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Things I Overheard at Mana, and So Glad I Did ... There's A First Time For Everything!
Here's the second addition to the blog series "Things I Overheard at Mana, and So Glad I Did"
Considering the plethora of interesting daily occurrences that take place at Mana, we feel this series of short stories is long overdue, and hope you enjoy!
I was about to enter Mana, when I noticed a man and a woman talking outside of the store. They exchanged a hug and the man said, "Wow! You look great, I've never seen you with your clothes on." I paused, and felt confused, but the only option was to walk on into the store.


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If a big, dumb action movie knows it's a big, dumb action movie and revels in that fact, is that preferable to a big, dumb action movie making the mistake of thinking it's significant, relevant art?
That's the question to ponder — if you can think straight and your ears aren't ringing too badly — during "G.I. Joe: Retaliation." This sequel of sorts to the 2009 blockbuster "G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra" seems to have some cheeky fun with itself, from Bruce Willis cheerily revealing the arsenal he's hiding in his quiet suburban home to RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan essentially showing up and playing himself. A major city is obliterated with the touch of a button and several others are in peril as the world hinges on nuclear destruction in what amounts to a hammy game of chicken.
Nothing matters really. This is a movie based on a Hasbro toy, after all — it's all spectacle and bombast. But at least "G.I. Joe" is aware of its vapidity compared to, say, last week's "Olympus Has Fallen," in which North Korean terrorists took over the White House in self-serious fashion but our secret-service-agent hero found time to make wedged-in, smart-alecky quips on the way to saving the day.
That's not to say that this "G.I. Joe" is good, aside from a couple of dazzling action set pieces, but at least it's efficient in its muscular mindlessness.The elite military team of Joes, now led by Duke (Channing Tatum, returning from the first film), is sent to Pakistan to recover some nuclear weapons. But they find themselves double-crossed by their own government, led by an imposter president, and lose many among their ranks in a massive ambush. The survivors — Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson, reliable as ever), Flint (D.J. Cotrona, who's given no personality) and Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki, in full makeup for covert ops) — must find out who's running the country and get to the bottom of this villain's dastardly plan.Turns out it's master of disguise Zartan, part of the enemy group Cobra, who's posing as the president while the real commander in chief is locked up in a bomb shelter. (Jonathan Pryce plays both roles; he's far too qualified for even one of them.) The three Joes realize they need help to bring him down, so they round up the far-flung Snake Eyes (Ray Park), the petite warrior Jinx (Elodie Yung, whose character trains with the Blind Master, RZA) and the reluctant Storm Shadow (Korean superstar Byung-hun Lee, an athletic and elegant specimen).
"Retaliation" initially was scheduled to come out last summer, but the studio pulled it and delayed its release to convert the movie to 3-D. With a director like Jon M. Chu, who's shown a flair for integrating 3-D with the dance extravaganza "Step Up 3D" and the concert film "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never," why not just shoot it that way in the first place? As it stands now, the extra dimension doesn't add much, and often is used in that simplistic, tried-and-true way of flinging things at us from the screen: bullets, throwing stars, etc.
There is one absolutely astounding extended sequence about halfway through, in which two teams of ninjas face off in a battle on the sheer cliff faces of the Himalayas. Using cables and zip lines, it's as if they're running, leaping and practically dancing on walls in the sky — a breathtaking piece of choreography in its own right, regardless of the dimension through which it's viewed.
"G.I. Joe Retaliation," a Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of combat violence and martial arts action throughout, and for brief sensuality. Running time: 110 minutes. Two stars out of four.

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Audrey was the second full time employee at PurpleSun and has applied her intellect and entrepreneurial mindset to support Luis F Romo and make a broad range of contributions, from complex engineering design and product development to marketing and operations, helping the company grow and thrive, solving some of healthcare’s most daunting issues.
Prior to PurpleSun, Audrey worked at a biotech startup in upstate New York, working mainly in the mammalian cell culture and cell biology space, where she gained insight into the complexities of microbiology.
Audrey McNicholas is a bioengineering graduate from Syracuse University where she discovered her passion for startups and the health tech industry.

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Bartow County is approximately 470 square miles. Currently there are 14 full-time manned stations. The personnel of the fire department consists of the Fire Chief, Deputy Chief, Division Chief of Administration, Chief of Training, Fire Marshal, Investigator, 3 Battalion Chiefs, 102 Career Firefighters, approximately 35 part-time Firefighters, and an administrative assistant. Fire Personnel work on one of three shifts labeled A, B, and C. The shifts rotate where firefighters work 24 hours on duty and then 48 hours off.
Bartow County Fire Department is proud to be the first in the State of Georgia to have a TIC (Thermal Imaging Camera), on every front line Engine and Ladder Company. Thermal Imaging Cameras are used to show heat images in low visibility areas in order to locate trapped civilians, firefighters, and the fire itself.
The fire department responds to approximately 9,000 calls for service each year. Calls that the fire department responds to range from fires, medical calls, vehicle accidents, hazardous materials spills or releases, aircraft accidents, and any other calls for service.

industry_corpus2: Safety Management


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Recent research in Translation Studies has explored the notion of voice and the ways in which it can be applied to translation practice and ethics. How is voice translated from one linguistic and socio-cultural tradition to another?
A huge thank you again to everybody who attended our presentations. As promised, here are the slides of our presentations in PDF format.
Translators are here to stay, machine translations are still premature, CAT tools can’t really make a dent. But this year it’s been quite different. 2013, and we’ve already seen a 50M+ inflow of investments into the language industry.

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Subscribe to the Roundtable podcast on iTunes, Google Play or your favorite podcatcher.
Raw sewage flowing from Mexico into the U.S. regularly fouls San Diego County's waters and beaches.
Concerns have been raised for years about this ongoing public health menace and ecological disaster.
Environmentalists worry that with climate change causing more storms, the problem will intensify.
There are structures in place in a few areas to catch plastic, Styrofoam and sediments. Some would like to see these types of remedies applied to other areas near the border, which can become raging rivers of pollution and trash during storms.
Next week the San Diego City Council will decide whether a developer can construct a high-rise apartment building in Bankers Hill near Balboa Park.
The owner of the property, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, sees the project as a way to expand its ministry and give it more financial security.
Opponents, particularly the volunteer group Uptown Planners, believe the building contains too many luxury apartments and is too tall, which would throw shadows across the park.
A likely selling point for the city council is the inclusion of 18 affordable homes for individuals and families with very low income — $43,800 or less for a family of three.
On Thursday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission held a conference to consider giving the go-ahead to Southern California Edison to continue transferring tons of spent nuclear fuel from wet to dry storage at San Onofre.
Much of the public is not in a mood to trust SCE with such a dangerous job after a near accident in September during fuel transfer.
The NRC said recently that in spite of a string of violations over a six-month period, there is no cause for an FBI investigation into criminal charges.

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Educational games make learning fun and really encourage development, so this interactive set from Clementoni is perfect for pre-schoolers in particular.
An entertaining card game with more than 200 educational quizzes to answer, using a fantastic Paw Patrol electronic pen.
Children can gradually learn typical basic pre-school age notions such as shapes, colours, special orientation, numbers, quantities and words.
The super pen featuring your favourite Paw Patrol pals makes a sound and lights up with each correct answer.
Each activity encourages the development of attention, observation and logical skills.
For your chance to win 1 of 2 Quizzy Paw Patrol Sets you can enter via the Gleam entry form below.
At the moment it is She Don't Wake Dad!
my son loves doggie doo!
My little boy is a pop up pirate fan!
Orchard Toys Where's My Cupcake ?
They like playing with jigsaws.
at the moment it is playdoh and pop up pig!
Orchard Toys Spotty Dog game.
Noah loves to play make believe!
Our 4yo loves Og on the Bog good toilety fun! This would be an awesome gift as he loves law patrol and this would be so beneficial for him as he and our daughter are homeschooled due to lack of local school places.
rummikub - my daughter is even beating me now!!!
Hide and see and snap!
My kids love Pig goes Pop!!
My boys love guess who!
At the moment it's Travel Snap! If he loses we all know about it!
My great nephew & niece love playing junior monopoly on a wet play day at my house.
Jigsaws and Memory Game are very popular at our house.
Monopoly, it's the latest craze in our house!
My son likes the Shopping List game.
My son is a tad too young for games at the minute. He does love hiding from daddy at night time!
My son currently loves Pig Goes Pop!
He likes doing jigsaw puzzles!
My kids love Hungry Hungry Hippos.
My son lover playing airplanes!
pushing cars along tracks - if that counts as a game!
My grandchildren like to play Hide and Seek.
I would have to say the game Sorry.
My son loves snap over everything else!


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2.2 Except for the license rights granted to Customer herein, RareLogic retains all right, title and interest in and to the ShopHero Software and ShopHero Service. Customer shall not possess any title, ownership, license and/or intellectual property in any and/or all: (a) Customer Reports; (b) User Data; (c) databases containing User Data; nor (d) in any of the form and/or format used to create and display any Customer Reports.
2.3 By using the ShopHero Service, Customer authorizes and grants RareLogic the right to collect and process User Data in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and to send messages to third parties on behalf of Customer through the capabilities of the ShopHero Service. For the avoidance of doubt, it is Customer’s obligation to ensure compliance with any anti-spam and privacy laws when using the capabilities of the ShopHero Service to transmit messages. RareLogic will not be responsible or liable for any third party claim of breach of the applicable laws in relation to their receipt of any message which we have transmitted on your behalf via the ShopHero Service. Where the activities carried by Customer though the Service are subject to EU Data Protection Laws, Customer agrees to enter into the Data Protection Addendum set out here. “EU Data Protection Laws” means EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and as amended, replaced or superseded from time to time, including laws implementing or supplementing the GDPR.
3.1 By using the ShopHero Service, Customer authorizes and grants RareLogic the right to collect and process User Data in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and to send messages to third parties on behalf of Customer through the capabilities of the ShopHero Service. For the avoidance of doubt, it is Customer’s obligation to ensure compliance with any anti-spam and privacy laws when using the capabilities of the ShopHero Service to transmit messages. RareLogic will not be responsible or liable for any third party claim of breach of the applicable laws in relation to their receipt of any message which we have transmitted on your behalf via the ShopHero Service.
(e) Customer shall not circumvent any user limits or other use restrictions that are built into the Service or access the Service in order to (i) build a competitive product or service; or (ii) copy any ideas, features, functions or graphics of the ShopHero Software or ShopHero Service.
4.1 Customer shall be responsible for safeguarding all information relating to the Customer Account and for all activities relating to the ShopHero Service that occur under the Customer Account, including all activity that occurs under each subsequent Customer Account created for other persons in Customer’s organization.
4.2 Customer shall not publish or make publicly known any information related to the Customer Account, or any subsequent Customer Account. Customer agrees to notify ShopHero immediately upon learning of any unauthorized use of any Customer Account.
4.3 ShopHero may be required to log into the ShopHero Service using the Customer Account from time to time to provide assistance to Customer and to maintain or improve the ShopHero Service. Customer consents to ShopHero’s use of the information contained in each Customer Account for any and all such purposes.
5.1 ShopHero intellectual property includes all intellectual property owned or controlled by ShopHero which is used to operate, provide, support, maintain, update, and/or enhance the ShopHero Service.
5.2 SHOPHERO and RARELOGIC (the “Marks”) are trade names and trademarks of RareLogic Inc. Customer shall not, at any time or times, during or after the Term of this Agreement, question or dispute any of ShopHero’s right, title, ownership, license, intellectual property, and/or other interests in the Marks, ShopHero Service and/or ShopHero Intellectual Property, nor, file any patent, copyright, and/or other intellectual property application and/or registration relating to any portion of the ShopHero Service.
5.3 The ShopHero Software and components of the ShopHero Service are proprietary and confidential to Rare.io, and are protected by Canadian intellectual property laws and by applicable international laws, treaties, and conventions, and shall remain the sole property of ShopHero.
6.1 User Data. User Data may include customer purchase history and other types of data from which analytics (including segments and trends) can be derived through the ShopHero Service for use by Customer in achieving better customer engagement. ShopHero will not have access to users’ credit card numbers. As between RareLogic and Customer, Customer shall own the rights to User Data subject to RareLogic’s right to compile and use aggregate data in accordance with the terms of Section 6.2. ShopHero will not share User Data with any third parties unless ShopHero unless (i) has Customer’s consent to such disclosure; (ii) is required by law or has a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of User Data is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of ShopHero, its users or the public; or (iii) provides User Data in certain limited circumstances to third parties to carry out tasks on ShopHero’s behalf such as data storage or billing in which event, ShopHero will ensure that such third parties are bound by terms which restrict use or transmission of the data beyond the scope of providing agreed services to ShopHero.
6.2 Service Data. Customer acknowledges and agrees that ShopHero may, from time to time during and after the Term, prepare, archive, copy, use, publish, distribute, license, and sell generic, non-personal data derived from the operation of the ShopHero Service including from User Data (“Service Data”). Service Data may include aggregated data such as browser and operating system popularity, and most active countries, states and provinces, using data from any number of ShopHero customer websites including from the Customer’s Website. ShopHero owns all right, title and interest in and to Service Data but will only provide Service Data to third parties in aggregated and/or averaged form with no disclosure of personally identifiable information or information which specifically identifies Customer, Customer’s Website, or products or services Customer sells through Customer’s Website.
6.4 Suggestions. RareLogic shall have a royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, irrevocable, perpetual, unrestricted license to use and/or incorporate into the Service any suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or other feedback provided by Customer or Site Users relating to the operation of the Service.
7.1 Confidential information (“Confidential Information“) shall mean data or information of any kind disclosed by one party to this Agreement (“Disclosing Party“) to the other party (“Recipient Party“) pursuant hereto. Confidential Information shall not include any information, knowledge, and/or data disclosed pursuant to this Agreement that; already is or becomes part of the public domain through no wrongful act of the Recipient Party; or is known to the Recipient Party free of any obligation of confidentiality; or is independently developed by Recipient Party without use of any Confidential Information; or is lawfully obtained by the Recipient Party from a third party without obligation of confidentiality; or is disclosed pursuant to a court order provided that the Recipient Party provides a copy of such court order to the Disclosing Party prior to such disclosure and Recipient Party takes all reasonable steps to maintain the confidentiality of the Confidential Information.
7.2 Each Recipient Party shall receive and maintain all Confidential Information received hereunder in confidence; use the same degree of care to protect Confidential Information as such Recipient Party itself uses to protect its own confidential information; and disclose Confidential Information received hereunder only to those of its directors, officers, employees, who have a direct need to know and who are bound by written confidentiality obligations at least as restrictive as those contained herein.
7.3 All ownership, license, intellectual property, moral, and other rights to Confidential Information disclosed hereunder shall remain with the Disclosing Party and/or with such Disclosing Party’s licensors.
7.4 Each Recipient Party shall promptly cease all use of all Confidential Information received hereunder upon any termination of this Agreement and will promptly return all such Confidential Information to the Disclosing Party by a secure means without delay.
7.5 Customer shall maintain in confidence all provisions of this Agreement and shall not disclose any of same (including any of ShopHero’s pricing) to any third party or parties.
8.1 After Customer signs up to the ShopHero Service, Customer will only be required to pay for optional features as indicated on www.shophero.io/pricing.
8.2 Customer shall provide a valid credit card number prior to ShopHero enabling Customer’s Account; Customer grants to ShopHero permission to debit the credit card number(s) provided by Customer at any time or times for any and all unpaid amounts owing to ShopHero from Customer pursuant to this Agreement.
8.3 Should Customer’s credit card number(s) be insufficient to pay any or all amounts due to Rare.io hereunder, Customer shall: (a) promptly pay all such amounts due to ShopHero without delay; and (b) become responsible to ShopHero for payment of all legal and/or collection agency fees, disbursements, costs, and other amounts incurred by ShopHero in attempting to collect and/or collecting all such amounts from Customer.
8.4 ShopHero may, upon the provision of five (5) calendar days prior written notice to Customer, suspend the supply of the ShopHero Service, deactivate Customer’s Account, suspend ShopHero’s performance, and/or immediately terminate this Agreement if any credit card number provided by Customer is declined, rejected, cancelled, or inadequate to allow ShopHero to charge all amounts due from Customer hereunder.
8.5 Customer shall be solely responsible for payment of all applicable European Union, country, federal, provincial, state, and other government taxes (“Applicable Taxes”) applied to Customer’s use of the ShopHero Service regardless of whether such Applicable Taxes are in effect at the time of this Agreement or are imposed thereafter, except such taxes as may be imposed on ShopHero’s income. If ShopHero is required to pay any Applicable Taxes owing by Customer, Customer shall reimburse ShopHero in full promptly following receipt of ShopHero’s invoice for same.
8.6 Subject to providing notice to Customer in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, ShopHero reserves the right to change the price charged by ShopHero for the ShopHero Service at any time or times.
9.1 Customer may cancel Customer’s account at any time by clicking “Remove this app” in Customer’s ecommerce platform app store or by emailing help@rarelogic.com. If Customer cancels the ShopHero Service in the middle of the month, Customer will receive one final invoice via email. Once that invoice has been paid Customer will not be charged again. Once cancellation of Customer’s account is confirmed, all User Data will be immediately deleted from the ShopHero Service. Since deletion of all data is final, Customer must ensure that Customer does want to cancel Customer’s account before doing so.
9.2 ShopHero may terminate Customer’s account for breach which remains uncured after 10 days written notice to Customer’s email account of such breach. ShopHero also reserves the right to terminate this Agreement for any reason upon the provision of written notice to Customer, such termination will take effect from the end of the current month. Customer agrees that ShopHero shall have no liability to Customer whatsoever for any: (a) the expiry or termination by ShopHero of this Agreement; or, (b) claims or damages arising purely as a result of the expiry or termination of this Agreement. On termination by ShopHero under this Section, all User Data will be deleted from the ShopHero Service. Such deletion of all data is final, Customer must extract such data prior to the effective date of termination.
9.3 Termination of this Agreement shall not relieve Customer of any obligations to pay all fees, Applicable Taxes, and/or other amounts that have accrued to, or that are otherwise due to Rare.io under this Agreement, and each outstanding amount due to ShopHero from Customer shall immediately become due and payable.
9.4 Each license granted by ShopHero to Customer within this Agreement shall automatically terminate except for Section 3( Restrictions and Prohibitions); Section 5 (Proprietary Rights in Rare.io Technology), Section 6 (Information Collection, Data Protection and Other Terms), Section 7 (Confidentiality), Section 10 (Warranties and Disclaimers; Limitation of Liability), Section 11 (Indemnity by Customer) and Section 13 (General Terms), all of which shall continue in full force and effect beyond the expiry or termination of the Term.
10.1 Mutual Representations and Warranties. Each party represents and warrants to the other party that: (i) it is a corporation, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation; (ii) it has all requisite power and authority and approvals to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Agreement; (iii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the performance of its obligations hereunder have been duly authorized by it and any necessary third parties; and (iv) it will perform its duties and obligations hereunder in a careful, diligent, professional, proper, efficient and business-like manner.
10.2 Data Warranties. Customer represents and warrants that: (a) Customer has all rights necessary to provide RareLogic with access to User Data for use in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and (b) RareLogic’s use of the User Data in accordance with the terms of this Agreement will not violate the rights of any third party.
10.3 DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES. RARELOGIC DOES NOT REPRESENT, WARRANT, OR GUARANTEE THAT ANY AND/OR ALL OF THE RARE.IO SERVICE AND/OR USER DATA PROVIDED TO CUSTOMER PURSUANT TO THIS SHOPHERO SERVICE AGREEMENT WILL BE ERROR FREE, ACCURATE, TIMELY, OR RELIABLE, WILL OPERATE ON ANY OR ALL SOFTWARE PLATFORMS, WILL PRODUCE ANY PARTICULAR RESULT, OR THAT ANY OR ALL ERRORS IN SAME WILL BE CORRECTED BY SHOPHERO. ALL OF THE SHOPHERO SERVICE INCLUDING SHOPHERO SOFTWARE AND REPORTS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, CONDITION, OR GUARANTEE BY RARELOGIC OF ANY KIND, HOWSOEVER ARISING. RARELOGIC DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, OR CONDITIONS OF QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY, OPERATION, SUITABILITY, TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT AND/OR FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, HOWSOEVER ARISING.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF ANY JURISDICTION HAVING APPLICABILITY TO THIS AGREEMENT DOES NOT PERMIT ANY SUCH EXCLUSION AND/OR LIMITATION: (A) EACH WARRANTY AND/OR CONDITION WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED SHALL BE LIMITED TO SIXTY (60) DAYS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE EFFECTIVE DATE AND SHOPHERO’S TOTAL AND AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO CUSTOMER FOR ANY AND ALL BREACHES OF SUCH WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO ALL OF THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY PROVISIONS CONTAINED HEREIN.
10.4 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION IN THIS AGREEMENT AND TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL BREACHES BY SHOPHERO OF THIS AGREEMENT (INCLUDING FUNDAMENTAL BREACH), THE TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT, AND/OR ANY OBLIGATION THAT SHOPHERO MAY HAVE IN CONTRACT, TORT, EQUITY, RESTITUTION, AT LAW, AND/OR OTHERWISE, IN NO EVENT SHALL RARE.IO BE LIABLE TO THE CUSTOMER, TO ANY USER OF THE CUSTOMER’S WEBSITE, NOR TO ANY OTHER PARTY FOR ANY: (A) INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, AGGRAVATED, EXEMPLARY, AND/OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; NOR (B) LOST SALES, LOST REVENUE, LOST PROFITS, LOST CUSTOMER DATA, LOST USER DATA, OTHER LOST DATA, OR REPROCUREMENT AMOUNT; HOWSOEVER ARISING, EVEN IF RARE.IO HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND/OR LOSSES ARISING AND NOTWITHSTANDING THE FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY REMEDY CONTAINED HEREIN. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SHOPHERO’S TOTAL, CUMULATIVE, AND AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO CUSTOMER; SHALL NOT EXCEED THE FEES RECEIVED BY SHOPHERO FROM CUSTOMER FOR TWO MONTHS AVERAGE USAGE OF THE SHOPHERO SERVICE.
10.5 THE PARTIES AGREE THAT: (A) RARELOGIC WOULD NOT HAVE ENTERED INTO THIS AGREEMENT WITHOUT THIS ARTICLE BEING INCLUDED HEREIN AND THE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY IN THIS ARTICLE REPRESENT THE PARTIES AGREEMENT AS TO THE FAIR ALLOCATION OF RISK BETWEEN THE PARTIES.
11.1 Customer shall indemnify, defend, and hold RareLogic harmless from and against any and all loss, damage, claims, demands, actions and costs (including legal/attorney fees), charges, expenses and liabilities of whatsoever nature incurred by a RareLogic Indemnity directly or indirectly out of or in connection with: (i) the alleged misappropriation or infringement of the proprietary or intellectual property rights of a third party in respect of the User Data; or (ii) any representation, warranty or other commitment made by Customer to any third party in respect to the Service; or (iii) breach by Customer of any of its warranties or representations under this Agreement (“Claim”).
11.2 RareLogic shall in its discretion give Customer conduct of any Claim to control the defense and settlement of such Claim (provided that RareLogic may participate with counsel of its own choosing), and RareLogic shall provide reasonable assistance, at Customer’s expense, in defending or settling such claim.
12.1 ShopHero shall provide reasonable technical assistance on a no-charge email and telephone basis to Customer during regular business hours posted at http://www.shophero.io.
12.2 ShopHero shall not be responsible for any of Customer’s telephone, Internet, email, or other costs, nor shall ShopHero be responsible to Customer for ShopHero’s inability to provide Technical Assistance. ShopHero shall not provide assistance to Customer for any product or ShopHero Services other than the ShopHero Service.
12.3 ShopHero reserves the right to partially or fully take the ShopHero Service offline from time to time in order to perform maintenance, support, and/or upgrades to the ShopHero Service. ShopHero will attempt to notify Customer by one of the following methods when such offline periods are scheduled to occur: (a) by email; (b) by displaying a notification upon the Customer attempting to log into the ShopHero Service’s reporting interface; or (c) by displaying a notification upon Customer attempting to connect to any ShopHero Equipment.
13.1 Changes to the Services and this Agreement. ShopHero reserves the right to at any time modify, enhance, add to, and/or remove the capabilities, features, and/or functionality of the ShopHero Service, including without limitation, the User Data that the ShopHero Service is able to collect, transmit, store, process, and/or report; and/or the provisions of this Agreement. Changes to this Agreement will be notified to Customer by email, on next login to the ShopHero Service or on the home page of the ShopHero Website. Customer’s continued use of the ShopHero Service for more than thirty (30) calendar days following such changes shall constitute Customer’s acceptance of, and agreement to, each and every change.
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It is important to understand two concepts: (1) A mother and a father have EQUAL rights where a child is concerned unless and until a court says otherwise; and (2) possession is 9/10´s of the law. Stated another way, unless there is a court order, a mother can have the child whenever she has the child and the father can have the child whenever he can have the child. The question becomes, when can each have the child?
Without court orders, there is no way of knowing. A mother can simply say “no”. The father has little or no choice in the matter but if he gets possession of the child, he too can simply refuse to return the child to the mother upon her request. Guess what? This is legal, both ways. However, the party that does this must BEWARE, THE JUDGE WILL NOT BE IMPRESSED. While a father or mother who has physical possession of a child with no custody orders has more power at the moment of possession, Judges see parents acting stupid everyday. More important, you simply cannot and will not come up with a new excuse or new reason the Judge has not heard before.
Equally important, no matter what excuse or reason you have, the Judge has not only heard it, there is a substantial probability that the Judge defended a parent against the claim at least once and most likely several times before becoming a Judge. Even those that never defended against the claims have heard every excuse or reason under the sun premised in “woman´s intuition”, or “feelings” or just plain lies. This is not to say a mother or father is not justified in having feelings, fears, or concerns. The point is, these feelings, fears, or concerns that are not supported by admissible evidence (and your opinion is not admissible evidence) will not withstand scrutiny in Court. Even worse, they may be considered a “false allegation” which is one of the factors the court must consider when trying to determine best interest of the child.
The “worst case scenario” for a mother is that her fears come true and there are no court orders she can show the police when she calls. She can report the missing child and when she tells the officer that the father has the child the first question she will be asked is if there are any custody orders. If the answer is “no&uot; then the likely response from the police or sheriff is that the issue is domestic in nature and that the officer has no authority or business getting involved. On a good day (from Mom´s point of view) is that the officer agrees to tell the father that he (the father) should give the child back. Guess what? If Dad is not disturbing the peace and the child appears safe at the moment – the officer has NO AUTHORITY to take the child. Mom´s biggest fear has come true and without Court Orders, there is absolutely nothing she can do about it.
Now let´s look at a worst case scenario for a father. This is a much more common scenario. Mom refuses to let Dad see the child, Dad puts up with it until Mom decides she is leaving town and taking the child. Dad watches the U-Haul drive away before he decides to finally hire a lawyer. Guess what? Dad can ask the Judge to order Mom to return to Texas with the baby, but the father has to ask and prove it is not only in the child´s best interest but that it is financially feasible. Plan on paying child support and be prepared to offer additional monies to cover the cost of the move back, displacement cost, etc. If the child is allowed to remain outside Texas for more than six months the true nightmare begins, the Mother can then apply for child support in her new home state. Even worse – she may employ the Attorney General to do so, the child support case will be handled here in Texas and Dad will be ordered to pay support and told that if he wants any visitation rights, he has to go to Mom’s new home state and file a suit there, independent of the child support case here – Dad gets to pay two lawyers and fight a custody battle across state lines while Mom uses child support Dad is paying for the child to pay her lawyer so Dad really gets to pay THREE lawyers.
Dad´s worse case scenario brings me to a very important point. All too often parents think that hiring a lawyer to get Custody Orders is TOO EXPENSIVE and they avoid the cost, choosing to wait unil they have no choice. Waiting to get Custody Orders is like waiting for a tooth ache stop. The ache you feel now may go away, it may not. If it goes away, you get off cheap until it comes back (it always comes back) and when it does, the repair cost a lot more. It is ALWAYS best to just legitimize the whole thing while both parents are amicable and hopefully file and enter an agreed order in a paternity suit. These orders will establish paternity, specify each parent´s rights, and set out the visitation that a Police Officer will enforce when and if the need arises.
General custody orders or Standard Possession Orders protect both side and are not that expensive when you compare it to the stress, fear, and worry you will endure when things do not go well. There is no price tag that anyone can put on “When things go wrong” in a custody case, so why risk it?
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industry_corpus2: Technology & Research


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In this article i will explain some enhancements on AVRILOS SysTick module, as long as a few new features that you will find them useful.
AVRILOS is a simple task co-operative kernel with a small footprint. See relative links on the bottom of the article to find more about AVRILOS.
One of the basic modules of AVRILOS is the SysTick timer. This timer keeps timer housekeeping for the OS (ie. trigger ADC sampling, generates delays etc) while on the other hand can help the application to do some time functions like delays or timeouts.
However on one of my latest project i was faced with a failure to keep timing correct when i modified the various tick constants on ifc_time.h (c_ALIVEOK_ms in this case). I noticed that the LED Alive LED was flashing with a non monotonous flashing. This was so obvious (but not critical) that i would like to investigate further and see why this happens. Also i found a little difficult to define properly the various ticks (application, ADC) if i needed to modify the relevant constants.
Another issue i had, was that i needed to have another LED flashing as the Alive one from my application. I had a second LED attached to a different port and physically was out of the box, so it was visible by the user. The issue there was that there was no provision for such functionality in the OS so i had to hack the SysTick in order to perform this task. So a more proper way was introduced.
This particular application (pump control) needed long-run timers (hours/days), so i added this functionality in SysTick as well.
Given a small issue on the previous article AVRILOS & FPGA where we were controlling R/C servos from the FPGA, I split the application function in two flavors. One which runs every application tick (c_AppInterval_ms) and one which runs continuously on the main loop without waiting this interval. Thus you may implement whichever mechanism you want (or even both).
Finally i will present the small pump application i did on summer and demonstrates most of the above functionality.
The old SysTick used up to now used a modulo check to see if each task required to run at relative intervals was ready. Below is a code excerpt from SysTick that shows the module check for LED Alive.
The SysTick Timer runs from 0-999mS. Then checks with the period time using the division remainder. In the following diagram you see the normal scenario.
This method have the advantage of using only one variable (The actual SysTick Timer) in order to execute many different tasks with different periods. Although this seems elegant (or cool) it has some limitations (or bugs...).
If the various tasks (ie. LED Alive, ADC, etc) periods do not have a maximum common divisor that is an integer factor of the SysTick timer duration, then abnormal periods can be generated which are systematic but not monotonous. See below diagram for a "bad" case, where the periods selected do not match the total duration of 1000mS.
The problem is revealed when the master SysTick counter is wrapped around. Then the remainder of SysTick counter (0) is zero in any case. Thus on the event of SysTick wrap around the problem occurs.
In order to resolve this issue i had to add one variable per task (and thus use a little more RAM). Then each task has its own counter for measuring period and thus are completely in-depended and accurate. Also the ifc_time.h include was modified to provide correct timing definitions for this case.
Another problem on the old code was that c_TimeSlice_Hz was not properly defined (note the relevant parenthesis on new code) and thus timing definition would be wrong in many cases.
This is interesting because i have never changed these parameters and I have never seen this problem before. Actually i discovered the problem looking at my LED Alive period. I then noticed that i could not change in a deterministic way the flash period (wrong definition) and also i saw a glitch due to common divisor inconsistency.
Thus each individual task uses its own variable independently.
In my presented example application i needed timers that could count hours or days. My existing SysTick timer module did not have this capability. In order to accommodate this functionality i have added a number of timers (number of counters defined in ifc_time.h).
The new name of the long timer variables is: v_SwLongTimer_mS. It is an array (ifc_time.h defines how many timers you need). It counts down (like the software timers defined in SysTick) until they reach zero (completion of counting). The counter countdown is performed every 1mS (1 SysTick period). Thus we can measure 4 billion mS which is a very long time. These timers are used for Timeouts, which allow for easy implementation for such operation as seen in the first AVRILOS article.
Of course for more accurate timing you should use the AVR's 32KHz crystal used for real time clock. However in my hardware i did not use the extra timer so this is an alternate way to do it.
Given that crystal oscillator frequency may not fit exact division for seconds (depending from the prescaler values) you will have small errors accumulated over time. For the pump application this was not a big problem. Otherwise you can trim down the initial count down value to provide an accurate timing.
Each non-zero counter is decremented until zero. The application check to see if the counter cleared to determine expiration.
SysTick module already has an extern reference to this function so the linker will have the connection and will call this function.
Defining the function weak means that this function may not be present. The linker will ignore the reference to a non-existent weak function (no-call) and everything goes smoothly. In case you need the function you only have to declare it somewhere in your program. In this case the linker will see the connection and will call your function.
I had then the idea that we could provide such versions on the standard empty application and the programmer could use whichever hook he or she liked (or even both).
Now it is up to the programmer to use whichever version he needs depending on the application.
The aim here is to not modify the Kernel.c for application specific reasons but only for new device drivers.
The pressurizer wants to keep water pressure above a minimum limit. When this low limit is reached requests the pump to activate. Normally the pump fills up the pressurizer water tank and after a high pressure limit is reached the pressurizer stops the pump. Thus we guarantee a minimum of water pressure on the output of the pressurizer.
This is a classic automation used for gardens. The problem is that if there is a leak somewhere the pump may work for too long and may be there is a flood or a burned pump.
1. The pipe from the pump to the pressurizer is broken.
2. Some pipe after the pressurizer is broken.
In this case the pump will fail to fill the pressurizer. The pressurizer requests pump activity to fill. The leak will be large and the whole garden could be full of water. The key here is to stop the pump after a maximum time that the pressurizer would have filled up (with some margin). This is the continuous operation limit; ie the pump must not exceed continuous operation above a limit.
Normally this limit should be in the minutes range (ie. 4 minutes).
In this case the pressurizer fill and empty too often. The total pump time during a day should not exceed a reasonable limit otherwise there would be some leak. This is the daily limit. If any such limit condition occurs then system stops operation until there is a switch press (or in my case a photo-resistor detects case open of the control box - this is the general reset). For example in my case this limit was about 2 hours daily operation.
Opening the case bypass the limit & counter operation. This is achived by freezing the internal counters. The code uses a very simple state machine. It sits in the IDLE state until there is a pump activation.Then it jumps to WORK state where the counters are incremented. Then it can either return to IDLE or if the one limit was violated jumps to BLOCK state (pump off). Then a case open will reset the state machine back to IDLE. Code is small and self-explanatory.
In this article i presented some bug-fixes and enhancements regarding the timing functions of AVRILOS.
In my next article i will present Mercurial (hg) access to the AVRILOS repository in SourceForge.
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Landed in Taipei at around 8PM from Sydney with some friends. So tired but we have been told that we are to go clubbing tonight. I have no say in the matter whatsoever.. oh.. alriiight. So we have come to Room 18 for ‘pre clubbing’. ie Clubbing before going to a more popular club. This tends to be normal here… here we go!
Opening Days: WED / FRI / SAT : pm 10:30 ~ am 05:00 (視當日營業狀況而定). Today is a Saturday night.
Dress Code / Door Policy: People don’t give a crap what you wear. Casual is fine, because clubs get quite warm. We wore sports shoes, jeans, and a dress shirt to be safe.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: Unknown. Our friend got us in free. We also skipped the line.
Pretty much one large room, with a DJ at the front, lined with tables and tables of reserved tables with bottle service. Large LED ceiling thing spans the length of the club, with regular flashing every few seconds. It’s quite cool.
Bar Prices / Line: Unknown.
Atmosphere: Pretty average early in the night but it did get busier later. Overall it was quite a good club-like atmosphere, dark with the pretty lights and all. The light up dancefloor and the overhead ceiling thing was super cool. The MC is pretty good.
I don’t remember much to be honest. Would have to revisit again.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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Do you ever struggle with the pie crust? I love making pies at the holiday, but I will admit, my crust is more "rustic" than perfect. I bought a pie dish with fluted edges, in fact, just so I could get a decent-looking pie out of the oven.
They taste good, don't get me wrong. But there are moments where I am rolling the dough and it's just not going my way, and I think, "Whoever made up the saying 'easy as pie?'" It's not that easy.
Well, here's easy for you. So easy, no oven is required. And no eggs, either in case you have an egg allergy in the family.
Place 1/4 cup water in a sauce pan. Add the gelatin and let soften for one minute. Heat the saucepan gently, stirring until the gelatin is well dissolved.
In a food processor, add all the other ingredients and blend well. Drizzle in the dissolved gelatin as you pulse. Strain this through a fine mesh sieve over a large measuring cup. Divide the mixture among eight small ramekins or dessert dishes. Place in the refrigerator to chill, at least four hours before dinner.
Prepare the bourbon pecan toffee sauce. When cooled, top the panna cotta with the sauce. You can do this well ahead of dinner, place back in the refrigerator. Relax, you did not have to struggle with pie crust and dessert looks amazing (even though it was very easy).
In a 1 1/2- to 2-quart heavy saucepan melt butter over moderate heat. Add brown sugar. Bring mixture to a boil, stir often. Stir in cream and vanilla, reducing the heat to a simmer, and simmer until thickened slightly. In a small saucepan, flame the bourbon, do not do this right under the hood of the stove. Flames will come up out of the pan. Be very careful. Let it burn off, then place a lid over the pot to be sure the flame is out. Add the bourbon to the toffee sauce and stir well. Add the toasted pecans. Allow to cool to room temperature before topping the chilled panna cotta. You can do this ahead, and place the desserts back in the fridge.
If you are looking for a new twist on the sticky-sweet marshmallow and sweet potato classic dish, here's an idea for a lighter, healthier (and make-ahead simple) side: Sweet Potato, Kale and Farro. It also makes a great Meatless Monday Main for fall, too, since farro, also known as emmer, offers some protein and fiber.
On a greased baking sheet, toss the sweet potato, shallots, sage and olive oil. Roast for 25 minutes, stirring every 5-10 minutes to prevent over-browning, or until the sweet potato cubes are fork tender and golden brown on edges.
While the sweet potato is cooking, place the rinsed farro and stock in a saucepan with a lid. Cover and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer. Simmer for about 20 minutes, or until the grains are al dente and the liquid absorbed.
To serve: Combine the sweet potato, cooked farro, and kale and toss gently to combine, seasoning to taste with salt and pepper. Garnish with the dried cranberries and Parmesan.
Roast the sweet potatoes and prepare the farro as above. Let cool. Wash and tear the kale, then store in fridge in a plastic bag. Combine the cooled sweet potatoes and farro, and store in fridge.
The day of Thanksgiving, while the turkey is out of the oven and resting, cover the farro and sweet potato mixture with foil and reheat in the oven at 325 for 15-20 minutes. Then season, toss with the kale and garnish with the dried cranberries and Parmesan.
I looked up the word "feast." It not only means a huge meal, it also means "a delight." Historically, feasts are celebrations that often follow lean times or fasts, or as in a harvest feast (like Thanksgiving) a large meal at the end of the harvest to prepare for the lean winter days ahead.
Certainly, the economy is awful and many of us are cutting back right now. In many ways, it feels like we are fasting as a nation. Time-wise, I often feel stretched thin, too. My work schedule is hectic with trying to maximize productivity now, and the bottom line. I feel pulled to do more and more volunteer work in the face of ever-growing needs.
With headlines full of occupy Wall Street and budget struggles, escalating obesity rates and food insecurity both, never-ending wars, and a pop culture filled with "celebrities" that seem to be rotting from their own excess ... it feels like a good time to cut back ourselves, to simplify and center ourselves on what is most important — our health and time to enjoy family and friends.
This year's menu is inspired so much by my own need to simplify, to eat healthy and well, to enjoy seasonal foods, simply prepared, and shared with loved ones. To spend less, but still have a "delightful" feast. And to create an authentic celebration amidst a period of emotional, financial and cultural "fasting."
Seasonal, local, fall flavors like pears, apples and cranberries lend themselves so well to those traditional rich, savory dishes and sauces, and desserts. However, they also taste great in lighter dishes — dishes you can feast on, relatively guilt-free and that still fulfill the "delight" aspect of a feast.
This kale dish is light, very healthy, but full of seasonal goodness with kale, pears, apples, cranberry and pumpkin seeds. I hate throwing out leftover salad that wilts from the dressing, it's wasteful. The kale here stands up to the dressing, and you can save the leftovers for the next day! By tossing the fruit with the vinaigrette, it prevents browning and you can do the chopping and prep well in advance of the meal, making it easier on you, too.
The day before Thanksgiving, wash the kale and remove the stems. Tear into small pieces, and dry in a salad spinner. Store in a plastic bag, in the vegetable crisper of the fridge, with a paper towel to absorb excess moisture. Add the pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries together in a small container.
Three hours before dinner, whisk the salad dressing together and fold in the apple and pear. Store in the refrigerator.
Before dinner, place the kale on a platter, blend the dressing and fruit again in case the oil has separated. Toss the kale with the fruit and dressing. Sprinkle the pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries on top. This should just take minutes.
I have a small thing about pumpkins. Okay, not so small. And, it's true that I stock up on about 200 lbs. (or more) of pumpkins, squash and sweet potatoes annually. Before you contact "Hoarders" with my info, just know that I do actually cook my stash. And bury the evidence in the compost heap. By spring, no one would ever know.
I have an alibi that smells like pumpkin bread, too. And soup. And pie. Cookies, cake, stew, gratin ... the latest recipe is for bread, though. You can make this into a cake, however, or muffins or cupcakes.
First, decide what type of pumpkin dessert you want here. For a loaf pan, use 9x5x3. For muffins, you'll make about 12 normal sized muffins. If you are making a cake, you may have to double the batch depending on your cake pan of choice. You'll need to base the cooking time for a cake on the recipes that come with the pan there.
Preheat oven to 350. Grease or line your pan/muffin pan/cupcake papers, etc..
First, mix the dry ingredients well with a whisk. This makes sure the spices and leavening are evenly distributed. It's harder to do this if you add the dry ingredients one at a time to the wet ones.
Next, in your mixer bowl, add all the "wet" ingredients, and mix well. Add the dry ingredients slowly, mixing on low speed as you go. Beat on higher speed for a minute. Fold in the candied ginger. Raisins, if you like them.
• For cake, "guesstimate" the time from recipes that come with your cake pan, check in advance of the time so you don't overcook. My cute little pumpkin cake pan took about 50 minutes.
Check to be sure they are done in center, of course. If this is a dessert such as cake or cupcake, or you just love cream cheese frosting, because, who doesn't, then you might like the recipe below.
Mix the butter and cream cheese well, add extracts. Beat in two cups of powdered sugar until fluffy.
I can recall a lot of stressful holidays growing up. The unattainable quest for the perfect holiday gathering ruled our household for the weeks before the date. It never made sense to me because the "guests" were our family and closest friends — the very people who should love you the most "as is."
Now that I am a grown up, well, supposed to be a grown up at least, and it's our house and our kitchen for the Big Meal, I do my best for a stress-free season. Note, this is not an "easy holiday meal" post to lure you in with false hope of whipping out dinner in minutes and having time for that hour massage at the spa before the guests arrive.
It's not going to be totally easy. That size of meal for twelve is going to take some effort. I just don't want you or I to stress about it or aim for some kind of unrealistic myth of holiday perfection. Tell your inner perfectionist to, uh, "stuff it" and just breathe. It will be okay.
Part of reducing the workload of holidays is making as much ahead as possible. Another bonus is this lets me use the local ingredients I sourced from the farmers market in October.
This Cranberry-Applesauce is a nice upgrade on the classic "cranberry sauce" that often appears on Thanksgiving tables in a wiggly, translucent can-shaped form that no one ever eats. How does it come of the can perfectly shaped like that, anyway?
You can make this recipe now, and freeze. Just take out of the freezer and put it in the fridge three days before Thanksgiving. Check to make sure it thawed the day before. One dish done and one less worry on the main cooking day.
Place the apples and cider in a large pot, cover and heat to a simmer to cook apples.
Put cranberries in a smaller saucepan with the brown sugar and honey. Heat on medium until the berries burst and give up their juice and the sauce begins to thicken. Add the cardamom and the five spice powder and mix.
Stir the apples to break them up into a chunky "home style" applesauce. Mix in the cranberry sauce. The end result is a lovely red color with a warm and subtle spice to it that goes well with many holiday dishes.


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‘Praesidium Libertatis is a daily responsibility.’ These were the words of Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker on 8 February during the 443rd Dies Natalis of Leiden University. The University needs to pay continuous attention to open debate if it wants to remain a bastion of freedom.
Lightning strikes at Leiden University on a regular basis, and this is a good thing, Stolker remarked from the lectern in the Pieterskerk. A recent example was the clash between Leiden academics Leo Lucassen and Geerten Waling on the question of whether the position of Jews in the 1930s can be compared with that of Muslims today. Stolker himself is often asked whether such outspoken academics as Afshin Ellian and Paul Cliteur should still be welcome at the University.
In line with tradition, two Leiden professors delivered a lecture to celebrate the University’s foundation day. This year the two speakers were Bernet Elzinga and Thomas Hankemeier. Bernet Elzinga - Professor of Stress-Related Psychopathology in Leiden - explained how can we combat stress in our hectic lifestyle. ‘This may not be the most cheerful topic for a birthday party, but it is important to be aware of it, because we know from research that many students and staff experience high levels of stress. The upbringing we were given by our parents also plays a role in determining how we will handle stress later in our lives and how susceptible we are to developing psychological complaints.
Bernet Elzinga called on us to also celebrate heroic failures.
Whereas Elzinga talked mainly about young people, the second lecture focused more on the final phase of life: old age. The message of Thomas Hankemeier, Professor of Analytical Biosciences, was full of hope for the listeners in the Pieterskerk: it may well be possible for us in the near future to learn from a person’s blood whether he or she is likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s at a later date, and this knowledge brings prevention of the disease a step closer. Hankemeier believes the key is in metabolomics, mapping so-called metabolites. These are products of metabolism, the outcome of the interaction between genes and environmental factors such as nutrition and lifestyle.
Metabolites are like a traffic information service for your body, Thomas Hankemeier said. You can see exactly where the traffic is moving and where it’s at a standstill.
Halfway through the programme three young students took to the stage in the Pieterskerk. The trio, comprising horn player Emiel Beinema, oboe player Maud Busschers and pianist Friederike Pank, gave an interpretation of two classical works. The three are students of the Practicum Musicae programme at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts. In parallel with their study programme at Leiden University they also follow an instrumental major at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
Emiel Beinema, Maud Busschers and Friederike Pank giving a musical performance in the Pieterskerk.
In her word of thanks Héritier talked about how she first came to Leiden in the 1980s – funded by an Erasmus grant from the European Union, no less. She discussed her PhD topic with fellow PhD candidates from Leiden, Bielefeld, Paris, Bologna and Madrid. ‘It was a truly European moment,’ the brand-new Honorary Doctor explained. Since then she has always maintained a close bond with the City of Keys, particularly because academics from the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs also conduct a great deal of research on Europeanisation.
Adrienne Héritier was awarded an Honorary Doctorate. To the left of the photo: Professor Bernard Steunenberg, who nominated her.
Exactly on the day of the Dies Natalis, the Leiden student LGBT+ movement was also fifty years old; it was in 1968 that the Leiden Student Working Group on Homosexuality saw the light of day. To celebrate this milestone, the rainbow flag was flying over the Academy Building. In the Pieterskerk it was also clear that this year it was not only the birthday of the University that was being celebrated: sympathizers with the LGBT+ movement wore something pink or rainbow coloured to mark the occasion.
Not only the university celebrated its birthday, but also the Student Working Group on Homosexuality.


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text: Lovely Stone front 2 story center hall Colonial on one of the prettiest tree lined streets in Cheltenham is waiting for its next owner. It does not take much imagination to see all the potential this home offers. Must see the large living room and dining room with beautiful hardwood floors, deep window sills, and crown molding. LR has marble surround fireplace wood burning fireplace and shuttered door that leads to a sunny side patio. Adjacent to the LR is a sunroom with glass doors that could be used as an office or playroom with views of the rear yard. The DR features a Bay window and side windows that allow for plenty of light. The charming kitchen is functional with wood ceiling, pantry closet, tiled backsplash and countertop with an adjoining 11 x 8 breakfast room and large picture window. A door from the kitchen leads to a huge outside deck for outside entertaining. A powder room and true coat closet complete the first floor. Upstairs are 4 bedrooms and 2 full baths. The spacious Master BR has wood parquet floors, 3 closets, and private master bath w tiled shower. Three additional bedrooms all have ceiling fans (one BR is currently used as an office). Upstairs hallway has access to a large attic. Lower level has 23 x 13 finished area used as Exercise Room/Play Room in addition to a mudroom/laundry room with a powder room and shower, storage room, closets and access to the 1 car garage. Newer 50 gal. hot water heater, 3 zone gas hot water heat, and central air. Excellent location, quiet street, great schools, easy commute to Center City, Rt. 309, shopping and parks.


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Asbestos was once been the most favoured material for construction of houses built before the mid-1980s. It’s known for its heat resistance and strength. It was later discovered that asbestos can cause significant health problems when disturbed. If a person breathes in asbestos fibres, they can develop mesothelioma, which is a form of lung cancer. This is why it’s important that all asbestos is to be handled and removed by a licenced expert. We at Simple Asbestos Removal are licensed and accredited by SafeWork NSW and can help remove asbestos in and around the Balmain area.
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Buying a used car does not have to be a stressful enterprise. Not if you go into it the right way. Preparation eliminates hassle, and if you take your time you can nab the perfect car for your situation. Many believe it all hinges on how the dealership works with you. The truth is it revolves around knowing exactly what you want and finding the places that have it. It also takes your own personal inventory, because if you have what the dealership needs you can nab a fine price. Here are some steps to follow in order to buy a used car the right way.
Have a budget and stick to it. This is a very important thing to note. Auto dealerships will try to upsell you. They will offer incentives, deals, and often their first born. Never let an auto dealer force you into an ill-advised decision. Set your budget and do not move. There are millions of used car transactions made every year. This means that there is a bevy of alternative places to look for your ideal car.
If you are planning to trade-in a vehicle it is wise to know the what you will get. This can be done through an internet search, or a rifle through the pages of Kelley Blue Book. This is useful in two ways. First, it allows you to budget accurately. Second, it gives you validity to argue with the dealerships offer. Some will low-ball you on the value of your trade-in. Knowing that value from a reputable source can protect you.
Look into dealerships near you and mark their inventory. If you are looking or a used Lexus GS 350 New York NY. not every dealer will have one. Finding out who does near your vicinity saves time. Depending on the make and model none may. However, going into a dealership open is not a good idea. You have to have some semblance of an idea of what you want.
There are records detailing a cars lifespan. They disclose if a car has been in an accident, what work has been done on it, and if the odometer was rolled back a little. This is vital information that protects against the purchase of a lemon. It is also a good way to validate the dealerships as they are required to disclose that information.
The first two steps prepare you for the purchase. The third aids you in the search. Now on the heels of validation comes the final step. Do not purchase a used car until it has been fully inspected. Insure that the car you are buying is in good conditions. Also, take it for a test drive as well. You want to be aware of the slightest of hiccups. No one wants to drive out of a dealership and have the car fall apart the next day.

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ASIC staff members will be embedded inside the major banks and AMP to supervise governance and compliance under a new, proactive approach to enforcement being implemented by its chairman James Shipton, which the government has backed with $70.1 million in additional funding.
After the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's funding was reduced by $26 million in this year's federal budget, the government will announce more money for the corporate regulator on Tuesday, including $8 million over the next two years so it can adopt a "new supervisory approach" that will see dedicated staff assigned to monitor the five financial institutions.
The more aggressive approach comes after Treasurer Scott Morrison said on Friday the concept of putting a "principal integrity officer", with a positive duty to report misconduct to regulators like chief pilots do in airlines, inside banks as "an interesting one that we will give very serious consideration" to, following a recommendation from the Productivity Commission.
The government's new funding will also boost ASIC's litigation budget by $26.2 million, to allow it to take more banks and other well-resourced litigants to court, after appointing a second deputy chairman, Daniel Crennan, QC, to bolster the regulator's enforcement credentials. It follows ASIC taking on the major banks for allegedly manipulating the benchmark interest rate but with figures suggesting it had been performing fewer investigations, issuing fewer breach notices and completing fewer criminal cases overall.
As the ASX Corporate Governance Council revises its guidelines, Mr Shipton also plans to send more staff into large companies to conduct audits and investigations into governance failures. The government has provided an additional $6.8 million for a "proactive, targeted and thematic review" of governance standards.
It will also provide $6.6 million for ASIC to implement its new whistleblower protection laws, by allowing it to better "receive, assess, triage and address" disclosures about misconduct; and a further $6 million for ASIC to promote Australia as a leader in the development of regulatory technology (regtech).
The funding boost comes after Mr Shipton, who was appointed ASIC chairman last year, did the rounds in Canberra to outline his strategic direction. He wants to lift standards and culture in the banks to help restore trust, which has been battered by the banking royal commission and ASIC's own enforcement actions and tough rhetoric under former chairman Greg Medcraft.
After the last round of the Hayne inquiry suggested ASIC had not been aggressive enough to ensure banks are compliant with the government's unfair contract terms (UCT) laws, more funding will also be given for this, and to improve consumer access to new register of financial advisers and to ensure licensees and financial advisers comply with the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) laws.
The new $70.1 million is in addition to the $121.3 million the government gave ASIC in 2016 to lift its investigative and surveillance capabilities, and will more than compensate for the reduction, in the budget, in ASIC's funding from $346 million to $320 million after some projects ended.
The move to put new ASIC supervisors inside the banks and AMP suggests Mr Shipton wants ASIC to operate more in the style of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, which has teams of proactive supervisors dedicated to particular institutions in order to identify issues before they blow up into problems.
"For the first time, ASIC will be funded to embed corporate cops directly within Australia's five largest financial institutions – the big four banks and AMP – to monitor governance and compliance actions," said the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer.
"It will ensure that ASIC is on the front foot when it comes to considering any deficiencies in the governance and compliance structures of these large financial institutions, so as to prevent harm to consumers before it occurs … These new resources will ensure that ASIC is the tough cop on the beat – the tough cop that all Australians need, and expect, ASIC to be."
The additional resources come after the government, which has been under pressure from Labor to get tougher on bank misconduct, announced in April ASIC would get tougher criminal and civil penalties, including longer prison terms for Corporations Act breaches and bigger fines.
Treasury has also released for comment a new bill to provide a new "design and distribution obligation" and a "product intervention power", as recommended by the financial system inquiry. This will also enable ASIC to be more proactive, by allowing it to intervene in the sale of harmful products to retail consumers. The comment period for the amended bill is open until August 15.

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Reading FC Women are pleased to announce the arrival of attacking players Shelley Cox and Lauren Bruton.
The pair are new manager Jayne Ludlow's first signings and complement a very talented group of players who secured the League and Cup double last season, and look forward to a new challenge in the Womens Super League 2 in April 2014.
Cox signs from Portsmouth while Bruton has arrived from Arsenal, and both players have played alongside Ludlow earlier in their careers and are delighted to be working under her.
As a player: Left sided attacking player who is comfortable as a full-back and on the wing.
Has played for: Portsmouth, Southampton, Doncaster Bells, Birmingham, Bristol Academy, Leeds et al.
In quotes: “It’s great to be here, the set-up is very organised. I played with Jayne at Southampton when I was a teenager so it’s great to link up again.
As a player: Primarily a winger, Lauren can also play as a forward or a playmaker. She is a skilful player and technically astute. Has played for England at U17s and U19s level.
Has played for: Luton town, Arsenal, Barnet (loan).
In quotes: “I am delighted to join Reading. Coming from Arsenal it’s totally different, but when I saw that Luds (Ludlow) was named as manager, that sealed my decision.
“I have heard many good things about the set-up, there’s a good structure in place with many talented players. From the first training session I could tell the standard here is very good, so hopefully I can help build on their success from last season.
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CORONA, CA – Registration is open for the free Reliability of Circuit Assemblies Workshops to be held in Baltimore, MD, (May 21), Raleigh, NC, (May 23), Melbourne, FL, (June 25), and Tampa, FL, (June 27).
Speakers include Mike Konrad of Aqueous Technologies, Kalyan Nukala and Umut Tosun of Zestron, Terry Munson and Eric Camden of Foresite, Dr. Rakesh Kumar and Lamar Young of Specialty Coating Systems, and Tony Lentz of FCT Solder.
Each workshop will cover best practice reliability-based topics, including cleaning, new IPC cleanliness testing standards, conformal coating, soldering materials, and failure analysis.
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Home » Frequently Asked Questions » How Long Do Car Accident Settlements Take?
It could take as little as a couple of weeks or as long as several years to reach a car accident settlement in your case. Most take a few months, but there are many reasons it might take longer. The process to reach a car accident settlement is complex and requires both parties to conduct an in-depth investigation into the accident and injuries.
When a car insurance company receives a claim filed by an accident victim or their attorney, the insurer will need to conduct at least a preliminary investigation. They will want to review police reports, get documentation of your expenses and losses, and come up with a number they will offer. Some rules dictate how long they have to do this, but they can notify you of a delay and get more time. This can happen again and again.
Of course, we will conduct our investigation before we file your claim so we can approach the insurer with a strong argument for a fair payout. When the insurance company does offer us a settlement amount, we will know an estimate of your expenses and losses. We can counter their offer and possibly negotiate a higher settlement agreement.
Only once we reach an agreement will we sign the paperwork, and they issue us a check.
What Causes Delays in the Car Accident Settlement Process?
Some car accidents are more complex than others. Identifying the liable party, proving negligence, and establishing liability may be difficult. If there is any question about what caused the accident or if there may be shared fault, the insurance company will want to look into it before paying out carefully.
If you played a role in causing the crash, you still might be able to recover compensation, but the insurance company does not want to pay out more than required. If you contributed to your own damages and they can prove it, they will not have to offer as much money for your settlement.
If your injuries were significant and you will likely need a large payout to cover your expenses, losses, and pain and suffering, it could take longer to settle your case. The insurance adjuster must protect their company’s bottom line and paying out a large sum in your case will cost them. For this reason, they may investigate your case further and more in-depth than in more minor cases.
For example, they may not only review the police report but contact the witnesses to conduct their own interviews. They will double check facts of the case, and work to lessen their settlement offer in any way they can. This takes time. Even with the limits on how long they have to give you an offer, they can explain the delay and get more time.
It takes just a few weeks to settle some Pittsburgh car accident cases. However, some take a couple of years and others never reach an out-of-court settlement and require filing a personal injury lawsuit to pursue damages.
It can be difficult to predict how long a specific case may take, but we can often give our clients a good idea if we expect significant delays in their case. Our founding partner Lawrence B. Green has more than 40 years of experience handling these cases and knows why insurance companies drag their feet or take their time on a car accident claim.
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Sims Hill Spring Party 4 February at the Walled Garden!
Sims Hill in pictures – the story so far – what’s next?
Good company, good food, lots of fun and opportunities to have your say in what happens up at Sims Hill! See you there!


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Danaher Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with General Electric Company to acquire the Biopharma business of GE Life Sciences (“GE Biopharma”) for a cash purchase price of approximately $21.4 billion. Given anticipated tax benefits from the transaction structure, the net purchase price is approximately $20 billion. This represents a multiple of approximately 17 times expected 2019 EBITDA for GE Biopharma.
The business will be established as a stand-alone operating company within Danaher’s $6.5 billion Life Sciences segment, joining the Company’s Pall, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, SCIEX, Leica Microsystems, Molecular Devices, Phenomenex and IDT businesses.


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People around the world have been enjoying a quick dip in the pool for thousands of years.
Contrary to popular belief that the first swimming pools were built by the Greeks and Romans as bathing centers, the earliest public water tank for swimming and bathing was actually built more than 5000 years ago in the Pakistani city of Mohenjo-daro.
Built into the original pool design was a small ledge extending the full width of the pool, as many public pools have today. This feature allowed people to move along the ledge without fully immersing into the pool.
To say the ancient Greeks and Romans did take things up a notch is an understatement, however.
As standards of living increased in ancient times, luxuries such as large pools came into fashion. Pools enhanced property value but were used for many other reasons such as bathing, health, religious ceremonies, etc.
The word “pool” comes from “piscine” meaning fish.
The first Jacuzzi style pool, complete with waterfalls and lush garden landscaping, was designed by Gaius Maecenas, one of Augustus Ceasar’s political advisors around 8 BCE.
Both Roman and Greek emperors enjoyed ornate pools complete with live fish.
The Greek philosopher Plato believed that learning to swim was part of a proper education - along with mathematics, writing, astronomy, and so forth. Standard education included teaching children to swim in pools as early as 400 BCE but even earlier, in the 6th to 8th Century BCE, the ancient Greeks had “Palaestras” which included pools for swimming, bathing and socializing with friends and neighbors.
Pools were also used by the Greek and Roman militaries to train for war.
The Romans built a pool that was more than 900,000 square feet in the year 305 which was heated by giant fires in the basement and was used for public bathing.
Although swimming was not included in the Olympic Games in Athens until 1896, competitive swimming was developed in Great Britain during the early 1800′s by the National Swimming Society.
Indoor pools in London were used by the National Swimming Society of England for swimming competitions. The popularity of the sport led to the formation of the Amateur Swimming Association in 1880.
With the popularity of motion pictures after World War II, swimming pools became a status symbol across the United States.
The American Dream of owning one’s own home, being King of one’s own Castle, quickly came to include the dream of having a private backyard oasis complete with a modern swimming pool like those seen on the big screen at the local movie theater.
Stylish backyards from coast to coast now feature the personal retreat.

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