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Las Vegas, NV, 1/2/2008–It did not take long for the story of the tiger escape at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day 2007 to be national headlines. Of course, this incident has been raised to the point of sensationalism. It has been like throwing ‘white Tofu to the animal rights radicals’ who are already demanding the tiger exhibit be permanently closed. Although this is a tragic incident, the fact that such incidents are very uncommon is being ignored by the press. So, instead of focusing on what went wrong at the SF zoo that day, this paper will try and examine what didn’t go wrong, and show that there were other forces at work that inadvertently (or intentionally) have added up to make this situation that much worse.
The first thing I want to point out is that a number of people died on Christmas Day in San Francisco. I do not have exact statistics, but I am sure there were some fatal car accidents in the Bay area. There are fatal accidents every day, and these kinds of accidents do not take breaks on holidays. But, did you hear of any of them in the news? No, you probably didn’t. Are the people killed in these accidents any less dead than the boy killed by the tiger? No. It is also very likely the boy who was killed in the tiger attack suffered less then do many vehicle accident victims. You don’t hear about that, either.
There are two persistent ‘observations’ about this incident that keep coming out, and are very likely the truth.
2.) The tiger escaped by jumping a moat wall.
Lets look at number 1 first. You cannot design anything that can prevent every accident every time when the cause is deliberate human stupidity. In the weeks before this incident, there was a man killed in a zoo in India because he crossed over the barrier fence, to try and get a better picture of a tiger. He was being warned not to cross the fence by officials, but did so, anyway. He stuck his hand and camera inside the fence. Both tigers then attacked him. A day or two later, a young girl crossed the barrier at another zoo in Malaysia, and gets clawed by a leopard. The parents were there and did not stop the girl. Unlike this country, the zoo can press charges against the parents for failure to properly control their child. Then, just 5 days after the fatal incident in India, another man jumps into a tiger enclosure at another zoo in India. This man escaped with fairly minor injuries, but he was dragged around a bit by a tiger. Turns out this is the second time in a year that this man has done this.
The point of all of this is they human stupidity can trump the best enclosure design. The only way to make a tiger exhibit completely safe from idiots is to not build it. And, I can think of plenty of good reasons to build a tiger exhibit despite the idiots.
Now, letâ€™s take a reasoned look at number 2. The San Francisco Zoo’s tiger ‘grotto’ was built in the 1940’s. This was at a time when most zoos were keeping their big cats in barred cages. This exhibit was nearly two decades ahead of its time when it was built, and was undoubtedly quite a sensation. One of the unique features of this exhibit was the use of a ‘dry moat’– a feature that eliminated the need for any kind of a visible barrier between the animals and the general public. The moat is 33 feet across– farther then even the most athletic tiger could ever jump. The tigers could go down into the moat– probably planned as a safety feature if one did try to jump– and get back out again via a set of ‘tiger stairs’. The front wall of the moat, the wall everyone is concerned about, is 12.5 feet high.
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (formerly the American Zoo and Aquarium Association or AZA) has an enclosure height standard of 16.4 feet, which just happens to be exactly 5 meters!. Its interesting that they would have picked such a round number (in metric, nonetheless!). This suggests to me that their standard is unnecessarily high. The other zoo accrediting body in the US, the Zoological Association of America (ZAOA) has a height standard of a 12 foot straight fence, or 10 foot, with a two foot recurve section (total 12 feet). This same organization has a 10 foot fence, with a four foot recurve (total height 14 feet) for an enclosure that houses cougars. The purpose of the recurve is that a cat cannot readily climb a fence while partially upside down. They are less inclined to jump at such a fence, as there is nothing under it to ‘scramble’ on. Lions and tigers are not good climbers, but cougars are. That is why the fence requirements are greater for a cougar. The ZAOA does not make any additional distinctions for a moat wall vs. a fence, other than moats have to be approved on a case-by-case basis.
The Feline Conservation Federation (FCF), is a group that represents many smaller facilities and private keepers of big cats. They are a fairly new group in the accreditation business. They have a requirement in their ‘model regulation’ of a 12 foot vertical fence, topped by either a 2 foot recurve section (total height 14 feet), or two runs of electricified ‘hot wire’. Moat walls are not specifically discussed in the FCF regulation, as this kind of expensive construction is beyond the scope of most facilities that would be seeking accreditation from them.
In all fairness, a fence and moat wall is actually different ‘animals’ when it comes to confining a big cat. A 12 foot fence is going to be very difficult for a cat to jump, as they can see that there is nothing on the other side. Thus, if they jump up to the top, it is a long distance down on the other side. Even with the small flat area at the top afforded by a recurve, they cannot perceive this as a ‘landing zone’ because it is projecting out from an already tall wall. Even if a cat could get a paw on to the fence edge, the dynamic forces of the cat’s momentum, along with the natural give of a fence, would make it very difficult for it to hang on. A moat on the other hand, typically has a flat area at the top big enou8gh for the cat to ‘land’. Thus, a fence is potentially more effective at keeping a cat in, than a moat wall of the same height. But given these statistics, how high does a moat wall really have to be?
Apparently, tigers have been unsuccessfully testing this moat wall for years. About 10 years ago, a zoo visitor saw a tiger actually get a paw on the ground just over the moat wall edge. Upon asking a nearby keeper about this, the keeper remarked ‘she does that all the time. She hates my guts’. This zoo patron resigned her membership over this, but never heard back from the zoo. Apparently, no changes were made. Today, this is being used as a ‘case’ to show that zoo officials knew the wall height was inadequate. Or, was it? No tiger did escape in the ten years that followed. And, apparently, the keepers who knew about this felt that the tigers never got a firm enough grip to pull themselves out of the moat.
2.) doing something to antagonize the tiger.
So, an angry tiger is in the moat, and is eying her ‘tormenters’. She makes a super-tiger jump to get at them, and finds that she has gotten enough momentum to clear the moat wall. She manages to scramble out and attack one of these men.
There has been conjecture that the tiger may have had some help. A board or a rope may have been used to either entice the cat, or arrange for a deliberate escape. Another theory suggests that the tiger may have been able to grab a low-hanging tree branch and pull herself out. Regardless of how the cat got out, it likely required considerable extra effort on her part.
When the tiger was examined after it was shot, it was found to have ‘wear on its back claws’. This suggests that this tiger may have been ‘testing’ this wall before the incident. Most likely, she had been ‘testing’ the wall for some time. But, she had never been able to get out. But under these circumstances, with a couple of belligerent young men being where they were not supposed to be, likely yelling and throwing objects at the cat, it was enough to get her angry enough to make this ‘extra effort’ jump. Thus the tiger, had it not bee provoked, would have likely not been able to jump the wall. I conclude that the escape was a result of a combination of unlikely things, most importantly, a tiger that had been riled up by egregiously misbehaving zoo visitors.
So, how high does that moat wall have to really be to prevent an escape? The vast majority of the time, 12. 5 feet. Under extraordinary situations like this, I bet six additional inches would have been all that was needed to prevent this escape. Or, a hot wire or two along the top edge of the moat.
It is hard to call the zoo negligible for a moat wall that has successfully worked for nearly 70 years!
Now, lets look at something else that didn’t work that day, but most likely worked as well as it could have– the zoo’s emergency plan.
Emergency plans are great things. Most businesses have them. But, do the plans work? Short of an emergency, they are rarely tested. Furthermore, emergency plans are written to cover the most likely emergencies. The only emergency plans that truly work are those that are tested regularly with well-designed drills. Few businesses spend a lot of time doing drills, as this eats into employee productivity and the bottom line. Drills that are repeated too frequently also tend to lose their effectiveness, as people get bored with them.
The zoo is under heavy criticism for its emergency plan not working. But look at the circumstances. It was Christmas day. It was towards the end of the day. It was growing dark. I am sure that the staff at that time was the minimum needed to keep the zoo open so that as many as possible could be home with family. Those that were on duty were not likely the ‘first string’ staff. The veterinary staff, the ones that could tranquilize an escaped animal, was likely not there that day. The members of the ‘shooting team’ refereed to in the press were probably not there, either. This is the worst possible situation in which to have a major emergency occur. But, it is at times like this when really off-the-wall emergencies seem to occur.
The failure of the emergency plan to not function is understandable under this extraordinary situation at the worst of times. But what is even more extraordinary is the response of the city Government. Their reaction is typical of a Governmental body. They have no grasp of what goes on day-to-day at a zoo. They seem to believe that something can be 100 percent foolproof. And, if something is not 100 percent foolproof, they believe that it can be made 100 percent foolproof. They call into question decisions made years ago (transferring the operation of the zoo into private hands), that very likely had no bearing on the current situation. In fact, I will surmise the zoo staff’s response may have been worse had it been staffed by Government employees who were operating under considerably more bureaucracy.
Based on what has been reported in the press, the retribution of the city’s Government against the zoo is likely to be severe. I bet that between the AZA, and the various Governmental bodies interposing themselves in this disaster, if the zoo doesn’t end up hidebound with new regulations and requirements that will actually result in a greater likelihood of a future accident. And significantly degrade the zoo visitor’s experience when visiting the zoo. Only time will tell if cooler heads will prevail.
Last but not least, is the police who shot the tiger. In a life-and-death situation, protecting people comes first. But, there seems to be a tendency in situations like this for ‘the police to play with their guns’. Most versions of the story report that the tiger, when it was distracted, started coming on to the police officers. Shooting the cat in this situation is understandable, and fully justifiable. Another version of the story reports that the officers were distracting the cat with the full intent of wasting it when it was clear of the victim. The life-and-death situation in mind, if there was any reasonable chance that an endangered animal like this tiger could have been safely contained, it should have been. But, I would not be surprised if the police had not yet talked with zoo staff yet, to see what is possible.
There is a reason I am being so critical of the police reaction in this situation. There seems to be a tendency of police to be ‘trigger happy’ when dealing with animals. A recent incident involves police responding to the home of a man. When the man opened the door, he was with a big German shepherd dog. Even though the dog made no threatening moves, the officer just shot it. Luckily in this case, the dog survived. In another case, police were shooting at a snake in a tree. Hardly a dangerous situation. One of the stray shots hit a child who was in a boat on the other side of some bushes (this was by a river or lake shore), and killed him. This officer lost his badge. In Florida a couple years ago, police shot a tiger that ran out of some bushes. There was no clear indication the tiger was planning to attack. But, the tiger was gunned down. Later, the officer was heard boasting about what he had done, which only enraged the grieving cat owner. Last, but not least, there was the case of a police officer that visited a zoo where a friend of mine was working as a big cat keeper. The officer told this person, without any real provocation to say this, ‘If any of those cats ever get out, we will just have to shoot it’. This made my friend (who is himself a firearms expert) very upset that an officer of the law would take a ‘kill first and ask questions later’ attitude without considering the circumstances.
To sum this all up, what I am trying to say here is that the San Francisco Zoo was not harboring a ‘ticking time bomb that could go off any moment’ in the form of a very slightly inadequate enclosure design. Furthermore, they were not ‘grossly negligent’ in having this event happen. Bizarre incidents like this occur in all walks of life, when we least expect them. The zoo should be allowed to make their changes, and get on with life. They do not need to be slapped with all sorts of new rules and sanctions. They do not need the degrading harassment of the animal rights people. Their own internal mechanisms for dealing with disasters should be allowed to function as unimpeded as possible. And, this should serve as a reminder that the ‘nut cases’ are out there and nothing that can be done will ever be enough to prevent them from sometimes ‘succeeding’. So trying to make a ‘100 percent safe’ tiger exhibit would only succeed in making a ‘100 percent poor tiger exhibit’.
Cut the zoo some slack!
Tim Stoffel can be reached at tim@lionlamb.usÂ Visit his websiteÂ for more.
8 users commented in " Of Tiger Walls and Tragedies: Thoughts on the San Francisco Zoo Tiger Incident "
Great commentary on the incident, it seems to be more level headed than most and certainly has some valid points. However it does miss one thing that I’d like to mention. Something that I’ve not seen mentioned anywhere else and is easily the most shocking part of the whole story (to me at least). That is the lack of CCTV (closed circuit television). I’m appalled the AZA, or the ZAOA, or the FCF do not have a mandatory requirement for CCTV on perimeters of animal enclosures – maybe they do but it has still not been mentioned in the press. The cost of CCTV is probably as low as it has ever been and if it were set up in the zoo this whole debacle could have been prevented.
It’s partly because I come from the UK where CCTV is literally on every street corner that this shocks me so much but I can’t believe that this simple form of security surveillance is not in place and not mandatory for certain animals in zoos!
Does anyone have any information regarding CCTV and zoos in the USA?
One of the best commentaries I’ve read on the incident so far.
I liked your comment about the tiger putting his paw on the ledge…my husband is a retired zoo keeper…tigers hated him, too.
I haven’t done the stats…not enought time…but I’m thinking, when you consider the number of people who visit a zoo each day, and the low number of incidences, the zoo has to be quite a safe place.
I just hope the San Francisco Zoo makes it okay after this.
Very well written with a sensible- rather than sensationalized- approach. We will all see or hear about many horrible accidents happening over our life time, especially those not involving animals. Using animals to exploit an agenda of no human/animal interaction of any kind is part of the exremist animal rights activists arsenal, definitely sensationalized. I choose to live WITH rather than without and accept the very minimal risk involved.
Thanks for such an excellent post. But I have point for consideration and perhaps you can refute this.
Now, I have read that security was seriously undermanned at nights, after hours. Do the tigers at the SF Zoo stay in the grotto at night? If so, how do we know that the tiger has never been able to get out? Maybe she succeeded in getting out some nights, and leapt back in afterwards. If no one was around, maybe no one would notice this. I know this may sound ridiculous, but if she was truly testing it for a long time…maybe she had absolute confidence that she could get out if she ever really wanted to. OK I suppose there would be evidence of paw prints.
There is a reason why the regulations usually say “adequate” protection for the public rather than “absolute.” It is because there is only so far that any owner can go and then has to stop spending money. It is also because due diligence is satisfied at some point.
Very well thought out and well written, good article.
Thanks for this piece which is what I call responsible journalism instead of the major news channels sensationalizing this unfortunate incident (for the tiger).
Tatiana attacked a zoo keeper Dec 22, 2006. She tasted human blood then. She may well have escaped at night, previously and returned to the grotto. The attack on the three young men happened at closing, at dusk, mid winter. If I were a tiger, that’s when I would make my lunge for my favorite newly acquired taste. The risk was known, and ignored. When the attack / escape occurred zoo went into delay / silence / panic prevention mode. They delayed the cops. They have refused to answer 20 questions submitted by the SFBG. The questions were well put, by a person experienced in handling big cats. Arrest them, starting right at the top. Try them for murder.
No, Tigers do NOT prefer the taste of humans, and it’s recorded that Tatiana reverted back to her normal behavior, the day after the feeding. The keeper feeding her dropped the food, and never should have reached for it, thus causing the sequence of events. Heck, even my my favorite house cat will mistake my fingers for food and nip me, whenever I feed her rare steak!
Tatiana’s nails were broken, and evidently happened that night – new reports in, are that she was indeed taunted by the 3 men. I wonder about the 4th man, that the woman who reported, went? Until this transpired today, she was doubted. At the level of alcohol that was in the young men’s systems, and taking into the fact they were wasted on pot, I don’t see how they could’ve stood on the thin rail!
We have only just begun to hear a fraction of the real truth. I bet the brothers will be tried for involuntary manslaughter on their friend, whom they never showed concern over, that night.

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Where is your “sweet spot”? What are the circumstances that lead up to you being “in the groove”? Can you answer the who, what, why, when, and where questions about the times in your life when you are truly on track, happy, and headed for success?
Here’s the truth: A lot of people spend a lot of time in an environment or a state of mind that is far from conducive to their own success, then they sit around wondering why they aren’t successful!
Our lives are constantly throwing different types of circumstances at us that may or may not be to our liking, yet rather than changing the circumstances so that we are in a comfortable resonance, we simply put our head down, try to plow through undesirable situations, and then wonder why our results are less than stellar.
If you want to be successful in life, you need to stay in a state of mind that creates an emotional resonance with what you are doing.
There is a common misconception that simply working harder will allow you to achieve more results. However, even though a more concerted effort will net more results, you are still swimming against the current unless you can find a way to do your work in a manner that pleases you.
You will accomplish far more in an hour of hard work when you are “in the groove” than that same hour of hard work whenever you are unable enjoy your work or to stay focused on your tasks.
Ask yourself the who, what, why, when, and where questions about your environment, and make any changes necessary so that the answers to those questions will create an environment that allows you to work easily and effortlessly.
WHO: Who are you doing the work for?
If you are working for an employer, the obvious answer would be that you are doing the work for them. However, that is totally false.
You will realize that you are unable to enjoy the fact that you are working for someone else, and you will find a way to make your own money.
WHAT: What are you doing?
Did you ever stop to think about that? Oh sure, there are plenty of tasks in front of you that need to be accomplished, but do you ever stop to think about what it is that you are actually working towards?
Do you even care about the big picture that is related to whatever it is that you are working towards? For that matter, do you even know what you are working towards, or are you just mindlessly doing the work without really thinking about what it is that you are trying to accomplish in the long-term?
If you are aware of and actually care about the results of your efforts, then you will resonate with the work that is required to attain those results. Whether the outcome in question is weight loss, child rearing, or corporate minutia, knowing what you are working towards gives you the opportunity to decide if you care enough about it to actually enjoy the work.
WHY: Once you know what it is that you are doing, now it is time to ask yourself why you are doing it to begin with.
This is the tricky part that trips a lot of people up.
Your “why” reasons are almost never what you think they are at first. Most “why” reasons go much deeper than the surface answers that come to mind when people ask themselves why they are doing any particular thing.
People who want to lose weight tend to cite reasons such as looking good in a bikini, being healthy, having more energy, etc. However, by digging deeper, reasons such as low self-esteem, lack of confidence, bad past experiences, etc., are usually the real “why” reasons.
Most people who are looking for financial success will cite reasons such wanting a nice house, a secure future for their family, a sense of accomplishment, etc. However, when it comes down to it, a lot of people are actually battling self-limiting beliefs about money, they are looking for the freedom that money can buy, they want to prove to themselves or others that they can do it, etc.
Trying to get a nice house, a nice car, or a large college fund for your children is not nearly as motivational as knowing why you truly want those things.
WHEN: This is Goal Setting 101: When do you want to accomplish your goal by?
Even if you work for someone else, you need to have a target date for whenever you want to accomplish some very specific goal. Maybe it is to reach a certain level in the company, maybe it is a certain sales goal, or maybe it is a salary level that you are after. Either way, if you leave the target date open to “some point in the future,” there will never be the sense of urgency that is needed in order to push yourself hard to accomplish your goal by that certain date.
If you own your own business or have some other self-employed status, when do you want to attain a certain level of security? When will your business be solid enough to allow you more time for yourself? When will you be able to start delegating work to others?
Again, the idea here is not to set up some mindless productivity calendar, but rather to motivate yourself to succeed by knowing when it is that you want to accomplish your goal. By working towards a goal that you have personally set for yourself, you will enjoy the work because you are doing it for you, not for someone else.
WHERE: Your work environment can play a huge role in the emotional state that you have whenever you are working on your tasks.
If you do not enjoy being in your work environment, it will be very difficult for you to remain mentally sharp, to enjoy your work, and to keep up a high level of productivity.
If you work for someone else, then do everything that you are allowed to do in order to make your environment an enjoyable place for you to spend a lot of your time. This could include any or all of the following: decorate your environment, put up motivational reminders where you will see them frequently, make the environment physically comfortable with proper furnishings and accessories, play music that helps you to focus on your work.
If you work for yourself at home or in an office, then use the freedom that self-employment brings and pull out all the stops in order to make your work environment exactly what you want to be. Also, if you work at home, be sure to keep your work environment separate from the rest of the house. That is your space – keep it free from the negative or stressful vibrations that sometimes permeate other areas of the house.
Also, if you work on a laptop computer, don’t be afraid to simply leave any environment that does not resonate with you. If you are more comfortable working in a local coffee shop, at the library, or outside on your deck, then go there! Don’t feel that in order to run a professional business that you must work in an office. Your professionalism will come from you working in your natural state of flow, not from sitting in an office that makes you uncomfortable.
The bottom line to maximizing your productivity is that you need to remain in an environment and a state of mind that you actually enjoy being in – your own personal circle of Light.
Ask yourself the who, what, why, when, and where questions about your working circumstances, and find answers that resonate with you. If you fail to do so, you’ll just keep swimming upstream, fighting the current rather than letting it carry you easily along.
Finding your groove and learning how to replicate being in the groove is key to being productive and happy.Thanks for sharing these methods.
Love this post, Aaron! I’m forwarding to at least five of my clients as MUST READ material!
I’m glad to help spread the word about being in the groove, and thanks for endorsing the concept yourself.
It goes along with that saying that “if you like your job, you’ll never work another day in your life”!
If I have provided MUST READ material for even 1 person by writing this blog post, then I am happy. If you’ve got 5, then you have an extreme amount of gratitude from me for helping to spread the word that much further!
Some great advice here. I like the simple 5W’s line of questioning. Very helpful. Made me think….why in the heck am I still working on my laptop at the kitchen table? Going to the patio….Thanks!
P.S. I found you in the Personal Development List. Making my way through. Great blog here. I will return.
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Krishna, Sanskrit Kṛṣṇa, one of the most widely revered and most popular of all Indian divinities, worshipped as the eighth incarnation (avatar, or avatara) of the Hindu god Vishnu and also as a supreme god in his own right.
In this painting Krishnan is having a lovely time with his wife Bama swinging in a beautiful Unjal.
Unjal Krishnan - Thanjavur Paintings are made on canvases (wooden plank with layer of cloth). The cloth is then evenly coated with a paste of limestone and a binding medium and let to dry. The artist then draws a detailed sketch of the painting on the canvas. A paste, made of limestone and a binding medium, is used to create 3D effect in embellishing and ornamenting the theme using a brush. Gold leaves and gems of varied hues are used in selected areas like pillars, arches, thrones, dresses, etc. The shine and glean of the gold leaves used by the Thanjavur style paintings last forever. Finally, colours are applied on the sketch. Standard wooden frame is used to house the paintings.
Unjal Krishnan beautiful paintings can be kept in the Pooja room. This painting can be gifted for Marriage and Birthday functions as well. It is believed joy comes to the family when Krishna's collection of paintings is kept at home.
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text: One trend that is still going strong is the graphic stripes print. From Moschino to Max Mara, Tommy Hilfiger to Tome, graphic stripes totally made their mark on the runways. Whether horizontal or vertical, wide or thin, big or small, multicolored or a single color palette, you absolutely can’t go wrong with stripes this season!


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Frontrow is a company with more than 15 years of experience in the womenswear wholesale industry. We are currently one of the largest sellers of high quality clothing and accessories in the UK.
Our Essex showroom allows buyers the opportunity to visit by appointment where one of our sales representatives will be on hand to showcase the collection as well as take your orders. We will then prepare your order from our onsite warehouse and deliver worldwide.
If you are unable to visit our showroom then we will send you garment price list highlighting size breakdown and quantities per pack.
We are a fashion wholesaler that deals with a variety of clients. Joining our list of clients has never been easier. Simply fill in our online contact form and our accounts department will get in touch.


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Former Anambra state governor now PDP Vice Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has denied claims by the opposition party that he demolished mosques and sent Hausas out of Anambra state when he served as governor from 2007 to 2014.
In an interview with journalists in Lagos yesterday, Obi described as sheer fabrication, wicked and inhuman, the allegation being circulated by the opposition that he snubbed the Sultan, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III; drove the Hausa away from Anambra State and shunned the then Minister of Finance, Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman’s attempt at mediation and did not visit schools in the North.
The fact is that the visit of his Eminence, during which I was alleged to have snubbed him was purely a courtesy call after which I personally accompanied him to see the Obi of Onitsha, Obi Alfred Achebe with whom he had a meeting. I also requested His Eminence to visit the Hausa community in the state during which I offered to rebuild and subsequently gave them the funds for that purpose.” Obi said.

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When I get on my Yamaha R1, I've got the world by it's tail. I've had many bikes, but this ones the best. I'm in Delaware and the upper end of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Anybody wanta go riding? Maybe a campout or something? Send a mesaage and we'll get together.
Sounds like fun. Welcome to RiderInfo. I'm not in that area, but there is probably some that is. Hope to see ya often.
Sure.....Id be glad to show ya around anytime. We have great roads for riding sport bikes. But with all of the rain we have had this month and last have really put the "marbles" into the mix...so I really havent been riding much yet.
You would be welcome to come for a weekend anytime and we could make a day of it....plus I have been looking for someone to go to track days with over the summer. Do you have leathers and your bike prepped for the track? Maybe we could make a weekend track day event?
:moped: We'll have to coordinate a weekend event. I need to know where exactly your at in WV , so I can take a look at the old map. What kind of a bike do you ride? My R1's crate stock 2000 model and I do wear a leather jacket. I guese I should wear more but that's me. I once sponsed a guy that ran flat track on a Bultaca I bought him a full set of leathers with my business name on the back. No tracks around here for road machines. Have you a GP or Roadrace track near you? My summers been pretty busy, in addition to the bikes and work I restore old wooden pleasure boats. In fact I have a boat show to attend, Fathers Day weekend in St.Michaels, Maryland. Are you sure it wouldn't be a problem some weekend to come over and go riding? That would really be cool.

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BS Editor: Account Suitcase Toolbar is a login Autofill and secure Password Keeper. Designed as a browser add-on, the application lets you fill out login forms to favorite websites with a mouse click. All login data is stored in an encrypted file on a removable storage device such as a USB stick or SD memory stick that you can take with you wherever you go. When you want to log in to a protected website, the login password is just a click away. Go to Account Suitcase and get the username and password entered into the login form automatically with a single click. The application can store multiple logins for one and the same web PaGE, lettings users sign in under different usernames. With all passwords in Account Suitcase, you can browse faster and sign in to your accounts on the go!
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Indigo Telecoms global satellite coverage makes it ideal for us to seamlessly deliver Media digital Solutions and content to your network.
We also offer instant connectivity for First Responders on the ground from any remote connection.
Our highly reliable ground and satellite technology is optimised for media content, ensuring that content arrives at the right place, at the right time and at the right cost.


text: Absolutely stunning jet black Arab/Morgan cross gelding. Foaled in June 02, Ace is 15 hands and has a month of training with Allen Hicks. Ace is a very smart and showy gelding who rides in the arena and on the trail. Ace walks, trots and canters, backs and side passes, will go over most obstacles and water. He has also been ridden through town and cars do not bother him. He does well with the vet, farrier and trailers. Ace has the ability to compete in all areas of competition, he loves to perform This horse has great movement and is always way ahead when trail riding, he would make a great distance or dressage horse. If you are looking for a quick learner who can and is willing to work ACE is the horse you are looking for.


text: Come join Margaret O’Brien, Brandt Iden and Scott McGraw for a tailgate party to kickoff the new season and a new stadium at Portage Northern! On Friday, Aug. 24, the Three Amigos will have a tailgate party to herald in the new stadium from 5 to 7 p.m. right before the season kicks off between Portage Northern and Loy Norrix. Come enjoy hot dogs, chips, drinks and fellowship with your three favorite Portage electeds. Be sure to buy your tickets to the game before Friday night, since it is likely to sell out.


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One unique feature I noticed is the ability to create multiple pages about you, and set the privacy on each page. This means a couple of things. First, it means that all of your information, from your resume to your current work profile, aren“t mushed onto one page. Second, it means that you can promote various aspects of your professional career to different people. This concept of pushing targeted profiles, or granting access to specialized profiles, lets you operate under different „hats“? within the same network. All in the sake of privacy. Ahh.
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This home workout designed by Kaisa is perfect for anyone who is tight for time yet wants to squeeze in a heart lifting energetic boost!
We had initially planned to do this via Skype but sadly this didn’t come to fruition..
I absolutely LOVE watching Kaisa do these. She amazes me with her strength and powerful body.
No equipment needed – just your own body weight!
Try and go from one move to the next with just a few seconds break in between (if you need more, take your time, listen to your body!) and take only about a minute to have a drink and steady your heart rate in between the rounds.
FINISH EVERYTHING WITH AS MANY BURPEES YOU CAN!!!!
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Monthly favorites really sneak up on me. I almost forgot about it this month but luckily I had it jotted down in my blogging calendar. Horray for blogging organization! Anyway, this month I thought I’d show you some of the makeup bits I’ve been enjoying.
This is a recent rediscovery. Since the shade I have is my spring/summer color, I had tucked it away during my paler months. I brought this back out again and realized why I love it so much. The coverage is light-medium and the finish is really natural.
This is a recent discovery and it is well on it’s way to becoming my HG concealer. I recently posted a review of it where I go into detail about all the ways I love this concealer.
This is a tinted brow gel that I probably didn’t need but I just couldn’t resist picking up. I have a few brow gels in rotation but I wanted to see if this was any good. It is and I’ve been using it religiously all month. Although I wish the color was a bit lighter, it works well on its own to give me a polished looking brow.
I heard Estee rave about this so I had to pick it up. It is a really natural looking translucent powder. It comes with a sponge to touch up on the go but I don’t feel the need to use it. The powder lasts well on my skin and keeps my makeup in place all day.
Every blogger and their mother has raved about this lip liner. My local Target never had this shade in stock, so I had to really search to get a hold of it. I can see why this liner is in high demand. It is a great neutral pink color and the twist up tube means no sharpening! Yay!! I love it so much, I bought a back up.
What makeup have you been loving this month?
I haven't been able to find that lip liner in stock either! I check back every time I go to the shops!


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Conviasa is a Venezuelan airline with its headquarters at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Caracas, Venezuela. It’s legal name is Consorcio Venezolano de Industrias Aeronáuticas y Servicios Aéreos, which in English means Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautics Industries and Air Services. It is the flag carrier and largest airline of Venezuela, operating services to domestic destinations and internationally to the Caribbean and South America. The airline operates from Caracas to Madrid through a code share with Air Europa.
Domestically, the airline has a hub at Portlamar on the Margarita Island and flies to Barcelona, Barinas, Canaima, Cuidad Bolivar, Elorza, El Vigia, Guasdualito, Las Piedras, Los Roques Archipelago, Maracaibo, Maturin, Puerto Ayacucho, Puerto Ordaz and San Fernando de Apure.
Conviasa passengers are allowed one piece of hand luggage, which must not exceed 8 kg. The dimensions of hand luggage must fit within the dimensions of 37 x 25 x 61 cm.
When flying domestically within Venezuela, passengers in economy class are permitted 20kg of baggage. Passengers in first class are allowed 40kg of baggage.
When flying internationally, passengers in economy class are permitted 2 bags each, weighing a maximum of 32kg each. However, when flying to or fro Havana and Bogota, this is reduced to 1 bag of 23kg each. Class Executive passengers are permitted 3 bags, each weighing 32kg each.
Conviasa charge for baggage that is bigger that the permitted free allowance. This will be charged at a rate linked with the fare of the ticket for your chosen route.
Passengers must check-in for their flights at the airport. Conviasa do not advertise a recommended time to arrive at the airport, but check with the airport you are flying from, or with Conviasa directly, to see what time you can check-in.
We give our customers the chance to buy Conviasa flights in English. Just enter your destination into the search bar above to use our safe and secure booking process in English. Pay in the currency of your choice and using whichever payment method you please! Avoid unnecessary stress and book with Alternative Airlines in English today!
Other airlines which use Simon Bolivar include Aeromexico, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeropostal (now ceased), Insel Air (now ceased), Avianca, LAN Airlines, Aerolineas Estelar, LASER Airlines and also Aserca, before it ceased operations in 2018. It has two runaways and can handle almost 20 million passengers every year.

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Khloe’s also joined her parents in making a difference with other families facing the trials of congenital heart defects and disease. When Khloe was coming up on her first “Happy Heart Day” (the anniversary of her surgery), Tiffany enlisted the help of a well-known tattoo shop and organized a family fun day. The fundraiser was a big success, raising $10,000 which they donated to Mended Little Hearts, a nonprofit empowering families affected by congenital heart defects and disease.
“We’re a big part of Mended Little Hearts. Every year for Khloe’s Happy Heart Day we do something to celebrate her and help the heart community in some way,” said Tiffany. One year, Tiffany made Origami Owl® Living Lockets for other moms in their local Mended Little Hearts community. Another year, they gifted a special Living Locket to Khloe’s cardiology nurse.
Tiffany couldn’t help but want to create lockets for these women touched by congenital heart disease—because it was a Living Locket that had touched her not long after Khloe’s surgery. Filled with gratitude for Khloe’s recovery, Steve was the first to commemorate Khloe’s miracle, with a tattoo featuring Khloe’s footprints, her name, and a heart with stitches. Tiffany wanted to find her own way to mark the moment, and she found it at a boutique.
To help give to the congenital heart defects and disease community, go to mendedlittlehearts.org and heartheroes.org.


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Coupon is a voucher or a slip enabling the customer to avail a discount while purchasing a particular product. Traditionally businesses used to print and distribute coupons in volumes through newspapers and magazines. Proliferation of internet has changed all this. Now one can locate and print the desired internet coupon over the internet by visiting websites and avail the discount when the shopping is done. Manufacturers and retailers offer variety of coupons to promote their sales during lean seasons and some times to clear their old stocks.
There are basically four types of Internet coupons available online. Printable Internet coupons as name suggests can be sited online, printed at home, and exchanged at the shops for a discount. the other types are product code coupon and activated line coupons which can be only redeemed online. Product code coupons involve entering a code of alphanumeric characters during the checkout which enables them to avail certain amount of discount.
The last variety is click coupons which are transferred online to your shopping card, which avails the discount when you do shopping. User selects the coupons online and enters the grocery card number; the internet coupon discounts are applied electronically to his accounts. the next time when he goes to grocery shopping the internet coupons are automatically applied and the discount is granted.


text: Jean M. Stewart, O.D., is a board certified doctor of optometry. Dr. Stewart received her Bachelor of Science Degree from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL., and subsequently, earned her Doctor of Optometry from the Southern College of Optometry in Tennessee. Her professional memberships include the Delaware Optometric Association, where she serves as Secretary. She has also been a member of the American Optometric Association since 1993, and was the Delaware consultant to the Healthy Eyes/Healthy People 2010 initiative. She continues to also serve as an Examiner for the National Board of Examiners in Optometry. Other associations include the Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, the UD Chapter of the MS Society, Diplomat - American Board of Optometry, Research to Prevent Blindness and the American Diabetes Association. She brings with her thirteen years of clinical experience in the comprehensive eye care of all ages, as well as extensive knowledge of contact lenses.


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Bedroom will be the safe heaven which you could relax from a hard day's work. It is important to ensure that it stays clutter-free, without any mess; and in reality as appealing in addition to being clean as you can. However, most of the times, it is a difficult task to realize a clutter-free bedroom. All as a result of countless things to be stored at the same time! For most people, bedroom doubles up like a bedroom and a store room.
But thankfully that we now have several storage options available to offer a a lot of space for storing within the bedroom too nevertheless offer a neat and classy consider the same time. These options include furniture items for example wardrobes, chest drawers, bedside tables, closets, etc.
To create the best storage space inside bedroom, it is important that you have the right mix of fitted cabinets, free-standing wardrobes and built-in shelves. This kind of a compounding gives in a decent balance, neat look as well as the attractive mix of every one of the essential storage units. However, the volume of every sort of self storage is determined by the space available, your requirements as well as your personal preferences.
Bedroom storage furniture is incomplete without wardrobes. The bedroom is a bit more of an personal space. Great majority of individuals prefer to keep their personal belongings including clothes, beddings, books, shoes and also other stuff within their bedroom. And wardrobes provide great space for storage of those personal items; a wardrobe keeps your clothes plus your otherwise precious jewelry safe and renders them available when you really need them.
Another great furniture piece to the bedroom storage includes stomach drawers. Your bedroom, like others, must be having a lot of small , petty stuff such as stationery, documents, files, medicines and also other trinkets. Placing them inside a wardrobe might be quite inconvenient. In that case, a chest drawer is quite useful. It has 5-6 drawers stacked upon the other person. You can keep your things in separate drawers in line with the category. It helps you will find those actions easily if needed. Besides, you should use the top of the chest drawers for that display of one's decorative or for placing items like television or music system.
Besides, there might be bedside tables that provide great convenience of placing things such as books which you will prefer to read at the bedtime or even a bottle of water or even a small decorative piece like photo frame that you like to hold near to up your eyes prior to going to bed.
Although bedside tables are small, they're very helpful. However, as an alternative to bedside tables, you can go for bedside cabinet to increase the safe-keeping. It can be used because table regardless though.
We're searching over the internet from various websites to find best deals of Simmons Upholstery Newburyport Sofa and post to suggest where to buy it with best price online.

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The 137th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, which took place from 9 to 12 October at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, is continuing to receive praises from "exhibitors, sponsors and collaborative organisations alike" over two weeks since it ended, the organisers have announced.
The event featured over 300 exhibitors and sponsors and a 10-year record West Coast registered attendance of over 15,000.
Bob Moses, the AES's executive director, says: "The AES 137 convention exceeded our hopes in many ways, and it was a thrill to see every one of our new ideas unfold successfully. The Live Sound Expo leveraged the success we've enjoyed with the Project Studio Expo and brought professional training to the sound reinforcement community. The new Raw Tracks events, with a rare glimpse behind the glass at some of the classic recording sessions, [had] standing room only.
"High Resolution Audio sessions in the HRA breakout room emphasised a convergence of the consumer electronics music business with the musical production community, and the conversations are still buzzing along toward New York next year. We'll be back in LA in 2016, and I suspect we'll take it to yet another level."
Pictured, right, is legendary producer/engineer/musician Alan Parsons giving the AES 137 keynote address.
Piers Plaskitt, CEO of Solid State Logic, says: "In anticipation of the excitement that would surround the return of AES to Los Angeles, Solid State Logic chose this show to launch two new products: the XL-Desk, our revolutionary twist on the classic analogue studio console, and a new addition to our live console portfolio, the powerful-yet-compact L300. We were thrilled with the response that both products received, and thanks to a stunning level of attendance, we anticipate an excellent return on the investment of us participating in the convention."
"We were really pleased to have the AES Convention back in Los Angeles this year," adds Doug Swan, Audio-Technica national director of sales and marketing, professional markets. "Attendance exceeded expectations, and we got to see professionals from all corners of LA' s busy audio industry:  record-making, TV and film, gaming, live sound, the tech sector, system installation and more. Signifying a reinvigorated industry, AES continues its upswing, and we are looking forward to the show next year."


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My mom doesn’t like dessert. Growing up, my mom only has made 3 kind of desserts (mango pudding, watermelon popsicle, and bird’s nest soup). My favorite has to be the mango pudding! If you have been to a Chinese dim sum restaurant, you may have seen mango pudding in carts. It is one of the popular desserts in Hong Kong. But of course, the restaurant ones only have a little bit of mangoes. My mom’s version is filled with mangoes. It is just delightful!
If you are not sure what the texture of this pudding is, think panna cotta or creamy jello. This is definitely not banana pudding or bread pudding kind of pudding. In this recipe, I used the mango flavor jelly powder. I got this from Hong Kong. I have no idea where I can find the same in the US. It looks like JELL-O have this product at some point, but I don’t think they can be found in stores now. I found them at amazon.com. I haven’t tried them yet, but I will try them one day. They should taste very similar to the one from Hong Kong.
For the mangoes, wash them under water and dry them with paper towels. To cut the mangoes into little cubes, hold one mango with one hand and stand it on its end. With a sharp knife in the other hand, cut from the top of the mango, down one side of the pit. Repeat with the other side. Now, you have three pieces (two halves and the pit). Lay one half of mango on the table with the flesh facing up, use a knife to make ½-inch lengthwise and ½-inch crosswise cuts in it, but try not to cut through the peel. Hold that mango in hand, use a spoon to separate the flesh and peel. The mango cubes should be scooped out easily. Repeat with the rest of the mangoes.
Prepare 4 cups of 1-cup container or 8 cups of ½-cup container. Set aside.
In a large heatproof bowl, add the jelly powder. Pour the boiling water over, and mix with a spatula gently. Stir until all the powder is melted. Add the cold water. Mix well. Stir in the mango cubes and evaporated milk. Transfer the mixture to the prepared cups. Chill the pudding in the fridge for at least 3 hours before serving. It can be stored in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Carabao mango is my favorite mango. Sweet, juicy and soft. But the US doesn’t import those. The only similar mango that I can get is Manila mango. It is not the same, but oh well.
The amount of evaporated milk is depends on your personal taste. I like my pudding to be on the light side, so I only added 6 tablespoons. You can add up to 10 tablespoons.
Hello, when I added the evaporate milk, the milk particle separate. Do you think my water temperature is too hot? Does your do that?


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1973 House Bill 7817. An Act Further Defining The Rights Of Certain Persons Assisted To A Police Station Or A Facility Under The Alcoholism Treatment And Rehabilitation Law.
Title 1973 House Bill 7817. An Act Further Defining The Rights Of Certain Persons Assisted To A Police Station Or A Facility Under The Alcoholism Treatment And Rehabilitation Law.

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Sometimes during fiscal crises, red flags fly that should make us watch our politicians like hawks, but we citizens often fail to do so. The price we pay can be huge. That is why I direct your attention to the glowing red flag that is Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson.
Wesson, a likable Democrat from Culver City, was the mastermind of the much-debated vehicle license fee that was reduced 67 percent when the state economy was flush in 1999, but would have skyrocketed right back up if the state Legislature had convinced Gov. Gray Davis to sign the awful document.
Much to his credit, under the influence of his new finance czar and former San Diego legislator Steve Peace, Governor Perfect Hair stuck his neck out this week. He called it a bad bill freighted with legal troubles and partisan slaps at Republicans whose votes are needed to approve far more pressing budget cuts and tax restructuring.
For once, I was impressed.
Though the media continually minimized the proposed tax as a mere $115 extra annually, if you live in a typical two-car California household and one or both of your cars are newish, your family would have gotten stuck for $350 to $600 in extra taxes every year at registration. That's serious pain, even worse because working-class households will be paying $150 to $300 in extra tax on retail goods like clothes if Davis and the legislature find a way to add a penny to the roughly 8-cent sales tax, which they probably will.
I mention this because, with very little discussion about us taxpayers, Wesson and the Assembly decided that it was perfectly OK with you and me that what is right now by far the highest car tax in the United States go waaay back up to recession-era levels.
While the media have heavily reported on the car tax, an equally disturbing story is the incredible bubble inside which Wesson and the Assembly leadership made the decision, rubber-stamped by the Senate few days later.
In January, Oregon citizens gave us a preview of what I believe will happen as Californians strike back at a disconnected Legislature and governor far too eager to tax people out of their savings accounts. In Oregon, the legislature faced $310 million in budget cuts-big for that small state-because politicians also overspent in 2001 and 2002 while hoping vanishing income-tax revenues would pour back in from a revived stock market. California's politicians, as you may know, are the worst example of this thinking, having driven this state more than $26 billion into the hole.
Political strategists trying to gauge Californians' willingness to pay higher taxes to avoid cuts in services were closely watching Oregon's Measure 28 on Jan. 28 as a bellwether. In Oregon, the media predicted that if deep budget cuts were made, children's programs would disappear, the elderly and poor would lose medical care, and large numbers of highway patrol would be laid off. And, just like here, the Oregon media ran very few stories about how to instead cut the state bureaucracy. The pro-tax forces from the unions, business groups and special interests outspent the anti-tax forces by 100 to 1.
On Jan. 28, big-hearted voters in Oregon, who mirror California in their liberalism, turned out in record numbers to repudiate the tax increase by a vote of 54 percent to 46 percent. The message was clear and hard as Lucite: politicians must stop spending beyond Oregon's means now.
When I talked to Herb Wesson about Oregon, shortly before the Davis veto, he was riding high on the view that his new car tax would soon become law. Many of California's Democratic strategists had assumed Oregon would heartily approve their new tax, and that they could ride Oregon's coattails in California.
Incredible, just incredible, that the leader of the Assembly has so little clue what real people actually think, and doesn't even bother to stay apprised. Nor did Wesson have any real grasp of the tax he had just bullied through, whom it would have effected, or how.
I asked Wesson how much money he expected to reap off those who own used cars versus those who own new cars, and how much money would be paid by the middle-class and working class versus the wealthy, and so on.
This, again, is incredible. The Legislature damn well better care who the hell is paying to help them avoid seriously trimming their massive, 37 percent increase in spending since 1999.
So I asked Wesson if he thought there might be an effect on the middle class with the car tax bite. He responded with so much doubletalk that I thought he was goofing around.
Just try to make sense of that. It practically makes you want to run screaming for the Oregon border.
Embedded in the new car tax law was the sneaky provision that the tax could not be reduced again until the state was no longer borrowing money-a condition the state has not enjoyed in decades, regardless of how fantastic the California economy does. The truth is, Wesson and the Assembly were trying to assure that Californians would pay the newly tripled tax from now until forever.
Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, praised Davis' decision, which was based in part on the fact that these slimy maneuverings wouldn't pass even basic legal muster.
Wesson managed to trick the Associated Press, which on Feb. 3 reported that the Assembly approved an exemption for car owners who buy cars for less than $5,000 in order to help the low-income. Wrong! As everyone who is not catatonic in the capitol knows, the exemption was included so the Assembly could sneakily escape the required two-thirds vote for raising taxes in California.
Getting the two-thirds vote would have failed because Republicans vociferously oppose the tax. By exempting cars purchased for less than $5,000, which constitutes a special tax decrease for those owners, the legislative counsel contended the Assembly needs only a simple majority vote. On top of that, in order to forestall a voter revolt over these shenanigans, the Democrats declared the tax a "levy" that takes effect immediately and cannot be overturned by taxpayer referendum.
We'd do well not to trust too heavily in Herb Wesson. He has already cost the state more than $500 million, for he alone torpedoed a 50-cent-per-pack cigarette tax proposed by Davis last fall, chucking it in favor of an utterly un-passable $2-per-pack tax that neither side of the aisle saw as fair to smokers.
It's not that Wesson, so eager to tax us but understanding so little about us, is dumb. It's that he survived largely on public largesse for years as an aide to Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke.
Now Gray Davis and Steve Peace are powerfully suggesting that Wesson shake off his comfy cocoon and the Assembly and Senate stop playing games and start coping with deep budget cuts. If I didn't know better than to hope for such impossible things, I'd say somebody in Sacramento has finally started hearing us, the long-ignored public.

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text: Ok guys, I am going to post this here first being I know this bike will go to someone that really appreciates our bikes. I am selling my 1998 superhawk. I am the second owner and have been for the last 15 years. It is all stock with the exception of the Two Brothers slip ons, stick coil upgrade and one tooth up on the rear sprocket (the was not intentional). I have changed oil in this bike religiously. Very recently I have put more into this thing then I care to think about. I have recently cleaned and by that I mean stripped and dipped the carbs, replaced one of the vacuum diaphragms that was torn, replace the petcock cover assembly, replaced a vacuum value for the PAIR system on the side of the carbs, new plugs, new pulse gen., New stator, reg/rec was replaced about 7k moles ago, recently replaced air filters (sub filters are very important on these bikes), the bike was factory red but when Honda released the blue in 2005 I was going to trade on a new one and decided to just have mine painted. The tires have less than 1000 miles on them as do the chain and sprockets. I just this past weekend changed all the brake and clutch fluids. Also, when I cleaned the carbs I replaced 99% of the vacuum lines, new fuel lines, synced carbs (bike is setup for syncing with added port to front cylinder. Also replaced fuel screen when I did the petcock cover assembly. Brakes are good with roughly 70% life. Also changed the coolant when I did the pulse gen. Accessories include tank bra, Clear Alternative LED taillight and turn signals, tinted windscreen, Joe Rocket Phoenix riding jacket, one helmet, CD copy of the factory Honda Manual, Baha handle tiedown strap for towing. I will also include the stock taillight and some extra parts I have purchased over the years like an extra CDI box and computer. I have enjoyed this bike very much over the last 15 years but, I need to sell lack of riding and family. Bike has 27k, but I am going to ride some between now and selling. Asking $3,200.00 in South Carolina.

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PEORIA, AZ–The City of Peoria, Ariz. has deployed NVerzion’s CLASS automation platform and CloudNine video server for its PEG channel, allowing the public access station to fully operate in a file-based workflow to broadcast in HD.
Using the import and HD upconversion capabilities of the NVerzion CloudNine server allowed Peoria TV to broadcast their legacy SD content into HD almost immediately, according to Eric Rodriguez, video production and operations specialist at Peoria TV. It also brought more consistent picture quality to the channel. "We shoot, edit, and deliver in one consistent format now," said Rodriguez. “We are all 1080 across the whole station.” Previously they were forced to convert files to standard definition for broadcast and high definition for YouTube.
Rodriguez also noted that CloudNine’s cloud-based software allows compatible computers to contribute to the workflow. “No matter where I am in the city, CloudNine can be fed from anywhere,” he said.
According to NVerzion, more than 30 U.S. PEG channels have deployed its automation systems.
Part I of our interview with Carol Studenmund.
WCTV and WCPS, public, educational and government (PEG) channels in Chesapeake, Va., are going live with their closed captioning capabilities with the help of Enco’s enCaption3R3 system.


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Gauntlet Gallery is proud to present “ReDiscovery”, an art show inspired by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk. To celebrate the release of Daft Punk’s first album in eight years, Gauntlet Gallery will feature works by over 40 painters, sculptors , digital and screen print artists, each of whom has created an original work of art inspired by Daft Punk. With their modern disco sound and blend of house, funk, electronic and techno music, Daft Punk puts on one of the world’s most popular DJ performances. Their musical talent is matched only by the extraordinary visuals of their live performances. Daft Punk’s highly anticipated Random Access Memories is their fourth studio album and the first since the 2005 release of Human After All.
Participating artists : Aaron Jasinski, Andre De Freitas, Andrew Turner, Andrew Spear, Bennett Slater, Brad Hill, Aaron Brandon Schaefer, Cam Floyd, Campbell Whyte, Craig Drake, Dan Almasy, Dan Howard, Dave Greco, Gene Guynn, Gina Kiel, Jaime Cervantes, Jason Ratliff, Jason Liwag, Jen Rome, Jenn Mann, Jeremy Bernstein, Johannah O'Donnell, John Larriva , Joseph Vetoe, Justin VanGenderen, Liam Brazier, Mathias Valdez, Matt Leuing, Mike Bell, Nimit Malavia, Paul Shipper, Peter Adamyan, Phil Noto, Phillip Ellering, PJ McQuade, Rich Pellegrino, Rob Loukotka, Ruben Ireland, Ruel Pascual, Sam Ho , Scott Listfield, Serge Gay Jr, Soey Milk, Tim Maclean, Tim Maclean, Vaughn Pinpin, Will Arvin.


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text: Hotronix has added the Portable Heat Press Laser Alignment System, designed to increase efficiency when decorating apparel with heat transfers by precisely positioning and aligning graphics prior to application. The system includes four independently adjustable, flexible laser lights that can set placement for left chest, name and number, script, and other design layouts; the included Laser Alignment Wizard enables initial setup of five preprinted popular layouts. The unit requires 18 in. of space and features a solid steel base with rubber feet for counter or tabletop placement. Compatible with any brand of heat press, according to the company.


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The new polyurthane-based faux leather materials comes closer than any other material available in capturing the sumptuous aesthetics of fine leather. This material has a feel and breathable like comfort factor that is frankly, the best in a non-leather material. Manufactured with standards that are environmentally safe, this polyurethane-based material is totally different in feel and durability from other non-leather type materials like vinyl. It is approximately 40% cooler than vinyl and is much more durable supporting an abrasive resistant standard surpassing 50,000 double rubs. Offereing multiple grains, sueade type facings and iredesent finishes with lots of colors to choose from, this material can be used in homes for finer furniture, commercial work requiring an upper end quality of comfort with superior durability, cabin areas for yachts and luxury boats, aircraft seating, motorhomes and custom automobiles. This material is pliable enough to offer scrupling options in designing show-winning interiors for custom street rods.
One of the major drawbacks when constructing upholstery with leather is the waste involved. Hides being of animals, come in different sizes and configurations with different quality areas of the hide being used for different parts of the seating. Polyurthane materials alleviates this problem while offering the same quality of comfort. Polyurthane comes 54" wide and the edges of the material is the same quality as the middle - thus upholsterers may utilize all the material for what ever patterns is needed with the consumer getting as much value as possible with the material.
Polyurthane materials range in price from $40 - $65 a yard (depending on brand) and is sold in 1-yard increments. When constructing different types of upholstery in various applications using any 54" wide material, the part of the job cost is figured on how much material will be used on the running yard and not by the square foot (with vinyl's being sold in 1/3 yd increments). Rolled material goods are also sold in this format. Polyurthane materials being the first viable, practical alternative to leather, the cost comparison to leather is as follows: hides on the average are 50 sq. ft. per hide and good quality European hides are on the average $10.00 - $12.00 sq. ft. A hide would then be $500.00 - $600.00 per hide. Ultraleather HP being 54" wide, 1 yard = 13.5 square feet. $65.00 divided by 13.5 square feet comes to $4.81 sq. ft. - again with all the material being able to be used without the drawbacks of leather.
For further information on these polyurthane faux leathers, contact us.


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Transaero Airlines has announced its operational results for the first eight months of 2014, in which assenger traffic increased by 6.4 % and reached 9.03 million, including 6.41 million passengers carried on international routes and 2.62 million passengers carried on domestic routes. The growth of passenger traffic on domestic routes was 37.9%, which is the highest growth rate among the top five carriers in Russia.
Passenger load factor amounted to 84.7%, which is the best result among the top five Russian carriers. Transaero also carried 42,000 tonnes of cargo, a 3.7% growth over the same period of 2013. Cargo turnover on domestic routes reached 187.5 million TKM.
The number of passengers carried during August was more than 1.6 million, beating the previous record of 1.5 million set in July. Passenger turnover reached 5,244,802,000 RPK.
In August Transaero’s passenger traffic on international routes reached 1,208,019 passengers.

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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This is what the HUB looked like before we moved all the food and equipment in. We weren’t happy with the way the floors turned out when we had originally built the space. They always looked dirty and are really hard to clean, so we are having them refinished. Saturday night the kitchen crew spent a couple of hours after prepping all day moving everything out of the space. This Sunday and Monday the floors are getting sanded down, painted a darker gray and sealed with a hybrid-epoxy. It’s going to look a lot better.
Unfortunately that means we have to shut down tomorrow. Really sorry about the inconvenience. We’ll be back open Tuesday 7am with some sharp looking floors.


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Dorotea Gale was founded in order to appreciate and promote traditional Indonesian textiles developed over centuries that nowadays are part of our cultural heritage. By turning the textiles into practical and usable items, we try to keep those traditions alive and contribute to maintain the culture of local communities in an era of mass culture.
Everything is designed with quality and longevity in mind, to embrace the rise of slow, ethical fashion.
We aim to empower the customer by giving them the opportunity to make a conscious purchase and support world’s diversity and equity.
Our mission is to connect people with the items they use by offering products with a story behind them. Because when we connect emotionally with something we appreciate it and keep it longer.


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Sometimes all of us need someone to set us straight, especially during stressful midterm season. We need someone capable of capturing our angst and spitting it back at us with fervor. But why go to a trusted confidant for guidance when you can drown your feelings in a compilation of sassy female songstresses? Whether they leave you head banging and screaming out your aggression or crying in the fetal position, these women know how to pack about 20 different emotions into a two-minute indie ballad. Yes, you may find yourself attempting to quietly belt these songs in the midst of an exam.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer Karen O, who seems like a strictly disciplined badass in most of the band's songs, sheds her tough exterior in “Porcelain,” a very honest love song. It still has the typical pounding beats that Yeah Yeah Yeahs is known for, but the band bears all in this guitar and tambourine-only track, leaving O - and all of her heart-wrenching romance - exposed.
DiFranco's lyrics are poetry, and this song is no exception. Her somber voice combined with folksy laments of failed love will give you that “good cry” you've been waiting for, if you listen closely enough.
After all that sentimentality, you're bound to be angry, and Mirah has just what you're looking for. Her metaphorical garden is a paradise lost after her lover walks out on her. The bees are stinging, the flowers are wilting and the bass is dropping - a lot.
Lorde is here to bolster your confidence and rally you for more emotional turbulence. You don't need gold teeth, Grey Goose or ball gowns.
Most people know this as the song at the end of Juno, accompanying the scene in which Ellen Page and Michael Cera lay in a hospital bed together postpartum and a single tear slides down Page's cheek. It's much more than that. “Sea of Love” is a perfect expression of true love, wrapped up in a tiny, quiet and confident package.
Sia is nothing if not extremely clever. She dedicates her song to a blustery romance with numbers - or a painful passion for a nerdy logician incapable of emotional depth.
From what is arguably Spektor's best album Begin to Hope, “Summer in the City” tells the story of an unknown character who is spending a lonely, uninspired summer people-watching. Spektor's talents for telling compelling stories through her lyrics and playing experimental piano makes it easy to get a little too absorbed in her songs.
There's no one better to finish off this angry, emotion-riddled playlist than Fiona Apple, who can belt like no other. Each line in “Not About Love” erupts with a new insult to her significant other. At the same time, Apple adds a relatable, introspective edge. She's not in love, but she misses the happy feelings of passion that she's repressed.
Now that you've explored every emotion you thought you were capable of feeling - and some you're certain you've never felt before - studying for midterms should be simple.


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Each month I will describe sights of interest in the night skies of South Carolina. These sights will be broken down into three sections; what you can see with the naked eye, with binoculars, and with a small telescope. The best time to view the night sky is at and around the times when the Moon is not visible, what is known as a New Moon; which will occur this month on May 9th. For May, your best viewing nights will be from May 1st to the 14th, and May 28th to the 31st. The Star chart below is set for Florence, SC on May 15th at 9 pm.
As I mentioned last month, the return of the planet Saturn to the evening skies is of particular importance this year because the favorable tilt of the planet versus the Earth marks the beginning of an excellent eight-year viewing period. A classic Saturn image is shown below.
Of course, the image you will see through your amateur telescopes will be quite small and sometimes blurry, but still impressive. I have viewed Saturn through many telescopes over many years. Throughout this time, I have always enjoyed watching someone looking through my telescope and seeing Saturn for the first time; it is always an amazing response.
At various times ScienceSouth has free public astronomy events using the ScienceSouth Dobsonian reflector. We give people the chance to see spectacular views of the mountains and craters of the Moon. Also last year people viewed the planet Jupiter and its moons, and the upper cloud bands of Jupiter in color! Although these sights generated various amount of excitement, I never heard the big “wows” I hear when someone sees Saturn for the first time. The big ball of Jupiter looks quite nice, and the small fuzzy ball of Mars is OK, and some people even enjoy the fuzzy crescent of Venus; but Saturn is special. You can view hundreds of images of Saturn on the Internet, but there is something magical when your see it through your own eyes. So if you have a telescope, start viewing Saturn this month in the southeastern sky. Saturn will be in a good viewing position from mid-month onward starting about 9:30. Good viewing of Saturn will continue from now through July. However, if you have a good view of the western horizon, you can still view Saturn through August, and before it sets in September, it is then joined by a rising planet Venus.
To find Saturn this month, look to the southeast to see the pale yellow planet. If you are in doubt about its location, then turn your eyes to the north. Find the Big Dipper, and then follow the handle of the dipper to “arc to the star Arcturus” then continue on this arc/curve to the star Spica.” Saturn will be the bright object to the left and slightly below Spica. If you have dark skies, you will be able to note the contrast of the blue star Spica with the yellow planet Saturn. Below is the position of Saturn in relation to these two prominent stars in mid-April.
So what should you expect to see? With standard 7 (or 10) X 50 binoculars, Saturn will still look like a star. With 15 power binoculars (tripod needed) it will look like the star has “ears.” I regularly use 25 X 100 mm binoculars, and the rings of Saturn are clearly visible. Therefore, any scope you use from 25 power on up will allow you to see the rings of Saturn. Below are three likely views of Saturn as seen through amateur telescopes. The smaller blurry image represents what you might see with a very inexpensive discount store telescope (best to avoid). The other two images represent views from Dobsonian reflectors ranging from 6 to 10 inches. The bottom line is if you own any telescope, you can see the rings of Saturn; wow!!
Too often I hear a comment from people that the best time to view the Moon is when it is full. If you hear this comment, you can be sure that this person is truly new to the field of amateur astronomy. As we all know, a full Moon is too bright for viewing. Using a filter on your scope will reduce the brightness, but the view will be a disappointing flat looking surface. The only way to experience great lunar viewing is to utilize the shadows generated by the lunar mountains and craters. With that said, the best viewing of the Moon is from its crescent stage to the first quarter Moon. If you would like to try a great lunar viewing experience watch the Moon every night over a period of 3 to 5 days in a row. As the days progress, new craters and mountain ranges will appear with the stark shadows showing them in all their glory. The below image is similar to what we can see with our 10 inch Dobsonian scope.
Whenever ScienceSouth brings out our telescopes for planetary viewing on the streets of Florence, we always try to pick nights when the Moon is moving towards its first quarter. So I suggest you try the same approach when you go out to view Saturn this month. Bring out you telescopes anytime, or several times, from May 14th through May 17th, and you will have excellent views of both Saturn and the lunar surface. In addition try sharing this wonderful sight with some of your neighbors. It is amazing how many people have never seen Saturn or the mountains and craters of the Moon through a simple telescope.
Naked Eye Sights: Saturn rises in the east as Jupiter sets in the west. The constellation Leo the Lion will be the prominent sight as you look south.
Binocular Sights (7 to 10 power): M44 (The Beehive Open Cluster) in Cancer.

industry_corpus2: Technology & Research