This catalog currently focuses on "classic" published examples of Decision Support Systems from the academic literature and from a limited number of vendor web sites. Most of the DSS are early prototype systems. I hope you will find something useful in this list.
ContentsThe following are specific Decision Support Systems, that is the DSS were implemented to accomplish a specific decision support task.
AAIMS This system was implemented by American Airlines in mid the 1970s. It was developed in APL and it was used for data analysis and report generation. [Klass, R. L. A DSS for Airline Management. Data Base (Winter), pp. 3-8, 1977. Taplin, J. M. AAIMS: American Airlines Answers the What-Ifs. Infosystems (February, pp. 40-41, 1973.]
Advanced Scout IBM has prototyped leading edge technology, called data mining, to help National Basketball Association (NBA) coaches and league officials organize and interpret the data collected at every game. Using data mining software called Advanced Scout to prepare for a game, a coach can quickly review countless stats: shots attempted, shots blocked, assists made, personal fouls. But Advanced Scout can also detect patterns in these statistics that a coach may not have known about. So during a game, a coach can know exactly which plays are most effective with which players and under what circumstances. Advanced Scout software provides an easier and more meaningful way to process information. "It helps coaches easily mine through and analyze a lot of data and no computer training or data analysis background is required," says Dr. Inderpal Bhandari, computer scientist at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, N.Y. Patterns found through data mining are linked to the video of the game. This lets a coach look at the just those video clips that make up the interesting pattern. Incorporating this information into the strategy for a game can help the team win. Check www.research.ibm.com/scout/. See architecture diagram.
AIRPLAN assisted air operations officers with the launch and recovery of aircraft on a carrier. The system analyzed current information (e.g., the aircraft's fuel level, the weather conditions at a possible divert site) and alerted the air operations officer of possible impending problems. AIRPLAN assessed the seriousness of a situation and managed its use of time by attending first to the most significant aspects of a problem. AIRPLAN was a rule-based system imlemented in OPS7. The system was developed at Carnegie-Mellon University. It reached the stage of a field prototype. [Masui, S., McDermott, J., and Sobel, A. Decision-making in time-critical situations. Proceedings IJCAI-83, pp. 233-235, 1983. See also Waterman, D. A. A Guide to Expert Systems. Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., pp. 237-379]
ANALYST assisted field commanders with battlefield situation assessment. The system generated displays of enemy combat unit deployment and did so in real time from multisource sensor returns. ANALYST aggregated information from these multiple sensor sources to 1) locate and classify enemy battlefield units by echelon, general function, and relative location, and 2) detect force movement. The system contained expertise obtained from intelligence analysts, including how to interpret and integrate sensor data. ANALYST was implemented in FRANZ LISP and represented knowledge using a combination of frames and rules. It was a prototype developed at the MITRE Corporation. [1. Bonasso, R.P. Expert systems for intelligence fusion. Proceedings of the Army conference on Applications of AI to Battlefield Information Management, Report AD-A139 685, Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Washington, D.C., April 1983., 2. Bonasso, Jr., R.P. ANALYST, an expert system for processing sensor returns. Report MTP-83W00002, MITRE Corporation, 1820 Dolly Madison Blvd., McLean, Va., Febrary 1984. See also Waterman, D. A. A Guide to Expert Systems. Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., pp. 237-379]
BCA DSS (Base Closure and Analysis DSS) According to a detailed Microstrategy case study, the BCA DSS provided the U.S. Air Force with a robust methodology and common framework for analyzing the impact of various base closure scenarios. A multi-layer, hierarchical filtering process is used to evaluate the relative impact of closing each base. Bases which pose minimum strategic, operational, social, and economic impact are placed at the top of the closure recommendation list. At any step, base closing committee members can review DSS-developed impact analyses to assist in determining which bases should proceed to the next level of analysis. Using the DSS, the BCEG members can perform analyses using the eight main criteria and 212 sub-criteria on which all bases are evaluated. These criteria, specified by DOD, focus on elements that impact operational effectiveness, including such items as alternate airfield availability, weather data, and facility infrastructure capacity. (from URL http://www.strategy.com/success/msi_saf1.htm) Check local archived copy.
BRANDAID This DSS was developed by John D. C. Little and it was used for marketing mix analysis (price, promotion, place, and product). The system was implemented in EXPRESS (Information Resources, Inc.). [1. Little, John D. C. BRANDAID: A Marketing-Mix Model, Part 1: Structure. Operations Research 23, no. 4, (July-August), pp. 628-55, 1975. 2. Little, John D. C. BRANDAID: A Marketing-Mix Model, Part 2: Implementation, Calibration and Case Study. Operations Research 23, no. 4, (July-August), pp. 656-73, 1975.]
CARGuide (Computer for Automobile Route Guidance) was designed to help drivers find routes and navigate in city streets. The system uses the starting and destination locations, together with its map information, to calculate an optimum route from starting point to destination. Optimum route finding is accomplished using a combination of a divide-and-conquer method, precomputed routes, and Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm. Once found, the route is displayed and highlighted on a graphical display of a street map. During the trip the car's position along the route is updated and displayed. Before each intersection, the system pronounces a direction (straight, left, or right) and the name of the street to take. CARGuide was a demonstration prototype developed at Carnegie-Mellon University. [1. Sugie, M., Menzilcioglu, O., and Kung, H.T. CARGuide--onboard computer for automobile route guidance. Proceedings of the National Computer Conference, 1984. See also Waterman, D. A. A Guide to Expert Systems. Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., pp. 237-379]
CATD or Computer Aided Train Dispatching was developed by the Southern Railway Co. from 1975 to 1982. It was initially built as a mini-computer based simulator and was installed and tested on the North Alabama track system in January 1980. The system was placed in production for that system on September 15, 1980. Gradually additional track systems were converted to CATD. The system provides decision support to aid train dispatchers in centralized traffic control. The system is linked to an automatic on station reporting signal and recordkeeping system. The system significantly reduced delays and reduced train meetings in the system. Over all delay per meet statistics were improved 15.5% during the 80 weeks following initial implementation. This translates into a cost saving of $316,600 per year for just the North Alabama track system. Full-scale implementation was expected to generate $3 million in annual cost savings. [Sauder, R. L. and Westerman, W.M. Computer Aided Train Dispatching: Decision Support Through Optimization. Interfaces, Vol. 13, No. 6, December 1983.]
DELTA (Dieasel-Electric Locomotive Troubleshooting Aid) helps maintenance personnel to identify and correct malfunctions in diesel electric locomotives by applying diagnostic strategies for locomotive maintenance. The system can lead the user through a repair procedure. It is a rule-based system developed in a general-purpose representation language written in LISP. DELTA accesses its rules through both forward and backward chaining and uses certainty factors to handle uncertain rule premises. Although the system was prototyped in LISP, it was later reimplemented in FORTH for installation on microprocessor-based systems. The General Electric Company developed this system at their research and development center in Schenectady, New York. Current status unknown. It was field tested. [1. Marcus, Steven J. Computer systems applying expertise. The New York Times, August 29, 1983., 2. Bonissone, P. P. and Johnson, H. E. Expert system for diesel electric locomotive repair. Knowledge-based Systems Report, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N.Y., 1983., 3. DELTA/CATS-1. The Artificial Intelligence Report, vol.1, no.1, January 1984. See also Waterman, D. A. A Guide to Expert Systems. Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., pp. 237-379]
DIPMETER ADVISOR reached conclusions about subsurface geological structure by interpreting dipmeter logs, measurements of the conductivity of rock in and around a borehole as related to depth below the surface. The system used knowledge about dipmeter patterns and geology to recognize features in the dipmeter data and relate them to underground geological stucture. The system provided the user with a menu-driven graphical interface and used a rule-base controlled by forward chaining. It was implemented in INTER-LISP-D and operated on the Xerox 1100 series workstations. The system was a research prototype developed by Schlumberger-Doll Research. Current status unknown. [1. Austin, H. Market trends in artificial intelligence. In W. Reitman (ed.) Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984., 2. Smith, R. G. On the development of commercial expert systems. The AI Magazine, vol.5, no.3, Fall 1984., 3. Smith, R.G. and Young R.L. The design of the DIPMETER ADVISOR system. ACM Conference Proceedings, November 1984.]
FOLIO helped portfolio managers determine client investment goals and select portfolios that best meet those goals. The system determined the client's needs during an interview and then recommends percentages of each fund that provide an optimum fit to the client's goals. FOLIO recognized a small number of classes of securities (e.g., dividend-oriented, lower-risk stocks and commodity-sensitive, higher-risk stocks) and maintained aggregate knowledge about the properties (e.g., rate of return) of the securities in each class. The system used a forward chaining, rule-based representation scheme to infer client goals and a linear programming scheme to maximize the fit between the goals and the portfolio. FOLIO was implemented in MRS. This demonstration prototype was developed at Stanford University. [1. Cohen, P. and Lieberman, M.D. A report on FOLIO: An expert assistant for portfolio managers. Proceedings IJCAI-83, pp. 212-214, 1983. See also Waterman, D. A. A Guide to Expert Systems. Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., pp. 237-379]
GADS was an interactive system also known as Geodata Analysis and Display System. The goal in developing GADS was to enable nonprogrammers to solve unstructured problems more effectively by applying their job-specific experience and their own heuristics. It had a strong graphic display and "user-friendly" characteristics that enabled non-computer users to access, display, and analyze data that have geographic content and meaning. The system was used initially by police officers to analyze data on "calls for service". By 1982 17 specific DSS had been developed using GADS. [1. Sprague, R.H. and Carlson, E.D. Building Effective Decision Support Systems. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982.]
GCA (Graduate Course Adviser) was designed to help graduate students plan their computer science curriculum. The system gathered information about a student's academic history and interests and then acted as a faculty adviser by suggesting a schedule of courses for the student. GCA's expertise included departmental and university regulations regarding graduate degree programs, course descriptions, and sequences of courses frequently taken by computer science students. The knowledge in GCA was organized as four interacting subsystems under the direction of a manager program. These subsystems determined 1) the number of courses the student should take, 2) the courses the student is permitted to take, 3) the best courses to take, and 4) the best schedule for the student. GCA's knowledge was encoded as rules with associated certainty factors. The system was implemented in PROLOG using a MYCIN-like inference engine. It was developed at Duke University and reached the stage of a research prototype. [1. Valtorta, M.G., Smith, B.T., and Loveland, D.W. The graduate course advisor: a multi-phase rule-based expert system. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Principles of Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1109 Spring Street, Silver Spring, Md., 1984.]
Hannaford DSS Web Hannaford Brothers Grocery chain developed a DSS using Microstrategy's DSS Web. At Hannaford, DSS Web provides store managers with access to the same data warehouse application relied upon by corporate decision makers. Utilizing DSS Web, managers receive detailed sales, cost, inventory, and budget reports and use this information to make decisions at the store level. The February 1996 case study was originally at http://www.strategy.com/success/hanna.htm. Check local archived copy.
ISIS (Intelligent Scheduling and Information System) constructed factory job shop schedules. The system selected a sequence of operations needed to complete an order, determined start and end times, and assigned resources to each operation. It also acted as an intelligent assistant, using its expertise to help plant schedulers maintain schedule consistency and identify decisions that resulted in unsatisfied constraints. Knowledge in the system included organizational goals such as due dates and costs, physical constraints such as limitations of particular machines, and causal constraints such as the order in which operations must be performed. ISIS used a frame-based knowledge representation scheme together with rules for resolving conflicting constraints. It was developed at Carnegie-Mellon University and tested in the context of a Westinghouse Electric Corporation turbine component plant. [1. Fox, M.S. and Smith, S.F. ISIS: a knowledge-based system for factory scheduling. Expert Systems, vol.1, no.1, 1984.]
KNOBS (KNOwledge Based System) helped a controller at a tactical air command and control center perform mission planning. The system used knowledge about targets, resources, and planned missions to check the consistency of plan components, to rank possible plans, and to help generate new plans. Knowledge in KNOBS was in the form of frames and backward chaining rules, and it used a natural language subsystem for data base queries and updates. In the KNOBS literature, early articles refer to KNOBS as the expert system for mission planning. Later articles use the term KNOBS to mean the KNOBS architecture rather than a specific expert system. The system was implemented in FRL and ZETALISP. It was developed by the MITRE Corporation and reached the stage of a research prototype. [1. Scarl, E.A., Engelman, C., Pazzani, M.J., and Millen, J. The KNOBS system. MITRE Report, MITRE Corporation, 1983., 2. Kashner, F. Artificial intelligence aids military planners. Electronic business, pp. 155-156, December 1983. See also Waterman, D. A. A Guide to Expert Systems. Reading, MA.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., pp. 237-379]
MYCIN assisted physicians in the selection of appropriate antimicrobial therapy for hospital patients with bacteremia, meningitis, and cystitis infections. The system diagnosed the cause of the infection using knowledge relating infecting organisms with patient history, symptoms, and laboratory test results. The system recommended drug treatment (type and dosage) according to procedures followed by physicians experienced in infectious disease therapy. MYCIN was a rule-based system employing a backward chaining control scheme. It included mechanisms for performing certainty calculations and providing explanations of the system's reasoning process. MYCIN was implemented in LISP. It was developed at Stanford University and reached the stage of a research prototype. [1. Buchanan, B. and Shortliffe, E. The problem of evaluation. In Buchanan and Shortliffe (eds.) Rule-Based Expert Systems, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, pp. 571-596, 1984., 2. Buchanan, B. and Shortliffe, E. Uncertainty and evidential support. In Buchanan and Shortliffe (eds.) Rule-Based Expert Systems, Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, pp. 209-232, 1984., 3. Buchanan, B. and Shortliffe, E. Use of MYCIN inference engine. In Buchanan and Shortliffe (eds.) Rule-Based Expert Systems, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, pp. 295-301, 1984.]
PMS T. P. Gerrity designed the Portfolio Management System and it was implemented in four banks beginning in 1974. The purpose of the DSS was to help manage security portfolios and manage risk and return. The DSS included commands like STATUS to display the contents of a portfolio; TABLE to display portfolio values; and SCATTER and HIST to display scatter plots and histograms. [Keen, P.G.W. and M. S. Scott-Morton. Decision Support Systems: An Organizational Perspective. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1978.]
PROJECTOR In 1970 C. L. Meador and D. N. Ness developed PROJECTOR to support financial planning. The system included forecasting and optimization models. It was used in 1974 by a New England manufacturing company to investigate the acquisition of a new subsidiary. [Keen, P.G.W. and M. S. Scott-Morton. Decision Support Systems: An Organizational Perspective. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1978.]
PROSPECTOR acted as a consultant to aid exploration geologists in their search for ore deposits. Given field data about a geological region, it estimated the likelihood of finding particular types of mineral deposits. The system could assess the potential for finding a variety of deposits, including massive sulfide, carbonate lead/zinc, porphyry copper, nickel sulfide, sandstone uranium, and porphyry molybdenum deposits. Expertise was based on 1) geological rules which form models of ore deposits, and 2) a taxonomy of rocks and minerals. PROSPECTOR used a combination rule-based and semantic net formalism to encode its knowledge and based its inferences on the use of certainty factors and the progagation of probabilities associated with the data. This production prototype was implemented in INTERLISP and developed by SRI International. [1. Gaschnig, J. PROSPECTOR: an expert system for mineral exploration. In D. Michie (ed.)Introductory Readings in Expert Systems, Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, 1982., 2. Duda, R. O. and Reboh, R. AI and decision making: the PROSPECTOR experience. In W. Reitman (ed.) Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984.]
RealPlan is an off-the-shelf Real Estate Investment DSS. It performs many of the typical operations required for making real estate acquisition, improvement, and divestment decisions. These include detailed income, expense, and cash flow projections. The portfolio manager creates a table of potential applications for each property. RealPlan then uses a search algorithm to evaluate the most advantageous selection and the timing of actions in terms of cash flows. [Trippi, R.R. A Decision Support System for Real Estate Investment Portfolio Management. Information and Management, Vol. 15, No. 6, December 1988.]
TAX ADVISOR assists an attorney with tax and estate planning for clients with large estates (greater than $175,000). The system collects client data and infers actions the clients need to take to settle their financial profile, including insurance purchases, retirement actions, transfer of wealth, and modifications to gift and will provisions. TAXADVISOR uses knowledge about estate planning based on attorneys' experiences and strategies as well as more generally accepted knowledge from textbooks. The system uses a rule-based knowledge representation scheme controlled by backward chaining. TAXADVISOR is implemented in EMYCIN. It was developed at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, as a PhD dissertation and reached the stage of a research prototype. [1. Michaelsen, R.A knowledge-based system for individual income and transfer tax planning, PhD thesis, University of Illinois, Accounting Dept,., Champaign-Urbana, 1982., 2. Michaelsen, R. and Michie, D. Expert systems in business. Datamation, pp. 240-246, November 1983., 3. Michaelsen, R. An expert system for federal tax planning. Report, University of Nebraska, 1984.]
XCON configures VAX 11/780 computer systems. From a customer's order it decides what components must be added to produce a complete operational system and determines the spatial relationships among all of the components. XCON outputs a set of diagrams indicating these spatial relationships to technicians who then assemble the VAX system. XCON handles the configuration task by applying knowledge of the constraints on component relationships to standard procedures for configuring computers. The system is noninteractive, is rule-based, and uses a forward chaining control scheme. XCON is implemented in OPS5 and was developed through a collaboration between researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Hudson, Massachusetts. This commmercial expert system configures VAX computers on a daily basis for DEC and is the largest and most mature rule-based expert system in operation. (eXpert CONfigurer of VAX 11/780 computer systems) [1. 1. McDermott, J. R1's formative years. AI Magazine, vol.2, no.2, 1981. 2. Bachant, J. and McDermott, J. R1 revisited: four years in the trenches. AI Magazine, vol.5, no.3, Fall 1984. 3. McDermmot, J. Building expert systems. In W. Reitman (ed.) Artificial Intelligence Applications for Business, Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1984.


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I AM, A Play With Music, To Hold Its Premier Showcase At La MaMa
I AM is a coming of age musical theatre piece with music by Lauren Stamm, book by Ben Gouldthorpe, and story by Stamm, Gouldthorpe, and Ted Watts Jr. The premier reading for this show will be held on June 30 and will be directed by Watts. The show will feature a seven-piece orchestra with arrangements and orchestrations by Jacinta Clusellas.
I AM will be performed at The Downstairs at La MaMa Theatre (66 East 4th Street, New York, NY), and will feature a stellar cast of seasoned veterans and exciting newcomers. The cast includes DeMarius R. Copes ( Mean Girls , Broadway), Emily Jewell ( Disney's Beauty and the Beast , National Tour), Jenna Rubaii ( Groundhog Day , Broadway), Tristan J. Shuler ( Cruel Intentions , Off-Broadway), Fredi Bernstein ( The Hard Problem , Quantum Theatre), Emily Lynne Miller ( Savage , West End), Nick Martinez ( In the Heights , The John W. Engeman Theatre), Leland Gantt ( Malcolm X , film), Justin Michael Duval ( Happy Days , National Tour), and Allie Dobyns (singer-songwriter, Dobyns ).
This full-length play with music explores the parallel stories of a gay high school senior and a lesbian guidance counselor struggling to coordinate their sexualities with the social norms of a late-90s conservative town in Eastern Pennsylvania. A love interest has Eli Whitaker conflicted as he prepares to accept a sports scholarship to a religious conservative college. Addison Baker is attempting to adopt her drug-addicted niece's infant daughter but facing adversity due to her relationship with a woman.
"At first glance, you might look at this musical and say, 'Oh, the two main characters are gay; This is just another gay musical.' It's not. It's really for anyone who has ever felt discriminated against, oppressed, put in a box that they didn't feel like they fit or belonged in. It is for the oppressed, and it is also for the oppressors." says Stamm.
For tickets and more information, please visit www.iamthemusical.com .
* Summer Shares at La MaMa makes theatre spaces available to artists for non-curated productions

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With this game, Sega is trying to emulate what Nintendo did with Super Smash Bros. Which is fair enough when you consider the depth of history and the number of trademarked characters Sega has at its disposal. Unfortunately, whereas Super Smash Bro's was a relatively unique concept, this, in essence, is nothing more than a stripped down version of Virtua Tennis (a game that is also made by Sega).
That's not to say that this game doesn't have its good points. Virtua Tennis is a fantastic game to build off of, and the tennis gameplay itself is very commendable, if a little simplistic at times. The characters, tennis courts and music are very faithful to the gaming franchises included and it's that what makes it an absolute pleasure to play. Wether you're a Super Monkey Ball, Samba De Amigo, OutRun, ChuChu Rocket or a good old regular Sonic lover, there's something for every kind of Sega fan here.
Where this game truly shines however is in the mini games. These mix tennis with the gameplay from the franchises on which the area is based. For instance, in the Virtua Squad minigame, you shoot a tennis ball at the bad guys that pop up, just as you did on the original. In ChuChu Rocket, you lead a line of mice to their rockets by changing the direction arrows by aiming tennis balls at them. You can see where I'm going here. The only problem with this is that you've got to actually be familiar with the original games to really understand the concept of the gameplay involved. But this is just me being picky. Most Sega games are relatively simple in nature, so I don't think it'll take you too long to work out. Overall though, these minigames are a great and creative addition to what would have been a rather bland tennis game.
As far as character-themed compilation games go, the value of this game is wonderful. It'll keep you busy for hours with it's reasonably well balanced AI, it's range of mini games and the usual single player and multiplayer modes. The only downside is there's no online play, but hey, I can live with that.
So if you want an easy to pick up game that'll heavily tinker with your sense of gaming nostalgia, you can't go far wrong with Sega Superstars Tennis.


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The Revolution pay-per-view broke AEW records with 125,000 buys last week, fueled by the exploding barbed wire death match, the Hall of Fame-worthy mystery surprise, and Sting’s first match since 2015.
In figures reported by Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics, Revolution had 87,500 domestic buys and 37,500 international buys for a total of $5,200,000 in gross revenue. AEW only takes a percentage of that and made a net revenue of just over $2 million from pay-per-view sales.
The show also had nearly $75,000 in ticket revenue and an additional $21,000 in venue merchandise from 1,150 fans in attendance.
The 125,000 buys exceeds the Double or Nothing 2020 show which did 105,000 buys in May.


Honeywell Bearings - Home
The project was inspired by Honeywell's Butterfly Valves. The bearings within the valves experience forces both radially and axially. The team designed a fixture that applies forces on ball bearings to simulate these conditions. The goal was to determine how the rotational friction within the ball bearings changed under loading. The final design applies forces in both directions while rotating the shaft with a stepper motor The system is connected to a computer using Arduino which allows the user to operate the fixture and analyze the data.


MUMBAI: Ever since actress Kangana Ranaut appeared on an episode of Karan Johar’s Koffee With Karan, they have had major disputes. On the episode, Karan asked Kangana if the rumours about her having plastic surgery were true, and about her past relationships as well, which seemed to be vexing topics for her. Things got worse when Kangana took a jab at KJo, calling him a ‘flagbearer of nepotism’. The two of them continue to be in a spat till date.
When she appeared on Koffee With Karan, she was accompanied by guests Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor, and the host asked her some personal questions. Referring to her appearance, Karan asked Kangana, “Have you worked on yourself?” The actress looked confused on hearing this and replied, “In what way exactly?” The filmmaker then asked if the rumours of her plastic surgery were true. To this she retorted, “I don’t think so. I am young, I come from the north, we are all blessed.”
In 2017, the actress again graced the couch with Saif Ali Khan, and this time she left everyone shocked when she said that if ever a biopic on her would be made, Karan will play the role of a Bollywood biggie who is snooty and completely intolerant to outsiders. Quoting Ranaut, she said, “In my biopic, if it is ever made, you will play this stereotypical Bollywood biggie who is very snooty and completely intolerant to outsiders and flag bearer of nepotism, the movie mafia. You will have a huge part to play in my biopic. I like the antagonist in you in my biopic.” This statement did not go down well with the filmmaker.
Recently, Kangana lashed out at Karan Johar once more, accusing him of sharing fake box office numbers of his film Brahmastra. She even called him ‘movie mafia.’
What do you think of this feud between Kangana Ranaut and Karan Johar? Let us know in the comments below.
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EICMA 2010: Honda Crossrunner Breaks Cover
800cc V4 "crossover" debuts in Milan
Dubbed the Crossrunner, the new model is what Honda describes as a combination of “the flexibility and exciting attitude of a Naked performance machine with the upright riding position and rugged appearance of an adventure bike.” Despite the adventure bike influence, Honda is clear about the Crossrunner being a road-only machine.
Honda says the Crossrunner was designed with two concepts in mind, stability and ease of use. To that end, Honda designed the Crossrunner to offer an upright seating position with wide handlebars. The multi-layered fairing was developed from over 120 wind tunnel sessions to improve “stability-enhancing airflow”. The Crossrunner was also developed for pillion riding, with wind protection and comfort for the passenger taken into account.
The Crossrunner is powered by a 782cc 90 degree V4 VTEC engine similar to that found on the VFR800, claiming 100hp at 10000rpm and 54 ft-lb. at 9500rpm. Fueling the engine is a 5.7 gallon tank for longer rides before needing to refuel. Honda says the Crossrunner has a curb weight of about 530 pounds.
Suspension is provided by a 43mm cartridge-type front fork and a Pro-link rising-rate linkage system at the rear, both with adjustable damping.
The Crossrunner comes standard with Honda’s Combined ABS technology with twin 296mm floating discs and three-piston calipers on the front and a 256mm disc with a twin-piston caliper on the rear.


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On Saturday, I wrote only 516 words, because that's all it took to find THE END of Chapter Six of Red Delicious. Today is the day I promised my editor she'd have the whole ms. But...well...that's not going to happen. I shy away from plotting, for this very reason. Okay, here I have this plot, with all these elements, and they have to come together and have resolutions and blah, blah, blah...who gives a shit? It's not what I consider writing. It is, instead, some sort of parlour trick. Someone says, "Kiernan's novel is poorly plotted," I take that as a compliment. But, here, it has to be done. Only about ten thousand words stand between me and finishing the novel. That's a weeks work, at most. But Quinn in an elaborate intrigue, playing three competing parties against one another...and against her own interests.
Yesterday, I wrote nothing. We read through Chapter Two of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, because that's another thing I should have been done with long ago – the revision of that text for the Centipede Press edition. But I can hardly ever stand to read anything I've written once it's published, and in this case it's more difficult than usual. The book is just too personal.
The weather is murdering me. But...today there's a reprieve, and perhaps tomorrow will be even better. I need to tell these deadlines to go fuck themselves and leave the house. And likely that's what I'll do.
There's a photo, behind the cut, with an explanation:
On my desk – and ignore the dodo (from the Yale Peabody Museum) and the Ninth Doctor action figure. Here is this ceramic dish, and inside it are seven objects. because seven's a good number. Seven is a number with a keystone. Anyway, a photo of this tray appeared in a recent post, a different photo, but I offered no explanation. Oh, and sorry for the lousy focus, the shallow depth of field. It was late, I was tired, yadda, yadda. In the center is the shell of a common periwinkle, Littorina littorina. from Rye Beach, New Hampshire, which I picked up in October 2012. Moving clockwise, the green-grey stone, I picked that up in Oregon back in 1996, in a stream flowing into the Pacific, maybe fifty yards from shore. The brick-colored stone, red and grey, Ryan Obermeyer picked that up for me on the shore of the Red Sea in Egypt. The white stone at twelve o'clock, that's a moonstone from Moonstone Beach, right here in Rhode Island. Beside it, though hard to see here, is an Irish caoga pingin, or fifty-pence piece, which I brought back from Dublin in April 1996 ('96 was a big year for me and travel). Next, a very old piece of beach glass I picked up below Joyce's Tower in Sandycove, Ireland. Finally, the dark stone was sent to me by Jada, which she picked up on a beach somewhere in Jamaica. So, I keep these things, to remind me that though I mostly live trapped in this office, there is a world out there.

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“I am sad because the concerts that we had in Greece are canceled due to the current global situation, and soon we will have updates on everything for Greece,” the “Que Pena” singer told us in an exclusive statement. “I had all of the intention to perform on this tour, but with my team and due to the current global climate, we had to make this decision for the safety of our fans, tour crew and more.”
Maluma, 26, continued, “This was also highly recommended by government officials for the safety of everyone. Soon, we will give an update on rescheduled dates and stay tuned. I am sad, but I will see you all soon and I hope that you understand as I do it for the safety of you all.”
Earlier Thursday, his management team said in a press release, “The concerts in the remaining 14 cities, Milan, Athens, Tirana, Amsterdam, Zurich, Frankfurt, Paris, Luxembourg, Antwerp, Barcelona, Madrid, London, and Istanbul, are being rescheduled. New dates will be announced as soon as possible.”
The first show to be postponed due to the infectious disease was Maluma’s concert in Milan. On March 3, the Colombian singer told his fans on his Instagram Stories that the decision was made for his and their own “well-being.”
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he was suspending travel from European counties in the Schengen Area as of Friday at midnight. Visitors from Ireland, Russia and the United Kingdom would not be barred.
Maluma is not the only artist to have to postpone tour dates overseas because of the outbreak. Earlier Thursday, My Chemical Romance announced they were postponing their tour dates in Japan over coronavirus concerns.
Music festivals like SXSW, Ultra, Coachella, and Stagecoach have also been postponed.
According to CNN, the coronavirus has infected more than 118,000 people and killed nearly 4,300 worldwide.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The 193-member United Nations General Assembly has agreed a core budget of $5.4 billion for the next two years, marginally smaller than the amount allocated for 2014/2015, as top contributor the United States pushes for improved efficiency and cost management.
The core U.N. budget, down from $5.5 billion in the previous two-year period, was agreed by the General Assembly late on Wednesday. It does not include peacekeeping - which has a separately negotiated budget of $8.27 billion for the year to June 30, 2016 - or the costs of several major U.N. agencies funded by voluntary contributions from member states.
“The budget you have approved reflects the difficult global financial reality we have faced for a number of years,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the assembly. “Funding continues to shrink while demands on the United Nations grow.”
The United States, which is the top contributor and pays the maximum 22 percent, said a number of funding cuts and improvements in efficiency had been made and the 2016/2017 budget was a “great step forward” for reforming management and budgetary practices.
“For the first time in 26 years, the committee adopted a staff compensation package that slows previously-mounting staff costs, which had hindered service delivery,” said a U.S. official.
“The elimination of 150 redundant posts is a further step in the direction of the organization’s efficiency, as are 5 percent reductions in supplies, travel, and furniture and other equipment costs,” the official said.
Other top contributors for 2016/2017 will be Japan with 9.68 percent, China 7.92 percent, Germany 6.38 percent, France 4.85 percent, Britain 4.46 percent, Brazil 3.82 percent, Italy 3.74 percent, Russia 3.08 percent and Canada 2.92 percent.
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Hild is the kind of work of historical fiction that can’t be discussed without using words like “epic.” Several hundred pages long, this weighty tome tells the story of the woman who would become St. Hilda of Whitby, seventh-century British abbess. Nicola Griffith sketches Hild’s life and world in such painstaking detail that by the end of the book the main character is probably no more than twenty years old, with much of an eventful life ahead of her — so it’s likely this book will be the first of a trilogy, at least. In terms of its depth and scope as a historical novel I can’t compare this to anything other than Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. While I didn’t find Griffith’s writing as compelling or readable as Mantel’s, I think, on reflection, it’s a fair comparison.
In fact I found this a very slow read at first. Griffith brings us into a world most of us, even avid readers of historical fiction, know little about — the world of early medieval Britain. Several hundred years after the Romans and before the Normans, this Britain is a world of multiple kings and chieftains, warring tribes and competing religions. Griffith is the kind of writer who has really done her research and renders this world in rich and minute detail. That level of detail, along with hundreds of Anglo-Saxon names and the political details of which king is allied with which and who is fighting whom, rise up and threaten to overwhelm the reader (this reader, anyway) in the early pages. I struggled to keep straight who was whom, which word meant what, and how I should pronounce people’s names in my head (I made the executive-level decision early on that even if the writer tells us that Gwladus was pronounced something like Oo-we-lad-us, for the sake of my own sanity I would have to think of the character as Gladys if I was ever going to get through the book. One example of many).
So, a very slow start as I got used to the characters, their names and the world in which they lived. But it was worth the time and effort, and by the time I was halfway through the book I was immersed in the challenges Hild faces as the niece of a king, a girl who has been set aside from birth as a seer. She has an important but loosely defined role at her uncle’s court and Hild is really the story of her discovering how to fill that role, which is constantly changing. Her later role, as abbess of a Christian community, is still far in the future as of the end of this book; she has been baptized when her uncle decided to accept Christianity, but the change from worshipping Woden to worshipping Christ is a purely political one for Edwin, who hopes to be “over-king of all the Anglisc.” Hild’s own spirituality finds its root not in the worship of one god over another but in something deeper that she describes as “the pattern,” a pattern she sees in the natural world all around her.
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We are constantly in pursuit of artistic excellence. We want our work to move the needle towards a more socially-progressive world. We strive to initiate an exchange with the community around us based on the work we produce.
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Some victims have recounted their ordeals after they lost a total of N5.4m to an online investment site that reportedly crashed when they were due to withdraw their money.
Three of the victims, in separate interviews with PUNCH Metro, narrated how they were allegedly swindled of their money with a promise of reaping profits from the online investment.
One of the victims, Kwara-based Abdulfatai Oluwashina, who spoke with our correspondent on Wednesday, said he was referred to the cryptocurrency mining platform by his friend, Bilikisu Dada.
He said he lost N1.8m while his wife lost N550,000 to the scheme.
Oluwashina said, “I started on February 7, 2023, till May 20. The money I lost to the scheme is about N1.8m.”
“On May 20 when the site crashed, I unknowingly put an additional N250,000. The profit is meant to be reaped gradually. If you put money now, you would start reaping the following day. But the way they structured it, if you put in N300,000, you cannot reap up to N80,000 till the time they introduce another investment.”
“They know Nigerians are gullible. Most of us are gullible. If you put in N300,000 now, when you reap up to N100,000, they will introduce another machine such that you would not withdraw that money. You would buy another machine or even add more money. We were trapped in that something.”
“My total investment was about N3m but I was able to withdraw some, I have about N1.8m with them now. I referred my wife who also lost N550,000.”
She lamented that since May 20, the online platform had gone blank with ‘Bank service upgrading’ written on the site.
“The system is now crashed and it is no longer opening,” he lamented.
Bilikisu, based in Maiduguri, Borno State, who introduced Abdulfatai said, “I was a victim too. Our money went like that. I invested about N1.3m. They started in November 2022 to April 2023. I don’t know anywhere to report to. They are into mining cryptocurrency. The people who fell victim that I know are more than 20. I got to know about the platform online.”
Another victim, Ojo Oluwaseun, who is also based in Maiduguri, said, “We were thinking it was a legitimate investment. They told us they had some machine that is like Bitcoin. We downloaded their application from PlayStore. I invested up to N1.5m. A lot of my friends invested more than that. I referred many people. I started with them in March. I was able to withdraw N60,000 and N180,000 the first and second time respectively.”
PUNCH Metro gathered that the anchors removed themselves from the group after the development and their numbers stopped going through.
Calls put across to two of the anchors identified simply as Mark and Amanda by our correspondent did not connect.
A link to the site shared with our correspondent did not load as well.
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The Scull Residence is a Queen Anne Victorian-style home located in the heart of Black Hills, a mountain range in Rapid City, S.D. In 2020, a hailstorm caused significant damage to the entire roof, requiring a replacement.
Black Hills Exteriors, a full-service remodeling and restoration company in the Black Hills region, was selected to take on this restoration project. The finished project went on to win the Gold Award in the Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association (ARMA) 2022 Excellence in Asphalt Roofing Awards Program.
Gold Winner – ARMA 2022 Excellence in Asphalt Roofing Awards
Project Name: Scull Residence
Location: Rapid City, S.D.
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Project Size: 5,500 square feet
Challenges: Over 80% of roof is considered high-pitched steep slope; The owners wanted two shingle colors integrated together while still preserving characteristics of the Queen Anne-style Victorian home.
Products Used: Two colors of CertainTeed Carriage House shingles
Historic Charm: Beauty and Preservation
The Scull Residence represents the Victorian era's most popular home design, Queen Anne, which was introduced to America in 1880 by the English architect Richard Norman Shaw. This style of home is characterized by elaborate color schemes, grand architecture towers, and high-pitched roofs with patterned shingles. Queen Anne Victorian-style homes are renowned for their striking stature and adornment.
The homeowner wanted to emulate the bold and unconventional color schemes that defined the time period. To achieve this goal, Black Hills Exteriors integrated two asphalt shingle colors to maintain the home’s distinct characteristics, giving the roof a unique curb appeal. The contractor selected a rounded or “fish scale” shingle, determining this shape would provide a vintage aesthetic to this historic home. Steeply pitched and complex, the roofline on the Scull Residence provides ornate, visual interest.
Addressing Challenges: Hailstorms
The Black Hills area is prone to hailstorms and high winds. The project was challenging due to a 2020 hailstorm that damaged the entire roof and the difficulty of upholding the timeless exterior. Before the contractor could begin work, a lengthy process ensued with the insurance companies on the correct estimate for the project. Almost a year after the storm, Black Hills Exteriors received approval to start the restoration process.
Once work started, Black Hills Exteriors had to plan around good weather since the roof would be exposed to the elements for a week. Utilizing CertainTeed Carriage House shingles, Black Hills Exteriors fully repaired the extensive hail damage on the 5,500-square-foot roof. This newly installed roof system with its multiple laminated layers and 130 mph wind rating will protect against harsh winters for years to come. Black Hills Exteriors provided the homeowner with a high-performing roof that complements the aesthetic of the structure.
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Asphalt was the clear choice for this project due to its performance, layers of coverage, and a wide array of rich, gorgeous colors. The use of asphalt meant the contractor could provide conformity over the roof’s imperfections while still providing lasting protection. Furthermore, asphalt shingles can be manufactured to resemble slate, which is a typical color for the Queen Anne style. Black Hills Exteriors achieved an elegant look for this Victorian-style home by understanding the historic character and applying the versatile design of asphalt shingles.
ARMA honored Black Hills Exteriors with the 2022 Gold Award in the Excellence in Asphalt Roofing Awards Program. This program recognizes low and steep-slope asphalt roofing projects across North America based on four categories: Reasons for Selecting Asphalt, Performance, Beauty, and Distinction. ARMA received over 80 submissions this year, which were judged by a panel of industry experts and members of the trade media.
Black Hills Exteriors was thrilled to win the award and truly felt accomplished for their effort on the Scull Residence. The prize money was distributed to the team members who executed the project. This is the second award Black Hills Exteriors has won in the annual Excellence in Asphalt Roofing Awards Program. The first honor was the 2020 Bronze Award presented to Black Hills Exteriors for their work on the Central States Fairgrounds Horticulture Building.
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The Virginia Festival of the Book is canceled. Events: Thursday at Richmond’s Fountain Bookstore, the author of a debut novel for teens, “Sparrow,” will promote it via a conversation with Author: Erica J.
Smith. Virginia has now joined the handful of states across the nation with more than one confirmed case of COVID novel coronavirus, and the organizers of the Virginia Festival of the Book are.
A signature program of Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) and the Virginia Center for the Book, the Virginia Festival of the Book brings readers and writers together for a five‑day program of mostly free events including author readings.
Book festivals are a wonderful way to hear about a wide range of books and meet a large number of authors. These events take place across the country throughout the year. Our goal here is to present as comprehensive a list as possible about these events. The West Virginia Humanities Council is a charter sponsor of the West Virginia Book Festival along with the Kanawha County Public Library and Charleston Newspapers.
The festival was established in and held annually until funding concerns at the library in necessitated a two-year hiatus. The Virginia Festival of the Book kicked off Wednesday, featuring a record seven Pulitzer Prize-winning writers this year.
Sponsored by the UVA-affiliated Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, it includes more than events over five days.
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Which authors will you see in. Start making your plans. The Festival will take place March We are thrilled to announce seven Virginia Festival of the Book headliners, including featured speakers for the Leadership Breakfast, Festival Luncheon, and Crime Wave Brunch.
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On the basis of SolidWorks/Simulation FEA module, statics analysis and design optimization for bogie parameters determination test bench gantry framework are researched in this paper. Taking the optimization design of gantry framework main beam for example, an optimal mathematic model is established, the optimization goal is to reduce the quality of the main beam, and the constraints are displacement and stress. Simultaneously, the model is simulated by the SolidWorks/Simulation software. Compared with the initial design, the results show that the quality of main beam is reduced by 12.69%, the quality optimization goal of the gantry framework test bed is realized. Meanwhile, it not only reduced the design and manufacturing cost, but also enhanced the design efficiency.
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Joe Biden was the subject of new political advertisements from Donald Trump, called “Break-in,” as well as “Abolished,” both of which outright say or imply that Biden supports “defunding police.” However, Biden has vehemently disputed that claim and explicitly said he doesn’t support “defunding the police.”
However, what it actually means depends on who you ask.
Some activists who are using the phrase are calling for a complete disbanding of police departments. Others who are using the phrase are asking local governments to reallocate funds towards health, employment, housing and other needs, which they argue would reduce crime and make police officers’ jobs easier.
Here’s what you need to know about Joe Biden’s stance on the issue.
1. What Does Defunding the Police Mean?
According to the Washington Post, defunding the police is typically understood as reallocating resources that will ultimately reduce the sources of crime and allow police to focus more on violent crimes.
(Defunding the police) generally does not mean eliminating the police. Instead, advocates want to redirect some funds now spent on police forces to items such as education, public health, housing and youth services. The idea is that low-income communities would become stronger — and less in need of police — if root problems were addressed.
Under this concept, some police officers would be replaced with trained social workers or specialized response teams in an effort to let police focus on violent crime, not drug overdoses or homelessness. The theory is that police would be better positioned to deal with rapes and murders if they were not required to deal with other social ills that sometimes lead to community confrontations with police.
An article from the Brookings Institution even noted that the word “reallocate” is more in line with the theory, yet “defund” is more of an attention-grabber. The term’s spectrum of meanings — from eliminating police forces to reallocating some money — means Americans respond very differently to the message, which means the wording of political campaign ads can affect how candidates feel about the target of those ads.
For example, a poll from the research firm PerryUndem found that among 1,115 adults, most didn’t support defunding police departments, but 72% did support “reallocating” police funding to mental health experts for mental health emergencies, for example.
2. The Ad ‘Break In’ Says That ‘Biden Wants to Reduce Police Funding’
The ad “Break In” shows an older white woman, sitting on a sofa in the dark and watching a news broadcast as a news anchor says, “… Seattle’s pledge to defund its police department by 50%, even including a proposal to remove 911 dispatchers from police control.”
As this is occurring, a shadowy black figure is moving behind the windows, leading the woman to become frightened and reach for her landline and dial 911.
The audio switches to a different news anchor, who says, “Joe Biden says he’s absolutely on board with defunding the police” and then plays a clip of Biden saying, “Yes, absolutely.” On the screen, a statement appears, which reads, “Biden wants to reduce police funding.”
At the same time, the old 911 system is telling the woman, “Hello, you’ve reached 911. I’m sorry that there is no one here to answer your emergency call but leave a message and we will answer you as soon as we can.”
The man who broke into the woman’s house with a crowbar then appears in front of her, the phone falls to the floor and another news anchor states, “Crime will rise significantly…” before the image cuts to black.
A line reads, “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.”
3. Another Ad, ‘Abolished,’ Says Biden’s Supporters Are ‘Fighting to Defund Police Departments’
In another ad, called “Abolished,” a reimagined 911 message plays as images of violence are flashed on the screen and a statement about Joe Biden is also put on the screen.
Here is the 911 voice-recording:
You have reached the 911 police emergency line. Due to defunding of the police department, we’re sorry, but no one is here to take your call. If you’re calling to report a rape, please press 1, to report a murder, press 2, to report a home invasion, press 3. For all other crimes, leave your name and number and someone will get back to you. Our estimated wait time is five days. Goodbye.
The statement about Joe Biden says that it is quoting a June 24 ABC News article and features the two statements: “Joe Biden’s supporters are fighting to defund police departments. Violent crime has exploded. You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.”
4. Biden Said He Does Not Support Defunding Police
In an opinion piece that Joe Biden wrote in June, he explicitly said that he does not support “defunding the police. One of his sub-headlines in that article read, “Don’t defund police, support reforms,” and underneath that, Biden made his position clear:
While I do not believe federal dollars should go to police departments violating people’s rights or turning to violence as the first resort, I do not support defunding police. The better answer is to give police departments the resources they need to implement meaningful reforms, and to condition other federal dollars on completing those reforms.
During a CBS interview, Biden told news anchor Norah O’Donnell, “I don’t support defunding the police… I support conditioning federal aid to police, based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness.”
According to 12 News, Biden told one of the station’s news anchors, Mark Curtis, “I don’t think we should be defunding police departments. I think we should be holding police departments responsible.”
When he spoke with activist Ady Barkan, he said he supported redirecting funds used to purchase surplus military equipment, not defunding police departments. Here is how the exchange between the two went:
Biden: “Surplus military equipment for law enforcement. They don’t need that. The last thing you need is an up-armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood. It’s like the military invading. They don’t know anybody. They become the enemy. They’re supposed to be protecting these people. So, my generic point is that–”
Barkan: “But do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding?”
Biden: “Yes. Absolutely.”
5. Biden Has Pledged to Spent $300 Million on the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program
On a video posted on September 8, Biden brought up his reinvestment plan for local police while addressing the recent ads accusing him of wanting to defund police.
“I not only don’t want to defund the police, I’m the one calling for $300 million more for local police for community policing,” Biden said in response. “I also think we should add social workers and psychologists to help police on 911 calls.”
Biden spearheaded the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, which authorized funding both for the hiring of additional police officers and for training on how to undertake a community policing approach. However, the program has never been funded to fulfill the original vision for community policing. Biden will reinvigorate the COPS program with a $300 million investment. As a condition of the grant, hiring of police officers must mirror the racial diversity of the community they serve. Additionally, as president, Biden will establish a panel to scrutinize what equipment is used by law enforcement in our communities.


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What is an Oral Contract?
An oral contract is a type of business contract that is outlined and agreed to via spoken communication, but not written down. Although it can be difficult to prove the terms of an oral contract in the event of a breach, this type of contract is legally binding. Oral contracts are often mistakenly referred to as verbal contracts, but a verbal contract is really any contract since all contracts are created using language.
Understanding Oral Contracts
Oral contracts are generally considered as valid as written contracts, although this depends on the jurisdiction and, often, the type of contract. In some jurisdictions, some types of contracts must be written to be considered legally binding. For example, a contract involving the conveyance of real estate must be written to be legally binding.
In some cases, an oral contract can be considered binding, but only if it’s evidenced by a written contract. This means that once the oral contract has been agreed upon the parties must write down the contract terms. Other evidence that can be used to bolster the enforceability of an oral contract includes the testimony of witnesses to the creation of the contract. When one or both parties act on the contract, this too can be construed as evidence that a contract existed. Furthermore, letters, memos, bills, receipts, emails, and faxes can all be used as evidence to support the enforceability of an oral contract.
A famous example of the enforceability of an oral contract occurred in the 1990s when actress Kim Basinger backed out of her promise to star in Jennifer Lynch's film Boxing Helena. A jury awarded the producers $8 million in damages. Basinger appealed the decision and later settled for a lower amount, but not before having to file bankruptcy.
When Oral Contracts Fall Apart
Oral contracts are best used for simple agreements. For example, an oral contract to trade a used lawn mower for a used clothes dryer need not require much detail. The simpler the contract, the lower the chances that the parties involved will need to go to court. But more complex contracts, such as those for employment, typically should involve written contracts. Complex oral contracts are more likely to fall apart when held up to the scrutiny of a court, usually because the parties can’t reach an accord over the finer points of the agreement.

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"Anytime you can keep people out of a confined space, you are creating a better work environment. Many of the other “zero entry” sweeps out there require personnel to enter the grain bin prior to engaging the sweep and this is a very dangerous time to be in the bin. If you have to go into the bin to adjust the sweep prior to turning it on, can one really consider that sweep “zero entry”?” said Greg VerSteeg, vice president of sales and marketing at Sudenga Industries.
The D Series sweep is also innovative in that it leads with the auger. This feature is important as the auger actively engages crusted or out of condition grain, giving the sweep the best chance of advancing properly while sweeping the bin. When a sweep advances properly, there is no need to enter the bin.
All of Sudenga’s D Series sweeps are available with a patented above floor collector ring. An electrical collector ring allows power to be permanently wired into the sweep. By mounting this component in the sweep, above the floor, the D Series sweeps require a much shallower center sump to be mounted in the floor. This is great in new installations as it shortens up the foundation and tunnel requirements in some cases, but it is often an appreciated feature in sweep retrofit applications too.
Sudenga’s Auto Advance sweep controls allow the sweep to be operated entirely from outside the bin. The sweep can be started, or stopped from outside the bin. There is an automatic feature standard in our Auto Advance controls which monitors sweep amperage draw and advances, stops, or even backs the sweep up relative to how the grain is behaving in the bin. Adjustments to sweep settings are made totally in the control panel and do not require a computer interface to make changes.
The D Series sweeps are available for grains bins with diameters up to 132 feet and grain depths up to 150 feet. The 12 inch model handles up to 6,000 BPH while the 16 inch model handles up to 10,000 BPH. The sweeps are available with a motorized push tractor, or floor mounted track and can be electric or hydraulically driven. They are part of Sudenga's new Sudenga Max Commerical equipment line.
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Are blue sea slug dangerous?
People are advised not to touch the blue sea slugs because they may receive a painful sting. The sting could be potentially dangerous.
Are sea slug poisonous?
“Science has known that many sea slugs obtain toxins from what they are eating, such as sponges, but in our study we found they selected only one toxin to store a particularly toxic compound called Latrunculin A. “Toxicity tests demonstrated that even the smallest amounts of the compound killed brine shrimp.”
How dangerous is a Blue Glaucus?
The blue dragon slug is not dangerous on its own but stores “stinging nematocysts” when feeding on its preferred prey, the Portuguese man o’war jellyfish. The glaucus atlanticus then keeps the stinging cells from the jellyfish’s poisonous tentacles to unleash on unsuspecting creatures if they feel threatened.
Why are sea slugs dangerous?
The Sea Slug secretes a toxic dye and slime but also can have a toxic slime layer on the over their bodies. Once a dog licks or picks up a Sea Slug, they can ingest the dye or slime. This can cause spasms and other reactions.
Can you own a Blue Glaucus?
In recent years, the internet has caused the species to become very popular, although its fame has been detrimental. Many people want to add them to their aquariums, leading to an increase in their appearance in the exotic pet trade. However, keeping the Blue Glaucus as a pet is impractical because of its diet.
What is the most dangerous ocean creature?
Box Jellyfish This notoriously dangerous jellyfish often tops the list of the most dangerous sea creatures in the world. While it might not look threatening, its sting is life-threatening. The sting can result in death in less than five minutes.
Can you have sea slugs as pets?
While most species are not well-suited to life in captivity due to their specialized diets, there are some sea slug species that by chance or by choice make interesting aquarium inhabitants! Happy slug-watching!

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