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[50 Cent:]
I don't even wanna answer this shit...Hello?
[Black Child:]
Whattup nigga it's Black
Remember me from way back?
We used to go to school together
Man, I got your number from Heather
She said you sell guns, I got beef I wanna see what you got
And if I like it I'll cop
[50 Cent:]
Damn nigga, you hot
You talkin' like you tryin' to get a nigga knocked
What time is it? Man, it's fuckin' 4 o'clock
I shouldn't sell you shit, but son, meet me on the block
I ain't got time to waste man, where this nigga at?
I'm in the Brown hooptie, there he go, I see 'em
Pullin' up slow in the BM
I popped my trunk to show him what I'm workin' with
First I showed him the TEC
I told him niggas give these shits respect
But you don't want this, man
These shits is known to jam
This is a little smaller here
And a little more common, 9 millimeter Ruger
16 shots, hollow points will go through ya
And this? This here? This is a 12 gauge Mossberg kid
Two shots and you can wet like half a block
This shit here gets my dick hard
It's a Calico, it holds a hundred shots
If you can't kill your beef with this you need to stop
C'mon, pick somethin' now nigga, you know it's hot
[Black Child:]
Man, stop actin' like that nigga, just show me what you got
[50 Cent:]
Aight, nigga look, I got two 380s
One black, one chrome, and 4 Glocks
They all hold 21 shots
Look, I done been through all my shit nigga
So tell me what you want
[Black Child:]
It's hard to choose man, I think I'll take 'em all
[50 Cent:]
Oh, you gon' do me like that?
I got one more piece to show you, my Derringer
I keep it in the small of my back
It's a two shot, it's chrome, my initials engraved in it
Look at you now, you had to get it
Your BM? I'm takin' it, shit, you don't need it
Park it where I can watch it at and see if it got low jack
Then take it to the chop shop to my man Kojak
He gon' give me more cream so I can cop mo' gats
Joe and Duke came through, them niggas copped two TECs
Said "Don't go by the gamblin' spot, that shit gon' get wet"


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Established in 2005, Platinum Recruitment has quickly become a leading hospitality and catering recruitment agency, specialising in the supply of top industry professionals into the Hospitality market.
With dedicated in-house recruitment teams catering for all types of hospitality, ranging from chef jobs to reception, food and beverage to housekeeping and all within hotels, pubs, restaurants and Michelin star kitchens. Platinum Recruitment has both the ability and expertise to offer temporary and permanent careers within every type of hospitality venue.
Working within the service industry, professionalism, empathy and the ability to offer suitable cost effective solutions are paramount. Our core values of being 'respectful to our profession' and 'innovative in our approach' has enabled our hospitality and catering recruitment team to meet those expectations and partner with many of the UKs finest and best known brands. Testimonials from some of these can be viewed below.
"We have worked with Platinum for a number of years and for a variety of positions. They have taken time to get to know us and our needs to ensure they deliver the best level of candidate for the role."
Chewton Glen & Cliveden House – Hampshire
Human Resource Director
"Platinum Recruitment has a great network of hospitality professionals and is always able to help with both temporary and permanent recruitment. Unlike other agencies, Platinum's candidates are always highly qualified for the job and a very good fit for the company."
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Head Chef
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"Platinum Recruitment has a great network of hospitality professionals and is always able to help with both temporary and permanent recruitment. Unlike other agencies, Platinum's candidates are always highly qualified for the job and a very good fit for the company."
Tom Aikens
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Westbeach Restaurant – Bournemouth
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Hospitality Operations Manager
Bournemouth International Centre & Bournemouth Pavilion
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Chef Director
The Pig Hotel Group
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I can easily say that Platinum Recruitment is one of the best staffing agencies I have dealt with."
General Manager
The Bell Inn – New Forest
"Platinum go the extra mile and always provide relevant, fully briefed, quality candidates. They are always professional and have made a real effort to develop and maintain a strong relationship."
General Manager
Fullers, The White Buck – Hampshire
'Food is an enormous part of what we do at Scott Dunn' – "With this in mind, we are always looking for talented, creative and personable chefs to be able to deliver exceptional menus as well as deliver a professional service to our guests. We expect high standards – and we know that Platinum absolutely understand our business requirements and know how to match our needs. Platinum chefs always arrive with a great attitude and are fully briefed on our standards and ethos – offering shared support from the recruitment stages until their arrival overseas."
Head of Overseas HR
Scott Dunn
"Platinum have an excellent understanding of the quality of candidate expected by Four Seasons Hotels. Not only do they deliver on brief, but they ensure you receive frequent updates and can assist at short notice. It has been a real pleasure working with their team."
Senior Recruitment Manager
Four Seasons Hotel – Hampshire
"When you're looking for high quality candidates, Platinum always deliver. The team are helpful and professional and they take a long term view to growing a relationship with each client. I appreciate their efficiency in finding the right candidates and the calibre of people they propose remains consistently high."
Shaun Rankin
"Platinum Recruitment have always provided me with smart, professional and competent staff, even with last minute emergencies. When you need an agency to go the extra mile, look no further. Platinum will never let you down. "
Operations Director
AFC Bournemouth
"We have always found Platinum Recruitment to be extremely accommodating and never fail to provide us with quality, experienced staff.''
Operations Manager
Handpicked Hotels Rhinefield House, Hampshire
"We often find it very difficult to find the right candidates for positions within our business; trusting agencies to find long term candidates that fit our roles can be a challenge. Platinum rise to that challenge, they understand the industry instead of inundating us with CVs, they save us the time by sorting the right professionals for the right jobs."
Rena Gueller – Director
The Box Tree Restaurant – Ilkley
"We mainly use Platinum for recruiting chefs and kitchen staff which is key to our business. It's essential that we use an agency that understands this and the high volume and consistent good quality food operation within Aruba. Platinum take the stress out of seasonally recruiting – we know that we are guaranteed staff that meet our high standards."
Aruba Restaurant and Bar – Bournemouth
"Platinum Recruitment provide the finest candidates for our requirements. They are completely dedicated and their enthusiasm for the industry is clear."
Executive Head Chef
Ellenborough Park – Gloucestershire
"Platinum really listened to my requirements and as a result not only provided me with a candidate with the right skills and qualifications but the right personality for my business."
Le Grand Joux, Luxury Ski Chalet – France
"We have worked with Platinum for a number of years and for a variety of positions. They have taken time to get to know us and our needs to ensure they deliver the best level of candidate for the role."
Human Resource Director
Chewton Glen & Cliveden House – Hampshire
"Unlike a lot of agencies out there I've found Platinum to be very understanding in my needs and they are as passionate about their job as I am about mine. They understand the quality that's needed within my kitchen environment, ensuring only the very best candidates are put forward each time."
Michael Wignall
"Having used Platinum Recruitment for over 6 years now, for both permanent and relief employee's, I cannot fault the service of the team and more so the quality of individuals they send.
No matter how big or small my request, Platinum have always delivered on time and are consistent in communication which is almost as important as the individuals they send.
It is without hesitation I recommend Platinum Recruitment, quite simply the best recruitment agency around.
If you want the right candidate and a quality of cover, look no further."
Operations Manager
Holiday Inn
"Since being involved with Platinum the number one thing that has stood out for us is their ability and desire to strike a personal relationship with us as a client. Platinum make a focussed effort to find out what is really required in our particular business."
Regional HR Manager
Brownsword Hotels
"Platinum Recruitment have, for a number of years, provided Dolphin House Serviced Apartments with temporary staff; and when required, assist with the placement of fulltime applicants. Platinum have consistently (often on short notice) provided staff that continue to offer the Dolphin House experience to guests with a high service expectation."
Assistant Manager
Dolphin Square serviced apartments – London
"Great people to work with, personable and professional individuals who provide a great service and only put forward suitable candidates."
HR Manager
Headland Hotel – Cornwall
"For me, Platinum is the number one agency. The team at Platinum have helped me fill a number of positions within my Michelin star brigade. Normally I don't look to use agencies but with Platinum they're genuinely more interested with the long term placement rather than the numbers game. They are as professional as the people they place in my kitchen. A big thumbs up for the guys."
Mark Jordan
"We have worked with Platinum for both temp and perm staff. The standard of candidates who have been sent through are excellent. The team at Platinum have a great level of understanding of the industry and are quick to respond to ensure the needs of the business are met."
Human Resources Director
The Vineyard – Stockcross
"Platinum are our first port of call for temporary staff and one of our key agencies for permanent recruitment. All the Platinum team are professional and provide great service. Ultimately, they produce results."
General Manager
Macdonald Compleat Angler – Marlow
"Having worked with several agencies, I find Platinum to be amongst the best They understand both mine and the business needs and select only the best candidates to suit.
Finding the right candidate isn't easy, but I have been able to build a strong team of fantastic cooks, each with their own strengths and who share a common goal with big ambitions. I wouldn't have been able to do this without the help and support from Platinum, we have a great working relationship and Platinum are always there to assist whenever needed."
Adam Smith
"I have used Platinum Recruitment for most of my professional career as they always act with the upmost integrity, they take time to get to know the candidates and they know the business enabling them to give me excellent candidate matches."
General Manager
Crowne Plaza London Docklands – London

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EA Announces Monopoly for Wii
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Casual Entertainment Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today released additional details on MONOPOLY (working title), the first Hasbro-branded video game set to launch on next-generation consoles including Wii™ and the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system. MONOPOLY will also be appearing on the PLAYSTATION®2 computer entertainment system as well as mobile phones and Pogo.com™. The multiplatform video game is inspired by Hasbro's highly anticipated MONOPOLY HERE & NOW: The World Edition board game. Currently, the MONOPOLY video games are set to release this fall simultaneously with the global launch of the new board game.
The MONOPOLY video games promise a fresh take on the timeless classic with accessible gameplay for players of all ages and skill levels. The all-new digital gaming edition brings a party twist and features 4-player simultaneous play, ensuring that everyone is engaged and allowing the whole family to get involved in the fun and play together. Faster gameplay eliminates downtime freeing up players to wheel and deal their way through some of the most recognizable cities and landmarks from around the world. Families can fill up their passports as they try to unlock new and never-before-seen game boards or challenge each other to fun interactive mini-games like breaking out of the jail cell and running away with all the loot. Play in offline single or multi-player mode and compete to own it all and win!
"EA is taking MONOPOLY'S core gameplay and bringing it to life in a way never before imagined," said Chip Lange, Vice President and General Manager of EA's Casual Label. "With this dynamic take on Hasbro's classic board game, we've accelerated the pace of play, added new interactive mini-game sequences and integrated multi-player moments designed to make MONOPOLY a non-stop party for the whole family."
"It promises to be a very exciting fall for MONOPOLY fans worldwide," said Mark Blecher, General Manager of Digital Media and Gaming at Hasbro. "EA has done a tremendous job of re-imagining the world's most popular board game by remaining true to the traditional gameplay that millions of consumers have come to love while also creating new digital twists that can only be achieved in an interactive world. Rolling the dice and passing go will never be the same."
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President Trump on Friday indicated that he supported new legislation on "intelligent" background checks for gun purchases after recent mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.
"On background checks, we have tremendous support for really common-sense, sensible, important background checks," Trump told reporters at the White House.
The president said the issue "isn't a question of NRA, Republican or Democrat," and added that he had spoken with the head of the National Rifle Association.
"We will see where NRA will be, but we need meaningful background checks," Trump said. "We don't want people who are mentally ill, people who are sick, having guns."
Trump touted his "great relationship" with the gun rights group, despite his apparent willingness to break from it on gun legislation.
"They supported me very early and that's been a great decision they made — we have Justice Kavanaugh, we have Justice Gorsuch, and they feel very strongly about the Second Amendment," he said, referring to the two justices he got confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Trump's remarks come one day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the Senate would discuss various gun control measures when it returns to Washington in September.
The president told reporters that McConnell is "on board."
"I will tell you I spoke to Mitch McConnell yesterday," Trump said. "He's totally on board. He said, 'I've been waiting for your call.' "
In an interview with WHAS radio in Kentucky, McConnell said the Senate would likely debate background checks, "red flag" laws and assault weapons.
"What we can't do is fail to pass something," McConnell said, adding, "The urgency of this is not lost on any of us."
Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are likely to disagree about what proposals to focus on, but Trump told reporters he had a "great talk" with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., about the issue.
"I think that the Republicans are going to be great and lead the charge, along with the Democrats," Trump said.
The House of Representatives passed a bill in February that would strengthen background checks on gun sales, but McConnell has so far refused to take that bill up for a vote in the Senate.
Asked what Trump would tell students who may be nervous about starting school after mass shootings, the president said:
"Go and really study hard, and some day you'll grow up and maybe be President of the United States or do something else that's fantastic. They have nothing to fear, they have nothing to worry about."
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Mobile devices — especially tablets and smart phones — are becoming a must-have tool for outside sales, and the move is happening with amazing speed. Electrical Wholesaling's Top 200 survey this year included a question about whether distributors were using tablet computers, and if not, whether they were considering adding them to the arsenal. Out of all respondents, 58% said they were using tablets, and another 12% were planning to add tablets in the next 12 months (see sidebar below).
Apple introduced the first iPad in April 2010. Think about that. That was 28 months ago. Since that time the way people think of computing, communicating and accessing information has changed radically. Only in the world of mobile devices could it seem like electrical distributors are slow on the uptake when they're adopting a technology that didn't even exist three years ago.
Tablet computers offer several advantages over laptops — they turn on instantly, their navigation is dead simple and intuitive, they feature better graphics, lighter weight, impressive speed in rendering images and video and longer battery life than most laptops. And we're still in the earliest generations of the technology. New tablets are getting even better graphics rendering, more power, better user interfaces. Smart phones are getting larger, clearer displays, faster connections.
Just by themselves, the tablets are a nifty tool, with thousands of applications (apps) available and in development to take advantage of the devices' built-in capabilities, such as onboard global positioning systems (GPS) for navigation, ever-improving still and video cameras, and most of all easy reading of text and graphics. All this makes tablets nearly ideal tools for sales presentations, catalogs and quick access to answers to customer questions.
Salespeople are catching on to these tools and software providers are trying to make it easy. They're hard at work developing ways for tablets to hook back to their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, the brains that store and sort all the data electrical distributors use to do business.
This kind of customer demand is forcing ERP providers to make their systems better. It's not so much a matter of software companies playing "me too" in hopes of selling another system, in essence saying, "Hey this technology is neato, be the first on your block with a tablet-enabled whizbang!"
Talking to the software companies, one quickly gets the sense that they're on edge, that mobile devices represent a profound change that will affect their viability. They realize that failing to get mobile right could at the very least set them back significantly. For some, it could be a matter of survival.
The reasons for this don't have as much to do with the devices themselves as with the change they represent. Tablets aren't all that different from the laptops most outside salespeople have been toting around for years. In fact, they do a poorer job of some things — they don't have the on-board memory or power of a laptop (though this is bound to change), their virtual keyboards make anything involving heavy data entry and writing, even something as pedestrian as e-mail, a bit dicey. Surfing a website on a tiny smart-phone screen can be a frustrating ordeal. Yet the spread of tablet use is driving distribution software companies to improve their game. Why would a shift in the technology to a tablet or smart phone format make any difference at all?
It's not so much mobile device technology itself that matters but the systems software providers are having to develop to make critical information available to tablet-wielding warriors in the field. Expectations of information on demand have ramped up dramatically. It's also a demographic effect of the ongoing changing of the guard in the distribution industry. The generations who've grown up with computers and the Internet as a constant presence and the primary way of finding information are now the key young talent distributors are recruiting. And it's not just the youngsters. Seasoned veterans are just as likely today to have embraced and grown comfortable with technology and see it as an indispensible tool in their work as well as their private lives.
It may seem a little premature to say it, but there are many people on the technology side who think that in the shift to mobile devices the industry could be looking at a tipping point that finally moves distributor outside salespeople away from being mere "order-takers." The slam on distributor road warriors for generations has been that they just show up at their established accounts with a box of donuts and an order pad, shake some hands, tell some bad jokes, book a tee time, take the order and move on.Trade magazine articles, association keynote speeches, white-paper studies and position papers throughout the history of the industry have implored distributor salespeople to be proactive, drive demand, add value and get beyond being a lowly order-taker. The fact that it constantly has to be said is evidence enough that the proactive, crusading distributor salesperson continues to be the exception, not the rule. But that may be coming to an end. The tools salespeople need to be proactive, value-adding demand drivers are maturing to support the mobile salesperson. Increasingly, they won't stand for anything less.
"What I've heard is that now that you've given them all this power, they want more," says Stacey Pandeloglou, principal of Distribution Technology Group, a rep firm that handles software and hardware to assist distributors. "'Why can't I look up their past 40 orders?' Where we're going, there's nothing you can't do. People want more. It's not like you have to force-feed them. You can't just play golf every Friday and every other day tell your sales manager, 'I had a good meeting.' Today, on the customer side, on the owner side, both are saying, 'What did you do for me lately?' Salespeople used to ride pretty well from year to year. Even if they did everything wrong, sales grew 20%. Not anymore."
The fact is, it may be one of the tiniest, most insignificant functions of computers that is really making this change happen: reminders.
Bob Wittig, sales manager of Ximple Solutions LLC, Kensington, Md., has been involved for decades in the electrical industry's information technology game as an IT manager on the distributor side and in sales on the ERP software provider side. Now, from his perch managing sales of ERP upstart Ximple (which traces its roots to the Rigel system developed by electrical distributors on the Atlantic coast in the 1980s), Wittig sees mobile devices as game-changers because the back-end systems are being set up to trigger instant action on the salesperson's part.
"When a customer special-orders material, and the material gets received, the system can recognize that and send notice to the salesperson to make sure the customer is alerted that the material is about to be delivered. There are scores of these kinds of triggers. Credit control, back orders, special pricing, lean notices kicked out, user-defined events to remind yourself to do something at a certain day or time. All these have enabled people to become proactive and get the information when it's meaningful. Pushing that to the application available through a tablet or mobile device, whether it's phone, e-mail, an app or (in Ximple's browser-based system) an employee briefcase is very different than the way things were years ago," Wittig says. "The whole mindset of young people, and this extends to anyone under 50, is that they need information. They need it now, and the people that have the information and can deliver it in a timely fashion, and do it most effectively, will be most successful in the market."
The experiences of distributors' customers, based on their personal lives as consumers using the same mobile devices, is reshaping what it means to be effective in sales.
Scott Frymire, senior manager of product marketing for Epicor, Dublin, Calif., one of the largest distributor ERP providers in the electrical industry, gives the example of someone looking to buy a home. "If you're looking for a new home, and you see a For Sale sign, within a couple of minutes you can find out everything about it — asking price, tax base, school districts, information about the owner — using a smart phone get access," Frymire says. "In the business world, we want to bring that same consumer-like power to our customers that they experience in their everyday lives."
The software providers active in electrical distribution ERP systems face a common challenge in providing that kind of consumeresque experience for distributor salespeople so they can get their customers the information they need. The puzzle is not a simple one. The ways information displays on a smart phone or a tablet are very different from the displays on a large desktop monitor. In a smart phone, for example, the screen's virtual "real estate" can be obliterated by the virtual keyboard.
This problem makes it necessary for software companies to build systems that work equally well on iOS (the iPad's operating system), rival operating system Android developed by Google, Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system and all the various smart phone systems with no drop in ease of use. The companies are taking a variety of ways to get there.
Infor Global Solutions, Alpharetta, Ga., the other giant in the world of electrical distribution ERP, is using a middleware system it calls ION (short for Intelligent Open Network) to make it seamless for distributors to gather information from disparate systems in all parts of their enterprise to obtain a clear, seamless picture of customer activity as well as internal processes. ION was developed to keep from having to build separate mobile interfaces for all the different ERP systems Infor has acquired over the years — SHIMS, A+ and Infor SX Enterprise are the best known in the electrical industry. ION makes it possible for its app development platform, Infor10 Motion, and new smartphone apps such as Infor10 Road Warrior CRM, to provide field sales with just the information they need.
Infor's Joe Bennett, senior director, Wholesale Distribution Solutions, whose background includes being one of the original developers of the Eclipse ERP system now owned by Infor rival Epicor, sees ION as a game-changer because it allows Infor's mobile apps to be aware of other apps on the device, such as maps, navigation, Skype, contact databases and so forth, and to call them and use them to make the salesperson's interaction with the device more seamless.
Epicor is planning to launch a modular add-on to its Prophet 21 ERP system next month called ICE, which stands for Internet Component Environment. ICE enables all kinds of new mobile accessibility, Frymire says, enabling Prophet 21 to push any information it has out to a mobile dashboard that can be accessed via a smart phone, tablet or anything else without the user having to connect to the Prophet 21 ERP system directly. ICE will be rolled out for the company's other main distribution ERP systems, Eclipse and Prelude, in early 2013, Frymire said.
Other software providers such as Ximple use a browser-based interface, which simplifies the puzzle as the data can display on any device that uses a browser. The whole ERP system, whether it's accessed via the cloud or on the distributor's own hardware, functions through the browser and makes use of the browsers' functions, says Wittig.
Mobile or not, though, the real power being delivered into the hands of today's field sales organizations depends on a strong back end. "The mobile devices they're carrying around is the tip of the spear, but what's really driving the capabilities of the reps to do what they want to do is what's back in the ERP system," says Ned Lilly, president of Xtuple, Norfolk, Va., an open-source ERP software platform that started life in the manufacturing arena and has since expanded into wholesale distribution.
There are differing points of view on how necessary it is for a field salesperson using a tablet to be able to get into the guts of the ERP system. DDI System, Sandy Hook, Conn., is a software company that concentrates on providing a simple, rock-solid system for smaller distributors, primarily those with annual sales of $25 million and below. When Adam Waller, DDI's president, looked at what would be most useful to outside sales people apart from the calendar-based CRM already built into the DDI ERP, it became clear that the one function that tablets are especially excellent at, and which other providers weren't doing very well, was an electronic catalog with an interface that allowed the salesperson to check inventory and create purchase orders on the spot.
Waller started a new company, Mobilistics, to create an app that would provide those capabilities. Mobilistics isn't affiliated with DDI System — it can work with any ERP system — but DDI does offer integration with its app, MobiOrder. The app doesn't provide real-time connection to the ERP system. Instead it uses a simple utility to pull a daily flat-file update of the company's product data and inventory and customer-specific data including contact info, special pricing and so forth, the basic information a salesperson needs to build a sales order.
Perhaps it's inevitable, as tablets and smart phones and the networks over which they communicate grow faster and more powerful, that new possibilities will emerge for empowering distributor field salespeople. What might come with that increased power? One likely answer is access to more data-heavy material.
Regardless of the technical specifics of how the interface is deployed, the killer app for field salespeople in distribution is customer relationship management (CRM). All the software providers in the industry are focusing heavily on their own CRM systems, which house the key functions for most outside salespeople, or if they don't have their own they're integrating with popular stand-alone CRM systems such as Salesforce.com.
Business intelligence is another function set software providers are deeply engaged with right now. For distributor executives, this is the tool that gives them information they can use to better understand the internals of their business and make better decisions. Such data crunching and analysis is beyond the responsibilities of most outside salespeople, but the road warriors can benefit a lot from the output of that kind of analysis.
As the power of mobile devices continues to grow, Bennett of Infor said he expects to see more in-memory data rather than pulling it down from the network when needed. "We will see full engineered specs, complete mobile business intelligence. You'll have every transaction with every customer, every note, you'll be able to analyze that data in any form, all right there. You'll have true Activity Based Costing, and you'll be able to see all the activity that chipped away at their net right there on that device." Bennett also expects increases in power and speed to support advances in methods for presenting business intelligence graphically, to make the problems jump out at the user in a more intuitive way that supports drilling down into the data more effectively.
To get there, distributors and their software providers are going to have huge opportunities, a lot to learn and a lot of fun. Distributors looking at technology providers will want to make sure their systems run in multiple environments and are able to display well on a smart phone. Beyond that, just keep your eyes open for mobile technologies and techniques that enhance rather than complicating the job of selling electrical equipment.
Even if distributor sales people aren't order-takers anymore, the old truths will still apply. "From an electrical wholesaler perspective," says Frymire of Epicor, "don't lose sight of the forest for the trees. You want an app that makes you money, brings cost savings or differentiates you from the competition."
Tablet Use By the Top 200
The responses to Electrical Wholesaling's 2012 Top 200 survey showed that tablet computing already has achieved significant penetration among the nation's largest electrical distributors. Here's the breakdown:
- Of the distributors who responded to our survey, over half (58%) were already using tablet computers. Another 12% said they had plans to add them to the mix in the next 12 months.
- Of those who were using tablets, 94% were using iPads (84% exclusively iPads), and 10% use a mix of Apple and Android-based devices.
- 80% of those who said they use tablets use them for sales presentations on the road.
- 59% use them for general office use.
- Tablets were also used for lighting audits, by executives for unspecified purposes, in lighting showrooms, and to demonstrate home automation products in branches.


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We are in process of adding several features to the software. We'll continually update this page with upcoming changes planned for the software and features recently implemented.
We upgraded the underlying formatting engine to the latest version. This version included support for auto-scaling the page on output. Because the web pages are at 96dpi and the formatting engine default resolution was 120dpi, pages were always too small. We added into the conversion auto-scaling up by 120/96 = 1.25. Now your 8.5in x 11in page will be 8.5in x 11in. We tested through the samples and nothing look broke. If you have issues, contact us.
elementWe have implemented support for the table caption
element. As usual, all CSS stying is supported for this block level element.
and after:
We have implemented support for textual and image based pseudo element before:
and after:
. We have decided to implement this functionality
to execute unless you decide you do not want it. You can set an option processPseudoElem
to false
in the calling
Javascript to turn this functionality off if it affects your pages.
You can see this new demonstration at Pseudo Elements. This has been tested on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer and Android. Again ... If you experience any difficulty, especially on Chrome, do a hard refresh to be sure the Javascript updates as Chrome is notorious for caching it.
We were frequently to support of Glyphicons and Font Awesome icon sets. What made them difficult was how they actually are handled by the associated Javascript.
A user would insert a span
element (or a i
element in Font Awesome) and set the class
appropriately for the icon they desired. The Javascript
actually maps this to use the pseudo element
. If you examine the HTML DOM, you would actually realize that pseudo element content does not appear in the DOM.
However, recent updates to the browsers added the ability to get access to the properties on this element.
So, the newly enhanced Javascript walks though the copied DOM (the one to print) and copies all the content of the pseudo element before:
into the element in question.
Currently this is only to support Glyphicons and Font Awesome but we may extend in the near future to support all before:
and after:
and then even other properties
you can set (like color, etc.)
You can see this new demonstration at Glyphicons and Font Awesome. This has been tested on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer and Android. If you experience any difficulty, especially on Chrome, do a hard refresh to be sure the Javascript updates as Chrome is notorious for caching it.
We modified the Javascript to trigger a few events at the document-level during the formatting process. This at least allows for something like implementing a spinner during the formatting process. The event is "xepOnlineStatus" and at this time only has one param that can have two values right now -- "Started" and "Finished". "Started" is thrown when the whole process starts and "Finished" is thrown when:
Sample code to use this functionality could look like this (assuming you have a <div> to hold a spinner and the appropriate CSS:
document.observe('dom:loaded', function() { jQuery(document).on("xepOnlineStatus", function(event, state){ if (state == "Started"){ var screenTop = jQuery(document).scrollTop(); var screenHeight = jQuery(window).height(); jQuery('#spinner-overlay').css('top', screenTop); jQuery('#spinner-overlay').css('height', screenHeight); jQuery('#spinner-overlay').toggle('show'); } else if (state == "Finished"){ jQuery('#spinner-overlay').toggle('hide'); } }); })
If you are testing with local images (meaning you are testing on a server "localhost" and you have <img> tags who reference these local images),
then you can set a formatting option that will base64 encode and include your local images for the remote server. Please refer to the new option embedLocalImages
in the API Documentation. Do not use this option unless you are testing on your own localhost. It will fail if you try to
embed images from remote servers that do not have CORS enabled.
"Can" we "canvas" ... yes we "CAN"! We have added the <canvas> element to supported elements. The Javascript scrapes an image of the <canvas> element to send to the formatter. You can see this new demonstration at Canvas Elements.
Several people have been implementing the software but require the calls to the renderer to be secured. We have implemented the web services so
they support either http
or https
. If you want to switch, you can change the existing xepOnline.jqPlugin.js and use the following
In the future we will probably just have either version available to you, but you can download or even override these in your own JS code.
We have added support for the complete set of Google Charts! Take a look at the Google Chart Gallery page for many, many samples. We have added links in each page so that you can play and format charts on JSFiddle.
Go play on JSFiddle! @cloudformatter and many of the outputs are there in a simple starting template.
This new feature allows you to insert comment annotations into PDF output. You can see this new demonstration at Comments in PDF.
We have implemented a customization that allows you to inject PDFs into the document you are formatting. You can prepend and/or append one or more PDF documents. You can see this new demonstration at Prepending/Appending PDFs
We've added a new feature for inserting file attachments into your output PDF. You can see the new demonstration at Inserting File Attachments
The SVG chart pages all now demonstrate a how you can use the software to format only a single SVG to another format. Over each of the charts you will see a new menu bar to just format that particular image.
We've added support for and modified the GUI to show how to use the software to generate other output formats including images like PNG, JPG anmd GIF as well as SVG, Postscript and XPS. We also added support for generating RenderX's own internal XML format which can be used in response to do many things in browser.
We have not gone through all the pages yet to ensure everything works everywhere. You may find that not every page renders correctly with XPS output because it would be required to ensure that these pages use only TrueType fonts. This is especially true with many of the SVG charts as we would need to edit all the samples to use a TrueType font. Also, Internet Explorer does a terrible job displaying SVGs.
If you notice something, let us know and will put it on the list to fix.
We'll be making some minor changes once we get a system up and running to test the new Microsoft browser.
ElementWe added support for horizonal rule in HTML.
Based on some recent requests, we implement support for HTML which contains align
and cellpadding
attributes. We would really prefer not to do everything like this, we will only do those
especially requested.
on block content without clear
specifiedWe have changed the implementation to automatically add clear:both
on any blocks without any clear
specified. This seems to now match between the formatting engine which added nothing (so no clear
). If you have float
affected by this, please contact us.
Based on a recent request, we added support for some absolute positioning of content with position
CSS and absolute
, top
, left
, bottom
and right
See Absolute Positioning sample for more details.
To support some forms of floating content, we needed to add a special class you can put on your Bootstrap columns. This class is ignoreHeight
It doesn't have any effect in the HTML but is passed through to the backend. If this class exists on a <div>
element, then the calculated height
from the HTML passed to the backend is ignored. This is required because the HTML browser is not the same formatting engine of the solution. The height
is ignored in the backend and the PDF formatter does it's job. This gives a much better result for floating content like Bootstrap col's.
There is still an issue in some client-side Javascript libraries (specifically those from devextream and Amcharts). We are looking at their JS libraries to determine whether we will implement a workaround or whether they will fix their issues.
The API has been changed to allow you to name the PDF that is returned from @cloudformatter. The API now include a filename
Refer to the API documentation for more information and usage.
SInce the HTML can contain links in the page to other pages in the site in a relative way (aka: @href="/CSS2PDF.html"
), the links
inserted into the PDF would not be fully qualified. The solution now passes in the base URL of the page and will work with link href's that
are rooted relative to the site.
We've added the functionality to use some small XML markup in your HTML page that can be used to set all the standard and any custom metadata in the resulting PDF as well as be able to control how the PDF is viewed in a supported viewer application.
See the PDF Properties sample page for all the properties in one place. There is also a separate PDF Bookmarks demostration.
We will be adding whole section of examples over the next few months that show many samples of using css2pdf@cloudformatter to format database content to PDF within your web pages. We;ll be sure to include some dashboard exmaples with not only tabular information but also some Javascript-driven charts.
We added backend processing for two new elements along with GUI changes that allow you to insert them. These are <barcode> and <qrcode>. When right clicking in the Structure view and selecting insert barcode, you will be presented a wizard that allows you to set paramters for a dynamic barcode you can create in the document. We've created a hosted server that supports most of these barcodes, with QRCodes coming from Google. The supported barcodes are:
The GUI now has a breadcrumb navigator allowing you to precisely select the structure you wish to apply style to. At this time the breadcrumb navigator diplays as part of the style panel, allowing you to move up the hierarchy to select structures like a <TR> to apply styles to.
We are implementing an online save and share repository for "nimbles". A nimble is a whole project -- design, XML and settings. nimbles can be versioned and their links can be emailed to us for support purposes.
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Leica Lenses: A Synonym for Quality, Made in Germany
Every Leica lens is hand-crafted and goes through meticulous manufacturing processes to uphold the quality and precision that Leica defines and customers have come to expect. In the age where technology almost inevitably means mass manufacturing, Leica products are still made with exacting precision by the hands of highly-trained technicians.
In the "Leica Lenses" video, you can get a rare behind-the-scenes look at the craftsmanship and making of Leica lenses in the production facilities of Leica Camera AG in Solms.
-Leica Internet Team
To see the Leica factory in person, click here for tour information.


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This Crossway Classic Commentary on the book of John summarizes the basics of the faith, including Christ's nature and the profound meaning of His presence and works on earth.
Throughout the history of Christianity, many great minds have devoted themselves to the study and exploration of the Bible in pursuit of spiritual insight. Believers today are fortunate to benefit from this impressive history of inquiry and inspiration.
The Crossway Classic Commentary series is a collection of book-by-book biblical commentaries covering the Old and the New Testaments, written by intellectual and spiritual giants of the Christian tradition and carefully translated and adapted for the modern reader. Authors include ministers, preachers, and scholars such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, Charles Hodge, Matthew Henry, and more.
Each title includes an introduction to the biblical text by series editors Alister McGrath and J. I. Packer.


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Malaria parasite protein identified as potential new target for drug treatment
- Date:
- April 24, 2013
- Source:
- University of St George's London
- Summary:
- Scientists have discovered how a protein within the malaria parasite is essential to its survival as it develops inside a mosquito. They believe their findings identify this protein as a potential new target for drug treatments to prevent malaria being passed to humans. The researchers found that when this protein – a transporter responsible for controlling the level of calcium inside cells – is absent during the parasite's sexual reproduction stages inside a mosquito, the parasite dies before developing fully.
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Scientists have discovered how a protein within the malaria parasite is essential to its survival as it develops inside a mosquito. They believe their findings identify this protein as a potential new target for drug treatments to prevent malaria being passed to humans.
The researchers found that when this protein -- a transporter responsible for controlling the level of calcium inside cells -- is absent during the parasite's sexual reproduction stages inside a mosquito, the parasite dies before developing fully. They discovered that the calcium transporter protein is responsible for protecting the parasite from potentially lethal levels of calcium during these stages.
The findings suggest that new drug treatments could be developed to target the parasite's sexual reproduction stages. These, unlike most current anti-malarial drugs, would block transmission of the parasite from human to mosquito, disrupting the cycle of infection.
The study was led by Dr Henry Staines at St George's, University of London and Dr Rita Tewari of the Centre of Genetics and Genomics at the University of Nottingham. It has been published in the journal PLoS Pathogens.
All living organisms require calcium to survive, as it is needed for vital cellular processes. Calcium concentration within cells is regulated by specific transporter proteins. The most effective class of anti-malarial drugs -- artemisinins -- are understood to inhibit one of the parasite's two known calcium transporters, so these transporters are already thought of as viable targets for drug treatments. The other calcium transporter is a type called CAX, so the researchers set out to investigate its role in the parasite's development.
Using the mouse malaria parasite Plasmodium berghei as a stand-in for the most dangerous form of human malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, the scientists removed the gene from which CAX is produced. While parasites without this functioning calcium transporter grew normally inside their animal host, they did not survive after ingestion into a mosquito's gut. This is the stage when the parasite should begin sexual reproduction, allowing it to multiply. When calcium surrounding the parasite was removed at this stage, the parasite developed normally. This suggests that the calcium transporter helps the parasite cope with changing levels of calcium.
Dr Staines said: "Increasingly, research is focusing on developing new drugs and vaccines to stop transmission of malaria, and the protein we studied seems to be a good place to target. The fact that the transporter is essential to the parasite's sexual development provides a focus for new transmission-blocking strategies."
To move from humans to mosquitoes, malaria requires a small group of specialised parasites that are produced in the infected human's blood stream but lie dormant until they are taken up by a feeding mosquito. To target CAX, a new drug treatment would need to accumulate within these dormant parasites and remain active throughout their sexual reproduction inside a mosquito, when CAX is essential. This could kill the parasite before it developed fully and prevent the infection from being passed on.
Most current anti-malarials do not target these dormant parasites capable of sexual reproduction, which have little if any effect on the health of the host. So they do not prevent them from being passed to mosquitoes. Instead, they target the parasite's asexual reproduction cells, which spread infection by multiplying inside the red blood cells of the host.
Dr Staines said: "Although this study has identified CAX as an excellent drug target and provides the necessary tools to exploit this discovery, further work is needed to identify potent inhibitors of the transporter. This work is a step in the right direction towards preventing infection transmitting between humans."
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Journal Reference:
- David S. Guttery, Jon K. Pittman, Karine Frénal, Benoit Poulin, Leon R. McFarlane, Ksenija Slavic, Sally P. Wheatley, Dominique Soldati-Favre, Sanjeev Krishna, Rita Tewari, Henry M. Staines. The Plasmodium berghei Ca2 /H Exchanger, PbCAX, Is Essential for Tolerance to Environmental Ca2 during Sexual Development. PLoS Pathogens, 2013; 9 (2): e1003191 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003191
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This morning began with me staying in bed altogether too long and husband giving the children breakfast. So NAUGHTY of me, I know! He casually walked into the room to tell me it's 7:45am and my tea is brewing. HOW DO I NOT SQUEEZE AND HUG THIS MAN EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY I DO NOT KNOW.
7:45am means he is late already and I have half an hour to get ready and finish off the children's crap.
And crap it is.
Paper mache hairdrying till 8:18! Can I just say that it was indeed a miracle that I managed to get through 12 years of schooling and never needed to do a lick of paper macheing the entire time. I KNOW! HOW the hell did I get so lucky?
Then there was scurrying around trying to find bit and pieces for another kids' project involving designing a spaceship to the moon. I really detested these sorts of projects when I was at school. I was a strictly book and written test sort of person and I always thought the project design thing was totally a conspiracy or some evil plot devised by teachers to ruin my report card.
So. If I see another cardboard friggin roll or small strip of ripped up newspaper this month I will be doing some major damage.
And I've just checked the dining room table and son has forgotten a cardboard container for the project. Too late to drive back to school and get it to him.
*"Don't you mean paper mache?"
"Wish I did, Kim. Wish I did!"


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Activity Courses – Students may select an activity course that emphasizes lifetime skills, sports skills, or movement arts to satisfy the personal wellness component of the general education requirements. A common two week wellness module is included in each course.
Lifetime Skills – Principles, assessment, and development of total well-being through health-related physical fitness across the life span.
HPED 201. Aerobic Dance. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 202. Advanced Aerobic Dance. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 210. Principles and Practice of Scuba Diving. 2 1 2. (13.1314)
HPED 215. Exercise for Overweight. 2-0-3. (13.1314)
HPED 218. Jogging/Walking. 2-0-3. (13.1314)
HPED 228. Self-Defense. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 231. Weights. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 235. Fitness for Special Needs. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
Sports Skills – Motor skill acquisition and strategy, knowledge, and positive attitude toward a specific sport. Addresses physical, mental, and social wellness.
HPED 205. Badminton. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 207. Basketball. 2 0 3. Fa only. (13.1314)
HPED 223. Recreational Sports. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 227. Softball. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 229. Tennis. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 230. Volleyball. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
Movement Arts. Fundamental motor skills and knowledge appropriate for various movement forms to enhance cultural awareness and total well-being.
HPED 211. Modern Dance. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 212. Intermediate Modern Dance. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 213. Jazz. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 219. Martial Arts I. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 220. Martial Arts II. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
HPED 233. Intermediate Jazz. 2 0 3. (13.1314)
Professional Courses
HPED 141. Personal and Community Health Problems. 3-3-0. Health problems to which the student must adjust both individually and as a member of a group. (13.1307)
HPED 190. Health Science. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: Majors in ELED and SEED. Health content and experiences appropriate for K-8 schools. Credit will not be given for this course and HPED 141. (13.1307)
HPED 240. Sports Conditioning. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: HPED or AHSC major. Key dimensions of sports performance enhancement. Resistance training, conditioning, speed, agility, power development and exercise testing required. (31.0599)
HPED 246. Personal Fitness. 3-2-2. Key dimensions of personal wellness. Participation in life management skills: fitness activities, stress management, nutrition, and self-protection interventions. (31.0599)
HPED 252. Introduction to Health and Physical Education. 3-3-0. Historical influences, philosophical positions, and the current status of sport, health and physical education pedagogy, and fitness. (13.1314)
HPED 270. First Aid. 2-1-2. Preparation of participants to respond to emergency situations with confidence in their ability to perform the necessary skills. Appropriate first aid certificates may be granted to those who qualify. (13.1307)
HPED 280. Technical Skills for Team Sports. 3-0-6. Prerequisite: HPED or AHSC major. Motor skill acquisition, strategies and knowledge, and approach tendencies toward three team sports. Lab fee required. (31.0599)
HPED 285. Technical Skills for Individual Sports. 3-0-6. Prerequisite: HPED or Allied health major. Motor skill acquisition, strategies and knowledge, and approach tendencies toward three individual sports. Lab fee required. (31.0599)
HPED 320. Coaching of Team Sports. 3-1-6. Theory and application of knowledge, techniques, and strategies for coaching team sports. Students assigned to schools. (13.1314)
HPED 325. Tests and Measurements in Health and Physical Education. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: HPED or AHSC major. Tests and measurements currently used in health, adapted physical education, and physical education program; elementary statistical procedure and evaluation in health and physical education. (13.1314)
HPED 340. Introduction to Motor Learning. 3-3-0. Motor skill learning principles applied to instructional and rehabilitation situations; psychological and physiological characteristics that influence skill learning. (13.1314)
HPED 360. Exercise Physiology. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: BIOL 114. Biological adaptation to physical training. Physical fitness, training methods, and body systems response to activity. Exercise tests required. (13.1314)
HPED 373. Teaching Elementary Physical Education. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education program. Description of teaching functions, the skills that constitute those functions, and the principles that guide their selection and use in the elementary school. Field experience required. (13.1314)
HPED 374. The School Health Program. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: HPED 141, EDUC 312 or HPED 312. Physical screening and characteristics of the secondary student. Methodology, materials, scope and sequence for teaching health at the secondary level. (13.1307)
HPED 375. Kinesiology. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: BIOL 114. General human anatomy with emphasis on factors influencing movement; action of joints and muscles in natural movements, daily life, and sports. (13.1314)
HPED 390. Teaching Secondary Physical Education. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education Program. Description of teaching functions, the skills that constitute those functions, and the principles that guide their selection and use in secondary school. Field experience required. (13.1314)
HPED 393. Introducing Physical Education for All Children with Disabilities. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: EDUC 312 or HPED 312. Identification of motor abilities of children with disabilities; how programs can be adjusted to suit their needs and interests. (13.1314)
HPED 411. Health and Wellness Education. 3-3-0. Emphasis on health and wellness relative to the schools and community. (13.1304)
HPED 412. Psychosocial Aspects of Physical Activity. 3-3-0. Psychological factors affecting skill acquisition, performance, and behavior in play, games, and sport, including implications for teachers and coaches. (13.1314)
HPED 460. Advanced Exercise Physiology. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: HPED 360. Biological and chemical responses and adaptations of muscular, skeletal, metabolic, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems to exercise and sport. Participation in assessments of work capacity required. (13.1314)
HPED 492. The Adult Health and Development Program. 3-3-0. Fundamentals of health and aging. Students are paired with community members fifty years old and older to improve the health and well being of all. (13.1314)
HPED 494. Behavior Impairment and Physical Education. 3-2-2. Prerequisite: HPED 393 or permission of instructor. Appropriate physical education settings for children labeled as mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, or learning disabled. Participation in schools required. (13.1314)
HPED 495. Chronic Disability and Physical Education. 3-2-2. Prerequisite: HPED 494 or permission of department head. Adjusted physical education programs for children with overt physical and/or sensory disabilities of a long lasting nature. Participation in schools required. (13.1314)
HPED 496. The Physical Education Curriculum for All Children with Disabilities. 3-3-0. Prerequisite: HPED 495 or permission of department head. Curriculum needs, implementation, and evaluation as required by Louisiana State Regulations and Physical Education Need Assessment. (13.1314)
HPED 497. Special Methods and Materials of Instruction. 3-0-6. Methods and instructional materials. Emphasis on newer materials and techniques. Course may be repeated for credit if content of each offering different. (13.1314)
HPED 499. Problems in Health and Physical Education. 3-0-6. Prerequisite: HPED major. Individual study and research under faculty supervision. (13.1314)


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UN-SPIDER's Regional Support Office located in Japan, ADRC (Asian Disaster Reduction Centre), is in the process of producing the booklet "Considerations for effective use of space-based information to assess Tsunami impacts - Lessons learned from the recent Tsunami in Japan". This publication is realized in cooperation with the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). The booklet will be of great value for other nations' disaster preparedness efforts by providing lessons learnt on the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami. The publication will be presented at the occasion of the 5th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction scheduled to take place on 22-25 October 2012 in Yogakarta, Indonesia. The booklet will also be offered for download on the UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal.
This initiative is an outcome of the UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office (RSO) meeting in February 2012 in Vienna, Austria, where RSOs agreed to contribute to UN-SPIDER activities and to undertake joint programmes. As a follow-up of the meeting, the UN-SPIDER Beijing Office initiated the creation of booklets on the application of space-based resources to disaster and risk management in three Asian countries. ADRC (Japan), the Iranian Space Agency (Iran) and SUPARCO (Pakistan) will report on experiences from their respective countries. Besides ADRC's publication on the Japan earthquake and tsunami, the Iranian Space Agency's publication will focus on drought assessment experiences and SUPARCO will present lessons learnt from the 2010 flood in Pakistan.


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Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer: Your Ultimate Guide to Legal Representation
Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer services are essential for individuals who have suffered injuries due to someone else's negligence or wrongdoing. These legal professionals work diligently to ensure their clients receive the compensation they deserve. In this comprehensive guide, we will cover everything you need to know about personal injury law in Marietta, the types of cases, and how to find the best representation for your needs. Kenneth S. Nugent, P.C. can help assist as your injury attorney if you've been in an accident!
Choosing the Right Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer
When you have suffered an injury and need legal representation, it's crucial to choose a Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer who has the necessary experience, knowledge, and dedication to handle your case effectively. Here are some key factors to consider when selecting a personal injury attorney:
- Experience and Track Record: Choose a lawyer with a strong track record in handling personal injury cases similar to yours. Their experience will be invaluable when navigating the legal process and negotiating for maximum compensation.
- Reputation and Testimonials: Research online reviews, testimonials, and referrals from previous clients to determine the lawyer's reputation. A well-respected attorney with satisfied clients is more likely to provide quality representation.
- Communication and Availability: It's essential to work with a lawyer who is responsive, easy to communicate with, and available to address your concerns. You want an attorney who will prioritize your case and provide personalized attention.
Understanding Personal Injury Law
Personal injury law, also known as tort law, involves civil litigation to seek compensation for injuries or damages caused by another party's negligence, intentional wrongdoing, or strict liability. A Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer will represent clients in cases involving physical or emotional harm and seek financial compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, and other damages.
Types of Personal Injury Cases: There are numerous types of personal injury cases that a Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer may handle. Some of the most common cases include:
- Car Accidents: Car accidents are among the leading causes of personal injury cases. These accidents can result from distracted driving, drunk driving, speeding, or other forms of negligence.
- Slip and Fall Accidents: Property owners have a duty to maintain safe premises for visitors. Slip and fall accidents can occur when property owners fail to address hazardous conditions, such as wet floors, broken stairs, or uneven surfaces.
- Medical Malpractice: Medical malpractice occurs when healthcare professionals fail to provide the standard of care required, resulting in injury or harm to the patient.
- Workplace Accidents: Employers have a responsibility to maintain a safe work environment. Injuries sustained at work, including construction accidents, machinery accidents, or repetitive stress injuries, may lead to personal injury claims.
The Personal Injury Claim Process: The personal injury claim process typically involves the following steps:
- Initial Consultation: During the initial consultation, a Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer will assess the merits of your case and determine the best course of action.
- Investigation: Your attorney will gather evidence, interview witnesses, and review relevant documents to build a strong case on your behalf.
- Demand Letter: Your lawyer will send a demand letter to the responsible party's insurance company, outlining the damages incurred and requesting compensation.
- Negotiations: Negotiations between your Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer and the insurance company will ensue, with the goal of reaching a fair settlement.
- Filing a Lawsuit: If negotiations fail, your attorney will file a lawsuit on your behalf and proceed with litigation.
- Discovery: During the discovery phase, both parties will exchange evidence and gather additional information to strengthen their cases.
- Mediation: A neutral third party, known as a mediator, may be brought in to facilitate negotiations and help both parties reach a mutually agreeable settlement.
- Trial: If mediation is unsuccessful, your case will proceed to trial, where your Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer will present your case to a judge or jury.
- Verdict and Appeals: After hearing both sides, the judge or jury will render a verdict. If either party disagrees with the decision, they may choose to appeal.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much does a Marietta Personal Injury Lawyer cost? Most personal injury lawyers work on a contingency fee basis, meaning they only get paid if they recover compensation for their clients. Fees typically range from 25% to 40% of the total settlement or award.
- How long does a personal injury case take? The timeline for a personal injury case varies depending on the complexity of the case and the willingness of both parties to negotiate. Cases can take anywhere from a few months to several years.
- What damages can I recover in a personal injury case? Damages in a personal injury case can include medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering, emotional distress, and loss of consortium.
- Can I still file a personal injury claim if I was partially at fault? Georgia follows a modified comparative negligence rule, which means you can still recover damages if you were partially at fault, as long as your degree of fault is less than 50%. However, your total award will be reduced by your percentage of fault.


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Streamlined Red-Line aluminum Extension for SDM and US base cup
Red-line extensions start with custom 32 millimeter, 6061 T-8 "drawn" aluminum tubing. The kind of tubing they use to make aircraft. Our tubing is engineered so that with its large diameter, the wall thickness can be thinner so the overall result is an incredible high strength, to low weight ratio. This formula has been proven with our years of experience. The holes are precision punched, then the tube is red anodized in and out, permanent laser numbered 2 centimeter settings. The adjustment settings are held with a hard anodized aluminum collar tethered with a spectra line to a stainless steel pin. Fail-safe and virtually break proof. Finally we attach our new beefy "Power-Six" super powerful 6:1 downhaul cleat with large diameter pulleys, perpendicular for power, easy rigging and no crossed lines. A tough Dyneema "super downhaul" line is included


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Safer, more effective skin-whitening creams from ancient Chinese herbal medicine
- Date:
- March 30, 2011
- Source:
- American Chemical Society
- Summary:
- Scientists have reported the discovery of the active ingredients in an herb used in traditional Chinese medicine for skin whitening, changing skin color to a lighter shade. The ingredients are poised for clinical trials as a safer, more effective alternative to skin whitening creams and lotions that millions of women and some men use in Asia and elsewhere, they said.
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Scientists have reported discovery of the active ingredients in an herb used in traditional Chinese medicine for skin whitening, changing skin color to a lighter shade. The ingredients are poised for clinical trials as a safer, more effective alternative to skin whitening creams and lotions that millions of women and some men use in Asia and elsewhere, they said. The report was among more than 9,500 presentations the week of March 28 at the 241st National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
The finding, which caps an intense search for these natural skin lightening substances, could be a boon to women in Asian countries, said study leader Hui-Min Wang, Ph.D. He explained that skin whitening products are all the rage there, but too-often accompanied by itching, redness, inflammation, and other side effects.
"Toxic skin whitening creams are a growing threat to women's health, especially in Asia," Wang said. "We hope that our product will improve lives and provide a safer, more natural way to lighten skin. A cream based on these herbal ingredients could be available on store shelves in as little as a year."
Skin-whitening is big business in countries like China, Japan, Korea, and India, where many women view whiter skin as a symbol of beauty, good health, and high social status. One study estimates that half the women in Asian countries use skin lightening creams, spending the equivalent of several billion dollars annually. People also use such products to fade unsightly age spots, freckles, and scars that have collected pigment.
Dozens of skin whitening creams, lotions, and other products are on sale throughout Asia. Some products contain toxic mercury, hydroquinone, and other potentially toxic substances that can cause redness, itching, inflammation and other skin problems. Some whitening ingredients could increase the risk of skin cancer when used frequently and at high doses, Wang said, citing the need for safer, more effective alternatives.
Wang and colleagues say that they have found a promising alternative in the form of an herbal "cure-all" used in traditional Chinese medicine in the form of soup or tea. The evergreen bush, Cinnamomum subavenium, is a close relative of the trees whose inner bark is the source of cinnamon. The scientists isolated two chemicals from the plant that have the ability to block tyrosinase, an enzyme that controls the synthesis of melanin, a dark pigment responsible for coloring skin, hair, and eyes. Inhibiting tyrosinase is one of the major strategies for skin-whitening, Wang said.
They tested these so-called "melanogenesis inhibitors" on the embryos of zebrafish, which are widely used as stand-ins for people and other animals in biomedical research. The embryos contain a highly visible band of black pigment. Exposure to low levels of the two chemicals reduced melanin production in the fish embryos by almost 50 percent within just four days, turning the embryos snowy white, the scientists said.
"When we saw the results, we were amazed," said Wang, who is with Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan. "My first thought was, well, 'If these herbal whiteners can transform zebrafish embryos from black to white, maybe they can also lighten women's skin.'"
He estimated that the chemicals are 100 times more effective in reducing melanin pigmentation than the common skin whitening agents kojic acid and arbutin, which have been used in cosmetics for more than 30 years. The substances did not appear to be toxic when tested in low doses on both cultured human skin cells and zebrafish embryos, Wang noted.
Wang is looking forward to clinical trials of a new beauty product based on the ingredients. Just a one percent solution of the chemicals could achieve dramatic skin whitening, Wang said, adding that several cosmetic companies are working with his group. Wang and his colleagues have applied for patents in the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan.
The scientists acknowledge funding from the National Science Council of Taiwan, Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taiwan), and the Kaohsiung Medical University.
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On Feb. 13, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) issued a statement demanding that the government of Pakistan execute U.S. government contractor Raymond Davis or turn him over to the TTP for judgment. Davis, a contract security officer for the CIA, has been in Pakistani custody since a Jan. 27 incident in which he shot two men who reportedly pointed a pistol at him in an apparent robbery attempt.
Pakistani officials have corroborated Davis' version of events and, according to their preliminary report, Davis appears to have acted in self-defense. From a tactical perspective, the incident appears to have been (in tactical security parlance) a "good shoot," but the matter has been taken out of the tactical realm and has become mired in transnational politics and Pakistani public sentiment. Whether the shooting was justified or not, Davis has now become a pawn in a larger game being played out between the United States and Pakistan.
When one considers the way similar periods of tension between the Pakistanis and Americans have unfolded in the past, it is not unreasonable to conclude that as this current period plays out, it could have larger consequences for Davis and for American diplomatic facilities and commercial interests in Pakistan. Unless the Pakistani government is willing and able to defuse the situation, the case could indeed provoke violent protests against the United States, and U.S. citizens and businesses in Pakistan should be prepared for this backlash.
Details of the Case
One of the reasons that the Pakistanis have been able to retain Davis in custody is that while he may have been traveling on a "black" diplomatic U.S. passport, not everyone who holds a diplomatic passport is afforded full diplomatic immunity. The only people afforded full diplomatic immunity are those who are on a list of diplomats officially accredited as diplomatic agents by the receiving country. The rest of the foreign employees at an embassy or a consulate in the receiving country who are not on the diplomatic list and who are not accredited as diplomatic agents under the Vienna Convention are only protected by functional immunity. This means they are only protected from prosecution related to their official duties.
As a contract employee assigned to the U.S. Consulate in Lahore, Davis was likely not on the diplomatic list and probably did not enjoy full diplomatic immunity. He was probably considered a member of the administrative or technical staff. Protecting himself during a robbery attempt would not be considered part of his official function in the country, and therefore his actions that day would not be covered under functional immunity. So determining exactly what level of immunity Davis was provided will be critical in this case, and the information provided by the Pakistani Foreign Ministry will have a big impact on the Pakistani judge hearing the arguments.
In all likelihood, Davis was briefed regarding his legal status by his company and by the CIA prior to being assigned to post. He also would have been told that, while he had limited immunity, the U.S. government would do its best to take care of him if some incident occurred. However, it would have been made clear to him that in working as a protective contractor he was running a risk and that if there was an incident on or off duty, he could wind up in trouble. All security contractors working overseas know this and accept the risk as part of the job.
At the time of the shooting, of course, Davis would not have had time to leisurely ponder this potential legal quagmire. He saw a threat and reacted to it. Undoubtedly, the U.S. government will do all it can to help Davis out — especially since the case appears to be a good-shoot scenario and not a case of negligence or bad judgment. Indeed, on Feb. 15, U.S. Sen. John Kerry flew to Islamabad in a bid to seek Davis' release. However, in spite of American efforts and international convention, Davis' case is complicated greatly by the fact that he was working in Pakistan and by the current state of U.S.-Pakistani relations.
Over the past few years, relations between the United States and Pakistan have been very strained. This tension has been evidenced not only by public opinion but also by concrete examples. For example, in mid-December, the CIA station chief in Islamabad was forced to leave the country after his name was disclosed in a class-action lawsuit brought by relatives of civilians killed by unmanned aerial vehicle strikes in the Pakistani tribal badlands.
It was no coincidence that the Pakistani lawsuit against the CIA station chief occurred shortly after the head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, was accused in a civil lawsuit of being involved in the 2008 attacks in Mumbai. The suit was brought in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn by family members of the American rabbi killed alongside his wife in Mumbai by Pakistan-based Islamist militants.
Like Iraq, Pakistan is a country that has seen considerable controversy over American security contractors over the past several years. The government of Pakistan has gone after security contractor companies like DynCorp and its Pakistani affiliate InterRisk and Xe (formerly known as Blackwater), which has become the Pakistani version of the bogeyman. In addition to the clandestine security and intelligence work the company was conducting in Pakistan, in 2009 the Taliban even began to blame Xe for suicide bombing attacks that killed civilians. The end result is that American security contractors have become extremely unpopular in Pakistan. They are viewed not only as an affront to Pakistani sovereignty but also as trigger-happy killers.
And this is the environment in which the Davis shooting occurred. Even though some Pakistani civilians apparently came forward and reported that they had been robbed at gunpoint by the men Davis shot, other Pakistani groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) — the successor to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was presumably banned by the Pakistani government — have demanded that Davis be hanged. The Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), an Islamist political party, has also demanded that Davis be hanged and has called for large protests if he is released without a court order. As noted above, TTP spokesman Azam Tarik made a statement demanding that the Pakistani government either hang Davis or hand him over to them. Interest in this issue is not just confined to Islamist groups. There are some right-wing conservative nationalists and even some secular liberals who are asking: "If the United States can give CIA shooter Mir Amal Kansi the death penalty, why can't Pakistan do the same thing to Davis?"
The result is that the Davis case has aroused much controversy and passion in Pakistan. This not only complicates the position of the Pakistani government but also raises the distinct possibility that there will be civil unrest if Davis is released.
Civil Unrest in Pakistan
Like many parts of the developing world, civil unrest in Pakistan can quickly turn to extreme violence. One example that must certainly be on the minds of the security personnel at the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. consulates in Pakistan is the November 1979 incident in which an enraged mob seized and destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. While there were only two Americans killed in that incident — a Marine security guard shot as he stood on the roof of the embassy and an Army warrant officer who died when an apartment building on the embassy compound was torched — the fire that the mob set inside the building very nearly killed all the employees who had sought shelter in the embassy's inner safe-haven area. Two local Pakistani staff members were also killed in the fire.
The 1979 attack was said to have been sparked by reports that the U.S. government was behind an assault on the Grand Mosque in Mecca by Saudi militants the day before. In reality, the mob that stormed and torched the U.S. Embassy was at least tolerated, if not orchestrated, by the Pakistani government, which was angry that the United States cut off financial aid to the country in April 1979. Not only did the Pakistani government facilitate the busing of large numbers of protesters to the U.S. Embassy, its security forces also stood aside and refused to protect the embassy from the onslaught of the angry mob. The embassy assault was Pakistan's not-so-subtle way of sending a message to the U.S. government.
But U.S. diplomatic facilities have not been the only targets of civil unrest in Pakistan. Following the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, angry mobs attacked not only security forces but also foreign businesses, banks, shops and gasoline stations in the cities of Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Quetta and throughout the province of Sindh, Bhutto's home province.
Similarly, in February 2006 during the unrest generated by the Mohammed cartoon fiasco, mobs in Islamabad, Peshawar, Karachi and Lahore attacked a wide range of Western business targets. The worst of this violence occurred in Lahore, where a rampaging mob burned down four buildings housing the four-star Ambassador Hotel, two banks, a KFC restaurant franchise and the regional office of Telenor, a Norwegian cell phone company. The protesters also damaged about 200 cars and several storefronts and threw stones through the windows of a McDonald's restaurant, a Pizza Hut and a Holiday Inn. Lahore, incidentally, is where the Davis shooting occurred.
Based on this history, the current tension between the United States and Pakistan, public sentiment in Pakistan regarding U.S. security contractors and the possibility of groups like JuD and JeI attempting to take advantage of the situation, there is a very real possibility that Davis' release could spark mob violence in Pakistan (and specifically Lahore). Even if the Pakistani government does try to defuse the situation, there are other parties who will attempt to stir up violence.
Due to the widespread discontent over the issue of U.S. security contractors in Pakistan, if protests do follow the release of Davis, they can be expected to be similar to the protests that followed the Mohammed cartoon case, i.e., they will cut across ethnic and sectarian lines and present a widespread threat.
Physical security measures such as concrete barriers, standoff distances and security cameras can add to a facility's defenses against a terrorist attack, but they really do not pose much of an obstacle to an angry mob intent on overrunning a property — especially if local and indigenous security forces are unwilling or unable to intervene in a timely fashion and the mob has the time and latitude to assault the facility for a prolonged period. The protesters can scale barriers and their overwhelming numbers can render most security measures useless. Barriers such as hard-line doors can provide some delay, but they can be breached by assailants who possess tools and time.
Additionally, if protesters are able to set fire to the building, as happened at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad in 1979, a safe-haven can become a death trap, especially if the mob can take control of the secondary escape hatch as it did in that incident, trapping the Americans inside the safe-haven.
Commercial facilities are, by their very nature, far more accessible — and far more vulnerable — to mob violence than diplomatic facilities. A commercial facility can present a tempting soft target to those who wish to attack a symbol of America without tackling a hard target like a U.S. diplomatic facility, which is designed and built to comply with stringent security standards. If a mob storms a hotel, the local staff will be unable to protect the guests, and conceivably could leave the guests to fend for themselves in the confusion and chaos of a riot. Even worse, they could even facilitate attacks against Americans by pointing them out or providing their room numbers.
Any person identified as an American by such an angry mob could quickly find himself or herself in dire danger. While Americans working for the U.S. government can expect to have some security assistance in getting back to the embassy or to another secure location, non-officials may be left to fend for themselves, especially if they are not registered with the embassy. Non-officials are also not required to abide by the same security rules as officials. While many non-officials consider the U.S. State Department's security rules to be onerous at times, during troubled periods these conservative security rules often serve to keep diplomats out of harm's way.
Once a mob attacks, there often is little that can be done — especially if the host government either cannot or will not take action to protect the facility being attacked. At that point, the focus should be on preventing injuries and saving lives — without regard to the physical property. In most cases, when a mob attacks a multinational corporation, it is attacking a symbolic target. KFC restaurants, for example, have been frequent targets of attacks in Pakistan because of the company's association with the United States. In many cases, multinational franchises such as KFC and even some hotels are owned by locals and not Americans, but that does not matter to the mobs, which see nothing but a U.S. symbol.
When an issue such as the Mohammed cartoons, the Bhutto assassination or the release of Raymond Davis spirals into violent protests, the only real precaution that many companies can take is to escape the area and avoid loss of life. The best defense is to use good intelligence in order to learn about the protests in advance, to track them when they occur and then to evacuate personnel before they can be affected by the violence.
U.S. diplomatic facilities and business interests in Pakistan are almost certainly reviewing their contingency plans right now and planning for the worst-case scenario. During such times, vigilance and preparation are vital, as is a constant flow of updated intelligence pertaining to potential demonstrations. Such intelligence can provide time for an evacuation or allow other proactive security measures to be taken. With the current tension between Pakistan and the United States, there might not be much help coming when the next wave of unrest erupts, so keeping ahead of potential protests is critically important.
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