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Highstock is a battle-tested, multi-platform charting library based on Highcharts.js, the leading SVG-based charting tool. It makes it easy to add interactive financial charts to your web, mobile and HTML desktop projects. It also offers a unique combination of built-in Technical Indicators and client-side annotation capabilities, making it a comprehensive, interactive, framework for financial analysis and trading, as well as general financial charting.
Works for most use-cases out of the box, with extensive customization options that are easy to use.
Intelligently adapts to any device and supports multi-touch gestures.
Fastest development, implementation and rendering on the market.
Since its first release in 2009, our charting tools have been developed with the most critical enterprise needs in mind. Our world-class development team work tirelessly to ensure that we remain lock-step with our users current and future needs, as well as legacy (back to IE6) support.
All our charting libraries work with any back-end database or server stack. Data can be given in any form, including CSV, JSON or loaded and updated live. Wrappers for most popular languages, such as .Net, PHP, Python, R, and Java, as well as iOS, and Android, and frameworks like Angular, Vue and React, are available from Highcharts or our community.
Default responsiveness goes beyond fitting the chart to the dimensions of its container but automatically finds an optimal placement for non-graph elements such as labels, legends and headings.
With annotations, developers may describe charts or data points by drawing simple shapes and text anywhere on the canvas or tethered to specific data points. Alternatively, the annotation module includes an API to build user interfaces, such as buttons, toolbars and dialogues, enabling end-users to place their own annotations on a chart. Placement and visibility of annotations intelligently respond to canvas/screen size at run-time.
Highcharts sports the industry’s most sophisticated accessibility support for visually impaired users, and users with keyboard navigation only, meeting and exceeding both Section 508 requirements and WCAG 2 guidelines. Also includes a basic sonification API, that supports multiple ways to bring data to life with sound.
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In most cases, charts look and behave exactly as you need without any modifications. For anything else, a simple options-structure allows for deep customization, and styling can be done via jаvascript or CSS. Highcharts is also extendable and pluggable for experts seeking advanced animations and functionality. Check out some advanced customizations in our community section, and plugins in our our extensions directory.
Thanks to the integration of TypeScript declarations, the Highcharts NPM package allows type checking for most Highcharts options and functions, including auto-complete code with integrated documentation for TypeScript-capable editors like Visual Studio Code.
Do you want to use Highcharts for a personal website, a school site or a non-profit organization? Just get yourself a free, non-commercial license. For commercial websites and projects, we offer flexible License and Pricing options, including special pricing for startups.
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The free Highcharts Editor enables developers to embed a full-featured charts editor to their CMS or web app with just a few lines of code. The Highcharts Cloud service is a hosted app with an intuitive editor, chart storage and embedding for anybody who wants to create and publish charts.
Numerous events supply hooks for programming against the charts, making it easy to demonstrate complex relationships between data with live, dynamic updates of data and customizable animations. Data can be handled over to Highcharts in any form, even from a different site, and a callback function used to parse the data into an array. Data can be handled over to Highcharts in any form, even from a different site, and a callback function used to parse the data into an array.
When your need to render thousands or millions of datapoints in the browser, our WebGL-powered Boost module delivers speed speed that leaves Plotly, dygraphs and other performance-focused charting libraries in the dust.
The largest developer community of any premium charting tool on Github, StackOverflow, and other forums is eager to offer additional assistance, platform-specific implementation advice and inspiration when you need it. In addition, we have half-a-dozen dedicated support engineers monitoring our forums, StackOverflow, GitHub and support emails.
Includes 40 popular technical indicators including SMA, MACD, CCI, RSI, Stochastic, Bollinger Bands, Pivot Points, PSAR, and Ichimoku Kinko Hyo. Developers may create their own custom indicators with minimal effort.
Creating web-based content or financial reports using Highstock 7 takes minimal effort. An interactive toolbar enables analysts and end-users the ability to annotate and apply various statistical calculations on any data-set without the aid of developers. Try our Stock tools demo to learn more.
For data arrays of hundreds of thousands of points, it wouldn’t be very effective for the browser to calculate the translated position for each one and render then all on what is often a 800px wide canvas. With Highstock’s built-in data grouping facility, data is blazingly fast grouped into optional groups like months or days, and displayed. When zooming in on smaller ranges, the grouping is redone and you can inspect the full resolution data.
While navigating a large dataset, perhaps hourly values over several years, it is important for the charting library to provide a quick way to view a certain time range. Highstock provides a range selector where the user can zoom in on preselected time ranges like 1m, 1y or YTD, or manually add date ranges. Furthermore, Highstock intelligently determines where to place the ticks so that they always mark the start of the month or the week, midnight and midday, the full hour etc. Additionally, it is easy to add tooltip text with information on each point and series or place event-markers and annotations directly related to interesting data-points.
Default responsiveness goes beyond fitting the chart to the dimensions of its container, but automatically finds an optimal placement for non-graph elements such as legends and headings.
Our elegant charts render crisp and clear at any resolution and are easily styled via jаvascript or CSS.
Numerous events supply hooks for programming against the charts, making it easy to demonstrate complex relationships between data with live, dynamic updates of data and customizable animations. Data can be handled over to Highcharts in any form, even from a different site, and a callback function used to parse the data into an array.
Touch-optimized charts allow for a native experience on mobile and touch screens. Single touch-drag for data inspection, multi-touch for zooming, and more.
Highcharts sports the industry’s most sophisticated accessibility support for visually impaired users, and users with keyboard navigation only, meeting and exceeding both Section 508 requirements and WCAG 2 guidelines. Also includes an experimental sonification API, that supports multiple ways to bring data to life with sound.
When you buy Highstock, the industry-leading Highcharts library is also included, which provides an additional 30 different chart types. Both libraries are based upon HTML5, are lightweight and congruent with the latest technological developments.

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Directions Highway 101 to NE Neotsu Dr. To NE Johns Ave. Stay on NE Johns Ave to property. Lot is before you reach NE 40th Street.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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'The Countdown to a Christmess Advent-ure' is a fantastic personalised interactive advent story book, where the child gets a daily surprise and gets to make a mess!
This book has a new section of the story for every day of advent, with a sticker and a space for the child to scribble, helping to save Christmas from the Mess Monster! On each page, your child can scribble in the relevant section and then remove the sticker to reveal the surprise illustration underneath. The scribble completes the image and tells the next step of the story.
Our Christmas advent book is sure to delight any child, regardless of their artistic talent. Their 24 scribbles turn out to be anything from chimney smoke, to Santa’s beard and even a smelly sprouty fart!
The book is 28 pages long and is personalised along the way, featuring the child’s name on the front and back cover and on every single page throughout. The stickers ensure that there is a daily surprise and are designed to be removed without damaging the image underneath.
Perfect from whenever your child can hold a pencil (as all that's required is scribbles!) to when they leave primary school.
The book is made from high quality paper and binding. The pages are made from paper suitable for drawing on and the stickers are designed to be removed without damaging the image underneath.
Proudly designed and printed in Devon, UK. All the books are signed and dated by the illustrator and author Lucy Tapper.
This book takes 5 - 7 days for delivery, so Express Delivery is not available on this product.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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text: Tadeusz Pióro (b.1960) is a poet and translator who spent his childhood in Africa and studied English and American literature at the universities of Washington and California, Berkeley. He has published books of poetry and has translated works by Joyce, De Man and Ashbery, among others. He is also a lecturer in the English department of Warsaw University and a writer on books and food for various Polish magazines.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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ARTICLE – WHAT MASS KILLERS WANT — AND HOW TO STOP THEM by Ari N. Schulman in The Wall Street Journal.
STUDY – Visually Reporting Mass Shootings: U.S. Newspaper Photographic Coverage of Three Mass School Shootings by Nicole Smith Dahmen, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
ARTICLE – FBI ADOPTS “DON’T NAME THEM CAMPAIGN” asks media: Not to name mass shooters.
LISTEN – HOW THE MEDIA CAN PREVENT MASS SHOOTINGS. Forensic psychologist Dr. Park Dietz worries the media has encouraged copycats of mass shootings.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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Today we’re headed out of Christchurch on a train to the west coast. There, we’ll pick up a car and do some touring before we head roughly towards Antarctica to see the rest of the South Island over the next week or so. In this pre-GPS, pre-Internet, pre-smartphone era, we will be navigating with paper maps around a country we’ve never visited, while driving on the wrong side of the road.
There is one hitch in our plans. Laura has food poisoning from lunch yesterday. It was a rough night, and we awake wondering if riding a train through the mountains is the best way to start the day. Laura’s feeling better, so we decide to go for it.
Off to the train station to catch the TranzAlpine – four hours through the mountains to Greymouth on the west coast of the island. The TranzAlpine is billed as “New Zealand’s most scenic train ride.” It’s a great trip through Arthur’s Pass National Park and down towards the Tasman Sea. We have mist and rain, so we don’t get the full view. This is still a stunning ride though.
Once we clear the Canterbury Plains, we start up the Southern Alps. Laura’s doing fine, so we settle in and enjoy the view. We only jump out once, at Arthur’s Pass, to soak in the highest spot on the route (and soak in some raindrops). Then it’s back on the train and down to our destination at the mouth of the Grey River. The weather starts to clear on the west side of the Alps. This is good news, since our next destination involves an outdoor hike right along the coast.
But before we get to our hike we have more logistics. In Greymouth, we claim our rental car. Ah, the open road! We talk to the agent (“Thank you very much, we’re very happy.”) briefly, and she offers no instructions at all. I remind her that we are from the U.S. and ask if she has any instructions. She says, “Just don’t take the car down any gravel roads.” Okay then. We go around the corner to find the car, which is a lavender Ford, and put our luggage in the trunk.
I ask Laura if she wants to start out. She declines. Okay then. I get behind the wheel on the wrong side of the car and start driving. As Laura observed later, it might have been a good idea to go around town a little bit first, but I was more worried about multi-lane streets and stoplights with right-turn arrows, so I hit the Coast Road (Highway 6) and started north towards our hike.
It is scary driving a two lane road with traffic whizzing by the other direction off your wrong shoulder. I’m cheating a bit away from the center line, but since we’re heading north, that’s putting Laura uncomfortably close to the steep dropoff to the Tasman Sea. We just can’t win. Lots of laughing and shrieking as we get the hang of keeping to the left.
Our destination is the Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and Blowholes, about 40 minutes north of Greymouth where the south end of Paparoa National Park meets the sea. This is quite a spot. Tropical plants, pancake-shaped rock formations, blowholes, a very angry Tasman Sea, and the weather changes every minute or two. It’s a tough day for photography, but we keep trying. The loop trail is supposed to take twenty minutes, but we spend nearly an hour in this weird space on the edge of the island. We’re on the west coast, but this is the Tasman Sea, and the Pacific Ocean is the east coast here. Somewhere over yonder is Tasmania. Somewhere down that way is Antarctica.
The sky begins to brighten as we finish the loop. The sea is still angry, but we welcome some sun. This is as far north as we’ll be for a few days; we turn south and return to Greymouth for a late lunch and then continue further south to Hokitika.
In Greymouth, we learn the big news of the day. Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, has been captured by authorities in Montana. Kaczynski was notorious enough for his acts of domestic terrorism that he made the news in New Zealand.
There isn’t a whole lot to Hokitika, except some beach hotels, a beach, and a few restaurants. The Southland Hotel isn’t much to look at from Revell Steet, but the view’s out back anyway. It feels like we’ve come a lot further from Christchurch than we actually have. That’s what I call a good day.
The Southland Hotel is now called the Beachfront Hotel. The Unabomber is still serving the first of his eight consecutive life sentences.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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When you make Hytest your safety footwear partner, you do more than protect your workers' feet. You bolster employee morale and job satisfaction. Increase productivity. Reduce lost time and workman's comp payouts. And make the most of a prime opportunity to build goodwill between your company and the workforce that makes it tick.
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To get the right safety footwear onto your worker's feet as quickly and simply as possible, HYTEST serves you with three primary channels. We can also work with you to develop a customized solution to fit the needs of your workplace.
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Second wave. Aircraft badly damaged by flak on outward flight. Returned to base with mine intact.
Frank Ernest Appleby was born in 1921 in Eastbourne, Sussex. He volunteered for the RAF at the age of 18, in August 1939 a few weeks before the outbreak of war. He was assigned to ground crew as a maintenance engineer, but then trained as a flight engineer.
Appleby crewed up with Les Munro, Grant Rumbles, Bill Howarth and Percy Pigeon while at 1654 Conversion Unit in October 1942. He had completed some 18 operations with Munro in 97 Squadron when they were all transferred to 617 Squadron in March 1943.
The Munro crew’s participation on the Dams Raid came to a premature end after they were hit by flak crossing the Dutch coast. They were next back in action two months later on the squadron’s next operation, where they flew on to a base in the newly liberated Algeria after attacking Italian power stations. Appleby went on to serve as Munro’s flight engineer right through to the end of the crew’s tour in July 1944.
Sorties 39. Flying Hours 248.25.
Flight Sergeant Appleby has completed 39 operational sorties as a Flight Engineer against heavily defended targets in Germany, Italy and France. He began operating in January 1943, and chose on the expiration of his first tour to carry on without a rest period. He has always enjoyed the complete confidence of his captain by his capable handling of the engines. When the aircraft has been heavily engaged by enemy defences, he has always displayed exceptional calmness and presence of mind. Since volunteering in March 1943 to join a special duties squadron, his utter contempt for personal safety and unflinching courage have proved an inspiration to all his crew. He is therefore strongly recommended for the award of the Distinguished Flying Medal. (10 April 1944).
Although he was a firm believer in a bomber crew’s strict hierarchy (the pilot was “the leader, the boss, the director of what went on in the aircraft”), the ever-cautious Munro eventually had enough confidence in the man who sat next to him for so long.
[Munro] learnt that many pilots handed over the controls to their flight engineer on their way home. “This practice became more common as the risk of Jerry night fighter attack diminished. I must admit that it was a long time before I was prepared to hand over the controls to Frank and when I did he handled them quite well. When I was confident of his ability to stick to the course and height I would take over from the gunners in their turrets and get a feel for their contribution to the team effort.” John Sweetman, Bomber Crew, Abacus 2005, pp.111-2.
Munro and all his crew were finally taken off operations in July 1944, each of them having completed more than 50 sorties. Appleby went on to serve in various administrative and training functions in the RAF until the end of the war, when he returned to civilian life.
Frank Appleby died in Sussex in 1996.

industry_corpus2: Aerospace


text: Mustang Cologne by Estee Lauder, Launched in 2007, this cologne opens with the bright bold aroma of lavender, ginger and lemon . A heart of pipe tobacco and cedarwood, evokes a daring ruggedness. The masculine notes of amber, fir balsam and patchouli make up the base giving the scent an appealing aura for all men.


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The magnification capabilities of this microscope range between 10X to 220X, which means that it can be utilized for examining large-sized specimens such as parasites.
Since it’s equipped with a USB port, this model can be utilized with a computer or laptop in order to visualize the images using these devices.
This low-power alternative can enable users to save stills and videos of the samples using the JPEG and MJPEG formats.
The built-in photo camera featured by this Mustcam unit has a resolution of 1080P.
A microSD card storage port is available, as well, and it is compatible with cards with a capacity of up to 32GB.
It has a light source consisting of eight LED bulbs and the intensity of the brightness can be customized using the control wheel.
The microscope weighs in at just 2.2 pounds.
Despite the fact that this model is not intended for examining smears and the cellular structure of tissue samples, it does a great job when it comes to magnifying the image from 10X to 220X. The many uses of this magnification range include teaching and both human and veterinary medicine, as the person using the microscope can visualize the details of parasites, skin tissue, hair samples, and others.
Because of its somewhat simple design, this unit should be utilized with a laptop or a computer using the provided USB port. This means that you’ll be able to look at the images with the help of the display of the previously mentioned devices, therefore avoiding having to adjust your eyesight to any eyepieces.
The images and video files can be saved in JPEG and MJPEG formats, respectively. While the video format might be less common, the picture one is undoubtedly widespread nowadays, so you won’t have to convert the shots thanks to separate software.
The 1080P camera resolution is an advantage in itself as it can allow owners get crystal clear pictures and video in the HD format currently recognized by most screens.
In the event that you will not be utilizing your own computer when examining specimens on the field, it’s reassuring to know that this product also features a microSD port that you can utilize for cards of up to 32GB. What this means is that you will be able to save the pictures right on the card.
This microscope comes with a light source that consists of eight LED bulbs. The brightness can be adjusted depending on the circumstances by simply utilizing the control wheel that this unit has been equipped with. This detail gives a whole new meaning to ease of use.
The weight of the product will never be too cumbersome as 2.2 pounds are more than reasonable and can assist you in transporting the device to the location where its services might be required.
Several owners have been bugged by the inability to save images in the resolution that they are being displayed on the screen. Unfortunately, it appears that all of the saved files are up to 2 megabytes, which means that the picture could be too small to showcase in a scientific publication in a journal.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Stoat men are humanoid versions of the common stoat and a species of unremarkable animal people, found in savage taigas and tundras. They are a little over half the size of dwarves when adults and spawn in groups of 1 to 5 individuals. They should pose no threat unless provoked.
Like other savage animal people, stoat men may occasionally join civilizations, becoming full-fledged citizens who may appear in your fortress as visitors or be playable in adventurer mode.
Some dwarves like stoat men for their ability to take down large prey.
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The Cruiser 50 is an updated version of Visionary with input from our experience with the larger C60. It is a comfortable, easy to handle, light weight, safe family cruiser for 2 parents and up to 4 kids to live on, 2 families to short term cruise on with sleeping for 8, a dining table for 8 and comfortable partying room for 20, all of whom get a seat in the shade. Compared to Visionarry, it has a more modern appearance with fewer curves going the “wrong way”. Undoubtedly, it is still a harryproa, but more stylish.
Spherical rendering – View from the outside steering position. Click, pan, zoom.
The lee hull has 2 big single bunks in a single or separate cabins, one of which could be made into a shower/toilet or used for storage. The windward hull has the same 2 queen size bunk layout that Visionarry has, but these are now in separate cabins, complete with their own toilet and shower.
In a harryproa first, the door is offset and the saloon is not symmetrical! The saloon area is larger, with a table for 8 and a galley on the same level to allow the cook to see out and be part of the socializing. There is a multi purpose seat which can fold out into a day bed, slide across to make another seat at the table or be used to house the fridge/freezer. Alternatively, the saloon layout is easily customised to suit other layouts. The standard harryproa below deck ventilation arrangement means cool air is easily drawn in, or the boat can be closed up to keep it warm.
Spherical rendering – Galley view. Click, pan, zoom.
The successful fore and aft toy box from the C60 has ben included. As well as an easily accessible location for the ‘toys’, it places the winches and jammers close to the helmsman, eliminates the need for an anchor winch, places the anchor and chain storage near the centre of the boat and stiffens the bridgedeck. The toy box also provides seating for a dozen people, with another dozen on the beams and seats at the ends of the cockpit.
While the ballestron rig is still an option, the schooner rig makes shunting easier and opens up the lee hull for accommodation or storage. The rig size has increased by 22%, making a fast boat considerably faster, but without any more effort. The result is sailing effortlessly at wind speed, without extras, between 5 and 20 knots, tacking through 90 degrees and no limits on downwind sailing angles.
Most multihull sailors reduce sail at night rather than risk being caught in a squall and having to reduce sails which are flogging or pressed hard against the shrouds. The harryproa set up means the boat can be completely depowered by releasing the lightly loaded sheets (no vang loads) and the boat will drift with the sails docile and weathercocked. They can be left like this until the squall passes, be easily reefed or slightly sheeted on to provide steerage speed. The peace of mind from this is enormous.
Further peace of mind comes from the unstayed rigs. There is no need to climb them or remove them to check the fittings, nor any worry about which little piece might break and cause the lot to fall down. An unstayed carbon mast needs no maintenance apart from a coat of paint every 15 years or so.
The wishbone booms are lighter than the ballestron and eliminate the need for lazy jacks and all the hook ups they cause, and keep the booms clear of any unsuspecting heads. They also make covering the sails a much less onerous task. Drop the sail into the bag under the boom and pull on the zip. Reefing, raising and lowering the sails can be done on any point of sail, in any wind strength, without needing to touch the sail at any stage. The booms are self vanging with a single control line (choker) to adjust leech and foot tension, making the sheet loads significantly less than they are on a conventional rig.
Simple, integral, fail safe halyard locks are standard, reducing the load on the mast and the required halyard size. The halyards and sheets are lead to the winches next to the wheel so all sail handling is done from the security of the cockpit and within easy reach of the helmsman. Sail handling is easy on Visionarry, it is even easier on the Cruisers.
The rudders are 2 way sections, so they can be much closer to the hull and do not have to rotate through 360 degrees. They are liftable for balance, shallow water or storm survival and kick up in a collision. In terms of drag and spray, they are a significant improvement on Visionarry. They are also considerably stronger and easier to lift and lower.
The steering wheel pedestal is on a simple axle so it can be used inside or outside the cabin simply by moving the wheel. Transmission is by easily installed and adjusted low stretch line. The single wheel turns both rudders at once to steer the boat, but a simple disconnect allows them to be turned together for getting off a jetty against the wind, crabbing to windward or locking off one and steering with the other.
The dinghy ramp on Visionarry works well, but limits the tender size. We firmly believe that a big tender is far more useful (longer range, more payload, higher speed, more stability, etc) and safer than a small one, as long as it can be easily handled. The Cruiser tender is 6.5m/22′ long and is attached to a substantial hinge on the back of the beam. The stern is raised and lowered with a block and tackle so it doubles as a sled for the outboard and provides auxiliary power for the mothership. Getting in and out of the tender is a much less risky proposition than boarding via stern steps. The oputboard on the tender can be large, allowing the mothership to motor at 15 knots when becalmed and the tender to exceed 25. An advantage of a seaworthy tender and a wide, stable mothership is the opening up of non marina solutions for overnight visits.
Anchoring offshore becomes feasible if you can comfortably motor ashore. Saves the cost of the marina, and guarantees a peaceful night.
When sailing, the tender sits flush with the deck. Access to the lee hull is via the tender deck. When the tender is not in place, a slatted deck can be rolled out to cover the gap.
If a smaller tender is required, a double bulkhead can be installed and the tender split in two, with the front section suitable for rowing, sailing or a small outboard and the aft section hooked onto the beam as auxiliary.
The tender is an excellent project to learn about intelligent infusion before starting on the big boat.
Fore and aft rudders and a steerable outboard make manoeuvring with a single outboard a workable proposition, but for those boats which operate in tight spaces, a lightweight, liftable electric outboard could be mounted on a tube next to the helm, providing simple 360 degree thrust to push the boat in any direction.
Visionarry is strip planked timber, with all the sticky, dusty mess and wastage that this involves. The Cruisers are “intelligently infused” using foam and fibreglass. Intelligent infusion includes as much of the build as possible in the infusion. All the work is done using dry materials in a simple mould which does not require sanding or polishing.
What does this mean? Conventional boat builders build the hull, then the deck in three stages (inner laminate, core and outer laminate) and join them together prior to the fit out which entails trimming and fitting every component, then filletting and tabbing it in place. Everything is then sanded, filled and faired prior to painting. Intelligent infusion aims to do as much of this as possible using dry, easily cut and handled materials (glass and foam) in easily made low cost moulds. Once everything is prepared, a vacuum bag is placed over it and resin sucked in (infusion). The entire job is wet out, with the perfect amount of resin, no voids and minimal waste. All in one 40 minute shot.
Some of the tasks that can be included in the infusion are: perfectly fitting doors, hatches and windows and all the edging and rebates that these require; landings and edge treatments for the bulkheads, shelves and furniture; male/female joins for the hull components; solids and/or variable laminates and core thicknesses where required. All surfaces can be ready for painting or gluing, with the option of including fancy (timber, woven carbon, melamine, etc) finishes. Post infusion, the pieces are all glued together using the slots and joins. Apart from shaping and glassing the polystyrene bow pieces, there is no sanding, grinding or cutting of cured glass, no bogging or fairing and no wet laminating.
The approximate material cost for the composite parts of the C50 is $AUS50,000, about what the Visionarry materials cost 15 years ago. The build time is impossible to estimate as no 2 builders are the same. Suffice to say, it will be near enough half the time it would take using conventional methods. The time and weight saved are important, the lack of dust, hard work and wastage make building a much more enjoyable job, and one that requires far less skill.
Approximate Building Time: The build time is impossible to estimate as no 2 builders are the same. Suffice to say, it will be near enough half the time it would take using conventional methods. Please check with Rob for the most current price for materials.
*Note: additional payload (water/fuel tanks, small generator, batteries, stowage, personal gear, etc) over and above the 2 tonnes can be added to the lee hull at the expense of speed, but not seaworthiness.

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A few weeks ago I wrote about my participation in Car Free Day 2009. Some 5,000 cyclists came together for the event. On my way back from the event, my rear wheel punctured a few blocks from home. I didn’t have a spare tube handy and needed to go to the bike shop to buy one. Since I’ve had the bicycle for three years and haven’t yet brought it in for service, I figured I would kill two proverbial birds with one stone.
All I had to do was repair the broken parts on my Thule bicycle rack.
You may recall that in February, Peter, Stuart and I went for a bike ride in Minburi, east of Krungthep, and our ride unexpectedly doubled in length when the bicycle rack failed on the way home. Tawn drove out in a taxi and took the car and rack home while the three of us rode the extra thirty kilometers back.
The rack, made by Swedish manufacturer Thule, is the model shown above. It is adjustable, attaches to the rear of your car, and – according to the picture – can hold three bicycles. In reality, the plastic pieces that hold the metal arms perpendicular bent under the weight of our three bicycles, causing the rack to collapse and the bicycle tires to drag on the road.
Here’s a closer view of the schematics showing how the metal arms assemble using this plastic disc to hold them. The arrows indicate the edge that failed.
Not wanting to throw out an otherwise usable (and expensive) piece of equipment, I started the process of finding replacement parts. Unable initially to find a local number, I tried the North America customer service number, which connected me with someone in Quebec. He searched for the model number and said it wasn’t in their database. After taking my email address so he could do more research, Thierry responded a few days later that he couldn’t locate any information for that model. Dead end.
Asking around at a few local bicycle shops, I learned that Thule actually had a company store in the Central World Plaza mall. Sure enough, it was an emporium of racks. Speaking with the person working there, he confirmed that such a replacement part did exist in the system, but it could take more than four months to receive from Sweden. He told me this in a way that suggested he wasn’t keen to actually order it.
That seemed a bit ludicrous. I returned to the Thule website and found an email address for a regional sales manager in SE Asia. After a returned email – “This address not valid.” – I tried the Thule global customer service address. A few days later a response finally arrived. It was the form of a carbon copy of a message to another regional sales manager and the person in charge of the local store, gently admonishing them for making it so difficult for me to get the replacement part.
As the regional manager promised, the part was waiting for me four weeks later at the local shop. The cost – about US$ 4.00 per part.
The old part still in place. Note the damage in the lower left side.
Comparison of the new part, left, and the old part. Interesting to notice that they actually changed the structural design of the part. I wonder if this is just a different manufacturing process or a response to a design flaw?
Even thought I received the spare parts several months ago, there hadn’t been a need to transport my bicycle anywhere by car since then. Now that I had a need, I finally got myself into gear and ten minutes later had changed the parts.
New parts installed, bicycle with flat rear tire loaded up for the drive to the shop.
A snail demonstrating the speed at which I would have traveled if I had not had the bicycle rack repaired and had had to walk the bike to the shop instead!
$60 later, my bicycle has been cleaned up, tuned up, had the cables, chain, brakes and sprockets replaced, and is ready to ride again. And I have a working rack once more.
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Congratulations for negotiating the maze to find the parts needed. You are either very adroit or just lucky – I can never get that kind of response. Glad your bike and rack are in working order again – Go Green!
I don’t think I really enjoy riding bicycles in SF.Bicyclists have the worst attitude here in the city, even worse than drivers.
Glad everything is well again. What a story. It’s so frustrating when companies give you the runaround like that; just to get something done that they should handle in the first place. Looking at the design of the new part, it APPEARS that they realized the structural design flaw and redesigned it. Notice the directionality of the supports, and the increased density, as well as the way the force applied is distributed along so many more supports. The old design just warped because a sheer force was applied to single supports that failed one after another.
The old piece looks melted.
Incidentally, I have a Thule bike rack too, but it’s the cast iron “L-Shaped” one. Haha~Chris, you could have called Curry @ LA and your part will be at you doorstep in a week! There are an abundance of Thule dealers here.
What a PITA! At least you got it done. How big is that snail? It looks like a monster snail from the scale of the picture!
YAY!!! Is that a Cefiro???
@murisopsis – Lucky, I think.@Wangium – Bicyclists in SF are a bit arrogant sometimes.@chow@ireallylikefood – That was what I was thinking, too. I was almost going to find someone to hand-craft them out of metal for me.@CurryPuffy – Yeah, but I think the model I have isn’t a North America model. That’s why when I called their NA number the person in Quebec couldn’t find it for me.@TheCheshireGrins – The snail that ate Bangkok!!! About four inches head to toe.@yang1815 – Indeed it is. A dirty one that is about 11 years old and needs a wash.
The picture of the “giant” escargot startled me. It certainly looks like they’ve added more internal support to that part to carry and perhaps distribute the weight more effectively.
@christao408 – And yeah certainly looks like revised design for support.Those Cefiros last for a long time! Too bad we don’t have them anymore in the States. Used to be Infiniti I30.
I think you are the only one I know, who can write some heart wrenching episode of your life one day and turn around and write the most mundane thing, and make it look as if I am reading a great novel. I am glad you got your problem solved Chris. The new part looks very good and clean.
@yang1815 – Despite a little chipping paint on the outside mirrors (getting hit by motorbikes, etc) the car is still very comfortable and runs beautifully. Don’t see the need to change it for at least a few more years.@ElusiveWords – Something totally different from the theme of bicycles and cycling seemed a nice contrast.@ZSA_MD – Well, the timing is a little deceptive. The coming out story was written a few weeks in advance and had been staged on the site as private posts. All I did was switch them on day by day. The later entries were written with a clear heart since my catharsis in the writing was well past.


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Welcome to the RepRap wiki page! This will serve as a knowledge base for everything we've worked out on the RepRap Folgertech 2020 Forum Thread and various other places.
The information in this wiki and the info here: https://github.com/cyberkni/FolgertechManuals/tree/master/2020i3 are meant to address the common issues that arise when building this printer. Please read both since it's not clear which source will be the most up-to-date. The link is a revised version of Folgertech's official build instructions (with pictures). Under more recent development is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eFqViNT0CsEdvpz9_bgYhEBXHmNKKkTfeloEk1y3swg/edit?usp=sharing, which contains a Bill of Materials, a revision log, and is having detailed pictured added to it in an ongoing basis.
Angle brackets - One of the first steps is to mount some angle brackets with M4 bolts. The heads of these bolts are not really big enough to hold the brackets securely. Pushing the bolts to the ends of the slots can get by but it's best to add some washers under the heads.
Loose SK8 brackets - The chrome rods for the Y axis are supported by 4 SK8 brackets. It's often difficult or impossible to tighten these enough to actually hold the rods securely. A few wraps of tape can be used around the rods to help the brackets grip better.
Z axis motor mounting - The instructions call for using 3 screws and T nuts to mount each motor. This will result in a misaligned printer! The 3rd screw that goes into the vertical 20x20 extrusion should be left out and only the two that go into the top horizontal extrusion should be used. When fully assembled the two vertical chrome rods should be parallel to each other and the vertical frame.
Heated bed position - If the instructions are followed the writing on the heated bed will be upside down when installed. If you aren't ok with that then the solder connections should face the front and the wires should run under the bed before coming out the back.
Extrusion Motor - If you follow the directions for plugging the extrusion motor into the ramps board then the extrusion motor will spin backward. Simply flip the extrusion motor plug over (so the red wire is to the left) and plug it back into the ramps board. Now your extrusion motor should spin in the correct direction.
Hotend Thermister - The way the thermister is mounted in the hot end with a brass ferule crimped over it often leads to problems. The crimping can sever a lead from the thermister or break through the insulation over the leads and cause shorts. A quick check with an Ohm meter can diagnose many thermister issues. Replacement thermisters are easily found on Amazon and ebay.
Poor Soldering - The RAMPS boards, Arduino boards and other printed circuits provided by Folger often have poor quality workmanship. Before powering them it's a good idea to inspect for any solder bridges (multiple pins connected together) or missing solder connections.
Missing Parts - Folger seems to have gotten better about this lately but just because all of the listed parts are included doesn't mean there may not be "missing" parts due to changes in the parts provided vs. what's listed in the manual. Sometimes longer or shorter bolts or different styles of bolts may be substituted. It's also not uncommon to receive parts that aren't even used in the build.
You can use Beyond Compare 4 to compare your old Marlin verison to the latest version.
This is a simple print upgrade that will recover some height lost by the Z-axis motors being mounted directly on the top rail. Print these raisers to gain about 40mm of print height.
This is a Y-Axis upgrade which replaces the cheap linear bearings and 8mm rods with an Openbuilds (OB) V-Slot Gantry and rail system.
Noise reduction is huge with this upgrade, accuracy is increased and overall stiffness of the Y-Axis is also increased. This system is up and running on my printer along with a few others (although there are a few variation in the assembly). It is still a work in progress but can be completed in it's current state.
Gen-2 Is in the works, it utilizes an offset belt drive system which in turn will allow the main rail to be cut within the original boundaries of the frame work. This design is being developed to allow an enclosure to be used while still providing the original build volume. It should require no additional OB hardware to complete, only a few printed parts will vary.
This is a X-Axis upgrade which replaces the cheap linear bearings and 8mm rods with an Openbuilds (OB) V-Slot Mini Gantry and rail system. There will also be two iterations of this upgrade, Gen-1 and Gen-2.
Gen-1 is a standard verison, it is setup vary similar to the original verison with the stepper motor extending out beyond the frame work.
Noise reduction is huge with this upgrade, accuracy is increased and overall stiffness of the X-Axis is also increased. This system is up and running on my printer along with a few others (although there are a few variation in the assembly). It is still a work in progress but can be completed in it's current state.
Gen-2 will once again move the rail and stepper motor within the original boundaries of the frame work. This design is also being developed to allow an enclosure to be used while still providing the original build volume. It will require some additional OB hardware to complete, and printed parts will vary.
Gen-2 is installed in the testing phase.
First upgrade to therippa's version of Marlin found here. The X-endstop will also need to be moved to the left side of the X-carriage.
The following changes to the configuration.h file are necessary. Note: these instructions are for an inductive sensor, such as LJ18A3-8-Z/AX, for other types of sensors, other changes may be necessary.
Note: if the line has a title it it's been included here to make it easier to find the line that needs changing, below it are only the lines that need changed (lines that remain unchanged have been omitted here, if it has no title, only the line that needs changed is noted.
NOTE: The values below will need to be changed to match your setup, the Z value MUST be negative or your nozzle will crash into the bed before the sensor tells it to stop.
These instruction are based on Marilin 1.1.0RC3, they are a guideline to get you close. You will be responsible for your own fine tuning based on your current printers mechanical configuration.
EX: Lead Screw Type - Extruder Type (Bowden/Direct) - Dual Extruders - Etc.
If not already done the X-endstop will need to be moved to the left side of the X-carriage.
You will need a mount for the sensor, there are a few on thingi, but you might need to design your own based on your extruder and X-Axis of choice. When designing a mount keep in mind that the retracted position of the probe needs to be above the height of the Nozzle, and the extended position below. I know this sounds obvious, but many people have made this mistake.
If you are going to use the 5V power directly from the Ramps Board make sure you install the a jumper between Vcc & 5V (see videos below) so power is supplied the the servo rail. Some people have success with this setup others have had problems. If you are experiencing abnormal behavior in the BLtouch (or your servo setup) try using a separate power source. This can be done with either a voltage regulator wired into the Ramps Board or a small power supply similar to a table phone charger.
Make the following changes In your Configuration.h file.
4. Check your BLTouch sensor offset to your extruder!!
Using the manual controls on your printer host run G28 and make sure it works.
Run G28 immediately followed by G29 to make sure Auto Leveling is working.
Then add the G29 command to your Start G-Code just after G28.
Note: You can add this line "M280 P0 S160" before G28, it is an "Alarm Release" which will assure your Bltouch it not in "Alarm Mode" prior to printing.
Use one of the following videos to complete the hotend offset settings.
ZennmasterM This is a 3 part guide, parts 2 and 3 explain the firmware changes and final setup.
The Servo/Micro Switch setup should be identical the the BLtouch setup above with one exception, you need to set your SERVO_ENDSTOP_ANGLES in the Marlin Firmware (config-h file).
It will be the last two values (in bold print above).
Follow the guide in ZinnmasterM's Video Series to determine the angles of the arm for your printer.
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There is more to consider when learning and teaching English pronunciation than simply phonemic accuracy.
If the other person understands the other, then the primary goal has been achieved. Niceties come later, but there has to be sufficient accuracy for communication, otherwise it's a waste of time.
Could you please elaborate a bit on what you mean by "niceties" in this case?
Basic comprehensibility must come first, then we can worry about rising and falling intonation with tag questions.
Ah of course. I understand that and agree. But I'm not exactly driving at that sort of thing.
One thing I'm thinking about here is natural stress patterns, as well as natural intonation patterns. There's more. More later I think.
I've snuck back to the pc. I have to go back downstairs before I'm caught.
No, not caught. More later.
the ability to make the individual sounds of letters and letter combinations in the correct way - I think there is more to good pronunciation than simply being able to produce the sounds correctly.
I read "phonemic accuracy" on a document or site. I find it to be a useful term when talking about pronunciation. Understanding more about pronunciation can help one to hear and understand English better in some cases.
Would you include weak and stressed forms in that, or would they be part of your wider picture?


text: New other means: Brand New item, never used, never installed, old stock, boxes show dust, marks, tears, dings; The Switch, Power Supply and installation screws are mint and perfect. The item “NEW other Regal 8-way Multi-Switch SMS-8 AC 120v A/V CATV 40-2150 mhz satellite” is in sale since Tuesday, October 24, 2017. This item is in the category “Consumer Electronics\TV, Video & Home Audio\TV, Video & Audio Accessories\Satellite Signal Multiswitches”. The seller is “justtryingtoearnaliving” and is located in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Russian federation, Israel, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica.


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A rare reversal pattern consisting of a gap followed by a Doji that is then followed by another gap in the opposite direction. The shadows on the Doji must completely gap below or above the shadows of the first and third day.
The absolute value of the difference between the advancing issues and the declining issues. Developed by Norman Fosback, ABI shows how much activity and volatility is taking place on the New York Stock Exchange while totally ignoring the price direction.
An indicator based on the difference between two exponential moving averages, expressed in absolute terms. Also known as the MACD indicator, the APO is calculated by subtracting the longer EMA from the shorter EMA. See our ChartSchool article on MACD.
The amount of interest that has been earned since the last interest payment date. When a bond trades, the buyer pays the seller the accrued interest - a pro rata portion of the next interest payment, which will be paid to the buyer of the bond.
A momentum indicator that relates price changes with volume, comparing the closing price to the range of prices (High-Low). The closer the close is to the high, the more volume is added to the cumulative total. See our ChartSchool article on Accumulation Distribution Line.
A widely used indicator that measures the breadth of a stock market advance or decline. The AD line tracks the net difference between advancing and declining issues. It is usually compared to a market average where divergence from that average would be an early indication of a possible trend reversal. See our ChartSchool article on the Advance-Decline Line.
The ratio of advancing issues over declining issues. Taking the moving average of the AD ratio will smooth it so it can be used as an overbought and oversold indicator.
A market stage of a stock that is characterized by an uptrend with subsequently higher highs and higher lows.
A market momentum indicator using the advancing issues and the declining issues. It subtracts the declining issues from the advancing ones and is usually smoothed to make it a good overbought/oversold indicator.
The loss attributable to price movement against the position in any single trade.
See Average Directional Index (ADX).
A transaction generally used by two hedgers who want to exchange futures or cash positions.
A weighted average of the important agricultural commodity contracts as compiled by Goldman Sachs. Commodities used include Wheat, Red Wheat, Corn, Soybeans, Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa and Orange Juice. Chart $GKX in GalleryView.
A type of order issued to a broker by a buyer or seller to fill the order completely or not at all. There are no partial transactions.
A measure of the residual risk that an investor takes for investing in a fund rather than a market index. It represents the difference between a mutual fund's actual performance and the performance that would be expected based on the level of risk taken by the fund's manager. If a fund produced the expected return for the level of risk assumed, the fund would have an Alpha of zero. A positive Alpha indicates the manager produced a return greater than expected for the risk taken. A negative Alpha indicates the manager has not adequately rewarded investors for the risks taken.
Securities issued by commercial banks that represent the shares of a foreign company. ADRs trade just like normal stocks on various US stock exchanges. Their performance usually parallels that of the parent company on its domestic exchange. StockCharts.com does not have access to ADR data.
The term used for the American Stock Exchange.
A weighted index of the stocks listed on the American Stock Exchange. The market capitalization of each company is used to construct the index. Chart $XAX in GalleryView.
The American Stock Exchange trades put and call options based on a number of sector, industry and international indices. These indices cannot be bought or sold like stocks, their price movements are simply used for trading options.
A person with expertise in evaluating financial instruments; he or she performs investment research and makes recommendations to institutional and retail investors to buy, sell or hold. Most analysts specialize in a single industry or business sector.
Developed by Alan Andrews, this concept uses three parallel lines drawn from three points that you select. The points selected to begin the pitchfork are usually three consecutive major peaks or troughs. The three parallel lines extending out to the right are used as normal support and resistance points.
Popular term for the yearly report made by a company to its stockholders. Federal law requires all registered corporations to make such reports. They usually contain a balance sheet, an income statement, a list of changes in retained earnings, and how the income of the corporation was used.
On an Arithmetic (Linear) scale chart, the spacing between each point on the vertical scale is identical. Thus, the vertical distance between 10 and 20 is the same as the vertical distance between 90 and 100. While this kind of scaling is intuitive and easy to recreate by hand, linear scaling should not be used on charts with large vertical ranges. A move from 10 to 20 is much better than a move from 90 to 100, but on a linear scale, they both appear the same. See our ChartSchool article on price scaling for more information.
A market indicator showing the ratio between the average volume of declining stocks and the average volume of advancing stocks. Generally, a rising TRading INdex is bearish and a falling TRIN is bullish. See our ChartSchool article on Arms Index.
An indicator system that can be used to determine whether or not a stock is trending and the strength of its trend. The Aroon Oscillator signals an upward trend when it rises above zero and a downward trend when it falls below zero. The farther away the oscillator is from the zero line, the stronger the trend. See our ChartSchool article on Aroon.
An indicator called the Aroon Oscillator can be constructed by subtracting Aroon(down) from Aroon(up). Since Aroon(up) and Aroon(down) oscillate between 0 and +100, the Aroon Oscillator oscillates between -100 and +100 with zero as the center crossover line. See our ChartSchool article on Aroon Oscillator.
An ascending line that connects the bottoms of the down waves and is parallel to a trend line. The ascending channel line and the trend line form borders on an uptrend.
A sideways price pattern between two converging trend lines in which the lower line is rising while the upper line is flat. This is generally a bullish pattern. See our ChartSchool article on Ascending Triangle (Continuation).
Also known as the “offer”, the price that the market maker guarantees to fill a buy order. A buy order placed at the market will usually be filled at the current asking (offer) price. The ask price is usually greater than the bid price.
An option whose strike price is equal to the price of the underlying security.
Part of the Directional Movement System developed by J. Welles Wilder, the ADX line is based on the spread between the +DI and -DI lines from that same system. See our ChartSchool article on Average Directional Index.
An indicator that measures a security's volatility. High ATR values indicate high volatility and may be an indication of panic selling or panic buying. Low ATR readings indicate sideways movement by the stock. See our ChartSchool article on Average True Range.


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Technical guidelines, if any, are defined by the individual Sections and Working Groups. If you have questions, consult the Section or Working Group's specific CFP or contact the head of the Section and Working Group that interests you.
For further information, please consult the IAMCR Madrid 2019 web page or contact the Local Organizing Committee by email: madrid2019 [at] iamcr.org or the heads of the section or working group you are interested in.


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When I build ajbrec.ajz using it it would not load.
Eventually, I build gcc 3.0.4 and binutils 2.11-2 and thing rocks now!
would investigate the problem (I am not that familiar yet).
May be it makes sense to post a warning on web site.


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Restaurants in Faisalabad city are listed here. You can find the best Restaurants Dinner buffet of top level with skills. Ask the total fee or service charges of the Restaurants before meeting in Faisalabad.
Tags: Restaurant Address and Phone number in Faisalabad, Dinner buffet, Faisalabad city Restaurants sector contact information.

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Skip the rest, Use the best!
This Gillete bundle is simple, honest & classic. Packaged exclusively only for the best mens’ facial hygiene.
Simple. Honest. Classic. That’s the Gillette GEL shave. The lightly fragranced for Sensitive Skin lather spreads easily and rinses clean for that GEL shave men have enjoyed for generations.
Gillette Mach3 offers a comfortable shave, along with the longevity of its blades. Gillette Mach3 gives a better shave than a new 2-bladed ordinary razor even after 5 weeks.


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In this concise book Professor Schechter, an award-winning teacher and prominent national bar lecturer has balanced brevity and humor with a clear, crisp and thorough review of basic Torts doctrine. His comprehensive survey includes not only thorough coverage of core topics such as negligence and strict products liability, but provides an overview of the economic and dignitary torts, damages issues, and vicarious liability as well. As the series title promises, the author has kept it short, and the book will make students happy.
The Rough Guides series contain full color photos, three maps in one, and arewaterproof and tearproof. They contain thousands of keyed listings and brightnew graphics.


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A link to the 2019 COLOSS survey will be available on this website from the end of April. We are very grateful to all those who complete the survey. Please look around our website, now, but return to complete the 2019 COLOSS Survey during May!
The National Apiculture Programme is co-funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the European Union Under the National Apiculture Programme 2016-2019.
The global decline of managed honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera L.) and high winter mortalities are a serious threat ecologically and economically. Winter colony losses in Ireland remain one of the highest in Europe, frequently exceeding 20%, and sometimes greater than 30%. The reasons for these losses are unclear, but factors including operation size, beekeepers’ experience, insufficient control of Varroa, age/quality of queens and forage sources are possible causes. Our project Bees, Beekeeping Research and Colony Health in collaboration with Teagasc Carlow, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Galway, Limerick Institute of Technology, Federation of Irish Beekeepers’ Associations and Native Irish Honey Bee Society addresses some of these problems for the National Apiculture Programme, 2016-2019.
Assess the effectiveness and practicality of using bacteriological analysis of honey as a means of detecting the prevalence on AFB in honeybee colonies.
The National Apiculture Programme is based at the University of Limerick. The research apiaries are based at Teagasc Oakpark, Carlow.

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Adding a website to Google Search Engine is highly important for every website. Why? This is the only way for your website to be seen by all Google’s users. There are few ways to do it.
There are few methods that can be used to do it. Some of them are based on waiting until Google does it itself. Then it doesn’t actively concern you, you don’t have to do anything but wait until Google finds your website and adds it to the database (Google Public DNS). Unfortunately you can lose precious time. It can take up to 30 days till your page will be recognized. Can you afford it?
You can speed up the procedure a little bit by including links to the newly created page in posts on social network forums. It will hasten the whole process.
If you have no time to waste you can do it yourself instead of giving your interests in someone else’s hands. And it is super easy. Another method is to use the tools offered by Google, like the form, which is a part of Google Webmaster Tools.
It is available free of charge to anyone who owns Google account, uses Gmail or YouTube. All Google services are interconnected, so you only need one active service in order to benefit from Google’s additional tools. As you can see above the form is easy to fill up. Just the url address of the website is needed and confirmation that you are not a robot. That’s it. It works quickly. Usually in the matter of seconds you receive Google answer that the website was added (if everything went ok). Congratulations! It means that your website is now out there in the Internet available to be seen and waiting to be found.
Of course Google informs us that the procedure may take some time. As I said above usually it doesn’t take long but it doesn’t mean that it will always happens without any problems. Google protects it’s right to refuse any motion. It is written that not all url addresses will be added and it may take some time. You have to be aware of that there is a chance that the process will fail.
Tell me if you find it useful. Maybe you have other experiences with procedure described above?


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Indianapolis-based trucking firm Celadon Group Inc. says federal investigators are conducting a criminal investigation of the financial-reporting issues that the company has been working to resolve for more than a year.
Celadon disclosed last fall that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating the firm, but this week’s disclosure is the first time the company mentioned a criminal inquiry.
The statement did not make clear whether the inquiry was limited to the company or also involved members of the executive team that led Celadon during the periods when it released inaccurate financials.
Celadon did not return phone calls seeking comment about the investigations.
The Department of Justice told IBJ it would not "confirm, deny or otherwise comment on the existence or non-existence of an investigation."
In May 2017, after Celadon's auditor, BKD LLP, raised concerns about financial reporting issues, the company’s board of directors launched an investigation into the matter. In April, Celadon officials said the investigation revealed problems that were much more extensive than previously anticipated. Findings showed the company overstated some of its earnings by as much as $250 million in the three years that ended in 2016.
Celadon said its investigation revealed “errors that will require adjustments to the previously issued 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 financial statements” and to statements potentially even older than that.
Most of the adjustments related to equipment sales that took place between former Celadon subsidiary Quality Cos. and 19th Capital, a joint venture between Celadon and the Pennsylvania-based private equity firm Larsen MacColl Partners. Also involved was another joint venture formed by Celadon and Canada-based Element Fleet Management.
Celadon disposed of Quality Cos. in 2017. Most of Celadon's senior leadership team, including its CEO and CFO, has been replaced since those problems came to light last year.
While it works through its issues, Celadon has not been releasing any financial statements. As a result, the New York Stock Exchange delisted the company’s stock this spring. Shares of Celadon now trade over the counter.
Celadon said Tuesday that it is working to issue restated financials and audited financial statements for its 2017 and 2018 fiscal years. It said the new statements will be filed in either the last three months of 2018 or the first three months of 2019.
In Tuesday's statement revealing the criminal investigation, the company said existing lenders have agreed to extend its revolving credit agreement through Dec. 12. Celadon also said it’s dropping its previous plans to pursue a $200 million term loan and instead will pursue a $100 million asset-based line of credit.
“We would have been pleased to afford our stakeholders the certainty of having completed the refinancing process, Celadon CEO Paul Svindland said in the statement. “However, both the Company's performance and the industry backdrop have improved since the proposed terms were negotiated, and we are optimistic about our ability to source alternative financing."

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Beloved American toy store Toys “R” Us looks like it's headed for liquidation, and Isaac Larian, CEO of toymaker MGA Entertainment, won't stand for it. But he needs you—that's right, you—to help.
With $100 million of his own money and $100 million from other investors, Larian says he will make a bid to buy some Toys “R” Us assets out of bankruptcy. The creator of Bratz dolls hopes to keep 400 stores open, saving 130,000 jobs. They are aiming to raise $1 billion by May 28.
As of writing, the campaign has raised $34,054, in addition to the $200 million from Larian and his anonymous investors.
"We want this to be a community effort, to involve everyone who believes that every kid deserves to be Toys ‘R’ Us kid," he said through a spokesperson. "There’s a magic many of us experienced walking the aisles of a Toys ‘R’ Us, a magic I want my grandchild to experience. It’s personal for me, and I think it feels personal to millions of people across the U.S. and around the world. We must #SaveToysRUs."
Toys "R" Us declined to comment.
But talks with lenders fell apart, and last week they filed a motion to liquidate the company. Hasbro (HAS) has dropped 9.8% since reports first broke that Toys "R" Us might liquidate, while Mattel (MAT) has tumbled 17%.
The company's "debtors in possession," now at the helm, gave some background in the motion on the difficulties: filing for bankruptcy hurt the holiday sales season—fewer gift cards, fewer shoppers, lower revenue. That shortfall had real ramifications for the company's debt, triggering defaults written into their contracts. So some lenders, looking to recoup as much as possible from inventory, imposed new restrictions, further crimping liquidity. But most critically, the debtors had to deliver a budget proposal with the same or better liquidity as an existing proposed budget, and they said they couldn't.
"The stark reality is that the Debtors are projected to run out of cash in the U.S. in May 2018," they said in the motion. The primary economic stakeholders decided that "the best way to maximize their recoveries was to liquidate the existing inventory in all of the Debtors’ 735 remaining U.S. stores, and begin an orderly wind-down of the U.S. operations."
They don't rule out some hypothetical transaction where some stores can stay open, and said they were talking with interested parties and were "hopeful" it would work out. "But because time is of the essence to mitigate losses and maximize recoveries to U.S. stakeholders, the debtors regrettably must move forward."
A few days later, its 94-year-old founder, Charles Lazarus, died. "There have been many sad moments for Toys ‘R’ Us in recent weeks, and none more heartbreaking than today's news about the passing of our beloved founder," the company said in a tweet and in a statement on its website.
The nostalgia and sadness around the store—and its overly catchy jingle—apparently moved Larian, and/or he spotted an opportunity. The campaign’s benefits to him are manifold: It's great branding and exposure, and he looks like a would-be hero. His products are sold at Toys "R" Us, so he has a vested interest in those stores continuing to exist. And the "rewards" for "donating" to the campaign are various MGA products.
Typically, crowd-funding campaigns reward donors with little incentives—a signed copy of the new album you're financing, a song dedicated to you, a private performance—and that is a factor here: Giving up to $99 gets you a bumper sticker AND special-edition #SaveToysRUs "Num Noms," apparently "scented characters" manufactured by MGA Entertainment. Donations of up to $499 get you a bumper sticker, pin, and #SaveToysRUs Special Edition L.O.L. Surprise!, MGA's Death Star-shaped plastic popper containing surprises and, presumably, laughs, out loud.
If you give up to $999, you get MGA's Little Tikes® Cozy Coupe®, and up to $4,999, a T-shirt saying “I’ll ALWAYS be a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid” and a "Little Tikes® Build-a-House." Invitations to the "reopening block party" start at $10,000, and $25,000 gets you a tour of the Ohio Little Tikes® factory—"the oldest toy factory currently operating in the U.S.—including travel and accommodations."
The maximum donation GoFundMe accepts is $50,000, so to donate above that—for gifts including a signed thank you letter from Larian, and a "hero plaque" saying “I helped save Toys ‘R’ Us” at your favorite Toys ‘R’ Us location—the campaign page says they accept wire transfers.
The #SaveToysRUs GoFundMe campaign states clearly for potential funders that this is neither a tax-deductible charitable donation nor an actual investment where you retain economic interest: You do not get any equity or stake in any acquisition. You are simply overpaying for an inflatable bouncy free-throw-lane-with-wrestling-ring-sides Little Tikes® Super Slam ‘n Dunk, a product sold by Larian's MGA, to help revive a childhood institution. But if the group doesn't end up buying Toys "R" Us "in some form," they say, don't worry—you get your money back.
Beloved American toy store Toys “R” Us looks like it's headed for liquidation, and Isaac Larian, CEO of toymaker MGA Entertainment, won't stand for it.


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Well, Easter Sunday is over… if like me, you ate a bit of chocolate, contouring is the way forward today! I normally contour every day quickly as I think it really helps to slim and define my face. When I do contour I use a Real Techniques contour brush and brush some under my cheekbones (I do a fish sucking in face…) and apply a little bit along my jaw line and up round my temples. If you imagine your contouring in a 3 shape on both sides of your face.
My quest for model-esque, chiseled cheekbones has led to me trying several different products. Powders are my favourite, as all cream products seem to be warm toned, and you really want to mimic a shadow when contouring. The less red the better!
My first dabble was the Sleek contour kit. A neat & cheap little product, it has a matte powder and a shimmery highlighter in one, which makes it easy for travelling. This is a really nice product, and the powder is blendable. However the shade is a bit too orange on lighter skin tones, and can easily look a little muddy. MAC Harmony is really good at faking the natural skin shades, because it has some pink which makes it look more like skin. It’s not too orange, and the shade is easily buildable which is awesome for pale skin. Benefit Hoola is a fairly similar colour to the sleek kit, but the powder is more finely milled which makes it easier to blend. If anything, it’s slightly redder. This is marketed as a bronzer, and I think it’s better dusted all over the face where the sun would naturally hit. NYX Taupe is the cheapest of the bunch, and my second favourite. The cool toned shade is perfect for pale skin, and it’s also not especially pigmented and so it is almost impossible to be heavy-handed with this one! This is almost fool-proof, and I definitely recommend it. Lastly we have my personal favourite, the Kevyn Aucoin sculpting powder in Medium. This is the most expensive, but also the best in my opinion. Kevyn Aucoin was a master at changing people’s faces, and this powder is incredible for quickly adding definition. The powder is so soft and so pigmented. I’ve used this a lot since I got it last September, and it looks like I’ve barely touched it.
Do you contour? What do you use?