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I read numerous posts on RV and other forums concerning the perceived quality of tires made in different countries. Among large 5th wheel trailers there seems to be a large percentage of owners who believe that all tires made in China are just failures waiting to happen.
What few seem to understand is that if all the tires on a single application, like large heavy 5th wheels, come from the same source then if a majority of those vehicles are overloaded (which can make any tire fail prematurely) there will be a higher percentage of failures due to the overloading and not because where the tires were made.
Maybe the bottom line solution is to go to Goodyear, Michelin, or Bridgestone Firestone as first choice then as a second second choice, Tire Rack, Big-O, Pep Boys, Costco, Walmart, Sears, Sam's Club or BJ wholesale club or another large tire retailer with a nationwide presence.
With a larger company you are much more likely to find someone who will stand behind the tires they sell. And you'll be dealing with a company that has a vested interest in selling quality products.
I believe that if you buy a tire at one of the three major manufacturers, who all sell imported tires from various countries, there's a good chance that any import tire they sell has been reviewed to ensure it meets U.S. market regulations.
I have personally been involved in evaluating tires made in USA, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, and China and can assure you that they all were expected to meet identical corporate quality standards as they were all sold through company stores.
Since most customers have no idea about where their tires were made, they do remember the name of the store they bought them from. So, naturally, the large tire companies do not want their name associated with poor performance.
Another advantage of dealing with a large company is you have a better chance of finding service no matter where you travel than if you buy form the one and only Billy-Bob-Jo's Super Cheap Tire Emporium and Bait Shop.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


text: Monad University, Hapur has been established vide Act No.23 of 2010 of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. This has been published in its Official Gazette on October 12, 2010. A letter of authorization from the Government of Uttar Pradesh has also been issued on dated January 11, 2011. Subsequently, Monad University has come into existence and has started its operations.

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Communication Arts magazine is world's most outstanding magazine for graphic design, advertising, photography and illustration (circ: 70.000). 8 issues of Communication Arts magazine are published each year, 4 magazine issues as single topic annual (design - advertising - photography - illustration). 4 magazine issues as multi-topic overviews of the industry. Professional readers spend 2 hours with every magazine and then save their magazines 'forever'. Communication Arts magazine is a primary creative resource.
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Advancing Public Understanding- this is the main outreach component of NAMI, and includes organizing conferences, meetings, and other events.
Smart Borders/Green Trade Corridors- this involves networking across the many transportation corridors organizations throughout North America to produce written material on important and emerging trends within the transportation industry, and identifying ways to enhance the concept of green corridors.
Building Trinational Leadership- this program is comprised of 2 primary projects: North American Community Service, and Mid-Career Professionals. NACS is a community service, voluntarism, and leadership initiative aimed at young adults (ages 19-25); MCP is a leadership project that works with emerging professionals and leaders throughout North America.
Membership Program Administration- Working with the Executive Director and Director of Development to implement a membership initiative; editing and publishing the quarterly newsletter “NAMINEWS”; compiling articles, organizing newsletter layout, mailing.
Education: Master’s Degree or higher.
Work: Must have at least 3 years experience working in public policy or non-profit management.
Should be able to demonstrate knowledge of emerging North American issues, and of Trinational (Canada, US, Mexico) affairs in general.
Spanish and/or French helps, but not a requirement.
Preference will be given to individuals with experience in working with North American Trinational affairs.
Salary is $40,000; health insurance included.
Please email resume to [email protected], or call (505) 982-3657 for more information.

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Rockhal and Rocklab are thrilled to reveal the program of the 2018 edition of Sonic Visions. Sonic Visions Music Lab & Festival is the leading event for the music scene in Luxembourg and the Greater Region, and has become a confirmed rendezvous in the circuit of the European music conferences and showcase festivals.
Again Sonic Visions is taking place in the unique setting of the old Belval steelworks, where history meets presence and sets out for the future. The spirit of this unique place reflects the DNA of this annual event: A three-day conference addressing all relevant topics on how music is made, performed, distributed and remunerated today and tomorrow. And a two-day music festival presenting the upcoming 2018/2019 must-see acts from Luxembourg, Europe and beyond. The festival site with its four stages will welcome the guests in a magical setting provided by an illumination in collaboration with the Nuit des Lampions Wiltz. In addition, interactive installations will not only provide light but engage with the festival crowd encouraging them to play, discover and enjoy an urban gaming experience defined by the 80’s style of the days of Pacman, Tetris and Donkey Kong. From lunch to late night in front of the main festival entrance, and thus open to the public even without a ticket, the Sonic Visions Food Market offers a variety of delicious food for the hungry ones.
With Germany, France and Belgium directly bridging some of Europe’s most important markets, the Music Lab connects artists and professionals from the music, IT and creative industries. Workshops, panels and networking events on the pulse of the music industry as well as inspiring keynotes and talks provide everything a musician needs to make, promote & sell his music in 2018. But the Music Lab does not stop at the edge of its own industry, but reaches out to tech and the creative industries, addressing the latest trends and developments, talking about the synergies and identifying the enablers that might shape the future. During the panels we will discuss how the blockchain technology could help to shape a fairer ecosystem for artists and the music industry, what might be the future role of artificial intelligence in the creative process of music making and education or what challenges artists and creative entrepreneurs might encounter on their path to a professional career in the next few years. Furthermore we will explore and focus on different key jobs in the music industry through our new “in conversation with” series presenting a comprehensive and exciting “behind the scenes” view provided by high profile music professionals like mastering engineer Mandy Parnell (Björk, Aphex Twin...), music agent Mike Malak of CODA (Jess Glynne, Pusha T, KSHMR...) and musician and Youtuber Mike Dawes to name but a few.
This year’s Line-Up is a handpicked selection of international emerging artists: Eddy de Pretto, Angèle, Moha La Squale, Maribou State, Kikesa and many more, as well as some of the best music “Made in Luxembourg” with Maz, Say Yes Dog, Napoleon Gold, Mudaze, Bartleby Delicate or C’est Karma. Sonic Visions Festival is the unique opportunity to see already today amazing artists who are about to breakthrough. Get ready for a new adventure and prepare to be amazed!

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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It can be very frustrating if your transaction falls through, especially if you are almost at the point of exchanging contracts, and particularly because the whole process of moving house is stressful enough as it is.
However, In-Deed understands how this affects you, which is why every fixed-fee quote comes with a ‘no completion, no fee’ guarantee. This means that you won’t have to pay any of the conveyancing solicitor’s fees, even if the solicitor has completed the majority of the conveyancing work already.
In addition, the small initial fee of £120 that you paid to secure the fixed-fee quote can be transferred to your next transaction when you are ready to buy or sell another property.
If you want more advice, our conveyancing experts will be happy to talk to you on 0800 038 6886. Or you can send us an email at moveteam@in-deed.net.

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The TCJA reduced the tax rate applicable to C corporations from 35% to 21%, effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. It also reduced the highest marginal income tax rate applicable to non-corporate taxpayers (i.e., individuals, trusts and estates) from 39.6% to 37% (excluding the 3.8% Medicare tax on net investment income), effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017 and before January 1, 2026. The lower corporate tax rate will generally reduce the tax burden on taxable REIT subsidiaries (TRSs).1 Moreover, the lower corporate and individual rates will result in lower foreign withholding under the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA).
The TCJA allows individual investors, including trusts, to deduct up to 20% of ordinary REIT dividends (excluding capital gain dividends and qualified dividend income, which continue to be subject to a 20% rate). Ordinary REIT dividends are eligible for the pass-through deduction regardless of the REIT’s source of income (or the level of the REIT’s wages or depreciable property, which are limiting factors for pass-through business income from other than REITs and PTPs). REIT capital gain dividends continue to be subject to lower capital gains tax rates. With the new pass-through deduction, (discussed below) an individual investor that is eligible for the full pass-through deduction would have a maximum marginal tax rate on REIT dividends of 29.6%.
The TCJA reduces the recovery period under the modified accelerated cost recovery system (MACRS) for qualified improvement property (QIP). QIP includes any improvement to the interior portion of a building (other than elevators, escalators, or internal structural framework) which is non-residential real property if such improvement is placed in service after the date the building was first placed in service.2 The TCJA made no change to the MACRS recovery period for non-residential real property or residential real property. While the TCJA also reduced the alternative depreciation system (ADS) lives of residential real property and QIP, it made no change to the ADS life of non-residential real property.
Under the TCJA, the deductibility of net interest expense for a business is limited to 30% of the “adjusted taxable income” of the business. Adjusted taxable income is defined as business taxable income, computed without regard to business interest income or expense, net operating loss (NOL) deductions and, in the case of taxable years beginning before January 1, 2022, deductions for depreciation or amortization. Disallowed interest can be carried forward indefinitely.
A “real property trade or business” is permitted to elect to deduct 100% of its interest expense but, by making this election, the taxpayer is required to use ADS to depreciate real property used in its trade or business, regardless of when the property was placed in service. For this purpose, a real property trade or business is any real property development, redevelopment, construction, reconstruction, acquisition, conversion, rental, operation, management, leasing, or brokerage trade or business. How the change to ADS will be implemented for existing depreciable property of electing taxpayers requires guidance from the Treasury. The limitations on deductibility of net interest expense for a business under the TCJA apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, including interest paid or accrued on indebtedness incurred prior to December 31, 2017. For REITs that already use ADS to calculate their taxable income, making this election should not affect depreciation expense.
Mortgage REITs may not be impacted by the 30% interest limitation because business interest expense can be fully deducted to the extent of business interest income. Equity REITs will need to determine whether their net interest deductions exceed the 30% limit. An equity REIT that is subject to the limitations on interest deductions will need to analyze whether to elect out and use ADS, based on the new recovery periods after the TCJA, for its buildings and improvements, which will decrease the depreciation deductions for purposes of computing REIT taxable income.
Prior to the TCJA, like-kind exchanges applied to both real and personal property. The TCJA now limits like-kind exchanges to exchanges of real property not held primarily for sale, effective for exchanges completed after December 31, 2017. In general, built-in gain in a REIT’s properties is attributable to real property, not personal property. Thus, the limitation of like-kind exchanges to real property not held primarily for sale should not adversely impact most REITs. Those REITs planning like-kind exchanges of assets that contain both real property and personal property (for example, hotels) should be aware that any gain attributable to the personal property component will no longer be eligible for like-kind exchange treatment.
As with most aspects of the TCJA, the provisions noted above are generally complex and leave many open questions. To determine how these provisions may affect you, please contact your Berdon advisor.
1 TRSs, however, will be subject to the new limitation on the deduction of net business interest expense, which is described below.
2 The TCJA eliminated the special rules for qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property.

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A Future for the Affordable Care Act?
The Affordable Care Act faces an uncertain future under Donald Trump, but Austin nonprofit Foundation Communities assures us Obamacare won't disappear in 2017. Contracts remain in place with insurance companies to guarantee at least one more year of the ACA's current structure. Its existence through 2018 remains uncertain. "People should be confident that they'll have insurance for the year," says FC program director Elizabeth Colvin. While some rates are increasing and certain plans have been canceled, there may still be a more affordable option. Once a plan is selected, Colvin insists prices will remain the same unless the client's income changes. "Don't assume it's too expensive or it's not going to work. We don't want people to think it's going to go away and miss out on this opportunity. They cannot dismantle the ACA overnight," she said. Central Texas residents are eligible for 30 plans through three companies (Ambetter, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Sendero). Open enrollment runs now through Jan. 31. Those intending for their plan to take effect Jan. 1 must sign up by Dec. 15.
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In Florida, drug offenders face hard time -- unless you have money or connections.
It's no secret that rich and poor drug offenders face vastly different kinds of justice. Just as moneyed criminals get Johnnie Cochran while the indigent make do with underpaid public defenders, so are well-heeled substance abusers more likely to end up in posh rehab clinics than in the prisons where poor addicts are warehoused. Sure, there are exceptions -- actor Robert Downey Jr. and baseball star Daryl Strawberry spring to mind -- but they're not the norm. The norm looks more like Noelle Bush, who, despite several drug violations, has so far served only three days in jail.
As most of the country knows by now, the daughter of Florida governor Jeb Bush and niece of President George W. Bush was found with crack inside her shoe in the Center for Drug Free Living in Orlando, where she was sent in January after being arrested for trying to buy Xanax with a forged prescription. It was not the first time she's been busted while in rehab -- her three-day jail term in July came after she was caught with a bag of prescription pills that didn't belong to her.
Drug-reform advocates certainly don't claim that Noelle Bush has been treated too leniently -- even three days in jail is too harsh, they argue. But, they say, the punishment is even more severe for people without her money or connections. "The question is whether she's being treated in a unique way," says Bruce Bullington, the editor of the Journal of Drug Issues and an associate professor of criminology at Florida State University in Tallahassee. "I think she is."
Her fellow patients seem to agree. As the Orlando Sentinel reports, Noelle Bush was reported to the police by a woman who said she was a Center for Drug Free Living client incensed by what she felt was the preferential treatment given the governor's daughter.
"One of the women here was caught buying crack cocaine tonight," the caller said in her Sept. 9 conversation with a 911 dispatcher. "And a lot of the women are upset because she's been caught about five times. And we want something done because our children are here, and they just keep letting it slip under the counter and carpet ... They said, you know, because it's basically Noelle Bush ... She does this all the time and she gets out of it because she's the governor's daughter."
According to the New York Daily News, one Center for Drug Free Living staffer heeded a supervisor's advice and tore up her written statement about finding the drugs rather than show it to the police. Without the statement, the police didn't have probable cause to arrest Bush. Four employees have been subpoenaed after refusing to cooperate with police, citing the center's privacy policies. Bullington says the employees would be in the right if they provided the same measure of protection to all their clients. Whether they do is hard for outsiders to determine, he says, because individual clinics have a "tremendous amount of latitude" in creating their policies.
"If this is something they do for all their guests, then it's perfect," Bullington says. "The vast majority of people who go into treatment fail very quickly, and fail multiple times." But the system isn't designed with that in mind, he says. "Anyone else who they found with a rock of cocaine, they would turn it over to the police ... And the courts will say there's no second chances, or one second chance."
Drug-reform advocates are trying hard to create a greater separation between treatment and the criminal justice system so that the police don't get involved in the lapses that most recovering addicts experience. Unfortunately, Bullington says, by allocating more resources to cops and corrections than to treatment and by filling top positions with law-and-order conservatives, Noelle's father is working against the broad application of the kinds of policies that have protected his daughter. "Again, the issue is not that she should be punished more but that other people should be given the same kind of break," Bullington says.
"If a normal person was building up a history like that of Noelle Bush, she would be looking at jail time now," says Sydney P. Smith, a defense attorney who spent seven years as a public defender in Dade County. "It's a discretionary call, but if they actually found drugs in someone's room, I think many clinics would report it because it's a crime."
A crime that gets many people locked up. Jim McDonough, director of the Florida Office of Drug Control, says there are currently 93 people in state prisons for marijuana possession. According to the Florida Department of Corrections, 20,000 people in fiscal year 2000 were convicted of felony drug possession in the state. A third of them went to jail, and 1,775 served more than a year. Smith mentions one of his clients, a legal immigrant from Nicaragua, who spent six months in jail and was then deported for committing crimes almost exactly like those allegedly committed by Noelle Bush.
Such discrepancies are the reason that Smith, who chairs the Florida Campaign for New Drug Policies, is leading the campaign to pass an initiative called the Right to Treatment and Rehabilitation for Nonviolent Drug Offenses, which will likely go before the Florida electorate in 2004. Advocates tried to get it on the ballot this year, but the Florida Supreme Court, which had to approve the measure, took six months to make a decision, and that left advocates too little time to collect the necessary signatures.
Modeled on California's Proposition 36, which passed in 2000, the initiative would amend Florida's constitution to mandate that nonviolent first- and second-time drug offenders be either sent to rehabilitation programs or let go. It would also take the likelihood of relapses into account by giving addicts multiple chances at treatment. In effect, it would force the state to treat all defendants the way it's treated Noelle Bush.
But led by Gov. Bush, opposition to the measure is fierce. "I can assure you that unless we have a change in leadership in the governor's office and the attorney general's office, prosecutors and law enforcement will mount a very active campaign against the passage of this," says Jerry Blair, president of the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association.
When talking about his daughter, the governor is the model of empathy. "The road to recovery is a difficult and long journey for those afflicted with addiction," he said on Sept. 10. But he took a very different tone in August 2001, when arguing against the Right to Treatment initiative. "To suggest that there should be no penalties for continued drug use," he said, "is to stick our head in the sand."
To be fair, it's not just the Bush team that is opposing the measure. Many in the rehab community are against it as well, arguing that the threat of jail is necessary to make addicts stick with their program. While drug-law reformers insist that addiction treatment should be removed from the criminal realm altogether, Bruce Hayden, the president of Spectrum Programs, a group of four rehab clinics, says that the threat of jail is "absolutely" necessary. "For the most part the criminal justice system and treatment system work very well together," he says.
But how well they work together has a lot to do with how much money defendants have. While first-offense possession of crack in Florida carries a maximum five-year prison sentence (15 years for heroin), most nonviolent defendants can opt for Florida's system of drug courts, designed to divert nonviolent addicts into treatment programs rather than prison. That's what Noelle Bush did. People who complete the treatment emerge with a clean criminal record.
It sounds like a great system, and in many ways it is. It's certainly far better than New York's, where mandatory minimum sentences send people away for decades. Randy Credico, a drug reform activist who heads the New York-based William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, cites the case of a Long Island addict currently serving 12.5 to 25 years for a second-offense crack possession.
But there are two problems with Florida's system. McDonough concedes that there aren't enough drug courts to handle everyone eligible for them -- only half who would opt for drug court get in. And those offenders who want treatment instead of prison often have to find their own rehab center -- and a way to pay for it.
There are state-subsidized places within the various clinics, but there's a long waiting list for these, so some defendants go to jail for lack of treatment options. The problem has been exacerbated by recent budget cuts, which, according to a January article in the St. Petersburg Times, eliminated more than 600 subsidized beds -- a third of the total. (McDonough says he thinks the article exaggerated the loss of beds.) Those who don't go to treatment don't get their records cleared, Smith says, so if they're arrested again they can be charged as habitual offenders, which carries a doubled prison sentence.
"A lot of my clients have to suffer jail because they can't afford the kind of program that a prosecutor would find acceptable," says Smith. "If I've got a client with an unlimited budget, I can find a program for him that is probably going to satisfy everyone." Furthermore, he says, "programs that are designed for paying customers tend to be more accommodating," as Noelle Bush's has been. Smith says that the referendum would put the onus on the state, rather than the defendant, to find a treatment bed for everyone who qualifies for one.
Opponents of the Right to Treatment initiative don't really dispute the fact that the system favors people with money. Asked whether the current system discriminates against the poor, Blair says: "In terms of drug treatment, well, it probably discriminates to the extent that the state does not furnish adequate drug treatment programs. It discriminates in the sense that a wealthier defendant might be given the option to voluntarily enter a drug treatment program at his or her own expense in order to avoid the consequences of a criminal offense, and that same drug treatment alternative might not always be available to indigent defendants."
Hayden agrees. "I would like to think that money should not determine whether you go to jail or not," he says. "But it does. Are we talking fair? I think we're talking reality."
At least, reality Bush style.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Josalyn Brown has leaned on her friends during the past two years as she’s battled kidney disease.
Josalyn Brown underwent a procedure to have a catheter placed so that could begin dialysis last July.
Visit ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/transplant to become a living donor.
When 16-year-old Josalyn Brown first found out she would have to go on dialysis one of the first things that ran through her mind was Truckee’s annual volleyball trip to Elko.
Playing in the upcoming season wasn’t even a question to the then sophomore, but the overnight trip with a 25-pound dialysis machine and several six-pound bags of solution seemed impossible — she was going have to miss the program’s annual two-game trip to face Elko and Spring Creek and with it, time with her teammates.
Instead, her mother, Dianna Brown, made sure Josalyn was there in a hotel room in Elko with her team, who helped — or mostly watched — as she went through the nightly process of undergoing dialysis.
Ahead of Josalyn’s freshman year at Truckee High School, she underwent a physical in order to play volleyball.
Josalyn had played since she was 10 years old at various club levels, and was looking forward to joining the Wolverines program.
After running blood tests and lab work, doctors discovered her kidney function was off.
“That’s how it all started,” said Dianna. “They sent us immediately down to pediatric nephrology department at UC Davis. They put her on blood pressure medication right away and it took about six weeks for them to determine what was going on.
The condition is likely something Josalyn was born with, said Dianna, and with her kidneys functioning at about 30 percent, she would eventually need a kidney transplant.
For the next two years, Josalyn and her family made monthly trips to UC Davis as more than 100 vials of blood were drawn to determine where she was at with her diet and kidney function.
Other than the trips to UC Davis and occasional bouts of fatigue, Josalyn was able to do the things she always had — playing lots volleyball and hanging with her friends.
Then last February, her kidney function dropped to a level where she was placed on a transplant list.
“Even though we’ve known about this for two years, you have to basically get to a point where you kidney function gets below 15 percent before they will actually put you on a transplant list,” said Dianna. “And then there’s this really small window of time that you go from getting activated on a transplant list to needing dialysis.
Last June, Josalyn underwent a procedure to have a catheter placed so that she could begin dialysis, and on July 13th she started Peritoneal Dialysis.
The family had to make trips to UC Davis three to four times a week for roughly a month in order to learn to use the machine at home. Each night Josalyn takes her weight, blood pressure, temperature and heart rate in order to properly adjust the solution before beginning dialysis.
The noise the machine makes started as an annoyance, but has since become something she can drift asleep to.
As the fall semester and her junior year at Truckee approached, Josalyn was determined to play for the Wolverines’ volleyball team.
The decision raised a few nurses ad doctors’ eyebrows, who were concerned about the roughly 12 inches of tube coming out of her stomach, but ultimately, Josalyn won out.
Wearing a compression band around her waste Josalyn is able to play for the Truckee junior varsity team, and during a tournament this year, played in seven matches in one day.
During the past season she formed a bond with Head Coach John Decrescenzo.
Josalyn and her family continue to make monthly trips to UC Davis. There, she’s become somewhat of a mentor to other youngsters with similar diagnosis.
She’s currently on a list awaiting a cadaver donor and there are others who are currently undergoing testing to see if they’re a match to donate a kidney to Josalyn.
“As far as finding a living donor it’s kind of up to us to get the word out,” said Dianna. “We went to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and just used social media to get the word out, and there are people currently in testing specifically for Josalyn at UC Davis.
Unfortunately, once Josalyn receives a kidney it will only last between five and 20 years, depending on if its from a donor or cadaver.
“It’s been really hard. We’ve learned to deal with it. She needs to know this is a life changing thing. It’s not just, ‘Oh we’re going to get a kidney transplant and everything’s going to be OK,’” said Dianna.
When times have been darkest Josalyn said she’s turned to her friends, and through it all has leaned on her family and her own indomitable spirit.
The Brown family is currently searching for a living donor. For anyone who is considering becoming a living donor, you may register at ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/transplant. On the bottom right corner there is a link, “Be a Donor”. There are a series of questions that need to be answered. In the series of questions you will be asked if there is a specific recipient you would like to donate too. If you would like to be tested specifically for Josalyn you must enter in “Josalyn Brown” and her birthdate (1/4/02). If you pass this simple series of questions someone will contact you and fill you in on the next step as well as what the entire process entails.


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Between 1900 hours on the 6th July 2015 and 0600 hours on the 7th July a business premises on South Cambs Business Park, Sawston, had a catalytic converter stolen from a Mercedes Sprinter van that was a parked on the road near the business premises. Crime Number CF 0270060715.
At around 2110 hours on the 6th July 2015 an attempt was made to possibly take the catalytic converter on the Mercedes Sprinter van which was parked on The Grip Industrial Estate, Linton. Damage was caused underneath the vehicle. It is believed offenders were disturbed. A black Audi A4 was seen to make off from the area with 4 males inside. Crime Number CF0270420715.
If you have any information regarding the above crimes, please let the police know immediately. Did you see an Audi A4 acting suspiciously in Linton around that time on the 6th July? If you did they would like to know. Please use the non-emergency number 101 and quote the crime number when calling in.
In light of these thefts, please see their information and advice below, which could help reduce the chances of you being a victim.
What makes a catalytic converter so valuable? There are three types of metals that help the catalytic converter remove toxins from the vehicles’ emissions: platinum, palladium and rhodium. The price of these already valuable metals has increased by hundreds of pounds an ounce in recent years. It’s the tiny amounts of these metals on the screens inside the catalytic converter that makes them so valuable.
Tools of the catalytic converter thief Stealing a catalytic converter takes either a wrench or a reciprocating saw. In some cases thieves have used mechanics' dollies to slide under vehicles more easily.
How long does it take to steal one? About 3 minutes to either unbolt it or use the reciprocating saw to cut it out. Good thieves are even faster.
Report suspicious activity If you see anyone working under vehicles, and they are acting suspiciously, report it to the police.
Effective security lighting Lighting is vital to reducing catalytic converter theft. Though opportunistic thieves may strike in busy areas in broad daylight, the more organised thieves are more professional, more risk averse and are more likely to offend at night. Good security lighting can therefore make vehicles more visible and improve natural surveillance. External dusk to dawn lighting which automatically, stays on during the hours of darkness and goes off as it starts to get light is the most appropriate type of security lighting.
CCTV For some businesses it will make sense to install CCTV to protect their vehicle fleet. Remote-monitored CCTV could even stop catalytic converter theft before it happens if the monitoring centre can notify the police in real time as an offence is taking place.
Perimeter security Fencing will deter the occasional/opportunistic catalytic thieves and it will slow down the more organised thieves. Advice on appropriate perimeter security can be provided by a Crime Reduction Advisor, or information on ‘police preferred’ fencing products can be found within the ‘products’ section of the Secured by Design website.
Defensive parking With a fleet of vehicles it is possible to block the high-clearance vehicles with low-clearance vehicles. The goal here is obstructing access underneath the vehicle. At the very least it will slow the thieves down as much as possible so that other security measures have time to respond effectively.
Welded bolts If a catalytic converter is a 'bolt on' it is possible to have the bolts welded shut. This is only a deterrent to the lowest grade of catalytic converter thief, though – the one who works with only a wrench. In some cases it might still be enough of a deterrent to help prevent a theft.
Catalytic converter protective sleeves Protective coverings for catalytic converters, such as the device known as the 'Catclamp', can deter thieves. The Catclamp and competitor Catcuff makes it much more difficult for the reciprocal-saw wielding thief to steal catalytic converters. They are, however, quite expensive and may not be cost effective to protect a large fleet of vehicles or an auto dealership. They may be more appropriate for protecting owners of one or two vehicles.
ID etching Etching a catalytic converter with a serial number will help the police to track your converter after it’s stolen. Overtly advertising that your vehicles are protected with this form of property marking may also deter offenders, as it will potentially reduce the opportunities for selling on the converters at reputable scrap metal dealers. More information on ID etching can be found at www.retainagroup.co.uk.
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The period between 1530 and 1660 saw the transformation of the English language into a vehicle for some of the richest, most beautiful poetry and drama ever created in any culture. In addition, the European discovery of new lands and the rise of new science changed previous perceptions of the world, giving rise to a fresh language of description and exploration. In this course, we will examine some major literary genres of Renaissance England (drama, lyric and epic poetry, and argumentative prose). We will make connections between individual works and the historical conditions of their production. Finally, we will seek to appreciate and enjoy the “flowers of rhetoric” so highly prized by Renaissance readers and writers.
Jordan, Constance and Clare Carroll, eds. The Longman Anthology of British Literature	Vol. 1B: The Early Modern Period. 3rd Ed. New York: Longman, 2006.
MacLean, Hugh and Anne Lake Prescott, eds. Edmund Spenser’s Poetry. 3rd Edition.	New York: W.W. Norton.
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or, How I Dance When People Are Watching.
Zombie Ipsum: Frightful Filler for Your Damned Designs.
Light Bulb Jokes for Writers – Writers Write.

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Cognitive Operational Systems, Inc. (COSY) is a spinout of UPenn's GRASP Laboratory. The company focuses on leveraging University research for enabling industry solutions in computer vision, perception, and artificial intelligence. COSY became one of the early occupants of Pennovation Works in the summer of 2015.
COSY’s “beacon-free” technology provides indoor localization and turn-by-turn navigation in environments with no GPS — like indoors. This back-end technology can be used to enable augmented reality interfaces, audio-based navigation aids for the blind, and even mobile drones.
Artificial Intelligence: next-gen deep learning methods for automated learning, exploring, & mapping new environments.

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Good call. At a quick glance, I have Trout ahead of Betts for the number one slot. That may change when I run through the numbers more in depth.
I haven't posted here in quite a while but this is my old "uber-stat blender" method.
16-20. Justin Verlander, Trevor Bauer, Mitch Haniger, Matt Carpenter, Freddie Freeman.
11) Christian Yelich - top NL position player. Best position players were in the AL, best pitchers in the NL.
If anybody's interested in using them, I've updated my Player won-lost records to include 2018. They're preliminary - they'll change once I incorporate revisions to earlier seasons from Retrosheet's latest release - but I don't expect them to change much. Here's top 25's in context (pWins tie to team wins) and context-neutral (eWins). You can build your own weighted-average "uber-stat" here (type in whatever weights you want and click "Go").
I think that covers everyone under reasonable consideration.

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“Beauty Rich and Rare”…. the digitally presented story of the English botanist-superstar, Joseph Banks, who sailed with Cook on his first Pacific voyage (1768 to 1771).
OVER recent years as the name of that gigantic cultural hero James Cook has dominated Australia’s culture wars, a larger-than-life character in the story has sometimes been overlooked.
Now, through a breathtaking, 180-degree digital display (essentially a film done in a multimedia way) the National Library of Australia has taken on the story of the celebrated English botanist-superstar, Joseph Banks, who sailed on the “Endeavour” with Cook on his first Pacific voyage from 1768 to 1771.
The 18-minute “journey” with Banks and his team is now screening three times on the hour from 10am to 5pm and should convert even the most hardened schoolboy to Aussie history and even science.
This writer was simply gobsmacked by the experience. Treasures curator at the library Nat Williams, too.
“I’ve taken my 91-year-old dad, he loved it; my 17-year-old daughter loved it, too,” Williams tells “CityNews”.
“It’s so sensual in its use of sound and light to bring the story of Banks to life.
“Beauty Rich and Rare” is the enticing title, taken from our national anthem, for an immersive sound-and-light encounter where one can step into the shoes of Banks and his fellow scientists, for scientists they were, exploring the upside down world of the Pacific.
Visitors can surround themselves with imagery of plants, flowers, star maps and navigational charts created by Anthony Bastic, of production company ABG Events, with voice-overs from broadcaster Angela Catterns.
Bastic, who also wrote the script, is a technological polymath best-known as light curator for the “Vivid” festival in Sydney. He had been wanting to stretch in a different direction, to work with real material and to engage with the NLA’s collection.
“We were lucky, we got government funding to help mark the 250th anniversary of Cook’s landing in Australia,” Williams says.
Traversing an enormous range of subject matter, from the exquisite beauty of Australia’s native flora and fauna to the scientific equipment needed to observe the transit of Venus, the show, which Williams describes as “a bit like a film, but using new technologies”, travels through ancient observations of the heavens, 18th century navigation by the stars, towards NASA, which named its space shuttle “Endeavour”.
“Cook and Banks were the ultimate improbable dynamic duo; the 40-year-old, hard-working son of a Scottish labourer and this young, six-foot-tall, handsome 25-year-old fellow with the world at his fingertips,” Williams says.
“The duo worked in difficult circumstances. Cook was unused to sharing his quarters with someone else, but unlike Cook, he was born into privilege and he threw £10,000 into the Cook expedition for scientific equipment.
Banks collected everything, often storing scientific samples in the bread bins. He also brought his greyhounds, a complete library and a staff of eight, including naturalists Daniel Solander and HD Spöring and artists Alexander Buchan and Sydney Parkinson.
So who was Banks? A “gentleman commoner” of good family from Lincolnshire, he’d been to Harrow and Eton, where he had been entranced by the beauty of the wildflowers. Like Shakespeare, he was possessed of small Latin and less Greek, and as a botanist was self-taught, having bailed out of Oxford when he found they weren’t teaching botany.
But Banks was to achieve great eminence in his own lifetime. Already a seasoned naturalist when he joined the “Endeavour” expedition, he’d studied and collected rocks, plants and animals in Newfoundland and Labrador during 1766, when he was also admitted to the Royal Society, of which he later became president for more than 41 years.
“He wanted to inform other people, he wanted to push the message about the world’s complexity and fragility, a bit like David Attenborough,” Williams says.
His great ambition was to publish a great “florilegium” (book of illustrations of plants) but he ran out of steam and money, preferring to write thousands of letters on everything, including merino sheep. His correspondents included all the NSW governors from Phillip to Macquarie.
Despite charges that he was a dabbler, Banks advised King George III on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, brought 30,000 plant specimens home with him, advocated British settlement in NSW and advised the British government on all Australian matters. He is credited with introducing the eucalyptus, acacia and the genus named after him, banksia, to the Western world.
“Beauty Rich and Rare”, National Library of Australia, until February 10. Free.


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This episode of the RTI Podcast took a look at where the Vols turn now that Brandon Kennedy is done for the season. Who do the Vols trust to take snaps, and will a true freshman be starting for the Vols on the offensive line by the Florida game? We also looked at the Vols’ next opponent, ETSU, and discussed what we want to see from Tennessee in this game. What unit needs to show the most improvement? What one player are we looking forward to seeing the most? Managing editor Nathanael Rutherford and staff writer Ben McKee talk about that and more.
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I recently acquired probably the worst thing you can give a bookworm like me, a Kindle Touch. Having not taken much time last year to read, or perhaps I was rather uninspired by what the best sellers had to offer, I had no idea the persuasive power of thousands of books at my fingertips. Since I opened that magical box, I’ve already read 5 books…in just over a week. Curious what’s had my brain racing?
I decided to give in to all the hype and give these books a whirl, I was hooked. Action, adventure, unrequited love and good overcoming evil against the odds, this series has all the makings of a classic tale.
From the same author of the beloved, Seabiscuit, comes another story of underdog redemption. Young Louis Zamponi once a reckless, wild youth, finds his life purpose in running. He continues to smoke the competition and becomes an Olympic miler, unfortunately, his dreams are cut short when he’s drafted for WWII, where he will survive in a life raft on the Pacific for over 30 days, endure unbearable torture in Japanese POW camps and, ultimately, find an incredible story of redemption when he at last returns home.
A Hemingway classic that I’ve somehow managed never to read before. It is GREAT. Admittedly, I had just seen Midnight in Paris for the first time prior to reading and was thus in the thick of ’20s Parisian fantasies, so jumping into a book opening in the same setting was, as expected, delightful. An exquisite journey into French evenings, Spanish bullfights and a twisted web of relationships without boundaries.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A Philippine terrorism expert has identified backdoors in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah and Manado in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province used by foreign militants to enter the southern Philippines to join Islamic State-affiliated groups.
“Others were able to reach Mindanao after using a backdoor, mainly in Sabah and Manado,” he told The Defense Post.
Banlaoi, who is also President of the Philippine Center for Intelligence and National Security Studies, said the Armed Forces of the Philippines had provided him with information on two routes, but his research based on interviews and interpretations of intelligence reports on the movements of foreign fighters found four additional routes.
The AFP did not respond to a request for comment.
One Indonesian route begins in Manado and transits somewhere in the Sangihe islands within Indonesian territory northeast of Sulawesi before heading to General Santos city, the Philippines’ southernmost city. Banlaoi said the AFP had acknowledged this route.
But according to Banlaoi, some militants take a second Indonesian route that also begins in Manado and has a stopover somewhere in the Talaud islands, an Indonesian territory to the east of the Sangihe islands, before proceeding to the Davao region in the southern Philippines. From General Santos or Davao militants traveled overland to Marawi.
From Malaysia, would-be fighters can choose one of three separate courses from Sandakan district in eastern Sabah.
Two separate routes, one north via Mapun and the other east via the Tawi Tawi island area then converge on Zamboanga. From there, militants either travel overland or by boat across the Moro Gulf towards the Cotabato area, south of Marawi.
The third route heads north towards Palawan, an island in Philippine territory, before heading towards Negros Island and then south to Mindanao.
Only one of the three, via the Tawi Tawi Island area, has been acknowledged by the AFP, Banlaoi said.
According to Banlaoi, militants can travel to Sandakan from the west coast of Sabah and from Tawau, another eastern Sabah district, before taking any one of the three sea routes to the southern Philippines.
Banlaoi first presented this information during a September security symposium in Kuala Lumpur. Despite the wide media coverage of the symposium, Banlaoi’s briefing on the routes taken by the Marawi foreign fighters has received little attention.
An Indonesian terrorism researcher from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University said Manado is the Indonesians’ preferred launch pad because it is close to both Poso in Central Sulawesi and the southern Philippines.
“It’s become the hub for terrorist networks in Poso to go to Mindanao,” Chaula Rininta Anindya, a research analyst at the university’s Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, told The Defense Post.
Chaula said Manado currently serves as a strategic hub for pro-ISIS networks in Indonesia.
“Manado may be the main transiting point. In November 2017, the authorities arrested Abu Musad, who is originally from Banten, in Manado for his alleged intention to join ISIS-affiliated group in Southern Philippines. He had been in contact with pro-ISIS sympathizers in the Philippines.
ISIS claimed the January 2016 bombings near the Sarinah shopping center in Jakarta in which eight people including the attackers were killed.
Scores of militants and would-be fighters from Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia were arrested before the fall of ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
Pawel Wójcik, a terrorism analyst who focuses on Afghanistan and South East Asia, cast doubt over some of the routes.
“Sabah has been the place with most of foreign fighters coming through, and now we see them on Sulu and Basilan,” he said.
Wójcik said that ISEA established a cell that was supposed to smuggle foreign fighters through Sabah to the southern islands of the Philippines. He noted that the sea route from Sabah to Tawi Tawi is difficult to protect and that the Philippine ISEA affiliates exploit that.
Wójcik also cast doubt over the number of foreign fighters now making the full journey to the Marawi area.
“I don’t believe that many people made it to the area after the battle finished in October 2017,” he said.
“This zone is still a heavily contested battleground, hard to reach even for experienced smugglers,” he said, adding that foreign fighters have likely stopped attempting to reach Mindanao in favor or Jolo, Sulu and Basilan islands, where it’s easier to reach ISEA affiliates.
Regional security expert Associate Professor Lai Yew Ming said he agreed with Banlaoi’s findings on the four routes from Malaysia.
He said evidence for the established routes was based on a number of arrests made by the Malaysian authorities earlier this year.
“The suspects were said to be from a terror cell that has been using Sabah as transit point to smuggle militants into the southern Philippines,” Lai, a lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah, told The Defense Post.
Lai said the routes heading north from Malaysia may simply be alternatives to the established southerly route.
However, Lai believes Tawau may also be the launch point of a sea route for militants moving between Indonesia and the southern Philippines.
After an attack by Sulu militants in the eastern Sabah district of Lahad Datu in 2013, the Malaysian government designated Sabah’s east coast as the Eastern Sabah Security Zone or Esszone, covering some 1,700 km of coastline and the surrounding sea and land areas. A multi-agency command called the Eastern Sabah Security Command or Esscom was created to secure the special security zone.
The Esszone encompasses, among other areas, the Sulu Sea, which had been a hotspot of piracy and kidnappings by groups from the southern Philippines, although Esscom’s efforts have greatly reduced such incidents.
However, Malaysian authorities continue to catch terror suspects from the three neighboring countries in eastern Sabah.
These include arrests in January and February this year of 10 suspected ISIS-linked militants in Sandakan and Penampang districts, the latter in Sabah’s west coast.
One of them was a Filipino trying to arrange the movement of militants to Zamboanga through Sandakan, Malaysian Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun said in a statement at the time.
Fuzi also said the cell had planned a future attack in Sabah, but he did not specify where.
In March, a 31-year-old man, allegedly the top aide to Furuji Indama, the notorious head of an Abu Sayyaf faction in Basilan, was arrested.
In late February, three men believed to have been Filipino militants were killed in a shootout with Esscom and other security agencies in Tawau.
During a press conference after the shootout, Esscom commander Deputy Commissioner of Police Hazani Ghazali announced additional security measures to stem the movement of criminals including militants from the east coast to the west, where Sabah’s capital city Kota Kinabalu is located.
Esscom is not only concerned about transborder foreign militant movements but also the spillover of southern Philippine militants heading towards the state’s west coast from eastern Sabah, and Indonesian militants making their way in the jungles through the Sabah-Kalimantan border to the southern Philippines.
Hazani said there are many “lorong tikus” or rat paths in the jungles between Indonesia and Malaysia that make Sabah an attractive transit point for the militants.
“We are aware of these and are monitoring these hidden paths,” he told The Defense Post.
According to the Esscom chief, most Indonesian militants prefer to transit Sabah overland before crossing the sea to the southern Philippines because of the shorter sea routes later.
“If they are to go directly from Indonesia to southern Philippines, they’ll have to travel far by sea from Indonesian Borneo or Sulawesi,” Hazani explained.
Indonesians were arrested in the the Sabah districts of Tawau and Sandakan trying to get to the southern Philippines while Filipinos were caught in Sabah and in Peninsular Malaysia after making a stopover in the state.
Several Malaysian militants from Peninsular Malaysia were also suspected to have transited through Sabah en route to Mindanao.
“There are many routes for Indonesian militants, but Sabah is one of the easiest due to several important factors,” Yohanes Sulaiman, a security analyst and lecturer at Indonesia’s Jenderal Achmad Yani University, told The Defense Post.
“There have already been a lot of movements traditionally of people between Sabah and Mindanao, and the terrorists are just utilizing that network. Remember the fact that the Malaysian government was caught completely off guard a few years ago when a bunch of people affiliated with the Sultanate of Sulu infiltrated Sabah,” Yohanes said, referring to the bloody 2013 Lahad Datu intrusion by Sulu militants out to stake their territorial claim over part of Sabah.
“In essence, it is easier to form a logistic support network to facilitate the movement of militants from Poso, an Indonesian region in central Sulawesi where there was a terrorist training camp, to Mindanao through Sabah and to maintain secrecy,” continued Yohanes.
A Philippines-based advisor echoed Yohanes’ statement on the passage of militants between his country and Malaysia.
“I think one factor is the historical connections between Sabah and Mindanao as well as the people living on both sides of the border,” the advisor, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are currently involved in the sensitive Mindanao peace process, told The Defense Post.
The advisor said Malaysia and the Philippines would have to monitor the movement of people more closely in the shared areas.
“I believe this is one of the objectives of the Malaysia-Indonesia-Philippines Trilateral Cooperation Arrangement, which includes joint maritime patrols in the Celebes Sea,” the advisor said.
However, the advisor said Sabah remains a sensitive subject for both Malaysia and the Philippines due to the unresolved territorial claims of the Sultanate of Sulu.
The Filipino advisor said a peace process between the Philippine government and the Moro people in Mindanao, if successful, could make insurgencies less attractive in the region and therefore, less militants’ crossborder travel.
They said if the peace process continues to move forward, meaning commitments in the peace agreements are realized gradually, there will be little space for terrorists and violent extremists to maneuver.
“The purpose of the peace process is not to solve the issue of violent extremism, but for finding a solution to the struggle of the Moro revolutionary fronts for their right to self-determination,” they said.
Nevertheless, the Filipino expert believed this should go hand-in-hand with the Philippine government’s more comprehensive program for improving governance and delivery of basic needs and socio-economic development in the region.
“Foreign fighters, particularly Indonesians and Malaysians, would then have a difficult time getting support in Mindanao if the peace process progresses,” they said.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post originally said that all the routes taken by militants to Mindanao were based on information received from the Armed Forces of the Philippines. This was incorrect and the post has been edited and updated to reflect that. The Defense Post regrets the error.
It was further updated at 1340 GMT to add Lai Yew Ming’s comments.


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Nationally known as one of the foremost Truck Stops in the UK, with single and twin room accommodation, independent shower facilities and a cash machine on site. Also the Pit Stop Bar and Function Rooms (for hire), decorated in a retro style in keeping with the historical link to the iconic cafe. Free Wi-Fi. Open daily Mon - Fri; 7am - 8.30pm, Fri-Sat; 7am - 2.30pm, Sunday; 7.30am - 2pm.
A great truck stop and pub, popular with visiting Bikers and Truckers throughout the week. Close to a major trunk road (A4500) and motorway, with friendly staff, large parking area, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea, coffee and drinks. The café serves traditional home-made pub food, where the menu includes a mighty mixed grill, 10oz juicy rump steaks, burgers, delicious lasagnes, spicy curries, various breakfast fare, along with a wide range of sandwiches and baguettes. Also various salads, served with potato salad and coleslaw. A choice of beverages, larger, bitter and real ales. Various charity and promotion nights, pool room, darts board and regular happy hours.
The Red Lion Truck Stop is over 300 years old, starting life as a sorting office, where the horse and cart would have a break and then go back on the road to deliver the mail. It has since then, offered the same ethos of good quality food and drink to anyone who stops to take a break!
As a truck stop, there is a dedicated security guard team and infra-Red CCTV cameras monitoring the site 24/7. Also on site shop specifically for motorcycles, trucks and caravans. Open daily, 5am until midnight.
A cosy restaurant/bar, serving a great selection of beverages and home-cooked food. The menu includes snacks and a dozen main courses based on good pub food; sausage and mash, ham, egg and chips, beer-battered cod and chips, home-made burgers, etc.
All Seasons Café, The Causeway, Billing Garden Village, Northampton, NN3 9EX. Bike Night (themed), every Wednesday April - October, 6-10pm.
Red Lion Pub and Truckstop, Weedon Road (A4500), Upper Heyford, Harpole, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN7 4DE. Close to a major trunk road and motorway, with friendly staff, large parking area, serving traditional home-made pub food and a choice of beverages. Also on-site shop specifically for motorcycles, trucks and caravans. Open daily, 5am till midnight. See above.
RockyJo's Cafe, Unit 116 Leyland Trading Estate, Irthlingborough Road, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 1RT. Open daily. Bike meet every Tuesday evening 6-10pm, all year. Large parking area.
Super Sausage Cafe, Watling Street, Potterspury, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 7QD. A nostalgic classic cafe, with memorabilia on walls and a helmet park inside.
The Stirrup Cup, Woodland Avenue, Barton Seagrave, Northamptonshire, NN15 6QR. Sports memorabilia includes motorcycle sport images (landlord ex MCN Motorcyclist journalist) and regular motorcycle chat shows with special guests. See above.
Bike Night @ Jacks Hill Cafe | Bike Nights held the 1st Friday of every month.
Bike Nights held the 1st Friday of every month.

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10/11 - NCAA2 USA - Pittsburgh Johnstown - 28 games: 18 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 5.5 apg, 56% 2 fgp, 30% 3 point, 92% f.t.
11/12 - NCAA2 USA - Pittsburgh Johnstown - 28 games: 19.5 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 4.5 apg, 58% 2 fgp, 28% 3 point, 86% f.t.
12/13 - NCAA2 USA - Pittsburgh Johnstown - 28 games: 22 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 5.8 apg, 2.3 apg, 54% 2 fgp, 37% 3 point, 84% f.t.
13/14 - Regionalliga 1 Germany - SSV Bernau - 16 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 4.4 apg, 51% 3 fgp, 34% 3 point, 75% f.t.
15/16 - LPB Portugal - Ovarense - 37 games: 11.4 ppg, 2 rpg, 2.5 apg, 49% 2 fgp, 33% 3 point, 85% f.t.
16/17 - LPB Portugal - Ovarense - 34 games: 20.4 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 5.8 apg, 1.6 apg, 53% 2 fgp, 30% 3 point, 69% f.t.
· 1st MWVIAC Conference Player in reaching +2000 points and +500 assists.


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New Zealand’s government will not grant any new permits for exploration of offshore oil and gas reserves.
The New Zealand government’s announcement that it will not issue any new permits for offshore exploration for oil and gas deposits is exciting, and a step in the right direction.
We know that we can’t afford to burn much more oil if we want to meet the Paris Agreement target of keeping global temperature rise this century well below two degrees above pre-industrial levels. Almost all of the already known reserves must stay in the ground, and there is no room to go exploring for more.
Pursuing further reserves would only lead to stranded assets and would waste time and resources in the short term.
New Zealand currently has 31 active permits for oil and gas exploration, and 22 of these are offshore. A program set up by the previous government invites bids each year for new onshore and offshore exploration permits. But this year it is restricted to the onshore Taranaki Basin, on the west coast of the North Island.
Complementing the move to shut down the exploration of new deep-sea fossil fuel reserves, the government’s new transport funding plan aims to reduce demand for fossil fuels by putting emphasis on public transport, cycling and walking.
This gets away from the outdated mantra of more roads and more cars that we have seen over the past decade and will tackle the transport sector, which has seen very rapid growth in emissions since 1990. This will help New Zealand onto a low-carbon pathway and promises a more people-focused future.
New Zealand is a small player in global emissions of greenhouse gases but our actions can carry symbolic weight on the world stage. Given our present position of 80% renewable electricity and an abundance of solar, wind, wave and tidal energy, if any country can become zero-carbon, surely New Zealand can. It can only benefit New Zealand – socially, economically and politically – to lead in this crucial race to stabilise the climate.
As the government announced its ban on new offshore exploration permits, the latest greenhouse gas inventory was also released, showing some good news. New Zealand’s gross emissions went down slightly from 2015 to 2016.
But gross emissions are up nearly 20% since 1990, and net emissions (actual emissions minus the “sinks” from forestry) are up 54% over that time. The main factors that contributed to the increase were dairy intensification and increased transport and energy emissions.
Even though agriculture is still the largest source of emissions overall, energy and transport are close behind. We have seen a near-doubling in carbon dioxide emissions from road transport over the past 27 years.
It is encouraging to see a decrease in emissions from the waste sector. Per head of population, New Zealanders throw away significantly above the OECD average of rubbish, a lot of which is green waste that decomposes and releases methane, another potent but short-lived greenhouse gas.
While New Zealand emits a tiny fraction of the world’s greenhouse gases, on a per-capita basis we are sixth-highest among developed countries. We have as much responsibility as any country to reduce our emissions.
Even though emissions have risen, we are set to meet our national target for 2020 (a 5% reduction on 1990 levels) because of “carry-over” credits from the first Kyoto reporting period from 2008 to 2012. But to live up to more stringent future targets, we need a lot more action than we’ve seen over the last decade. The government plans to introduce zero-carbon legislation that will commit New Zealand to reaching the goal of carbn neutrality by 2050.
This will require serious investment and commitment to renewable technologies, changes in the transport sector, changes to agriculture and land use, and ultimately changes in the way we all live our lives.


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Thank you for your interest in joining the Jefferson County Medical Society.
By clicking below you will be rerouted to the Membership Application page of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. This application is used by both the State Assocation and the Jefferson County Medical Society. There are two ways to join - either fill out the application on the website OR click on the link given to print out and mail your completed application along with your dues check to the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, P.O. Box 1900-C, Montgomery, AL 36102-1900. Upon receipt, the State Association will forward to us a copy of your application as well as any dues owed.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call Kelly Logan, the Medical Society membership coordinator, at 933-8601. We look forward to having you as a new member and wish you much success in your new practice.


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October 1, 2013 - American Airlines announced it is beginning the process to recruit and hire approximately 1,500 new pilots over the next five years, American's largest pilot hiring in more than a decade. American opened job postings on the first of the month with the first new-hire class expected to begin training this winter.
American's ability to welcome new pilots is a result of its broad fleet renewal efforts that include taking delivery of new single-aisle Airbus aircraft and a mix of narrowbody and widebody Boeing aircraft, an expansion of flying to international destinations important to customers, projected pilot retirements and the Federal Aviation Administration's new rest and duty time rules that come into effect in 2014.
Today's news reflects the measureable progress and momentum the airline has achieved through its restructuring, along with its strengthened financial position.
"Today marks an important step toward a bright future at the new American" said Capt. John Hale, American's Vice President – Flight. "We're providing our current pilots with the strongest career advancement and growth opportunities in more than a decade, while continuing to build a premier airline and world-class employer they can be proud to fly for throughout their careers.
“American takes great pride in the exceptional quality of our pilots, and we're excited to continue building our team through this selective hiring and recruitment process. We're confident that our proposed merger with US Airways will provide even greater opportunities for all of our people."
American currently anticipates the need to initially hire approximately 45 to 50 pilots per month through at least summer 2014, including pilots from American Eagle Airlines, Inc. and the appropriate balance from external sources. The comprehensive hiring process will include an online assessment evaluating each pilot's skill set, experience and compatibility with American's brand values; interviews; and a multi-step background check process.


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so I am back at work. Just 8 hours this week and then 20 next week. then it’s back to the full time 40 after Thanksgiving. My incision drama continued last week, but is resolved, for now. i am still convinced that it’s not really over and i will probably have another set back. Last week he drained the middle and left side of it again. I am worried that the right side will flare up next. Today i went to see him and he gave me the all clear on the two locations that were drained. It seems as though i am allergic to dissolvable sutures and they were pushing up through my skin. so that is gross. and hopefully something that can be changed next time. yes, next time. Despite all the weird pain/pressure during and the pain and issues after this c-section, i am still wanting to do it one more time. Well not really wanting to do a c-section again, but i want another kid, so i have no choice.
after seeing the Dr. last week, I took 3 full days off from running. he told me I was ok to run slow, but i didn’t want to risk it. i came back on Monday with 3.5 miles, tuesday with 4.5, wednesday with 5.5, and a whole 7 miles today! whoooo! The last time I ran that far was the day before I had Elora. It took me just over an hour. My right hip was sore at the end because I think i am compensating for the pain I had in my incision on the left. I think tomorrow will be a much needed rest day.
E seems to be on a schedule that looks like this… go to bed around 8:30 or 9, wake up to eat at 1 or 2, then start grunting at 5:30-6 a.m. This is usually when i am running, so if I am on the treadmill, she will continue to sleep. If not, she will grunt and grunt until i wake her up to be fed. hahaha. So on days that I don’t run, I am still waking up pretty early to her grunt noises. Just like with Red, she will wake up about 3 minutes after the treadmill stops running. It’s like a white noise machine. this motivates me to run as far as possible without a break. it also means I don’t get much time for strength training or anything like that. i have been doing planks in those 3 minutes, but no crunches because that still sounds too painful. I do want to do more strength stuff so i will have to fit that in at other times of the day. After I feed her, i try to calm her down so we can go upstairs and I can shower without waking up Red. this doesn’t always go as planned. Then i get dressed and we go back downstairs to watch TV while i feed Red or wait for her to wake up. now that I am back to work, this is when i will need to be organized, have my clothes picked out, breakfast planned, and hopefully get in another pump before work.
Pumping has been going pretty good. I have had a few painful plugged ducts, but they usually resolve themselves after a few pumps. I have been pumping about 70 oz a day which is more than enough, and I do end up dumping some down the drain. the milk bank never got back to me about donating, so i just dump the bottles that probably have caffeine in them.
I don’t have any goals for the winter. I would like to start running outside at some point. Hoping e starts sleeping later or something works out so I can do that. However, it has been brutally cold and windy here already, so i am not really concerned too much about getting out there. Turkey trot is on thanksgiving, but I am leaning towards not running it. not really feeling like racing yet. Winter brings the obvious race drought, but I would like to be training for something. I am registered for Boston, but thinking that will be a no go. So I will hopefully find something else closer to home to satisfy my training hunger. Maybe just some half marathons. i’m getting nerdy excited just thinking about it.


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Posted on 2007/01/15 16:13:20 (January 2007).
So today I had a day off, inbetween my first week at the London office, and my flight out to California. I didn't really do a great deal - basically just confined myself to my temporary apartment, caught up on my backlog of washing, and wiled away the time with the Internet again.
This week, as also documented by Nigel (see here and here, the 'Maison regulars have been investigating all manner of online chat mecahnisms. Today I used the video/audio conferencing in Skype for the first time, had a nice chat with Nigel and the family, and I have to say I was very impressed - even with the less-than-perfect Internet connection I had in my temporary flat place. I also later on attempted a more unconventional form of online interaction - Second Life - which enabled Kev and I to go for a virtual beer together. This was very odd, but strangely rather enjoyable.
There's a Marks and Spencers "Simply Food" nearby the place I was staying in (just round the corner from St. Paul's cathedral), and so for dinner I decided I would gorge myself on ready meals. It was really good actually - a potato gratin, some garlic mushrooms and a halloumi and bean cassoulet. Yum!


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Festivals are a great time for families to get together. It’s Chinese New Year (5 Feb) and there will be feasting in this year of the Pig!
But let me share reflections on Christmas and maybe take ideas forward to Chinese New Year.
While the December festival, Christmas, is often seen as a time for families to gather and enjoy each others' company, December can be a very tricky month for those who don't have many family members nearby. And these days it's very common, for work, or education, or health, or many other reasons, for family members to live some distance from each other. And while some people are lucky enough to have their grandparents, cousins and other extended family members nearby, many of us are not. Sometimes, even if you live in the same country as your extended family, it isn't always all that easy to get to see them.
So often our friends become like our family - or 'framily'.
'Framilies', like families, come in many shapes and sizes. They may be our friends from school, or community school, scouts, cubs, guides, brownies or football. They may be our neighbours or people we see at church, mosque or temples or at 'functions'. They look out for us, support us when we're a little bit low, and enjoy sharing the good times.
In all of these situations, people come and go all the time. Occasionally, people have to move away at short notice and without always wanting to. So how do you stay in touch when that happens? While it's lovely to be able to pay a visit in person, it isn't always an option; travel by public transport can be expensive and difficult in winter, and trains, buses and highways often get busier as we get closer to Christmas.
Thankfully, in our current world, technology is now so advanced that we can communicate with others hundreds of miles away - or in the next room - in 'real time'. If you're lucky enough to have access to online messaging technologies, you can make a video call or a vodcast or podcast. Or you could always send a letter, a postcard or a greetings card - one of the most popular things to do in the run-up to Christmas.
Whatever choice you make, December is a great time to stay in touch with families - and 'framilies'.


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A US-based engineering and consulting firm, Black & Veatch has issued an optimistic outlook for liquified natural gas exports from both Canada and the United States.
Looking at the the number of LNG export licenses issued to projects “that are likely to proceed,” Black & Veatch raised its forecast for LNG exports by 2020 from the U.S. and Canada to 10 to 14 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d).
The report mainly concerns the United States, where the race for LNG exports is as fierce as it is in Canada.
The report was based on experts surveyed by the company. Respondents were asked to select their expectation of the volume of natural gas that will be exported from the United States and Canada as LNG by 2020.
Nearly 37 percent of respondents said they believed exports would total more than 6 Bcf/d by 2020. In 2013, less than 25 percent of respondents expected exports at this level. In 2014, 60 percent of respondents said they expected LNG exports to be less than 10 Bcf/d by 2020. Less than 7 percent of respondents put the figure at more than 10 Bcf/d.
Poduval said that as less expensive U.S. gas becomes more viable, Asian buyers are increasingly pushing back on higher cost supplies from their suppliers in Asia, Australia and the Middle East, Poduval said.
This pushback is stalling some of the more expensive LNG projects in Canada, Australia and East Africa, with Asian buyers holding back on long-term purchase commitments from these projects in pursuit of more favorable price terms… One of the dangers for U.S. LNG exports continues to be that they could shrink the very price spread that makes them attractive.
Poduval said the first trains at Sabine Pass in Louisiana are expected to go online starting in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Poduval noted the announcement of the 30-year $400 billion agreement for Russia to supply natural gas to China via a new pipeline was considered by some as the “Holy Grail” of international natural gas agreements following stalemated negotiations for more than 10 years between the two countries.
The deal could provide much-needed market diversity for Russia, which exports 80 percent of its natural gas to an increasingly unfriendly Europe that is pursuing other sources of supply. In addition, Russia would potentially supplant some LNG demand from China by supplying about 3.5 Bcf/d of natural gas under this agreement.
Her report also says that an Alaska LNG pipeline project that has been on and off for the past 30 years is now in a pre-FEED (Front End Engineering and Design) stage.
If it goes ahead, the project, which would be the largest in North America, with a capital cost estimate of $45 billion to $65 billion, will bring gas from the North Slope along an 800-mile pipeline to south-central Alaska, where it will be liquefied for shipping to Asian markets.
“But the marketplace continues to be subject to geopolitical events and regional economics,” Poduval said.
Royal Dutch Shell has finally ditched plans for a new $US20 billion-plus liquefied natural gas project in Queensland,making it the latest casualty of the oil price slump.
Global chief executive Ben van Beurden said the proposed greenfield Arrow LNG project with PetroChina was “off the table”, while other ventures would be slowed as priority was given instead to Shell’s North American LNG projects.
“We are prioiritising North America LNG options in that timeframe, LNG Canada and Elba,” he explained, referring to Shell’s LNG export projects in western Canada and the US state of Georgia.
the timing for starting engineering and design had already been deferred by six months to mid-2015. While the Shell chief executive’s words place some uncertainty whether the oil major wants to proceed in that timeframe, the company has still listed Browse among final investment decision “choices” for the 2015-16 period.
There are new owners for the Douglas Channel LNG project, according to this news release.
The Douglas Channel project, which contemplates a floating LNG project at the old log sort half way between Kitimat harbour and the Chevron-led Kitimat LNG project at Bish Cove is a now partnership between EXMAR, “an independent Belgium-based company with 35 years’ experience in LNG shipping,” EDF Trading (“EDFT”) a subsidiary and wholesale market operator of Electricite de France S.A., an international energy company with over 39 million customers and AIJVLP, “a limited partnership between AltaGas Ltd. (“AltaGas”) and Idemitsu Kosan Co.,Ltd. (“Idemitsu”). Idemitsu is a Japan-based global leader in the supply of energy and petroleum. AltaGas is the parent company of Pacific Northern Gas which supplies consumers in Kitimat.

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text: The Grenades shown in the movie are small, light, and extremely powerful; as such, there is no reason that the Marines could not simply throw them at the Aliens. The maximum range is 8 squares, mostly because the ceilings are far too low to actually throw the Grenades very hard. As with launched Grenades, they automatically land in the square they are aimed at. It takes 6 Actions to arm and throw a Grenade.


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I’m at the end of my first week at this new job. Other than basic logistics (parking, orientation, setting up voicemail, etc.), my time has been spent mostly in classes and preparing to teach classes.
So far, I’ve sat in on Access Database Design, Fundamentals of Web Development, and I’m in the middle of a full day class on PowerPoint 2003. I have two goals: First, to learn from the teaching style of the instructors, and, second, to get a sense of what these courses cover, as I’ll probably be teaching them eventually.
Speaking of teaching, I have my first class on Monday: Excel 2003 – Level 1. I’ve spent about a day and a half looking over the material and visualizing how the class will go.
One really big difference is that my day is much more consistent. My job, as I understand it, is to teach technology courses. So, managing a business, working with clients, prospecting for new work, and actually managing projects and doing the design, development, and consulting work are all no longer things I do.
I hope that after I get more class-time, I’ll feel comfortable shifting my focus away from prepping for classes and be able to focus some on developing new courses or refining existing ones. At least something to add some variety to the work. Who knows what else could be done? Well, my coworkers most likely – my concerns are so short-term right now I can barely see past the next couple weeks.
Next Next post: Commuting! Oh ye bane of my time! Oh ye cursed destroyer of my schedule!

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The admissions checklist will help you through this process.
Turn in your VA Intake Worksheet, Release of Information and Certificate of Eligibility to the Office of Veteran Services. This begins your VA file on campus.
All forms required can be found can be found on our forms page or by visiting with the Veteran Service office.
Meet with an advisor from the department in which you will be seeking a degree from to enroll in classes. Complete the VA Advisory Sheet with necessary signatures required.
Remember the VA requires only courses necessary for completing your degree to be funded by your GI Bill.
Your advisor can send your Advisory Form through campus mail or you can choose to deliver it to the Veterans Service office yourself. *Students at the Pryor Campus can fax the form to our office.
When our office, Veterans Student Services, receives your Enrollment Confirmation Sheet, we will date stamp it and add it to your VA file. Once certified, you will receive a confirmation email with your cert ID number and the number of hours certified along with other helpful reminders.
Report any dropped courses to our office. Any added courses require a new advisory form with same approval signature(s) listed in Step 4.
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The page yields for all our inkjet products are determined according to ISO/IEC 24711. We determine the page yields for toner cartridges according to ISO/IEC 19752 for monochrome toners and according to ISO/IEC 19798 for color toners.
Why page yield is measured according to ISO?
The ISO norms are industry standards for determining the performance of toner cartridges and ink cartridges. The standards specify various test methods that effect printing performance so all manufacturers can utilise the same methodology when measuring yield. Comparability with products of the original equipment manufacturers is possible only by using this test methods.
Our products offer the same ranges as the original, and in some cases even exceed them.
KMP products offer the same performance and functionality as OEM products – but at asignificantly more attractive price.
With the toner cartridges of the XXL-Series, KMP goes even one step further. Thanks to intensive research and development, these cartridges offer up to 4 x higher page yields at significantly lower costs compared to standard cartridge prices. In this way, printing costs can be reduced by up to 50 % at consistently high quality.
Our ink cartridges help to save money, too. Based on intensive research and development, we can achieve page performances beyond the reach of the original. The result: XXL inkjet products with more than 6 times greater range – with the same quality. A real XXL-benefit for you!

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If you love eating, cooking or drinking then Sardegna is a paradise in waiting. This Italian island relatively unknown to the world sits smack dab in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea and is surrounded by France, Spain, Africa and continental Italy.
Sardegna is blessed with a food culture that will send your taste buds abuzzing with fantastical amazement; it is also blessed with a food culture that is extremely healthy- so much so that Sardegna’s live longer then any other humans on the planet.
So what are the Sardegna’s eating? They are not eating Italian! Nor are they eating Spanish, African or Parisian. They are eating a combination of all of the above- as well as a mix of foods found only in Sardegna. The Sardegna’s are literally eating the time & space of their plentiful landscape!
A typical Sardegna’s day will start with the basics; fresh Yogurt and Pecorino Cheese made by local shepherds. The Yogurt will frequently be mixed with natural and local seasonal berries, fruits and or honey.
After breakfast things start to go in an extremely unique direction. A few standard Sardegna dishes include: ‘Fregola con Arselle’ (pg.20), a small couscous like pasta mixed with tomato sauce and clams and ‘Bottarga’ (pg.34) a handmade pasta dish featuring the Sardegna staple (salted mullet roe). Another daily Sardegna staple is ‘Panne Carasau’ (pg.42) paper-thin crunchy bread that the shepherds stuff into their pocket. And to drink? ‘Cannonau’! One of the most delicious and healthiest red wines on the planet it contains approximately three times the amount of polyphenols as an average red wine. And of course for dessert there are ‘Seadas’ (pg.22)- a large fried ravioli like pasta smothered in honey and stuffed with fresh cheese.
If you’re your not quite hungry yet start flipping the pages of this issue to begin filling your mind’s stomach with the idea that a trip to Sardegna is a must this summer! Buon Appetito!