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Part V Rights Issues
Current version: effective from Sep 29 2011 - Feb 6 2020.(1) An issuer which intends to make a rights issue must announce (having regard to Rule 704(24)) the issue promptly. The announcement must include the following:(a) price, terms and purpose of the issue;(b) the amount of proceeds proposed to be raised;(c) breakdown of the proposed use of proceeds;(d) where the issue is proposed to be used mainly for general working capital purposes, the issuer must provide reasons for such use taking into account its working capital position;(e) whether the issuer's directors are of the opinion that, after taking into consideration:(i) the present bank facilities, the working capital available to the group is sufficient to meet its present requirements and if so, the directors must provide reasons for the issue; and(ii) the present bank facilities and net proceeds of the issue, the working capital available to the group is sufficient to meet its present requirements;(f) whether the issue will be underwritten;(g) the financial circumstances which call for the issue; and(h) whether it has obtained a listing and quotation notice from the Exchange or will be seeking the listing and quotation of the new shares arising from the rights issue.In addition, an issuer must observe the disclosure requirements in Appendix 8A.(2) If a rights issue involves an issue of convertible securities, the issuer must also comply with Part VI of this Chapter.
Refer to Appendix 8A — Disclosure Requirements for Rights Issue or Bought Deals.(3) In the allotment of any excess rights shares, a confirmation to the sponsor that preference will be given to the rounding of odd lots. Directors and substantial shareholders who have control or influence over the issuer in connection with the day-to-day affairs of the issuer or the terms of the rights issue, or have representation (direct or through a nominee) on the board of the issuer will rank last in priority for the rounding of odd lots and allotment of excess rights shares.
Amended on 29 September 2011.
Current version: effective up to Feb 6 2020.
An issuer must announce any significant disbursement of the proceeds raised from the rights issue.
816(1) Subject to Rule 816(2), a rights issue must provide for the rights to subscribe for securities to be renounceable in part or in whole in favour of a third party at the option of the entitled shareholders.(2)(a) An issuer can undertake non-renounceable rights issues:—(i) subject to specific shareholders' approval; or(ii) in reliance on the general mandate to issue rights shares in a non-renounceable rights issue if the rights shares are priced at not more than 10% discount to the weighted average price for trades done on the Exchange for the full market day on which the rights issue is announced. If trading in the issuer's shares is not available for a full market day, the weighted average price must be based on the trades done on the preceding market day up to the time the rights issue is announced.(b) The non-renounceable rights issue must comply with Part V of Chapter 8 except Rule 816(1).
Amended on 1 January 2011.
An issuer may make a rights issue with or without underwriting. Generally, it is for the issuer to decide whether its rights issue is to be underwritten.
In the case of a rights issue that is underwritten, any force majeure clause in the underwriting agreement cannot be invoked after the commencement of ex-rights trading.
819(1) An issuer must seek the Exchange's prior approval if it decides to proceed with a rights issue without underwriting because the force majeure clause in the underwriting agreement was invoked before commencement of ex-rights trading.(2) Upon receipt of the Exchange's approval, the issuer must announce immediately that the rights issue will proceed without underwriting.
The following requirements apply to a rights issue that is not underwritten:(1) The rights issue cannot be withdrawn after the commencement of ex-rights trading.(2) The Exchange may permit the issuer to scale down a shareholder's application to subscribe for the rights issue to avoid placing the shareholder in the position of incurring a mandatory bid obligation under the Takeover Code as a result of other shareholders not taking up their rights entitlement fully.
Current version: effective up to Feb 6 2020.
No date must be fixed for the closing of books until the Exchange has issued a listing and quotation notice.
Current version: effective from Sep 29 2011 - Feb 6 2020.
An issuer must issue the following to persons entitled within 3 market days (within 5 market days in the case of a scrip counter), or such longer period as the Exchange may approve, after a books closure date:(1) Letter of Entitlement, if any;(2) Application Forms for rights shares and excess right shares ("ARE"). In the case of a rights issue of warrants, warrant and excess warrants application form ("WAF" or "WEWAF");(3) Provisional Allotment Letters ("PALs") for shareholders whose names appear on the share register, incorporating item (2) as well as:(a) Form of Acceptance;(b) Request for Splits;(c) Form of Renunciation;(d) Form of Nomination;(e) Excess Shares Application Form; and(4) Such other documents as the Exchange may require.
Amended on 29 September 2011.
Current version: effective up to Feb 6 2020.(1) An issuer making a rights issue must, having regard to Practice Note 8A, provide a proposed time-table to the Exchange showing the following dates:(a) books closure date to determine rights entitlement;(b) commencement of trading of nil-paid rights;(c) last day for exercise and payment of rights; and(e) last day for receipt and acceptance of SRAFs.(2) An issuer making a rights issue must observe any time-table published by the Exchange.


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We manufacture a large variety of light-weight, attractive cabinet door hinges. All of them are made from 6061T aluminum and normally come with a buffed finish. We can black anodize our aluminum hinges as requested by customers.
Our most popular cabinet door hinges are for cabinets with EXPOSED STILES. The DH-4A-90 (and DH-4A-90L) along with DH-4A-180 hinges allow a cabinet door to open 90 degrees and 180 degrees respectively. The picture on the left shows a demonstrator with a DH-4A-90B (black anodized) Hinge and a normal DH-4A-90 Hinge installed. Please note that the hole locations on the hinges have been changed since this demonstrator was made. The drawings depict the correct hole locations. A DH-4A-90L hinge has a longer center link than the DH-4A-90.
If you have an INLINE application, we have a family of Soss-type door hinges which will meet your needs. The ILDH-4A-90 hinge comes without a spring and rotates 90 degrees (It is shown below to the right. A black anodized version of the same hinge is shown in the middle of the picture below.). The ILDH-4AL-90H is a spring-loaded version that uses a LH-0.028 spring, which tends to keep a door in a closed (inline) position. The ILDH-4A-180 hinge has a right-hand wound spring (RH 0.016) and rotates 180 degrees with the spring-loaded leaf having a tendency to move to the open (not inline) position. The non-loaded side moves as it is pulled opened or closed. (This hinge is shown on the left below.) The ILDH-4AL-180DS has two LH 0.028 springs, so that both side frames have a tendency to remain in the inline (closed) position. As you can surmise, these hinges can have a variety of springs installed to affect the rotation.
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The names of the candidates selected for this year's prestigious Genée International Ballet Competition have been announced by the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and among more than 50 dancers taking part there are 20 Australians – the largest representation from any single country.
Dancers at the 2017 Genée International Ballet Competition in Lisbon. Photograph © Bruno Simao
This year's Genée will be held in Hong Kong, where it was held in 2006. The week-long event will be hosted next month by Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and Hong Kong City Hall, with the semi-finals taking place on August 9 and 10, and the final on August 12. Thirteen nationalities will be represented with dancers from Hong Kong, the UK, New Zealand, the US, Canada, France, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Mexico, South Africa and Taiwan joining the 20 Australians.
The Australians selected are Romy Adair, Meredith Berends, Zoe Brady, Lily Carbone, Abigail Drew, Caitlin Garlick, Joshua Green, Kendall Harris, Jessica Ho, Claire Lecuona, Dominie Lythgoe, Emma Mackie, Beatrice Manser, Hugo Poulet, Gabriel Rogers, Penelope Rojas-Antonuccio, Portia Secker, Shontaya Smedley, Lauren Sowter and Lucinda Worthington-Shore. British dancer Chloe Jackson, and Japan's Enoka Sato, both of whom are currently training in Australia, will also compete.
Named after the RAD's first President, Dame Adeline Genée, the competition first took place in 1931 and has been staged most years since. Open to dancers aged 15 to 19 from around the world, trained in the RAD syllabus, competitors receive coaching from highly regarded choreographers and teachers over five days in the lead-up to the semi-finals and final. In 2002, the Genée was held in Sydney, where Australia's Steven McRae, now a Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet, won a coveted Gold Medal. The competition was also held in Sydney in 2016.
The Genée has launched the careers of many young ballet dancers, with medallists going on to dance with companies around the world including The Australian Ballet, The Mariinsky Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, English National Ballet and The Royal Ballet. Harris Beattie from Aberdeen, who won a Gold medal in 2017, as well as the Choreographic Award and Audience Choice Award, will join Northern Ballet this month.
Australia's Lisa Pavane, one of the judges at the 2018 Genée
At this year's Genée, the dancers will take part in an intensive week of coaching from world-renowned teachers and choreographers, while this year's specially commissioned choreographer Carlo Pacis will create two variations, which will receive their world premiere at the final. Pacis joined the Hong Kong Ballet after graduating with First Class Honours from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1998, and spent 12 years with the company where he began choreographing in 1999.
The judges at this year's Genée are Septime Webre, Artistic Director, Hong Kong Ballet; Madame Zhao Ru Heng, Artistic Director (Dance), National Centre for Performing Arts in China; Janek Schergen, Artistic Director, Singapore Dance Theatre; and Lisa Pavane, Director, The Australian Ballet School.
The 2018 Genée International Dance Competition, Hong Kong, August 3 – 12


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Tyler Peters
As a University of Florida graduate, Tyler has extensive experience in the Gainesville housing market, specifically in the areas near UF campus. Over the years, his focus has shifted to include markets further from the University as well. Tyler began his real estate career in Gainesville working for a successful property management company specializing in luxury rentals near UF, giving him unique insight into the rental market for undergraduates, graduates, and young professionals.
Tyler is an important member of Matt and Eric's team and specializes in showing properties to customers looking to purchase. Tyler has shown property to hundreds of customers and is very knowledgeable about all the condo communities and houses near UF. Tyler is extremely client-focused and strives to provide a low pressure, fun, and informative buying or selling experience. Tyler also plays a significant role in the company's social media marketing.
Tyler arrived in Gainesville in2009 to attend the University of Florida. A native of Miami, Tyler appreciates the quieter pace Gainesville offers and he sees it as "a perfect mixture between a friendly small town and a prosperous mid-size city". He also recognizes it as THE intellectual hub of North Central Florida. All of these factors in addition to a lower cost of living make it a desirable destination for students, emerging professionals, retirees, and young families.
Most of his free-time is spent playing board games with friends, traveling, swimming recreationally, biking, doing Crossfit, and enjoying the outdoors.


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Just read a great article Four years later, a district's standards-based reform evolves and pays off which tells a great story that I want to share. The story by EdNEws Colorado begins:
"In 2009, a Colorado school district in turnaround took a leap: it abandoned traditional K-12 grade levels and instead implemented a system that advances students based on how well they do rather than how long they sit in class.
Administrators and teachers staked the struggling district on the "standards-based education" gamble, and four years later — after lots of tinkering — it looks like they won."
This extensive article provides lots of detail about the Adams 50 School District's "competency-based system". The district has 10,000 students who "advance through academic levels once they demonstrate competency in the subject, not once the school year is over. When school starts again, students pick up where they left off."
This is exciting. The article brings my readers up to date on this trend toward proficiency-based teaching and learning and refers to the proficiency-based program in Chugach, Alaska that I've discussed in earlier blogs. The article showed that there were bumps along the way but shows that four years after they started things have improved and district-wide gaps have been closing.
What we should all be happy about is that this new improved approach really works. The article says, "Perhaps most importantly, administrators and teachers say the system addresses the achievement gaps more easily ignored in traditional education systems, because students can't progress until they've demonstrated proficiency — and the system allows schools to narrow those gaps sooner rather than later." That is good news!
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text: At the start of the week we were visited by an assessor in line with our work on well-being, thank you to all who were able to contribute to this process. We were so pleased with the outcome of this visit achieving the Well-Being Award for our school. We continue to promote positive well-being and emotional health for all our pupils, families and staff.


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6th grade was awesome for me. Or was it 7th? I'm not exactly sure. I started shaving my legs, wearing a training bra, and got braces.
But the mensies, that was definitely 7th because I remember that time in Mrs. Breitzman's class…I can't even talk about that time. Continue reading


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Sermons by "Rev Zaccheus Olaniyan"
Celebrating His Joy and Peace
Celebrating His Joy and PeaceView Sermon
The Great God
However, before He can do what He says He will in your life, you have to surrender. Peter surrendered his boat to be used by Jesus. Are you ready to surrender all? That's the beginning of the whole truth. I can't lie to you, it's sweet to serve Jesus even in the midst of challenges. He grants comfort to us through His Holy Spirit.View Sermon
The Glory to Come
David never looked at Goliath as a great obstacle. He looked at him with spiritual eyes while Goliath looked at him physically. If you can belittle your problem and focus on God, notwithstanding the situation, God will arise for your sake.View Sermon


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His own boat. Money coming in. A son he adored. A marriage that was happy enough.
A secret that was safe.
Title - A Good Catch
A secret that was safe.
Title - A Good Catch
Author - Fern Britton
Publication Date - April 23rd 2015 (Kindle Edition & Hardcover)
Publisher - HarperCollins
Format - Hardcover (Provided via publisher)
Pages - 400
The blurb
Even happy families have their secrets...
Greer Clovelly seems to have it all, beautiful, chic and slender, she's used to getting her own way. Greer has been in love with Jesse Behenna since her first day at school and she's determined that one day, they'll be married. After all, a marriage between them would join together two dynasties of Cornish fishing families to make one prosperous one.
For her friend, Loveday Carter - plump, freckled and unpretentious - living in the shadow of her friend has become a way of life. She loves Jesse too, but knows that what Greer wants, she usually gets.
Jesse, caught in the middle, faces an agonising choice. Should he follow his heart or bow to his father's wishes? And what about his best friend Mickey, who worships the ground that Loveday walks on?
Jesse's decision will touch them all in ways that they could never foresee, and as the dark clouds start to gather the four friends find themselves weathering a storm - one that has the power to sink them all...
Becca's thoughts
Before I begin my review, I'd like to take a moment to wish Fern Britton a FABULOUSLY EXCITING publication day! A Good Catch publishes today by HarperCollins (Kindle Edition & Hardcover) and bookish beauts, let me tell you, if you're planning a trip down to the seaside this summer, then A Good Catch is the book that you need in your bag! I'd also like to say a massive thank you to the wonderful Amy Winchester for getting in touch with me in regards to a review copy. I am so, so chuffed that she did, because I adored this book. Utterly, utterly adored it. Let me tell you why...
Fern Britton chose to set A Good Catch in the idyllic Cornish fishing town known as Trevay. Right away, with the added bonus of Fern's fantastic descriptions, I was able to picture this setting beautifully. Each of my senses were brought to life during my time in Trevay; I could smell the salty sea air, I could see the homes and the people, could hear the calls from the fish market, and quite simply, I felt as if I were an extra character in the book. I absolutely adored Trevay, there was a real sense of community there, the sort where everybody knows everybody else and the families have been around for generations. To me, this was the perfect place to escape to, making me feel as if I were on holiday when in reality, I was just sitting in the garden in the sunshine. I lost myself incredibly easily to the story within the pages, and I found myself gripped from the get-go, taking the book everywhere with me and reading it at every given chance. Following the theme of fishing and life beside the sea that appears as an ongoing theme within the book, it's fair to say that A Good Catch by Fern Britton had me hook, line, and sinker!
Fern opens A Good Catch with a most intriguing prologue, and gives the reader a glimpse of two of the main characters, Loveday Carter and Greer Clovelly. Of course, at this point, the reader knows nothing about the two women, but there's a clear hint at something that has happened previously, and immediately, I wanted to know exactly what that something was. The atmosphere was rather glum, and slightly depressive, instantly making me wonder what had gone on. A million questions popped into my mind, a million scenarios, but most importantly, that needed 'tug' to dive into the book and find out for myself. After that, Fern whisks the reader back to the past, right back to where it all truly began, and I was riveted. I adored that A Good Catch began in this way. It opened up a whole history between Loveday and Greer, triggering them as being so much more believable. I loved that immediately, I felt like they went way back with each other, that a whole life had happened before I'd even opened the book. There was a familiarity between them, how they spoke and how Loveday comforted Greer, and so I was interested to see how it had all began, when their friendship had started, and how they'd come to find themselves where they were in the present day.
The characters within A Good Catch were fantastically memorable. When I wasn't reading the book, I was thinking about them, and that's such a good sign in my eyes, because it again highlights just how real these characters felt to me. The story focuses on Greer Clovelly, Loveday Carter, Jesse Behenna and Mickey Chandler. Fern, amazingly, manages to fit a huge time-scale within her 400 pages, so that I truly felt, once finished, that I'd lived a lifetime right beside them. Fern takes us from childhood right the way up to fully grown adults, and still manages to include all of the small milestones in-between. Now, there's a real complication of feelings within the group, which had me eager to see how their lives would play out. It was a real tangle of feelings, yet beautifully managed by the author as the plot progressed. Each character came with their own uniquely prominent features, allowing me to set them apart neatly in my mind. Greer Clovelly was a very prim and proper girl, which continued well into adulthood. Bred from a rich family, Greer usually got what she wanted. What also became apparently rather quickly was that Greer's father pretty much had Greer's future set out for her, and that involved marrying Jesse Behenna. This was due to the fact that both Greer and Jesse's fathers owned chunks of the fishing industry within Trevay, and what better than to pull the two parts together and take the fishing industry by storm? Fern couldn't allow the plot to be so simple though, and to mix things up, Jesse wasn't interested in Greer Clovelly at all. In fact, he had his eye on Loveday, who wasn't as prim as Greer, was slightly overweight, and was adored by Mickey. See what I mean? It-was-brilliant. A real love triangle that brought these characters to life beautifully! If I hadn't already been transfixed by the mysterious prologue, then by this point I was desperate to watch these four lives continue. I just couldn't wait to see where Fern took them throughout the book.
And then BAM! Something happened (I won't tell you exactly what that something was), that changed the direction of these characters' lives entirely. I couldn't help but stare, gob-smacked, at the pages within my hands as I read on. This something took me completely by surprise, and quite simply, I'm surprised the pages didn't catch fire by the sheer pace of which I was began to turn them. It was incredible, and I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that things were about to get pretty freaking serious. I JUST COULD NOT GET ENOUGH! Of course, Fern takes the reader further forward in time with every few chapters, allowing the reader to see what's changed and what hasn't. I felt so emotionally connected to the characters, I just couldn't consider, for a single second, putting the book down. It wasn't that I needed to know what happened next, but rather that I HAD to know, for my own peace of mind. It was such a messy, tangle of feelings and relationships, and just wow. This was definitely one of those books that I felt desperate to finish but, at the same time, didn't want to finish.
When I began to near the end A Good Catch, I couldn't quite believe how much time had elapsed within the pages. I'd seen these characters grow up, make their decisions, take the necessary steps, and live out their lives. At times, it felt bitter-sweet, full of heartbreaking regrets and wishful longing, as well painful and sad. The circumstances of each of the characters lives took hold of me, and if I'm going to be honest, I wasn't happy with some of the decisions that the characters decided to make. I felt like screaming at them, to change their minds, to make things right! But of course they couldn't hear me, and so I was forced to watch their actions and the consequences that were sure to follow. God, it was beautiful and gut-wrenchingly melancholy. The twist and turns the characters' lives took left me feeling helpless as I watched it all play out in Fern's words, and I couldn't do a single thing to stop it.
After finishing A Good Catch by Fern Britton, I believe I've learnt a little lesson, and that lesson is to always do what makes you happy, not anybody else. Regrets are a hurtful, awful thing to have to do deal with for the rest of a person's life, and sometimes, these regrets can become a little too much to handle. It just goes to show that when faced with a decision, always go with your heart. A Good Catch was a beautifully written and structured book, that truly captured my heart and had me tearful as I turned the few last pages. Trevay may have seemed like the perfect little Cornish fishing town at the beginning, but by the end of the book, you realise that there is so much more to Trevay than meets the eye.
Becca's Books is awarding A Good Catch by Fern Britton with FIVE DELICIOUS CUPCAKES! This is the perfect book to lose yourself within this summer, beneath the sun and a blue sky. Never has a fictional place felt so alive and vivid to me. Never have I wanted to turn back time for a character and make things right as much as I wanted to with this. Absolutely, 100%, the book you need in your beach bag this summer, I promise you.


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The model driven software development can be found in many aspect of the industry due to its advantages. When you design safety-critical embedded systems, you need safe, generated code. You can reach this with complex and detailed big models. This intensive growth often leads to serious scalability problems; they increase the cost and time of the development. We use complex queries to verify the structure of the models; an important factor is to run these queries effectively. When models are changing frequently, and you want to get immediate results for the predefined queries, you should use incremental query engines. Thus, the designer of the model gets an instantaneous feedback, and can adjust the model, according to the query results.
There are already available repositories and incremental query algorithms, but there is no way to handle those together, there is no middle layer. I created this layer in this thesis.
The created Query-Data Middleware can serve multiple query engine, and repository, so it can be used to run multiple queries on multiple repositories. I have implemented an incremental query engine, which can be used to build up a Rete net, so the result of the predefined queries will be updated (when the model changes) and available at any time. The person, who uses this middle layer, is able to add new queries, and repositories to the system. He can also add new data to the system, extending the contents of the repositories. I proved the functional operability of the system through a performance measurement, which used different sizes of RDF/OWL models. I measured the service efficiency (needed by the queries) of the repositories.


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I've been doing some shopping at a couple of my favorite expedition suppliers - Lowe's hardware and Walmart - and noticed that they had some great deals on batteries. I haven't taken time to compare prices but both stores were had some pretty good values. I guess this is all a pre-christmas deal - plenty of low cost double A batteries to power those new tools and toys.
I know I go through more batteries than I like each year on Spartina. There are lots of pieces of gear that required double A and triple A batteries. Above you'll see flashlights, emergency strobes, anchor light, a vhf radio, gps and SPOT. It would be nice to think I could be "green" and use rechargeable batteries but in my experience the technology isn't quite there yet. Someday I hope to add a solar panel to Spartina to I can be a little bit more green. But for now I need batteries.
I've tried to standardize with all aa batteries, but the only ICOM radio I could find last year to replace my old one took aaa batteries.
The strobe, flashlight and anchor lights use double A. SPOT uses the lithium double A. And I heard from the crew of Dawn Patrol last year that my gps would do better if I use the lithium batteries (the standard double A last just a little more than a day with that bright color screen).
So sometime before the christmas season is over, while the double A batteries are going for as low as 40 cents each, I'll pick up on of the 36 battery packs. I know I'll make good use of it next year.


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We were standing in line at the 10 items or less counter when little traveler number three turned to me and asked in a nice big loud voice "Why is the front of your bottom hairy?" I prayed that the people around me were non English speakers but when the girl behind the counter smiled and the man in front of me snorted I gathered this was a conversation we were sharing with everyone.
I tried a distraction "do you think we have 10 items? Shall we count them again?" It didn't work, he continued on…….and it got worse "I mean, I know why you have hair on your eyelashes, to keep out the dust….but why do you have hair on the front of your bottom? What are you keeping out?"
I think all parents have had these conversations and it seems to be universal that they occur in public situations.
I found myself in a line of (I'm not exaggerating) about 50 women waiting to go to the toilet at the Australia Zoo last summer. As we all stood gazing forward waiting for a door to open it occurred to me that I had certain secret women's business to attend to and 3 little travelers at my feet. I am a believer of open and honest communication with my children but a toilet cubicle at the Australia Zoo wasn't quite how I planned to have the conversation. I was going to have to create a diversion.
As we all piled in to the cubicle I lined them up in order of urgency eg. seriously busting to just busting and managed to inconspicuously gather the necessary equipment out of my handbag. When it was time to do what I had to do I said in my best Sesame Street excited tone "what's that up there? Is that a crocodile in the ceiling? All three travellers fell for it and I smiled to myself at my brilliance and speed. Done. Crisis averted.
As I stood up the voice of little traveler number three screamed with a tinge of both curiosity and amazement "what's that string?!" The room fell silent. Someone giggled. I had an audience. Before he could ask me again in a louder and clearer tone I whispered desperately (and making no sense at all) "my knickers are falling apart but please don't tell anyone, I'll be really embarrassed". He was happy with the answer, he had a secret.
As I walked out of the cubicle I faced the crowd and knew that I had probably shared more information than any of them had hoped for. A sympathetic mother gave me one of those looks and said with a grin "no secrets here hey". I laughed and agreed "I know, I'm dying of embarrassment". Little traveler number three knew he was in on the joke and said "yes, her knickers are falling apart, but don't tell anyone….she'll be really embarrassed".
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Rise is a minimal, responsive theme for the simple and lightweight CMS, Anchor
A nice "straight to the point" responsive theme. Good to use straight out of the box, but also a starting point for designers.
Basically, all modern browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE9+). I'll add support for older versions of IE (at least IE8) soon.


text: Introducing the most affordable all-purpose surface restoration system on the market. With the Surface Wizard⎌ you can easily remove a scratch from a valuable piece of glass or plastics. That means you wont have to replace it. So, its easy to see how the Surface Wizard can literally pay for itself the first time you use it. To purchase the Surface Wizard you can order online or call us at 1-800-328-0042.


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Now this piece of peachy silk has been in my collection since the mid-1980s, when a girlfriend and I were in Hong Kong enroute to Bali. We picked up two yards of this beautiful silk, a yard for each of us (the price back then seemed prohibitive), and I never did anything with my yard.
So today I dyed it! And now it's sumptuous pea green, my favorite color. Here's hoping I use it in a project before another 24 years passes!
It seems like I've hardly gotten anything done today and the day is half gone or better. I'm in one of those places where it seems like I've got more things I want to do and try out than I'll ever have time for.
I'm also in a place where it feels like I'm resisting moving forward in some areas, and I think it has to do with fear of actually using all this newly-woven fabric to go crazy on with discharge-dye-stamps-stencils-paints-etc. Worst case scenario: I can't live with the results of what I've done and I've "wasted" time and materials. Seems like a foolish consideration when I put it like that, given how much time and money I've wasted over the years on any number of people and things, artistic and otherwise. (I'm giving myself a little pep talk, here.) What if I don't like any of it? Maybe I'll discover something startlingly new in the process, about myself and/or the materials. I can't take any of it with me when "I go" anyway, so who really gives a hoot?!
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Ayala-led IMI's net income rises by 21% in acquisition-filled 2017
MANILA, Philippines – The net income of Ayala-led Integrated Micro-Electronics Incorporated (IMI) rose in 2017 as it continued an international acquisition spree.
In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) on Wednesday, February 7, IMI reported a net income of $34 million for full-year 2017, up 21% year-on-year.
The manufacturer's revenue was also up by 29% in 2017 to $1.09 billion.
IMI's revenue from Europe operations grew 14% year-on-year to $276.5 million on lighting, controllers, and driver assistance systems of its automotive segment. Its revenue from its Mexico operations also rose by 29% to $84.2 million.
Its China operations, meanwhile, brought in revenue of $271.1 million, up 4% from 2016, which it noted was despite the delay in new technology rollout in the telecom infrastructure business.
IMI's revenue from local operations was also up by 4% to $263.7 million, driven by new industrial applications and its automotive camera business which it said offset weaker demand in the security and medical device segments.
"We're eager to build on this success and continue to ensure that our diverse capability as an organization will sustain our competitive advantage and stronghold in the global market," said IMI chief executive officer Arthur Tan in a statement.
"As a cohesive global company with a shared vision, we aim to design competitive positions and strategies that capitalize on corporate strengths," he added.
New units contributing
IMI made two big acquisitions in 2017, taking majority control of both German automotive parts maker MT Misslbeck Technologies GmbH in June and British defense electronics firm STI Enterprises Limited in April.
This followed the acquisition of German display solutions provider VIA Optronics GmbH in August 2016.
IMI said STI and VIA Optronics combined accounted for $193.9 million in revenue in 2017.
VIA Optronics took in $148.4 million in its first full year as part of IMI, while STI contributed $45.5 million in 7 months.
For 2017, IMI reported that it spent $65.3 million in capital expenditures while its capital structure ratio stands at 1.28 to 1 with a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.08 to 1. – Rappler.com


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Eleven-year-old Sylvia Benson could think of nothing better to do on a Saturday than take a dip in the surf. There was little extra money available for recreation—her father was a fisherman, and the family lived in a relatively poor Logan Heights neighborhood—but even for them the five-cent trolley fare was cheap, and during that summer of 1938 she often grabbed some beach attire and a few friends and headed for the trolley stop a few blocks from her home.
The spacious trolley car carried them up Sixteenth Street and down Broadway, where at Horton Plaza they switched to the line heading up what is now Pacific Highway. As the trolley cruised out Midway Drive and across a stretch of Mission Bay, the scenery changed from that of a sparse business district to an open sea marsh. The trolley would lumber north through the wind-blown frame-cottage community of Mission Beach and pass by thinly populated Pacific Beach, stopping at various points to pick up or drop off a few passengers. There were no homes or businesses to speak of at the point called Birdrock, just a few vegetable gardens, and along the barren stretches the speed of the trolley would pick up quickly. The journey would come to an end at the Prospect Street station in La Jolla. From there Sylvia and friends walked the few remaining blocks to La Jolla Cove.
Now married and working as an elementary school administrator in San Diego, Sylvia Brandais savors her memories of the city's electric transit system. "We could afford to use the trolleys .... In the summer you could get a fifty-cent pass for the whole week." She recalls passing her ticket out the window to a friend to squeeze two rides for the price of one, joining others in rocking the vehicle back and forth until the motorman became angry, and using the trolley to ride to San Diego High in the morning or to music lessons in the afternoon. "That was your lifeline out of your neighborhood," she says now.
There are few remnants from the days of the San Diego Electric Railway Company and its trolley predecessors. The overhead lines have been tom down for many years, and trolley tracks now lie beneath layers of pavement. However, for an important chapter in its history, San Diego was largely dependent upon the trolley-car system, which took root downtown and then spread its lines, like twisting tentacles, out across the city. The first West Coast city to establish an electric street railway, San Diego later became noted as one of the first cities to scrap its trolley system.
Mass transit in San Diego dates back to the 1880s and the San Diego Street Car Company, which consisted of a few horse-drawn wagons with hard wooden benches for the passengers. Later, there was the Coronado Belt Line, San Diego & Old Town Railroad, and the San Diego Cable Railway Company. But it was as the San Diego Electric Railway Company that the trolley system reached its zenith.
That company was owned and managed by John D. Spreckels, the wealthy businessman and investor who adopted San Diego as his personal development project and poured millions into the building of hotels and upgrading of the city's cultural and transit facilities. He achieved the title of "the great builder" and acquired a fortune in the county totaling about $25 million. Spreckels saw mass transit as a crucial factor in the establishment of San Diego as a prominent city. "Before you can hope to get people to live anywhere," he said, "you must first of all show them that they can [travel places] quickly, comfortably, and, above all, cheaply."
The investor furnished the system with hundreds of the most luxurious trolley cars available and spurred the construction of routes to outlying communities.
A map shown in Richard Dodge's book Rails of the Silver Gate and dated December, 1918, indicates the extensiveness of the electric railway company. Downtown the trolley lines crisscrossed about every three blocks, then branched out in all directions to serve less congested areas. One route ran north from downtown up through Old Town by way of India Street; another ran east on M Street (now Imperial Avenue) and out to the city limits; beginning on Twelfth Street, one of the more scenic routes wound north through Balboa Park, continued up Indiana Street, and upon reaching Adams Avenue turned eastward and extended out to Normal Heights; another line extended from Euclid Avenue in East San Diego, west down University and Washington, and out almost to Old Town.
A trolley line also served Coronado— dating back to the days when the island served as the "Tent City" recreational haven. And though the 1918 map doesn't include them, trolley lines were also established to Point Loma and La Jolla shortly thereafter.
But even as work was being completed on new routes to some communities, other lines were being gradually singled out for elimination. In 1922 the bus came into use and set in motion the system's increasing reliance upon the "motorcoach" as a means of remaining flexible to meet changing demands. Contributing to the demise of San Diego's trolley was the death of Spreckels, June 7, 1926. He had served as the primary financial support, in good times and bad, for the mass transit system.
The frantic war effort of the Forties provided for a sudden resurgence of San Diego's trolley activity. Metals used in the manufacture of automobiles and buses were suddenly restricted to the production of war materials, and the rail system became crucial in the transport of workers to local plants manufacturing munitions and aircraft. But that time of prosperity was short-lived, and transit officials reported that with peace came a drastic cutback in ridership.
In March of 1948 the Spreckels interests agreed to the $5.5 million sale of the San Diego transit system to City Transit Systems, a company owned by J. L. Haugh of Oakland. Haugh made clear from the outset his intention to carry on with the elimination of the trolley cars from the system (by that time only 78 cars remained, as opposed to 284 buses).
A parade down Broadway on April 24, 1949 gave emphasis lo the trolley's last day of operation. It was a demonstration of the passing from the old to the new, led by a twenty-five-piece band. A procession of some of the oldest trolley cars owned by the transit company moved slowly down San Diego's main street, followed by forty-five glistening buses. Local residents who over the years had developed a strong affection for the clanging trolley took part in the final official run, line number seven, which passed through Balboa Park and ended at a storage barn on Euclid Avenue.
"That day my traffic was heavier than most," remembers Edwin Herold, one of the motormen serving the electric railway during its last days. "I had people that I knew, friends would come over, and they made it a point to ride so they could be with me on the car that last day. I ran a little over eight hours that day . . . kept my schedule, but I also kind of held off, you know, took it easy with my car. I took more of an effort to operate it smoothly, and I did everything to please people. You know something is coming to an end, and you don't want it to end."
The passing of the trolley system has left Herold with more than an occasional touch of sadness; he harbors resentment. Herold operated a trolley for the last sixteen years of the system's existence, then drove buses for another six years before initiating his current career as a business machine repairman. Having viewed both sides of the transit picture firsthand, he still doesn't understand why the nonpolluting electric trolley was scrapped.
"I was in favor of the [trolley] car over buses any day. I feel they give you a better ride, and they're safer and faster. Buses are rough; the passengers fall down easier. With the streetcars, you knew where they were—smooth starts and stops. They weren't swaying back and forth—therefore, less accidents. And with a streetcar operating over the same lines, 1 could make faster time than I could with a bus. We used to run from downtown San Diego to La Jolla in thirty-five minutes, and you don't put a bus out there in thirty-five minutes."
Travel time is difficult to compare fairly—traffic congestion and road conditions were not the same decades ago, and exclusive rights-of-way on some trolley routes would distort measurements—and transit officials supporting the bus would have argued with Herold on that point. It is true that the trolley—especially on University Avenue—often caused a backup of frustrated motorists, since it traveled down the street's center and allowed for little passing room on the sides. The bus had an obvious advantage in its flexibility— trolley lines could not be easily altered to meet changing needs. Trolley supporters claim, on the other hand, that the inner-San Diego areas, which most of the system served, will never decrease in population density and thus the transit demand would have remained. As the argument goes, buses would have been best utilized as "feeders" into the outlying trolley stations.
"I do know buses cost more to operate, and the life expectancy of a bus is much shorter than that of a trolley car," Herold contends. "Some of those cars they took out of service were close to thirty years old . . . and look at the number of motors you have to put in those buses, in rebuilding them constantly to keep them on the road. " The former motorman says the life expectancy of a bus is about seven years, whereas some of the trolley cars purchased for the San Diego system in 1936 are still operating in Juarez, Mexico.
Unlike today 's San Diego Transit Company, which is city controlled and heavily subsidized, the electric trolley was a venture in private enterprise, expected to operate in the black. But according to available records, the electric railway company had been in a state of financial decay almost from its beginning. About the time the Spreckeis interests agreed to sell the system in 1948, figures were released to the Public Utilities Commission (which could grant or deny permission to eliminate routes) indicating that the trolley network during its half century of operation had never achieved a decent profit margin for the owners; rather, it had sustained a net loss of $1.7 million. The report implied that public transit was not a feasible investment for a private company, although it wasn't until eighteen years later that the city got into the transportation business.
It is generally acknowledged that the public's infatuation with the automobile and the corresponding attractiveness of privacy and leisure during the post-World War II period was at the root of the trolley's demise. But for Edwin Herold it seemed less clear. The freewheeling mood of the late Forties did result in an exodus to the suburbs and a growing dependence upon the car. Herold. however, maintains that a substantial percentage of San Diego's populace would never willingly have turned to the automobile. "Many of the riders I had had, when they went to buses, they wouldn't ride any more .... The buses are slow, and they didn't give you the ride the [trolley] car did, so a lot of people took to driving cars."
Even with the popularity of suburban living, Herold. who compiled experience as a motorman on almost every route, doesn't recall a time when ridership was low enough for concern. He also is skeptical of the reports of vast deterioration in the system by the company officials during hearings before the state authorities. And he hints that those reports may have been intentionally misleading. He believes at that time the system was still sound economically.
Eric Sanders, a teacher at Briar Patch elementary school in La Mesa who maintains an interest in trolley history, said San Diego's trolley system during its final months had been whittled down to about three routes; thus, officials may have wanted to eliminate quickly the lingering trolley lines to avoid the problems of coordinating both bus and trolley operations. Another possibility is that company officials desired a modem, all-bus image. In any case, even if the officials were eager to see the trolley phased out, a belief that they intentionally misled the PUC is highly speculative with the limited evidence available today. There exists, however, circumstantial evidence to indicate that General Motors may have had a hand in the termination of San Diego's trolley.
In March of 1974 Bradford Snell, a lawyer for a U S. Senate subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly, released a report titled "American Ground Transport," which alleges that General Motors, often with the aid of Ford and Chrysler (they comprise, in Snell's words, the "Big Three"), was instrumental in the destruction of more than one hundred electric surface-rail systems in forty-five cities, with the goal of selling more trucks, cars, and buses. "The economics are obvious, " the report asserts. "One streetcar, subway, or rail-transit vehicle can supplant 50 passenger cars; one train can displace 1000 cars, or a fleet of 150 cargo-laden trucks."
Snell charged that GM and other "allied highway interests" brought about the conversion of rail transport to GM buses through direct and indirect means. His report states that through ties with the stock and management of Omnibus Corporation in New York in 1936. GM influenced the conversion of that extensive streetcar network to buses. And by channeling money through a holding company. National City Lines, GM. he alleges, bought out and brought about the destruction of the huge Pacific Electric Railway system in Los Angeles. "The noisy, foul-smelling buses" that replaced the extensive electric rail system in l.os Angeles, Snell claims, "in effect, sold millions of private automobiles. Largely as a result, this city is today an ecological wasteland. ..."
GM responded to the Senate subcommittee with a report titled "The Truth About 'American Ground Transport,' " in which it is argued that GM couldn't have destroyed thriving trolley systems, since most were in a state of economic decay long before GM exerted any influence or buying power. The response also cites a 1951 Circuit Court of Appeals decision in which GM was acquitted of charges that the company had conspired to control a number of transit companies across the country.
However, GM did not explain the motive behind its investment of $500,000 in National City Lines in 1937, or acknowledge that it had initially directed three GM employees to form that holding company. According to the Senate report, over a fourteen-year period following 1936, GM joined with Standard Oil of California, Firestone Tire, and other companies to contribute $9 million to National City Lines for the purpose of converting rail transit systems to bus operations.
In the years before Oakland-based City Transit Systems purchased the trolley-bus system in San Diego. J.L. Haugh. that company's owner, had direct contact with General Motors. For six months in 1946 Haugh served as a director for National City Lines, the holding company used as a tool by GM in the acquisition of rail systems. Also, other transit systems owned at one time by Haugh in five other cities— Oakland; Fresno; Butte, Montana; and Bellingham and Everett, Washington— are among the streetcar companies listed as having been "bought up" by GM in the Thirties and Forties, according to a 1974 report in Environmental Action magazine.
J.L. Haugh is dead now; however, his son Jim, who heads the local investment firm of Haugh Enterprises, denies that GM influenced the elder Haugh's decision to convert the system here to buses in 1948. Jim Haugh said, however, that since GM did produce the "best bus" at the time, it was chosen as the main vehicle supplier for the new San Diego Transit Company. This contention is disputed by former employee Herold. though, who claims there were better buses available than those produced by General Motors. He says he learned during his years as a driver that the frame of a GM bus did not withstand impact in an accident as well as the frame of other lines, such as the ACF Brill. The GM engine frequently caught fire, he claims, and there were problems with the brakes on the early GM buses. Herold is unsure how GM ranked against others in fuel efficiency.
In Herold's mind, the current funding uncertainty within San Diego Transit Company and the resulting cutback of bus service adds weight to the position that bus transit is no improvement over what was offered by the trolley system, and on many counts is inferior. He and other trolley buffs feel authorities should have demonstrated more skepticism during the hearings over cutbacks in the trolley system, and they resent the fact that city officials didn't work to preserve trolley rights-of-way for future use. Such foresight would have made a return to light rail transportation today much less costly.
But it wasn't just the public officials who may have failed to question the conversion from rails and electricity to wheels and gasoline. The general public, although saddened by the close of the trolley story, showed little interest in actively opposing the transformation. There were public hearings, a few letters to the editor, but no widespread protests. Many undoubtedly viewed the transition as a symbol of progress; the trolley had been faithful, but it was time to step aside.
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- The glories of San Diego's trolley system — Feb. 15, 1979
- What will happen to Coronado's ferry landing? — April 28, 1977


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30 times the 2016 Oscar nominees slayed on the red carpet
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Best Supporting Actress Nominee: Alicia Vikander1. January 17, 2016: Wearing Mary Katrantzou at the Critics' Choice Awards
2. January 30, 2016: Wearing Louis Vuitton at the Screen Actors' Guild Awards.
3. December 6, 2015: Wearing Louis Vuitton at the British Independent Film AwardsGetty Images
Best Supporting Actress Nominee: Rooney Mara1. February 6, 2016: Wearing Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci at the Santa Barbara Film Festival
2. January 30, 2016: Wearing Valentino at the SAGs
3. January 09, 2016: Wearing Proenza Schouler at the BAFTA award season tea in Los Angeles Getty Images
Best Supporting Actress Nominee: Kate Winslet1. February 14, 2016: Wearing Antonio Berardi at the BAFTAs
2. January 10, 2016: Wearing Ralph Lauren at the Golden Globes
3. January 02, 2016: Wearing Roland Mouret at the 27th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Getty Images
Best Supporting Actress nominee: Jennifer Jason Leigh1. January 17, 2016: Wearing Roland Mouret at the Critics' Choice Awards
2. December 14, 2015: Wearing Rodarte at the New York premiere of The Hateful Eight
3. December 07, 2015: Wearing Roland Mouret (her fave) at the Hollywood premire of The Hateful Eight Getty Images
Best Actress Nominee: Cate Blanchett1. November 17, 2015: Wearing Chanel Haute Couture at the Museum of Modern Art's Film Benefit Honoring Cate Blanchett in New York City.
2. October 17, 2015: Wearing Schiaparelli at the Truth premiere at the BFI London Film Festival
3. January 10, 2016: Wearing Givenchy at the Golden Globes Getty Images
Best Actress Nominee: Brie Larson1. November 14, 2015: Wearing Calvin Klein, at the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' 7th Annual Governors Awards
2. January 11, 2016: Wearing Calvin Klein, at the Golden Globes
3. October 13, 2015: Wearing Rodarte at the Los Angeles premiere of RoomGetty Images
Best Actress Nominee: Jennifer Lawrence1. November 16, 2015: Wearing Christian Dior at the premiere of Mockingjay Part 2
2. December 17, 2015: Wearing Dior Couture at the London screening of Joy
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Best Actress Nominee: Saoirse Ronan1. January 10, 2016: Wearing Yves Saint Laurent at the Golden Globes
2. January 15, 2016: Wearing a sheer blouse and high-waisted black slacks by Laura Basci at MoMA Film's The Contenders screening of Brooklyn
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Best Actress Nominee: Charlotte Rampling1. December 11, 2015: Wearing Hermes at the EFA Film Gala
2. January 11, 2016: Wearing Yohji Yamamoto at 'Cesar - Revelations 2016' in Paris
3. February 08, 2016: Wearing Armani to the 88th Annual Academy Awards Nominee LuncheonGetty Images
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Overview of Burooj Views Tower
'Burooj Views' boasts high quality state-of-the-art design, spectacular views, mgnificent landscaping and spacious green areas throughout the development. Amenities include round-the-clock security guards and CCTV monitoring of public areas. The tower also boasts high speed elevators, underground parking, illuminated open pathways, a swimming pool, a gym and a health club.
Located at the gate of Al Reem Island in the centre of Abu Dhabi, Burooj Views is a 35-storey residential tower with one, two bedroom apartments and penthouses. The development features high quality finishing and panoramic sea views together with high-speed elevators, underground parking, a health club and a swimming pool.
The property is located in Marina Square, a mixed development on the western coast of Al Reem Island consisting of residential and commercial components, separated from the main Abu Dhabi Island by a relatively narrow channel of water. The scheme overlooks Abu Dhabi Mall and the former Navy Site.
Al Reem Island
Al Reem Island, 'The Pearl' and 'Emirates Pearl Island', is a residential, commercial and business project to be built on the natural island 600 meters off the northeastern coast of Abu Dhabi Island. Reem Island is connected to the Abu Dhabi city island by 2 or 3 bridges and be located 20 minutes from the Abu Dhabi International Airport.
The Island is being developed by three master developers Sorouh Real Estate (Shams Abu Dhabi Sorouh owns 20%), Reem Investments owns the 20%, and Tamouh Investments owns 60%. One of the first free zones in Abu Dhabi, where foreign nationalities can buy properties as leasehold.
The development is overseen by an independent third-party facilities management company known as Bunya. Bunya is responsible of planning, executing and managing infrastructure and operations on Reem Island and Bunya will ensure all three Reem Island developers meet the high standards of construction. The Island is estimated to accommodate 280 thousands residents and will include important amenities like schools, medical clinics, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, resorts, spas, gardens, and beaches. Properties that are available in Al Reem Island will be on a extendable 99-year leasehold basis.
Key Facts
Located at the gate of Al Reem Island in the centre of Abu Dhabi, Burooj Views is a 35-storey residential tower with one, two bedroom apartments and penthouses.
Reem Island is connected to the Abu Dhabi city island by 2 or 3 bridges and be located 20 minutes from the Abu Dhabi International Airport.
Smart building features thru out. Touch Button for: Lights, A/C, Security and many more.
Round the clock security guards for added comfort, convenience and security.
CCTV monitoring of public areas and inside all the apartments.
High speed elevators.
Bright hallways with open view.
Underground car parking facilities.
Modern gym and health club.
Full sized swimming pool
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Slack announced on January 28, 2015 that they have acquired Screenhero. Over the coming months, Slack will be migrating all of Screenhero's many features, along with many new ones, to Slack. During this time, Slack teams on the Standard or Plus Plan can use Screenhero for free. Once the integration is complete, Screenhero as a standalone service will be phased out.
About Screenhero
Screenhero is a collaborative screen sharing application. Screenhero allows users to collaborate on documents and projects in real-time by sharing their screens. The Screenhero API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Screenhero with other applications. The main API method is sending an invitation to share the screen with other people and allowing them to see the screen.
About Slack
Slack is a messaging platform for teams which brings all communication together, creating a single unified archive accessible through powerful search. It integrates with dozens of popular services such as Twitter, Dropbox, Trello, Asana, Google Docs, JIRA, MailChimp, Stripe, Zendesk, and others to help consolidate and make sense of the ever-growing flows of data that confront modern teams. Based in San Francisco, and with offices in Vancouver, Slack has raised $340 million from some of the world's best recognized investors including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Social+Capital, KPCB, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, IVP, Spark, DST, and Index.
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Liability and the Workspace
Posted: August 16th, 2011
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The Falkirk Wheel
Posted: August 12th, 2011
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Garage Companies
Posted: August 3rd, 2011
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Built Festival, Chi Town
A major new art Initiative; BUILT;festival, is a city being created out of shipping containers this summer in Chicago's Wicker Park Neighborhood. The shipping containers will be given over to Chicago's contemporary artists and curators to transform into alternative or ' guerrilla' venues.
BUILT is designed as a dynamic space for creative thinking and action, bringing together artists and participants in a cultural activation open to the public.
Friday August 12th, 5:00pm-10:30pm
Saturday August 13th, 11:00am-10:30pm
1767 n Milwaukee avenue, Chicago IL 60647
Over a hundred independent artists, projects, exhibitions, and performances, which expand on the festival's themes of urban culture, will open inside and out of our shipping container venues.
12 shipping container galleries
BUILT;festival is a grassroots operation located in Chicago Illinois. We hope you can attend the festival and see our efforts to build this second city.
Posted: August 2nd, 2011
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Categories: art,architecture,design,contemporary,boredom killer
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Good Offices
Posted: July 28th, 2011
at 12:08pm by mnp
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Reinventing the Shipping Container Part 8
Puma has made a portable store (Puma City)- how can commercial store applications of the shipping container be brought to consumers? Pop-up shops were all the rage, why not utilize shipping containers for these temporary depots? By bringing surplus crates to vacant lots, stores would not have to bear the cost of building a brand new place to sell there wares, while being able to move onto the next destination…
Posted: July 27th, 2011
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Despresso Coffee Shop
The owner, Eugene Kagansky, decided to have fun with the 500 square feet that he had on Madison Avenue and 42nd Street. He wanted to create a memorable, unusual, creative place for people to grab their morning and afternoon coffee. He gave the designers at Nema Workshop a budget of $500,000 (for only 500 square feet!) and asked them to create a library inspired sideways coffee shop. The designers took pictures at the library and printed them on glazed tiles, which cover the ceiling, wall and floor. It all looks like flip-flopped library shelves. (Source)
Posted: July 23rd, 2011
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Soma House - Architectural Visualization
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Posted: July 21st, 2011
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The Fifty-Nine Story Crisis
On a warm June day in 1978, William J. LeMessurier, one of the nation's leading structural engineers, received a phone call at his headquarters, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from an engineering student in New Jersey. The young man, whose name has been lost in the swirl of subsequent events, said that his professor had assigned him to write a paper on the Citicorp tower, the slash-topped silver skyscraper that had become, on its completion in Manhattan the year before, the seventh-tallest building in the world.
LeMessurier found the subject hard to resist, even though the call caught him in the middle of a meeting. As a structural consultant to the architect Hugh Stubbins, Jr., he had designed the twenty-five-thousand-ton steel skeleton beneath the tower's sleek aluminum skin. And, in a field where architects usually get all the credit, the engineer, then fifty-two, had won his own share of praise for the tower's technical elegance and singular grace; indeed, earlier that year he had been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest honor his profession bestows. Excusing himself from the meeting, LeMessurier asked his caller how he could help.
Posted: June 4th, 2011
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Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne Called Off Divorce?
We've known for a while that Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne had gone through a tough time and planned to divorce. However, we got the exciting news that their relationship is "back on track" as Osbourne revealed yesterday in an interview with Jesse Palmer, the host of Good Morning America.
The rock star said that their separation "is just a bump in the road". His son Jack joined the interview saying "As a married person myself, marriage is not like, 'Hey, we're married, all is good.' I mean, it's just life." He then added: "And we both live happily ever after? I'd like to find the person who wrote that, and poke him in the eye with a burning stick. Some days it's good, some days it's terrible, some days you just drift apart for a while, but you get back on the horse, you know?"
We're glad the famous lovebirds are together as one again!


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Farm Positions Available 2020
Maple Wind Farm is a mission-driven pasture-based livestock farm with operations in Huntington, Bolton and Richmond, VT. In operation since 1999, we raise 100% grass-fed beef, non-GMO pasture-raised pork, pasture-raised non-GMO layer hens, broiler chickens and turkeys. We have an on-farm USDA-inspected poultry processing facility. The egg, turkey and broiler operations are based in Richmond while the other operations are based in Huntington. We process chickens and turkeys from late May to Thanksgiving. Our facility is state of the art for very small plants and includes an innovative air-chilling process. Farm work with integrity gives meaning and importance to all that we do, even the little details. We work hard and smart and have expectations that we all do the same as a whole team and that this hard work is providing our customers the best possible food on the planet raised the best way with the animal and soil health a priority.
General Farm Crew (Poultry, Livestock, Processing)
We are currently hiring for our Richmond based farm location. These crew members will work closely with the owners, and the Field manager. Daily poultry work would include; am and pm chores (feeding, watering, moving pens, bedding) for broilers and turkeys in the field and in the brooder, and tending to the layer flock (also moving their field pen 2x week). Additional work for the day might include poultry processing support and cleaning and packaging eggs. Other work may include building/repairing farm infrastructure, and assisting with other livestock (cattle and hogs) that might include traveling to Huntington. Work week will be 40-50 hours/week.
Employees are expected to work quickly and efficiently. A willingness to happily and speedily take on a wide array of tasks in any weather is treasured. Given the scale and speed at which our operation is changing, crew members must have a positive attitude and sense of humor, be flexible, creative, hard-working, and passionate about agriculture. In return, you can expect: a great working experience, learning opportunities, new friends, access to the best food possible, working outdoors, and being part of the farm family. Preference will be given to applicants with: prior farm experience, the ability to lift 50+ pounds, a valid driver's license, and a willingness to work as part of a team, a positive attitude, and a sense of humor. Compensation: Wages are competitive depending on experience, and includes Worker's Compensation Insurance covering injuries on the job. Applicants must have reliable transportation to work. No housing is offered.
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Our USDA poultry processing plant is state of the art for a plant our size. We process chickens from late May- November, both ones raised by Maple Wind Farm and from other producers that bring poultry to us for the high quality service we provide. Our pasture raised turkeys are processed in November.
We are looking for folks that have experience processing poultry but we are willing to train. You must be able to perform repetitive tasks efficiently and have attention to detail. Having a knowledge and respect for food safety and the ability to work on your feet are important. A sense of humor and positive attitude and a willingness to take direction but also be proactive will be beneficial. We listen to a wide variety of music and do like to joke around! You must have reliable transportation. Responsibilities may include: Killing, scalding and plucking poultry, evisceration, maintaining quality and monitoring a sanitary work environment. Learning important knife skills of parting and packaging poultry are involved in the job as is lots of cleaning. Compensation: Starts at $12/hr. We will consider higher wages for those with meat or poultry processing experience. Housing is not included but employees receive farm produce and a discount on other farm products. We are looking for those who can commit to our entire processing season, from late May to Thanksgiving. There may be year-round work available.
To Apply: Send us your resume and 3 references. Please answer the following questions: 1. Tell us about your self and why you want to farm. 2. Why did you seek out Maple Wind Farm? 3. What are your skills that would be useful for us to know applicable to farm work 4. Your availability – start and end dates.
We will accept applications until positions are filled. We will require an in person interview at our farm as part of the application process.
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Klein and James lead Storm in Outdoor Opener
Audrey Klein and MacKenzie James combined to score 24 points in three events as Simpson finished in fifth place to open up the outdoor season at the Grand View Invitational on Saturday.
Courtesy Storm Athletics, click here! Feature photo: MacKenzie James-Monticello-Simpson©Jim Kirby 2019
Klein ran a career-best 5:14.14 in the 1500, resulting in a first-place finish. Klein improved on her previous best time of 5:19.15 from the Jim Duncan Invitational on April 14, 2017. Five additional Simpson runners scored points in the race, including Emily Buchheit, Abby Loecke, Katie Murano, Cat Lucht and Kaylee Willadsen.
James was the top points-earner for the Storm on the day, finishing second in the 100 with a time of 13:24 and third in the 200 with a 28.13.
Simpson had an impressive day in high jump, as Jamie Glanz finished second with a 1.54 meter clearance and Kamryn Junifinished third by clearing 1.49 meters.
Luci Swarthout had a successful college debut in the 400 meter hurdles, finishing third with a time of 1:11.7. Sophie Hall finished sixth with a time of 1:15.36.
The Storm had more contributors scoring points in the open events, including Jaycie Owens finishing fifth in the 400, and Corinne Thomas and Kamryn Juni finishing sixth in the 100 and 200, respectively.
Simpson will be in action next at the Central Invitational on April 5-6 in Pella at 2 p.m.
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100 — 2. MacKenzie James, 13.24 | 6. Corinne Thomas, 14.33
200 — 3. MacKenzie James, 28.13 | 6. Kamryn Juni, 28.73
400 — 5. Jaycie Owens, 1:06.96
1500 — 1. Audrey Klein, 5:14.14 | 4. Emily Buchheit, 5:23.52
400 hurdles — 3. Luci Swarthout, 1:11.7 | 6. Sophie Hall, 1:15.36
High jump — 2. Jamie Glanz, 1.54m | 3. Kamryn Juni, 1.49


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For an energetic couple, architect Craig Schultz created a serene machine for living.
Space and light and order. Architect Craig Schultz kept these simple goals in mind while designing Jeff and Diana Brown's Corona del Mar home. The homeowners wanted to build their dream house, but their list of "dreams" was long and sometimes contradictory. After four years of planning and another four of building, the Brown residence is an orderly compilation of the clients' requests and the architect's solutions.
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Thanksgiving this year was good for me. I am learning to accept things and be okay with them. Life is what it is and it's futile to try to make it something else. Learning that lesson has been painful, but it's one I am thankful for.
I am thankful for coming closer to the Lord. Of course, the closer I get, the brighter His light shines on my life - exposing the best and the worst!
Believe it or not, I was even a little thankful for the snow yesterday. One of my web buddies was complaining that 70 degree weather is not nice this time of year. I get it. Don't think that I would want that kind of temp at Thanksgiving or Christmas - but I could sure use it most of the rest of the year! LOL
I am also thankful for memories of my mother. Whenever feel alone and lost, which has been a lot these days, I can think of Mom and her strength and know that I am her child. If she could deal with bad things in life, and she had to, so can I.
I am thankful for my friend Jone. She has been a true, true blessing. (She reminds me that when we first met, we really kinda didn't click for a couple of days!) I don't know how I would have survived the last few months without her friendship. Even now she is such a rock of encouragement and validation that I appreciate.
I am thankful for my doctor. What a kind, compassionate person he is. I'm sure that there are many doctors who are as good, but I lucked out in getting him.
I am thankful for the team of people working with me to get through this treatment and the aftermath to come. Julie and Ranae and Jaime and all the others. So glad for their patience and empathy.
I am glad for my sister. My rock. She gets it. She gets me.
I am glad that my little brother lived through his crisis and is here to see another year.
I am glad for this blog and the friends I have made through it. Some blessings come to us in different ways. It still surprises me that I have met people through this blog that I am in touch with almost 6 years later. (And I miss some folks, like Supasister, who are dealing with their own deep, deep feelings. I know she is out there though, and I know she will be back.)
Most of all, I am thankful for something my aunt taught me: everyday should be thanksgiving and we should love and care everyday like we do on the one day.
So, lots to be thankful for. Lots to be hopeful and grateful for. Praise God for his gifts to us.
Friday, November 25, 2011
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My last project was building an Android password store based on Bletchley and I'm going to describe the process I went through along with some of the issues I had in the process.
I started by making Bletchley run on Android… which required a bit of work. First, nothing worked since converter lookup failed for some random object field. After a bit of debugging I found that Android was adding a couple of transient shadow fields to every object and Bletchley's converter lookup failed for them. This issue was easily solved by adding a filter for transient fields during object inspection.
Then Bletchley failed at runtime while logging processing of items in the InferenceEngine. This made calls to a prettyprint module that uses base64 encoding and failed because some library's version used by Android was older than what Bletchley was expecting. Since I did not need any of that I simply commented it out.
There weren't any more issues with Bletchley and developing the app's UI took the expected amount of reading guides, StackOverflow answers and experimentation with a few occasional frustrations.
A most notable issue I had was adding search functionality. It took an unreasonable amount of time to implement this as Google's guides show inconsistent code samples on how to do it and the search bar view simply did not get created for me. In short, the example I followed (seemed to be the best one) told me to include the following in an xml file describing menu items in the app toolbar:
What I found I should have done was the following (just change the namespace):
The password store is split into a few directories: git repository tracks keys and secrets (encrypted passwords), local directory contains private keys and an index with a list of trusted public signing keys and a list of (password name -> encrypted file name) objects. Bletchley uses NSA suiteb cryptography.
Our primary objective here is to store encrypted passwords (they're signed as well), so let's define a small class PasswordItem for a password: it has the password itself and a name for it. We want this class to extend ActionType so that when we process an encrypted password item with InferenceEngine, we can just do engine.getSoleAction(PasswordItem) to get it if it was successfully decrypted. For that to work we need to construct an Action instance with PasswordItem as payload whenever we construct messages so that InferenceEngine can process it.
Then we want to have a private-public pair of signing and encryption keys (four in total). We'll use the public signing key to identify users and public encryption key to let others encrypt passwords only we can decrypt. We sign our public encryption key so that others know it belongs to us. In general, to share a password we only need to know the recipient's signing key since Bletchley can find the right encryption key by processing all the signed keys in the repository. The only keys extracted are the ones signed by the recipient we're sharing with (provided key's trust is not limited). Users can put trust limits on keys and this way there should only be one encryption key available to share with.
To be able to extract an encryption key just by processing a list of files, wrap it in another class RecipientEncryptionKey that extends ActionType. We do engine.processTrusted(recipient signing key) to trust items signed by the corresponding user and then process every file in the directory. The encryption key wrapper object will appear in engine.actions.
To put a trust limit on an encryption key we need to first create a temporary signing key. We use this key to sign our public encryption key. What we're going to store is a Sequence(Limit, signed encryption key) signed with our main signing key (not limited). Limit specifies the conditions of trust for its subject, in our case the signing key.
With the above, we can start making a secret (encrypted password). We are producing a sequence of items that the InferenceEngine will process in order to extract a PasswordItem (an ActionType) from it. We generate an AesKey to encrypt the password data and an ephemeral key (PrivateEncryptionKey, used to generate shared secret key) to encrypt the AesKey for each recipient public encryption key. Sign the password and encrypt that with the AesKey. We now have all we need to construct a Bletchley message which is a Sequence(public ephemeral key, sequence of encrypted AesKeys, encrypted signed password).
When the InferenceEngine on the recipient's side processes this Sequence it will first derive a PrivateEncryptionKey to decrypt the AesKey and add it to the engine. The next item in the sequence is the encrypted signed password, which is an AesPacket that specifies the key id used to encrypt data. This key is looked up in the InferenceEngine and since we just added it using the first sequence item we can successfully extract the signed password data. This is another sequence of items and here we need to have the signing key of the recipient trusted. If it is then the InferenceEngine will process the signed item (an Action instance with PasswordItem as payload) thus adding it to InferenceEngine.actions list.


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Well this was going to be my first ride out after officially joining VSOC. My bike had been fully cosseted the day before and I was even tempted to individually clean the spokes but lost interest when I realised how many there was. Hats of to you Nick! The weather had obviously been pre booked for the day which is what good planning is all about. At 10.30 Ed and Sue came round and we headed off to Henley to Terry and Jen's. Already there was Richard, Jacqui, and Paul. After being there for a few minutes I was informed by Jen that she was a practising witch! (Not on me I hope). Also it was a good sign that I didn't throw up after crossing the threshold. I don't normally make a habit of disgracing myself but this would have been out of my control evidently. Things were looking up then? Now I'm a bit rusty on what modern day witches get up to, but the detective in me did notice the broom must have been ditched years ago. We have had Harry Potter flying around in a Ford Anglia and Jen obviously prefers something a bit more substantial between her legs. I guess that's evolution for you. It was a quick cup of tea before we left. On the way out I counted all my digits and double checked to make sure I had no webs growing in between them, all present and correct so I assumed I had been accepted?
The first ride out was to Fox's Diner. I have not been there before and was amazed at the amount of bikes coming and going. In the car park there were some nice looking bikes along with some real dogs. Some of the contraptions you would have to be brave to own or ride. Perhaps that's why tinted visors were invented to hide said riders embarrassment. But hey each to their own, they say a dog is a mans best friend. Another mug of tea and we were off to the bike show. I did notice there were a lot of power rangers whizzing around on their crotch rockets with a death wish looming around the next corner, or am I just getting old? (No need to answer that, my daughter does a good job on her own thank you!)
We arrived at the show and were given a blue plastic disc. We parked up and I made a wise crack to Paul about the size of the dinner plate we had just been given when he politely educated me on what it was meant for. Thankfully my tinted visor hid my blushes. Met up with Nick and his daughter, Phil, Ed's brother John and Carol, and Roger. We basically chilled out in the sun looking at the good the bad and the ugly on show. I was taken aback how two or three bikes, same model but different colour could appear to be so different at first glance. Stomachs were now talking to us so Terry rode point for a pub lunch of a journey that must have been all of about 100 yards. No luck here though. They either saw us coming, and switched off all the lights or officially they had shut shop earlier. Paul had a go on the modern day broom stick which gave us all a laugh. Somehow I don't think he will be cloning another wheel on his Wildstar just yet. Another 100 yard or so stint in the saddle and we landed up at the Butchers Arms. We all had a nice meal outside in the sun after convincing the vendors we were house trained. The waiter had a problem with his spotted dick, Ed's spotted dick was well, spotted, but he also had a problem with his helmet on leaving!
I had a great day out and can only thank you all for making me welcome over the last few weeks. Looking forward to the next function, my shopping list for bits and bobs is getting longer and more expensive and that's just for a ride out. Dread to think what will be required for a rally? But what the hell, it beats decorating any day.


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Portrait Of A Young Boy In An Argyle Sweater
Portrait of a young boy wearing an argyle sweater. The boy has wavy blond hair and blue eyes. He has a wry sort of smile and he's looking straight at the camera. He's posed in front of the former Seattle Gas Light Company gasification plant at Gas Works Park in Seattle. There's a bit of greenery between a black chain link fence and the rusty brown of the gasification plant, with blue sky beyond.
This photo was shot during an extended on-location family session that we did at the park that involved his sister, mother and father. Their family had recently moved to the Seattle area from California. His grandfather was an accomplished professional photographer and these photos were the first professional photos that his grandpa didn't do. I felt quite honored that they chose me as their new photographer in their new hometown.
I used natural light during this session and was extremely lucky with the lighting setup in this shot. You can see blue sky in the photo, to the East. Behind me the afternoon sun was blocked by a solid deck of clouds that extended back out over the Sound. Oh boy, if only all of my outdoor natural light setups could come out like this!
Gas Works Park is a pretty cool place to take pictures. Located on the Northern shore of Lake Union, the park is dominated by the fenced-off remains of the old gasification plant. The plant is surrounded by hilly green grass, and beyond that are amazing views of Lake Union, Queen Anne, the huge I-5 and Aurora Avenue bridges, the South Lake Union neighborhood, the downtown Seattle skyline with, of course, the Space Needle.
Location: Gas Works Park, Seattle, WA
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