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The inaugural opening of the AIBS office in Dhaka took place on 31 July, 2010. This event included members of the Embassy staff in Dhaka, AIBS fellows, members of the Government of Bangladesh, academic faculty from a host of Dhaka based institutions, and public intellectuals. Over 80 people attended, including a cross-generation of scholars from the country, an interdisciplinary profile of fields of inquiry represented, current faculty from Dhaka and Rajshahi Universities, artists, public intellectuals, and representatives of the American Embassy and the Government of Bangladesh. Participating as well were members of Dhaka based think tanks whose efforts provided important work on issues of relevance to our American scholarship awardees, and to the academic researchers who were also in attendance. The event was covered on radio, television, and in the newspaper.
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MEVA's expertise is best shown in reference projects from across the world. A good result, a job well done is the best reward for hard work and tough thinking. And the best proof of a perfect interfacing between a top product, outstanding technology and profound engineering. Take a look and convince yourself!
Multi-family housing, retail, and garaging facilities all benefit from the smart design and features of the new MEVA32 shoring
MAR and Imperial offer a strong solution for Cabin Creek WWTP.
MEVA fulfils stringent requirements with flexible formwork solutions. The Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden is one of the Hungary's most popular cultural attractions.
MEVA STB 450 offers flexible solution for narrow, inclined rail section: Near the municipality of Gretzenbach, the four-track route branches into two separate lines. Here, the two southern tracks gradually descend and pass below the cantonal road before entering the new Eppenberg Tunnel.
BIM stands for Building Information Modelling, a holistic, software-based method for optimised planning and execution of construction projects.
MEVA's StarTec and Radius wall formwork played a starring role in the construction of a 20 m tall, plant-shaped viewing tower, built by the shore of Lake Velence, south-west of Budapest.
The focus of MEVA's first collaboration with Austrian company GLS was nature conservation and the construction of two fish passes on the River Traun.
Four apartment buildings at heights up to 202 m by 2020: the city centre redevelopment project Deansgate Square. In use for a total of 194 storeys: the automatic MAC climbing system from MEVA
Uniting functions currently scattered across 30 locations, Zurich's new Police and Justice Centre (PJZ) will house the cantonal police force, the prosecution authorities as well as police detention and prison facilities.
Complex geometries and exacting requirements constantly present MEVA's Special Design department with exciting tasks – during the renovation of a church in the Upper Bavarian village of Hebertshausen, for example.
One of Ontario's busiest transportation corridors, Highway 400, began a major expansion project through Kings Township in late 2016. This $79.3 million dollar (CAD) project includes the widening of the highway from three to six lanes in each direction for a two mile stretch and also entails safer on and off ramps, the expansion and realignment of culverts, and the replacement of two bridges − one of them the South Canal Bridge.
The new theater is called The Otto M. Budig Theater and located in Cincinnati's Over-The-Rhine district. When completed, it will become the last section of the planned "Classical Arts Corridor" in Cincinnati, which also includes a Music Hall, School for Creative and Performing Arts, and a park.
Children enjoy playing with it, teachers recommend it: the shape sorting box. Based on the popular toy, the architects who conceived the new Meséskert nursery designed the play areas on the top floor as a triangle, circle, and square.
When construction companies think about the restoration of historic districts, their enthusiasm tends to be subdued. The foremen and their teams often face tricky tasks due to narrow access roads, lack of storage space and complicated logistics.
Ground broke on the new One City Center, also known as the "Durham City Center" in Durham, North Carolina in February 2016.
Construction began in spring 2016 on Procter & Gamble's new Beauty and Innovation Center in Mason, OH. Procter & Gamble is an international company that provides personal care and household products ranging from highend face moisturizers, to fabric softeners, to diapers. Procter & Gamble invested 300 million dollars to expand one of its largest facilities in the USA, the Mason Business Center, by adding 500,000 sq.ft. to the current 1,300,000 sq.ft.
Located between Sharjah and Dubai, close to Dubai International Airport, yet close to all amenities – Sahara Tower 6 is a residential tower offering luxury apartments with various bedroom configurations.
Construction is underway on a complex of 489 villas in the Nad Al Sheba area of Dubai.
Al Mankhool is located in western Dubai and crossed by Al Mankhool Road, also referred to as Bank Street.
As with many areas in the United Arab Emirates, Sharjah is growing rapidly.
The Lagoons is set to be a signature development within Dubai's booming property sector, with unique offerings and a strategic location.
Putting superlatives on Dubai's skyline continues with the construction of the Rosemont Hotel and Residences on Sheikh Zayed Road.
The STB 450 has often proved its strength when being used vertically to support walls. For a motorway bridge north of Frankfurt it is being used horizontally for the bridge piers.
Ramps, architectural-concrete walls and ceilings, numerous concrete beams, rectangular and oval columns, rounded outside corners and bevelled inside corners.
In Zurich the motorways cross each other from all directions. Every morning and evening in this densely populated region the heavy through and long-distance traffic is joined by commuter traffic.
The underground flood control basin in Bern's city centre was built over 40 years ago.
St. Jakob's Hall, which opened in 1975, has an area of 22,000 m² for sporting and entertainment events.
Karlsruhe, a city with 300,000 inhabitants, is a technology hub in Germany's Southwest.
Large building site in the Bavarian town of Regensburg, where work on the new Bavarian Museum of History is in full swing.
High, Fast, Safe: A state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical production plant is being built for the US biotechnology company Biogen, located on the grounds of a former paper factory in Luter bach near Solothurn, Switzerland.
MEVA Formwork Systems: With the new Hall 10, the Stuttgart trade fair centre is expanding its exhibition space by 14,600 m² to 120,000 m².
The MEVA MGS and MGC systems being hydraulically climbed up the WINX Tower in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This saves crane and waiting time.
One of the latest thrills: Float like a bird at a skydiving center, where an artificial airstream will keep you up in the air.
The solution: table forms, 5.40 m long to exactly fit into the openings between the columns. Short filler pieces with rounded edges provided a perfect match to the column layout.
Saving much time, labour and inventory by fully utilising MevaDec's and AluStarTec's system flexibility.
American Concrete Institute (ACI) and ASCC representatives visit construction site andMEVA headquarters in Haiterbach for talks
The contractor chose MEVA's heavy-duty wall system Imperial in combination with the STB support frame and heavy-duty Triplex braces to meet all needs for the foundations of the new Emergency Room facilities.
Aquinas College in Nashville: MevaDec proved the quickest solution, providing for easy and fast setting and handling. It does not require a crane and can be set up by only two workers.
Three 8-storey residential blocks with 74 apartments being built on the Chelsea Barracks site with MEVA MAC climbing system and AluStar wall formwork.
25000 m² of slabs poured :The slab formwork system MevaDec proved its flexibility, speed and labour-saving cost-effectiveness.
"We could not have handled the pillars without the detailed 3D modelling and instructions provided by the MEVA engineers", says foreman Matthias Unglert.
Three new buildings are arranged around a spacious inner park. The varying building layouts required a meticulous approach to formwork and workflow planning.
The residential units are built in a very short time and without cranes. The sturdy, yet light-weight hand-set system is the formwork of choice.
To achieve the architect's idea of architectural concrete in the staircase, MEVA engineers developed a special formwork design with the all-plasticfacing alkus.
Gravity walls to the tunnel entrance, up to 14 m high,poured using a single-sided adaptation of the MGC guided climbing system and Mammut 350 wall panels.
The architects stipulated a symmetrical joint pattern and a symmetrical arrangement of the tie hole imprints. The surface finish was to be totally even and without any panel frame imprints.
High Park Berlin closes the last building gap on Potsdam Square in Berlin.
This project required a treatment tank with a radius of 80 ft and over 20 ft in height. The new MAR system was the perfect solution for the contractor's needs.
Extraordinary civil engineering works and structures on challenging terrain: MEVA wall formwork Mammut 350 used on the Galgenbuck tunnel in Switzerland.
The tanks were formed with circular formwork Radius. They were built to improve the safety and water supply for fire fighting purposes..
A new transit camp project is taking shape in the Anjirwadi district in the city of Mumbai. The high-rise tower, built with MEVA Formwork Systems, will function as a temporary housing for the residents of Bhendi Bazar. The accommodation will be provisional and free of charge for the duration of 15 years while clusters 3A and 3B are being built.
New Jumeirah Village Circle complex being built with MEVA solutions: Several multi-storey complexes with up to 1,000 units are being erected.
Built from 1878 to 1882, the old barrage is being completely renovated and equipped with a new highpeformance flood relief channel that is poured with MEVA rental formwork.
A railway tunnel with high demands: MEVA formwork is used to pour the retaining walls, concrete beams and tunnel portals at both tunnel entries, plus bridge abutments and piers close to the southern tunnnel entry.
To the Limits of Technical Feasibility. The solution: MEVA wall formwork Mammut 350
38 residential units are being built on the site of the historic Kegelhof mill.
Business and living environment with 4 million ft² of workspace, 330 new homes, a major 4 star design hotel, shops, restaurants, childcare and community facilities.
Due to precise planning and immaculate work it was possible to achieve a record-breaking time saving on the Békéscsaba Bridge project in Hungary. The MEVA Mammut 350 wall formwork made fast pours without interruptions possible.
One challenge was pouring hundreds of columns with large mushroom-shaped column heads.
Construction of 4 city condominiums and one city villa with parking garage and pool on the banks of the river Rhine
High school with large sports hall and grandstand: Centre d'enseignement postobligatoire de l'Ouest lausannois (CEOL) in Renens.
SI University Campus HE, Delémont, Switzerland
The unusual conditions made the construction of the new Vispa parking difficult.The formwork itself has to be hand-set, sturdy, easy to handle and quick to set up, space saving and reliable. A combination of MevaDec, AluStar and StarTec panels was chosen.
New construction of the motorway A45 bridge Münchholzhausen using the shoring tower Space and MEVA wall formwork Mammut 350
Architecturally challenging East Side Tower on 16 levels in Berlin with MEVA formwork.
The town of Emmen is looking forward to its ultra modern multifunctional theatre house that will house the municipal threatre plus facilities for meetings and events.
Central Energy Plant built using the MevaLite and Imperial wall formwork systems for fast wall and column pours.
A technical and logistical masterpiece
Large-Scale Residential Expansion with MEVA wall formwork MevaLite and Imperial and climbing platform KLK.
A special task force was formed at nearby MEVA Austria headquarters to master the complex concrete works and formwork challenges.
Triplex is a statically effective brace for formwork higher than 6 m.
The wall formwork system Mammut 350 was chosen because of its symmetric tiehole and joint pattern and its standard all-plastic facing alkus.
Concrete works rely on the heavy- duty Mammut 350 (Imperial in the USA) wall formwork and its load capacity of 100 kN/m².
The MevaDec slab system proved once more to be best in class in terms of cost, speed, efficiency and quality.
The challenge facing MEVA engineers was translating the architect's 3D model into a buildable and realistic plan in the first place.
The MEVA formwork engineering team came up with a clever idea to ensure the worker safety.
The tower is being built with the hydraulic automatic climbing system MAC, MEVA Mammut 350 and MGC.
The shafts are being climbed with Mammut formwork panels placed on MGC climbing platforms on the outside and on shaft platforms on the inside.
The architects specified a superior fair-faced concrete finish. It was achieved with every pour using specially prepared rented MEVA Mammut 350 wall formwork.
Safety is top priority on the site: all-around fall-down protection plus safe ladder access on MEP shoring towers as well as column formwork with integrated working platform and a fixed ladder with safety cage.
Site management decided on the Mammut 350 wall formwork draped with Zemdrain® formwork sheets which make the use of release agent unnecessary.
Fast assembly and safety was essential for the large-scale development of luxury residential appartments in Dubai. The Panel method with MevaDec Panels proved to be the most suitable.
Work was completed in just 15 concrete pours using more than 170 m² of Radius from the Leada Acrow fleet of MEVA formwork.
The architects demanded a superior concrete finish that was easily achieved with the panels' all-plastic facing alkus.
The new Alaudagasse station and the switch shaft south of it are being poured using MEVA formwork.
MEVA's heavy duty Mammut 350 wall formwork with its 100 kN/m² load capacity proved ideal for the high walls.
The biggest challenge was forming the cantilevering roof slab at heights of 9 to 12 m, for which the MevaFlex forms rested on high MEP shoring towers.
The prestigious Battersea development project in London relies on MEVA formwork technology, including the guided climbing system MGC, pre-bent all-pplastic alkus sheets on the Rundfix circular formwork and the circular formwork Radius to deliver the superior concrete finish required by the architects.
MEVA formwork Mammut 350, KAB, KLK and Triplex heavy-duty braces on this giant construction site in Switzerland
They chose MEVA for all concrete works.
The MevaDec slab formwork system covers all of the most important slab forming methods.
MEVA AluStar panels are on stage to shape Europe's largest sailing pool directly in front of the original racing yacht Alinghi SUI 100, which was the first European boat ever to win the coveted America Cup.
They used heavy-duty Mammut wall formwork, MEVA KLK 230 climbing formwork, Co-Planar and MEP falsework plus Soliders, Super A-Beams and support frames STB 450.
The new 11-level car park at Salzburg's State Hospital has no ramps to connect the levels with each other. The trick is that the entire parking level is inclined in both directions, with 14 inclinations each per level. The MevaDec slab formwork is being used to pour them without crane. The concrete finish remains as is.
6.50 m high, 12 m long walls formed with Mammut 350 and just one extension (3 and 3.50 m)
Large areas poured with heavyduty Mammut 350 formwork.
The Mammut 350 fresh concrete load capacity of 100 kN/m² made it possible to pour at any speed up to a wall height of 4 m.
Contractor Kurt Motz rented 520 m² of the Mammut 350 wall formwork to pour the building and retaining walls and columns.
The tower is climbing with MEVA's automatic hydraulic climbing system MAC.
The concrete furniture is poured with the all-plastic facing used in all MEVA products since 2000.
Contractor Marti from Zurich, Zwitzerland uses MEVA wall formwork Mammut 350 because of its high concrete load capacity of 100 kN/m². It allows free pour speeds up to 4 m without taking concrete type of ambient temperatures into account.
A tough challenge for the MEVA engineers, who solved it using the Support frame STB 450 with extensions.
The bridge piers are up to 37 m high and have identical cross sections of 5.10 by 2.40 metres. The piers were poured using MEVA Mammut wall formwork.
17,000 m² of slabs in the lower levels were formed using an inventory of only 1,200 m² of the slab System MevaDec.
The boxout construction was attached to MEVA's StarTec formwork that on this site was used for over 2 years to pour the many walls of the complex.
Water Power Station "Illspitz"being built where the river Ill flows into the Rhine
MEVA climbing technolgy MAC and MGS are safety and efficiency solutions - as shown on the Hotel One site in Manila, Philippines
In order to waterproof the complete concrete structure along the Danube, concrete was poured entirely without any ties. The wall, 4.5 m high and 1 m wide, was poured usind single-sided support frames and brackets on both sides.
Logistische Herausforderung beim Neubau der Rathaus-Galerie in Hagens Innenstadt mit Tiefgarage, Bau und Abriss laufen parallel, Baumaterial und -gerät wird über eine einzige Rampe angefahren, Innenstadtbetrieb bleibt unberührt, auch dank MEVA reibungsloser Baufortschritt und hohe Qualitätsstandards gewährleistet.
The repetitive slab layouts of a large 3-level residential development close to Linz promted the formwork engineers to use the panel method. The method is cost-effective and a very fast solution and since the set up is fool-proof and thus virtually error-free, this also adds to site safety.
The first and second pours used 3 m Mammut panels outside and 2.50 m high panels on the inside without compensation areas and without vertical joint imprint.
MEVA's Mammut 350 wall panels with the all-plactis facing alkus were mounted on foldable KAB working scaffolds that served as clim -bing units.
AluFix covers the slab formwork with the same panels used for the walls by using props with special prop heads.
The light-weight AluStar was up with only seven flights.
MEVA's flagship product Mammut was flexible enough to offer solutions for the construction of the retaining walls.
Mammut 350 panels 250/100 cm panels were employed to achieve the required joint pattern imprint.
MEVA formwork technology helps build modern homes for Iran's middle class and is used at large scale
MevaFlex and MEP props were also used to support the balconies. The slabs were cast using the MevaDec slab formwork.
MEVA formwork had to master exceptional concrete pressures during the pours.
The high walls of the new Novartis production facilities are poured using the Mammut 350 wall formwork.
The carriage was completely pre-assembled at the MEVA plant in Haiterbach and moved to the site on a heavy-duty low platform trailer.
Bridge construction with MEVA formwork systems: EcoAs, Mammut, KLK 230, and shoring system MEP.
The MEVA engineers were challenged to provide a static concept, starting with a cost-effective method of pouring the floating ceiling for the conference room.
The Mammut 350 has a concrete load capacity of 100 kN/m², permitting very fast concrete pours of up to 4 m in an hour.
Walls and foundations were poured using the strongest available wall formwork – the Mammut 350 with a load capacity of 100 kN/m².
The entries of several tunnels were poured using a modular formwork solution that MEVA designed and built for fast and multiple use in the mountainous terrain
The tower is being climbed using MEVA's automatic hydraulic System MAC. With its completely closed platform it provides a safe working environment even at great heights.
Mass house building: A new method using MEVA's wall formwork AluFix saves time and money.
Springfield Regional Medical Centre, OH built with MEVA Imperial and MevaLite
Polygonal Walls with Standard MEVA Formwork Panels MevaLite
MEVA single-sided forming with support frame STB and wall formwork Imperial for 27' high walls, Truman School in New Haven, CT
MEVA Imperial easily handles high walls with wall steps and buttresses
The all-plastic, 100 % wood-free facing alkus is the only formwork facing that can be welded to form large forming areas. The roof of this bus terminal in Merseburg, Germany, was poured without a single seam or joint, in Aalborg White cement.
Heinrich-Braun Clinic in Zwickau, Germany: 4-storey building erected using Mammut 350 wall formwork from rental fleet. Excellent, smooth concrete finish achieved with a symmetrical tie hole and joint pattern
MEVA KHK in Dubai were consulted to design and provide a comprehensive formwork solution for the island´s large-scale infrastructure projects.
MEVA Imperial and MevaDec formwork for a Courthouse in Ontario, Canada . Impressed by how quickly the panels go together, the light-weight clamps and the high-quality concrete finish.
The question was: How to "build" the required working platform 40 metres over ground if standard solutions cannot work? The answer is: Use STB 300 support frames and attach them horizontally to the tower.
Designs by esteemed architects from Europe and Japan were selected for the six new buildings on the campus and four of them are erected using MEVA formwork and formwork solutions.
The MEVA Guided Screens protection system MGS encloses complete floors protecting workers and equipment against wind and weather. Together with other MEVA systems, MGS is in use on an office tower that is being built in a mixed residential and office area outside Zurich.
The MEVA support frames are mainly – but not only – used to support single-sided wall formwork when, for example, pouring against an existing structure.
The MEVA shoring tower is easy and fast to lift and relocate by crane and saved much time.
Contractor Maïa Sonnier S.A. used different MEVA formwork systems and solutions to efficiently handle the various forming challenges when building the tunnel and bridges required for the inner-city rail link in populated area.
MEVA's slab formwork system MevaDec and the girder formwork MevaFlex are used to pour the slabs of three office towers, Doha, Qatar.
All cycles over the starter were climbed with MEVA's climbing formwork KLK 230.
Formwork for slabs, columns and walls was supplied by local MEVA distributor Alzner Baumaschinen to contractor Kreuzberger Bau GmbH.
The architects of the new library in the German town of Rutesheim stipulated highest demands on the concrete finish. The result was achieved with every pour of 3.46 - formed using the Mammut 350 wall formwork wihout extensions and without horizontal joint. The symmetrical tie-hole and joint pattern was approved by the architects.
Bridgestone Tire´s world headquartersb with parts of it in architectural concrete
Rough River Spillway Extension: Tough Schedule and Tough Conditions.
Pouring concrete against rock: single-sided formwork solution from MEVA wins on technical counts.
The formwork solutions for foundations, beams, cores, walls, slabs and columns were designed and provided by MEVA KHK.
Innovation in Bridge Construction with MEVA Column Formwork
MEVA Imperial and STB for healthy water in Canada.
275,000 ft² on 4 levels, Parking garage, 318 offices, lectures halls, 250-seat auditorium with MEVA fomworks MevaLite, Imperial, STB, KLK
MEVA formworks building five new cores that form the heart of the Miami Valley Hospital Dayton, OH.
MEVA Engineers are known for their creativity in combining standard formwork with specially designed forms to achieve economically and technically viable solutions.
The engineers consulted MEVA´s formwork expertise because the expectations on concrete finish are very high. MEVA suggested using the unique shoring tower SPACE.
Cochin clinic in Paris was extended: 42.000 m² of slabs on 5 Levels had to be poured.
Planning, Formwork and Site Management: All Done and Delivered by MEVA
In 2000, MEVA was the first formwork manufacturer to use the pioneering alkus all-plastic forming face. While until recently not widely known in Ireland, alkus was welcome by Ascon and widely used together with the wall formwork Mammut at Ballymore Eustace.
MEVA wall formwork Mammut was chosen because of its load capacity of 100 k/N/m².
MEVA formwork and climbing systems are used for all on-site concrete works – including cores, slabs and walls – using cutting-edge technology in order to deliver a quality product on time, safely and efficiently.
One Rockwell is currently the largest MevaDec site on the Philippines. It is the safe and simple solution in slab forming, using the same parts and easy assembly. Its flexibility allows all slab layouts to be formed with a minimum of compensation areas.
NEF National Enrichment Facility with more than 150,000 ft² MEVA wall formwork Imperial and MevaLite.
The leading Norwegian concrete contractor BundeBygg AS, chose MEVA for all concrete works, including cores, elevator and staircase shafts, inside and outside walls, columns and slabs.
The high daytime temperatures required adding a retarder to the concrete, which resulted in the final setting occuring only after 15 hours. Nevertheless, the Mammut 350 has sufficient reserves to cope with load peaks of 100 kN/m².
The MevaDec slab formwork system achieved a record-breaking 154 levels and 224,808 m² without a single re-facing and without a single delay.
A simple, sophisticated design featuring few components and time-saving details distinguishes the MEP Shoring System, which consists of only three parts and, yet, is versatilely applicable: as single prop, slab table or shoring structure.
Water purification plant on Lake Ontario with 31 ft high dam wall formed with MEVA formwork Imperial and STB.
MEVA heavy-duty wall formwork Imperial for Proton Therapy Centre, Houston, TX
Mirax Tower Federazija with 440 m Height in Moscow with MEVA Formwork-Systems Mammut and all-plastic facing alkus.
MEVA formwork on biggest German construction site.
Railway Line between St. Pölten and Vienna: A new regional railway concourse for which the architects intended unique concrete geometries and special finishes
Perfect concrete finish with Mammut 350.
Mammut wall formwork and pre-bent alkus plastic sheets are used to form the wineglass-shaped bridge piers for a motorway crossover
Flexible forming with MevaDec and alkus.
Reconstruction of the Interstate highway 95 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA with MEVA Formwork Systems
An extraordinary projection tower in the newly built headquarter of a German publishing house challenged the architects as well as the contractor and MEVA as the formwork supplier.


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Waggin' Train chicken jerky tenders, sold by Nestle Purina Pet Care, are among top brands of Chinese-made pet treats linked to illnesses and deaths in U.S. dogs.
Newly posted results of more than five years of testing chicken jerky pet treats made in China appear to confirm assertions from government officials that they don't know what's making America's dogs sick, even as complaints about the products have nearly doubled.
Federal Food and Drug Administration officials unexpectedly posted summaries this week of lab results of nearly 300 jerky treat samples collected and tested in the U.S. between April 2007 and June 2012. To see the results, click here.
The documents indicate that FDA scientists at labs nationwide tested for bacterial contamination, for mold and for chemicals used in antifreeze, resins and plastics that can harm pets. They tested for heavy metals and for the melamine and melamine analogs detected in pet food that sickened thousands of animals in 2007.
At the same time, new FDA figures indicate that the number of complaints of animal illnesses and deaths blamed on the treats has risen to more than 1,800, according to Tamara Ward, an agency spokeswoman.
The lab results show a mere handful of adverse findings related to the popular Chinese-made treats. None of the reports rose to the level of needing regulatory action, such as a recall, the documents indicate.
"This does not represent ALL testing that has and is being conducted by FDA," Ward said in an email. "Additional testing is currently being conducted through other avenues."
The FDA released the data a day after NBCNews.com reported that the agency had refused to release results of February inspections of the Chinese plants that make the treats. The agency said releasing the information would violate rules protecting trade secrets and confidential commercial information and that it would interfere with enforcement proceedings. That data remains confidential.
Pet advocates critical of the FDA said that while they welcome the release of the domestic data, the results indicate that the agency is not looking hard enough for the source of the illnesses, including hundreds of reports of vomiting, diarrhea and kidney failure.
"When I scanned down through the list of testing, they all seemed to be centered around the same handful of tests," said Susan Thixton, who writes the blog TruthaboutPetFood.com. She believes the FDA needs to broaden its view to include other potential toxins.
"You can't find what you don't look for," she said.
FDA covered bases, experts say
But animal health experts not affiliated with the FDA said the agency appears to be using due diligence to track the source of the problem. Tina Wismer, medical director of the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, said the review appears to be complete.
"Looking at what they're testing for, I'm looking at the list of poisons that we know affect the kidneys and they've got their bases covered," she said.
That's a view echoed by Marion Ehrich, a professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.
"From the website provided, it seems analyses of submitted samples have not yet led to the discovery of anything toxic that is consistently present in the samples," she wrote in an email. "They have been looking at possible suspects (melamine, bacteria, molds, etc.) but nothing is standing out."
The FDA is working to develop and validate new ways to detect toxic substances for which there are no current tests, said Ward, the agency spokeswoman.
The 284 samples included in the new data were collected after consumer complaints, as part of routine surveillance or as an assignment, Ward said. Of those, only six indicated adverse findings.
Those included salmonella found in three samples, including Dingo and Waggin Train chicken jerky products and in one unidentified product. Mold was found in a sample of Waggin' Train jerky, too. Low levels of melamine were detected in one sample of Del Monte beef flavor jerky treats, the tests showed. Another Dingo treat had a questionable genetic fingerprint that was sent for further analysis.
In addition, a few samples were positive for undeclared propylene glycol, but not at levels that would have prompted regulatory actions, the documents said.
Most of the tests were like one posted on Aug. 20, 2007 for Waggin' Train chicken jerky tenders. No melamine or related compounds including ammeline, ammelide or cyanuric acid was found, the test showed. No ethylene glycol or diethylene glycol -- toxic components of antifreeze -- were found.
The FDA has issued three warnings about jerky treats since 2007, including the most recent one last November. That's a fairly strong action for an agency that typically keeps mum on investigations, said Kimberly May, a veterinarian and assistant director in the communications division for the American Veterinary Medical Association.
"This is as close as they're going to come to saying there's a problem," May said. Officials with Nestle Purina Pet Care Co. and Del Monte Foods, which make the top brands of treats, insist that their products continue to be safe to feed animals as directed on the packages.
But some experts say it's up to pet owners to be cautious.
"At this point in time, until we figure out exactly what is going on, I probably wouldn't feed these," the ASPCA's Wismer said.
To report complaints about animal illness, visit the FDA's Safety Reporting Portal.
Related stories on Vitals:
- Jerky treats from China blamed for pet deaths; owners sue
- Nearly 1,000 dogs now sick from jerky treats FDA reports say
- 3 big brands may be tied to chicken jerky illness in dogs, FDA records show
A grieving pet owner says his 9-year-old dog was in perfect health until he fed her Waggin' Train chicken treats; the Pomeranian died 13 days later of kidney failure. He is now calling on the FDA to take another look at the product. WMAQ-TV's Michelle Relerford reports.


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I found these in some magazines today. My moniter is broken and everything is fuzzy. Please tell me if you can read these or not.
Entertainment Weekly issue no. 786
The National Enquirer September 27,2004
Those are great!
Some stuff about the commentary below:
Some Eternal Trivia:
* The title is quoted from the poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope (1688-1744). This poem was used in Kaufman's earlier project Being John Malkovich (1999).
* Before Jim Carrey expressed interest in playing Joel, Nicolas Cage was considered for the role.
* The original script featured a cut beginning and ending sequence that took place in the future. In the end, an older Clementine comes in to have the procedure done and a look at her screen shows that she's had the procedure done multiple times and all of them involved Joel. At the very end of the script, an older Joel calls Clementine to ask why she hasn't called, but the technicians performing the procedure erase his message. Other cuts in the original script include a montage of memories people wanted erased, including a soldier seeing his dead friend on a battlefield and a girl who was raped at a young age.
* The memory-erasing company, Lacuna Inc., takes its name from the Latin word meaning a cavity, hollow, or dip, especially a pool or pond. Transfiguratively, lacuna comes to mean a gap, deficiency, or loss.
* The idea came to Michel Gondry from his friend the artist Pierre Bismuth who suggested, You get a card in the mail that says. 'You have been erased from someone's memory.' Gondry took the concept to Charlie Kaufman who worked out a story...
* A Metro North Commuter Railroad train from the New Haven line (red striped) doubled for the Long Island Railroad (which are blue striped).
* When Clementine and Joel are in the Montauk beach house, Clementine finds an envelope that says David and Ruth Laskin. David and Ruth are the first names of Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey's assistants.
* All of the train shots were shot onboard a real, moving, train.
* The opening credits appear almost 20 minutes into the film, at the end of the first reel.
* The voice whispering Montauk in the movie is actually a combination of Kate Winslet's voice echoing itself, and the voice of a worker at the production company Focus Features. Apparently, the young lady was asked to do a quick voice-over, before Winslet arrived, and it was kept in the film.
* The movie is based on the following quote from an Alexander Pope poem: How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
* Another sub plot dropped from the script was Mary ( Kirsten Dunst) finding out that Howard made her get an abortion after they had the affair resulting in her desire to have her memory wiped.
* Mary's surname does not appear in the credits, but her nameplate on the reception desk at Dr Mierzwiak's practice shows it as Svevo. This very unusual name is clearly a reference to Italian writer Italo Svevo (real name Ettore Schmitz, 1861-1928), who was very interested in the work of Sigmund Freud and is believed to have corresponded with him
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Does your water smell bad?
This is a question many of us can answer with an emphatic "yes". The smell of rotten eggs, sulfur, chlorine and other unpleasantness is a common problem for far too many. It's a shame that the solution to this problem for many people is "I'm not drinking tap water anymore, I'm using just bottled water!"
Yeah, good luck with that.
Unless you were going to use bottled water to drink, cook, bathe, brush your teeth and wash dishes then I don't think you have much of a solution (which is more like avoiding a problem rather than solving it).
Truthfully, there is a way to reduce this problem from your tap water without spending a fortune and using costly bottled water as an alternative.
The solution is filters (an Earth-shattering revelation for sure). But let's dive a little deeper into it, shall we?
First, understand what causes smelly drinking water
What causes smelly drinking water and bad tasting drinking water are often the same things:
- Dissolved solids which often cause a musty odor
- Hydrogen Sulfide which produces the rotten egg smell
- Mercury, lead, iron, and arsenic are often responsible for the metallic taste and smells
- Chlorine used in municipal water treatment processes
Second, decide which filter(s) you should use
Carbon filters are the best bet. However, depending on the application, the type of filter you need could vary. For example, if you are especially concerned about the odor coming from your kitchen sinks faucet, then you would need to consider a faucet mount water filter. If you are concerned about the smell/taste from your refrigerator, replace your refrigerator water filter. For uses for your entire home, use a whole house water filtration system.
Third, install them and replace regularly
Always follow the recommended manufacturer guidelines for installation when installing a filter. We've compiled a list of how to change your refrigerator water filter step-by-step that breaks it down by the type of filter you have.
Once installing it, don't forget to replace them on a regular basis (usually every 4-6 months, depending on usage and filter type). As a general rule, when purchasing a filter (lets use a refrigerator water filter for example), it is best to buy 2 or 3 replacements at the same time to avoid running out (and forgetting to change them) in the future.
Filtration is an effective approach to reducing bad smell from tap water. Check with FiltersFast.com for your filtration needs.


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Eastern Smooth Earth Snake
Scientific name: Virginia valeriae valeriae (BAIRD & GIRARD 1853)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Virginia valeriae BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Carphophis harperti DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854
- Virginia elegans KENNICOTT 1859
- Virginia valeriae KENNICOTT 1859
- Haldea valeriae CAMPBELL 1962
- Virginia valeriae valeriae CONANT & COLLINS 1991
Description: Adults average 7-13 inches (18-33 cm). The record is 15.38 inches (39 cm). A small brown or reddish brown snake with a plain white or yellowish belly. May have tiny dark flecks on back, either scattered or in 4 rows. The head is small with a somewhat pointed snout. There are 15 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The scales are smooth, though faint keels may be present near the tail. Also, tiny faint lines on some scales may give the appearance of keels. The pupils are round.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
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D. Side of the head
E. Front (face view) of the head
F. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
Range: The Eastern Smooth Earth Snake occurs occurs north of the Suwannee River and in the panhandle. A disjunct population occurs in Highlands County in central Florida. Outside of Florida, it occurs north to New Jersey and west to Alabama, northeastern Mississippi, and Ohio.
Habitat: Found in the leaf litter and under logs in mesic hammocks and pine woodlands, particularly near marshes and other damp areas. The disjunct southern Florida population also occurs in scrub.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous). The Eastern Smooth Earth Snake feeds primarily on earthworms, but takes other small invertebrates such as insects and snails. It spends most of the time underground, but found at the surface most often in the cooler months. It bears live young. Litters of 7-10 young are born in summer. They are 3-4.5 inches (7.6-11 cm) at birth.
Comparison with other species: The Rough Earth Snake (Virginia striatula) has keeled scales and a less pointed snout. The Pine Woods Snake (Rhadinaea flavilata) has smooth scales and a whitish upper lip. The Ringneck Snake (Diadophis punctatus) has smooth scales and is grayish-black with a distinct neck ring and a yellow-orange belly. Dekay's Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi) have spots or flecking on the back and sides.


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Washington state is receiving $192,293 as part of a multistate settlement against Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. and two of its affiliated companies.
Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., Lincoln Life and Annuity Co. of New York, and First Penn Pacific Life Insurance Company—part of the Lincoln Group Companies—agreed to a $12.6 million settlement regarding its policies and procedures for identifying and paying customers and their beneficiaries for life insurance policies, retained asset accounts and annuity contracts.
Six states' insurance commissioners led the case--California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Pennsylvania. The settlement terms require Lincoln to reform some business practices and regulatory oversight for several years, culminating in a final review in five years.
In Washington, fines paid by insurance companies are deposited in the state's general fund to pay for state government operations and public K-12 education. Life insurance pays a predetermined amount of money to beneficiaries upon the death of the policyholder. Read more about life insurance on OIC's website.


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Did you know Americans create 25% more trash during the holidays?
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Holiday sales are expected to hit $465.6 billion in 2011. National Retail Federation, Holiday FAQs
Approximately 1.5 billion cards are sent over the holiday season in the U.S., which requires 300,000 new trees to be harvested per year. Hallmark and Discovery Planet Green
About 40% of all battery sales in the U.S. occur during the holiday season. EPA, Reducing Holiday Waste
Holiday lights in U.S. use more than 2.2 million mega-watt hours (MWh) of electricity every holiday season, enough electricity to run more than 173,000 homes for a year. Eco-Cycle calculation based on Energy Star study and EPA equivalency factors
There are approximately 33 million live holiday trees sold in the U.S. every year. EPA, Reducing Holiday Waste
Americans estimate they will spend an average of $764 on Christmas gifts in 2011. Gallup Poll, November 2011
40% of Americans start their holiday shopping before Halloween. National Retail Federation, Holiday FAQs
More than 3 in 4 Americans wish that holidays were less materialistic. Nearly 9 in 10 believe that holidays should be more about family and caring for others, not giving and receiving gifts. Center for a New American Dream, Simplify the Holidays
In the past 50 years, humans have consumed more resources than in all previous history. EPA, Sustainable Materials Management: The Road Ahead
> For facts on consumption and the environment, check out our Eco-Facts section.


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That is the question asked by various OS 5 users. As some of you might remember, when RIM announced that OS 6.0 would be available for the Bold 9650 and 9700, it would be carrier dependent. Carrier dependency is the big catch here.
Ive been wondering ever since Sprint/Nextel released the official OS 220.127.116.113 upgrade just over a month ago if they ever planned to officially release OS 6. In my opinion, as I posted in a forum or two in the past, is that they wont.
Why would they push an official OS 5 upgrade when so many people with Bolds are running OS 6 already? Ok, so we are running leaked versions, but its still OS 6 none the less.
Lets talk money here. Phone companies make money by pushing new and better phones out the door. Why would they release an official version of OS 6, something every Blackberry abuser wants, when theyve got a few brand new Blackberries already loaded with it?
Yep, in my opinion, anybody looking for an official copy of OS 6, will probably have to wait until theyre eligible for a phone upgrade on Sprint/Nextel anyway. Heres hoping Verizon doesnt pull the same thing. But then again, isnt it rumored that Verizon may be releasing a new 9650 with OS 6 already installed?
I dont usually like to be wrong, but in this case I hope I am. I just bought my 9650 not too long ago.


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By Tom Miller
Attorney General
DES MOINES– Identity theft occurs when a criminal uses someone else's personal information, like your name, Social Security number or credit card number, without your permission. Medical identity theft is similar, but it involves personal medical information, like your Medicare ID number, medical information or medical insurance information.
MARION– Trees Forever is now accepting applications from Iowa farmers and landowners who are interested in improving water quality and reducing soil erosion by participating in the "Working Watersheds: Buffers and Beyond" program in 2012. Technical assistance, project planning and funding resources are available to selected landowners who are willing to demonstrate and model good conservation practices. The deadline for applications has been extended to Jan. 13, 2012.


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• 100% cotton
• Machine washProduct Code: 213413757
• Designed for a regular fit
• Lightweight, stretchy fabric
• Model is wearing a size M
Named after the Greek goddess of victory, Nike was founded in 1972 and has since established itself as a global powerhouse in the sportswear industry. Renowned first and foremost for its technical sneakers, the brand also has a commendable track record of creating functional yet trendy streetwear, bringing innovation to every man, woman and child. Whether you want to chill or work out, the label with the Swoosh has exactly what you need to unleash your true potential.


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In the movie Onigocco or The Chasing World, a Japanese teenager gets flipped into an parallel world where everyone who has the last name Sato is being ruthlessly hunted down. Of course, that just happens to be his last name. While trying to evade the smiling cyborgs, he encounters alternate versions of his girlfriend and school buddies, and finds himself protecting them and trying to escape from the clutches of the King of Japan. Check out the trailer below, and find out more.
This film sounds like Terminator meets Stephen King's The Long Walk, combined with alternate reality elements from The Matrix. In Japan, "onigokko" is a version of the game of tag, with a players chasing down others. Of course, in this movie it's cyborgbots with creepy heads, red vision, and some strange weapons chasing down poor Sato. If he evades his pursuers for a certain number of hours each day, then he gets various wishes granted. Although it looks like everything starts over the next day, so good luck wishing for the nightmare to end... or an unlimited number of wishes.
The film opened on February 2nd in Japan, and with any luck will be finding its way over here on a DVD platter.


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Coleman leads LSU past Alabama, 68-56, in SEC
ATLANTA (AP) — Shavon Coleman scored 15 points on five 3-pointers and Louisiana State preserved its slim NCAA hopes by beating Alabama 68-56 on Thursday in the second round of the SEC tournament.
Tim Quarterman had 12 points and Johnny O'Bryant added 11 for the Tigers, who pulled ahead with a 13-0 run in the first half. The Tigers shot 50 percent from the floor and beyond the arc (11 of 22).
LSU will play Kentucky in the SEC quarterfinals on Friday.
LSU (19-12) likely needs to win the SEC tournament to make the NCAA field. The Tigers have an unimpressive RPI of 74, one spot behind Georgia.
Trevor Releford and Shannon Hale both had 11 points to lead Alabama (13-19). Levi Randolph had 10.
Jordan Mickey had nine points and a game-high 11 rebounds for LSU.
Alabama took a 21-18 lead on a 3-pointer by Randolph. LSU's Quarterman and O'Bryant scored back-to-back inside baskets, followed by Quarterman's 3-pointer, to launch the 13-0 run by the Tigers for a 31-21 lead.
Including a follow jam by Quarterman and a jumper by Jordan Mickey, LSU closed the half with a 17-3 run to lead 35-24 at halftime.
Alabama won two of its last three games of the regular season by depending on strong defense. The Crimson Tide allowed only 56.7 points per game during that span, and the Alabama defense was focused on containing O'Bryant.
The powerful O'Bryant (6-9, 256) averaged 15.6 points and 7.9 rebounds in the regular season, but the Alabama defense collapsed around the junior every time he touched the ball in the first half. O'Bryant was limited to four points in the half.
LSU forced a turnover as Alabama tried to pass inside to O'Bryant to open the second half, setting up a 3-pointer by the Crimson Tide's Hale. Releford sank two free throws to cut the LSU lead to six points at 35-29. A free throw by O'Bryant and a 3-pointer by Jarell Martin, who had 10 points, quickly pushed the lead back to 10 points.
O'Bryant sank an open jumper to give LSU its big lead at 47-35. The Tigers led by nine points before Coleman and Stringer sank back-to-back 3s for a 65-50 lead.


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This casino is great. Seldom is the game you want to play in use, but if it is busy there are many other fun games to play. Along with the machines they have all of the table games, Blackjack, Roulette, etc, just to name a few. It is mainly nonsmoking, but even in the smoking areas you barley notice the smoke due to the high ceilings. Music is always coming from the Galaxy lounge, which puts me in a good mood, even if I happen to be a few quarters down. I give it 4-1/2 ????


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Hey Johnnie: As a relative newcomer to the great West, I am still a bit intrigued when I see the "elevation" signs at the various city limits.
Having grown up in an Iowa town on the banks of the Mississippi River (elevation 696 feet), I am more accustomed to seeing "population" signs when entering a town. Just wondering where the reading was taken for Longmont's elevation, and whether it is actually the highest point within city limits. If not, where is Longmont's highest point? — Former Flatlander
Hey Former Flatlander: The city's official elevation, 4,979 feet, is noted by a brass marker on a step on the north side of the city's Development Services Center, 385 Kimbark St., formerly the city hall.
Clearly, that is not the highest point in the city.
According to Google Earth (http://earth.google.com), a location on North Shore Drive west of Colo. Highway 66 is the highest place in town at 5,129 feet. Sunset Hill, the location of the water tower, is at 5,094 feet
According to other websites, Vance Brand Municipal Airport is at 5,052 feet. Where the St. Vrain River runs beneath Main Street, the elevation is 4,948 feet. Union Reservoir is at 4,956. (That is when the lake is full.)
The wastewater treatment plant, according to one online source, is at 4,931 feet. We are thankful for that.


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Awards season is in full swing now and the American Film Institute has given its two cents as to which films should be in the running for best picture of them all.
It should come as no surprise that the 2013 AFI Awards included the Sandra Bullock-led space stunner "Gravity"; David O'Russell's star-studded "American Hustle"; the gut-wrenching "12 Years a Slave"; and the feel-pretty-good "Saving Mr. Banks", starring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, on its list of the top 10 movies of the year.
And then there were the less obvious choices and the films that got away.
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The day's top national and international news.
"Captain Phillips," also starring Hanks as a real-life person, made the cut--but "All Is Lost," for which 77-year-old Robert Redford is getting the reviews of his career, did not. (Perhaps there was only room for one harrowing sea drama this year.)
PHOTOS: Holiday movie guide: Dramas
"Fruitvale Station," about the final day in the life of a young man in Oakland before he's gunned down by a transit cop, also made the list, another kudos for first-time feature director Ryan Coogler.
Alexander Payne's latest, the black and white father-son odyssey "Nebraska," made the list, as did the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis," which we only keep thinking is black and white because the titular struggling folk singer played by Oscar Isaac just always looks so darn cold among the muted tones of 1960s-era Greenwich Village.
Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street," which clocks in at a compact 179 minutes and doesn't come out until Christmas Day, was also named one of the year's best.
Interestingly, because often life is really stranger than fiction, six of AFI's picks are are based on a true story--seven if you count all the characters inspired by real musicians in "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Meanwhile, "August: Osage County" and "Lee Daniels' The Butler" were both snubbed, despite boasting ensembles packed with star power. And while Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto have already scooped up a couple of acting awards for "Dallas Buyers Club" and Cate Blanchett is considered a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination, neither "Dallas Buyers Club" nor "Blue Jasmine" found a spot on this list.
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"Her," in which Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with a machine voiced by Scarlett Johansson, rounds out AFI's top 10 after being selected as co-Best Picture with "Gravity" by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association over the weekend. (The torn LAFCA also made it a tie for Best Actress between Blanchett and Adele Exarchopoulos of the French drama "Blue Is the Warmest Color.")
Here is the complete list of films honored by the 2013 AFI Awards:
- "American Hustle"
- "Captain Phillips"
- "Fruitvale Station"
- "Gravity"
- "Her"
- "Inside Llewyn Davis"
- "Nebraska"
- "Saving Mr. Banks"
- "12 Years a Slave"
- "The Wolf of Wall Street"


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Munich, 1 July 2012 - Linde has signed a merger agreement with Lincare Holdings Inc., a US-based homecare health company. Linde intends to acquire all outstanding shares of Lincare Holdings Inc. by submitting a cash offer to the Lincare Holdings Inc. shareholders of USD 41.50 per common share, followed by a merger. The planned acquisition has a total transaction volume of approximately USD 4.6 billion. Closing is expected for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012. Completion of the offer and merger is subject to receipt of regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.
The funding of the transaction will be done by an acquisition loan in the total amount of USD 4.5 bn and through available cash. The acquisition loan will be refinanced by debt and equity issuances.
The tender offer described herein has not yet commenced, and this material is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell shares of Lincare Holdings Inc. common stock. At the time the tender offer is commenced, Linde will file a tender offer statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Lincare Holdings Inc. shareholders are strongly advised to read the tender offer documents that will be filed with the SEC because they will contain important information that Lincare Holdings Inc. shareholders should consider before tendering their shares. These documents will be available for free at the SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov) and by directing a request to Linde AG, Klosterhofstraße 1, 80331 Munich, Germany.
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Alaska Statutes: http://www.legis.state.ak.us
State Library Association: Alaska Library Association
Security Breach Notification Law : Alaska Stat. § 45.48.010 et seq.
Data Disposal Law: Alaska Stat. §45.48.500
Library Records Privacy:
TITLE 40. PUBLIC RECORDS AND RECORDERS CHAPTER 25. INSPECTION AND COPYING OF PUBLICRECORDS Alaska Stat. § 40.25.140
Sec. 40.25.140. Confidentiality of library records
(a) Except as provided in (b) of this section, the names, addresses, or other personal identifying information of people who have used materials made available to the public by a library shall be kept confidential, except upon court order, and are not subject to inspection under AS 40.25.110 or 40.25.120. This section applies to librariesoperated by the state, a municipality, or a public school, including the University of Alaska.
(b) Records of a public elementary or secondary school library identifying a minor child shall be made available on request to a parent or guardian of that child.


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Bankstown Girls High School
My work explores architecture through a form different to traditional building construction methods. The idea of working with papers, folding then joining them and keeping them simply white, was the direction of my art-making. I was drawn to the abstract shapes and forms of 19th and 20th century architecture. The Sydney Opera House, with its organic and unusual shapes, was a strong source of inspiration. An old Japanese legend speaks of anyone who folds a thousand papers cranes will be granted a wish. I was strongly influenced by this phenomenon. Hundreds of origami pieces: memories, feelings, emotions, dedication and patience… all captured in each single one of them.


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And lo, it came to pass, that HMV is to bring in the administrators.
The age of the High Street has been coming to pass since the 1990s, when councils fell in love with out of town shopping centres, and shoppers fell in love with not having to pay over the odds car parking prices for city centre shopping. Sure, the streets of central London and England's second city Manchester may look exceptionally busy, but this is the era of massive increases in Internet commerce, and once tourists/day-trippers/hipsters are taken out of the equation, both major shopping centres look pretty ho-hum.
Just as "the smoking ban did it" is not a valid response to the question "why are dozens of pubs closing every month?", so "the 'net did it" can't be accepted as an answer for the demise of specific stores or the general concept of "The High Street". In short, it's a long and complex list of reasons. Ultimately, nobody has been outside banging the drum for city shopping for decades now. Out of town developments are cheap to build and easy to fill. Councils then engage in a PR love-in with concepts like pedestrianisation, 'street furniture' and café culture 'redesigns'. Being Britain, the results are almost always complete disasters, especially when most councils refuse to provide free parking, even on weekends.
Whilst Mary Portas might be well paid for telling people how to suck eggs….I mean, how to reinvent the town centres, the reality might be very different to that looked at from a purely cold faced economic stand point. Maybe, just maybe, HMV is close to death because it was suffering the same disease as Woolworths, and managed to find better medication? They could have died off simultaneously had one not chosen holistic medicine once a week.
Woolies stopped attracting shoppers, by and large, when shoppers stopped understanding what on earth the store was focused on selling. In the Internet age being a "root about" shop isn't attractive. Woolies sold XBox games, DVDs, pick 'n' mix sweets, children's clothes, toys, with a restaurant tucked away upstairs and a garden centre shoved into a corner. Like Wilkinsons, but in an unattractive jumble sale sort of way.
For HMV, dealing with Amazon, Spotify, live streaming and all the rest of it was to fling itself into panic mode, jerking around with new identities like a drunk man trying on fancy dress. Of course nobody could have predicted how quickly consumers would kill off CD singles, but HMV held on to them amongst computer consoles, headsets, books, box sets, chart acts and oddly specific specialist sections ("BBC Spoken Word"), and from outside their stores began to resemble one of those very wooden warehouse style shops which always has window displays selling Stone Roses, REM and Alanis Morrisette for £1.99. Was HMV the first place to go for the latest album release? If not, at what point did that happen?
The very idea of having "a High Street" is looking more and more as a notion of crazed nostalgists. The free market and those who subscribe to its teachings have seen off the traditional pub, defeated the greengrocer and the butcher, and now tick off electronic retailers and general stores. HMV will sit alongside Rumbleow's and Dixons and Jessops and JJB, all faded brands and pub quiz questions now. The reason isn't just one of "death by on-line shopping", it's as much a lack of focus by the stores themselves as it is a natural turning off the light by capitalism's Spending Corps. Had HMV focused on, perhaps, DVDs and box-sets, it could have streamlined itself into a new kind of retail experience. Maybe 2013 was just the year the growths became incurable cancer?
One thing seems very clear now. In Town Halls across the country, there are local elected officials grappling with the questions put to them by the economic downturn, the reduction in Government funding, and less popular town centres. Most of the glossy prospectuses produced by consultants on behalf of Town Halls speak of "reinventing the High Street". I can't help but wonder if this is just woefully, almost embarrassingly, out of date.


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This report follows recent news from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Census Bureau which announced its estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for the first-quarter 2012. According to the findings, retail sales increased by 0.8 percent in March compared to February and sales for the month were up 6.5 percent compared to the same time last year. Total sales for the first quarter of 2012 were up 6.4 percent from the same period a year ago.
IBM's retail online economic indicator identified several trends of importance to chief marketing officers, ecommerce leaders and customer service professionals. The most notable development over this first-quarter period was the continued growth of mobile commerce sales which accounted for 13.3 percent of online retail sales, double the number seen in the same time-frame the previous year.
In addition to sales, the economic indicator identified an increase in positive consumer sentiment around key attributes of a successful digital buying experience. The indicator found consumers are increasingly optimistic when it comes to convenience, experience and overall value, each up from this same period last year, based on their online shopping experience. Businesses are also increasingly looking to analyze social media such as Facebook and Twitter to assess the way their customers view them.
Part of IBM's Smarter Commerce initiative, the retail online economic indicator draws data and insights from IBM's big data offerings to provide the industry's most comprehensive look into the pulse of online retail through traditional and social media channels. The indicator analysis for first-quarter 2012 reveals the following trends:
Online Retail Sales for Q1 2012 versus Q1 2011
- Consumer Spending: While total online sales were down 1.9 percent over Q1 2011, sales increased 6.3 percent from February to March 2012.
- Mobile Sales: Sales from mobile devices reached 13.3 percent, up from the 7 percent in Q1 2011.
- Mobile Traffic: 17.1 percent of all online sessions on a retailer's site were initiated from a mobile device, exceeding the 6.1 percent over this same period in 2011.
- Mobile Devices: Apple's iPhone continued to rank one for mobile device retail traffic at 6.5 percent with Android taking second at 5.9 percent. iPad came in third at 5.3 percent.
- Social Traffic: Shoppers referred from Social Networks generated 1.1 percent of all online traffic over Q1 2012, identical to the 1.1 percent seen in 2011.
- Social Sales: Shoppers referred to retailer sites from Social Networks generated 2.4 percent of all online sales over Q1 2012, an increase from the 1.7 percent seen over this period last year.
Online Retail Categories for Q1 2012 versus Q1 2011:
- Apparel stores maintained strong momentum with Q1 sales growing 14.9 percent
- Department stores continued to catch the attention of consumers with sales growing 20.4 percent
- Health & Beauty sales grew by 28.8 percent as consumers continued to treat themselves this quarter
- Home goods experienced a 29.3 percent increase in sales in Q1 with consumers continuing to shop for their homes.
- Jewelry stores continued recent momentum with sales growing by 11.3 percent
- Office Supply/Electronics experienced growth in Q1 with online sales increasing by 6.6 percent
Consumer Sentiment for Department Stores for Q1 2012 versus Q1 2011
- The Buying Experience: While consumers believe the overall "Buying Experience" improved year over year, the digital online experience saw the most positive improvements in sentiment. A leading factor was convenience which had a 65.8 percent positive sentiment rating, more than six times the negative sentiment. This was followed by value which was 51.8 percent, interaction at 36.6 percent and deals at 30.4 percent.
- The Online Influence: The key elements driving growing positive sentiment have the highest affinity with the online channel, demonstrating the influence it is having on the overall buying experience. These concepts include information quality and availability, in-store integration, convenience, shipping and interaction.
- Product Availability: On the opposite side of the spectrum, negative sentiment was highest around availability which received a rating of 24.4 percent.
"Over the first quarter, the digitally empowered consumer continued to demonstrate the momentum of the online channel and specifically mobile commerce, which has established itself as a legitimate channel for shopping," said Craig Hayman, General Manager, IBM Industry Solutions. "Moving ahead, we will help retailers synchronize the demand and supply chains to address issues of product availability and connect to the mobile buyer."
To further discuss the Economic Indicator and field questions, Strategy Director, IBM Digital Marketing Jay Henderson will conduct an online question and answer session on May 2, 2012, 3-4 p.m. ET. To participate in the discussion, register here.
IBM online economic indicator
The IBM retail online economic indicator features data from IBM's analytics offerings including the Benchmark and IBM Cognos Consumer Insight. The IBM Benchmark is the only analytics-based, peer-level benchmarking solution that measures online marketing results, including real-time sales data. All of the data is aggregated and anonymous. Analysis of public social media content came via IBM Cognos Consumer Insight which provides insight into underlying holiday shopping trends, hot topics of discussion and consumer sentiment. Follow the conversation at #bigdata
About IBM Smarter Commerce
IBM's Smarter Commerce initiative delivers software and services to help companies transform their business processes to more quickly respond to shifting customer demands in today's digitally transformed marketplace. The initiative is driven by the demands from organizations who are increasingly looking for ways to bring new levels of automation to marketing, sales and fulfillment to secure greater customer loyalty. The growth of mobile, social and online commerce are key trends within Smarter Commerce.
More information on Smarter Commerce can be found at www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_commerce/overview/
To join the conversation, follow hashtag #smartercommerce and #bigdata on Twitter
Related resourcesSite links
Flickr Set: Online and Mobile Buying TrendsImages
The State of Digital Consumer Buying Infographic
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Quarterly Economic Indicator Graph
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- 2 Beds
- 1 Full Baths
Property TypeResidential – Condominium
SubdivisionSandstone 70
Listing Date06/11/19
Year Built1967
Lot Size0.04 Acres (1,742 SqFt)
Parking1 Car Assigned, Surface
Property Description
Remodeled condominium with a large front deck presenting views to Simba Run. Turnkey and right on the bus route. Your home has new paint & carpet, wood-burning fireplace, remodeled kitchen with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. The assigned parking is a plus! Beautiful park and creek just steps away.
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- Creek or River
- Creek/River
- Mountains
- Ski Slopes
- On Bus Line
- Pets
- Cable Available
- Deck
- Fireplace - Wood
- Wired for Cable
- District Sewer
- District Water
- Electricity Avail.
- Natural Gas Avail.
- Snow Removal
- Trash Pickup
- Baseboard
- Natural Gas
- Dryer
- Washer
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About Vail
Home to the internationally incomparable Vail Mountain Ski Resort, the Town of Vail is comprised of several neighborhoods including Vail Village, Lionshead Village, East Vail and West Vail. The heart of town lies within its villages at the base of the mountain, a Tyrolean inspired blend of American and European cultures. Vail has a near endless list of cultural and sporting events and activities year round including the single largest ski mountain in the country and an array of outdoor pursuits including fly fishing pristine waters and golf at the beautiful town course with magnificent views of the Gore Range. All of which are easily accessible by car, bike, walk, or the free town shuttle.
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32540 Granite Ct (unit 44)
$544,950, 4 Beds 2¾ Baths 2,560 Sqft .08 Acres 2 Garages
Listing Office: Lennar Sales Corp..
About This Property
The Aspen home by Lennar at Ten Trails! You will love its great-room design with chef's dream kitchen open to a huge family/dining area and spacious rear patio, perfect for outdoor entertaining! Enjoy the spa-like master retreat, a fun-sized loft, and main floor den/guest rm with shower! WIFI CERTIFIED Smart Home and Everything's Included! Ten Trails offers parks, walking trails, and so much more! Completed in February!
Listing Office: Lennar Sales Corp..
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Interior Features
Bath Off Master, Dbl Pane/Storm Windw, Dining Room, French Doors, High Tech Cabling, Walk In Pantry, Loft
Dishwasher, Garbage Disposal, Microwave, Range/Oven, Refrigerator
Forced Air, 90%+ High Efficiency, Tankless Water Heater
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32540 Granite Ct (unit 44), Black Diamond (MLS® #1576819) Property History
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