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Changi Airport is a world-class international airport in South East Asia, one of the busiest airports in the world. Changi Airport has been the best in the world, winning multiple world airport awards.
The airport has been consistently ranked as the best in the world by various international surveys and accolades.
This world’s best airport has been voted by Skytrax for eight years in a row, even though facing fierce competition from other international airports such as Tokyo Haneda, Doha Hamad, and Seoul Incheon.
Singapore Changi Airport has a world-class facility with spacious terminals and fantastic shopping, dining, and entertainment options.
The airport is also very efficient, with a fast and easy check-in process and smooth security screening. Plus, the airport is clean and well-maintained, which makes for a pleasant travel experience.
Singapore Changi Airport is a must-visit place before visitors leave the country. It is good to arrive a few hours earlier to explore the Changi Airport experience before departure to your next destination.
Some Basic Facts About Singapore Changi Airport
- Located in the eastern part of Singapore island.
- The airport is built on land reclamation using over 52,000,000 m3 of earth.
- There are 4 terminals and 2 runways with the Terminal 5 (T5) construction and a 3rd runway scheduled for completion in the 2030s.
- It is not the only international airport in Singapore, as of 2022, Selector Airport has flights to Malaysia too.
- Singapore Changi Airport serves over 100 airlines, including members of significant airline alliances such as Oneworld, Star Alliance, and SkyTeam.
- There are flights between 300 cities and the airport, covering 80 countries.
- In 2019, before the pandemic began, a record 68.3 million people passed through Changi Airport.
One of the reasons why Changi Airport is a world-class transport hub is the vast array of facilities, amenities, and services available.
The airport has over 300 retail shops and restaurants within the transit area, so visitors can do some shopping or enjoy some dining experiences before leaving the airport.
Jewel is the latest addition to Changi Airport; it is a nature-themed entertainment and retail mall with several attractions.
In addition to retail and dining options, Changi Airport has plenty of other services, such as free WiFi, a movie theatre, an outdoor swimming pool, a butterfly garden, a massage center, and many more.
There are also free-to-use rest areas at the Departure Transit Hall of the different terminals. The free-to-use rest areas allow passengers who have arrived to take a quick nap before boarding the plane.
Changi Airport also has excellent transport connectivity, with a train station that links to the Mass Rapid Transit (Swooshing through the underground network and soaring above the colorful cityscape, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) acts as the throbbing heart of Singapore. It is more than a complex of steel and glass; it is the country's circulatory system, connecting people and communities and forming the city's essence. Established in 1987 to counteract the issues of an exploding population and... More) system. The MRT network in Singapore is one of the most efficient in the world, so it’s effortless to get around using public transport.
Plenty of taxis and private hire car services are also available, so passengers can quickly get to their hotel or destination after arriving at the airport.
As one of the busiest airports globally, Changi Airport constantly expands to accommodate the growing number of passengers and compete with other countries as the regional hub.
To maintain its status as the world’s best airport, Changi Airport Group has to constantly challenge and innovate its design and operations to stay ahead of the curve.
The Airport was one of the first to implement Dual Boarding Bridges for bigger aircraft, and the airport also has one of the most highly complex baggage handling systems.
Connecting passengers across the different terminals is not easy. This world’s best airport has a Skytrain automated people mover (APM) system that connects Terminals 1, 2, and 3 seamlessly.
The airport has a Foreign Object Debris (FOD) detection system to identify loose objects on the runway, posing safety risks to aircraft. The system is capable of working even in low-light conditions, allowing the removal of an object from a runway promptly. The aircraft engines can catch fire if they ingest any items into it.
One of the amenities that got an upgrade is the check-in procedure at the airport. It has recently been improved, and the process has been automated. The system is a 4 steps process called Fast And Seamless Travel (FAST).
- Starting with the Automated Check-In Kiosks, where traveler collects their boarding pass and print their bag tags.
- After that, the traveler can drop their check-in luggage on the Automated Bag-Drop Device. This choice is only available for participating airlines.
- To verify their identity, travelers need to scan their passport, boarding pass, and fingerprint at the Automated Immigration Gates. The automated fingerprint identification system is currently accessible to travelers with approved fingerprints with the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority of Singapore (In Singapore, 'ICA' refers to the Singapore Immigration & Checkpoints Authority, which is a pivotal institution in managing Singapore’s borders. It plays an essential role in safeguarding Singapore's sovereignty and security and facilitating the movement of people into and out of this dynamic island nation. As such, it becomes a central part of the experience for any traveler visiting Singapore's... More).
- When travelers reach the Automated Boarding Gates, they scan their boarding passes and have their photos taken. This quick lane facility is for travelers who have previously passed through the automated gate at immigration.
A first for an airport, with infrared proximity sensors that detect the motion of passengers’ fingers as you point to options to allow you to check in and drop off your luggage without touching the display.
To enhance cleaning, the airport also started deploying Cleaning Robots; many have been newly fitted with misting attachments that disinfect the carpets.
Furthermore, the airport is testing ultraviolet-C light technology to sterilize the escalator handrails in the terminals and no-touch lift buttons utilizing infrared technology seen at check-in kiosks.
Top Notch Safety And Security Systems
The airport has a Baggage Handling Security System that combines X-ray scanners and CT technology to generate high-resolution 3D images to track bags as they move through.
Iris scanners have also been installed in the terminal so that passengers can quickly and easily be identified. This helps to speed up the process and make it more efficient.
The airport’s security, as with all other matters, is handled by the Airport Police Division of the Singapore Police Force (SPF). Auxiliary police forces carry out day-to-day security responsibilities at the airport.
Approximately 2,600 individuals are required to check baggage, screen checked bags, control access to restricted areas, and inspect passengers before they board their flight. This includes armed Auxiliary Police Officers and unarmed aviation security personnel.
Since September 11 attacks, Singapore Armed Forces and Singapore Police Force armed personnel have also been deployed to patrol the terminals. Officers from the Gurkha Contingent are also dispatched to patrol the transit areas of the terminal buildings.
Changi Airport has Airport Emergency Service Team prepared to deal with incidents on or near its premises in under three minutes and fires that develop within a minute of their arrival at the scene.
The Airport Emergency Plan (AEP) also includes responding to aircraft accidents in the sea around the airfield, which may be done through the facility’s emergency vessels and equipment.
Implementing these security measures helps ensure that the airport runs smoothly and efficiently. It also helps to put passengers at ease, knowing their safety is a priority.
In addition to the physical security measures in place, the airport has implemented several digital safety measures, such as robot traffic enforcers that patrol the streets to ensure order.
Jewel Changi Airport
The Jewel Changi Airport is a massive complex with a hotel, restaurants, shops, gardens, and even an indoor waterfall. The development of the Jewel was completed in 2019 for S$1.7 billion.
It spans 10 stories and covers an area of almost one of the most impressive airport structures in the world and is a must-see for anyone visiting Singapore.
There are 280 shops and restaurants within the complex and a hotel, the YotelAir Jewel Changi Airport, located within the mall.
It has a 130,000 sqm of indoor forest (Shiseido Forest Valley) with a 40m tall indoor waterfall (HSBC Rain Vortex) in the middle. It is the tallest indoor waterfall in the world and is worth a visit.
Jewel Changi Airport is a green building collecting rainwater for the forest valley and the indoor waterfall. The recirculating rainwater is pumped to the roof and free fall through a round hole at up to 37,850 liters per minute to a basement-level pool.
The Canopy Park on the top level has a walking trail, gardens, a children’s playground, and interactive installations such as the Discovery Slides and Foggy Bowls.
Visitors can also try out the Sky Nets – Bouncing or Walking nets suspended from the ceiling, or the Canopy Maze – hedge maze suspended in the air.
The basement of Jewel Changi Airport is connected to Arrival Hall (level 1) of Terminal 1. Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 of Singapore Changi Airport are linked via bridges, making it convenient for visitors.
Lodging At The Airport
The airport also has a few hotels if visitors need a place to stay during their long layover.
- Aerotel Airport Transit Hotel (Terminal 1)
- Ambassador Transit Hotel (Terminal 2 above Orchid Garden, and Terminal 3 next to the Movie Theatre)
- Crowne Plaza Changi Airport (Linked to Terminal 3)
- YOTELAIR Singapore Changi Airport (Jewel)

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A RETIRED consultant at Grantham Hospital has spoken out to express the feelings of his former colleagues.
Lakshmi Chakrabarti, of Harlaxton Road, Grantham, is very concerned about the level of services at the hospital, despite reassurances from MP Nick Boles and the hospital bosses reported by the Journal last week.
He said former colleagues have been in touch with him to express their fears and concerns.
He commented: “I’ve talked to the nurses and consultants and they are not happy with what’s happening there, but they’re afraid to speak. But they can talk to me very frankly.”
Mr Chakrabarti, who was an A&E consultant at the hospital, appointed A&E clinical nurse manager Paul Lewis, who was recently offered demotion and removal from the department or dismissal from the job.
They worked together for 20 years and Mr Chakrabarti said: “I don’t know why a person who was working so hard was targeted. He was doing a wonderful job. Now the staff are scared to do anything about it.”
But it is not just the staff he is concerned for, but also the level of services available at the hospital.
Mr Chakrabarti spoke at the hospital rally in 2005 when the Journal launched a campaign to save the hospital.
He said: “When I retired, there were full services at the hospital but they stopped replacing people who retired.
“After that, children’s services were cut, maternity services were cut, surgery at night was stopped.
“It means Grantham people are being shunted to Boston or Lincoln.
“MP Nick Boles has written that the hospital is safe, but some services are already going. This happened back in 2005 when they said the whole hospital was safe and then services were being taken away bit by bit.
“This hospital is supposed to stay, in the sense that it will still be a building called a hospital, but what I would like to know is: What sort of hospital will it be when all the services are going?
“We have to ask them to put the services back. If I fall sick at night I know nothing can be done at Grantham, I would have to go to other places and I can’t drive that far at night.”

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‘Villains’ allows four underrated actors to play a game of cat-and-mouse in a thriller with a surprising amount of heart.
‘Homewrecker’ draws a horrifying picture of what happens between two women when common courtesy overrides obvious behavioral red flags.
‘The Wretched,’ an official Fantasia 2019 selection, is an evocative film, unafraid to wave its witchiness in the viewer’s face.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a story about people who are so achingly in love with their city, and want so desperately to weave themselves into its fibres but have been shut out.
Sachin Hingoo and Jeffery X Martin run down the movies they’re most excited about from this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival.
Gigi Saul Guerrero’s feature debut, ‘Culture Shock,’ is a terrifying look at immigration, which recently premiered at the Cinepocalypse Film Fest.
Lucky McKee’s suburban horror movie, ‘Kindred Spirits,’ brings an ominous air of murderous psychodrama to the Cinepocalypse Film Fest.
Cinepocalypse selection ‘Attack of the Demons’ uses a fascinating animation technique, but the story doesn’t quite hit its intended target audience.
‘The Dead Don’t Die,’ Jim Jarmusch’s meta zombie comedy, fills the screen with great characters, then kills most of them.
‘Black Mirror’ returns to Netflix for a fifth season of technological horror and dystopia! Watch the trailer for the new season here.
Jordan Peele’s new horror movie, ‘Us,’ is a twisted mirror image nightmare and in his review, Sachin Hingoo calls it “scary as hell.”
‘Starfish’ adds a terrifying and beautiful soundtrack to the end of the world, creating an experience unlike anything else so far this year.

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Dec 16, 2015
"The Creation of Meaning" moves between suspending us in timeless nature and listening to the echoes of the past.
Dec 15, 2015
Casanova's film shows just how much natural splendor dominates the region, here caught at the height of estival glory.
Apr 20, 2015
Throughout the film, the beauty of the landscapes and the totally natural insertion of human, animal and insect movement within the frame lend "The Creation of Meaning" a particular grace.


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04-09-2010 08:21 AM
We recently upgrade from laptop computers with windows XP to desktop computers with Windows 7. I can't seem to get ACT to sync properly. Here is our setup:
My database, on my local C: drive has to sync with my boss' database on his local c drive and vice versa, so that I can make an appointment or add a note to a contact and he can see it after a syncronization.
Originally, we had an ACT technician remote in and sync our databases, but we lost that when we upgraded.
I've tried to use ACT help and followed the steps, I installed Network Sync Servic and added my boss' database.
Is there a step-by-step guide to this, or done anyone recommend something easier?
It's such a shame that we cant get support outside of the initial support period when we paid XXX amount of money for two licenses that dont even update with new ACT revisions.
04-12-2010 12:47 PM
Question - are you using regular Microsoft networking or the Windows 7 homegroup thing? Sync might need regular workgroup networking - or domain networking to work.
I'm certainly not an expert, but I think you have 2 choices:
1. One database must be the "Master" database. Set it to be shared and then you export out a "remote" database that can be saved to and opened on your machine. You'll have to create a sync set and decide if you want to sync documents, etc. I think you can schedule a regular sync in this configuration.
2. Share the database over the network. Decide where it will "reside" and make sure it is in a shared location. Access this copy of the database from both machines. One locally, the other from across the network.
04-12-2010 01:00 PM
Thanks for the input. I'll go over what I did today:
Uninstalled ACT and related services on both of our machines. While we are using Windows 7, I'm using standard networking to share files between our machines, not the homegroup.
I reinstalled ACT on both machines. On the main database, I created a remote database, then I unpacked it onto my computer to use as my database. This set up the syncing automatically, I was able to enable it using the network sync program and everything.
When I go to the main database, and click enable incoming syncs, I get an error staying "Could not start sync server". I have even disabled windows firewall on both machines, no go.
04-12-2010 01:36 PM
Welcome to the ACT! Online Community. In regards to the sync issue you are experiencing, the first thing you want to do is turn the Windows Firewall on both machines back on. On Vista and Windows 7, this actually blocks traffic to and from the machine. After you have done this, then add the proper program and port exceptions to the firewall for ACT!, SQL, and the sync port (TCP port 65100 by default) on the machine hosting the main database (Publisher). Information on adding these exceptions are in the following Knowledgebase article:
In regards to the error you received when you clicked "Accept Incoming Syncs", this is because you most likely had the Network Sync Service running and using the default sync port of 65100. So when you tried to start the Application sync service, it also tried to run on that port but could not because it was already in use. If you are running Network Sync, then you do not need to have "Accept Incoming Syncs" checked.
In addition, you may need to disable or adjust the setting for User Account Control (UAC) on the Windows 7 machines. Instructions are in this Knowledgebase article:
Note: Effective 6/1/13, Sage no longers provides support for the Act! software. This is now provided by Swiftpage.
04-13-2010 06:03 AM
Thanks for the welcome.
I took the steps outlined in opening up the program and ports in Windows Firewall on his computer.
When I click syncronize now on my desktop, I get the following error:
Unable to acquire Sync Server object. Server Error Description: Failed to find Main Database [\\PC NAME\ACT DB NAME] for sync.
Of course, pc name and act db name are the names of his database. I opened network syncronization and removed the main DB, then relocated it again just to confirm that my PC can view his PC on the network. I did it, and recieved the same exact error.
My network sync is pointing to his database, and his is pointing to the remote database that i unpacked on my machine. (which is the database that I have open in act).
Do you see anything in there that could be causing my problems?
All I want to do is have my database and username sync with his, so we can share the calendar and notes on contacts.
04-13-2010 11:49 AM - edited 04-13-2010 11:51 AM
Is the host database in a location on the PC that is shared - ie - full rights?
Is act running on the host machine with the database open? It has to be.
04-13-2010 11:54 AM
Yes, I have complete admin rights to the machine, and vice versa.
Act is open on both computers. We leave them on with act and outlook open, and remote into them from home if need be when we aren't in the office.


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Troubled NHS Tayside is set to get its third chief executive in less than a year.
Scottish Government health secretary Jeane Freeman announced Grant Archibald, the current chief operating officer of acute services with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, will replace Malcolm Wright as chief executive in the New Year.
Mr Wright, who took over the day-to-day running of NHS Tayside after Lesley McLay left the role in April last year, is retiring at the end of the year.
Ms McLay stepped down from the role after it emerged charity money had been used to pay for IT equipment at the cash-strapped health board.
After departing NHS Tayside, Mr Wright will then become interim chief executive of NHS Scotland until a permanent successor for Paul Gray, who has announced he will leave in February, is found.
Mr Gray was appointed in 2013.
Ms Freeman said: “Paul Gray has been an excellent Chief Executive of the NHS in Scotland and Director General of Health and Social Care.
“Amongst his many achievements in this role, which was just the most recent in a long and distinguished career in public service, Paul oversaw the integration of health and social care services, which is the most significant change to our health system since the creation of the NHS
“Paul will remain in post until February, continuing to lead health boards throughout the winter months. I would like to offer him my sincere and personal thanks for his work over the last five years, and my best wishes for the future contribution I know he will make.
“I look forward to working with Malcolm Wright, who brings a wealth of senior management experience to the role.
“I am also pleased to announce the appointment of Grant Archibald as Chief Executive of NHS Tayside. He also has a strong background with more than 30 years of experience in the health service, including a number of senior roles.”
NHS Tayside chairman John Brown said: “The Board of NHS Tayside has secured a first-class chief executive who brings not only a wealth of experience to the role, but an excellent track record of delivering complex change and transformation of health and care services in the largest NHS provider in Scotland.
“NHS Tayside is a Health Board which has seen a lot of changes over the past eight months and now has a clear sense of purpose and direction, with improved financial management and a whole system Transforming Tayside programme of change which puts our clinical colleagues front and centre.
“Our new chief executive can now build on these firm foundations and ensure NHS Tayside can lead the way in improving health and care for everyone.”
Mr Archibald said: “I am delighted and proud to have been appointed to this important post and am looking forward to getting on with the job of continuing to build a really bright future for health and social care services in the region.
“I know that the staff in Tayside do amazing things every day both in communities and in our hospitals and it is now my job to make sure that they can keep making a difference to patients, service users and their families.
“Health and social care services are changing across the country and I look forward to the opportunity of working with my staff and partner organisations to deliver quality services for the population.
“I want Tayside to be at the forefront of designing better, more joined-up pathways of care from home to hospital and back home again, so that everyone can benefit from improved outcomes and better health and wellbeing.”
North East region Scottish Conservative MSP Bill Bowman said: “I welcome Mr Archibald’s appointment and look forward to working with him in a challenging time for the NHS in Tayside.
“This is the most turbulent period in the board’s history and I have a keen interest in how doctors, nurses and general practice are being supported by the Scottish Government.
“With regard to Malcolm Wright’s appointment, I am sure he will be an able chief executive of NHS Scotland.”

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We Introduced you to JaJa Kisses last year and we also gave you an insight to her debut EP Young Fashioned last year and told you that it wouldn’t be the last we said to wouldn’t be the last time we saw her
The visuals for Jaja’s latest video release is extremely creative and full of colour and graphic excellence.
Give Up has a variety of pictorials that are both insightful to Jaja’s musical journey in the Form of mini documented clips. Other special and intimate touches are apparent, such as behind the scenes and onstage footage, the ocassional clip of her goofing around with her friends and members of her circle some we may may know also.
Visually Give Up is inspiring, nostalgic and a nice short film.
Aside for spectacular imagery, the song is soulful, Jaja’s voice is tranquil yet mesmerising. The Beat is tantalising, accompanied by Instrumentals that resemble the tamberine. Lyrically relatable, yet tragic. A tale of Love, the non-reciprocated type, fighting for a love that is defeated. She sings beautifully with her soothing voice uttering the words ‘All I wanted to do was love you’, followed by ‘You ain’t shit, you ain’t ever been shit’.
Give Up is Raw and honest, and visually stunning

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A city man faces charges for allegedly striking a 7-year-old boy on the buttocks several times with a fishing rod, city police said.
Darryl Lamont Franklin, 38, of 830 Park Place, has been charged with simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment as a result of the incident which occurred at his home on Aug. 18, police said.
The injuries to the boy, who is the son of Franklin's girlfriend, included "deep tissue bruising and sores," police said. The county's Department of Children and Youth is also investigating the matter.
Following his arraignment before District Judge James H. Sortman on Aug. 23, Franklin, now living at 653 Hepburn St., was committed to the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.

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To plug wells, raise bond requirements
Published 4:00 pm, Friday, September 30, 2016
There are nearly 10,000 abandoned √wells in Texas, and with the oil industry in the tank, that number will surely keep growing.
This is hardly surprising. The number of abandoned wells, those that which haven’t produced oil or gas in a year and whose owners have walked away, increases in bust times.
With the price of oil pretty much stuck south of $50 in the $40 to $45 a barrel range, √this most definitely qualifies as a bust time.
What makes the abandoned well problem so frustrating is that the state of Texas has proven again and again to be utterly disinterested in addressing it. Abandoned wells pose potential environmental problems, possibly contaminating soil and freshwater. They also are a nightmare for property owners.
The culprit here is insufficient bonding for well operators.
The bonds are intended to cover the cost of plugging wells if an operator becomes insolvent. But the bonding requirements have not been updated since 1991.√ They only cover a fraction of the cost — about 16 percent√ — to plug a well.
So, for example, in 2015 the Railroad Commission of Texas√ collected about $4.3 million in bonds√ from 94 firms that abandoned wells. It spent nearly $12 million plugging 692 wells, √making up the difference through fees and fines.
But those 692 wells are just a fraction of the abandoned wells out there.
The Sunset Commission has recommended raising the bonding levels — it is tiered depending on the size of the operator — to better cover the costs of abandoned wells.
In general, we agree with this recommendation. So, too, does Mark Miller,√ the Libertarian candidate we endorsed for the Railroad Commission, who wrote in a blog post on his campaign website, “An obvious solution is for all operators to be required to post bonds in sufficient amounts to abandon their wells in the event of default.”
There are some nuances to consider, including how those tiers should be structured.
In theory, this makes sense. In reality, it’s complicated. Usually the last-known operator of a well is financially marginal. Put another way, the operators with the least ability to pay for plugging wells are often the ones left holding the bag.
A fairer regulatory system would hold previous well operators responsible for some of the plugging costs since they those previous owners presumably benefited from the well.
It’s all a moot point, though. as As Hiller reported, the three elected railroad commissioners are not interested in increasing bonding for this. Commissioner Ryan Sitton,√ for example, expressed concern that an increased bond would potentially push companies out of business, increasing the number of orphan wells.
But should an operator be in business if it can’t afford to properly bond?
If plugging a well is part of the cost of doing business, it only makes sense to have bonds that cover that cost.
The Railroad Commission should get over its reluctance to increase bonding. It appears that the commissioners are more concerned with the industry they are supposed to be monitoring. watchdogging.
Perhaps this is yet another indication why the commission should be restructured, with a single elected commissioner, or at least placing a limit s on industry campaign contributions to sitting commissioners.
But, first, increase bonding.


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In Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus, complete the mission unveiled in the first opus of one of the most acclaimed FPS games on the iPhone, this time on fronts all over the globe.
Modern Combat 2 : Black Pegasus (Android)Developer:TBA Genre:ActionAdventure Release Date: Download Games Free Now!
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Finish what you started.
Complete the mission unveiled in the first opus of one of the most acclaimed FPS games on Android, this time on fronts all over the globe. Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus further improves the exemplary gameplay of the first Modern Combat game for an astounding immersion in a modern war experience.
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Gameloft's is by far the biggest and arguably the best games publisher on both iOS and Android. The brand new shooter from the prolific gaming house aptly named "Modern Combat 2" doesn't even try to pretend it's not a direct rip of the hit series franchise "Modern Warfare" on PC. Say Gameloft didn't execute this title right, or if the action was even the slightest bit shotty, or poorly paced, the whole thing would be a joke. Luckily, Gameloft's shooter is solid and genuinely one of the best games of its type available in any app store this side of Apple.
We all know that these types of games are deliberately short on back story and heavy on action. Let's be honest, plot matters little here, but I will say this about the game; it's certainly a lot more believable than Infinity Ward's last offering. In this game, you are a trooper busted out of P.O.W. camp by a fellow soldier, just to be forced into the heart of a major campaign in the War on Terror. You, as the hero, travels the globe, from the arid jungles of South America to the frigid wastelands of the former Soviet bloc states. Of course, all of this is superfluous detail, all that really matters is that you have a big gun and you shoot tons of bad guys. The scenarios in this game or immersive and convincing, missions are exciting and varied (like the part where you navigate your character stealthily through snow to snipe unsuspecting terrorists. Every mission in Modern Combat 2 feels fresh and well realized and that's exactly why this game is great fun to play on any device.


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Understanding exposure is another important element in trading. The reason being is if not understood right can mean that a trader can be taking excessive risk when pairs correlate and give multiple signals at the same time. Firstly do you know what exposure is in Trading? If not, that is okay let me explain it for you more..
What is Exposure Exactly?
Exposure is the principle risk a trader takes when opening multiple signals or trades in there account before the management phase. It is a name used to describe the risk that a trader is taking, whether it be two trades or five. Now, while this may seem like a normal concept there are aspects to consider when active trades go beyond a certain point. To describe it in detail let’s take a look at if there were more than 2 trade signals available in the market at the same time. In this example let’s say they are all correlated. Say a buy signal on EURUSD, a buy signal on GBPUSD, a buy signal on AUDUSD and lastly a buy signal on NZDUSD..
So now here is the question, do you take them all or do you consider exposure in the equation?
If so, let me explain why you should not take all the trades at the same time and why you should limit exposure to 2 ( recommended ) signals at a time before management phase.. The reason being is each one applies risk to a account and each one is correlated with the US dollar value. Because of that reason it means it is possible if US dollar increases in strength for some reason unexpectedly that one could lose all trades because of that one factor.
Now that is not to say us as traders cannot have many open trades open at a time, however limiting the trades before a management phase is recommended. Also that does not mean that a trader cannot have 5 or 6 or even more trades active and not have exposure in check either. The reason being is once a trade is locked in and risk free ( breakeven ) during the management phase then that trade signal is seen as going from whatever risk level you had set to a zero level exposure risk level. Meaning now that trade has no exposure.
In the instance of a 2% risk trade signal that would mean going from 2% exposure to 0% exposure once the risk free aspect of your trade management has been activated.
– As an example, once a trade you are managing is at breakeven or once a trade has taken off half or more partial profits beyond a 2 to 1 risk to reward phase, then it has no exposure ( no risk of loss on remaining held position ). These types of open positions can then be ignored when evaluating exposure on the account.
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There has been a growing body of research regarding the tendency for some antidepressants to have a paradoxical effect, leading to hormonal imbalances and a worsening of their symptoms. Much of the research has pointed to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a type of antidepressant that has shown to shut down the brain’s production of serotonin, the neurohormone they were designed to be preventing the body from losing. Despite antidepressants being the most widely prescribed mental health medication in the U.S., the Journal of the American Medical Association has reported that SSRIS may put people at an elevated risk of suicide attempts in the first nine days of treatment.
Published online in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, the authors sought to investigate why some people experience paradoxical effects with depression medications in addition to ways that new classes of drugs could treat the disorder. The authors found that during the initial two week grace period that the body requires for antidepressants to take effect, the drug actually aggravated depressive symptoms in women and men in the test group. They found that the reason lies in a recently discovered dual signal that serotonin neurons transmit, responsible for the release of glutamate in addition to serotonin.
“While the serotonergic component is immediately amplified following SSRI administration, the glutamate component is acutely suppressed and is only normalized after several days of drug treatment. These differential time courses may help to explain the paradox of acute versus chronic SSRI effects,” said Adrian Fischer of Otto-von-Guericke University in Germany, lead author of the study.
While the serotonin component of the dual signal has been linked to motivation, glutamate has been linked to pleasure and learning. Experts believe that a better understanding of serotonin neurons’ dual signal and their various responses to drug treatment may help resolve some of the paradoxes observed with SSRIs, leading to more accurate and fast acting antidepressants. Although the exact mechanisms in which SSRIs affect the dual signal are still being investigated, the authors believe that it provides insight on why SSRIs need a two-week delay to show any effects while drugs that target glutamate receptors have an almost instant onset.
Alternative approaches to antidepressants
Currently, there are no antidepressants that carry zero risk of depression or suicidal ideation. Since the FDA approval process usually takes about a decade on average, the medical field is still a ways away from releasing a truly risk-free class of depression drugs. However, there is a growing body of research suggesting that alternative forms of treatment, such as telemedicine-based care, is able to minimize side effects from SSRIs.
Published in the journal Psychiatric Services in Advance, the researchers analyzed data from over 190 patients who enrolled in a comparative-effectiveness trial from 2007 to 2009. The test group, which was mostly Caucasian women (over 80 percent), was followed for nearly two years while they received telemedicine-based collaborative care from their primary care provider as well as off-site care via telephone from a nurse care manager, telepharmacist or telepsychologist/telepsychiatrist. After being interviewed about their antidepressant treatment and the severity of their depression over a period of a year and a half, the results not only showed that the patients who had received teletherapy suffered from significantly fewer side effects than the control group, but the risk of side effects increased with the number of antidepressants prescribed as well.
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Missouri State broke out of an offensive dry spell thanks in large part to an eight-run, seventh-inning rally to stave off elimination at the 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship with a 13-3 run-rule victory over Southern Illinois Thursday afternoon at Hammons Field.
Jake Burger belted a tie-breaking grand slam—his 21st home run of the season—and added a run-scoring double in the eighth as part of a 3-for-5 afternoon that helped extend the Bears’ streak of recording at least one victory at the Valley tourney to 22 consecutive appearances dating back to the 1995 MVC Championship.
Missouri State (38-16) survived an early power surge by the Salukis (27-30), who used back-to-back first-inning long balls from Ryan Smith and Greg Lambert to take an early 2-0 lead. Will Farmer joined in the act to start the second, launching his fifth homer of the season to stretch the SIU advantage to three runs and help chase MSU starting pitcher Jordan Knutson from the contest after just an inning and a third.
But MSU right-hander Austin Knight would curtail the Salukis’ surge, limiting the SIU offense to a single hit over the ensuing 4 2/3 innings to give the Bears time to forge a comeback. Knight issued three walks and hit three more SIU hitters, but the junior worked out of a key jam in the fourth with some help from catcher Drew Millas, who gunned down a runner at third to squash a scoring chance.
In the home half of the fourth, Jeremy Eierman powered up a Missouri State offense that had been held scoreless over its first 12 turns at bat in the MVC Tournament, driving a two-run homer into the Bears’ bullpen in left to pull his club to within one run.
The Bears would strike the deciding blows three innings later, as SIU starter Michael Baird (4-4) plunked Jack Duffy with one out in the seventh to kick off MSU’s big inning. John Privitera and Hunter Steinmetz coaxed walks to load the bases, and Justin Paulsen plated the tying run with a base hit to right off Jacob Williams. Burger then lined a 2-1 offering over the wall in left-center to give the Bears their first lead in 25 innings of play spanning the last three games.
Eierman drew a free pass to keep the rally alive, before a Blake Graham single and an Alex Jefferson double added another run to the MSU tally. Millas lofted a sacrifice fly to center to bring in Graham, snapping a string of nine-straight Bears reaching base safely.
Jake Fromson (8-3) picked up where Knight left off, closing out the victory with 2.0 scoreless innings. The MVC’s Pitcher of the Year combined with Knight to hold the Salukis to two hits over the final six-plus innings, allowing only a one-out double to Farmer in the eighth.
MSU completed the victory with a three-run eighth, using a walk to Paulsen and doubles by Steinmetz and Burger to make it an 11-3 game. With two out, Jefferson drove in his second and third runs of the day with a line-drive single to right that chased home both baserunners to invoke the 10-run rule decision.
Jefferson finished his day 2-for-5 with three RBIs to complement the power display by nation’s top home run hitting duo of Burger and Eierman. The two Bears have combined for a Division I-best 40 round-trippers on the season, with the Bears going 9-0 in games in which both Burger and Eierman have gone deep.
The win will set up another 12:30 p.m. elimination contest Friday afternoon, as the Bears will square off against the loser of a Thursday evening game featuring No. 5 Wichita State and No. 8 Illinois State. The Shockers pulled out a 3-1 victory over SIU in their opening game of the Championship, while ISU became the first club to blank the Bears at home in over three years with a 1-0 victory to open tourney play Wednesday evening.

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On 11 February 2020, Air Italy ceased operations. This decision was made following the shareholders’ meeting of Air Italy (Alisarda and Qatar Airways through AQA Holdings spa). According to the airline, its flights will be operated by other carriers according to the original schedule between 11 and 25 February 2020.
Air Italy (registered as AIR ITALY S.p.A.) was a privately owned Italian airline, headquartered in Olbia, Sardinia. The company was the second largest airline in Italy, following Italy's flag carrier Alitalia, and the 40th largest airline in Europe by number of passengers as of 2019. The airline was a subsidiary of AQA Holding, owned by Alisarda (51%) and Qatar Airways(49%). The airline operated a fleet of Boeing 737 Next Generation, Boeing 737 MAX 8 and Airbus A330 aircraft to over 34 scheduled domestic, European and intercontinental destinations. The airline operated from its main hub at Milan Malpensa Airport.
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Welcome to Madison, Wis., the capital of Cheesehead Country. Sorry about the mess.
Backed by money, volunteers and rhetoric from Democrats ranging from the ill-kempt professional protestor types all the way to President Barack Obama himself (“assault on unions”), the far left is out in force in Wisconsin’s capital bearing placards ranging from the now-ubiquitous “Republican-as-Hitler” mock-ups to images of sniper’s crosshairs superimposed over Governor Scott Walker’s face. So… I guess we can assume that Obama’s calls for “civility” were more of a guideline than an actual rule.
Among the thousands of Democrats loafing, lollygagging and otherwise doing nothing productive — no, I do not consider making “Walker = Mubarak” signs in what appears to be crayon productive — is a sizeable contingent of teachers. Note I didn’t say TEACHERS’ UNIONS, although Big Labor has spent thousands busing in on-call shriekers to join in the Big Wisconsin Whinefest; I said “teachers.”
Despite averaging a little more than $100,000 per year in compensation, the stewards of Madison’s youth are taking a little field trip. Wisconsin public schools are currently sitting idle as a result of a coordinated sick-out staged by the teachers. According to local teachers’ union executive director John Matthews:
“We have only one day where we can make a difference, and it’s because of the ridiculous means by which the governor tried to shove this down the throats of public employees…"
Here I was under the impression that teachers are supposed to make a difference EVERY DAY. Evidently, that maxim gets defenestrated (find me a teachers’ union victim who knows what THAT means without a dictionary and two wrong guesses) when the Governor of Wisconsin asks them to cover insurance premiums at a still-paltry 12 percent instead of their current 5 percent. By the way, the 12 percent number would still place the exceptionally well-compensated Madison teachers in the best-covered 15 percent of regional employees. I suppose the teachers could figure that out, but that might require basic math skills. Perhaps the sick-out participants are all social studies instructors.
But the Madison teachers are doing a great deal more than simply walking out on their charges. They’re also indoctrinating them. According to Madison school system policy:
“…teachers shall refrain from exploiting the institutional privileges of their professional positions to promote candidates or parties and activities…”
It would appear Madison-area teachers were playing hooky the day they taught “rules by which you must abide to keep your job” in union school. These fine folk are also forbidden from taking a personal day with less than three days’ notice. And as far as tantrums go, wait until all the sick-out-ers find out that their paychecks will be docked for their fake sick days.
Some of the teachers did go the extra mile, taking Matthews’ suggestion that their hissy-fit provided what he called a “teachable moment.” According to one teachers’ union victim at Madison East High School:
“…some (teachers) were telling students they wouldn’t be marked absent if they walked out.”
Get ’em while they’re young, right? Other teachers actually dragged their charges to the protests where the fragile youth acknowledged their guides through the pitfalls of academe had done just as good a job teaching them about labor issues as they have teaching them the three R’s. East High students acknowledged they had been brought along on the walkout, but with a government school understanding of why:
“…You know, I don’t really even know! I guess we’re protesting today!”
OMG! Our teacher is so, like, you know, kickass?
“Um… we’re trying to stop whatever this dude is doing.”
The students are far from the only participants failing “outrank Albania in academic achievement.” Big Labor has developed some serious delusions in Madison. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2412 President Gary Mitchell actually thinks the kids are getting involved in the demonstrations because they just love their teachers:
“The students have been so energized…”
I’m sure the students are in no way motivated by the fact that they’re getting extra “make out in Betty’s basement while her parents are at work” time.
Former teachers’ union president Albert Shanker said:
“"When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of school children."
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The key political issue of our time, and the one that underlies the Victorian election result, is the tension between global tax avoidance and the refusal of citizens to pay regressive taxes on consumption.
Corporations and the rich are increasingly able to choose their tax domiciles. As a result, company and personal income taxes are being forced down as nations compete to hang onto mobile capital.
As Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson said in a speech last week, “In contrast to the focus of our public debate, comparator countries are lowering personal and corporate income taxes, and shifting the tax mix in favour of more efficient tax bases, in order to better compete globally. The consequence for Australia of maintaining a 1950s tax mix in the 21st century should be self-evident.”
The only way countries can fund the growth in spending demanded by the ageing of the population is to tax domestic consumption instead of income.
This has been evident since the Asprey Committee of 1975, which first proposed a broad based consumption tax. It took Australia’s dysfunctional political system 25 years to do it, even though Asprey was obviously right.
The debacle of this year’s Federal Budget shows that the politics of taxation remain very difficult indeed.
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Treasurer Joe Hockey’s first budget was an attempt to return the budget to surplus while reducing company tax and not collecting the effect of fiscal drag on personal income tax. The only increase in taxes on the rich was a temporary budget levy.
Apart from that, the budget measures were regressive and arguably unfair. Populist parties in the Senate have refused to pass most of them and the Victorian branch of the Coalition was voted out even though the state budget is in surplus and Victoria is the only state with a AAA credit rating.
Governments are increasingly getting squeezed between the ability of companies and rich individuals to move money to lower tax locations, thereby subverting progressive income taxes on the one hand, and the refusal of voters to pay regressive taxes on consumption on the other.
This trend has been apparent for years, but there has been a complete failure of the politicians and econocrats in Canberra to deal with it.
Despite 23 years of economic growth, the Budget is in deficit and the gap is now widening dramatically as the company tax windfall from the mining boom diminishes rapidly.
This is the result of roughly a decade of fiscal mismanagement, including the complete failure of successive Federal Governments to prepare for the inevitable end of the mining boom.
The most remarkable thing of all is that even though Labor was in power for most of that decade, the Victorian election result suggests that Coalition has managed to direct the blame for both the mess and solution onto itself, by not using the budget process to explain the problem but instead to try to and bring in some long-nurtured ideological ideas that have now failed.
As a result, Government debt has increased by $75 billion over the past 12 months and, according to Deloitte Access Economics, the forthcoming budget update will reveal a deficit blowout of $35 billion over four years caused by weaker than expected economic growth and company tax collections.
The impact of those factors is now greater than the savings that were proposed in the budget, which have, in any case, been rejected by the Senate -- so a double whammy: weak economy and budget savings blocked.
In this morning’s Australian, Adam Creighton quotes Deloitte Access’s Chris Richardson as saying: “The opposition and minor parties have washed their hands of setting out detailed alternatives, preferring populist posturing.
“It looks to us like a nation that can’t handle the truth: a temporary boom has come and gone, and a sustainable path for our national social compact requires some tough decisions.”
According to the Australian Financial Review, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott spent Sunday -- as the new Victorian Premier Dan Andrews selected his Cabinet -- “bunkered” in his Canberra office finalising the details of a tax reform discussion paper, as a prelude for the Tax White Paper.
For 40 years, tax reform discussion papers, committees and White Papers have all been designed to persuade the nation to accept more indirect taxation -- either more GST, land taxes, death duties or excise duties. That is -- the things that can’t be avoided by moving money offshore.
This one is likely to be no different. Is there any chance that any of this White Paper’s recommendations to increase the indirect tax base will get through the Senate? None.
The only thing it will do is put off the need for big spending cuts to health, welfare and education for a few more years, while we debate the White Paper’s call for an increase in the GST.
By which time the deficit will be mountainous.


Pictures tell a thousand stories and by the look of the photos circulating on the social media, we can almost feel the eerie and dreadful state of the islands and provinces in Visayas and Mindanao that are badly hit by Typhoon Odette.
In Cebu, a lot of familiar and popular place were damaged by the onslaught of Odette.
The typhoon accelerated late Thursday evening, moving west at 35 kilometers per hour from the previous 30 km/h.
After the first landing in Siargao, Surigao del Norte on 16 December, Typhoon Odette passed Sulu Sea on the 17th packing maximum sustained winds of 155 km/h near the center, with gusts up to 235 km/h. It brought torrential rains, violent winds, landslides and storm surges, making nine landfalls in seven provinces.
Initial assessments point to floods, road closures, power outages, and disruptions in communications. Floods have been reported in Lanao del Sur and the city of Malawi.
Bohol was also badly hit and has been placed in a state of emergency. Bohol Governor Arthur Yap announced on Saturday that he had signed Executive Order 65 proclaiming the state of disaster throughout the province “due to the seriousness of the destruction of Odette.”
There is also a moderate to high risk of storm surge of up to 3.0 m in height in the next 24 hours which may cause life-threatening flooding in the low-lying coastal areas of Negros Provinces, Iloilo, Antique, Guimaras, and several localities in the northern portion of Palawan.
Rai is expected to exit the Philippines Area of Responsibility on 18 December.
According to the initial reports of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), over 330,000 people have been pre-emptively evacuated, 674 evacuation centers are open and as of now one 1 death and 2 injured are reported. The onslaught of a typhoon cut essential lifelines, leaving 63 cities and municipalities without electricity, affecting 73 seaports and cancelling over 160 domestic and international flights.


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Because routine cage maintenance is necessary to keep a safe and healthy home for your herp, your daily cleaning routine offers the perfect opportunity to spend some extra time to carefully examine your pet. Close personal observations help you tailor your cleaning routine to match the needs of your herp, as well as detect any abnormal behavior or early signs of illness.
When observing your herp, ask yourself the following questions:
During your observations, if you notice something out of the ordinary consult with your reptile veterinarian first before trying to remedy health related issues.
- Has the normal amount of food been eaten?
- Is the temperature of the cage within proper parameters?
- Are the feces and urates normal in appearance and quantity?
- Has there been any sheddings? Does it appear normal?
- Is there any evidence of parasites?
- Mites - appear as small brown, red, or black spots around your reptile's eyes, between scales, or moving over the animal's skin.
- Ticks - are slightly larger than mites and are brown, black, or gray in color.
- Internal parasitic infections - are often signaled by severe weight loss or changes in the feces.
- Are there any edges or sharp corners that can injure your pet?
- Are there any injuries? Look for bites, scratches, discoloration, swelling, sores, or discharge.
- Are the eyes clear?
- Is the overall appearance of your herp healthy? Check eyes, ears, nose, legs, tail, and skin to see if your reptile looks healthy.
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4 Ways to Customize Your Engine Bay
Owning a classic car is certainly a unique and satisfying experience. However, it also comes with challenges of its own. One of the biggest ones is keeping the ride in near-perfect condition. Still, this requires a lot of dedication.
Therefore, customization becomes not only an option – but a necessity. An integral part of owning a classic ride, that allows you to make it more beautiful or reliable. Or, in most cases, both.
So, let’s see what engine bay customization options you can find at Orange County engine bay detailing and restoration shops.
Can you customize your engine bay?
People think engine bay customizations serve only to produce that “wow” effect in the onlookers. This is true, albeit to an extent. Cosmetic upgrades do make up a large portion of possible improvements you can treat your ride with. After all, looks are a major part of what makes classic cars so amazing. And still, they are only a minor part of what you can treat your ride with. Therefore, these aren’t the ones you should focus on. Well, at least not from the get-go.
Engine bay customization options are extremely extensive. So much so, in fact, that they can improve virtually every aspect of your driving experience. Therefore, not only you can customize your engine bay – you should!
What can you improve in your engine bay?
This is where the true beauty of engine bay customization lies. You can change and upgrade everything that’s under the hood. From the smallest screw to entire engine blocks, and even the engine itself. In general, we can split all customizations into four categories:
However, it’s important to notice that these categories aren’t mutually exclusive. Performance upgrades can translate into protective or convenience ones, and vice versa. But, the best part of it is: all of them add to the overall looks. So, regardless of the customization, you opt for (first), you’ll surely add to the “wow” factor.
#1 Performance upgrades
Performance upgrades can improve virtually every aspect of your ride. From fuel economy to power, to handling, to overall reliability. Great examples of these customizations are:
EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection) installment;
SRI (Short RAM Air Intake) addition.
However, since they are the largest modifications, they also take extensive work.
#2 Protective upgrades
As the name implies, protective upgrades provide extra shielding for the components. With them, you can make cables, electrical panels, connectors, etc. even safer, thus increasing their longevity. Adding wire tucks, silicone and braided hoses, or strut bracers go a long way toward protecting what’s under the hood. And, they also look insanely cool!
#3 Convenience upgrades
Convenience upgrades serve to make maintenance easier. These can allow you to, for instance, pressure wash your engine bay without fear you’ll damage something. Or, not having to detail your engine bay as often, which is a great time saver. Silicone caps or plastic encasements for panels are the best examples.
#4 Cosmetics upgrades
This is, by far, the most extensive customizations category. Cosmetic upgrades are too many to count and can range from a simple paint job to engine compartment detailing, to a full restoration.
Where’s the #1 Orange County engine bay detailing and customization shop?
When you’re looking for the best Orange County engine bay detailing, restoration, and customization, you need not look further than Chimera Motors. Just a few minutes away from Huntington Central Park you can find the best treatment for your classic ride. Our trained and knowledgeable personnel has years of experience in restoration, beautification, and full-on conversions of every classic car component. Give us a call today and ensure your ride remains your reliable companion for years to come.


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EVEN as companies tighten spending on business travel, many employees are actually spending more time on the road in the scramble to generate more revenue.
At the same time, as household budgets are being squeezed in a deteriorating economy, people are cutting back on holiday and vacation trips.
As a result, industry executives say, business travelers and their companies have become more resourceful in figuring out ways to tack some fun onto the work without spending a lot of extra money. In many cases, it is cheaper to add a leisure trip to a business trip because some costs are already covered.
“Given the fact that a majority of business travelers we survey tell us they’re traveling as much, if not more, it’s not surprising to see that more people” are adding leisure time to business trips, said Jim Cohn, a spokesman for Orbitz for Business, the corporate travel division of Orbitz Worldwide.
Besides the obvious boost to morale, encouraging employees to spend a few extra days on the road can sometimes even cut costs, he said.Continue reading the main story
For example, this year airlines reintroduced minimum-stay fare rules aimed at discouraging business travelers from using cheaper advance-purchase fares. The tactic presumes that a business traveler is loath to stay away from home over a Saturday night or for extra nights, and will opt for a more expensive fare without the restrictions.
Staying over the weekend, then, can lower the fare paid by a company “because they now have the Saturday-night stay built in,” Mr. Cohn said. He added that some companies were scheduling more regional meetings on Mondays and Tuesdays or Thursdays and Fridays to accommodate “people who choose to stay a long weekend.”
Pete Angles, a sales manager for a big pharmaceutical company, Galderma, said he traveled “a lot nationwide and, depending on the circumstances, I’m often working to combine a business trip with leisure.”
Mr. Angles said that his wife, Cristina, sometimes came along, depending on the destination. “The company has already covered my airfare, and I’m usually able to extend the corporate rate for a few extra days at a hotel, so it works out,” he said.
In a recent Orbitz for Business/Business Traveler Magazine Quarterly Trend Report, three-quarters of the 450 business travelers responding said they had extended a business trip with some leisure time in the last year. And 81 percent said that in the next six months they were considering extending a leisure trip by adding vacation time with family or friends.
More than a third said they had coordinated a business trip to accommodate leisure travel to a desirable location.
Mr. Angles said that his wife was “a lot more interested in what my travel calendar looks like several months ahead,” now that the couple often traveled together on his business trips. “She’ll say, ‘Hmmm, this trip is to the Bellagio in Vegas. That might be more interesting than going along to your meeting in Tulsa,’ ” he said.
Because they are more intensely affected by the indignities of air travel and other annoyances, business travelers love to complain and commiserate with one another about life on the road. But a lot of them actually like to travel on business, according to research to be released Tuesday by Egencia, the business travel division of Expedia Inc.
In that survey, with 2,400 travelers responding in North America and Western Europe, 39 percent described themselves as “experience-hungry” travelers who strove to balance business travel with leisure interests. More American respondents than those in other countries mentioned “how they enjoy traveling for business,” the survey said.
“They actually like business travel and would be happy to travel more,” said Rob Greyber, senior vice president in North America of Egencia.
“Business travelers are managing work-life balance,” he added. “One of the key things they’re doing is bringing family or friends along, or taking an extra day before or after” the business part of the trip.
Mr. Cohn of Orbitz for Business said that given rising travel costs, it made sense to tack some family leisure travel onto a business trip in which “part of the cost can be absorbed through the work trip.”Continue reading the main story


Real-Time Testing to Solve Your Design Challenges at AE’s Customer Experience Centers
Veröffentlicht Oktober 27, 2022 von Shrinidhi Chandrasekharan
Advanced Energy’s customers are in the business of designing complex and mission-critical products that propel innovation forward. We believe it is important to partner and collaborate wherever our customers develop technology and products around the world. By defining industry-leading precision power, measurement and control solutions, we enable our customers to reach ever-new heights in reliability, control and efficiency. In addition to our broad product portfolio, we work side-by-side with our customers throughout their product lifecycle.
AE’s Customer Experience Centers (CECs) provide an important collaboration space for our applications engineering teams to help solve customer design challenges. Located in key technology development clusters, our global network and local support teams power our solutions that address customers’ needs.
Medical Customer Experience Centers
At our Sharon, MA center, for example, we take development and product optimization to an especially high level of capability and value. The Sharon CEC is designed as a center for innovation in medical power supplies with collaborative design workshops. This level of customer intimacy is unique to Advanced Energy and is at the heart of our mission.
The CEC’s engineering team supports rapid problem identification. EMC, EMI and thermal issues are the most common challenges that occur when integrating power products into a system. Therefore, AE’s CEC is furnished with sophisticated EMC, semi-anechoic EMI, thermal and electronic test equipment. A variety of real-time tests are available, ranging from DC load emulation and failure analysis to functional tests, thermal tests and pre-compliance tests. Beyond providing the test data, we deliver detailed analyses that empower our customers to make critical design decisions. With the importance of regulatory compliance in medical application, we also provide pre-compliance testing as a value-added service, accelerating our customer’s time-to-market.
Partnering to Solve Customer Challenges
A leading medical manufacturer recently partnered with AE to create a custom solution for their cardiac monitoring and assist device. As their previous design exhibited erratic operation when integrated to the device, the manufacturer reached out to AE to solve this critical issue.
The customer visited Advanced Energy’s Medical CEC in Sharon to conduct analysis and testing. Analyses of the system load showed that while the normal quiescent power draw was less than half of the power supply rating, peak currents caused erratic operation.
The CEC team recommended a power supply with lower power rating and additional peak current capability. This solution is less costly while providing the steady state and peak currents required by the system.
AE’s CEC experts worked with the customer to customize our standard Advanced Energy SL Power MB120 AC-DC medical power supply. Modifications included peak current capability, CF Isolation rating, <10µA patient leakage current, as well as added cables to allow easy integration to the device. During the qualification phase, the customer visited AE’s CEC numerous times to test and troubleshoot EMI performance, conduct thermal analysis and test leakage current at the system level. With the support of the design engineering team, the customized product was quickly documented and readied for production.
Global Customer Experience Centers
In addition to our Sharon CEC, medical customers can tap into AE’s design and applications engineering teams at our Calabasas, Cork and Israel sites. Our collaborative development center in Seoul works with semiconductor and industrial customers to develop and deploy advanced plasma technologies with repeatability and control essential for thin film production. Industrial and horticultural lighting customers benefit from AE’s applications engineering capabilities at the Eden Prairie design center, while our Milpitas lab is just a short drive away from many customers in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Learn more about AE’s CECs and collaborative development centers here. We look forward to partnering with you to solve your design challenges.


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Expression of 11 p-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase: DISCUSSION(4)
The presence of GR mRNA confirms isolated granulosa cells and CL as G target tissues. Glucocorticoids or synthetic G, dexamethasone, has been shown to increase FSH-stimulated progesterone (P) production in cultured immature granulosa cells. This is at least partially due to a selective increase in 3 pHSD activity and a decrease in 20aHSD activity. Glucocorticoids also synergistically enhance FSH-, GnRH-, and epidermal growth factor-stimulated tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) activity and gene expression. These results are different from those of an early study in which an inhibitory effect of G on basal and FSH-stimulated tPA activity was shown in immature granulosa cells. The reason for the discrepancy between these studies is not clear. ampicillin antibiotic
An inhibitory effect of G was reported on FSH-stimulated aromatase activity and LH receptor levels. G appears to inhibit induction of aromatase, since it did not inhibit aromatase activity in mature granulosa cells. Overall, these results indicate that G enhances FSH-stimulated P production and tPA activity, without inhibiting already existing aromatase activity, while it inhibits induction of aro-matase and LH receptor in rat granulosa cells. The G receptor may also act as a P receptor. It has been reported that P inhibits 20aHSD expression in rat CL through GR. However, it has not yet been investigated whether P exerts any physiological effect through GR in granulosa or thecal-interstitial cells. Since GR is expressed constitutively throughout follicular development and luteinization, the differential expression of 11pHSD1 reductase and 11pHSD2 dehydrogenase observed in the present study may act as a key mechanism to control G action during follicular development.