four cats and two dogs.
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Ruth’s music – simple, heartfelt songs about places and people he loves played on guitar or mandolin – is what most distinguishes him. He hosted two shows for KOPN in the early nineties on which he spun records by his favorite folk artists and played his own material live for the radio audience. He also helped to organize and performed at a five-hour benefit concert for KOPN with 11 other area folk groups in October 1993, 20 Years of Local Folk, which the station recorded and sold as a CD. He recorded an album of his own in 1988 called Songs from Happy Hollow titled after his rustic home in Moniteau County.
Despite recent renewed interest in folk music, Lee notes that its sound inevitably escapes the mainstream: “I think most people are aware of what they see on their TVs and hear on pop radio, not much beyond that. They’ve never even explored their radio dial.”
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We are pleased to announce our Winter 2012-2013 issue of The ScottMadden Energy Industry Update. This semi-annual publication features our view of recent significant events and emerging trends in the energy industry.
The November 2012 elections did little to change the dynamics in Washington, and fiscal issues continue to dominate the national debate, as energy policy is overshadowed by—and caught in the crossfire of—dueling views on spending and taxation. Nonetheless, energy and utility companies must push forward in developing and executing their strategies, some of which were deferred pending November’s electoral outcomes.
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