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Final Winter of Cloud Seeding in Wyoming
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Preparations are being made for a final winter of seeding clouds over Wyoming mountains as part of the state's unique research project to determine whether the practice actually works.
The state has invested about $13 million since 2005 in the project, which seeks to determine whether cloud seeding increases the amount of snowpack in several of the state's mountain ranges.
Cloud seeding involves injecting silver iodide into clouds. Under the right conditions, the chemical can help water droplets grow and fall to the ground.
The Wyoming project has been hampered by drought conditions that have limited chances for cloud seeding the past two winters.
Project manager Barry Lawrence, of the Wyoming Water Development Office, says he's cautiously optimistic that enough cloud seeding cases will be obtained for a valid study.


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IgorSmink needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 115 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Lamp Lord
We're from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With a passion for antique lamps, among other things. The webshop will go live in about 2 months and will be offering the biggest online selection of antique lamps in the Netherlands.
Some characteristics: approx.
35 - 55 years old,
own their home,
middle and upper class,
buy antique,
What we want for our webshop:
A logo to go with our site, see http://www.republika.nl/lamp
The logo has to fit in the upper left corner
Colors: black, blue, orange, grey (see the site...)
height: 95 pixels max
width: 222 pixels (with tagline up to 459 pixels)
Option 1: just text
tagline( small, pnt 10-12): "Antieke & Unieke lampen, Grootste aanbod van Nederland"
Lamp Lord on the left, next to it the tagline from left to right, on the bottom
Option 2:
logo/image on the left,
then the "Lamp Lord" letters
and then next to the letters, the tagline (see above, Dutch text in quotation marks), from left to right, on the bottom
suggestion for logo option 2: a "LampLord" from Alice in Wonderland
simple, basic
easy to read!
a bit of elegance...
easy to recognize (also from a distance)
clip art
stock photo
cheap / screaming / loud
The files we require:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Vector file
Good Luck!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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webperf needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 19 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We are a French start-up on the ad serving business.
Streampub.com is a French marketplace and is today on creation, so today, you'll only find a website "under construction" at this url:
(It's only a beta version used to show you the style of the website)
!!!!!! Don't pay any attention to the texts, they have nothing to do with the website !!!!!!!
Origin of the brand:
Stream is for "streaming ads"
Pub means "ad" in french.
We are looking a flash animation in 2 languages (English and French) with the respect of the colors and graphic chart of the beta website. This animation will be on the homepage.
The concept of the market place is to gather advertisers and publishers.
Advetisers and publishers come to a marketplace for the same reason: generate a maximum of money (with their ad spaces for publishers, and with the best ROI possible for the advertisers).
We need 2 "eye catching" animations in 2 languages (English and French). Actually, it will be 2 times exactly the same animation but in each language.
It will appear on the homepage.
First of all, we're looking for creativity, feel free to suggest original animations.
This animation has to be "eye catching", it will be on the homepage, so this is very important.
It has to be about this size: 500x250 (you can suggest different sizes according to the integration of this animation in the layout of the website)
It must be well integrated to the website in terms of colors and has to look like "web 2.0"...
Keep in mind that this website is a "serious" and "for professionnal" website, the animation has to respect these guidelines.
The goal of this flash animation is to present in a few "screens" (for publishers AND advertisers in the same animation) some of the advantages to work with Streampub trought some text-lines you'll find below.
Feel free to suggest any idea for this animation. For examples: animated charts showing an increase of revenus for publishers / increase of ROI (return on investment) for advertisers, or with integrated videos, 3D...
You can get some inspiration of the flash animation which is on this website: exoclick.com (I don't want the same, but something approaching with more ceativity)
The differents texts messages to show (French AND English) will be in the comments section of this contest.
If usefull, you'll find below files of the Streampub logo.


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NEA2-Together (Ipswich)
Food Teachers Centre (Founder Louise Davies)
Tuesday, 14 November 2017 from 16:30 to 18:30 (GMT)
Event Details
NEA 2-Together
Food Teachers Centre Community is running simultaneous meetings around the country to support the release of GCSE NEA 2 on 1st November. We want to bring teachers together locally to support their planning and understanding of Non Examination Assessment (NEA) to help clarify any issues and share good resources to use.
These events will take place in first two weeks of November.
The focus of the meeting will be
- discussing challenges presented during NEA 1, and approaches to marking and moderation of NEA1 (Food Science Investigation)
- Understanding the NEA 2 Practical Test)
- Preparing your candidates for NEA 2
- Code of Conduct and regulations – what is permissible during task preparation, task setting and task taking phases.
This is a new community style meeting, which is less formal and more self-help than our training days or face to face events. But there is something very exciting about the whole country of food teachers getting together during this time to help each other, so we hope that you can join us. We know that this is will great for your school results, your own CPD and networking.
NEA 2-Together Programme
The draft programme will include:
- Welcome and light refreshments
- A recorded or live presentation from Louise Davies and Food Teachers Centre Associates, with essential tips on NEA 2
- Questions and Answers
- Marking and Moderating NEA 1 - Working in groups for each board
Understanding and preparing for NEA 2 - Working in groups for each board
PLEASE BRING a copy of the exam board set tasks, an example for moderation (to be kept confidential at all times), and any exam board guidance that you have.
NEA-Together Booking and Costs £15
A minimum donation of £15 (plus Eventbrite booking fee) will be requested to cover any costs, such as room hire, refreshments and managing the booking system. Donations from student teachers can be more flexible.
There are limited places at each venue and we advise to book early.
When & Where
Copleston High School
Copleston Rd
IP4 5HD Ipswich
United Kingdom
Tuesday, 14 November 2017 from 16:30 to 18:30 (GMT)
Add to my calendar
Food Teachers Centre (Founder Louise Davies)
FOOD TEACHERS CENTRE is a uk based self-help group founded by Louise T Davies in 2013 and supported by experienced associates. It provides a platform to exchange best practice, give advice and support to less experienced teachers, answering practical concerns and keeping them abreast of the latest curriculum changes. A one-stop shop for like-minded professionals who seek help and information. It is free to take part and is facilitated through a closed on-line group, safeguarding the conversations of the teaching staff.
The idea of a 'Teacher's Centre' is a response to the lack of local and national specialist support and diminishing Continuing Professional Development with the demise of local authority advisers ASTs, lead practitioners and supporting organisations.
The Centre utilises new technologies, not requiring a physical space in new times, but providing the same high quality service that our traditional teachers centres were recognised for.
The Food Teachers Centre is a place of
- creative, innovative ideas and action
- practical solutions
- learning and sharing
If you would like to join the closed facebook group (you have to be a secondary food teacher and reply to a message sent to you to prove who you are)
But you can also visit our website and public facebook page
The centre is supported by a group of very experienced and high quality national and regional consultants/advisers, who offer training, advice and resource writing for food education in primary and secondary schools. Find out more about how Associates can help you.
Food Teacher's Centre Community is a community group set up to:
- provide and promote unbiased and accurate information to support curriculum development and innovation.
- support food teachers (including student teachers) to exchange best practice nationally and internationally.
- support teachers and schools to develop and/or enhance a healthy living whole school community.
'The Food Teacher's Centre' is the trading name for Bright Ideas Food and Health Consulting Ltd
Registered Office 69-71 East Street Epsom Surrey KT17 1BP
Registered No 9096275 VAT No 189 4024 84


text: Hi, I'm trying to capture 1 whole Transport Stream (TS) from my card. These are the output from my dvbstream command: [root at dvstation dvbstream]# ./dvbstream -f 554000 -s 6875 -qam 256 -n 30 8192 > test.ts dvbstream v0.7 - (C) Dave Chapman 2001-2004 Released under the GPL. Latest version available from http://www.linuxstb.org/ Tuning to 554000 Hz Using DVB card "ST STV0297 DVB-C", freq=554000 tuning DVB-C to 554000000, srate=6875000 Getting frontend status Event: Frequency: 554000000 SymbolRate: 6874000 FEC_inner: 0 Bit error rate: 0 Signal strength: 841 SNR: 6301 UNC: 0 FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI FE_HAS_SYNC dvbstream will stop after 30 seconds (0 minutes) Output to stdout Streaming 1 stream ************************************************************************************************************************** However, when I try to play back the file via VLC, I received a lot of these messages (these are just some of the messages): ts warning: discontinuity received 0xf instead of 0xd (pid=33) ts warning: discontinuity received 0x8 instead of 0x7 (pid=35) ts warning: discontinuity received 0x5 instead of 0x2 (pid=34) ts debug: pid[34] unknown ts debug: transport_error_indicator set (pid=35) ts debug: transport_error_indicator set (pid=34) It seems that the TS that I capture from the card has a lot of Transport & Continuity count error. Also, when I analyse the Pids through dvbstream, I realise the Pids are actually increasing when the Pids for the normal stream is fixed! Basically, I run the -analyse command & print the output to a file When I checked the number of Pids found, it was about 60+ 5 seconds later, it increased to about 70+ and it keeps increasing... However, all this numbers are wrong because I have previously confirmed that the TS itself only has 55 Pids! Is the dvbstream somehow adding the Pids? Have anyone experience this problem before? Or it there a solution to this. Thank you very much. Regards, HY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/attachments/20071122/2e80160b/attachment.htm


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Oliver Bussmann, CIO at SAP, boasts he has 6,000 followers on Twitter. He also makes a point of attending trade shows like the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to grab ideas on new innovations.
Every year, he speaks at least a couple of times before college students, if only to monitor what will be on the minds of his potential workers in a few years.
"I think about how I can bring my IT team closer to these technology topics," he told Computerworld at CES. "They ought to know the trends coming from the consumer shows, because my customers are consumers."
Bussmann has 4,000 IT workers who in turn manage about 50,000 mobile devices globally.
He has used the architecture team and others at SAP to research what's on the minds of users, and their input is often included in technology used by 18,000 SAP developers and product managers.
So far, there are about 50 applications used internally that have resulted from these efforts, most of them focused on productivity. Some will end up as products that SAP sells to external customers.
As with other IT shops, Bussmann's group has faced the tyranny of the consumer device crowd, but has tried to learn from the high expectations that workers now bring. Apple stores and their store reps have had an influence, he said.
"If you walk by one of our 15 solution centers, we support Apple, Android, RIM and Windows 8," he said. "You can test drive the devices. We have our genius bar and a training area."
By contrast, the older concept of IT support was a drop-off counter located in a basement. "Our end users have a high expectation level for support," Bussmann said.
The influence of the iPhone and other consumer products has also transformed how Bussmann sees his role. He said he measured mainly on three things: his efficiency, his ability to grow the business, and how he embraces innovation. "By that, I mean how I bring the business closer to innovation, and that's real value," he said.
Out of the innovation approach, various applications have evolved. One real hit with SAP workers is an SAP variation of the cloud-based filesharing service Droppox for document management, simply called SAP Box. He wouldn't comment on whether SAP Box will become a product that SAP markets externally.
In terms of specific innovations that could matter to his business in the future, Bussmann said he has developed more interest in machine-to-machine technology and what it might mean for users with smartphones. Pricing of sensors is dropping, which will boost the use of M2M.


text: > Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with > domain-specific processors. Cell, ARM, Sparc T2's, etc all > have a certain market which they are suited to and work well > in, but are pooly suited for workloads outside that market. > There's no point in burning massive amounts of die space on > floating point units in a processor that's going to be doing > SQL searches, and similarly not a whole lot of point burning > space on hardware crypto acceleration for desktop chips, > where pure software implementations are fast enough in nearly > all situations. Whether a different ISA is required for each > chip is more debatable. There are applications (DSP) where deterministic execution speed is nice. There are applications where Harvard architecture is nice. Those may be niche cases, and a sufficiently fast commodity x86, warts and all, might be better than an expensive tailored chip. In my own work, which these days is quite embedded, I maintain that we shouldn't be trying to make the OS hard-real-time, and that hard RT stuff should be done in dedicated hardware (perhaps reprogrammable, FPGA), with the soft RT OS just managing things, and get "reliability" in a " not missing the schedule or dropping an interrupt" sense by plenty of reserve CPU capacity. While Intel is doing their best to > make x86 work in everything from low-power cellphone chips to > GPUs, all indications are that it's not really working out > for them. Whether this is the fault of the x86 instruction > set, which is notoriously complicated to deal with, But at least the assembler is still source code compatible with your code for an 8080. The substantial investment you made in writing 8080 code back in 1980 hasn't been lost.<grin> heck, for all I know, the latest processors still have a virtual-8086 mode. A quick check of the March 2009 Intel software developer manual indicates that indeed, they do. So that 8086 code I wrote back in the early 80s could conceivably run without recompiling. (If I could figure out how to read the 8" floppy it's stored on.) or > whether it's simply trying to cover too much ground with one > ISA it hard to say, since noone else has (AFAIK) tried it. > It's basically the standard tradeoff between economies of > scale and efficiency - if chip A is only half as efficient by > some useful metric as chip B, but can be produced in > sufficient scale such that it only costs a third as much to > buy, then it'll win. > > Finally, I wouldn't agree that Sparc is proprietary in any > way. In fact, it's about the most open architecture I know > of. It's a fully open royalty-free standard (though I did a > quick search to make sure, and apparently there's a one-off > $99 "admin fee" if you want to use the SPARC trademark, but > that's it), with multiple independant implementations. I can > even download a GPL'd Verilog version and use it as an > embedded processor in an FPGA if I want, without paying a cent. Indeed. We're using the (free) LEON core (which implements the SPARC v8) at JPL. And there's SPARC 7s at Mars and the Moon. I don't know if there's any x86s in deep space (defined as farther than the moon or 2E6 km, depending on who you talk to). Other popular processors in space are various MIPS processors and the PPC. Jim Lux


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battery, electric
electric battery, device that converts chemical energy into electrical energy, consisting of a group of electric cells that are connected to act as a source of direct current. The term is also now commonly used for a single cell, such as the alkaline dry cell used in flashlights and portable tape players, but strictly speaking batteries are made up of connected cells encased in a container and fitted with terminals to provide a source of direct electric current at a given voltage. A cell consists of two dissimilar substances, a positive electrode and a negative electrode, that conduct electricity, and a third substance, an electrolyte, that acts chemically on the electrodes. The two electrodes are connected by an external circuit (e.g., a piece of copper wire); the electrolyte functions as an ionic conductor for the transfer of the electrons between the electrodes. The voltage, or electromotive force, depends on the chemical properties of the substances used, but is not affected by the size of the electrodes or the amount of electrolyte.
Batteries are classed as either dry cell or wet cell. In a dry cell the electrolyte is absorbed in a porous medium, or is otherwise restrained from flowing. In a wet cell the electrolyte is in liquid form and free to flow and move. Batteries also can be generally divided into two main types—rechargeable and nonrechargeable, or disposable. Disposable batteries, also called primary cells, can be used until the chemical changes that induce the electrical current supply are complete, at which point the battery is discarded. Disposible batteries are most commonly used in smaller, portable devices that are only used intermittently or at a large distance from an alternative power source or have a low current drain. Rechargeable batteries, also called secondary cells, can be reused after being drained. This is done by applying an external electrical current, which causes the chemical changes that occur in use to be reversed. The external devices that supply the appropriate current are called chargers or rechargers.
The storage battery is generally a battery of the wet-cell type; i.e., it uses a liquid electrolyte and can be recharged many times. The storage battery consists of several cells connected in series. Each cell contains a number of alternately positive and negative plates separated by the liquid electrolyte. The positive plates of the cell are connected to form the positive electrode; similarly, the negative plates form the negative electrode. In the process of charging, the cell is made to operate in reverse of its discharging operation; i.e., current is forced through the cell in the opposite direction, causing the reverse of the chemical reaction that ordinarily takes place during discharge, so that electrical energy is converted into stored chemical energy. The storage battery's greatest use has been in the automobile where it was used to start the internal-combustion engine. Improvements in battery technology have resulted in vehicles—some in commercial use—in which the battery system supplies power to electric drive motors instead.
Batteries are made of a wide variety of electrodes and electrolytes to serve a wide variety of uses. Batteries consisting of carbon-zinc dry cells connected in various ways (as well as batteries consisting of other types of dry cells) are used to power such devices as flashlights, lanterns, and pocket-sized radios and CD players. Alkaline dry cells are an efficient battery type that is both economical and reliable. In alkaline batteries, the hydrous alkaline solution is used as an electrolyte; the dry cell lasts much longer as the zinc anode corrodes less rapidly under basic conditions than under acidic conditions. In the United States the lead storage battery is commonly used. A more expensive type of lead-acid battery called a gel battery (or gel cell) contains a semisolid electrolyte to prevent spillage. More portable rechargeable batteries include several dry-cell types, which are sealed units and are therefore useful in appliances like mobile phones and laptops. Cells of this type (in order of increasing power density and cost) include nickel-cadmium (nicad or NiCd), nickel metal hydride (NiMH), and lithium-ion (Li-Ion) cells.
There is evidence that primitive batteries were used in Iraq and Egypt as early as 200 BC for electroplating and precious metal gilding. In 1748, Benjamin Franklin coined the term battery to describe an array of charged glass plates. However, most historians date the invention of batteries to about 1800 when experiments by Alessandro Volta resulted in the generation of electrical current from chemical reactions between dissimilar metals. Experiments with different combinations of metals and electrolytes continued over the next 60 years. In the 1860s, Georges Leclanche of France developed a carbon-zinc wet cell; nonrechargeable, it was rugged, manufactured easily, and had a reasonable shelf life. Also in the 1860s, Raymond Gaston Plant invented the lead-acid battery. It had a short shelf life, and about 1881 Émile Alphonse Faure developed batteries using a mixture of lead oxides for the positive plate electrolyte with faster reactions and higher efficiency. In 1900, Thomas Alva Edison developed the nickel storage battery, and in 1905 the nickel-iron battery. During World War II the mercury cell was produced. The small alkaline battery was introduced in 1949. In the 1950s the improved alkaline-manganese battery was developed. In 1954 the first solar battery or solar cell was introduced, and in 1956 the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell was introduced. The 1960s saw the invention of the gel-type electrolyte lead-acid battery. Lithium-ion batteries, wafer thin and powering portable computers, cell phones, and space probes were introduced in the 1990s. Computer chips and sensors now help prolong battery life and speed the charging cycle. Sensors monitor the temperature inside a battery as chemical reactions during the recharging cause it to heat up; microchips control the power flow during recharging so that current flows in rapidly when the batteries are drained and then increasingly slowly as the batteries become fully charged. Another source of technical progress is nanotechnology; research indicates that batteries employing carbon nanotubes will have twice the life of traditional batteries.
See also electric circuit; fuel cell; solar cell.


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Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance
edited by Viral V. Acharya, Thomas F. Cooley, Matthew P. Richardson, and Ingo Walter Wiley, 573 pp., $49.95
One refreshing sign of hope for constructive change is that economists, some of whose theories had much to do with a light regulatory approach toward derivatives and the housing bubble, are increasingly producing research calling for stricter guidelines than Dodd-Frank or the Obama administration. Regulating Wall Street presents a wide range of new research supporting stronger regulations than Dodd-Frank recommends, such as the tax proposals I mentioned earlier. In Reforming US Financial Markets, Robert Shiller also describes new economic theories that take into account more realistic appraisals of how Wall Street works and demonstrates why more effective regulation is necessary. The old theory of rational markets, which laid the groundwork for light regulation, "is one of the most remarkable errors in the history of thought," Shiller writes. He believes that regulators can and should decide to raise capital requirements during periods of excessive speculation.
In the prologue of Regulating Wall Street, the editors, hardly known as progressives, remind financiers how useful strong regulations were in the past:
We would be far better off if the powers on Wall Street would remember this lesson.
Many players on Wall Street and in corporate America in the 1930s hated the new regulatory regime imposed on them.... But in the long run...the new regulatory regime was one of the best things that ever happened for Wall Street and corporate America. Why? Because it created confidence among investors--then and in the decades to follow--that Wall Street finally had become a level playing field.
Read the full review from the New York Review of Books


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The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information today, strongly rejected the Ministry of Culture and Information decision on January 1st , 2011 to approve the new executive regulation of electronic publishing, which contained 20 articles dealing with electronic publishing with the same restrictive manner in dealing with newspapers and publications in the Saudi system for publishing and publications.
The regulation contains items to organize all types of electronic publishing including blogs, forums and short messaging . Internet users have succeeded in creating forums to express their views more freely than in paper publications, with less control imposed by the authorities. This regulation came to limit freedom of of opinion and expression on the Internet. Article # 7 stipulates a permit for electronic publication to be granted by the Ministry of Information!
go here for the rest of the article.
My take
The Bedouin king of doom really scare of late. Their highly guard flock whose happens to educated/travel oversea (and broader their thinking from the "typical cultural enforced veil" and many silly rule which block their mind), little by little has come to their senses. It begun to brush their subconscious about the system put in place before their very eyes, on how notorious absurd it was even to do a simple menial task back home. This is getting more apparent nowadays. And when the young law academician by the name Mohammed Abdulkarim publish the on line regarding possibility of a power struggle inside the ruling family, then it all hell break loose in Riyadh so to speak!
Actually, this is no news nor anything new really for those in the know but in this land, where almost everything been (conveniently) put as taboos then it was like an atomic bomb blast above the holly land where the unholy king, the court of Al Saud and their cohort rule and plunder the state coffer. While this saddos live extravagant in their court and spend lavishly oversea, their so call subjects live in a such conditions unthinkable for such rich country, corruptions, patronage, lack of employments and the old womenfolk are begging in the street etc. Perhaps it gonna do a big shock if this people knew about the price tag of the gift that the King of Spade gave Obama( as well as to his family) not so long ago. A whooping hundred thousand petrol Dollar!
To summed it short, the court of Bedouins are not really dumb as dumbbell at least not their fat asses advisors for sure, and the wind that brew from Tunisia since late last year surely scare the shit out of 'em. Granted they are not dumb but far from been wise really. Therefore they choose to block the access by mean of restricting access to the new media, after all they seam to do it well on the old media as the newspapers are nothing but dead all dead in donkey's years.
Perhaps they got the idea from "a bunch of kids" who just graduate from the western varsity. These people has no idea of how the Internet really work! They are doom to fail and their moved will cost 'em more them to save their asses. Mark my work.
And the best part is, now the infamous Imelda Marcos of the Arabia are safely in their land together with tons of gold, robbed(as all and decades of looting and blood sucking is not enough still) from the central bank shortly before feeing the country (according to the French intelligence source). This former Tunisia's Madame La Présidente really make the Grace Mugabe look a slightly modest but then in the eyes of Kingdom of Bedouins, this is nothing..


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Politicians and residents gathered Sunday to cook hot dogs and roast marshmallows at Huntington State Beach in a message to air-quality regulators that they wouldn't give up the city's fire rings without a fight.
Hundreds, including politicians like organizer Assemblyman Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach), showed up to oppose the South Coast Air Quality Management District's proposed ban on fire rings in Orange and Los Angeles counties.
"The community is completely united in keeping our fire rings," Allen said. "This is who we are in California. This is what we do."
He said 30,000 have signed an online petition supporting the fire rings. Another petition circulated at Sunday's event.
"It would be tragic if an unelected body like the AQMD takes away our fire rings that have been a tradition for years," Assemblyman Allan Mansoor (R-Costa Mesa) said. "If they take that away, what's next?"
U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher shared Mansoor's concerns.
"It's not an unelected official's job to tell us what to do with our lives," he said. "It's the people in government that should be taking orders from the people and not the other way around. [The proposed fire ring ban] represents one of the most blatant examples of unelected bureaucracy trying to give orders, trying to change our way of life, expecting that we're just going to comply."
The fire rings' fate came up after the city of Newport Beach submitted a request to the California Coastal Commission in August to remove 60 fire rings near Balboa Pier and at Corona del Mar State Beach because of possible negative health impacts to residents.
AQMD caught wind after Newport used the district's Rule 444 as an argument, which would allow the city to remove the rings because of the smoke it generates and its adverse effects on people's health.
At a public hearing in March, Huntington Beach city officials said the wanted to keep their about 500 fire pits for financial reasons and asked that the hearing about the ban be postponed.
After Huntington Beach supplied the district with a letter of correspondence from the Coastal Commission, AQMD agreed to push their decision until June 7.
Huntington Beach Councilman Joe Carchio was happy to see the turnout at the state beach and expected the community to band together to support their fire rings.
"Just step back and stay out of the way," he said about AQMD. "Let Newport Beach do what they want to do and let Huntington Beach do what they want to do. Let there be local control. We don't need bureaucrats telling us what to do."
Carchio said he doesn't know where it will end should the AQMD decide to ban them.
"It's all about local control. It's not just fire pits," he said. "Where does it stop? If they take fire pits away from the beaches, do they go to regional parks next? Do they go to your backyards and barbecues?"
Huntington Beach resident Frank Marshall lives off Pacific Coast Highway a few miles from the event and said he doesn't think AQMD's suggestion to snuff the rings is the best way to reduce pollution.
"Come on, 10 of these [fire rings] equal to the pollution of one car per day? That's ridiculous," he said at the rally. "I say let them have it."
Miss Fountain Valley 2013 Aimee Le said the fire rings is a great place for family and friends to bond. She's even used them to burn old homework assignments at the end of the college semester.
"It's cold at night, but it's nice to have the warmth of the fire to be around and you really get to bond with the people you care about," she said.
Twitter: @acocarpio


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The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) recently released its yearly rankings of institutions of higher education in India. Since 2015, the rankings have been developed by the Government of India through the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). These rankings are based upon the following parameters: "Teaching, Learning and Resources", "Research and Professional Practices", "Graduation Outcomes", "Outreach and Inclusivity", and "Perception".
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Winter '68 Edward B. McEnerney (Executive), The Georgia CPA, Winter '68. The Great Money Controversy. January 18 Jon Cary Findlay (Miami), Florida CPA Institute, Broward County Chapter, Miami. SEC Accounting. 18 Harley H. Budolph (Miami), National Association of Accountants, Miami. Accounting and Industrial Engineering: the Area of Interaction. February 20 Charles A. Pancerzewski (Seattle), Institute of Internal Auditors, Seattle' Chapter. Auditape—the Auditors' Key to the Computer. 20 Gordon B. M. Walker (New York MAS), National Association of Accountants, Trenton Chapter. Return on Investment Concept as a Management Tool. 26 John W. Queenan (Executive), Florida CPA Society, Dade County Chapter, Miami. Professional Liability: A Growing Concern. March Kenneth E. Studdard (Houston), Journal of Accountancy's Selected Studies in Modern Accounting. Planning Effective Gifts— What-When-How-and to Whom? Thomas W. Hudson, Jr. (Greensboro), Robert T. Atwood, James W. Craft (Atlanta), National Society of Controllers 6- Financial Officers of Savings Institutions Technical Publication 1968. Loan Yield Planning. 4 Harold G. Levell (Memphis), Haskins & Sells Personnel and Invited Clients, Atlanta. Tax Impact and Planning Possibilities of Foreign Direct Investment Regulations. 5 Hilton E Meunier (New Orleans), Louisiana CPA Society, New Orleans Chapter. Capsule Review of Opinions 10 and 11 of Accounting Principles Board. 6 Leonard M. Brooke (New Orleans), Mississippi State University, Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, State College, Mississippi. (Also University of Mississippi, University, March 7; Loyola University, New Orleans, March 13.) Masterminding the Computer (H&S Auditape Film); Accounting Systems. 7 Joseph E. Elmlinger (Columbus), Ohio State University, Columbus. Statistical Sampling and EDP: The Auditors Viewpoint. 11 Charles V Doherty (Chicago), Goodbody and Company, WCIU-TV, Chicago. Answers to Questions on Market Review. 11 Robert E Skeehan (Chicago), Illinois CPA Society, Radio Station WMAQ-NBC, Chicago. Dial a CPA. 14 B. Clare Harris (Detroit), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. Computers and the Haskins 6- Sells Auditape System. 14 Sherrill W. Hudson (Dayton), Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. My Experiences in Public Accounting; The CPA Examination. 14 Charles A. Walworth (San Francisco), Institute of Internal Auditors, San Francisco Chapter. Auditape System. 17 Harold G. Levell (Memphis), Tennessee CPA Society, Memphis. Current Income Tax Developments. 22 Francis P Carolan (Philadelphia), La Salle College, Philadelphia. Opportunity in Public Accounting for a Tax Specialist. 26 Dallas Wayne Doyle (Phoenix), University of Arizona Chapter of Beta. Alpha Psi, Tucson. First Year with National CPA Firms. 27 Ralph W. Newkirk, Jr. (Philadelphia), La Salle College, Philadelphia. Opportunities for Evening College Students in Public Accounting. April 1 Maurice S. Newman (Executive), American Management Association, Atlanta. (Also Financial Executive, April 1968.) Measuring the Return on Investment in Research and Development Expenditures. 2 Walter H. Hanshaw (Houston), Texas Manufacturers Association, Centex Chapter, Austin. (Also Institute of Internal Auditors, Houston Chapter, May 28.) Current Trends in Management Planning and Control. 2 Thomas Simandl (Orange County), Garden Grove West Rotary Club, Garden Grove, California. Junior Achievement. 4 Robert E Crilly (Rochester), Institute of Internal Auditors, Rochester Chapter. Auditing and Electronic Data Processing Seminar. 4 Robert H. Marlette (Rochester), Institute of Internal Auditors, Rochester. Corporation 633 Case Problem. 4 Ralph W. Newkirk, Jr. (Philadelphia), Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania. Auditing through the Computer. 4 D. Robert Nicholson (Rochester), Institute of Internal Auditors, Rochester Chapter. Introduction to the Auditape System. 5 Norman R. Kerth (New Orleans), Radio Station WDSU in cooperation with Louisiana CPA Society, New Orleans Chapter. Close-Up (Call-in, Back and Forth Talk re Income Tax Returns). 5 D. Robert Nicholson (Rochester), Syracuse University Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi. Some Aspects of Public Accounting Practice. 30
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Which countries face corporate balance sheet vulnerabilities? a novel monitoring framework
The debt of the nonfinancial corporate sector in emerging and developing economies (EMDEs) has risen significantly since the global financial crisis, raising concerns about financial stability and spillover risks. While monetary easing in developed economies has allowed EMDE corporates to raise substantial financing from global capital markets, the sharp decline in commodity prices since 2014 and lower growth prospects across EMDEs have weighted on their firms' profitability and debt service capacity.
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The American Soybean Association says it welcomed news that China will now allow genetically modified soybeans into that country. The announcement by the government of the People's Republic of China is based on two years of field and food safety tests in China that have confirmed the safety, healthfulness and environmental friendliness of Roundup Ready soybeans. China has been importing Roundup Ready soybeans under a series of interim safety certificates.
China has now issued a final safety certificate for the importation of soybeans and soybean products derived from biotech-enhanced Roundup Ready soybean seedstock.
"China's decision to issue final safety certificates for Roundup Ready soybeans is good news for U.S. farmers, as well as for Chinese consumers who rely on imports of high-quality soybeans to be processed into cooking oil and livestock feed," says American Soybean Association President Ron Heck of Perry, Iowa. "This action will help insure a steady market for U.S. soybeans, while helping stabilize meat, fish, egg, and cooking oil prices for Chinese consumers."
First certified by the U.S. government in 1995 and since then approved by 38 other countries, Roundup Ready soybeans are the only biotech-enhanced soybean variety commercially planted in the United States. Last year, about 85 percent of the soybeans in the United States were grown from Roundup Ready seed. On a worldwide basis, more than 60 percent of soybeans in world trade have been improved through modern biotechnology.
Within the last seven years, China, a genetic center of origin for the soybean, has made a dramatic transition from being a net soybean exporting country, to the largest export market for U.S. soybeans. In 2003, U.S. soybean exports to China totaled 10.9 million metric tons, or 400 million bushels, worth $2.8 billion. This represents more than 35 percent of all U.S. soy exports and more than 40 percent of China's import requirements.
"The announcement covering soybeans and a handful of biotech events approved for other crops also marks a significant step toward universal acceptance of crop biotechnology that is improving the environment today and will help feed the world tomorrow," says Heck.
Biotech-enhanced soybeans have allowed farmers greater flexibility in adopting conservation tillage practices that save millions of tons of valuable top soil and reduce the number of times farmers have to run equipment over their fields, which saves millions of gallons of fuel. Biotech crops also have allowed farmers to reduce the amount of insecticides and pesticides applied to their fields, and use products that are more environmentally friendly because they biodegrade more quickly, he says.
"In the past, ASA has expressed concern about the willingness of China's regulatory agencies to repeatedly move the regulatory target for approval of Roundup Ready soybeans," Heck says. "So we are very pleased that this announcement actually comes well before the scheduled April 20 expiration of the interim safety certificate program."
"At times, U.S. soybean exports have faced issues such as trade restrictions, import permit delays, confusion over biotechnology regulations and problems with transparency," he says. "This hurt U.S. soybean producers, and made life difficult for major buyers of U.S. soybeans in China who need to be able to operate knowing that they have a free and unencumbered flow of soybeans from the United States."
The American Soybean Association says it has worked diligently to obtain meaningful access for U.S. soybeans and soybean products in China's World Trade Organization accession agreement. During the past several years, the commodity group has repeated called on the administration and Congress to insist that China's political leadership honor and enforce its commitment that access to the Chinese market for U.S. soybean exports would not be restricted.
In December, the American Soybean Association signed a cooperation agreement with representatives of the China Chamber of Commerce of Import and Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce & Animal By-Products in support of continued U.S. soybean exports to China. The agreement calls for a wide range of mutually beneficial exchanges and activities, including the exchange of delegations between ASA and CFNA.
"In 1982, long before China imported soybeans, ASA producer-leaders decided to open an office in China to begin building demand for U.S. soybeans," Heck said. "While U.S. soybean farmers have greatly benefited from ASA's work in China, so have Chinese consumers. Today, imports of soybeans from the United States allow China to keep meat and vegetable oil supplied and prices under control for Chinese consumers.
"Obtaining a final safety certificate for Roundup Ready soybeans has been one of the American Soybean Association's major goals for the past several years," Heck said. "ASA views today's announcement to be the result of contiued vigilance, and it demonstrates ASA's willingness to confront any efforts to restrict market access for U.S. soybean farmers."
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There is the world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, lain, a thirteen year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: "I just abandoned my body. I still live here..." Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur?
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lain receives e-mail from the girl that committed suicide the other day. The girl says "I just abandoned my body. I still live here."
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Club Cyberia - the space with full of music, light and people who search for their own pleasure - and the place where another "lain" appears.
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lain receives mysterious circuit called "Psyche" that improve functions of any type of NAVIs.
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The former Liverpool and Panathinaikos winger joins the Serie A side on a free and will meet up with his new club in July
Sebastian Leto is set to join Serie A side Catania in the summer on a free transfer.
The Argentine attacker had been playing for Panathinaikos in Greece who he joined in 2009-10 and won the Greek Super League that season.
However suffering from a series of injuries he was released from the club in January and was without an employer when Catania secured his services.
Leto began his career in his homeland with Buenos Aries club Lanus before a move to Premier League side Liverpool.
He never made a league appearance due to work permit issues but played in the League Cup and Champions League.
Leto was loaned to Olympiakos where he won the Greek double in 2008-09 before his move to Panathinaikos.


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