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Jakarta, Indonesia, 11 June 2011 - PT. Linde Indonesia, a member of The Linde Group, announced that it had entered into a long term industrial gases supply scheme agreement with PT. KRAKATAU POSCO (PT.KP).
PT. KRAKATAU POSCO, a joint venture between POSCO and Krakatau Steel, is building a three million tonnes per annum (mtpa) steelworks in the first phase in the Cilegon area, located about 100 km west of Jakarta. PT.KP's new plant will be the first integrated steelworks in Southeast Asia and is targeted to be onstream by the end of 2013.
To support the gases requirements of PT.KP's new steel plant, Linde will invest about IDR 1 trillion (about EUR 88 million) to install a new air separation plant at Cilegon which is capable of producing approximately 2,000 tons per day (tpd) of oxygen. In addition to meeting the 1,680 tpd oxygen requirement of PT.KP's new steelworks, Linde's new plant, which will be commissioned by October 2013, will also produce liquid products to meet the growing demand for industrial gases in West Java.
Mr Sanjiv Lamba, Member of the Executive Board of Linde AG, and Regional Business Unit Head for Linde South & East Asia, said, "The Linde Group is keen to expand our business in Indonesia, one of the fastest growing economies in this region. Our decision to invest and build what will be Indonesia's largest air separation plant, and also Linde's largest investment in Indonesia to date, demonstrates our continued commitment to support our valuable customer PT.KP in its growth plans, and also meet future demand and market opportunities going forward," Mr Lamba added.
Mr Darren Webster, President Director of PT. Linde Indonesia said, "The signing of this long term supply scheme contract is a major milestone for Linde in Indonesia. Our new air separation plant will produce more than 3,000 tpd of oxygen, nitrogen and argon, and will enable us to significantly increase our production capacity and enhance our ability to serve the fast growing West Java area," Mr Webster noted.
Mr Kim Dong-Ho, President Director of PT. KRAKATAU POSCO said, "We are very glad to be working with Linde in our new steelworks facility in Cilegon as reliable, cost effective supply of gases plays a vital role in our operational plans. I am pleased that we have reached this long term supply agreement with Linde and look forward to a very successful and mutually beneficial partnership," Mr Kim concluded.
About PT. Linde Indonesia:
PT. Linde Indonesia, a member of The Linde Group, is the leading industrial gas supplier in Indonesia since 1971. PT. Linde Indonesia manufactures and distributes industrial, specialty and medical gases, and provides a range of related services including the installation of gas equipment, pipelines, on site plants and associated engineering services. PT. Linde Indonesia operates in seven locations across Java and is committed to delivering quality and reliable services that create value for our customers.
For more information, please see PT. Linde Indonesia's website at: www.linde.co.id
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The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 48,700 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2010 financial year, it achieved sales of EUR 12.868 bn. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. Linde is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
For more information, see The Linde Group online at http://www.linde.com
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Festival to run through Saturday in Snow Hill
SNOW HILL � With sweet potatoes being harvested by the bushels, it�s time for the sixth annual N.C. Sweet Potato Festival.
This year�s event may not have happened if it weren�t for the enthusiasm of several Greene County folks who formed a festival executive committee and pulled it together at nearly the last minute.
�This committee was only formally formed about the first of June,� said Trudy B. Hardy, Greene County Chamber of Commerce director and head of the committee, �so we only had a short time to put the festival together. So we certainly had some challenges.�
The festival, previously organized by the county, had rung up costs over budget and only recently paid off its debts. Hardy said she was determined to keep this year�s costs within the amount of money raised.
�We�re very confident that we put a good festival in place,� she said. �� Our vision is we would like to see it grow in size and participation because we truly believe that with the state of the economy in our county that the festival is one of the best vehicles that we have to promote our agricultural products in our county.�
In fact, North Carolina is the No. 1 producer of sweet potatoes in the U.S., supplying more than 40 percent of the nation�s sweet taters.
The festival, located adjacent to the recreation complex on Kingold Boulevard, will start at 6 p.m. Thursday with an opening ceremony and song by Nell Cannon, who recently auditioned for �America�s Got Talent.�
The festival poster contest winner�s artwork will be unveiled by artist Dinah Sylivant of Snow Hill. Entertainment will follow.
Rides by Inners Shows will be open around 3:30 p.m. About 75 vendors are coming.
�We got more vendors than we�ve ever had before,� said Shenile Ford, committee member and director of the Greene County Cooperative Extension. �This year, we�re having an educational exhibit in the farmers market.�
New this year, most of the vendors who set up in the recreation complex parking lot in previous years will be set up in the grassy area near the picnic shelter, she said.
The Extension will also be displaying the Dress Your Tater entries, including the contest winners.
There will be Cinderella-type carriage rides from 6-9 p.m. on Thursday and Friday.
�We�ll have a photographer available,� Hardy said, �and (children) can have their picture taken with Santa Clause.�
Horse and carriage rides will be available from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday.
On Friday, there will be all the rides, games, food, displays and activities, including entertainment beginning at 6 p.m. on the Yam Jam Stage and 7 p.m. on the Homegrown Stage. There is no admission fee for the Homegrown entertainment.
The Yam Jam Stage will be towards the back of the ball fields. There will be a charge for entertainment there on Friday and Saturday. Prices are $20 for Friday and $30 for Saturday. Discount tickets can be purchased in advance.
Tickets are sold at Snow Hill, Hookerton and Walstonburg town halls, Greene County Cooperative Extension, Greene Manager�s Office, Greene County Chamber of Commerce, Beaman's restaurant and Ham's Produce.
Tailgate spaces are still available. Cost is $60 for Friday, $100 for Saturday or $150 for both days. Tailgaters can set up a tent, cook and enjoy the music.
For all entertainment, festival-goers should bring a lawn chair or blanket.
Ironman will be at the festival on Friday and Saturday. Bobby Brantley of Lizzard Lick Towing will make an appearance on Saturday at the Diamond Divas tent, where T-shirts will be sold.
Children 12 and under can ride for free from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday. This special offer so all children can have fun is being sponsored by two businesses that wished to remain anonymous.
K-OS and I Forgot will provide music entertainment for the teens on Saturday.
Winners of the Greene�s Got Talent, which happened at the Q on the Creek, will be performing on the Homegrown Stage on Saturday. They are Sherri Davis and Addelyn Esposito.
The 4-H Chicken Show will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Check-in is at 9:30 a.m. Entry deadline is today. Judging is for ages 9-19. Ages 8 and under may exhibit in a non-judged category.
Membership in 4-H is not required. Entry forms and rules are available at ncsweetpotatofestival.com/chickenshowflyer13.pdf. For information, call the Extension office at 252-747-5831.
On Saturday, the recreation complex will not be empty.
�We�re running a full schedule of soccer games,� Greene Parks and Recreation Director Mike Anderson said.
There will also be the Nation�s baseball tournament, he said, adding that Top Gun is having its World Series in the Rocky Mount area this weekend.
The parking lot will be available for the ball games. Parking for vendors will be at the farmers market. Off-site parking for the festival, including at West Greene Elementary and Yamco, will be available, as well as limited on-site parking.
For more information about the festival and tickets for the Yam Jam events, call Trudy B. Hardy at 252-747-8090.
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Sweet Potato Festival entertainment
Friday � Yam Jam Stage
6 p.m. Adrian & Co.
7 p.m. Nell Cannon
8-10 p.m. North Tower
Cost: Advance $15, Gate $20
Tailgate space: $60
Saturday � Yam Jam Stage
Noon Mikele Buck
2 p.m. Nell Cannon
2:30 p.m. Summertime Band
5-9 p.m. Legends of Beach
Cost: Advance $25, Gate: $30
Tailgate space: $100, Friday & Saturday $150
Thursday � Homegrown Stage
6 p.m. Opening Ceremony
Nell Cannon, singer
Unveiling of Sweet Potato Festival poster by artist Dinah Sylivant
7 p.m. Ormondsville Praise and Worship Team
7:30 p.m. Alice Martin
8-8:30 p.m. Bob and Pat Jones
No admission charge
Friday � Homegrown Stage
7-9 p.m. K-OS (teen band)
No admission charge
Saturday � Homegrown Stage
9:30 a.m. Addelyn Esposito (Greene�s Got Talent winner)
11 a.m. Will Lane
Noon I Forgot (teen band)
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Obama tells business leaders they are key to job growth
President Obama kicked off a much-anticipated jobs summit Thursday, telling 130 business leaders and others summoned to the White House for the afternoon-long session that private business, not government, holds the key to future job growth.
"Ultimately, true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector," Obama said.
Thank you President Oblivious! You needed a "jobs summit" to announce that? It's telling that you and most of your Cabinet has absolutely zero private sector experience.
See also:
President Obama holds jobs summit to refocus on economy
Economic ideas floated at local jobs summit
Labor Praises Jobs Summit, Calls For Action—But Obama Sending Mixed Signals on Major Spending
As Obama Holds Jobs Summit, Frustrated Left Complains About Slow Growth
Bing pleads for federal dollars for Detroit at Jobs Summit
RNC Chairman Steele Blasts Job Summit
Jobs Summit or White House 'Photo-Op'?
Gingrich hosts his own jobs summit
Hey Obama, here's an idea, if you really want to get the recovery going stop spouting stupid platitudes at meaningless "job summit" photo-ops and CUT TAXES! It's not rocket science, it's been proven to work time and time again.
/although I'm not holding my breath because cutting taxes is to Democrats as garlic is to vampires
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text: A prolific Nashville singer/songwriter who authored hits for Jimmy Buffett, Alabama, and Steve Wariner, Mac McAnally was born July 15, 1957, in Red Bay, Alabama. Singing in church throughout childhood, at age eight he began taking piano lessons and within five years was performing professionally; McAnally later took up guitar and at 15 composed his first song, "People Call Me Jesus." After quitting high school he went to work as a session player at Muscle Shoals' Wishbone Studios; one night, during a break in a Hank Williams, Jr. date, McAnally began playing some of his own original material, so impressing producers Terry Woodford and Clayton Ivey that they convinced Williams to record the tune "I Need You Tonight." Signing to Ariola, in 1977 McAnally issued his self-titled debut album, scoring a crossover hit with the single "It's a Crazy World" and touring in support of Randy Newman. Acclaimed for the richly literary appeal of his songcraft, McAnally returned in 1978 with No Problem Here, followed two years later by Cuttin' Corners; neither sold as well as his debut, but he remained one of Nashville's most sought-after writers, penning material for Buffett ("It's My Job") and Alabama (the chart-topping "Old Flame"). In the wake of 1983's Nothin' But the Truth, McAnally did not release another new LP until Finish Lines five years later, in the interim penning hits for Buffett ("When the Coast Is Clear") and Ricky Van Shelton ("Crime of Passion"); with 1990's Simple Life, he returned to the charts with "Back Where I Come From," and a year later authored the Wariner smash "It's a Precious Thing." After 1992's Live and Learn (which generated the minor hits "The Trouble with Diamonds" and "Junk Cars"), McAnally resurfaced two years later with Knots, remaining silent until releasing Word of Mouth in mid-1999. It was a long wait again before Down by the River appeared in 2009 from Show Dog Nashville. He switched to Mailboat for 2011's Live: In Muscle Shoals, which captured a performance given at the W.C. Handy Music Festival in 2010. A studio set for the label called AKA Nobody arrived in 2015, followed by Southbound: The Orchestra Project in 2017. ~ Jason Ankeny


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Bats & Human Health
Bats & Human Health
Bat Conservation International Bats and Disease Position Statement
Bat Conservation International (BCI) recognizes that human health, animal health, and ecosystem health are inextricably linked.
Experts now estimate that 75% of all emerging human infectious diseases originate in animal populations, among them bats and other mammals. Contact between people, livestock and wildlife increases as the growing human population encroaches into natural areas and as some species adapt to co-exist in close proximity to humans. This increased contact poses a challenge for both health practitioners and conservationists in the task of preventing spillover of pathogens from wild animals to humans and livestock and protecting wildlife and their habitats. Conservation of habitats and limitation of human-wildlife contact are only two of the elements considered to mitigate this issue.
Bat Conservation International is committed to an integrated One Health approach to work with communities to protect human health and conserve the world's bats. The One Health Initiative seeks to promote, improve, and defend the health and well-being of all species by enhancing cooperation and collaboration between physicians, veterinarians, other scientific health and environmental professionals.
With more than 1330 species, bats are the second largest group of mammals on Earth. Bat Conservation International recognizes the serious challenge of effectively preventing, responding and managing zoonotic spillover events that may be linked to bats.
Bat Conservation International is dedicated to the enduring protection of the world's bats and their habitats, and creating a world in which bats and humans successfully coexist. BCI believes that effective bat conservation can help reduce the risk of zoonotic disease through better understanding and effective management of human-bat interactions. In particular, BCI supports interdisciplinary conservation action and ethical, well-designed research to better understand the relationships between bat ecology and the risk of zoonotic disease.
Bat Conservation International encourages interaction and collaboration among different health and conservation professions in collaborative prevention, surveillance and management of zoonotic diseases. BCI is dedicated to furthering this collaboration by sharing knowledge to help educate managers, researchers, policymakers, students, conservation organizations and the public about the management of zoonotic diseases and bat conservation issues through professional networks, scientific journals, lay articles, and the media.
Bats & Human Contact
Simply left alone, bats are harmless and highly beneficial. They are fascinating creatures, vital to the balance of nature around the world. Like most wild animals, bats prefer to avoid contact with humans. But in situations where bats and humans come into close proximity, it is important to understand how to prevent negative outcomes for humans AND bats.
Several scenarios might bring bats and humans together: bats sometimes accidentally fly into a home or business through open doors or windows; they might take advantage of existing small openings into attics, wall spaces, or chimneys and roost in structures where humans live or work; and sick, injured, or dead bats sometimes fall to the ground. In each of these situations, BCI discourages the general public from handling bats. If touching or contact does occur, we hope the following information will inform you about possible health risks that may apply.
Bats, Coronaviruses, and Zoonotic Disease
Bat Conservation International fully embraces the "One Health" movement which recognizes that conservation biologists and public health officials confront the same ecological problems. As stated in the executive summary of the "One Health" Initiative, "the convergence of people, animals, and our environment has created a new dynamic in which the health of each group is inextricably interconnected."
The One Health approach recognizes that public health is inextricably linked to healthy environments. "One Health is defined as a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach — working at the local, regional, national, and global levels — with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment." – CDC website
Research has revealed that more than 60 percent of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, and that bats are not exceptional among wildlife as potential sources of human disease. Over the last decade, increased surveillance and improved techniques for disease detection have implicated bats as likely reservoirs and vectors for a lengthening list of pathogens that can affect humans and domestic animals. These include Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, SARS-like coronaviruses, flu virus, a panoply of lyssaviruses including rabies, and most notably, Ebola.
Studying zoonotic disease, including identifying wildlife reservoirs for pathogens, increases our understanding and ability to predict and prevent zoonotic spillover events. The virology, immunology, and ecology of bats is of crucial importance to developing strategies to inform conservation and global human health outcomes. Furthermore, studying bat immunology can help us understand our own immune systems and ways to fight diseases.
For more information on Bats, Coronaviruses, and Zoonotic Disease, CLICK HERE.
The causes for the emergence of these diseases from wildlife into human populations are fundamentally ecological, resulting from the disruption of our natural habitats, and are inevitably exacerbated by social disorder and political instability. Read more…
Rabies is a preventable viral infection of the central nervous system in mammals. Bats, like most mammals, can contract the rabies virus, but the vast majority never do. When bats do get rabies, they eventually die from the disease and do not "carry" the virus indefinitely without themselves getting sick.
The virus is typically transmitted by the bite of an infected animal – so anyone bitten by a bat (or any other wild or unknown domestic animal) should seek immediate medical attention. People can, in rare instances, contract rabies if infectious material, such as saliva from a rabid animal, gets into their eyes, nose, mouth, or a wound.
Learn more about Bats & Rabies
No subject has generated more misinformation and fear about bats than rabies. So let's look at the facts. Worldwide, more than 55,000 people are estimated to die of rabies each year (World Health Organization), primarily from contacts with rabid dogs. In industrialized countries, most dogs and cats are now vaccinated against rabies, and the disease is rare in humans and usually results from contact with rabid wildlife, particularly bats. In the United States from 1995 through 2009, an average of two people per year have died of rabies associated with bats.
With proper education, the presence of bats does not pose public health conflicts. For example, approximately 1½ million Mexican free-tailed bats live under the Congress Avenue Bridge in downtown Austin, Texas. A well-publicized tourist attraction, the bridge bats attract tens of thousands of people each summer to watch the bats emerge in the evenings on their nightly insect hunts. No human case of bat-transmitted rabies has ever been recorded in Austin or surrounding communities.
Rabies is readily prevented by post-contact vaccination, but is almost always fatal after symptoms appear. Prompt medical advice is essential following a bite by a bat or other animal. If the bat can be safely captured (as in a box or can), it should be sent to a laboratory for testing. People usually know when they've been bitten, but bats have small teeth and bite marks may not be apparent. If you find a bat in the room of an unattended child or near a mentally impaired or intoxicated person, seek medical advice.
The modern rabies vaccine is safe and effective. Anyone who handles wild animals should obtain pre-exposure immunization, and anyone bitten or exposed to the saliva or nerve tissue of a rabies-suspect animal should immediately obtain post-exposure vaccination. This vaccination has been simplified and no longer requires a lengthy series of shots as it did in the past; four shots are administered over a period of two weeks and are usually given in the upper arm.
A bat that can be easily approached by humans is much more likely than other bats to be sick, and it may bite if handled. Do not touch or handle a bat or any other wild animal and there is little chance of being bitten. Teach children to never handle any wild animal.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides instructions on what to do if you think you may have been exposed to rabies. State-by-state contacts are listed under "Resources."
Travis County—Call the local city health department at 512.972.5555 for questions about rabies exposure risks from bats. This number leads to a nurse in the Austin Travis County Health and Human Services Department's Disease Surveillance unit. The nurse WILL return the call as quickly as possible.
Williamson County—For a rabies risk consultation, please contact Williamson County and Cities Health District, Communicable Disease Management Team at 512.943.3660 OR Department of State Health Services, Region 7, in Temple, TX at 254.778.6744.
Department of State Health Services Rabies Laboratory in Austin, TX.
What care will I receive?
What is the risk for my pet?
What are the signs and symptoms of rabies?
How is rabies transmitted?
How is rabies diagnosed?
Rabies prevention
Rabies in the U.S. and around the World
Rabies Information for Specific Groups
Bats and Histoplasmosis
Histoplasmosis is a respiratory disease caused by a fungus that grows in soil enriched by animal droppings, including those from bats. Ninety percent of all reported cases in humans come from the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys and adjacent areas where warm, humid conditions favor fungal growth.
The disease is rare or nonexistent in most of Canada and in the far northern and western United States. The majority of cases are asymptomatic or involve flu-like symptoms, though some individuals become seriously ill, especially if exposed to large quantities of spore-laden dust.
To be safe, avoid breathing dust in areas where there are animal droppings; if you must clean an area of bat or bird droppings, wear a respirator that can guard against particles as small as two microns.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information about Histoplasmosis here
Other Resources
World Rabies Day is an initiative of the Global Alliance for Rabies Control
Study by University of Calgary researchers has confirmed that bats are not as disease-ridden as the stigma suggests: The notion that bats have high rates of rabies is not true.
Further Reading
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BCI relies on the support of our amazing members around the world.
Our mission is to conserve the world's bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet.
Please join us or donate so our work can continue.


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Milwaukee police recover assault rifle after shooting
Two people shot, suspect arrested
A day after Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, calling for a ban on assault weapons, Milwaukee police recovered a military-style assault rifle from a suspect's vehicle at 25th and Melvina streets.
It all started about five blocks away, where a crowd of about 10 people were gathered at 28th Street and Atkinson Avenue.
Police said the suspect drove up, got out of the car, approached the group with an assault rifle and opened fire, hitting a man and a woman, wounding them both.
The man was injured more seriously, but there is no word on their conditions.
Police said the suspect returned to the area of 25th and Melvina streets, and got out of the vehicle. He recognized police officers and ran off on foot.
A few blocks away police caught him with help of police dog who bit the suspect in the arm.
Police arrested the 48-year-old man, who they said has a long criminal history.
Flynn had officers bring out the weapon they recovered to prove the point he tried to make in Washington.
"This is not a theoretical issue. This neighborhood has to live with too much violence, and one of the reasons is because criminals gain access to high-capacity, high-quality firearms, including assault weapons. It is a danger to the entire community, and this community is dangerous because of that," Flynn said. "Officers have to exercise great courage to confront these challenges, but every day, people who live here have to live with this slow motion mass murder that these weapons bring to the streets of urban America."
Later Thursday, Flynn appeared as a guest on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.
He addressed the need for universal background checks prior to buying a firearm. He compared it to the inconveniencing of all air travelers in an effort to weeding out "bad guys."
"We made a societal-wide commitment and we have inconvenienced the lives of millions of travelers in the laudible social compact that we were going to protect ourselves from being victims of mass murder," said Flynn. "Why on earth can't we generate that same will when it comes to military style assault weapons and high capacity magazines?"
Flynn went on to say that banning assault weapons would not infringe on 2nd Amendment rights.
"Maybe we can inconvenience ourselves a little bit and limit accessibility to this particular weapon. You still have your shotgun, you still have your pistol, you have your hunting rifle, you have your semi-automatic handgun, you still have your six shooter, you have your Windchester and on and on and on. That's your 2nd amendment right. Every constitutional right is subject to rational regulation," said Flynn.


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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Civility In The Face Of Adversity
from the stay-classy,-EB dept
Encyclopaedia Britannica's recent announcement that it would cease its printing operations was the culmination of the inevitable. Many of its eulogizers seem to be laying the blame at Wikipedia's feet, despite the fact that Microsoft's Encarta software dealt the first blows to printed encyclopedias several years before Wikipedia's development.
While many words have been written about the revered encyclopedia's history and stature, very few words have been written detailing EB's adjustment to the digital age, which is as much about the things it did do as it is about the things it didn't do. Shane Greenstein has written a very astute assessment of EB's reactions to the evolving encyclopedia market, one that clearly shows how forward-looking Britannica was (and is), rather than bemoaning the loss of the print edition.
[E]B was a highly leveraged organization. It sold books with door to door salesmen. This was an expensive way to distribute a product, and it did not, could not, last under assault from the PC and the Encarta.Britannica realized quicker than many legacy entities that the market it worked in was no longer viable and changed its focus early in the game. Countless industries have been upended by new technologies, but many have failed to react in time to take advantage of these changes. Not only did Britannica shift its focus while it still could compete, but it greeted this upheaval with something even more rarely found in legacies: civility. Greenstein explains that what Britannica didn't do is perhaps the most astonishing aspect of this story.
More to the point, the management of the organization was forward looking. They sponsored a set of projects for DVDs and online experiments. The latter eventually went online in January 1994 with an html version. Its descendants still generate licensing revenue for the organization.
Then Wikipedia came along and ate everyone's lunch in the reference section, that is, everyone who made DVDs and books. Encarta had to close its doors a couple years ago. It was simply not getting enough sales any longer for Microsoft to find any reason to keep it going.
Here is my point. Notice what happened as the market evolved. The once leading firm changed its organizational form. It adopted a new form too, both DVD and online licensing. It still survives today with the latter, albeit, at a much smaller scale than during its peak.(**Note: This isn't entirely true. Back in 2007, Encyclopaedia Britannica took GPS manufacturers to court for patent infringement. Why GPS makers? Well, the patent it acquired from Compton was broadly written, involving search features on CD-ROMs, which was taken to mean that anything computerized or multimedia-based could be pursued for infringing on the patent. An uproar followed and the patent's definition was narrowed down by the commissioner of the patent office, leaving EB free to pursue the new definition... which was GPS manufacturers. All clear?)
In short, this transformation came about in a rather civilized way. Do you hear any whining or fussing from EB about unfair trade practices, as so many firms have done? Do you see EB suing anybody for patent infringement, as seems so common today in high tech?** No, in the last decade EB did the classy thing, restructuring as best they could to make due in the new world.
Other firms should pay heed to that example. This is how it is supposed to happen, as one new market replaces an old. This is how markets should evolve. Let's hear it for Encyclopedia Britannica, for evolving with a sense of class, and for moving along with everyone else as we all move along into the new age.
This "evolving with a sense of class" has escaped many legacy industries who have made serious efforts to stop the clock, if not actually turn the clock back to when they had control of their respective fields. Many have the ear of legislators, who often confuse death throes for growing pains, especially when trying to hear over the hubbub of omnipresent lobbyists.
Many companies, when going under for the third time, remain convinced that the only way to escape drowning is to drag someone else down with them. Last ditch lawsuits and cries of "unfair" are the norm these days, rather than focusing energy and time towards moving forward and adjusting to new realities.
As graceful and civil as EB has been, its self-appointed mourners (of what exactly? paper?) have also issued eulogies of their own, offering bizarrely-worded attacks on Wikipedia, as though its only reason for existence was to destroy every other encyclopedia, online or off.
Over at the Atlantic, historian Edward Tenner leads off with an inexplicable headline: "Why Wikipedia's Fans Shouldn't Gloat" before disappearing down a "EB was just better" rabbit hole, offering no solid reasons, but plenty of "vibes." He begins by quoting another mourner, A.J. Jacobs of the New York Times:
The books gave comfort. A set of Britannicas sent the message that all the world's information could fit on one shelf. Hans Koning, the New Yorker writer, once called the Britannica the culmination of the Enlightenment, the naïve belief that all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view. The Britannica marched along, neatly and orderly, from A to Z. It was containable, unlike the sprawling chaos of Wikipedia.Note the wording. EB = "comfort." Wiki = "chaos."
Tenner digs deeper:
But there was another positive contribution of the old Britannica. It reflected the old-school cultural judgment that value is not determined only by the marketplace. Compare, for example, the depth of the Wikipedia entries for Fyodor Dostoevsky (5,542 words, 38 references) and South Park.(12,675 words, 215 references). It's true that the Britannica online academic edition article on Dostoevsky by Professor Gary Saul Morson of Northwestern is slightly shorter than Wikipedia's, but is different in kind. It may have fewer facts but it probes the writer more coherently and deeply.In Tenner's mind, "old school cultural judgment" outweighs reality. He uses a comparison between entries for Dostoevsky and South Park as if to point out that Wikipedia is little more than a pop culture repository, when in fact it only illustrates that he believes his worldview is the correct one; i.e., Dostoevsky is more important culturally than South Park. Of course, this view that is just as subjective as claiming the opposite. He then spends a little time decrying Wikipedia's "mania for facts" (at the expense of "depth," apparently) before coming to this odd conclusion.
The reason the Britannica remains far more browsable than Wikipedia is that even a biased, occasionally error-committing writer can be more rewarding than the report of a pseudonymous committee.While reading the work of a talented writer is usually more rewarding than reading a bunch of facts strung together, Wikipedia's strength has always been instant access to concisely written facts and it has never portrayed itself as a replacement for in-depth dissection.
Many writers have their own take on the supposedly inferior Wikipedia, who they blame (at least indirectly) for the end of EB's print run, but none is more bizarre than Chris Castle's take, which I will quote in its entirety because it's a.) short and b.) completely nuts:
The authoritative Encyclopedia Britannica launched a new online site at www.britannica.com. The "facts are like water" crowd will no doubt prefer the work product of the wisdom of mobs, but I personally tend to agree with Britannica's slogan: Facts matter.Beside being super-proud of himself for "encyclopedia of the mob" (and its casual belittling of everyone who has ever contributed to/used it), it's impossible to parse Castle's point. Is it that EB's "new" (ca. 2006, actually) online service will be relentlessly plagiarised by Wiki editors? Is it that Jimmy Wales will feel so threatened by EB's authoritative presence that he'll start plagiarizing, rendering the "editors" useless/dangerous and therefore in need of death-by-bus? If you have any guesses, feel free to toss them out in the comment thread.
I will also be interested in comparing entries in Britannica to entries in the Encyclopedia of the Mob. Very interested. As this can now be accomplished with greater ease and because the EOTM keeps such good records of who did what when, I invite MTP readers to do a little comparing from time to time and if you find any striking similarities, drop us a line here at old MTP, we know what to do with that kind of information. Let the wild waleing start. A little free advice to EOTM "editors"? Don't walk near any buses with Jimbo.
All in all, Britannica comes out of this sounding like it would rather focus on the future while its biggest fans sound like they'd rather it was 25 years ago all over again. It's one thing for an industry to make some atrocious noises when confronted with massive upheaval. It's quite another when supporters make incoherent sympathetic noises simply because they've been surprised by the silence.
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Investing 101: A dividend is a share of profits taken out of the company bank account and delivered directly to shareholders. After all, if the corporation makes a lot of money, why shouldn't it give some back to its investors?
The frugal investor in you should love this. It's the equivalent of getting free drinks and appetizers at your favorite bar — a kind of loyalty bonus.
But dividends aren't just a sweetener for your bank account. They also are important indicators of a company's health.
Small companies often don't pay dividends because they need cash to grow. Unstable companies also don't pay dividends because they can't be sure profits will last.
And most importantly, a company that pays a decent dividend is trying to appeal to longer-term investors. Since dividends are paid once a quarter, you obviously won't get the paycheck if you buy a stock today and sell it tomorrow. This kind of long-term stability is crucial for investors building a retirement portfolio to span years, not months, of market antics.
If a stock has a dividend, that's a good sign. And here's how you should asses the quality of that dividend:
Dividend Yield
Dividend yield is the percentage of the current share price that will be paid out in annual dividends. For instance, Ford (NYSE:F) pays a nickle each quarter in dividends — or 20 cents annually. Recently, the stock had a price of $12.55. So Ford stock "yields" 1.59% in dividends each year, at least based on the math from this particular stock price and particular dividend amount.
Obviously payouts and pricing change, and so do yields. But the good news is that yield is calculated automatically for you on Google Finance and Yahoo! Finance so there's no need to constantly carry around a calculator. It's important to understand how yield is calculated, but feel free to let these websites do the math from here on out.
So what's a "good" dividend yield? Well, it's all relative.
Average yield for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index right now is around 2%. (The S&P 500 is a well-respected list of 500 large stocks that most Wall Street analysts use as a proxy for the entire stock market.) In the 1980s, the S&P's average dividend yield was more than double the current 2% rate … but that was a very different time. Yields also vary widely from industry to industry, based on their business models.
But as a good rule of thumb, any company with a yield of less than 1% these days is just paying a nominal dividend for the sake of saying it has one — not because it is offering investors any real income potential. Ideally, you want a stock yielding more than 2%.
Dividend Payout Ratio
Equally important to the size of the dividend is the sustainability of that dividend. That's where the "dividend payout ratio" comes in.
The payout ratio is the percentage of total profits that is dedicated to dividend payments. For Ford, the company is expected, on average, to earn $1.47 in total earnings per share in 2012. If you divide $1.47 by the 20 cents paid annually, you get 13%.
You can find that projected EPS total easily on the "Analyst Estimate" page of a company via Yahoo! Finance. There is no automatic calculation of dividend payout ratio, unfortunately, but it's worth your time to do the math.
Why is this important? Well, because it shows how sustainable a dividend is — and how likely that dividend is to be increased in the future.
In the Ford example, the company clearly can pay its dividend and have a boatload of profits left over. Historically, the dividend payout ratio of the S&P 500 is around 50%. Right now we are in a drought, with payout averages for the index under 30%… but Ford is being overly stingy even when compared with its peers in the current environment!
Is a stingy dividend payout ratio bad? Actually, the opposite is true — because it proves a dividend cut is highly unlikely due to conservative payout ratios and that Ford has plenty of cash flow to increase its dividend in the future, if it so chooses.
The frugal investor in you should respect a company that is being conservative in its payouts but still has a decent dividend yield anyway.
Again, a payout ratio of 50% is pretty fair. Lower than that is attractive because of the sustainability it shows, and higher than that is a bit risky. Obviously if a company is paying out 100% of profits via dividends, there is the risk of a dividend cut if profits slump — to say nothing of the company's inability to reinvest profits in itself for growth.
No Dividend? Don't Panic!
Of course, these metrics are all academic if your stock doesn't have a dividend. But don't despair. A lack of dividend isn't categorically the kiss of death. If a company doesn't pay a dividend, it's not a sign to quit right out of the gate. Just keep in mind that the company has a higher bar to cross going forward.
Look at it this way: A 2% dividend yield is really a 2% return on your investment baked right in. Even if your investment flatlines for two years, you'll at least get paid something via the dividends alone.
Apple obviously has more than made up for its lack of a dividend, considering if you invested $10,000 five years ago you would now have a cool $53,000! But not all stocks are destined to outperform the market in the same dramatic fashion – and frugal investors may find comfort in the reliability of dividends instead of crossing their fingers and hoping for the next Apple.
A stock without a dividend isn't a bad investment, per se, but since you're relying on the share price alone, there is a much higher standard for these investments
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Alfred Gawthrop is my 1st cousin 3x removed. Our common ancestors are Martin Gawthrop and Ann Kighley, my 3x great grandparents.
Below is a report from the Burnley Express of 8 November 1916 when Alfred and eighteen other defendants were in court charged with drinking out of hours – in other words they were caught having a "lock in".
Some heavy fines were imposed by the magistrates at the Skipton Petty Sessions on Saturday in a licensing case which occupied four hours. Mr. J. W. Morkill presided.
There were nineteen defendants in all. The following were summoned for consuming intoxicating liquors on licensed premises, the Moor Cock Inn, Brogden (between Blacko and Gisburn), during closing hours: John William Ogden, farmer; Bolton Wilkinson, labourer; Joseph Smith, farmer; George Whitaker, millhand; Fred Gott, carter; Fred Snowden, carter; Jonas Stephenson, carrier; and Alfred Gawthrop, farmer, all of Cowling; Benjamin Cawdrey, dealer, of Bradford; Thomas Broughton, dealer; Isabella Rhodes, married; and Lilly West, weaver, of Colne; James Ince, barber, Brierfield; William Emmott, farmer, Blacko; Brown Speake, farmer, and Walter Waddington, farmer, both of Nelson; and James Craddock, farmer, of Brogden. Emmott was further summoned for treating, and West for being treated with intoxicating liquors on licensed premises. Jane Utley, the landlady, was summoned for supplying intoxicating liquors, but owing to the fact that she was too ill to appear in court, the case against her was withdrawn. The landlord, Isaac Utley, was summoned on three counts, for supplying liquor, for permitting it to be consumed on licensed premises during closing hours, and for permitting treating. All the defendants pleaded "Not Guilty". Mr. J. C. Waddington, solicitor, Burnley, represented the landlord, while Mr. J. E. Newell, solicitor, Skipton, defended the men from Cowling.
For the prosecution, Police-Sergeant Williams and P.C. Milburn gave evidence as to what they witnessed after 9.30 at night on Thursday, when they were engaged in watching the inn. The two officers said they saw three vehicles standing outside the Moor Cock, and persons who had occupied them had apparently gone inside the house and appeared to be having a very good time, for they could hear the piano being played and popular airs being sung. They went to the rear of the premises, and through a broken window had a clear view into the tap-room, and could distinctly hear orders being given for drinks, while at times strong language was used. Neither of the officers heard at any time any orders for mineral waters or food. There was another window close to, which looked directly into the bar, and owing to the fact that the curtains did not come quite to the bottom the officers could see all that went on inside. They saw the landlord and landlady filling beer, whisky, and stout, and subsequently take it into the smoke-room, where the company was seated. The people inside were very rowdy.
That kind of thing, the officers stated, went on until 10-45pm., when they heard a voice shout, "Bring a —– whisky hot and a beer." They saw the landlord come to the bar, and then they slipped round to the front of the house and entered just in time to see the landlord going into the smoke-room with a tray on which there were a glass of whisky and a glass of beer. They followed him into the room, and saw him place the whisky before the defendant West and the beer before Emmott, who tendered 1s. in payment by placing it on the tray. The landlord gave him some change and left the room, taking with him three glasses, which they saw emptied by some of the company. Police-Sergeant Williams took the glass of whisky from the defendant West and a portion of the beer from Emmott. He also took a glass of whisky from Wilkinson and a half-glass of beer from Ogden, all of which he produced. At that time there were fourteen empty glasses on the tables. The defendants were all told that they would be reported.
All the defendants, some on oath, denied that they were served with any intoxicating liquors after half-past 9. Several of them stated that they ordered and were supplied with tea, bread and cheese.
The Bench retired to consider their decision, and on their return Mr. Morkill said that they had decided to convict in all cases, except in respect to the charge against the defendant West of being treated, which case would be dismissed.
The Bench imposed penalties of £20 in each of the first two summonses against the landlord, Utley, and £10 in the third, while Emmott was fined £5 for treating. Fines of 40s. each were imposed on Ogden, Wilkinson, Smith, Whitaker, Gawthrop, Emmott, Speake, Waddington, and Craddock; and 20s. each on Gott, Snowden, Stephenson, Cawdrey, Broughton, Rhodes, West, and Ince.


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I tried reformatting the USB stick in Windows (FAT32, leaving it blank), but it still blocked the boot. I then tried reformatting it in BiBM and this cured the problem. Even after copying the files back onto the stick, Windows 8 now boots with it present. I tried another USB stick which displayed exactly the same symptoms. I thought maybe the USB drive was somehow pre-empting the boot sequence and it was trying to boot from that rather than the correct boot SSD, but in BiBM the SSD shows up as Drive 0 and the USB drive appears after all the SATA drives. Neither of these USB Drives presented any problems in Windows 7, but I should point out that I upgraded BiBM and the boot SSD at the same time as Windows, so I cannot be sure which caused the problem (or even if I might have set things up a bit different).
I post this mainly to help others, but if anyone has any kind of explanation for this weirdness I'd like to hear it!


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How to Choose a Home Painter
For most people, their home is the most valuable thing that they own. However, for many people, they are unaware of how to best take care of the exterior of their home. For many people, they are simply stuck with whatever the home had when they purchased the home. Some people do try and get their home re-painted, but they just do not understand all of the ins and outs of what a paint job entails. Our goal is to try and help you understand those basics on how to paint your home and what to do when choosing a house painter.
Painting your Home
House painters are a different breed. Yes, it's really true. Many are just high school dropouts that grabbed a paint brush and then started hawking their services. Please, please don't choose those guys. Instead, try and take your time and find a painter that has a long track record of painting homes in your area.
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You should get at least three – 3 – references from your potential home painter. This way, you can go and contact those homeowners. I suggest scheduling some time to talk to them. Be sure that you get at least a couple of references from people that have had their home painted at least 7 years ago. This way you can be assured that the home painter was diligent in using materials that can last as well as the knowledge on how to best prepare a home to keep the paint for a long period of time. Many painters just slap on paint and hope that it lasts three to four years. You don't want that. Instead, what you want is someone that spends extra time prepping the areas to be painted. They scrape off all of the old paint, when possible. Then they power wash all of the remaining loose debris to get rid of it. You don't want new paint sticking to old paint that is loose and ready to fall off. Finally, you want the painting contractor to prime the bare wood so that the new paint can stick properly. Also, a good painter will be sure to fill any holes that exist, whether by using a high quality caulk or by using wood filler.
A good home painter may seem like a unicorn or something else that is mythical. However, we can assure you that this is not the case. We know of a lot of good home painters. These painters are conscientious people that have spent the time that is necessary to hone their craft. They are willing to provide many good references so that you can go and check them out. When talking to the references, be sure to find some that are older so that you can tell whether the paint job will last a long time and not just be a cover-up of existing problems. Remember, a good painter will be sure to spend plenty of time preparing the area before painting, including such things as scraping off the old paint, filling holes and then priming before painting.


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Review & Cheap price Serta Perfect Sleeper Presidential Suite II Firm Mattress Set Multi-Pack - Various Sizes and Pack Sizes
At online store, you can read more customers reviews about Serta Perfect Sleeper Presidential Suite II Firm Mattress Set Multi-Pack - Various Sizes and Pack Sizes Then, you will see why it is pretty best for its cost and popular. It is worth for your money. Do not miss the best occasion to buy one.
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The Presidential Suite II Firm is designed expressly for the hotel/motel industry and features a 2-sided construction, allowing you to easily flip the mattress. This mattress combines subtle cushioning with a firmer feel, for those who prefer less softness at the sleep surface.
The Presidential Suite II Firm mattress is made with Serta's 800 Continuous Support® Innerspring, which combines our continuous coil design with our Head-to-Toe Coil Construction to help promote proper back support and reduce motion transfer. Plus, Serta's Total Edge® Foam Encasement strengthens the mattress edges. It also features a unique combination of Serta's PillowSoft® Foam and an extra-thick layer of Serta® Support Foam, for subtle cushioning that's also firm.
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Underneath the 2800VG's uninspiring blue body, there lurks a feature-rich piece of VoIP hardware. It shares the same service as its DrayTek sibling, the 2500V.
It also has the bandwidth-reserving QoS function, but adds wireless 802.11g support and a USB port for sharing your printer over the network. What's more, the QoS is customisable, enabling you to reserve a percentage of your bandwidth at specific times.
As a result, the 2800VG is fairly complex, but anyone who's tackled a Wi-Fi router before will find nothing intimidating here. It's £100 more than an average Wi-Fi router, though, so be sure you can make that back on cheap calls. Mike Abolins


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During Advent the Four-Gates-City shines out in nostalgic flair. At the centre, on Weberplatz, the atmospheric Weberglockenmarkt awaits with products from the surround region as well as Berlin, Saxony and Thuringia. Especially attractive is the Glöckchenmarkt with its belfry and an interactive event for children and adults. On December 6th (4.45pm) take homemade lanterns with you on a lantern parade and historic city tour by local families. Go out exploring and find pretty homemade items, unique specimens - textiles, ceramics, wood and glass on the craft weekends and the Christmas craft market at Treptower gate. Sankt Johannis opens its gates to a festive mosaic of concerts and Advent music, whilst live music invites you to dance under the advertising fir. Finally, it goes to the Advent shopping and it leaves nothing to be desired.
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At the start of season 1999-2000, August 21st, to be precise, Llandudno Junction FC took to the field in a senior competitive match for the first time in over 45 years.
A Llandudno Junction team existed until 1954, and then the Junction and Conwy Borough, from Conwy decided to merge and form the club Borough United.
Until then, both the Junction and Conwy Borough, though both operating in the Welsh League (North) struggled to regularly attract decent gates.
The merger, it was hoped, would bring improved gates and with it success. Borough United forged their own unique history during their 13-year existence, which all local football buffs will be familiar with.
But what of Llandudno Junction? Unfortunately it seems as though not a great deal is known of the history but here are a few snippets, which we are sure, do not tell anything like the complete story.
Records show a Llandudno Junction football club first entered the North Wales Coast League Division One in 1910 and duly finished fourth. That season two of their players Ernest Parry and Tom Jones were picked to play for the Coast League East against the West.
The 1911/12 season saw the Junction knock Colwyn Bay out of the Welsh Cup in the preliminary round, only to lose to Llandudno in the next round, though season 1912/13 saw Colwyn Bay return the compliment at the prelim stage.
Sometime during this period, the club won the Railway Shield beating Edge Hill Liverpool in the final.
A Mr D Robertson was the club secretary and the club remained members of the Coast League until the 1914/15 season when the Great War intervened, though not before five of the Junction's players represented the League East against the West in March 1914.
Llandudno Junction was next admitted to the Welsh National League in 1922. Mr H Hughes was the secretary and the club had a good league and cup record through the mid 1920's.
The 1924/25 season was probably, to date, the second most successful in the club's history, their league runner's up spot (behind Mold Town) included a 21 match unbeaten run, which possibly still constitutes a club record and is a league record.
The Junction also had their second best Welsh Cup run reaching the 3rd round, losing 6-0 against championship rivals Mold.
At the end of the 1926/27 season the club resigned from the league, apparently due to the "depression".
The Junction emerged again for the 1937/38 season, entering a team into the Vale Of Conwy League 3rd Division. Coast FA accounts for the season note that "new club" Llandudno Junction recorded a balance of £23.00.
After the war Llandudno Junction entered the Welsh League Northfor the 1946/47 season. Junction finished second in the league and enjoyed their best ever Welsh Cup run which took them to the fourth round, where they were beaten 2-1 by South Liverpool.
During the post war era, the club's colours were maroon tops and white shorts; the club's star player was John Myers, whom Colwyn Bay had sold to the then Football League champions Manchester City.
The summer preceding the 1948/49 season saw the large Junction supporters club accomplish the not significant task of widening the Nant y Coed pitch, erect terracing down one side.
Preliminary work for an 800-seat stand was also carried out and completed by October 1949 once the post war shortages had ended. (The Nant y Coed ground is now part of a recently constructed housing estate.) However by 1954 the Junction had merged with neighbours Conwy to become Borough Utd.
In the 1980's Llandudno Junction FC was reformed with Ken Lloyd as the manager with a team that operated briefly in the Vale of Conwy League. The side, which was later managed by Nev Colville and then Mark Magill, played at the Flyover until they moved to Conwy to become Conwy Utd Reserves.
The current Junction side can trace its roots back to Hotpoint Football Club, which was formed in the summer of 1975. After one season playing on Sunday in the Old Colwyn and District Sunday League the Club switched to Saturday football joining the Vale of Conwy Football League Section B.
The 1984/85 season saw the team winning the Ron Jones Trophy and also topping Section B. 1986/87 was another successful year with the Section A championship and the NWWN Challenge Cup. The club joined the Gwynedd League in season 1987/88 with little success until season 1994/95 when they won the Cwpan Gwynedd beating local Llandudno Junction rivals Crosville 3-2 in the final at Llandudno.
Further success followed in season 1995/96 with the League Runner's Up Shield, which they retained the following season 1996/97 when they were also the losing finalists in the Cwpan Gwynedd and reached the semi-finals of the FAW Trophy. In season 1996/97 in the search for further success, the team moved to Llanfairfechan FC's recreation ground due to the limitations of the Victoria Drive ground.
It was in season 1997/98 that we changed our name to Llanfairfechan Athletic this was in order to remain at Llanfairfechan. In season 1998/99 the Club returned to Llandudno Junction, not to the Hotpoint Club but to the Flyover, which was previously the home ground of Crosville FC.
This was a most successful season, winning the Tyn Lon Rover Barritt Cup, finalists in the Gwynedd Cup and finishing 3rd in the league. This was enough to see the Club being promoted to the Welsh Alliance League.
To reflect our return to the Junction another change of name became necessary and the obvious choice was Llandudno Junction resurrecting a name, which disappeared from senior football in 1954. At the end of their first season back in the Welsh League the Junction finished in 5th position.
Seasons 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 were disappointing with the departure of our previous management team heralding the arrival in season 2005/2006 of local lad Gary John Jones as our manager – in that season we reached the semi final of the FAW Trophy, finishing 7th in the league.
Season 2006/2007 was another disappointment with the resignation of Gary John in the October that led to the appointment of our longest serving player Daryl Smith and club captain Dwyfor Williams as joint player managers, the team finished in 12th place in the league but did manage to get to the semi final of the Cookson Cup.
Season 2007/2008 saw Gary John back at the helm with Junction favourite Paul Evans as his assistant; however this was not to last as the side fell to the bottom of the table.
Darren Barrett took over the reins as 1st team manager but despite his valiant efforts we were doomed to finishing in bottom place. Relegation loomed but we were saved by the fact that no team from the Clwyd League was eligible for promotion.
Season 2008/2009 saw Shane Cartwright in charge as 1st team manager with Lee Thornton as his assistant. This was our best season ever in the Welsh Alliance league, finishing 6th in the league and winning the Barritt Cup for the 1st time in Junction's history.
For the season 2009/2010 Jon Stazicker replaced Thornton as assistant, taking over as manager when Cartwright left the club towards the end of the season, he stayed in charge for the 2010/2011 season. Ex player Denley Smith was appointed for the season 2011/2012 and continued into 2012/2013, however a disastrous first half that saw the club lose all 10 league games, slipping to the bottom of the league, was the catalyst for Denley leaving to be replaced by Matt Jones.
Matt was probably the youngest manager at Welsh Alliance level in Wales but even a last minute burst of wins could not prevent the club from finishing next to bottom. The momentum could not carry on into season 2013/2014 with Jones leaving the club after failing to win a single point in the first seven games of the season. Joe Morgan and Darren Jones took charge of the team, both well known local lads.The team finished with 27 points and were runner's up in the Mawddach Challenge Cup. Season 2014/2015 proved to be far better withe the club finishing in 2nd place in the league, our highest ever. We also reached the 1/4 final of the FAW Trophy. The season ended with Darren Jones taking sole charge being assisted by Mark Orme. Unexpectedly Jones and Orme decided to leave the club prior to the start of season 2015/2016 and were replaced by Oliver Walters and Martyn Jones. Walters is no stranger to Junction having previously played for both the Youth and First Teams.
The club now is un-recognisable to that of just four seasons ago due to the formation of a very successful junior section that has gone from strength to strength
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European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF)
The European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF) was mounted outside the Columbus module. It carried experiments requiring exposure to the space environment and was returned to Earth in September 2009 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-128.
EuTEF is a programmable, fully automated, multi-user facility with modular and flexible accommodation for a variety of technology payloads.
EuTEF is specifically designed to facilitate the rapid turnaround of experiments and for its first configuration on orbit will accommodate nine different instruments.
The experiments and facility infrastructure are accommodated on the Columbus External Payload Adaptor, consisting of an adapter plate, the Active Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism and the connectors and harness. The experiments are mounted either directly on the Adapter plate or a support structure that elevates them for optimum exposure to the direction of flight or pointing away from the Earth.
In total, the payload mass is under 350 kg, and requires less than 450 W of power.
The suite of experiments consists of:
MEDET, the Material Exposure and Degradation Experiment (CNES, ONERA, University of Southampton, ESA)
DOSTEL, radiation measurements (DLR Institute of Flight Medicine)
TRIBOLAB, a testbed for the tribology properties of materials in space (INTA, INASMET)
EXPOSE, photobiology and exobiology (Kayser-Threde, under ESA contract)
DEBIE-2, a micrometeoroid and orbital debris detector (Patria Finavitec, under ESA contract). Shares a standard berth with FIPEX. DEBIE-1 flew on the Proba satellite
FIPEX, an atomic oxygen detector (University of Dresden). Shares a standard berth with DEBIE-2
PLEGPAY, plasma electron gun payload for plasma discharge in orbit (Thales Alenia Space, under ASI contract)
EuTEMP, an experiment candidate to measure EuTEF's thermal environment during unpowered transport from the Shuttle to the Columbus External Payload Facility. (EFACEC, under ESA contract)
- EVC: an Earth Viewing Camera, developed by ESA/Carlo Gavazzi Space for outreach activities


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Now that we have a better process for taking action on Talos alerts and pushing them to resolution, it is time to take a step back and see if any trends show up in our bugs.
First I want to look at bugs filed/week:
This is fun to see, now what if we stack this up side by side with the alerts we receive:
We started tracking alerts halfway through this process. We show that for about 1 out of every 25 alerts we file a bug. I had previously stated it was closer to 1/33 alerts (it appears that is averaging out the first few weeks).
Lets see where these bugs are filed, here is a view of the different bugzilla products:
The Testing product is used to file bugs that we cannot figure out the exact changeset, so they get filed in testing::talos. As there are almost 30 unique components bugs are filed in, I took a few minutes to look at the Core product, here is where the bugs live in Core:
Pardon my bad graphing attempt here with the components cut off. Graphics is the clear winner for regressions (with "graphics: layers" being a large part of it). Of course the Javascript Engine and DOM would be there (a lot of our tests are sensitive to changes here). This really shows where our test coverage is more than where bad code lives.
Now that I know where the bugs are, here is a view of how long the bugs stay open:
The fantastic news is most of our bugs are resolved in <=15 days! I think this is a metric we can track and get better at- ideally closing all Talos regression bugs in <30 days.
Looking over all the bugs we have, what is the status of them?
Yay for the blue pacman! We have a lot of new bugs instead of assigned bugs, that might be something we could adjust and assign owners once it is confirmed and briefly discussed- that is still up in the air.
The burning question is what are all the bugs resolved as?
To me this seems healthy, it is a starting point. Tracking this over time will probably be a useful metric!
In summary, many developers have done great work to make improvements and fix patches over the last 6 months that we have been tracking this information. There are things we can do better, I want to know-
What information provided today is useful to track regularly?
Is there something you would rather see?


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I must be getting old and stupid?
I read the artcle that said make bananas last longer by separating the siblings. And, wrapping the tops in saran wrap.
So I bought a bunch green at WalMart.
Gottem home, separated them, knotted each individually into its own walmart bag, and stored them in different places. IN the crock pot, in the microwave, in the dish cabinet, in the food cabinet.
Now I'm concerned I haven't found them all. I think there are two unacounted for?
When my executrix cleans out the place, I'm sure she'll find them.


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The Muslim Brotherhood in America and some of the leading Islamic groups throughout the USA have been a hot button issue for some time. Both corrupt/ignorant politicians and the media have tried repeatedly to paint any who speak of the Muslim Brotherhood as "crazies"……. that is coming to an end. The "Ikhwan" AKA "Muslim Brotherhood" has been in America long enough to plant their offspring on U.S. soil making them legal citizens even in the event that they are deported, thus the Ikhwan remains. DEPORTED Dr. Salah Sultan of Ohio is a perfect example.
In a few recent articles by Patrick Poole, and a documentary put out by Glenn Beck called "The Project", newly found pictures of Dr. Salah Sultan made it clear he was a Muslim Brotherhood operative in the U.S.
The newly found pictures of Salah Sultan were found by "CAUSING FITNA" while researching Kansas City Islamic groups that raised our attention through some of their actions and online activity.
We have continued to research these ties of Salah Sultan and Kansas City. Below you will see a recent picture of Dr. Salah Sultan, The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, and Mohammed Sultan, a Ohio State University grad, and former President of the Muslim Students Association at OSU.Note to new readers: The Muslim Students Association or MSA "was established mainly by members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign."
A closer look at Mohamed Sultan's twitter feed may give some insight into the Ohio MSA and how his father raised him.
Note: The "ikhwan" is the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mohamed Sultan is a Citizen of Ohio, which the last time I checked was in the UNITED STATES…… any questions?
This is without a doubt open praise of HAMAS. The so-called LION in the picture above is none other than Khaled Mashal, a Palestinian political leader. Mashal has been the main leader of the Palestinian organization Hamas since 2004.Note: Hamas is an Islamic terrorist organization, designated so by Bill Clinton, and one of the military wings of the Muslim Brotherhood – as stated in the Hamas Covenant.
As stated previously, we became more interested in the activities of the Sultan family while researching Kansas City Islamic groups. The Islamic Center of Johnson County in Overland Park, Kansas is very well acquainted with Mohammed Sultan. The picture above shows Imam of ICJC Dahee Saeed with Mohamed Sultan in Kansas City. With ICJC planning a new Mega Mosque in the Overland Park community, Kansans might want to know a bit more about this group, and if they are affiliated with the Ikhwan in any way. It should be noted that the Muslim Brotherhood have been well established in Kansas City for many years, as documented in Steve Emerson's "Jihad in America". A portion of that can be seen here highlighting a convention at Bartle Hall - take note that this video is posted from the youtube favorites playlist (screencapture below) of Mohammad Albadawi, a leader with the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City, as well as a leading organizer for MAS-ICNA conventions nationwide for many years. Screencapture attached in the case that Mr. Albadawi gets clever and removes this video from playlists.
Much more, read it all and watch the videos at Causing Fitna's blog and follow him on Twitter.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been telling us their goal for North America since 1991, An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America.
If you know anyone in the Kansas City area, forward this information to them.
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Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 / San Francisco)
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To watch his woods fill up with snow.
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