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Global Bitumen Market is Expected to Reach USD 84.42 billion in 2018: Transparency Market Research
19 Jun, 2013, 10:30 BST
ALBANY, New York, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com) "Bitumen (Paving, Oxidized, Cutback and PMB) Market For Roadways, Roofing, Adhesives and Insulation-Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018," the global bitumen demand was 103.94 million tons in 2011 and is expected to reach 121.99 million tons in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 2.3% from 2012 to 2018. In terms of revenue, the market was valued at USD 66.70 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach USD 84.42 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 3.5% from 2012 to 2018.
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Growing road construction activities in fast growing regional markets of China and India are expected to drive the growth of the bitumen market in Asia. Furthermore, there is an increasing use of Polymer Modified Bitumen (PMB) in road construction, water-proofing of roofs and consumer goods, as properties of PMB can be altered to suit different needs. However, extraction of bitumen from oil sands has environmental issues associated with it that could hamper the demand for bitumen.
Road construction was the largest application segment for bitumen and accounted for over 80% of the global bitumen consumption in 2011. Water-proofing of roofs was the next largest application segment, consuming over 12 million tons of bitumen in 2012. In addition, bitumen is used as an adhesive and insulating material in a variety of general industrial applications.
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North America was the largest bitumen consumer with over 30 million tons consumed in 2011. Europe followed North America in bitumen consumption, accounting for over 15% of global volumes in 2012. Germany and France were the largest regional markets in Europe, together accounting for over 30% of total consumption in 2012. Middle East and Brazil are expected to register above average growth over the forecast period.
Key players in the bitumen market include Shell Bitumen, NuStar Energy, ExxonMobil, Marathon Oil Company, Valero Energy Corporation and Nynas AB among others. The report profiles the above mentioned companies comprising their detailed market share analysis.
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The report includes a detailed analysis of the bitumen market in terms of volume and revenue. In addition, the study covers demand forecast of each application in various geographies of North America, Europe, China, Asia Pacific (excluding China) and Rest of the World. The report comprises of the following segments:
Bitumen Market:Product Segment Analysis
- Paving Bitumen
- Oxidized Bitumen
- Cutback Bitumen
- Bitumen Emulsion
- Polymer Modified Bitumen (PMB)
- Others
Bitumen Market: Application Analysis
- Roadways
- Waterproofing (Roofing)
- Adhesives
- Insulation
- Others (decorative, industrial uses)
The report provides estimates and forecast on volume basis for applications (roadways and waterproofing (roofing)) based on various grades that include:
- Hard Grade
- Soft Grade
- Polymer Modified Bitumen (PMB)
The report highlights bitumen consumption for every application in the following regions:
- North America
- Europe
- China
- Asia Pacific (excluding China)
- Rest of World
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News and Notes: Game 71
Buffalo Bisons
36-34, 3rd(-4.5 North)
Dylan Owen (3-2, 5.73)
Gwinnett Braves
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RHP Tim Gustafson (6-4, 5.30)
Monday, June 21, 2010 (7:05pm)
Coolray Field – Buford, GA
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TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Bisons travel to Gwinnett to face the Braves in the first game of a four-game series at Coolray Field (7:05 p.m.) Tonight's game is also the start of an eight-game roadtrip as the Herd will face Charlotte, June 25-28. The Bisons are coming off a 3-5 homestand that included a four-game split with Lehigh Valley and a 3-1 series loss to Indianapolis.
vs. THE BRAVES: Tonight is the first game between the Bisons and the Braves this season. Last year, the teams split each four-game set in Buffalo and in Gwinnett. The Braves did outscore the Bisons, 40-33, in the eight games.
SOLID STARTER: RHP DYLAN OWEN is making his seventh start with the Bisons this season. The righty has worked at least five innings in each of his outings and has recorded 31 strikeouts in only 33.0 innings of work. In his last outing, June 15 against Lehigh Valley, Owen allowed just two earned runs in five innings of work for the win.
ROSTER MOVE: RHP BOBBY PARNELL has been recalled by the New York Mets. The reliever has thrown in 24 games for the Herd this season with a 1-1 record, four saves and a 4.14ERA. His 24 appearances were second most on the team (LHP MIKE O'CONNOR, 25). This month, Parnell is 1-0 with 3.46ERA and two saves, with 11 strikeouts in seven games (13.0IP).
LEFTY MIKE: LHP MIKE O'CONNOR has made five consecutive scoreless appearances for the Herd. During the stretch, the lefty has allowed just three hits while striking out seven batters in 6.2 innings of work. On the season, O'Connor has retired the first batter he's faced in 21 of his 25 outings (84%) and has only allowed five of 21 inherited runners to score (24%).
NEW BISON: OF JORGE PADILLA made his first Bisons start yesterday after being acquired by the Mets from Toronto. Padilla led off for the Herd and went 2-6 against Indy. Padilla hit .330 (61-185) with four homers and 27RBI in 50 games for Triple-A Las Vegas to begin the season.
METS UPDATE: The Mets (39-30) were shutout by the Yankees yesterday 4-0 in the rubber game of the Subway Series. Former Bison INF RUBEN TEJADA went 1-3 with a double in the defeat. RHP JOHAN SANTANA tossed six innings allowing a grand slam in the third inning to Mark Texiera. The Mets have a day off today and will return home Tuesday for a six game homestand with the Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins.
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Spring Walking in New Zealand – Three Lasting Memories
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Our New Zealand walking tours are underway for the season and we have just finished our first trip, we were absolutely blessed by the weather; we had many wonderful experiences including some facinating encounters with wildlife and we enjoyed great camaraderie amongst the group. I think I can speak for everyone to say we were all a bit sad for it to end. For me as guide of this trip it was a special occasion, marking my return to leading walking tours in the South Island after a break of two years due to the Christchurch earthquakes. After moving cities, setting up a new office and launching New Zealand Trails it was with a real feeling of satisfaction that I got my hiking boots dirty again in places like the Hollyford, Routeburn and Milford Tracks and of course Mount Cook and Arthurs Pass National Park.
Our spring walking adventure our 13 day 'World Heritage Walking Tour'
A tour through the landscapes of the Southwest New Zealand World Heritage Area is full of highlights with something to surprise and delight every day so it's hard to single out some places more than others, but looking back and talking about the highlights over dinner on the last night here we all agreed these days would last in our memories for a long time:
1. Milford Track wildlife - Weka and chicks
As a walking guide in New Zealand, I've walked the Milford Track many times and it's not always the first place that comes to mind when you think about wildlife experiences but with each visit you are reminded this is one of the best places to see native birdlife in the whole country. Starting our day bathed in sunshine certainly got us off on the right foot and we all snapped lots of photos on the short boat ride across from Milford Sound to the start of the track before commencing our hike from Sandfly Point up Giant's Gate Falls. Almost immediately we heard and saw birdlife all around us, being the only ones on the track at this time of the day certainly helped too. A lot of the usual suspects like the Bellbird, Grey Warbler, Tomtit and Fantail were around but also a few more rare birds like the shining cuckoo, native Pigeon and my favourite of all, the Kaka (forest parrot). But what had to be the highlight was on our return walk when right in our path was a Weka with two very fluffy chicks in tow. The Weka family didn't seem bothered by our presence at all and we watched them and took photos from a very handy distance, something I've only seen twice before in over ten years guiding. The Weka is one of New Zealand's five flightless birds, about the size of a chicken and a member of the rail family.
The Milford Track is not only one of the most popular walks in New Zealand, but also an active conservation area, helped by so many track walkers contributing through their hut fees or tour packages, which provide the resources for an active predator control programme, this makes a big difference fand increases the numbers of native birds. Walking the Milford Track from Sandfly Point (the Milford Sound end of the track) to Giant's Gate Falls is not a day walk option everyone knows about, but it's a great way to combine Milford Sound and the track on the same day and enjoy hiking in relative solitude. We all were aware of the Milford's reputation as the 'finest walk in the world' but it's fair to say we were taken aback by the amount of birdlife on this short section of track. A great morning's work. (or walk!)
2. Fiordland Crested Penguins at Martins Bay
There are some days as a guide you remember for ever and our walk to the seal colony at Martins Bay will be one of these for certain. After a thrilling helicopter ride in from Milford Sound and a magnificent 'glamping' (tented) lunch in the wilds of Fiordland National Park we knew the afternoon would have to be pretty special to top what had come before, but that's exactly what happened. Our walk began through the coastal Fiordland forest and took us to the rocky outcrops of Martins Bay and the Hollyford River mouth, stunning scenes in their own right made all the more memorable by the wildlife on show at Long Reef. It's a pretty safe bet the New Zealand Fur Seal will be in residence here which I explained to our guests and added that the Fiordland Crested Penguin also lives here and it was the right time of year to see them.
Getting close to the shore the barks of the seals alerted us to their presence well before we saw them; we made our way out onto the rocky shoreline and saw several seals immediately. I went ahead to an area likely to have more more seals and right in front of me were two Fiordland Crested Penguins, having just come ashore after a day out fishing. I ran back to our guests and brought them round to the spot where we observed the penguins in complete solitude for about 40 minutes. There was no-one and nothing else around, just us, the penguins, seals and sea birds. The two penguins were on the rocks about 40 feet away from us, giving us a perfect viewpoint to watch as they slowly made their way up to the bush and their nests for the night. Then a real surprise as one more penguin we hadn't previously seen appeared from behind a rock right next to us, paying us no interest at all, hopped right through the middle of our small group then into the flax bushes for the night!
This was a unique experience and very memorable day for all of us, one of the highlights of my entire guiding life and it capped our Fiordland day out nicely, helped of course by the wonderful hospitality and accommodation at Martins Bay Lodge! A red letter day.
3. Mou Waho Island - So much in half a day
If you had to capture the essence of New Zealand in a half day, the trip to Mou Waho Island on Lake Wanaka would be hard to beat. So much to do, see and learn in a short half day span, but at no time did we feel rushed, it was just one highlight after another, all at a nice even pace as we walked to the island's peak and back. The day started with the boat ride across Lake Wanaka - the scenery on this short trip alone would be enough to make most people's highlights reel but for us it was just our commute. Mou Waho Island is one of only five islands in Lake Wanaka, and one of New Zealand's taonga (treasures) as a predator free nature reserve the island is teeming with wildlife. Native wood pigeon crashing through the trees, the once highly endangered Buff Weka on the ground, the gruesome looking cave weta and the feisty Southern Alps gecko were all amongst the creatures we saw at close range on our hike, as well as learning all about the boat building history of the island and planting a native rata as part of the reforestation project. We had morning tea overlooking the island in the small lake, on the island in the large lake before hiking to the viewpoint at the island's peak and northern extreme making for some stunning photos to cap off our day.
We probably took more photographs and learnt more about New Zealand ecology in this four hour window that at any other stage on our tour. New Zealand in a bottle.
I'd really like to thank the weather gods for putting on such a fantastic run of sunshine, the wildlife gods for having all the right creatures turn up at the right times and last but not least to our guests on this trip, a special mention to Ken who was so kind to take and share so many outstanding photos.
New Zealand Trails proudly operates our 'World Heritage Walking Tour' in the South West New Zealand - a 13 day tour starting and finishing in Christchurch. You'll enjoy guided walks on the best tracks in New Zealand - the Routeburn, Hollyford and Milford Track plus Arthurs Pass and Mt Cook National Parks are all included in your tour. On top of the walking you'll never forget iconic activities like the TranzAlpine train, glacier hiking and Fiordland helicopter ride and backcountry jetboat. All this with the comforts of home, there is no camping or staying in huts on this tour, accommodation is to a laid-back luxury standard and we enjoy the best New Zealand cuisine in the evenings.
For more information please contact us now or download a brochure here.
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"Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" seeks to test the hypothesis that any film can be made 20% more awesome by the addition of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Brendan Fraser starred in the 2008 hit "Journey to the Center of the Earth," alongside Josh Hutcherson. This new film finds The Rock subbing in for Fraser, playing Hutcherson's stepfather who joins him on a quest to find Jules Verne's "Mysterious Island."
Hutcherson plays Sean, the latest in a long line of "Vernians" (a word Hutcherson utters with a grating frequency), people who take the works of Jules Verne to be fact rather than fiction. One night Sean picks up a coded radio signal that he believes comes from his long-missing grandfather, Alexander Anderson (Michael Caine in a positively Caine-ian moneygrab).
After much fussing, The Rock finally agrees to accompany Sean on a trip halfway around the world to where he believes the signal came, an island in an area so remote and treacherous that only Gabato (Luis Guzman) and his daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), are willing to fly them there. After an unpleasant encounter with a nest of gigantic lizard eggs, the adventurers find Alexander, who brings them to his Gilligan-esque home, and tells them an incredible tale about island's treasures, including a certain lost city and a legendary submarine.
It seems churlish to complain about the physics of a film that features miniature elephants and giant bees, but for the love of Pete, there are standards! The idea that Hutcherson could get thrown from his apian steed and bounce along the ground a dozen times, like a rock across the surface of a pond, and emerge with only a sprained ankle is absurd.
And what happened to Guzman? The talented and beloved character actor here is reduced to a stream of scatological gags and assorted indignities that could only amuse pre-teens. While it's far from the most disgusting, maybe the saddest moment is when The Rock begins popping wild berries off his pecs, right into the eyes of the 3Dgoggled audience, before launching his final shot into Guzman's mouth. Who is this good for?
The effects look cheap, the humor is beyond lowbrow, and "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" asks for far more than the standard suspension of disbelief. At least it's short.


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Your First Cruise: What to Expectby Kuki, CruiseMates Cruise Director
Your cruise has been booked for months. You've spent those months anticipating this cruise, perhaps like no vacation before it. When your documents were delivered you read every word over and over, until you became concerned the cruise line representative at check-in might not be able to read them for the wear. Your entire kitchen has become magnetized because of the numerous magnets used to hold shopping lists, packing lists, and document lists hanging on your refrigerator door.
At last the day arrives. You leave home, to begin your cruise vacation. You ask yourself; What can I expect?
To begin with, as you approach the cruise terminal you can expect to see masses of excited people handing their luggage to porters, who place the luggage in bins. When full, these bins will be loaded onto the ship, for delivery to your cabin later. When you hand the porter your luggage, don't worry; it will be delivered to your cabin. They're not going to load that luggage into a truck and drive it back to the airport. Off course, offering the porter a tip of about $1 per bag might ensure that!
The next step is to enter the terminal building, and get in line to go through the embarkation process. You'll proceed through an x-ray machine and metal detector, just like those at the airport. (For my first few cruises I wasn't convinced these machines were actually functional. But lately, with the cruise lines tightening their policies regarding guests bringing their own liquor onboard, it appears they've purchased machines that work. As an experiment, I'd like to build a shoebox that appears to be a bomb, with wires hanging from it, and pack it in my carry-on, next to a bottle of liquor to see what happens going through the cruise line x-ray machine. I'm guessing they'd confiscate my booze and send me on my way.)
Once you've cleared the metal detector, you're ready for the check-in desk. Hopefully as you step up to register, you'll have all your cruise documents already filled in, and just hand them to the staff member, along with your identification and a credit card. Once this is done, you'll be given your "shipboard charge card." These serve as ID, and as your mechanisms for shipboard purchases. In some cases, the same card acts as the key to your cabin. Presuming that you have all the documentation, this procedure should take only a few moments.
The next step depends on your arrival time at the pier. If you're at the pier before they've begun boarding the ship, you'll be given a number or letter, and asked to wait in an Embarkation Lounge until your number/letter is called for boarding. If you arrive after initial boarding has started, you'll just follow the signs to the gangway. You'll know you're close to being onboard when you see the ship's photographers waiting to take a shot of how tattered and battered you look after the completing the embarkation process.
Now you're all set to enter the ship. Walking onboard, you'll be greeted by cruise line personnel. Some cruise lines welcome you onboard, hand you a mini-map, and dare you to find your cabin before bedtime. Others will have white-gloved attendants present to lead you to your cabin, and assist with your carry-ons.
Unless you've booked the Penthouse or Owner's suite, when you enter your cabin you'll see an area smaller than most standard hotel rooms. In fact, many cabins I've had wouldn't have room for the TV set I have in my bedroom at home. Yes, indeed, this is the luxury you've spent thousands of your vacation dollars for: to sleep in a big furnished box.
But, oddly, as you look around you're likely to find that these accommodations are quite comfortable, and quite complete. There's normally plenty of well-thought-out storage space, and after you have a few minutes to adjust to the size, the cabins do begin to feel luxurious (it must have something to do with the hallucinogenic qualities of sea air).
All right, I've managed to get you to your cabin. Stay tuned for Part 2, where I'll tell you what to expect as you step out of your cabin, to enjoy the rest of your cruise.
Link to: Your First Cruise: What to Expect - Part 2 Link to: Your First Cruise: What to Expect - Part 3To ask Kuki a question directly, e-mail him at: [email protected]


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Monday, November 14, 2011
lunchbots squirrel bento
In a Lunchbots Duo box she had peanut butter and grape preserves sandwich on white-wheat bread. I used a dumpling maker to seal the sandwich into the fun shapes. There are a few honey wheat pretzels to the side and a couple pieces of fruit leather, cut into tiny squirrels with the help of a tiny cookie cutter.
In the bottom section of the Lunchbots are a couple strawberries and a silicone cup of clementine segments with cute squirrel picks.
It was a woodland pals kind of lunch. :)
p.s. Today is the last day to enter The Rusted Chain giveaway! Don't miss it!
7 comments:
- Uniflame said... [Reply to comment]
The squirrels are cute ^^
- November 14, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Wendy said... [Reply to comment]
Have I asked where you got the little squirrel cutters before? Me likey!
- November 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Those are super cute...the potsticker press could also be used for turkey feathers or peacock feathers depending on the theme for the day.
- November 14, 2011 at 12:19 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Great idea! I was kinda thinking along the same lines with the turkey... :)
- November 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
The tiny little squirrels are so cute!!
- November 14, 2011 at 7:51 PM
- megan said... [Reply to comment]
hi, i've been following your blogs for a while now and i love all of the cute innovations you've come up with. may i ask you how do you make your sandwiches so perfect? i saw one of those dumpling presser at the store y'day and bought one- been struggling to make it as perfect as yours. how much PBJ do you put it in? how is it so perfect smooth around the curve? please forgive me if i missed a blog on how you did it.
- November 16, 2011 at 8:32 AM
- Natakiya said... [Reply to comment]
Tiny squirrels! Oh so cute!!
- November 18, 2011 at 10:44 AM


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Johnny Winter Teams With ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on 'Where Can You Be' (Song Premiere)
Though Johnny Winter couldn't have known it at the time, the album he finished recording earlier this year with a slew of friends including Eric Clapton, Brian Setzer and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons would become the Texas blues guitarist's swan song. Winter died in July while on tour in Switzerland. He was 70. Speakeasy today premieres "Where Can You Be," featuring Gibbons on guitar.
The song is a propulsive 12-bar blues number, interspersing Winter's smooth vocals with eruptions of super-charged electric guitar as he and Gibbons trade licks that start hot and build to incendiary by the time they wrap up four minutes later.
Read more, and listen to "Where Can You Be," after the jump.


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Confidentiality & Professional Ethics
Confidentiality is an important aspect of counseling. What is shared with a counselor is private. There are specific situations, however, when the counselor is required by law to breach confidentiality; these include situations when there is a possibility that the student may harm himself/herself or someone else, commit a crime, or when a counselor is subpoenaed by a court of law. Any student who sees a counselor in our center will be asked to sign our confidentiality policy.
Professional Ethics
It is a violation of professional ethics for more than one counselor to provide therapy at the same time. Therefore, students may not see both a private therapist and a Bristol counselor for personal counseling. However, students who are seeing an outside therapist can certainly see any counselor for academic guidance.


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The Emmanuel athletic department is represented by two logos, the Emmanuel Lion and the Emmanuel E, as shown below. These logos must never appear by themselves. Whenever these logos are used, either the Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark or the Curved Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark must be included on the garment or hat. For example, if the Emmanuel E is placed on the front of a hat, the Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark could be placed on the back of the hat. On a uniform jersey, if the Emmanuel Lion is used on the front, the Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark must be placed somewhere else, such as on the sleeve. The purpose for this is to ensure that these logos are always used in a manner that supports and reinforces the Emmanuel Athletic brand.
The Emmanuel athletic department also utilizes three wordmarks—the Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark, the Curved Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark and the Lions Athletic Wordmark—as shown below. The first two, the Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark and the Curved Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark, may be used by themselves. The Lions Athletic Wordmark, however, must only be used when either the Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark or the Curved Emmanuel Athletic Wordmark is included somewhere on the garment exactly as described in the above paragraph.
Additionally, two lockups are designated for the Emmanuel athletic department. A lockup is a graphic element that is designed to be used whenever specific elements need to be grouped together. The Emmanuel Lions Wordmark Lockup and the Emmanuel Lion Logo With Athletic Wordmark Lockup are shown below. They may be used by themselves.


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Place and time: somewhere in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
The phone rings at KGB headquarters.
"Hello, is this KGB?"
"Yes. What do you want?"
I'm calling to report my neighbor Yankel Rabinovitz as an enemy of the state. He is hiding undeclared diamonds in his firewood."
"This will be noted."
Next day, the KGB goons come over to Rabinovitz's house. They search the shed where the firewood is kept, break every piece of wood, find no diamonds, swear at Yankel Rabinovitz and leave.
The phone rings at Rabinovitz's house.
"Hello, Yankel. Did the KGB come?"
"Did they chop your firewood?"
"Yes, they did."
"Okay, now it's your turn to call. I need my vegetable patch plowed."


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To sum up: I recently bought an '83 R100RS with about 50K miles on it, from the original owner. The bike has good service records from a local BMW dealer. I rode the bike for about a month, it seemed strong and in good tune, but something changed while I was on a 100 mile ride a few weeks ago.
I've tried troubleshooting a few things, but the bike is still missing noticeably in 5th gear at around 4K RPM. The bike doesn't lose power, it just feels like the choke is on and it's running too rich. Both spark plugs still look clean and white, no cracks in porcelain, gapped okay. I don't feel it as much in lower gears, at lower RPMs. It still feels "off", just not as much at lower speeds around town.
I've swapped carbs with a set from another bike, no improvement. Checked choke and throttle cables, they seem okay.
I've checked spark plug leads for failure and correct resistance, swapped out the ignition coils, checked to see if the bean can was loose, no improvement. Only thing I haven't tried is to adjust timing, but it seems to me that if the timing was off, the bike would run poorly in all gears, at all RPMs.
Thanks for any additional suggestions and thoughts.


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My teacher made up his own problems, and I need help with 2 of them, I know absolutely nothing about Java loops.
First Problem.
Write a program that prompts the user to input an integer and then outputs both the individual digits of the number and the sum of the digits. For example, the program should: output the individual digits of 3456 as 3 4 5 6 and the sum of the digits is 18...
Second Problem.
Write a program that uses a while loop to perform the following steps:
a) Prompt the user to input 2 integers: firstNum secondNum, firstNum must be less that the second
b) Output all odd numbers between the firstNum secondNum
c) Output the sum of all even numbers between firstNum and secondNum
d) Output the numbers and thier square of odd numbers between firstNum and secondNum
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School voucher bill gets second chance
Remember that school voucher bill thought to be on life support?
The proposal was given a second chance on Wednesday, thanks to a procedural maneuver by a state representative.
Many observers thought the proposed expansion of the school voucher program was off the table after Sen. Bill Galvano withdrew the Senate version of the bill (SB 1620) last week. Without a companion in the upper chamber, the voucher bill in the House (HB 7099) stood virtually no chance of becoming law.
But late Wednesday, Rep. Erik Fresen combined the voucher language with a separate bill creating education savings accounts for children with special needs. That bill (HB 5103, now PCB EDAS 14-03) has a counterpart being considered in the Senate (SB 1512), and is thus still in play.
Fresen, R-Miami, said it made sense to combine the proposals.
"The two bills were on separate paths to begin with, but they both fit under the umbrella of school choice," he said. "This bill now covers the entire scope of school choice."
Critics said they were disheartened — but not surprised — by the move.
"They're just not listening to the people," said Jeff Wright, who oversees public policy advocacy for the statewide teachers union. "The public wants its public schools funded, and this is taking away resources."
The voucher program, also known as the tax credit scholarship program, provides private-school scholarships to about 60,000 low-income children.
The scholarships are funded by private businesses, which receive a dollar-for-dollar credit on their corporate income taxes. The cap on tax credits is currently set at $286 million, but is set to grow to $874 million over the next five years.
Supporters are hoping to expand the cap at a faster pace in order to provide scholarships for an additional 50,000 children.
The original proposal would have allowed sales tax revenue to help fund the voucher program. It would have also enabled certain students to receive partial scholarships, and removed some of the barriers to participation in the program.
Fresen did not carry the sales tax provision over to the new combined bill.
"It was the most contentious point," he said. "We figured if we were going to revive the bill, we should adjust that part."
Fresen did not add language requiring scholarship students to take the state exams. Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, has said a voucher expansion bill will not be heard in the Senate without that provision. But the House has insisted that such a requirement is both unnecessary and impractical.
"The House position has always been different from the Senate position.," Fresen said. "All we were doing was consolidating two [House] proposals dealing with school choice."
The new combined bill will be heard at a House Education Appropriations Subcommittee meeting on Friday.
Expect some tweaks to the education savings account provision, which seeks to create accounts for children with profound disabilities. Parents could use the money as reimbursement for tuition at private schools, tutoring, learning materials or services such as applied behavior analysis, speech-language pathology and physical therapy.
What happens next will be a high-stakes battle among powerful forces.
Expanding the tax credit scholarship is a top priority for Weatherford. But Gaetz is holding firm on the testing requirement.
Adding to the drama: the education savings account provision is important to incoming Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, who has a child with special needs.
Senate Education Committee Chairman John Legg, R-Trinity, said he was not sure if the combined bill language would be heard in the Senate.
"It would still have to have a policy committee meeting, and I'm not planning on meeting again," he said.
But Galvano, the Senate Education Appropriations Subcommittee chairman who spiked the original voucher proposal and is a co-sponsor on the savings account bill, said he was willing to "look at the language."
"I still want to make sure there is strong accountability in there," he said.


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Patent trolls beware
Changes in patent law seem to favor accused infringers, according to local expert, but there are drawbacks, too.
The America Invents Act, which took effect Sept. 16, 2012, entailed sweeping changes in the U.S. patent process, with one aspect in particular reshaping the legal landscape when it comes to patent infringement litigation. Read More


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Williams Sonoma Cocktail Mixer Caddy
Create authentic artisan cocktails at home with our trio of premium mixers. Great for parties and everyday sipping, they're crafted from the pure juices of the finest ripe fruit, highlighted with cane sugar for a sophisticated balance of sweet and tangy flavors. Just add your favorite premium spirits – and enjoy the ultimate seasonal refreshers.
Blood Orange–Satsuma: A sophisticated blend of blood orange, satsuma mandarin, tangerine and orange blossom.
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In-memory revolution
An answer to big dataFebruary 21, 2014
The sweet spot for in-memory technologies is where massive amounts of data, complex operations, and business challenges demanding real-time support collide.
As in-memory technologies move from analytical to transactional systems, the potential to fundamentally reshape business processes grows. Technical upgrades of analytics and ERP engines may offer total cost of ownership improvements, but potential also lies in using in-memory technologies to solve tough business problems. CIOs can help the business identify new opportunities and provide the platform for the resulting process transformation.
An answer to big data
Data is exploding in size—with incredible volumes of varying forms and structure—and coming from inside and outside of your company's walls. No matter what the application—on-premises or cloud, package or custom, transactional or analytical—data is at its core. Any foundational change in how data is stored, processed, and put to use is a big deal. Welcome to the in-memory revolution.
With in-memory, companies can crunch massive amounts of data, in real time, to improve relationships with their customers—to generate add-on sales and to price based on demand. And it goes beyond customers: The marketing team wants real-time modeling of changes to sales campaigns. Operations wants to adjust fulfillment and supply chain priorities on the fly. Internal audit wants real-time fraud and threat detection. Human resources wants to continuously understand employee retention risks. And there will likely be a lot more as we learn how lightning-fast data analysis can change how we operate.
An evolution of data's backbone
Traditionally, data has been stored on spinning discs—magnetic, optical, electronic, or other media—well suited for structured, largely homogeneous information requiring ACID1 transaction processing. In-memory technologies are changing that core architecture—replacing spinning discs with random access memory (RAM) and fueling a shift from row-based to column-based data storage. By removing the overhead of disc I/O, performance can be immediately enhanced. Vendor claims vary from thousand-fold improvement in query response times2 to transaction processing speed increases of 20,000 times.3 Beyond delivering raw speed, in-memory responses are also more predictable, able to handle large volumes and a mix of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Column-based storage allows for massive amounts of data of varying structures to be promptly manipulated, preventing redundant data elements from being stored.
While the concept of in-memory is decades old, the falling price of RAM and growing use cases have led to a new focus on the technology. CIOs can reduce total cost of ownership because the shift from physical to logical reduces the hardware footprint, allowing more than 40 times the data to be stored in the same finite space. That means racks and spindles can be retired, data center costs can be reduced, and energy use can be slashed by up to 80 percent.4 Operating costs can also be cut both by reducing maintenance needs and by streamlining the performance of employees using the technology.5 In addition, cloud options provide the possibility of pivoting from fixed to variable expenses. The bigger story, though, is how in-memory technology shakes up business processes.
Beyond the technology
CIOs should short-circuit market hype and determine which areas of their business can take advantage of in-memory technology. In last year's Tech Trends report, our "Reinventing the ERP Engine"6 chapter asked a specific question: What would you do differently if you could close your books in seven seconds instead of seven days? Today, with advances in in-memory technology, that "what if" has become a reality that is driving companies to consider both the costs of ERP upgrades and the breakthrough benefits of real-time operations.
Operational reporting and data warehousing are easy targets for in-memory, especially those with large (billion-plus-record) datasets, complex joins, ad hoc querying needs, and predictive analytics. Core processes with long batch windows are also strong candidates: planning and optimization jobs for pricing and promotions, material requirements planning (MRP), and sales forecasting. The sweet spot is where massive amounts of data, complex operations, and business challenges demanding real-time support collide. Functions where the availability of instantaneous information can improve decision quality—telecommunications, network management, point-of-sale solutions—are good candidates for an in-memory solution. Over the next 24 months, some of the more important conversations you'll have will likely be about in-memory technologies.
Not every workload will be affected equally, and the transition period will see a hearty mix of old and new technologies. We're still in the early stages of businesses rewiring their processes to take advantage of the new engine. Analytics will continue to see the lion's share of investment, with in-memory–fueled insights layered on top of existing legacy processes. Point technical upgrades will offer incremental benefits without the complexity of another round of process transformation. And ERP vendors are still in the midst of rewriting their applications to exploit the in-memory revolution.
And while benefits exist today, even more compelling scenarios are coming soon. The holy grail is in sight: a single data store supporting transactions and analytics. This is great news for CIOs looking to simplify the complexity of back-end integration and data management. It's even better news for end users, with new experiences made possible by the simplified, unified landscape.
Lessons from the front lines
Reinventing production planning
When a large aerospace and defense company sought to uncover and overcome challenges in its ability to deliver products on time, the company turned to an in-memory-based analytics platform.
By using descriptive statistics to determine the root causes of the performance issues, they discovered that only a small number of the more than 50,000 assembly parts delivered performance within 10 percent of the company's plan, uncovering the need for more accurate data to fuel the planning process. Additionally, performance variation among component parts was high. By splitting the bill of materials into delivery segments, more advanced statistics could be generated, allowing performance to be evaluated at the individual part level.
Predictive models were then used to determine the factors contributing to the longer lead times. Subsequently, 35 unique parts were identified as representing significant risks to meeting delivery timelines. Clustering analytics assigned these high-risk parts into 11 groups of performance improvement tactics. Finally, predictive models were again run to align performance targets and financial goals with each of the tactics identified.
As a result of the diagnostics and actionable insights generated by this analytics platform, benefits valued in excess of $100 million were achieved. In addition, reduced product lead time, reduced inventory holding costs, and a 45 percent increase in on-time delivery were attained.
Drilling for better performance
Pacific Drilling, a leading ultra-deepwater drilling contractor founded in 2008, grew aggressively in its first few years. As a result, IT was tasked with providing a state-of-the-art platform for measuring company performance. Additionally, Pacific Drilling's ERP system—implemented early on in the company's life—was due for an upgrade. The company selected an approach that addressed both projects, allowing it to keep pace with expansion plans and gain a strategic edge with its information system.
Pacific Drilling implemented a single in-memory data platform for both advanced analytics and its upgraded ERP system. On this platform, the company was able to more effectively run maintenance, procurement, logistics, human resources, and finance functionalities in its many remote locations. It also could perform transactional and reporting operations within one system in real time. Business leaders are gaining insight, while IT delivers reports and dashboards with reduced time-to-value cycles.
With an in-memory solution, Pacific Drilling can more effectively measure performance and processes across the enterprise, and is better positioned to expand its business and competitiveness in the industry.
Communicating at light-speed
In the telecommunications industry, the customer experience has historically been defined through a series of disconnected, transactional-based interactions with either a call center or retail store representative. Customers have likely witnessed frustrating experiences such as service call transfers that require repeated explanations of the problem at hand; retail store interactions conducted with little understanding of their needs; and inconsistency of products and offers across different channels. While some companies may see this as a challenge, T-Mobile US, Inc. recognized an opportunity to innovate its customer experience.
The challenge many companies face is a "siloed" view of customer interactions across traditional marketing, sales, and service channels, as well as across emerging channels such as mobile devices and social media. T-Mobile recognized the potential in connecting the dots across these interactions and creating a unified customer experience across its channels, both traditional and emerging. By shifting its customer engagement model from reactive to proactive, T-Mobile could understand, predict, and mitigate potential customer issues before they occur and drive offers based on an individual's personal history (i.e., product usage, service issues, and buying potential). This was certainly a tall order, but it was a compelling vision.
T-Mobile's approach was to create a single view of customer interactions across channels. Each time a customer interacts with T-Mobile, the company records a "touch," and each time T-Mobile corresponds with a customer, the company also records that as a touch—creating a series of touches that, over time, resemble a conversation. The next time that T-Mobile and a customer interact, there are no awkward exchanges: The conversation starts where it left off. And the collection of touches can be used in real time to drive personalized pricing and promotions—through the web, on a mobile device, or while talking to a call center agent.
The situation T-Mobile faced when getting started: Two terabytes of customer data, created just in the last three months, stored in 15 separate systems with 50 different data types. Producing a single, consumable view of a customer's interaction history with the company's existing systems was likely impossible. Add the desire to perform advanced analytics, and it was clear the existing systems could not support the effort. To address these technical limitations, T-Mobile implemented an in-memory system that integrates multichannel sales, service, network, and social media data. The powerful data engine, combined with a service-oriented architecture, allows T-Mobile to capture customer interactions in a dynamic in-memory data model that accommodates the ever-changing business and customer landscape. The in-memory capabilities enable the integration of advanced customer analytics with a real-time decision engine to generate personalized experiences such as a discount for purchasing a new device the customer is researching or an account credit resulting from network issues impacting the customer.
T-Mobile's multichannel customer view takes the guesswork out of providing "the next best action" or "the next best offer" to customers. Data integration across traditional and emerging channels allows T-Mobile to see the full picture of a customer's experience so its employees can proactively engage customers with the appropriate message at the appropriate time. The importance of the customer experience has never been greater, and T-Mobile is shaking up the wireless industry by eliminating customer pain points. Customers can take advantage of its no-annual-service-contract Simple Choice Plan, an industry-leading device upgrade program, as well as unlimited global data at no extra charge. By implementing an in-memory platform to better understand its customers, T-Mobile continues to extend its competitive advantage with its differentiated customer experience.
Next-generation ERP
With customers demanding reductions in time-consuming workloads and better performance of transactional and informational data, ERP providers are looking for ways to improve existing products or introduce new ones. In-memory capabilities, often used for analytics in the past, can give vendors a way to address such concerns and create core business offerings that were previously unachievable. Both SAP and Oracle provide technical upgrade paths from recent releases.
To this end, Oracle announced the release of 13 in-memory applications with a performance improvement of 10- to 20-fold.7 Seven of these applications are new, intended to make possible several business processes previously deemed too intensive. Changes to the algorithms of six legacy applications will also allow in-memory versions to be created.8 Additionally, an in-memory option, intended to double the speed of transaction processing, has been added to the core 12c database.9
Similarly, SAP has shifted its core business applications to an in-memory database and has gained the participation of more than 450 customers as of October 2013.10 For these customers, this shift could make real-time financial planning possible, including interactive analysis of vast amounts of data.11 The outcomes of immediate data-driven decision making may soon be seen as adoption of in-memory business applications continues.
My take
Jason Maynard, software and cloud computing analyst, Wells Fargo Securities
The in-memory movement is upon us and a bevy of approaches are emerging to solve new and existing business problems. So with the goal of doing things "faster, better, cheaper," in-memory databases help to get you the "faster"—with an opportunity for "better" and "cheaper" when you use in-memory to tackle business, not technical, problems.
From my perspective, mass-market in-memory adoption is still in the early stages but poised to gain momentum. While in-memory database systems aren't new per se, they are gaining in popularity because of lower cost DRAM and flash options. I think it has greater potential than many recognize—and more known use cases than many believe. The available products still have room to mature in their development lifecycles, and I think customers are looking for pre-packaged, purpose-built applications and platforms that show concrete benefit. I think there is opportunity, however, for early-adopting customers to lead the charge and gain competitive advantage.
In-memory databases are database management systems that use main memory for computer data storage instead of disk storage. This brings benefits such as faster performance, faster response time, and reduced modeling. Many industries, such as financial services, telecommunications, and retail, have used in-memory for trading systems, network operations, and pricing. But as new modern systems such as SAP's HANA, Oracle's Exalytics, and a number of startups appear, the market should expand in size. Moving in-memory from specialized markets to mainstream adoption means that many applications may need to be rewritten to take advantage of the new capabilities. SAP's HANA database engine supports analytic applications and transactional systems. Oracle has released a number of in-memory apps across its application product portfolio.
My advice for companies is to start small. Identify a few bounded, business-driven opportunities for which in-memory technology can be applied. Budgeting, planning, forecasting, sales operations, and spreadsheet-driven models are good places to start, in my view. Their massive data volumes and large numbers of variables can yield faster and more informed decisions and likely lead to measurable business impact. The idea here is to reduce cycles and increase planning accuracy. By allowing a deeper level of operational detail to be included within the plan, users can perform more what-if scenario modeling iterations in the same budgeting window. This means insights can be put to use without reengineering the back-end core processes and existing transactions can be run with more valuable, timely input. Among others, Anaplan has released a cloud-based planning and modeling solution that was built with an in-memory engine.
The extended ecosystem of ERP vendors, independent software vendors (ISVs), systems integrators, and niche service providers are working hard to close the gap between in-memory's potential and the current state of the market. It will take time, and the full potential is unlikely to be realized until application stacks are rewritten to take advantage of the new data structures and computational scale that in-memory computing provides. But—in-memory computing has the potential to transform business.
Where do you start?
Vendors are making strategic bets in the in-memory space. IBM and Microsoft have built in-memory into DB2 and SQL Server. A host of dedicated in-memory products have emerged, from open source platforms such as Hazelcast to Software AG's BigMemory to VMWare's SQLFire.
But for many CIOs, the beachhead for in-memory will come from ERP providers. SAP continues to heavily invest in HANA, moving from analytics applications to its core transactional systems with Business Suite on HANA. SAP is also creating an ecosystem for developers to build adjacent applications on its technology, suggesting that SAP's HANA stack may increase over the next few years.12
Oracle is likely making a similar bet on its latest database, 12c, which adds in-memory as an option to its traditional disc-based, relational platform.13 While there will be disruption and transition expenses, the resulting systems will likely have a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and much higher performance than today's technology offers.
In addition, Oracle and SAP are pressing forward to create extensive ecosystems of related and compatible technologies. From captive company-built applications to licensed solutions from third parties, the future will be full of breakout opportunities. Continuous audits in finance. Real-time supply chain performance management. Constant tracking of employee satisfaction. Advanced point-of-sale solutions in retail. Fraud and threat detection. Sales campaign effectiveness. Predictive workforce analytics. And more. Functions that can benefit from processing crazy amounts of data in real time can likely benefit from in-memory solutions.
Vendors are pitching the benefits of the technology infrastructure, with an emphasis on real-time performance and TCO. That's a significant start, but the value can be so much more. The true advantage of an in-memory ecosystem is the new capabilities that can be created across a wide range of functions. That's where businesses come in. Vendors are still on the front end of product development, so now is the time to make your requirements known.
- Start by understanding what you've already bought. In-memory is an attractive and invasive technology—a more effective way of doing things. You may already have instances where you're using it. Assess the current benefits and determine what more you may need to spend to capitalize on its real-time benefits.
- Push the vendors. Leading ERP vendors are driving for breakthrough examples of in-memory performance—and are looking for killer applications across different industries and process areas. Talk with your sales reps. Get them thinking about—and investing in—solutions you can use.
- Ask for roadmaps. Move past sales reps to senior product development people at vendors and systems integrators. Ask them to help create detailed roadmaps you can use to guide the future.
- First stop: analytics. You'll likely find more immediate opportunities around your information agenda—fueling advanced analytics. In-memory can be used to detect correlations and patterns in very large data sets in seconds, not days or weeks. This allows for more iterations to be run, drives "fast failing," and leads to additional insights and refined models, increasing the quality of the analysis. These techniques used to be reserved for PhD-level statisticians—but not anymore.
- Focus on one or two high-potential capabilities. No company wants to conduct open-heart surgery on its core ERP system. Instead, pick a few priority functions for your business to gain buy-in. Your colleagues need to see the potential upside before they'll appreciate what a big deal this is. Analytics is a good starting point because it's fairly contained. Customer relationship management (CRM) is another good match, with its focus on pricing agility and promotion. After that, consider supply chain and manufacturing.
- Watch competitors. Experimentation will take place in many areas over the next two years. If a competitor develops new capabilities with demonstrated value in a particular area, the dam will break and the adoption curve will take off. Be ready for it.
Bottom line
Some technology trends explode onto the scene in a big way, rapidly disrupting business as usual and triggering an avalanche of change. Others quietly emerge from the shadows, signaling a small shift that builds over time. The in-memory revolution represents both. On the one hand, the technology enables significant gains in speed, with analytics number-crunching and large-scale transaction processing able to run concurrently. At the same time, this shift has opened the door to real-time operations, with analytics insights informing transactional decisions at the individual level in a virtuous cycle. The result? Opportunities for continuous performance improvement are emerging in many business functions.
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Did anyone stay up and watch Curiosity land? I feel like the only one in my group of friends. I managed to check Facebook and it's sadly devoid of all posts mentioning it except for mine. I even got a "What is the Curiosity Rover" comment by someone. However, it is full of posts about Jesus. I love the Bible Belt, or Mobile, AL for that matter. Anyway, I thought the entire process was amazing. I got home from work about 30 minutes before it entered the atmosphere, and watched it from that point until it sent its last picture. It was an amazing moment!
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I watched it. I got home right around the time you did at 10pm, 30 minutes before it landed.
Hi Matthew, Yeah people on facebook aren't exactly on there for learning, more for just re-hashing there version of there party night, get a profile on Google + and add some science circles, will get loads of info regarding curiosity and many other things, I'm loving it for that purpose.
I watched the living crap out of that stuff, AND been keeping up with the pictures. Sunrise on Mars! So beautiful! The Curiosity landing simulation was absolutely spectacular. I completely nerdgasmed over the entire thing.
There are Atheists interested in science on Facebook, you just have to know where to look.
Here are a few science-inclined Facebook pages where these kinds of things are kept up on:
I also posted a ton of content related to the Curiosity landing on my personal Facebook page.
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The SunSmart IRONMAN 70.3 Busselton event, formally the WA Long Course Triathlon Championships, found a new home in Busselton in 2002 after 17 years on Rottnest Island and a year at Margaret River. Over time the event has grown in stature and number of participants each year. The Media profile of the event continues to expand annually with the event broadcast national and strong media partnerships facilitating significant exposure both locally, nationally and internationally.
SunSmart IRONMAN 70.3 Busselton is one of the largest events of its type in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Many spectators line the foreshore of Busselton to cheer on the athletes over the 1.9km swim in the pristine waters of Geographe Bay, 90.1km flat and fast bike leg thru the Tuart Forest and a 21.1km run along the foreshore of Busselton.
Busselton itself offers an endless amount of activities, from shopping to surfing to whale watching - there is something for everyone to enjoy. The Busselton Town Center is home to a variety of restaurants, wine bars and local pubs that all offer a unique dining experience. You can enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner overlooking the picturesque Geographe Bay from many of the restaurants in the Town Center. There are endless amounts of water activities such as the Underwater Observatory, HMAS Swan Dive Wreck, scuba diving and the Nautical Lady Entertainment Park. While visiting, head to the Ludlow Tuart Forest, which is the last tuart forest in the world!
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Way cool!!!! I can see some pretty rad movies coming down the pipe now...
I was there when they took that riding shot ... people forgot about the riders and watched that thing instead. Impressive footage BTW!
Just when I thought I was doing well with having an HD helmet cam... Looks sick...
That thing has a lot of potential. Probably doesn't work in the rain though...
If anyone wants to do something like this I fly a R/C heli quite well.
That was awesome. This thing has so much potential
Slow mo? c'mon! haha. totally kidding, that was super amazing. I want to see more of those shots please!
that was more awesome than i thought it would be
this is "robotics" taken to the extreme....creative thinking usually gives u advantage....
this is so "radically geek awesomeness"....
Nice!!! This looks to be the future of mountain bike filming....similar to when the collective film released with the zip-line shots.
come on! that last shot was so dope! its funny watching everyone look at it like its a UFO or something!


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from the throat. Other common surgeries are tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, which are removal of the
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Several procedures have been developed to correct bony
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Home size: 3,566 square feet
Lot size: 0.99 acres
Rooms: 4 bedrooms, 3 full and 1 half baths
Year built: 1971
Annual taxes: $12,416 (2014)
Asking price: $895,000
This Colonial with a contemporary flair offers spacious airy rooms filled with natural light. The gourmet kitchen, large family room, cathedral ceiling living room with doors to a sunny porch and the dining room offer lovely spaces for entertaining. An elegant master suite and three family bedrooms are on second floor. The one-acre private, level lot with patio is a nice feature of this pristine, move-in ready home on a cul-de-sac.
The Colonial at 40 Griscom Road in Wayland offers sophistication and cozy family space in equal measure.
Set well back on a beautifully landscaped level lot, the house is located on a quiet cul-de-sac convenient to recreation, shopping and commuter routes.
Pristine and move-in ready, the 10-room home has an excellent floor plan for entertaining and a contemporary flair with its up-to-date amenities, cathedral ceilings, skylights and spacious rooms. The feel is bright, airy and open with a neutral color palette and rooms filled with natural light.
The four bedroom, three-and-one-half bath home offers 3,566 square feet of living space on a one-acre lot.
Lee-Ann Yolin of Coldwell Banker is marketing the house at $895,000.
Curb appeal is high for this well-kept home with shrubs and trees nicely placed around the house as well as a wide front walkway and attractive fieldstone façade surrounding the front door.
The door opens to a marble foyer with a view straight through the French doors of the step-down living room and beyond to the sun porch and serene backyard. The sight line creates a feeling of spaciousness and brings nature into the interior design.
The foyer has a front window and a double coat closet and a door to the attached two-car garage.
The cathedral ceiling living room with an open gallery on the second floor is a stunning room with a wood-burning fireplace with a marble surround, skylights and hardwood floors. Double glass doors open to an all-window solarium with a fan, two skylights and double sliders to a no-maintenance composite deck, which connects to glass sliders to the kitchen.
A wide entry opens from the living room to the dining room, which has a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and a hardwood floor.
The large eat-in kitchen has a "wow" effect with custom features that make the room efficient for the cook, but also a wonderful gathering space.
It has top-of-the-line appliances, including a Thermador five-burner gas cooktop and Sub-Zero fridge, dining area window seat, curved center island and custom built-in storage unit.
Hardwood floors with a decorative granite inset pattern, triple window and sliders to a deck, a bay window over the sink, granite counters and a large center island, recessed lights and ceiling speakers are all nice features.
The storage-and-display unit is a work of art with an exterior of andiroba beeswing wood, maple interior, ebony handles and decorative lighting.
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Congress tees up hearings on GSA's lavish Las Vegas conference
WASHINGTON — The federal officials who partied too hard in Las Vegas will now suffer the hangover on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers compete to out-investigate one another.
A scandal that's also a political opportunity, the recent revelations about the absurdly lavish General Services Administration conference give congressional panel chairmen a big target. The serious shooting starts Monday.
"We've seen there's a problem, and we're going to be digging more deeply into this," Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., said Friday.
Denham leads a House panel that oversees federal buildings, a post that previously garnered the freshman attention with scrutiny of a wasteful Securities and Exchange Commission lease. Those earlier hearings helped drive the SEC to cancel the lease.
Denham's House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management will hold a hearing Tuesday on the GSA's Las Vegas conference. That will be preceded Monday by a kickoff hearing with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
As revealed by an inspector general audit issued April 2, the General Services Administration spent $822,751 on its October 2010 Western Regional Conference. The total costs included six pre-conference planning trips by officials checking out the M Resort Spa Casino on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip.
The conference was attended by about 300 employees of the GSA, which manages federal buildings and operates as the administrative arm of the federal government.
Auditors called the conference spending "excessive, wasteful and in some cases impermissible." It included glittering hospitality suites, commemorative coins, breakfasts costing $44.80 a person and a $75,000 "team-building exercise" in which participants built bicycles from scratch.
"We want to be sure we hold accountable those who have misused public dollars," Denham said.
Acknowledging the spending was "very troubling" and "especially egregious," GSA Administrator Martha Johnson immediately resigned upon release of the inspector general's audit. Also, two deputies were fired and four managers were placed on leave. Congressional denunciations followed quickly.
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., maneuvered his way to the head of the line by scheduling a leadoff hearing Monday before his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Although the back-to-back hearings could prove complementary and could amplify a Republican message about waste in the Obama administration, seizing the first spot gives Issa potentially higher visibility.
"We have failed to do our job of keeping after this ever-growing bureaucracy, which is our responsibility," Issa told the Fox News Channel's Greta Van Sustern earlier this month. "We shouldn't fund and then forget."
Issa has used his committee to go after the Obama administration on a variety of fronts, including loan guarantees for troubled solar energy firms. Playing defense, committee Democrats have hoped to extend the panel's inquiry into GSA problems during the Bush administration.
The GSA's 2008 conference in New Orleans during the Bush administration cost $655,000, agency records show.
"We're committed to doing all we can to make the situation right," Acting GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini said April 10 on a video posted on the agency's website. "We've identified ways to be more efficient and effective stewards of taxpayer dollars."
Yet another House panel, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has been obtaining and releasing Obama administration documents concerning travel by GSA officials.
In the Senate, Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill has sharply questioned whether bonuses were improperly paid to GSA workers. She has not yet called for her own hearings into the Las Vegas conference, though she could do so eventually as chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight.
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Help! Canon K30225 Wireless Lan Compact Flash & Akilta
Help! Canon K30225 Wireless Lan Compact Flash & Akilta
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OK, I might have done something dumb (I think): I got a CANON K30225 Wireless LAN Compact Flash from ebay to use with my SL-C1000 (Akita), using Cacko 1.23. I did not check in the Intharweb if this card works with the Zaurus, although the vendor claims it works with the sl-c7XX...
The card shows the power led on, but no link. The wireless monitor does not see the card.
The output of cardctl status is:
Socket 0:
3.3V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: ready
Socket 1:
no card
Output of cardctl ident:
Socket 0:
product info: "Wireless LAN", "11Mbps PC Card", "Version 01.02", ""
manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
no product info available
So, what do I do now?? Help! Puleezz?
Never mind, all I had to do is reboot the Zaurus. I kept forgetting that the power button only suspends the Zaurus. Duh!
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Clear sunny skies greeted the riders this morning as they started to assemble for the 3rd and "Queen" stage of the Tour de Beauce - St-Georges to Mont-Mégantic, a distance of 164 km ending in a 5 km climb. This is the stage that has been on everyones mind this week, the stage that more often then not decides the overall winner.
The remaining field, now 98 riders down from the original 110, will ride out of St Georges at 9:30 am and head south for ~30 km, then head SW for ~20 km, before heading NW for ~ 30 km, then SW for ~18 km, then SE for 22 km, then S for ~15 km, The W for ~20 km where they hit Rue de Parc that takes them to Mont-Mégantic.
The course has 3 KOM's and 2 Sprints. The final KOM at the top of Mont-Mégantic.
Svein Tuft has been told he MUST wear his National Champion's jersey at Tour de Beauce, ansd it cannot be the one that his Pro-Team had made for him, since he is riding for the Canadian National team, it MUST be the one he was given at Nationals in 2011. So Svein will be riding today and onward in a different jersey that he has been seen in for the last 2 stages.
9:50 am
There is a break of 7 away: Flavio De Luna (Spidertech powered by C10), Davide Frattini ( UnitedHealthCare Pro Cycling Team), Will Clarke (Champion System Pro Cycling Team), James Moss (Node4 Giordana Racing), Francois Chabot (Ekoï.com/Le Gaspésien Pro Cycling Team), Cody Canning (Trek Red Truck Racing Team p/b Mosaic Homes), David Stephens (Garneau-Quebecor-Norton Rose QC) with a 10 sec gap.
9:55 am
All back together again.
There will be a flurry of of attacks off and on for the first ~25 km. And NORMALLY the break of the day will go just after the first Sprint - my prediction, lets see if it holds true.
If you have not already done so, the Race (tourdebeauce.com) site has a few videos uploaded from the past 2 stages ready for viewing. Watching will give you the flavour of the race, which is very popular with the locals.
10:15 am
Another attack. 5 riders have 30 seconds
Matt Hyggins (NODE4 Giordana), Russel Hampton (Raleigh GAC), David Stephens (Garneau-Quebecor-Norton QC), William Blackburn (Team Medique p/b Silber Investments), Nic Hamilton (Canadian National Team)
10:30 am
1 hr of racing done, 33 km covered and the break group has over 3 min
David Stephens (Garneau-Quebecor-Norton QC) took the Sprint pts
10:40 am
@38 km, Gap up to nearly 4 min
11:05 am
@ 62 km the gap is now 5:30. It is very windy but the temperature is holding in the low 20's (celsius). They will very soon hit the first of 3 KOM's at 65.8 km
Sorry, the entire area has very bad cell coverage, ESPECIALLY if you are getting your service on a Rogers phone
5 of the Directeur Sportif's this year are former Tour de Beauce stage winners or participants: Mark Walters (H&R Block), Eric Wohlberg (Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies), Gord Fraser (Competitive Cyclist) , Phil Cortes (Garneau-Quebecor-Norton Rose) & Steve Rover (Canadian National Team)
11:35 am
Now 4 in break group, William Blackburn (Team Mediqu) has been dropped. Leaders over KOM #1, with Nic Hamilton (Canadian National Team) taking the points.Gap 5 min +
11:46 am
@ 82 km the gap is up to 5:50
11:49 am
@89 km, gap 6 min
12:06 pm
@100 km the gap is now 5:45. 64 km to go
12:24 pm
@ 110 km and the gap is down to 4:20. Francisco Mancebo's team Competitive Cyclist is again doing all the work at the front to limit the damage to the lead of the riders on the road. Currently Russel Hampton (Raleigh GAC) is the top placed rider in the GC
12:30 pm
@ 118 km, gap down to 3:50. Competitive Cyclist has upped the pace of the peloton
4 riders in break are: Matt Hyggins (NODE4 Giordana), Russel Hampton (Raleigh GAC), David Stephens (Garneau-Quebecor-Norton QC), Nic Hamilton (Canadian National Team)
Another KOM coming at 131 km
12:50 pm
@ 128 km the gap is 2:45
On the 2nd KOM and the gap is down to 2:10. Matt Hyggins (NODE4 Giordana), Russel Hampton (Raleigh GAC) go over the top alone with David Stephens (Garneau-Quebecor-Norton QC), Nic Hamilton (Canadian National Team) struggling to keep their pace.
1:15 pm
The lead group has disintigrated. Only Russel Hampton (Raleigh GAC) remains out front and the gap is 1 min to the peloton being led by Francisco Mancebo's team Competitive Cyclist and they are shedding riders off the back of the peloton . There are 20 km remaining.
1:25 pm
All together again Hampton remains out front alone. With 15 k to go, the gap is 1:53
The climb to the top of Mont Mégantic (596.2 metres) begins with 5.4 km to go
@ 12 km to go gap was 1:36
@ 10 km it was 1:20
7 km - 55 sec
6 km 30 sec
Hampton was caught at the base of the climb
1:45 pm
4 km to go and a group of 20 with Mancebo are away
w. 3 km to go there are 10 riders left with Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthCare Pro Cycling Team) setting the pace
1:50 pm
Mathew Cooke (Exergy) attacks and has a gap of ~ 10 sec. He is being chased by Christian Meier (Canadian National Team), Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare), Francisco Mancebo (Competitive Cyclist Racing Team), Marc de Maar (UnitedHealthcare), Sebastien Salas (Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies), Hugo Houle (Spidertech powered by C10)
De Maar is leading the chasers
1:54 pm
1 km to go - Cooke still has a small gap
Final UNOFFICIAL
1 Mathew Cooke (Exergy)
2 Francisco Mancebo (Competitive Cyclist Racing Team)
3 Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthCare Pro Cycling Team)
Mancebo holds onto the lead by 5 sec
Stage profile - courtesy Tour de Beauce
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Holiday Vacation
With a hurt wrist one week, and the traditional mid December influenza the next, I've found myself rather behind. Not just in terms of this little corner of the interwebbing tubes, but things I actually need (Read:paid) to do as well. As we are less then a week away from the festival of Saturnalia, this had created a bit of a time crunch for me, so I've opted to simply give the Chilean soccer team I kidnapped to make this comic, the rest of the year off. Please have a happy Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Festivus, or what have you. Also, if you're one of those holiday opposed folks, I suppose today is the unofficial wear a plunger on your head day. That sounds like fun, and no one says you can't talk like a pirate as well. Asylum Heights will resume on its regular Monday/Thursday schedule on Monday January 7th, 2013. ...Assuming we aren't wiped out this Friday by a prophecy that never existed.
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The fight against AIDS just achieved a major new breakthrough: a pill may help prevent men from getting the HIV infection in the first place.
A pill that's been used to help treat those who get the HIV infection, called Truvada, is now thought to actually help prevent healthy gay men from getting the virus.
Truvada, a combination of tenofovir (you may have seen it sold as Viread) and what's sold as Emtriva, is sold by Gilead Sciences, a Silicon Valley biotech company that has long fought back against AIDS and HIV.
Through the years, Gilead has seen encouraging results in the fight against AIDS, which is largely why Gilead has stood out in a sea of biotech companies most people have never heard of.
Gilead (GILD) has seen its share price rise much more consistently than a typical biotech company; it's big enough that its fortunes don't rise and fall based the success of a single drug.
But back to Truvada. After fighting to help those who already have the disease, the drug is now said to help when it comes to prevention.
According to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Truvada reduced new infections by as much as 73 percent among healthy males who used it regularly. The study followed about 2500 HIV-negative men, said to be at risk for catching the disease.
But (and this is a standard warning when it comes to biotech stories), it's not a sure thing. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quickly warned that condoms are still the best way to prevent HIV, and that Truvada has not been approved for that actual use.