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Emergency vehicles in Boca Raton won't be deployed if wind speeds from Hurricane Matthew exceed 39 miles per hour, according to Mayor Susan Haynie.
In a Facebook Live update from city leaders at Boca's Emergency Operations Center, Haynie said emergency calls will be queued and emergency vehicles on standby.
Winds in Boca Raton are predicted to exceed 39 mph between 9 p.m. Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
As soon as winds die down, first responders will be deployed.
Haynie also reminded the public not to call 911 for "non-emergencies." The city's Citizen Information Center is taking calls, at (561) 982-4900, with questions before, during and after the storm.
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[Image above] Macrete crew members supervise installation of a FlexiArch bridge at Pleasington in Northern Ireland. Credit: Emma Martin at Story Contracting Ltd.; Macrete
You've heard of self-assembling thin films and origami and self-cleaning solar cells and automobiles … but self-arching bridges?
Engineers at Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland) have developed—and will soon install—the world's longest self-arching bridge.
The pre-fab concrete bridge is a flat-pack bridge, named for its ability to be transported flat to the installation site. When lifted off a flatbed truck, flat-pack bridges use gravity to self-assemble into an arch.
The latest, and longest, flat-pack bridge consists of 17 one-meter-wide tapered blocks of pre-cast concrete. Each block weighs 16 tons, for a total of 272 tons of bridge-building concrete.
The technology behind this engineering feat is Macrete's FlexiArch system, which links the top of the concrete blocks together with a bonded flexible membrane. The U.K. now has more than 50 FlexiArch bridges installations.
"This innovative system is exceptional as it is easily transported in flat pack form and then rapidly installed on site," Macrete project manager Abhey Gupta says in a Queen's University press release. "It is also unique as its strength does not depend on corrodible reinforcement, thus it should have a lifetime of at least 300 years, whereas conventional bridges seldom achieve their design life of 120 years."
In comparison to a traditional bridge, the FlexiArch system allows the structure to be built much quicker and cheaper. It also requires little maintenance because the bridge derives its strength from compression, eliminating the need for corrodible rebar—a big concern when it comes to bridge maintenance.
The bridge will be installed near Portsmouth (Northern Ireland) and will span 16 m, the farthest yet for a flat-pack bridge. According to the release, the bridge will be installed in less than a day using a 200–300 ton crane and a specially designed lifting beam.
To see other FlexiArch installations and read more about the technology, head over here.
And if concrete is your jam, be sure to check out Cements 2015 and submit your abstract by March 31.
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2010 was a big year for jury verdicts in courts across the nation. From tobacco litigation to asbestos to car roll-overs, plaintiffs were big winners in the courts. Please join me and my fellow attorneys and co-host Bob Ambrogi as we welcome Reni Gertner, News Editor of Lawyers USA and Attorney Kevin J. Dunne from the law office of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, to discuss Lawyers USA's "Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2010". They take an in-depth look at these specific cases and get a defense attorney's perspective.


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Do you sell by email?
If so, have your email marketing campaigns been hitting their mark? Or falling flat?
Because if your results have been lacklustre, one of the problems might be the sequence of your emails, or lack of.
You see, it doesn't matter if you're the very best copywriter in the world,
And it doesn't matter if you have the greatest offer known to man...
It will all be pointless- if you're not sending your emails in the right order.
Read on and I'll tell you exactly why that's the case AND I'll show you the only 5 email sequences you'll ever need to know...
If you want to be able to extract the maximum amount of cash from your list, you're gonna want to read every word of this post.
Before we get into the correct order for sending messages, I'm going to back up and explain my first statement with a metaphor.
Simply replace "best copywriter in the world" with "best looking man in the world".
Instead of "make a sale"... let's say your goal is to get married.
If the best looking man in the world (not me, I'm 3rd) were to walk up to a random woman in the street and ask for her hand in marriage.
Just how many do you suppose would say yes?
Let's say 1% agree.
It could be for any number of reasons: she could be desperate, lonely, crazy, or drunk or on drugs.
Maybe it's hormones, raw attraction, or even an amazing pickup line.
Whatever the case, it doesn't really matter.
Why's that you ask?
Because 99% said no!
(of course, in this example you would only need one person to say yes as marriage is supposed to be forever).
Here in the real world, any sane person would probably have a few questions, like...
Who are you?
How do I know you're not a psycho serial killer with a freezer full of women's body parts?
As Dan Kennedy would say, it's simply a bridge too far.
Funny enough though, that's the equivalent of what most people are doing with their email list.
There are no introductions, no casual flirting, no first dates, no wining and dining.
They just get straight to business...
and like a thief in the night,
after their first sale they're usually out of there and onto the next poor sap.
Their email marketing campaigns look a little like this:
"Hey I'm Ben, wanna get hitched? No? Last chance to get married.. Going once, going twice, fine you lose! On to the next one!"
Does that sound like you?
I hope not.
If it does, here's your lightbulb moment: a business relationship with your customer isn't that much different from the above dating example.
If you're the best looking man in the world and you start off with "Hi my name is Ben, would you like a drink?"
And from there you escalate to asking for the phone number, asking them on a date, going for the first kiss, the first... you know, and THEN marriage.
You're going to have much more success.
Because the secret is in systematically escalating the level of commitment.
And in your case, commitment from your customer comes in the form of their time or their money.
So with that out of the way, we can get down to the reason you're here.
The meat and potatoes of email marketing sequences.
There are five total.
The first one for you to understand is...
the Indoctrination series.
Think of it like introducing yourself and offering to buy the girl a drink at the bar.
You want to put your best foot forward, so to speak.
With that in mind,
The indoctrination sequence is usually 1-3 emails and it has a few functions.
It should give valuable content first to establish goodwill with your subscribers.
(I define goodwill as being the amount your prospects know, like, and trust you.)
The indoctrination sequence also serves to establish your credibility and authority.
Beyond that, you want to welcome and introduce them to you and your brand.
The new subscriber should be reminded exactly what's in it for them to be on your email list and what to expect.
Also, you will want to tell them what to do next. Usually this means getting them to whitelist your emails and possibly create a separate folder for your emails so they don't miss out.
The next of the email marketing campaigns is the engagement sequence.
Think of it like asking for the girls phone number and then out on a date.
An engagement sequences role is to get the new subscriber to, as the name describes, engage with your content, your CTA's, and ultimately buy.
Depending on how big your ask is, you can employ a number of different engagement sequences.
If your next logical step is a rather large one, you can use a nurture campaign to build more goodwill and proof of your products effectiveness.
On the other hand, if you're selling low priced, impulse items, you can use a more direct marketing styled quick conversion campaign.
This style uses scarcity and other impulses to create quick sales.
Here's an example of how that might look for a gym selling memberships...
(Day) 1: Get in the best shape of your life, today!
2: Off
3: Get 40% off all gym memberships for our New Years sale!
4: Off
5: Sale ending soon!
6: Save 40% on gym memberships! Only 48 hours left.
7: Final Warning: sale ends at midnight!
(These emails follow the "gain, logic, fear" template perfected by digital marketer. In fact, I've learned most of these email sequences from DM.)
A "four day cash machine" is another good example of this type of promotion made famous by Frank Kern.
The third type of email sequence is the Ascension series.
Think of ascension as asking the girl to marry you after you have been dating for a while.
The goal of these campaigns is to take buyers and ascend them into one or all of the following
- Buying higher ticket items
- Continuity programs
- Becoming multi buyers
- Cross sell them.
- Increasing the frequency and recency of their purchase.
- Purchase affiliate offers
(Frequency and recency simply means how often and how recently your customers bought from you.)
Or, if you have already sold them your most expensive/only product, you might want to decrease your refund rate by sending them a nurture campaign which helps them use your product.
Note: There are numerous businesses where you won't want to immediately sell them again.
For example: if you're selling cars, your customer *probably* won't be in the market again the week after they bought a new car.
However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't follow up with them!
If your business falls into this category, remember you don't always have to sell them YOUR product or service. It can be anything else that provides more value to them.
In the case of the car dealer, maybe this is where you sell them affiliate offers with local tire shops, car washes, insurance agencies, you name it.
You could also launch referral campaigns at this point.
The main function of the ascension campaign is to upsell your customers in some way.
There are many varieties of upsell sequences. Here are just a few:
The first is the "C, C, P, C" formula: content, content, pitch, content.
There's also the "know, like, trust, challenge, convert, fear" sequence.
And then there's the "content, hybrid (content+pitch), pitch, logic, fear" sequence.
If these upsells don't work, there's also the upsell abandon campaign.
The fourth type of campaign is the segmentation sequence.
Your email list is full of hidden treasure in the form of hyperactive buyers.
Your job is to identify who they are.
You also want to figure out who is interested in which topic or offer if you have multiple.
The segmentation sequence is always a broadcast email.
It's job is to identify and segment by interest, based on their actions.
These actions could be getting them to opt into a different list, adding them to a retargeting list, or tagging your emails.
An example of another list they can opt in is an early bird list for a new product, a webinar signup, or a goodwill segmentation list.
The last type of campaign you need to implement is the winback or re-engagement sequence.
Chances are, until now you have been email marketing all wrong.
This is losing you a ton of potential customers and email subscribers whom you've paid for.
The first thing you need to understand is that it's completely normal for people to unsubscribe from your list.
It's a business fact that people will do so regularly, and that's fine. (I'll tell you why in a second)
With that said, the job of the re-engagement sequence is to do what its name implies.
This bad boy gets your unresponsive customers to re-engage with your emails and your business.
As you know, customer acquisition is the most expensive cost to any business. Anything you can do to lessen this expense will have an immediate impact on your bottom line.
What you need to do is directly callout your inactive subs.
Basically you're going to re-indoctrinate them.
And here are a few things you can do to get someone to re-engage with your emails...
- Bribery! Bring them back into the fold with a free gift.
- Benefits! Remind them why being on your list is awesome and give them valuable free content.
- You can offer them a special discount.
- Threats! Warn the unengaged that you will remove them from your list if steps 1-3 don't work.
Keep in mind, there are many reasons why someone will unsubscribe from your list, but here's why you really shouldn't worry about it.
You need to worry about your email deliverability.
You need to prove to your email service provider that you're NOT a spammer.
One of the metrics they look for in order to confirm you're not spamming is the engagement with your emails.
IE: your open rates and click rates.
Therefore, if someone isn't opening your emails and clicking your links after your winback sequence...
It's in your best interest to follow through with your threat and remove them.
Ultimately your goal is to have an active and engaged/responsive list, right?
One full of people who happily buy from you over and over... and tell their friends to do the same.
That can't happen if you are messing up the order of the messages you're sending to your new subscribers.
Remember, don't ask someone to marry you the first time you meet!
One of the core rules of marketing and business is your customer list is your biggest asset.
By following this short guide, you will begin to build a real relationship with your customers and maximize your biggest asset.
That way you can turn your email list into your personal ATM.
Hopefully this helps you in your email marketing endeavours,
And if you would like me to help craft any of these email marketing campaigns for your business, simply reach out to me at either...
Email me at ben(at)benbyrnemedia.com
Use the subject line: email marketing campaigns guide
And I'll give you a special discount for being a reader of my blog 🙂
OR just message me on my facebook fan page. Make sure to use the same message as above.
I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
Thanks for reading and I'll talk to you soon.
-Ben Byrne


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Sometime during that first week of medical school, I learned that the world belongs to horses. Except when DH has a bloody nose: he has leukemia. Or I have a headache: glioblastoma multiforme … or cysticercosis. Now, The Kid is coughing: yup … swine flu.
I remember skipping over the Reagan era — I was in college, then graduate school, then medical school. The internet was not ubiquitous; DH used the old DARPANET as part of his graduate work, and completely underestimated the possibilities. Me — I had my first encounters with computer while using LOTS. It was an experience mercifully aborted as I realized I hated being with a bunch of geeks at 2 in the morning. Then I had a Mac, which I used for churning out a truly awful "bodice ripper." The Mac didn't last long — it probably died of embarrassment after that romance novel. The point is — the Reagan era was not a happy time for liberals — or for the country, for that matter — but I didn't know that because I didn't live in a world of instant news.
So now the WHO has advanced the swine flu problem to phase 4 — and I can't help knowing that because I spend way too much time on the computer. The doctor in me thinks it's a real problem almost certain to become a HUGE problem, but I also have faith in the medical community. And yet I am absurdly unnerved by all the up-to-the-minute news, the doomsday headlines, the painstaking accounting of cases. I remember when AIDS began, and newscasters would give that same accounting of the number of deaths. When did they stop counting? At 50? At 100? When people no longer could — or wanted to — absorb the numbers?
The Kid is coughing, and I try to think my way out of my fears. I take comfort in that I apparently survived the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic — a pandemic I didn't know about until yesterday.


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Friends of Capital! Steampunk will know about our fondness for Lewis Carroll, but we mustn't neglect another great Victorian nonsense writer. Edward Lear is the author of The Owl and the Pussycat, The Pobble Who Has No Toes and The Jumblies (who went to sea in a sieve), among many other works, and Expressions Whirinaki in Upper Hutt has an exhibition of his work.
On the afternoon of Saturday 10 October they're also presenting an Afternoon of Nonsense between 1 – 3pm, featuring readings by steam radio veteran Dick Weir. We think it might be rather jolly to dress in our steampunkery and go along, then have a look at the exhibition afterwards. The event is suitable for all ages, and there may even be opportunities for tea!
The address is 836 Fergusson Drive. Contact Capital! Steampunk if you can offer, or need, a ride. We understand there is plenty of parking available, whether you elect to travel by dirigible or horseless carriage.
And to get you in the mood, here's a little something of the Colonel's:
There once was a fellow named Lear
Whose works were decidedly queer.
But he was a Victorian,
The era we glory in,
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Sorry it took me so long to put this up. In case you haven't seen it, this is the Obamas' car getting stuck in Ireland yesterday. Your taxpayer dollars at work.
The over-armored big one called the Beast. Yes, iour tax bucks in action. I heard he also had the windows of his room in London reinforced with American bulletproof glass or something like that.
How many vehicles did he take this time?
Do you remember the restraint shown by the Brits for the Royal Wedding? Nary a motorcade, and then along come these fools with their Rock-star motorcades, retinue and staff.
Rarely does life hand me two metaphors in one. (see tomorrows cartoon)
Once again we are embarrassed by the presidents actions..
The limo is racist!
Fence turtle.
Ha! Agree with you, but we call 'em post turtles here in Texas.
So apparently it can stop any kind of bullet, but a small thing like that incline can render it useless. I guess that they better rethink the chassis….or maybe tank treads could help. Actually pretty amazing that such a small thing would have that effect. Looks like the only testing it got was on flat city streets without any impediments. Amazing oversight
Evidently all of you are unaware of the following two words "extended wheelbase". These type of grades have to be negotiated "one wheel at a time", as any vehicle driver worth the weight of his or her driving gloves would know. But i guess this is just another chance to lambast {44}; fret not however, you will have more mountain/molehill moments in the second term. God bless the 44th President of the United States of America.
Yessir. Noted.
So wouldn't a good driver say "Boss, we can get into this parking lot but we won't be able to get out because we don't have the negotiating room for the "one wheel at a time" maneuver?
Was that a molehill? I thought it was a really old, cobbled dirveway.
Ex-limo Driver, Since you seem to be one of his supporters, would you mind telling me what it is you like about his policies. Do you like the high gas prices? Are you okay with the massive home foreclosures and unemployment? Are you okay with him going against the will of the American people to pass Obamacare? How about stirring up anarchy in the Middle East with his "Arab Spring" movement? How about him ignoring the cleansing of the Koptic Christians in Egypt? Are you okay with him standing with the terrorist group Hamas rather than with our Israeli brothers and sisters? Please tell me how you can justify the tyranny he is trying to impose on America.
Ronald Reagan wrote this quote down many years ago, and since we seem to be reliving history it is appropriate. "The greatest liar has his believers. If a lie be believed for only an hour it has done its work. Falsehood flies & truth comes limping after; so that when men come to be undeceived it is too late; the tale has had its effect."
Anonymous Quotes, from "The Notes"
Metaphor pertaining to the Bush legacy.
The question I have…is how did the Beast get into the Embassy compound in the first place? How many 'routes' in and out could that building have? And…wouldn't the SS have scoped out the route in advance…and possibly averted the 'bump.'
My guess…the original route was 'tweaked' because (ahem) an adoring throng of DOZENS had assembled…so it was photo op time???
I just don't see the Secret Service NOT knowing this would happen.


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Episode 38 | Analog
"Our accelerating disappearance into the digital ether now defines us—we are the mediated people, whose contact with one another and the world around us is now mostly veiled by a screen. We threaten to rebel, just as we threaten to move to Canada after an election. But we don't; the current is too fierce to swim to shore." – Bill McKibben
After returning from summer holidays, we feel compelled to incorporate more analog habits into our lives and into our business. We've both felt the physical acknowledgement that the pen is an extension of the human body in a way that typing on a keyboard will never be. The writer and activist Bill McKibben writes that humans have come to use screens as mediators that color virtually every experience and relationship in our modern lives.
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Joy: The Artist's Way
Hustle: The Revenge of Analog


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Understand the Windows Process rundll32.exe
A problem child in the Windows pantheon of processes is something called rundll32.exe. The rundll32.exe program exists to run programs held in DLL files. A DLL is a Dynamic Link Library, a common set of routines used by a number of programs in Windows. To run one of these routines directly, the rundll32.exe program lives up to its name and runs the dll program file.
The problem with rundll32.exe is that it can easily run a process that's secretly malware. Here's what you can do to review the list of processes being run by rundll32.exe:
Start a command prompt window.
From the Start button menu, choose All Programs→Accessories→Command Prompt.
Type the following command:
tasklist /m /fi "imagename eq rundll32.exe"
Double-check your typing.
Press the Enter key.
Quickly, text spurts onto the command prompt window. The details show which services are being run by the various instances of rundll32.exe.
The information that's displayed only tells you some nerdy things about what the rundll32.exe program is up to. Only when you know which nasty programs to look for can you confirm that rundll32.exe is running them.
The rundll32.exe program is merely the messenger. Although it can be abused to run nasty software, or you may occasionally see rundll32.exe in an error message, the program itself is most likely not the problem child. No, it's probably one of the DLLs that rundll32.exe is running that's causing you strife.
Don't be surprised in Windows 7 not to find any tasks using rundll32.exe. It's an older technology, and you'd have to be running older applications or games to see any active rundll32.exe tasks.
The original program to run DLL files was named rundll.exe. That was the filename used with the Windows 95, 98, and Me editions. Because Windows XP is a 32-bit operating system, the filename was changed to rundll32.exe.


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It's Just An Ordinary Light Bulb… Except It Levitates!
The mere idea of levitation is magical: It defies the laws of gravity and only usually happens in movies or otherwise fictional tales. As such, pretty much everyone would learn to levitate if they could -- but for now, we'll have to settle with this incredible levitating light.
As a kid, this inventor was fascinated by hoverboards. As an adult, he took that fascination into exploring ideas about levitation, learning how to create levitating objects through the use of magnets. His latest creation is Flyte, a levitating, energy-efficient lightbulb that levitates just above a small board. Check out the video below to see how it works.
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We're fast approaching a very special time of year. Soon, the ghosts and goblins that dress store windows will be replaced with the decorative decals of Thanksgiving. It's a time when we slow down and take stock of our lives and the people we care about most.
As the season of thankfulness and gratitude invites moments of self-reflection, you may find yourself thinking more and more about the things that matter to you and whether your life is all that it could be.
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Can someone tell me how a USC win in the Rose Bowl would have been a three-pete? People seem to be forgetting who won the 2004 championship. Great game, Texas! Geaux Tigers!
HT: Ray Bowman
Can someone tell me how a USC win in the Rose Bowl would have been a three-pete? People seem to be forgetting who won the 2004 championship. Great game, Texas! Geaux Tigers!
HT: Ray Bowman
I would rather have seen LSU vs. USC matchup in 2004, than LSU – OU. From watching the USC – Michigan game that year, then the LSU – OU game, and finally the USC – OU game the year after, I do have to come to the conclusion, although I hate USC, that USC would have beat LSU that year by a touchdown or more. But it would be a game to see!
So do you think Vince Young is going into the NFL draft this year? I think he should stay his senior year and try win the Heisman and make it to the championship again. His throwing mechanics could use some work before he goes to the NFL, where there is a steady diet of players as fast, as strong, as tough and considerably more malevolent than those he has been shaming in college. He is going to need to sharpen up and learn to use his brain more along with his talent if he is going to make it in the NFL.
To make a late post on this blog, I would venture to say that LSU would of beat USC in 04′ as well as I do not believe they got the Hardware that LSU got. Finally, Ole Pat is just getting irrelevant in his political and cultural power so the only way he can stay in the news is to make outrageous comments like those that he has made. Look for these comments to get more and more flagrant as he gets less and less influential
[…] The BCS computers have cranked out a title game, and USC will not be playing for the championship (USC, the team that won one national championship a couple years ago but for some reason continue to be regarded as a dynasty). […]
[…] The perfect palindrome is not "Madam, I'm Adam" or "Poor Dan is in a droop." It's "41-14." Why 41-14? Because that is the final score of LSU's shellacking of Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl. Sweet!I don't think Notre Dame belonged in that game. It would have been much better to see LSU beat the pseudo-dynastic USC in the Rose Bowl. But the storied Notre Dame program gets preferential treatment in NCAA football, so we stomped the Irish instead. […]
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I am so in LOVE with today's Real Wedding feature from Anna Bella Charles {fine art photography}. Not only is the bride's dress absolutely stunning, but the soft color palette of peach and yellow is gorgeous. Just perfect for a summer wedding in Tennessee. I'm loving the location of their garden ceremony and wait until you see the flowers - they're perfection. As is their calligraphed wedding invitation and wedding fans for the guests.
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1975 Lamborghini Urraco P250
You are forgiven if your first reaction to this car was, "What is that?" What you see is an extremely rare example of a little-known Lamborghini from the 1970s. The Urraco, which was initially produced to fill a void below the shapely and decidedly ferocious Miura in Lamborghini's lineup, has long been considered to be one of the most underrated performance cars to ever emerge from the hallowed works at Sant'Agata in central Italy. It debuted at the 1970 Turin Salon and was penned by Bertone's Marcello Gandini, who was best known at the time for the Miura but whose status as a Lamborghini stylist was cemented with the Countach that followed. The Urraco was intended to square off against Ferrari's Dino and Maserati's Merak, and its wedge look was considerably more modern than that offered up by its rivals.
This particular Urraco is a P250 model, with a compact 2.5 liter transverse V8, and is one of the last P250 models ever manufactured. Originally delivered in Saudi Arabia to a prince, in 1975 the second owner, a US citizen, acquired the car and drove it very infrequently while he was living in Saudi Arabia, due to the condition of the roads in that country at the time.
In 1984, the same owner was moving back to the US, and decided to send the car to the Lamborghini factory in Italy for a full restoration. At that time, the engine was rebuilt, the body was resprayed in its current red color, and the interior was completely refurbished, quite possibly by some of the same craftsmen who built the car ten years earlier. Extensive pictures are available of the restoration process, as well as showing Valentino Balboni, the famous Lamborghini factory test driver, behind the wheel of this car.
After the restoration, the owner enjoyed the car sparingly in the US, only covering a little more than 7,000 miles, until he finally sold the car to its third owner in 2014. The engine was removed again at this time for a full service, including timing belts change, the steering rack was comprehensively rebuilt, and the suspension was refreshed. Cosmetically, the car is essentially untouched since its factory restoration; the interior is in exceptional condition and the paint has a lovely patina.
This quite possibly might be the lowest mileage, as well as the finest, Urraco in existence, with a complete and known history since new. Any Urraco is an extremely rare find, and this particular car, owned by a single owner for almost its entire existence, is an opportunity not to be missed for the Lamborghini completist, or anyone with a passion for rare and lovely Italian cars. For more information on this 1975 Lamborghini Urraco P250, please contact Michael Foertsch at email@example.com or 832-617-0494.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale inventories were slightly higher in June than previously reported, with sales posting their biggest drop in five months.
The Commerce Department said on Thursday wholesale inventories edged up 0.1 percent instead of being unchanged as it reported last month. Stocks at wholesalers rose 0.3 percent in May. They increased 5.1 percent year-on-year in June.
The component of wholesale inventories that goes into the calculation of gross domestic product - wholesale stocks excluding autos - gained 0.2 percent in June.
There was an outright inventory liquidation in the second quarter. As a result inventories subtracted a full percentage point from gross domestic product in the April-June quarter. The economy grew at a 4.1 percent annualized rate during that period, the fastest in nearly four years.
Against the backdrop of strong domestic demand, businesses are likely to boost stocks of goods, which should underpin production at factories. Economists expect a significant contribution from inventory accumulation to GDP growth in the third quarter.
In June, wholesale auto inventories fell 1.2 percent after declining 1.5 percent in May. Machinery inventories increased 0.8 percent after May's 1.7 percent surge. Stocks of farm products tumbled 6.5 percent after dropping 2.6 percent in May.
Sales at wholesalers dipped 0.1 percent in June, the largest drop since January, following a 2.1 percent jump in May. At June's sales pace it would take wholesalers 1.25 months to clear shelves, unchanged from May.
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The best time to sow the seeds of many native plants is during the cooler months
In New Mexico, a broad-tailed hummingbird feasts on nectar of desert penstemon, one of more than 200 penstemon species native to North America. In gardens, the plants' seeds should be sown in fall or early winter. Sow seeds outside about as deep as the seed is wide in pots, flats (below) or beds.
ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTRY, most gardeners this time of year pack up their clippers, stash their trowels and resign themselves to waiting out the winter. But late fall through early spring is the best time to sow the seeds of many of the native wildflowers that support birds, bees and other wildlife.
By planting these seeds, you may also promote local genetic diversity. Most garden centers selling plants today stock only cultivars of native species—plants that have been selected for characteristics such as a specific flower or leaf color. To perpetuate such traits, commercial suppliers often produce their stock clonally: by rooting small cuttings of plants with the desired traits. Cloning, by definition, limits plants' genetic diversity. But if you grow your plants from seed, you can boost the genetic variation of local plant populations and therefore their capacity to adapt to rapidly changing environmental conditions.
What's more, by growing plants from seed obtained from a known source, "you can make sure the seed is appropriate for your region and that your source is using sustainable practices," says Mary Phillips, director of the National Wildlife Federation's Garden for Wildlife™ program. The former is important because some commercial suppliers sell "native" seeds that originate in a different region—or even another country—with genes that may not be ideally suited to your area.
Unless they are labeled organic, the seeds of plants sold by commercial sources also may be treated with pesticides—including neonicotinoids, insecticides that have been implicated in the decline of bees and other pollinators.
And growing natives from seed is much less expensive than purchasing plants. If you gather the seeds from your own plants, "you can expand your wildlife garden for free, serving more hummingbirds, butterflies and bees the following spring," says Phillips. She adds that one should avoid obtaining seeds by removing plants or seeds from the wild.
Beyond your own backyard, other good seed sources include native plant societies, garden clubs, nature centers, NWF community habitat groups, fall and winter seed swaps organized to promote genetic diversity and many public gardens. The latter often provide not only the seeds themselves but also written information or workshops on how to cultivate the seeds.
Once you obtain your seeds, here are some tips to get them growing:
• The easiest way to germinate native seeds is to sow them outdoors. The best time varies by species. Plants such as penstemons, blazing stars and shrubby dogwoods, which need a cold period to germinate, should be sown in fall or early winter. Milkweeds and coneflowers are among plants best sown in fall or early spring. Each species also has its own germination timetable, varying from a week to a year or more. When sown in winter, some woodland wildflowers, including trilliums and Solomon's seal, do not germinate until the second spring.
• Sow seeds in flats or pots (4 inches to 10 inches in diameter and at least 3 inches deep) or carve out a 4-foot-wide by 10-foot-long germination bed.
• Fill containers or bed with a weed-free, compost-based potting mix.
• Sow seeds about as deep as they are wide and roughly 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch apart. Cover with a thin layer of coarse sand or sawdust to prevent seeds from splashing out in rain. Label with plant name and date.
• Sow seeds of woodland wildflowers in full to part shade and those of plants that require dry, sunny conditions in full sun.
• Keep the soil moist by watering when it begins to dry out.
Following these simple steps this winter will provide more food for pollinators—and provide you the pleasure of watching life contained in a tiny seed unfold next spring
Janet Marinelli wrote about plants for early bees in the October–November 2017 issue.
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Mullally's journalism career began in India where, from 1937 to 1949, he was sub-editor on The Statesman of Calcutta, then editor of the Sunday Standard of Bombay. Back in London he worked as a sub-editor of The Financial News, as co-editor of the weekly Tribune, and finally as political editor and columnist of the Sunday Pictorial. From 1950 to 1955, he headed the public relations firm of Mullally & Warner, with clients ranging from Audrey Hepburn and Frank Sinatra to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paul Getty, Frankie Laine, the Festival Ballet and Picture Post. Others included; Vera Lynn, Yvonne De Carlo, Guy Mitchell, Sonja Henie, Line Renaud, Johnnie Ray, Jo Stafford, Les Paul and Mary Ford, and the Oxford University Press and its counterpart, Cambridge University Press, as well as the Hulton Press.
Mullally's first novel was the 1958 world best-seller Danse Macabre. This was followed by eleven more titles. His semi-autobiographical novel Clancy was dramatised by BBC TV in five one-hour episodes in 1975 and 1977 under the title Looking for Clancy, starring Robert Powell and Keith Drinkel. Between books, Mullally compiled and wrote with the collaboration with the BBC an album, The Sounds of Time a dramatised history of Britain (1933–45) and the long running Penthouse magazine's strip cartoon "Oh Wicked Wanda!". In 1949 he abandoned a prospective candidature of the Labour Party for the parliamentary constituency of Finchley and Friern Barnet. Late in his life he contributed occasional freelance journalism.
Books by Frederic Mullally
Selected Bibliography
Dance Macabre (1958)
Man with Tin Trumpet (1961)
The Assassins (1964)
No Other Hunger (1966)
The Prizewinner (1967)
The Munich Involvement (1968)
Clancy (1971)
The Malta Conspiracy (1972)
Venus Afflicted (1973)
Hitler Has Won (1975)
The Deadly Payoff (1976)
The Daughters (1988)
Death Pays a Dividend (1944) with Fenner Brockway
Fascism Inside England (1946)
The Silver Salver (1981)
Primo:The Story of Man-Mountain Carnera (1991).


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Sakigake!! Otokojuku PS3's 3rd Promo Showcases Fighter Lineup
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Namco Bandai Games began streaming the third promotional video for Sakigake!! Otoko Juku Nihon yo, Kore ga Otoko Dearu! (Japan, These Are Men!) on Friday. The PlayStation 3 fighting game is inspired by Akira Miyashita's classic Weekly Shonen Jump action comedy manga Sakigake!! Otoko Juku about a boys' private school for delinquents.
The video showcases the character lineup: first, the students and rivals Momotarō Tsurugi, Genji Togashi, J, Ryūji Toramaru, Raiden, Hien, Gekkō, Omito Date, Gōji Akashi, Dokugantetsu, Henshōki, Baron Dino, Manjimaru, Senkū, Rasetsu, Eikei, and Jaki Daigōin. The video ends with the substitute headmaster Wang Ta Ren and the headmaster himself, Heihachi Edajima.
The game will arrive on February 27. A limited edition will bundle a 21-centimeter-tall (about 8-inch-tall) figure of the Otoko Juku Sango-sei and Chinju Chokurō Guard, "Hell's Magician" Baron Dino. The limited edition will also have a pop-up picture book and a visual case with an exclusive illustration by Miyashita.
The 1985-91 manga sold 26 million volumes and already inspired games for Famicom (NES), Game Boy, PlayStation, and PlayStation 2. It also inspired a 1988 animated television series and movie, as well as a live-action film by director and actor Tak Sakaguchi (Versus, Death Trance, Shinobi).
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Shifting of Distribution Costs: from GDS fees to CPC
Internet is actually perceived as an economic and liberator distribution channel regarding to GDS. However, the cyclic effects of the travel industry are returning to the fore and the web is contributing to the installation of new monopoles.
We are passing from a situation where GDS were the unique access point to offers to a situation where the web is becoming this new unique access point.
Here is a short historical recap that would help you to better perceive the cyclic aspect and the stake of the current situation.
The GDS era
From the 80s until the beginning of the 2000s, the GDS have been revolutionizing touristic products distribution and so they have acquired a certain monopole.
The web, an alternative channel for non-adapted products
However, for diverse reasons (too complex, offer too scattered, not enough return on investments…), GDS have stayed hardly adapted to the distribution of some products as hotels or holidays packages.
When the Internet has been mature enough, several web portals have been enabling to industrialise the hotel distribution. They have solved content issues (images, rooms specificities, geolocation…) and have facilitated independent hotels and small chains distribution. A bit later, Internet has also helped the emergence of dynamic packaging through tools like multi-TO platforms and dynamic packaging engines.
The age of direct distribution
More than creating alternative channels to GDS, Internet has enabled all the players of the travel industry to reach directly the final customer (the traveller). This has strongly impacted the business models in the industry and has created situations of coopetition.
Firstly in the US, then in Europe, this encouraged airlines to adopt the zero commission model. Moreover, some airlines are progressively trying to favour the content on their direct distribution channels over the GDS in order to conduce travellers and travel agents to book directly on their site and save up GDS fees (around $10 per booking).
The new unique access point
From a standardized and centralised offer (by GDS) we are passing to an environment based on a multitude of web sites with an offer more and more fragmented and harder to compare.
So, to answer travellers' needs, new players emerged. They have specialised in the re-globalisation of this scattered offer and are based on business models more economic than GDS.
In hospitality industry, players like Expedia, Booking.com or HRS are now the new central points to access the hotels' offers. And in the airline industry, meta-searchers could potentially become the unique players able to compare unbundled airlines fares and ancillary products. At a global level Google is this new central point with more than 90% of people that start browsing from it in the UK, in France, in Germany or in Spain.
The birth of new monopoles
That's how, slowly, new monopoles are taking hold.
Some web portals in the hotel industry have now enough weight to impose their rules: rate parity or commissions up to 30%… Or in general, Google is becoming the new unique access point to the offers of all travel industry players (from producers to distributors and through editorial and comparison web sites). As a consequence, a place on the first page of Google's results is really strategic and the CPC costs are soaring:
''book hotel'' 3,61€, ''car rental'' 4,39€, "holiday rentals" 2,10€, "hotel cheap " 3,30€, "last minute flights " 2,54€ or ''Expedia'' 5,05€, "priceline'' 4,47€
(Adwords, estimations based on a budget of 10 000€ in February 2011)
Knowing that Internet users visit more than 10 sites before choosing… we can easily understand why online marketing costs are blithely overtaking the GDS fees.
And beyond sufficiency, since Google bought ITA Software, it could potentially bring search that perform better than GDS (see also T. O'Neil-Dunne's article: Full content vs full capability)
And so on, we are back in a situation where one player is dominating and could impose standards and its own vision. So, are we back to our departure point? Of course not!
The travel industry has always been cyclic. Each cycle brings innovations: Internet was perceived as the evil by travel agents; today it is Google that is pointed out by pure players (see: Fair Search) par les acteurs nés du web. Passing from one monopole to another is normal and just confirms the dynamism of the industry.


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WASHINGTON — Relief might be on the way for a weather-weary United States with the predicted warming of the central Pacific Ocean brewing this year that will likely change weather worldwide. But it won't be for the better everywhere.
The warming, called an El Niño, is expected to lead to fewer Atlantic hurricanes and more rain next winter for drought-stricken California and Southern states, and even a milder winter for the nation's frigid northern tier next year, meteorologists say.
Although it could be good news to lessen the southwestern U.S. drought and shrink heating bills next winter in the far north, "worldwide it can be quite a different story," said North Carolina State University atmospheric sciences professor Ken Kunkel. "Some areas benefit. Some don't."
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued an official El Niño watch.
Mike Halpert, acting director of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, said the El Niño warming should develop by this summer, but there are no guarantees. Although early signs are appearing a few hundred feet below the ocean surface, meteorologists say an El Niño started to brew in 2012 and then shut down suddenly and unexpectedly.
Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who wasn't part of NOAA's forecast, agreed that an El Niño is brewing.
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Halpert said it is too early to say how strong this El Niño will be. The last four have been weak or moderate, and those have fewer effects on weather.
Scientific studies have tied El Niños to farming and fishing problems and to upticks in insect-born disease, such as malaria. Commodity traders even track El Niño cycles. A study by Texas A&M University economics professor Bruce McCarl found the last big El Niño of 1997-98 cost about $3 billion in agricultural damage.
Trenberth said this El Niño might even push the globe out of a decade-long slowdown in temperature increase, "so suddenly global warming kicks into a whole new level."
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Invoking Obama, House Judiciary Chairman subpoenas Rove
John Byrne
Published: Monday January 26, 2009
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Update: Rove lawyer comments
Invoking President Barack Obama, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has subpoenaed former Bush Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove about his alleged involved in the political prosecution of an Alabama governor and the firings of nine US Attorneys.
The subpoena, approved by an earlier vote of the House, was issued pursuant to "authority granted in H.R. 5 (111th Congress), and calls for Mr. Rove to appear at deposition on Monday, February 2, 2009."
Specifically, it enjoins Rove "to testify regarding his role in the Bush Administrations politicization of the Department of Justice, including the US Attorney firings and the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman."
Rove's Washington, D.C. lawyer, Robert Luskin,
did not return
initial email and telephone requests for comment from
The Washington Post
. But in a statement published early Tuesday morning, he said, "It's generally agreed that former presidents retain executive privilege as to matters occurring during their term. We'll solicit the views of the new White House counsel and, if there is a disagreement, assume that the matter will be resolved among the courts, the president and the former president."
"Mr. Rove has previously refused to appear in response to a Judiciary Committee subpoena, claiming that even former presidential advisers cannot be compelled to testify before Congress," Conyers' office wrote in a release. "That 'absolute immunity' position was supported by then-President Bush, but it has been rejected by U.S. District Judge John Bates and President Obama has previously dismissed the claim as 'completely misguided.'"
This is the second time Conyers has subpoenaed Rove. It's uncertain whether Rove will be compelled to testify, as Obama's attorney general has not yet been confirmed.
I have said many times that I will carry this investigation forward to its conclusion, whether in Congress or in court, and todays action is an important step along the way, Conyers said in a release. Change has come to Washington, and I hope Karl Rove is ready for it. After two years of stonewalling, its time for him to talk.
The subpoena delegates authority to US marshals to enforce, like any Congressional subpoena, and was copied to Rove's Washington, D.C. attorney.
Conyers' Judiciary Committee sued for information regarding the firing of the US Attorneys last year, and his case was passed to the District of Columbia's Court of Appeals after a federal judge refused President Bush's claim of "absolute" executive immunity.
"Justice Department lawyers must file their latest position in the case with the appeals court by Feb. 18," according to the
; "that document is being anticipated as offering a hint for how broadly Obama will interpret executive authority and whether he will change course."
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In The Name Of Mammon – Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind
In the last few weeks we have witnessed British Jewish leaders relentlessly complaining about 'the rise of anti-Semitism.' This morning we learned that two former foreign ministers are at the centre of a huge 'cash for access' scandal. I guess that Sir Malcom Rifkind is not going to help in the current struggle to defy anti-Semitism. Apparently the Jewish Chronicle is not convinced that Jack Straw passes the 'Kosher' test.
The Daily Mail reports today:
Former foreign secretaries Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind today sought to defend themselves after becoming embroiled in a new 'cash for access' scandal where they both boasted about charging at least £5,000-a-day.
The pair were secretly filmed discussing how they could use their contacts to benefit a private company for large sums of money.
Sir Malcolm, who is chairman of the highly-influential Intelligence and Security Select Committee, said that he could see any foreign ambassador in London and has 'useful access' to every British ambassador in the world because of his profile.
This morning he claimed he acted 'entirely properly' and it was 'quite unrealistic' to expect backbench MPs with professional backgrounds to 'simply accept a salary of £60,000' without accepting second jobs, and would fight claims of wrongdoing 'with all my strength'.
Mr Straw, one of Labour's most senior figures, claimed he was 'mortified' after footage emerged of him inviting two undercover reporters to a meeting in his Parliamentary office where he claimed to work 'under the radar' for private companies.


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US Court Upholds FAA Drone Regulations
Tech Crunch reports that the FAA just scored a legal win in its ongoing back and forth with drone hobbyists. The U.S. Court of Appeals opted to uphold a ruling granting the administration's authority over consumer UAVs, a move that is expected to lead the way for additional restrictions on flight.
The ruling is based, in part, on a 2012 law passed by Congress that puts the FAA in charge of the then-emerging drone category. At the same time, however, it left a bit of an opening, essentially grandfathering in owners of some model aircraft already governed by safety organizations. According to the act, the FAA "may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft."
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That loophole of sorts is what spurred drone hobbyist John Taylor's case, which temporarily blocked the FAA's drone registry requirement. Back in December, however, Trump signed a bill reinstating the registration.
Today, the court shot down Taylor's request yet again. "Because the rule is within the agency's statutory authority and is neither arbitrary nor capricious, the petition for review is denied," Judge Merrick Garland wrote in the opinion.