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The Orion series light curtain represents the latest in light curtain technology from ABB Jokab Safety. With three different product series to match your needs and budget, the Orion delivers all the things that engineers want in a light curtain — a competitive price, fast delivery, ease of installation, and a high degree of safety and reliability.
The Orion1 Base light curtain, the entry-level and most popular light curtain model, delivers hand or finger protection at a fantastic price. And for that price, machine builders and manufacturers get a highly-reliable, third-party certified PLe and Category 4 Safety Device (ISO 13849-1) that provides the highest degree of protection.
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The Orion series boasts a supercompact footprint of 32mm x 36mm, which allows machine builders to tuck light curtains in and out of the way, increasing productivity and reducing the safety equipment’s footprint on the machine. Additionally, with the addition of a local reset wired inline with the light curtain, your cable management won’t be clogged with extraneous cabling.
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Using industry-standard M12 8-pin and 5-pin connectors, the Orion series makes quick work of installation. Add to the mix any number of splitters and accessories to further reduce wiring points into the panel. Additionally, a visual alignment indicator on the light curtain tells you when you’re getting closer to perfect optical alignment in setup.
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Perhaps the best part about the Orion series is that Lydey Automation stocks the Orion1 Base version — the most popular version — in the popular lengths for finger and hand protection. This means that you can count on getting fast delivery on your light curtain, controllers, cabling and accessories, directly from our stock.
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How to Buy a Top Two Stage Snow Blower
Buying one of the top rated two stage snow blowers of 2017 might look like a complicated thing to do. To make matters easier and to improve your entire buying journey, we have put together a short yet informative buying guide which can help you understand some core aspects of any two stage snow blower. Remember to read as much information as possible and go over many customer reviews, as the opinion of other buyers can be deal-breaking whenever making a purchase.
Although this detail isn’t actually related to the snow blower, we need to underline the importance of proper clothing. While out in the freezing weather, wear something that you consider comfortable, but don’t exaggerate with exercise as you’ll start sweating and get a cold. Furthermore, snow blowers are operated during the winter, so it is recommended that people who suffer from diabetes, hypertension or heart disease refrain from using these units.
What grade do you want to buy?
Two stage snow blowers use gas and that’s because they have a higher capacity and performance than their electric counterparts. Even so, two stage snow blowers can be split into three main categories: entry-level, mid-grade and professional models. The first are cheaper while the second are stronger and more durable. The third are by far the best, but they’re the most expensive. Which one do you need?
Easiness of use
The larger the tires, the easier you’ll be able to move the snow blower. If possible, choose a unit that has a comfortable handle and allows the user to easily access the bearings. Better safe than sorry, especially when it comes to maintenance!
Direction and height adjustment
Two-stage snow blowers are complex machines that take the hassle out of adjusting height and direction. While with single-stage units, the user needs to perform these customizations by using the handle, with two-stage models it’s even easier than that. Most units have joystick controls. If you are unsure about how effective the controls of a specific model really are, we recommend going to a specialized store and trying out the snow blower you intend on buying.
Top Two Stage Snow Blowers in 2017
Since we know that getting the best two stage snow blower in 2017 is a daunting task, we’ve selected three of the most acclaimed models on the market today. All of the following have gathered the appreciation of many American and worldwide customers. They are known for being dependable, convenient and most of all, affordable.
The Power Smart DB7659A has managed to gather some of the best two stage snow blower reviews out there, and that really comes as no surprise. This is an upgraded version of an older model. The unit comes with a 4-way joystick control which can be used efficiently for adjusting direction and height.
The model is made of 100% steel, which largely contributes to its overall durability and sturdiness. It’s actually said that this is one of the most durable products in the line.
California residents cannot purchase the Power Smart DB7659A as their local legislation does not allow it.
The manufacturers have certainly raised the bar when it comes to developing snow throwers, what with this one’s 208 cc LCT Storm Force OHV engine. Extreme performance and excellent coverage have been successfully combined into this mode. The width of the coverage is 22 inches and the intake height is 16 inches. The entire weight of the unit is 154 pounds.
The company is offering a 1-year limited warranty on this item.
Over 50 buyers have provided 5-star ratings on the Power Spart DB7659A. Most of them claim it works like a dream, especially for 2-car driveways.
Yard Machines is a well-known name among snow blower manufacturers. The company has been developing top-notch products for a decent number of years and is known for offering excellent customers support.
This is a compact, self-propelled snow blower that’s a bit on the smaller side. It does a great job for sidewalks, driveways and patios, but removing snow from larger areas might be a little more tricky.
The unit comes with a 9-inch steel auger and a 10-inch impeller. A 180-degree chute rotation is part of the deal and is known for adjusting easily and for withstanding freezing and rusting.
As is the case with the aforementioned Power Smart model, this one can’t be sold in the state of California.
The Yard Machines 31A-32AD700 is easy to utilize and customize and makes removing snow a breeze. It is more lightweight than its Power Smart counterpart, weighing it at 118 pounds. Unlike the model we’ve showcased above, this one does not feature an electric start.
The machine comes pre-assembled by Amazon so users don’t even need to go through the trouble of putting anything together. Judging by some of the best two stage snow blower reviews, this is a good, sturdy unit that can hold up through any winter.
Poulan Pro is yet again one of the most reputable manufacturers of units like these, as the company takes its clients very seriously and offers warranties between 2 and 4 years. In fact, this is the exact case of this product, which is covered by a 2-year limited warranty on the whole ensemble and a 4-year warranty on the engine.
This is a 24-inch two-stage snow thrower that has a 208cc Poulan PRO engine, which is relatively well known for its excellent power. The intake height is 23 inches. The 12-inch tires, combined with the comfort grip loop handles make getting rid of snow as easy as pie.
The unit has 6 speeds for Forward and one speed for Reverse.
The model features an electric start, which gives a helping hand to users who don’t want to keep pulling any cord on a cold winter morning.
Although it’s clearly heavier than the other two models we’ve described above, the Poulan Pro PR241 can be bought at a fair price. It doesn’t cost more than the Yard Machines model but it does feature an electric start. This isn’t a toy, it’s a serious snow blower that will do precisely what it is supposed to do.


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On February 5, 1799, English botanist, gardener and orchidologist John Lindley was born. His attempts to formulate a natural system of plant classification greatly aided the transition from the artificial (considering the characters of single parts) to the natural system (considering all characters of a plant). He made the first definitive orchid classification in 1830.
John Lindley Background
John Lindley was born in Catton, near Norwich, England, as one of four children of George Linley, a nurseryman and pomologist who ran a commercial nursery garden, and his wife Mary. Although he had great horticultural knowledge, the undertaking was not profitable and the family lived in a state of indebtedness. As a boy John would assist in the garden and also collected wild flowers he found growing in the Norfolk countryside. Educated at Norwich School, he would have liked to go to university or to buy a commission in the army but the family could not afford either. Thus, he became Belgian agent for a London seed merchant in 1815. At this time Lindley became acquainted with the botanist William Jackson Hooker who allowed him to use his botanical library and who introduced him to Sir Joseph Banks who offered him employment as an assistant in his herbarium.
In 1819 he published his first scientific papers which were acknowledged by the Linnaean Society. Lindley went to work at Banks’ house in London. For his botanical interest he concentrated on the genera “Rosa” and “Digitalis” and published the monograph “A Botanical History of Roses” which distinguished seventy-six species. He became acquainted with Joseph Sabine who grew a large assortment of roses and was the Secretary of the Horticultural Society of London. His employment came to an abrupt end with the death of Banks a few months later. In 1820, at the age of twenty-one, Lindley was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Next, Lindley was appointed assistant secretary to the Horticultural Society and its new garden at Chiswick in 1822, where he supervised the collection of plants. In 1828 Lindley was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London and in 1833 was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Munich. In 1829 he was appointed to the chair of botany at University College, London, which he retained until 1860.
Lindley’s investigation in 1838 of the conditions at the Kew Gardens in London led him to recommend that the gardens be turned over to the nation and used as the botanical headquarters for the United Kingdom. His famous collection of orchids was eventually housed in the Kew herbarium. His Theory and Practice of Horticulture (1842) is considered to be one of the best books ever written on the physiological principles of horticulture. Time-consuming though his official duties and public activities certainly were, Lindley nevertheless managed to prepare the specific characters for the 16,712 species of flowering plants and cryptogams included in John Loudon’s Encyclopaedia of Plants (1829) and to produce a series of well-documented, clearly written, authoritative educational publications.
As a young man Lindley campaigned vigorously against the artificial “sexual system” of classification of plants introduced by Linnaeus in favor of a more natural system. In 1830 he published Introduction to the Natural System of Botany which was the first work in English to give descriptions of the families on a worldwide basis. It embodied detailed, firsthand observations of their representatives in the garden and herbarium. Uninfluenced by theories of evolution, and hence without thought of phylogeny, Lindley regarded the characters of plants as “the living Hieroglyphics of the Almighty which the skill of man is permitted to interpret. The key to their meaning lies enveloped in the folds of the Natural System.”
In 1845, Lindley was part of a scientific commission set up by the Government to investigate potato blight and the Irish famine. The cause of the fungal disease was not known at the time and the weather was thought to be to blame. In 1861, Lindley took charge of organising the exhibits from the British colonies for the International Exhibition at South Kensington. This was exhausting work and seems to have taken a toll on his health. In 1863 he travelled to Vichy, a spa in the south of France, but his health continued to decline. He died at his home at Acton Green, near London, aged 66.
Robin W. Kimmerer, The Teachings of Plants: Finding Common Ground Between Traditional and Scientific Knowledge,
References and Further Reading:
-  John Lindley at the Encyclopedia Britannica
-  John Lindley in the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 2008
-  Gaspard Bauhin and the Classification of Plants, SciHi Blog
-  John Ray and the classification of plants, SciHi Blog
-  Elizabeth Gertrude Britton Knight and the Study of Mosses, SciHi Blog
-  Robert Morison and the Classification of Plants, SciHi Blog
-  John Lindley at Wikidata
-  Orchids.co: John Lindley’s work on orchids
-  Makers of British botany/John Lindley 1799—1865, at Wikisource
-  Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
-  Robin W. Kimmerer, The Teachings of Plants: Finding Common Ground Between Traditional and Scientific Knowledge, YaleUniversity @ youtube
-  John Lindley Timeline via Wikidata
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A former Taekwondo instructor from Wamego will spend the next three years on probation after a Pottawatomie County judge sentenced him for convictions on two counts of sexual exploitation of a child.
Scott Hertzig pleaded guilty earlier this year two the charges following his arrest last year. In court Thursday he read a letter, acknowledging he broke the law and attributed his actions to years of child sexual abuse at the hands of his brother. The 37-year-old stated in court that viewing the images normalized what he experienced and that he got no sexual gratification in viewing the images.
Because Hertzig has been undergoing treatment for the past year, the judge found that doing the program would be better to prevent recidivism and granted probation instead of prison time, despite the state’s objection. The aggravated underlying sentence imposed is 68 months (34 months on each count), meaning if he violates probation he’ll head to jail for the next five to six years. He’s also subject to lifetime post-release supervision.
According to Pottawatomie County Attorney Sherri Schuck, the investigation of his phone led to a “binder full” of numerous lewd images of child victims under the age of 10.
Hertzig worked as a Taekwondo instructor for 14 years in the area, and instructed numerous children.


The number of obstetricians/gynecologists, especially in Jerusalem but also in other parts of the country, is becoming dangerously inadequate for a variety of reasons, but largely because the specialty has become a women's profession here. This warning was sounded at a recent session of the Jerusalem branch of the Israel Obstetrics/Gynecology Society. More than half of all medical students and 60 percent of residents today are women, many of whom want lifestyles convenient for raising their families. Many of them want to work fewer hours and prefer to work in health fund and other clinics to hospital work, where births and gynecological problems are dealt with round the clock. Statistics were provided at the society meeting by Dr. Liat Zeltzer of Beersheba and by Prof. Chaim Yaffe, chief of ob/gyn at Jerusalem's Bikur Holim Hospital. Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, director-general of the Hadassah Medical Organization who trained for and worked for years as an obstetrician/gynecologist, headed the session on demography and manpower problems in the field. He told The Jerusalem Post in a phone interview from New York on Monday that most women now prefer female obstetricians/gynecologists. Another problem is that the field involves a lot of malpractice suits. "But even though they personally don't have to pay one penny - the hospital pays malpractice insurance - doctors don't like to get a bad name when something goes wrong," he said. This is different from the US, where most ob/gyns must personally pay skyrocketing malpractice insurance premiums. Nevertheless, all these factors make ob/gyn less attractive to both female and male Israeli medical graduates today, he added. "I very much enjoyed the specialty, but I found something else - medical administration - that I enjoy even more," he noted. Jerusalem has a very high birth rate due to its large population of religious Jews and Arab families. Thus the current shortage is greater there than in other parts of the country - some ob/gyn positions in the capital are vacant - and the greater shortfall expected in the coming years will be even more severe there than elsewhere. Mor-Yosef said there will be growing shortages of many medical specialists in the years to come, as doctors who retire in these fields are not replaced. Mor-Yosef noted that it is "relatively easy" to build or expand hospital ob/gyn departments, but they cannot function properly without medical manpower. "The authorities and hospitals have to think of role changes. For example, midwives can be given more authority to check up on women after delivery or to carry out certain additional tasks instead of obstetricians," he says. There are not yet corresponding shortages in midwives, Mor-Yosef continued, because they work shifts and have regular hours; obstetricians have different responsibilities and work hours. The Health Ministry is in charge of manpower planning, said the Hadassah Medical Organization administrator, but its statistical data are not accurate. They have lists of all doctors, but do not have up-to-date information on how many are actively working in each specialty, so they cannot adequate plan for the future, he said. "I, for example, am listed as a gynecologist, but I don't work in the field. The ministry also doesn't know how many specialists live in various parts of the country," Mor-Yosef said. "The ministry has started to think about this problem and what to do, but it's still far away from a solution," he said. "When doctors receive their certificates, they don't have to register with the ministry as an active specialist in order to work in the field. The Israel Medical Association is very opposed to this, as it fears it would lead to a requirement of recertification every few years." Labor unions don't like its members to be required to prove from time to time that they are still competent and updated in the field, he continued. While financial incentives could encourage some medical residents to go into ob/gyn, it is not a sure thing. Then there are the lifestyle problems, and the fact that most would choose to work in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem instead of the periphery or other places where there are shortages. Work conditions could be changed to make the field more attractive, Mor-Yosef concluded. "It is urgent, as every year it is getting more difficult to find enough specialists in the field," he said.


USA Basketball begins its quest for another gold medal on Sunday, when they take on France in their preliminary game at the Olympic Park. Their star-studded squad comprises the world’s best players including Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony. The team won Gold in Beijing in 2008 and expect to reign again in London. But will their confidence actually be the undoing of a team comprising of excellence and egos? Here’s David Eades.
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ASTON 2: FAB FLOURNOY – Newcastle Eagles Player/Coach at 1’10”
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The Karen National Union issued a statement Tuesday "categorically" denying any involvement in the blasts in the town of Kyaukkyi. The group accuses Burma's military authorities of instigating violence in order to win the 2010 election.
Burma's state-run media reported Wednesday that authorities had arrested 11 people for allegedly planning terrorist attacks in the Rangoon area. A report in The New Light of Myanmar

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Blog: Brands and retailers praised for organic cotton uptake
Katie Smith | 15 October 2012
Apparel brands including H&M Hennes & Mauritz, Nike, Anvil Knitwear, Patagonia and Gossypium have been recognised for increasing their use of organic cotton.
Non-profit group Textile Exchange said their collective work has resulted in safer environments for cotton farmers and improved market access for organic cotton.
Textile Exchange said increasing the demand for organic cotton results in reduced water use, the elimination of artificial pesticides and fertilisers and improving the health of farmers.
"These brands and retailers are helping to drive the demand for organic cotton. As a result, every step of the supply chain has benefited," said LaRhea Pepper, managing director of Textile Exchange.
The brands were given 'Future Shaper' awards at the Sustainable Textiles Conference in Hong Kong on 4 October.
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Dental Chairs are Essential Equipments for Dental Clinics
Posted by shouldbuykou3 on March 4th, 2020
Dental chairs are the core of a clinic. For the dentist, the dental chair is an essential piece of equipment for you to do your job. But to your patients, the dental chair is the focal point of your office, making it representative of your practice and of the care they expect to receive.
The very important thing is evaluating the durability of chairs, it should at least last for the next 10 years. 10 years is a decent life for porable dental chairs followed by small services, replacements. The built-up quality and reliability of control functions should withstand the test of time and provide are result are acceptable for an adequate duration.
Before buying let’s consider these components, which is categorized into three major categories :
Designing Component of Dental Chair
The component of the dental chair determines the comfort, ergonomic and aesthetic value of the dental Chair. The following points are aimed to help you with information that you need to consider while planning to buy a dental chair for your clinic.
Choose what’s right for you
When choosing the colours for your practice, the patient’s response is naturally a key consideration. However, besides the patient there is also someone else who spends a lot of time in your office – you.
As a dentist, you are likely to spend as much time in your practice as you do at home. This is why it is important that the aesthetics of your working environment are also right for you. When choosing a colour scheme for your office, think about which colours have a positive impact on you – and which don’t. Pleasant combinations that delight and reassure your patients can also work wonders on your own day.
And finally, we finish the tour of the parts of a dental unit with dental opertaory light. The intraoral lighting lamp is another of the basic elements that all dental equipment must have. It is a high intensity lamp that
concentrates the entire beam of light inside the patient's oral cavity to be able to work without any type of problem. Look for yours among the most popular lamps sold among dentists.
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Activists and journalists in Thailand are reporting that several television and radio stations have stopped broadcasting, following army orders.
(1) These stations are taken off air: 1. MV 5 2. DNN 3. UDD 4. Asia Update 5. P&P 6. 4 Channel 7. Blue Sky 8. FMTV 9. T News 10. ASTV
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Development of a high-efficient concentrated pretreatment method for noroviruses detection in independent oysters:An extension of the ISO/TS 15216-2:2013 standard method
- Zhang, Le, Xue, Liang, Gao, Junshan, Cai, Weicheng, Jiang, Yueting, Zuo, Yueting, Liao, Yingyin, Qin, Zhiwei, Wu, Haoming, Cheng, Tong, Luo, Xueting, Wu, Qingping, Wu, Kegang, Zhang, Jumei
- Food control 2020 v.111 pp. 107032
- Norovirus, RNA-directed DNA polymerase, detection limit, foodborne illness, gastroenteritis, markets, oysters, proteinases, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
- Noroviruses are the primary cause of gastroenteritis and foodborne diseases, affecting millions of individuals annually worldwide. Oysters are frequently associated with norovirus outbreaks. Hence, inexpensive and simple norovirus detection methods are important to detect and contain foodborne illness outbreaks. The objective of this study is to develop a high-efficient concentrated pretreatment method for reverse transcriptase quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) detection. Based on the existing ISO/TS 15216-2:2013 standard (ISO/TS 15216-2., 2013), four methods are compared for recovery of norovirus from spiked digestive tissue of oysters. A method is found to be the most efficient based on protease K method of increasing buffer volume and PEG precipitation method. The recovery rate and amplification efficiency approached 11.07 ± 0.09% and 124.12 ± 5.99%, respectively, being 7-fold that of the original ISO/TS 15216-2:2013 method. This method serves as a rapid (1.5h) sample concentration tool with a limit of detection as low as 7.05 × 10³ copies. Thirty-eight oyster samples from an aquatic products market in Guangzhou are tested using this method, and noroviruses are detected in 13 samples. This method is an effective extension of the existing ISO/TS 15216-2:2013 standard and it is potentially applicable for detecting norovirus contamination in oysters.


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Each year Acer descends upon New York City for its annual global press conference (GPC), with the latest and greatest laptops, Predator gaming goodies and other accessories from the Taiwanese manufacturer all showcased.
For 2019, the event is being live-streamed today, from 4pm BST (5pm CET). You can watch all the action in real time as Acer CEO, Jason Chen, takes to the stage to announce what is, as the event is called, coming Next at Acer for this year and beyond.
So what should we expect? Well, in recent years Acer has gone big on education, so we anticipate a refresh of its Chromebook and laptop ranges, along with some new innovations in design and the ultra-thin/light department – something the Swift 7 has long been pushing through various iterations over the years.
The tagline "A New Chapter For Creativity" also suggests we might see stylus integration.
But the other area that Acer has been keenly investing in is its Predator gaming brand. With the Triton range going from strength to strength, will we see updated RTX graphics cards in the company's best gaming laptops?
We'll be live at the product unveil, so will bring coverage from the event in addition to hands-on first impressions of the crème de la crème of this year's top upcoming products. Watch this space…


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Adaugo Nwachukwu wins a bronze medal for Team USA at the U20 World Championships. Wrestling in the Women’s Freestyle at 62 kg, Nwachukwu dominated the match notching a 10-0 win over U23 Asian runner-up Bermet Nuridin Kyzy from Kyrgyzstan. She will be a sophomore for Iowa Wesleyan this upcoming season.
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Three sideshow performers leave their lives of captivity and form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a sideshow ventriloquist, midget, and strongman work together to commit a series of robberies.
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Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats.
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department.
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives.
Phil and Claire Foster fear that their mild-mannered relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, their dinner reservation leads to their being mistaken for a couple of thieves – and now a number of unsavoury characters want Phil and Claire killed.
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings.
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Keaton portrays Friendless, who travels west to try to make his fortune. Once there, he tries his hand at bronco-busting, cattle wrangling, and dairy farming, eventually forming a bond with a cow named "Brown Eyes.
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OK, it was 104 out today and I'm in my studio creating these Christmas birds! And after a couple hours I was actually getting excited thinking about all the cool Christmas decorations that will be coming into stores, the lights, the music. Yikes!
Looking at these pictures I am deciding that I really need a new camera. When I check out other blogs their pictures are so perfect. Hmmmm, wonder how I can convince Frank that a new camera is a necessity. Until then, sorry for the not too clear pics.
In the middle of working on these birds today, I accidently knocked a whole paper plate of very fine silver glitter ALL OVER MY DESK! And I mean "all over". What a mess!! I don't think I will ever get it all cleaned up. When I went in to my bathroom a couple hours later and walked by the mirror, I realized I even had glitter on my teeth. Geez!
Next project today was working on getting some of my soldered charms ready for solder.
I will be adding some hanging pearls and crystals to the bottom of each piece.
We've hit another milestone with baby Sofia and so I just had to pop this picture of her in.
She even has two bottom teeth, says Da-da and Papa, rolls all over the place and sits up on her own. A real doll but oh how I hate to see her grow so fast. I just adore this baby stage and wish it could last forever.
A little update on our daughter, Bre. She is still not seeing well out of her one eye. We are hoping that will improve by Wed. when she goes in for her next MRI. We're happy that we will be flying up in two weeks for a visit.
I think tomorrow will be a liesure day for me and after running a few errands in the morning I plan on floating around our pool all afternoon. Happy Monday everyone!
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Real estate development is a multi-step process that can be complicated, lengthy and risky. It can take years to bring a project from the initial planning stage through construction to final completion, and there are plenty of obstacles that can pop up along the way.
Necessary Skills for a Real Estate Developer. Every development professional needs to be well rounded, as real estate development is extremely complex and requires analytical, financial, marketing, interpersonal and organizational skills.This is especially true with financial skills-developers need these in order to make the right choices when purchasing, financing, developing, and then.
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Common Issues with commercial real estate.. for the acquisition, development , and operation of a commercial real estate venture. Commercial financing loans are secured primarily by real estate and related assets owned by the debtor.
Real estate development loans are capital advancements issued to borrowers who need funds for breaking ground on a project, building, and holding the finished product through the leasing stage. Investors typically rely on real estate development financing to do one of two things: buy raw land to eventually build on or tear down an existing.
And, hire a real estate agent who knows the city. started in order to help fill the gap between financing a home in.
Developers buy land, finance real estate deals, build or have builders build projects, create, imagine, control, and orchestrate the process of development from the beginning to end. Developers usually take the greatest risk in the creation or renovation of real estate-and receive the greatest rewards.
50 Madison Road, Totowa, NJ TOTOWA, NJ-Real estate investment and development firm Russo Development of Carlstadt, NJ has.
Location Analysis. PandaTip: Use this section of the real estate development proposal template to cover details about the property’s surrounding area that support your case for developing the property according to your plans.
Acquisition and Development Loans A land development loan is an advance of funds, secured by a mortgage, to finance the making, installing, or constructing of the improvements necessary to convert raw land into construction-ready building sites.
Commercial Real Estate Developers In a little over a decade, the firm has become one of the biggest commercial real estate developers in New York City, with a portfolio of 10 ground-up high-rise residential buildings.Multifamily Loan Rates Annual Indexing for Basic Statutory Mortgage Limits for Multifamily Housing Programs (May 9, 2019) Incentives for FHA Mortgage Insurance for Properties Located in Opportunity Zones (May 9, 2019) Pay for Success 60-Day paperwork reduction act public comment (May 7, 2019) Multifamily Pay for Success Draft NOFA
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July 5-9, 2015 in Budapest (Hungary)
VPIphotonics will present its latest simulation tools at ICTON 2015 to be held in Budapest, Hungary, July 5-9, 2015. This annual conference concentrates on applications of transparent and all-optical technologies in telecommunications, computing and novel applications.
Thursday, 9 July, 8:30-10:30
Modeling and design framework for SDM transmission systems (Invited)N. Karelin, H. Louchet, D. Kroushkov, A. Uvarov, S. Mingaleev, I. Koltchanov, A. Richter
Abstract: We present a sophisticated simulation framework for few-mode fiber based space division multiplexing (SDM) transmission systems supporting the characterization of the interplay between linear and nonlinear fiber effects, and design of key components such as optical amplifiers. We demonstrate its capabilities by discussing applications related to doped and un-doped multimode fiber design, linear and Kerr-induced mode coupling, and effective means for digital equalization at the receiver side.
July 6-9, 2015 in Prague (Czech Republic)
Monday, 6 July, 15:45-19:10
Predicting System Performance – An Art or Playing the Lottery?A. Richter, H. Louchet
Abstract: For many years, modeling and numerical simulation play an important role for characterizing equipment and dimensioning performance limitations of high-speed optical transmission systems. We try nothing less but to emulate in a computer environment what will happen in real life under real-world conditions, evaluate the performance of alternating transmission methods and corresponding technologies, and based on that make strategic decisions about the way to move forward. With this paper we discuss numerical techniques for estimating the signal performance for high-speed optical transmission systems. We illustrate how the perspective about "good methods" and "reliable criterions" changed over the years with the advancement of technology. Further we highlight major challenges for estimating signal performance in today's transmission systems and discuss techniques to overcome them.


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Athymic nude mice (nu/nu) were significantly more susceptible to pneumonia due to the agent of mouse pneumonitis (MoPn), Chlamydia trachomatis, than their heterozygous (nu/+) littermates, as judged both by a greater mortality and a decreased ability to rid their lungs of the infection, Nu/nu mice did not produce significant antibody to the MoPn agent, whereas nu/+ mice did. Thymic transplantation rendered nu/nu mice significantly more resistant to the MoPn agent than nu/nu controls. Resistance to the MoPn agent and production of specific antibody to the MoPn agent were dependent on thymus-derived cells.
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- Immunology and Allergy
- Infectious Diseases

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Originally titled Christmas Under the Stars.
Christmas blogger and aspiring photographer Hannah Reed just got the assignment of a lifetime, visiting a charming town and Christmas wonderland called Christmas World in Alaska. Desperate to get the photographs she needs; Hannah strikes a deal with the heir apparent of Christmas World in exchange for a local’s insight into the best places to photograph the lights.
Christmas Beneath the Stars was originally released on UPtv December 4, 2021.
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12/15/23 – 11:00pm on UPtv
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Knee Braces, post-operative or conservative treatment
A static knee splint for postural control of the knee. It is made according to an individual plaster of paris cast. It has got a soft liner inside a thermal plastic and velcro fastening. The splint can also be used for standing and moving exercises.


With 178,000 units sold worldwide Nissan LEAF continues to lead sales of electrical globally. With this in hand the Nissan decided to launch a new special edition at an advantageous price, for 19,850 euros Acenta Nissan LEAF Limited Edition , a version that is for sale in Spain .
The idea of this special issue is to give the car a more technological and futuristic look, a touch of class, although the details that differentiate it from the standard model are rather few. Specifically, the 17-inch tires Autech completed by electric blue accompanying the rest of blue car details.
The interesting Limited Edition Acenta Nissan LEAF is the equipment that comes with taking into account the price. It comes standard with a new charging cable, now Mennekes type 32A which adds to the serial cable Schuko 10A. With the new equipment, optional on the rest of the range, we can charge the car fully in 4 hours instead of 8 hours, connecting it to your specific plug.
The Nissan LEAF Acenta Limited Edition also standard with a cam equipment more than reasonable looking elements such as rain sensors, navigation with 7-inch touch screen and dedicated information, Bluetooth handsfree and 6 speakers , automatic climate control, center armrest and Alcantara upholstery.
The new special edition is already available in Spain at a price of 19,850 euros, counting this price and with promotional discounts and including 2015. Movele Plan
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From 24,000 EURO
Article Acenta Nissan LEAF Limited Edition, now with Mennekes cable series was originally published in Current Motor.


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Increasing utility bills and rising costs are driving Russian shoppers to watch their grocery budgets more than ever. Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) retailers and manufacturers need to recalibrate strategies to adjust to a more price-conscious consumer.
Grocery spending is slowing down
More than 70 percent of Russians say the state of their personal finances is bad or not so good, according to Nielsen’s second quarter global online consumer confidence survey. As a result, consumers’ average monthly spend on groceries has slowed. In Moscow, consumers’ average grocery basket spend has slightly decreased, bringing the cash outlay for grocery goods equal to the amount spent St-Petersburg for the first time (~16 thousand Rubles). Consumers dealing with rising costs typically turn to retail channels that can offer better prices, like discounters. But in markets with a high level of competition, such as Moscow and St-Petersburg, discounters have actually started to lose consumer loyalty.
Hypermarkets are gaining back their positions
In 2010, discounters in Russia gained favor with shoppers because of their low price positioning. But today the situation is reversed. According to the Nielsen ShopperTrends 2011 study, hypermarkets are gaining back their positions – both in terms of brand equity, shopper loyalty, and basket size. Shoppers did not perceive discounters’ as providing their key communicated value – best prices for all goods – and started to switch back to hypermarkets where they spend the majority of their monthly grocery budget. Consumer loyalty must be built on trust.
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Value – not price – is driving shoppers
Notwithstanding the price sensitivity of cash-strapped consumers, Nielsen’s study shows that low prices are not really the main store choice driver today. Value for money is. Assortment is the second most important driver for store choice. This is especially true in Moscow where getting good quality fresh food in modern trade is more difficult than in the port city of St-Petersburg where fresh-food delivery is not an issue. In St-Petersburg, where the modern trade development, retail concentration and competition is very similar to the European shopping experience, good service and a nice shopping environment are also key store choice drivers.
Shoppers want wider choices and a better experience
The rising number of specialty or niche stores that build assortment on one or two basic product categories, such as bakeries, meat stores, fruit and vegetable stores, and dairy stores are gaining popularity with consumers. The importance of these specialty niche stores will grow as consumers turn to them for better quality, freshness and wider choice. These specialty stores can also turn into an opportunity for the small retailer and owner of impulse kiosks and pavilions who will be affected by the new law banning beer from kiosks after 2012.
War on the shelves
As shoppers make more decisions based on the importance of ‘value for money’ and make decisions more often in-store, competition for consumers’ choice will move to the shelves. Correct price and assortment decisions and effective in-store communications will be vital for retailer and manufacturer success, which is especially true for products where brand power is low.
Promotion pressure is growing
The number of items sold on promotion is growing in each product category and is an effective means to drive basket size. Nielsen reports that 43 percent of survey respondents in Moscow and 54 percent of respondents in St-Petersburg say they seldom change stores based on promotions, but actively look for promotions in stores where they usually shop. Promotions will become an even more important means to drive consumption and market share. Manufacturers and retailers need to make smart promotion decisions and be careful to not over-promote the product category or take too many temporary price reductions. This could lead to devaluation of the brand power in the category, open the gates for private label expansion and potentially decrease the sales potential of the category in the long-run.
Now is the time to drive brand equity
The new wave of consumer pessimism will be a good test for manufacturers’ brand power. This is the time when leaders can get the best of the situation by investing in shopper marketing. At the same time, it is also an opportunity for new brands, including store brands or private labels, which will be able to offer shoppers the value for money they desire.


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Do you have family coming over for Easter, or are you planning on eating out with a few close friends? Whatever you choose to do, create a colorful, seasonal look with flowers inside your home to welcome your guests or as you come home and relax. These ideas for styling flowers don’t have to expire after Sunday; keep them in mind throughout the spring for a fresh and blooming country home all season long.
- Keep real or faux flowers in antiqued tin buckets, Mason jars or vintage tins. You’ll be changing the clutter of stored-away containers into the beauty that is a floral arrangement on a table, mantel or large windowsill.
- Complement colorful decor with colorful blooms. Our Sturbridge Lantern Lamp in Brass adds to the warmth of not only the lighting but to the rosy pink flowers, and enhances the natural look of the green leaves of the plant, as well as the green details in these Vintage Bird Prints.
- Emphasize pinks and yellows of Easter with black and white accents (a classic home decor trend). Think hens, chickens, rabbits and bunnies; if you choose not to decorate with those animals after Sunday, you’ll still have colorful, beautiful blooms to add charm in your home.
- Embrace floral decor. Accent lighting in the shape of a blooming flower; pillows adorned in cheerful country petals; these will bring an added elegant and unique touch to your Easter and spring decor, especially when you incorporate different textures and materials like hooked wool and mercury glass.
- Creatively add to party favors, serving trays and place settings. One big bloom, a few sprigs of decorative grass and twigs or a combination of both can add natural appeal to the minor details of your Easter inspired country home decor. You can also choose to decorate only these areas for a minimal yet cheerful look this Easter and all spring long.
- Don’t underestimate a wreath. You may always hang one on your front door, but adding a wreath and even coordinating garland above a mantel, the kitchen sink or on a wall in the dining room will tie all of your Easter decor together, finishing the true look and feel of the holiday throughout your home.
Tags: Antiqued Tin Lazy Susan, Black & White Sitting Rabbit Sculpture Set, Cherry Blossom Birds Hooked Wool Pillow, Danby Upholstered Rocker, Lily Accent Lamp, Red Metal Country Pitcher, sturbridge lantern lamp, Tulip Faux Floral Bunch, Vintage Bird Prints

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This test report from G-scan 2 team on how to use G-Scan 2 diagnostic tool to initialize headlight driver module and teach in LEDs in headlight.If you want to check more G-Scan 2 test report,please check here:G-Scan 2 Test Projects.
How to Initialize Headlight Driver Module:
Connect G-Scan 2 diagnostic system tool to vehicle OBD port, and enter [DIAGNOSIS] menu,then select [BMW]–>[X Series]–>[X3 (F25) (2010-present)]–>[Body]–>[FRM(Footwell module)]
Select [OK] to continue
Select [Special Function]
Select [Initialise the headlight driver module and teach in LEDs in headlight]
Now in progress
The TMS on the left-hand side has been initialized.
Then select [OK] to continue,and wait for progress
Until it prompt you “The TMS on the right-hand side has been initialised”
Then press [OK],it will in progress
Adaptation of LED lights in the left headlight has been started and takes approx.10 seconds,please wait..
Adaptation of the LED lights in the left headlight has been performed,the press[OK] to continue
The headlight driver module (TMS) can be tested in the following way:
-Switch on ignition
-Switch the light off and on
A reference run must be visible
If the reference run i not visible the service function must be performed again
Press [OK] to continue
G-scan 2 in progress
Service function finished


Montreal’s 26th Fantasia International Film Festival announced on Twitter on Sunday that Masaaki Yuasa’s INU-OH, the musical anime feature film of Hideo Furukawa’s Heike Monogatari: INU-OH no Maki (Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh) novel, has won the The Satoshi Kon Award for Best Animated Feature, and the Satoshi Kon Jury awarded a special mention to loundraw’s Summer Ghost film.
Kosuke Mukai and Yuki Tanada’s My Broken Mariko film has won The Best Screenplay Award (Cheval Noir Competition), and Takashi Hirano’s Kappei film has won The New Flesh Award for Best First Feature.
It is screening the Canadian premiere the feature-length anime for Nagabe’s The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún manga and the Quebec premiere of INU-OH.
The festival is screening North American premiere of Studio Khara’s new Shin Ultraman (New Ultraman) film and the Canadian premiere of Atsuko Ishizuka and Madhouse’s Goodbye, Don Glees! original anime film.


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➡Visit the lab website of Jonathan Göke
for latest news on publications, preprints, conference talks and job offers.
Even though all cells of the human body essentially share the same genetic information, the cell types that form the organs and tissues appear very diverse and have distinct properties. The central question of our research is what determines the identity of mammalian cells during development and differentiation; and how cellular identity is impaired in disease. We investigate transcript diversity, alternative splicing, gene regulation, and epigenetics to identify key elements and mechanisms involved in maintenance and conversion of cellular identities. Using machine learning techniques, we study the role of DNA sequence in regulation of cell-type specific expression signatures. We are closely collaborating with wet labs to translate computational models to cellular phenotypes.
PhD projects available starting in August 2018. Highly motivated students with a background in bioinformatics, statistics or computer science are welcome to contact Jonathan Göke.
In the Media
PBS Nova Next (10/2016): The Viruses That Made Us Human
Inside Science (2/2015): Ancient Viral Invaders May Affect Modern Human Embryo Development
National Geographic (4/2014): Ancient Virus DNA Gives Stem Cells the Power to Transform
A*STAR Research (1/2014): Regulating stem cell behavior
Channel News Asia (12/2013): Singapore scientists make breakthrough in regenerative medicine
Today (12/2013): A*STAR scientists find better way to engineer human stem cells
Asian Scientist (12/2013): Researchers Convert Human Embryonic Stem Cells Into Blastocyst-Like Cells
- Demircioğlu D, Cukuroglu E, Kindermans M, Nandi T, Calabrese C, Fonseca NA, Kahles A, Lehmann KV, Stegle O, Brazma A, Brooks AN, Rätsch G, Tan P, Göke J "A Pan-cancer Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Pervasive Regulation through Alternative Promoters." Cell 2019 Sep 05 ; 178(6) : 1465-1477.e17 Abstract
- Göke, Jonathan+, and Huck Hui Ng. (2016) "CTRL+ INSERT: retrotransposons and their contribution to regulation and innovation of the transcriptome." EMBO Reports (2016): e201642743.(+ corresponding author) Abstract
- Jo, J., Xiao, Y., Sun, A. X., Cukuroglu, E., Tran, H. D., Göke, J., ... & Ng HH. (2016). Midbrain-like Organoids from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Contain Functional Dopaminergic and Neuromelanin-Producing Neurons. Cell Stem Cell.19(2):248-57 Abstract
- Lin, L., Göke, J., Cukuroglu, E., Dranias, M. R., VanDongen, A. M., & Stanton, L. W. (2016). Molecular Features Underlying Neurodegeneration Identified through In Vitro Modeling of Genetically Diverse Parkinson's Disease Patients. Cell Reports, 15(11), 2411-2426. Abstract
- Göke, J+., Lu, X., Chan, Y. S., Ng, H. H., Ly, L. H., Sachs, F., & Szczerbinska, I. (2015). Dynamic Transcription of Distinct Classes of Endogenous Retroviral Elements Marks Specific Populations of Early Human Embryonic Cells. Cell Stem Cell, 16(2), 135-141. (+corresponding author) Abstract
- Lu, X., Sachs, F., Ramsay, L., Jacques, P. É., Göke, J., Bourque, G., & Ng, H. H. (2014). The retrovirus HERVH is a long noncoding RNA required for human embryonic stem cell identity. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 21 (4), 423-425. Abstract
- Chan, YS.*, Göke, J.*, Ng JH.*, Lu X., Gonzales K., Tan CP., ... & Ng HH. (2013) Induction of a Human Pluripotent State with Distinct Regulatory Circuitry that Resembles Preimplantation Epiblast. Cell Stem Cell, 13(6), 663-675. (*equal contribution) Abstract
- Lu X*, Göke J*, Sachs F, Jacques PÉ, Liang H, Feng B, Bourque G, Bubulya PA, Ng HH (2013) SON connects the splicing-regulatory network with pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells. Nat Cell Biol 15(10) : 1141-52 (*equal contribution) Abstract
- Göke, J., Chan, YS., Yan, J., Vingron, M., & Ng, HH. (2013). Genome-wide Kinase-Chromatin Interactions Reveal the Regulatory Network of ERK Signaling in Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Molecular Cell, 50(6), 844-855. Abstract
- Göke, J., Schulz, MH., Lasserre, J., & Vingron, M. (2012). Estimation of pairwise sequence similarity of mammalian enhancers with word neighbourhood counts. Bioinformatics, 28(5), 656-663. Abstract

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This is the raw data from the Planck mission of the intensity fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. At the highest resolution it includes 50 million pixels of information.
For a selection of scientific papers on the subject see this paperscape graph. For some commentary on Planck’s results, try the blog entries here,here or here. See the Planck Chromoscope for flat 2D maps.
You can use your mouse to control the view: click-drag will change the latitude/longitude, double click zooms in, and mouse scroll-wheel zooms in and out.
The following key bindings are also available: left, right, up, down (scroll the view), +, – (zoom), r (reset view).
The raw data is tiled over a sphere using this scheme. WebGL and thethree.js library are used for rendering.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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Note: This article has been updated to include a statement from Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden.
Idaho’s attorney general and its newest member of Congress have joined a case before the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that federal civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination based on gender do not apply to those who are gay, bisexual or transgender.
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher, both Republicans, have signed on to friend-of-the-court briefs, called amicus briefs, filed in three pending U.S. Supreme Court cases regarding protections for LGBTQ employees.
The Supreme Court announced in April that it would take the cases, which involve people who claim they were fired because of their sexual or gender orientation, to decide whether federal law prohibiting employment discrimination based on sex applies to gay and transgender employees. The court is expected to take up the cases later this year.
The briefs argue that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin, does not specifically identify “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes.
“The plain and unambiguous meaning of ‘sex’ is biological status as male or female,” according to the 48-page brief filed Aug. 23 by 15 states. “Far from being synonymous with ‘sex,’ the terms “sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ have long been used in contrast with ‘sex’ to mean something distinct.”
Other states joining this filing are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
The amicus briefs also argue that any modifications to Title VII to include sexual orientation and gender identity must be done by Congress, which sets policy, not the courts.
“If the government is to be ‘of the people, by the people, for the people,’ such a momentous change should be made by the legislature,” states the 41-page brief filed Aug. 26 by eight Republican U.S. senators and 40 Republican U.S representatives, including Fulcher, who represents Idaho’s 1st congressional district. No other members of Idaho’s congressional delegation have joined the case.
Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said in a statement Wednesday, “My signing on to this brief is not a stance against workplace protections for the LGBTQ community. Rather, my concerns are based in the rule of law and the way some courts are applying the express language of a federal law written more than five decades ago.”
Wasden continued, “When Congress wrote and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it did not include LGBTQ protections. If these protections are to be added today, the proper way to do so is to have Congress update the Act to reflect changes in our society that have occurred over the last 55 years. After all, under our Constitution, it is a function of Congress to write federal law and not the courts.”
The Statesman also reached out to Fulcher’s office for comment.
In July, 21 states and 153 members of Congress filed friend-of-the-court briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to extend civil rights protections to gay and transgender employees.
“We firmly believe the language of Title VII makes clear that workplace discrimination based on an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity is unlawful. Title VII prohibits sex discrimination,and sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination are forms of sex discrimination,” states the brief filed by members of Congress.

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Despite her teary mea culpa on NBC’s “Today” show, two additional companies decided to part ways with Paula Deen Wednesday afternoon.
Caesars announced its decision to strip Deen’s name from four of its buffet restaurants, while Wal-Mart Stores Inc. disclosed shortly after its plans to sever ties with the culinary figure. The world’s largest retailer said it will not be placing “any new orders beyond what’s already committed.” The Bentonville, Ark.-based company has carried a range of products under the Paula Deen moniker since 2011.
Smithfield Foods dropped Deen on Monday, while the Food Network announced Friday that it was not renewing Deen’s contract after she had skipped her initial “Today’ show appearance that morning and released a series of apology videos via YouTube that afternoon.
The celebrity chef dissolved into tears during Wednesday’s interview with Matt Lauer as she attempted to explain how she wasn’t a racist- although a deposition filed and leaked last week revealed her use of racial slurs in the past. It was an odd disparity between the Paula Deen known for her cheery, comforting disposition, and the Paula Deen who appeared on the “Today” show, defeated, exhausted and “heartbroken.
Editor’s note: $19.20 to drive across North Carolina and gas is more than $3.50 a gallon! This will push more people to trains, buses and airplanes OR onto alternate routes.
Plans to charge a toll on Interstate 95 in North Carolina will make it more difficult for businesses to quickly and cheaply ship goods up and down the East Coast’s chief thoroughfare, critics say.
North Carolina, Virginia and Missouri all are considering tolls as a way to pay for expanding and upgrading interstates. Supporters say drivers from other states will pay much of the costs.
But like most highways, I-95 is itself a hub of businesses drawn to the asphalt link to markets from Maine to Florida.
Food Lion, Wal-Mart, and Lowe’s are some of the companies with North Carolina distribution centers, each employing hundreds of workers, near the highway. The world’s largest hog slaughterhouse operated by Smithfield Foods and one of the nation’s largest food-service distributors for restaurant chains built near the interstate.


Seismic Images of Modern Convergent Margin Tectonic Structure
In 1980, A. W. Bally assembled and edited an innovative three-volume “picture and work” atlas of seismic reflection record sections. This compilation of more than 130 excellent seismic section reproductions provided much new data from the earth's subsurface. For petroleum geologists, academic scientists, and students, it is the field geologist's counterpart of outcrops and type sections. The smaller collection of seismic sections presented in this Studies 26 publication was inspired by Bally's atlas, and follows his general format and philosophy. The objective is to provide a reference series of sections for the earth sciences and a vehicle for continuing scientific dialogue relating to modern convergent margins. This publication's assembled sections represent a single facet of that dialogue by bringing together a series of exceptional seismic sections from the fronts of presently active convergent margins around the Pacific.
Aleutian Trench, Shumagin Segment, Seismic Section 104
Published:January 01, 1986
Terry R. Bruns, Roland von Huene, 1986. "Aleutian Trench, Shumagin Segment, Seismic Section 104", Seismic Images of Modern Convergent Margin Tectonic Structure, Roland von Huene, Susan Vath, Christine Sperber, Bridgett Fulop, Lee Bailey, Monique Martin
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The Shumagin segment of the eastern Aleutian convergent margin extends into the Gulf of Alaska from the Alaska Peninsula. Here the shelf is narrower and the Shumagin Islands are much smaller than islands, in the adjacent Kodiak shelf area, but many of the rocks are similar. Insular exposures are comprised of late Cretaceous sedimentary rocks metamorphosed in a low-temperature environment and once buried about 10 km deep. Paleogene rocks that crop out in the Kodiak area may continue into the Shumagin area, but they have not yet been sampled beneath the Shumagin shelf. The Paleogene rocks are cut by...


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New Telecommunication Company Launched in Uganda. Welcome Lycamobile!
Lycamobile, the world’s largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), announces this day that it has opened operations in Uganda. This development expands Lycamobile’s global network reach to 24 counties worldwide.
Uganda is one of the biggest destinations for telecoms business in Africa, characterised by discerning high utility consumers. It has approximately 25 million mobile phone users and a nationwide mobile penetration rate of 71% with Kampala alone accounting for over 50%. Lycamobile has established countrywide infrastructure, meaning Ugandans all across the country will have the chance to connect with friends and family through Lycamobile’s high-quality, low-cost voice and data services.
Allirajah Subaskaran, Lyca Group Founder and Chairman said: “This is a historical milestone for the Group and we are delighted to be embarking on the roll out of services to the Ugandan market. As the world’s largest MVNO with a sustained focus on Africa, it is a natural move for Lycamobile to venture into Uganda. We are currently operational in South Africa and considered Uganda in the East African region because of the market potential and ease of doing business. Now that we are here, we look forward to helping connect increasing numbers of Ugandans, both nationally and internationally.’’
Since being established in 2006, Lycamobile has grown quickly to serve over 15 million customers globally, including in Europe, the USA, Australia and Asia. Following recent launches, this latest advance further supports the firm’s ambition to help connect friends and family around the world

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Open banking is a new set of rules that began in Europe as a way to offer businesses and consumers more flexibility and choice. With adoption growing rapidly in every global region, GTS Managing Director Jonathon Traer-Clark discusses the benefits of open banking with Alex Yang, CashPro® product manager, and David Voss, Treasury product manager.
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According to the recently published OECD New Health Technologies report, the current global innovation system does not always deliver technology in the areas of greatest need. As global health burden patterns evolve and government budgets tighten, governments and policy makers must become more pro-active and engage with industry throughout the development process to ensure that truly innovative products - in areas of health need - are developed to add value to patients, populations and the global community.
The effect of health technology cannot be seen as purely exogenous. A complex, dynamic interplay arises between several drivers: rising income, insurance, funding, disease pattern, regulation, and clinical practice style and medical culture...It is not technology per se that drives expenditure growth, but its deployment and use by health care providers and patients. This should be put into context of income level or consumer demand. Health care system characteristics such as resource scarcity, budgeting and funding and remuneration models will also influence policy and practice and thus diffusion of certain types of technology and innovation over others.
The relative contributioon of technoogy to longevity compared to other determinants of health and disease differ considerably between technologies and clinical areas, the report says.
Pharmaceuticals account for one-fifth of health care expenditure and the value of using them varies immensely. The value function of health technology seems to be flattening. Health technology can be enhanced with better policy and practice; digital technologies could be useful.
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Solving a $122 billion problem
Improved disclosure goes only part of the way towards curbing excessive CEO pay.
NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - The Securities and Exchange Commission and Christopher Cox, its straight-talking chairman, have begun taking steps that could curb excessive CEO pay. But they have only just begun.
The SEC proposed rules on Tuesday that, if adopted, would require companies to more fully and clearly disclose what they are paying top executives. The disclosure rules will go a long way to exposing so-called stealth forms of pay such as deferred compensation, retirement benefits, severance deals, tax payments and perquisites.
Remember, for example, the luxury apartment, sports tickets and fresh flowers that General Electric awarded to its former CEO, Jack Welch? Shareholders learned about Welch's perks, not from GE (Research), but from his divorce proceedings. These rules attempt to change that.
"We want investors to have better information -- including one number, a single bottom line figure for total amount of annual compensation," said Cox, a former Republican congressman who has emerged as an effective investor advocate since joining the SEC last year.
A strong believer in free markets, Cox said it's not the government's job to decide how much companies should pay CEOs, or whether pay should be linked to performance. But he also said that, if markets are to work, investors need "comprehensive but also comprehensible information" about the amount and structure of executive pay. These rules represent the first major changes in pay disclosure since 1992.
Here's the problem, though -- improved disclosure will only go so far toward fixing the problem of overpaid CEOS. Accountability, as well as transparency, is required.
'Necessary, but not sufficient'
"The rules are necessary but not sufficient," says Richard Ferlauto, the director of pension and benefit policy for AFSCME, the public employees' union. AFSCME has pushed to fix corporate governance because its members' pensions depend on a healthy, growing stock market.
Paul Hodgson, a compensation expert with The Corporate Library, which analyzes boards of directors, says better disclosure will improve the quality of the debate over pay. But, he says, real change will only come when institutional shareholders lobby directors to tie pay to meaningful performance hurdles.
Other shareholder advocates say more fundamental changes in governance are needed. In particular, they say, shareholders should be able to vote out directors who pay top executives too much.
Just how much pay is too much pay is debatable, of course. But there's no question that CEO pay has been soaring. In 2004, total compensation for CEOs increased by an average of 30 percent, according to a survey of 1,500 CEOs by The Corporate Library. The year before, total pay grew by about 15 percent. By contrast, average household income, when adjusted for inflation, has remained stagnant or dropped slightly in every year since 2000, even as the economy has grown.
What's more, new research by Lucien Bebchuk, a Harvard Business School professor who studies executive pay, indicates that pay as a proportion of earnings is growing. From 1999 to 2003, the top five execs at the 1,500 largest public companies, as a group, took home $122 billion in salary, bonus and stock. That's not chump change.
While the SEC awaits public comment on its new rules this spring, shareholders soon will have their own opportunities to be heard on the issue of CEO pay.
At Home Depot (Research), AFSCME has submitted a proposal that would allow shareholders to vote each year on executive pay packages. (The vote would be non-binding.) CEO Bob Nardelli has been criticized for his pay, which added up to about $14 million in 2004, most of it not tied to performance.
The union also has filed pay-related proxy resolutions at Countrywide Financial (Research), where CEO Angelo Mozillo took home compensation of $20 million in 2004, and at Citigroup, where CEO Charles O. "Chuck" Prince collected more than $10 million.
Other activists want to hold boards accountable for their decisions on pay by asking companies to adopt a "majority vote" requirement for directors. While the concept is not quite as simple as it sounds, the idea is to remove from corporate boards those directors who fail to win a majority of votes cast by shareholders in director elections. Right now, most directors run unopposed and need only one vote to be elected.
The SEC, for its part, can give shareholders more power by allowing them to nominate their own candidates for director and, under certain circumstances, get their nominees onto the proxy ballots. Corporate groups have opposed the idea of giving shareholders access to the proxy.
But Cox has shown himself to be an independent thinker, and by no means an apologist for overpaid CEOs or ineffective boards. He may just decide that the owners of companies have a right to meaningful elections of boards the directors who run them. That's hardly a radical idea.


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If only it was all as simple as “Yes,” the word that Robert Gibbs offered last year, in response to a question about whether or not President Obama would end the policy of banning gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military. Ever since that one word, the answer White House has grown, into something more like, “Yes, but we need to get Congress to vote on the changes, and to do that we need the military brass to support the changes, and so far they have been mostly saying, ‘Wait a minute, we need time, we are fighting two wars,’ so something will happen but no one knows just when.”
Now the dance of Don’t Ask is again heating up. In a short span of a couple weeks, we have a blizzard of data points with arrows in all sorts of directions:
–Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, who heads the Armed Services Committee, says Obama will mention Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in his State of the Union address. It’s not yet clear what this means. There is a long tradition of Presidents mentioning things in the big speech to take the pressure off of actually doing something about them. If Obama sets a deadline, it might signal he is serious.
–The gay rights base, long one of the least satisfied liberal constituencies, is continuing to agitate. A former Bill Clinton aide on this issue, Richard Socarides, in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, fires another shot, saying Obama may be emboldening Ugandan bigots and showing preference for terrorists over men who love other men:
What is especially troubling, however, is Mr. Obama’s oversensitivity to a dwindling minority of bigots on this issue. Hundreds of military careers have been destroyed on his watch for no valid reason. The country has been deprived of the talents of these service members and has wasted millions of dollars on their training.
Many wonder when their president will show the same kind of concern for the constitutional rights of gay American service members as he has for enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay. Many wonder what the administration’s willingness to treat gay Americans as second-class citizens says to Uganda and other countries that are considering laws that would subject gays to imprisonment and even death.
–The Joint Chiefs of Staff, not a group known to leak, is apparently fighting back, with a memo being leaked to the Associated Press from Admiral Mike Mullen’s legal counsel. “Now is not the time,” it reads. “The importance of winning the wars we are in, along with the stress on the force, our body of knowledge and the number of unknowns, demand that we act with deliberation.”
–The gay rights lobby has been leaking word of its own urgent “closed door” meetings to discuss the issue. As the Advocate reports,
Participants declined to discuss specific strategy with The Advocate but said they mulled over how LGBT leaders would proceed if the White House decided to make a strong push for repeal or, alternatively, if it took a pass on the issue this year.
One source said LGBT leaders had sent “strong signals” to the White House that they want repeal to happen this year and that there would be “repercussions” if it did not. The source would not say what form those repercussions might take.
Some attendees expressed guarded optimism during the meeting because many in the room had “been guaranteed that this is a priority for the president” — some by President Obama himself and others by some of his top advisers. But one source weighed that against the fact that health reform was also a top priority for the administration and its passage has not gone smoothly. “There’s an awful lot of distance between something a president says and actually making it come to light,” said the source.
–Polls show improving prospects for repeal. Per CNN,
A Gallup poll conducted in June of 2009 found that 69 percent of adult respondents favor allowing openly gay men and lesbian women to serve in the U.S. military, up six percentage points from November, 2004.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll conducted December 19-21 found that 81 percent of respondents believe openly gay people should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military, while 17 percent said they shouldn’t. That poll’s margin of error was plus-or-minus 3 percentage points.
–Meanwhile, it is not yet clear when exactly Levin will hold hearings on the issue–though he promises soon. Nor is it clear that the House will include Don’t Ask repeal in this year’s Defense Appropriations bill. Stay tuned.


At HALIGHT, we’ve developed a work style and culture that fits our industry and teams. We work in the office when we can, collaborating on client projects, but have the organizational freedom to work remotely when it makes sense. This requires that we train our employees in a way that meets them when and where they are able to learn. But what if your organization doesn’t have the same structure?
That’s normal! Each business, industry, and organization has an approach that is unique to their circumstances and demands. With increasing technology and globalization in the modern workforce, the dynamics of work are ever-evolving, too. eLearning can contribute to the flexibility and growth of your organization. It gives you the tools necessary to work and grow the way you need to.
Here are some ways customized eLearning can accommodate your unique organization.
Some companies encourage flexible work hours, working from home, and even international locations. These companies require more virtual simulation to get the same benefit of an in-person training experience without the expenses of sending instructors around the world. eLearning can have more interactive components, including situations and scenarios to illustrate something they may encounter when they perform their role on the road or in the office.
Companies vary in their company structure. In some cases, employees work directly beside their leader in the workplace to learn the ropes or new procedures with additional training added on the side. Other times, employees work away from the supervisor’s location and are required to manage more of their own learning. In either of these cases, we develop eLearning to either enhance or compensate for in-person training. The transition to eLearning is moving rapidly, and companies are finding exceptional value in the use of eLearning as a replacement for in-person training. This can seem daunting to many organizations as it challenges traditional training norms. However, the right eLearning should address the same material. A series of self-paced learning courses in an eLearning curriculum can address the same broader topics of multiple classroom days.
Our work environments differ based on the work we do. Retail sales associates and on-the-go employees benefit from a mobile learning platform. Micro, bite-sized content can train employees in between customer interactions or jobs. The beauty of eLearning is that it doesn’t have to be restricted by geography. Employees gain access to the materials they need to succeed in their role when and where they need it.
Whatever your workplace aims to accomplish, the learning opportunities are endless with eLearning. eLearning remedies many of the hurdles traditional training faces. To learn more, visit our social media pages for more updates on how our company operates and the ways our eLearning can benefit your unique organization.
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Bill Tinsley: Urges Brookfield voters to support budget on Tuesday
Published 7:31 pm, Friday, May 16, 2014
I recommend your support of our annual budget. Please remember to vote on Tuesday, May 20.
Here are the key highlights:
What it will cost you -- the taxpayer. The spending recommended in this budget will result in one of the lowest property tax increases in the past 25 years -- an increase of only 3/10 of one mill for a 1.18 percent increase. The property tax, on a $239,000 (median assessment) Brookfield home, increases only $6 per month.
Looking ahead, beyond this budget, it continues to be our plan to grow Brookfield's taxable property base in commercial sectors to keep property tax rates in check.
Spending -- Normal day-to-day operations, driven mostly by personnel costs, have been kept in check. Total head count (year-to-year) will be down and was achieved without layoffs. Contractually obligated raises in wages and salaries (the cost per employee) have been partially off-set by an early retirement incentive offered by the Board of Education.
The employment cost control measures mentioned above have helped us increase funding for road maintenance, retirement fund (Pension and OPEB) obligations.
In the years ahead, we will continue to be tight-fisted with your tax dollars. In just the past month, we have successfully reduced $3 million in future costs: $1 million in debt service/financing costs, and $2 million in reduced/avoided healthcare insurance costs. These initiatives will provide the needed financial resources and flexibility to replenish our Rainy Day Fund (unobligated Fund Balance). The Rainy Day Fund, a very important aspect in the future credit worthiness of the town, was unexpectedly depleted by $1.2 million in unauthorized budgetary spending by the previous administration in 2012 and 2013.
Income/Economic Growth -- Our taxable property grand list grew by 1.16 percent last year. We are focused on meeting our community needs by growing our tax base, because the continual year-after-year increase to property tax rates is a very unsatisfying solution for meeting our needs.
Our "Jump Start" Brookfield's economy initiative is focused on five key short-term objectives to get us growing at a faster pace: 1) Marketing, 2) Investment Incentives, 3) Entrepreneurial Business Incubation, 4) $pending in Brookfield, and 5) Community Events, especially in our new/developing Town Center at the Four Corners.
Please join me in expressing a sincere "Thank You" to the "JumpStart" team members who are helping me prepare us for growth and future financial stability.
This Budget and Community Priorities -- This budget, as well as our future plans, will continue to place resource priority on:
Public safety (Police, Fire, Ambulance Services), and especially meeting the needs of our volunteer Fire Departments. Please join me in thanking all of our volunteer fireman for their personal sacrifice on our behalf!
Outstanding schools -- managing programmatic offering and staffing in an environment of declining enrollment, and addressing facility needs, especially at Huckleberry Hill Elementary School.
Maintaining current infrastructure by providing proper funding for on-going maintenance (roads, buildings, equipment).
The new/developing Town Center at Four Corners -- visible signs of progress are now easily seen!
Meeting our financial obligations to retirees by managing the benefit structure and properly funding the plans.
In summary, we have a good budget in front of us and our plans for the future are strong. Please vote "yes" on Tuesday, May 20. Brookfield is a great place to be!
Bill Tinsley is first selectman of Brookfield.


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Google will soon come with new updates for its Google Earth application on April 18. It is planned to be released at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art reported VentureBeat, a leading source that provides technology news.
There is no certain information reported about the updates of Google Earth VR which still stays one of the best experience for Vive platform. There might be changes on traditional version of Google Earth and also Google will come with new VR related features.
Through Google Earth app users move from one place to another by means of flying. The flying method prevents people from feeling sickness during the experience. Google Earth has its VR team which is leading by Clay Bavor and the team is working closely with Geo team as well. They are going to add new options and increase VR experience.
Google Earth is the first and only platform of its kind that allows exploring the world in VR. There are many games, apps videos out there but Google’s app is the best that allows people visit various places. The application is free to download and can be experienced utilizing HTC Vive VR helmet. Mike Podwal, who works at Google as Product Lead, Google VR Apps, answered the question if they are going to support more VR headset he replied that they are looking the ways but there is nothing to report.
There are many countries and cities to visit with Google Earth and the list will be expanded. The application tries to make users feel free and remember all the trips they have taken through the powerful platform.