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In 2016, global economic recovery remained weak, domestic economic growth slowed down, international oil prices continued to swing at low levels and the market witnessed fierce competition. In light of severe and complex operating environment, and guided by the decision and deployment of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China (CCCPC) and the State Council, we achieved stable progress based on the five development strategies of value-oriented growth, innovation-driven development, integrated resource allocation, open cooperation, and green, low-carbon development. With focus on ensuring growth and profitability, transforming the growth pattern, structural adjustment and strengthening the Party building,we recorded new achievements that represented an exceptional start to our 13th Five-year Plan.
In this year, we delivered full-year target by expanding market,optimizing operations, reducing cost, improving risk management, squeezing expenditure and generating new sources of income. We pressed ahead with structural adjustment across the whole Group. We discovered Shunbei oil and gas field in the west of Tarim basin, Xinjiang, achieved further breakthrough in shale gas exploration in Chongqing; and put into operation Fuling shale gas project, the pressure boosting project of Sichuan-to-East China gas pipeline, and Wen-23 gas storage site. The Guangdong Zhongke integrated project in Maoming-Zhanjiang area was kicked off, marking a substantial step to build a series of new petrochemical complex bases nationwide. The fuel upgrading project targeting GB-V standard was completed ahead of schedule. The proportion of high-value- added chemicals, including synthetic resin, synthetic rubber and synthetic fiber, increased and replaced imported chemicals. We made massive progress in developing "the Belt and Road Initiative", putting into production YASREF JV Refinery in Saudi Arabia, providing technical and engineering services worldwide against the headwind in sluggish market and fierce competition, and promoting new business model and new energy development such as e-commerce platform, non-fuel business and geothermal energy. We saw new achievement in scientific and technological innovation and digital transformation in the manufacturing sector. We forged ahead with the deepening reform, promoting mixed ownership in fuel retailing segment and introducing investors into Sichuan-to-East China Gas Pipeline project. Gulei Petrochemical Company, a joint venture enterprise of the Mainland and Taiwan was established. The pilot project for scientific and technological system reform was launched. We promoted a series of reforms, including corporate profit improvement, divesting non-core business and passing over the social functions to the local community and government. We took holistic approach to strengthened the "three bases"work (i.e. grassroots construction, groundwork and basic training), carried forward the legacy built upon in petroleum and chemical business industry, and rigorously strengthened institutional management and risk control, thus achieving even better result in excellent, earnest and strict management.
We uphold people-oriented development philosophy in green and low carbon development. The trouble-shooting project in addressing the hazards in oil and gas pipeline was completed one year in advance. "Energy Efficiency Doubling" plan was carried out in deeper dimension and "Clear Water and Blue Sky" was completed in round success. The people's well-being projects, such as comprehensive improvement in old community and renovation of shantytowns, were carried out in stepwise manner. We made continued efforts to organize Public Open Day for social public and local community and carry out Lifeline Express campaign to cure cataract patients in poverty-stricken areas. We promoted poverty alleviation project by supporting the regional economic sector and residential households. All of these endeavors make Sinopec a recognized corporate citizen in the public.
Our achievements in 2016 were not won easily. They would not have been possible without the support from all circles of the society, the high degree of trust from our customers and cooperation from our domestic and international partners. On behalf of the Board of Directors of Sinopec Group, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to you for the care, support and assistance.
2017 is a year full of challenges and opportunities. We aim to focus on quality and profitability improvement and upgrading, implement our five development strategies in supply-side structural reform, emphasize cost reduction, market expansion, structural adjustment, deepening reform and capacity building, and strive for new breakthroughs in structural adjustment and transformation of growth pattern. We are committed to make positive contributions to boost real economy.
By insisting on international cooperation, we look forward to working with you together for a better future!


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Fatigue crack propagation (FCP) rates for 304 stainless steel (304SS) were determined in 24°C and 288°C air and 288°C water using double-edged notch (DEN) specimens of 304 stainless steel (304 SS). Tests performed at matched loading conditions in air and water at 288°C with 20–60 cc H2 /kg H2 O provided a direct comparison of the relative crack growth rates in air and water over a wide range of crack growth rates. The DEN crack extension ranged from short cracks (0.03–0.25 mm) to long cracks up to 4.06 mm beyond the notch, which are consistent with conventional deep crack tests. Crack growth rates of 304 SS in water were about 12 times the air rate. This 12X environmental enhancement persisted to crack extensions up to 4.06 mm, far outside the range associated with short crack effects. The large environmental degradation for 304 SS crack growth is consistent with the strong reduction of fatigue life in high hydrogen water. Further, very similar environmental effects were reported in fatigue crack growth tests in hydrogen water chemistry (HWC). Most literature data in high hydrogen water show only a mild environmental effect for 304 SS, of order 2.5 times air or less, but the tests were predominantly performed at high cyclic stress intensity or equivalently, high air rates. The environmental effect in low oxygen environments at low stress intensity depends strongly on both the stress ratio, R, and the load rise time, Tr , as recently reported for austenitic stainless steel in BWR water. Fractography was performed for both tests in air and water. At 288°C in water, the fracture surfaces were crisply faceted with a crystallographic appearance, and showed striations under high magnification. The cleavage-like facets on the fracture surfaces suggest that hydrogen embrittlement is the primary cause of accelerated cracking.
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The cost of cloud computing is one that every business will want to evaluate before choosing to migrate traditional Infrastructure services to Amazon AWS. One the primary objectives of AWS Certified Solutions Architect –Professional Exam is to demonstrate an understanding of costing and identify areas where business can be effective managing costs and gain better ROIs. Costing accounts for 5% of the exam and if you understand it well, you can easily gain marks that will help you in passing the exam.
The following are the core areas of AWS costing you need to be aware of:
- Demonstrate ability to make architectural decisions that minimize and optimize infrastructure cost
- Apply the appropriate AWS account and billing set-up options based on scenario
- Ability to compare and contrast the cost implications of different architectures
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations enables you to consolidate multiple AWS Account into a single organization and centrally manage these accounts. This allows you to centrally manage multiple accounts using global policies and permissions. You can also use it to consolidate billing and account management functions and thus manage budgets, security and compliance much more effectively for your business. AWS Organizations also enable you to maximize on volume discounts available on AWS.
Key Features:
- Centralized management of all of your AWS accounts
- Create accounts that are automatically part of the Organization or invite other accounts to be part of the Organization
- Centralized management of all of your AWS accounts using a Master account. The master account has the responsibilities of a payer accountand is responsible for paying all charges that are accrued by the member accounts
- Invitation – This is the process of asking another account to join an AWS Organization account that you set up. You need the account ID or the email address that is associated with the invited account. Note: Invitations also can be sent to all current member accounts when the organization needs all members to approve the change from supporting only consolidated billing features to supporting all features in the organization
- Handshake – This is the underlying implementation of an Invitation. Handshake messages are passed between and responded to by the initiator and the recipient to ensure both parties know the stations. Handshakes are also used from updating from a consolidating billing only feature to an all features Organization setup
- Available Features
- Consolidated Billing – This is where you receive a simple bill for all members to the Payer account. Invitations also can be sent to all current member accounts when the organization needs all members to approve the change from supporting only consolidated billing features to supporting all features in the organization
- All Features – includes consolidated billing, plus it provides advanced features that give you more control over accounts in your organization. The master account can apply SCPsto restrict the services and actions that users (including the root user) and roles in an account can access, and can prevent member accounts from leaving the organization.
- Service Control Policy (SCP) – filtersthat allow only the specified services and actions to be used in affected accounts. Even if a user is granted full administrator permissions with an IAM permission policy, any access that is not explicitly allowed or that is explicitly denied by the SCPs affecting that account is blocked.
- You can attach an SCP to the following:
- A root, which affects all accounts in the organization
- An OU, which affects all accounts in that OU and all accounts in any OUs in that OU subtree
- An individual account
- You can attach an SCP to the following:
Important – The master account of the organization is not affected by any SCPs that are attached either to it or to any root or OU the master account might be in.
- Hierarchical grouping of your accounts to meet your budgetary, security, or compliance needs
- Create Organization Units or OUs
- Group accounts into OUs
- Attach policies to OUs to allow or deny access to different AWS recourses
- Nest OUs within other OUs up to 5 levels deep
- Control over the AWS services and API actions that each account can access
- Restrict which AWS services and individual API actions users and roles in each member account can access. Note that Organization permissions overrule account permissions include rules defined by administrators of a member account
- Integration and support for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- IAM can be used to control permissions and policies by defining roles at the account level. Organization further gives you control at the account level over what users and roles in an account or a group of accounts can do. Thus, users can access only what is allowed by both the Organizations policies and IAM policies. If either blocks an operation, the user can't access that operation
- Integration with other AWS services
- AWS Organizations enables you to select AWS Services to perform tasks on your behalf in your organization's member accounts. Organizations uses an IAM role called a service-linked role to achieve this capability. Key Points to note:
- Service-Linked roles have redefined IAM permissions to enable other services to perform specific tasks. As such, the roles or its attached policies cannot be altered
- The role provisioned when you create a new member account or invite an existing account to join is the AWSServiceRoleForOrganizations This role ensures that Organization can then create service-linked roles for other AWS services
- Enabling 'All Features' – You can choose to create an organization for 'consolidated billing features' only or for 'all features'.
- For accounts invited to join an organization – when the administrator agrees to the request to enable all features, AWS Organization creates a service linked role automatically if one doesn't already exist. Note the Administrator must have both the organization:AcceptHandsake and iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole permission to agree to the request. If the AWSServiceRoleForOrganizations already exist, then the administrator of the account being invited only needs the organization:AcceptHandshake permission
- For accounts created in the organization – the account administrator will receive a request to re-create the service-linked role. Note the member account administrator will not receive request to enable all features in this case, because the master account administrator is considered the owner of the member accounts as well. The administrator must have both organization:AcceptHandshake and the iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole permissions to accept the handshake
- Data replication that is eventually consistent
- Organizations achieves high availability by replicating data across multiple servers in AWS data centres within its region. Changes must be replicated across the multiple servers and thus eventual consistency is offered with AWS Organizations.
- AWS Organizations enables you to select AWS Services to perform tasks on your behalf in your organization's member accounts. Organizations uses an IAM role called a service-linked role to achieve this capability. Key Points to note:
Consolidated Billing
You can use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to consolidate payment for multiple AWS accounts. You get a full itemized listing of charges incurred against each member account and the total due to the master payer account. Remember that Consolidated billing is offered at no additional charge.
Previous before the availability of the AWS Organizations services, Amazon offered consolidated billing under the billing & cost management console service. When you used consolidated billing on the Billing and Cost Management console, you had one account that was designated as a payer account. The payer account paid the charges that were accrued by all the other accounts, known as linked accounts, in your consolidated billing family. With AWS Organizations, each organization has one account, called a master account, that pays the charges of all the member accounts in that organization. The member accounts are linked to the master account for billing purposes, just like the linked accounts in consolidated billing were linked to a payer account.
Consolidated billing has the following benefits:
- One Bill – You get one bill for multiple accounts.
- Easy Tracking – You can easily track each account's charges and download the cost data in CSV format.
- Combined Usage – If you have multiple accounts, your charges might decrease because AWS combines usage from all accounts in the organization to qualify you for volume pricing discounts.
Important Tip – The owner of the master account in an organization should secure the account by using AWS Multi-Factor Authentication and a strong password that has a minimum of eight characters with both uppercase and lowercase letters, at least one digit, and at least one special character.
Exam Tips
- Current limit on number of Accounts you can consolidate under one account is 20. This is a soft limit
- Paying Account should be used for payment management only
- Billing account created on the paying account will be applied to all linked accounts
- Note that CloudTrail is on per AWS Account and per region. However, you can consolidate logs to a central S3 bucket. To do this:
- Turn on CloudTrail on paying account
- Create bucket policy to allow cross account access
- Turn on CloudTrail in other accounts and use the bucket in the paying account
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Tokyo: Sailor Moon SuperS, Part II
A week later, Queen Neherenia told Zirconia that the dream mirror that Pegasus was hiding in would be gold because of the influence of the Golden Crystal so they no longer had to actually look inside the mirror for Pegasus. The Dead Moon Circus' task was to find the Golden Mirror. At the arcade, Chibi-Usa and Momoko saw a poster advertising the Dead Moon Circus. Usagi and Mamoru walked in and Chibi-Usa told Mamoru that she wanted him to take her to the circus. Usagi said that if Mamoru wanted to go, she and Mamoru would go alone without Chibi-Usa annoying them.
"Are you two in love?" Momoko asked dreamily.
"Yes, we are melting in love," Usagi replied.
"That's so nice! I want a boyfriend who wants to be melting in love with me!"
"When you grow up, you'll find a man who will melt in love with you."
"I want to be an adult soon!"
Four girls with weird hair were playing arcade games and overheard.
"Why would you want to be an adult?" one asked.
"Adults have to worry about what society thinks of them when they want to dream." another one said.
"It's no fun being an adult."
"It's much more fun being a kid."
The four girls walked about of the arcade chanting, "Never, never be suspicious of dreams within the dreams of dreaming kids." over and over again. In the circus tent, all the freaks of the Dead Moon were chanting the same phrase over and over again until Zirconia appeared and told them to be quiet.
The four girls transformed into the Amazoness Quartet,
Cere Cere
(Cele Cele) of flowers,
Palla Palla
(Para Para) of balancing balls,
Jun Jun
of acrobatics, and
Ves Ves
(Besu Besu) the animal trainer. Zirconia gave the orders to find the Golden Mirror but the Quartet didn't Zirconia seriously. Ves Ves tried to attack Zirconia. Zirconia blasted her away but realized that if all four attacked her at once, she would be in trouble. Zirconia told them that she could easily defeat the four of them so they had better follow orders.
Their first target was Momoko. To extract the dream mirror, Ves Ves pulled out her billiard ball and used a pool stick to hit the ball. The ball bounced off several things around Momoko. Eventually, the ball hit Momoko in the back and her dream mirror came out.
The dream mirror spinned several times and when it stopped spinning, it was a normal dream mirror, not the Golden Mirror. The lemure ate the dream mirror, much to the Sailor Senshi's horror. After the Super Sailor Senshi defeated the lemure, the dream mirror was recovered and returned to Momoko. Palla Palla, who was the most childish of the four, was the only one who attacked a large group of people at once, instead of one-by-one like the rest of the Quartet.
When Ves Ves returned to the circus tent from her failed mission, the Amazoness Quartet said how beautiful Pegasus and that they shouldn't let Zirconia have it. Zirconia told Queen Neherenia that she was worried that the Quartet was too dangerous and they might keep Pegasus' power for themselves. Queen Neherenia told her to leave the Amazoness Quartet do what they want to but to keep an eye on them. Zirconia was about to protest but Queen Neherenia snapped, "Be quiet and follow my orders because I am the true queen of the moon."
By the end of November, Super Sailor Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus all received more powerful attacks while trying to save the dreams of their friends.
One day, Jun Jun was sitting on top of the roof near Chibi-Usa's school. Chibi-Usa's friend,
, was an all-around athlete but a bad experience with the box horse made him afraid to jump the box horse again.
Jun Jun saw his problem and offered to coach him. Jun Jun spent all day with Kyusuke until it was nighttime. Jun Jun told Kyusuke she would help him again tomorrow early in the morning. The next morning, Jun Jun met Kyusuke at the school again. She held up a picture that Zirconia gave her of her new target and compared it to Kyusuke. It was Kyusuke but she continued to help him train anyway. She told him that the only way to get rid of his fear of the box horse was to give him something that scared him more.
A cage appeared around Kyusuke and the box horse suddenly and so did an angry bear! It began to chase Kyusuke and the only out was to jump over the box horse. He ran to the box horse and jumped right over it. He was still scared of the bear but looked back and it was gone. Jun Jun told him that it was an illusion. Kyusuke said that was a mean thing to do but he was happy to have jumped the box horse finally.
Jun Jun said that he got what he wanted so she had something she wanted and then she attacked him. He didn't have the Golden Mirror and, as usual, the Sailor Senshi saved the day. At the track meet later, Kyusuke jumped the box horse with no problem and won first place, thanks to Jun Jun.
A few weeks later, Chibi-Usa and her friends met Hiroki, whose dream was to fly his own handmade airplane bicycle. Chibi-Usa told Pegasus about Hiroki's dream and Pegasus said he wished he could see it but he couldn't because he lived in the Dream World and couldn't fly away. "Where is Dream World, the place that you live in?" Chibi-Usa asked but Pegasus didn't reply.
Just then, Usagi, who heard Chibi-Usa talking to someone, burst into Chibi-Usa's room. Mamoru's phone was busy and Usagi demanded to know if Chibi-Usa was talking to Mamoru on the phone in such a lovey-dovey voice. Chibi-Usa said she wasn't and reminded Usagi that she had told her earlier that Mamoru would be on the internet all day. Usagi left laughing at herself. Chibi-Usa said to herself, "Pegasus is my little secret."
The next day, Chibi-Usa brought Pegasus' globe in a picnic basket to the park so he could see Hiroki's plane. Pegasus was very impressed by the plane and that Hiroki made it all by himself. However, Hiroki's plane did not fly again and he crashed. Ami and Kyusuke offered to help make changes to the plane so it had a better chance to fly because they all wanted to help Hiroki make his dream come true. Momoko said, "It's nice to have friends you can share anything with." Chibi-Usa looked down at the picnic basket with a sort of sad look.
That night, Chibi-Usa asked Pegasus, "Are we friends?"
"Do you like me?" Pegasus asked.
"Yes, I know I can share anything with you...but I don't know anything about you. You don't tell me anything about yourself."
"I'm sorry. I can't tell you anything yet. I am here with you. That should be enough for now."
"But if we are friends, we should be able to talk about anything. You don't really think I'm your friend, do you?"
Pegasus looked sad and said, "If you don't believe in me, I can't stay with you. You have to trust me."
Suddenly, the globe disappeared. That night, Chibi-Usa stood on a bridge and wondered why Pegasus didn't tell her anything. "I thought we understood each other," she thought. Mamoru found Chibi-Usa and offered to take her home since it was already late. As they walked home, Chibi-Usa asked Mamoru about times when he fought with Usagi. Usagi, who was looking for Chibi-Usa, ran into them.
"Where have you been, Chibi-Usa? I'll take you home from here," Usagi said.
"No," Chibi-Usa refused and was still upset about Pegasus. "You're so dumb! You always look in my room and spy on what I'm doing!"
Usagi seemed surprised by Chibi-Usa's strong reaction. "I'm just worried about you. You seem like you have a lot on your mind lately."
"Don't butt in!" Chibi-Usa was really angry. "I have secrets that I can't tell you, okay?" After Chibi-Usa said that, she remembered that Pegasus said there were things that he couldn't tell her and now she understood.
Usagi looked hurt. "Okay...I'll wait for you at home then. Please don't stay out too late." Usagi left.
The next day, Chibi-Usa was sitting on the hill, watching Hiroki and the others work on the plane. Hiroki was very happy that everyone helped him because he did more than he could have ever done by himself. "I'm glad we can trust each other," he said. Chibi-Usa remembered how Pegasus asked her to trust him and that she knew now that she hadn't. She began to cry and said, "I'm sorry, Pegasus."
Just then, Ves Ves attacked Hiroki and sent a lemure to fight the Super Sailor Senshi. Super Sailor Moon told Super Sailor Chibi Moon to call Pegasus but Chibi Moon remembered how the globe disappeared and said, "Pegasus won't come anymore!" Super Sailor Moon told Chibi Moon that she had to believe in herself and in Pegasus. Chibi Moon remembered again how Pegasus told her to trust him and she decided to believe. She used the Crystal Carillon, Pegasus came, and Super Sailor Moon defeated the lemure. Before he left, Pegasus told Chibi Moon, "As long as you believe in your dreams, I will be with you."
After Hiroki recovered from the attack, he tried to fly his plane off the hill once again and this time he flew! Chibi-Usa thought to herself that it was because of the power of believing. "I believe in Pegasus because it is the power of believing that brought us together," she thought. "It's a miracle in itself." At that moment, Pegasus' globe reappeared on Chibi-Usa's desk in her room.
Sailor Moon SuperS, Part III
Return to Tokyo
The events of "Sailor Moon SuperS" movie.
The Coming-of-Age Ceremony is held once a year in Japan to celebrate all the people who are having their 20th birthday that year.
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This traditional style Steak House has brought a new dimension to the Old Town and fills a niche in Constanta as a place to have a really top quality Steak. Operated by Andrei Dusu and his team, its standards are high.
The restaurant itself has beautiful decor, dark wooden floors and tables to match with comfortable red velvet banquet seating at the window tables and around the walls. Upstairs there is another large seating area which can be booked for private functions.


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The esteemed sites of the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur and the Ahhichatragarh Fort in Nagaur open their doors to showcase their extraordinary sacred and historical musical journey.
The World Sacred Spirit Festival is highly acknowledged as it features an impressive line-up of artists in a royal environment. Some of the star attractions to enchant the guests are as follows:
Amjad Ali Khan with Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan from India
Daud Khan Sadozai from Afghanistan
Andrés Marín with Divana from Spain
Deveshi Sahgal from India
Driss El Maloumi | Oud from Morocco
Fanna-Fi-Allah from Canada, U.S.A, Pakistan, India
Madan Gopal Singhji from India
Sardar Gurdayal Singh from India
Stelios Petrakis Quartet from Greece
Sheikh Yasîn al-Tuhâmi from Egypt
About Mehrangarh Museum Trust: The Mehrangarh Museum Trust (MMT) was established in 1972 by His Highness Maharaja Gaj Singh II of Jodhpur, with the objective of creating a museum of international standard in Jodhpur.
Many new dimensions and activities have been added in the intervening years, including patronage of art, music, and local handicrafts, study and research, and the establishment of the ICI Conservation Centre. The Museum has participated in many international exhibitions, including the Garden & Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur exhibit which toured to major museums in the U.S., U.K., and Australia in 2008-2010.
Other projects include the continuous restoration of Mehrangarh Fort, the revitalization of the royal cenotaphs at Jaswant Thada, and the restoration of traditional water bodies and city walls. The Trust has also restored the 12th century Fort of Ahichhatragarh at Nagaur, work which has been honoured by the UNESCO-ASIA PACIFIC Award for Excellence.
When & Where
Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, February 26th – February 27th
Contact: 91 291 2548992
Bookings can be made online. Tickets will also be on sale at the venue.


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July 2017
Techies, clinicians, students, amateurs and professionals came together for two days to build solutions designed to help the NHS and patients. Martin Cooper AMBCS reports.
The seventeenth NHS Hack Day took place in Manchester on 15 and 16 of July 2017.
The event was held at The Federation - the new home of Co-op's digital production team, an open community for digital business and innovation. Federation also houses the national collection of Post-In notes.
'It's an unofficial software development day for the NHS,' said Dr Marcus Baw, an NHS Hack Day founder, explaining the meetup's ethos. 'It allows us to step outside our everyday constraints - as clinicians and techies. It lets us come together and to focus on some new problems.'
'Quite often, as resource strained clinicians, we don't get time to consider the nicer stuff,' Dr Baw continued. 'At NHS Hack Day we can think about the fun things. And then we can spend two days learning about the problem and building a solution.'
A wide mix of people attended, not just hardened coders and geeks. They were there but so too were healthcare practitioners, students, CCIOs, academics, CIOs, data scientists - interested people from all walks of professional and amateur life.
NHS Hack Days follow a rough process:
By design there's very little structure or pre-agreed process. The ethos is very much one of a do-acracy - just do it and see what happens. As such teams borrow people. Skills are asked for and shared.
NHS Hack Day 17's ideas whiteboard saw ideas like:
Other projects explored how NHS public data can be modelled, explored and shared so it generates benefits for everyone.
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A.M. Costa Rica/Saray Ramírez VindasFiremen on snorkle platforms inspect the charred top floors for hotspots after blaze was controlled.
Fire eats through two floors
of downtown building
By Saray Ramírez Vindas
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Fire tore through the fourth and fifth floors of a downtown office building Thursday and paralyzed city
The top two floors of the structure contained a language school and an Internet cafe. The structure did not have fire escapes or fire detectors or any system for emergency, said Hector Chávez, chief of the Cuerpo de Bomberos.
He said the fire was under control by 6:40. p.m., and firemen begin studying how the blaze began. The building also contained a storage area for fabrics. Chávez said firemen used as little water as possible to avoid damage to the lower floors. The bulk of the damage was caused by smoke as well as water.
Firemen had to break out windows to find out where the fire was. They used two snorkels to get at the fourth and fifth floor, one snorkel on the north and one on the east. Every unit in the San José area came to the scene, as well as a host of ambulances and other rescue vehicles.
Police closed Avenida 2, a major route south of the blaze, and Avenida 1 in the north. The closures hamstrung evening traffic for hours.
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Reader wants action
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Dear A.M. Costa Rica:
The public auto-de'-fe of Paraguays' ex president is a refreshing reminder that occasionally even the mighty and rich 'rendir cuentas.' It now remains to be seen what Costa Rica's Nobel laureate president will do to change the perennial laissez faire culture of corruption in his own backyard.
For starters, he could demonstrate his sincerity to end corruption by stopping the laughable judicial prevarication [on behalf] of two other ex-presidents. He might even consider judicial reforms which would penalize their deeds with confiscation, and substantial "multas," etc.
After that, he could jump start the numberless languishing cases, viz.,Villalobos, which make a mockery of justice and, do nothing for Costa Rica's international image.
As things stand, all the Tico has seen and heard is rhetoric, a wisp of smoke, and three monkeys framed in their customary poses.
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|A great new plan for addresses replaces Tico style
|It happens over and
over when
you live abroad. You learn to accept the relativity of
everything. Not the interconnectedness of us all, which exists,
but the fact that there are no absolutes. Even logic is relative to the
culture in which you live.
Recently, Costa Rica decided to change its method of locating street addresses. It estimates it will take between 10 and 15 years to do so. Anyone who lives here or has visited knows the quaint system of getting around in Costa Rica. It is all based upon landmarks (some of which no longer exist), meters and the points of the compass.
Thus the beginning of my address is "from the ICE building 100 meters west." Taxistas have trouble finding my very large apartment building. They often explain to me how I should give my address. I listen carefully as they rattle it off and nod appreciatively — and don't say that that is exactly the address I have given to the dispatcher.
I don't know the name of my street, although it must be an avenue because it runs east and west and is parallel to the Avenida de las Americas. I tried to find my building on Google Earth, but without a street name, I couldn't. Now the powers that be want to make more precise the way addresses are found. Okay.
Let me say right here that the city of San José is laid out very "logically." It is divided into four sections by Avenida Central and Calle Central.
Avenida Central runs east to west and (logically) divides the avenues. On the north side of Central Avenue all of the avenues are odd numbers, and on the south side they are even numbered. The streets begin with Calle Central which runs north and south and the streets on the east side of Calle Central are odd numbered and those on the west side are even numbered. Very logical.
The problem is, there may not be signs on the streets and avenues, and many of the buildings are not numbered. So addresses are found by relating them to well-known landmarks and distances according to the compass points. A block is usually considered to be 100 meters.
Twenty-two is the number of meters someone has paced off from
the corner to your building. From my reading, I
could not figure out how one was to know whether it was east west north
or south of the intersection, except that they will use the lower
number to indicate — no, I don't think that is it. I'll let
mailmen and women figure it out.
I wonder wouldn't it be easier to
number the buildings? For me, yes, because I am used to
that. But
perhaps for the Costa Rican, who is accustomed to meters, this is a
nice transition.
I recently asked my friend Jerry where the National Library
was. He
sent me the address ala the Tico method. He said it is between
15 and 17, Avenues 3 and 3B in San Jose. I was trying to imagine
and the last sentence zeroed in on it for me: "The northside of the
National Park."
My advice to the powers that be who plan to
change how addresses are found: Really, don't bother.
|Raid in Heredia leads to arrrest of four in case of stolen
ICE cables
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Four men face allegations that they put upscale areas in Heredia in the dark by stealing the copper cable that carried the power.
Investigations said that some 820 persons were without electrical and telephone service for 132 hours when a gang took more than 3 kilometers of copper cable that was in the network of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad.
Investigators were working on more than eight cases for eight months to make the arrests Wednesday. The value of the stolen cable was 18 million colons. That's more than $35,000.
|The raid Wednesday was
in the El Tirol. The sections that were without
power when thieves stole the cable were Monte de la Cruz, El Tirol and
Residencial El Castillo, agents said.
The four men detained ranged in age from 28 to 37 years. Agents said they found a lot of evidence during the raid, including copper cable and insulation material with markings from the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad.
Agents have been focusing on the theft of copper cable for about five months. They have made several raids on locations that appear to be salvage yards collecting the cable for shipment out of the country, mostly to Asia.
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|Chile's new president pays a call on George Bush
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
President George Bush and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet say they are working together to improve social conditions in South America. It was their first meeting since her January election.
President Bush welcomed the new Chilean leader to the Oval Office, hoping to build on warm relations with the previous Socialist government in Santiago.
While U.S. relations with other Latin American leftists, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales, are often strained, President Bush has found a commercial and political ally in Chile — an ally he hopes to keep in President Bachelet.
"I appreciate very much your dedication to values that are important: human rights and human decency, the right for people to be able to speak freely and to vote," said Bush.
President Bush told President Bachelet that America shares that same sense of social justice and focus on education. He says it is very important for the United States to remain engaged in South America and continue good relations with Chile.
President Bachelet, a former political prisoner and defense minister, says it is her intention to continue that relationship.
|"We have political,
commercial relationships. We really are happy about how our relations
have developed, and we have
talked and shared opinions about how we can build a region in peace,
about how we can fight together against poverty, for social justice,
how we can help strengthen democracy in the region, and how we can look
after issues as energy innovation, education, health and so on," added
Ms. Bachelet.
A 2004 free trade agreement between the countries has boosted commercial ties as the Bush administration has heralded capitalism in Santiago as a model for the region.
On a visit to the capital in November of 2004, President Bush also praised Chile's privatized pension system as a model for how he would like to change America's federal retirement program.
There are differences, chiefly Chile's support for an International Criminal Court that President Bush opposes. There is also Venezuela's campaign to fill the Latin America/Caribbean seat on the U.N. Security Council, a post that Washington would rather see filled by Guatemala.
Ms. Bachelet also visited a school outside Washington, which she attended in the early 1960s, when her father was the military attaché at the Chilean Embassy.
|Battle over pulp mill on Uruguay-Argentine border aired in
The Hague
By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Argentina has called on the United Nations' highest court to order that Uruguay halt construction of two pulp mills along their joint border. The argument was made Thursday before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The court is holding two days of hearings on the issue.
A representative for Argentina alleged that the mills, which are being constructed along the Uruguay River, would emit dangerous toxins that would damage the
|fragile river ecosystem
and threaten the health of residents.
But a professor representing Uruguay dismissed the claim, saying Argentina had not presented any evidence to substantiate its argument. He said Uruguay's first priority with the pulp mills is to protect the environment and the health of the residents on both sides of the river.
The Argentine government also accuses Uruguay of violating a treaty that calls for the nations to consult the other about any action related to the river.
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Anybody here have some ?
You're aware of the ShowPortal? You need to have bought your FB3 off a registered retailer to gain access. There are heaps of free sequences there - the package of "Fibonacci" ones I've found great for hardcore.
Also I'd suggest running at a really high bpm and using a lot of the Colour, Multiplier, Transforming 'live' FXs manually or on Virtual LJ mode.
Best to have a few pages of rapidly changing hot beam, cone & sheet sequences, the slowly changing and static don't work well with hardcore unless you put them in the timeline and alternative them quickly to make up sequences.
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Thomas Moore's seminal work is a philosophical treatise. The title summarizes the theme--personal care of one's own uniqueness and of the special way our souls nurture us. Moore draws heavily on mythology, theology and psychology in his ideas, which are ecumenical though Moore is openly Roman Catholic. His ideas invite concentration and reflection, not easily produced while driving or exercising. Furthermore, Nelson Runger's smooth, dry, controlled voice lacks the passion necessary to sustain interest in this abstract topic. This book is not suited for unabridged audio. It craves the printed page, notes in margins and quiet space. In audio, Moore's work is more effective in abridged form, especially when read by the author. D.W.K. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: NOV 95]
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Fifty years ago last night I watched ex-Newcastle United goalie Ronnie 'The Cat' Simpsonget his medal for being part of the first British team to win the European Cup, the great Celtic team managed by Jock Stein. They beat Inter Milan 2-1. I watched the game on TV with great friends- still great friends – as Celtic showed the rest of the UK how to win the greatest competition in club football.
I remember watching Ronnie Simpson at every home game from when I was fourteen until he left, surprisingly turning up at Celtic when his best playing days were supposedly over. Simpson was tiny for a keeper by today's standards, only 5 feet 9 inches but he wasn't known as The Cat for nothing. Ronnie Simpson was extremely agile, twisting and turning in impossible directions stopping what should have been stunning goals.
So united fans we may be a long way from winning the European Cup – but with Rafa in charge and as long as Ashley lets him get on with the job in peace it's a little bit closer than before, if you need one more thing to beat your Sunderland friends with (my oldest friend is one) just remind them that Ronnie Simpson, ex- United star goalie was a member of the first British team to win the European Cup.


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According to manufacturer's literature, dizziness is listed as a common adverse effect of indapamide; likely to affect at least 5% of patients who take it.
Additionally, the manufacturer advises to allow a 4 week initiation phase of indapamide in order to gain the most from your medication. If it has been longer than 4 weeks since you have been initiated on indapamide, you would be likely to be on the maintenance phase where they increase the dose to 2.5mg daily. If you feel as though your blood pressure isn't particularly stable, I recommend you report this to your GP for an assessment. Additionally, you may benefit from taking your blood pressure monitor to the practice nurse to ensure it is correctly calibrated and recording accurately.
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Robert "Bob" H. Young Jr., age 90, passed away at Orchard Creek Supportive Care on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. He was surrounded by family and loved ones.
He was born May 16, 1921, in Saginaw, to Robert and Grace Young.
Bob's formal education included Grand Rapids Junior College followed by General Motors Institute where he completed his engineering studies after returning from World War II. During the war, Bob served as a master sergeant in an intelligence unit which contained primarily Japanese Americans involved in communication intercepts.
After the war and completion of his college education, he joined A.P. Engelhart Company in Flint as a heating engineer and continued to work there in various positions before buying the company with his brother in-law, Jack Engelhart, in the late 1960s. Bob continued to work at A.P. Engelhart even after they sold the business in the 1970s and worked in various leadership positions for the various companies that owned A.P. Engelhart until his retirement in 1986.
From early in life, Bob was known for his service to others. He held many volunteer leadership positions in several organizations in which he served including the American Supply Association, the Kiwanis Club and many other charitable activities. His strongest volunteer passion was for both the Boy Scouts and the National Ski Patrol.
Bob was an Eagle Scout and served the Scouting organization through the majority of his life including chairing the Explorer Program and as vice president of the Tall Pine Council. His contributions were recognized when he received the prestigious Golden Eagle Award from the Boy Scouts, for 25 years of continuous service to Scouting and the community.
Bob joined the National Ski Patrol in 1949 and was deeply involved in the growing of this young organization. He held many leadership positions including Central Divisional director, national treasurer and national board of directors.
His love of the outdoors was fulfilled by spending time golfing, playing tennis, downhill skiing and cross country skiing. He was blessed with many beautiful friends whom he loved spending time with. His greatest love and joy was his beloved wife, Corinne, who predeceased him last year, and his family and being together with them.
Bob is survived by his five children, Robert H. Young III (Diane), Barbara J. Miller, Gregory A. Young (Diana), Stephen B. Young (Sandra) and Timothy F. Young (Kathy), along with 12 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, brother and sister-in-law, Jack and Clarice Engelhart, sister-in-law, Helen Stuntz, and nieces and nephews.
Bob was also preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Mary Jane Pfander.
Bob was known for his life of service to others and his devotion to his family.
A memorial Mass will take place at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 2, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church Mapleton, 13400 Center Road, Traverse City, Mich. 49686, (231) 223-4303, where the family will greet friends starting at 10:30 a.m.
Memorial contributions can be given to Christ Child Society and Walloon Lake Library.
The family would like to offer their deepest thanks to the staff at Orchard Creek Supportive Care that so loved and cared for both their dear mother and father.
Visit Bob's web page at www.lifestorynet.com to sign the guest book and share a message or memory with his family. The family chose Life Story Funeral Home, Traverse City, to handle the arrangements.


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Finance minister Atom Janjughazyan doesn't clarify whether or not the 2019 budget will include salary and pension raise.
Armenian finance minister doesn't rule out wage, pension increase in 2019 budget
STEPANAKERT, JULY 26, ARTSAKHPRESS-ARMENPRESS: Asked by reporters today ahead of the Cabinet meeting whether the next year's budget will be based on an increase of wages and pensions, the minister replied : "There are no significant differences yet from the recently approved midterm spending plan in the version which is under discussion".
He advised to take a look at the midterm spending plan and the main expected indicators for 2019. "I recommend you to study the documents," he said when asked whether or not social spending will increase.
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Quotes of the Week: The Palace apologizes, Manny Pacquiao puts his faith in God + others
The city's most interesting soundbites this week
(SPOT.ph) This week: ma-traffic. Instead of people reflecting on the impact of the People Power Revolution, the gridlock the "celebration" caused took centerstage. Is someone in the Palace taking notes? Or do they just...uh, not care?
Other important events: the Oscars, the final Senate hearing on Mamasapano, and Emma Watson is not dating Prince Harry. Boo. All of that-in quotes!
1. "Humihingi kami ng paumanhin sa ating mga kababayan na naipit sa traffic dulot ng pagsasara ng mga daan [noong Miyerkules]." - Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr., on the brilliant idea to close portions of EDSA on Wednesday, without a proper rerouting scheme.
2. "I had been lied to." - President Benigno Aquino III, quoted by House Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora regarding the text messages he received from Alan Purisima.
We feel the same, sir.
3. "I think fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things." - Director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, on fear.
Not sure if we're supposed to cheer or wonder if this is a step back in the promotion of safer sex.
4. "Marrying a prince [is] not prerequisite for being a princess." - Actress Emma Watson, on the rumors that she is dating Prince Harry.
In the real world, it is.
5. "It appears that the operation was poorly planned from the start [and] to make matters worse, there was an undeniable breakdown of both leadership and command and control in the PNP." - Senator Grace Poe, after the final Senate hearing on the Mamasapano "Misencounter."
...now what?
6. "The Senator did not escape. He sought permission from the HSS [Headquarters Support Service] and he was allowed to leave. The HSS has explained the issue." - Chief Superintendent Generoso Cerbo Jr., on the allegations that Senator Bong Revilla snuck out to attend Senator Juan Ponce Enrile's alleged birthday party.
So it wasn't an accident? And what's this we hear that Senator Jinggoy Estrada also visited Senator Enrile?
7. "If the people won't be able to cheer [on] Manny because power is out, they will jeer the government." - Senator Ralph Recto, on why the Department of Energy needs to make sure that they fix our "power" problems.
If a boxing match is what it takes to fix the energy crisis, we're in serious trouble.
8. "I would rather believe the President than Purisima. The President said na nagsinungaling siya, it's the word of the President against Purisima's. I would rather believe the President." - Senator Franklin Drilon, on the issue of word against word.
Ah, talaga? The President said he's nagsisinungaling? OMG. That's so, like, wrong. But is this the way the truth works? Or, parang, the truth is true kahit nobody is making paniwala.
9. "I believe, God will deliver him into my hands. His defeat would make him realize that fame, money and material possessions are nothing without God in our life." - Saranggani Represenative and Pambansang Kamao Manny Pacquiao, on his fight with Floyd Mayweather.
Is this a boxing match or a beauty pageant?
10. "Well I don't feel that one fight defines my legacy. To me, it's just another day. It's just another fight." - Floyd Mayweather, on his fight with Manny Pacquiao.
Thar be balls! Balls ho!
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It was a long travel day! We had to be at the airport for eight this morning and we didn't get into our hotel rooms until seven this evening, after which we went out for dinner. I couldn't wait to get a shower and fall into bed. It's funny when you travel without your family. Of course, you miss them, but at the same time, you relish the time you'll get on your own. I can blog, read, write, or watch television without interruption. Did I mention I'm in a very nice hotel room which I don't have to clean? It can't get much better than this.
Of course, my heart strings took a little beating when I talked to my six-year-old. She was very cheerful, her dad was struggling with her hair, and the teenager was caught in between. I know they'll survive the next few days, but the vanity in all mothers hopes they'll miss me just a bit.
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Chipotle (CMG) will post its first ever quarterly loss.
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Chipotle says it will report a loss of $1 per share.
Chipotle reports after the bell tomorrow Tuesday April 26th.
In January, same-store sales declined by 36.4%
In February, same-store sales declined by 26.1%
Chipotle has given away free burritos.
It's had BOGO offers.
But 1 burrito, get 1 free.
It gave away free chips & guacamole for playing an online game.
Today it sent out a text.
Get a free burrito if you buy a $25 gift card at Chipotle's before June 10th.
The E. Coli outbreak has drastically impacted earnings.
Last year it reported earnings of $2.88 per share.
Compare that with a projected loss of $1.04 per share.
Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) and Panera Bread (PNRA) also report after the bell Tuesday April 26th.
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I read a humorous story about a woman who fell out of a second-floor window and landed in a slow-moving garbage truck. Half-buried in the litter, she tried without success to get the truck-driver's attention. A foreign diplomat standing on the sidewalk saw her and quipped, "another example of how wasteful Americans are. That woman looks like she's good for at least another 10 years." - Source Unknown.
Work hard, and you will have a lot of food; waste time, and you will have a lot of trouble. - Proverbs 28:19 CEV
How would you like to spend 2 years making phone calls to people who aren't home? Sound absurd? According to one time management study, that's how much time the average person spends trying to return calls to people who never seem to be in. Not only that, we spend 6 months waiting for the traffic light to turn green, and another 8 months reading junk mail. These unusual statistics should cause us to do time-use evaluation. Once we recognize that simple "life maintenance" can chip away at our time in such huge blocks, we will see how vital it is that we don't busy ourselves "in vain" (Ps 39:6).
Psalm 39 gives us some perspective. In David's complaint to God, he said, "You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You" (V. 5). He meant that to an eternal God our time on earth is brief. And He doesn't want us to waste it. When we do, we throw away one of the most precious commodities He gives us. Each minute is an irretrievable gift--and unredeemable slice of eternity.
Sure, we have to make the phone calls, and we must wait at the light. But what about the rest of our time? Are we using it to advance the cause of Christ and to enhance our relationship with Him? Is our time well spent? - Source Unknown.
Loving Father, Help me by the power of the Holy Spirit, to be a good steward of the time that you have given me, help me not to waste it, but to use it productively for the Kingdom, and for your glory. I ask this in the wonderful and mighty name of Jesus. Amen.
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Fun to me is any list that is a departure from what I may normally play. So normally it's Grey Hunters in Rhino's, Long Fangs galore, throw in melta and a Rune Priest or two and BAM!
That has gotten bit tired. I need to mix it up, keep it fresh :-)
I've got alot on the paint table, and with some time freed up, need to get it organized and take some pictures. Keep an eye out.
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Faculty members, of course, can see individual and group student feedback through their faculty portals. However, FLAGS feedback is also important for academic advisors, the student support services staff and resource center staff. These groups can view feedback from both tools for individual students or groups of students (through AdRx, Advising Records) or for an entire campus or the entire university (through Decision Support tools--see the Tools link to the left).
For an individual student, the appearance of an icon at the top right of a student's AdRx record will immediately alert you that the student has feedback; click it for the details.
For the Student Engagement Roster (SER), once you click on the "feedback" icon, you're taken to the individual student's feedback page. On this page, a special panel on the left provides a summary of the student's feedback. Advisors and others can also check the box here to indicate they have reviewed the feedback.
At this point in time, there is no way to identify multiple students with SER feedback in Advising Records (AdRx). Instead, advisors will need to use a special Decision Support environment report developed specifically for this purpose. This report is available in the FLAGS dashboard (see links to left under Tools).
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In Oklahoma, there are big possibilities for success in real estate career, the main objective from schools of real estate in Oklahoma is to enhance your knowledge in the real estate business so you will become a recognized real estate agent. We have compiled the information of 2 real estate schools in Oklahoma with their respective location map and contact information.
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As a responsible home owner, you will find our guttering in Edgware NW7 fundamental to the safety of your premises. The dedicated professionals will eliminate a risk which is often underestimated. Without regular debris removal, gutters and downpipes can easily get clogged. The consequences always complicate the situation – the pipes can overflow to the point of falling off. The water damage itself can bring mould and fungi, leak into the wooden frames of your windows, and also leave unsightly stains on your walls. Unfortunately, the rotting leafs and the moisture inside clogged gutters make the perfect breeding ground for different pests – centipedes, rats, cockroaches, and so forth.
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Access Hire specialise in the hire of Vehicle Mounted Access Platforms ('VMAPs') and other specialist vehicles to core markets including Power, Telecommunications, Local Authorities and leading utility and infrastructure businesses.
We continue to invest expressively in Vehicle Mount Access with the philosophy of providing a market leading fleet, supported by a knowledgeable and experienced team who are passionate in providing rigorous service support standards.
Focussing on markets we understand; Access Hire has progressed to be a market leading business and is considered a specialist in its field. We are proud to be a chosen and integral service partner, supporting most infrastructure businesses across the UK.
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We offer a wide range of terms to help you keep your budget on track; you can arrange for long term use with our contact hire packages, or simply hire your access equipment on a daily or weekly basis. We are committed to delivering a service that fits your individual needs, so let us know what you are looking for and we'll do everything we can to provide the right vehicle on terms to suit you.
Once your terms have been agreed, we will arrange for collection/delivery of your access equipment – and once you have taken control of the vehicle, our support does not stop there; we offer vehicle familiarisation, breakdown and emergency response services, plus technical help from our experts too.


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Yancy Weinrich, industry vice president, JCK Events, has recently been inducted into the 24 Karat Club of the City of New York. Weinrich's induction marks the 22nd woman to be elected to its current membership.
Weinrich currently serves as industry vice president for JCK Events which includes JCK Las Vegas, LUXURY by JCK and Swiss Watch by JCK. Weinrich is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the JCK Events that include industry relationships building, sales and marketing.
Weinrich is currently the national president of the Womens Jewelry Association and also serves on the Jewelry Leadership Forum. She has served on the dinner committee of the 24k Club of Southern California and served for many years as a GIA career counselor.


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Keynote – Dr Natasha Mayo: The Sensorial Object, The Curation of an ExhibitionPosted: October 16, 2014 Filed under: Constellation Leave a comment
During this keynote, it was really interesting to get the opinion of a maker about the curation of an exhibition because, as Natasha said, hearing it from the point of view of a gallery employee or an academic, you are unlikely to get the same passion for materials, which I think is very important for the viewer/listener.
I am looking forward to January, when the exhibition comes to the gallery in the bay because it will be interesting to see some more ceramics, which are never really something I have come into that much contact with, nor did I think I was very interested in them. However after stating at CSAD, meeting ceramics students and discussing their discipline with them (and now listening to this lecture in which Natasha showed some examples and video clips of ceramicists in practice) I have realised that before I wasn't being very open minded to the medium, thinking it was just 'pots' and not much more. Now I am very keen to try it out and it may be something that I explore during the field module next term.


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How to Clean a Former Smokers House
Many people who smoke will not smoke inside their homes because they know that the odor lingers in the air and the tar clings to the walls. When you attend open houses and look at properties for sale though, you may come across a few homes that belonged to former smokers. Someone who smoked inside that house for a decade or longer and smoked just a few cigarettes every day probably don't even notice the scent anymore. If you buy one of these homes at a bargain and want to know how to get rid of that odor, there are some great remedies you can try.
Tackle the Walls
Getting rid of that tobacco odor starts with a thorough cleaning of the walls. Once you see the home in natural light, you'll likely notice yellow and brown streaks on the walls. Those streaks come from the nicotine, tar and other ingredients found in cigarettes. You can usually get rid of those streaks with hot water and ordinary soap. If the streaks still cling to the walls, mix a little dish soap or laundry detergent and distilled white vinegar into the water. Use scrub brush to apply the mixture to the walls.
Prime and Paint
After thoroughly cleaning the walls and letting those surfaces dry, you will need to prime and paint each wall. There are now a few different primers that manufacturers design for those who want to trap and seal odors into the walls. After applying one coat of primer, let it dry overnight before coming back to the home. If you can still smell the scent coming off the walls, apply a second coat of primer. The primer will both seal the cigarette odors inside the walls and cover the odor. You can then apply as many coats of paint as you want on those walls.
Steam Clean Carpets
When you buy a house owned by a former smoker, you may need to replace all the fabrics and linens inside the house, including the carpets and any heavy drapes or curtains. Before tearing out all those fabrics though, use a steam cleaner filled with a deodorizing cleaner to clean all fabrics. Going over the carpets two or more times may significantly reduce that odor or remove the odor completely. If you can still smell cigarette smoke in the house, you may need to rip out the carpets and remove any other linens.
Air Out the House
Airing out the house is another great way to lessen the odor left behind by years of cigarettes. While doing yard work around the house or working in the garage, open all the doors and windows. The breeze that flows through the house will do a great job of carrying out some of the cigarette odors and making the house smell great again. When you can't be around to keep an eye on the house, keep the doors and windows closed by use deodorizing products inside. Unlike air fresheners that mask odors and may make the house smell worse, deodorizing products neutralize and remove odors caused by smoking, pets and other sources.
Some smokers do not realize how much cigarettes affect their homes, including the way those cigarettes leave behind tar marks on the walls and how the odors penetrate all areas of the home. Many people refuse to buy these homes because they think that they cannot get rid of those odors. Simple remedies like airing out the house, renting a steam cleaner, using deodorizing products and both cleaning and painting the walls can eliminate all those odors.


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"The practice of cow tipping is generally considered an urban legend…"
Well, there goes my weltanschauung! What other bucket list items of my (not) misspent youth are also urban legends?
"Streaking?" No, actually that was a well documented thing in the early 1970s. We actually had someone streak a high school basketball game in my Vermont home town. While he was wearing a ski mask or something to make himself less instantly recognizable, most of us knew who it was. It was not the huge mass hysteria that the oh-so-very-NOT-liberal-mainstream-media of the day made it seem, but it was more commonplace on college campuses ("Thank you, Captain Obvious!") and in places like Southern California.
"The Chicken Gun?" I can't say if it's really true or not, but I first heard of it from a close, trusted friend (we still miss you, Gary!) who happened to be working at a naval base in California where they actually did the testing. I'm not saying that he was pulling my leg, telling a tall tale, or even just passing on a story he had heard, but I'm willing to give this one a solid "maybe."
Most of the urban legends out there are either so ridiculous (the babysitter and the phone call that's coming from inside the house!), so bizarre (Mr. Rodgers was an ex-Navy SEAL sniper with dozens of kills), or so simply freakin' STUPID (on {insert date here} Mars will look as big as the full moon!) that they don't get more than about two seconds' thought from me. And I always check Snopes first. (If we could just get a built-in "Snopes/bullshit filter" for FaceBook…)
That's one of the problems with the current Presidential campaign. A good number of things that are actually being said are so bizarre that you would at first just figure it was some cockamamie satire or joke spreading around the internet. But when you see the quote or the story in the New York Times, and Reuters, and on CNN, and every other legitimate news outlet, it must be true. You'll even see the video.
"Huh, he really DID say that! Damn! And he's still in the Presidential race!! I wonder what Howard Dean thinks about that?"
With any little snippet being bizarre enough to be true, and every good urban legend containing the seed of truth, we're now seeing a flood of full blown satire articles and urban legends being passed around social media, all taken as fact. Today's favorite of mine comes from Ted Cruz's time as attorney general of Texas, when he defended a law banning sex toys. The short version is that he said there was no Constitutional right to masturbate.
But now I've seen a couple of stories that blow that one little bit into a whole diatribe, where the scourge of American masturbation that's sweeping the continent is a bigger threat than ISIS.
Wouldn't our world be a better place if more people went out tipping cows and spent less time idolizing bizarro whack jobs as "leaders?"


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Client is a wine cellar management company which organizes and manages cellars for its clients at various locations.
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- Client is a wine cellar management company which organizes and manages cellars for its clients at various locations
- Client provides one to one consultation on collections, inventory appreciation and inventory value as well as provides cellar management and shipments
- Main pain areas were tracking the inventory, managing shipments from purchase locations, providing shipment and inventory visibility to clients
- Shipment automation for B2B and B2C locations
- Automation and integrated alerts based on individual state limits and governing laws
- Web access to clients and internal employees
- Ability to ship form purchase location
- Automated shipment label generation and packaging instruction slip generation
- Tracking of shipments, arrivals and acceptance of the shipments
- Inventory management, tracking of individual cases and bottles
- Shipment tracking between locations and auto inventory updates
- Role based access management to clients, employees and cellar managers.


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Man Without Country "Puppets (Error Operator Remix)"
Here, London up-and-comer Error Operator (pictured above) has tried his hand at reworking fellow UK outfit Man Without Country, warping the group's "Puppets" tune into something much more XLR8R-friendly. Error Operator strips the original track's live drums in favor of an array of percussion patterns and club-ready kicks and snares, on top of which he drizzles spacey vibraphones and a host of slippery chords. Touches of Man Without Country's vocals come through drenched in effects processing, nonetheless giving the production some pleasant refrains between the instrumental sections of bubbling beat work.
Puppets (Error Operator Remix)


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A secondary school headteacher has added her voice to calls to improve a pedestrian crossing, regularly used by children, which has been branded as dangerous.
The Burnley Express reported earlier that people using the crossing in Padiham Road were "dicing with death" as it did not have the correct signage.
Burnley Coun. Neil Mottershead has demanded action from Lancashire County Council and started a petition for the crossing to be upgraded and made more safe.
He is being supported by the headteacher of the nearby Burnley High School, Victoria Povey, who has said her pupils have had a number of near misses on the road and called for a zebra crossing to be installed.
She said: "My current concerns are that our children run into the middle of the road and wait there to cross the other half of the road.
"The road is very wide and there is only a small waiting area in the centre of the road for children to wait on.
"The road is also very busy and quite often people drive above the speed limit as the road is deceptively like a dual carriageway in places.
"We constantly talk to our students about road safety during assemblies and tutor time and we encourage our students to be as sensible and vigilant as possible when crossing the roads, however we have had a number of near misses where children have not been able to see around a bus or large vehicle and have taken a chance.
"A pedestrian crossing would be ideal, a zebra crossing even would make a huge difference and stop a potential accident."
A number of other schools are situated in the area including Shuttleworth College, St Joseph's Park Hill, and Padiham Primary School.
The Burnley Express reported in October, 2015, that concerned mum Jacqui Booth called for better road safety after her 12-year-old daughter Shannon, a pupil at Shuttleworth, was knocked down by a car on the same stretch of road.
Thankfully, Shannon only suffered minor injuries when she was hit by a vehicle close to Whitegate petrol station.
County Coun. Keith Iddon said: "I have been to see this road with Coun. Mottershead and understand his concerns over this issue.
"However it is the council's policy to prioritise zebra crossings for roads which have had incidents on them to ensure the needs of areas most in need are met.
"I can assure him that the area is on the council's radar and we will continue to monitor Padiham Road."


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Donna Jean Hall Wooten
July 31, 1944 - April 25, 2014
Wallace Funeral Home
Wallace Funeral Home
Forest Memorial Park of Milton, WV
Donna Jean Hall Wooten
Formerly of Nolan, West Virginia
Birth: Jul. 31, 1944
Mingo County
West Virginia, USA
Death: Apr. 25, 2014
Donna Jean Wooten, 69, of Milton, went home to be with her Lord after a long and courageous battle with cancer on Friday, April 25, 2014. She was born July 31, 1944, in Williamson, a daughter of the late Ervin and Ernestine Terry Hall. She is also preceded in death by her first husband Robert Fought.
She is survived by her husband Dan Wooten; one daughter, Lisa Fought; one sister, Judy Smith (Larry); one brother, Barry Hall (Mary Ellen); two nieces, Kelly and Courtney Hall; very special brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Rex and Susie Fought; her sweet baby girl Chloe; her stepson Chris Wooten and his children Cole and Olivia Wooten; and two very special friends, Earl and Janet Canterbury.
She was a member of Lewis Memorial Baptist Church. The family would like to thank Dr. Aneel Chowdhary and the entire staff at the Edwards Cancer Center and the staff of the Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House for their love and support.
Friends may visit from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 27, 2014 at Wallace Funeral Home, Milton. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, April 28, 2014 at Wallace Funeral Home, Milton with Dr. Tim Yates and Dr. David Lemming officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Memorial Park, Milton. Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.timeformemory.com/wallace.
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Ervin Jackson Hall (1919 - 1991)
Ernestine Hall (1925 - 2008)
Robert Edward Fought (1946 - 2004)
Forest Memorial Park
Cabell County
West Virginia, USA