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If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she'll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.
Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011.
To get the word out, they're using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners. Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling in countries from Latin America to Africa to spread the news outside the U.S.
"A lot of people might think, 'The end's coming, let's go party,'" said Exley, a veteran of two deployments in Iraq. "But we're commanded by God to warn people. I wish I could just be like everybody else, but it's so much better to know that when the end comes, you'll be safe."
In August, Exley left her home in Colorado Springs, Colo., to work with Oakland, Calif.-based Family Radio Worldwide, the independent Christian ministry whose leader, Harold Camping, has calculated the May 21 date based on his reading of the Bible.
She is organizing traveling columns of RVs carrying the message from city to city, a logistics challenge that her military experience has helped solve. The vehicles are scheduled to be in five North Carolina cities between now and the second week of January, but Exley will shortly be gone: overseas, where she hopes to eventually make it back to Iraq.
"I don't really have plans to come back," she said. "Time is short."
Not everyone who's heard Camping's message is taking such a dramatic step. They're remaining in their day-to-day lives, but helping publicize the prophecy in other ways. Allison Warden, of Raleigh, has been helping organize a campaign using billboards, post cards and other media in cities across the U.S. through a website, We Can Know.
The 29-year-old payroll clerk laughs when asked about reactions to the message, which is plastered all over her car.
"It's definitely against the grain, I know that," she said. "We're hoping people won't take our word for it, or Harold Camping's word for it. We're hoping that people will search the scriptures for themselves."
Camping, 89, believes the Bible essentially functions as a cosmic calendar explaining exactly when various prophecies will be fulfilled.
The retired civil engineer said all his calculations come from close readings of the Bible, but that external events like the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 are signs confirming the date.
"Beyond the shadow of a doubt, May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment," he said.
The doctrine known as the Rapture teaches that believers will be taken up to heaven, while everyone else will remain on earth for a period of torment, concluding with the end of time. Camping believes that will happen in October.
"If May 21 passes and I'm still here, that means I wasn't saved. Does that mean God's word is inaccurate or untrue? Not at all," Warden said.
The belief that Christ will return to earth and bring an end to history has been a basic element of Christian belief since the first century. The Book of Revelation, which comes last in the New Testament, describes this conclusion in vivid language that has inspired Christians for centuries.
But few churches are willing to set a date for the end of the world, heeding Jesus' words in the gospels of Mark and Matthew that no one can know the day or hour it will happen. Predictions like Camping's, though, aren't new. One of the most famous in history was by the Baptist leader William Miller, who predicted the end for Oct. 22, 1844, which came to be known as the Great Disappointment among his followers, some of who subsequently founded the Seventh Day Adventist church.
"In the U.S., there is still a significant population, mostly Protestant, who look at the Bible as kind of a puzzle, and the puzzle is God's word and it's predicting when the end times will come," said Catherine Wessinger, a professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who studies millennialism, the belief in pending apocalypse.
"A lot of times these prophecies gain traction when difficulties are happening in society," she said. "Right now, there's a lot of insecurity, and this is a promise that says it's not all random, it's part of God's plan."
Past predictions that failed to come true don't have any bearing on the current calculation, believers maintain.
"It would be like telling the Wright Brothers that every other attempt to fly has failed, so you shouldn't even try," said Chris McCann, who works with eBible Fellowship, one of the groups spreading the message.
For believers like McCann, theirs is actually a message of hope and compassion: God's compassion for people, and the hope that there's still time to be saved.
That, ultimately, is what spurs on Exley, who said her beliefs have alienated her from most of her friends and family. Her hope is that not everyone who hears her message will mock it, and that even people who dismiss her now might still come to believe.
"If you still want to say we're crazy, go ahead," she said. "But it doesn't hurt to look into it."
Family Radio Worldwide: https://www.familyradio.com
eBible Fellowship: https://www.ebiblefellowship.com/
Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press


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The work of The Salvation Army in Bermuda began in 1896. Guided by our operational core values of compassion, respect, excellence, integrity, relevance, cooperation and celebration we exist to share the love of Jesus Christ, meet human need and be a transforming influence in Bermuda. We are pleased to invest in the lives of others through a wide array of community-based social programs. These include Bermuda's first residential (10 beds) addiction and rehabilitation program for men, a 54 bed co-ed Emergency Housing Complex in partnership with the government of Bermuda that offers some 20,000 bed spaces annually, three community and family services programs that assist some 5,000 people each year, various meal programs, a Street Outreach program that offers physical and emotional support to the marginalized of our community and a Thrift Store program that provides second-hand donated goods at nominal cost.

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Trump responds to ruling on travel ban: 'SEE YOU IN COURT'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday's federal appellate court ruling against reinstating his refugee and immigration order was a "political decision" that jeopardized national security.
"We have a situation where the security of our country is at stake and it's a very, very serious situation so we look forward ... to seeing them in court," Trump said. "We're going to win the case."
Trump, in a brief, impromptu appearance in the West Wing, did not specify what his administration's next legal steps would be and said he had not yet conferred with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was sworn into office earlier Thursday.
The president said he did not believe the decision undercut his presidency.
In a unanimous decision, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined Thursday to block a lower-court ruling that suspended the executive order preventing travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S.
(Read the appeals court's decision here)
The Justice Department said it was "reviewing the decision and considering its options." It could appeal the judge's restraining order to the U.S. Supreme Court or it could attempt to make the case for the travel ban in the district court.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway suggested the next step would be to argue the merits of the executive order.
"The statute provides a president ... with great latitude and authority to protect the citizens and to protect the nation's national security," Conway said. "This was not argued on the merits. Now that we'll have an opportunity to argue on the merits we look forward to doing that. We look forward to prevailing."
The ruling represented a setback for Trump's administration and the second legal defeat for the new president in the past week. Trump's decision to sign the executive order late last month has sparked protests at airports around the world as authorities barred scores of travelers from entering the country amid confusion over how to implement the details.
The appellate decision brushed aside arguments by the Justice Department that the president has the constitutional power to restrict entry to the United States and that the courts cannot second-guess his determination that such a step was needed to prevent terrorism.
Shortly after the ruling, Trump tweeted, "SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!"
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted Thursday that Trump "ought to see the writing on the wall" and abandon the proposal. The New York Democrat called on the president to "roll up his sleeves" and come up with "a real, bipartisan plan to keep us safe."
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California promised, "Democrats will continue to press for President Trump's dangerous and unconstitutional ban to be withdrawn." And Trump's former presidential rival Hillary Clinton offered a terse response on Twitter, noting the unanimous vote: "3-0."
Congress' Republican leaders, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, declined to comment.
U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle issued the temporary restraining order halting the ban last week after Washington state and Minnesota sued, leading to the federal government's appeal.
The Trump administration has said the seven nations — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — have raised terrorism concerns. The states have argued that the executive order unconstitutionally blocked entry based on religion and the travel ban harmed individuals, businesses and universities.
In a hallway conversation with reporters, Trump expressed confidence that he will prevail in court if the case is argued on the merits.
He and his aides frequently refer to a ruling by a federal judge in Boston who declined last week to extend a temporary injunction against Trump's travel ban. In the separate federal ruling in Seattle that night, a different federal judge put the ban on hold nationwide; it is that judge's decision that the White House has challenged.
"It's a decision that we'll win, in my opinion, very easily and, by the way, we won that decision in Boston," Trump said.
The president, in his third week in office, has criticized the judiciary's handling of the case. Last weekend, he labeled Robart a "so-called judge" and referred to the ruling as "ridiculous." Earlier this week he accused the appellate court considering his executive order of being "so political."
Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, has referred to the president's comments as "demoralizing and disheartening," according to a Democratic senator who asked him about Trump's response.
Trump has yet to nominate a candidate to be solicitor general, the lawyer who argues before the Supreme Court on behalf of the United States. Trump told reporters he'll be making that decision over the next week.


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A Solid Track Record
- 440+ open locations
- Commitments to open a total 1,300+ franchise locations
- 38 States & 6 Countries
Consumers Love Us
- 2,400,000+ members
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The Right Industry
- $96.7B global industry2
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The Right Opportunity3
- 78.2% of Americans don't belong to a gym
- Three of the top five health club activities among 18-34 yr. olds involve strength and high-intensity interval training
Why Invest with Crunch?
Besides the opportunity for a gym-mazing return on investment, owning a Crunch franchise means joining a community of like-minded entrepreneurs, working with a team and system that is tops in the industry, getting in on the gym floor of the fastest growing full-size fitness brand4, and doing something with purpose: helping people build healthy lifestyles.
But don't ask us, listen to what our franchisees have to say.
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Our Advantage: The Crunch Model
We were guided by years of experience when we designed our franchise model. Our approach is designed to maximize returns while being able to adapt to changing business conditions. Our results prove it.
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5As a Crunch franchisee, you present your community an incredible value. From No Judgments®, to proprietary group fitness classes, to pressure-free enrollment, complimentary tanning, and HydroMassage®, to personal and small-group training, you'll have more to offer than your competition, and all at an unbeatable price.
Marketing and Promotions
Crunch has always been known for its fun, irreverent, quirky and motivating marketing. We pair our strong brand with tools you can use to reach prospective members in your community.
A Brand Known Worldwide
We're all about making serious fitness fun. Our marketing breaks through the clutter – in unique, special and memorable ways.
Proven Sales Generation Systems
We offer you a mix of local marketing and promotional tools, along with national marketing support, to help bring a steady flow of prospects to your club.
Digital Savvy
With a best-in-class web and mobile experience, and in-club tools to showcase your gym, we make it easy for new members to join Crunch.
An experience second to none
Join the category leader! There are lots of players in low-price fitness, but we've turned the category on its head, jam-packing the gym with real value-building features and amenities.
Pressure-Free Enrollment
A strong brand, our compelling No Judgments® culture, and awesome value: getting people to join Crunch can be as easy as letting them have a look around.
Flexible Membership Options
Crunch offers the most bang-for-the-buck! For $9.99, members get access to state-of-the-art equipment, locker rooms and one complimentary CrunchONE Kickoff orientation session. But we didn't stop there. Starting at $10 more, we up the ante with proprietary group fitness classes and multi-club access. Top it off with advanced HIIT classes, indoor cycling, unlimited guest privileges and Relax & Recover® services such a tanning, HydroMassage®, Red Light Therapy, wellness pods, and more.
Proprietary Group Fitness
Our world-renowned Group Fitness program is a true competitive advantage. Our classes – including Belly, Butt and Thighs Bootcamp, Barre Bootcamp, BodyWeb with TRX®, Tread N' Shred, Yoga Body Sculpt, Pound®, Zumba®, and HIITZone – draw in new members.
HIITZone Functional Training Ground
Exclusive to Crunch, the HIITZone provides everything necessary for a great high intensity interval workout, including our proprietary multi-station training unit, turf and equipment. Our HIITZone advanced group training classes, with 4 diverse offerings and hundreds of exercise combinations, is only available with our most premium membership.
Gym-azing Club Design
We put a lot of thought into the design of our gym, with the right amount of cardio and strength-training equipment, expansive functional/small-group/personal training areas, large group fitness rooms, indoor cycling studio, and awesome locker rooms with showers. Our members love it but with a cost-to-build designed to help you deliver a strong ROIC, you might love it even more.
We're known for making serious fitness fun! That's half the battle in keeping new members engaged, motivated and loyal. We also provide other tools to help retain Crunch's member base.
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From supporting local partnerships, to in-club events, national promotions and programs, we help our clubs provide added value to Crunch members. Our online portal lets members track their workout progress, manage their account and see upcoming class schedules.
Member Marketing
Revenue from personal training, small-group training, retail, and membership plan upgrades maximize the lifetime value of a member. More importantly, these programs can also help your members build healthier lifestyles.
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Most importantly, we're with you for the long haul. You'll have a dedicated team – across operations, group fitness, personal and small-group training, sales, and marketing – who serve as resources for running and operating your Crunch gym.


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Million-Dollar Startup Secrets
Most small businesses never reach $1 million in annual sales. Instead, they struggle just to survive. Of businesses started in 2004, barely more than half -- 56% -- were still around in 2009, a study from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation found.
In fact, cracking the $1 million barrier at any point in a company's lifetime is a major achievement. U.S. Census data from 2007 shows that more than three-quarters of the country's 6 million firms with employees made less than $1 million in revenue. And most solopreneur businesses don't earn anywhere near that much: According to IRS data for 2008, the average solo business brought in less than $60,000.
Given these sobering numbers, reaching seven figures in a business's very first year -- and with a startup's often-scarce resources -- is nothing short of extraordinary.
But it can be done. We know, because we talked to four companies that ramped up their sales from zero to $1 million or more in their first full year in business, and we vetted those ideas with a pair of experts on starting up a successful business.
Then, we took their essential ideas and boiled them down into 10 secret strategies and tactics of companies that hit it big -- fast.
Company: Brad's Raw Foods Founder: Brad Gruno, 52 Headquarters: Pipersville, Pennsylvania Sales: $2.5 million projected for 2011
Million-Dollar Secret No. 1: Test your concept. After Gruno lost 40 pounds on a raw-food diet, he started making his own raw chips from kale, beets, sweet peppers, and other vegetables. He thought the chips made a great business idea, but he didn't just trust his own instincts. Instead, he did extensive market testing: In 2009, Gruno sold chips and offered samples at four different regional farmers' markets.
Customer feedback was enthusiastic -- and helpful. He adjusted recipes, introduced new flavors, and gained the confidence to pitch his product to local mom-and-pop health-food stores, and then to his local Whole Foods Market. Gruno now produces 17 different varieties of chips for 90 Whole Foods stores.
Stanford University entrepreneurship lecturer Steven Blank says Gruno's willingness to "get out of the building" and test his idea before launching his company is a rare and valuable trait.
"Instead," Blank says, "most entrepreneurs suffer from premature scaling -- they hire too many people too early, before they know anything."
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Million-Dollar Secret No. 2: Make the sale. As soon as Brad's Raw Foods started gaining traction in health-food stores, Gruno hired a production manager to free himself up to make more sales calls. Gruno knew he would be the brand's best salesperson, given his personal story of following a raw diet.
A lack of sales focus often keeps startups from quickly growing revenue, says Nick Seguin, manager of entrepreneurship programs for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
"Some entrepreneurs are just loving their beautiful, shiny product and spending all day on social networks instead of remembering that it doesn't matter until you've closed that deal," Seguin says. "Often, entrepreneurs focus on product-market fit but don't develop a sales channel. You need to be able to manage a sales organization and have a mechanism for getting your product out there."
Million-Dollar Secret No. 3: Be persistent. The state of Pennsylvania didn't want to issue Brad's Raw Foods a commercial food-handling permit because the raw chips weren't cooked at a high, germ-killing temperature. But after six months of grilling by health authorities, Gruno prevailed: The state created a new food-handling category to accommodate his business.
"No one had ever done this in Pennsylvania," Gruno says. "But I just kept answering everything they shot at me."
Company: Shoes of Prey Founders: Jodie Fox, 29; Michael Fox, 30; Mike Knapp, 30 Headquarters: Sydney, Australia Sales: Topped $1 million in 2010
Million-Dollar Secret No. 4: Listen to customers. When Shoes of Prey, a design-your-own-women's-shoe website, launched in late 2009, the founders made some fast changes as they learned of customers' problems.
"We quickly realized two important styles were missing: ballet flats and ankle boots," says Jodie Fox. "We also hadn't named our color swatches, so people were having trouble understanding what color they were working with."
Million-Dollar Secret No. 5: Make your value proposition clear. Shoes of Prey's wares run for $200 to $300, which is a great price for custom-made shoes. But at first, the website did a poor job of explaining what a good value the shoes were for the money, Fox says. Sales picked up after the website began highlighting how each pair is unique and made to order.
Million-Dollar Secret No. 6: Use social media creatively. To create buzz about its footwear, Shoes of Prey hired popular shoe-loving video blogger Blair Fowler (aka JuicyStar07) to hold a contest giveaway. Contestants had to design a shoe on the site to enter, resulting in 200,000 site visits in a single day. Fox hoped to get 5,000 entries, but the video received more than 700,000 views, and 90,000 people entered. The next step: The team quickly added social "share" buttons so visitors could show their designs to friends on Facebook and other platforms, adding more promotional reach. Sales topped $1 million in the company's first full fiscal year.
Company: PetFlow Founders: Alex Zhardanovsky, 33; Joe Speiser, 32 Headquarters: New York City Sales: $15 million projected for 2011
Million-Dollar Secret No. 7: Learn from others' failures. Despite the famous dot-com era flameout of Pets.com, when Joe Speiser and Alex Zhardanovsky researched the online pet-goods space, they saw opportunity.
To learn how to avoid Pets.com's mistakes, Zhardanovsky spent two hours debriefing former Pets.com CEO Julie Wainwright. The takeaway: Pets.com carried 15,000 items, mostly impulse purchase-type goods and few food products. Orders were often one-off rather than recurring.
So the pair's New York City startup, PetFlow, went in a different direction: It offered 4,000 varieties of pet food for regular, monthly delivery. The recurring-purchase model helped PetFlow keep inventory down, buy smarter, and negotiate lower shipping costs. The result? Launched in June 2010, PetFlow racked up its first $1 million in sales within the company's first few months. By year's end, revenue topped $1 million a month.
"Pet owners are the best kind of recurring customer," Zhardanovsky says. "Their pets have to eat every month. This is a recession-proof business."
Million-Dollar Secret No. 8: Stand firm on price. Zhardanovsky resisted the temptation to cut prices to drive more sales volume. Getting pet food delivered is a valuable service, and he's found customers are willing to pay more for it. That's savvy thinking, says Kauffman's Seguin, who notes that underpricing endangers the survival of many startups.
"You'd be terrified by most startups' profit margins," Seguin says. "They're often around 1%."
Company: RumbaTime Founders: Joe Anto, 32; Drew Deters, 31; Jay Hartington, 32 Headquarters: New York City Sales: $2.3 million in 2010
Million-Dollar Secret No. 9: Ride the trends. Drew Deters and Jay Hartington were visiting Italy two summers back when they noticed people wearing brightly colored, affordable, silicone-banded watches. Together with cofounder Joe Anto, they created New York City-based RumbaTime to bring the style to the United States.
Sending watch samples to national fashion magazines, RumbaTime got its under-$50 watches loads of media exposure, just as the hurting economy meant more coverage of low-priced yet still-chic fashions. Celebrities including Jaime Pressly and Snoop Dogg soon sported RumbaTime watches, too. The media attention made RumbaTime an instant hit, and the company reached the $1 million sales mark in August 2010.
"Magazine editors were looking for things that were affordable, but fashionable enough that they'd be worn by somebody who has $1,000 to spend on a watch," says Anto. "We fit right into that."
Million-Dollar Secret No. 10: Don't rest on your laurels. As soon as RumbaTime saw early success, the company began creating more innovative lines. Its newest style is the VanDam GO watch, which includes an embedded near field communication payment chip and emergency medical identification.
Blank of Stanford University loves the tech-enabled watch model. "Adding the near field communication chip within a watch puts a really interesting spin on it," he says. "It'll get people to look at their other product lines, too."


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Here in the land of the midnight sun, the mosquitos are out and the dogs are enjoying their vacation. They spend their days lounging around in the barking lot and wishing for the colder days when training will start again. We are truly in the dog days of summer here at Team Ineka.
That does not mean that nothing is happening, the mushers are busy running triathlons, working their summer jobs, fishing for salmon that they will use for trail snacks and backyard BBQ's, plenty of chores to be had, dog houses to build and kennels and fencing to be installed, bees to attended too and cord wood to be stacked.
We are already planning our season. Robert will attempt (once again) to do his Iditarod qualifiers IF the snow comes and none are cancelled like they have been for the last two seasons. Nicole will run the Junior Iditarod for the last time before she heads off to college in the fall of 2015, Michele plans to enter a small race or two and our friend Dale will too.
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You can sponsor a dog, booties or become a race entry sponsor, or help with the daily kennel needs with your generous contributions.
It takes a small army to get to the starting line. Our sponsors and supporters are not just people that donate money, goods or services to us. They are part of the team. We appreciate your support and look forward to new partnerships.
Our sponsors receive letters and pictures directly from your favorite mushers. You have the opportunity to meet the team at race events and if you are up in Alaska we can teach you how to drive your own dog team. The mushers are always willing to travel to speak to our sponsors and supporters and to school and other groups that would like to learn more about living a life with dogs!
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LAS VEGAS–A recent IBM study showed that the number of enterprises turning to cloud computing is expected to double by 2015.
At its IBM Pulse 2012 conference here, IBM released the findings of its study, which indicated that businesses that embrace the transformative power of the cloud will have a significant advantage in the race to introduce new products and services and capture new markets and revenue streams.
Indeed, to better understand the shift in how organizations use the cloud today and how they plan to employ it in the future IBM, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, surveyed more than 500 business and technology executives worldwide. The findings were compiled in the new study, titled "The Power of Cloud: Driving business model innovation."
"Companies are starting to understand–cloud isn't just about gaining efficiencies and cost savings; it's about driving the kind of fundamental innovation that provides lasting marketplace advantage," said Saul Berman, IBM global strategy consulting leader and co-author of the study, in a statement.
Ninety percent of those surveyed said they are currently using cloud computing or plan to be in the next two years, according to Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing for IBM Tivoli. Yet, increasingly, enterprises are looking to the cloud for significant change.
Although just 16 percent of the executives surveyed said they are already using cloud capabilities for sweeping innovation, such as entering new lines of business or reshaping an existing industry, 35 percent said that by 2015 they intend to use it to transform their business models.
And while a little more than half of the respondents said "improving organizational efficiency" is a top business challenge today, only 31 percent anticipate it will be a top challenge in three years. Instead, the study indicates that their focus is shifting to growth and competitive initiatives in the future.
The objectives cited by survey respondents for adopting the cloud are in line with these business goals, indicating that business needs will soon rival IT motivations for cloud adoption: 62 percent of survey respondents said increased collaboration with external partners is a key objective for adopting the cloud; 57 percent cited competitive cost advantages through vertical integration as a major motivation; and 56 percent pointed to opening new delivery channels and markets as an important objective.
Moreover, examples cited in the report showcasing how the cloud is being tapped to drive new revenue streams and enhance business models include an online marketplace for handmade goods that has taken advantage of cloud computing's cost flexibility to gain access to more powerful analytics online. The company is able to cost-effectively analyze data from the approximately 1 billion monthly views of its Website and use the information to create product recommendations, providing it with access to tools and computing power that might typically only be affordable for larger retailers.
The study also cites an online health information network that enables the exchange of health information and transactions among health care providers, employers, payers, practitioners, third-party administrators and patients in India, IBM said. By connecting more than 1,100 hospitals and 10,000 doctors, cloud computing's capabilities are facilitating better collaboration and information sharing helping the network pursue a more collaborative business model and deliver improved care at a low cost.
"Cloud has the power to open doors to more efficient, responsive and innovative ways of doing business, and we believe the companies that will come out on top will be the ones that find ways to leverage it as a key point of differentiation in driving business value," Berman said. "Whether they choose to tap cloud to optimize, innovate or even disrupt their business models, they need to start working on it now."
For more information on the study, go to: www.ibm.com/gbs/powerofcloud.
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text: I am forwarding from H-State (social welfare history) this intriguing book review written by Jerry H. Bently, University of Hawaii, for H-World. As noted below, the work may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author and the list. Mike Cahill email@example.com --------------------- Forwarded message: From: firstname.lastname@example.com (E. Wayne Carp) Sender: firstname.lastname@example.com (H-Net List for 'Putting the State Back In') Reply-to: email@example.com (H-Net List for 'Putting the State Back In') To: firstname.lastname@example.com (Multiple recipients of list H-STATE) Date: 96-03-18 17:27:38 EST Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:15:25 -0500 (EST) H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by firstname.lastname@example.com (February, 1995) Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills, eds. *The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?* Foreward by William H. McNeill. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xxii + 320. $65.00. Reviewed by Jerry H. Bently, University of Hawaii, for H-World <firstname.lastname@example.com>. During the past two decades, world-system studies have deeply influenced scholarship in several disciplines. Elaborated as an alternative to modernization analysis, the world-system approach originally seemed relevant particularly to the modern world. Yet its main premise--that individual lands and nations do not develop in isolation, but rather in the context of a larger system that shapes their political, economic, and social experiences--might well have some application in premodern as well as modern times. Indeed, in *Before European Hegemony: The World System, A.D. 1250-1350* (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), Janet L. Abu-Lughod argued that a world system quite different from the modern capitalist variety influenced political, economic, and social development throughout much of the eastern hemisphere during the age of the Mongol empires. Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills accept Abu-Lughod's argument, but they hold further that the notion of a world system is applicable much earlier than the Mongol era. Indeed, Frank and Gills argue that the world has generated only one world system, that it originated about 3000 B.C.E. with interaction between Mesopotamian and Egyptian societies, and that it has expanded in size and scale ever since. Thus Immanuel Wallerstein's modern capitalist world system--now about 500 years old--represents only the latest phase of a world system that reaches back some five millennia. The volume under review brings together eleven essays--seven of them reprinted, the other four published here for the first time--that grapple with the notion of premodern world systems. Writing individually or jointly, Frank and Gills contribute six of the eleven essays. K. Ekholm and J. Friedman contribute an article, originally published in 1982, on imperialism and exploitation in ancient world systems. David Wilkinson offers fresh thoughts on the categories of civilization, core, world economy, and oikumene. Samir Amin reprints an article of 1991 distinguishing between ancient and modern world systems. Janet L. Abu-Lughod provides an essay, previously circulated in manuscript, that recapitulates her understanding of the world system of the Mongol era. And Immanuel Wallerstein contributes a brief essay, originally published in 1991, restating his contention that the modern capitalist world system represents a historical phenomenon qualitatively different from anything that preceeded it. In the nature of things, the views of Frank and Gills set the agenda for this volume, and they warrant particularly close attention. Frank and Gills argue that the hallmarks that Wallerstein attributes to the modern capitalist world system--most importantly the process of capital accumulation, the establishment of core-periphery relationships, the operation of cycles of expansion and contraction, and the existence of hegemony and rivalry relationships--all apply equally well to premodern as to modern times. This contention leads them to deny the usefulness of the long-revered categories of feudalism, capitalism, and socialism, as well as the almost equally long-honored effort to chart transitions from one to another. Since they believe that these artificial constructs obscure more than they clarify, Frank and Gills suggest that historical scholarship should abandon them altogether and focus instead on "center-periphery structures, hegemony/rivalry within them, the process of capital accumulation, cycles in all of these, and the world system in which they operate" (p. xv). This complex of themes they trace back some 5,000 years to the beginning of regular interaction between ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian societies. A thesis as large and novel as the one that Frank and Gills advance calls for detailed substantiation. Unfortunately, in this volume, Frank and Gills do not attempt to sketch even briefly the structure of their world system. Their work thus differs considerably from that of world-system analysts like Wallerstein and Abu-Lughod, who described in some detail the economic and political relationships that served as foundations for the world systems they envisioned. The work of Frank and Gills differs also from that of economic historians like Philip D. Curtin, K.N. Chaudhuri, and S.D. Goitein, all of whom reconstructed trade networks that helped to integrate large-scale economic zones in premodern times. Frank and Gills deal with real historical experiences--as opposed to analytical recommendations, methodological suggestions, or theoretical reflections--in only a single, jointly written essay that charts eight long cycles that they believe drove the economic and political history of the eastern hemisphere between 1700 B.C.E. and 1700 C.E. Their identification of cycles, however, is largely unpersuasive. They rarely introduce economic data when discussing their eight cycles, but rather depend almost exclusively on the rise and decline of imperial states as an index to cyclical expansion and contraction. Indeed, the criteria for identifying cycles are so loose and uncontrolled that it would be possible to make a case for either cyclical expansion or cyclical contraction for several of the eight cyclical periods proposed here. Furthermore, Frank and Gills rely on scholarship that is long out of date (works by E.H. Warmington, Frederick Teggart, V. Gordon Childe, and others) or even downright unreliable (Luc Kwanten's study of nomadic empires) when seeking to ground their cycles in historical experience. As a result of these problems, the notion of eight system-wide cycles remains an interesting hypothesis, but one that will require thorough investigation and solid documentation before scholars can accept the cycles with any degree of confidence. Quite apart from these cycles, of course, other features of the proposed 5,000-year world system that do not receive any detailed attention here at all--institutions, trade flows, economic and political relationships, and the like--also call for documentation that this volume does not provide. Another general problem with the thesis of Frank and Gills has to do with the term "system." The authors never offer a precise definition of the term, but they associate it most closely with inter-societal transfers of surplus production: "if different `societies,' empires, and civilizations, as well as other `peoples,' regularly exchanged surplus, then they also participated in the same world system. That is, `society' A here could and would not be the same as it was in the absence of its contact with B there, and vice versa" (p. 93). The world system of Frank and Gills is thus a much looser affair than that of Wallerstein, which always exhibits an axial division of labor that distinguishes the core, periphery, and semi-periphery from each other. It differs also from Abu-Lughod's world system, which featured multiple cores, but which stood on the foundations of the Mongol empires and long-established trade routes linking an archipelago of cities from China and southeast Asia to western Europe and north Africa. Many historians would agree that cross-cultural interaction was a prominent feature of the premodern world. Some would agree further that premodern trade in luxury goods had much larger significance than Wallerstein would allow. Even at that, however, the term "system" may seem rather strong for the relationships that Frank and Gills have in mind. In any case, their usage certainly dilutes the term: it is clear that the world system of Frank and Gills was a creature very different indeed from those described by Wallerstein and Abu-Lughod. Even if the term be allowed for the past 5,000 years, it demands more careful thought and more thorough elaboration than it has so far received. A third general problem with the world system of Frank and Gills is that it does not deal very well with change over time. Most scholars would recognize the expansion of European influence in the larger world and the process of industrialization as major turning points in world history, and most would consider processes of cross-cultural interaction in modern times qualitatively different from those of premodern times. Apart from their cycles of expansion and contraction, however, Frank and Gills have little if any apparatus to explain European prominence and industrialization. Frank and Gills have sought diligently to avoid Eurocentric conceptions of the past--including the residual Eurocentrism that many historians find in Wallerstein's vision of the modern capitalist world system--and it certainly makes excellent sense to take a problem-centered rather than a Eurocentric perspective on cross-cultural interactions. Yet a vision of world-system history that ignores European prominence in modern times and the process of industrialization--a vision that jettisons the notions of feudalism, capitalism, and socialism and offers nothing in their place to help conceive, analyze, or explain large-scale historical change--is inadequate. In spite of these general problems--as well as a number of smaller difficulties with their argument--Frank and Gills have provided a valuable service by initiating a debate about cross-cultural interactions before modern times and before the Mongol era. My own opinion is that the notion of a single, 5,000-year world system is not persuasive. Yet there remain many dimensions of cross-cultural interaction in premodern times--including long-distance trade, imperial expansion, mass migrations, biological and ecological exchanges, and the spread of cultural and religious traditions--that historians have only recently begun to examine seriously. Even if it is excessive, the bold thesis of Frank and Gills may stimulate additional useful research on cross-cultural interactions and their effects in premodern times. Copyright(c)1995 by H-Net, all rights reserved. This work may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author and the list. For other permission, contact <email@example.com>.


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Crossword Dungeon is now available on Google Play for Android devices!
Version 1.1.3 (which has enough changes in it to have been 1.2) is also up on the iOS App Store. It's worth noting this update fixes that nasty intermittent bug that would crash your game and ruin your saves!


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@areo25 If a certain blip is not working for you you can set "BlipStyle=0" in the .ini file to "BlipStyle=1" to fix it.
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@HeySlickThatsMe Are you using a different time increment that is not the standard GTA time (sync with system time, freeze time, etc.)?
2015. október 22. -
@DJ SCREAM It runs automatically. You just need to wait for an event to pop up in time.
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@TestedModz I'm not sure if it is still like this, yet Scripthook had(has?) a limit of 20 scripts at one time. Is it possible that you are going over the 20 script limit? Also, because of the high number of mods you have if you're not over the limit, it is highly likely there is a conflict between 2 or more mods.
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@TestedModz Game version/Scripthook version? Any other mods installed?
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@HvyMetal55 What version of the mod are you currently using?
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@Rohith The file I replace with this is the entire HUD file so the weapon wheel is included. The old file has the weapons from the old update. When the new weapons are added the file needs to be updated with the new weapon icons, or else the weapons will appear as black boxes.
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@F1Racer @Dyson6 @Terra Xanthis @teil @Joe Gillian Blip is fixed. Waiting for approval of v1.11. Sorry for the long wait.
2015. július 21. -
@Adi285 Were there any events currently active? If so which one?
2015. június 29. -
@Adi285 I tired to recreate the issue and could not do it. I put a car in the garage, took a car off of the floor of the garage and exited, took a special vehicle from the menu and exited, exited by leaving through the garage door on foot, entered the garage on foot, all without an infinite loading screen. I did this with each of the three characters. I did this while an event was happening for two of the characters, and did this while there was no event for one character. I did this with an unmodified .ini file. Have you been able to recreate the issue? If so, is the issue fixed after removing my mod? If the issue continues to happen, please tell me as much detail as you can. For example what you did before, which character you are using, the event currently happening/not happening, etc. The more detail I have the easier I can find the issue.
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Arrigo Boito (1842 - 1918)
Arrigo Boito is probably better known as a librettist than as a composer, especially for his texts for Verdi's Simon Boccanegra and the Shakespearian Otello and Falstaff, as well as the libretto of Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
Boito's only completed opera, for which he wrote both words and music, was Mefistofele, based on Goethe's Faust, a work to which he made considerable alterations. 'Ave, Signor', sung by Mephistopheles in the prologue, and the prison scene for the soprano Margherita (Gretchen) remain familiar recital items.


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Microsoft announced today that it plans to support Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 and will release a "preview" next month.
The preview of the IE 10 browser is scheduled for release in "mid-November." Microsoft hasn't disclosed a final release-to-Web date for IE 10 on Windows 7 yet. It's going to proceed based on testing feedback it gets from users, according to a Microsoft blog post attributed to Rob Mauceri, group program manager of Internet Explorer.
Microsoft has been talkative about IE 10 on Windows 8, which runs on the "desktop" and "Metro" user interface (UI) sides of the Windows 8 operating system. On Windows RT, it's thought that IE 10 runs on the desktop side or on some sort of hybrid UI mode that Microsoft calls a "Metro style enabled browser." In any case, the completed IE 10 products for Windows 8 and Windows RT will be publicly available on October 26, which is when Microsoft releases Windows 8 and its Surface Windows RT tablet -- both of which will ship with the IE 10 browser. However, this latest announcement appears to be the first discussion from Microsoft in a while about IE 10 on Windows 7, which is a much more likely use-case scenario at this point.
IE 10 on Windows 7 Many may have thought that IE 10 for Windows 7 was already available, but a "guide for developers" Microsoft document, dated from September, makes it clear that Microsoft never got past an early "platform preview" build of IE 10 for Windows 7.
"Internet Explorer 10 is not currently available for Windows 7," the guide states. "The most recent release for Windows 7 was Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview Build 2, on June 29, 2011. Therefore, you will notice that the newer features mentioned in this guide are not yet available in the most recent version of IE10 Platform Preview for Windows 7."
It is unclear, and somewhat peculiar, why it will take the Microsoft team longer to deliver IE 10 on Window 7 than on Windows 8. A Microsoft spokesperson said today via e-mail that the company had nothing to share on the matter.
IE 10 UI Differences IE 10 will be notable for not allowing plug-ins, except for a built-in and touch-optimized Adobe Flash Player plug-in. Microsoft announced in May it would include the Flash Player for both the "desktop" and "Metro" user interfaces of Windows 8. This exception to the no plug-ins approach was made because many Web sites do not yet support native HTML 5 graphics, and they still need to depend on Flash. It's not clear at this point if IE 10 for Windows 7 will come with this built-in Flash Player or not.
It turns out that there are a lot of IE 10 nuances to track -- and that's just on the Windows 8 side. For instance, even Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen was perplexed by how IE 10 behaves across the two Windows 8 UIs (desktop and Metro) in his review of Windows 8. Allen reviewed an early version of Windows 8, finding that bookmarks in IE 10 on one side the OS weren't available to IE 10 on the other side.
Apparently, Microsoft has solved this bookmark (or favorites) perplexity in a later build of the OS. A September-published MSDN library article on IE 10 on Windows 8 suggests as much, although RSS feeds still are stuck on one side of the Windows 8 UI.
"Your RSS feeds are only available from Internet Explorer for the desktop, but your favorites, frequent sites, history, and typed URLs are shared between the two browsing experiences," the document explains.
Instead of using the terms, "Metro" and "desktop," this library article refers to the two Windows 8 UIs as "Windows UI" and "desktop." Microsoft still hasn't said what it will call the Metro side after hinting in August that it will change the name. It's not known why Microsoft wants to change it.
There are a bunch of other IE 10 anomalies when running it on Windows 8. For those using the "Microsoft account" feature of Windows 8, IE 10's history, favorites and frequently typed URLs will roam across Windows 8 machines. Pinned sites will also be available across machines on startup, but any changes aren't synched. If sites are pinned to the desktop taskbar, they don't roam at all, according to the library article.
Moreover, which IE 10 UI is used to open a pinned site depends on which browser was specified by the Windows 8 user as the default browser. This peculiarity has to do with Microsoft's concept of a "Metro style enabled desktop browser," which has been the subject of complaints by third-party browser makers, such as Mozilla. In any case, Microsoft's document indicates that IE 10 needs to be specified as the default browser on the Metro side of Windows 8 in order to open pinned sites on the Metro side, as indicated here:
"Note: Internet Explorer in the Windows UI is a type of Metro style enabled desktop browser. As such, pinned site tiles from the new Windows UI Start screen will only open in it if it's the default Metro style enabled desktop browser -- otherwise they'll open in Internet Explorer for the desktop. The downloadable document "Developing a Metro style enabled desktop browser" from "White papers for Metro style apps" provides more info."
Security is a bit different between the Metro and desktop sides of Windows 8. A new "enhanced protected mode" in IE 10, which is a sandbox security feature that leverages Microsoft's AppContainer technology, is turned on by default on the Metro side of Windows 8, but it's turned off by default on the desktop side. According to an earlier description by Microsoft, enhanced protected mode for Windows 7 just enables 64-bit processes to run in IE 10's browser tabs, but it doesn't add any additional security protections to the browser.
This nuance about the bits and enhanced protected mode also relates the two UIs of Windows 8. The Metro-style IE 10 runs processes at 64-bit by default, but those processes are run at 32-bit by default on the desktop side. Users can change that default to 64-bit by enabling enhanced protected mode for the desktop version of the browser, provided that the underlying Windows operating system also is 64 bit, Microsoft has explained.
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+ Available on ARRL Audio News + Public Service: Pakistani Amateurs Team Up to Provide Communications, Relief Support for Flood Victims According to the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society (PARS) -- that country's IARU Member-Society -- radio amateurs in Pakistan have teamed up with the Islamabad Jeep Club and Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians to provide relief activities in those areas of Pakistan devastated by floods. The groups will supply food, tents and medical support to the northern flood affected areas of Nowshera, Charsadda and central Sargodha districts. "The cellular services are down and so is the landline," the PARS Web site reports. "Last week, the joint team carried out a survey in the north and the center of the country, and to its dismay, the situation isn't promising. Restoration of cellular services and landlines could take months." On August 21, hams reached the town of Dharkhanawala, looking to set up communications, but had to turn back because the equipment had not arrived; however, teams were able to distribute food in Dharkhanawala and Chauki Darab. Read more here. ARRL Web Site: Using the "Your Favorites" Feature and Retrieving Forgotten Passwords By ARRL News Editor S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA Since we introduced the new ARRL Web site this past April, we have received inquiries on how to retrieve forgotten passwords, as well as how to use the "Favorites" function -- a "bookmark" feature -- on the new site. Have you forgotten your password? You can easily retrieve it by clicking on the "Forgot Password?" link, located directly under the log-in box at the top of the page (see photo). You can either request to receive a temporary password via e-mail (you must use the e-mail you originally used to register for the previous ARRL Web site), or you may retrieve a temporary password immediately by providing your user name (for hams, this is usually your call sign) and your ARRL member ID number (you can find this on your QST mailing label). You must also provide either your call sign or your last name. Click here to receive a temporary password. First time Web users can get an online user name and password by clicking in the "Register" link, located next to the "Forgot Password?" link. Once you have successfully logged in to the Web site, you will see a drop-down box that says "Your Favorites" right underneath your name (see photo). Now navigate to any page on the ARRL Web site. Would you like to find it in just one step the next time you need it? The "Your Favorites" feature will do just that! When you are on the desired page, just click on the "Your Favorites" drop-down menu, click "Add to Favorites" then click the "Go" button. Now you have stored that Web page as one of your favorites; each time you wish to go to that page, you can just access it through the "Your Favorites" drop-down menu (see photo). If you have any questions or concerns about the new ARRL Web site, please direct them to Katie Glass, our Digital Content Manager. You can send them via e-mail or call Katie directly at (860) 594-0250. + ARRL Elections: Summer Section Manager Election Results Southern Florida and Oklahoma will have new Section Managers starting in October, and the incumbent Section Manager of Ohio was re-elected in the summer Section Manager election cycle that concluded on Tuesday, August 24; election ballots were counted August 24 at ARRL Headquarters. Terms for new Section Managers will begin on October 1, 2010. Read more here. + The Doctor Is IN: SWR Bil Paul, KD6JUI, of Dixon, California, wrote to the ARRL's Doctor, noting that he noticed when he was tuning for optimal background noise while in receive mode, it came close to -- but didn't match -- the dial positions for minimal SWR while transmitting. He asked which of the two antenna tuner dial settings would result in the most transmitted energy while in transmit mode. He also wants to know if minimal SWR always indicates the most transmitted energy going to the antenna system. Here's what the Doctor had to say: In answer to the first question, by setting the antenna tuner to an SWR of 1:1, you have transformed the impedance at the bottom of your antenna feed line to 50 ohms, just what your transceiver is designed to deliver its rated power into. If your receiver input impedance were exactly 50 ohms, then that setting would likely also be the position that would yield maximum receiver noise. As it happens, there is no such guarantee that the input impedance of the receiver will be exactly 50 ohms. Although it should be pretty close, a slight change may yield a stronger signal into the receiver. Regarding the second question, the transceiver is rated to provide its design output power into 50 ohms, usually within a specified SWR range. As was pointed out by Eric Nichols, KL7AJ, in a QST article last year ["Keeping Current with Antenna Performance," Feb 2009, pages 34-36], an SWR of 1:1 does not generally result in the maximum power output. By building a transmission line current meter, such as described by Eric, or later by Paul Danzer, N1II ["A Simple Transformer to Measure Your Antenna Current," Sep 2009, page 35], you can actually tune the antenna tuner to get the highest output. This corresponds to the maximum current into the antenna, which may occur at some setting different from either of the above. Be careful, though: If you exceed the maximum rated SWR, the resulting voltages or currents in the final amplifier or output filter of the transceiver will exceed design specs and damage may result. The likely small increase in transmitted power is likely neither worth the trouble nor the risk, in my opinion. Thanks Doctor! Do you have a question or a problem? Send your questions via e-mail or to The Doctor, ARRL, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111 (no phone calls, please). Look for "The Doctor Is IN" every month in QST, the official journal of the ARRL. Support ARRL: ARRL Encourages Monthly Giving The ARRL Development Office is dedicated to raising funds for those programs not funded entirely by member dues. Whether your interest is focused on protecting Amateur Radio operating frequencies, expanding ARRL's national initiative promoting science and math education, or securing the future of the W1AW, The Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, your financial support is vital. "Now it's easier than ever to make a commitment to ARRL," said ARRL Chief Development Officer Mary Hobart, K1MMH. "By contributing as little as $10, $20 or $100 per month, you can be part of a strong financial forecast for those programs that are at the heart of our service." More and more ARRL members are taking advantage of this option to contribute to the Diamond Club, the Spectrum Defense Fund, the Education & Technology Fund and the W1AW Endowment Fund. Read more here. + ARRL VEC Volunteer Examiner Session Participation Web Page Returns If you're an ARRL Volunteer Examiner (VE) who is interested in seeing how many ARRL exam sessions you've taken part in, you can find the answer on the VE Session counts Web page. On this page, you'll be able to access a list that shows the total number of exam sessions that each ARRL VE has conducted. The listings are listed first by state and then in alpha-numeric call sign order (call area number, then suffix letters). The state where an individual VE record is located is based on the VE's official address on file with the ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator. Only currently accredited ARRL VEs will be displayed on the Web page. ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, said she is "thrilled" that the enhanced page now includes the VEs name, as well as the call sign and session participation total: "Incorporating the name field in the lists added a higher level of authentication when determining a VE's accreditation status and participation. We applaud the volunteers whose dedication and service make the VE program successful. Your hard work and contribution of countless hours of your time helps ensure the future of Amateur Radio. Your efforts matter and we thank you. Our VEs should be very proud of their accomplishments." + Solar Update Tad "Shadows stalled against the pitiless scope of the Sun" Cook, K7RA, reports: This week saw three days -- August 21-23 -- with no sunspots, and the average daily sunspot numbers for the week -- August 19-25 -- declined more than 28 points to 8, compared to the previous week. The average daily solar flux was down five points to 75.3. The last period of three days or more of no sunspots ended on May 20, 2010, around 100 days ago. Sunspot group 1100 disappeared on August 21, only to return August 25. In this case, the sunspot group didn't transit the non Earth-facing side of the Sun, but it just faded from view, returning just as it is about to rotate off of the Sun's western limb. Sunspot group 1101 appeared on August 24, and on August 25, it had grown to three times its initial size. Daily sunspot numbers for August 24-25 were 11 and 23. Remember: the sunspot number is not the same as the number of sunspots. The smallest non-0 sunspot number is 11. Each spot gets 10 points for being a sunspot group and one point for containing one sunspot. The sunspot number of 23 on August 25 represents two sunspot groups, at 10 points each, one containing one sunspot (1 point) and the other containing two sunspots (2 points). On August 25, it appears that a new smaller sunspot may be emerging between the eastern horizon and sunspot group 1101. A stiff solar wind from a coronal hole increased geomagnetic activity. The planetary A index for August 21-25 was 3, 4, 7, 18 and 20. Thursday's projection shows this decreasing, with the planetary A index on August 26-28 at 15, 10 and 8, followed by a quiet reading of 5 for the next three weeks. Solar flux for the same period is expected to be 75 for August 26-31, then 76 and 80 for September 1-2, and 85 on September 3-5. Several weeks from now is the fall equinox, which is a good time for HF propagation. The autumnal equinox will be at 0309 UTC on September 23, 2010. Look for more information on the ARRL Web site on Friday, August 27. For more information concerning radio propagation, visit the ARRL Technical Information Service Propagation page. This week's "Tad Cookism" is brought to you by Melissa Green's August. + On the Air: ARRL EME Contest Coming September 4-5 The 2.3 GHz+ version of the ARRL EME Contest will be 0000 UTC September 4 through 2359 UTC September 5. The objective is to work as many stations in as many different 2 degrees × 1 degree grid squares as possible via the Earth-Moon-Earth path on any authorized amateur frequency above 2.3 GHz. Two other EME contests are scheduled for October: the 50-1296 MHz version will be October 2-3 and October 30-31. See the ARRL Contests page for more information. + Silent Key: Ornithologist Arlo Raim, KB9LLF (SK) Arlo Raim, KB9LLF, of Danville, Illinois, was killed by a southbound Canadian National freight train on the morning of Friday, August 20. He was 67. Raim had been in Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve -- part of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage (Illinois) County -- to monitor the effect of increased train traffic on cardinals. "He was one of, if not the best, bird tracker in the world," said Dr Mike Ward, Coordinator of the Critical Trends Assessment Program at the Illinois Natural History Survey and one of Raim's supervisors. "He used radio telemetry to track animals as varied as peregrine falcons, coyotes, turtles and northern cardinals." According to Ward, Raim's most noteworthy research may have been the 2002 tracking that showed crows changed roosts every two days, a discovery that shed light on why West Nile virus is able to spread so rapidly. Read more here. 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With only a few days to go before the release of their sixth full-length album, the unstoppable Norwegians that form TROLLFEST have debuted a video for "Kaptein Kaos", the title track from the album which is due to hit the streets on NoiseArt records on the 28th March in Europe and the 8th April in North America. The track was chosen because, according to the band, it represents the overall feel of the new album – fun, chaos and utter madness, and shows the band's Troll personas being employed to formulate a special brew by the Kaos Corp, the company owned by the time-travelling hero Kaptein Kaos himself. Helped along by their friend Bok'n'Brusetruse (aka Jon Erik Bokn of DEAD TROOPER and METAL MILITIA), the resourceful Trolls go through various failed attempts before coming up with a new super drink that will change the history of mankind. The Kaptein Kaos video can be seen at http://youtu.be/faV-_t_f_V0
Whilst not abandoning the influence of Scandinavian Folk Music and Eastern European influence that has coloured the band's music, which TROLLFEST define as True Norwegian Balkan Metal, the musicians have undoubtedly grown in skill over more than a decade, and have rounded out their sound with Tango and Asian rhythms and richer melody lines and an even larger plethora of traditional and modern instruments. Recorded at the dUb Studio in Oslo and at the "Trollskogen Recording Facilities", the album has been mixed by Endre Kirkesola. Once again the fantastic artwork that depicts the crazy characters that inhabit TROLLFEST's imagination is by Swedish Cartoonist Jonas Darnell and the design is by Terje Johnsen, both long-time collaborators of the band.
TROLLFEST recently released the track "Ave Maria" from the album as a digital single, and "Kaptein Kaos", will be released in both limited edition digipak CD/DVD and 12″ vinyl versions, and is available to pre-order now from http://trollfest.bigcartel.com/ where different versions of special fan packs are also available.
Track listing for "Kaptein Kaos" is as follows:
1. Trolltramp
2. Kaptein Kaos
3. Vulkan
4. Ave Maria
5. Filzlaus Verkündiger
6. Die Grosse Echsen
7. Seduction suit no.21
8. Solskinnsmedisin
9. Troll Gegen Mann
10. Sagn Om Stein
11. Renkespill
12. Kinesisk Alkymi
13. Døden banker på
Bonus DVD (digipack edition)
1. The making of Kaptein Kaos (37min)
2. Heidenfest Tour video (39 min)
3. Paganfest Tour video (35 min)
To mark the release of the album TROLLFEST will be embarking on a 16 date headlining tour of Europe in April, which the band have dubbed the "Kaos Over Europe Tour", supported by FINSTERFORST and CRYPTIC FOREST. Routing as follows:
18.04. Berlin (DE) – Blackland
19.04. Erfurt (DE) – From Hell
20.04. Tilburg (NL) – Little Devil
21.04. London (UK) – Underworld
22.04. Paris (FR) – Glazart
23.04. Tolouse (FR) – Connexion
24.04. Pratteln (CH) – Mini-Z7
25.04. Aalen (DE) – Rock It
26.04. Lichtenfels (DE) – Ragnarök
27.04. Romagnano Sesia (IT) – Rock n Roll Arena
28.04. München (DE) – Backstage Club
29.04. Wien (AT) – Escape Metalcorner
30.04. Darmstadt (DE) – Steinbruch Theater
01.05. Hamburg (DE) – Große Freiheit
02.05. Eernegem (BE) – B 52 Music Club
More information about TROLLFEST can be found on the band's website at http://www.trollfest.com
The official video of "Kaptein Kaos", the title track of TROLLFEST's upcoming album can be seen at http://youtu.be/faV-_t_f_V0


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PATA Welcomes Expedia Group as its Newest Corporate Member
Bangkok, Thailand, May 4, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is pleased to welcome Expedia Group as its newest corporate member. "As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to adapt and evolve, technological innovations will continue to be a key driver in the recovery of the travel and tourism industry post COVID-19 and beyond That is why we are excited to welcome Expedia Group to the PATA family," said PATA CEO Dr. Mario Hardy. "As Expedia Group has one of the world's largest full-service travel sites, it is important that we are able to add this voice to our discussions in the renewal of a responsible and sustainable travel and tourism industry."
Expedia Group powers travel for everyone, everywhere through its global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, they help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. They provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travellers. The Expedia Group family of brands includes Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, Egencia®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.
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Founded in 1951, the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is a not-for-profit membership association that acts as a catalyst for the responsible development of travel and tourism to, from and within the Asia Pacific region. The Association provides aligned advocacy, insightful research and innovative events to its more than 650 member organisations, including 82 government, state and city tourism bodies, 14 international airlines and airports, 71 hospitality organisations and 75 educational institutions, as well as thousands of young tourism professional (YTP) members across the world. The PATA network also embraces the grassroots activism the PATA Chapters and Student Chapters, who organise numerous travel industry training programmes and business development events across the world. Thousands of travel professionals belong to the 32 local PATA Chapters worldwide, while hundreds of students are members of the 28 PATA Student Chapters globally. The PATAmPOWER platform delivers unrivalled data, forecasts and insights from the PATA Strategic Intelligence Centre to members' desktops and mobile devices anywhere in the world. PATA's Head Office has been in Bangkok since 1998. The Association also has official offices or representation in Beijing and London.
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There is no way to avoid dealing with money and finances these days. Therefore you should try to learn as much as possible to help you make good financial decisions and to increase your confidence about money.When you make a budget, it should be realistic regarding your income and spending habits. Be sure to include all of your income such as alimony, child support, rental income, or any other. Always use your net income not your gross earnings in these calculations. Once you have the numbers, you can consider how to adjust your spending to stay within your income range. To maintain your budget never exceed your incoming cash flow.The next step is to total up your expenses, and you should make a list of all monthly expenses. Your list should document each and every expense that you have whether it expense, spontaneous or just a one time expense. Remember that this list needs to have a complete breakdown of your costs. Be sure to add in expenses that you have from restaurant dinners and fast food as well as grocery bills. Reduce expenses linked to your cars, such as gas and insurance. If you have payments that you make quarterly or less frequently, divide them up to reflect a monthly payment. Make sure you include incidental expenses, for instance, baby sitters or storage unit rentals. Try to have the most accurate list possible.Now that you have a good idea of your income and expenditures, you can start planning a new budget. Look at each expenditure on your list, and decide what you could do without. If you normally buy coffee from a cafe, calculate how much money you would save on a weekly basis if you bought it from McDonald's instead, or made it at home. Exactly what and how much you are willing to compromise is completely up to you. The first step is identifying expenses that are not necessary so you can use the money for something else.If your utility bills are rising, you may want to upgrade your appliances to save some money. Upgrading to well-fitted double-glazed windows, for example, can reduce your heating bill dramatically. Besides you can repair any leaky pipes and only run the dishwasher with a full load.Swap old, inefficient appliances for those that use less energy. Although doing so may cost you some money upfront, over the long-term you will save a fair penny on your utility bills. Unplug the appliances you do not need. In time you will notice significant savings in your energy consumption.You can make a significant decrease in your heating and cooling bills by improving your insulation, as well as the roof above it. Insulation or roofing issues can be very costly, as maintaining a regular temperature in the home can be expensive. If you invest in the upgrades, it will save you a lot of money in the long run.Using these tips not only saves you money, but it also helps you start bringing your budget under control. An expensive upgrade can save a lot of money in lowering electricity or water bills. This is one way that you can make your budget more reliable.