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COVER- Vive LeRoi: 1961-2008
As a soft but steady rain– the first in more than a month– fell on his hometown, friends and family of LeRoi Moore filed into Charlottesville's biggest church to remember the late Dave Matthews Band saxophonist on the morning of Wednesday, August 27. Moore died August 19 in Los Angeles, seven weeks after sustaining serious injuries in a all-terrain vehicle accident on his farm outside town. He would have celebrated his 47th birthday this Sunday, September 7.
Eulogizing Moore was the Rev. Dr. William Guthrie, the former rector of Moore's family church, Trinity Episcopal. Guthrie revealed that the June 30 accident had put Moore into a coma, but that he occsionally awakened to greet well-wishers, both in Charlottesville and in Los Angeles where he had a second home and was to begin a long rehabilitation program.
"In Los Angeles," said Guthrie, "he suffered a fatal embolism that would eventually take his life."
Such was the end of a life that had touched hundreds here in Charlottesville, and millions around the world. It was a life led in a way that Matthews described in the 1996 song "Two Step": "Celebrate we will/For life is short, but sweet for certain."
The man behind the shades
LeRoi Holloway Moore was born September 7, 1961 in Durham, North Carolina, but moved to Charlottesville with his mother, Roxie, and father, Alvin, early in his childhood. Moore's musical prowess was evident from an early age, earning the family nickname "Bop Bop" for his childhood habit of scatting jazz riffs as he walked around the house.
But he also loved football, and he pursued his love of the gridiron from Pop Warner through high school. But soon it became clear that Moore's calling was on the stage, and he soon parlayed his musical gifts into a career, sitting in with local jazz stalwart trumpeter John D'earth in the fusion groups Code Magenta and Secrets, the latter of which included eventual DMB drummer Carter Beauford.
It was around that time that Moore caught the ear of a young bartender and aspiring singer-songwriter at downtown pub Miller's.
"The stage was right near the cash register," Matthews told the Staples Center crowd last Tuesday, just before the encore, "and he just leaned up on top of it, because standing was becoming something of a chore at that point. He got his elbows free, and played the most beautiful version of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' I ever heard in my whole life."
Said Matthews, "That's the night I fell in love with him."
The love continued on May 11, 1991, the date of the now legendary first concert by the then-unnamed band for a private party atop the "pink warehouse" building on South Street. The 29-year-old saxophonist was already a heavy hitter in the local jazz community and far better known than the 24-year-old front man.
Along with Boyd Tinsley's fiddle and Matthews' unconventional vocal delivery, Moore's sax would become a trademark of the Dave Matthews Band sound. It was Moore who played the instantly memorable opening riff on one of the band's first hits, "Ants Marching." He went on to co-write Top-40 singles like "Too Much" and "Stay;" and his extended live solos on saxophone, flute, and pennywhistle helped build DMB's reputation as a successor to the Grateful Dead as one of America's most popular and enduring "jam bands."
With the sound of Moore's horns floating in and out of every track, Dave Matthews Band went on to conquered the music world by nearly every measure. After signing with major label RCA in 1994, the band teamed with producer Steve Lillywhite, whose credits included albums by U2, the Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, and Peter Gabriel. That collaboration resulted in Under the Table and Dreaming, an album that spawned the Top 40 singles "What Would You Say," "Ants Marching," and "Satellite," and sold over 4 million copies. But even this could not have anticipated what happened next.
The follow-up Crash sold 7 million copies on the strength of such Top 40 hits as "So Much to Say," and "Crash Into Me." That album also garnered the band its first five of an eventual 11 Grammy nominations and first Grammy win, for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "So Much to Say." The band quickly capitalized on Crash's success with another platinum release, 1998's Before These Crowded Streets, beginning a yet-to-be-broken streak of #1 albums that's lasted more than a decade.
To date, Moore and company have moved over 31 million copies of its albums in the United States alone. That's more than Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Buffett, the Police, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, the Bee Gees, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty, or even Frank Sinatra. Put another way, that's a little more than one Dave Matthews Band CD for every ten Americans.
Through 17 years of touring and fame, Moore remained a soft-spoken individual who preferred to let his music do the talking. But those to whom he did open up say he was a warm man, not shy about boosting the mood of his friends.
"He watched me grow up, and I feel like he was family," says Lessard. "He always took a minute out of his hectic life to give me a bear hug and catch up for a second."
"He called me the day after I graduated from Berklee College of Music," says Jay Pun, referring to the prestigious Boston conservatory. "He kept saying 'congratulations, congratulations, congratulations,' without letting me interrupt him. He kept saying to me that I did something that he only dreamed of and that I was on a great track. I couldn't believe a musician I had grown up listening to since I was 12 years old had called me to congratulate me on graduating from music school."
Though the sax solos were a longtime favorite of DMB fans, Moore had in recent years begun to step out of his bandmates' shadow. On their 2006 LP Colorblind, longtime DMB friends Robert Randolph & the Family Band sought Moore's services for their song "Love Is the Only Way." Singer-songwriter John Mayer invited Moore onstage to play with him on his song "Gravity" on September 6, 2007 while sharing the bill with DMB at the "Concert for Virginia Tech" in Blacksburg. Rapper Nas enlisted Moore for his 2007 album Hip Hop Is Dead for the track "Hold Down the Block."
Even automaker Honda, when seeking to advertise its new luxury pickup truck the Ridgeline, cast Moore for a commercial this year. In the 30-second spot, Moore stands on the deck of a tempest-tossed fishing boat, playing some signature tenor sax licks underneath the slogan "Rough Meets Smooth."
In the pre-fame DMB days, Moore built his reputation by playing every dive bar and frat house in Virginia in the early '90s with his four bandmates. Fittingly, LeRoi Moore got to play his final show in his native Virginia, at the Nissan Pavilion near Manassas. Though there was no way of knowing it was the end of an era for Dave Matthews Band, in a way Moore did get to say goodbye to his fans. The last song at the Nissan concert was a blazing cover of Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You."
Say goodbye
The tributes came pouring in from across the world.
Former bandmate Peter Griesar told the Hook, "He was my brother, and I loved him like a brother, and it's just an incredibly sad thing."
"There is an extreme amount of sadness in my heart," says Ambha Lessard, sister of DMB bassist Stefan Lessard. "He was an amazing man, and he will forever touch our souls."
"Walking on the Mall Tuesday, a friend called from afar and said 'Roi passed,'" says guitarist and Moore protégé Jay Pun. "I was speechless."
Hundreds of fans posted slideshows of their favorite LeRoi pictures on YouTube. Mayer paid tribute by opening his August 20 show in Pittsburgh by singing a few bars of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" and then pausing to "send this show out to [Moore]" before launching into the first song, "Bigger Than My Body." Country star Kenny Chesney covered DMB's "Where Are You Going," at his August 22 show in Raleigh to pay his respects. And on Wednesday, August 27, nearly 1,000 people turned out to First Baptist Church.
But of all the mourners, only the four men seated in the center, together for over 17 years, knew Moore as they did; and each member of Dave Matthews Band coped with grief in a way oddly metaphorical to his on-stage role.
Drummer Carter Beauford was driving the rest of the band forward with ready smiles and handshakes. Bassist Stefan Lessard was steadily, stoically keeping from succumbing to his emotions. Violinist Boyd Tinsley, whose athleticism and on-stage exuberance have become legendary, was freely expressive, holding onto friends in long embraces.
The only bandmate not wearing the white pallbearer's gloves was the one who voiced their common message for their fallen brother. Though no stranger to performing in stadiums for tens of thousands, the speaker who introduced himself as "Dave Matthews, a friend of Roi's," swayed back and forth, appearing slightly nervous in addressing the hundreds assembled in First Baptist Church on leafy Park Street.
"Roi loved people," said Dave Matthews, "but he had the hardest time loving himself, and that was the most difficult thing about being his friend for me, watching him torture himself."
Matthews said the 46-year-old Moore was "a good soul, but he was a tortured soul."
"But he loved his family and he loved his friends," Matthews said. "He was finding himself, finding the light inside himself, and it was shining more than it had for a very long time."
Matthews credited Moore's fiance, Lisa Bean, for his newfound happiness.
"I believe her unwavering love for him," Matthews said, "and her willingness to stand in front of him, as he was reluctant to love himself, and insisted on it, caused him to eventually see the light.
"It was so bright," Matthews continued, "that we could all see it so much all of the time, when he would put that horn in his mouth and make the most astonishingly honest music that could knock you over, and it would sink right to the middle of you."
Matthews went on to reel off a pack of anecdotes, most of which centered on Moore's propensity to fall asleep anywhere.
"I saw him fall asleep onstage," said Matthews, to much laughter. "He was standing right there, and I'm not sure if I saw him fall asleep, but I definitely saw him wake up. He sort of caught himself, and then he thought he got away with it, but we have a little intercom system, and I said, 'Did you just wake up?'"
Moore's custom of wearing sunglasses, Matthews noted, sometimes made it hard to tell.
"He also fell asleep next to me in his old blue Volkswagen station wagon driving down 64 once," recalled Matthews, "and I only realized it when he started snoring."
However, not all of Moore's humor was unintentional. While he was soft-spoken publicly, Matthews said, Moore's ability to tell a joke was such that "he could have done that for a living, though it may not have been as lucrative.
"He told them with an honesty the same way he played," said Matthews. "I would tell him jokes, just so I could hear him tell them after me."
According to the Rev. Guthrie, Moore didn't just save his honesty for his friends in the band.
"LeRoi would engage me in animated conversation whenever I would encounter him at home or at church," Guthrie said. "More often than not, he felt that the music in the Episcopal Church left a lot to be desired."
Some of the men who most informed Moore's early musical sensibilities were on hand to pay tribute with their instruments. Trumpeter and early mentor John D'earth performed along with the Trinity Episcopal choir throughout the service and led a trio in "Goodbye, Sweet King."
Moore's jazz theory teacher Roland Wiggins played a stirring, improvised piano rendition of the spiritual "Keep Me From Sinking Down." Before playing, Wiggins shared his last encounter with Moore in the hospital.
"I stood up to leave, and he said, 'Hang on a sec,'" said Wiggins. "He was in his wheelchair, and he took the better part of three or four minutes to get his wheels locked, and he wouldn't let me leave until he stood up. He stood up and said, 'Thanks for coming.'"
In a way, Moore got to say that to everyone assembled. Following Matthews' remarks, a slide show chronicling Moore's life from a baby to a bona fide star was accompanied by his gentle sax showcase "#34" from Under the Table and Dreaming.
Following the service, Jamie Dyer, whose Hogwaller Ramblers were as much a part of the Charlottesville music scene as DMB in the early '90s, said the ceremony was in keeping with how he remembered Moore.
"Like all great musicians, he had great timing and a great ear," said Dyer, "and when you heard that piece from his teacher, you couldn't help but think of that."
According to Secileon Lewis, a family friend of drummer Beauford's, she couldn't help but laugh at Matthews' recollections of a somnabulent Moore.
"When Dave was talking about how he always falls asleep," said Lewis, "I thought, 'He did me the same way!'"
As mourners left the the modern brick sanctuary, they formed an impromptu reception outside under the white-washed concrete loggia, none in a hurry to leave. They were of all ages, all colors, perhaps apropos for a man who touched so many different kinds of people with his personality in the Charlottesville area, and with his horn throughout the world. They were drawn to Moore because of his ability to convey in music and demeanor a fiery passion that Matthews described by quoting a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:
"I burn my candle at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light."
LeRoi Moore would have turned 47 this Sunday, September 7.
Since first gracing its the front page in 2001, Dave Matthews Band has appeared on the cover Rolling Stone four times (eight if you count shots of Matthews by himself), including this 2005 shot of the band at UVA's Davenport Field.
Automaker Honda singled out Moore from his bandmates to appear in an ad this year, playing sax on the deck of a fishing boat, exemplifying their slogan "Rough Meets Smooth."
DMB fiddler Boyd Tinsley arrives at Moore's funeral, with manager Coran Capshaw (behind Tinsley's right shoulder) in tow.
Drummer Carter Beauford served as one of Moore's pallbearer, along with Tinsley, and bassist Stefan Lessard.
18 comments
Thanks for such a touching piece. Like me, fans from around the world search the web for this type of accounts.
Knowing Carter, Steffan and Boyd were pallbearers made me smile a very sad smile.
Thank you so much for this article! It helps us all celebrate and remember the life of a wonderful man and musician in LeRoi Moore! The beauty and spirit of his music will live on forever! Thank you, LeRoi! Thank you!
Thank you for such a beautifully written article. You captured LeRoi in a way that made me feel like I KNEW him. Stage Left will never be the same.....and he will be GREATLY missed by all.
From a devoted fan....much love and peace to the entire dMb family & community.
Amazing and beautiful article - it brought tears to my eyes, once again. 'Roi was an amazing musician and all of his fans will miss him dearly.
With much love from a life-long fan and may his family, friends and bandmates find peace.
Beautifully written! Thank You!
A sad smile comes across my face every time I listen to DMB now and hear LeRoi's beautiful sounds. It pains me to know that we will never experience that again live, but I am greateful that we all got to have him be part of our lives and that his soul lives on in the vast library of DMB recordings. He was truely a pioneer and integral part of the magic known as "Dave Matthews Band" and will be missed dearly.
Truly a beautiful article that tries to express just what influence this man had on so many people. I hope he's looking down and finally realizing just what an impact he made on so many people all over the world. God bless you, Roi.
Life is better for having experienced the music LeRoi shared with the world. I wish he had known how special he was, not only for his music, but the person he obviously was as well. Forever I will be touched by those sweet sounds.
Thank you for the account of a life and day most of us were unable to unable to honor in person. My heart was there and a part of it will remain always.
Comfort and peace to LeRoi's family and loved ones.
I can't Help Myself to wonder if the Grace Is Gone,
Lamenting as I walk down this Old Dirt Hill,
But it is Out of My Hands.
Was I a Fool To Think that I Let You Down,
But I don't want to Say Goodbye.
If I knew I had one Last Stop with you
I would have So Much To Say.
But now The Space Between us is great
As Recently as I remember,
But it is all Too Much.
I can't seem to find a Rhyme Or Reason
But simply wishing that you could Stay.
Lamenting, walking Everyday
Head down counting each Two Step
In One Sweet World I look up
The sun shines,
True Reflections of a beautiful Butterfly and the
Proudest Monkey glow
All I see are the Loving Wings of my Angel
You Never Know when we will say Hello Again,
But until that time I'll know that you were The Best Of What's Around.
Good Friends Are Hard To Come By & Even Harder To Forget!!!!
Peace & Love
Amazing poetry dMb Style! Thank you!
Tat is a beautiful article. His music touched my life and so many others. I will remember him forever. Thank you for the story and pictures.
This is the most moving article i have read so far ... brings you to tears ... thank you
"Celebrate, we will..."
What a beautiful celebration of his life...
Thank you,
I am so grateful that I got to see him twice this year before the accident. June 3rd and 4th in Camden NJ will always be remembered.
What a sad time in the DMB world. We are all family!!!!!!
His music was from the heart. His notes spoke words. I will always be reminded of him whenever I her his sax. Being introduced to his playing touched my life.
Thank you so much for such a loving article of a lovely man. He is playing music with the angel now.
Thank you so much for such a loving article of a lovely man. He is playing music with the angels now.
I just want to thank you for that touching article. It was truly a blessing to see Roi play 6 times, including his 2nd to last show in Hershey. Getting to hear his last Bartender was a great honor. His solos were amazing and his music will be missed. I still miss him. RIP Roi!


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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00563290
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 26, 2007
Results First Posted : March 20, 2015
Last Update Posted : June 18, 2015
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|Drug: dasatinib Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
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I. Determine the objective response rate (complete response and partial response) in patients with unresectable or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or RAI stage 0-I chronic lymphocytic leukemia receiving dasatinib.
I. Determine the progression-free survival of patients receiving this drug. II. Evaluate tumor for presence of total EphA2 and both total and active Src and FAK by immunohistochemistry (IHC) pre-treatment with dasatinib.
III. Evaluate tumor for presence of cyclooxygenase-2 by IHC pre-treatment with dasatinib.
OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
ARM I: Patients receive 100 mg dasatinib orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days 1-28.
ARM II (PATIENTS ENROLLED AFTER 11/18/08): Patients receive 70 mg dasatinib PO BID on days 1-28.
In both arms, courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Pre-therapy tumor biopsy specimens are collected to detect total and phosphorylated Src and FAK, total EphA2, and cyclooxygenase-2 by immunohistochemistry.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up monthly for up to 12 weeks.
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|A Phase 2 Study of Dasatinib in Patients With Transplant and Non-Transplant Related Unresectable or Metastatic Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma and RAI Stage 0-1 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
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- Progression-free Survival [ Time Frame: Time from start of treatment to time of progression, assessed up to 12 weeks ]Progression is defined using Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0), as a 20% increase in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions, or a measurable increase in a non-target lesion, or the appearance of new lesions
- Presence of Total EphA2 and Both Total and Active Src and FAK by Immunohistochemistry (IHC) [ Time Frame: At baseline ]Performed per standard protocols by the Pathology Department.
- COX-2 Presence by IHC [ Time Frame: At baseline ]Performed per standard protocols by the Pathology Department. Samples will be obtained pre-therapy. Determination of the COX-2 tumor status on this trial will develop the beginnings of a data base upon which future therapy may be designed.
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Histologically or cytologically confirmed squamous cell carcinoma of the skin
- Unresectable or metastatic disease
- Squamous cell histology represents ≥ 50% of the biopsy specimen
- May or may not be related to autologous or allogeneic organ transplantation
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
- RAI stage 0-I
- Stable disease
- Patients with basalosquamous cell disease (basal cell with squamous differentiation) are eligible
- Measurable disease, defined as at least 1 unidimensionally measurable lesion ≥ 20 mm by conventional techniques or ≥ 10 mm by spiral CT scan
- Must be willing to undergo a pre-treatment tumor biopsy
Brain metastases are allowed provided the following are true:
- Received definitive therapy consisting of external beam radiation therapy, gamma knife therapy, or surgical resection resulting in clinically stable disease
- Lesions are under control for at least 4 weeks after completion of definitive therapy, as measured by repeat MRI or CT scans
- No requirement for dexamethasone
- ECOG performance status 0-1 OR Karnofsky 60-100%
- Life expectancy > 6 months
- WBC ≥ 3,000/mm^3
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,500/mm^3
- Platelets ≥ 100,000/mm^3
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal(ULN)
- AST/ALT ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Potassium 3.5 - 5.1 mmol/L
- Calcium > lower limit of normal
- Creatinine ≤ 1.5 times ULN OR creatinine clearance ≥ 60 mL/min
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- No known hepatitis C or hepatitis B positivity
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to dasatinib
- No QTc prolongation, defined as a QTc interval of ≥ 480 msecs or other significant ECG abnormality
- No condition that impairs the ability to swallow and retain dasatinib tablets (e.g., gastrointestinal tract disease resulting in an inability to take oral medication, requirement for IV alimentation, prior surgical procedure affecting absorption, or active peptic ulcer disease)
No clinically significant cardiovascular disease including the following:
- Myocardial infarction within 6 months
- Uncontrolled angina within 3 months
- Diagnosed or suspected congenital long QT syndrome
- Any history of clinically significant ventricular arrhythmias (e.g., ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, or Torsades de Pointe)
- Any history of second or third degree heart block (may be eligible if the subject currently has a pacemaker)
- Heart rate consistently < 50 beats/minute on pre-entry ECG
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Ejection fraction < 45% by transthoracic echo
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- Ongoing or active infection requiring intravenous antibiotics
- History of significant bleeding disorder, including congenital (von Willebrand's disease) or acquired (anti-factor VIII antibodies) disorders
- Psychiatric illness or social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
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- No gastro-esophageal reflux disease dependent on proton pump inhibitors, H2 blockers, or antacids
- Recovered from prior therapy
- No more than 1 prior therapy with a monoclonal antibody
- No more than 1 prior chemotherapy regimen
No prior tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy
- Prior erlotinib hydrochloride allowed
- More than 2 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) and recovered
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- Measurable disease must be outside the radiotherapy port
- At least 2 weeks since prior topical therapy
- At least 4 weeks since prior surgery requiring general anesthesia and intubation
- At least 120 days (4 months) since prior amiodarone
- At least 7 days since prior and no concurrent anti-thrombotic and/or platelet agents (e.g., warfarin, heparin, low molecular weight heparin, aspirin [full dose and 81 mg dose] and/or ibuprofen)
- At least 7 days since prior and no concurrent agents with pro-arrhythmic potential
- More than 7 days or 5 half lives, whichever is greater, since prior and no concurrent agents or substances that induce or inhibit CYP3A4
- No concurrent bisphosphonate therapy for the first 8 weeks of dasatinib treatment
- No other concurrent investigational agents
- No concurrent combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV-positive patients
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00563290
|United States, Ohio
|Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
|Ohio State University Medical Center
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
|United States, Texas
|M D Anderson Cancer Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator:
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|Ohio State University
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OSU 07070 ( Other Identifier: Ohio State University Medical Center )
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The level of payment delays and insolvencies is expected to remain high.
- Growth expected to remain subdued in 2016
- Low public construction investment
- Level of payment delays and insolvencies remains high
The rebound of the Belgian construction sector remains slow, as the industry is still underperforming compared to the rest of the economy. Since the end of 2011, 20,000 construction jobs have been lost, down to about 200,000 by the end of 2015. Belgian construction businesses suffer from high labour costs, especially when compared to construction businesses from Eastern Europe active in Belgium. Public initiatives to restrict unfair competition from foreign businesses and to reduce domestic labour costs in order to increase competiveness had no real success so far. Construction output is expected to grow by just about 1% in 2016, and pressure remains on businesses´ profit margins.
Perspectives in the new residential construction segment remain subdued, with the number of permits for residential buildings recording a year-on-year decline in 2015. However, 2014 had been an exceptionally positive year, with the number of building permits up in the first half of 2014 as many households had filed requests before the end of 2013 in order to avoid stricter energy regulations. Most construction companies in this segment expect a decrease in the construction and completion of new buildings in 2016. Prospects for renovation businesses are more positive , with orders showing an increasing trend due to the aged real estate stock in Belgium.
In the non-residential construction sector, we have noticed a year-on-year decrease in the number of permits in 2015. Government investment remains low (1.7% of GDP) compared to the European average (3% of GDP). Infrastructure building is still facing decreasing order books and prices. The public tendering business seems to be most affected in Wallonia.
Payment terms of "60 days end of month" remain very common in the sector. However, some construction contractors (mainly large businesses) are trying to solve their liquidity issues by extending their payment terms even longer when paying their subcontractors. Payment behaviour of public bodies remains bad, and it is still quite common that businesses ask suppliers for longer payment terms if they themselves are waiting for overdue payments from public bodies.
Overall, we observed an increase in payment delays in 2015. Given the difficult market conditions, the number and amount of notifications of non-payments is expected to remain high.
In 2015, 1,868 construction companies went insolvent: an 8% year-on-year decrease. Construction accounted for 18% of all Belgian business insolvencies. We expect business failures to decrease further in 2016, although at a slower pace. Despite the decreases, the overall level of construction insolvencies remains high, given the steady increases seen in the years 2008-2013. We noticed that construction businesses increasingly apply for protection against suppliers according to the Wet Continuïteit Ondernemingen (WCO) regulation, the Belgian equivalent of the Chapter 11 procedure under US law.
That said, our prudent underwriting stance should allow us to maintain our current level of engagement. In order to sustain our risk appetite, it is necessary to identify the most affected companies/subsectors and to contact buyers for up-to-date financial information and performance outlooks. We have conducted review actions in particular for subsectors (infrastructure works and metal manufacturing/metal construction) due to rising credit insurance claims.


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I have heard from all three of Maspeth's local elected officials and all three have had their request for a traffic light at 60th Road and 60th Street denied.
Mike Armstrong from Assemblywoman Marge Markey's office is still trying to get us a speed limit of 25mph and flashing lights sign at this intersection.
The community does not want anything else but a traffic light at this corner. Nothing will stop cars from speeding up 60th Street from 59th Drive to Metropolitan Avenue.
The Maspeth West End Block Association is planning to have another rally at this intersection after our March 31st meeting. Every civic association in this part of Maspeth for the last 45 years has requested a traffic light at this corner and has been denied.
It is much worse now because of all the new housing and the school has more students attending then ever before. The community of West Maspeth wants a light here before another mother has to bury her child or another family has to bury a family member.
What else can be done to get a light at this intersection?
Charlene L. Stubbs
Maspeth West End Block Association


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The world depends on mariners. Mariners depend on SCI. And we depend on you.
On November 11, 2009, SCI celebrated its 175th Anniversary with a Gala at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.Photos by Leo Sorel.
Special Events are an important source of funding for the Seamen's Church Institute's programs. If you would like to receive information or invitations to our events, please email SCI's Special Events Team or telephone 212-349-9090.


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Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman made headlines last year when he argued that cloud computing is "worse than stupidity" and called for users to abandon popular Web applications such as Facebook and GMail. We disagreed with Stallman and pointed out that cloud computing is here to stay and that numerous emerging community-driven initiatives have the potential to bring the values of software freedom to the cloud.
This issue was the primary topic of a presentation made by Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) technical director and community liaison Bradley Kuhn at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE). Kuhn has worked closely with Stallman over the years and previously served as the executive director of the Free Software Foundation before participating in the founding of the SFLC. He is best known for his role in authoring GNU's Affero General Public License (AGPL).
Kuhn has historically been a critic of the software as a service model and shares Stallman's concern that the use of the browser as a vehicle for application delivery will undermine the GPL. Unlike Stallman, however, he acknowledges that the growing traction of this model is an inevitability and an issue that needs to be addressed by a more productive strategy than merely ignoring the trend.
Kuhn—who exhibited a significantly more nuanced and informed perspective on cloud computing than Stallman—addressed some of the technical, legal, and philosophical challenges that the cloud poses for free software. He started by discussing the implications of conventional network computing and how modern Web applications are different.
The traditional client/server model that is used for mail and other basic Web services is conducive to software freedom, he explains, because basic protocol standards ensure interoperability between multiple implementations, thus enabling users to choose free software and manage their own servers. He says that this model is compatible with the GPL and the legal framework that the GNU has established to protect free software. That framework breaks down, however, when it is confronted with modern Web applications which encourage users to concede control of their data and rely on proprietary systems.
Kuhn has historically been a critic of the software as a service model and shares Stallman's concern that the use of the browser as a vehicle for application delivery will undermine the GPL. Unlike Stallman, however, he acknowledges that the growing traction of this model is an inevitability and an issue that needs to be addressed by a more productive strategy than merely ignoring the trend.
During the presentation, Kuhn described Stallman as a "network luddite" and explained that lack of exposure and interest in the modern Internet has deterred Stallman from taking an active leadership role in finding solutions for the problem. Despite Stallman's insistence that users should simply reject cloud computing, Kuhn says that Stallman's criticism of the technology should instead be viewed as a call to action.
Kuhn says that bringing autonomy to the cloud is about ensuring that users retain control over their data in addition to protecting the traditional freedoms that the GNU has previously strived to guarantee. Code and licensing are only half of the equation and transparent portability of data is a much harder problem to solve.
Empowering software freedom in the cloud
He believes that the AGPL is the key to addressing the code and licensing issues. One of the problems with the GPL that was exposed by the emergence of cloud computing is that, due to the license's distribution-oriented language, companies that deploy open source components in Web applications are not compelled to disclose changes that they have made to the code. This guts the GPL's reciprocity requirements and reduces it to a BSD-like licensing scenario.
Although that limitation of the GPL is acceptable to many software developers who use the license, Kuhn makes a strong case for the importance of having an alternate license that will close the loophole. The AGPL is designed to serve precisely that purpose—it brings strong copyleft to the cloud.
The issue of data autonomy was also addressed at length during the presentation, but Kuhn acknowledges that the solutions in this area are still a work in progress. He highlighted many of the same Internet freedom initiatives that we looked at in our rebuttal of Stallman.
One example that received particularly strong endorsement from Kuhn is Laconi.ca, an open source microblogging service implementation that is designed around the federated OpenMicroBlogging (OMB) specification. Laconi.ca, which is developed by Control Yourself, is used to run the company's flagship Identi.ca service. Laconi.ca is distributed under the AGPL. Anyone can download the source code and run their own Laconi.ca service which will interoperate with others and any service that has support for OMB. Laconi.ca also makes extensive use of standard formats such as FOAF to make it easy for users to export and preserve their information and social connection data.
Kuhn says that this distributed approach, which gives anyone the ability to deploy and manage their own servers, is much more conducive to software freedom. He says that to encourage a broader shift towards this model, users and developers have to start thinking differently. The data should always belong to the user, Kuhn says, and an application host or developer is the custodian of that data.
I was pleasantly surprised by Kuhn's pragmatic realism and by the coherence of his arguments. His views are a productive departure from Stallman's misdirected ranting. Kuhn deftly sketched out the foundation for real-world solutions and framed the problem in a way that brings real clarity to the issue.


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NSAC is a nationwide competition sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF).
St. Bonaventure was up against several major universities with sophisticated advertising programs. For example, first-place winner Penn State has several hundred advertising majors and public relations majors. St. Bonaventure does not offer a major in either field. In all, nine colleges competed in SBU's district.
"That makes taking home the bronze even more impressive," said Mike Jones-Kelley, St. Bonaventure's ad club adviser. "It's fun being the mouse that roared."
This year's client was Nissan. The challenge was to create a research-based $100 million integrated marketing communications campaign to increase Nissan's penetration among African-American, Chinese-American and Hispanic-American Millennials (the demographic that was entering adulthood around the turn of the 21st century).
Research done by St. Bonaventure students showed that Millennials in those three market segments, while proud of their ethnic heritage, identify more with being Millennial Americans and being individuals than with a group. The Bonaventure student agency built its campaign around the business case that advertising to these small segments would be less efficient than advertising through those three groups to the Millennial market as a whole.
St. Bonaventure's AAF chapter runs under the name The Stalwart Group, with a staff of 29 undergraduate students — a mix of journalism and mass communication, visual arts and marketing majors.
"I had a blast doing AAF. The creative team was amazing to work with, New York City was awesome, and placing third just proved that all our hard work paid off. We had such a talented team this year, and we showed the judges that we can compete against those big schools with advertising majors," said Kathryn Kvas, a junior journalism and mass communication major.
The 29 students combined their talents in copywriting, art direction, marketing, journalism, public relations, broadcast communications, graphic design, market research, management and strategic thinking to create a multi-faceted advertising campaign around the tagline of "My Road. My Ride." The tagline played to the individualistic nature of Millennials and suggested that individualist Nissan was the car for them.
Graduate students in St. Bonaventure's integrated marketing communications program served as peer advisers to the Stalwart Group.
Officers Cody Mangalsingh of Olean, Allyson O'Mara of Hamburg, Elyse Kosakowski of Rochester and Averi Ahsmann of Syracuse led the 2011-2012 Stalwart Group.
In addition to the officers, St. Bonaventure students in the 2011-2012 Stalwart Group included: Danny Bush of Belfast, Alicia D'Alessandro of Clarendon, Pa., Brittany Davies of Freedom, Catherine Dell of Orchard Park, Neil Durkin of Caldwell, N.J., Ethan Fisher of East Aurora, Maddie Gionet of Greenwich, Ryan Green of Pittsford, Megan Kane of Olean, Michael Kaplan of Cortland, Erin Kinney of Marcellus, Kathryn Kvas of Mississauga, Ont., Morgan Mack of Montclair, N.J., Kristie Manzella of Blasdell, Amy Miller of Binghamton, Sally O'Rourke of Buffalo, Emily Sorokes of Olean, Alexandria Stephan of Kenmore, Cassandra Stubbs of Erie, Pa., Megan Sudore of Webster, Elizabeth Threehouse of Olean, Michael Vitron of Fairview, Pa., Emily Young of Getzville, and Kyle Zappia of Newark.
Graduate students Kate Burt of Webster and Dominick Lisi of Corning served as advisers. Professors Kimberly DeSimone and Mike Jones-Kelley were the faculty advisers.
American Advertising Federation is the premier college advertising competition. It is a national organization designed to give colleges and universities the opportunity to create a working advertising agency on campus that will compete in the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC). The AAF's college-chapter program has 226 affiliated chapters throughout the United States and abroad.
For more information about St. Bonaventure's chapter, visit www.sbu.edu/jmc.
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Jaguar Land Rover North America's Privacy Policy
We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. That is why we have adopted this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy lets you know how and for what purposes we are collecting, processing and using your Personal Information (as defined herein). We pledge that we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your Personal Information will only be used in ways that are in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is in effect for any web pages, mobile applications, third party social media sites, email lists, on-site electronic data collection, generic information and personal information collected and/or owned by Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC ("JLR USA", "our" or "we"), including but not limited to the Jaguar USA and the Land Rover USA websites, no matter the method of collection (e.g., mail, facsimile, sign-up/sign-in page, survey), including collection through this website and any online features, services and/or programs offered by JLR USA (collectively, the "Web Properties"). SureSource LLC d/b/a BrandShop operates our Jaguar USA shopping website located at http://shop.jaguarusa.com and Land Rover USA shopping website located at http://shop.landroverusa.com on our behalf. Your use of the Web Properties is also governed by Terms and Conditions located at http://www.jaguarusa.com/terms-conditions.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Privacy Policy is not applicable to any other web pages, mobile applications, social media sites, email lists, generic information and Personal Information collected and/or owned by any entity other than JLR USA, including, but not limited to, Tata Motors, Jaguar Land Rover, Jaguar Cars Limited, Land Rover, and any automobile dealership or service center. Users of the foregoing resources should refer to the Privacy Policy in effect for the applicable owner. For clarity, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of the InControl services, which is governed by the InControl Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions found at the websites identified below:
- US Land Rover InControl
- US Jaguar InControl
This Privacy Policy also does not apply to information collected by JLR USA through a means other than the Web Properties or through the InControl services. If the same information is collected through the Web Properties and through a means other than the Web Properties, then the terms of this Privacy Policy shall apply.
We will make an effort to update this web page with any changes to this Privacy Policy and you are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy frequently (the date of the most recent revision to this Privacy Policy appears at the end of this Privacy Policy).
Your California Privacy Rights
Under California's "Shine the Light" law, California residents who provide personal information in connection with obtaining products or services for personal, family or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2013 will receive information regarding 2012 sharing activities).
To obtain this information on behalf of JLR USA, please send an email message to email@example.com with "Request for California Privacy Information" in the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your email address in response.
Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the "Shine the Light" requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.
Additionally, because we may collect your Personal Information from time to time, California's Online Privacy Protection Act requires us to disclose how we respond to "do not track" requests and other similar mechanisms. Currently, our policy is that we do not recognize "do not track" requests from Internet browsers and similar devices.
How Information Is Collected
The types of Personal Information we collect may include, among other things (collectively, "Personal Information"): (1) contact information (e.g., name, address, home and mobile telephone numbers, email address); (2) biographical information such as household data, preferences, and demographic information (e.g., date of birth, gender, marital status); (3) Internet protocol (or IP) address, MAC address or device ID/UDID; (4) mother's maiden name (parent's name prior to marriage); (5) drivers' license numbers; (6) asset and income information; (7) bank account and credit/debit card numbers; (8) racial or ethnic origin; (9) purchase information regarding our products and services; (10) vehicle identification numbers (VIN's); and (11) your physical location, time spent and activity while visiting a participating retailer.
The means by which JLR USA collects such personal information may include when you: (1) purchase, order, or request information about our products and services through the Web Properties; (2) access a JLR USA social media platform; (3) sign up for email notifications, electronic newsletters, mobile messages (including SMS), or social media notifications from, or on behalf of, JLR USA; (4) enter or participate in a JLR USA contest, event, promotion or sweepstakes, or respond to one of our surveys; (5) provide JLR USA with comments, suggestions or other input through the Web Properties; (6) create a user account for use in connection with the Web Properties (your "User Account"); and (7) while you are physically present at a retailer, by reading the "pings" created by the Wi-Fi and/or mobile radios contained in your mobile device. JLR USA also collects such personal information in our marketing efforts on third party websites.
We may also receive information about you from third party sources, using Personal Information collected through the Web Properties as the method of identifying you. Our use of that third party-sourced information will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
JLR USA or a partner may sponsor promotions, sweepstakes or contests through the Web Properties. Your participation is entirely voluntary. You may be asked to provide personally identifiable information including, but not limited to, your name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. JLR USA may also transfer Personal Information to certain advertising or marketing partners from whom you have requested to receive information.
Additional Ways that Information is Collected Through the Web Properties
Browser Log Files: Our servers automatically log each visitor to the Web Properties and collect and record certain information about each visitor. This information includes or may include your "Internet Protocol", or IP, address, browser language, browser type, operating system, domain names, browsing history (including time spent at a domain, time and date of your visit), referring/exit web pages and URLs, and number of clicks. The domain name and IP address reveal nothing personal about the visitor other than the IP address from which the visitor has accessed the Web Properties.
Cookies: From time to time, JLR USA and/or our advertisers or other third parties may send a "cookie" to your computer. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your Internet browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive and that can be re-sent to the serving website on subsequent visits. A cookie, by itself, cannot read other data from your hard disk or read other cookie files already on your computer. A cookie, by itself, does not damage your system. We, our advertisers and other third parties may use cookies to identify and keep track of, among other things, those areas of the Web Properties and third party websites that you have visited in the past in order to enhance your next visit to the Web Properties. You can choose whether or not to accept cookies by changing the settings of your Internet browser, but some functionality of the Web Properties may be impaired or not function as intended if you choose not to accept cookies. See the Third Party Opt Out section below.
Web Beacons: Some of our web pages and electronic communications may contain images, which may or may not be visible to you, known as Web Beacons (sometimes referred to as "clear gifs"). Web Beacons collect only limited information that includes a cookie number; time and date of a page view; and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon resides. We may also carry Web Beacons placed by third party advertisers. These Web Beacons do not carry any Personal Information and are only used to track usage of the Web Properties and activities associated with the Web Properties. See the Third Party Opt Out section below.
Unique Identifier: We may assign you a unique internal identifier to help keep track of your future visits. We use this information to gather aggregate demographic information about our visitors, and we use it to personalize the information you see on the Web Properties and some of the electronic communications you receive from us. We keep this information for our internal use, and this information is not shared with others.
Third Party Opt Out: We may allow third-party companies to serve advertisements and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit the Web Properties. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (including, but not limited to, click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to the Web Properties in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party Web Beacon to collect this information, as further described above. Through these technologies, the third party may have access to and use non-personalized information about your online usage activity.
You can opt-out of certain online behavioral services through any one of the ways described below (you do not need to go to each opt-out site, one is sufficient). After you opt-out, you will continue to receive advertisements, but those advertisements will no longer be as relevant to you.
- You can opt-out via the Network Advertising Initiative industry opt-out at www.networkadvertising.org
- You can opt-out via the Consumer Choice Page at www.aboutads.info.
- You can opt-out via the IAB UK's industry opt-out at www.youronlinechoices.com.
- You can configure your web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.) to delete and/or control the use of cookies. More information can be found in the Help system of your browser. It is at your discretion whether you use the opt-out described above or manage cookies via the browser.
Note: If you opt-out as described above, you should not delete your cookies. If you delete your cookies, you will need to opt-out again.
Use of Personal Information
The Personal Information that we collect is used for four main purposes:
- to enable the features of the Web Properties, including, but not limited to: (a) operating any competitions or promotions in which you may participate; (b) setting up and managing your online account, including but not limited to our processing your requests for information, and/or providing support services to you; (c) providing services to you, such as providing you information about our vehicles;
- to improve the Web Properties by determining which of our products, features and services are most popular. We may analyze your information and usage information to enable us and our affiliates to provide services to you and develop new features, functionality and services;
- to personalize your experience on the Web Properties; and
- to communicate with you and to inform you about our and third parties' products and services. When requested by you, we (and/or any of our third party service providers) may send you and keep you updated with information about existing and new services, products and special offers, by email, telephone (including, but not limited to, SMS), mail or by means of any other contact details you provide to us or our affiliates, or to such third party service providers.
When Information Is Disclosed By JLR USA
In addition to the other times or occasions on which we might disclose Personal Information about you, we might also disclose Personal Information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to: (1) comply with legal processes and applicable laws; (2) enforce this Privacy Policy; (3) respond to claims that any materials, documents, images, graphics, logos, designs, audio, video and any other information provided to, from or on the Web Properties by you violates the rights of third parties; or (4) protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or personal safety of our visitors and the public.
We use reasonable precautions to keep the information that is disclosed to us secure. We provide Personal Information and non-personally-identifiable information to our parent, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and other businesses or persons for the purposes of processing such information on our behalf and promoting the goods and services of our trusted business partners (for example, navigation system map updates), some or all of which may store some or all of your information on servers outside of the United States. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our Privacy Policy or in a similar, industry-standard manner, and we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information and to use other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. The use of your information by one of our trusted business partners may be subject to that party's own Privacy Policy.
We may share non-personally identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with third parties to demonstrate the usage patterns for JLR USA's advertisements, content, functionality promotions, competitions, games and/or services on the Web Properties and/or on third party websites.
We also reserve the right to disclose Personal Information and/or non-personally-identifiable information in connection with the enforcement of our Terms and Conditions located at Jaguar and Land Rover, to take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of the Web Properties, and to protect our rights, property, or personal safety of JLR USA, and that of our users or others.
We reserve the right to transfer your Personal Information, as well as any other information, in connection with the sale or other disposition of all or part of the JLR USA business and/or assets. We also cannot make any representations regarding the use or transfer of your Personal Information or other information that we may have in the event of our bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or an assignment for the benefit of creditors, and you expressly agree and consent to the use and/or transfer of your Personal Information or other information in connection with a sale or transfer of some or all of our assets in any of the above described proceedings. Furthermore, we cannot and will not be responsible for any breach of security by any third parties or for any actions of any third parties that receive any of the information that is disclosed to us.
The Web Properties may also link to a wide variety of other websites and may contain advertisements of third parties. We are not and cannot be responsible for the privacy policies of those websites of third parties or for how they treat information (including, but not limited to personally identifiable information) about their users.
User Account, Password, and Security
For certain features available through the Web Properties, we may require the use of encryption technologies provided for your protection and/or User Account. We use reasonable precautions to protect the privacy of your username, password and User Account information. You, however, are ultimately responsible for protecting your username, password and User Account information from disclosure to third parties, and you are not permitted to circumvent the use of required encryption technologies. You agree to: (a) immediately notify JLR USA of any unauthorized use of your username, password and/or User Account, and/or any other breach of security; and (b) ensure that you log out from your User Account at the end of each session. While we may provide certain encryption technologies and use other reasonable precautions to protect your confidential information and provide suitable security, we do not and cannot guarantee or warrant that any information transmitted through the internet is secure, or that such transmissions are free from delay, interruption, interception or error.
Employment Opportunity Information Collection
For individuals interested in job opportunities with JLR USA, the Web Properties links prospective employees to a partner's website. The partner's website, which has its own Privacy Policy, collects Personal Information from prospective employees for human resources recruitment purposes. This information is then shared with JLR USA's human resources department and others within JLR USA who are involved in the recruitment process. The foregoing also applies to job application inquiries that you may transmit to us other than through the Web Properties.
Information From Children
We do not collect Personal Information from any person that we know to be under the age of thirteen (13). Specifically, the Web Properties is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of thirteen (13). You affirm that you are either more than 18 years of age, or an emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in this Privacy Policy, and to abide by and comply with this Privacy Policy. In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of 13, as THE WEB PROPERTIES ARE NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN UNDER 13 THAT ARE UNACCOMPANIED BY HIS OR HER PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN.
Parents should be aware that this Privacy Policy will govern our use of Personal Information, but also that information that is voluntarily given by children - or others - in email exchanges, bulletin boards or the like may be used by other parties to generate unsolicited communications. JLR USA encourages all parents to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of their Personal Information while using the Internet.
Privacy Outside the Web Properties
The Web Properties may contain various links to other websites, including, but not limited to, links to websites of various third party service providers. JLR USA is not and cannot be responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any of those other websites. Other than under agreements with certain reputable organizations and companies, and except for third party service providers (as described in this Privacy Policy), we do not share any of the Personal Information that you provide to us with any of the websites to which the Web Properties links, although we may share aggregate, non-personally identifiable information with those other third parties. Please check with those websites in order to determine their privacy policies and your rights under them.
European Union Users
If you are visiting us from the European Union, please note that we may transfer your Personal Information outside the European Union for use for any of the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. By using the Web Properties and providing us with your Personal Information, you consent to both our collection and such transfer of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Choices With Your Personal Information
Whether you submit any Personal Information to JLR USA is entirely up to you. You are under no obligation to provide Personal Information. However, this information is essential for the provision and quality of some of the services we offer to you, so we cannot provide you with certain services if you choose to withhold requested information.
You may choose to prevent JLR USA from disclosing or using your Personal Information under certain circumstances ("opt-out"). You may opt-out of any disclosure or use of your Personal Information for purposes that are incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected or for which you subsequently gave authorization by notifying us by one of the methods at the end of this Privacy Policy, or by following the procedures set forth in an electronic communication from us, if applicable. Furthermore, even where your Personal Information is to be disclosed and used in accordance with the stated purposes in this Privacy Policy, you may elect to opt-out of such disclosure to and use by a third party that is not acting as an agent of JLR USA. There are some uses from which you cannot opt-out, such as our use of your Personal Information in connection with your ownership status of a vehicle or vehicle recall (and similar) notification procedures.
You acknowledge and agree that if you opt-out and subsequently consent to use of your Personal Information (e.g., as part of a contest, promotion, request for information, sales or service transaction, or sweepstakes), your original opt-out shall no longer be effective. In the case of the foregoing, we may use your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, subject to your right to opt-out at a later date as provided herein.
Please note that opting out of the disclosure and use of your Personal Information as a prospective employee may prevent you from being hired as an employee by JLR USA to the extent you are using this Web Properties to apply for an open position.
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Kanye West's Twitter feed is the gift that keeps on giving.
After eschewing the micro-blogging service for several years, the voluble rapper embraced it with a vengeance last summer, sharing his idiosyncratic thoughts - occasionally in all caps - on everything from the relative coolness of ninjas ("kind of cool...I just don't know any personally") to the indignities he suffered when he started dating models ("I had to learn to like small dogs and cigarettes").
The tweets, which provided an open-ended look into the mind of one of the most fascinating stars of the day, were quickly mashed up by various outlets, often to hilarious effect. Kanye's tweets were paired with New Yorker cartoons and a spoof Twitter feed placed Kanye's words in the mouth of Tracy Jordan, the hilariously erratic "30 Rock" character played by Tracy Morgan.
But now the tweets are being sung by pop star Josh Groban, reports Entertainment Weekly.
In a spot that went viral overnight, Groban trained his strong voice on selected tweets from West during a skit on a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The singer said picking the material was difficult.
"When it comes to Kanye's tweets, it's like, how do you pick the prettiest child? They're all gems," he said in an interview with EW.
The clips have already generated over 1.2 million views on YouTube, but Groban's take may have been given the ultimate seal of approval by Kanye himself: he re-tweeted the clips to his followers.
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks with PBS Books co-host Rich Fahle about here books, My Life Story and The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor at the 2018 National Book Festival.
(My Life Story)
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells her own story for young readers for the very first time!
As the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor has inspired young people around the world to reach for their dreams. But what inspired her? For young Sonia, the answer was books! They were her mirrors, her maps, her friends, and her teachers. They helped her to connect with her family in New York and in Puerto Rico, to deal with her diabetes diagnosis, to cope with her father's death, to uncover the secrets of the world, and to dream of a future for herself in which anything was possible.
In Turning Pages, Justice Sotomayor shares that love of books with a new generation of readers, and inspires them to read and puzzle and dream for themselves. Accompanied by Lulu Delacre's vibrant art, this story of the Justice's life shows readers that the world is full of promise and possibility–all they need to do is turn the page.
(The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor)
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, was a young girl when she dared to dream big. Her dream? To become a lawyer and a judge.
As Justice Sotomayor explains, "When I was a child my family was poor and we knew no lawyers or judges and none lived in our neighborhood. I knew nothing about the Supreme Court and how much its work in reinterpreting the Constitution and the laws of the United States affected peoples' lives. You cannot dream of becoming something you don't even know about. That has been the most important lesson of my life. You have to learn to dream big dreams."
Sonia did not let the hardships of her background—which included growing up in the rough housing projects of New York City's South Bronx, dealing with juvenile diabetes, coping with parents who argued and fought personal demons, and worrying about money—stand in her way. Always, she believed in herself. Her determination, along with guidance from generous mentors and the unwavering love of her extended Puerto Rican family, propelled her ever forward.


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Etihad Airways ranked 20th most attractive employer in EMEA by LinkedIn
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been ranked the 20th most sought-after employer in LinkedIn's 2015 100 Most InDemand Employer in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) list.
The ranking is based on employer brand awareness and the billions of interactions from LinkedIn's more than 380 million members. Businesses are ranked according to the number of users who view profiles of their employees, connect with their employees, visit or follow their company pages, and view or apply to job postings by the company.
LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network on the Internet, announced the rankings at its 2015 Talent Connect conference held yesterday in London. The airline made it to the top 25 EMEA list alongside notable companies like Google, Apple and Unilever. Etihad Airways was ahead of global brands such as Nike, Burberry and Twitter.
Ray Gammell, Etihad Airways' Chief People and Performance Officer, said: "We are delighted to receive this marvelous recognition for the second consecutive year. This means that Etihad Airways has built one of the strongest talent brands in EMEA based on its engagement with LinkedIn's members.
"Etihad Airways is an employer of choice and our highly engaged and motivated employees have been the cornerstone of our growth. This acknowledgment showcases our focus on building a winning culture for our employees that offers challenging roles, encourages a culture of performance and provides career progression opportunities.
"We offer our more than 25,000 people from over 140 nationalities a number of unique employee benefits, including an on-site nursery, ambulance service, a full-service medical centre, flight benefits, accommodation assistance and education support."
Ali Matar, Head of Talent Solutions, LinkedIn MENA, said: "I'm delighted to congratulate Etihad Airways on its inclusion in LinkedIn's EMEA 100 InDemand employers' ranking for 2015. The continuing presence of brands from the region demonstrates the quality of work being done by employers in the Middle East to attract the very best talent, and puts them among the most sought-after employers worldwide."
Etihad Airways has been recognised for numerous employment awards in 2015. Most recently, the airline received the 'Nationalisation Initiative of the Year' award at the MENA HR Excellence Awards 2015.
Mr Gammell added: "Being a globally recognised talent brand will have a significant impact on our ability to attract and hire top quality talent. We have hundreds of jobs currently available and are constantly looking for talented individuals."
With more than 240,000 followers, Etihad Airways' LinkedIn page communicates the airline's employer brand proposition to attract and recruit talented professionals. People following the page learn more about the airline's values and culture, and develop a better understanding of what it is like to work at Etihad Airways and live in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE.
People interested to find out more about the careers opportunities at Etihad Airways, should visit its website etihad.com/careers or its LinkedIn page.
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As an airline, Etihad has come a long way in a short time – just like its home Abu Dhabi.
The airline was established by Royal (Emiri) Decree in July 2003 and is wholly owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi with a mandate to operate safely, commercially and profitably.


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Early Occupational Exposure Can Affect Lungs Later
Asthma and Lung Irritants
Occupational exposure to lung irritants early in a young worker's career can result in increased doctor visits for lung problems in later years, according to a study to be presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference on May 21st.
The study looked at four groups of apprentices: painters, machinists, electricians and insulators; all of these 348 apprentices were in their early 20s in 1988. The researchers evaluated medical records of the apprentices' physician visits from 1991 to 2002.
They found that those workers who developed the worst sensitivity to lung irritants over the first two years of employment were more likely to visit the doctor for both asthma and bronchitis in later years. Machinists were most likely to have the worst cases of new sensitivity to lung irritants.
"We know that exposure to irritants in the workplace can change people's lung function later in life, but we can't predict who will go on to develop lung disease," says lead researcher Cheryl Peters, of the Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. "We hope this study may begin to answer that question. We are following workers over time and looking at patterns in their healthcare utilization records." She noted that this is part of a larger study which is also recording workers' physical measurements, such as lung function. A 15-year followup of the workers is currently underway, in which workers' medical records and lung function will be compared.
Peters noted that painters, particularly auto painters, are exposed to chemicals in paint called isosyanates, which are known to cause asthma. Machinists in the study may have been exposed to chemicals or contaminants in metal working fluids that could be a risk factor for developing both asthma and bronchitis, she said.


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Paul George scored 27 points, and the Indiana Pacers overcame a 16-point deficit to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 96-81 on Wednesday night.
David West had 18 points and nine rebounds and George Hill added 17 points for the Pacers, who snapped a two-game skid.
Indiana, third in the NBA in scoring defense and No. 1 in opponent field-goal percentage coming in, held the Cavaliers to 23 points on 8-for-41 shooting in the second half. It was Cleveland's lowest-scoring half of the season.
The Cavaliers couldn't build on Tuesday's win over the Los Angeles Lakers. C.J. Miles scored 28 points for the second straight game, but Kyrie Irving was held to nine points on 4-for-12 shooting in his second game back after missing 11 straight with a broken finger.
George is averaging 24.4 points and 7.6 rebounds his past five games.
Perhaps the most excitement in the second half came when Cleveland's Tristan Thompson hit Indiana's Ben Hansbrough with an errant elbow early in the fourth quarter and big brother Tyler stepped in and angrily protected his younger brother. Thompson was issued a flagrant foul and Ben Hansbrough made one of two free throws to give the Pacers an 83-73 lead. The Pacers remained in control the rest of the way.
It was all Cleveland early. The Cavaliers took a 54-38 lead on a jumper by Samardo Samuels with 3:39 left in the first half. Indiana closed the half with a 14-4 run to close the gap to 58-52.
George hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to 58-57 in the first two minutes of the second half, then Hill made a reverse layup and was fouled. His free throw gave Indiana a 60-58 lead. The 3-point play gave the Pacers their first lead since it was 2-0.
A 3-pointer by Hill gave the Pacers a 73-66 lead and the Cavaliers called a timeout. A putback by West in the closing seconds of the third quarter gave Indiana an 80-70 lead heading to the fourth.
Indiana held Cleveland to 4-for-23 shooting in the third quarter and outscored the Cavaliers 28-12 in the period. Hill had 10 points in the third quarter and George had nine.
NOTEs: Miles scored 16 points in the first quarter to help the Cavaliers take a 29-25 lead. Miles shot 4 for 7 from the field in the first 12 minutes while his teammates were 4 for 14. ... Cleveland didn't have a turnover until 1:59 remained in the second quarter. ... Pacers G Lance Stephenson left the game in the third quarter after spraining his right ankle. He did not return. ... Tyler Zeller, brother of Indiana University star Cody Zeller, fouled out with eight points for the Cavs. ... Indiana C Roy Hibbert had three blocks to notch his 16th consecutive game with multiple swats.


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We live in a world that obeys many physical laws, and that can be modelled by a variety of mathematics. It is surprising what a variety of problems can be described by very similar models. Robert B. Banks does not concentrate on the most common examples of applied mathematics, but instead covers a fascinating selection of topics as varied as the US national debt, the Eiffel Tower, and the flight of golf balls.
Are you interested in maths just for the fun of it? Or does mathematics seem irrelevant? Either way, this book is for you. Keith Ball is eager to share with his readers the way some of the numbers around us in the world work, and their uses.
John Allen Paulos is the man who popularised the word "innumeracy", meaning the all-too-common condition of ignorance and bewilderment about maths and numbers in general. A light, cheerful and ever-so-slightly smug look at the problem, his best-known book of the same name (reviewed in Issue 11 of Plus) traces the roots of innumeracy to poor teaching and offers suggestions for antidotes and innoculation.
"Dicing with Death" is a rarity: a book about statistics for the general public. Popular maths books are no longer uncommon, popular books on the physical sciences became a publishing phenomenon with Stephen Hawking, but popular statistics books are few and far between. Perhaps this fact is related to the poor public image of statistics, although it is difficult to say which is cause and which effect.
Despite what the innumerate masses may wish, our daily lives are inextricably tied up with mathematics. On the most mundane level, we use basic arithmetic to do such things as tell the time, to count our change, to programme the video. But on a less obvious level we also need a reasonably good grasp of geometry in order to park the car in the garage or to pack the shopping bags carefully at the supermarket; we collect and interpret statistical data when the football results come in and we all seem to know how easily order turns to chaos.
It is not uncommon for physics students to know more about the history of physics than mathematics students do about the history of mathematics. Physical laws often come with a name attached; mathematics constitutes a more homogenous structure, and thus tracing parentage can be harder.
Of all the classical functions, the Gamma function still retains much of its mystery and intrigue, since Euler first spotted it as something "worthy of serious consideration". In Gamma, Julian Havil explores Gamma from its birth and in so doing simultaneously deals with many related functions, problems and issues that go beyond the conventional territory of functions alone.
In this well-written book, James Gleick (author of Chaos) tackles the life and work of Isaac Newton. He focuses on the man and his life in the historical context of Britain in the 17th Century, and, although the book is not a light read, he explains Newton's science well without the use of any equations. Newton was born in 1642 in the time of the civil war (King Charles was beheaded when Newton was six years old).


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Among the "wins" for Sandler: Worst Picture, Worst Actor (for Sandler's work in "Jack & Jill" and "Just Go With It"), Worst Actress (as "Jill"), Worst Supporting Actor (for Al Pacino's cameo as himself), Worst Supporting Actress (for pal David Spade as "Monica"), Worst Screen Ensemble (for the entire cast), Worst Director (Dennis Dugan for "Jack and Jill" and "Just Go With It"), Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel ("Jack and Jill" for ripping off Ed Woods' camp classic "Glen or Glenda"), Worst Screen Couple (Sandler and Katie Holmes, Sandler and Al Pacino or Sandler with himself) and Worst Screenplay.Yeah, Sandler won in both the actor and actress categories, but I think the funniest thing there is that Al Pacino won Worst Supporting Actor when he was playing the role of himself. How can you screw up playing yourself? Ah! That seems like a deep and metaphysical question. It reminds me of the notion that made André Gregory cry, as described by Wallace Shawn in "My Dinner with André":
The reason I was meeting André was that an acquaintance of mine, George Grassfield, had called me and just insisted that I had to see him. Apparently, George had been walking his dog in an odd section of town the night before, and he'd suddenly come upon André leaning against a crumbling old building, and sobbing. André had explained to George that he'd just been watching the Ingmar Bergman movie Autumn Sonata about twenty-five blocks away, and he'd been seized by a fit of ungovernable crying when the character played by Ingrid Bergman had said, "I could always live in my art, but never in my life."But let's check YouTube for what Pacino actually did in the movie "Jack and Jill." Here:
Pacino's got the perfect lines, revealing that Sandler, et al., knew their movie was perfectly bad:
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I don't know if I triggered L~R's hunt, but I was asking in the CB about modules for expression parsing and he expressed an interest.
I was looking for something that would be supplied with a) the string to parse, and b) the parse rules - a set of functions, binary and unary operators, and atoms. Something like this:
Nobody in the CB could suggest anything at the time, so I wrote my own constructing a Tree::Simple tree as output. I found it surprisingly hard to write, even treating '(', ',' and ')' as builtins (for the function(arg, list) support), and ignoring the type information - I wrote and threw away hundreds of lines of code in at least half a dozen trial implementations before finally coming up with something workable if not particularly pretty.
If your parser can easily be extended to handle function calls I'll have a go at adapting it for my application.
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(Washington, D.C. - May 16, 2008) Next week, EPA Headquarters in Washington will be hosting Chinese students committed to improving public health and the environment in their homeland and around the world. Over the course of three days, EPA and the students will have an opportunity to discuss environmental challenges facing both countries and solutions.
"The U.S. has worked for many years to achieve a growing economy and a healthy environment," said Rick Otis, deputy associate administrator for EPA's Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation. "China faces a similar challenge, and we look forward to sharing our experience with its future leaders, as well as learning from them how to move both our nations toward a cleaner and more productive future."
On Monday, EPA will host the third annual meeting of the Environment and Public Health Network for Chinese Students and Scholars (ENCSS). During the meeting, the students will discuss the U.S. experience in protecting the environment, current environmental challenges in China, and the links between environmental and public health.
The students and scholars will also participate in EPA's annual Science Forum. Many of the students will present research on topics ranging from antibiotic resistance to climate change adaptation in northwest China.
ENCSS is a network of mostly doctoral and post-doctoral students attending U.S. universities, which has three goals:
- To connect Chinese scholars, students and others who are concerned about environmental and public health issues;
- To unite China and other countries in sharing information and discussing solutions for environmental and public health issues in China and the rest of the world; and
- To provide the supporting logic for wise environmental and public health practices.
Working with ENCSS is part of EPA's long-standing efforts to assist the agency's Chinese counterparts in addressing international and domestic environmental issues. The U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue, begun in 2004, has put a greater high-level focus on these environmental issues along with the integrity of trade, balanced economic development, energy conservation, financial sector reform, and advancing bilateral investment.
For more information on ENCSS, visit: http://www.encss.org
For more information on EPA's Science Forum, visit: epa.gov/ord/scienceforum/
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Maintenance checklist:
- Filter: Check it monthly and replace when suggested (or earlier, if needed). A clogged, dirty filter makes it harder for a furnace to do its job.
- Ducts and vents: Your ducts should be securely fastened together, and vents should be clear of debris or dust. Vacuum and dust your home regularly to keep dirt out of air ducts. If your furnace uses a combustion air duct to pull in air from the outside, make sure nothing blocks the outdoor vent such as shrubs or debris.
- Service: Schedule service calls as suggested in your owner's manual or annually. The serviceperson can help you keep tabs on any issues with the condition or function of your furnace.
Average costs for a new furnace:
- Gas furnace + installation: $3,600
- Electric furnace + installation: $2,600
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Does efficiency matter?
- Absolutely — a more-energy-efficient furnace equates to savings on your monthly utility bills. An Energy Star-certified gas furnace, for example, is about 15 percent more efficient than a non-Energy Star version.
- A programmable thermostat can help manage your furnace and energy consumption.
- Not sure whether your furnace is efficient? Ask your service professional what your annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) rating is. Below 80 percent may indicate it's time for a new model.
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- Your current furnace keeps breaking, leading to frequent disruptions and service calls.
- You notice big jumps in energy consumption, even when there's no associated jump in temperature extremes.
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- Make sure that costs include removal and disposal of the old model.